The AOL/Netscape/IE thing is an interesting story. For those who don't know (and from what I remember): AOL signed an agreement with MS whereas the AOL browser would be IE and MS would put AOL icons on the Windows Desktop (from a default install). Then AOL bought Netscape. They didn't want to risk the precious real estate they had on the Windows desktop, so they continued to use IE.
You probably knew that, and just used the first craft that popped into your head
Yeah, that's just about what happened. Thanks for pointing it out in a nice manner, rather than flaming me over it.
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In college I built a maze traversing Mindstorms Robot. It would actually find its way through a 6 foot by 6 foot cardboard maze. I used NQC (Not Quite C) as the programming language because it was impossible to program the "follow the right wall" algorithm in Bricks (the programming language that comes with the set.)
Actually, according to the article: the position of the planets will provide an escape route back to Earth in the event of an accident.
The article states further on that the space shuttle could return to earth even if the main engine was inoperable. If I understood it correctly, the shuttle would "slingshot" aroud Mars to Venus, then "slingshot" around Venus to Earth.
I think the release of AOL for Linux is more about buzzwords now than anything else. When they release their netpliance, they will already have their (soft|bloat)ware ported to Linux so that's a plus, but as for right now, they just want to be able to toss the "LINUX" buzzword around.
So it's not like Intel is giving up on RDRAM altogether - just on the lower-end machines. If they were switching because one is better, then they would just drop RDRAM totally.
I think the idea was to save face. If I understood the article correctly, RDRAM is expensive and buggy and there are alternatives that run just as well.
Investors and the general public tend to lose confidence in a company that says "We screwed up big time" so Intel has to find a way to gradually pull away from what they had heralded and "THE" RAM to use. They have gone from saying "we will use it in _all_ our PIV systems" to "we will use it in some PIV system that cost > $2000 sometime next year..." --quotes are my paraphrasing--
I would bet that Intel will ship very few, if any, systems with RDRAM. I think they will drop RDRAM from the roadmap for their high-end machines in six months or so and no one will notice/care.
the fact that they charge about half for a cassette is what really makes one wonder.
What I have come to realize is that what companies charge for a product has little to do with how much it costs to produce and a whole lot more with how much consumers are willing to pay for it. Obviously they need to make a profit, but how much of a profit they make depends on how much it can be sold for. Cassettes could be just as- or more expensive to produce than CDs, but consumers are willing to pay a lot more for a CD than a cassette --better sound quality, newer technology, what-have-you--
The same thing goes for games. Diablo II costs $50 (or whatever) because the average gamer is willing to pay $50 for it.
If you think (Game | CD) prices are too high, get everyone to stop buying (Games | CDs) until they are cheaper. (Not that this is really possible, but if somehow someone did, prices would drop)
Big Blue also provides legal cover from Intel. Because of extensive cross-license agreements, only IBM and ST Microelectronics can manufacture Intel-clone chips for other designers and provide these designers complete legal immunity, said sources close to Intel.
The hardware component is a very simple, high-performance, low-power VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) engine with an instruction set that bears no resemblance to that of x86 processors. Instead, it is the surrounding software layer that gives programs the impression that they are running on x86 hardware. This innovative software layer is called the Code Morphing software because it dynamically "morphs" (that is, translates) x86 instructions into the hardware engine's native instruction set.
So is it really a clone, or an emulator? I'm guessing Crusoe is just playing it safe
Not anymore, buddy. Pepsi sold off most of its subsidiaries, including all of its fast-food holdings. The only thing I know of that Pepsi still holds, outside of grocery-type-products, is Regal Cinemas, inc.
You are right about the fast food joints. I won't argue there. The last time I knew, PepsiCo owned them, but it appears they have since sold them off. I also won't disagree with your comment on how restaurants choose their soda line. They do whatever is cheaper (usually).
However, I would challenge you about the rest of their "grocery-type-products." Check the PepsiCo web site, it appears that they still own the Frito-Lay product line as well as the Tropicana product line. (Just look at the four logos in the upper-right hand corner of the page.)
This is starting to get off topic, but...
I'm not sure about McDonalds, but I know that KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are owned by PepsiCo , which also owns the Pepsi product line, the Frito-Lay product line, and the Tropicana product line.
So in order to effectively boycott KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut, you can't buy and Frito-lay products, Pepsi products or Tropicana products.
From what I understand, carbon dating is not solid proof. Back in November of 99 there was an article here on/. where the topic of carbon dating came up. Look at post 120 by KatyDid.
This guy is totally wacked. Using statistics from BugTraq to say which OS is better is ludicrous(sp?). Those stats bear no weight. By design Linux was meant to be poked at, tested, broke, have the broken part reported, and then have it fixed. By design Windows was meant to be used, broken, and reset. Can we say "It's not a bug it's a feature?"(tm)
The very fact that there are a lot of reported bugs in Red Hat only means that people are trying to fix them. The fact that there are reported bugs in Windows only means that the Microsoft marketing department couldn't put a positive spin on those "features"
What?? The other missions to Mars weren't successful?? I though NASA was intentionally stockpiling spaceship and probe parts on Mars to be uses as spare parts in the future.
