I found the board on the site after a while of searching:
http://www.freetech.com/u.s.a/1product-2-p6f209. ht m
It's 170mmX170mm
I seriously doubt anyone will find any board much smaller than 170X170, as the DIMM slots appear to be about 160mm long. It could probably be done with SODIMMs, though.
Yeah, that's how my elementary school principal claimed he lost his eye. He did really have a glass eye, but I don't know if that was just what he told us to scare us and he really lost it in the military or what. Be careful in any case.
Back when I was in a gun club, a guy had a real gatling gun from around the civil war era. He had all the necessary historical gun licenses of course.
He had to hand load each shell for it, it shot black powder cartridges (75mm or so?) I believe. As anyone who has shot black powder before can tell you, it makes a mess in the barrel, and you can just imagine cleaning eight barrels when you are done shooting these things.
Anyway, he was going to demo it for us, and he wanted me to tape it on his camcorder. He said he would tell me before he started shooting so I could start taping.
He told me to start taping and then he started cranking the thing right away! (That thing really makes a huge cloud of smoke BTW) The funny thing is, by the time the camcorder had wound the tape to the point of starting to record, he was almost done firing.
At the next meeting, everyone gave me a ribbing about the tape, I didn't have the heart to explain how a camcorder works to them. (They were mostly in their 60s and 70s).
er, save for the fact that it's been established that the tobacco industry manually manipulated nicotine levels to optimize sales and repeatedly testified under oath that there were no health risks to their product even though it was later established that they were well aware of health risks.
Hey, if they made the cigarette better, so that more people wanted more of them, that's just product improvement. Isn't the point of a company to sell as much product as possible, by making people want to buy more of said product?
I smoke, and I want to say a big "thanks" to the tobacco companies. It sure beats having to grow my own.
I have obtained a trademark on my breath, as it has a distinctive look and feel. Since my breath readily disperses, everyone who breathes must pay a royalty payment for using several molecules of my breath every day. Please remit.
As for the copying, I sure hope nobody posts any opinions, because there isn't enough information here to even form one about that question.
Then why did you post your opinion? Just using the chance to support Microsoft?
For all you know, the company was ripped off in a major way. A suit like this won't hurt IBM very much, they have the money to continue to fight it until well after compuware has spent all their money on legal fees. I don't think compuware would bring frivilous suit against a powerhouse like IBM, especially under the current political climate, which seems to favor lack of enforcement of antitrust laws.
There is this thing called retirement. Once you save up a million or two dollars, you could easily live off the $50-80k yearly interest income it would generate.
The tobacco industry has given me exactly what I want, packages of cigarettes. If they neglected to do that, I, and many others, would be very pissed off.
Opera has appeared to run out of advertisers. I paid for 6.0 for Linux, but for a while I was using 5.0 until 6.0 became more stable. The last couple weeks, there havn't been any ads, just the banner to buy Opera.
I highly suggest that if you use Opera, pay for it (it's not expensive). It looks like their ad revenue is drying up, and Opera really is the best browser out there right now. It even costs less if you are a student. You get the next major version free generally, and deep discounts on upgrades later on.
Maybe if it didn't take 10 seconds to load on a 1Ghz Athlon, people wouldn't think it was slow. It's so slow sometimes, I go on and start other applications, and then Mozilla finally decides to pop up.
What the hell is it doing, computing Pi to the 1000000th place?
No thanks. RMS will hate me, but Opera is far far better, and spending a few bucks to get a real browser for Linux is worth it for me. When mozilla is better and faster and smaller than Opera, I will gladly switch, but not until then.
a) This is Microsoft we are talking about here. They will stop at nothing to destroy open source.
b) The article is just the tip of the iceburg, a proof of concept. Yes, it would be difficult, but not impossible. Especially not impossible if you had 30 billion dollars laying around to spend on research.
There's a difference. If you are dying your hair red and putting eggs in it and spiking it into a mohawk, then you are tyring to non-conform. (or conforming to a subculture that embodies nonconformance)
If you wear a suit you are trying to conform. (or conforming to the "monoculture")
If you wear what you had in your closet anyway, then you are just being yourself. This is argubly the only real nonconformance.
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I found the board on the site after a while of searching:
. ht m
http://www.freetech.com/u.s.a/1product-2-p6f209
It's 170mmX170mm
I seriously doubt anyone will find any board much smaller than 170X170, as the DIMM slots appear to be about 160mm long. It could probably be done with SODIMMs, though.
Build the case yourself, and use a small powersupply from MPJA or All Electronics
It can be done for less than $30. Those places also have plastic and metal project cases that would probably do fine as a computer case.
Yeah, that's how my elementary school principal claimed he lost his eye. He did really have a glass eye, but I don't know if that was just what he told us to scare us and he really lost it in the military or what. Be careful in any case.
Back when I was in a gun club, a guy had a real gatling gun from around the civil war era. He had all the necessary historical gun licenses of course.
