Yeah man I don't understand the big deal with G5s for this kind of application. I'm sitting here in front of my 1100-unit dual-G5 cluster at my freelance gig trying to copy a 17M file from one folder to another and it's taking over 20 nanoseconds. My Cray at home would be done with this already, and even my beowulf cluster of TRS-80s wouldn't take this long....
When hippies tried to levitate the Pentagon, they really didn't have enough computing power. It's not just coincidence this behemoth is located in Virginia....
Greetings. You have been infected with GNU/Swen, a worm brought to you by members of the linux community. In order to get this worm to infect your system properly, you will need to use wget to download gnuswen-config-2.4.6 from one of the usual mirrors. Be careful; this version of the worm is not compatible with versions of gnuswen-config prior to 2.4.4. After you have downloaded the config tools and issued the usual incantations (./config, make, make install), you can configure the worm from any directory simply by typing sudo gnuswen-config -ort [your login id] [full path to your email client]. If you have any questions, be sure to RTFM, the docs are installed at/usr/share/info/gnuswen and all your config files are stored at ~/.gnuswen.
where every lame Simpsons reference, no matter how irrelevant to the topic at hand, goes to +5 funny in seconds. easy karma. but hey, the Simpsons is a great cartoon, and I, for one, welcome our new yellow animated overlords!!
Yeah it was right after PCC announced a line of G3s in the same box as the 225 that Apple ended licensing of clones. I still have that machine around; it came with 96M of RAM and, for the time, it cooked. Best thing about PCC though was their advertising; the posters can still be found here.
I had a Performa 6500 for all of a week before taking it back in frustration and getting one of the last great clones (PCC Power Tower Pro 225; woohoo!). It's true, the tower itself was cool looking, but I had no end of hardware problems with it and I was bummed about the lack of expandability. At the time I think there was a big difference between the 603s and 604s, and it was noticeable enough when I got the PCC clone.
I think it's fair to say that Apple will have a G5 powerbook before Amiga. But at least Apple G4 owners can no longer gloat to C-64 owners about their broadband capability....
There's got to be more economic incentive to provide a service that works for everyone than there is to provide a service that only works for some people.
The upgrade is part of an ongoing process to continually enhance the overall quality of the Yahoo! Messenger service for our millions of users'."
....as long as those users agree with our choice of OS and platform. I run OS X and the standard Yahoo! client is lame. It's a cheap port of the windows client. Third party programmers have filled the gap; it's a shame to see Yahoo! cut these clients off in order to preserve the illusion of control.
What are you talking about? The article is about a federal court (not some slashdotter with a 400gig mp3 collection) scrutinizing a law not for loopholes but to see whether the dramatic action taken by the RIAA -- action which infringed on the privacy expectations of all ISP users, not just those downloading mp3s -- was legal. Hell, you didn't even have to read the article to figure that out.
So does American law. That hasn't changed, and that's not the point. The point is that lawsuits have led to a much looser interpretation of what constitutes copyrighted material. There is no formal idea protection in American law but the net result of these kinds of interpretations of the law is to protect ideas, even though they are not supposed to be copyrightable. In my opinion, courts don't understand technology enough and have been hoodwinked by clever lawyers over the years into believing that new media (film, at the time this started; now computer code) required looser interpretations of what could be "owned." When you can copyright not only a film but one of the plotlines in the film, where is the idea/expression line being drawn?
Siva V cites a case where greeting card companies won a suit in which they argued that they owned the "total concept and feel" of greeting cards. We know Apple claims to own the "look and feel" of their GUI. How can you copyright the ability to convey a particular mood? Apparently you can.
I'm not arguing in support of this british court's ruling, just pointing out that it is consistent with a trend in copyright law that I find alarming.
Actually, the history of 20th century copyright law -- esp. in the US but in Europe as well -- is a blurring of the boundaries between idea and expression, those boundaries being the cornerstone of copyright law previously. This is primarily the effect of movie studios and producers suing people for similar adaptations of similar stories and winning. Siva V. writes about this in Copyrights and Copywrongs. Lawyers for the movie industry went to such lengths to protect their works from imitation that copyright law now recognizes a certain level of idea protection. It's ironic because the film industry got its power in the first place in part because of a strict boundary between idea and expression. But in any case it is not surprising to see this trend manifesting in debates over copyright of computer code.
I wonder if this isn't a bug -- or at least a horribly inefficient block of code -- in the GUI. I didn't look at this on the G5 I played with but on my DP G4 this latency is horribly noticeable. It is much slower than other actions in the gui, and it doesn't seem like it should be. I recall OS 9 on much slower machines resizing windows much quicker.
Remember the Daystar Millennium? That thing could hold 4 processors (the fastest were 604es I believe). Imagine one of those that could hold G4s or 5s.... That was an exciting year for clones, right before Apple pulled the plug. Arguably, though, had Apple not done that, there would be no OS X or G4- and 5-based Macs. I hated them for it at the time, but it probably was the right move. Then again, I would love to see the boxes other companies would come up with if Apple licensed clones again....
Not dirt cheap perhaps but $600 is damn inexpensive considering what you're getting for your money; it's not cutting edge, but a 450 DP G4 is nothing to sneeze at.
Apparently bull semen has a lot of industrial applications. I remember reading somewhere about how this was done in the 19th century by hand and that there was actually a repetitive stress injury that afflicted many bull-whackers. Can anyone provide further information?
