That was a rather disappointing article. He only made one Linux-related prediction: that there will be a major Linux virus. Besides that, everything else was generic and not Linux specific.
iSync was announced at MacWorld New York back in July. At that time, Apple said that it would be available in September. Perhaps Steve didn't want to be embarrassed by announcing the final release at another MacWorld? I think if it was iSync 2.0, then Steve would announce it, but just finalizing a product isn't big news and can actually be taken as bad news (think vaporware).
Hell if you're going to go for a niche, then GO FOR THE NICHE, don't come out with a "me too" product that has very little to distinguish itself from the competition.
It's a Development Kit. It's not intended for mass-market use. You're supposed to use the board to help you create real stuff. You stuffing it into some non-development work isn't its intended market so complaining about it is pointless.
Now if Transmeta said this was a motherboard for non-development markets, then you would have a complaint.
The coolest movie-to-Lego-model that I've seen is this Millennium Falcon (had to use Internet Wayback Machine as the original site's pictures are down).
(I wonder what insurance policies are like on satellites, if they're even available.)
You can get satellite and launch insurance. I don't know what the terms are like, but I imagine that premium is fairly high. You can insure almost anything these days, it will just cost you.
One more thing -- if buying a subscription offends you so much, why don't you just buy the box and spend the extra $250 for lifetime service?
Except that it's the lifetime of the unit you bought, not you as a subscriber. That's the problem that I have as we all know that they're going to come out with new units with some must-have feature that only the new units support.
I would prefer something like "lifetime service for any unit as long as I don't cancel my service, if I cancel, I have to resubscribe".
Does the article cover something of extreme interest to nerds? YES, duh! +2
Does the article cover somebody/. respects? WETA, yup,/. respects them. Hmmm... -2
Does the article cover some aspect that nobody knew about before? YES. +1
Is the article posted on a for-free fan site? YES. +1
Did the article come from an evil corporation? Popular Science is owned by AOL Time Warner and we all know how/. feels about them. YES. +5
That totals up to +7 (and I probably forgot a few things), so it doesn't matter if it's copyright infringement.
Nope, didn't miss anything. PC Power and Cooling wasn't represented in the review.
I have one of their PSUs and three of their Silencer fans in my PC. Works great and is very quiet. Sure, they're more expensive, but I'd rather pay for high quality instead of a burned out PC.
Boeing has a news release with other photos, details, and a movie. The movie is downloading real slow right now though. They've got an image of the plane on their home page, so it's being hyped up quite a bit.
The distributed.net core uses the Altivec SIMD extension on the G4, which has a useless rotate instruction, which serves absolutely no purpose that I know of on anything other than RC5 encryption
Yeah, I can see the Motorola engineers talking about this right now...
Dave, my stats on Distributed.net are way low.
Ted, let's put some instructions in the new processor just to get your stats up.
Thanks, Dave!
It appears that you have to have a session cookie from the top level of ArsTechnica's discussion boards before you can look at individual messages. So deep linking doesn't work.
Try searching for "TiBook antenna" in the forums there.
And, you know, the second another product shows up with a name "remotely" like iPod, they get letters from Apple legal.
And your point is? They're defending their trademark. They didn't sue to get the product squashed, they justed asked to rename it or make changes when it was way too close to iTunes.
Defending your trademark is a reasonable and expected thing to do. For example, if somebody wrote a new kernal and called it Lynux that worked exactly like Linux, you'd expect Linus to go after them.
This very situation was covered in a TV news segment. I can't remember exactly which TV show it was, but I vaguely recall it was NBC. Perhaps Dateline NBC.
Anyways, the reporter drove this computer guy around and he was using a laptop to snoop wireless security cam pictures.
Thankfully it's a National Geographic production. If it was a Fox thing, it would have been called: "Temptation Door: Sex Secrets of the Mummies" or something stupid like that.
I hear GNOME is great and all, but am I only the one who hears "GNOME" and thinks not "uhhh... stands for something" but instead "ugly, ceramic garden decoration"?
I have a question, why didn't we power the Mars Pathfinder rover by nuclear? Were they afraid that if it crashed into the planet, it would cause some nuclear fall out?
It's all about weight. Dragging around an RTG on wheels isn't exactly easy work. Remember that the Sojourner was carried on Pathfinder, which itself was carried another stage.
What would have been a better question would be: Why wasn't the Pathfinder lander powered by an RTG and then Sojourner recharged via a docking station?
