The software industry was much younger (both in age of the employees and the age of the company) and they were obviously more hip to new technology. The recording industry is much older and they have made ALOT of money since the phonograph was invented. I am not surprised at all that the software industry would embrace new technology and not be scared of it; while the recording industry is more likely to be scared of new technology and less likely to change.
It seems obvious to me that if they charged a reasonable amount of money (less than $30 a month or better yet give it for free with advertising) to allow people to legally download what ever they want the RIAA might make even more money. They would even have an advantage since mp3's made by people who know what they are doing are bound to sound better than the stuff you get on napster. But these people know about music (or rather how to get people to buy music even if it sucks) and they have been doing basically the same thing for over 50 years. It will probably take the recording industry a while to figure out the errors in their ways.
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One thing I have noticed about both Bush and Gore is that they seem to have a contest on who is the most christian (or in Lieberman's case who is the most jewish.) I guess since the problems with Bill and a certian white house intern both camps seem to be trying to say they are the most moral. Now I would give my life to defend their rights to be christian, but one thing that pisses me off is that they seem to forget that there are millions of tax paying americans that aren't christian or jewish but are moral. We should have seperation of church and state -- ones religion should have no baring on a presidential election. It also pisses me off that many people think those are the only two religions one can have.
Also it seems both parties like to blame hollywood for the nation's troubles with violence. Personally I think that is because Hollywood is an easy target. We need to be careful that this doesn't lead to censorship. It seems to me that in the past people have done some crazy stuff in the name of protecting the children. Throwing out the bill of rights is no way to protect the children.
FORTRAN, COBOL and old CPU's like the z80 haven't gone away yet have they? C/C++ is going to be with us for a long time in the future! People want to find the better next language but no one wants to port the old apps to the new language.
Maybe because there are already many more libraries and applications written in c/c++? You can have a virutal machine w/o rewriting your old code (just recompile.) Care to guess how many lines of code have been written in C/C++?
Well I am sorry my grammar is not up to snuff. This isn't exactly a masters thesis or anything.
When I was in grad school I worked at a lab that tested the seakers for the navy. We had the entire seaker and we also used to put the windows in a wind tunnel to see if they would survive.
I beleive the sapphire is grown in a single crystal but I am not sure since I am an optical/electrical engineer and not a material science guy.
With all do respect even though you haven't heard of sapphire lenses doesn't mean they don't exist. Yes sapphire is expensive but it is VERY strong. Sapphire only passes in the midwave and not the longwave which is why they use a different window material for longwave heat seaking missiles.
The Russians didn't have as much steal as the US does. This means that they had to get their metal some where else. They spent a lot of time perfecting titanium production. A lot of the titanium that is now on the market is from Russia. Legend has it that during the cold war the US government secretly bought titanium on the open market that came from russia for use in it's spie planes. While our subs are made of sperate pieces of steal the Russians used to make the hulls of their nuclear subs out of one piece of titanium. So we might not be able to work with titaninum very well in the west but in the east they may be able to help us out.
On a side note aluminum is sometimes hard to work with as well. It has a low melting point and conducts heat and electricity very well. This makes it harder to spot wield than steal (which is why you don't see car bodies made of aluminum -- just engine blocks.) Notice that although aluminum is cheap aluminum bikes for example are still more expensive than steal bikes. Also aluminum tends to melt and "float" when you are working on it -- this makes working with it a pain sometimes. So although aluminum is cheap it is still more expensive for some applications. I bet the same will be true for titanium if it gets as cheap as aluminum.
It's called sapphire (an aluminum oxide.) In it's pure form it is clear from the visible all the way down to the midwave IR. Yes if you put impurities in it it turns pretty colors (basis for purple sapphire stones, rubys and other gem stones.) But you can see right through industrial sapphire with no problem. It is the second hardiest window material known to man. The US government uses it as a window to cover the seaker unit on a heat seaking missile. Sapphire is the only material that passes the IR used for such missiles and is strong enough to survive on the end of a missile that is going much faster than the speed of sound. The only problem is that it is difficult and expensive to make windows that are very large. If you could make your windshield out of it then it wouldn't crack as easily and your car would be cooler in the summer since sapphire doesn't block the IR. While in grad school my advisor spent a lot of time and money studying industrial sapphire. He always said it was the clear aluminum as seen in Star Trek:)
Well, I don't find the shortage of the ps2 that sad, I am perfectly happy with my dreamcast:) Ok, that was shameless (sorry!)
