Wow! Now all the non-hand-coded-assembly in the distributed.net client will be faster! Imagine the incredible increase in keyrates we'll see on x86 machines!
But that doesn't change the fact that he started applying his technical skills for everything BUT Apple.
Jobs may have been the voice and face of apple, but woz was the brain. When he "left," things changed. A lot. And that's what this movie helped to show (among other things).
I was really disappointed from both a technical standpoint (obviously) and for the entertainment value. All the (loosely built-up) conflict in the movie was resolved not with plot elements but "ten years later, here's a snapshot of what happened." It was incredibly weak, even for a TV-movie.
I did think one of the "best" parts was in the last fight between Gates and Jobs. "Our product is better." "That doesn't matter." It sums up the events that happened through the whole movie and since then between Apple and the world.
I wish they had gone just two or three years more into the conflict. Wozniak leaving Apple was a big deal, and they did it in two seconds of screentime. Here was ALL the technical brain behind the startup of the company *leaving* (to start his own company, not mentioned).
Oh well.
I'd like to see the real folks take on the movie. I think that would be more interesting. I wonder what Steve Jobs thinks of the scene where his character drops acid with completely no plot justification.
This will be how they continue to remain profitable for an eighth quarter... they'll start selling their Apple I and ]['s that are sitting in the dungeon. Because everyone knows that these iMacs will stop selling once Gateway, Packard Bell, et al start selling "cute" PC's that cost half as much and run "twice as fast" (to use Jobs' benchmarks).
Wow, I love RC5 trash talk. I think it may be time for me to join a team. Slashdot sounds better and better, especially after these threats from anandtech...:)
Evidence: "Uh... will anyone please explain why the Sith Lord and Trade Federation risk everything to capture a teeny periphery planet? Can we have a clue why Naboo was important -- any hint at all? Hello?"
The TF blockade *WAS* the "Phantom Menace." To the people on the planet, it was a big deal. To everyone else, it didn't matter.. it was no "menace" at all. Or was it?
This little out-of-the-way blockade got the princess to call for the vote of No Confidence which started the ball rolling for the shit to hit the fan. Sure, they resolved the problem, but they also created a bigger one.
Anyone have experience with PatriotNet and Covad? I ordered from them about two-three weeks ago, and they haven't scheduled an install yet. They said it could take up to 8 weeks, so I'll be patient.
Anyone know of a cheap supplier where a poor, experimenting college kid could get one of these? Or, maybe you have an old one sitting around you wouldn't mind selling/giving away?:)
What's MORE frightening is that five years from now everyone will be getting email chain letters that talk about some guy who goes to a party, gets a drink, and wakes up in a bathtub full of ice without his eyeballs.
In order to see Star Wars, I have to find a theater that has an SMP.. i mean, THX system. It has to have a certain amount of client seats. It probably will get used so much that the projector will crash. And speaking of projectors, to see Star Wars 2000 (to be released in 2001?) I'll have to find someplace that has upgraded beyond what is currently available on the market (read: digital projectors).
Why, my open source (16mm) movies will play on damn near any projector, but Lucasfilms need to be in a classy establishment. Plus, his movies cost a lot more.
Darth Maul should be the next Office Assistant. "Spell check your documents. ALL of them." "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Wow, this completely set my RC5 processing farm calculations on their side. For about $20 (see pricewatch) you can get on one of these things and essentially turn a PPGA celeron into a Pentium II.
Best price/performer?
Dual Cel366 @ $466, gets ~695 blocks (2^28 keys) per day That's $0.66 per block on the first day!
Most Pentium II's average around $0.90 per block on the first day, with 450s being well over a dollar.
-Chris
[Price based on: SuperMicro P6DBE motherboard, 32MB PC100 ram, case, nic, floppy, trident video, cpus, and cpu card. Boot off a floppy disk to the network, mount a linux partition and start grinding. No network? Make a dos boot disk and put the client on it. Every once in a while, take the disk out, flush its blocks, and put the disk back in.]
Much like the two Steves did in California, Dennis spent his garage time building devices that let computers talk over phone lines. Sure, it had been done before, but now the devices were "intelligent." The Hayes command set is completely taken for granted every time your modem picks up the line and makes a call. I certainly think the company that single-handedly supported R&D for the entire modem industry through 1994 deserves a bit of credit.:)
So I read the article, and thought "Hey, cool! I use a Pilot and I run the network for all these Johns Hopkins neuro-people." Then, I realized there's no such thing as Dr. Miezkowsky. Grumble.
Maybe I should move over to the Psych department. Their researchers go on CNN. Neuro just gets made fun of in phony websites.
Hi, I'm one of the biggest star wars fans I know. Even as such, I agree with you completely.
ANH is cheezy. It was poorly casted, acted, shot, and written. ESB and ROJ only slightly less so.
