Just a guess, but given his history I'd wager he was ignored or rendered inefectual by the exectutive branch. At this point in his life he probably wanted to do something that really mattered and got told to go play solitare and draw his salary while his duties were delegated away. Mabie to someone who was more interested in upgrading Carnivore than developing meaningful security.
Thats an EULA (End User Liscence Agreement) not the actuall liscence itself, which is a piece of paper with the equivalent of a serial number and some leagal jargon.
What happens if the student installs it on his (or the universitie's or their workplace) PC, and the BSA shows up?
certainly isn't the Fisher-Price-inspired-nightmare that the XP interface is.
Probably the best short description of the XP Luna skins I've seen. I like XP myself though. Granted you can get all of that Win2k loving with a switch in the display panel.
Personally, I'm all for this project if it will shake out the remaining quirkiness of my Linux desktop.
I can see that these would be cool---for someone who's never seen an iMac
Yep, and it will always be that way until someone(company) decides to pay someone to design a cool case instead of painting the box a different color and calling it 'edgy'.
I thought moving from 6 to 7 was a also a big change when I did it. MS's revision as of yet doesn't yet appear to be that significant a change from XP. For that matter most of the UI chages since 95 have been mostly in the area of window dressing. Changing gradients here, add an info panel there. Most of the real work being done in funcitonality and lower level tech. But the UI basically behaves the same. YMMV, but I personally think of OSX and Win95 being the first large scale functionality changes since the platforms got a GUI in the first place. But it's hard to sell something you can't see to millions of people. Apple changes their boxes, and MS changes the window dressing, all in an effort to keep people buying and get the really interesting but invisible parts in the marketplace. (a few billion in CASH MONEY doesn't hurt either)
My inability to mod this up is going to have to be sated by a me too post.
Back on topic, this review is pretty much useless asside from the screenshots showing off the *GIANT BITMAPS FROM HELL*. The details are pretty marginal in and of them selves. The most obvious change(*GIANT BITMAPS FROM HELL*) didn't even get a mention, while other featurs that have been around a while (box displaying file properties) get a mention. An examination as to if there is a checkbox in the Tools>Folder Options panel that read "Turn off *GIANT BITMAPS FROM HELL*?" would have been nice.
This was obviously a "Get the review out and up on Slashdot before anyone else" review(and a successfull one too). Not to say that's the most horrible thing in the world (the pictures were certainly of some use), but I hope a real review will make it onto the front page in a couple weeks.
would not contribute to the overall smog problem - or at least not significantly, I think the article is not absolutely clear on that.
Depends on how much it's used and for how long doesn't it? In 20 years are we going to be buying ozone depleators for our homes? Are farming communities going to become little cancer farms?
Not to say I have a real problem with it as of yet, but given humanity's track record I'm not sure I share the same confidence that the perdue staff does.
That disc isn't free. The vendor (should have) paid Microsoft for bundling it with the machine. That cost is passed on to the buyer.
Also referred to as "the Microsoft tax".
I don't know about anyone else, but it's been years since I acutally got a CD with Windows on it bundled with the machine. (but that's beside the point)
Alternatively there is the "Apple tax". If they ever garner an appreciable market share we'll be answering this exact same question reguarding iBooks. Fact is the vast(*VAST*) majority of the market doesn't want a machine without an MS or Apple OS. And the bit about the "I'm not going to use and then fighting to get a token rebate that doesn't actually equate to the cost of a Windows license" is just inflamitory trollage. He doesn't really know what a windows liscense costs on those machines, and apparently doesn't know what the acutal rebate is. The cost of processing the rebate is likely as much or more than the liscense to begin with. Certainly, someday we'll have a pure option, but for the time being, making that political statement is going to be expensive.
That's at the next MacWorld. They'll unveil their collaboration with fu-fme.com to create the iPhallus. Available to match the flavor of your iMac the iPhallus will be the killer "app" for Rendevous and the internet alike. A terrific tool to satisfy one of the few missing features of iChat.
