Wasn't the DreamCast like this? Essentially it was OS less and booted off the disc? IIRC the devkits were only available for WinCE and Linux, so all the games were one of those platforms.
Almost makes you wonder if they would work with the Linux community if they weren't such rabid revolutionaries all following in RMS's footsteps.
1) they aren't all rabid revolutionaries. A lot of folks just want to get things done. Linux is a pragmatist if there ever was one. 2) They all don't follow RMS. Even many of the revolutionaries have wildly divergent views.
It's not so much as Microsoft working with BSD community as it sees a good thing when it sees it. I have never heard of a MS code drop to BSD, they are not advertising the inclusion of code (if they were, why would you need strings to find this out). They are profiting from using BSD source, but BSD isn't profiting from it. I hardly think this is "working with" the community. Linux people would see this as stealing and accounts for some of the zealotry of the Linux anti-BSD trolls. Most BSD folks just see it as "we released this with knowledge that this was a possibility, but thats what its there for, to be used". As much as I think people should contribute back, I'm more in the latter camp.
I hate Linux trolls (I'm more of a FreeBSD guy) but BSD trolls don't help much either.
This looks like a BITNET address, BITNET shut down some time ago. Most of the machines on BITNET (including my school's UICVM, which was a huge BITNET INTERNET bridge) shut down. Nobody wanted to update UICVM to Y2K, so it went the way of the dinosoars. Anyone else have fond memories of tell, gone, and bart?
It's just like the old days that I missed except now it involves linux and it's therefore even more exciting.
Maybe. In this case, the legal conclusion isn't as much in doubt, so not so nailbiting. In the FreeBSD case, they had to really go to bat, and found a cool way to end the suit, roughly the same argument that people are making with UnixWare with GPL stuff in it's Linux Personality Module.
Why not just use {Free,Open,Net, even Dragonfly}BSD? It's UNIX, lots of software has native ports, and already has a Linux personality module for stuff thtas not ported. Whats sure is SCO UNIX won't get any converts, anyone migrating off of Linux has other options.
Anyone who watches "Law and Order" saw episodes where people were tracked from their Metro Cards. These are magnetic strip stored value cards. They're at least kind of disposable, but they allow you to purchase/add value with debut or credit cards, so they can track a name to a Metro Card ID.
Chicago has the stored value card, though no ATM/Credit card is even possible - Cash only. Additionally it has had "Chicago Cards" for a while, though not heavily used. It's a Weigand (RF) card that you can add money to from the machine or by sending in a check. I want to get one (convenience), but I always thought about them tracking me. Part of me thinks "you're just being paranoid, you're not doing anything" but it still bothers me they can see where I get on the system. You have to buy it (RF cards are expensive) so they do have a name associated with each card. Since it costs, not as disposable, and you don't really have a chance to trash your card to "flush" your info.
FYI: www.chicago-card.com (a link from CTA website) isn't registered and comes up in Verisign's sucky "site-finder".
Overhype. This is a product, and they need a selling point. People have been talking about object databases for years, how they'll crush those silly RDBMS like so many ants. But silly us, we're still hacking away at Oracle, DB/2, Sybase, and MS SQL server. I think the issue there are so many wrappers going from objects to RDBMS that it complicates the view. They don't mention that there generally are wrappers going from objects to OODBMS as well, and RDBMS are generally faster.
It's actually 36 bits, which allows you to address up to 64Gb of physical RAM. IIRC, it came in pentium-pro, pentium II days. It's called PAE, physical address extensions. Linux 2.4 allows you to address the extra memory. Linux 2.6 goes further and moves the kernel out of the userspace VM to it's own VM, and this allows userspace procs to use nearly the full 4Gb for themselves, and the redhat enterprise kernel for AS 3.0 backported it to 2.4. The upcoming FreeBSD 4.9 includes PAE support.
My vote for an even worse one; microsoft'a self-mutating menus. Yes, now your menus change depending on usage patterns. Now have the menu layout be different each time you use your program/OS!!!
I had a HCI (human computer interaction, GUI guru) professor that set up his dad's computer once. He set up Word (to date this, it was Word 6) to have a minimal set of menus. File: open, new, save, print. Fonts, font list, Bold, italic. That's it, his dad never had to ask for more.
Probably for presentations; have a read only, run anywhere presentation format. A lot more people have Shockwave than even the viewer for PowerPoint. a lot fewer still have {Star,Open}Office.
