I agree it's about freedom, but not from outside authority necessarily rather freedom from the self you are in reality.
When I think of the net, it's this nowhere place where you can recreate who you are in the image you've always wanted and you are truly judged only on the contents of your character.
In a world of anorexic models, quickly passing fashions, stereotypes, latent racism, and the always unfulfilled desire to fit in, the net becomes the mecca for lonely souls and misjudged individuals as well as a stomping grounds for teens and adults alike, all masquerading as the people they usually aren't in life but desperately want to be.
At least from the little use I've had with it, it seems to improve substantially on QT3 allowing a few more features, a spiffy kewl looking new UI and much higher quality sound playback. Video seemed equal or better. To those thinkin about it, download QT 4.0
.. besides, after watching the SW trailer, you need QT4 to watch the new public enemy videos, if your into that sorta thing.
@work: Fortan, C, C++, unfortunately its about 90/1/9% of the time
@home: C++, perl when i have time.
If you havent pick a language yet, learn (in order of importance) C++, VisualBasic, J++, Java, perl, Fortan, Cobol
the last two are included because, face it, if you get hired, you will most likely be updating, improving, and translating old code. look in the paper and youll see a lot of jobs concerning COBOL and y2k.
Two things: 1. yes i am a lazy programmer, but also a fairly good one when i do code.
2. I think this whole article/way of judging programming is exactly why bloatware exists today. People seem to judge programs based on how much space they take up, not by how much they can do. 5 years ago people would never have believe MS Office could take up more than 5 or 10Mb.. whats it up to now? 80 100 120Mb? what new things can you do with it? its bloatwareitus.
it will have firewire and some other ports for future expandability (I imagine it will something like firewire being immediately accessible and the rest used for future expansions like N64s expansion slot which only recently had a card released for it.)
-Z
What I want to know is being that DVD is so huge, much larger than a typical PS CDs used now, will load times still take forever or will the machine load quickly?
why? because, despite the fact that the NT-based Visual Station is attractive, it is more than 2x the price of its competition. Graphics studios who want high quality and power but cant spend more than 10 grand on a machine will simply choose Apple, Integraph, Micron, etc. and other clones that can pack a punch but not on the wallet.
SGI's true niche, its claim to fame, etc. is its line of monster machines, the mid range Octanes and O2s and the upper line of Origin servers. As well as its line of ONYX2s (Cray 2000s in pretty cases). They dont sell many, but they sell them; to governments and large corperations who simply can't do what they need to do on a multi-proc xeon or PII/III.
Summery: The NT Based Visual Station will be discontinued and the company will refocus on its upper end and lower end UNIX based systems. Realize, while it may only sell a few of the ONYX and ONYX2s in a year, along with those come service plans (tangent: Control Data kept alive for many years just off service agreements from Cyber line and still has active contracts today).
Don't worry about the logo. It's lame and lame things eventually get tossed as flops (e.g. Arch Deluxe).
When a company isn't growing at the same pace as it used to, the big whigs get worried and try to come up with radical changes, regardless of whether those changes help, just so that they can justify their overpaid positions.
A better use of SGIs time and money would have been a massive ad campaign with their new intel based visual stations using the old logo. That would of caught peoples attention.
(on a relative note, I just saw my office got a new visual station today. I'm not going to get into it, but lets just say im very impressed.)
I really like it here. I spend more time here than sleeping, but only a few of the best articles make it, so...
possibly (suggestion) could CT or Hemos set up a page where all the articles that they got that werent good enough to make the main pages but were still interesting could be put. That way we'de have both more to read and feel like we were being heard more.
I realize the man isn't a diety (yet) so he simply can't keep track of it all, but i would be curious to see what doesnt make the final cut for the front page.
Microsoft's first showing of NT Embedded yesterday took the form of the first demonstration of an alleged 'thin server appliance' co-developed with Intel.
But the implementation seems strangely changed from the thin server appliances Intel has been bashing on about since last summer, and it seems inevitable that the device's appearance does not signal a renewal of the formerly close relationship between the gruesome twosome.
Intel's thin server concept is for a cheap, closed down box that's easy to install, and performs simple, specific tasks on the network. (Intel network scheme means war with MS) Something you plug into a small business network and then magically find your print, email and so forth problems are sorted fits the bill perfectly.