My concern is what is it going to look like on, lets say, a G4Ti4200 w/64 megs of ram, or the G4Ti4600 w/128 megs of ram. Are those of us not willing to spend 400 bucks on a new vid card (or for those of us stuck with a 4x AGP board, that plus a new mobo) going to have to turn 90% of the features off to run it at a good looking frame rate?
By the time D3 is out(x-mas?), that card will be in your mom's PC and you'll likely have another generation of cards on the market.
Word is R350 in march and R400 in June. Who knows about NVidia, they seem to be following the Blizzard method of development. I'm sure we will see a "real soon now" press release at the introduction of those products.
It's really sad to see everybody on a tech site like Slashdot cheering for a "new" technology that has, in fact, already existed for a long time. Firewire. IEEE1394.
You can get Firewire hard drives right now. You don't have to wait for them. You can get Firewire enabled motherboards right now, too. Nice round, thin cables. Nice hotpluggable connectors. Faster transfer speeds (Firewire2 will leave SATA in the dust).
It's cost. It's the driving factor behind everything. FireWire cabling is expensive, the interface is expensive, the LICENCE isn't free either. This is an industry that lives and dies on fractions of a cent on the dollar. That is why SATA is the victor and 1394 isn't an option.
This is quite a different situation. As others have mentioned, since there won't be any PC games that really take advantage of DirectX 9 level features for months yet,...
Actually we're probably at least another 2 years from DX9 games being common. Doom 3, is pretty much the only thing *on the horizon* right now. I fully expect NVidia's ubercard to be mostly useless when the tech finally makes it into most games. Remember, despite all the neat demo's that were realeased over the last couple years pretty much the only thing DX8 shaders are used for is to make water look rippley(and, while better, it still sucks).
ATI's "lead" is purely imaginary at this point and only of interest to the frames-per-second monkeys who think getting 400 FPS in Quake3 timedemos means something over getting 300 FPS (despite the fact that their monitor is generally going to render only 85 of those frames per second anyway).
Quake III is getting pretty old these days. There are pleanty of games that give my 4600 trouble running smoothly with display options turned up. Asherons call for instance, can pretty easily run from "marginally playable" to "completely useless" range with all of the optons turned on(2.2 ghz P4). Play on my 9700 pro is significantly better(still not real good though) even on a slower box(1.53 ghz athalon).
Also keep in mind that Nvidia has been making the (painful) switch to 0.13 Micron for the GeForce FX. In a few months, ATI is going to be stuck in a situation where it needs to make this switch as well to stay competitive, and then we'll see how good each company's timing is. Word is, ATI already has.13 samples and is, more or less, ready for production when the market(read NVidia) demands..13 isn't so much the issue as the "extra special" tech that NVidia want's to use in the foundry.
Not to say it won't be a good card. Even though most of the "high end" features won't likely be fast enough for most folk's gaming desires.(based on more educated opinions that I've read) I'm not sure I can resist buying one though. Which NVidia has said that it would be around the same cost as their once highest end consumer card. Which if memory serves was the GF2 super pro ultra bling maxx or whatever which was 5-6 hundred. On second thought, mabie I'll wait for the MX.
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Just a guess, but given his history I'd wager he was ignored or rendered inefectual by the exectutive branch. At this point in his life he probably wanted to do something that really mattered and got told to go play solitare and draw his salary while his duties were delegated away. Mabie to someone who was more interested in upgrading Carnivore than developing meaningful security.
Please be gentle.
:)
You must be joking.
Enjoy your 404.
Gentle... sheesh.
Thats an EULA (End User Liscence Agreement) not the actuall liscence itself, which is a piece of paper with the equivalent of a serial number and some leagal jargon.
What happens if the student installs it on his (or the universitie's or their workplace) PC, and the BSA shows up?
Complete with screenshots :) = Site down
Mirrors?
certainly isn't the Fisher-Price-inspired-nightmare that the XP interface is.
Probably the best short description of the XP Luna skins I've seen. I like XP myself though. Granted you can get all of that Win2k loving with a switch in the display panel.
Personally, I'm all for this project if it will shake out the remaining quirkiness of my Linux desktop.
I can see that these would be cool---for someone who's never seen an iMac
Yep, and it will always be that way until someone(company) decides to pay someone to design a cool case instead of painting the box a different color and calling it 'edgy'.
