No, they came from IRC. We can only do terminal-to-terminal communications on the old Unix systems. IRC is a text relay between two client programs, not terminals. ICQ uses client programs, not terminals. Therin lies the difference.
started out right, they allowed people to see when their friends were online, message them, chat with them and send files to them. None of these were new ideas, most of them came from IRC while the interface came from Prodigy's old messager. Now people want to add every function under the sun to these damn things. ICQ is now taking up 10 megs of memory and I'm just sitting online. I hate the thought of the instant message clients because I don't want some nut to interupt me while I'm working with an oversized window. I'm just ranting because I find the direction these things are moving to be assanine. ICQ added stuff I would see in an office suite as part of the STANDARD features. Come on, how about a Lite client for people who don't want bells and whistles. I've had some bad mojo with the GNU clients by the way, when I used them and when other people used them. I think the best version of messager out right now is ICQ for the Mac. I have it on my powerbook and it runs fine and doesn't have a bunch of extra crap I'll never use.
sue the US government for not using GraymalkinOffice 99. The midget programming army in my employ toiled endless midget-hours to produce this fine office suite. It does everything for you automatically. Need a report typed up? It will do it without you needed to even be there. Spreadsheets? Presentations? National debt consolodation? It's all done for you. How can anyone DARE think of using anythung but a 100% midget produced product? I mean come on man, you've gone completely sideways if you think our product doesn't whip Microsoft in the bum. Corel doesn't know what is going on, they ought to be suing Microsoft for daring to compete. Is GraymalkiSoft next? Time for the squirrel lawyer legions to hope into action.
were going to ban a video game because it "trains" people for violence or some such I would ban Rogue Spear. I jump back in my seat when I get nailed in that game (due in part to my speakers turned to maximum). The realism of Rogue Spear train people for tactical situations alot more than Quake with its rocket jumping and plasma guns. Video games are the LAST reason people kill other people unless you're a fscking camper out on the up on the quad damage platform. I suppose video games are being banned because coke and selective fire weapons have already been banned. Or so it goes.
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If SGI is still relying on Intel processors in 2005 I will cry my little eyes out. LONG LIVE MIPS!
Ah but you forget one thing about dual processing, each of the 800mhz chips are sharing the same bus and clock. Four 800mhz chips are still running at 800mhz they just have four times the Int and FP power than just a single 800mhz chip. Forking over more money for a 1ghz processor would be prudent in many aspects because it's likely the 1ghz processor will have much increased Int and FP capabilities than the older 800mhz. When you have to share the same bus you lose a good deal of speed between the processor and the rest of the system. The actual speed difference between a 450 PII and a 500 PIII is only 50mhz but in actual processing power the PIII is almost twice as powerful.
I wasn't saying a webserver NEEDED 64 megs of ram, I was just replying to people's complaints that it ONLY had 64 megs of ram. 64 megs is still a good deal of memory especially when you're running a kernel, a shell, and a deamon.
Cobalt Qubes have been designed to be small webservers or corporate intranet servers, not megaboxes that can serve up 100% dynamic webpages while cracking RC5 keys. A small web/intranet server doesn't need a whole lot more than 64 megs of ram and an amazingly huge hard drive. Their selling point is that you can drop it into your network and it works, not to mention it has an HTML administration interface that is a good idea. I do think these boxes are really overpriced, if they were sold for abour 900-1000$ I would find them a good deal more attractive.
a violation of the broadcasters copyright. iCraveTV is adding their banners which makes them money, which is a violation IIRC of the Canadian copyright laws regarding broadcasting. The broadcasters are also not getting the advertisement money since it is not a registered broadcast. If I were the broadcast companies I would be pretty pissed off myself. I think one of the major reasons broadcasters like ABC et cetera haven't begun massive netcasting is the fact that the quality of video that can be broadcast over a 28.8 or 56.6 modem is crap. It's crap on a 512k cable modem for the most part. Quicktime does a decent job of delivering video at higher bandwidths but it's a joke at lower ones. Until we all have T1s or xDSLs idiot boxes will still be required.