Intel also doesn't want any nonsense about huge multi-purpose operating systems, it wants single or limited task ones. So traditional embedded operating systems fit the bill here, rather than bigger, multi-purpose ones like NT Embedded. Intel also insists that per user licensing is out of the window - if a thin server network is having to pay a couple of hundred dollars to Microsoft for each person connected, then it's not low cost at all, is it?
We remarked on how obviously Microsoft NT didn't fit the bill as the operating system at the time of Intel's announcement, and we remain right.
Yesterday's demo did make a small breakthrough on licensing. It would appear that Microsoft is willing to let the box host an unlimited number of users, but while this might appear to be a massive breakthrough on licensing, check out the catches. The thin server is intended to handle file and print sharing, not application hosting.
It will deal with Internet connectivity, but the no application hosting aspect means no Web server hosting, so -- phew -- we're not going to have that problem of people trying to host Web servers on NT Workstation rearing its ugly head again.
In its "thin server appliance" incarnation, NT Embedded is therefore crippled. How badly crippled remains to be seen, but as you begin to compare features with projected features for the next generation Windows 2000 NT variant, you'll no doubt note it is very badly crippled indeed.
Microsoft is obviously trying to preserve revenue streams. It doesn't want to lose high margin business on NT server sales, and it doesn't want to lose all those lovely client licences. But it does have to do something about simplified, stripped-down boxes and network operating systems. And here it's shooting itself in the foot with this particular project.
It's quoting a price for an OEM-built thin server appliance of $1,000-$2,000, which is of course basically a standard PC price. No surprises there, as there's going to be a standard PC in there with the screen and keyboard chopped out. The price leaves space for MS to charge something in the region of the usual amount for its software, so again no nasty precedents created here.
But Intel's view of a thin server appliance lies more around the $399-$499 mark. You can do file and print perfectly adequately at this level, so what is it about the MS variant that's worth an extra $1,500? Users will vote with their wallets. ®
A little steep for an intel based machine. Regardless of no. of processors or speed, it's no SGI. I called SGI and for a basic SGIONYX^2 Base Reality 2x 195Mhz RS10k.. yada system its only $70,000. The basic setup for this 8 xeon proc box is $100,000.
a fan of slashdot put it up as sort of a fun little personal site. he says so near the bottom. I guess he showed it to Rob (CT) at the Linux gathering at that cafe not too long ago. CT thought it was funny and hence it showing up in the quickies.
DVDs are better quality with more stuff included DVDs are rented for the same price and can be played on any DVD player DVDs can be returned if scratched. DVDs are returned so you dont have to manage a whole library of discs you've rented before DVDs can be copied DVDs dont require your CC# or a phone line plugged into your player to run DVDs are supported by everyone, DIVX is circuit city only.
I recall when you used to go to a video rental place and rent movies for a few bucks. then after watching them, you'de return them. If you happened to rent one and it was fubard, you'de just go back to the store and they'd give you a new copy. If you liked the film enough, you'de buy it. all the same format; rented or bought.
wait a second. they rent out DVD at my local video store. what good is DIVX.
could you imagine walking into your video store and renting a tape with them telling you you could keep it (smile) but you'de have to let your VCR call their system with your CC# to watch it again (frown).
email large news sites. cnn. redherring. nytimes. the more we can publicise this, the more the public will be outraged, get involved. at least it will show support.
he's: 1. sick of getting flamed so he's writing concisely and to the point. 2. as infuriated as we are about this.
this is not a joke because: 1. this has been in the works for some time. 2. ITS NOT FUCKIN FUNNY. 3. has affected serveral large sites who, i would guess, dont often cordinate sick jokes together.
this sux ass cause: 1. we're loosing original and well loved sites 2. we're loosing a community (for us UFies) 3. there's NOT A GODDAMN THING WE CAN DO! and i for one, am frustrated as all hell.
-Z
If i had a ton of dynamite I'de be half-way to redmond already.
I couldn't agree with you more. What can we do? Is it that current times will force linux users and consumers to take it up the ass if a corperation is big enough? Does it mean that small free web sites that deliever orignal content with large followings will be forced to just quit and give up domains if any sizeable company with money wants the domain?
