Slight difference between tubes and CPUs. Outside of a few audiophile applications, transistors do the exact same job as a tube while using less power, taking up less space and costing less. Comparing modern CPUs to the older ones doesn't give quite the same comparison; while newer CPUs provide orders of magnitude more computing power they are larger, more expensive, generate more heat and use more power to run.
As California recently discovered, saving power is a good idea.
This is not a victory for Linux. This is a victory for one old variant of Windows: yes, X-Windows.
I only hope that this is some attempt at a play on words. The term "Windows" is undeniably associated with Microsoft. The only times Microsoft has had anything do do w/ unix were the release of Xenix, a now abandoned Solaris port of IE, and using BSD code for their internet tools.
It is perhaps to avoid any unneccesarry connection s to Renton that the X Consortium officially suggests that only the terms X, X Window System, X Version 11, X Window System Version 11 and X11 be used to describe the software.
Unfortunately, the innacuracies of your statement don't stop with the attempt to be cute w/ the MSFT/X connection. Being able to see your desktop from whatever machine you log in on not "just a dream in the Windows world". It's quite feasable under NT, using a facility called 'travelng profiles' or somesuch.
Considerint the demographic/. is intended to appeal to, it's fairly obvious that everyone and their cousin is going to have their opinions on it. The sheer volume of conflicting input the the guy's going to be getting suggests maybe making this a poll question.
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While usually articles get posted to the front page because they will arrouse interest, perhaps in this case it would have been more useful to not put it on the front page. The most useful and informative viewpoints would have still been included, but by not being on the front page, there would be far less redundancy, flamage, fanboyism and uniformed opinions.
Personally I'd say Redhat for ease of use, Slackware for the most educational value.
Many of Franz Kafka's works were released post-humously against his expressed intentions (in his will there was something about having everything burned..). Most of his books were never really finished, just pieced together by editors from the stuff they were able to find.
While, on one hand, it may sound like the money-grubbing corps at it again, a definate argument is to be made about humanity deserving to see them...
The problem most likely being that they never planned on doing it in the first place. Obviously, it would be relatively simple to render 99% of each frame, and then map a language specific lip/facial movement onto it for whatever language was needed IF the original rendering had been done with this in mind.
Well, as long as you completely ignore the fact that different languages, particularly ones as different as Japanese and English, often require different ammounts of time to express the same concepts. I could see many of the alternate language versions of the film that has an unnatural cadence, alternating between painfully rushed and painfully drawn out.
Besides, unlike Americans, a not-insignificant number of Japanese speak english, so if they want the full effect they can just watch it twice. +)
I wonder if the story's author even stopped to think about the ramifications of having his rant posted to the front page of/.. "There's no such thing as bad publicity". Even without saying anything positive about the donation program, he just gave it more publicity than it had likely ever had in the past, and instead of keeping people away has likely SENT people to donate money to Mandrake.
Wow, almost as effective as the marketing campaign for the last Star Wars (The "We'll let you show our commercials on your nightly news broadcast FOR FREE!" campaign).
The question remains, was is a newsworthy even, or an intentional manipulation of the media? Or does it fit into that Hunter S Tompsonesque grey area?
All other issues aside, be prepared to get raped on the credit transfers. About the only time it's not hell is transfering between state schools in the same state. From there it gets worse. Courses may not have equivalents, only be counted for partial credit, not to mention the potential difficulties going from semester to trimester/quarter system.
When thinking about what happened to me, I get to thinking that I would have been better off going to community college and getting an AA for my first 2 years rather than having gone to University.
I hear you. If they could have gotten them out, the initial shortage could have been written off as marketing + hype generation. It's gotten to the point where it's clearly some combination of incompetence & arrogance.
While I'm not a big fan of either system, the X is a pretty hefty box... 733MHz P3, 64MB RAM, custom nVidia graphics chip... all running on a version of windows that has been tuned to run on -just- this hardware. Based on the specs, it could blow the PS2 out of the water...
