According to SensAble's website "Compatibility with standard PCs and UNIX workstations". I interpret that as possible Linux compatibility. Oh the joys of feeling porno...
You find the hardware with the best floating point, and best memory bandwidth. Then you try and get the rest of things as cheap as possible, which means Linux or BSD.
Maybe this was about saving money and had nothing at all to do with the OS, that doesn't mattter anyway?
The OS DOES MATTER!
(Tell me if i'm wrong but) Linux (and *BSD) supports Beowolf clustering, a cheap way to make many small computers into one big and powerful computer. If you want a version of Windows that supports clustering, you'd use Windows 2k Advanced Server which is $3000 for one computer and 5 users. However, I'm pretty sure that doesn't support Beowolf-style clustering which is for processor power.
And with the money your saving from licensing fees, you can buy more computers.
My friend who plays a lot of video games still has AD(H)D. The point is to have your child to concentrate on one activity for an extended period of time. Do you see kids playing hours and hours of Pokemon with ADD? Yes you do.
The BEST solution to ADD and ADHD is to get your child to sit 12 hours (okay, they can eat) infront of a monitor writing and debugging a their own video game w/ OpenGL. Or let them port the Quake II software rendering engine into an operating system like HURD or *BSD. After the port's done, your child will be cured of any signs of ADD and ADHD.
If they are not cured, publish the game and you'll have enough money to hire a professional.
He's seeing things from a consumer's standpoint
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A regular non-geek computer buyer would believe him because what they need is his definition of an operating system. I for one, do not think Unix is an Operating System. However it is definately not like the writer at MacWeek described it. Unix, is more like a standard for Operating Systems, which is more formally called POSIX. When you hear the word Unix, you probably do not think of the an Novell Operating system (Unix is a trademark of Novell, I think). When nerds and geeks probably most associate Unix with something like *BSD, Linux, Minux, Hurd, Solaris and other such operating systems. It's more like a standard for OSes.
If the person who wrote the article thinks an Operating System is a GUI desktop enviroment, he should have mentioned Gnome, KDE or CDE because that's what it seems he's talking about. Unix to him is kind-of like DOS to Windows. Windows is an "Operating System", and DOS is not because it runs on a command line?
Additionally Aqua is an Desktop Enviroment, Carbon's like WINE, Cocoa's like QT/GTK+ and so forth. Hence Mac OS X is no different from an Unix (Linux/*BSD/Solaris) distribution.
- More money for open source projects
- Linux/*BSD won't be considered just a geek OS
- pr0n avalible in WMA is viewable by us
- More programmers for *nix
- More support (hardware) for *nix
- Red Hat stocks may soar:)
Bad?
- People who don't understand computers nor the reason for open source will use *nix because they wanted a free (as in beer) OS.
- Wine will be less useful
- More trolls will be at/.
The Reason?
- Microsoft supports MacOS and to continue there support (natively) for MacOS X (which runs on BSD), they must make apps. for *nix.
Now these things are affordable and powerful, I think I can ditch my Casio CFX-9850 for it. It would be great for most students because it has a lot more RAM 2+MB than most graph-calcs (32k-128k + 128k-256k ROM). My Casio and TI-85 are slow pieces of shit and only the Casio has color (in living tri-color). Additionally, I can ditch the agenda and I can plug in a modem for "educational purposes" such as reading/.. Plus, hot-syncing equations and progs are fun:). Just if it could play MP3's. I'll need the Casio pocket pc for that.
It also works in Windows Me and 98
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Not like too many people in slashdot uses Windows Me and 98 but I want to note that they support multihead/multi-videocards. I tried it in 2D but I'm not too sure about using it in 3D.
And now can put two of everything in my gaming computer- 2 OS's, 2 Hard Drive (RAID 0), 2 CD-Roms, 2 floppy drives, 2 GeForce 2 GTS's, 2 Athlons, 2 SCSI cards (one's for raid), 2 power supplys... This my really hurt my two platnum cards. I'll need two jobs.:)
This is actually a good thing because at school, we are not allowed to go online because the teachers are afraid we're going to look at porn. With the filters, the teachers may let the students go online to research more without supervision because they don't have to make sure every student is not looking at innappropreate things. Students have "accidentally" went to porn sites and I, as a student am VERY afraid I'll search for something and the result is a porn site because I may get disaplined.
Although this is censorship, it will help students research on the 'net more. Just make sure the filters don't filter out/.:)
I ask someone out there to send your 2 cents or all the stories with 5 pts or some links to the SF articles to the editors at ABCnews technology section. This is the link.
Try not to spam/flame them, just tell them to correct the story nicely.
Hotice that the black of the background of the billboard is different from the black of the error message. I *wish* it was real though. Oh well, M$ should adopt a similiar billboard for their Windows Me ad campain
Here's a link to other Fred Moody Stories. Very interesting... He seems to be critical about Microsoft too.
