That's exactly the point. Slot-1 is Intel's old technology that's supposed to be on it's way out. So why do they only release their fastest CPUs only in Slot-1 and not FC-PGA?
It's all speculation, but Tom has a few theories in his review. The most likely explanation is that Intel wants to lock the high end customers into a Rambus solution instead of PC133 SDRAM. The i815 Solano chipset has no Slot-1 motherboards available. There's no way you'll see it paired with a VIA Apollo Pro because the OEMS have to kiss Intel's ass like crazy to get their supply of the precious 1Gig PIII's. That only leaves the i820 chipset. When you're already paying a $600 price premium for the CPU, who's gonna notice another $600 price premium for the RDRAM?
BTW, does anyone else notice the rabid anti-Intel bias of Tom's Hardware.
And what did NeXT replace the cube with? The pizza box case that they shamelessly copied from Sun/HP/Apollo and whoever else invented it. If I spray painted my Sun pizza box black, could NeXT have sued me for copying their design?
At what point does a generic form factor case become unique enough to be considered a trademark? Tower case? Pizza box? 2ft cube? 8in cube?
Ironically, this lawsuit and the barrage of news stories is only drawing more attention to MP3 trading. Napster may not survive, but mp3 trading has never been stronger. Look at what we have:
-Napster users in a downloading frenzy to get everything they can before the deadline. Now that the death sentence has been stayed, there's no reason to believe this frenzied level of activity won't continue for a few more weeks.
-Enormous publicity for Gnutella, Freenet, and other file-sharing alternatives, which were little than pre-beta geek curiosities until now.
-An unprecedented public forum to expose the exploitative and monopolistic business practices of the record companies. (really, how many news stories did you see about the RIAA settling with the FTC on their antitrust suit for price-fixing?).
Ralph Nader has some suggestions about reserving domain names. Create new TLDs like.customer,.protest and.sucks, where it would be forbidden for the company referenced in the domain name to register it. See Nando Times article
Also, it doesn't really matter how fast we deplete it as long as we do the R&D for the alternatives. Consider this simplified example:
Let's say fuel cell cars recharged with solar energy costs 20x as much as gasoline cars. That's pretty much the situation today. Would you buy an economy car that costs the same as a Ferrari? There are some hard limits (amount of solar energy falling on the earth), but over time the costs of alternatives will drop due to R&D in reducing costs and economies of scale in manufacturing. Also over time, the cost of petroleum will rise as stocks are depleted. At some point the price curves will cross and people just buy the one that costs less.
As for pollution that's a completely different issue. In large cities, the problem is carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulates (dust and soot), and unburned hydrocarbons (unburned fuel). We have the technology to clean up these pollutants to the point where the newest cars are an insignificant source of pollution. At some point you'll have to start going after BBQ grills, dry cleaners and fast food restaurants to clean up the air any more.
On a global scale, greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are produced in direct proportion to the amount of fossil fuel consumed. There is a possibility that we could significantly change the climate by the time we've depleted the earth's supply of fossil fuels. Regardless of that, don't be taken in by the eco-FUD. Droughts, heat waves, big winter storms, and floods happen all the time. Statistically, you can expect a once-in-a-century weather event SOMEWHERE in the world.
Right now, the industrial process that converts natural gas (methane) to hydrogen produces carbon dioxide as a waste product. If you happen to be a chemical engineer, maybe you can come up with a new economical process that doesn't produce CO2. Good luck.
Forget about electrolysis. It's much more expensive than converting methane, and that electricity probably came from fossil fuels anyway.
It seems their government wants to tax cars out of existence, but people still love their cars. Look at all the rally drivers that come from Finland. Having all those snowy, deserted country roads to practice on doesn't hurt either.
Not that bad. Back in the day of monochrome monitors, green on black and later amber on black were the colors. Probably because with the refresh rates of the time, white backgrounds would have flickered like crazy.
Funny that you should mention Darwinism and the Anarchist's Cookbook together. Many of the explosives recipes in that book were inaccurate and would likely get you blown up if you tried it. See the rec.pyrotechnics FAQ.
If you're that paranoid, then you need this. Get a home DSL line, then set up an SSL anonymizing web proxy from your work IP to the Internet. Your browser shouldn't be caching SSL web pages. How are the snoops at work gonna sniff your traffic now?
Although not monetary, this is indeed "valuable consideration". To put it in economic terms, the author receives the benefit of software distribution and access to the source of all derivative works which are released to the public. There is also an opportunity cost to the licensee of forgoing all revenue from software licensing of derivative works.