The complaints about the current music distribution sceme seem to revolve around a few points:
1) the artists get under-compensated for thier work
2) the record companies get over compensated for what little they do
3) the consumers pay too much for their music.
Here's what I suggest. Start with a new record company. The company signs artists and records alblums as normal. The company sets up a website (or series of them) from which to distribute the music. Fans are charged a small amount (like $0.75) to download a song. Of that 75 cents, 25 cents goes directly to the artist (i believe that is more than they are getting now) The other 50 cents goes to the record company to pay their costs (web server, labor, advertising, etc.) If fans want hard-copies of their music they can order it off the website. The record company could also plaster their site with annoying banner ads to generate additional income. It seems to me that this way everyone wins.
I would guess that they would not consolidate the web sites. Each probably has loyal fans that would frown upon a change. Something similar happened to HotBot (www.hotbot.com) and Lycos (www.lycos.com). They are both online search engines, but it is obvious that they are owned by the same company (Lycos), yet each has maintained their original look and feel.
And on most wireless phones and LANs there's only ONE preset frequency, and since it's neatly set at EXACTLY 2.4 GHz, ofcourse they'll interfere...
I don't know about wireless phones, but wireless LANs (at least 802.11b) usually have the option of 11 frequencies in the 2.4GHz band in the US. Other areas of the world have different restrictions. Usually a 5 channel separation will eliminate interference from other 803.11b devices, so if you are using channel 6 and your neighbor is using channel 1 and your other neighbor is using channel 11 their shouldn't be a problem.
In word 97, type "unable to follow directions" -without the quotes, highlight it and hit SHIFT+F7 It pulls up the thesaurus and...well...suggests a condition that viagra is for.
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The AOL/Netscape/IE thing is an interesting story. For those who don't know (and from what I remember): AOL signed an agreement with MS whereas the AOL browser would be IE and MS would put AOL icons on the Windows Desktop (from a default install). Then AOL bought Netscape. They didn't want to risk the precious real estate they had on the Windows desktop, so they continued to use IE.
Why not their games? Their AOE (Age of Empires) games are quite good. Especially AOE2.
That's what I'd like to see.
You probably knew that, and just used the first craft that popped into your head
Yeah, that's just about what happened. Thanks for pointing it out in a nice manner, rather than flaming me over it.
In college I built a maze traversing Mindstorms Robot. It would actually find its way through a 6 foot by 6 foot cardboard maze. I used NQC (Not Quite C) as the programming language because it was impossible to program the "follow the right wall" algorithm in Bricks (the programming language that comes with the set.)
Actually, according to the article:
the position of the planets will provide an escape route back to Earth in the event of an accident.
The article states further on that the space shuttle could return to earth even if the main engine was inoperable. If I understood it correctly, the shuttle would "slingshot" aroud Mars to Venus, then "slingshot" around Venus to Earth.
I think the release of AOL for Linux is more about buzzwords now than anything else. When they release their netpliance, they will already have their (soft|bloat)ware ported to Linux so that's a plus, but as for right now, they just want to be able to toss the "LINUX" buzzword around.
So it's not like Intel is giving up on RDRAM altogether - just on the lower-end machines. If they were switching because one is better, then they would just drop RDRAM totally.
I think the idea was to save face. If I understood the article correctly, RDRAM is expensive and buggy and there are alternatives that run just as well.
Investors and the general public tend to lose confidence in a company that says "We screwed up big time" so Intel has to find a way to gradually pull away from what they had heralded and "THE" RAM to use. They have gone from saying "we will use it in _all_ our PIV systems" to "we will use it in some PIV system that cost > $2000 sometime next year..." --quotes are my paraphrasing--
I would bet that Intel will ship very few, if any, systems with RDRAM. I think they will drop RDRAM from the roadmap for their high-end machines in six months or so and no one will notice/care.
Dual probes traveling at 50 mph. Now _that_ sounds painful...
the fact that they charge about half for a cassette is what really makes one wonder.
What I have come to realize is that what companies charge for a product has little to do with how much it costs to produce and a whole lot more with how much consumers are willing to pay for it. Obviously they need to make a profit, but how much of a profit they make depends on how much it can be sold for. Cassettes could be just as- or more expensive to produce than CDs, but consumers are willing to pay a lot more for a CD than a cassette --better sound quality, newer technology, what-have-you--
The same thing goes for games. Diablo II costs $50 (or whatever) because the average gamer is willing to pay $50 for it.
