The 20th Annies were sold out as of about three years ago. My brother got one of the last handful, at about $2000 (original price was a preposterous $7000).
If you read the comments on the old story, there were quite a few people that were shooting holes in Star Bridge's announcements, saying that their misuse of technical terms showed that they knew nothing about what they were trying to develop. I'm not an engineer myself, but after seeing so many people say that the computer design is full of holes, I'm guessing we can write this one off.
Jean Louis Gassee said in an interview that for Be to make BeOS run on the G3's, he needed all the tech data from Apple. He also says that it would not be too difficult to reverse-engineer everything they way the LinuxPPC people did, but that it's not good for a company to do "hacker-ish" stuff when they're trying to maintain a professional corporate image.
I wonder how much of the blame can actually be placed on the Solaris and not on human error. The eBay announcements board says they've identified the problem, but doesn't detail what the error was. Does anyone have more detailed information?
After they sold the company. The 3Dfx of today is a different company. Screw them. TNT2 is better anyways.
Gee, we're getting our asses kicked in all the benchmark tests. Do we: A) Spend more time on R&D and build in true 32-bit rendering with high performance, making sure we have a kick-butt chipset to dominate the future market, or B) Sue?
Not to start any flames, but do you ever wonder if a *nix fan wrote this virus to persuade people away from Windows systems? It's a fucked up thing to do, but I'm sure more than a few admins have started looking at *nixes after the recent flood of Windows-specific viruses...
According to Tom's Hardware the 133mhz bus thing only provides incremental improvements over the 100mhz bus, and at astronomically higher prices. BTW, when is the 200mhz bus/K7 combo supposed to come out?
That's so strange, that Red Hat would acknowledge their over-commercialization and Linux community backlash as a risk factor. It's true and all, but still strange that a company would list that on a filing!
Tom's Hardware talks about it too
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In it, he says that so far the K7 is looking like a "clear winner" and that for once, its floating point performance beats Intel's. He does, however, also mention that AMD has strange practices when it comes to production, and says they need to step it up it they want the K7's performance to be timely.
All translucent macs come with on-board IDE now. The only new mac that still has on-board SCSI is the Powerbook. SCSI macs are still in such demand, however, that you'll still see beige (SCSI) macs on sale for the same prices as the new macs, even with slower busses and processors.
That one looks cool, but I'd be so scared of dust or other particles collecting in there. Heaven forbid you accidentally touched it.
I dislike it too, but...
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I think there's a place in the computing world for these "all-in-one" things. Although a Mac user, I dislike the iMac. However, I think it's perfectly fine for non-geek computer buyers who are 90% unlikely to upgrade anything ever. I think these PC's will do fine filling in that same market.
Just like Slashdot stories you're not interested in, all you gotta do is avoid them.
There's been several comments about how Australia needs to change its laws concerning profanity. As I doubt that the hordes of Slashdot readers will fly down under, register, and vote in new laws to sanction profanity in source code, the only other option I see is to remove the off-color comments.
"Blasphemy!" and "That's censorship!" you may say. But what's more important to you? To get source code out into more hands, or your right to cuss? I like cussing too, but one day when your kids ask you what you did when you were young, do you want to tell them that you got source code out into the hands of programmers worldwide, or that you fought for your rights to put cusswords in source code?
If people ask you if you break into white house computers, it's a good way to start some conversation about what you do and clear up the misconception at the same time.
Are names attached to salary data, or is it just going to be anonymous data about how much workers at certain companys earn, etc? If my name's not attached, I couldn't care less. I'd die of embarassment if someone found out how much I was making.
Other Mac sites have reported this bug last night, and it seems that some are unable to reproduce the bug. The conclusion seems to be that it depends on the configuration.
Also, Apple reported that it was working on a patch since yesterday.
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The 20th Annies were sold out as of about three years ago. My brother got one of the last handful, at about $2000 (original price was a preposterous $7000).
How many times Rob gets the same submission of a box with a forward slash and a period inside!
If you read the comments on the old story, there were quite a few people that were shooting holes in Star Bridge's announcements, saying that their misuse of technical terms showed that they knew nothing about what they were trying to develop. I'm not an engineer myself, but after seeing so many people say that the computer design is full of holes, I'm guessing we can write this one off.
