How is my existing Pentium II laptop not 64-bit? Define "64-bit" for a personal computer.
"64-bit data bus" and "64-bit floating-point registers": Intel Pentium 1 has these.
"64-bit memory addresses": This begins to beat 32-bit addresses only on servers or workstations with more than 2 GB of physical RAM.
"64-bit integer data path": The Pentium has dual 32-bit integer data paths (U and V pipes). The Pentium II/III and Athlon have three. And don't MMX, 3DNow!, and SSE work with 64-bit vectors?
The screenshots of the X-Forge demos look vaguely like those of Sega's Virtua games: simple maps, ok character models, few textures. But it looks good for a handheld.
to me there's a Big Important Difference between free and Free.
I understand that difference. I find software under the the GNU General Public License to be Free because
I am free to run the program,
I am free to study and adapt the program,
I am free to help people by making and distributing copies of the program, and
I am free to adapt the program to the needs of others and release it to the public, even if the public happens to be in another country, such as the Republic of Namibia.
Restrictions are restrictions, as far as I'm concerned.
Do you disapprove of a "restriction" on cold-blooded murder? I sure do.
GNU Wget 1.5.3.1, a non-interactive network retriever.
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
Download:
-w, --wait=SECONDS : wait SECONDS between retrievals.
Thus, you can still wget as many images as you want. You'll just have to speciy the -w option and (so you don't waste any online time) possibly read Slashdot while the image download proceeds.
You can [imprison a corporation], its called an injunction. It freezes them from acting
No. An injunction bans one from doing one particular thing. Prison bans one from doing just about anything. The closest thing to prison for a corporation would probably be suspension of the company's operations for several months.
Now, let's discuss this rock I have that repels Dinosaurs - never been attacked ONCE since I started carrying it
Dinosaurs were the prehistoric form of birds. If you've ever had your Porsche® automobile or other expensive motor vehicle shat on by a flock of pigeons, you have been attacked by the descendants of dinosaurs.
Walt Disney Company was the biggest corporate backer of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (both the EU and the USA versions) and one of the biggest voices in favor of the DMCA, next to Time Warner. See also Influence Inc.
Disney steals from the public domain and gives to its shareholders. Does this make Disney some sort of perverted Robin Hood?
What happens if I have a nasty HD crash, or some similar disaster, can I re-download the song I already paid for or not?
Windows Media Player lets you back up your license file. Rhapsody should let you do the same thing; ask the support team.
Are there copying or format restrictions on the tracks?
Once you've downloaded a legitimate "keeper" recording at $1/track (rhapsody) or no-marginal-cost (eMusic), you have all the rights that copyright law gives you. In the United States, assuming that you have a record in vinyl, 1/8" cassette, CD Digital Audio, Ogg, MP3, or some other format that carries no "effective access control measures" (17 USC 1201), these rights include the right to time-shift (Betamax case), format-shift (Diamond Rio case), and make private temporary derivatives of (Nintendo v. Galoob) the work.
How does this stack up to being able to drop into an IRC chan and get any song you want at varying bitrates from 96 up to 256?
The download queues on the official services are likely to be shorter.
it's not food, water, shelter, medicine, or anything else essential to people's lives.
I knew that. Let me try a better example: medicine. If a pharma company owns the patent on a drug that would save the lives of millions of people, would it be morally correct for the company to say "give us all your money or die"?
Coins exploding from his body Sonic the Hedgehog style?
No, that's rings, and that's when you get hit, not when you die (as "explode" in the blurb implied). Coins come off a dying player in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
A company should be allowed to charge whatever it want's for it's products. No one is forced to buy.
Nintendo has an effective monopoly on sub-$100 handheld video game systems (a Pocket PC currently doesn't count because it's at least three times as expensive as a GBA) in the United States, and this monopoly drove the development of the Afterburner light kit from Triton Labs.
The following doesn't exactly apply to Nintendo Co Ltd and its worldwide subsidiaries, but try owning a home in an industrialized country for three months without paying a local utility monopoly such as the electric power company. Pretty much the most prominent people to pull this off are the Amish.
Microsoft has not indicated that it would drop support for older file versions anytime in the near future. Right now Office 97, 2000 and XP all use the same file version.
I've read reports somewhere (I forget where) that either Word XP or Word 11 has a severely broken Word 95 output filter that causes Word 95 to crash when opening even the simplest Word 95 format document saved with the more recent version of Word.
I hardly think your school needs anything beyond Office 97 or 2000.
That is, until new Word drops support for saving in Word 97 format. Then how are grade 6-12 teachers supposed to respond to kids who typed their report up on a new computer at home, and now the document crashes Word? A computer-illiterate teacher would send the kid down to the office for "hacking" into school computers.
