Actually, a woman won in court against Motorola over that. Her husband died because of a brain tumor, his wife blamed the cell phone and the court found Motorola liable. This was something like 4 years ago. Whether it was a frivolous lawsuit, I dunno. Maybe early cell phones really were dangerous, maybe she just needed to point the finger quickly. Either way, she won.
Is that Mozilla was "carbonated" over a weekend using a utility that Apple released to developers. Apple really went all out to make sure that porting from Mac OS to Mac OSX will be a breeze.
I can't live without Star Wars! Ohh, what am I gonna do till then? I guess I'll just keep rerunning Bladerunner, 2001 and Gattaca...
I guess I can see the reasoning in this. The DVD's that are released later tend to have better production quality and more features. Bladerunner was rushed to the shelves and undeservedly has the absolute worst interface of any DVD I've seen.
Jonathan Ive, the guy who designed the iMac, blue PowerMac and 20th Anniversary Mac, used to work at a european company designing faucets and other bathroom fixtures. He got the idea for frosted translucent plastic from the shower doors he worked on.
Anytime there's a link on Slashdot, several thousands of people go look at it at the same time, and the website crashes under the load. Then the guy running the website says "Oh shit, I got slashdotted!" It's also called the Slashdot Effect.
It doesn't mention the new architecture's name or main purpose.
The architecture's name is Book E, and it was designed to allow IBM and Motorola to make their own customizations and still stay compatible. Embedded processors were the main drive for Book E, but it's also useful to the PowerPC processors for use in PowerMacs. However, the effects of Book E will not be felt to Mac users until after the G4 processors have collected a little dust.
Number one, Apple has already revised their firewire licensing. Get with it.
Everyone is complaining about these firewire drives being slow. USB 2.0 (whenever it comes out) will be half as fast as current firewire, and probably 1/4 as fast as its contemporary firewire. USB 1.0 hard drives right now are a joke, and USB 2.0 hard drives will be just as much of a joke if/when they come out.
Also, current USB and future USB do not guarantee bandwidth. Say goodbye to consistent video editing. You have a USB 2.0 device and USB 1.0 device on the same chain? Normally, you would think that the 1.0 device would take a relative ratio of bandwidth compared to the 2.0 device. Nope. That USB 1.0 device will take up just as much bandwidth as the 2.0 device, effectively crippling it to half its transfer rate.
I emailed the URL to some friends who own Palms, and then after I sent it I see everyone's comments about it being a joke. *Sigh* Now I'm gonna have to check and double-check every single story inside out before I ever forward a URL again.
You can even unplug it during file transfer
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This is the coolest thing about firewire, even cooler than its size and not needing a power supply:
You can unplug it during file transfer. Plug it back in and it completes the file transfer. Coolest shit in the world. It even works if you're playing a movie on the firewire drive. You're watching a Star Wars trailer off the VST drive and then -oops- your friend trips over the cable and unplugs it. Plug it back in and the movie picks up where it left off.
I was hoping to see a flexible monitor, but I guess this is only supposed to be used for marquee type of stuff. Still, a pretty good step forward. Hopefully the next step will be a curtain monitor so I can play Quake3 on my wall.
These commercials are kind of a disappointment. The narration was so cheesy! I think if it was simply music without dialogue it would have been much better.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Once you download Quake3 Test, join one of the games above. I'll be floating around between the different servers as Webslacker.
These were set up already by all the Mac users and submitted to the Quake3T Finder database so you can thank them. Last time I checked, they all have pings below 200.
I came to the conclusion that it was too much work and much more expensive. Finding a black ATX case to begin with was a task, and then you have the nightmare of finding all the drives and peripherals in black. Black floppy? No way. Black CD-ROM? Maybe from IBM or Compaq at inflated prices. Black mouse? The only decent quality one was by Logitech, and it was $40. Oh, and monitors... again only by IBM and Compaq at higher prices. (I'm sure there's other black hardware manufacturers, but it's a chore to find them and as I said, they usually cost more)
Another option would be to buy an stealth system from IBM, but I want to same money by using my current hard drives, my Voodoo2 card and all my other old hardware. So scratch that.