Of course, the Dreamcast has been doing that since it shipped. +)
By that time, the PS2 will have been on the market nearly a year and can't compete w/ the Xbox in terms of power, it will be ready for a price drop. Will they try to go toe to toe w/ the GameCube, or try to undercut it?
Wankers will be wankers. Even if ASUS stops updating and releasing these drivers, people will continue to use them, even if they're not the newest + best thing, GeForce drivers are pretty much perfected.. no major improvements are going to show up in them.
While there really is nothing locking publishers into paying Nokia a cut for -using- the hardware, there's always a chance of them having a Magical Rubber Stamp that dev's have to pay for in order to say their product is "MediaTerminal Compatable". Either that or Nokia's got their pricing down to the point where they will sweep the internet appliance, low end PC and console markets in one fell swoop...
It could always be based on a licensing issue, but that's kinda doubtful... I'd assume that anybody buy nV chips in quantity gets an OK to release the drivers...
uATX boards are generally considered 'budget' hardware, and as such, seldom have great onboard sound. You may or may not notice the worse signal/noise ratio on the inputs/ADs..
...
Why limit yourself to uATX? Since you don't expect much from the hardware, you might find a smaller FlexATX or even 'book PC' type device suits your needs better. If you want to get really creative, I'm sure you could rig up a custom number with some single-board system, and stick it into most any enclosure you can find...
It's simple enough to buy one of the many MP3 players on the market that reads CDR/CDRWs... Hell, after looking at the cost of competing media, they're virtually free. +)
One of the strengths of writing for a console is that you KNOW that every unit is identical. This allows you to optimize exclusively for one CPU/Vid Chip/Drive Speed/Ram size, without worrying about driver overhead + incompatabilities. As an example, I've seen things on the Dreamcast that blow away a PC w/ 2x the specs.
Aditionally, there's the idiot factor. Almost anybody can understand the "put media in, hit power switch" idea, installing, uninstalling software, and maintaining the stability of the OS do require some form of skill/knowledge. (I have, in the past recieved money to 'fix' somebody's computer because they were 'out of RAM', only to find out that their HDD was full, and needed to have garbage deleted so that windows could make swap space...)
Always a bonus... I've still got my PPro here, which is running essentially the same core as todays P3s. In fact, if I were a sick individual, I could get either an adaptor that would let my place this chip in a modern slot1 board, or an adaptor to put a s370 celeron in its place (P3s might work, but PPro boards only go up to 66MHz FSB).
Stop me if I'm wrong here, but, as part of the case, didn't they have to site the original work, thereby making it PD? Kinda like the situation w/ that one Scientologist document (the Fishman doc?)?
Well, there is always ELKS(Embedable Linux Kernal Subset) which runs on 8086, 8088 & 80286 (as well as some PDA called the Psion). While it's not a full-featured version of linux (hense the "subset" in the title) it does work on 16bit hardware.
And, for another version of linux that runs on systems w/o MMUs, you can always take a look at uClinux(that u should be a mu, as in micro). It seems they've focused mostly on Motorola chips, but a few others (such as the i960) are supported as well.
I'm tired of doing your research for you, but I seem to remember something out QNX originally being targeted at embedded architectures, and being available on a some non-Intel patforms.
OMG, a quick check over at DMOZ.org's search engine on "embedded" gives me entire CATEGORIES dedicated about it, several of which involve Linux as well! Yahoo does too! How dare they make you -look- for information. I feel sorry for the engineer that's going to have to design the board, and look up the specs on EVERY component he puts on the board...
Of course, wouldn't drivers be a bit different than software? I mean, if a software has bugs, and occassionaly crashes, you can't do much, but if your printer explicitly says that it will work w/ "Linux", and you can't get it to run on your Dreamcast (or PC running Slackware...) you're in a slightly different situation.