Who doesn't have an old Windows 9X disk sitting around.
Who can still find his or her old Windows 98se or ME disc? And who can find one that isn't scratched so bad it's unreadable?
For a home user Windows XP might as well just be $99.
It appears that unlike Microsoft's Windows XP Professional operating system, Microsoft's Windows XP Home Edition operating system will not work well with Intel's newest Pentium brand processor. The new CPU has a "hyperthreading" feature that lets two threads share one set of datapaths, for performance that lies somewhere between one CPU and two. It appears as two processors to the operating system, but XP Home supports only one logical processor, unlike XP Pro which supports two. XP Home also does not support a remote desktop similar to that of XP Pro or any X11 based system.
And if you are buying a PC and plan to use Windows anyway why not buy it with the machine and get the benefit of the OEM price.
With the OEM discount, the price of Windows XP Professional comes down to about $141 per seat (based on this 3-pack). If Walmart.com were to sell the $200 PCs with Windows XP installed, the price would rise to $340, and the Windows license would make up over 40 percent of the price of the computer.
This is just Microsoft trying to get away from the nightmare that is 9X.
Then why isn't there a "Windows XP School Edition" designed to run on the really old computers owned by public school systems supported by people who only grudgingly pay their taxes?
Is Windows XP better than Windows 98 on a five-year-old computer owned by a public school system that has to beg for funding to purchase even the slightest upgrades to its computers?
Suse is banking on lots, by giving it a $129.00 price tag. If I want an OS to run Windows programs, for that price, I'm better off with sticking to Windows. The price has to be lower, to make it more attractive to make the switch.
When building your own computer or buying a $200 naked PC, you need an operating system. Let's see now... Windows for $300... SuSE for $130... $300... $130...
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Where else can you get a 64-bit laptop?
How is my existing Pentium II laptop not 64-bit? Define "64-bit" for a personal computer.
"64-bit data bus" and "64-bit floating-point registers": Intel Pentium 1 has these.
"64-bit memory addresses": This begins to beat 32-bit addresses only on servers or workstations with more than 2 GB of physical RAM.
"64-bit integer data path": The Pentium has dual 32-bit integer data paths (U and V pipes). The Pentium II/III and Athlon have three. And don't MMX, 3DNow!, and SSE work with 64-bit vectors?
By amazing, you mean, "worse than Doom?"
You can't expect Doom 3 on a handheld machine. The best you can do on a handheld with a 16.8 MHz ARM7TDMI processor is Doom 1 at 120x120 pixels and 15 to 20 Hz.
The screenshots of the X-Forge demos look vaguely like those of Sega's Virtua games: simple maps, ok character models, few textures. But it looks good for a handheld.
to me there's a Big Important Difference between free and Free.
I understand that difference. I find software under the the GNU General Public License to be Free because
Restrictions are restrictions, as far as I'm concerned.
Do you disapprove of a "restriction" on cold-blooded murder? I sure do.
For more information about the elimination of the five publicly elected seats on ICANN's board, please refer to this article on Slashdot.
a parallel namespace run in true freeware style.
You mean like OpenNIC?
how's this going to affect my porn wgets?
From the GNU Wget help page:
Thus, you can still wget as many images as you want. You'll just have to speciy the -w option and (so you don't waste any online time) possibly read Slashdot while the image download proceeds.
And Microsoft had to pay $50 and clean up the garbage?
Now Microsoft has to act out the role of the hero of a competing console company's title, Super Mario Sunshine!
Do as you wish. The swastika isn't the exclusive trademark of the National Socialist parties but rather a positive symbol of nature and humanity. It's also one of the 4x4 square scoring combinations in The New Tetris.
You can [imprison a corporation], its called an injunction. It freezes them from acting
No. An injunction bans one from doing one particular thing. Prison bans one from doing just about anything. The closest thing to prison for a corporation would probably be suspension of the company's operations for several months.
Now, let's discuss this rock I have that repels Dinosaurs - never been attacked ONCE since I started carrying it
Dinosaurs were the prehistoric form of birds. If you've ever had your Porsche® automobile or other expensive motor vehicle shat on by a flock of pigeons, you have been attacked by the descendants of dinosaurs.
Walt Disney Company was the biggest corporate backer of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (both the EU and the USA versions) and one of the biggest voices in favor of the DMCA, next to Time Warner. See also Influence Inc.
Disney steals from the public domain and gives to its shareholders. Does this make Disney some sort of perverted Robin Hood?
What happens if I have a nasty HD crash, or some similar disaster, can I re-download the song I already paid for or not?
