Unless you are using MacOS X ( there are still issues with the energy manager ), then the battery life of these things are incredible. You can get around 5 hours out of these things, compared to around 2.5 for my Dell. This means that I can use the portable for most of my cross-Atlantic flight;-)
I use both Linux and OS X, so I feel that I am in fair position to comment. OS X is a great way to have the power of Unix, while not necessarily having the experience of Unix. Linux on the other hand requires a bit more experience, but at this moment in time benefits from a mauch larger user base and availability of support.
One thing that I got from this article is why we shouldn't be depending too much on clock-speeds for comparison, and thus the fact that PPCs aren't yet available at clock speeds of x86 shouldn't really matter. The wide and shallow approach of the PPC certainly means that less clock cycles are needed than the narrow and deep approach of the x86.
Now I know that they only tests that really matter are the real world tests, simply because at a user level that's the only real place that I'll notice the difference.
Of course another issue is going to be motherboard differences and how much I/O depends on the processor, but this is another story.
There is a way if you know what Mircosoft calls it. You have to go into the internet security settings of IE and then disable Active Scripting. Why on Earth can't they call it JavaScript like everyone else?
Weren't CMP the guys who bought Byte, killed the paper edition and then put up the web only edition (does anybody ever visit it?), simply because they felt it covered a market that was already covered by some of their other paper magazines, even though it was unique in its class?
This is for real. If you head over to http://www.delphion.com/ and type in the patents numbers that are on the guy's web page then you will see the patents come right up. For those of you who like links, here they are:
I reckon the best thing about is that it will probably sell as the marketing guys will love the idea. I suppose it is up there with fuzzy logic washing machines, which were a big hit in Japan
Once they've managed to build the concrete canoe, maybe they can start at looking at the paper canoe? At least it will give a use to all the waste produced by today's offices;)
In light of this I'm surprised that they never went after GhostScript for sounding too like PostScript. Heck, GhostScript even does a better job of duplicating the functionality of its Adobe counter-part, than does KIllistrator.
As someone above said, this may be the act of over-zealous lawyers. Maybe we need to bring a law into this country (USA) that the developer must be given a warning and n days to comply before legal action may begin. Then since the country is run by lawyers I say fat chance.
Has anyone ever seen any of the competitions Honda hold whereby employees are allowed to build crazy and useless inventions? I wish I had a link, but it shows what the Japanese can do. Maybe this sort of approach should be used by computer software and hardware companies?
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Even if you have a GSM phone, there is no guarantee that your SMS message will reach the destination. I have a connection with Fido, here in Canada, and I tried sending an SMS (or text-message as they call it in Europe) to a friend in the UK and after contacting them via e-mail found they never received. It turns out that my friend couldn't receive the SMS, because she was with Orange, and Fido ( aka Microcell) only has agreements with Vodaphone and BTcellnet in the UK.
Useless tidbit: Text messaging is all the rage in Europe and a lot of phones come with a preset selection of messages you can send, in addition to those you can write yourself.
BTW a good site for discussing cellphones and the various providers, for those of you in North America is http://www.howardforums.com/.
Maybe that's the next site OSDN should come up with. The idea is that anyone who has had a major problem with their network or computers and solved the problem, could post their write up to help others who find themselves in such a situation.
It definetly enjoyed reading this article and I am sure that it will be bookmarked by a fair few techie minded network admins, just in case.
Its a shame the first picture in the article at imgmagazine.com is real photo, as opposed to a screen shot from the game - oh, well maybe it will be in 4 years time?
If DIRECTV were smart they would take advantage of this. They too could set up servers, but instead with encrypted connects. All you would need is a phone line and they could have rotating access codes.
Maybe even have a solution where you get the key on the satillite signal, which gets combined with the unit's serial number and then checked at the central - okay this probably wouldn't work but there is an idea trying to break out, it just a little late to be thinking straight.
At the same time this sort of hack needs an expert, so it will probably find itself amongst the 'free cable' solution in the back of Popular Science. If DirectTV is smart they will end up finding away that is a bit more difficult to crack (impossible is never an operative term).
The RIAA tried everything short of shutting down Napster. Now that Napster has this sort of support I can imagine that the RIAA will try something, inspite of Napster's new found support.
The RISC (reduced intruction set chip)approach to processors is takes the 'KISS' (Keep It Simple Stupid) approach. This means that instead of having to deal with huge amounts of complexity, as in a CISC (complex instruction set chip), time can be better spent improving the processor. Such improvements include speed and technology of the chip.
Now the Altivec, IMHO, is very much a temporary solution, since by the time processor clockspeed hits 1 GHZ the advantage will be minimum. If it is only a remote possibility that Apple will see the light now, and chuck out Altivec, they would be mad to leave it when the PPC goes 64bit.
Another thing worth mentioning is that graphics card probably duplicate what Altivec is trying to achieve anyhow.
Don't get me wrong, I am a content Mac user, though there are certain realities that must be faced. Now if I could only replace my current G4 processor with something from IBM;-)
Since the article indicates that Google is likely to break even by the end of the year and analysts forecast annual revenues of about $50m by 2002, this will put Google in a very special position: being one of the few profitable public.coms.
Now lets just hope that they don't become yet another stock value management company.
Hmm, how about laying piezo electric mats on the roads. With all the cars driving over them, they would surely produce enough power for LED based traffic lights?
I would love to see the original cinema edition on DVD. I feel that some of the CGI that was added to the Episode 4 just didn't look right, for example Jabba or the creatures that the storm troopers were riding didn't walk right.
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Does Linux support Firewire on those things? Last time I checked the FW in the kernel was still fairly beta - has this changed?
