Not only does it have two PCI slots, but it's shorter then most 1U boxes, and it has 2 alpha processors in it! I didn't believe it until I saw one in person.
He did say that he used the words 'modern' and 'slavery', so I'm assuming they were seperate. Either way, it would brobably have been more effective if he had used something like the names of places where modern slavery exists or perhaps some terms related to modern slavery instead of the words 'modern' and 'slavery' themselves. Really, if his web page is any good, and someone is searching for 'modern slavery' he'd end up in the search results anyway; so why bother advertising?
What are the chances that someone searching for the word 'modern' are going to be interested in a website about slavery? If he had picked his keywords more cleverly, I think he would have had much beter results. As it is he got ~1% click throughs, so he really can't complain too much.
Also, he was advertising for another website, so I'm not sure that this applies to people who are advertising for a product. I'm way more likely to click on a google ad if I'm searching for a place to buy a particular item then if I'm looking for information.
Yeah, that sarcastic comment should contain SDSL, not ADSL, and then not be so sarcastic. Most DSL companies will sell you guaranteed bandwith over SDSL, but if you want DSL to be better then cable expect to pay more. Alot more.
BTW, my mother has an SBC DSL modem, and I regularly can get 6 megabits worth of concurrent traffic, so they must be using something much bigger then a T1.
This comment posted with a KDE free Konqueror 2.2. Hell, I don't have a "desktop environment" of any kind. Just a bare window manager and an xterm to launch apps with.
I don't know about the multiple platforms thing in the sense you're talking about.. Should work on other POSIX like OS's... MacOS X, Solaris, QNX, HP/UX, AIX... you get the idea.
Back during the development trials of the Itanium, Intel distributed this machine as the "BigSur" and it was designed and manufactured by Intel. That doesn't mean that these companies aren't making their own systems with identical tooling, however. That's what Dell has been doing with it's quad and 8-way Xeons for some time. I just wonder if the system board in these beasts is still as rediculously huge as in the original BigSur. They're still using the same enormous case!
I have one of these. Works great under linux (Just plug it in!) and sounds amazing... It wasn't even that expensive. Their homepage seems to be down right now though, so maybe they went out of business.
And I have every right not to buy it because of this, and Taco has every right to be sarcasticlly excited about it. Face it, if it's not a widespread technology it is useless. You won't have anyone to share the media with and it won't be portable in a useful sense. The only portable storage formats that have ever taken off are ones that are either open or easily licensable. (Oh, and that have a price somewhere in the average range. I can get 40Gb of hard disk for the price of one of these cartridges!)
This sounds like an incredibly bad idea to me. Do you know what light in the UV specturm does to exposed ICs? Just hope that the little stickers over the glass windows that your BIOS ROM might have actually do block all the light!
Once linux is on the X-Box why would game developers need to pay royalties for Microsoft's libraries and OS anymore? Write their games for linux, and distribute the games themselves. Cut MS out of the royalty loop.
I give it about 2-3 months before people developers realize that the machine is so much like a PC that they can develop games for it without paying any royalties to microsoft. Just watch.
This is all you need to know. My config is actually kind of amusing. I've picked up various rules from various people along the way, so most of it isn't mine originally. Here's what I use minus some personal information:
Since the images were meant to be projected the levels would need to be adjusted for brightness. It's not like they invented colors and painted them on there. The prints are probably extremly close to what the scene actually looked like.
Connecticut is like that too. My BBS is listed in the 203 area code, when in fact the hartford area had long since changed to 860 when it started. Also my high school BBS is listed in both 203 and 860 for the same years...
Some linux compaines out there are of the opinion that community awareness is the most important thing for a linux company, so they spend millions on marketing to the linux community. In reality the average user in the linux community isn't willing to pay for something that they can either get for free or write themselves, so the community awareness doesn't end up helping the bottom line. Everyone in the community has heard of Eazel, and that's where their money must have gone. I say save it, and market to IT managers at large companies (people outside the community) because they are the people who have money to spend, and they don't care or know that every linux geek and their brother has gotten a free t-shirt from a particular company.
