This is exactly the way it should be happening. With three major companies vyeing(sp?) for the mobile proc market it's great to see how there really can be performance increases. I love the example of how when AMD finally got the Athlon out and running how proc prices have plunged and performance has increased exponentially.
But the ftp.cdrom.com only statically serves binaries. so a strong processor isn't important. sow slashdot, with all of it's customizing, databaseing, posting, and other dynamic content would require some guts in the processor dept.
If you give tv the right chances you CAN find quality now adays. Look at the Suppranos(sp?). I think that the biggest problem with TV is the way that it's being suppressed by conservatives. They don't want TV (or anything else) to change. So they make sure Public TV is under thier control. If it weren't for HBO, that great TV show wouldn't be able to show all the realistic good stuff that makes it so great.
Tech support jobs were the only jobs I was ever AFRAID to go to. To this day, I can't answer MY OWN PHONE half the time, because I'm sitting there wondering who is at the other end of the line, what they want, and how I'm going to fix it
Its a similar thing with me from when i worked in a grocery store. I dread going into any of themanymore and i'm so paraniod about some things. I ALWAYS check the dates on the stuff now, as when you work in a grocery store you get so sick of rotating the stock around(so that new stuff goes at the back) if you are at a near empty shelf with only stuff at the back or only a few stuff moved up, there is a chance it's been there for YEARS (trust me on this...at the store i worked in we had this 4 year old cream cheese and we placed bets on how long before we were caught leaving an old tub of it there, but some jerk ruined our fun by buying it).
I never get deli meat anymore except from dedicated meat stores because they usually have clean hands all day. In grocery stores they just pretent to or only rinse because your hands feellike shit after washing them 30 times a day.
at the place i worked at i had to go to the deli to slice meat every time the bell rang. To this day (a year later) i still instinctivly drop whatever I'm fucking doing and start walking someplace whenever i hear a similar bell, then it hits me....yuk.
But what if somehow it's orbit decayed and it got into an uncontrolable decent headed right for Tokyo? It is far safer to force something into earth at a tragectory(sp?) that will allow for maximum destruction over the right area of the world(in this case australia, erm i mean the pacific ocean.
I agree. H-P is definatley one of the best(meaning least evil and market driven) of the big corporations(microsoft, Dell, compaq, etc). Their computers were always miles ahead of compaq's (which isn't hard to do), but what i admire so much from them is their quality peripherals. I have friends that have hp printers that are old as hell and they can still get cartrigaes for them and they still WORK. Their CD-writers are by far the best after Yamaha(my experience is that the HP writers produce less coasters, though). I've always likes HP-UX over solaris, except for the fact that there isn't as much support for it.
They've also been one of the best places to work for. Employees were always treated like people. I just hope with the two founders out of the picture and PC sales slowing that HP doesn't resort to some of the tactics that others have had to use.
I think this is going to be a lot more annoying over anything else. We are going to start seeing Batman checking his AOL account just like we see the JAG team getting MSN messenger messages for top secret data. In the matrix 2 we will see, instead of them having to get to a phone, them having to get to a computer with AOL IM...
What i wanna know is when they are going to relax export laws on encryption. The internet makes preventing the flow of data impossible. I mean, I like the fact that OpenBSD has hardly any american influence, but you have to wonder whether or not they can take full advantage of the many americans who probably love OpenBSD for what it is.
IIRC OpenBSD doesn't let americans work directly on the project (or at least for the cryptography parts) because Theo wants to follow the laws of all the countries, and if those countries lose out, it's thier problem.
While medical knowledge continues to expand, it won't have the broad, far-reaching implications for everyone that thoroughly cleaning surgical equipment did.
except the mapping of the human genome you are right about that. I think the one thing that ois truely killing innovation is the current state of the patent/copyright system.
Look at the computer inustry. As soon as there were only few companies holding patents on to many things, innovations slowed to a crawl. Look at the trinitron tech from Sony. Since they are a large company they could afford not to license the tech to few if anyone else. The result? The only places you could get the technology for the longest time was through $5000 dollar Sony TVs, even when the tech itself isn't overly expensive (compared to what the sold it at).
It gets really bad when somebody/company makes a new innovative tech but is restricted because a part of the new tech uses a patented process/tech and a large company, like Sony, refuses to license it and the new tech withers and dies. It would mean sony would have to compete with a company they licensed the tech too.
PC innovation never truely took off until IBM was opened up and anyone could make clones.
