That sort of testing is trivial. The developers would know what to test and could run through the all the major distros in a week and a half for anything but a HUGE app.
Skylab was a useless box. Its scientific value was as a test platform for some future shuttle technologies. Nothing more. It was built out of the 3rd(?) stage of the rocket it launched on and its duration was crap (about 6 months IIRC) and its value for reasearch into long term life support (which Russia got lots of from Mir) was zilch.
Edwards AFB (in California) hasn't been the primary landing site for space shuttles for years (if it ever was). It is the primary alternate site for landings and is used for nearly a quarter of them because the weather in FL sucks baboon weenies on a regular basis whereas the CA desert is dry as a bone all the time. There was one flight a year or two ago that almost had to land in the Outback in Australia because of bad conditions at both sites but landed at Edwards instead. In other words, that 747 is still used quite often (although not all the time).
It was a joke!! "Now if only they'd GPL it" was a poke at the zealots on this site who parrot their little catch phrase without really understanding it. UCSC (go Slugs!!!) is doing us all a great service by actually publishing this stuff.
Hypercard powerful??? That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day. It couldn't even accept input from more than two or three keys even! Hypercard was way too little way too late!
It's the extra upstream!!! The download hardly matters. 32 kbps to 48 kbps. That's a good lot. The download, as you said hardly matters. (The call waiting looks fun though.)
Yes, this is new. This is not the main CPU of a system that just happens to be connected in a package resembling a "card" as you put it. This is a PCI expansion device ("card") for use in an x86 system (or PPC), not as a main CPU or even as a second CPU. It is a "PCI based multiprocessing solution for Intel compatible PC's [or Macs]".
AFAIK, AGP is only used for video cards at this point. I'm not sure why, but if they don't use it for anything else, there must be a reason that you and I haven't concidered. Yes, I agree AGP sounds like it would be a good idea to use here, but who knows. Further discussion is next to useless becasue we do not know the relevant information.
PS: AGP was meant for video. Advanced Graphics Port.
Right. And it has this in the license: ...Microsoft grants to you the following...to reproduce and use a reasonable number of copies of the Specification in its entirety for the sole purpose of reviewing the Specification for security analysis...
That's because you installed the Outlook fix after the Melissa virus came out. You do NOT have a default install of Outlook. The default install of Outlook runs the script just by VIEWING the the email.
If I were the Justice Department (or United Nations, or DoD, or CIA, or FBI, or ANYONE who gave a damn about security) I would be seriously considering if Microsoft products have any place on my desk, in my office or in my life. The open cookie jar isn't so much what bothers me but this is the straw that brakes this camel's back.
Microsoft's attitude toward security and toward the end user in general is atrocious. I don't really care what you think, but it IS Microsoft's fault that the default install of Windows 98 using the default mail client simply by reading the ILOVEYOU message will be rendered useless. Now this???? I mean COME ON!
Oh and BTW... the whole Kerberos thing? Microsoft released the specs as a trade secret. TRADE SECRETS HAVE NO PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW ONCE THEY ARE LEAKED. That's why they are guarded so viciously.
Oh, and another thing which is completely offtopic: I think that the UCTIA, Section 307, Subsection 2(e) invalidates the GPL!!! It is a description of what kinds of software licenses are valid. It reads "(e) Neither party is entitled to receive copies of source code, schematics, master copy, design material, or other information used by the other party in creating, developing, or implementing the information." This would seem to mean that no one needs return code as the GPL demands. What do you guys think???
Just my $.02:
ESR is a great thinker and philosopher in the Open Source movement, but in this case I think he may be mistaken. What he seeks is too great a task to accomplish. It is simply too radical for the current system to implement. Lessig takes a much more classic liberal approach which has a better chance of being taken seriously. If what ESR proposes has no precedent within the current system (and I think it does not), then it can be dismissed as nothing more than wishful thinking. Lessig on the other hand wishes to see MS dealt with by the system, and while this not be optimal, it is the ONLY practical solution.
The NV15 will be called the GeForce2 GTS a 200Mhz GPU (166 Mhz DDR memory) and the NDAs lift tomorrow. Rumor has it it will hit the shelves April 28th (four days!!!).