I've been playing around with something like this. I made a Linux boot disk to play MP3 cds. It boots from floppy and runs in ramdisk, so there's no need to shut down the OS when you're done. It uses mp3blaster which is the best console mode MP3 player I've found so far (mp3box doesn't seem to have any interactive controls, it just plays every track on the CD in order). It'll need a P75 or faster CPU. I tried a 486/120 and it was too slow.
It's not ready to post up yet, but if anyone wants a copy, my email is ducdan at usa dot net. I think my ultimate goal would be a bootable CD (faster than a floppy and elimininates a piece of hardware) that autoprobes your sound card, mounts the CD and starts the player. With a 2.8MB CD boot image it wouldn't be that hard to add support for network and SMBFS, if you want to copy the Dell player.
Freesco can do port forwarding. In the setup it's called "exporting a service". It doesn't include the isapnp tools. However the BIOS on most Pentium and newer boards will set up PNP ISA cards. 386/486 users should find a non-PNP ethernet card.
Or if you go with some kind of lossless compression, you'd still get a 2-1 compression ratio, which is good enough for 2 hours. Not as convenient as having 10 hours of music, but sooner or later the audiophiles will have the storage for high quality digital audio.
Hate to burst your bubble, but that doesn't really follow. The problem is that the "cassette sales" may well not be a viable business proposition in a vacuum. However, given the existence of a CD sales operation, where you have already paid the marketting $$, the marginal cost of adding cassettes could be below the marginal revenue obtained from cassette sales.
Let's assume you're correct and that cassette sales are a side business for record companies. You're completely forgetting about two things:
1. Cassette tapes predate CDs, therefore they cannot have been conceived as an afterthought or side business to CD sales.
2. Cassette tapes could have been a side business to supplement vinyl LP sales, and cassettes were sold at the same price as LPs. As I recall record companies weren't exactly going out of business selling LPs at $7.99-$8.99.
OK my bad. I checked again, and Acrobat 4.0 does have a "lite" version of capture which is missing some features for running batch jobs. There's no page limit that I could find, but without support for sheetfeeders, it's unlikely you'd have the patience to scan even 1000 pages one at a time.
Acrobat 3.0 still came with the full Capture plugin with sheetfeeder support, for the equivalent functionality in 4.0 Adobe jacked up the price to $7000.
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That's exactly the point. Slot-1 is Intel's old technology that's supposed to be on it's way out. So why do they only release their fastest CPUs only in Slot-1 and not FC-PGA?
It's all speculation, but Tom has a few theories in his review. The most likely explanation is that Intel wants to lock the high end customers into a Rambus solution instead of PC133 SDRAM. The i815 Solano chipset has no Slot-1 motherboards available. There's no way you'll see it paired with a VIA Apollo Pro because the OEMS have to kiss Intel's ass like crazy to get their supply of the precious 1Gig PIII's. That only leaves the i820 chipset. When you're already paying a $600 price premium for the CPU, who's gonna notice another $600 price premium for the RDRAM?
BTW, does anyone else notice the rabid anti-Intel bias of Tom's Hardware.
And what did NeXT replace the cube with? The pizza box case that they shamelessly copied from Sun/HP/Apollo and whoever else invented it. If I spray painted my Sun pizza box black, could NeXT have sued me for copying their design?
At what point does a generic form factor case become unique enough to be considered a trademark? Tower case? Pizza box? 2ft cube? 8in cube?
Ironically, this lawsuit and the barrage of news stories is only drawing more attention to MP3 trading. Napster may not survive, but mp3 trading has never been stronger. Look at what we have:
-Napster users in a downloading frenzy to get everything they can before the deadline. Now that the death sentence has been stayed, there's no reason to believe this frenzied level of activity won't continue for a few more weeks.
-Enormous publicity for Gnutella, Freenet, and other file-sharing alternatives, which were little than pre-beta geek curiosities until now.
-An unprecedented public forum to expose the exploitative and monopolistic business practices of the record companies. (really, how many news stories did you see about the RIAA settling with the FTC on their antitrust suit for price-fixing?).
Yes, truly a Victory against Piracy!
Ralph Nader has some suggestions about reserving domain names. Create new TLDs like .customer, .protest and .sucks, where it would be forbidden for the company referenced in the domain name to register it. See Nando Times article
Also, it doesn't really matter how fast we deplete it as long as we do the R&D for the alternatives. Consider this simplified example:
Let's say fuel cell cars recharged with solar energy costs 20x as much as gasoline cars. That's pretty much the situation today. Would you buy an economy car that costs the same as a Ferrari? There are some hard limits (amount of solar energy falling on the earth), but over time the costs of alternatives will drop due to R&D in reducing costs and economies of scale in manufacturing. Also over time, the cost of petroleum will rise as stocks are depleted. At some point the price curves will cross and people just buy the one that costs less.
