YEah, I never feared for the eventual appearance of G4 upgrades. Hell, when they can make an upgrade chip that fits into an L2 Cache slot (one of the old Performa models IIRC), then pretty much nothing is beyond them.
But I DID take issue with Apple's behavior - and especially their silence, and bullshit excuses.
That, and their statement that Mac OS X will NOT run on POP (PowerPC Open Platform) (the platform formerly known as CHiRP, formerly known as PReP), really PISSED ME OFF. I mean, I like Mac hardware as much as any Mac fan, but we MUST have open hardware specs for cloning and competition, otherwise, nobody will be there to kick Apple in the pants to get them to produce quality machines in the future.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Step 1: destroy all likely competitors to chip business - Step 2: ramp progress at a rate controlled to maximize profits over the long haul. (that rate is x2/18mo.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, be safe and secure in the fact that there are 5 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999 other nekkid butts in the world, nobody gives a rat's ass about yours in particular. How different does yours look from anybody else's?
And if you wore shorts anyway, what's to stop somebody from photochopping in someone else's nekkid butt onto your picture, if they wanted a picture of your nekkid butt that badly?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'd much rather have my web server crashed and hosed than be dragged out of my home by my feet at 3 am and shot in the head.
I'm just funny that way, I guess.
On the other hand, things have been steadily escalating between these two nuclear powers for some time. After a while, when you've crashed all their servers, and bluescreened all their ATMs, and they're still annoying you with their pesky religions and customs, frustration sets in, and things have a tendency to escalate further. I don't know if this conflict has much of a potential to spread (who's going to hop into a nuclear conflict on behalf of Pakistan or India? No oil, no white people ), seems to me that the worst possibly could happen here, but at least something like this probably won't turn into a world war. Seems like the only people that would be put off by something like this would be the computer industry (where American companies get our finest programmers), and DeBeers (where kids cut and polish mass quantities of diamonds for $2 a day).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
What do they mean by "cross-platform"?
on
SGI Releases IDE
·
· Score: 1
sure, it's implemented in Java, and designed to run on Linux, but my question (not meant to inflame or invite scorn) is, will this thing run on an NT box, and permit development to the dreaded Win32?
Howzbout Mac - ie. will it run under Mac OS (MRJ) and let you write Mac OS programs? (either Classic, Carbon, or Cocoa)?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Re:The Great Telephone Number Explosion...
on
CNN On IPv6
·
· Score: 1
I remember when it was all 312. Then came 708 (and they said, "that ought to do it for now"), "now" lasted approx. 12 months, then it was 630.
I got fed up. I moved.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Actually, Microsoft's answer to the $200 computer is WebTV or WinCE. Folks who are looking to spend $200 on a computer don't really have much higher expectations. They want the internet, and it's killer app, email. Everything else is just complicated gravy that they don't neccesarily want to get into.
Businesses are generally willing to pay $1k for a desktop machine. (of course, MINE isn't, that's why I'm still using a freakin P 200).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
The whole simplicity movement? I finally got sick of blowing $80 every 6 months for "updated sourcebooks".
Our group adopted the ultimate minimallist gaming system. One rule. What the GM says, goes.
For basically anything to do, you roll dice. Whatever's handy (at the GM's discression), and if you roll high (considering all the mitigating circumstances), you succeed, your degree of success depending on the roll. No tables, no formulas, no modifiers, no rules. Saved a LOT of money, and time, and focussed more enjoyment on the experience of the game.
It eliminated all the spoiled-brat punks who wanted to hang out and show us the expensive new gaming set their mommy just bought them, it eliminated the rules lawyers, the arguments, and when you spilled a coke, it went on the table.
Sometimes we used miniatures and maps for visualization, but only for real complicated tactical situations.
Best part, you craft your own world. You don't rely on someone else's creation. Its very free. It does require a very good GM, who must be very creative, a good storyteller, and not play favorites. Usually lends itself well to 1-3 players, more gets too cluttered with specifics (like how much ammo of what type jim has in his magnum).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I basically dropped out of the whole sci-fi/gaming scene when these pernicious collector games hit the scene. I continued roll playing for years after that with my small group, but the whole big "gaming community" that we used to hang out with was a thing of the past.