On a more serious note, I don't see how they can get upset over adult video games. Well, ok nothing they do surprises me anymore. But they shouldn't get that upset cause there have been adult video games for many different platforms in the past. These games are quite popular in Japan (where they aren't so uptight about these sorts of things.)
I believe there were adult games in the US for the 3d0 and Saturn -- probably also for the ps1. I even seem to recall hearing about some adult 2600 roms (can't confirm that since I read about that many moons ago.) Of course you can go into any adult book store and get adult video games for windows. Not that IO have ever set foot in an adult book store:)
A. With bleemcast the Dreamcast will also be backwardly compatable with the ps1. In the past backwardly compatable has never been a big issue in the video game industry. It didn't work with the Atari 7800, the 32X, the Genesis or the game gear (both could play Master system games) I don't see it working with the ps2. With backwardly compatable consoles you risk turning your 7800 into an expensive 2600. Note that the DC has tons of great next generation games already it will take Sony a while to catch up with it.
B. Ah Zelda, pokemon and Mario are owned by Nintendo. Do you mean good licenses or good 1st party games? If you mean good first party games than no one can compete with Sega. Look at there dominant arcade line up. Games like Sonic, crazy taxi, NFL 2k, Shenmue, seamen, Panzer dragoon all game directly from sega. As for Sony's first party software -- it sucks! Sony is a hardware not a software company almost all of their games were made by other companies; if someone were to steal the third party support they would steal all of Sony's games. As for their licenses I have heard companies complain about Sony. Eidos had to sign an exclusive contract with Sony in order to get a favorable licenses. As soon as the contract was over they got behind the dreamcast. Sony acts like they are the only game in town -- if they keep doing that even if they aren't the only game in town they could really upset their 3rd party support.
C. Sega did everything they could to support the saturn. Did they need to come out with Burning rangers, shining force 3 or houe of the dead in 1998? They lost money on all three of them. The problem was that Sega was too small of a company to support the 32x, sega CD, genesis, saturn, arcade, and game gear all at the same time. They tried to support all of these systems but couldn't; their marketing suffered. They should have dropped the 32x, sega CD and game gear like nintendo dropped the virtual boy. If they put the entire company behind the saturn life would be different. Oh well, that is in the past. Do you avoid Ford because of the Edsel? Why avoid Sega because of the 32x (note the saturn was a great system and did just fine against the ps1 in Japan -- a country were the games are more important then the marketing?) The fact is that the DC is a great console that has tons of great games and has a nice price.
No way Sega can compete with sony? That is what they said in 1995 about sony and nintendo. Fourtunes can change in a second in this industry. Who would have thought that Atari would flop? Who would think the genesis would break the nintendo monopoly? Don't count your chickens before they hatch. If Sony ignores the dreamcast threat they will be burried by it. Luckely for Sony they haven't ignored the dc. Do you think the ps2 would be coming out in a month if it weren't for the dreamcast? Sony was perfectly happy with the idea of selling old ps1 games for a couple more years -- it is Sega that pushed the next generation war forward.
It looks like they are trying to stop people who are posting information on how to pirate DC games. Don't think they will be able to stop it but I can't blaim them for trying, pirating sucks!
Why do people make jokes like,"only 9 people bought dreamcasts." Yes the DC isn't close to outselling the ps1 yet but older consoles always outsell the new ones for a couple of years. Last time I looked at the sales figures the DC was doing just fine for such a new console.
