Well, it's only "just like SCSI" in that it has a larger cache. There's much more to SCSI than cache. Anyway, that site says $339 for the drive, where'd you get $600?
It is a stretch to say this has any connection with terrorism.
A stretch? I find it disturbing that you can imagine some kind of connection between terrorism and meaningless content on the web. The initial post was funny because the association was absurd (oh great, now I'm explaining why someone else's post was funny) your post is just plain scarry.
Spoken like a true Mac zealot. Not that Mhz is a true relfection of actual performance, but it's Apple that is stuck in the < 1 Ghz range and Intel and AMD that are approaching or have reached 2 Ghz.
Ooooh, Dual 1.6 Ghz G5 with OS X! Yum! Wanna buy me one next month?;)
Ah, the world of the ever hopeful Mac user. The pathos is welling in me even now.
If you what the info movie on the site, the fuel cells look very different. I think they just didn't have a picure of the cells yet so the substituted a picture of a bottle of their camping stove fuel.
Actually, what would be cooler is a wireless link like my Lucent 802.3 card. Those ought to get pretty cheap soon. Then you could be downloading into your MP3 player as you were walking out the door with it.
No, electric guitars are not normally digital they're just electric (and analog.) Not everything electric is digital.
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i don't understand why people always have to knock the 'hot new thing.
Generally I don't either, but in this case the hot new thing was so completely over hyped that one got the impression that we were about to stumble upon world peace. In otherwords, about 1/10000th as much as the internet was hyped. But irritating none the less.
My thoughts exactly, and I'm an American. In fact, not only do I agree with you but I think it's replusive that people in this generally overweight country would think that revolution comes in the form of a very expensive replacement for the healthy and free option of walking or of riding a bike.
I'm hoping IT will be a flop, but I'm prepared to be disappointed.
Yeah, but it's only, "about three times faster" than walking. So I can't imagine this being useful to anybody but those of us like myself that live in cities. And we don't usually have a car anyway. Having ridden my bike in the city (Boston) for years I finally got sick of vandals ripping off my brake levers or kiking my spokes just for the hell of it, not to mention trying to find a place to lock the bike as well as trying not to get hit by motorists. All these issues I'm sure would apply to IT as well.
I just don't see IT replacing walking, which by the way is a not an unpleasant experience anyway.
I disagree. I think it has something to do with whatever it is that makes it so hard to introduce new coins in the U.S., or convert to the metric system. This might be partly due to bureaucracy but I think it has more to do with our fear of change. Remember the panic over the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin? Or the huge marketing campaign to get people to accept the new quarters that were the same size but looked different?
We think the euorpeans are stuck in the past, but it's really us and we don't want to admit it.
Wait, are you suggesting that we boot W2K when we want to watch a DVD? I don't know about you, but rebooting to a different OS depending on which app I want to run is a little more inconvienience than I'm up for.
Of course using the right tool for the job is the right way to go, but just not on this level.
The only reason you feel comfortable reading C or C++ is because you actually spent some time learning these languages. If you spent just a little time learning Scheme or LISP you'd realize that the language is really not hard to read or use at all.
Many businesses knew they had bad business plans, but that didn't mean they couldn't get money or have the chance to get obscenely rich anyway. We weren't in the business of building solid companies, we were in the business of making money. Given the free flowing VC money tap, I think the only stupid people were the VCs.
I agree. 802.11B is more than a net toy, my company has hundreds of people using this technology. It's far more preferable for laptop users than having to have a cat5 cable handy. For the vast majority of users, the current standard is plenty fast enough.
Bring a bunch of laptops with you, a hefty one configured as a server and a buch of lightweight ones for the terminals. With that setup it should be easy to demo the scalability.
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I was being facetious
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If emacs is just a text editor with extensions, then it obviously doesn't try to do everything an IDE does, so you're argument is self contraditory.
I didn't find emacs hard to learn. This may be due to my superior mental abilities or it may be because I didn't approach it with the debilitating prejudice that it is hard, as so many other people do.
Additionally, once you've learned emacs you don't need to re-learn it when you switch languages, build tools, or version control software. IDEs are getting more versitle recently, but it's still likely if you suddenly move from a C++ project to a Java project you will likely have to find a new IDE.
I'm not sure I undertand the "bloatware" objection to emacs. Nobody says you have to use the optional libraries that come with emacs. They don't add to the startup time if you don't add them to your.emacs file. If you're using an IDE now I think you'll find that emacs is fairly lightweight in comparison.
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Forte community edition (the free one) and NetBeans are the same thing. The difference is that you can buy support from Sun for Forte.
I do like the directory mounting idea, but the IDE is too slow on my machine. Also, it's so feature packed it makes emacs look svelte.
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You haven't seen modern IDEs. NetBeans, for example, makes emacs look like vi.
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You might want to reconsider emacs/xemacs. I moved from NT and MSVC to Linux, emacs, and Java and, for a time, I thought that emacs was horribly backwards. But so many people I worked with that were very bright used emacs, so I gave it a try. Now, after some time using emacs/xemacs, the idea of moving back to an IDE is now replusive to me.
The speed at which one can work in emacs just can't be matched by bloated IDEs that try to do everything but have an even longer learning curve than emacs and require heavy use of a mouse. I never want to go back.
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You're right of course. I've quit my job and enrolled in 3rd grade, where I expect I'll meet you.
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There's one major problem with Mozilla's email component, something that that will probably keep me from using Mozilla all together, specifically the lack of a spelling checker.