My poor 11 year old son has fallen prey to this disease now.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
They're moving the poor bastards from SF to Redmond? I wonder how many employees we're talking about here? (just the "important" ones, I s'poze).
This sounds more like a "buy 'em before the competition does" maneuver, but I'm wondering who they think the competition is? And besides, doesn't Cygwin32 do the same thing, only better?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
It's a name for a server, a computer, a box of hardware! It's not a trademark name! ick!
If Compuserve had been the dominant network, would companies be able to trademark "GO IBM" or "GO MICROSOFT"? How about GO TAKE A FLYING LEAP?
I guess they won't be able to do Motley Crue, because DNS doesn't like spaces, or umlaut characters.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Re:Is this suitable reading for children/teenagers
on
Ender's Shadow
·
· Score: 1
Yeah, personally, I like Anime, and video games are a pretty effective motivational tool (clean that room up or NO Nintendo!), and the series is even pretty cute, but the concept behind Pokemon seems too "trailer-trash-ish", ie. hey, let's collect exotic animals as pets, and then fight them! For sure, the collector-urge and statistics analysis urge that is exemplified in sports-card collectors has been exploited to the hilt here.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Slashdot Mirror
YEah, I never feared for the eventual appearance of G4 upgrades. Hell, when they can make an upgrade chip that fits into an L2 Cache slot (one of the old Performa models IIRC), then pretty much nothing is beyond them.
But I DID take issue with Apple's behavior - and especially their silence, and bullshit excuses.
That, and their statement that Mac OS X will NOT run on POP (PowerPC Open Platform) (the platform formerly known as CHiRP, formerly known as PReP), really PISSED ME OFF. I mean, I like Mac hardware as much as any Mac fan, but we MUST have open hardware specs for cloning and competition, otherwise, nobody will be there to kick Apple in the pants to get them to produce quality machines in the future.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
well, it wasn't so much a LAW as a Business Plan:
Step 1: destroy all likely competitors to chip business -
Step 2: ramp progress at a rate controlled to maximize profits over the long haul.
(that rate is x2/18mo.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, be safe and secure in the fact that there are 5 billion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999 other nekkid butts in the world, nobody gives a rat's ass about yours in particular. How different does yours look from anybody else's?
And if you wore shorts anyway, what's to stop somebody from photochopping in someone else's nekkid butt onto your picture, if they wanted a picture of your nekkid butt that badly?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'd much rather have my web server crashed and hosed than be dragged out of my home by my feet at 3 am and shot in the head.
I'm just funny that way, I guess.
On the other hand, things have been steadily escalating between these two nuclear powers for some time. After a while, when you've crashed all their servers, and bluescreened all their ATMs, and they're still annoying you with their pesky religions and customs, frustration sets in, and things have a tendency to escalate further. I don't know if this conflict has much of a potential to spread (who's going to hop into a nuclear conflict on behalf of Pakistan or India? No oil, no white people ), seems to me that the worst possibly could happen here, but at least something like this probably won't turn into a world war. Seems like the only people that would be put off by something like this would be the computer industry (where American companies get our finest programmers), and DeBeers (where kids cut and polish mass quantities of diamonds for $2 a day).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
sure, it's implemented in Java, and designed to run on Linux, but my question (not meant to inflame or invite scorn) is, will this thing run on an NT box, and permit development to the dreaded Win32?
Howzbout Mac - ie. will it run under Mac OS (MRJ) and let you write Mac OS programs? (either Classic, Carbon, or Cocoa)?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I remember when it was all 312. Then came 708 (and they said, "that ought to do it for now"), "now" lasted approx. 12 months, then it was 630.
I got fed up.
I moved.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Actually, Microsoft's answer to the $200 computer is WebTV or WinCE. Folks who are looking to spend $200 on a computer don't really have much higher expectations. They want the internet, and it's killer app, email. Everything else is just complicated gravy that they don't neccesarily want to get into.