In recent times we've seen stories on here of companies demanding web sites because the domain was a trademark violation even though the site had existed well before the creation of the demanding business.
We've also seen the trademarking of just plain old stupid shit. I'm waiting for a patent on eating and a trademark on words like cheeseburger (so you can no longer use the word eating and will be liable for a lawsuit if you put cheeseburger on a menu).
So. What Am I Rambling About? This wonderful captilist economy we (US citizens) live in is great for the goings-on of real life, but is not ready to handle a free self ruled internet and will, as long as it runs unchecked, try to apply US rules of business to a medium never meant for business.
-Z
suggestion: move UF and SegFault to a server in the netherlands or other country not subject to US laws.
This may be one best fielded by Katz, but I'm curious to see why people are so open on the net. I've seen others as well as myself open up and talk about very private things as well as curse out and use language I never would in real life to complete strangers. Is it that ASCII text and animated chat room icons lets us hide behind a false face: One we can draw ourselves and discard at anytime.
I think so. I think that whenever talking to someone who hides behind a cute nick and quickly turns the conversation to an unusually intimate level clearly indicates a possible sexual preditor. Women need to watch out. check references. use their skills: ping and traceroute to see where they really are talking from.
But this doesnt mean everyone is "out to get you". Just use commen sense and caution.
I recall spending a whole summer vacation in florida reading that book. by the time i was done my head hurt from trying to comprehend it all. Deals a lot with quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. definately worth a read.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree it's about freedom,
but not from outside authority necessarily
rather freedom from the self you are in reality.
When I think of the net, it's this nowhere
place where you can recreate who you are in
the image you've always wanted and you are
truly judged only on the contents of your
character.
In a world of anorexic models, quickly passing
fashions, stereotypes, latent racism, and the
always unfulfilled desire to fit in, the net
becomes the mecca for lonely souls and misjudged
individuals as well as a stomping grounds for teens
and adults alike, all masquerading as the people
they usually aren't in life but desperately want
to be.
-Z
At least from the little use I've had with
it, it seems to improve substantially on QT3
allowing a few more features, a spiffy kewl
looking new UI and much higher quality sound
playback. Video seemed equal or better. To
those thinkin about it, download QT 4.0
.. besides, after watching the SW trailer, you
need QT4 to watch the new public enemy videos,
if your into that sorta thing.
-Z
@school:
C++ and Java, tho Java sucks.
@work:
Fortan, C, C++, unfortunately its about 90/1/9% of the time
@home:
C++, perl when i have time.
If you havent pick a language yet,
learn (in order of importance)
C++, VisualBasic, J++, Java, perl, Fortan, Cobol
the last two are included because, face it, if you get hired, you will most likely be updating, improving, and translating old code. look in the paper and youll see a lot of jobs concerning COBOL and y2k.
-Z
Two things:
1. yes i am a lazy programmer, but also a fairly
good one when i do code.
2. I think this whole article/way of judging
programming is exactly why bloatware exists
today. People seem to judge programs based
on how much space they take up, not by how
much they can do. 5 years ago people would
never have believe MS Office could take up
more than 5 or 10Mb.. whats it up to now? 80
100 120Mb? what new things can you do with it?
its bloatwareitus.
-Z
it will have firewire and some other ports
for future expandability (I imagine it will
something like firewire being immediately
accessible and the rest used for future expansions
like N64s expansion slot which only recently
had a card released for it.)
-Z
What I want to know is being that DVD is so huge, much larger than a typical PS CDs used now, will load times still take forever or will the machine load quickly?
why? because, despite the fact that the NT-based
Visual Station is attractive, it is more than 2x
the price of its competition. Graphics studios
who want high quality and power but cant spend
more than 10 grand on a machine will simply choose
Apple, Integraph, Micron, etc. and other clones
that can pack a punch but not on the wallet.
SGI's true niche, its claim to fame, etc. is its line of monster machines, the mid range Octanes and O2s and the upper line of Origin servers. As well as its line of ONYX2s (Cray 2000s in pretty cases). They dont sell many, but they sell them; to governments and large corperations who simply can't do what they need to do on a multi-proc xeon or PII/III.
Summery: The NT Based Visual Station will be discontinued and the company will refocus on its upper end and lower end UNIX based systems. Realize, while it may only sell a few of the ONYX and ONYX2s in a year, along with those come service plans (tangent: Control Data kept alive for many years just off service agreements from Cyber line and still has active contracts today ).