What I want in a case?
Sound deadening material.
Britney Spears.
Handles.
Wheels.
The wheels are optional.
each certain to make you more popular, right?
And just a touch more cancerous!!
Seriously, these things are neat, and when they make a model that doesnt' need cleaning after a days use I'll gladly irradiate myself.
Because such a computing device can be misused, we need to write our legislators and get these outlawed.
A good idea. But I'm going to start with sticks. They're everywhere, and any terrorist could pick one up and kill someone with it.
I thought moving from 6 to 7 was a also a big change when I did it. MS's revision as of yet doesn't yet appear to be that significant a change from XP. For that matter most of the UI chages since 95 have been mostly in the area of window dressing. Changing gradients here, add an info panel there. Most of the real work being done in funcitonality and lower level tech. But the UI basically behaves the same. YMMV, but I personally think of OSX and Win95 being the first large scale functionality changes since the platforms got a GUI in the first place. But it's hard to sell something you can't see to millions of people. Apple changes their boxes, and MS changes the window dressing, all in an effort to keep people buying and get the really interesting but invisible parts in the marketplace. (a few billion in CASH MONEY doesn't hurt either)
Ain't that the truth.
My inability to mod this up is going to have to be sated by a me too post.
Back on topic, this review is pretty much useless asside from the screenshots showing off the *GIANT BITMAPS FROM HELL*. The details are pretty marginal in and of them selves. The most obvious change(*GIANT BITMAPS FROM HELL*) didn't even get a mention, while other featurs that have been around a while (box displaying file properties) get a mention. An examination as to if there is a checkbox in the Tools>Folder Options panel that read "Turn off *GIANT BITMAPS FROM HELL*?" would have been nice.
This was obviously a "Get the review out and up on Slashdot before anyone else" review(and a successfull one too). Not to say that's the most horrible thing in the world (the pictures were certainly of some use), but I hope a real review will make it onto the front page in a couple weeks.
would not contribute to the overall smog problem - or at least not significantly, I think the article is not absolutely clear on that.
Depends on how much it's used and for how long doesn't it? In 20 years are we going to be buying ozone depleators for our homes? Are farming communities going to become little cancer farms?
Not to say I have a real problem with it as of yet, but given humanity's track record I'm not sure I share the same confidence that the perdue staff does.
10 years from now someone discovers the increased quantity of ground level ozone is causing cancer (or whatever).
Suppose it's still better than DDT though.
Your mac is busted. Whatever the problem is, it has nothing to do with its macness.
Seriously.
That disc isn't free. The vendor (should have) paid Microsoft for bundling it with the machine. That cost is passed on to the buyer.
Also referred to as "the Microsoft tax".
I don't know about anyone else, but it's been years since I acutally got a CD with Windows on it bundled with the machine. (but that's beside the point)
Alternatively there is the "Apple tax". If they ever garner an appreciable market share we'll be answering this exact same question reguarding iBooks. Fact is the vast(*VAST*) majority of the market doesn't want a machine without an MS or Apple OS. And the bit about the "I'm not going to use and then fighting to get a token rebate that doesn't actually equate to the cost of a Windows license" is just inflamitory trollage. He doesn't really know what a windows liscense costs on those machines, and apparently doesn't know what the acutal rebate is. The cost of processing the rebate is likely as much or more than the liscense to begin with. Certainly, someday we'll have a pure option, but for the time being, making that political statement is going to be expensive.
That's at the next MacWorld. They'll unveil their collaboration with fu-fme.com to create the iPhallus. Available to match the flavor of your iMac the iPhallus will be the killer "app" for Rendevous and the internet alike. A terrific tool to satisfy one of the few missing features of iChat.
ok some more links because ya'll apparently killed the other sites. :)
s /
A M_ Robotics/
http://www.nis.lanl.gov/projects/robot/
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/mattjasper/robotic
http://www.machinebrain.com/General_Robotics/BE
And a giant list of beam sites
http://renewable.org/beam/list.php
Beam Robotics guys have been doing this sort of thing for years.
a m2.htm l
i n.htm l
Ok, it's not the same, but it is robotics as artwork, and their creations actually do something.