been thinking about this too, I use Windows and Linux so I'm using both Explorer.exe and X. Explorer has a decent keyboard interface which I've used when I couldn't get my hands on a serial mouse cuz the system had no PS/2 port. Most WMs I've used with X on the other hand don't have a good keyboard interface. X's mouse interface isn't all too snazzy either, the cursor (in most WMs I've used) had a real odd movement. I think added keybaord functionality would be good not only for those of us with sore wrists from using mice all the time but also very useful for non-PC systems like WebTV and the like. Linux is a powerful and small kernal that could be ported to net appliances but X would have some difficulty because it has problems with keyboard interface which many net appliances are limited to.
impress me too much, for a few simple reasons; they don't mention anything around re-writing and this isn't really a breakthrough. This is merely an enhancement of the technology used in DVD players to real multiple disk layers. The transparent medium lets you use a large number of layers because the laser light doesn't get refracted much by it as it would by layers with a particular colour. I would be much more impressed with a re-writable system. The disk technology isn't the one you should look at for a real prize winner, it's the type of laser used. They use a pulse-diode lasers which can be much more easily controlled then dye based lasers and use a good deal less power. Lets hear it for diode lasers!
of seeing all the posts berating NASA. In space exploration probably the most important factor in any mission is energy. With no energy you can't launch a probe, send it to its destination, land it, take measurements, ect. Whenever an engineer can save energy he/she will. The more energy you have the more things you can do. On a spacecraft the energy available is limited because we don't have an infinite amount of money and time to build a system with next to unlimited energy. It's MUCH more effective to use the probes momentum to bury it three feet into the ground than it would be to soft land it and then have it drill down three feet. NASA could feasibly build a space craft with huge energy reserves but that would cost a good deal of money, one thing NASA no longer has. It seems to me NASA served its political purpose, it got men to the moon and returned them safely home. After Apollo NASA saw it's funding cut more andmore. Had it not been cut we would probably have moon bases and permenant space stations by now.
How do you think they first classified the Ranger and Apollo missions? No one knew in 1961 if it would be possible to land a human on the moon and bring them back. As a species we had never been in a high orbit, let alone to the moon. This mission is a testbed for later missions. It would be very expensive energy wise to build a probe that would soft land onto the martian surface and drill down three feet, where it would be very cheap energy wise to crash a hardened probe into the surface to get it down three feet. It's not easy to run a space agency on the paltry funds that space agencies today are run on. On the contrary it is very hard yet they still do it.
Austrailian radar techs discovered they could find stealth aircraft by bouncing radar off the turbulence behind the plane. If you've ever seen an F-117 it has some pretty awesome turbulence, so awesome it needs special compensators just to let the thing fly. Until someone figures out how to build an aircraft with little or no turbulence caused by drag anything is detectable if you put some thought into it.
this problem isn't limited to the high tech community. My step dad works for a hunting and fishing store (a chain of stores) as manager. Like all of the management they pay him a salary with little or no overtime benefits, when it comes to doing hunting or tackle shows they call upon the store management to run the shows. The management is used because they don't have to pay the wage kiddies any overtime. It's a real shitbucket too, if the management complains or so much as asks for overtime they get "reassigned" or even fired. It's rough to quit or get fired because unlike high tech jobs the lowtech ones are harder and harder to find.
thought on this subject before and have come up with some of the same answers as in the question. One idea that might work is to have a base with an array of IR motion capture sensors like on the new Microsoft mouse with the funky red lights on the bottom. The user would have a harness that suspended them above the base so they could walk on it without moving, the user's shoes having a real smooth padding to let them slide on the base; the harness would be ables to move up and down (crouching and jumping) but not laterally. The base would capture the movements of the person's feet and translate that information into speed and direction. The base could also have IR sensors to find the position of key parts of their body and the position of the barrel of their rifle. This is rather ill suited for the home but could work very well for tactical simulates for police and military.
