It's a reference to Newspeak from 1984 by George Orwell. Enough references appear on slashdot alone to justify reading it - besides that it's a good book.
Is that I guess I'm not alone! Now I can point to this study and tell my girl, "See? It's happening to all the guys my age -- you're not cool unless you have a reduced libido!"
And in case anyone has sigs turned off, go to this URL:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Numbers might be slightly off, but the general idea is the same...
Yeah, does anyone remember the Pentium II SL2YK? It was a P2 450, but due to market demand, Intel sent them out the door labeled as P2 300s. My roommate in college bought two of them and put them in an SMP box and, sure enough, when he went into the BIOS and listed them as 450s, his machine ran great! He saved a couple hundred dollars, too.
Nope, this was on Hackaday earlier today, which is a slightly less frequented site than Slashdot. By the way, if you want your karma to go through the roof, just visit Hackaday occasionally and then submit the story here. I've been seeing quite a bit of redundancy lately!
Usually, if you slip the guy at the mix board a $20 or so, he'll let you hook up a minidisc recorder. Go home, convert the tracks to MP3, and boom - a decent live recording for about the price of a CD.
I did an internship with Intel in 2000. My roommate was in their chip division. He said that they know how to make AMD chips - they could make one if they wanted to. Likewise, AMD had all the information about Intel chips. They don't make their competitors chips out of an understood truce. That and the fact that they would get their asses sued off.
The article says that they killing the workstation Itanium line. What about the server Itanium line? I find it hard to believe that they would just throw up their hands and calls it quits - especially because they funded a fair portion of the development of the chip.
Well no doubt it's faster - otherwise they wouldn't have mentioned it. What I want to see is comparisons to CRTs. That information is not there, but maybe because it hasn't reached large enough sizes to really replace a CRT yet.
When I hunt for something on the web, I usually refer to the search as Googling - I almost always use Google to find whatever information I'm looking for. A9 doesn't really work as well. For example: Before Other student: Hey, cool page - where'd you find it? Me: I Googled for it. After Other student: Hey, cool page - where'd you find it? Me: I A9'd for it.
They keep saying they have excellent respone time, but how fast is it? To quote TFA: "As OLED works with self-luminous organic materials, it has outstanding response time, without producing any afterimage even when displaying moving images (movies)." I think LCD screens make the same claims, although they actually can and do leave afterimages a lot of the time, making fast moving games, like first person shooters, very difficult to enjoy.
All this talk about software patents made me do a little digging, and I found a (pretty good) site relating to them: http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/
are what happens when our legislators make laws about things they know nothing about. It seems utterly ridiculous to me that someone could claim that, without a doubt, they are the first person to have come up with a certain algorithm. I mean, only brilliant people actually come up with anything that's worth patenting, yet somehow some lines of code, a for loop or some such stupid thing, ends up getting patented which sums up ranges of numbers. It's beyond me why any software patent exists unless it is a truly outstanding piece of work (i.e. cryptography algorithms, non-obvious sorting algorithms, etc).
I think Gentoo has a PPC ISO. I'm not 100% on that, though. I figured I'd install Linux on my Mac just to try it out, but then I found Fink. It was really all I needed.
David Cross is definitely one of the lesser known hackers of the world. But he's contributed to FreeBSD and fixed bugs with NFS - he's also doing a little filesystem work in his free time.. He's really the guy that keeps everything running smoothly in the RPI Computer Science Department. So I'll just give him a tip of my hat and be on my way.
Well, if memory serves, it actually wasn't moved up to the highest priority level. NT was one of the only operating systems to use the four ring priority architecture that Intel provided. Most (all?) unices only use 0 (kernel) and 3 (user-space). NT used 0 for all kernel stuff, 1 for the graphics driver, 2 for all other drivers, and 3 for user-space programs.
I had the same problem when I wanted to install Garage Band on my dual G4. My girlfriend had an iBook with a DVD drive, though. Just connect your director's computer to yours via ethernet (Airport would be really slow for this, I suggest 100Mb), turn on sharing, and install it on your computer from his.
Seriously, I hear anti-spam sentiments every day on here. I hate spam myself, but it's semi-tolerable and it only takes 1-2 minutes a day to sort it out from the real e-mail I get. But when I get ~5 piece of printed real mail, well, doesn't anyone seem to mind that? So over the course of a year, I would get approximately 1500 piece of physical junk mail, and that must kill a bunch of trees I would think. I would actually prefer spam to printed junk. I am a quasi-environmentalist, though...
I heard this rumor while I was in high school about some guy that Microsoft locked in a closet and they made him write Windows NT. This rumor stayed in my head for years, until I interned with Intel in 2000. I asked the group (OS research) if they had ever heard of anything so crazy, and they said that basically, one guy did write the NT kernel - though a lot of it was borrowed from VMS. As to whether or not he was locked in a closet - I guess the world will never know!:)
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Maybe from the Bastard Operator From Hell!!!
It's a reference to Newspeak from 1984 by George Orwell. Enough references appear on slashdot alone to justify reading it - besides that it's a good book.
Is that I guess I'm not alone! Now I can point to this study and tell my girl, "See? It's happening to all the guys my age -- you're not cool unless you have a reduced libido!"
