They did not add the OS, they added the kernel. Big difference. Remove all of the GNU tools and what can you do with the kernel?? What shell would you use??
If the FSF had really been like M$, they would have sold the GNU tools to pay for HURD development and released the Hurd as "Linux XP".
The kernel != the OS. If God makes the body, and the Devil makes the feet, do we worship the devil for creating man?? If GOD makes the body and the devil the brain??
Linux the kernel would not have been born without the FSF. Their history of internet development, their principles of shared source, and their guiding principles have kept Linux on track. Without the FSF Linux would probably be lockedaway in a room at IBM even had it managed to get finished.
To Stallman this becomes bigger than it needs to be because Linus has no moral center when it comes to the world of Proprietary software. This is most likely because he never lived in a world where software was free.
The environmentalist looks at a subdivision and says "I wonder if anybody remembers when this was all just open land..." Stallman remembers when it was all just information, free and open.
"Linux is the kernel. Redhat is a distribution, GNU is a software house. How hard are these to understand?"
The stupidity of this statement lies in the fact that you have incorrectly id'ed the kernel as the OS. I assume that you consider yourself technically literate, so why do you confuse the kernel with the OS?? So continue to lionize Torvalds while demonizing Stallman if you must, but time will tell who was the true champion of the cause.
And for all of the "GNU couldn't exist without Linux" people out there, without "gcc" Linux couldn't compile. How much success could Torvalds had without a C compiler?? Glibc, BASH, etc... So all the GNU did was produce the necessary tools, and this distracted them from creating a next generation kernel. Meanwhile some guy does a this-generation Monolithic kernel faster (of course) and he's the great hero of the day.
There are two sides to every story, but don't even know one of them.
I work for a newspaper where we had all X-mas bonuses cut by management. The Newspaper Association took the company to task, and now they have been rolled into our normal pay. Hence, even though I am not a union worker, I got a 2% pay increase this year.
An interesting note, management had their bonuses cut shortly afterwards...
"I'm not an extremist," said Robert Regular, vice president of sales and marketing at New York-based digital advertising firm Cydoor. "But all this talk of spyware is the equivalent of elevating one bad seed, and it's having negative consequences on the good software. The public doesn't have time to investigate if it's negative software; they'll just stop downloading...I would hate to think we could reach a point that, whenever a dialog box comes up and says, 'Do you want to do this,' bells go off and people become worried."
As I recall, wasn't Cydoor originally Radiate which was initially Aureate, etc... These f**ks have consistently been one of the worst companies out there for being spyware. Can anyone name the program Cydoor makes?? No, cause it just sits there logging the URL's you go to, and serving ads in games like Drug Wars etc...
These were the people who turned me off to spyware from the beginning. Or should I say "The Bad Seed"....
It is not illegal to remove the OS from the computer, It is illegal to put an OEM version of that OS on another machine. Now, assuming the original owner can't use the license because he ahs given away the PC, it seems reasonable that he give it to the schools so they can use it.
"it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC" change must to should. What they are concerned about is getting the old PC with a non-share-denied copy of Win ME used to upgrade. Or even the official OEM OS without the proper licenses.
When the BSA audits a school: MS: Win 3.1?? Have a license? EDU: No, it came with the PC. MS: Then you should have the certificate... EDU: No, it came with the PC, we didn't get a certificate... MS: Then you have to upgrade that machine to WinXP. EDU: But it won't run XP... MS: But we don't sell Win 3.1 licenses anymore.
Tada!
My experience was years ago, 97-98ish, and I was working with an inner city HSchool to help underprivelaged kids build their own computer. My consulting and Win95 upgrades left me with alot of older hardware. I thought Linux from the start, but decided to try getting some Win3.1 licenses for these machines.
I first asked for "Donated licenses", denied. Asked for an educational or bulk discount, denied. MS'es final answer, $100 per PC for Win 3.1. When I told MS to shove it, their local rep came and scared the school out of allowing the project.
"PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC. They may do so"
First you have to and then you may?? Which is it??
What if you donate parts?? Hey, I've got some SIMMS! Do you have a Microsoft license for them?? No... They're Simms.... Sorry, we must decline.
People who get their information from one biased source deserve bad information. GIGO...
While this is true, there are alot of devices on the market and coming to market that are designed to alleviate this problem. My own experimenting with a Twiddler showed that I was not ready to give up my nice open keyboard layout.
This seems to be a good idea, as they plan on providing "enclosures" and "cradles" to turn the CPU unit into a notebook, PC, or PDA. However, it will ether run on notebook components, which generally sacrifice speed for low power consumption, or PC components which would suck the batteries dry in seconds. Notebook HDD's are where you notice the greatest amount of slowness.
So here's the rub: You get this new doo-maflaggie with it's big ol' 10 GB HD, and now you can take your information with you. But how much of that HD are you lugging WinXP on?? 1 GB. Office adds 500MB, etc... So out of that 10 GB perhaps 6GB is actually available for data and 4GB is programs. (Sad but true)
More to the point, why lug an entire computer?? Wireless accesss might be nice, but where? I can plop it into my cradle at work and have a full fledged PC, but why not have the PC there and just plug in my data?? I can put it in a notebook enclosure, but then why not just have a notebook. On and on and on....
The real answer is not computers that can be lugged everywhere, no matter how small they become, but data that can be mobile. 7 years with the web and still no easy way to synch bookmarks between your work computer and home computer. Idiotic ain't it??
AT&T Broadband offers blazing speeds that you can't use! ~Their new ad
Honestly, how many of us got broadband because our e-mail was taking 15 seconds to download as opposed to 10 seconds?? I got it for a big fat pipe that I could use to download warez, movies, and anyhting else I can. I would be willing to bet that even the 1-2MB per month customers got Broadband "thinking" they would be doing all of these same things.
But I now see a new way to destroy my enemies with Broadband. Ping floods, large e-mail attachments, etc... They'll be bankrupt in a year or two.
This is nothing new for AOL though, they are the home of "Unlimited Dial-Up, but don't leave your computer for more than 5 minutes or we'll shut you down."
Hmmm, the article seems to make a BIG point out of the fact that losing the A root would be non-catastrophic. Indeed, they mention that 8 of 13 roots would have to be down before the average user would notice the slowdown. It's nice to know the users here aren't the only ones who like to post without reading the article.
But the article further goes to mention how important the Internet is to our economy. Is this true?? I don't really think of the internet as critical infrastructure.
If the Net went down tomorrow, and was down for a week, would this really affect the economy in a signifigant way?? (Well, aside from the panic of investors...)
I understand that more and more comapnies are using the Net in a part of their workflows, but I don't think the internet provides and unique service that couldn't be done without.
E-mail: Use the phones. Web: Read a book
Any data that is transferred could just as easily go by modem.
The internet serves as a convenience in many ways, but I dont think this almost 10 year old (less in the corporate mind) bit of infrastructure has become crucial to us yet. It has really been just the last few years that anybody started doing anything with the net at all, and mostly that has been VPN and changing communication methods. (i.e. Use the net instead of UUCP and a modem.)
So, my question is, what kind of critical services would be missing if the net suddenly went away. Sorry, I do not consider e-mail a critical service.
(The graphs are interesting because they show the OS X version to be much slower than the Windows version. Yet because the competition is worse on Mac, Mozilla feels much better there for some reason, on much slower hardware than my Winbox.)
Looking at a page load graph doesn't tell you the average machine used. I.E. If their Win2k box is a Pentium 2GHZ and the OSX box is a G4 800MHZ, etc... One could have faster disks, more memory, be running less applications, any number of things.
A better question might be "Why is there a big spike up for all of the platforms over the last few days??" Another might be "What does the IE graph look like??"
