Seagate is demonstrating its first Serial ATA hard drive at PC Expo/TechXNY with the help of a prototype Intel motherboard, and promises to be among the first hard drive makers to deliver the new technology, in products this fall.
The technology demonstration comes just one day after Seagate announced another first: 60GB-per-platter hard drive technology. Barracuda ATA V 7200-rpm drives using the new 60GB platters will arrive in retail outlets by August, say company executives.
Right now, "underground" work on consoles is fairly open. Whenever "closed" hardware and firmware gets reverse-engineered, the results are typically documented and shared among like-minded developers. Won't the $200K reward encourage greedy developers to hide their work and end up reducing the amount of sharing that goes on? In the end, this would hinder efforts to open up the Xbox. I wouldn't be suprised if MS was behind this "reward":)
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You fool! The first rule of the swedish gnome conspiracy is 'don't talk about the swedish gnome conspiracy'.
I know that RMS dislikes the BSD license due to its advertising clause, but isn't his insistence on calling Linux GNU/Linux pretty much the same thing?
Except for the fact that there used to be other companies that made macs (radius, umax, etc) before apple nixed 'em and (re)turned the mac market into a monopoly.
To me, the proof that unions are a bad idea for IT workers is that fact that most IT worker's dont seem to want to unionize. That's just my personal observation, though. I'd like to see a slashdot poll on this someday.
One issue, though, is the definition of "IT worker". Blue-collar activities (tape ape, cable installer, etc) would be better suited for unionization than jobs such as programming.
Lawsuit time. Don't worry, it'll never go to court, because the media loves to cover stories like this. You should get a pretty good settlement out of them.
I first read about this holographic storage in the September 1990 issue of Byte magazine ("Experimental holographic system promises massive data storage, rapid access", pg 24 - 25).
They were suggesting that within 5 years, we'd all have gigs of this stuff on our desktops. What happened?
Instead of a negative approach such as software expiration, how about some thing positive, like a tool that helps sysadmins do their job easier?
I know it's blasphemy here to tip the hat to Microsoft for anything, but my XP box pops up a little balloon whenever an update is available. Imagint a little cron-driven script that checks for updates and offers one-click access to new RPM's or whatever.
The fact is, any decent sysadmin should be able to keep his junk uptodate without needing any special help. For the sysadmins who are to lazy|busy|stupid to do this, a little "sysadmin's helper" tool would be great. In fact, I'm sure it probalby exists already.
I'm all for wearable PC's, bio-computers, and all that cool stuff, but this Steve Mann guy just seems like a kook (with tenure!). I think its waaay too late for mister self-described "cyborg" to worry about brain damage...
Pardon my ignorance, but can somebody explain why serial ATA is faster than the current (parallel) ATA?
On PC's, parallel ports are significantly faster than serial ports because they transmit 8 bits at a time instead of serial's one bit at a time. Wouldn't the same thing hold true for parallel vs serial ATA?
Hmm... has to be somewhat ironic that the backlash to the apex of capitalism (MS) has created a socialist system (the open source and free software movements) that is being guided by a monarchy, as you've put it.
Hmm... Sounds like somebody's been playing too much Civ3:)
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Well, Win XP scores maybe 1/3 of that criteria. However, a Mac seems to fulfill 3/3 IMO. Sounds like a Mac / OSX user. /
Only if he wants to toss all the x86 hardware that he's invested in, and replace it with mac stuff that's likely more expensive.
(No, this isn't a troll.)
Just what I need... a KDE or Gnome wallpaper/banner sponsored by Microsoft :)
I'd like to anonymously offer a reward of $200,000 for the first guy(s) to hack this dedicated linux box so that it can play Xbox games...
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Seagate is demonstrating its first Serial ATA hard drive at PC Expo/TechXNY with the help of a prototype Intel motherboard, and promises to be among the first hard drive makers to deliver the new technology, in products this fall.