And in case anyone has sigs turned off, go to this URL: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ Numbers might be slightly off, but the general idea is the same...
Yeah, does anyone remember the Pentium II SL2YK? It was a P2 450, but due to market demand, Intel sent them out the door labeled as P2 300s. My roommate in college bought two of them and put them in an SMP box and, sure enough, when he went into the BIOS and listed them as 450s, his machine ran great! He saved a couple hundred dollars, too.
Nope, this was on Hackaday earlier today, which is a slightly less frequented site than Slashdot. By the way, if you want your karma to go through the roof, just visit Hackaday occasionally and then submit the story here. I've been seeing quite a bit of redundancy lately!
At the bottom of TFA:
Screen Capture #5
Jack Rabbit Vibrator Features
This message describes the features of one "Jack Rabbit Vibrator," a 7.5" Multi-Speed toy of sorts.
What are the odds of finding that?
...keep in mind that Darwin has no practical use beyond its basis for OS X.
Most operating systems have no practical use except for running applications written for them. What's your point?
Usually, if you slip the guy at the mix board a $20 or so, he'll let you hook up a minidisc recorder. Go home, convert the tracks to MP3, and boom - a decent live recording for about the price of a CD.
I did an internship with Intel in 2000. My roommate was in their chip division. He said that they know how to make AMD chips - they could make one if they wanted to. Likewise, AMD had all the information about Intel chips. They don't make their competitors chips out of an understood truce. That and the fact that they would get their asses sued off.
The article says that they killing the workstation Itanium line. What about the server Itanium line? I find it hard to believe that they would just throw up their hands and calls it quits - especially because they funded a fair portion of the development of the chip.
before the Wongs move in and start raising buggalo.
for people to click the link in my sig, this is it! ;)
Click away people, I need an iPod!
Well no doubt it's faster - otherwise they wouldn't have mentioned it. What I want to see is comparisons to CRTs. That information is not there, but maybe because it hasn't reached large enough sizes to really replace a CRT yet.
When I hunt for something on the web, I usually refer to the search as Googling - I almost always use Google to find whatever information I'm looking for. A9 doesn't really work as well. For example:
Before
Other student: Hey, cool page - where'd you find it?
Me: I Googled for it.
After
Other student: Hey, cool page - where'd you find it?
Me: I A9'd for it.
Yeah, definitely feels wrong...
They keep saying they have excellent respone time, but how fast is it? To quote TFA: "As OLED works with self-luminous organic materials, it has outstanding response time, without producing any afterimage even when displaying moving images (movies)." I think LCD screens make the same claims, although they actually can and do leave afterimages a lot of the time, making fast moving games, like first person shooters, very difficult to enjoy.
All this talk about software patents made me do a little digging, and I found a (pretty good) site relating to them:
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/
are what happens when our legislators make laws about things they know nothing about. It seems utterly ridiculous to me that someone could claim that, without a doubt, they are the first person to have come up with a certain algorithm. I mean, only brilliant people actually come up with anything that's worth patenting, yet somehow some lines of code, a for loop or some such stupid thing, ends up getting patented which sums up ranges of numbers. It's beyond me why any software patent exists unless it is a truly outstanding piece of work (i.e. cryptography algorithms, non-obvious sorting algorithms, etc).
I think Gentoo has a PPC ISO. I'm not 100% on that, though. I figured I'd install Linux on my Mac just to try it out, but then I found Fink. It was really all I needed.
David Cross is definitely one of the lesser known hackers of the world. But he's contributed to FreeBSD and fixed bugs with NFS - he's also doing a little filesystem work in his free time.. He's really the guy that keeps everything running smoothly in the RPI Computer Science Department. So I'll just give him a tip of my hat and be on my way.
Well, if memory serves, it actually wasn't moved up to the highest priority level. NT was one of the only operating systems to use the four ring priority architecture that Intel provided. Most (all?) unices only use 0 (kernel) and 3 (user-space). NT used 0 for all kernel stuff, 1 for the graphics driver, 2 for all other drivers, and 3 for user-space programs.
I had the same problem when I wanted to install Garage Band on my dual G4. My girlfriend had an iBook with a DVD drive, though. Just connect your director's computer to yours via ethernet (Airport would be really slow for this, I suggest 100Mb), turn on sharing, and install it on your computer from his.
Seriously, I hear anti-spam sentiments every day on here. I hate spam myself, but it's semi-tolerable and it only takes 1-2 minutes a day to sort it out from the real e-mail I get. But when I get ~5 piece of printed real mail, well, doesn't anyone seem to mind that? So over the course of a year, I would get approximately 1500 piece of physical junk mail, and that must kill a bunch of trees I would think. I would actually prefer spam to printed junk. I am a quasi-environmentalist, though...
I heard this rumor while I was in high school about some guy that Microsoft locked in a closet and they made him write Windows NT. This rumor stayed in my head for years, until I interned with Intel in 2000. I asked the group (OS research) if they had ever heard of anything so crazy, and they said that basically, one guy did write the NT kernel - though a lot of it was borrowed from VMS. As to whether or not he was locked in a closet - I guess the world will never know! :)
or Monaco!
Oh wait, that's a principality...