I cant afford one of these - but if they made just a plugin PCI board for K6 or Athlon, that would be even better - I have some 'old' processors just dying to be used to expand my current setup.
I'm sure I'm not the only one - I bet a lot of businesses could use a configurable PCI processor plugin to soup up their machines.
If it can be done for G3's it must be able to be done with other processors..
It is the consumers and small retailers that get hurt.
Besides which, patent concerns are for now, and the foreseeable future, not something that will go away. To talk about devices without patent concerns is optimistic.. If they don't have them at first, someone will do what Rambus Inc. is doing, and we will have the same situation again - at the cost to the little people.
While I would like to agree about innovation overcoming any obstacle, it can, IMHO, only do so in a relatively competitive field - hence having to be proactive against certain OS / Office-app. producers, and possibly with the likes of Rambus Inc. too
NB - Cynicism is sophistication. Sophism doesn't work... I still like the sig though.
Having read through about 50 messages on the thread handilly linked to anonymously, I found some of the original flames, and a lot of stuff posted since then.
It seems to me that the flames served their purpose - everything in reply was civilised and co-operative, and an awfull lot of discussion, and quite a bit of work seems to be getting done.
I am particularly impressed with the way that everybody is handling the meatier questions of design - with a mixture of intuition, KISS, reusing what is available (where helpful only), looking at each others code, and setting it up for general future use.
I am left wondering if that is what happens all the time after a flame, or if/. (and presumably others) have had a calmic (karmic?) effect by putting up the hysterical headline they did, and forcing the debate into the 'public' eye.
If so, you could say that the/. flame has had it's desired effect too.
Whatever the reasons, this is good, clear evidence (to any heretics out there) of the workings of open-source, and the self-correcting system of open debates that surround it.
If there's only him allowed up, and not his other half, how much is he unofficially paying to do the *one* thing everybody really wants to try in zero-gravity?
And has Mircrorp got a special Stewardess Training Programme, or do they not take part in the, umm, delicate? negotiations..
1 madmen (a-la "Fools! I will destroy you all!") 2 mad women (see above) 3 ambitious corporate types ("Embrace and extend") 4 World powers 5 Teenagers told not to by their parents.
Get rid of the first 4, use contraceptives, or try reverse pschology, and we'll be OK. I know where I'm starting..
NB - only number 5 is the real joke. Even then, be careful.
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I'm sure I'm not the only one - I bet a lot of businesses could use a configurable PCI processor plugin to soup up their machines.
If it can be done for G3's it must be able to be done with other processors..
Anyone seen anything along those lines?
Besides which, patent concerns are for now, and the foreseeable future, not something that will go away.
To talk about devices without patent concerns is optimistic.. If they don't have them at first, someone will do what Rambus Inc. is doing, and we will have the same situation again - at the cost to the little people.
While I would like to agree about innovation overcoming any obstacle, it can, IMHO, only do so in a relatively competitive field - hence having to be proactive against certain OS / Office-app. producers, and possibly with the likes of Rambus Inc. too
NB - Cynicism is sophistication. Sophism doesn't work... I still like the sig though.
The URL's for the DoJ's antitrust dept are: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/contact/emails.htm and http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/contact/newca se.htm
- the first is general contact email addresses, the second is for new cases.
I am sending my first email to the newcases officeand I'm not even American - send yours now, too, or they will ignore it till it is too late.
It seems to me that the flames served their purpose - everything in reply was civilised and co-operative, and an awfull lot of discussion, and quite a bit of work seems to be getting done.
I am particularly impressed with the way that everybody is handling the meatier questions of design - with a mixture of intuition, KISS, reusing what is available (where helpful only), looking at each others code, and setting it up for general future use.
I am left wondering if that is what happens all the time after a flame, or if /. (and presumably others) have had a calmic (karmic?) effect by putting up the hysterical headline they did, and forcing the debate into the 'public' eye.
If so, you could say that the /. flame has had it's desired effect too.
Whatever the reasons, this is good, clear evidence (to any heretics out there) of the workings of open-source, and the self-correcting system of open debates that surround it.
- besides, I think it's Linus' choice as to whether to have the _big_ operation or not.
" and I could dole out as little as five microlitres with only about 40% error"
- serves me right for scanning through the text too fast
NB - is that "i like your sig, btw" your sig? - that would be nifty..
Moderator -bait
It is clearly not working.
Perhaps you are, in fact, just baiting yourself? :)
A passed master...
-Sorry - football in America or American football?
I guess I should stop posting sober ;-)
And has Mircrorp got a special Stewardess Training Programme, or do they not take part in the, umm, delicate? negotiations..
yeah, yeah, I know, it's not important except for the price of it...
stuffy! [large huff] Harumph! [/large huff]
-- everything has worth, though only some of can be given a value --
And I have a bridge at a very reasonable price..I think you may be interested..
1 madmen (a-la "Fools! I will destroy you all!")
2 mad women (see above)
3 ambitious corporate types ("Embrace and extend")
4 World powers
5 Teenagers told not to by their parents.
Get rid of the first 4, use contraceptives, or try reverse pschology, and we'll be OK.
I know where I'm starting..
NB - only number 5 is the real joke. Even then, be careful.
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and about Flash - SVG looks far more promising (already)- and it's an XML subtype.
You can't base what's coming on what has come before - not in on the web, anyway.