Wrong. Everything under GPL is able to be redistributed. About 25% of Corel Linux from what I have heard was written in house and is NOT GPLed. What does this mean? Try distributing an operating system where a quarter of it is missing.....it just doesn't work like that.
I have thought about the idea of starting an aerospace company that just produced parts in mass quanities that could be used in a multitude of systems....advanced navigation computers, thruster control units, etc.... it would greatly cut cost to have off-the-shelf items for most of the sats.... even the comm equipment could be plug-n-play components....need to send video from one place to another, use this dish plus this receiver and transeiver, connect via internal fiber bus, etc...
Here is a way I came up with to Avoid the/. effect. I haven't implimented it, but it is based off a HTTP feature that used to be a security hole that people complained about.
If the server is reaching saturation, it should enable a log keeping track of WHERE the traffic is coming from (as in what site its being directed from). If it where to do this it could stop serving as many pages to Slashdot folks while leaving the site up for other people. It could also display a error message such as "This page has been swamped. Please try again later."
Wrong, all the Mac Zealots I know are defending Apple where as all the PC users I know are poking holes in Apple showing how greedy Jobs is and how Apple tends to screw over the customer....
I mean really, I can upgrade a Pentium II 350 up to a Pentium III 600. Why? The bus and the pins are the same, just as they are on the G3 and G4. BIOS and motherboard makers don't care if you upgrade. Apple does because they know they screw their customers all over the place and if they let anyone introduce their product first they will lose loyalty.
Yes, because FireWire is NOT computer controlled , its peer to peer, meaning each device has its own microcomputer in it with more complicated software. USB is simple enough where each USB controller chip has a small microcontroller w/ integrated rom and ram and that can control the entire device.
Devices on USB specify their bandwidth requirements. With Windows 2000 I can view which devices have what bandwidth....if I try to use a device and there is no bandwidth left I need to disable on of the others. (For example, its hard to run my speakers and my camera at once)
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Where can you find devices for them? I ask people the same question about devices for the faster versions of FireWire they are touting will woop USB 2.0 and NGIO/FutureIO Pull your head out of your ass You will see the devices all over the place. NGIO/FutureIO specs have been lead by the entire PC industry and are moving along very quickly.
You will see lots of devices immediately just as happenned when PCI came out
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$1 per port is a LOT morron. My USB hardware is about $50 to $100 per device. I don't want $1 - $2 going to Apple.
Second of all, we are TALKING ABOUT USB 2.0 not 1.0.
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FireWire is out. Apple is charging too much and won't let anyone call it FireWire.
What can replace it? USB 2.0 has great speeds for current devices. It will be a household item with in a year. Only two companies I know make PCs with FireWire. That would be Sony and Compaq. Sony does it because of the Sony Handy Cam. Compaq happens to be a major supporter of USB 2.0.....I seem to think they won't support FireWire much longer as they have to ADD core logic to use it. NGIO and FutureIO are competing bus standards, but rumor has it they are about to merge. How many of you actually knew that NGIO supports 2GB/sec and FutureIO supports 10GB/sec? How about this....BOTH busses are on a 4 wire design and are ment to allow network adapters, memory, video, and multiple CPU subsystems to connect OUTSIDE of a computer and be Plug and Play! Thats right, its again an extension cable, PnP design boasting up to 10GB/sec due out next year.
I don't see FireWire staying around much longer. Apple has always been and always will be too damn proprietary. Go Be, I hope you find a better life on IBM's PPC computers as they are more open. Go eMachines, your machine is better upgradable and has a cool CD player. Jobs will burn in hell.
FireWire is dead anyways. Compaq was the only PC manufacturer besides Sony that was pushing it, and Compaq is behind USB 2.0 which boasts 200 - 300mbps, which is far more than enough for most perhiphrals.