Win boxen are moving to the terminally slow anyhow. Load up a registry watcher and right click and see how many registry accesses are needed to bring up a right click menu. Gee, all of that disk thrashing wasn't virtual memory??
If you really want a "fast" OS, try using a RTOS. QNX makes a great one, and everthing happens in a blink.
Before comparing apples and oranges, use your head. Are these default OS'es, or tweaked ones?? If they are default, MAC probably has VM turned off, and Windows has it on. If they're tweaked, who tweaked 'em, and how knowledgeable is he about all of these platforms.
Finally, don't forget that OSX is still new. The OS itself needs alot of tinkering. And OSX is quite slow to respond in comparison with alot of other OS'es before you even begin discussing Browser performance.
Keep returning the same one. Play ignorant and just "It wouldn't play." They give you another copy, "It woulodn't play" you can go through your local Tower's stock before they notice.
Don't forget, in the mid 1800's the government ruled that corporations are people.
This is why corporations can lobby and support candidates. So just think of Corporations as being very large, very important people.
The real question is: what do these media companies do to senators who don't play ball?? Dig up dirt on them and splash it across their very own 6:00 news show??
Realty is just what they give you to distract you from the truth.
Domains being handed over because they contain a city name in them?? I fail to see how "rio" constitutes a trademark. Will they be suing Duran-Duran too??
Considering they will not let papers be served by normal first-class mail should preclude the e-mail being binding. E-mail has a much better chance of being faked, modified, and otherwise abused without leaving obvious traces.
Microsoft is playing both ends against the middle.
I have a feeling that the future of processors is that Windows support whosoever supports windows exclusively, and If Linux runs better on your kit, the advantage goes to your competitor.
M$ is now helping AMD to compete, because AMD is not helping Linux.
Besides, isn't there something very hypocritical in his disdain for Intel and the big marketing budget, and his love of Microsoft and their big marketing budget. I would have to remind him that anyone powerful enough to help you is also powerful enough to hurt you proportionately.
This is the same reason that Microsoft keeps Intel on a short leash by playing footsie with their competitors. BG is still upset about some things said and done by Intel. (And incedentally, Intel is mad at MS for....)
Help or hurt, Microsoft never has nobler motives in buisness. When they are helping you, you may just be getting fattened up for the kill. The fact that your entire company relies on access to and support for Windows leaves you with an Outlook attachment pointed at your head just waiting to go off.
AMD will find MS and Intel back in bed together before long, so long as the door isn't locking them out too well.
Stealing DirecTV?? I had considered an SV24 for my DirecTV emulation, but it didn't have 2 serial ports.... until now. But with no Paralell prots, how am I going to write my GBA flash?? HoHum...
The biggest problem with using these as a DVR is that many (most) TV cards still have problems with non-intel chipsets.
The lord Taketh, and the lord ummm... ummm... ~Hammy
The car analogy actualy presents us with an answer.
Power seats that remember driver position. These come in some of the higher end cars now.
Why not do this for preferences?? It is rather trivial to do with the MAC. I would like to speak of it in other terms....
Using a keychain microdrive (USB?) with about 16-32 MB of storage, you could not only provide a secure login method, but also store preference data. Any application that was "(Insert Marketing Term) aware" would store it's preferences in a registry type repository, and would be synched with the microdrive.
Moving to a new computer would be a matter of plugging in your "key", which would read your user data, log you in and apply your preferences to the "registry". A 32MB Mircodrive should have no trouble storing your Photoshop Prefs, Background images, Winamp skins, etc... Power users will want larger Microdrives.
As time evolves, The Gimp will learn to read Photoshop Prefs, etc..., But at the very least, like applications will work in like ways on different machines.
Even in standardized interfaces, there will still be "preference related items" like bookmarks, recently used files, etc. I personally would just like to have my bookmarks and preferences stored and merged between home and work. Standardized interfaces are difficult to achieve even in the corporate environment where a given OS may only have 10-20 different uses.
