Just out of interest how much does a CD cost in local currency from retail outlets around the world at the moment?
As KingDaveRa mentions in the parent post the majority of new retail CDs in Britain fall into the 15 - 20 region, which if you translate that into US$ works out to $27.65 - $36.87.
Just curious as to if we are getting ripped off in the UK or whether it is just us Brits feeling sorry for ourselves again.
Seems to me that the government bodies are more interested in sucking up to the music industry than they are investigating the price fixing which is rampant in the UK in the first place.
I seem to remember about 5 years ago the British governmet started an investigation into Record Industry price fixing in the UK (to much public fanfare) as at the time we were paying approx twice as much per CD.
Strangely enough the entire initative fizzled into nothing and the British people are still being ripped off every time we walk into a record store!
I think you missed the real irony in the above message:
In short, HTAs pack all the power of Microsoft Internet Explorer--its object model, performance, rendering power, protocol support, and channel-download technology--without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser.
The article mentioned Microsoft Internet Explorer and security in the same sentence without using the phrase lack of!
Strange I thought Redhat had just abandoned the desktop. If Redhat are going to push Linux out of the back office, where are they going to push it too?
2> Graphics were somewhat 3d - with sprite-based monsters. Hmm, what other game came out like that? Sure, you were restricted to moving on a grid... But hey it was a step forward.
I seem to remember playing 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 which is now over 20 years old.
> Sendmail doesen't fit the one of the core Unix ideas - use simple, robut and elegent programs, chained together, to do cool things.
Just because this is a feature of Unix doesn't mean that every application written on unix has to fit this form. If it were the case then we would not have mail at all we would just transfer all our files written in ex via kermit.
A review has been posted on Tom's Hardware with benchmarks comparing performance verses the Athlon and PIII.
Some of these the P4 performs excellently in, however AMD still have a few tricks up their sleeve in other benchmarks equalling or surpassing the P4 clocked up to 1.7GHz.
Not that I am an expert on BSD, but having done a little investigating it appears that most (if not all) of the current BSD distributions can run most Linux code, in some cases better than Linux due to the memory management advantages BSD has over Linux. Therefore depending on how much of the BSD code is implemented in OS X I would guess it is entirely feasable that it will be capable of running most Linux apps.
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Maybe you should get a bit more anal about reading the article.
> Although not entirely screen accurate (it would have been the length of my street for that) the distinctive shape is unmistakable.
Just out of interest how much does a CD cost in local currency from retail outlets around the world at the moment?
As KingDaveRa mentions in the parent post the majority of new retail CDs in Britain fall into the 15 - 20 region, which if you translate that into US$ works out to $27.65 - $36.87.
Just curious as to if we are getting ripped off in the UK or whether it is just us Brits feeling sorry for ourselves again.
Seems to me that the government bodies are more interested in sucking up to the music industry than they are investigating the price fixing which is rampant in the UK in the first place.
I seem to remember about 5 years ago the British governmet started an investigation into Record Industry price fixing in the UK (to much public fanfare) as at the time we were paying approx twice as much per CD.
Strangely enough the entire initative fizzled into nothing and the British people are still being ripped off every time we walk into a record store!
I think you missed the real irony in the above message: In short, HTAs pack all the power of Microsoft Internet Explorer--its object model, performance, rendering power, protocol support, and channel-download technology--without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser. The article mentioned Microsoft Internet Explorer and security in the same sentence without using the phrase lack of!
It should however be pointed out that changing a CD is considerably easier than taking your entire PC system and a portable generator out for a jog!
Your boss would probably be more interested why you were running a test kernel on his hardware, rather than what code name it had!
Strange I thought Redhat had just abandoned the desktop. If Redhat are going to push Linux out of the back office, where are they going to push it too?
2> Graphics were somewhat 3d - with sprite-based monsters. Hmm, what other game came out like that? Sure, you were restricted to moving on a grid... But hey it was a step forward.
I seem to remember playing 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 which is now over 20 years old.
> 2) Performance on average is almost as good.
And ATI is likely to be at least as good as that when the Radion 9800 Pro (or whatever they call it) based on R350 comes out.
If not a bit faster and hopefully still without the need to plug in a vacuum cleaner.
> Sendmail doesen't fit the one of the core Unix ideas - use simple, robut and elegent programs, chained together, to do cool things.
Just because this is a feature of Unix doesn't mean that every application written on unix has to fit this form. If it were the case then we would not have mail at all we would just transfer all our files written in ex via kermit.
A review has been posted on Tom's Hardware with benchmarks comparing performance verses the Athlon and PIII.
Some of these the P4 performs excellently in, however AMD still have a few tricks up their sleeve in other benchmarks equalling or surpassing the P4 clocked up to 1.7GHz.
Not that I am an expert on BSD, but having done a little investigating it appears that most (if not all) of the current BSD distributions can run most Linux code, in some cases better than Linux due to the memory management advantages BSD has over Linux. Therefore depending on how much of the BSD code is implemented in OS X I would guess it is entirely feasable that it will be capable of running most Linux apps.