Hmm, I think you got your timing data wrong. The L88, though rated at a nominal 430 HP - just so insurers wouldn't freak out, probably generated 550 or so HP (the figure is debated, plus you have to worry about SAE Net vs. SAE gross ratings of the day). It also was a race motor, with a cam with 360 degree lift, optimized for horsepower (which is more related to top speed), not torque (which has more influence on acceleration, therefore 0-60 times). As a comparison, the Bugatti Veyron puts out about 1000 HP and has the traction advantage of modern, wider tires and all wheel drive, and it is about 3 seconds 0-60.
This is an interesting comparison of performance numbers Kind of interesting to see a legend like the L88 compared to a leaned on econobox like the Neon. Just goes to show you march of technology. A Toyota Matrix has better performance numbers than the 400ci "Smokey and the Bandit" Trans Am. The new Porsche 911s blow away the 959 at less than 10th of the price. Sic Transit Gloria Mundial.
Apache isn't bad either. You can create things based off a pool. Each pool has different lifetimes (per server, per connection, per request). Upon deletion of the pool, all resources associated with that pool are destroyed.
Hmm, not sure if it's his daily driver (probably not) but he had a Porsche 959 a while back. Though technically illegal (never been emissions or crash certified for US sale) I doubt if many street cops would know, and don't know it's license plate status.
The 959 was a sweet car, first road car to be able to hit 0-60 in sub-4 seconds. 4 wheel drive with a stiff enough transmission for serious clutch drops.
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Wasn't the DreamCast like this? Essentially it was OS less and booted off the disc? IIRC the devkits were only available for WinCE and Linux, so all the games were one of those platforms.
Almost makes you wonder if they would work with the Linux community if they weren't such rabid revolutionaries all following in RMS's footsteps.
1) they aren't all rabid revolutionaries. A lot of folks just want to get things done. Linux is a pragmatist if there ever was one.
2) They all don't follow RMS. Even many of the revolutionaries have wildly divergent views.
It's not so much as Microsoft working with BSD community as it sees a good thing when it sees it. I have never heard of a MS code drop to BSD, they are not advertising the inclusion of code (if they were, why would you need strings to find this out). They are profiting from using BSD source, but BSD isn't profiting from it. I hardly think this is "working with" the community. Linux people would see this as stealing and accounts for some of the zealotry of the Linux anti-BSD trolls. Most BSD folks just see it as "we released this with knowledge that this was a possibility, but thats what its there for, to be used". As much as I think people should contribute back, I'm more in the latter camp.
I hate Linux trolls (I'm more of a FreeBSD guy) but BSD trolls don't help much either.
This looks like a BITNET address, BITNET shut down some time ago. Most of the machines on BITNET (including my school's UICVM, which was a huge BITNET INTERNET bridge) shut down. Nobody wanted to update UICVM to Y2K, so it went the way of the dinosoars. Anyone else have fond memories of tell, gone, and bart?
ALL CAPS WAS USED IN AOL'S COUNTERSUIT, BECAUSE M$ TOTALLY SUXX0R5!
(this text added to get around lameness filter. You know there's so much text up there I have to add a lot to balance the lameness filter)
It's just like the old days that I missed except now it involves linux and it's therefore even more exciting.
Maybe. In this case, the legal conclusion isn't as much in doubt, so not so nailbiting. In the FreeBSD case, they had to really go to bat, and found a cool way to end the suit, roughly the same argument that people are making with UnixWare with GPL stuff in it's Linux Personality Module.
Why not just use {Free,Open,Net, even Dragonfly}BSD? It's UNIX, lots of software has native ports, and already has a Linux personality module for stuff thtas not ported. Whats sure is SCO UNIX won't get any converts, anyone migrating off of Linux has other options.
Anyone who watches "Law and Order" saw episodes where people were tracked from their Metro Cards. These are magnetic strip stored value cards. They're at least kind of disposable, but they allow you to purchase/add value with debut or credit cards, so they can track a name to a Metro Card ID.
Chicago has the stored value card, though no ATM/Credit card is even possible - Cash only. Additionally it has had "Chicago Cards" for a while, though not heavily used. It's a Weigand (RF) card that you can add money to from the machine or by sending in a check. I want to get one (convenience), but I always thought about them tracking me. Part of me thinks "you're just being paranoid, you're not doing anything" but it still bothers me they can see where I get on the system. You have to buy it (RF cards are expensive) so they do have a name associated with each card. Since it costs, not as disposable, and you don't really have a chance to trash your card to "flush" your info.
