AMD has been using IBM's new-ish copper interconnect technology for almost a year now, and I have little doubt that we'll be seeing SoI processors from them very soon, too. I know that Thorooughbred (followup to the just released and tweaked 180nm Palomino/Athlon 4/MP) will be a process shrink from 180 to 130nm, but I disrecall whether it will be SoI. If not, the x86-64 "Hammer" will make a showing with.13 micron, copper, and SoI technologies in H2'02.
What the author was saying, in a nutshell, was: "File sharing? That's nothing. We can share files and Internet connections!". See the Mac guy's previous comment:
OS X also takes advantage of the Unix Network File System (NFS), too, so your Mac can access Unix file servers and even share Mac files with Unix machines.
This is actually one of the few cases where their technical savvy wasn't completely transparent.
Some of us don't read the other site. K5 is boring as hell. It moves slowly, thanks to its ridiculously bureaucratic moderation and submission system, and I still don't understand why the typical proto-slashdotter gives a fuck about half the topics they cover, much less have any kind of valuable opinion on them. As a comparo with another related "web community", K5 is slightly less annoying, but not nearly as useful as E2.
Of course, this is just my two bits -- I clearly don't speak for everyone, and I don't claim that/. is by any means perfect, but it's rather obvious that I read it =)
Like Refrag commented, you can use the VMU to call plays in NFL2K. I've seen it and I wasn't impressed, but that tiny monochrome LCD doesn't compare to a larger color screen that could actually fit a TV screen worth of content, if some effort was applied.
Social engineering, hazardous substances, explosions, radioactive guns, plus tin foil and duct tape. And people think The Lone Gunmen are 1337 h4x0rz...
the breach didn't expose the valuable intellectual property owned by the hundreds/thousands of Sourceforge projects. Just imagine what would happen if the w4r3z kiddies got their hands on Slashcode -- it would be on Hotline and the IRC warez channels in no time, and *then* what would happen? =)
The last time such a fuss was made in the 3D card industry was about a year ago, when Asus was talking about releasing "see through" drivers. History has a tendency to repeat itself, doesn't it?
Richard Haworth of (ironically enough) Holland, Michigan rounds out the bottom of the Forbes 400 -- the "poorest" of the 400 most wealthy USians alone is worth $725 million. I'm not even worth $100K, but if I was, I'd be willing to spend 3% of my worth on a vacation I'd never forget.
That show RULES!!! TFG is a lot like pot -- most people can't get off the first few times. Trust me, that Stewie (annoying baby) character is a much better character than anyone expects him to be. He grows on you in a good "love to love" way, not the "love to hate" thing going on with the host of The Weakest Link.
If it's cheaper than the $50 I quoted, then that's even better, suffice to say. I knew such a thing existed, but never had any interest -- I just used the first link that came out of Google.
Where's the problem? IDE Hard drives are bigger, faster and cheaper. Spend an extra fifty bucks for hot swap IDE, or get a RAID controller for $75 and stripe up a 300+ GB array if you don't need to transport your files anywhere. Granted, that's not permanent, but recordable discs aren't exactly permanent or much less volatile, either.
Funny, my memories of using Opera make me frown. Sure, it's fast, but at what price? I'm not talking about money, it's that MDI, address-bar-at-the-bottom interface giving me nightmares! It might be better than Netscape or lynx, but that's about it.
"Gesture recognition" seems to be a big buzzword at the moment. I've used it, and I'm unimpressed. Offloading it from the mouse seems like more work, and I play games to *avoid* exercise =) -- running to the bus stop or riding the 15 miles to work every once in a while is plenty for me.
However, I *would* like to find a controller (and the hooks) that can play a decent game of Tribes without the mouse and a keyboard. All the joystick styles and button combinations I can think of always come up short by a few buttons.
If DTD's are anything like namespaces (and why shouldn't they be?), the URI is entirely symbolic -- you shouldn't expect to find anything at the location specified, at least according to my copy of XML in a Nutshell.
OK, Microsoft has given them an ASSLOAD of money -- I'm just not inclined to overstate how much it really was. I'm pretty sure it's nowehere near the $674M Red Hat paid to Cygnus, tho'.
Microsoft has made at least one investment of at least $1 million in ActiveState, and there is likely more to come, considering that Red Hat owns Cygnus.
You've described my bootleg collection quite well. I've got boots of Husker Du, The Replacements, Sugar, Dinosaur Jr., Jane's Addiction, and R.E.M. -- well, R.E.M. is more or less still together, but they may as well have quit a few years ago, but even then, that bootleg sucks. In any case, never had the chance to see any of them live, either because I was too young to know about them, or simply missed an opportunity because I didn't have a car, or because I found out too late. Why should I be robbed of the experience?
Speaking of The Dead, I never saw them either. I didn't get turned on to their sweet Northern Lights rhythms until just before Jerry died. Phish is the pathetic ditchweed alternative that everyone has gravitated toward since then, and I *did* see them live -- I wouldn't even WANT bootlegs of that show, thank you very much. File them w/ R.E.M. under "faded stars".
I dislike bootlegs because of the outrageous prices, especially because the artist receives none of the profit.
OTOH, I can't see anything wrong with it -- if the label and the artists aren't willing to satisfy their most rabid fans with reasonable alternatives, fuck 'em.
Regardless of how the artist and/or the label feels about them, live recordings should be free and legal. It should also be legal to compile those recordings and distribute them.
As for whether you should be able to make a profit on them, I think it is reasonable to ask for a few bucks, if only to cover the cost of equipment, materials, and a small reward for the effort. You're selling a service to people without CD-R drives or a decent Internet connection to download the music themselves. Five bucks seems reasonable to me, anything more than that might be a stretch.
Crissakes, it has the word "pro" right in the name! How can you argue with something like that? I'm still using Ami Pro for the same reason, and it's way better than WordPerfect 5.
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What the author was saying, in a nutshell, was: "File sharing? That's nothing. We can share files and Internet connections!". See the Mac guy's previous comment:
This is actually one of the few cases where their technical savvy wasn't completely transparent.
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Of course, this is just my two bits -- I clearly don't speak for everyone, and I don't claim that /. is by any means perfect, but it's rather obvious that I read it =)
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If it's cheaper than the $50 I quoted, then that's even better, suffice to say. I knew such a thing existed, but never had any interest -- I just used the first link that came out of Google.
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However, I *would* like to find a controller (and the hooks) that can play a decent game of Tribes without the mouse and a keyboard. All the joystick styles and button combinations I can think of always come up short by a few buttons.
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Speaking of The Dead, I never saw them either. I didn't get turned on to their sweet Northern Lights rhythms until just before Jerry died. Phish is the pathetic ditchweed alternative that everyone has gravitated toward since then, and I *did* see them live -- I wouldn't even WANT bootlegs of that show, thank you very much. File them w/ R.E.M. under "faded stars".
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OTOH, I can't see anything wrong with it -- if the label and the artists aren't willing to satisfy their most rabid fans with reasonable alternatives, fuck 'em.
Regardless of how the artist and/or the label feels about them, live recordings should be free and legal. It should also be legal to compile those recordings and distribute them.
As for whether you should be able to make a profit on them, I think it is reasonable to ask for a few bucks, if only to cover the cost of equipment, materials, and a small reward for the effort. You're selling a service to people without CD-R drives or a decent Internet connection to download the music themselves. Five bucks seems reasonable to me, anything more than that might be a stretch.
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