The fact of the matter is that the DC is inexpensive for a next generation console, it has TONS of great games (Seamen, Sega GT, NFL 2k, SC, Crazy Taxi, Get bass, house of the dead 2, Resident evil CV, power stone 1 and 2, sonic,etc.) and there are some awesome games on the way (Shenmue.) So what if the DC doesn't "win" it is a great console that is well worth the $150 price tag. I think the DC will do better against the other next generation consoles than people think. If it doesn't hopefully the industry has grown so much they can make money with only a small part of the market. Sega's marketing can leave something to be desired but NO ONE makes better games than Sega!!!
Yes, that would have been news -- a few hundred years ago! I think you'll find Maxwell pretty much had it figured out 100 years ago or so.
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Seriously what is the big deal? The only thing I can think of is maybe they got some ferromagnetic material to disolve in water. Couldn't we do that already? Other than that I think you will find that we knew about magnets for quite a long time.
In the IGN article claiming how the N-cube was going to roll over everything he did even mention the Sega Dreamcast. Sega isn't going away this time and if you underestimate the threat you may be taken by surprised. So what if the dreamcast isn't quite as powerful as the other consoles -- the playstation was as powerful as the n64 (and if you measure power based on pure cpu power or 2d gaming abilty the psx wasn't even as powerful as the saturn.) The DC has a lot of great games and a growing army of loyal fans.
I think the idea is that you take liquid nitrogen and boil it. If this were the case then probably most nitrogen would be drawn from the air and then compressed. You would have to tally the energy costs in producing the nitrogen when you figure how efficient this is.
The point is that most likely you would be sending into the atmosphere exactly what you took out. The pollution would be in the energy (and what it takes to make the energy) needed to produce the ln and the energy needed to heat it again.
For those of you who skipped the Saturn in favor of the playstation, you may not realize how much the Saturn rocked! These games alone were worth the cost of the ENTIRE console: Panzer dragoon saga (considered by many to be the best RPG ever,) World Series Baseball 98 (some people complain about the psx baseball selection by pointing out that wsb was better than any baseball game on the psx -- I don't think it is that psx baseball games are bad it is just that wsb rocked!) Guardian heros (an true classic) and Burning rangers (if it came out for the psx you would have heard of it.)
The psx was meant to be a 3d gaming platform from the start. The saturn was meant to be a 2d gaming platform but at the last minute they added the second sh2 cpu so it could do 3d games using brute force. The 3d games on the saturn were ok for their day but it was much cheaper and easier to come up with 3d games for the psx. The 2d games on the saturn are nothing short of awesome. In fact there aren't many differences between many saturn and dreamcast 2d games.
I am sure many others will post their favorite games. I didn't even mention shining force 3, die hard arcade or tomb raider. Yes tomb raider came out for the saturn first!
Sega makes great games (see any aracade to tell what I am talking about.) They usually make good consoles (32x being an exception.) Their marketing though is really hit or miss. Let's face it of the three big video game companies Sega has to come out with new an cool stuff or they will get totally crushed!
At the risk of being moderated down for being a smart @$$ -- why don't you just go ahead and try it. The full shrink rapped copy is only $30 and of course you can download the trail version. You can get the entire thing through ftp from ftp.suse.com but that is somewhat painful.
Anyway, SuSE is nice since the cds come with everything including the very useful kitchen_sink.rpm. You might think about getting SuSE if you are hooked to the internet with a 14.4 modem. If you go to the default yast2 then it is set for newbies. However, if you boot off the floppy or the second cd then you get yast1. Yast1 is quite configurable and should be fine for more experienced users. Almost everything is configurable with yast which may be the best part of SuSE.
Yes, Yast is free as in beer but not as in speech -- get over it! SuSE does a lot for xfree86 and are worth supporting.
Just because a company acts like a monopoly doesn't mean they have a monopoly. AMD certainly is stiff competition. Not only are AMD's chips better AMD's sales are on par with intel. I don't think we will be seeing an anti-trust case anytime soon.