One of Microsoft favorite anti-linux slogans is that there is no central authority in linux and who do you blame when your mission critical software in nuked by the OS. Read the Windows user agreement. "Microsoft et all is not responsible for any damage caused my using this software" or something like that. So there's nothing stopping you from adding that sort of thing to "CanduOS".
I for one would never let any third party app run something like say, oh i don't know, a destroyer. When that ship was crippled by Windows NT the sysadmins were all probably playing minesweeper or death-matches.
I explained to him that good music is good music, no matter when it was made. My CD rack contains music from the 1940s (Duke Ellington) to the year 2000. If it's good, I'll buy it.
RIGHT ON!! My mp3 collection spans from Ludwig Van Beethoven's 9th Symphony to the Origional Prankster by the Offspring. When my mom came into my room with good ol Ludwig Van playing she thought that I had converted and gotten rid of all my other "bad" Music.
The truth is that at almost any point in time you could probably get some kind of song/music that you can at least sit down and enjoy once in awhile.
I too had Mandrake (7.1, though) on my laptop (thinkpad A20m). Everything worked fine except the modem (duh, but no big loss) and the sound card(which it detected on install and compiled the driver). The sound card was kinda funny actually, it played all the sounds in SLOW MOTION. Even the counter in XMMS played slower, it was really strange. When i played movies with no sound they played normally but when i played any with sound it was all in slow motion. The sound card is a Crystal SoundFusion. Does anybody know what's up w/ this?
I believe that the dreamcast loads the Operating system off of the "host" CD to give the game developers more flexability, whereas all(most) of the other consoles have them built in a la firmware. So that's how they got linux running on the dreamcast, and now that it's got ethernet it's only a matter of time before we start slashdotting them. I'm not sure how the other newer consoles go as far as how they handle OSes.
Except, that is, for the X-box, which uses a "stripped down version of windows 2000" or something like that, but those linux porters are a clever bunch. The x-box is esentially a PC(it even has a HD). For the sheer irony i'm sure that they'll get linux running off of it somehow, even if it is entirely useless. I have no idea how the PS2 works.
Thanks man...maybe we should start a support group, you know? For people who have tasted the drug known as the outside world. the temptations are immense. Like just the other day I almost did my laundry. Like wtf is up with that?;-)
You know, maybe we should all dump/. and get lives...you know, get laid and meet new people. In fact, i'm gonna do that right now. FUCK Taco, FUCK Hemos, and FUCK my Karma. Goodbye forever Slshdot!
*Gets up and walks away*
*5 minutes pass*
*Running sounds back to the computer*
I'm so sorry everybody, please forgive me, it's christmas, and i was so wrapped up over the presents that i wasn't thinking properly. Taco, you rule, Hemos, you're dedicated and I swear I'll never do anything like that again...till the next time:-)
seriously merry xmas all...
it says in the article that there would be no foam because it needs gravity to form. Does this mean that beers and colas will never go flat in 0g?(or at least take a lot longer?)
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Holy crap, why hasn't anybody thought of that before? Any lawyers here? How would that hold up in court?
This is exactly the way it should be happening. With three major companies vyeing(sp?) for the mobile proc market it's great to see how there really can be performance increases. I love the example of how when AMD finally got the Athlon out and running how proc prices have plunged and performance has increased exponentially.
Nah, solaris for athlon is the same as the x86 solaris...now solaris for the 64 bit sledgehammer maybe?
But the ftp.cdrom.com only statically serves binaries. so a strong processor isn't important. sow slashdot, with all of it's customizing, databaseing, posting, and other dynamic content would require some guts in the processor dept.
If you give tv the right chances you CAN find quality now adays. Look at the Suppranos(sp?). I think that the biggest problem with TV is the way that it's being suppressed by conservatives. They don't want TV (or anything else) to change. So they make sure Public TV is under thier control. If it weren't for HBO, that great TV show wouldn't be able to show all the realistic good stuff that makes it so great.
I never though about that...I have been totally conditioned just like a dog...DOH!
sorry if i had to make anyone think about goatse.cx :-)
ya, but you wouldn't just be looking for porn...think stileproject.com and goatse.cx...
Its a similar thing with me from when i worked in a grocery store. I dread going into any of themanymore and i'm so paraniod about some things. I ALWAYS check the dates on the stuff now, as when you work in a grocery store you get so sick of rotating the stock around(so that new stuff goes at the back) if you are at a near empty shelf with only stuff at the back or only a few stuff moved up, there is a chance it's been there for YEARS (trust me on this...at the store i worked in we had this 4 year old cream cheese and we placed bets on how long before we were caught leaving an old tub of it there, but some jerk ruined our fun by buying it).