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That was a rather disappointing article. He only made one Linux-related prediction: that there will be a major Linux virus. Besides that, everything else was generic and not Linux specific.
iSync was announced at MacWorld New York back in July. At that time, Apple said that it would be available in September. Perhaps Steve didn't want to be embarrassed by announcing the final release at another MacWorld? I think if it was iSync 2.0, then Steve would announce it, but just finalizing a product isn't big news and can actually be taken as bad news (think vaporware).
Yours maybe, but not mine. :-)
It's a Development Kit. It's not intended for mass-market use. You're supposed to use the board to help you create real stuff. You stuffing it into some non-development work isn't its intended market so complaining about it is pointless.
Now if Transmeta said this was a motherboard for non-development markets, then you would have a complaint.
See the Cox Byte Cap FAQ. In short, it's 2GB per day and/or 30GB of downloads per month and 1GB per day and/or 7.5GB per month of uploads.
The coolest movie-to-Lego-model that I've seen is this Millennium Falcon (had to use Internet Wayback Machine as the original site's pictures are down).
You can get satellite and launch insurance. I don't know what the terms are like, but I imagine that premium is fairly high. You can insure almost anything these days, it will just cost you.
Don't worry though, if the game takes of, they will probably release another game set after ROTJ.
Most satellites are put up with rockets, not the Shuttle.
It's $20.
Except that it's the lifetime of the unit you bought, not you as a subscriber. That's the problem that I have as we all know that they're going to come out with new units with some must-have feature that only the new units support.
I would prefer something like "lifetime service for any unit as long as I don't cancel my service, if I cancel, I have to resubscribe".
Does the article cover something of extreme interest to nerds? YES, duh! +2 /. respects? WETA, yup, /. respects them. Hmmm... -2 /. feels about them. YES. +5
Does the article cover somebody
Does the article cover some aspect that nobody knew about before? YES. +1
Is the article posted on a for-free fan site? YES. +1
Did the article come from an evil corporation? Popular Science is owned by AOL Time Warner and we all know how
That totals up to +7 (and I probably forgot a few things), so it doesn't matter if it's copyright infringement.
I have one of their PSUs and three of their Silencer fans in my PC. Works great and is very quiet. Sure, they're more expensive, but I'd rather pay for high quality instead of a burned out PC.
Boeing has a news release with other photos, details, and a movie. The movie is downloading real slow right now though. They've got an image of the plane on their home page, so it's being hyped up quite a bit.
Yeah, I can see the Motorola engineers talking about this right now...
Dave, my stats on Distributed.net are way low.
Ted, let's put some instructions in the new processor just to get your stats up.
Thanks, Dave!
Must not be completely worthless...
Try searching for "TiBook antenna" in the forums there.
I hate websites that do this...
Why would you need Norton Utilities to run under emulation on Linux? None of the utilities are going to help you fix anything on a Linux box.
* Can't afford it
* Doesn't want to pay for it
For example, I can afford it, but I have a hard time justifying the $500 cost (unit plus lifetime service).
And your point is? They're defending their trademark. They didn't sue to get the product squashed, they justed asked to rename it or make changes when it was way too close to iTunes.
Defending your trademark is a reasonable and expected thing to do. For example, if somebody wrote a new kernal and called it Lynux that worked exactly like Linux, you'd expect Linus to go after them.
This very situation was covered in a TV news segment. I can't remember exactly which TV show it was, but I vaguely recall it was NBC. Perhaps Dateline NBC.
Anyways, the reporter drove this computer guy around and he was using a laptop to snoop wireless security cam pictures.
Thankfully it's a National Geographic production. If it was a Fox thing, it would have been called: "Temptation Door: Sex Secrets of the Mummies" or something stupid like that.
I hear GNOME is great and all, but am I only the one who hears "GNOME" and thinks not "uhhh... stands for something" but instead "ugly, ceramic garden decoration"?
Mac IE has Java support. There's a whole preference section for it.
I've found Mac IE to be a very compatible web browser.
It's all about weight. Dragging around an RTG on wheels isn't exactly easy work. Remember that the Sojourner was carried on Pathfinder, which itself was carried another stage.
What would have been a better question would be: Why wasn't the Pathfinder lander powered by an RTG and then Sojourner recharged via a docking station?
The latest Mission Status from February has the velocity numbers you're looking for.