Raskin is full of empty criticism. For all of his chirping, he has not created this perfect interface. Perhaps it's too hard for him to get in the industry?? He has no buisness commenting on Eazel when he has nothing better to show.
Finally, he made a crack about the default "Aqua" colored background, whether the Redmond or Cupertino version is unclear. If he is talkling about that horrible off-blue that was the default for Win95, that was chosen for another reason.
Blue waves travel slower, and hence a monitor displying a blue field will have less noticable scan lines from refresh than a red field would.
Complex problems require overlooking simple solutions. ~Steve Jobs
Yes, because as a developer, I do not want to test products on my PC first, no.... I want to download again and again to my limited life flash rom via paralell port to test my game.
Want to know if that minor quest typo is fixed?? Download the 32MB image and wait.
You sir are a moron. If you actually develop and see no need for an emulator, you're dumber than that.
PocketNES already exists for playing old NES games. Now, as far as SNES emu... The GBA is basically a SNES in a smaller form factor. The cartriges are smaller, and there is less memory.
What this means is: That basically by the time you run an emulator, even at a 5% CPU usage, you have taken too much of a performance hit. Most console games are tuned to the hardware so well, that the overhead of the emulator makes the games slow at best and sometimes unplayable.
Now, the current SNES emulators are being heavily tuned, and perhaps eventually might be usable, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Disinfo is a good site, but not deserving of the heaps of KatzPraise that linger before our eyes.
What about Katz's AOL'ing of Slashdot?? Dumbing down the general tone of our discussion is all it is good for. This "Article" on disinfo is more suited to a Blogger than Slashdot. "Gee, look at this website..." is just Blogging.
Perhaps it could be considered an article, Katz does share with us some of his thoughts on Disinfo, making it something of an Op piece.
Then we come to some of the glaring errors in the Katz piece. The comment above shows that Katz either "constructed" this background from 1) The "About The Author" section in the front flap or web page, 2) Sending an e-mail. No fact checking, nothing resembling Journalism.
Disinfo carries enough oddball conspiracy theories, bizarre rumors, and outright (Wait for it) disinformation on their site to make them as reliable a news organization as The Onion. Disinfo makes Attrition.org look like a moderate monthly.
Which brings me to another point: Why has Katz so conspicuously avoided mention of any other site?? If this did not start off as a Blog for disinfo, but more an examination of freedom on the Net, why were more sites not mentioned?? Dis info is not the only site of it's kind, and many would argue, not the best either.
This article has the tone of my mother after stumbling onto Ralph Nader's homepage, "Ooooh! I'm reading something "strange"...."
Culture Club's entire output could be had for under a dime.
The truth of it is, these artists signed bad contracts. I know all of the arguments that the buisness is just that way, etc... These people wanted to have their music published so badly that they signed bad deals to do it.
If they re-broadcast Jerry Springer via the net, should the guests of the shows be compensated?? They won't. They wanted to be on TV badly enough to sign a bad contract.
Music is not scarce, music publishing is. Besides, most of these jokers would still be nobodys if Sony, Warner, et. al. hadn't paid Clear Channel so much to get them radio play.
Being a musician is about making music. Being a professional musician is the alchemy of turning music into gold.
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They did not add the OS, they added the kernel. Big difference. Remove all of the GNU tools and what can you do with the kernel?? What shell would you use??
If the FSF had really been like M$, they would have sold the GNU tools to pay for HURD development and released the Hurd as "Linux XP".
The kernel != the OS. If God makes the body, and the Devil makes the feet, do we worship the devil for creating man?? If GOD makes the body and the devil the brain??
Linux the kernel would not have been born without the FSF. Their history of internet development, their principles of shared source, and their guiding principles have kept Linux on track. Without the FSF Linux would probably be lockedaway in a room at IBM even had it managed to get finished.
