Not only that, but according to AMD roadmaps, It appears that AMD will simply ignore the (apparently legarthic) P4 and trounce Intel with the Sledgehammer in 2001.
Are people really prepared to sit their for that long (probably a *lot* longer) in front of their browser for the results? Most research indicates that people who have to wait more than 5 seconds for a webpage to download get bored and go elsewhere.
Napster searches routinely take 8-15 seconds for me (campus ethernet) and everybody else on my hall and nobody cares. When you're pretty assured you'll find what you want by putting in the right searches (as opposed to sorting links) people are willing to wait. The "web user getting bored" premise doesn't work here, mainly, because this isn't the web.;)
WHY in the hell you want to run Linux and X on a ridiulously underpowered Palm, I have no idea, but I hope you know about Palm Linux and Clinux. Whats funny, to me, is that your request for X windows is even dismissed as silly on their page as well.
"Windowing Environment? I don't think windows has much of a place here, but it would be funny!"
However, some fools are working on this too. and Nano-X could probably be ported to it.
Merely have library-card readers at each terminal. Swipe the card to access the terminal.
* If you're a minor, no net access for you
* If you're a minor, but your parents said they don't care and flipped a bit for you, you have net access
How hard is this? Oh, big scary, expensive card technology. Come on... the filter is most likeley to charge per-client licensing. Plus you have to upgrade it.
The only thing, is maybe that parents WANT the filter. Personally, I don't think kids ought to be on the internet without supervision, period. Filters are a cop-out. But, some parents are idiots, IMHO, so add a third option.
* Filtered net access if your parents flipped that bit on your card.
Aren't they threats now? I thought open-source versions of Linux AIM clients existed because AOL didn't have a client in that marketspace, so all the clones did were add users to the user base. Which, is a Good Thing for AOL, because then they can say "we've got so and so many people on AIM", and count those Linux users in too.
But, now they've got a client out for Linux, and it displays ads. Those other clients don't. Now they're cutting into the eyeball-revenue. I might venture a guess that AOL will go after the clones, because they don't show the ads, just like MS and Yahoo!.
Consider that you have to leave the Palm V in a cradle to recharge for a couple hours. Why do this when you can go anywhere, pick up some AAAs, and you're ready to go.
10 seconds of downtime versus a couple hours. I'd say the choice is pretty clear....
About the size of AAA units? Bah, deal.... we'll have plastic batteries soon enough, as long as the major manufacturers don't drag their feet.
Think the X-Box is just a gaming platform?
Think again.
Whats the point of.NET? To centralize Microsoft's application software. To run the programs, you need WinNT. So MS sells NT and Office.NET to corps to deploy in their network.
Now, since all the application processing is on the server, who needs an overpowered workstation to do MS-style work on? Bring in the X-Box! It's a semi-dumb terminal, cheap, and effective.
This completes the vicious cycle . . . . Microsoft sells the servers, the applications, AND the terminals, making money off of EVERY step.
Hmm, three-tired sales . . . . sounds suspiciously splittable into three companies.....
1. Set Netscape to warn on cookie transaction and poke around slashdot until you get a doubleclick cookie. OR
Clear your cookie file, click like crazy on slashdot links, and then examine it.
Don't get technical on him! He bleeped his address, so he's obviously not serious. What it sounds like he's saying (tongue in cheek),is that you screwed up and he wants you to apologize IN SLASHBACK.
I allways thought the point of slashback was to follow up on articles posted. This falls under that. You said King will never write the last part 'cause nobody will pay. Then you go and make it easy for people to help prove you right. Only after some comments calling for you to remove it, do you modify the article. You have a chance in Slashback to apologize, and you don't do it. You don't even acknowledge that you did link to the PDF, either in Slashback or in the comments.
This, alone, brands you as some kind of hypocrite to all the slashdot readers. Perhaps you don't care, but it brings down the credibility of Slashdot as a whole. Who's gonna belive a writer who appears to use his forum as a self-edification tool?
I hate to blow you out of the water, but seriously, the guy has a point. Will you please address it formally? Why did you link to the PDF in the first place?
I favor 1) parents actually spending time with their children (which isn't quite cool with too many people, it seems), helping them decide on moral issues and enforcing house rules
My point exactly;) But yes, time is a limiting factor.
I propose a NEW idea. Instead of "smart" AI programs sitting over the shoulders of our kids who many don't deem responsible enough to get on the internet (but let them anyway), I have invented a machine that will filter 100% of all "inappropriate" material! Smarter than any AI ever created, it's has been gathering approval ratings from every household it has been tested in. No-one has disagreed on it's filtering for their children! Plus, it comes STANDARD when you buy the computer for your child.