If you think (Game | CD) prices are too high, get everyone to stop buying (Games | CDs) until they are cheaper. (Not that this is really possible, but if somehow someone did, prices would drop)
The legal basis for the lawsuit is simple:
Theft... of thunder
From the article:
Big Blue also provides legal cover from Intel. Because of extensive cross-license agreements, only IBM and ST Microelectronics can manufacture Intel-clone chips for other designers and provide these designers complete legal immunity, said sources close to Intel.
However, from the crusoe tech page on the transmeta web site
The hardware component is a very simple, high-performance, low-power VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) engine with an instruction set that bears no resemblance to that of x86 processors. Instead, it is the surrounding software layer that gives programs the impression that they are running on x86 hardware. This innovative software layer is called the Code Morphing software because it dynamically "morphs" (that is, translates) x86 instructions into the hardware engine's native instruction set.
So is it really a clone, or an emulator? I'm guessing Crusoe is just playing it safe
Well, you know what they say...
"money makes the world go around"
I bet it applies equally well to other planets and asteroids.
Not anymore, buddy. Pepsi sold off most of its subsidiaries, including all of its fast-food holdings. The only thing I know of that Pepsi still holds, outside of grocery-type-products, is Regal Cinemas, inc.
You are right about the fast food joints. I won't argue there. The last time I knew, PepsiCo owned them, but it appears they have since sold them off. I also won't disagree with your comment on how restaurants choose their soda line. They do whatever is cheaper (usually).
However, I would challenge you about the rest of their "grocery-type-products." Check the PepsiCo web site, it appears that they still own the Frito-Lay product line as well as the Tropicana product line. (Just look at the four logos in the upper-right hand corner of the page.)
This is starting to get off topic, but...
I'm not sure about McDonalds, but I know that KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are owned by PepsiCo , which also owns the Pepsi product line, the Frito-Lay product line, and the Tropicana product line.
So in order to effectively boycott KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut, you can't buy and Frito-lay products, Pepsi products or Tropicana products.
And then there's Philip Morris owning Kraft...
Oh well
The post you replied to never once mentioned anything about abortion.
Umm... Try the 37th word
From what I understand, carbon dating is not solid proof. Back in November of 99 there was an article here on /. where the topic of carbon dating came up. Look at post 120 by KatyDid.
This guy is totally wacked. Using statistics from BugTraq to say which OS is better is ludicrous(sp?). Those stats bear no weight. By design Linux was meant to be poked at, tested, broke, have the broken part reported, and then have it fixed. By design Windows was meant to be used, broken, and reset. Can we say "It's not a bug it's a feature?"(tm)
The very fact that there are a lot of reported bugs in Red Hat only means that people are trying to fix them. The fact that there are reported bugs in Windows only means that the Microsoft marketing department couldn't put a positive spin on those "features"
This guy wasted electrons!
What?? The other missions to Mars weren't successful?? I though NASA was intentionally stockpiling spaceship and probe parts on Mars to be uses as spare parts in the future.
Well I guess you learn something new every day.
The complaints about the current music distribution sceme seem to revolve around a few points:
1) the artists get under-compensated for thier work
2) the record companies get over compensated for what little they do
3) the consumers pay too much for their music.
Here's what I suggest. Start with a new record company. The company signs artists and records alblums as normal. The company sets up a website (or series of them) from which to distribute the music. Fans are charged a small amount (like $0.75) to download a song. Of that 75 cents, 25 cents goes directly to the artist (i believe that is more than they are getting now) The other 50 cents goes to the record company to pay their costs (web server, labor, advertising, etc.) If fans want hard-copies of their music they can order it off the website. The record company could also plaster their site with annoying banner ads to generate additional income. It seems to me that this way everyone wins.
... but if a tree falls in a black hole, will there be a sound?
I would guess that they would not consolidate the web sites. Each probably has loyal fans that would frown upon a change. Something similar happened to HotBot (www.hotbot.com) and Lycos (www.lycos.com). They are both online search engines, but it is obvious that they are owned by the same company (Lycos), yet each has maintained their original look and feel.
And on most wireless phones and LANs there's only ONE preset frequency, and since it's neatly set at EXACTLY 2.4 GHz, ofcourse they'll interfere...
I don't know about wireless phones, but wireless LANs (at least 802.11b) usually have the option of 11 frequencies in the 2.4GHz band in the US. Other areas of the world have different restrictions. Usually a 5 channel separation will eliminate interference from other 803.11b devices, so if you are using channel 6 and your neighbor is using channel 1 and your other neighbor is using channel 11 their shouldn't be a problem.
In word 97, type "unable to follow directions" -without the quotes, highlight it and hit SHIFT+F7 It pulls up the thesaurus and ...well ...suggests a condition that viagra is for.
I agree. From my own experience, installnig Office2k makes Netscape unusable until it is re-installed.
I don't know about microwave, but RF is capable of going 3.5 miles at 11Mbps (in the 2.4GHz range). See here