Even though the article has some valid points about the likelyhood of Ximian and Eazel not bringing a good return on their investor's investment, any credibility this article had was lost in trollsville. I should apply for a job writing part time for Linux Today. I would have no trouble proving everyone in the linux community was an idiot if I was allowed the simple freedom of changing the meaning of what people say. All of this guy's arguments about the FSF are based on the idea that no rational person would use the word "free" the way the FSF does in that context, and therfore the FSF can't mean what they say either. The FSF sells products and services for money as well as providing softeare in the "free beer" sense, and they are not lying about which meaning of the word "Free" they intend; you can do whatever you want with it. It is unfortunate that real thing this guy is looking for is a handout.
It says that the quote request must specify that they aren't purchasing an operating system because the already have a site license. Apparently, microsoft doesn't sell such licenses.
By submitting bids that request PC systems without an
Operating System due to a Microsoft site license, you
can earn points and win!
This is not "an extension of the policy of harrassing the makers of 'naked PCs'"
Since I'm in a shitflinging mood, I'll jump in at this point. This is not an electronic device, It's a large hunk of plastic, so they can sell as many of them as they want, and the FCC has nothing to do with it. Now, when you use the case to put a computer in that's another story, however they're shipping these things without a power supply, so none of the FCC regulations apply to them.
Now for the shit flinging:
The FCC is not the US congress. They make regulations not laws.
Cars are sold capable of being driven. You need to equate this to auto parts, not cars. Also, the rules that govern automobiles in the US are laws, and they're made by the states, not the US government. The National government just makes heavy handed suggestions as to what the laws should say and threatens to deny highway funding to states that aren't strict enough.
and finally, to that last guy "You are awfully arrogant for someone who is about to display his ignorance."
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.acm.wpi.edu/sinlab/
You push the button, and it updates the web page... It also has a row of LEDs that blink in a pattern that is settable over the web.
It's completely powered and controled by the paralel port.
And you think the pages render slowly now :)
Don't underestimate 1U boxes until you see this: http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/cs20.shtml
Not only does it have two PCI slots, but it's shorter then most 1U boxes, and it has 2 alpha processors in it! I didn't believe it until I saw one in person.
He did say that he used the words 'modern' and 'slavery', so I'm assuming they were seperate. Either way, it would brobably have been more effective if he had used something like the names of places where modern slavery exists or perhaps some terms related to modern slavery instead of the words 'modern' and 'slavery' themselves. Really, if his web page is any good, and someone is searching for 'modern slavery' he'd end up in the search results anyway; so why bother advertising?
What are the chances that someone searching for the word 'modern' are going to be interested in a website about slavery? If he had picked his keywords more cleverly, I think he would have had much beter results. As it is he got ~1% click throughs, so he really can't complain too much.
Also, he was advertising for another website, so I'm not sure that this applies to people who are advertising for a product. I'm way more likely to click on a google ad if I'm searching for a place to buy a particular item then if I'm looking for information.
Well, the ones that only charged $30-50/month are dropping like flies, but the ones that charge $100-200/month are doing just fine.
You get what you pay for.
Yeah, that sarcastic comment should contain SDSL, not ADSL, and then not be so sarcastic. Most DSL companies will sell you guaranteed bandwith over SDSL, but if you want DSL to be better then cable expect to pay more. Alot more.
BTW, my mother has an SBC DSL modem, and I regularly can get 6 megabits worth of concurrent traffic, so they must be using something much bigger then a T1.
This comment posted with a KDE free Konqueror 2.2. Hell, I don't have a "desktop environment" of any kind. Just a bare window manager and an xterm to launch apps with.
I don't know about the multiple platforms thing in the sense you're talking about.. Should work on other POSIX like OS's... MacOS X, Solaris, QNX, HP/UX, AIX... you get the idea.
Back during the development trials of the Itanium, Intel distributed this machine as the "BigSur" and it was designed and manufactured by Intel. That doesn't mean that these companies aren't making their own systems with identical tooling, however. That's what Dell has been doing with it's quad and 8-way Xeons for some time. I just wonder if the system board in these beasts is still as rediculously huge as in the original BigSur. They're still using the same enormous case!