Chiu's BEAM site
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/be
Beam robotics tek
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/bushbo/beam/ma
Solarbotics
http://www.solarbotics.com/
Enjoy.
It's the municipality that's providing the services. They don't have to show a profit, if the locals want it that way.
Hey buddy, you got any change?
My concern is what is it going to look like on, lets say, a G4Ti4200 w/64 megs of ram, or the G4Ti4600 w/128 megs of ram. Are those of us not willing to spend 400 bucks on a new vid card (or for those of us stuck with a 4x AGP board, that plus a new mobo) going to have to turn 90% of the features off to run it at a good looking frame rate?
By the time D3 is out(x-mas?), that card will be in your mom's PC and you'll likely have another generation of cards on the market.
Word is R350 in march and R400 in June. Who knows about NVidia, they seem to be following the Blizzard method of development. I'm sure we will see a "real soon now" press release at the introduction of those products.
Only purchasable from www.microsono.com, where all sales are final.
You can call the company and they will happily repair or replace the unit for you. Assuming the product does actually work, you might get one back.
Customer Support
1 (888) STEPUP4 (783-7874) U.S. Only
support@stepupcomputing.com
It's really sad to see everybody on a tech site like Slashdot cheering for a "new" technology that has, in fact, already existed for a long time.
Firewire. IEEE1394.
You can get Firewire hard drives right now. You don't have to wait for them. You can get Firewire enabled motherboards right now, too. Nice round, thin cables. Nice hotpluggable connectors. Faster transfer speeds (Firewire2 will leave SATA in the dust).
It's cost. It's the driving factor behind everything. FireWire cabling is expensive, the interface is expensive, the LICENCE isn't free either. This is an industry that lives and dies on fractions of a cent on the dollar. That is why SATA is the victor and 1394 isn't an option.
Q20: Who's the chick in the pictures?
That, is the girl that gets guys like me to buy their software.
Does anyone else think this sounds like Latin crossed with web-dotcom-buzzwords?
Think of Don Quixote, and look at the price(6500+). Only in america is the irony this good.
Just a couple bits of information and opinions...
.13 samples and is, more or less, ready for production when the market(read NVidia) demands. .13 isn't so much the issue as the "extra special" tech that NVidia want's to use in the foundry.
This is quite a different situation. As others have mentioned, since there won't be any PC games that really take advantage of DirectX 9 level features for months yet,...
Actually we're probably at least another 2 years from DX9 games being common. Doom 3, is pretty much the only thing *on the horizon* right now. I fully expect NVidia's ubercard to be mostly useless when the tech finally makes it into most games. Remember, despite all the neat demo's that were realeased over the last couple years pretty much the only thing DX8 shaders are used for is to make water look rippley(and, while better, it still sucks).
ATI's "lead" is purely imaginary at this point and only of interest to the frames-per-second monkeys who think getting 400 FPS in Quake3 timedemos means something over getting 300 FPS (despite the fact that their monitor is generally going to render only 85 of those frames per second anyway).
Quake III is getting pretty old these days. There are pleanty of games that give my 4600 trouble running smoothly with display options turned up. Asherons call for instance, can pretty easily run from "marginally playable" to "completely useless" range with all of the optons turned on(2.2 ghz P4). Play on my 9700 pro is significantly better(still not real good though) even on a slower box(1.53 ghz athalon).
Also keep in mind that Nvidia has been making the (painful) switch to 0.13 Micron for the GeForce FX. In a few months, ATI is going to be stuck in a situation where it needs to make this switch as well to stay competitive, and then we'll see how good each company's timing is.
Word is, ATI already has
Not to say it won't be a good card. Even though most of the "high end" features won't likely be fast enough for most folk's gaming desires.(based on more educated opinions that I've read) I'm not sure I can resist buying one though. Which NVidia has said that it would be around the same cost as their once highest end consumer card. Which if memory serves was the GF2 super pro ultra bling maxx or whatever which was 5-6 hundred. On second thought, mabie I'll wait for the MX.