How is this much different from dye lasers? I will admit that dye lasers -- organic material in liquid form -- are a pain to deal with and it would therefore be nice to have the organic material in solid form.
dye lasers are tuneable (although each dye is only tuneable over a narrow range so anyone who uses a dye laser has a shelf full of different dyes) because they have so many resonance lines. This also makes them rather inefficient. Typically you need a huge laser to pump the dye laser and in the end you don't get much energy out of the dye.
The New york times article says most laser are in the red or infrared. What have they been smoking? Recently they even came out with a blue semi conductor laser. This laser will inrease the data you can put on a DVD. There have also been lasers like ND:YAG and others that work in the green or higher. Of course you can always use non-linear optics to multiply the frequency and push your laser to ever higher frequencies. They have had multi color laser for years!
You mean if they knock out a few key nodes they could screw up the internet? Where would I get my porno then? What about my mp3's? I might have to **GULP** talk to people in the real world!
I had a pontiac t1000 a few years ago. It never changed forms like the t1000 did in terminator 2. Actually I think it was false advertising all it was was a chevette with the name chevette crossed out and t1000 written in with crayon. Pretty lame actually.
Bastille was written to secure the distribution the UMBC user group gave out to students. Some of the people who helped write it were on the university pay roll. So the univesities aren't paying people to hack into their system but they are paying to make it more secure.
As much as I hate trolls, I must say I love freedom of speach much more. I am not sure what this guy did, but I don't want this to start a presitant. You can't kick people off the internet sites for being anoying. As Americans it is our god given right to be an asshole! Can I get kicked off/. for saying that?
Ever read old ads in old magazines? They can be pretty funny.
"Buy the new 1958 Edsel! Look at the great styling -- what a wonderful car!" I love all the safety features they put in 1950's cars including padded dash boards and OPTIONAL seat belts.
Ads can be a great way to show what life was like. Everyday things that we forget -- like what was housework like in the 30s? Are saved in ads of the day.
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The software industry was much younger (both in age of the employees and the age of the company) and they were obviously more hip to new technology. The recording industry is much older and they have made ALOT of money since the phonograph was invented. I am not surprised at all that the software industry would embrace new technology and not be scared of it; while the recording industry is more likely to be scared of new technology and less likely to change.
It seems obvious to me that if they charged a reasonable amount of money (less than $30 a month or better yet give it for free with advertising) to allow people to legally download what ever they want the RIAA might make even more money. They would even have an advantage since mp3's made by people who know what they are doing are bound to sound better than the stuff you get on napster. But these people know about music (or rather how to get people to buy music even if it sucks) and they have been doing basically the same thing for over 50 years. It will probably take the recording industry a while to figure out the errors in their ways.
One thing I have noticed about both Bush and Gore is that they seem to have a contest on who is the most christian (or in Lieberman's case who is the most jewish.) I guess since the problems with Bill and a certian white house intern both camps seem to be trying to say they are the most moral. Now I would give my life to defend their rights to be christian, but one thing that pisses me off is that they seem to forget that there are millions of tax paying americans that aren't christian or jewish but are moral. We should have seperation of church and state -- ones religion should have no baring on a presidential election. It also pisses me off that many people think those are the only two religions one can have.
Also it seems both parties like to blame hollywood for the nation's troubles with violence. Personally I think that is because Hollywood is an easy target. We need to be careful that this doesn't lead to censorship. It seems to me that in the past people have done some crazy stuff in the name of protecting the children. Throwing out the bill of rights is no way to protect the children.
Just my $0.02.
FORTRAN, COBOL and old CPU's like the z80 haven't gone away yet have they? C/C++ is going to be with us for a long time in the future! People want to find the better next language but no one wants to port the old apps to the new language.
Maybe because there are already many more libraries and applications written in c/c++? You can have a virutal machine w/o rewriting your old code (just recompile.) Care to guess how many lines of code have been written in C/C++?
They both dodged that question like true professionals! I don't know who to vote for -- they are both good!
Well I am sorry my grammar is not up to snuff. This isn't exactly a masters thesis or anything.
When I was in grad school I worked at a lab that tested the seakers for the navy. We had the entire seaker and we also used to put the windows in a wind tunnel to see if they would survive.