Really, if Apple wants their stuff to take off, get rid of the greedy bastard who thinks high licensing fees and countless lawsuits are needed to prove his stuff is best.
its no wonder Apple is suing. The eOne is expandable...it has 2 PCMCIA slots its a perfect multimedia machine, its got video input! The CD-Player controls are on the front of the machine and even work when the machine is off.....some of it may be a rip off, but there are many differences....not to mention 400Mhz processor and a much, much lower price tag.
I support eOne, infact I wouldn't mind having one for a internet terminal...its got everything i want in an all in one...where-as the iMac is MISSING any type of internal expansion and doesn't have any video input, which is something i love on my dual celeron.
Not nessecarly. The new designs call for a in-ship recycling center....water, air, waste, all recycled....and you grow your food....no more packaging.
Its all live off the land...even while traveling thru space.
I've got a signed book from Zubrin....he is brilliant and I would like to see both Mars and the moon colonized within 30 years....think we can make it happen?
Bullshit I test Windows 2000 and every single Win32 app has worked besides games which the installers were written in a stupid way, instead of checkig for DirectX they check for Windows 9.x and then fail....Thats not Microsoft's fault, that is the people who write the software.
Its true people, I've used it. The difference is: Win9x internals use ASCII WinNT internals use UNICODE if you decide to use the other one, it has to convert it to make use of it.
I'd have to say from my Windows programming experience it would have been your fault. If you had followed the Win16 APIs like you had said to the dot, it would have looked fine in Windows 3.x. Remember, Win 3.x had a different look and if you hardcoded any single line of code instead of getting all metrics from Windows you would have amde a mistake.
How does stuff like this make it here? Where as I wrote a week ago, suggesting that my project get listed, as I am in process of throwing together an AirPort system on a PC laptop to see if it works with the Lucent drivers and external booster antenna....If it doesnt work for me, atleast others will know that way.....
This is not like Ma'Bell people. Ma'Bell had a true monopoly.
What does this ensist of? They OWNED the patents on the phone forcing people to use their service, as no other service could not even exist!
That is correct people, another phone company couldn't rent back then because they couldn't even own a phone....
On the other hand, you can buy cable modems, MediaOne can rent lines if they please, BUT no one is required to sell a service that they don't offer! The only requirement is that someone sells something they offer to someone paying the price.
You idiots who think that AOL should get a free ride should be taken out from your LSD filled worlds and realize: The infrastructure wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the companies providing it. They intend to make enough money to pay for it....that is a must. I have cable access, I love it, its great, and MediaOne is improving on it.
But, it is not an essencial for life either. CableTV NEVER HAS. There for it has been regulated differently. In the 20th century telephones have been considered essencial so the fact that they are deregulated makes sense.
But CaTV lines should never be on the reason of broadband. Why?
First of all, you have many ways to get TV. Broadcast is free then there is CaTV and Satalite. Why not ask the government to open up satalite access if they will CaTV? Its in internation territory, and it costs alot to put into place...so why not open that up? Its a stupid idea, if you want to broadcast, you can for free!
Second of all, there are multiple forms of Internet connections....Cable, DSL, Wireless, etc They should have no problem getting people onto their service somehow or another. DSL is open ended because it uses the existing phone network with just a few changes.....
There is no problem in my mind or the minds of many others in leaving the door closed on these services unless the owner decides to lease them.
Its their private property, paid for by them. They should not be told they have to sell access to it for a purpose that their networks were not designed or implimented for.
Really, I feel no sympathy. Get a utility license and lay your own lines. Sure the equipment is expensive and it costs a lot. But seriously, how the hell can companies like MediaOne pay for it if they make a few cents here and there by leasing their lines? I use MediaOne, I love it. But they are having problems enough getting the service up and running 2 way without having idiots claiming that their LAN (YES, it is a LAN) should be opened.
I ask you this. What do you know about technology. Or how about, TCP/IP? Do you realize that what is being asked is not cheap?
The routers on the cable lines only look for MediaOne subscribers. So do their DNS servers and everything else. If you were to tie another ISP downstream, their service wouldn't work anyways!