Don't worry about the logo. It's lame and lame things eventually get tossed as flops (e.g. Arch Deluxe).
-Z
When a company isn't growing at the
same pace as it used to, the big whigs
get worried and try to come up with radical
changes, regardless of whether those changes
help, just so that they can justify their
overpaid positions.
A better use of SGIs time and money would have
been a massive ad campaign with their new intel
based visual stations using the old logo. That
would of caught peoples attention.
(on a relative note, I just saw my office got
a new visual station today. I'm not going to
get into it, but lets just say im very impressed.)
-Z
I really like it here. I spend more time here
than sleeping, but only a few of the best articles
make it, so...
possibly (suggestion) could CT or Hemos
set up a page where all the articles that they
got that werent good enough to make the main
pages but were still interesting could be put.
That way we'de have both more to read and feel
like we were being heard more.
I realize the man isn't a diety (yet) so he
simply can't keep track of it all, but i would
be curious to see what doesnt make the final cut
for the front page.
-Z
I dont't mean to sound whiney or anything
but this is amoung one of the many news stories
I've sent him a while ago...
either he didnt read it or is ignoring my
submitted stories. If this is true, I'll stop
putting forth the effort, i just wish he'd let
me know
-Z
From The Register full article:
Posted 08/04/99 9:07am by John Lettice
MS, Intel demo mutant thin server appliance
Microsoft's first showing of NT Embedded yesterday took the form of the first
demonstration of an alleged 'thin server appliance' co-developed with Intel.
But the implementation seems strangely changed from the thin server appliances Intel
has been bashing on about since last summer, and it seems inevitable that the device's
appearance does not signal a renewal of the formerly close relationship between the
gruesome twosome.
Intel's thin server concept is for a cheap, closed down box that's easy to install, and
performs simple, specific tasks on the network. (Intel network scheme means war with
MS) Something you plug into a small business network and then magically find your
print, email and so forth problems are sorted fits the bill perfectly.
Intel also doesn't want any nonsense about huge multi-purpose operating systems, it
wants single or limited task ones. So traditional embedded operating systems fit the
bill here, rather than bigger, multi-purpose ones like NT Embedded. Intel also insists
that per user licensing is out of the window - if a thin server network is having to pay
a couple of hundred dollars to Microsoft for each person connected, then it's not low
cost at all, is it?
We remarked on how obviously Microsoft NT didn't fit the bill as the operating system
at the time of Intel's announcement, and we remain right.
Yesterday's demo did make a small breakthrough on licensing. It would appear that
Microsoft is willing to let the box host an unlimited number of users, but while this might
appear to be a massive breakthrough on licensing, check out the catches. The thin
server is intended to handle file and print sharing, not application hosting.
It will deal with Internet connectivity, but the no application hosting aspect means no
Web server hosting, so -- phew -- we're not going to have that problem of people
trying to host Web servers on NT Workstation rearing its ugly head again.
In its "thin server appliance" incarnation, NT Embedded is therefore crippled. How
badly crippled remains to be seen, but as you begin to compare features with
projected features for the next generation Windows 2000 NT variant, you'll no doubt
note it is very badly crippled indeed.
Microsoft is obviously trying to preserve revenue streams. It doesn't want to lose high
margin business on NT server sales, and it doesn't want to lose all those lovely client
licences. But it does have to do something about simplified, stripped-down boxes and
network operating systems. And here it's shooting itself in the foot with this particular
project.
It's quoting a price for an OEM-built thin server appliance of $1,000-$2,000, which is
of course basically a standard PC price. No surprises there, as there's going to be a
standard PC in there with the screen and keyboard chopped out. The price leaves
space for MS to charge something in the region of the usual amount for its software,
so again no nasty precedents created here.
But Intel's view of a thin server appliance lies more around the $399-$499 mark. You
can do file and print perfectly adequately at this level, so what is it about the MS
variant that's worth an extra $1,500? Users will vote with their wallets. ®
A little steep for an intel based machine. .. yada
Regardless of no. of processors or speed,
it's no SGI. I called SGI and for a basic
SGI ONYX^2 Base Reality 2x 195Mhz RS10k
system its only $70,000. The basic setup
for this 8 xeon proc box is $100,000.
