It doesn't control it. It doesn't benefit from it. If Echolon was lets say Germany-UK-France-Italy alliance, EU would keep it's mouth shut. EU want's to monitor it citisens just like the US does. A lot of new laws which decrease privacy have been introduced or proposed in various countries. Here in Finland, wiretapping by police was banned until 10 or so years ago. Currently police needs a court order to wiretap someone, but law that allows the police to decide when to wiretap is in the making.
I instantly figured out it was a joke. "Don't drink and drive"? I mean c'mon, if their going to put hidden messages in there, wouldn't they put stuff like "Drink Pepsi" instead of nonprofitable crap like "no firearms at school". And the DeCSS bit is dead giveaway if stop to think for one second.
But to be fair, it was a very good prank, I'm sure a lot of people bought it (I almost did). Much funnier than the crap^H^H^H^H stuff slashdot did.
I suspect the perfomance gap between a P3 and a Celeron2 would not be big enough to validate the (much) higher cost of P3, without intententionally cripling the Celeron2. Just think about 486SX vs. 486DX. They were exactly the same design, except that the FPU in 486SX was disabled (it was still there). The point was to make people who needed fast floating point performance pay more, and in an ideal case, make someone who had bought a SX upgrade to a DX (effectively making the person buy the same CPU twice).
So if my Celeron 433 works just fine and dandy, what in the world would I need a Celeron II for?
So you're saying that just because YOU don't new a new CPU right now, Intel should altogether stop development of new products, until YOU do need a new CPU? Okay..
The technology (graphics) maybe old, but if the game is good and unique, why sould I care about that? People still play games like Warcraft 2, Descent 2, Doom, even Nethack. If the gaming experience is good, the bad (?) graphics won't matter.
I don't buy a game because it's pretty, I buy it because it's good.
For crying out loud.. Napster has done nothing new in the world.
I disagree. Napster is the first warez/mp3z trading tool that anyone can easily learn to use. Most people don't know what a DCC transfers is, let alone know how perform it. And you still have to find the right chanels. With Napster you just install the client and start up/downloading.
First, Win2K is big. I wasn't expecting 900MB for the OS, but to be fair, 60MB is used by DRIVER.CAB (all the included drivers), 192MB by my swap file, and another 70-80MB by the multilingual options (30MB by nihongo alone). Granted, even subtracting out those options, Win2K is far and away the largest OS I have ever seen or used.
So I guess you've never tried Red Hat then?;-D where did all them megabytes go..
I think Mozilla is (will be when it's ready) fine piece software and that it shows that open source works (or that it can work). Still, I'm so incredibly sick of all this hype surrounding Linux and OSS.. I wish the zealots would just shut the hell up and leave people alone. If they want to help, write code or docs, just don't run around yelling how Linux will dominate the world and how open source is The Way Of Future(TM). Why, oh why did Linus have to mention (joke about) world domination..
Good point, but why is it that when talking about user interfaces, Windows kicks Linux's ass. Pretty much all *nix programs are made by "real programmers" and a lot of them have kludgy UIs. Either these elite programmers don't know dick about human interface design, or they just don't care (I tend to think the latter reason is often the case). Maybe these "less skilled" programmers do have something to give?
RAD tools can be used right and they can be used wrong (as can eg. C and C++). Just because SOME people can't write good code with good tools, doesn't mean there shouldn't be good tools.
If people want see tight code in action, I'd recommend a 4k PC intro called mesha. It really is excatly 4096 bytes, but is has something like two minutes of 3D graphics, textures and everything. I'm not a big follower of the demoscene, so there might be stuff that is better than this one, but this really blew me away when I saw it. It runs in DOS. The 10KB zip actually has two versions of the same program!
I thought the Pentium class CPU's were 370smm: Isn't it easier to produce larger dies than smaller?
It's easier to design a chip if you don't have to care about the die size, but larger dies are harder to make. If a 100mm chip has 95% yields (meaning that 5 out of 100 chips is broken), a 400mm chip would have 80% yield (I a perfect world that is, IRL it would be less than 80%). Larger die also means less chips per wafer, which in turn means higher cost.
I think the first Pentiums (60 & 66MHz) were about 370mm using a 0.8 micron process (Intel soon moved to smaller processes). If I'm not mistaken, 0.18u Athlons have a die size of only 104mm.
Have you ever broken up an old CPU and discovered the size of the actual chip: typically no much more than 2x2cm.
Not much more than 2x2cm? A +400mm² die would be nearly impossible to manufacture (suppose it is possible but the yields would be extremely low), typically die sizes are in the range of 100-250mm².
NEWSFLASH: You don't have to read all the stuff posted on Slashdot. If you see an uninteresting story, feel free not to follow the link. In any case, don't post crap like this.
Freshmeat has comments. About two comments per program to be more precise. What a lively discussion.
Amen. If Microsoft wants to kill Linux, all they have to do is make their own distro that uses a packet format that is incompatible with all the rest. Preferebly make several slightly different (and incompatible) versions for desktops, file servers, DB servers and so on.
Good fragmentation my ass, Linux is being supported to death.
Borland will probably recieve many flames for not providing the source. I (and I'm sure many others) on the other hand feel that this a great move and that we should be gratefull. But how do express my gratitude? Flooding their tech-support or marketing or whatever with emails doesn't appeal to me, but I still would like to say "thanks, keep up the good work" somehow.
This has bugged me a couple of time in the past too, so a more general solution would be nice.
