one guy posting articles trying to get his PDA slashdotted and I can't even afford an entry level PDA... In case the person who submitted the article sees this:
if you have that much money to throw away, can I have enough for a 4MB PDA? (Palm or PocketPC based matters not, just needs 4MB, handwriting support, and enough docs so I can write apps in c/c++ and upload them to the thing.)
granted i've never used SCO myself, but if you're gonna buy a flavor of unix or what not, and don't want to develop and/or support it, the least you could do is release it to the public for free. I like my little OS collection on CD, and I wouldn't mind adding another one to the heap.
Consider the company AMD recently required (Alchemy)... Imagine an XP 2100+, clawhammer, sledgehammer, or what not running say 10 Watts *MAX* and they'd own the technology. Let's see Intel try to keep up with that. Not to mention keep all the trolls who complain about AMD's chips being hot quiet. As it is, with my modest heatsink/fan combo my Athlon XP 1800+ is so cool that with my bare feet next to the open side of the case I don't feel any heat. The power usage and heat issue is such nonsense, unless you didn't bother spending money on a decent tower with a decent power supply. And if you did that, that's your fault, not AMD's.
I know Mozilla didn't have some of the bugs that Netscape 6.x did have (or still does?). From all I've heard Mozilla is faster, small memory footprint, etc. than Netscape. I'm talking about Netscape 7 specifically!
As it is, I decided to see how Netscape 7 PR1 handled on my XP 1800+ w/ 256MB PC2100... only using 33MB right now. Seems reasonably good so far, but I'll have to play with it for a while longer before I make my final decision was to whether to keep it installed and replace 4.79 with it.
Did they fix the java or javascript or whatever major bug I heard about in 6.x? Does it suck down resources (I have 384MB on my laptop and 256MB on my main machine, so 64MB max wouldn't be too bad, but *STILL* not desirable) ? Does it have that insane startup time? What size is it under MacOS X (10GB HD on a laptop goes by quick!) ?
Don't get me wrong, I'm on 4.79 now and I use netscape plenty, but my reasons for not using 6.x have to do with the above. If they can't trim the size down and make it as speedy, or speedier than 4.7, then count me out for trying 7.x.
actually i meant the article posted on slashdot is nonsense and yes, i didn't read the link til a few moments ago when i read a few sentences, but that's not what i was talking about.
i'm not an expert on spintronics, but from what i read, sounds like it's better used as memory devices, than logic devices, but i'm sure if that is the case, it can be adapted to work as more than just smaller flip flops. in such a case, it would certainly be faster than using today's MOSFETs, in which case the worry about the end of innovation for CMOS means nothing.
nanotechnology is certainly an alternative to CMOS as i understand it. i mean from a presentation (from a group of students who researched it) i heard at my university, all of today's cryptography is worthless with the speed and abilities of nanotechnology. now assuming that's at least somewhat true, even if exaggerated a bit, it's still far faster than anything we have today. so again, the CMOS concern means zilch.
and when fiber interconnects come out (remember this article?) in mass, and if it catches on, i imagine there will be a big incentive to use it for more than just interconnects.
so regardless of the concern, mankind finds ways to adapt. just like the worry over no more oil and depletion of the ozone layer... man is so proud and arrogant, we actually believe we have the ability to kill the planet off, or reach a pinnacle of technology from which we can't go further. both are in error.
People paid $100's for Intel chips years ago and then AMD, Cyrix, IDT, etc. started making chips cheaper with reasonable and often competitive speeds (mostly from AMD) and now a 1GHz CPU + low end board is We're not really in trouble there because we've had engines and technology capable of giving us 70+ mpg for years now. It's just that oil companies think using such technologies would hurt them economically, so they bought out the various technologies to hush them up.
Of course, the oil companies could get together with car makers to make a special gas derivative that wouldn't work on normal cars without an expensive adapter, but would work on new cars with engines capable of 70+ mpg (and i'm talking more than what hybrid cars get now mileage wise). Then they could make such gas more expensive than regular gas so that you'd still pay the same price and oil companies still make big bucks, but decrease fuel consumption.
Then of course there's hybrid cars now using electronics to help consumption that could be combined with the above to get even more efficiency.