I really like the mail reader, it's got all the features that I've been looking for (multiple 'from' options, mixing pop and IMAP accounts for example) but the lack of a spelling checker is really a problem for me.
Nobody's forcing you use newer software. Why don't you just stick with kernel 1.2.3, that was pretty solid if I remember and it ran well on my 486 with 16M of memory.
For the majority of us who aren't living in the past (and who have the $25 it takes to add 128M of RAM), we do like the option of using the hardware we paid for. You don't want to spoil that for us, do you?
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Well, it's only "just like SCSI" in that it has a larger cache. There's much more to SCSI than cache. Anyway, that site says $339 for the drive, where'd you get $600?
A stretch ? I find it disturbing that you can imagine some kind of connection between terrorism and meaningless content on the web. The initial post was funny because the association was absurd (oh great, now I'm explaining why someone else's post was funny) your post is just plain scarry.
Ooooh, Dual 1.6 Ghz G5 with OS X! Yum! Wanna buy me one next month? ;)
Ah, the world of the ever hopeful Mac user. The pathos is welling in me even now.
If you what the info movie on the site, the fuel cells look very different. I think they just didn't have a picure of the cells yet so the substituted a picture of a bottle of their camping stove fuel.
Actually, what would be cooler is a wireless link like my Lucent 802.3 card. Those ought to get pretty cheap soon. Then you could be downloading into your MP3 player as you were walking out the door with it.
No, electric guitars are not normally digital they're just electric (and analog.) Not everything electric is digital.
Generally I don't either, but in this case the hot new thing was so completely over hyped that one got the impression that we were about to stumble upon world peace. In otherwords, about 1/10000th as much as the internet was hyped. But irritating none the less.
My thoughts exactly, and I'm an American. In fact, not only do I agree with you but I think it's replusive that people in this generally overweight country would think that revolution comes in the form of a very expensive replacement for the healthy and free option of walking or of riding a bike.
I'm hoping IT will be a flop, but I'm prepared to be disappointed.
I just don't see IT replacing walking, which by the way is a not an unpleasant experience anyway.
We think the euorpeans are stuck in the past, but it's really us and we don't want to admit it.
That's totally adaquate security when, once you're logged in, everyone has rights to everything anyway.
Wait, are you suggesting that we boot W2K when we want to watch a DVD? I don't know about you, but rebooting to a different OS depending on which app I want to run is a little more inconvienience than I'm up for.
Of course using the right tool for the job is the right way to go, but just not on this level.
Hmm, that's not my definition of working
The only reason you feel comfortable reading C or C++ is because you actually spent some time learning these languages. If you spent just a little time learning Scheme or LISP you'd realize that the language is really not hard to read or use at all.
Many businesses knew they had bad business plans, but that didn't mean they couldn't get money or have the chance to get obscenely rich anyway. We weren't in the business of building solid companies, we were in the business of making money. Given the free flowing VC money tap, I think the only stupid people were the VCs.
I agree. 802.11B is more than a net toy, my company has hundreds of people using this technology. It's far more preferable for laptop users than having to have a cat5 cable handy. For the vast majority of users, the current standard is plenty fast enough.
Bring a bunch of laptops with you, a hefty one configured as a server and a buch of lightweight ones for the terminals. With that setup it should be easy to demo the scalability.
I was being facetious
If emacs is just a text editor with extensions, then it obviously doesn't try to do everything an IDE does, so you're argument is self contraditory.
.emacs file. If you're using an IDE now I think you'll find that emacs is fairly lightweight in comparison.
I didn't find emacs hard to learn. This may be due to my superior mental abilities or it may be because I didn't approach it with the debilitating prejudice that it is hard, as so many other people do.
Additionally, once you've learned emacs you don't need to re-learn it when you switch languages, build tools, or version control software. IDEs are getting more versitle recently, but it's still likely if you suddenly move from a C++ project to a Java project you will likely have to find a new IDE.
I'm not sure I undertand the "bloatware" objection to emacs. Nobody says you have to use the optional libraries that come with emacs. They don't add to the startup time if you don't add them to your
Forte community edition (the free one) and NetBeans are the same thing. The difference is that you can buy support from Sun for Forte.
I do like the directory mounting idea, but the IDE is too slow on my machine. Also, it's so feature packed it makes emacs look svelte.
You haven't seen modern IDEs. NetBeans, for example, makes emacs look like vi.
You might want to reconsider emacs/xemacs. I moved from NT and MSVC to Linux, emacs, and Java and, for a time, I thought that emacs was horribly backwards. But so many people I worked with that were very bright used emacs, so I gave it a try. Now, after some time using emacs/xemacs, the idea of moving back to an IDE is now replusive to me.
The speed at which one can work in emacs just can't be matched by bloated IDEs that try to do everything but have an even longer learning curve than emacs and require heavy use of a mouse. I never want to go back.
You're right of course. I've quit my job and enrolled in 3rd grade, where I expect I'll meet you.
There's one major problem with Mozilla's email component, something that that will probably keep me from using Mozilla all together, specifically the lack of a spelling checker.
I really like the mail reader, it's got all the features that I've been looking for (multiple 'from' options, mixing pop and IMAP accounts for example) but the lack of a spelling checker is really a problem for me.
Nobody's forcing you use newer software. Why don't you just stick with kernel 1.2.3, that was pretty solid if I remember and it ran well on my 486 with 16M of memory.
For the majority of us who aren't living in the past (and who have the $25 it takes to add 128M of RAM), we do like the option of using the hardware we paid for. You don't want to spoil that for us, do you?