At least with the translucent casing, you can install all your off-white peripherals and CD-ROMs, removable harddrives and they'll match reasonably to the translucent white. It doesn't even look too bad with a beige monitor.
Yeah, quite honestly these new cases can't hold a candle to the Apple cases. Still, as far as PC cases go they're the best Apple knock-offs I've seen, and I'm probably gonna get one for my PC just so it'll match my G3. =)
The Judge forced them drop all the damage claims if Intel wanted to win a summary judgement. Read it here. And scroll down to "Intel's Motion is DENIED"
The guy started a website called a few years ago called FACE Intel (Former and Current Employees of) which was dedicated to exposing all sorts of human rights violations inside the company. How valid all of these allegations are I can't say first hand, but the site has a pretty big following.
There are some updates on the site from yesterday saying that many damage claims and clauses of "nuisance" have been dropped, and other updates show a string of charges had been dropped as the case progressed.
And instead we're simply getting hired away before we graduate. We already had two articles on the subject here and here on slashdot. The CS department at my school was complaining about software houses stealing away all the kids after their second year in school, and myself left school to work. I came to the conclusion that I could learn faster by working and learning on my own than I could by taking courses. I think the American Electronics Assn.'s research only shows half of what's going on.
Even with the anti-piracy software, the Rio will still play "free" MP3 files. This is just another one of those ideas that look good on paper but don't translate into any more convenience for the consumer. I say Diamond is giving the RIAA more regard than it merits.
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There's a whole grip of us, man! Although slash is predominantly about Linux, there's plenty of cool threads for everyone here.
Actually, a woman won in court against Motorola over that. Her husband died because of a brain tumor, his wife blamed the cell phone and the court found Motorola liable. This was something like 4 years ago. Whether it was a frivolous lawsuit, I dunno. Maybe early cell phones really were dangerous, maybe she just needed to point the finger quickly. Either way, she won.
Hey, if it's using the Book E architecture that Mot and IBM came up with, it'll be completely compatible with future PowerPC designs.
I'm primarily a Mac user, but I don't mind this site being a watering hole for Linux users. Learn what it's like getting along in a mixed community.
It's a new display format that butchers DisplayPostscript and Adobe's PDF, taking the best ideas out of both formats.
Is that Mozilla was "carbonated" over a weekend using a utility that Apple released to developers. Apple really went all out to make sure that porting from Mac OS to Mac OSX will be a breeze.
I can't live without Star Wars! Ohh, what am I gonna do till then? I guess I'll just keep rerunning Bladerunner, 2001 and Gattaca...
I guess I can see the reasoning in this. The DVD's that are released later tend to have better production quality and more features. Bladerunner was rushed to the shelves and undeservedly has the absolute worst interface of any DVD I've seen.
Jonathan Ive, the guy who designed the iMac, blue PowerMac and 20th Anniversary Mac, used to work at a european company designing faucets and other bathroom fixtures. He got the idea for frosted translucent plastic from the shower doors he worked on.
Anytime there's a link on Slashdot, several thousands of people go look at it at the same time, and the website crashes under the load. Then the guy running the website says "Oh shit, I got slashdotted!" It's also called the Slashdot Effect.
It doesn't mention the new architecture's name or main purpose.
The architecture's name is Book E, and it was designed to allow IBM and Motorola to make their own customizations and still stay compatible. Embedded processors were the main drive for Book E, but it's also useful to the PowerPC processors for use in PowerMacs. However, the effects of Book E will not be felt to Mac users until after the G4 processors have collected a little dust.
Number one, Apple has already revised their firewire licensing. Get with it.
Everyone is complaining about these firewire drives being slow. USB 2.0 (whenever it comes out) will be half as fast as current firewire, and probably 1/4 as fast as its contemporary firewire. USB 1.0 hard drives right now are a joke, and USB 2.0 hard drives will be just as much of a joke if/when they come out.
Also, current USB and future USB do not guarantee bandwidth. Say goodbye to consistent video editing. You have a USB 2.0 device and USB 1.0 device on the same chain? Normally, you would think that the 1.0 device would take a relative ratio of bandwidth compared to the 2.0 device. Nope. That USB 1.0 device will take up just as much bandwidth as the 2.0 device, effectively crippling it to half its transfer rate.