And there's the super capacitor idea my friend read about and told me about 5+ years ago.
So depletion of oil reserves isn't really a problem at all imho.
I just wish I could get a couple wireless network PCI cards for $5-$10 each for my PC and my friend's PC (that would connect with an airport card on a mac) that would work say half a mile away, have encryption, and get at least 2Mbit, if not 10Mbit or more. That way we could share folders and not have to go to each other's houses every time we want to share some kewl program or video we found.
that the reason there's so many lame stories like this on slashdot is that there's usually several new topics every day, and so to keep that going, they sometimes have to put this nonsense up, just to keep things interesting... you know, kind of like a lot of the liberal mass media in America, *OOPS* was that out loud?:)
Now if they could put 10/100/1000 + Firewall + NIDS on a NIC (with say 64MB flash for logging purposes) that'd be interesting, albeit expensive. But in that case I'd just wait for it to come down to a reasonable price and be integrated into the chipset of the latest & greatest motherboards.
intel being outclassed with their own architecture... they start something over 20 years ago, drop it to do something new, and end up watching AMD's success or failure on x86-64 to see if they should ride AMD's coat-tails. i love it:)
guess that means for those occasional FreeBSD ISOs and such I download I'll have to do that on campus... the university is certainly charging enough that I ought to be able to use that much bandwidth from time to time:)
but still i wish time warner wasn't going that route, i rather like being able to use as much bandwidth as i need every month. it'd be nice if they'd let it rollover at least a little each month... just in case i need some more one month over another!
Forget OS/2 for me. I want it for my iBook so I can run OS X and Win98. Now granted some may say "If you want windows just use windows." But I like an all-in-one kind of thing. My iBook is my only portable and I like all the many features of OS X, but there's sometimes I just want to play Descent 1 (yes, I said Descent 1, old 3d dos game), use the old win 3.0 copy I got for $1, or something like that. But sadly, even though I have an extra copy of win98 lying around (thru my university's deal with MS) I don't have $100 for the DOS version of VPC:/
... is playing catchup technology wise with AMD. First Intel is considering making their own 64bit x86 CPU if the Hammer family takes off. Now they're jumping on the DDR bandwagon. Which is not to mention them having to play catchup in the P3 vs. Athlon game that went on for a few months. AMD may not have the economic lead, but technologically they've got Intel beat several times over. I wonder when we'll get leaks about what the K9 family will offer because it's doubtful Intel will come up with anything superior before then worth looking at:)
broadband usage among internet users is up around 50, 60, 70%... So then ISPs will have more of an incentive to offer broadband INSTEAD of dial-up and have a real price war:)
Without replying at the bottom of the thread... Do you really need to see links to believe AMD licenses x86? Intel could get AMD legally for reverse engineering x86 and selling their own. AMD has licensed x86 for a while and quite obviously except for new things like SSE and all, AMD can go on previous Intel documents and their own previous processors to build new ones without having to "reverse engineer" it.
I think since the FBI typically has some idea what kids are doing it and where they should watch the kids and just start fining their parents for what the kids do (or if the parents can't afford millions a hefty percentage of the damage).
Seems to me historically (for better or for worse) that if you hit people in the pocketbook they'll be more active in helping a cause. I mean it's like what I heard about Sweden (iirc) giving traffic fines based on income. If all of a sudden that millionaire has to pay $100,000 for going 10 mph over the speed limit instead of say $100 or so, they'll more likely get the message.
Working for a security company to probe for weaknesses and help make things more secure is a kewl thing, but things like what happened to grc.com in the past are lame.
What I'd rather see is flash memory, magnetic RAM, and other non-volatile memories, become dirt cheap for a few GBs worth and with a data path of 128bits at least and preferably more. And of course a processor that had a 128bit or higher data path would be a good compliment to it too.
Sadly though, I know increases in technology are incremental so that these are only dreams right now.
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one guy posting articles trying to get his PDA slashdotted and I can't even afford an entry level PDA... In case the person who submitted the article sees this:
if you have that much money to throw away, can I have enough for a 4MB PDA? (Palm or PocketPC based matters not, just needs 4MB, handwriting support, and enough docs so I can write apps in c/c++ and upload them to the thing.)
granted i've never used SCO myself, but if you're gonna buy a flavor of unix or what not, and don't want to develop and/or support it, the least you could do is release it to the public for free. I like my little OS collection on CD, and I wouldn't mind adding another one to the heap.
