Don't get me wrong this is cool and all and will probably result in much faster chips, but what are faster, 32 bit, x86 chips, on a PC platform really gonna do for us?
Faster chips are great but x86 is getting tired and the I/O on a PC is really limiting the usefullness of the chips we're capable of making now. We need a platform capable of useing what we have now.
JenniCAM is the best excuse I've seen for enabling active desktop. I think M$ should give her a grant just for making an otherwise usless (and buggy) feature useful, or at lease entertaining.
is largely useless so why would the linux version be any different. In my office Corel office 2K is the standard suite. WordPerfect is actually quite good and I like it, fonts are good, it exports to pdf, VBA, and more import/export filters that you can imagine. Althought it's not often I have to import WordStar 1.0 files.
Having said that the rest of the suite is almost completely useless. Quatto Pro in particular is just plain evil. I read those reviews and it sound like the short comings aren't a result of moving the suite to linux, these problems existed in Windows as well.
All this is too bad I really wanted Corel to do a really good job on this. However that's not to say that they still can't, it's still early yet.
This is right in line with "processors will never break 100mhz" as they would require lead shielding to keep the RF interference for Ionizing all the air in you house.
The next obvious question is, what constitutes a virus?
Microsoft is saying the spam thing on Web TV is malicious code and not a virus.
Is Back Orifice a Virus? Virus scanners look for it, but a lot of people, myself included find it quite usefull.
Maybe a browser plug in that stops banner ads is a virus. I think celebrating source code as free speech may be premature, as we (and it should be us, as opposed to 'them') still need to figure out what the equivelent to yelling Fire is in C++
Hey where is all the "64 bit, gonna set the world on fire, no one's gonna have a clue what happened, revolutionize computing as we know it, and crush the competition" stuff?
And what are people's thoughts in the 64 bit AMD chips that run x86?
PS BeOS is pretty cool for 40mb and 2 min to set up
Don't need to cut them out just route around them.
hey isn't the internet a network of networks? If the rest of the world doesn't like the.us or.com or.xxx just go around them.
In a couple of years Corporate America will be doing B2B over VPN and the rest of lowly users will be able to reclaim the rest of the net. No really, the consumer stuff is small time and as this points out a lot of it is irritating.
But, take a step back and look really hard. Know what I see? I see a bunch of corporate types who are doing nothing but making total asses out of themselves.
well said, they're new at this though. I think things will get better once the dinosaurs in grey suits that are behind the wheel retire.
It may be the new economy but it's the still the same guys who were driving the old economy.
time for everyone to break out the spread spectrum packet radio and rebuild fidonet.
Seriously though, how far away is broadband wireless?
Technological innovation is outpacing our ability to create balanced laws. All this law being talked about now that's evil and restrictive (my opinion) will probably be irrelevant in a couple of years anyway.
Actually restictive law like this will probably spur more tech innovation.
If things do get truly wierd I'm up for building a wireless BBS.
I thought this was a "Virtual Community". Having said that I personally would not call this a "Virtual Community", to me the term has little meaning. I mean really aren't all communities, strictly speaking virtual.
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Duron son of Athlon.
No kidding, I've got a dual celeron Seti Screen Saver heater in my back room. I kept the pipes from freezing on my ski vacation.
Faster chips are great but x86 is getting tired and the I/O on a PC is really limiting the usefullness of the chips we're capable of making now. We need a platform capable of useing what we have now.
JenniCAM is the best excuse I've seen for enabling active desktop. I think M$ should give her a grant just for making an otherwise usless (and buggy) feature useful, or at lease entertaining.
Having said that the rest of the suite is almost completely useless. Quatto Pro in particular is just plain evil. I read those reviews and it sound like the short comings aren't a result of moving the suite to linux, these problems existed in Windows as well.
All this is too bad I really wanted Corel to do a really good job on this. However that's not to say that they still can't, it's still early yet.
Sounds like you need one of those Peltier can cooler
this stuff looks cool, cdr, built in camera ( here), kinda expensive though and it comes with win98. That can be fixed though.
This is right in line with "processors will never break 100mhz" as they would require lead shielding to keep the RF interference for Ionizing all the air in you house.
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Microsoft is saying the spam thing on Web TV is malicious code and not a virus.
Is Back Orifice a Virus? Virus scanners look for it, but a lot of people, myself included find it quite usefull.
Maybe a browser plug in that stops banner ads is a virus. I think celebrating source code as free speech may be premature, as we (and it should be us, as opposed to 'them') still need to figure out what the equivelent to yelling Fire is in C++
And what are people's thoughts in the 64 bit AMD chips that run x86?
PS BeOS is pretty cool for 40mb and 2 min to set up
I can't wait for an MS distro of Linux that comes bundled VMware, Win9x and Office 2k.
hey isn't the internet a network of networks? If the rest of the world doesn't like the .us or .com or .xxx just go around them.
In a couple of years Corporate America will be doing B2B over VPN and the rest of lowly users will be able to reclaim the rest of the net. No really, the consumer stuff is small time and as this points out a lot of it is irritating.
well said, they're new at this though. I think things will get better once the dinosaurs in grey suits that are behind the wheel retire.
It may be the new economy but it's the still the same guys who were driving the old economy.
time for everyone to break out the spread spectrum packet radio and rebuild fidonet.
Seriously though, how far away is broadband wireless?
Technological innovation is outpacing our ability to create balanced laws. All this law being talked about now that's evil and restrictive (my opinion) will probably be irrelevant in a couple of years anyway.
Actually restictive law like this will probably spur more tech innovation.
If things do get truly wierd I'm up for building a wireless BBS.
I thought this was a "Virtual Community". Having said that I personally would not call this a "Virtual Community", to me the term has little meaning. I mean really aren't all communities, strictly speaking virtual.