I beleive the sapphire is grown in a single crystal but I am not sure since I am an optical/electrical engineer and not a material science guy.
With all do respect even though you haven't heard of sapphire lenses doesn't mean they don't exist. Yes sapphire is expensive but it is VERY strong. Sapphire only passes in the midwave and not the longwave which is why they use a different window material for longwave heat seaking missiles.
The Russians didn't have as much steal as the US does. This means that they had to get their metal some where else. They spent a lot of time perfecting titanium production. A lot of the titanium that is now on the market is from Russia. Legend has it that during the cold war the US government secretly bought titanium on the open market that came from russia for use in it's spie planes. While our subs are made of sperate pieces of steal the Russians used to make the hulls of their nuclear subs out of one piece of titanium. So we might not be able to work with titaninum very well in the west but in the east they may be able to help us out.
On a side note aluminum is sometimes hard to work with as well. It has a low melting point and conducts heat and electricity very well. This makes it harder to spot wield than steal (which is why you don't see car bodies made of aluminum -- just engine blocks.) Notice that although aluminum is cheap aluminum bikes for example are still more expensive than steal bikes. Also aluminum tends to melt and "float" when you are working on it -- this makes working with it a pain sometimes. So although aluminum is cheap it is still more expensive for some applications. I bet the same will be true for titanium if it gets as cheap as aluminum.
It's called sapphire (an aluminum oxide.) In it's pure form it is clear from the visible all the way down to the midwave IR. Yes if you put impurities in it it turns pretty colors (basis for purple sapphire stones, rubys and other gem stones.) But you can see right through industrial sapphire with no problem. It is the second hardiest window material known to man. The US government uses it as a window to cover the seaker unit on a heat seaking missile. Sapphire is the only material that passes the IR used for such missiles and is strong enough to survive on the end of a missile that is going much faster than the speed of sound. The only problem is that it is difficult and expensive to make windows that are very large. If you could make your windshield out of it then it wouldn't crack as easily and your car would be cooler in the summer since sapphire doesn't block the IR. While in grad school my advisor spent a lot of time and money studying industrial sapphire. He always said it was the clear aluminum as seen in Star Trek :)
Well, I don't find the shortage of the ps2 that sad, I am perfectly happy with my dreamcast :) Ok, that was shameless (sorry!)
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On a more serious note, I don't see how they can get upset over adult video games. Well, ok nothing they do surprises me anymore. But they shouldn't get that upset cause there have been adult video games for many different platforms in the past. These games are quite popular in Japan (where they aren't so uptight about these sorts of things.)
I believe there were adult games in the US for the 3d0 and Saturn -- probably also for the ps1. I even seem to recall hearing about some adult 2600 roms (can't confirm that since I read about that many moons ago.) Of course you can go into any adult book store and get adult video games for windows. Not that IO have ever set foot in an adult book store
A. With bleemcast the Dreamcast will also be backwardly compatable with the ps1. In the past backwardly compatable has never been a big issue in the video game industry. It didn't work with the Atari 7800, the 32X, the Genesis or the game gear (both could play Master system games) I don't see it working with the ps2. With backwardly compatable consoles you risk turning your 7800 into an expensive 2600. Note that the DC has tons of great next generation games already it will take Sony a while to catch up with it.
B. Ah Zelda, pokemon and Mario are owned by Nintendo. Do you mean good licenses or good 1st party games? If you mean good first party games than no one can compete with Sega. Look at there dominant arcade line up. Games like Sonic, crazy taxi, NFL 2k, Shenmue, seamen, Panzer dragoon all game directly from sega. As for Sony's first party software -- it sucks! Sony is a hardware not a software company almost all of their games were made by other companies; if someone were to steal the third party support they would steal all of Sony's games. As for their licenses I have heard companies complain about Sony. Eidos had to sign an exclusive contract with Sony in order to get a favorable licenses. As soon as the contract was over they got behind the dreamcast. Sony acts like they are the only game in town -- if they keep doing that even if they aren't the only game in town they could really upset their 3rd party support.