were true why in the world would IBM replace AIX on their Big Iron? Linux is a nice OS that is finally getting some attention but maybe it's getting a little too much. It's at the point now where everyone has a Linux.plan so they can tout it for PR and then not really go anywhere with it. Porting Linux fully to their mainframes would require a huge rewrite of the kernel which would make it look alot like AIX. Whats the point of calling it Linux if you have to take out most of the kernel code to port it to the mainframe? PR dude.
The difference between a low end SGI and a high end PC is enormous. If you got a refurbished O2 with an R5200 you'd beat the pants off any PC box for the same price. With a relatively inexpensive upgrade you can get an R12000 instead. OpenGL support would of course be native and the graphics card would easily be comparable to a TNT2.
AOL is not banning all games with a rating higher than Pansy, they are banning games labeled Adult. Last time I checked your favorite FPS games were labeled Mature. I find this sort of inevitable in any case, AOL is trying to police their networks so when the next kid goes and shoots up a school people can't go point the finger at AOL for providing the content or arena for their Adult class game. It's a cover-your-ass tactic that we're going to see with increased frequency as more and more blame is put on computer networks for the world's woes. If you're wondering why this is happening watch the morning or nightly news and count the number of times they use the word "blame".
The problem with special relativity is that it only works for sublight speeds in three dimensions. Dimensions higher than our trusty dusty 3rd would have the ability to link two points in 3 dimensional space as if they were ten feet away since distance is something lower dimensions have problems with. In the right higher dimension you could occupy every point of 3 dimensional space at the same instant and therefore be moving faster than light. Or so it goes.
as another nail in SGI's coffin? This will get them some attention but unfortunately not get them much business. I don't want Linux on a super computer, it would cease to truely be linux if you changed it enough to actually work as a super computer. What makes a computer super is not it's total operations in a second but how efficiently it handles those operations. Crays use(d) vector systems, the chips are mostly SIMD circuitry which means you can get more usable data from a single instruction. Until recently PC class chips had never touched SIMD, they were all SISD circuitry. This means the chips in Crays were the opposite of what a PIII is today, it was mostly SIMD circuitry with small SISD units (where the PIII is mostly SISD with one or two SIMD units). Besides the actual hardware difference, Linux just does not have the super computer mentality. Irix was designed to scale on hundreds of processors and address hundreds of gigs of RAM, Linux makes poor use (comparitively) of only hundreds of megs of RAM. If Linux were tweaked by SGI's old Irix people (do they even work there anymore?) it would really cease to be Linux. You have to remember that Linux was originally designed to be a flavour of unix that ran on PC architecture, not power hungry-underground complex requiring mainframes. This is no kind of slur against Linux it is focused on SGI. It's a shame they have been reduced to trying to get under someone else's PR umbrella to make headlines. If someone offered me the choice of an old Origin 2000 or one of their Linux super comps I would go for the Origin based almost entirely on principle.
Everyone else in my city has the potential to save 20$ on their DSL bills, I'm so happy for them. I still can't get DSL though. For some reason my telco (Pacific Bell) has decided that my area of town doesn't need DSL access so I'm stuck with a one way cable modem (I have to use my modem for upstream) that has lately become damn near impossible to connect to at night. Earthlink provides the net access for the cable, letting the cable co use their dialup centers. This is fine in the middle of the day but when I get home from class tonight the lines will be jam packed and I won't be able to log on. This happened about four years ago when Earthlink started to get real popular, they would meet their connection limit real quick and give everyone else busy signals. If I could get a damned DSL line I wouldn't have to deal with this crap. I can only hope this ruling makes PacBell decide it's cost effective to give this side of town DSL.
