Now all they have to do is implement driver support for every piece of i386 hardware known to man, and it'll be ready to blow Windows out of the market.
For $100, I can get around 100-120GB in a 3.5" hard drive. I can't think of too many reasons I'd want to be lugging around 1.5 GB of portable storage. Music is nice I guess, but it's not worth $100 for me to have a decent-sized MP3 library I can carry around with me.
That was my initial reaction, but then I realized it was one of those fabled Russian pencils. Thank God the Russkies are lending us their pencil, as it has become cost prohibitive to send the million dollar space pens on long-range missions. They're singlehandedly making space exploration affordable again.
I work at a place that goes through fairly regular hardware refreshes. I happen to work as a sysadmin in the publishing division, where they tend to have the highest quality monitors money can buy. They replace them every few years, and when they come off lease I can usually snag one for cheap. They auction them off, and since I'm familiar with them all, I know which ones to buy. Life is sweet, I wish I could buy everything like that.
I can remember when 5.1 surround sound was all the rage...
But I keep wondering, when are they going to have an audio release that doesn't need to be patched to x.1 in order to work right? Can anyone tell me what was so bad about 5.0 surround sound that they had to release a fix for it right away? Couldn't they have just waited until version 6 was released?
I wonder, do they make everyone sign an agreement before they enter the theater? Or is it just assumed that by purchasing the ticket, you agree to whatever fine print they can cram onto the back of it?
ISPs require that anyone connecting to them be using Palladium. That'd pretty much be the end of the road for Free (liber) desktops.
Maybe MSFT gets the government to pass a law in the interest of national security, to prevent "hackers" from using "rogue" OSes like Linux to run amok on the internet. Apple users scream foul, but no one cares abou them since they're only 3% of the market. Corporate Unix users don't care either, because they have special "professional" level accounts with their ISPs, and aren't bounded by "consumer grade" service restrictions, and as long as their servers still work, they're happy.
Radio interference. There's a blackout for a few minutes. I forget the exact reason for this, but I think it has to do with the atmosphere heating up around the outside of the ship, turning into a plasma, and giving off lots of radio waves which interfere with transmissions.
It shouldn't be a DMCA violation. It's hardware. You're not unlocking copyrighted/copy-cripple digital content. I don't see where the DMCA would come into play.
The only way the DMCA could stop this would be if someone copyrighted the method for breaking the OC-lock, and published it in a locked digital format, and then someone broke the encryption for the documentation.
The corporate world isn't into overclocking PCs. They're into having a warranty in case the PC breaks. So while the corporate world may not care about OC locking, they're not the ones who Intel would be locking out -- which would seem to suggest that Intel *is* in fact concerned about enthusiast OCers.
If he is up there, it'll be hard for anyone to get at him...... then again, they probably could just leave him up there, and after a few months the problem would just sortof take care of itself.
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Now all they have to do is implement driver support for every piece of i386 hardware known to man, and it'll be ready to blow Windows out of the market.
For $100, I can get around 100-120GB in a 3.5" hard drive. I can't think of too many reasons I'd want to be lugging around 1.5 GB of portable storage. Music is nice I guess, but it's not worth $100 for me to have a decent-sized MP3 library I can carry around with me.
That was my initial reaction, but then I realized it was one of those fabled Russian pencils. Thank God the Russkies are lending us their pencil, as it has become cost prohibitive to send the million dollar space pens on long-range missions. They're singlehandedly making space exploration affordable again.
...But they'll all be farmed out to India... and for a lot less than I'd be willing to take to relocate to India...
Although, perhaps I can make a lot of money building the network backbone to India that will allow this to happen on a large scale.
It's not the size of your space ship that matters, but how you use it.
Can you feel me now?
Can you feel me now?
I work at a place that goes through fairly regular hardware refreshes. I happen to work as a sysadmin in the publishing division, where they tend to have the highest quality monitors money can buy. They replace them every few years, and when they come off lease I can usually snag one for cheap. They auction them off, and since I'm familiar with them all, I know which ones to buy. Life is sweet, I wish I could buy everything like that.
And when I get killed "beta-testing" a not-ready-for-prime-time automobile or something, that'll be really great!
Whatever happened to releasing a product when it's ready?
The police can easily track nude people moving about in the populace, too. So boycotting RFID'd clothing probably isn't going to help...
I rate this random number generator a... (rolls dice) 4 out of a possible 10!
I was trolling for Funny karma, but that's worthy of an informative. If I hadn't posted in this thread already I'd give you a point.
I can remember when 5.1 surround sound was all the rage...
But I keep wondering, when are they going to have an audio release that doesn't need to be patched to x.1 in order to work right? Can anyone tell me what was so bad about 5.0 surround sound that they had to release a fix for it right away? Couldn't they have just waited until version 6 was released?
I wonder, do they make everyone sign an agreement before they enter the theater? Or is it just assumed that by purchasing the ticket, you agree to whatever fine print they can cram onto the back of it?
That's not a paraphrase of Pink Floyd, it's a direct quote. Of course, the news media aren't the government... they're just in-bed-ed with them.
Or, if you're a Mac or Amiga user, so 1988...
ISPs require that anyone connecting to them be using Palladium. That'd pretty much be the end of the road for Free (liber) desktops.
Maybe MSFT gets the government to pass a law in the interest of national security, to prevent "hackers" from using "rogue" OSes like Linux to run amok on the internet. Apple users scream foul, but no one cares abou them since they're only 3% of the market. Corporate Unix users don't care either, because they have special "professional" level accounts with their ISPs, and aren't bounded by "consumer grade" service restrictions, and as long as their servers still work, they're happy.
Think it couldn't happen?
So, when they actually roll Palladium out for real, will we all be in WinHELL?
Radio interference. There's a blackout for a few minutes. I forget the exact reason for this, but I think it has to do with the atmosphere heating up around the outside of the ship, turning into a plasma, and giving off lots of radio waves which interfere with transmissions.
It shouldn't be a DMCA violation. It's hardware. You're not unlocking copyrighted/copy-cripple digital content. I don't see where the DMCA would come into play.
The only way the DMCA could stop this would be if someone copyrighted the method for breaking the OC-lock, and published it in a locked digital format, and then someone broke the encryption for the documentation.
The corporate world isn't into overclocking PCs. They're into having a warranty in case the PC breaks. So while the corporate world may not care about OC locking, they're not the ones who Intel would be locking out -- which would seem to suggest that Intel *is* in fact concerned about enthusiast OCers.
If he is up there, it'll be hard for anyone to get at him... ... then again, they probably could just leave him up there, and after a few months the problem would just sortof take care of itself.
I bet Jack Valenti is shitting his pants right about now...
I wouldn't mind having one of those to get my juices flowing, if you know what I mean. Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge.
Will they pick up non-Dell hardware?
If so, that would be really cool.
So what's the connection to Beowulf clusters? What kind of computational power do these "numbers" things have?