C. Sega did everything they could to support the saturn. Did they need to come out with Burning rangers, shining force 3 or houe of the dead in 1998? They lost money on all three of them. The problem was that Sega was too small of a company to support the 32x, sega CD, genesis, saturn, arcade, and game gear all at the same time. They tried to support all of these systems but couldn't; their marketing suffered. They should have dropped the 32x, sega CD and game gear like nintendo dropped the virtual boy. If they put the entire company behind the saturn life would be different. Oh well, that is in the past. Do you avoid Ford because of the Edsel? Why avoid Sega because of the 32x (note the saturn was a great system and did just fine against the ps1 in Japan -- a country were the games are more important then the marketing?) The fact is that the DC is a great console that has tons of great games and has a nice price.
No way Sega can compete with sony? That is what they said in 1995 about sony and nintendo. Fourtunes can change in a second in this industry. Who would have thought that Atari would flop? Who would think the genesis would break the nintendo monopoly? Don't count your chickens before they hatch. If Sony ignores the dreamcast threat they will be burried by it. Luckely for Sony they haven't ignored the dc. Do you think the ps2 would be coming out in a month if it weren't for the dreamcast? Sony was perfectly happy with the idea of selling old ps1 games for a couple more years -- it is Sega that pushed the next generation war forward.
It looks like they are trying to stop people who are posting information on how to pirate DC games. Don't think they will be able to stop it but I can't blaim them for trying, pirating sucks!
,"only 9 people bought dreamcasts." Yes the DC isn't close to outselling the ps1 yet but older consoles always outsell the new ones for a couple of years. Last time I looked at the sales figures the DC was doing just fine for such a new console.
,etc.) and there are some awesome games on the way (Shenmue.) So what if the DC doesn't "win" it is a great console that is well worth the $150 price tag. I think the DC will do better against the other next generation consoles than people think. If it doesn't hopefully the industry has grown so much they can make money with only a small part of the market. Sega's marketing can leave something to be desired but NO ONE makes better games than Sega!!!
Why do people make jokes like
The fact of the matter is that the DC is inexpensive for a next generation console, it has TONS of great games (Seamen, Sega GT, NFL 2k, SC, Crazy Taxi, Get bass, house of the dead 2, Resident evil CV, power stone 1 and 2, sonic
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Yes, that would have been news -- a few hundred years ago! I think you'll find Maxwell pretty much had it figured out 100 years ago or so.
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Seriously what is the big deal? The only thing I can think of is maybe they got some ferromagnetic material to disolve in water. Couldn't we do that already? Other than that I think you will find that we knew about magnets for quite a long time.
In the IGN article claiming how the N-cube was going to roll over everything he did even mention the Sega Dreamcast. Sega isn't going away this time and if you underestimate the threat you may be taken by surprised. So what if the dreamcast isn't quite as powerful as the other consoles -- the playstation was as powerful as the n64 (and if you measure power based on pure cpu power or 2d gaming abilty the psx wasn't even as powerful as the saturn.) The DC has a lot of great games and a growing army of loyal fans.
I think the idea is that you take liquid nitrogen and boil it. If this were the case then probably most nitrogen would be drawn from the air and then compressed. You would have to tally the energy costs in producing the nitrogen when you figure how efficient this is.
The point is that most likely you would be sending into the atmosphere exactly what you took out. The pollution would be in the energy (and what it takes to make the energy) needed to produce the ln and the energy needed to heat it again.
Intel stops RAMBUS and goes to SDRAM.
And in other new, the heating oil prices in hell reach an all time high. Hell has gome through the third straight day of bellow freezing temperature.
For those of you who skipped the Saturn in favor of the playstation, you may not realize how much the Saturn rocked! These games alone were worth the cost of the ENTIRE console: Panzer dragoon saga (considered by many to be the best RPG ever,) World Series Baseball 98 (some people complain about the psx baseball selection by pointing out that wsb was better than any baseball game on the psx -- I don't think it is that psx baseball games are bad it is just that wsb rocked!) Guardian heros (an true classic) and Burning rangers (if it came out for the psx you would have heard of it.)
