OK, I'll say it. Ugh! what have they done to my beloved KDE?! Holy shit! It's almost as ugly as Windows XP or MacOS X. *shudder* Come on, can't someone come up with a DECENT theme?
How would this compare to quantum crypto? It seems like if you know the circuits, you could build another and then try to sync it, so it probably isn't near as strong the quantum stuff.
I'm tired of waiting! I want to see the new dragonball z episodes NOW. I want to see the Two Towers NOW. I hope they play that Cowboy Bebop movie sometime...
Yes we do question the IQ of people, because AOL blows chunks. For reasons like what this story has pointed out but also for things like the popup ads in the first place. Come on, you pay $22 a month to be bombarded with ads as soon as you sign on. Why do you pay for that when most other ISP's charge $20 a month and are JUST AS EASY to use, but with out the busy signals or random disconnects or popup ads.
Sigh...I've worked for the AOL helpdesk and then GTE's helpdesk (pre=-verizon) and I have to agree, NOTHING is too stupid. I was once editing a modem string for an AOL user(I ahd a tendancy to do a lot of modem string editing on that AOL project) and was asked, straight faced, if I wanted a capital zero or lowercase zero. The GTE project was a whole different ballgame. People generally knew the difference between letters and numbers, capitals and lowercase. So although they still didn't know how to use a computer to save their lives, at least they were literate, which is more than what you can say for the AOL users.
Thank you for mentioning the Super Mario Bros. theme...i'm at work and suddenly I have that tune stuck in my head, and I haven't even heard it in over 7 years. Not only that, but I got that stupid ding in there from bumping the bricks to get the coins...thank you very much...doo do do DODODODoot. doot de doot de doot dedootdedoot...
Am I the only one thinking of ways to manipulate people into doing things silly? Does anyone remember that scene from 'Real Genius' where they put the radio in that guy's braces and had him believe he was talking to God? This would make things so much simpler...you wouldn't have to mess around with anyone's braces...just point and shoot and blammo instant God.
No...having heard the songs in question, I can honestly say I don't like them. I like a wide range of music. But for some strange reason, listening to N'Sync versus anything else is kinda like trying to choke down a cold can of spam, when you have a filet mingon on the plate in front of you.
Why am I smacking my forehead. I should be smacking yours. Basically, now they have a laser that can replace the 10 or so lasers that would normally feed an optical fiber. Now they can make things smaller and fit more stuff in those central offices at the phone company and stuff.
Before I mouth off, I should research the terms I'm looking for. Also I should get some sleep.
2002-02-16 11:44:21 Slashdot NOT linked to this weeks Cringely (articles,news) (rejected)
Of course, it was very sarcastic and the editors may have taken offense to that...
Mr. Cringely has a good point about it. It would be a good idea. However, as a plus on the Intel side, Apple wouldn't have to port over the legacy compatability layer. And not having that in there should be a good thing anymay (making things a little more snappy and responsive perhaps)
It's been stated that the realtime patch lowers the throughput of linux, while making the responsiveness quite good. Meaning good for destop use bad for server use.
Now my question. What does the low-latency patch do to the throughput? Increase? Decrease? Stay the same, but everything is just 'snappier'?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but, the article seems to be saying that packet switching is more effiecient than old style circuit switching (?hierarchal switcing?). It says that bouncing stuff around nodes connected to a bunch of other nodes and letting the stuff find a path to its destination is more effiecient and scalable than any kind of tree structure where stuff goes down to the trunk and back up to a different branch to reach its destination.
Unfortunately with the way things are set up right now, I think our beloved internet is set up like a toroid instead of a cube. You have a backbone as the middle loop and then coming off of it are rings that are local that provide service to local ISPs. Then they sell to thier end users. In the end I picture a fuzzy torroid. And according to the article, those are more scalable than trees, but not as much as the cube. However the article says that they are harder to implement than the cubes, not so, as they seem to have evolved in the marketplace naturally, and setting up a cube like network in the real world is harder.
But they're talking about this applied to software, and virtual networks, not real world hardware. However, seeing as how the real world has moved from a tree based telecom system, to the torroid sceme of the current system, it would be interesting to see what happens when the torroidal system in the real world runs into scalability problems and goes for the cube.
Since when is Outlook express, Winamp, or Netmeeting a part of the operating system?
So you delete the html renderer and then you stop using what stopped working. Even if it means (gasp) you have to stop using MS Office. It's not like there aren't alternatives. I never use the mini-browser in winamp. I don't use Outlook Express. I only use Outlook at work, never touch the stuff at home. What is netmeeting...I keep hearing it come up in conversation, but i don't know anybody that actually USES it.
So...you remove IE and there's still the renderer in the form of those two files. go ahead and delete them, you don't need them anyway.
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Notice how they say it's been tested in a vacuum, but don't show any video of that particular test. Still look like a ionocraft to me. See this link
OK, I'll say it. Ugh! what have they done to my beloved KDE?! Holy shit! It's almost as ugly as Windows XP or MacOS X. *shudder* Come on, can't someone come up with a DECENT theme?
I thought the simplest language was brainfuck...what with it's 8 commands: , . + - [ ]
How would this compare to quantum crypto? It seems like if you know the circuits, you could build another and then try to sync it, so it probably isn't near as strong the quantum stuff.
hahaha(gasp)hahahahaha(gasp, wheeze)hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
please forgive me, for i know not what i do...plus i'm really sleepy...
