Anyone saw Sneakers? IIRC, all the monitors ever displayed was text and some vector graphics (OK, and one splashy graphics scene when their phones were being traced), and that was a pretty damn exciting movie. The excitement really came from what the audience knew that the characters were breaking into, and knowing how much trouble the characters could get into, not from what was being displayed on the screen.
Hang in there. I'm sure some screenwriters will read this slashdot article and catch on. =)
The Woz was an engineer. He loved engineering, he was a genius at it, and that's all he wanted to do. When Apple was founded, he gladly handed the reins to Jobs.
Damn it, font color tags aren't allowed on slashdot comments. The trick that other sites use for spoilers is that they write the text in the same color as the background, so it stays invisible if you don't wanna read it and if you wanna spoil everything, you highlight the text.
Exactly what I was thinking. This has been around for a long time, as it was used in that one Bladerunnder game that flopped a couple years back. Anyone remember that?
RAM prices were going insanely high even before the quake. The quake sent them up a notch, but I recall seeing 128MB DIMM's at Fry's Electronics for $200 even before the Taiwan quake hit. Hopefully, NEC's switch back to SDRAM will bring them back to the $65-$100 price range we saw before.
One of the annoying things about these slot-loaders is that you can't play mini CD's in them. I have quite a few singles CD's from Japan that won't go into these slot-loading CD drives. You either need one of the typical tray CD drives (preferrably the kind where you snap in the CD, like on laptops and the old iMac) or you have to put the mini CD in an annoying adapter disc. Oh well, nobody uses the mini CD's in the US, but in Japan it's the only way that artists release singles.
Well, I know for a fact that it's not the first slot-loading CD drive on a computer, (my friend has a Compaq with a slot CD drive) but I'm curious to know if this is the first slot-loading DVD drive on a personal computer. Anyone out there know?
Scroll down the email responses to the site, and you'll see Robin's correspondence with the hoax guy. It's nice to know that slashdot puts in more time to investigate and verify stories than other sites who fell for it *coughzdnetcoughcough*.
That aside, I find this whole thing to be a big embarassment to Christians like myself. C'mon... Christians have much more important concerns than nitpicking the words "kill" and "daemon" out of a Linux distro.
So... this is more support for the theory that they're developing a chip that can run binaries of any platform? Hold on while I write a check to Dr. Torvalds for one of these babies!
I think the article even realizes that it's just stirring up unnecessary controversy by aligning everything into a Mac vs. Linux topic. Macs and Linux have their own places in the computer world, and can easily coexist as far as I can tell. I love my Macs, but I can easily say that Macs will always be a niche product, and so will Linux. You know what? There's nothing wrong with that. Different people have different computing needs, and for that reason I think having the variety of BeOS, Linux, Windows and Macs is a good thing. Is Linux the Next Big Thing? Fine, no jealousy here. I'm sure there will always be another Next Big Thing down the line, and that's actually a good sign because it keeps the rest of the industry on its toes. The introduction of the Mac impacted the rest of the computing world in a positive way, and I'm sure Linux will have a positive influence on Macs and Windows too.
I recall reading somewhere about how all ATI cards having some kind of color-calibration abilities that other cards don't. I suppose you can see that that would be very important to the publishing/multimedia professionals that the Powermacs are aimed towards.
Of course, even though that's the target audience of Powermac users, I'm pretty sure that most Powermac owners haven't used any sort of color calibration at all. If you really need gaming on a Mac, 3Dfx has announced that they've begun work on AGP cards for the G4's.
I mean, remember when demo versions of Doom were floating around everywhere? For some, the demo was plenty enough game, and for others, they just had to go out and buy Doom after playing the demo. I think the same thing'll happen with Sendmail. Some NT admins'll get exposed to OSS after trying it out and others will just be happy that they can get a real mail program on NT and stick with their NT boxes.
Which, in the end, is better than not making sendmail for NT at all.
The stock will go up eventually, but I'm guessing that even if the deal goes through, it'll be a few months before AMD would be able to help get G4's out the door. The stock is down mainly because Apple won't be able to fill demand for this particular quarter.
I was a Netcom customer too, and although they weren't super, they had really good deals on webhosting for a company that wasn't running out of someone's garage. When they were bought by Mindspring, they stopped billing me for 4 months and then sent me 4 months of bills at once, at their new higher prices (although they sent me an email saying that as part of the buyout, they promised they would retain my same webhosting rates. Oh yeah, and the two other "pointer" domain names I had got screwed up in the process. Now we're merging with Earthlink? I know there's some adjustments that you have to deal with in mergers, but to have this come right after I dealing with the Netcom/Mindspring thing is like pingpong. Maybe I'll do what my friend did and just get DSL...
IIRC, IBM and Motorola got together a few months ago and decided on a standard architecture for future PowerPC chips to maintain compatibility between their different designs. That way they wouldn't have to negotiate every time one of them came up with a new feature (The need for such a standard was evident when they had a little disagreement about Altivec). It's called "Book E," and although it's not mentioned in the roadmap, I'd guess it'll be implemented from the G5's and on.
Actually, IIRC they voted that Evolution would no longer be taught as fact in the schools, but as a theory, the same as most of the scientific community does anyways.
Well have you considered the possibility that this is interesting to a lot of other nerds besides yourself? Sure, most of the unix news isn't interesting to me, but I understand that there's thousands of other people out there who do care about unix, or open-source issues, palm pilots, etc, so I don't complain when there's news that I don't care for.
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Anyone saw Sneakers? IIRC, all the monitors ever displayed was text and some vector graphics (OK, and one splashy graphics scene when their phones were being traced), and that was a pretty damn exciting movie. The excitement really came from what the audience knew that the characters were breaking into, and knowing how much trouble the characters could get into, not from what was being displayed on the screen.