With the Lithium battery, who in the hell wants to leave it in the cradle for an hour or so to recharge when you could simply go out to the store and buy some AAAs and keep on trucking.
Not me . . . . thats why you won't see GameBoys or anything like that with a rechargeable, in-dock-only battery.
OOOOOOOH, 5 gigs more than a IBM Deskstar
on
Maxtor's 80GB Drive
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· Score: 3
The 75GXP has been out since march, supports ATA/100, spins at 7200, and is overall a better drive. Why does Maxtor, a low-end hard drive supplier compared to IBM or Seagage (or WD, but I don't like their quality), get props on slashdot? I mean, seriously, this ISN'T a big deal, except to Maxtor. I'd never buy this drive. Maxtor has serious quality issues. I had a friend get his hard drive replaced THREE TIMES before they just sent him a newer model. Even with that one, it would have problems booting occasionally. (The fact that Maxtor wouldn't help him recover his data, point him in the right direction, or send him the hard drive back to do it himself pissed him off too)
Yes, this is probably a flame, maybe a troll. But I strongly advise against anyone even considering this drive.
Or has Jobs taken the rejected NeXT cube and NEXTSTEP of yesteryear and reincarnated it under the brand name Apple. It looks like NeXT, it smells like NeXT (Mach, Dock, cube....), but they're not calling it NeXT. The system he said would change the world (it will probably be 10 years old when OS X gets released) is now back. Have people gotten smart, or is Jobs the best marketer on the planet?
I would like to "slash back" to timothy and ask the question nobody will answer:
"Why does slashdot have doubleclick ads on it's site?"
Why! Why? Why.... Here on slashdot you're hard pressed to find a reader that doesn't have something bad to say about doubleclick or knows how to setup junkbuster just to filter doubleclicks nonsense. Why does slashdot use them?
Sure, I'm offtopic, but where else can this post be made.
Why use a software patch? Because everything that runs on the Palm Computing platform runs PalmOS. (mostly:) Intel couldn't get away with it because there are so many OSes for the x86.
Slashdot Mirror
Sir, Hardball is not in PROM. The datebook is.
What the heck is the great sound card conspiracy? (I'm being serious)
Not only that, but according to AMD roadmaps, It appears that AMD will simply ignore the (apparently legarthic) P4 and trounce Intel with the Sledgehammer in 2001.
Are people really prepared to sit their for that long (probably a *lot* longer) in front of their browser for the results? Most research indicates that people who have to wait more than 5 seconds for a webpage to download get bored and go elsewhere.
;)
Napster searches routinely take 8-15 seconds for me (campus ethernet) and everybody else on my hall and nobody cares. When you're pretty assured you'll find what you want by putting in the right searches (as opposed to sorting links) people are willing to wait. The "web user getting bored" premise doesn't work here, mainly, because this isn't the web.
WHY in the hell you want to run Linux and X on a ridiulously underpowered Palm, I have no idea, but I hope you know about Palm Linux and Clinux. Whats funny, to me, is that your request for X windows is even dismissed as silly on their page as well.
;)
"Windowing Environment? I don't think windows has much of a place here, but it would be funny!"
However, some fools are working on this too. and Nano-X could probably be ported to it.
Anyway, how much for the 16mb Palm?
* If you're a minor, no net access for you
* If you're a minor, but your parents said they don't care and flipped a bit for you, you have net access
How hard is this? Oh, big scary, expensive card technology. Come on... the filter is most likeley to charge per-client licensing. Plus you have to upgrade it.
The only thing, is maybe that parents WANT the filter. Personally, I don't think kids ought to be on the internet without supervision, period. Filters are a cop-out. But, some parents are idiots, IMHO, so add a third option.
* Filtered net access if your parents flipped that bit on your card.
Everybody happy?
anybody got a mirror more up-to-date than this?
Zarf's Catalog v1.0 (Z'Catalog) can be used to set the backup bit on everything so it all gets Hotsynced
Yeah but . . . .
Aren't they threats now? I thought open-source versions of Linux AIM clients existed because AOL didn't have a client in that marketspace, so all the clones did were add users to the user base. Which, is a Good Thing for AOL, because then they can say "we've got so and so many people on AIM", and count those Linux users in too.
But, now they've got a client out for Linux, and it displays ads. Those other clients don't. Now they're cutting into the eyeball-revenue. I might venture a guess that AOL will go after the clones, because they don't show the ads, just like MS and Yahoo!.
Ever see a clone of AIM on a supported platform?
Ah, but i'ts pretty obvious assertation . . . .
I have been misinformed..... thank you
Just FYI, Potato is slated for August 9th (or abouts AFAIK) if the Test Cycle 3 goes well. Latest kernel and all that jazz.