To Stallman this becomes bigger than it needs to be because Linus has no moral center when it comes to the world of Proprietary software. This is most likely because he never lived in a world where software was free.
The environmentalist looks at a subdivision and says "I wonder if anybody remembers when this was all just open land..." Stallman remembers when it was all just information, free and open.
"Linux is the kernel. Redhat is a distribution, GNU is a software house. How hard are these to understand?"
The stupidity of this statement lies in the fact that you have incorrectly id'ed the kernel as the OS. I assume that you consider yourself technically literate, so why do you confuse the kernel with the OS?? So continue to lionize Torvalds while demonizing Stallman if you must, but time will tell who was the true champion of the cause.
And for all of the "GNU couldn't exist without Linux" people out there, without "gcc" Linux couldn't compile. How much success could Torvalds had without a C compiler?? Glibc, BASH, etc... So all the GNU did was produce the necessary tools, and this distracted them from creating a next generation kernel. Meanwhile some guy does a this-generation Monolithic kernel faster (of course) and he's the great hero of the day.
There are two sides to every story, but don't even know one of them.
~Hammy
I work for a newspaper where we had all X-mas bonuses cut by management. The Newspaper Association took the company to task, and now they have been rolled into our normal pay. Hence, even though I am not a union worker, I got a 2% pay increase this year.
An interesting note, management had their bonuses cut shortly afterwards...
Jason
"I'm not an extremist," said Robert Regular, vice president of sales and marketing at New York-based digital advertising firm Cydoor. "But all this talk of spyware is the equivalent of elevating one bad seed, and it's having negative consequences on the good software. The public doesn't have time to investigate if it's negative software; they'll just stop downloading...I would hate to think we could reach a point that, whenever a dialog box comes up and says, 'Do you want to do this,' bells go off and people become worried."
As I recall, wasn't Cydoor originally Radiate which was initially Aureate, etc... These f**ks have consistently been one of the worst companies out there for being spyware. Can anyone name the program Cydoor makes?? No, cause it just sits there logging the URL's you go to, and serving ads in games like Drug Wars etc...
These were the people who turned me off to spyware from the beginning. Or should I say "The Bad Seed"....
Hammy
It is not illegal to remove the OS from the computer, It is illegal to put an OEM version of that OS on another machine. Now, assuming the original owner can't use the license because he ahs given away the PC, it seems reasonable that he give it to the schools so they can use it.
"it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC" change must to should. What they are concerned about is getting the old PC with a non-share-denied copy of Win ME used to upgrade. Or even the official OEM OS without the proper licenses.
When the BSA audits a school:
MS: Win 3.1?? Have a license?
EDU: No, it came with the PC.
MS: Then you should have the certificate...
EDU: No, it came with the PC, we didn't get a certificate...
MS: Then you have to upgrade that machine to WinXP.
EDU: But it won't run XP...
MS: But we don't sell Win 3.1 licenses anymore.
Tada!
My experience was years ago, 97-98ish, and I was working with an inner city HSchool to help underprivelaged kids build their own computer. My consulting and Win95 upgrades left me with alot of older hardware. I thought Linux from the start, but decided to try getting some Win3.1 licenses for these machines.
I first asked for "Donated licenses", denied. Asked for an educational or bulk discount, denied. MS'es final answer, $100 per PC for Win 3.1. When I told MS to shove it, their local rep came and scared the school out of allowing the project.
"PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC. They may do so"
First you have to and then you may?? Which is it??
What if you donate parts?? Hey, I've got some SIMMS! Do you have a Microsoft license for them?? No... They're Simms.... Sorry, we must decline.
People who get their information from one biased source deserve bad information. GIGO...
~Hammy
www.nothing4sale.org
Another fine example of fact checking here at /..
"Editorial Bias?? We don't even read the stories..." ~CmdrTaco
While this is true, there are alot of devices on the market and coming to market that are designed to alleviate this problem. My own experimenting with a Twiddler showed that I was not ready to give up my nice open keyboard layout.