ATI's new product, the Charisma Engine-based Rage 6 supports hardware T&L, Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, Vertex Skinning, Keyframe Interpolation, a Priority Buffer, Range Based Fog, and will be unveiled tonight at 10:30pm EST.
The Voodoo 5 is not going to be available for a while (a month or so?).
You only touch on the biggest reason that the GeForce scores so much lower at high resolutions in these benchmarks. Because of NDAs, they are not allowed to use the newest (beta) GeForce drivers which support texture compression until they go final. All the GeForce vs V5 benchmarks we are seeing now are using old (crappy?) 3.68 Detonator drivers. Once the new drivers go final (within a few days), you will see benchmarks that show the GeForce catching up to the V5 even at the highest resolutions.
And soon enough, we'll have NV15 benchmarks to drool over. Now if only Nvidia would release good Open Source drivers...
PS- My next card will be a 3dfx or Matrox model if things continue.
In any case one has to wonder what Apple's product strategy with these things will be?
This is a Synergy Microsystems product, not an Apple product, so I doubt that Apple has any product strategy with these things. Apple has some dual proc machines in the works for use with OS X however. They might try to push into the high-end server market, or at least the high-end graphics market with those.
Thanks Rob, for making us all jealous of your SGI screen, but even it (18") is getting small by today's standards. The new Samsung sounds great, but as it's not really out yet, I can't comment on it. Has anyone seen the Apple Cinema Display in action? It's amazing! 22" diagonal, 1,600 x 1,024, bright and SHARP (it's digital). The question is: can it run on any DVI video card or just Apple's? I'd sure like to run it on a new GeForce DVI card on my box!
The name change seems to be intended to differentiate itself from VMware. FreeMWare is just too close and sounds like the cheap ripoff of a better product.
Ok. You've pointed us to a whole lot of Apple propaganda telling us how kick-ass their stuff is. I might point you to Microsoft to let them pontificate on how great Windows is, but I won't. To make a long story short however, I think a fair synopsis of the links you provided would be "there are a lot of really cool third party graphic design and printing apps for the Mac" which was my previous point. Would you agree? Are there actually any architectural (not ergonomic, although I agree that usability is important) advantages? Oh, and Colorsync is available for the PC as well, it's just called ICC and Win2K is "available" as of tomorrow (Feb 17). In fact every one of the "State-of-the-art technologies including Sherlock 2, AppleScript, QuickTime, ColorSync, Macintosh Runtime for Java and Speech [which] raise Mac OS to a whole new level of intelligence" or their equivalents are/have been available for the PC, other than Sherlock 2, whatever that is:)
By the way, I actually don't like Windows. I'm really just playing Devil's advocate. Mac was a better platform a while back but now is just as bad as Wintel if not far worse. Linux is on its merry way to becoming a viable desktop but, for me at least, isn't quite there yet. (Rant mode on.) I'm actually quite dissatisfied with the state of computers today, both hardware and software. Intel's giving the consumer shit with their whole Rambus thing, AMD can't seem to get VIA to put out a decent chipset (the KX133 isn't all it's cracked up to be and furthermore it isn't even here yet), Microsoft has been sucking along for years, BeOS might be a viable alternative but that has yet to be shown, Mozilla is limping along topped only in slowness by GNOME, KDE, XF86 etc. To put it mildly, things are bad now and I see no prospect of immediate change for the better. (Rant off.) Sorry for that.
Graphic Design and Print Production are where the Mac's (improper use of apostrophe) rule, and they rule with an iron fist...trying to mimic the Mac's capabilities...tools existed on the Mac that had no counterparts on the PC platform.
I think you're confusing the OS and the third party software available for it. From what I can tell, none of the advantages the Mac supposedly holds amount to more than the existence of a handful of good third party graphic design apps.
Show me a PC that can handle 3 different size monitors of different resolutions and refresh rates for an illustration who uses a mouse, tablet, and trackball...
OK. Any of the commercial X Servers can and (don't flame) Win2k can as well IIRC. So, what advantages are there to the Mac (besides a couple of good design packages)? Any?
...his machine couldn't match the work that they produced...
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"All the boxes are VA Linux Systems FullOns running Debian"
That's a direct quote from http://slashdot.org/faq/tech.shtml. Slashdot has never run on FreeBSD. Yahoo does though.
That sort of testing is trivial. The developers would know what to test and could run through the all the major distros in a week and a half for anything but a HUGE app.