The psx was meant to be a 3d gaming platform from the start. The saturn was meant to be a 2d gaming platform but at the last minute they added the second sh2 cpu so it could do 3d games using brute force. The 3d games on the saturn were ok for their day but it was much cheaper and easier to come up with 3d games for the psx. The 2d games on the saturn are nothing short of awesome. In fact there aren't many differences between many saturn and dreamcast 2d games.
I am sure many others will post their favorite games. I didn't even mention shining force 3, die hard arcade or tomb raider. Yes tomb raider came out for the saturn first!
Sega makes great games (see any aracade to tell what I am talking about.) They usually make good consoles (32x being an exception.) Their marketing though is really hit or miss. Let's face it of the three big video game companies Sega has to come out with new an cool stuff or they will get totally crushed!
At the risk of being moderated down for being off topic.
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Did you mean to say lady and gentlemen? because I thought it was pretty funny! I do think there are more than one women on
At the risk of being moderated down for being a smart @$$ -- why don't you just go ahead and try it. The full shrink rapped copy is only $30 and of course you can download the trail version. You can get the entire thing through ftp from ftp.suse.com but that is somewhat painful.
Anyway, SuSE is nice since the cds come with everything including the very useful kitchen_sink.rpm. You might think about getting SuSE if you are hooked to the internet with a 14.4 modem. If you go to the default yast2 then it is set for newbies. However, if you boot off the floppy or the second cd then you get yast1. Yast1 is quite configurable and should be fine for more experienced users. Almost everything is configurable with yast which may be the best part of SuSE.
Yes, Yast is free as in beer but not as in speech -- get over it! SuSE does a lot for xfree86 and are worth supporting.
Just because a company acts like a monopoly doesn't mean they have a monopoly. AMD certainly is stiff competition. Not only are AMD's chips better AMD's sales are on par with intel. I don't think we will be seeing an anti-trust case anytime soon.
How is this much different from dye lasers? I will admit that dye lasers -- organic material in liquid form -- are a pain to deal with and it would therefore be nice to have the organic material in solid form.
dye lasers are tuneable (although each dye is only tuneable over a narrow range so anyone who uses a dye laser has a shelf full of different dyes) because they have so many resonance lines. This also makes them rather inefficient. Typically you need a huge laser to pump the dye laser and in the end you don't get much energy out of the dye.
The New york times article says most laser are in the red or infrared. What have they been smoking? Recently they even came out with a blue semi conductor laser. This laser will inrease the data you can put on a DVD. There have also been lasers like ND:YAG and others that work in the green or higher. Of course you can always use non-linear optics to multiply the frequency and push your laser to ever higher frequencies. They have had multi color laser for years!
You mean if they knock out a few key nodes they could screw up the internet? Where would I get my porno then? What about my mp3's? I might have to **GULP** talk to people in the real world!
I had a pontiac t1000 a few years ago. It never changed forms like the t1000 did in terminator 2. Actually I think it was false advertising all it was was a chevette with the name chevette crossed out and t1000 written in with crayon. Pretty lame actually.
Bastille was written to secure the distribution the UMBC user group gave out to students. Some of the people who helped write it were on the university pay roll. So the univesities aren't paying people to hack into their system but they are paying to make it more secure.
As much as I hate trolls, I must say I love freedom of speach much more. I am not sure what this guy did, but I don't want this to start a presitant. You can't kick people off the internet sites for being anoying. As Americans it is our god given right to be an asshole! Can I get kicked off /. for saying that?
Ever read old ads in old magazines? They can be pretty funny.
"Buy the new 1958 Edsel! Look at the great styling -- what a wonderful car!" I love all the safety features they put in 1950's cars including padded dash boards and OPTIONAL seat belts.
Ads can be a great way to show what life was like. Everyday things that we forget -- like what was housework like in the 30s? Are saved in ads of the day.