I have one of these. Works great under linux (Just plug it in!) and sounds amazing... It wasn't even that expensive. Their homepage seems to be down right now though, so maybe they went out of business.
And I have every right not to buy it because of this, and Taco has every right to be sarcasticlly excited about it. Face it, if it's not a widespread technology it is useless. You won't have anyone to share the media with and it won't be portable in a useful sense. The only portable storage formats that have ever taken off are ones that are either open or easily licensable. (Oh, and that have a price somewhere in the average range. I can get 40Gb of hard disk for the price of one of these cartridges!)
This sounds like an incredibly bad idea to me. Do you know what light in the UV specturm does to exposed ICs? Just hope that the little stickers over the glass windows that your BIOS ROM might have actually do block all the light!
Once linux is on the X-Box why would game developers need to pay royalties for Microsoft's libraries and OS anymore? Write their games for linux, and distribute the games themselves. Cut MS out of the royalty loop.
I give it about 2-3 months before people developers realize that the machine is so much like a PC that they can develop games for it without paying any royalties to microsoft. Just watch.
Doesn't support VBR, unfortunatly, so I was forced to go with the Aiwa. At least someone makes stuff like this.
This needs a much higher score then +1... I will shamelessly burn karma to get it noticed.
Bet you wish you got to it first! Nothin' like karma whoring...
BTW, you should check out the new additions...
This is all you need to know. My config is actually kind of amusing. I've picked up various rules from various people along the way, so most of it isn't mine originally. Here's what I use minus some personal information:
The lameness filter got me... Get this here.
What chipset is on that board? It doesn't even say...
Since the images were meant to be projected the levels would need to be adjusted for brightness. It's not like they invented colors and painted them on there. The prints are probably extremly close to what the scene actually looked like.
Connecticut is like that too. My BBS is listed in the 203 area code, when in fact the hartford area had long since changed to 860 when it started. Also my high school BBS is listed in both 203 and 860 for the same years...
Some linux compaines out there are of the opinion that community awareness is the most important thing for a linux company, so they spend millions on marketing to the linux community. In reality the average user in the linux community isn't willing to pay for something that they can either get for free or write themselves, so the community awareness doesn't end up helping the bottom line. Everyone in the community has heard of Eazel, and that's where their money must have gone. I say save it, and market to IT managers at large companies (people outside the community) because they are the people who have money to spend, and they don't care or know that every linux geek and their brother has gotten a free t-shirt from a particular company.
Even though the article has some valid points about the likelyhood of Ximian and Eazel not bringing a good return on their investor's investment, any credibility this article had was lost in trollsville. I should apply for a job writing part time for Linux Today. I would have no trouble proving everyone in the linux community was an idiot if I was allowed the simple freedom of changing the meaning of what people say. All of this guy's arguments about the FSF are based on the idea that no rational person would use the word "free" the way the FSF does in that context, and therfore the FSF can't mean what they say either. The FSF sells products and services for money as well as providing softeare in the "free beer" sense, and they are not lying about which meaning of the word "Free" they intend; you can do whatever you want with it. It is unfortunate that real thing this guy is looking for is a handout.
This is not "an extension of the policy of harrassing the makers of 'naked PCs'"
Since I'm in a shitflinging mood, I'll jump in at this point. This is not an electronic device, It's a large hunk of plastic, so they can sell as many of them as they want, and the FCC has nothing to do with it. Now, when you use the case to put a computer in that's another story, however they're shipping these things without a power supply, so none of the FCC regulations apply to them.
Now for the shit flinging:
The FCC is not the US congress. They make regulations not laws.
Cars are sold capable of being driven. You need to equate this to auto parts, not cars. Also, the rules that govern automobiles in the US are laws, and they're made by the states, not the US government. The National government just makes heavy handed suggestions as to what the laws should say and threatens to deny highway funding to states that aren't strict enough.
and finally, to that last guy "You are awfully arrogant for someone who is about to display his ignorance."
Grow up.