I think the key word is Unsubstantiated. This is hardly news. Rumors shouldn't get on /. Esp. the MOSR or the IDsoftware types.
Oh well.
Right! And that would be illegal. He's allowed to use the HP calc only standalone. He can't connect it to anything.
Skylab was a useless box. Its scientific value was as a test platform for some future shuttle technologies. Nothing more. It was built out of the 3rd(?) stage of the rocket it launched on and its duration was crap (about 6 months IIRC) and its value for reasearch into long term life support (which Russia got lots of from Mir) was zilch.
NASA has no experiance with space stations?
No. They don't.
Edwards AFB (in California) hasn't been the primary landing site for space shuttles for years (if it ever was). It is the primary alternate site for landings and is used for nearly a quarter of them because the weather in FL sucks baboon weenies on a regular basis whereas the CA desert is dry as a bone all the time. There was one flight a year or two ago that almost had to land in the Outback in Australia because of bad conditions at both sites but landed at Edwards instead. In other words, that 747 is still used quite often (although not all the time).
It was a joke!! "Now if only they'd GPL it" was a poke at the zealots on this site who parrot their little catch phrase without really understanding it. UCSC (go Slugs!!!) is doing us all a great service by actually publishing this stuff.
PS. I go to UCSC if you hadn't noticed.
Hypercard powerful??? That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day. It couldn't even accept input from more than two or three keys even! Hypercard was way too little way too late!
It's the extra upstream!!! The download hardly matters. 32 kbps to 48 kbps. That's a good lot. The download, as you said hardly matters. (The call waiting looks fun though.)
Yes, this is new. This is not the main CPU of a system that just happens to be connected in a package resembling a "card" as you put it. This is a PCI expansion device ("card") for use in an x86 system (or PPC), not as a main CPU or even as a second CPU. It is a "PCI based multiprocessing solution for Intel compatible PC's [or Macs]".
Mostly used for video cards?
AFAIK, AGP is only used for video cards at this point. I'm not sure why, but if they don't use it for anything else, there must be a reason that you and I haven't concidered. Yes, I agree AGP sounds like it would be a good idea to use here, but who knows. Further discussion is next to useless becasue we do not know the relevant information.
PS: AGP was meant for video. Advanced Graphics Port.
From the NetBSD web page: Today, the release cycle for NetBSD 1.5 has started.
Today? Hardly. This is Old News. Slashdot is falling further and further behind and frankly, it's depressing.
Right. And it has this in the license:
...Microsoft grants to you the following...to reproduce and use a reasonable number of copies of the Specification in its entirety for the sole purpose of reviewing the Specification for security analysis...
Doesn't posting on Slashdot count as this????
That's because you installed the Outlook fix after the Melissa virus came out. You do NOT have a default install of Outlook. The default install of Outlook runs the script just by VIEWING the the email.
I am shocked. This is pathetic.
If I were the Justice Department (or United Nations, or DoD, or CIA, or FBI, or ANYONE who gave a damn about security ) I would be seriously considering if Microsoft products have any place on my desk, in my office or in my life. The open cookie jar isn't so much what bothers me but this is the straw that brakes this camel's back.
Microsoft's attitude toward security and toward the end user in general is atrocious. I don't really care what you think, but it IS Microsoft's fault that the default install of Windows 98 using the default mail client simply by reading the ILOVEYOU message will be rendered useless. Now this???? I mean COME ON!
Oh and BTW... the whole Kerberos thing? Microsoft released the specs as a trade secret. TRADE SECRETS HAVE NO PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW ONCE THEY ARE LEAKED . That's why they are guarded so viciously.
Oh, and another thing which is completely offtopic: I think that the UCTIA, Section 307, Subsection 2(e) invalidates the GPL!!! It is a description of what kinds of software licenses are valid. It reads "(e) Neither party is entitled to receive copies of source code, schematics, master copy, design material, or other information used by the other party in creating, developing, or implementing the information."
This would seem to mean that no one needs return code as the GPL demands. What do you guys think???