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Yeah man I don't understand the big deal with G5s for this kind of application. I'm sitting here in front of my 1100-unit dual-G5 cluster at my freelance gig trying to copy a 17M file from one folder to another and it's taking over 20 nanoseconds. My Cray at home would be done with this already, and even my beowulf cluster of TRS-80s wouldn't take this long....
When hippies tried to levitate the Pentagon, they really didn't have enough computing power. It's not just coincidence this behemoth is located in Virginia....
Greetings. You have been infected with GNU/Swen, a worm brought to you by members of the linux community. In order to get this worm to infect your system properly, you will need to use wget to download gnuswen-config-2.4.6 from one of the usual mirrors. Be careful; this version of the worm is not compatible with versions of gnuswen-config prior to 2.4.4. After you have downloaded the config tools and issued the usual incantations (./config, make, make install), you can configure the worm from any directory simply by typing sudo gnuswen-config -ort [your login id] [full path to your email client]. If you have any questions, be sure to RTFM, the docs are installed at /usr/share/info/gnuswen and all your config files are stored at ~/.gnuswen.
I sent them some information about my wicked screensaver.
How the hell do you think they plan to handle matter teleportation? perl?
where every lame Simpsons reference, no matter how irrelevant to the topic at hand, goes to +5 funny in seconds. easy karma. but hey, the Simpsons is a great cartoon, and I, for one, welcome our new yellow animated overlords!!
Yeah it was right after PCC announced a line of G3s in the same box as the 225 that Apple ended licensing of clones. I still have that machine around; it came with 96M of RAM and, for the time, it cooked. Best thing about PCC though was their advertising; the posters can still be found here.
I had a Performa 6500 for all of a week before taking it back in frustration and getting one of the last great clones (PCC Power Tower Pro 225; woohoo!). It's true, the tower itself was cool looking, but I had no end of hardware problems with it and I was bummed about the lack of expandability. At the time I think there was a big difference between the 603s and 604s, and it was noticeable enough when I got the PCC clone.
I think it's fair to say that Apple will have a G5 powerbook before Amiga. But at least Apple G4 owners can no longer gloat to C-64 owners about their broadband capability....
and I, for one, will welcome our new carbon and silicate overlords! You guys rock!
Sure, lots of hot chicks use it, and they all want to give you exxxtreme hot sex.
There's got to be more economic incentive to provide a service that works for everyone than there is to provide a service that only works for some people.
....as long as those users agree with our choice of OS and platform. I run OS X and the standard Yahoo! client is lame. It's a cheap port of the windows client. Third party programmers have filled the gap; it's a shame to see Yahoo! cut these clients off in order to preserve the illusion of control.
Some of these people even believe they need more than 640K of RAM.
What are you talking about? The article is about a federal court (not some slashdotter with a 400gig mp3 collection) scrutinizing a law not for loopholes but to see whether the dramatic action taken by the RIAA -- action which infringed on the privacy expectations of all ISP users, not just those downloading mp3s -- was legal. Hell, you didn't even have to read the article to figure that out.
Siva V cites a case where greeting card companies won a suit in which they argued that they owned the "total concept and feel" of greeting cards. We know Apple claims to own the "look and feel" of their GUI. How can you copyright the ability to convey a particular mood? Apparently you can.
I'm not arguing in support of this british court's ruling, just pointing out that it is consistent with a trend in copyright law that I find alarming.
Actually, the history of 20th century copyright law -- esp. in the US but in Europe as well -- is a blurring of the boundaries between idea and expression, those boundaries being the cornerstone of copyright law previously. This is primarily the effect of movie studios and producers suing people for similar adaptations of similar stories and winning. Siva V. writes about this in Copyrights and Copywrongs. Lawyers for the movie industry went to such lengths to protect their works from imitation that copyright law now recognizes a certain level of idea protection. It's ironic because the film industry got its power in the first place in part because of a strict boundary between idea and expression. But in any case it is not surprising to see this trend manifesting in debates over copyright of computer code.
The Bush Administration announced a military attack on Utah in order to destroy an incipient WMD program....
yeah -
a damn
shame.
Maybe, but I actually thought this comment was quite insightful. It's pretty significant that this is a scam to circumvent safety laws.
Once they heard Ford was switching to Linux they figured they had to do something to compete in the auto market.
I wonder if this isn't a bug -- or at least a horribly inefficient block of code -- in the GUI. I didn't look at this on the G5 I played with but on my DP G4 this latency is horribly noticeable. It is much slower than other actions in the gui, and it doesn't seem like it should be. I recall OS 9 on much slower machines resizing windows much quicker.
Remember the Daystar Millennium? That thing could hold 4 processors (the fastest were 604es I believe). Imagine one of those that could hold G4s or 5s.... That was an exciting year for clones, right before Apple pulled the plug. Arguably, though, had Apple not done that, there would be no OS X or G4- and 5-based Macs. I hated them for it at the time, but it probably was the right move. Then again, I would love to see the boxes other companies would come up with if Apple licensed clones again....
Not dirt cheap perhaps but $600 is damn inexpensive considering what you're getting for your money; it's not cutting edge, but a 450 DP G4 is nothing to sneeze at.
Apparently bull semen has a lot of industrial applications. I remember reading somewhere about how this was done in the 19th century by hand and that there was actually a repetitive stress injury that afflicted many bull-whackers. Can anyone provide further information?