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Well, you could always get their name posted to the front page of Slashdot. A little exposure never hurt.
Slight difference between tubes and CPUs. Outside of a few audiophile applications, transistors do the exact same job as a tube while using less power, taking up less space and costing less. Comparing modern CPUs to the older ones doesn't give quite the same comparison; while newer CPUs provide orders of magnitude more computing power they are larger, more expensive, generate more heat and use more power to run.
As California recently discovered, saving power is a good idea.
I only hope that this is some attempt at a play on words. The term "Windows" is undeniably associated with Microsoft. The only times Microsoft has had anything do do w/ unix were the release of Xenix, a now abandoned Solaris port of IE, and using BSD code for their internet tools.
It is perhaps to avoid any unneccesarry connection s to Renton that the X Consortium officially suggests that only the terms X, X Window System, X Version 11, X Window System Version 11 and X11 be used to describe the software.
Unfortunately, the innacuracies of your statement don't stop with the attempt to be cute w/ the MSFT/X connection. Being able to see your desktop from whatever machine you log in on not "just a dream in the Windows world". It's quite feasable under NT, using a facility called 'travelng profiles' or somesuch.
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While usually articles get posted to the front page because they will arrouse interest, perhaps in this case it would have been more useful to not put it on the front page. The most useful and informative viewpoints would have still been included, but by not being on the front page, there would be far less redundancy, flamage, fanboyism and uniformed opinions.
Personally I'd say Redhat for ease of use, Slackware for the most educational value.
At the rate things are going, before long, you won't even be able to buy a gallon of gas for $2.75
Many of Franz Kafka's works were released post-humously against his expressed intentions (in his will there was something about having everything burned..). Most of his books were never really finished, just pieced together by editors from the stuff they were able to find.
While, on one hand, it may sound like the money-grubbing corps at it again, a definate argument is to be made about humanity deserving to see them...
The problem most likely being that they never planned on doing it in the first place. Obviously, it would be relatively simple to render 99% of each frame, and then map a language specific lip/facial movement onto it for whatever language was needed IF the original rendering had been done with this in mind.
Well, as long as you completely ignore the fact that different languages, particularly ones as different as Japanese and English, often require different ammounts of time to express the same concepts. I could see many of the alternate language versions of the film that has an unnatural cadence, alternating between painfully rushed and painfully drawn out.
Besides, unlike Americans, a not-insignificant number of Japanese speak english, so if they want the full effect they can just watch it twice. +)
I wonder if the story's author even stopped to think about the ramifications of having his rant posted to the front page of /.. "There's no such thing as bad publicity". Even without saying anything positive about the donation program, he just gave it more publicity than it had likely ever had in the past, and instead of keeping people away has likely SENT people to donate money to Mandrake.
Wow, almost as effective as the marketing campaign for the last Star Wars (The "We'll let you show our commercials on your nightly news broadcast FOR FREE!" campaign).
The question remains, was is a newsworthy even, or an intentional manipulation of the media? Or does it fit into that Hunter S Tompsonesque grey area?
All other issues aside, be prepared to get raped on the credit transfers. About the only time it's not hell is transfering between state schools in the same state. From there it gets worse. Courses may not have equivalents, only be counted for partial credit, not to mention the potential difficulties going from semester to trimester/quarter system.
When thinking about what happened to me, I get to thinking that I would have been better off going to community college and getting an AA for my first 2 years rather than having gone to University.
I hear you. If they could have gotten them out, the initial shortage could have been written off as marketing + hype generation. It's gotten to the point where it's clearly some combination of incompetence & arrogance.
While I'm not a big fan of either system, the X is a pretty hefty box... 733MHz P3, 64MB RAM, custom nVidia graphics chip... all running on a version of windows that has been tuned to run on -just- this hardware. Based on the specs, it could blow the PS2 out of the water...