HOWEVER, no movie will ever be more fun than Star Wars. It's like a wooden rollercoaster at the amusement park. Sure, there are faster, loopier steel rides, but you don't get to feel the damn thing shake you. Star Wars is the same way. Starship Troopers may have lots of eye candy and deep philosophical points about war, but Star Wars is an adventure that every kid imagines at some point. George Lucas is just the kid who got to make a movie about it and share it with everyone else, and it hit close to home.
I priced an OptiPlex a few weeks ago under the educational section of the website (it's the only place where "operating system" is a pull-down option instead of being a when-you-click-on-the-model selection. If you price systems on their website often, you know what I mean.
RedHat costs $50 more than NT and 98, which are priced the same.
What?! Michael, please give me a call and explain why this is an extra expense. Or better yet, have Bill call me, since he's obviously playing at your house.
What does a dragon have to do with KDE? He's cute and all, but there better be a good story about some developer getting eaten by one or something. A BSD Daemon makes sense. Tux can be argued to make sense. The Orioles bird makes sense. But why a dragon, guys?
It's not a function of "breaking" DNS. It's a function of making an "Open Source" DNS service. Anyone with a few root servers can start a whole hierarchy like AlterNIC did. I think with this zoo of people taking over.com,.org, and.net, it's time to support groups like AlterNIC.
I went to make modifications on the "new" NSI page the other day, and it took me longer to find the form than it used to take me to just fill the thing out and send it in. I don't care who does the main TLDs anymore, and I don't care paying. I don't care if they have a monopoly. I want ONE company with a CONSISTENT interface and CONSISTENT rules to do it so that when I want a domain, I don't have to shop around and compare. This isn't like buying hardware or software, it's registering for an entry in a database that was a hack in the first place.
Screw DNS. Lets start a new naming system to coincide with the rolling out of IPv6.
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Wow! Now all the non-hand-coded-assembly in the distributed.net client will be faster! Imagine the incredible increase in keyrates we'll see on x86 machines!
We might get a whole additional key per day!
-Chris
yadda yadda yadda.. one share of stock.
But that doesn't change the fact that he started applying his technical skills for everything BUT Apple.
Jobs may have been the voice and face of apple, but woz was the brain. When he "left," things changed. A lot. And that's what this movie helped to show (among other things).
-Chris
I was really disappointed from both a technical standpoint (obviously) and for the entertainment value. All the (loosely built-up) conflict in the movie was resolved not with plot elements but "ten years later, here's a snapshot of what happened." It was incredibly weak, even for a TV-movie.
I did think one of the "best" parts was in the last fight between Gates and Jobs. "Our product is better." "That doesn't matter." It sums up the events that happened through the whole movie and since then between Apple and the world.
I wish they had gone just two or three years more into the conflict. Wozniak leaving Apple was a big deal, and they did it in two seconds of screentime. Here was ALL the technical brain behind the startup of the company *leaving* (to start his own company, not mentioned).
Oh well.
I'd like to see the real folks take on the movie. I think that would be more interesting. I wonder what Steve Jobs thinks of the scene where his character drops acid with completely no plot justification.
-Chris
This will be how they continue to remain profitable for an eighth quarter... they'll start selling their Apple I and ]['s that are sitting in the dungeon. Because everyone knows that these iMacs will stop selling once Gateway, Packard Bell, et al start selling "cute" PC's that cost half as much and run "twice as fast" (to use Jobs' benchmarks).
:)
-Chris
... I wonder what it's RC5 rate is?
Wow, I love RC5 trash talk. I think it may be time for me to join a team. Slashdot sounds better and better, especially after these threats from anandtech... :)
-Chris
Evidence: ... will anyone please explain why the Sith Lord and Trade Federation risk everything to capture a teeny periphery planet? Can we have a clue why Naboo was important -- any hint at all? Hello?"
"Uh
The TF blockade *WAS* the "Phantom Menace." To the people on the planet, it was a big deal. To everyone else, it didn't matter.. it was no "menace" at all. Or was it?
This little out-of-the-way blockade got the princess to call for the vote of No Confidence which started the ball rolling for the shit to hit the fan. Sure, they resolved the problem, but they also created a bigger one.
-Chris
Two words: shielded cables.
-Chris
The idea of an IPO is to get money to be able to do things like that!
-Chris
3 years working for ISPs, and this is what I've learned are important dangers:
1. Never cut the long ends off zip ties used for cable bundles until AFTER you hang the cables. Otherwise your arms will not forgive you.
2. Never connect a pair from a T1 with your body. Depending on distance, there can be about 40-50 volts on there.
3. Type 66 punchdown tools. 'nuff said.
-Chris
Anyone have experience with PatriotNet and Covad? I ordered from them about two-three weeks ago, and they haven't scheduled an install yet. They said it could take up to 8 weeks, so I'll be patient.
-Chris
Aww, but Uncle Owen, I wanted more than 12 outputs! I've got a traffic light and a toaster I want to connect to the Internet for novelty's sake.