This seems to be a good idea, as they plan on providing "enclosures" and "cradles" to turn the CPU unit into a notebook, PC, or PDA. However, it will ether run on notebook components, which generally sacrifice speed for low power consumption, or PC components which would suck the batteries dry in seconds. Notebook HDD's are where you notice the greatest amount of slowness.
So here's the rub: You get this new doo-maflaggie with it's big ol' 10 GB HD, and now you can take your information with you. But how much of that HD are you lugging WinXP on?? 1 GB. Office adds 500MB, etc... So out of that 10 GB perhaps 6GB is actually available for data and 4GB is programs. (Sad but true)
More to the point, why lug an entire computer?? Wireless accesss might be nice, but where? I can plop it into my cradle at work and have a full fledged PC, but why not have the PC there and just plug in my data?? I can put it in a notebook enclosure, but then why not just have a notebook. On and on and on....
The real answer is not computers that can be lugged everywhere, no matter how small they become, but data that can be mobile. 7 years with the web and still no easy way to synch bookmarks between your work computer and home computer. Idiotic ain't it??
Jason Maggard
Who the h-e-double-hockey-sticks thought anyone would be trying to make it work??
Ho Hum...
~Jason
AT&T Broadband offers blazing speeds that you can't use! ~Their new ad
Honestly, how many of us got broadband because our e-mail was taking 15 seconds to download as opposed to 10 seconds?? I got it for a big fat pipe that I could use to download warez, movies, and anyhting else I can. I would be willing to bet that even the 1-2MB per month customers got Broadband "thinking" they would be doing all of these same things.
But I now see a new way to destroy my enemies with Broadband. Ping floods, large e-mail attachments, etc... They'll be bankrupt in a year or two.
This is nothing new for AOL though, they are the home of "Unlimited Dial-Up, but don't leave your computer for more than 5 minutes or we'll shut you down."
Glad I switched to Verizon two weeks ago.
~Hammy
Hmmm, the article seems to make a BIG point out of the fact that losing the A root would be non-catastrophic. Indeed, they mention that 8 of 13 roots would have to be down before the average user would notice the slowdown. It's nice to know the users here aren't the only ones who like to post without reading the article.
But the article further goes to mention how important the Internet is to our economy. Is this true?? I don't really think of the internet as critical infrastructure.
If the Net went down tomorrow, and was down for a week, would this really affect the economy in a signifigant way?? (Well, aside from the panic of investors...)
I understand that more and more comapnies are using the Net in a part of their workflows, but I don't think the internet provides and unique service that couldn't be done without.
E-mail: Use the phones.
Web: Read a book
Any data that is transferred could just as easily go by modem.
The internet serves as a convenience in many ways, but I dont think this almost 10 year old (less in the corporate mind) bit of infrastructure has become crucial to us yet. It has really been just the last few years that anybody started doing anything with the net at all, and mostly that has been VPN and changing communication methods. (i.e. Use the net instead of UUCP and a modem.)
So, my question is, what kind of critical services would be missing if the net suddenly went away. Sorry, I do not consider e-mail a critical service.
~Hammy
nothing4sale.org
(The graphs are interesting because they show the OS X version to be much slower than the Windows version. Yet because the competition is worse on Mac, Mozilla feels much better there for some reason, on much slower hardware than my Winbox.)
Looking at a page load graph doesn't tell you the average machine used. I.E. If their Win2k box is a Pentium 2GHZ and the OSX box is a G4 800MHZ, etc... One could have faster disks, more memory, be running less applications, any number of things.
A better question might be "Why is there a big spike up for all of the platforms over the last few days??" Another might be "What does the IE graph look like??"
Win boxen are moving to the terminally slow anyhow. Load up a registry watcher and right click and see how many registry accesses are needed to bring up a right click menu. Gee, all of that disk thrashing wasn't virtual memory??