Of course, the Dreamcast has been doing that since it shipped. +)
By that time, the PS2 will have been on the market nearly a year and can't compete w/ the Xbox in terms of power, it will be ready for a price drop. Will they try to go toe to toe w/ the GameCube, or try to undercut it?
Wankers will be wankers. Even if ASUS stops updating and releasing these drivers, people will continue to use them, even if they're not the newest + best thing, GeForce drivers are pretty much perfected.. no major improvements are going to show up in them.
While there really is nothing locking publishers into paying Nokia a cut for -using- the hardware, there's always a chance of them having a Magical Rubber Stamp that dev's have to pay for in order to say their product is "MediaTerminal Compatable". Either that or Nokia's got their pricing down to the point where they will sweep the internet appliance, low end PC and console markets in one fell swoop...
It could always be based on a licensing issue, but that's kinda doubtful... I'd assume that anybody buy nV chips in quantity gets an OK to release the drivers...
uATX boards are generally considered 'budget' hardware, and as such, seldom have great onboard sound. You may or may not notice the worse signal/noise ratio on the inputs/ADs..
...
Why limit yourself to uATX? Since you don't expect much from the hardware, you might find a smaller FlexATX or even 'book PC' type device suits your needs better. If you want to get really creative, I'm sure you could rig up a custom number with some single-board system, and stick it into most any enclosure you can find...
It's simple enough to buy one of the many MP3 players on the market that reads CDR/CDRWs... Hell, after looking at the cost of competing media, they're virtually free. +)
One of the strengths of writing for a console is that you KNOW that every unit is identical. This allows you to optimize exclusively for one CPU/Vid Chip/Drive Speed/Ram size, without worrying about driver overhead + incompatabilities. As an example, I've seen things on the Dreamcast that blow away a PC w/ 2x the specs.
Aditionally, there's the idiot factor. Almost anybody can understand the "put media in, hit power switch" idea, installing, uninstalling software, and maintaining the stability of the OS do require some form of skill/knowledge. (I have, in the past recieved money to 'fix' somebody's computer because they were 'out of RAM', only to find out that their HDD was full, and needed to have garbage deleted so that windows could make swap space...)
Always a bonus... I've still got my PPro here, which is running essentially the same core as todays P3s. In fact, if I were a sick individual, I could get either an adaptor that would let my place this chip in a modern slot1 board, or an adaptor to put a s370 celeron in its place (P3s might work, but PPro boards only go up to 66MHz FSB).
Seems strikingly similar to a poll-tax.
Stop me if I'm wrong here, but, as part of the case, didn't they have to site the original work, thereby making it PD? Kinda like the situation w/ that one Scientologist document (the Fishman doc?)?
Well, there is always ELKS(Embedable Linux Kernal Subset) which runs on 8086, 8088 & 80286 (as well as some PDA called the Psion). While it's not a full-featured version of linux (hense the "subset" in the title) it does work on 16bit hardware.
You could always take a look at Minix...
Redhat's eCos is an embeded unixesque OS that runs on a number of 16/32/64bit architectures.
And, for another version of linux that runs on systems w/o MMUs, you can always take a look at uClinux(that u should be a mu, as in micro). It seems they've focused mostly on Motorola chips, but a few others (such as the i960) are supported as well.
I'm tired of doing your research for you, but I seem to remember something out QNX originally being targeted at embedded architectures, and being available on a some non-Intel patforms.
OMG, a quick check over at DMOZ.org's search engine on "embedded" gives me entire CATEGORIES dedicated about it, several of which involve Linux as well! Yahoo does too! How dare they make you -look- for information. I feel sorry for the engineer that's going to have to design the board, and look up the specs on EVERY component he puts on the board...
I've got one word for you: dustbunnies.
Of course, wouldn't drivers be a bit different than software? I mean, if a software has bugs, and occassionaly crashes, you can't do much, but if your printer explicitly says that it will work w/ "Linux", and you can't get it to run on your Dreamcast (or PC running Slackware...) you're in a slightly different situation.