FYI: www.chicago-card.com (a link from CTA website) isn't registered and comes up in Verisign's sucky "site-finder".
Overhype. This is a product, and they need a selling point. People have been talking about object databases for years, how they'll crush those silly RDBMS like so many ants. But silly us, we're still hacking away at Oracle, DB/2, Sybase, and MS SQL server. I think the issue there are so many wrappers going from objects to RDBMS that it complicates the view. They don't mention that there generally are wrappers going from objects to OODBMS as well, and RDBMS are generally faster.
To reply to my own post, WinNT 3.5 and 4.0 has 64 bit Alpha support, so MS does have some 64 bit history as well.
Umm, years ago back when the Alphas were the wicked fast chip. Been on UltraSparcs for some time as well.
NetBSD has been up and running on x86-64 emulators for quite a while now.
404 WMD NOT FOUND
(yeah this is old, but still funny)
Would this now be Homing pigeonrank?
These are the jokes, folks, these are the jokes...
although I was not able to come up with a well defined law to rule it: idiots are very creative.
How about:
As soon as you make it idiot-proof, someone comes along and invents a better idiot.
-- Unknown
It's actually 36 bits, which allows you to address up to 64Gb of physical RAM. IIRC, it came in pentium-pro, pentium II days. It's called PAE, physical address extensions. Linux 2.4 allows you to address the extra memory. Linux 2.6 goes further and moves the kernel out of the userspace VM to it's own VM, and this allows userspace procs to use nearly the full 4Gb for themselves, and the redhat enterprise kernel for AS 3.0 backported it to 2.4. The upcoming FreeBSD 4.9 includes PAE support.
My vote for an even worse one; microsoft'a self-mutating menus. Yes, now your menus change depending on usage patterns. Now have the menu layout be different each time you use your program/OS!!!
I had a HCI (human computer interaction, GUI guru) professor that set up his dad's computer once. He set up Word (to date this, it was Word 6) to have a minimal set of menus. File: open, new, save, print. Fonts, font list, Bold, italic. That's it, his dad never had to ask for more.
Probably for presentations; have a read only, run anywhere presentation format. A lot more people have Shockwave than even the viewer for PowerPoint. a lot fewer still have {Star,Open}Office.
though a troll, excellent song reference. =)
Think availability guarantees. Once you get into the rarified world of 9 9's, every minute counts.
without leaving a trail of cookies.
As long as you don't check it out of a library (USA PATRIOT Act.)
Of course, this is my favorite page on his site
Hmm, I think you got your timing data wrong. The L88, though rated at a nominal 430 HP - just so insurers wouldn't freak out, probably generated 550 or so HP (the figure is debated, plus you have to worry about SAE Net vs. SAE gross ratings of the day). It also was a race motor, with a cam with 360 degree lift, optimized for horsepower (which is more related to top speed), not torque (which has more influence on acceleration, therefore 0-60 times). As a comparison, the Bugatti Veyron puts out about 1000 HP and has the traction advantage of modern, wider tires and all wheel drive, and it is about 3 seconds 0-60.
This is an interesting comparison of performance numbers
Kind of interesting to see a legend like the L88 compared to a leaned on econobox like the Neon. Just goes to show you march of technology. A Toyota Matrix has better performance numbers than the 400ci "Smokey and the Bandit" Trans Am. The new Porsche 911s blow away the 959 at less than 10th of the price. Sic Transit Gloria Mundial.
Apache isn't bad either. You can create things based off a pool. Each pool has different lifetimes (per server, per connection, per request). Upon deletion of the pool, all resources associated with that pool are destroyed.
Hmm, not sure if it's his daily driver (probably not) but he had a Porsche 959 a while back. Though technically illegal (never been emissions or crash certified for US sale) I doubt if many street cops would know, and don't know it's license plate status.
The 959 was a sweet car, first road car to be able to hit 0-60 in sub-4 seconds. 4 wheel drive with a stiff enough transmission for serious clutch drops.
Found On Road Dead
(from a Ford guy, I want an SVT Focus..., or a minor car like the new GT (40))