The only way for that to work would be a lot of expensive equipment that the cable companies would buy to solve it. I beleive they shouldn't have to.
Go DSL if you want to be a cry baby. Get a satilite firm. Put in your own wires. We don't need companies like you hurting the infrastructure. Telco's already have shown that because of deregulation, parts of their services can hurt or cost more.
Here is another solution. Provide services! Online content for **gasp** a local portal, not a global one. Or think of something else.
Really..."Let us use their cable because we can't afford to put a similar system in place" What a bunch of morrons.
Dan Guisinger
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The real one wouldn't be. The X-37 test vehical would be carried up because its not large enough to hold the fuel and its not a finished rocket for real use.
It is a test vehicel, and experimental one. They want to carry it up and see if their computers, automation, etc stuff work
Just curious, now that Celerons have the locked multiplier, could I run a 4.5x and a 5.0x (300a and a 333a) in SMP? I currently have a dual 300a/504 system, but it has occurred to me that: a) On old systems, the multipliers were set at one spot on the motherboard b) The processors don't know what the multiplier settings of other processors are c) They communicate to each other at the bus speed
This to me would mean it is entirely possible. I know people who have gotten a PII and a Celeron to work. Anyone want to take a stab if you can have to different multipliers?
That is exactly how I came across networkedcomputing.com.....it was like wow, no one has this? either i can make use of it or someone might be willing to shell some cash out for it someday.
Its different. They aren't buying big brand names, these are just names they bought and then turn around to try to promote and sell.
Some of the better domains most people probably wouldn't have even realized were still available until they were bought and posted for resale. Its funny, almost every combination of words in the english languange that can be done in 1,2 or 3 words and is a common phrase is taken, but some of the most obvious still aren't because people think they are:)
Slashdot Mirror
Wrong. Everything under GPL is able to be redistributed. About 25% of Corel Linux from what I have heard was written in house and is NOT GPLed. What does this mean? Try distributing an operating system where a quarter of it is missing.....it just doesn't work like that.
I have thought about the idea of starting an aerospace company that just produced parts in mass quanities that could be used in a multitude of systems....advanced navigation computers, thruster control units, etc....
it would greatly cut cost to have off-the-shelf items for most of the sats....
even the comm equipment could be plug-n-play components....need to send video from one place to another, use this dish plus this receiver and transeiver, connect via internal fiber bus, etc...
Here is a way I came up with to Avoid the /. effect. I haven't implimented it, but it is based off a HTTP feature that used to be a security hole that people complained about.
If the server is reaching saturation, it should enable a log keeping track of WHERE the traffic is coming from (as in what site its being directed from). If it where to do this it could stop serving as many pages to Slashdot folks while leaving the site up for other people. It could also display a error message such as "This page has been swamped. Please try again later."
What do you think?
Wrong, all the Mac Zealots I know are defending Apple where as all the PC users I know are poking holes in Apple showing how greedy Jobs is and how Apple tends to screw over the customer....
I mean really, I can upgrade a Pentium II 350 up to a Pentium III 600. Why? The bus and the pins are the same, just as they are on the G3 and G4.
BIOS and motherboard makers don't care if you upgrade. Apple does because they know they screw their customers all over the place and if they let anyone introduce their product first they will lose loyalty.
PII/PIII cartridges have the voltage hard wired so the motherboard automatically detects it and sets the correct voltage.
Yes, because FireWire is NOT computer controlled , its peer to peer, meaning each device has its own microcomputer in it with more complicated software.
USB is simple enough where each USB controller chip has a small microcontroller w/ integrated rom and ram and that can control the entire device.
Devices on USB specify their bandwidth requirements. With Windows 2000 I can view which devices have what bandwidth....if I try to use a device and there is no bandwidth left I need to disable on of the others.
(For example, its hard to run my speakers and my camera at once)
Where can you find devices for them?
I ask people the same question about devices for the faster versions of FireWire they are touting will woop USB 2.0 and NGIO/FutureIO
Pull your head out of your ass
You will see the devices all over the place.