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No, they came from IRC. We can only do terminal-to-terminal communications on the old Unix systems. IRC is a text relay between two client programs, not terminals. ICQ uses client programs, not terminals. Therin lies the difference.
started out right, they allowed people to see when their friends were online, message them, chat with them and send files to them. None of these were new ideas, most of them came from IRC while the interface came from Prodigy's old messager. Now people want to add every function under the sun to these damn things. ICQ is now taking up 10 megs of memory and I'm just sitting online. I hate the thought of the instant message clients because I don't want some nut to interupt me while I'm working with an oversized window. I'm just ranting because I find the direction these things are moving to be assanine. ICQ added stuff I would see in an office suite as part of the STANDARD features. Come on, how about a Lite client for people who don't want bells and whistles. I've had some bad mojo with the GNU clients by the way, when I used them and when other people used them. I think the best version of messager out right now is ICQ for the Mac. I have it on my powerbook and it runs fine and doesn't have a bunch of extra crap I'll never use.
Millions is old skool? Shite, mine is under 500,000.
sue the US government for not using GraymalkinOffice 99. The midget programming army in my employ toiled endless midget-hours to produce this fine office suite. It does everything for you automatically. Need a report typed up? It will do it without you needed to even be there. Spreadsheets? Presentations? National debt consolodation? It's all done for you. How can anyone DARE think of using anythung but a 100% midget produced product? I mean come on man, you've gone completely sideways if you think our product doesn't whip Microsoft in the bum. Corel doesn't know what is going on, they ought to be suing Microsoft for daring to compete. Is GraymalkiSoft next? Time for the squirrel lawyer legions to hope into action.
were going to ban a video game because it "trains" people for violence or some such I would ban Rogue Spear. I jump back in my seat when I get nailed in that game (due in part to my speakers turned to maximum). The realism of Rogue Spear train people for tactical situations alot more than Quake with its rocket jumping and plasma guns. Video games are the LAST reason people kill other people unless you're a fscking camper out on the up on the quad damage platform. I suppose video games are being banned because coke and selective fire weapons have already been banned. Or so it goes.
If SGI is still relying on Intel processors in 2005 I will cry my little eyes out. LONG LIVE MIPS!
Ah but you forget one thing about dual processing, each of the 800mhz chips are sharing the same bus and clock. Four 800mhz chips are still running at 800mhz they just have four times the Int and FP power than just a single 800mhz chip. Forking over more money for a 1ghz processor would be prudent in many aspects because it's likely the 1ghz processor will have much increased Int and FP capabilities than the older 800mhz. When you have to share the same bus you lose a good deal of speed between the processor and the rest of the system. The actual speed difference between a 450 PII and a 500 PIII is only 50mhz but in actual processing power the PIII is almost twice as powerful.
I wasn't saying a webserver NEEDED 64 megs of ram, I was just replying to people's complaints that it ONLY had 64 megs of ram. 64 megs is still a good deal of memory especially when you're running a kernel, a shell, and a deamon.
Cobalt Qubes have been designed to be small webservers or corporate intranet servers, not megaboxes that can serve up 100% dynamic webpages while cracking RC5 keys. A small web/intranet server doesn't need a whole lot more than 64 megs of ram and an amazingly huge hard drive. Their selling point is that you can drop it into your network and it works, not to mention it has an HTML administration interface that is a good idea. I do think these boxes are really overpriced, if they were sold for abour 900-1000$ I would find them a good deal more attractive.
a violation of the broadcasters copyright. iCraveTV is adding their banners which makes them money, which is a violation IIRC of the Canadian copyright laws regarding broadcasting. The broadcasters are also not getting the advertisement money since it is not a registered broadcast. If I were the broadcast companies I would be pretty pissed off myself. I think one of the major reasons broadcasters like ABC et cetera haven't begun massive netcasting is the fact that the quality of video that can be broadcast over a 28.8 or 56.6 modem is crap. It's crap on a 512k cable modem for the most part. Quicktime does a decent job of delivering video at higher bandwidths but it's a joke at lower ones. Until we all have T1s or xDSLs idiot boxes will still be required.