The technology demonstration comes just one day after Seagate announced another first: 60GB-per-platter hard drive technology. Barracuda ATA V 7200-rpm drives using the new 60GB platters will arrive in retail outlets by August, say company executives.
Right now, "underground" work on consoles is fairly open. Whenever "closed" hardware and firmware gets reverse-engineered, the results are typically documented and shared among like-minded developers. Won't the $200K reward encourage greedy developers to hide their work and end up reducing the amount of sharing that goes on? In the end, this would hinder efforts to open up the Xbox. I wouldn't be suprised if MS was behind this "reward" :)
You fool! The first rule of the swedish gnome conspiracy is 'don't talk about the swedish gnome conspiracy'.
That's why I support linux -- where sloppy coding is free (and Free).
Can I play Sim*MMORPG as the Grand Theft Auto 3 guy? :)
I know that RMS dislikes the BSD license due to its advertising clause, but isn't his insistence on calling Linux GNU/Linux pretty much the same thing?
Java - Pet owners rejoice at the possibility of a dog that will do its own "garbage collection".
Lisp - Dog can't do much, but is great at running around in circles chasing its tail.
COBOL - Dog will only fetch business-related newspapers. Preferably issues from 1978.
They can always replace him with Welshy!
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Except for the fact that there used to be other companies that made macs (radius, umax, etc) before apple nixed 'em and (re)turned the mac market into a monopoly.
To me, the proof that unions are a bad idea for IT workers is that fact that most IT worker's dont seem to want to unionize. That's just my personal observation, though. I'd like to see a slashdot poll on this someday.
One issue, though, is the definition of "IT worker". Blue-collar activities (tape ape, cable installer, etc) would be better suited for unionization than jobs such as programming.
Lawsuit time. Don't worry, it'll never go to court, because the media loves to cover stories like this. You should get a pretty good settlement out of them.
From Juniper's T-640 specs...
Powerful, flexible JUNOScript API for integration to OSS.
What are the major interrupters?
Telephone calls, background noise, and other people. Working odd hours tends to resolve this.
Sure, you can read your email and surf the web, but can you blast away at Wolfenstein?
:)
Probably not, considering that Wolfenstein wasn't multiplayer. Try Doom
Sorry, Iomega already has a similar trademark.
I first read about this holographic storage in the September 1990 issue of Byte magazine ("Experimental holographic system promises massive data storage, rapid access", pg 24 - 25).
They were suggesting that within 5 years, we'd all have gigs of this stuff on our desktops. What happened?
Don't hold your breath.
Instead of "Apache beats IIS at its own game", they could've said "Apache beats IIS at the not-getting-0wned game". :)
Instead of a negative approach such as software expiration, how about some thing positive, like a tool that helps sysadmins do their job easier?
I know it's blasphemy here to tip the hat to Microsoft for anything, but my XP box pops up a little balloon whenever an update is available. Imagint a little cron-driven script that checks for updates and offers one-click access to new RPM's or whatever.
The fact is, any decent sysadmin should be able to keep his junk uptodate without needing any special help. For the sysadmins who are to lazy|busy|stupid to do this, a little "sysadmin's helper" tool would be great. In fact, I'm sure it probalby exists already.
I'm all for wearable PC's, bio-computers, and all that cool stuff, but this Steve Mann guy just seems like a kook (with tenure!). I think its waaay too late for mister self-described "cyborg" to worry about brain damage...
Pardon my ignorance, but can somebody explain why serial ATA is faster than the current (parallel) ATA?
On PC's, parallel ports are significantly faster than serial ports because they transmit 8 bits at a time instead of serial's one bit at a time. Wouldn't the same thing hold true for parallel vs serial ATA?
Please explain.
Hmm... has to be somewhat ironic that the backlash to the apex of capitalism (MS) has created a socialist system (the open source and free software movements) that is being guided by a monarchy, as you've put it.
:)
Hmm... Sounds like somebody's been playing too much Civ3
Two words: Gateway Country.