Someone submits something about nanotechnology. Roblimo, who is having a really bad day, reads it and thinks "aww f***ing great, ANOTHER f***ing nanobot story. I'll post it to f***ing/dev/null".
A day later the same thing is submitted by someone else. Hemos reads and thinks "Nanos, COOL. I'll post it right away!"
The original submitter feels somewhat frustrated.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I can understand why the original poster might be a little disappointed. Of course, any reasonable guy understands that this isn't an attack towards him by the the/. crew and soon forgets the whole thing happened. But there are something like 200,000 registered users plus the all the ACs. Some of them are not reasonable. Ignore them.
"Gee, I know plenty of windows users who know what the "Print Screen" button does."
Hmm, lets see how easy it is to copy a 90 minute movie with print screen: 90 mins = 5400s. At 24 frames per second were talking about 129600 individual frames. printscrn - save screenshot - advance one frame - printsrcn - save screenshot - advance one frame... Are you willing to do that 129600 times?
OGR is really infanately long, as there is no limit to how many marks a ruler can have (kinda like looking for the largest prime number - there is always more). The point with OGR is that it really has value to science (even if can't find shorter rulers, because then we atleast know for sure that we have the optimal lenght).
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You bastards!
It doesn't control it. It doesn't benefit from it. If Echolon was lets say Germany-UK-France-Italy alliance, EU would keep it's mouth shut. EU want's to monitor it citisens just like the US does. A lot of new laws which decrease privacy have been introduced or proposed in various countries. Here in Finland, wiretapping by police was banned until 10 or so years ago. Currently police needs a court order to wiretap someone, but law that allows the police to decide when to wiretap is in the making.
You can find it at BeOS Network Drivers section at tucows.
But to be fair, it was a very good prank, I'm sure a lot of people bought it (I almost did). Much funnier than the crap^H^H^H^H stuff slashdot did.
Athlons need a motherboard too.. Athlon mobos generally cost more than Celeron mobos.
End of marketing lesson.
So you're saying that just because YOU don't new a new CPU right now, Intel should altogether stop development of new products, until YOU do need a new CPU? Okay..
I don't buy a game because it's pretty, I buy it because it's good.
I disagree. Napster is the first warez/mp3z trading tool that anyone can easily learn to use. Most people don't know what a DCC transfers is, let alone know how perform it. And you still have to find the right chanels. With Napster you just install the client and start up/downloading.
Because the joke is so damn obvious. Christ sakes my mother could have thought of that one.
So I guess you've never tried Red Hat then? ;-D where did all them megabytes go..
I think Mozilla is (will be when it's ready) fine piece software and that it shows that open source works (or that it can work). Still, I'm so incredibly sick of all this hype surrounding Linux and OSS.. I wish the zealots would just shut the hell up and leave people alone. If they want to help, write code or docs, just don't run around yelling how Linux will dominate the world and how open source is The Way Of Future(TM). Why, oh why did Linus have to mention (joke about) world domination..
RAD tools can be used right and they can be used wrong (as can eg. C and C++). Just because SOME people can't write good code with good tools, doesn't mean there shouldn't be good tools.
If people want see tight code in action, I'd recommend a 4k PC intro called mesha. It really is excatly 4096 bytes, but is has something like two minutes of 3D graphics, textures and everything. I'm not a big follower of the demoscene, so there might be stuff that is better than this one, but this really blew me away when I saw it. It runs in DOS. The 10KB zip actually has two versions of the same program!
Geek-o? ;-)
It's easier to design a chip if you don't have to care about the die size, but larger dies are harder to make. If a 100mm chip has 95% yields (meaning that 5 out of 100 chips is broken), a 400mm chip would have 80% yield (I a perfect world that is, IRL it would be less than 80%). Larger die also means less chips per wafer, which in turn means higher cost.
I think the first Pentiums (60 & 66MHz) were about 370mm using a 0.8 micron process (Intel soon moved to smaller processes). If I'm not mistaken, 0.18u Athlons have a die size of only 104mm.
Not much more than 2x2cm? A +400mm² die would be nearly impossible to manufacture (suppose it is possible but the yields would be extremely low), typically die sizes are in the range of 100-250mm².
Freshmeat has comments. About two comments per program to be more precise. What a lively discussion.
Good fragmentation my ass, Linux is being supported to death.
This has bugged me a couple of time in the past too, so a more general solution would be nice.
- Someone submits something about nanotechnology. Roblimo, who is having a really bad day, reads it and thinks "aww f***ing great, ANOTHER f***ing nanobot story. I'll post it to f***ing
/dev/null". - A day later the same thing is submitted by someone else. Hemos reads and thinks "Nanos, COOL. I'll post it right away!"
- The original submitter feels somewhat frustrated.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I can understand why the original poster might be a little disappointed. Of course, any reasonable guy understands that this isn't an attack towards him by the theHmm, lets see how easy it is to copy a 90 minute movie with print screen: 90 mins = 5400s. At 24 frames per second were talking about 129600 individual frames. printscrn - save screenshot - advance one frame - printsrcn - save screenshot - advance one frame... Are you willing to do that 129600 times?
Nobody is stopping you from buying Alpha, Sparc, PPC or some else non-x86 chip..
OGR is really infanately long, as there is no limit to how many marks a ruler can have (kinda like looking for the largest prime number - there is always more). The point with OGR is that it really has value to science (even if can't find shorter rulers, because then we atleast know for sure that we have the optimal lenght).
Then change your prefs so that html is default..
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