been thinking about this too, I use Windows and Linux so I'm using both Explorer.exe and X. Explorer has a decent keyboard interface which I've used when I couldn't get my hands on a serial mouse cuz the system had no PS/2 port. Most WMs I've used with X on the other hand don't have a good keyboard interface. X's mouse interface isn't all too snazzy either, the cursor (in most WMs I've used) had a real odd movement. I think added keybaord functionality would be good not only for those of us with sore wrists from using mice all the time but also very useful for non-PC systems like WebTV and the like. Linux is a powerful and small kernal that could be ported to net appliances but X would have some difficulty because it has problems with keyboard interface which many net appliances are limited to.
impress me too much, for a few simple reasons; they don't mention anything around re-writing and this isn't really a breakthrough. This is merely an enhancement of the technology used in DVD players to real multiple disk layers. The transparent medium lets you use a large number of layers because the laser light doesn't get refracted much by it as it would by layers with a particular colour. I would be much more impressed with a re-writable system. The disk technology isn't the one you should look at for a real prize winner, it's the type of laser used. They use a pulse-diode lasers which can be much more easily controlled then dye based lasers and use a good deal less power. Lets hear it for diode lasers!
of seeing all the posts berating NASA. In space exploration probably the most important factor in any mission is energy. With no energy you can't launch a probe, send it to its destination, land it, take measurements, ect. Whenever an engineer can save energy he/she will. The more energy you have the more things you can do. On a spacecraft the energy available is limited because we don't have an infinite amount of money and time to build a system with next to unlimited energy. It's MUCH more effective to use the probes momentum to bury it three feet into the ground than it would be to soft land it and then have it drill down three feet. NASA could feasibly build a space craft with huge energy reserves but that would cost a good deal of money, one thing NASA no longer has. It seems to me NASA served its political purpose, it got men to the moon and returned them safely home. After Apollo NASA saw it's funding cut more andmore. Had it not been cut we would probably have moon bases and permenant space stations by now.
How do you think they first classified the Ranger and Apollo missions? No one knew in 1961 if it would be possible to land a human on the moon and bring them back. As a species we had never been in a high orbit, let alone to the moon. This mission is a testbed for later missions. It would be very expensive energy wise to build a probe that would soft land onto the martian surface and drill down three feet, where it would be very cheap energy wise to crash a hardened probe into the surface to get it down three feet. It's not easy to run a space agency on the paltry funds that space agencies today are run on. On the contrary it is very hard yet they still do it.
Austrailian radar techs discovered they could find stealth aircraft by bouncing radar off the turbulence behind the plane. If you've ever seen an F-117 it has some pretty awesome turbulence, so awesome it needs special compensators just to let the thing fly. Until someone figures out how to build an aircraft with little or no turbulence caused by drag anything is detectable if you put some thought into it.
blame Hemos!
this problem isn't limited to the high tech community. My step dad works for a hunting and fishing store (a chain of stores) as manager. Like all of the management they pay him a salary with little or no overtime benefits, when it comes to doing hunting or tackle shows they call upon the store management to run the shows. The management is used because they don't have to pay the wage kiddies any overtime. It's a real shitbucket too, if the management complains or so much as asks for overtime they get "reassigned" or even fired. It's rough to quit or get fired because unlike high tech jobs the lowtech ones are harder and harder to find.
thought on this subject before and have come up with some of the same answers as in the question. One idea that might work is to have a base with an array of IR motion capture sensors like on the new Microsoft mouse with the funky red lights on the bottom. The user would have a harness that suspended them above the base so they could walk on it without moving, the user's shoes having a real smooth padding to let them slide on the base; the harness would be ables to move up and down (crouching and jumping) but not laterally. The base would capture the movements of the person's feet and translate that information into speed and direction. The base could also have IR sensors to find the position of key parts of their body and the position of the barrel of their rifle. This is rather ill suited for the home but could work very well for tactical simulates for police and military.
were true why in the world would IBM replace AIX on their Big Iron? Linux is a nice OS that is finally getting some attention but maybe it's getting a little too much. It's at the point now where everyone has a Linux .plan so they can tout it for PR and then not really go anywhere with it. Porting Linux fully to their mainframes would require a huge rewrite of the kernel which would make it look alot like AIX. Whats the point of calling it Linux if you have to take out most of the kernel code to port it to the mainframe? PR dude.