I emailed the URL to some friends who own Palms, and then after I sent it I see everyone's comments about it being a joke. *Sigh* Now I'm gonna have to check and double-check every single story inside out before I ever forward a URL again.
This is the coolest thing about firewire, even cooler than its size and not needing a power supply:
You can unplug it during file transfer. Plug it back in and it completes the file transfer. Coolest shit in the world. It even works if you're playing a movie on the firewire drive. You're watching a Star Wars trailer off the VST drive and then -oops- your friend trips over the cable and unplugs it. Plug it back in and the movie picks up where it left off.
I was hoping to see a flexible monitor, but I guess this is only supposed to be used for marquee type of stuff. Still, a pretty good step forward. Hopefully the next step will be a curtain monitor so I can play Quake3 on my wall.
These commercials are kind of a disappointment. The narration was so cheesy! I think if it was simply music without dialogue it would have been much better.
I read that message, but for some reason I must've missed that part about FreeBSD. My bad.
Anyone know what it's running?
Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Once you download Quake3 Test, join one of the games above. I'll be floating around between the different servers as Webslacker.
These were set up already by all the Mac users and submitted to the Quake3T Finder database so you can thank them. Last time I checked, they all have pings below 200.
207.126.125.81
216.33.28.135
24.130.84.219
140.160.38.58
128.193.141.243
129.123.1.24
209.232.186.173
216.101.212.137
24.0.194.145
209.77.121.130
209.20.177.59
128.138.140.101
207.183.249.202
209.43.135.111
24.113.18.121
216.36.24.47
209.102.106.170
198.28.62.76
128.113.175.234
204.0.130.110
204.52.135.50
128.118.209.8
207.170.210.25
24.64.247.71
4.3.32.77
24.112.9.58
209.107.90.14:21040
24.93.25.79
24.93.101.45:1044
24.2.44.20
24.93.26.115
207.161.246.243
128.118.125.25
24.64.201.214
128.2.98.20
24.93.63.4
128.123.68.14
206.53.233.68
209.53.28.217
24.64.96.84
194.88.93.27
194.88.93.27:27961
207.236.206.135
194.88.93.27:27962
163.1.186.38
207.239.72.11
I came to the conclusion that it was too much work and much more expensive. Finding a black ATX case to begin with was a task, and then you have the nightmare of finding all the drives and peripherals in black. Black floppy? No way. Black CD-ROM? Maybe from IBM or Compaq at inflated prices. Black mouse? The only decent quality one was by Logitech, and it was $40. Oh, and monitors... again only by IBM and Compaq at higher prices. (I'm sure there's other black hardware manufacturers, but it's a chore to find them and as I said, they usually cost more)
Another option would be to buy an stealth system from IBM, but I want to same money by using my current hard drives, my Voodoo2 card and all my other old hardware. So scratch that.
At least with the translucent casing, you can install all your off-white peripherals and CD-ROMs, removable harddrives and they'll match reasonably to the translucent white. It doesn't even look too bad with a beige monitor.
Yeah, quite honestly these new cases can't hold a candle to the Apple cases. Still, as far as PC cases go they're the best Apple knock-offs I've seen, and I'm probably gonna get one for my PC just so it'll match my G3. =)
The Judge forced them drop all the damage claims if Intel wanted to win a summary judgement. Read it here. And scroll down to "Intel's Motion is DENIED"
The guy started a website called a few years ago called FACE Intel (Former and Current Employees of) which was dedicated to exposing all sorts of human rights violations inside the company. How valid all of these allegations are I can't say first hand, but the site has a pretty big following.
There are some updates on the site from yesterday saying that many damage claims and clauses of "nuisance" have been dropped, and other updates show a string of charges had been dropped as the case progressed.
And instead we're simply getting hired away before we graduate. We already had two articles on the subject here and here on slashdot. The CS department at my school was complaining about software houses stealing away all the kids after their second year in school, and myself left school to work. I came to the conclusion that I could learn faster by working and learning on my own than I could by taking courses. I think the American Electronics Assn.'s research only shows half of what's going on.
Even with the anti-piracy software, the Rio will still play "free" MP3 files. This is just another one of those ideas that look good on paper but don't translate into any more convenience for the consumer. I say Diamond is giving the RIAA more regard than it merits.