Windows Media Player lets you back up your license file. Rhapsody should let you do the same thing; ask the support team.
Are there copying or format restrictions on the tracks?
Once you've downloaded a legitimate "keeper" recording at $1/track (rhapsody) or no-marginal-cost (eMusic), you have all the rights that copyright law gives you. In the United States, assuming that you have a record in vinyl, 1/8" cassette, CD Digital Audio, Ogg, MP3, or some other format that carries no "effective access control measures" (17 USC 1201), these rights include the right to time-shift (Betamax case), format-shift (Diamond Rio case), and make private temporary derivatives of (Nintendo v. Galoob) the work.
How does this stack up to being able to drop into an IRC chan and get any song you want at varying bitrates from 96 up to 256?
The download queues on the official services are likely to be shorter.
Can the system identify a person born without legs who walks like this?
it's not food, water, shelter, medicine, or anything else essential to people's lives.
I knew that. Let me try a better example: medicine. If a pharma company owns the patent on a drug that would save the lives of millions of people, would it be morally correct for the company to say "give us all your money or die"?
(without bonus because it's tangential)
Coins exploding from his body Sonic the Hedgehog style?
No, that's rings, and that's when you get hit, not when you die (as "explode" in the blurb implied). Coins come off a dying player in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
A company should be allowed to charge whatever it want's for it's products. No one is forced to buy.
Nintendo has an effective monopoly on sub-$100 handheld video game systems (a Pocket PC currently doesn't count because it's at least three times as expensive as a GBA) in the United States, and this monopoly drove the development of the Afterburner light kit from Triton Labs.
The following doesn't exactly apply to Nintendo Co Ltd and its worldwide subsidiaries, but try owning a home in an industrialized country for three months without paying a local utility monopoly such as the electric power company. Pretty much the most prominent people to pull this off are the Amish.
Microsoft has not indicated that it would drop support for older file versions anytime in the near future. Right now Office 97, 2000 and XP all use the same file version.
I've read reports somewhere (I forget where) that either Word XP or Word 11 has a severely broken Word 95 output filter that causes Word 95 to crash when opening even the simplest Word 95 format document saved with the more recent version of Word.
You have not support at all for that statement [about XP Home and hyperthreading].
You're right. I didn't. After a little more research, I found that Windows XP Home Edition will support hyperthreading.
I hardly think your school needs anything beyond Office 97 or 2000.
That is, until new Word drops support for saving in Word 97 format. Then how are grade 6-12 teachers supposed to respond to kids who typed their report up on a new computer at home, and now the document crashes Word? A computer-illiterate teacher would send the kid down to the office for "hacking" into school computers.
Who doesn't have an old Windows 9X disk sitting around.
Who can still find his or her old Windows 98se or ME disc? And who can find one that isn't scratched so bad it's unreadable?
For a home user Windows XP might as well just be $99.
It appears that unlike Microsoft's Windows XP Professional operating system, Microsoft's Windows XP Home Edition operating system will not work well with Intel's newest Pentium brand processor. The new CPU has a "hyperthreading" feature that lets two threads share one set of datapaths, for performance that lies somewhere between one CPU and two. It appears as two processors to the operating system, but XP Home supports only one logical processor, unlike XP Pro which supports two. XP Home also does not support a remote desktop similar to that of XP Pro or any X11 based system.
And if you are buying a PC and plan to use Windows anyway why not buy it with the machine and get the benefit of the OEM price.
With the OEM discount, the price of Windows XP Professional comes down to about $141 per seat (based on this 3-pack). If Walmart.com were to sell the $200 PCs with Windows XP installed, the price would rise to $340, and the Windows license would make up over 40 percent of the price of the computer.
Neither will Slackware 4.0 run OpenOffice.org. Is that so weird?
Unlike recent versions of Windows, recent versions of Linux can be slimmed down to run acceptably well on obsolete hardware.
Use the new office with the new windows.
The new Windows, unlike the old Windows 98, won't run on old Pentium 133 computers that public school systems can afford.
This is just Microsoft trying to get away from the nightmare that is 9X.
Then why isn't there a "Windows XP School Edition" designed to run on the really old computers owned by public school systems supported by people who only grudgingly pay their taxes?
XP is far better than any 9X
Is Windows XP better than Windows 98 on a five-year-old computer owned by a public school system that has to beg for funding to purchase even the slightest upgrades to its computers?
Suse is banking on lots, by giving it a $129.00 price tag. If I want an OS to run Windows programs, for that price, I'm better off with sticking to Windows. The price has to be lower, to make it more attractive to make the switch.
When building your own computer or buying a $200 naked PC, you need an operating system. Let's see now... Windows for $300... SuSE for $130... $300... $130...