Why are AAA a problem!
Consider that you have to leave the Palm V in a cradle to recharge for a couple hours. Why do this when you can go anywhere, pick up some AAAs, and you're ready to go.
10 seconds of downtime versus a couple hours. I'd say the choice is pretty clear....
About the size of AAA units? Bah, deal.... we'll have plastic batteries soon enough, as long as the major manufacturers don't drag their feet.
Think the X-Box is just a gaming platform?
.NET? To centralize Microsoft's application software. To run the programs, you need WinNT. So MS sells NT and Office.NET to corps to deploy in their network.
Think again.
Whats the point of
Now, since all the application processing is on the server, who needs an overpowered workstation to do MS-style work on? Bring in the X-Box! It's a semi-dumb terminal, cheap, and effective.
This completes the vicious cycle . . . . Microsoft sells the servers, the applications, AND the terminals, making money off of EVERY step.
Hmm, three-tired sales . . . . sounds suspiciously splittable into three companies.....
1. Set Netscape to warn on cookie transaction and poke around slashdot until you get a doubleclick cookie.
:)
OR
Clear your cookie file, click like crazy on slashdot links, and then examine it.
2. Post your results to this forum
3. Get modded up and possibly an answer.
Or who Junkbusters the web bug out . . .
Hmm, now that you think about it......
Don't get technical on him! He bleeped his address, so he's obviously not serious. What it sounds like he's saying (tongue in cheek),is that you screwed up and he wants you to apologize IN SLASHBACK.
I allways thought the point of slashback was to follow up on articles posted. This falls under that. You said King will never write the last part 'cause nobody will pay. Then you go and make it easy for people to help prove you right. Only after some comments calling for you to remove it, do you modify the article. You have a chance in Slashback to apologize, and you don't do it. You don't even acknowledge that you did link to the PDF, either in Slashback or in the comments.
This, alone, brands you as some kind of hypocrite to all the slashdot readers. Perhaps you don't care, but it brings down the credibility of Slashdot as a whole. Who's gonna belive a writer who appears to use his forum as a self-edification tool?
I hate to blow you out of the water, but seriously, the guy has a point. Will you please address it formally? Why did you link to the PDF in the first place?
I propose a NEW idea. Instead of "smart" AI programs sitting over the shoulders of our kids who many don't deem responsible enough to get on the internet (but let them anyway), I have invented a machine that will filter 100% of all "inappropriate" material! Smarter than any AI ever created, it's has been gathering approval ratings from every household it has been tested in. No-one has disagreed on it's filtering for their children! Plus, it comes STANDARD when you buy the computer for your child.
WHY DOES NOBODY WANT TO USE IT???!!!
It's cost: Time.
It's name: Parents
Must disagree on one point....
With the Lithium battery, who in the hell wants to leave it in the cradle for an hour or so to recharge when you could simply go out to the store and buy some AAAs and keep on trucking.
Not me . . . . thats why you won't see GameBoys or anything like that with a rechargeable, in-dock-only battery.
The 75GXP has been out since march, supports ATA/100, spins at 7200, and is overall a better drive. Why does Maxtor, a low-end hard drive supplier compared to IBM or Seagage (or WD, but I don't like their quality), get props on slashdot? I mean, seriously, this ISN'T a big deal, except to Maxtor. I'd never buy this drive. Maxtor has serious quality issues. I had a friend get his hard drive replaced THREE TIMES before they just sent him a newer model. Even with that one, it would have problems booting occasionally. (The fact that Maxtor wouldn't help him recover his data, point him in the right direction, or send him the hard drive back to do it himself pissed him off too)
Yes, this is probably a flame, maybe a troll. But I strongly advise against anyone even considering this drive.
Or has Jobs taken the rejected NeXT cube and NEXTSTEP of yesteryear and reincarnated it under the brand name Apple. It looks like NeXT, it smells like NeXT (Mach, Dock, cube....), but they're not calling it NeXT. The system he said would change the world (it will probably be 10 years old when OS X gets released) is now back. Have people gotten smart, or is Jobs the best marketer on the planet?
I would like to "slash back" to timothy and ask the question nobody will answer:
"Why does slashdot have doubleclick ads on it's site?"
Why! Why? Why.... Here on slashdot you're hard pressed to find a reader that doesn't have something bad to say about doubleclick or knows how to setup junkbuster just to filter doubleclicks nonsense. Why does slashdot use them?
Sure, I'm offtopic, but where else can this post be made.
Why use a software patch? Because everything that runs on the Palm Computing platform runs PalmOS. (mostly :) Intel couldn't get away with it because there are so many OSes for the x86.