Unless you are using MacOS X ( there are still issues with the energy manager ), then the battery life of these things are incredible. You can get around 5 hours out of these things, compared to around 2.5 for my Dell. This means that I can use the portable for most of my cross-Atlantic flight ;-)
I use both Linux and OS X, so I feel that I am in fair position to comment. OS X is a great way to have the power of Unix, while not necessarily having the experience of Unix. Linux on the other hand requires a bit more experience, but at this moment in time benefits from a mauch larger user base and availability of support.
One thing that I got from this article is why we shouldn't be depending too much on clock-speeds for comparison, and thus the fact that PPCs aren't yet available at clock speeds of x86 shouldn't really matter. The wide and shallow approach of the PPC certainly means that less clock cycles are needed than the narrow and deep approach of the x86.
Now I know that they only tests that really matter are the real world tests, simply because at a user level that's the only real place that I'll notice the difference.
Of course another issue is going to be motherboard differences and how much I/O depends on the processor, but this is another story.
There is a way if you know what Mircosoft calls it. You have to go into the internet security settings of IE and then disable Active Scripting. Why on Earth can't they call it JavaScript like everyone else?
Weren't CMP the guys who bought Byte, killed the paper edition and then put up the web only edition (does anybody ever visit it?), simply because they felt it covered a market that was already covered by some of their other paper magazines, even though it was unique in its class?
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I reckon the best thing about is that it will probably sell as the marketing guys will love the idea. I suppose it is up there with fuzzy logic washing machines, which were a big hit in JapanI would love to see some real world test that actually compared a fast production PPC chip with the current in production PPC chips with Altivec.
Once they've managed to build the concrete canoe, maybe they can start at looking at the paper canoe? At least it will give a use to all the waste produced by today's offices ;)
In light of this I'm surprised that they never went after GhostScript for sounding too like PostScript. Heck, GhostScript even does a better job of duplicating the functionality of its Adobe counter-part, than does KIllistrator.
As someone above said, this may be the act of over-zealous lawyers. Maybe we need to bring a law into this country (USA) that the developer must be given a warning and n days to comply before legal action may begin. Then since the country is run by lawyers I say fat chance.
Has anyone ever seen any of the competitions Honda hold whereby employees are allowed to build crazy and useless inventions? I wish I had a link, but it shows what the Japanese can do. Maybe this sort of approach should be used by computer software and hardware companies?
Useless tidbit: Text messaging is all the rage in Europe and a lot of phones come with a preset selection of messages you can send, in addition to those you can write yourself.
BTW a good site for discussing cellphones and the various providers, for those of you in North America is http://www.howardforums.com/.
Lycos already provides such a facility. You can check it out at http://www.lycos.com/l/?2i.
Now that IBM appears to commited to Linux, where does this put AIX? And will we see an AIX compatibility library for Linux?
Maybe that's the next site OSDN should come up with. The idea is that anyone who has had a major problem with their network or computers and solved the problem, could post their write up to help others who find themselves in such a situation.
It definetly enjoyed reading this article and I am sure that it will be bookmarked by a fair few techie minded network admins, just in case.
Its a shame the first picture in the article at imgmagazine.com is real photo, as opposed to a screen shot from the game - oh, well maybe it will be in 4 years time?
If DIRECTV were smart they would take advantage of this. They too could set up servers, but instead with encrypted connects. All you would need is a phone line and they could have rotating access codes.
Maybe even have a solution where you get the key on the satillite signal, which gets combined with the unit's serial number and then checked at the central - okay this probably wouldn't work but there is an idea trying to break out, it just a little late to be thinking straight.
How long before the lawyers have their say?
At the same time this sort of hack needs an expert, so it will probably find itself amongst the 'free cable' solution in the back of Popular Science. If DirectTV is smart they will end up finding away that is a bit more difficult to crack (impossible is never an operative term).
As long as Napster is distributor and not publisher, then there is nothing stopping the indie labels from signing with another Napster like service.
The RIAA tried everything short of shutting down Napster. Now that Napster has this sort of support I can imagine that the RIAA will try something, inspite of Napster's new found support.
Of course only time will tell.
The RISC (reduced intruction set chip)approach to processors is takes the 'KISS' (Keep It Simple Stupid) approach. This means that instead of having to deal with huge amounts of complexity, as in a CISC (complex instruction set chip), time can be better spent improving the processor. Such improvements include speed and technology of the chip.
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Now the Altivec, IMHO, is very much a temporary solution, since by the time processor clockspeed hits 1 GHZ the advantage will be minimum. If it is only a remote possibility that Apple will see the light now, and chuck out Altivec, they would be mad to leave it when the PPC goes 64bit.
Another thing worth mentioning is that graphics card probably duplicate what Altivec is trying to achieve anyhow.
Don't get me wrong, I am a content Mac user, though there are certain realities that must be faced. Now if I could only replace my current G4 processor with something from IBM
Or there is the pop-up menu option that will also do the job. Cick on a disk and you will see the 'eject' item just there to be selected.
Since the article indicates that Google is likely to break even by the end of the year and analysts forecast annual revenues of about $50m by 2002, this will put Google in a very special position: being one of the few profitable public .coms.
Now lets just hope that they don't become yet another stock value management company.
Hmm, how about laying piezo electric mats on the roads. With all the cars driving over them, they would surely produce enough power for LED based traffic lights?
I would love to see the original cinema edition on DVD. I feel that some of the CGI that was added to the Episode 4 just didn't look right, for example Jabba or the creatures that the storm troopers were riding didn't walk right.