I never get deli meat anymore except from dedicated meat stores because they usually have clean hands all day. In grocery stores they just pretent to or only rinse because your hands feellike shit after washing them 30 times a day.
at the place i worked at i had to go to the deli to slice meat every time the bell rang. To this day (a year later) i still instinctivly drop whatever I'm fucking doing and start walking someplace whenever i hear a similar bell, then it hits me....yuk.
But what if somehow it's orbit decayed and it got into an uncontrolable decent headed right for Tokyo? It is far safer to force something into earth at a tragectory(sp?) that will allow for maximum destruction over the right area of the world(in this case australia, erm i mean the pacific ocean.
They've also been one of the best places to work for. Employees were always treated like people. I just hope with the two founders out of the picture and PC sales slowing that HP doesn't resort to some of the tactics that others have had to use.
I think this is going to be a lot more annoying over anything else. We are going to start seeing Batman checking his AOL account just like we see the JAG team getting MSN messenger messages for top secret data. In the matrix 2 we will see, instead of them having to get to a phone, them having to get to a computer with AOL IM...
IIRC OpenBSD doesn't let americans work directly on the project (or at least for the cryptography parts) because Theo wants to follow the laws of all the countries, and if those countries lose out, it's thier problem.
heh, all i did was check the /. uptime to see if it has been rebooted to apply the patch yet...nope.
except the mapping of the human genome you are right about that. I think the one thing that ois truely killing innovation is the current state of the patent/copyright system.
Look at the computer inustry. As soon as there were only few companies holding patents on to many things, innovations slowed to a crawl. Look at the trinitron tech from Sony. Since they are a large company they could afford not to license the tech to few if anyone else. The result? The only places you could get the technology for the longest time was through $5000 dollar Sony TVs, even when the tech itself isn't overly expensive (compared to what the sold it at).
It gets really bad when somebody/company makes a new innovative tech but is restricted because a part of the new tech uses a patented process/tech and a large company, like Sony, refuses to license it and the new tech withers and dies. It would mean sony would have to compete with a company they licensed the tech too.
PC innovation never truely took off until IBM was opened up and anyone could make clones.
I for one would never let any third party app run something like say, oh i don't know, a destroyer. When that ship was crippled by Windows NT the sysadmins were all probably playing minesweeper or death-matches.
RIGHT ON!! My mp3 collection spans from Ludwig Van Beethoven's 9th Symphony to the Origional Prankster by the Offspring. When my mom came into my room with good ol Ludwig Van playing she thought that I had converted and gotten rid of all my other "bad" Music.
The truth is that at almost any point in time you could probably get some kind of song/music that you can at least sit down and enjoy once in awhile.
I too had Mandrake (7.1, though) on my laptop (thinkpad A20m). Everything worked fine except the modem (duh, but no big loss) and the sound card(which it detected on install and compiled the driver). The sound card was kinda funny actually, it played all the sounds in SLOW MOTION. Even the counter in XMMS played slower, it was really strange. When i played movies with no sound they played normally but when i played any with sound it was all in slow motion. The sound card is a Crystal SoundFusion. Does anybody know what's up w/ this?
Except, that is, for the X-box, which uses a "stripped down version of windows 2000" or something like that, but those linux porters are a clever bunch. The x-box is esentially a PC(it even has a HD). For the sheer irony i'm sure that they'll get linux running off of it somehow, even if it is entirely useless. I have no idea how the PS2 works.
Thanks man...maybe we should start a support group, you know? For people who have tasted the drug known as the outside world. the temptations are immense. Like just the other day I almost did my laundry. Like wtf is up with that? ;-)
*Gets up and walks away*
*5 minutes pass*
*Running sounds back to the computer*
I'm so sorry everybody, please forgive me, it's christmas, and i was so wrapped up over the presents that i wasn't thinking properly. Taco, you rule, Hemos, you're dedicated and I swear I'll never do anything like that again...till the next time :-)
seriously merry xmas all...
airwolf...now there is a show i have not seen in a long time. I'm surprised it's not in syndication on any of the sci-fi channels...
it says in the article that there would be no foam because it needs gravity to form. Does this mean that beers and colas will never go flat in 0g?(or at least take a lot longer?)
HUH?! I just downloaded the divx codec last night and it was available for windows, linux, macOS and BeOS...
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