Hang in there. I'm sure some screenwriters will read this slashdot article and catch on. =)
The Woz was an engineer. He loved engineering, he was a genius at it, and that's all he wanted to do. When Apple was founded, he gladly handed the reins to Jobs.
Damn it, font color tags aren't allowed on slashdot comments. The trick that other sites use for spoilers is that they write the text in the same color as the background, so it stays invisible if you don't wanna read it and if you wanna spoil everything, you highlight the text.
Exactly what I was thinking. This has been around for a long time, as it was used in that one Bladerunnder game that flopped a couple years back. Anyone remember that?
I dunno, I've kicked my Windows CD around the room quite a few times...
RAM prices were going insanely high even before the quake. The quake sent them up a notch, but I recall seeing 128MB DIMM's at Fry's Electronics for $200 even before the Taiwan quake hit. Hopefully, NEC's switch back to SDRAM will bring them back to the $65-$100 price range we saw before.
It's this really high pitched "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee"
One of the annoying things about these slot-loaders is that you can't play mini CD's in them. I have quite a few singles CD's from Japan that won't go into these slot-loading CD drives. You either need one of the typical tray CD drives (preferrably the kind where you snap in the CD, like on laptops and the old iMac) or you have to put the mini CD in an annoying adapter disc. Oh well, nobody uses the mini CD's in the US, but in Japan it's the only way that artists release singles.
Well, I know for a fact that it's not the first slot-loading CD drive on a computer, (my friend has a Compaq with a slot CD drive) but I'm curious to know if this is the first slot-loading DVD drive on a personal computer. Anyone out there know?
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It also looks like the US military's going to be called in.
Scroll down the email responses to the site, and you'll see Robin's correspondence with the hoax guy. It's nice to know that slashdot puts in more time to investigate and verify stories than other sites who fell for it *coughzdnetcoughcough*.
That aside, I find this whole thing to be a big embarassment to Christians like myself. C'mon... Christians have much more important concerns than nitpicking the words "kill" and "daemon" out of a Linux distro.
So... this is more support for the theory that they're developing a chip that can run binaries of any platform? Hold on while I write a check to Dr. Torvalds for one of these babies!
I think the article even realizes that it's just stirring up unnecessary controversy by aligning everything into a Mac vs. Linux topic. Macs and Linux have their own places in the computer world, and can easily coexist as far as I can tell. I love my Macs, but I can easily say that Macs will always be a niche product, and so will Linux. You know what? There's nothing wrong with that. Different people have different computing needs, and for that reason I think having the variety of BeOS, Linux, Windows and Macs is a good thing. Is Linux the Next Big Thing? Fine, no jealousy here. I'm sure there will always be another Next Big Thing down the line, and that's actually a good sign because it keeps the rest of the industry on its toes. The introduction of the Mac impacted the rest of the computing world in a positive way, and I'm sure Linux will have a positive influence on Macs and Windows too.
As some people have noted, Apple Insider now has actual photos of the new graphite iMac.
Also, MacOS Rumors has several pictures of the new iMacs in all their fruity glory.
I recall reading somewhere about how all ATI cards having some kind of color-calibration abilities that other cards don't. I suppose you can see that that would be very important to the publishing/multimedia professionals that the Powermacs are aimed towards.
Of course, even though that's the target audience of Powermac users, I'm pretty sure that most Powermac owners haven't used any sort of color calibration at all. If you really need gaming on a Mac, 3Dfx has announced that they've begun work on AGP cards for the G4's.
Didn't happen to involve a partner, did they? =)
The new iMacs also come with a slot for an Airport card.
Whoops, cross out "OSS" and fill in "Unix"
I mean, remember when demo versions of Doom were floating around everywhere? For some, the demo was plenty enough game, and for others, they just had to go out and buy Doom after playing the demo. I think the same thing'll happen with Sendmail. Some NT admins'll get exposed to OSS after trying it out and others will just be happy that they can get a real mail program on NT and stick with their NT boxes.
Which, in the end, is better than not making sendmail for NT at all.
The stock will go up eventually, but I'm guessing that even if the deal goes through, it'll be a few months before AMD would be able to help get G4's out the door. The stock is down mainly because Apple won't be able to fill demand for this particular quarter.
I was a Netcom customer too, and although they weren't super, they had really good deals on webhosting for a company that wasn't running out of someone's garage. When they were bought by Mindspring, they stopped billing me for 4 months and then sent me 4 months of bills at once, at their new higher prices (although they sent me an email saying that as part of the buyout, they promised they would retain my same webhosting rates. Oh yeah, and the two other "pointer" domain names I had got screwed up in the process. Now we're merging with Earthlink? I know there's some adjustments that you have to deal with in mergers, but to have this come right after I dealing with the Netcom/Mindspring thing is like pingpong. Maybe I'll do what my friend did and just get DSL...
Also, what does IBM have to say about this map?
IIRC, IBM and Motorola got together a few months ago and decided on a standard architecture for future PowerPC chips to maintain compatibility between their different designs. That way they wouldn't have to negotiate every time one of them came up with a new feature (The need for such a standard was evident when they had a little disagreement about Altivec). It's called "Book E," and although it's not mentioned in the roadmap, I'd guess it'll be implemented from the G5's and on.
Actually, IIRC they voted that Evolution would no longer be taught as fact in the schools, but as a theory, the same as most of the scientific community does anyways.
Well have you considered the possibility that this is interesting to a lot of other nerds besides yourself? Sure, most of the unix news isn't interesting to me, but I understand that there's thousands of other people out there who do care about unix, or open-source issues, palm pilots, etc, so I don't complain when there's news that I don't care for.