As for pollution that's a completely different issue. In large cities, the problem is carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulates (dust and soot), and unburned hydrocarbons (unburned fuel). We have the technology to clean up these pollutants to the point where the newest cars are an insignificant source of pollution. At some point you'll have to start going after BBQ grills, dry cleaners and fast food restaurants to clean up the air any more.
On a global scale, greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are produced in direct proportion to the amount of fossil fuel consumed. There is a possibility that we could significantly change the climate by the time we've depleted the earth's supply of fossil fuels. Regardless of that, don't be taken in by the eco-FUD. Droughts, heat waves, big winter storms, and floods happen all the time. Statistically, you can expect a once-in-a-century weather event SOMEWHERE in the world.
Right now, the industrial process that converts natural gas (methane) to hydrogen produces carbon dioxide as a waste product. If you happen to be a chemical engineer, maybe you can come up with a new economical process that doesn't produce CO2. Good luck.
Forget about electrolysis. It's much more expensive than converting methane, and that electricity probably came from fossil fuels anyway.
It seems their government wants to tax cars out of existence, but people still love their cars. Look at all the rally drivers that come from Finland. Having all those snowy, deserted country roads to practice on doesn't hurt either.
Not that bad. Back in the day of monochrome monitors, green on black and later amber on black were the colors. Probably because with the refresh rates of the time, white backgrounds would have flickered like crazy.
There's no moderation for Spam so Flamebait is the closest category.
If you're that paranoid, then you need this. Get a home DSL line, then set up an SSL anonymizing web proxy from your work IP to the Internet. Your browser shouldn't be caching SSL web pages. How are the snoops at work gonna sniff your traffic now?
Damn, I posted as plain text but it read BLINK as a tag. I meant to say....
You're forgetting about the whole paragraphs of text in 36pt BLINK font.
You're forgetting about the whole paragraphs of text in 36pt font.
Hell, you can even include a warranty if you want. All you need is this disclaimer:
Buyer's sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of warranty is expressly limited to refund of the purchase price.
Although not monetary, this is indeed "valuable consideration". To put it in economic terms, the author receives the benefit of software distribution and access to the source of all derivative works which are released to the public. There is also an opportunity cost to the licensee of forgoing all revenue from software licensing of derivative works.
I'm guessing it'll be used primarily with Win9x file shares, so any such file server should work including 95/98, NT, and Samba.
mp3stereo
Knight Rider MP3 (I know, corny name)
ELMP or here
It's not ready to post up yet, but if anyone wants a copy, my email is ducdan at usa dot net. I think my ultimate goal would be a bootable CD (faster than a floppy and elimininates a piece of hardware) that autoprobes your sound card, mounts the CD and starts the player. With a 2.8MB CD boot image it wouldn't be that hard to add support for network and SMBFS, if you want to copy the Dell player.
Freesco can do port forwarding. In the setup it's called "exporting a service". It doesn't include the isapnp tools. However the BIOS on most Pentium and newer boards will set up PNP ISA cards. 386/486 users should find a non-PNP ethernet card.
Try zipping (or gzipping) a WAV. Voila, lossless compression.
Or if you go with some kind of lossless compression, you'd still get a 2-1 compression ratio, which is good enough for 2 hours. Not as convenient as having 10 hours of music, but sooner or later the audiophiles will have the storage for high quality digital audio.
Let's assume you're correct and that cassette sales are a side business for record companies. You're completely forgetting about two things:
1. Cassette tapes predate CDs, therefore they cannot have been conceived as an afterthought or side business to CD sales.
2. Cassette tapes could have been a side business to supplement vinyl LP sales, and cassettes were sold at the same price as LPs. As I recall record companies weren't exactly going out of business selling LPs at $7.99-$8.99.
For more here's a few good sites that list distros. That's how I usually find new ones.
linuxlinks.com
Linux Weekly News
linux.com
OK my bad. I checked again, and Acrobat 4.0 does have a "lite" version of capture which is missing some features for running batch jobs. There's no page limit that I could find, but without support for sheetfeeders, it's unlikely you'd have the patience to scan even 1000 pages one at a time.
Acrobat 3.0 still came with the full Capture plugin with sheetfeeder support, for the equivalent functionality in 4.0 Adobe jacked up the price to $7000.
I know Acrobat 4 has a capture command. It scans it and stores it as a fucking bitmap. You gotta pay up the butt for OCR.