Consider the company AMD recently required (Alchemy)... Imagine an XP 2100+, clawhammer, sledgehammer, or what not running say 10 Watts *MAX* and they'd own the technology. Let's see Intel try to keep up with that. Not to mention keep all the trolls who complain about AMD's chips being hot quiet. As it is, with my modest heatsink/fan combo my Athlon XP 1800+ is so cool that with my bare feet next to the open side of the case I don't feel any heat. The power usage and heat issue is such nonsense, unless you didn't bother spending money on a decent tower with a decent power supply. And if you did that, that's your fault, not AMD's.
Mozilla != Netscape
I know Mozilla didn't have some of the bugs that Netscape 6.x did have (or still does?). From all I've heard Mozilla is faster, small memory footprint, etc. than Netscape. I'm talking about Netscape 7 specifically!
As it is, I decided to see how Netscape 7 PR1 handled on my XP 1800+ w/ 256MB PC2100... only using 33MB right now. Seems reasonably good so far, but I'll have to play with it for a while longer before I make my final decision was to whether to keep it installed and replace 4.79 with it.
Did they fix the java or javascript or whatever major bug I heard about in 6.x? Does it suck down resources (I have 384MB on my laptop and 256MB on my main machine, so 64MB max wouldn't be too bad, but *STILL* not desirable) ? Does it have that insane startup time? What size is it under MacOS X (10GB HD on a laptop goes by quick!) ?
Don't get me wrong, I'm on 4.79 now and I use netscape plenty, but my reasons for not using 6.x have to do with the above. If they can't trim the size down and make it as speedy, or speedier than 4.7, then count me out for trying 7.x.
actually i meant the article posted on slashdot is nonsense and yes, i didn't read the link til a few moments ago when i read a few sentences, but that's not what i was talking about.
i'm not an expert on spintronics, but from what i read, sounds like it's better used as memory devices, than logic devices, but i'm sure if that is the case, it can be adapted to work as more than just smaller flip flops. in such a case, it would certainly be faster than using today's MOSFETs, in which case the worry about the end of innovation for CMOS means nothing.
nanotechnology is certainly an alternative to CMOS as i understand it. i mean from a presentation (from a group of students who researched it) i heard at my university, all of today's cryptography is worthless with the speed and abilities of nanotechnology. now assuming that's at least somewhat true, even if exaggerated a bit, it's still far faster than anything we have today. so again, the CMOS concern means zilch.
and when fiber interconnects come out (remember this article?) in mass, and if it catches on, i imagine there will be a big incentive to use it for more than just interconnects.
so regardless of the concern, mankind finds ways to adapt. just like the worry over no more oil and depletion of the ozone layer... man is so proud and arrogant, we actually believe we have the ability to kill the planet off, or reach a pinnacle of technology from which we can't go further. both are in error.
1) spintronics
2) nanotechnology
3) fiber optic interconnects
This article means squat.
People paid $100's for Intel chips years ago and then AMD, Cyrix, IDT, etc. started making chips cheaper with reasonable and often competitive speeds (mostly from AMD) and now a 1GHz CPU + low end board is We're not really in trouble there because we've had engines and technology capable of giving us 70+ mpg for years now. It's just that oil companies think using such technologies would hurt them economically, so they bought out the various technologies to hush them up.
Of course, the oil companies could get together with car makers to make a special gas derivative that wouldn't work on normal cars without an expensive adapter, but would work on new cars with engines capable of 70+ mpg (and i'm talking more than what hybrid cars get now mileage wise). Then they could make such gas more expensive than regular gas so that you'd still pay the same price and oil companies still make big bucks, but decrease fuel consumption.
Then of course there's hybrid cars now using electronics to help consumption that could be combined with the above to get even more efficiency.
And there's the super capacitor idea my friend read about and told me about 5+ years ago.
So depletion of oil reserves isn't really a problem at all imho.