NGI side of things, there's a faster (2.5Gbps) pipe between San Fransisco and LA built by our friends at MCI as part of their vBNS+ network.
The difference between a low end SGI and a high end PC is enormous. If you got a refurbished O2 with an R5200 you'd beat the pants off any PC box for the same price. With a relatively inexpensive upgrade you can get an R12000 instead. OpenGL support would of course be native and the graphics card would easily be comparable to a TNT2.
AOL is not banning all games with a rating higher than Pansy, they are banning games labeled Adult. Last time I checked your favorite FPS games were labeled Mature. I find this sort of inevitable in any case, AOL is trying to police their networks so when the next kid goes and shoots up a school people can't go point the finger at AOL for providing the content or arena for their Adult class game. It's a cover-your-ass tactic that we're going to see with increased frequency as more and more blame is put on computer networks for the world's woes. If you're wondering why this is happening watch the morning or nightly news and count the number of times they use the word "blame".
The problem with special relativity is that it only works for sublight speeds in three dimensions. Dimensions higher than our trusty dusty 3rd would have the ability to link two points in 3 dimensional space as if they were ten feet away since distance is something lower dimensions have problems with. In the right higher dimension you could occupy every point of 3 dimensional space at the same instant and therefore be moving faster than light. Or so it goes.
as another nail in SGI's coffin? This will get them some attention but unfortunately not get them much business. I don't want Linux on a super computer, it would cease to truely be linux if you changed it enough to actually work as a super computer. What makes a computer super is not it's total operations in a second but how efficiently it handles those operations. Crays use(d) vector systems, the chips are mostly SIMD circuitry which means you can get more usable data from a single instruction. Until recently PC class chips had never touched SIMD, they were all SISD circuitry. This means the chips in Crays were the opposite of what a PIII is today, it was mostly SIMD circuitry with small SISD units (where the PIII is mostly SISD with one or two SIMD units). Besides the actual hardware difference, Linux just does not have the super computer mentality. Irix was designed to scale on hundreds of processors and address hundreds of gigs of RAM, Linux makes poor use (comparitively) of only hundreds of megs of RAM. If Linux were tweaked by SGI's old Irix people (do they even work there anymore?) it would really cease to be Linux. You have to remember that Linux was originally designed to be a flavour of unix that ran on PC architecture, not power hungry-underground complex requiring mainframes. This is no kind of slur against Linux it is focused on SGI. It's a shame they have been reduced to trying to get under someone else's PR umbrella to make headlines. If someone offered me the choice of an old Origin 2000 or one of their Linux super comps I would go for the Origin based almost entirely on principle.
Everyone else in my city has the potential to save 20$ on their DSL bills, I'm so happy for them. I still can't get DSL though. For some reason my telco (Pacific Bell) has decided that my area of town doesn't need DSL access so I'm stuck with a one way cable modem (I have to use my modem for upstream) that has lately become damn near impossible to connect to at night. Earthlink provides the net access for the cable, letting the cable co use their dialup centers. This is fine in the middle of the day but when I get home from class tonight the lines will be jam packed and I won't be able to log on. This happened about four years ago when Earthlink started to get real popular, they would meet their connection limit real quick and give everyone else busy signals. If I could get a damned DSL line I wouldn't have to deal with this crap. I can only hope this ruling makes PacBell decide it's cost effective to give this side of town DSL.