I remember when Windows 2000 came out ZDnet had a story about Windows 2000 having 64,000 bugs. (Windows 2000 service patch gave my computer 1000 more yesterday)
Anandtech has a review of the Pentium 3 1.13 GHz where he had used motherboards using the VIA Apollo Pro 133 Chipset which Tom Pabst said did not work with the boards on that chipset. Anand did not say anything about the microcode nor did he use the motherboard that Tom said did not arrive.
I've used Napster one time and found it too popular and not as easy to use as transfering MP3's on IRC channels such as dalnet. I use channel #mp3z and #mp3s. The downloads are fast and effective. And IRC is cross-platform so it works on almost any OS.
So why do we need Napster? IRC MP3 trading has been around for a long time and no one wants to shut it down
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According to SensAble's website "Compatibility with standard PCs and UNIX workstations". I interpret that as possible Linux compatibility.
Oh the joys of feeling porno...
The OS DOES MATTER!
(Tell me if i'm wrong but) Linux (and *BSD) supports Beowolf clustering, a cheap way to make many small computers into one big and powerful computer. If you want a version of Windows that supports clustering, you'd use Windows 2k Advanced Server which is $3000 for one computer and 5 users. However, I'm pretty sure that doesn't support Beowolf-style clustering which is for processor power.
And with the money your saving from licensing fees, you can buy more computers.
The BEST solution to ADD and ADHD is to get your child to sit 12 hours (okay, they can eat) infront of a monitor writing and debugging a their own video game w/ OpenGL. Or let them port the Quake II software rendering engine into an operating system like HURD or *BSD. After the port's done, your child will be cured of any signs of ADD and ADHD.
If they are not cured, publish the game and you'll have enough money to hire a professional.
If the person who wrote the article thinks an Operating System is a GUI desktop enviroment, he should have mentioned Gnome, KDE or CDE because that's what it seems he's talking about. Unix to him is kind-of like DOS to Windows. Windows is an "Operating System", and DOS is not because it runs on a command line?
Additionally Aqua is an Desktop Enviroment, Carbon's like WINE, Cocoa's like QT/GTK+ and so forth. Hence Mac OS X is no different from an Unix (Linux/*BSD/Solaris) distribution.
- More money for open source projects :)
- Linux/*BSD won't be considered just a geek OS
- pr0n avalible in WMA is viewable by us
- More programmers for *nix
- More support (hardware) for *nix
- Red Hat stocks may soar
Bad?
- People who don't understand computers nor the reason for open source will use *nix because they wanted a free (as in beer) OS. /.
- Wine will be less useful
- More trolls will be at
The Reason?
- Microsoft supports MacOS and to continue there support (natively) for MacOS X (which runs on BSD), they must make apps. for *nix.
Now these things are affordable and powerful, I think I can ditch my Casio CFX-9850 for it. It would be great for most students because it has a lot more RAM 2+MB than most graph-calcs (32k-128k + 128k-256k ROM). My Casio and TI-85 are slow pieces of shit and only the Casio has color (in living tri-color). Additionally, I can ditch the agenda and I can plug in a modem for "educational purposes" such as reading /.. Plus, hot-syncing equations and progs are fun :). Just if it could play MP3's. I'll need the Casio pocket pc for that.
And now can put two of everything in my gaming computer- 2 OS's, 2 Hard Drive (RAID 0), 2 CD-Roms, 2 floppy drives, 2 GeForce 2 GTS's, 2 Athlons, 2 SCSI cards (one's for raid), 2 power supplys... This my really hurt my two platnum cards. I'll need two jobs. :)
This is actually a good thing because at school, we are not allowed to go online because the teachers are afraid we're going to look at porn. With the filters, the teachers may let the students go online to research more without supervision because they don't have to make sure every student is not looking at innappropreate things. Students have "accidentally" went to porn sites and I, as a student am VERY afraid I'll search for something and the result is a porn site because I may get disaplined.
Although this is censorship, it will help students research on the 'net more. Just make sure the filters don't filter out /. :)
Try not to spam/flame them, just tell them to correct the story nicely.
Hotice that the black of the background of the billboard is different from the black of the error message.
I *wish* it was real though.
Oh well, M$ should adopt a similiar billboard for their Windows Me ad campain
I remember when Windows 2000 came out ZDnet had a story about Windows 2000 having 64,000 bugs. (Windows 2000 service patch gave my computer 1000 more yesterday)
Anandtech has a review of the Pentium 3 1.13 GHz where he had used motherboards using the VIA Apollo Pro 133 Chipset which Tom Pabst said did not work with the boards on that chipset. Anand did not say anything about the microcode nor did he use the motherboard that Tom said did not arrive.
I've used Napster one time and found it too popular and not as easy to use as transfering MP3's on IRC channels such as dalnet. I use channel #mp3z and #mp3s. The downloads are fast and effective. And IRC is cross-platform so it works on almost any OS.
So why do we need Napster? IRC MP3 trading has been around for a long time and no one wants to shut it down