I just wish I could get a couple wireless network PCI cards for $5-$10 each for my PC and my friend's PC (that would connect with an airport card on a mac) that would work say half a mile away, have encryption, and get at least 2Mbit, if not 10Mbit or more. That way we could share folders and not have to go to each other's houses every time we want to share some kewl program or video we found.
I think I'd rather see Episode 3, I'm very curious how Lucas is going to top himself.
I could get my agency to spend some money on a couple of those :)
that the reason there's so many lame stories like this on slashdot is that there's usually several new topics every day, and so to keep that going, they sometimes have to put this nonsense up, just to keep things interesting... you know, kind of like a lot of the liberal mass media in America, *OOPS* was that out loud? :)
Flops = FLoating point OPerationS.
Now if they could put 10/100/1000 + Firewall + NIDS on a NIC (with say 64MB flash for logging purposes) that'd be interesting, albeit expensive. But in that case I'd just wait for it to come down to a reasonable price and be integrated into the chipset of the latest & greatest motherboards.
intel being outclassed with their own architecture... they start something over 20 years ago, drop it to do something new, and end up watching AMD's success or failure on x86-64 to see if they should ride AMD's coat-tails. i love it :)
guess that means for those occasional FreeBSD ISOs and such I download I'll have to do that on campus... the university is certainly charging enough that I ought to be able to use that much bandwidth from time to time :)
but still i wish time warner wasn't going that route, i rather like being able to use as much bandwidth as i need every month. it'd be nice if they'd let it rollover at least a little each month... just in case i need some more one month over another!
Forget OS/2 for me. I want it for my iBook so I can run OS X and Win98. Now granted some may say "If you want windows just use windows." But I like an all-in-one kind of thing. My iBook is my only portable and I like all the many features of OS X, but there's sometimes I just want to play Descent 1 (yes, I said Descent 1, old 3d dos game), use the old win 3.0 copy I got for $1, or something like that. But sadly, even though I have an extra copy of win98 lying around (thru my university's deal with MS) I don't have $100 for the DOS version of VPC :/
Granted the GPRs are being extended from 32bits to 64bits, but more than that it's x86-64 because it has 64 bit *ADDRESSING*.
... is playing catchup technology wise with AMD. First Intel is considering making their own 64bit x86 CPU if the Hammer family takes off. Now they're jumping on the DDR bandwagon. Which is not to mention them having to play catchup in the P3 vs. Athlon game that went on for a few months. AMD may not have the economic lead, but technologically they've got Intel beat several times over. I wonder when we'll get leaks about what the K9 family will offer because it's doubtful Intel will come up with anything superior before then worth looking at :)
broadband usage among internet users is up around 50, 60, 70%... So then ISPs will have more of an incentive to offer broadband INSTEAD of dial-up and have a real price war :)
Without replying at the bottom of the thread... Do you really need to see links to believe AMD licenses x86? Intel could get AMD legally for reverse engineering x86 and selling their own. AMD has licensed x86 for a while and quite obviously except for new things like SSE and all, AMD can go on previous Intel documents and their own previous processors to build new ones without having to "reverse engineer" it.
I think since the FBI typically has some idea what kids are doing it and where they should watch the kids and just start fining their parents for what the kids do (or if the parents can't afford millions a hefty percentage of the damage).
Seems to me historically (for better or for worse) that if you hit people in the pocketbook they'll be more active in helping a cause. I mean it's like what I heard about Sweden (iirc) giving traffic fines based on income. If all of a sudden that millionaire has to pay $100,000 for going 10 mph over the speed limit instead of say $100 or so, they'll more likely get the message.
Just one man's perspective...
Working for a security company to probe for weaknesses and help make things more secure is a kewl thing, but things like what happened to grc.com in the past are lame.
forget one P4, I want to see a dual Athlon MP 2000+ system overclocked to 3.5GHz each :)
... with those who say "who cares."
What I'd rather see is flash memory, magnetic RAM, and other non-volatile memories, become dirt cheap for a few GBs worth and with a data path of 128bits at least and preferably more. And of course a processor that had a 128bit or higher data path would be a good compliment to it too.
Sadly though, I know increases in technology are incremental so that these are only dreams right now.