No doubt, Americans would be similarly amused if a film were to be released portraying Guadalcanal being liberated by British forces with nary an American in sight... Lets do it, all the London based slashdotters, a digital camcorder, Brighton beach, sod The Blair Witch, THIS could be huge.
Because to get the same amount of power using off the shelf WinTel stuff would cost rather more, it would destroy the economic model used by console makers, and the PS2 already has far more games in development than Linux and Windows CE put together.
drugs that treat Crohn's disease Is this a cure, or just another 'helps with the symptoms' ?
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Then right at the end, a piece of the Culture's flying cutlery pops up out of nowhere and saves the day. This is a gratuitous deus ex machina that's below the standards of Jeffrey Archer, let alone E E Smith. While I agree that this is not even near his best, there are quite a few clues as to just what the knife is before the end of the book.
i have never seen as much figure skating featured on TV in europe It turns up a fair bit in the UK. I guess thats because its the only winter sport we can even pretend to be good at.
Is the general public really _that_ afraid of a general purpose personal computer? In a word, yes. In lots more words, you have to remember that most of the things you list are sold to familys. My PC can play my CDs, let me play games, show TV etc, BUT only do one of them at a given time.
If you give me a point of reference that switches daylight savings time along with everybody else, I'll use that. Except countries move to daylight saving at different times, and there are two hemispheres, so there could not be such a time zone.
It's probably going to be more cost effective for a big firm like IBM to outsource the development and support for Linux to Red Hat, SuSe, et. al. than to build their own custom distribution and support staff Why? IBM already supports more OSs than I want to even think about, including Unix variants. On the one hand, a big company like IBM still isn't as well recognized in the Linux field.. But outside the Linux field, in the big bad world of pointy haired bosses, IBM has more recognition than any computer firm except MS, remember, Red Hat are only worth the money if you think Linux is going to be huge.
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You really are putting some work into this troll.
No doubt, Americans would be similarly amused if a film were to be released portraying Guadalcanal being liberated by British forces with nary an American in sight...
Lets do it, all the London based slashdotters, a digital camcorder, Brighton beach, sod The Blair Witch, THIS could be huge.
(I must stop posting when pissed.......)
Because to get the same amount of power using off the shelf WinTel stuff would cost rather more, it would destroy the economic model used by console makers, and the PS2 already has far more games in development than Linux and Windows CE put together.
drugs that treat Crohn's disease
Is this a cure, or just another 'helps with the symptoms' ?
Then right at the end, a piece of the Culture's flying cutlery pops up out of nowhere and saves the day. This is a gratuitous deus ex machina that's below the standards of Jeffrey Archer, let alone E E Smith.
While I agree that this is not even near his best, there are quite a few clues as to just what the knife is before the end of the book.
Its NOT about power, its about IO. A 16 node Xeon box is great for computation, but its IO is still bound by the PC way of doing things.
i have never seen as much figure skating featured on TV in europe
It turns up a fair bit in the UK. I guess thats because its the only winter sport we can even pretend to be good at.
Is the general public really _that_ afraid of a general purpose personal computer?
In a word, yes.
In lots more words, you have to remember that most of the things you list are sold to familys. My PC can play my CDs, let me play games, show TV etc, BUT only do one of them at a given time.
Boy, your summers sure must stink!
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If you give me a point of reference that switches daylight savings time along with everybody else, I'll use that.
Except countries move to daylight saving at different times, and there are two hemispheres, so there could not be such a time zone.
The +1 time is called British Summer Time, remember that and you cannot go too far wrong.
You ain't seen nothing yet, that was a rather polite reply by /. standards.
You pay for your web-access by the second? You can get it free you know.
Depends, outside the US a lot of us have to pay for the phone time.
So name a bunch of OSS projects that don't rely on people working for free.
Well, my standard response to all bugs is, are you using the latest version? Which has much the same effect.
So, how long till the first Slashdot/News Of The World cross over?
It's probably going to be more cost effective for a big firm like IBM to outsource the development and support for Linux to Red Hat, SuSe, et. al. than to build their own custom distribution and support staff ..
Why? IBM already supports more OSs than I want to even think about, including Unix variants. On the one hand, a big company like IBM still isn't as well recognized in the Linux field
But outside the Linux field, in the big bad world of pointy haired bosses, IBM has more recognition than any computer firm except MS, remember, Red Hat are only worth the money if you think Linux is going to be huge.
Can anybody tell me just what the difference is between a chairman, a president and a CEO?
I can speak C, FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, VB and English, well some people might disagree with the last one.
Have you heard any news from upper Michigan lately? From western Pennsylvania? From Idaho?
Could that be because they are dull as ditchwater?