Businesses are generally willing to pay $1k for a desktop machine. (of course, MINE isn't, that's why I'm still using a freakin P 200).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
BAD pundit!
No banner hits!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
The whole simplicity movement?
I finally got sick of blowing $80 every 6 months for "updated sourcebooks".
Our group adopted the ultimate minimallist gaming system. One rule. What the GM says, goes.
For basically anything to do, you roll dice. Whatever's handy (at the GM's discression), and if you roll high (considering all the mitigating circumstances), you succeed, your degree of success depending on the roll. No tables, no formulas, no modifiers, no rules. Saved a LOT of money, and time, and focussed more enjoyment on the experience of the game.
It eliminated all the spoiled-brat punks who wanted to hang out and show us the expensive new gaming set their mommy just bought them, it eliminated the rules lawyers, the arguments, and when you spilled a coke, it went on the table.
Sometimes we used miniatures and maps for visualization, but only for real complicated tactical situations.
Best part, you craft your own world. You don't rely on someone else's creation. Its very free.
It does require a very good GM, who must be very creative, a good storyteller, and not play favorites. Usually lends itself well to 1-3 players, more gets too cluttered with specifics (like how much ammo of what type jim has in his magnum).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I basically dropped out of the whole sci-fi/gaming scene when these pernicious collector games hit the scene. I continued roll playing for years after that with my small group, but the whole big "gaming community" that we used to hang out with was a thing of the past.
My poor 11 year old son has fallen prey to this disease now.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
i do
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
define "human"
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
They're moving the poor bastards from SF to Redmond? I wonder how many employees we're talking about here? (just the "important" ones, I s'poze).
This sounds more like a "buy 'em before the competition does" maneuver, but I'm wondering who they think the competition is? And besides, doesn't Cygwin32 do the same thing, only better?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Didn't the Commodore PET use a Z80?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
And next year, intel will be releasing the 8088, renamed "Merced". . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
unfortunately, it's much easier for millions of script kiddies to simply flood the connection and ruin it for everyone else.
Maybe this sort of thing should best be done on isolated networks, monitored by judges, like a sport.
Or maybe I'm just depressed because it's Monday.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
You mean, buy a 64 bit alpha 5 years ago.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
If you want IBM to kill OS/2 off properly, then maybe they ought to sell it to Gateway. Or Apple.
I predict an opensource effort to duplicate OS/2, or at least an OS/2 emulator for Linux(?).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
It's a name for a server, a computer, a box of hardware! It's not a trademark name! ick!
If Compuserve had been the dominant network, would companies be able to trademark "GO IBM" or "GO MICROSOFT"? How about GO TAKE A FLYING LEAP?
I guess they won't be able to do Motley Crue, because DNS doesn't like spaces, or umlaut characters.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Yeah, personally, I like Anime, and video games are a pretty effective motivational tool (clean that room up or NO Nintendo!), and the series is even pretty cute, but the concept behind Pokemon seems too "trailer-trash-ish", ie. hey, let's collect exotic animals as pets, and then fight them!
For sure, the collector-urge and statistics analysis urge that is exemplified in sports-card collectors has been exploited to the hilt here.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think I'm a clone now -
Hey, I don't like this new body! It's just not right somehow. The hair is different, and IT SMELLS funny!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's always been my point.
How many Cold & Flu seasons do I really want to survive?
On the other hand, a lifespan of 250 years; I might one day actually see Windows 2000 released.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Yeah, but what he didn't do with it, was that people that live that long can accumulate ridiculous sums of wealth, merely by interest.
With that much money, who needs technological progress? Just buy an army, enslave a race to do all of your inventing and stuff for you.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think Gingko Biloba is great for improving your memory, but I keep forgetting to take mine!
(in all seriousness, it does have a rather opressive doseage schedule - 3 pills a day, spaced 8 hours apart. Remember THAT.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
PRobably this excercise teaches the brain to route around the Alzheimers damage gradually.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."