NGIO/FutureIO specs have been lead by the entire PC industry and are moving along very quickly.
You will see lots of devices immediately just as happenned when PCI came out
$1 per port is a LOT morron.
My USB hardware is about $50 to $100 per device.
I don't want $1 - $2 going to Apple.
Second of all, we are TALKING ABOUT USB 2.0 not 1.0.
FireWire is out. Apple is charging too much and won't let anyone call it FireWire.
What can replace it?
USB 2.0 has great speeds for current devices. It will be a household item with in a year. Only two companies I know make PCs with FireWire. That would be Sony and Compaq. Sony does it because of the Sony Handy Cam. Compaq happens to be a major supporter of USB 2.0.....I seem to think they won't support FireWire much longer as they have to ADD core logic to use it.
NGIO and FutureIO are competing bus standards, but rumor has it they are about to merge. How many of you actually knew that NGIO supports 2GB/sec and FutureIO supports 10GB/sec? How about this....BOTH busses are on a 4 wire design and are ment to allow network adapters, memory, video, and multiple CPU subsystems to connect OUTSIDE of a computer and be Plug and Play!
Thats right, its again an extension cable, PnP design boasting up to 10GB/sec due out next year.
I don't see FireWire staying around much longer.
Apple has always been and always will be too damn proprietary. Go Be, I hope you find a better life on IBM's PPC computers as they are more open. Go eMachines, your machine is better upgradable and has a cool CD player. Jobs will burn in hell.
GeFORCE 256 hardware is not alpha hardware.
The actual chips are released now to board manufactures.
FireWire is dead anyways.
Compaq was the only PC manufacturer besides Sony that was pushing it, and Compaq is behind USB 2.0 which boasts 200 - 300mbps, which is far more than enough for most perhiphrals.
Really, if Apple wants their stuff to take off, get rid of the greedy bastard who thinks high licensing fees and countless lawsuits are needed to prove his stuff is best.
its no wonder Apple is suing.
The eOne is expandable...it has 2 PCMCIA slots
its a perfect multimedia machine, its got video input! The CD-Player controls are on the front of the machine and even work when the machine is off.....some of it may be a rip off, but there are many differences....not to mention 400Mhz processor and a much, much lower price tag.
I support eOne, infact I wouldn't mind having one for a internet terminal...its got everything i want in an all in one...where-as the iMac is MISSING any type of internal expansion and doesn't have any video input, which is something i love on my dual celeron.
Not nessecarly.
The new designs call for a in-ship recycling center....water, air, waste, all recycled....and you grow your food....no more packaging.
Its all live off the land...even while traveling thru space.
I've got a signed book from Zubrin....he is brilliant and I would like to see both Mars and the moon colonized within 30 years....think we can make it happen?
Ah, I take it Microsoft hasn't gotten around to throwing anything out yet
Bullshit
I test Windows 2000 and every single Win32 app has worked besides games which the installers were written in a stupid way, instead of checkig for DirectX they check for Windows 9.x and then fail....Thats not Microsoft's fault, that is the people who write the software.
Its true people, I've used it.
The difference is:
Win9x internals use ASCII
WinNT internals use UNICODE
if you decide to use the other one, it has to convert it to make use of it.
I'd have to say from my Windows programming experience it would have been your fault. If you had followed the Win16 APIs like you had said to the dot, it would have looked fine in Windows 3.x. Remember, Win 3.x had a different look and if you hardcoded any single line of code instead of getting all metrics from Windows you would have amde a mistake.
How does stuff like this make it here?
Where as I wrote a week ago, suggesting that my project get listed, as I am in process of throwing together an AirPort system on a PC laptop to see if it works with the Lucent drivers and external booster antenna....If it doesnt work for me, atleast others will know that way.....
anyways, the site is at www.qwlsoft.com/wireless/airpor t/airport.htm
-Dan Guisinger
This is not like Ma'Bell people. Ma'Bell had a true monopoly.