If you really want a "fast" OS, try using a RTOS. QNX makes a great one, and everthing happens in a blink.
Before comparing apples and oranges, use your head. Are these default OS'es, or tweaked ones?? If they are default, MAC probably has VM turned off, and Windows has it on. If they're tweaked, who tweaked 'em, and how knowledgeable is he about all of these platforms.
Finally, don't forget that OSX is still new. The OS itself needs alot of tinkering. And OSX is quite slow to respond in comparison with alot of other OS'es before you even begin discussing Browser performance.
~Hammy
Keep returning the same one. Play ignorant and just "It wouldn't play." They give you another copy, "It woulodn't play" you can go through your local Tower's stock before they notice.
Ho Hum.
~Hammy
Don't forget, in the mid 1800's the government ruled that corporations are people.
This is why corporations can lobby and support candidates. So just think of Corporations as being very large, very important people.
The real question is: what do these media companies do to senators who don't play ball?? Dig up dirt on them and splash it across their very own 6:00 news show??
Realty is just what they give you to distract you from the truth.
~Hammy
Hockey Night in Canada would not show complete games for a long time because people would stop coming to the arenas.....
Ho Hum...
~Hammy
Domains being handed over because they contain a city name in them?? I fail to see how "rio" constitutes a trademark. Will they be suing Duran-Duran too??
Considering they will not let papers be served by normal first-class mail should preclude the e-mail being binding. E-mail has a much better chance of being faked, modified, and otherwise abused without leaving obvious traces.
~Hammy
Microsoft is playing both ends against the middle.
I have a feeling that the future of processors is that Windows support whosoever supports windows exclusively, and If Linux runs better on your kit, the advantage goes to your competitor.
M$ is now helping AMD to compete, because AMD is not helping Linux.
Besides, isn't there something very hypocritical in his disdain for Intel and the big marketing budget, and his love of Microsoft and their big marketing budget. I would have to remind him that anyone powerful enough to help you is also powerful enough to hurt you proportionately.
This is the same reason that Microsoft keeps Intel on a short leash by playing footsie with their competitors. BG is still upset about some things said and done by Intel. (And incedentally, Intel is mad at MS for....)
Help or hurt, Microsoft never has nobler motives in buisness. When they are helping you, you may just be getting fattened up for the kill. The fact that your entire company relies on access to and support for Windows leaves you with an Outlook attachment pointed at your head just waiting to go off.
AMD will find MS and Intel back in bed together before long, so long as the door isn't locking them out too well.
~Hammy
nothing4sale.org
Stealing DirecTV?? I had considered an SV24 for my DirecTV emulation, but it didn't have 2 serial ports.... until now. But with no Paralell prots, how am I going to write my GBA flash?? HoHum...
The biggest problem with using these as a DVR is that many (most) TV cards still have problems with non-intel chipsets.
The lord Taketh, and the lord ummm... ummm...
~Hammy
Soon, none of our GI's will be able to board a commercial aircraft.... *SIGH*
The car analogy actualy presents us with an answer.
Power seats that remember driver position. These come in some of the higher end cars now.
Why not do this for preferences?? It is rather trivial to do with the MAC. I would like to speak of it in other terms....
Using a keychain microdrive (USB?) with about 16-32 MB of storage, you could not only provide a secure login method, but also store preference data. Any application that was "(Insert Marketing Term) aware" would store it's preferences in a registry type repository, and would be synched with the microdrive.
Moving to a new computer would be a matter of plugging in your "key", which would read your user data, log you in and apply your preferences to the "registry". A 32MB Mircodrive should have no trouble storing your Photoshop Prefs, Background images, Winamp skins, etc... Power users will want larger Microdrives.
As time evolves, The Gimp will learn to read Photoshop Prefs, etc..., But at the very least, like applications will work in like ways on different machines.