Jean Louis Gassee said in an interview that for Be to make BeOS run on the G3's, he needed all the tech data from Apple. He also says that it would not be too difficult to reverse-engineer everything they way the LinuxPPC people did, but that it's not good for a company to do "hacker-ish" stuff when they're trying to maintain a professional corporate image.
The motherboard can handle up to 700mhz processors. Very good for future upgradability.
I wonder how much of the blame can actually be placed on the Solaris and not on human error. The eBay announcements board says they've identified the problem, but doesn't detail what the error was. Does anyone have more detailed information?
This one is where Tom's Hardware rated the major 3D cards, including a few TNT2 cards, Voodoo3 and ATI
Check out Tom's Hardware and Ace's Hardware for TNT2 reviews. As far as I remember, the Hercules cards were the best performers.
After they sold the company. The 3Dfx of today is a different company. Screw them. TNT2 is better anyways.
Gee, we're getting our asses kicked in all the benchmark tests. Do we:
A) Spend more time on R&D and build in true 32-bit rendering with high performance, making sure we have a kick-butt chipset to dominate the future market, or
B) Sue?
I asked Rob myself because I made a stupid AC post earlier. The answer was no.
BTW, conspiracy theory #2: Do Symantec and McAfee write viruses to boost up sales? Hmm...
Not to start any flames, but do you ever wonder if a *nix fan wrote this virus to persuade people away from Windows systems? It's a fucked up thing to do, but I'm sure more than a few admins have started looking at *nixes after the recent flood of Windows-specific viruses...
According to Tom's Hardware the 133mhz bus thing only provides incremental improvements over the 100mhz bus, and at astronomically higher prices. BTW, when is the 200mhz bus/K7 combo supposed to come out?
That's so strange, that Red Hat would acknowledge their over-commercialization and Linux community backlash as a risk factor. It's true and all, but still strange that a company would list that on a filing!
Over in his Computex recap.
In it, he says that so far the K7 is looking like a "clear winner" and that for once, its floating point performance beats Intel's. He does, however, also mention that AMD has strange practices when it comes to production, and says they need to step it up it they want the K7's performance to be timely.
All translucent macs come with on-board IDE now. The only new mac that still has on-board SCSI is the Powerbook. SCSI macs are still in such demand, however, that you'll still see beige (SCSI) macs on sale for the same prices as the new macs, even with slower busses and processors.
That one looks cool, but I'd be so scared of dust or other particles collecting in there. Heaven forbid you accidentally touched it.
I think there's a place in the computing world for these "all-in-one" things. Although a Mac user, I dislike the iMac. However, I think it's perfectly fine for non-geek computer buyers who are 90% unlikely to upgrade anything ever. I think these PC's will do fine filling in that same market.
Just like Slashdot stories you're not interested in, all you gotta do is avoid them.
As I understand it, MP3's are legal as long as you own the CD. When you start distributing it, then you're treading on thin ice.
There's been several comments about how Australia needs to change its laws concerning profanity. As I doubt that the hordes of Slashdot readers will fly down under, register, and vote in new laws to sanction profanity in source code, the only other option I see is to remove the off-color comments.
"Blasphemy!" and "That's censorship!" you may say. But what's more important to you? To get source code out into more hands, or your right to cuss? I like cussing too, but one day when your kids ask you what you did when you were young, do you want to tell them that you got source code out into the hands of programmers worldwide, or that you fought for your rights to put cusswords in source code?
If people ask you if you break into white house computers, it's a good way to start some conversation about what you do and clear up the misconception at the same time.
Play nice. Your post isn't doing any better.
Are names attached to salary data, or is it just going to be anonymous data about how much workers at certain companys earn, etc? If my name's not attached, I couldn't care less. I'd die of embarassment if someone found out how much I was making.
Humble apologies.
Does the name 'iCE" kinda look like a nod to "iMac?" Or did someone accidentally have their caps lock on wrong? =)
Other Mac sites have reported this bug last night, and it seems that some are unable to reproduce the bug. The conclusion seems to be that it depends on the configuration.
Also, Apple reported that it was working on a patch since yesterday.