Why was the parent moderated? Some moderators are so stupid.
What the parent was saying was that Intel can not expect compete with Transmeta in terms of power consumption and eventually performance. Intel has to underclock their mobile chips because of heat concerns and therefore a current Intel desktop is always faster than a current Intel mobile laptop but Transmeta does not deal with these concerns.
If Intel wants to stay in the mobile market then they had to make some kind of move by either a) making a new chip in a real hurry or b) lower prices. Intel could never make a new chip in time so they had to lower prices.
Wow, what a great country the US of A is. Now everyone can claim that they are execrcising civic responsiblities by pocessing the DeCSS source. It is such a shame that us programmers have to be reduced top playing law games instead of spending our time doing whatever would be more productive.
There has been ton of speculation- and all we know is that it is a cpu. We are pretty sure that it will be able to run x86 instructions though not natively. There has been talk that Linus's involvement is do to the fact of Linux intergration while others claim that his job have him writing more core software. There have been rumors of cavity searches each day when employees are done with work.
All these rumors and just bizzare pratices will be unveiled today and it is up to the slashdot republic to either bless it or curse.
There are many logical reasons way the population of China are becoming more aware of the internet. The internet is a great source of information (both legitimate and non-legitimate) which would interest any population where information is so tightly controlled as in China. Another reason is just simply that other nations are becoming more aware of the Internet so China is only following a trend. And my last reason is that they see a lot of money can be made in Asian porn.
A billionare software maker convinces state/nation that internet voting is safe when done strictly through his product. Then come election day, there is a record amount write-ins on voting all strangely for that billionare software maker or someone of his choice.
If I remember, last year Linus did one of those internet interviews where the readers ask the questions and some one asked him if he read Slashdot. Linus simply replied that he had never heard of it!!! Moving on up boys.
This is a brillant way to make money if one is not in a hurry and can produce something that people are interested in. The drawbacks though are that there is no gurantee to get paid, one has to have either all the authors agree or sign over the rights, and what is too make a company want your stuff over someone elses. This is clearly a solution to the problem of seeing the code but not be able to use it in a commercial envirnment.
Perhaps by themselves the 2.2 kernel, glibc 2.1, and GNOME are that impressive but when rolled into one major ball well that is something significant. It should also be noted that 6.0 was the first Redhat release to include KDE so that should thrown into the pot as well.
I once was a "hard" science guy but I have mellowed. I think that Leon's answer may of been long but show very much the brillance of the man. Good to see that/. kept it all science related because I do not think he would of been happy to answer questions about his what os he uses or does he prefer blondes or brunettes (yes these questions were actually posted but never asked!)
Mandrake parted ways with Redhat before 7.0. In the very beginning Redhat was not offering KDE on their distrib because of a little open source fling, so the Mandrake distrib was just Redhat with KDE. But Redhat eventually had to listen to the consumer and started includeing KDE- but by this time Mandrake was becoming distinctly its own. Some of the difference are that Mandrake has all of its packages compiled for atleast pentium optimazation (meaning you can't run it on older machines) and Mandrake also includes a whole shitload of software that I would consider suspect because of it is considered to be beta or even alpha.
Well, I am not a huge Linux guru but I know that the current stable kernel does not allow for USB. Do not worry though, the 2.4.x series is supposed to come out fairly soon and that should give you favorite distrib the resources needed to auto-detect your mouse. You cannot expect something to work if there is not support for it- that simple.
Don't you ever learn about Mandrake? How many times did/. wrongly annonce the Mandrake 6.1 release? I think atleast twice!!! I am not saying that 7.0 is not out but I just heard of the public beta yesterday
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The nice thing about napster is that it is not plagued with porn banners that warez/mp3z sites are afflicted with.
Why was the parent moderated? Some moderators are so stupid.
What the parent was saying was that Intel can not expect compete with Transmeta in terms of power consumption and eventually performance. Intel has to underclock their mobile chips because of heat concerns and therefore a current Intel desktop is always faster than a current Intel mobile laptop but Transmeta does not deal with these concerns.
If Intel wants to stay in the mobile market then they had to make some kind of move by either a) making a new chip in a real hurry or b) lower prices. Intel could never make a new chip in time so they had to lower prices.
I would look to some people in Washington before I even thought of the world's largest Linux development team (red linux).