I must resist my urge for an inane beowulf cluster comment here....so instead...can you imagine a beowulf cloned with one of these?
Wasn't there a live action Dragon Ball Z movie? Didn't everyone in Japan hate it?
I'm tired of waiting! I want to see the new dragonball z episodes NOW. I want to see the Two Towers NOW. I hope they play that Cowboy Bebop movie sometime...
You mean DOS, not Windows.
Yes we do question the IQ of people, because AOL blows chunks. For reasons like what this story has pointed out but also for things like the popup ads in the first place. Come on, you pay $22 a month to be bombarded with ads as soon as you sign on. Why do you pay for that when most other ISP's charge $20 a month and are JUST AS EASY to use, but with out the busy signals or random disconnects or popup ads.
Sigh...I've worked for the AOL helpdesk and then GTE's helpdesk (pre=-verizon) and I have to agree, NOTHING is too stupid. I was once editing a modem string for an AOL user(I ahd a tendancy to do a lot of modem string editing on that AOL project) and was asked, straight faced, if I wanted a capital zero or lowercase zero. The GTE project was a whole different ballgame. People generally knew the difference between letters and numbers, capitals and lowercase. So although they still didn't know how to use a computer to save their lives, at least they were literate, which is more than what you can say for the AOL users.
Thank you for mentioning the Super Mario Bros. theme...i'm at work and suddenly I have that tune stuck in my head, and I haven't even heard it in over 7 years. Not only that, but I got that stupid ding in there from bumping the bricks to get the coins...thank you very much...doo do do DODODODoot. doot de doot de doot dedootdedoot...
Am I the only one thinking of ways to manipulate people into doing things silly? Does anyone remember that scene from 'Real Genius' where they put the radio in that guy's braces and had him believe he was talking to God? This would make things so much simpler...you wouldn't have to mess around with anyone's braces...just point and shoot and blammo instant God.
No...having heard the songs in question, I can honestly say I don't like them. I like a wide range of music. But for some strange reason, listening to N'Sync versus anything else is kinda like trying to choke down a cold can of spam, when you have a filet mingon on the plate in front of you.
No it wouldn't be TOTAL chaos. At least not until they find out that 'Titanic' isn't the theaters anymore. THEN look out.
Can you imagine a beowulf clus....what the hell...this is Slashdot right? Since when is anything related to physical activity news for nerds?
Why am I smacking my forehead. I should be smacking yours. Basically, now they have a laser that can replace the 10 or so lasers that would normally feed an optical fiber. Now they can make things smaller and fit more stuff in those central offices at the phone company and stuff.
Before I mouth off, I should research the terms I'm looking for. Also I should get some sleep.
I submitted this yesterday:
Of course, it was very sarcastic and the editors may have taken offense to that...
Mr. Cringely has a good point about it. It would be a good idea. However, as a plus on the Intel side, Apple wouldn't have to port over the legacy compatability layer. And not having that in there should be a good thing anymay (making things a little more snappy and responsive perhaps)
It's been stated that the realtime patch lowers the throughput of linux, while making the responsiveness quite good. Meaning good for destop use bad for server use.
Now my question. What does the low-latency patch do to the throughput? Increase? Decrease? Stay the same, but everything is just 'snappier'?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but, the article seems to be saying that packet switching is more effiecient than old style circuit switching (?hierarchal switcing?). It says that bouncing stuff around nodes connected to a bunch of other nodes and letting the stuff find a path to its destination is more effiecient and scalable than any kind of tree structure where stuff goes down to the trunk and back up to a different branch to reach its destination.
Unfortunately with the way things are set up right now, I think our beloved internet is set up like a toroid instead of a cube. You have a backbone as the middle loop and then coming off of it are rings that are local that provide service to local ISPs. Then they sell to thier end users. In the end I picture a fuzzy torroid. And according to the article, those are more scalable than trees, but not as much as the cube. However the article says that they are harder to implement than the cubes, not so, as they seem to have evolved in the marketplace naturally, and setting up a cube like network in the real world is harder.
But they're talking about this applied to software, and virtual networks, not real world hardware. However, seeing as how the real world has moved from a tree based telecom system, to the torroid sceme of the current system, it would be interesting to see what happens when the torroidal system in the real world runs into scalability problems and goes for the cube.
Seems to me for that old bad boy you have two options. DOS or CP/M http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/
Congrats and good luck.
Since when is Outlook express, Winamp, or Netmeeting a part of the operating system?
So you delete the html renderer and then you stop using what stopped working. Even if it means (gasp) you have to stop using MS Office. It's not like there aren't alternatives. I never use the mini-browser in winamp. I don't use Outlook Express. I only use Outlook at work, never touch the stuff at home. What is netmeeting...I keep hearing it come up in conversation, but i don't know anybody that actually USES it.
So...you remove IE and there's still the renderer in the form of those two files. go ahead and delete them, you don't need them anyway.
I'm surprised nobody's brought up the do-it-yourself option:
RONJA
It's been on slashdot a couple of times.
Sure it only uses LEDs but it could use lasers rather easily. It would only up the price, and possibly increase the bandwidth.