Just my $.02:
ESR is a great thinker and philosopher in the Open Source movement, but in this case I think he may be mistaken. What he seeks is too great a task to accomplish. It is simply too radical for the current system to implement. Lessig takes a much more classic liberal approach which has a better chance of being taken seriously. If what ESR proposes has no precedent within the current system (and I think it does not), then it can be dismissed as nothing more than wishful thinking. Lessig on the other hand wishes to see MS dealt with by the system, and while this not be optimal, it is the ONLY practical solution.
I did a little more research and found this:
The NV15 will be called the GeForce2 GTS a 200Mhz GPU (166 Mhz DDR memory) and the NDAs lift tomorrow. Rumor has it it will hit the shelves April 28th (four days!!!).
ATI's new product, the Charisma Engine-based Rage 6 supports hardware T&L, Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, Vertex Skinning, Keyframe Interpolation, a Priority Buffer, Range Based Fog, and will be unveiled tonight at 10:30pm EST.
The Voodoo 5 is not going to be available for a while (a month or so?).
You only touch on the biggest reason that the GeForce scores so much lower at high resolutions in these benchmarks. Because of NDAs, they are not allowed to use the newest (beta) GeForce drivers which support texture compression until they go final. All the GeForce vs V5 benchmarks we are seeing now are using old (crappy?) 3.68 Detonator drivers. Once the new drivers go final (within a few days), you will see benchmarks that show the GeForce catching up to the V5 even at the highest resolutions.
And soon enough, we'll have NV15 benchmarks to drool over. Now if only Nvidia would release good Open Source drivers...
PS- My next card will be a 3dfx or Matrox model if things continue.
In any case one has to wonder what Apple's product strategy with these things will be?
This is a Synergy Microsystems product, not an Apple product, so I doubt that Apple has any product strategy with these things. Apple has some dual proc machines in the works for use with OS X however. They might try to push into the high-end server market, or at least the high-end graphics market with those.
HDTV is 16:10
That's interesting as Sony's flagship HDTV is 16:9 as is every other HDTV. I wonder.
Thanks Rob, for making us all jealous of your SGI screen, but even it (18") is getting small by today's standards. The new Samsung sounds great, but as it's not really out yet, I can't comment on it. Has anyone seen the Apple Cinema Display in action? It's amazing! 22" diagonal, 1,600 x 1,024, bright and SHARP (it's digital). The question is: can it run on any DVI video card or just Apple's? I'd sure like to run it on a new GeForce DVI card on my box!
Is this really a wormhole as described here? Or is it just, as it says, a way of transmiting a signal faster than light speed?
The name change seems to be intended to differentiate itself from VMware. FreeMWare is just too close and sounds like the cheap ripoff of a better product.
See the linux.com interview for more on the topic.
Ok. You've pointed us to a whole lot of Apple propaganda telling us how kick-ass their stuff is. I might point you to Microsoft to let them pontificate on how great Windows is, but I won't. To make a long story short however, I think a fair synopsis of the links you provided would be "there are a lot of really cool third party graphic design and printing apps for the Mac" which was my previous point. Would you agree? Are there actually any architectural (not ergonomic, although I agree that usability is important) advantages? Oh, and Colorsync is available for the PC as well, it's just called ICC and Win2K is "available" as of tomorrow (Feb 17). In fact every one of the "State-of-the-art technologies including Sherlock 2, AppleScript, QuickTime, ColorSync, Macintosh Runtime for Java and Speech [which] raise Mac OS to a whole new level of intelligence" or their equivalents are/have been available for the PC, other than Sherlock 2, whatever that is :)
By the way, I actually don't like Windows. I'm really just playing Devil's advocate. Mac was a better platform a while back but now is just as bad as Wintel if not far worse. Linux is on its merry way to becoming a viable desktop but, for me at least, isn't quite there yet.
(Rant mode on.) I'm actually quite dissatisfied with the state of computers today, both hardware and software. Intel's giving the consumer shit with their whole Rambus thing, AMD can't seem to get VIA to put out a decent chipset (the KX133 isn't all it's cracked up to be and furthermore it isn't even here yet), Microsoft has been sucking along for years, BeOS might be a viable alternative but that has yet to be shown, Mozilla is limping along topped only in slowness by GNOME, KDE, XF86 etc. To put it mildly, things are bad now and I see no prospect of immediate change for the better. (Rant off.) Sorry for that.
Show me a PC that can handle 3 different size monitors of different resolutions and refresh rates for an illustration who uses a mouse, tablet, and trackball...