-Z
That's been around for a *long* time.
still good tho
-Z
like others, im just posting to see what my
default is.
-Z
only 10 minutes and its already /.'ed.
any mirrors?
-Z
a fan of slashdot put it up as sort of
a fun little personal site. he says so
near the bottom. I guess he showed it to
Rob (CT) at the Linux gathering at that cafe
not too long ago. CT thought it was funny and
hence it showing up in the quickies.
-Z
DVDs are better quality with more stuff included
DVDs are rented for the same price and can be played on any DVD player
DVDs can be returned if scratched.
DVDs are returned so you dont have to manage a whole library of discs you've rented before
DVDs can be copied
DVDs dont require your CC# or a phone line plugged into your player to run
DVDs are supported by everyone, DIVX is circuit city only.
Folks, this is why BetaMax lost to VHS.
-Z
I recall when you used to go to a video rental
place and rent movies for a few bucks. then
after watching them, you'de return them. If you
happened to rent one and it was fubard, you'de
just go back to the store and they'd give you a
new copy. If you liked the film enough, you'de
buy it. all the same format; rented or bought.
wait a second. they rent out DVD at my local
video store. what good is DIVX.
could you imagine walking into your video store
and renting a tape with them telling you you
could keep it (smile) but you'de have to let
your VCR call their system with your CC# to
watch it again (frown).
-Z
http://perl2000.com/Webmaster/Support/
check the support site.
i was had.
-Z
email large news sites.
cnn. redherring. nytimes.
the more we can publicise this,
the more the public will be outraged,
get involved. at least it will show
support.
he's:
1. sick of getting flamed so he's writing
concisely and to the point.
2. as infuriated as we are about this.
this is not a joke because:
1. this has been in the works for some time.
2. ITS NOT FUCKIN FUNNY.
3. has affected serveral large sites who, i
would guess, dont often cordinate sick jokes
together.
this sux ass cause:
1. we're loosing original and well loved sites
2. we're loosing a community (for us UFies)
3. there's NOT A GODDAMN THING WE CAN DO!
and i for one, am frustrated as all hell.
-Z
If i had a ton of dynamite I'de be half-way to
redmond already.
I couldn't agree with you more.
What can we do? Is it that current times will
force linux users and consumers to take
it up the ass if a corperation is big enough?
Does it mean that small free web sites that deliever orignal content
with large followings will be forced to just quit and give up domains
if any sizeable company with money wants the domain?
In recent times we've seen stories on here of
companies demanding web sites because the domain
was a trademark violation even though the site
had existed well before the creation of the
demanding business.
We've also seen the trademarking of just plain old
stupid shit. I'm waiting for a patent on eating
and a trademark on words like cheeseburger (so
you can no longer use the word eating and will be
liable for a lawsuit if you put cheeseburger on a menu).
So. What Am I Rambling About? This wonderful
captilist economy we (US citizens) live in is
great for the goings-on of real life, but is not
ready to handle a free self ruled internet and
will, as long as it runs unchecked, try to apply
US rules of business to a medium never meant for business.
-Z
suggestion: move UF and SegFault to a server in the netherlands or other country not subject to US laws.
This may be one best fielded by Katz,
but I'm curious to see why people are
so open on the net. I've seen others as
well as myself open up and talk about very
private things as well as curse out and
use language I never would in real life
to complete strangers. Is it that ASCII
text and animated chat room icons lets us
hide behind a false face: One we can draw
ourselves and discard at anytime.
I think so. I think that whenever talking
to someone who hides behind a cute nick and
quickly turns the conversation to an unusually
intimate level clearly indicates a possible
sexual preditor. Women need to watch out.
check references. use their skills: ping and
traceroute to see where they really are talking
from.
But this doesnt mean everyone is "out to get you".
Just use commen sense and caution.
my 2 cents.
-Z
thats what i get for hitting the
submit button too quick.
i was thinking of the physics of
star trek.
CT: put a link up here to it thru
amazon?
-Z
I recall spending a whole summer vacation
in florida reading that book. by the time
i was done my head hurt from trying to
comprehend it all. Deals a lot with quantum
mechanics and theoretical physics. definately
worth a read.
-Z