Well seriously now, is it so crazy to suggest that a competing OS would encourage the engineering a virus to weaken their compeiters creditablity?
Wow, what a great country the US of A is. Now everyone can claim that they are execrcising civic responsiblities by pocessing the DeCSS source. It is such a shame that us programmers have to be reduced top playing law games instead of spending our time doing whatever would be more productive.
Does this mean that we would have to pay so much for each out-going e-mail or something? The internet is best how it is, untouched.
That can explain the IBM linux hype?
A quick search of IBM only turned up this which is a vendor list naming Transmeta.
There has been ton of speculation- and all we know is that it is a cpu. We are pretty sure that it will be able to run x86 instructions though not natively. There has been talk that Linus's involvement is do to the fact of Linux intergration while others claim that his job have him writing more core software. There have been rumors of cavity searches each day when employees are done with work.
All these rumors and just bizzare pratices will be unveiled today and it is up to the slashdot republic to either bless it or curse.
48 minutes? Did you notice that the time is 12:00 pm PST? You are going to have to wait a tad bit longer :(
cpu's you say? today is d-day right? the whole world is going to be re-structured from the brillance of crusoe.
Well, just because some one might not respond nicely to a Jon Katz article does not mean that they are a jerk.
There are many logical reasons way the population of China are becoming more aware of the internet. The internet is a great source of information (both legitimate and non-legitimate) which would interest any population where information is so tightly controlled as in China. Another reason is just simply that other nations are becoming more aware of the Internet so China is only following a trend. And my last reason is that they see a lot of money can be made in Asian porn.
A billionare software maker convinces state/nation that internet voting is safe when done strictly through his product. Then come election day, there is a record amount write-ins on voting all strangely for that billionare software maker or someone of his choice.
Moderate the parent way up.
I guess it is just up to us the public to censor linux one. I am sure that some one will jump on their band wagon though.
If I remember, last year Linus did one of those internet interviews where the readers ask the questions and some one asked him if he read Slashdot. Linus simply replied that he had never heard of it!!! Moving on up boys.
Brother, we could all use a Cray. Perhaps that fire was used so that someone could take it home ;)
If the computer controled the weather then I would rule the world.
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This is a brillant way to make money if one is not in a hurry and can produce something that people are interested in. The drawbacks though are that there is no gurantee to get paid, one has to have either all the authors agree or sign over the rights, and what is too make a company want your stuff over someone elses. This is clearly a solution to the problem of seeing the code but not be able to use it in a commercial envirnment.
New kernel too!!
Perhaps by themselves the 2.2 kernel, glibc 2.1, and GNOME are that impressive but when rolled into one major ball well that is something significant. It should also be noted that 6.0 was the first Redhat release to include KDE so that should thrown into the pot as well.
I once was a "hard" science guy but I have mellowed. I think that Leon's answer may of been long but show very much the brillance of the man. Good to see that /. kept it all science related because I do not think he would of been happy to answer questions about his what os he uses or does he prefer blondes or brunettes (yes these questions were actually posted but never asked!)
Mandrake parted ways with Redhat before 7.0. In the very beginning Redhat was not offering KDE on their distrib because of a little open source fling, so the Mandrake distrib was just Redhat with KDE. But Redhat eventually had to listen to the consumer and started includeing KDE- but by this time Mandrake was becoming distinctly its own. Some of the difference are that Mandrake has all of its packages compiled for atleast pentium optimazation (meaning you can't run it on older machines) and Mandrake also includes a whole shitload of software that I would consider suspect because of it is considered to be beta or even alpha.
I disagree with one of your bad examples:
- RedHat 5.0 to 6.0 - new X components. whoo
First off, it was Redhat 5.2 to 6.0. Second of all, there was a lot more than new X components suck as glibc 2.1 and GNOMEWell, I am not a huge Linux guru but I know that the current stable kernel does not allow for USB. Do not worry though, the 2.4.x series is supposed to come out fairly soon and that should give you favorite distrib the resources needed to auto-detect your mouse. You cannot expect something to work if there is not support for it- that simple.
Don't you ever learn about Mandrake? How many times did /. wrongly annonce the Mandrake 6.1 release? I think atleast twice!!! I am not saying that 7.0 is not out but I just heard of the public beta yesterday