Even in standardized interfaces, there will still be "preference related items" like bookmarks, recently used files, etc. I personally would just like to have my bookmarks and preferences stored and merged between home and work. Standardized interfaces are difficult to achieve even in the corporate environment where a given OS may only have 10-20 different uses.
Raskin is full of empty criticism. For all of his chirping, he has not created this perfect interface. Perhaps it's too hard for him to get in the industry?? He has no buisness commenting on Eazel when he has nothing better to show.
Finally, he made a crack about the default "Aqua" colored background, whether the Redmond or Cupertino version is unclear. If he is talkling about that horrible off-blue that was the default for Win95, that was chosen for another reason.
Blue waves travel slower, and hence a monitor displying a blue field will have less noticable scan lines from refresh than a red field would.
Complex problems require overlooking simple solutions.
~Steve Jobs
Jason
Yes, because as a developer, I do not want to test products on my PC first, no.... I want to download again and again to my limited life flash rom via paralell port to test my game.
Want to know if that minor quest typo is fixed?? Download the 32MB image and wait.
You sir are a moron. If you actually develop and see no need for an emulator, you're dumber than that.
I agree, with all of the copy-protection worked into the GameCube, I'm suprised that these ROM images were left so unprotected.
PocketNES already exists for playing old NES games. Now, as far as SNES emu... The GBA is basically a SNES in a smaller form factor. The cartriges are smaller, and there is less memory.
What this means is: That basically by the time you run an emulator, even at a 5% CPU usage, you have taken too much of a performance hit. Most console games are tuned to the hardware so well, that the overhead of the emulator makes the games slow at best and sometimes unplayable.
Now, the current SNES emulators are being heavily tuned, and perhaps eventually might be usable, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
~Hammy
Then go to the web page like the rest of us....
RTFM.
Especially with a Lawyer dumb enough to take the case on a contingency basis.
Susman Godfrey L.L.P. is a law firm that limits its practice to litigation, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
Gee, that seems awfully limiting....
Disinfo is a good site, but not deserving of the heaps of KatzPraise that linger before our eyes.
What about Katz's AOL'ing of Slashdot?? Dumbing down the general tone of our discussion is all it is good for. This "Article" on disinfo is more suited to a Blogger than Slashdot. "Gee, look at this website..." is just Blogging.
Perhaps it could be considered an article, Katz does share with us some of his thoughts on Disinfo, making it something of an Op piece.
Then we come to some of the glaring errors in the Katz piece. The comment above shows that Katz either "constructed" this background from 1) The "About The Author" section in the front flap or web page, 2) Sending an e-mail. No fact checking, nothing resembling Journalism.
Disinfo carries enough oddball conspiracy theories, bizarre rumors, and outright (Wait for it) disinformation on their site to make them as reliable a news organization as The Onion. Disinfo makes Attrition.org look like a moderate monthly.
Which brings me to another point: Why has Katz so conspicuously avoided mention of any other site?? If this did not start off as a Blog for disinfo, but more an examination of freedom on the Net, why were more sites not mentioned?? Dis info is not the only site of it's kind, and many would argue, not the best either.
This article has the tone of my mother after stumbling onto Ralph Nader's homepage, "Ooooh! I'm reading something "strange"...."
~Hammy
Hmmm... So I owe Frank Black 9 cents??
Culture Club's entire output could be had for under a dime.
The truth of it is, these artists signed bad contracts. I know all of the arguments that the buisness is just that way, etc... These people wanted to have their music published so badly that they signed bad deals to do it.
If they re-broadcast Jerry Springer via the net, should the guests of the shows be compensated?? They won't. They wanted to be on TV badly enough to sign a bad contract.
Music is not scarce, music publishing is. Besides, most of these jokers would still be nobodys if Sony, Warner, et. al. hadn't paid Clear Channel so much to get them radio play.
Being a musician is about making music. Being a professional musician is the alchemy of turning music into gold.
~Hammy