-Chris
Anyone know of a cheap supplier where a poor, experimenting college kid could get one of these? Or, maybe you have an old one sitting around you wouldn't mind selling/giving away? :)
-Chris
What's MORE frightening is that five years from now everyone will be getting email chain letters that talk about some guy who goes to a party, gets a drink, and wakes up in a bathtub full of ice without his eyeballs.
-Chris
I sent my $10K, but I guess my check got lost in the mail to Rob.
-Chris
You're right!
In order to see Star Wars, I have to find a theater that has an SMP.. i mean, THX system. It has to have a certain amount of client seats. It probably will get used so much that the projector will crash. And speaking of projectors, to see Star Wars 2000 (to be released in 2001?) I'll have to find someplace that has upgraded beyond what is currently available on the market (read: digital projectors).
Why, my open source (16mm) movies will play on damn near any projector, but Lucasfilms need to be in a classy establishment. Plus, his movies cost a lot more.
Darth Maul should be the next Office Assistant. "Spell check your documents. ALL of them." "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
-Chris
Wow, this completely set my RC5 processing farm calculations on their side. For about $20 (see pricewatch) you can get on one of these things and essentially turn a PPGA celeron into a Pentium II.
Best price/performer?
Dual Cel366 @ $466, gets ~695 blocks (2^28 keys) per day
That's $0.66 per block on the first day!
Most Pentium II's average around $0.90 per block on the first day, with 450s being well over a dollar.
-Chris
[Price based on: SuperMicro P6DBE motherboard, 32MB PC100 ram, case, nic, floppy, trident video, cpus, and cpu card. Boot off a floppy disk to the network, mount a linux partition and start grinding. No network? Make a dos boot disk and put the client on it. Every once in a while, take the disk out, flush its blocks, and put the disk back in.]
Much like the two Steves did in California, Dennis spent his garage time building devices that let computers talk over phone lines. Sure, it had been done before, but now the devices were "intelligent." The Hayes command set is completely taken for granted every time your modem picks up the line and makes a call. I certainly think the company that single-handedly supported R&D for the entire modem industry through 1994 deserves a bit of credit. :)
-Chris
So I read the article, and thought "Hey, cool! I use a Pilot and I run the network for all these Johns Hopkins neuro-people." Then, I realized there's no such thing as Dr. Miezkowsky. Grumble.
Maybe I should move over to the Psych department. Their researchers go on CNN. Neuro just gets made fun of in phony websites.
-Chris
Hi, I'm one of the biggest star wars fans I know. Even as such, I agree with you completely.
ANH is cheezy. It was poorly casted, acted, shot, and written. ESB and ROJ only slightly less so.
HOWEVER, no movie will ever be more fun than Star Wars. It's like a wooden rollercoaster at the amusement park. Sure, there are faster, loopier steel rides, but you don't get to feel the damn thing shake you. Star Wars is the same way. Starship Troopers may have lots of eye candy and deep philosophical points about war, but Star Wars is an adventure that every kid imagines at some point. George Lucas is just the kid who got to make a movie about it and share it with everyone else, and it hit close to home.
Or something like that.
-Chris
This certainly makes the current poll a lot more interesting.
-Chris
I priced an OptiPlex a few weeks ago under the educational section of the website (it's the only place where "operating system" is a pull-down option instead of being a when-you-click-on-the-model selection. If you price systems on their website often, you know what I mean.
RedHat costs $50 more than NT and 98, which are priced the same.
What?! Michael, please give me a call and explain why this is an extra expense. Or better yet, have Bill call me, since he's obviously playing at your house.
-Chris
What does a dragon have to do with KDE? He's cute and all, but there better be a good story about some developer getting eaten by one or something. A BSD Daemon makes sense. Tux can be argued to make sense. The Orioles bird makes sense. But why a dragon, guys?
-Chris
It's not a function of "breaking" DNS. It's a function of making an "Open Source" DNS service. Anyone with a few root servers can start a whole hierarchy like AlterNIC did. I think with this zoo of people taking over .com, .org, and .net, it's time to support groups like AlterNIC.
I went to make modifications on the "new" NSI page the other day, and it took me longer to find the form than it used to take me to just fill the thing out and send it in. I don't care who does the main TLDs anymore, and I don't care paying. I don't care if they have a monopoly. I want ONE company with a CONSISTENT interface and CONSISTENT rules to do it so that when I want a domain, I don't have to shop around and compare. This isn't like buying hardware or software, it's registering for an entry in a database that was a hack in the first place.
Screw DNS. Lets start a new naming system to coincide with the rolling out of IPv6.
-Chris
> If only we had the SW trilogy.
You mean the "Increasingly inaccurately named SW Trilogy," I presume?
-Chris
DAMMIT... Brazil was the first (and only DVD) I've purchased. And now they're relasing a fancier version? ARRGHHH
-Chris