What does this ensist of?
They OWNED the patents on the phone forcing people to use their service, as no other service could not even exist!
That is correct people, another phone company couldn't rent back then because they couldn't even own a phone....
On the other hand, you can buy cable modems, MediaOne can rent lines if they please, BUT no one is required to sell a service that they don't offer! The only requirement is that someone sells something they offer to someone paying the price.
You idiots who think that AOL should get a free ride should be taken out from your LSD filled worlds and realize: The infrastructure wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the companies providing it. They intend to make enough money to pay for it....that is a must. I have cable access, I love it, its great, and MediaOne is improving on it.
But, it is not an essencial for life either. CableTV NEVER HAS. There for it has been regulated differently. In the 20th century telephones have been considered essencial so the fact that they are deregulated makes sense.
But CaTV lines should never be on the reason of broadband. Why?
First of all, you have many ways to get TV.
Broadcast is free
then there is CaTV and Satalite.
Why not ask the government to open up satalite access if they will CaTV? Its in internation territory, and it costs alot to put into place...so why not open that up? Its a stupid idea, if you want to broadcast, you can for free!
Second of all, there are multiple forms of Internet connections....Cable, DSL, Wireless, etc
They should have no problem getting people onto their service somehow or another. DSL is open ended because it uses the existing phone network with just a few changes.....
There is no problem in my mind or the minds of many others in leaving the door closed on these services unless the owner decides to lease them.
Its their private property, paid for by them. They should not be told they have to sell access to it for a purpose that their networks were not designed or implimented for.
Dan Guisinger
Really, I feel no sympathy. Get a utility license and lay your own lines. Sure the equipment is expensive and it costs a lot. But seriously, how the hell can companies like MediaOne pay for it if they make a few cents here and there by leasing their lines?
I use MediaOne, I love it. But they are having problems enough getting the service up and running 2 way without having idiots claiming that their LAN (YES, it is a LAN) should be opened.
I ask you this. What do you know about technology. Or how about, TCP/IP? Do you realize that what is being asked is not cheap?
The routers on the cable lines only look for MediaOne subscribers. So do their DNS servers and everything else. If you were to tie another ISP downstream, their service wouldn't work anyways!
The only way for that to work would be a lot of expensive equipment that the cable companies would buy to solve it. I beleive they shouldn't have to.
Go DSL if you want to be a cry baby. Get a satilite firm. Put in your own wires. We don't need companies like you hurting the infrastructure. Telco's already have shown that because of deregulation, parts of their services can hurt or cost more.
Here is another solution.
Provide services!
Online content for **gasp** a local portal, not a global one. Or think of something else.
Really..."Let us use their cable because we can't afford to put a similar system in place" What a bunch of morrons.
Dan Guisinger
The real one wouldn't be.
The X-37 test vehical would be carried up because its not large enough to hold the fuel and its not a finished rocket for real use.
It is a test vehicel, and experimental one.
They want to carry it up and see if their computers, automation, etc stuff work
Just curious, now that Celerons have the locked multiplier, could I run a 4.5x and a 5.0x (300a and a 333a) in SMP? I currently have a dual 300a/504 system, but it has occurred to me that:
a) On old systems, the multipliers were set at one spot on the motherboard
b) The processors don't know what the multiplier settings of other processors are
c) They communicate to each other at the bus speed
This to me would mean it is entirely possible.
I know people who have gotten a PII and a Celeron to work. Anyone want to take a stab if you can have to different multipliers?
That is exactly how I came across networkedcomputing.com.....it was like wow, no one has this? either i can make use of it or someone might be willing to shell some cash out for it someday.
Dan
Its different.
:)
They aren't buying big brand names, these are just names they bought and then turn around to try to promote and sell.
Some of the better domains most people probably wouldn't have even realized were still available until they were bought and posted for resale. Its funny, almost every combination of words in the english languange that can be done in 1,2 or 3 words and is a common phrase is taken, but some of the most obvious still aren't because people think they are
-Dan