He had to hand load each shell for it, it shot black powder cartridges (75mm or so?) I believe. As anyone who has shot black powder before can tell you, it makes a mess in the barrel, and you can just imagine cleaning eight barrels when you are done shooting these things.
Anyway, he was going to demo it for us, and he wanted me to tape it on his camcorder. He said he would tell me before he started shooting so I could start taping.
He told me to start taping and then he started cranking the thing right away! (That thing really makes a huge cloud of smoke BTW)
The funny thing is, by the time the camcorder had wound the tape to the point of starting to record, he was almost done firing.
At the next meeting, everyone gave me a ribbing about the tape, I didn't have the heart to explain how a camcorder works to them. (They were mostly in their 60s and 70s).
er, save for the fact that it's been established that the tobacco industry manually manipulated nicotine levels to optimize sales and repeatedly testified under oath that there were no health risks to their product even though it was later established that they were well aware of health risks.
Hey, if they made the cigarette better, so that more people wanted more of them, that's just product improvement. Isn't the point of a company to sell as much product as possible, by making people want to buy more of said product?
I smoke, and I want to say a big "thanks" to the tobacco companies. It sure beats having to grow my own.
I have obtained a trademark on my breath, as it has a distinctive look and feel. Since my breath readily disperses, everyone who breathes must pay a royalty payment for using several molecules of my breath every day. Please remit.
As for the copying, I sure hope nobody posts any opinions, because there isn't enough information here to even form one about that question.
Then why did you post your opinion? Just using the chance to support Microsoft?
For all you know, the company was ripped off in a major way. A suit like this won't hurt IBM very much, they have the money to continue to fight it until well after compuware has spent all their money on legal fees. I don't think compuware would bring frivilous suit against a powerhouse like IBM, especially under the current political climate, which seems to favor lack of enforcement of antitrust laws.
Being totally unqualified to respond, I feel like I should. Hell, this is Slashdot after all! :)
What exactly are you saying, sort of like allowing the customer to rewrite dynamically linked libraries?
I'd think that in some applications, full code would be necessary for any non-trivial customization.
Can you give details?
This is specifically a no-no mentioned in the computer naming RFC.
It gets confusing when you have computers that have the same names as clients or coworkers.
Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to remember nnn.ps.min.mn.us.companyname.com?
Would let you delegate DNS geographically too if you ever wanted to.
Never underestimate the power of a treelike structure.
Your mom doesn't read Slashdot. Problem solved.
Dude, your gettin a Linux.
to the point where it was taking 15 seconds sometimes for the webbrowser to load.
Are you sure you just didn't install Mozilla by accident?
There is this thing called retirement. Once you save up a million or two dollars, you could easily live off the $50-80k yearly interest income it would generate.
The tobacco industry has given me exactly what I want, packages of cigarettes. If they neglected to do that, I, and many others, would be very pissed off.
Yeah, I can't wait to pay more taxes so the poor can have the computer they are entitled to!
Tobacco gave their customers what they wanted, namely cigarettes, and other tobacco products.
Opera has appeared to run out of advertisers. I paid for 6.0 for Linux, but for a while I was using 5.0 until 6.0 became more stable. The last couple weeks, there havn't been any ads, just the banner to buy Opera.
I highly suggest that if you use Opera, pay for it (it's not expensive). It looks like their ad revenue is drying up, and Opera really is the best browser out there right now. It even costs less if you are a student. You get the next major version free generally, and deep discounts on upgrades later on.
Or you could just use Opera, which has supported it since 1998, and is where everyone else got the idea from.
Opera is the only innovative browser. Everything else is a cheap (bloated) rip-off.
Maybe if it didn't take 10 seconds to load on a 1Ghz Athlon, people wouldn't think it was slow. It's so slow sometimes, I go on and start other applications, and then Mozilla finally decides to pop up.
What the hell is it doing, computing Pi to the 1000000th place?
No thanks. RMS will hate me, but Opera is far far better, and spending a few bucks to get a real browser for Linux is worth it for me. When mozilla is better and faster and smaller than Opera, I will gladly switch, but not until then.
MDI stands for Multiple Document Interface, so saying MDI Interface is redundant, but you still get bonus points for knowing what MDI is. :)
Besides, it's not as if Opera wasn't doing this 3 years ago.
:)
Good ideas are often imitated, but the original is always best.
a) This is Microsoft we are talking about here. They will stop at nothing to destroy open source.
b) The article is just the tip of the iceburg, a proof of concept. Yes, it would be difficult, but not impossible. Especially not impossible if you had 30 billion dollars laying around to spend on research.
What if Microsoft is trojaning all our code?
We will never know, now will we? What's the good of open source that is built off of completely untrustworthy closed source?
They set up us the logic bomb!
It was in the same memo about the TPS report cover sheets, didn't you get it?
There's a difference. If you are dying your hair red and putting eggs in it and spiking it into a mohawk, then you are tyring to non-conform. (or conforming to a subculture that embodies nonconformance)
If you wear a suit you are trying to conform. (or conforming to the "monoculture")
If you wear what you had in your closet anyway, then you are just being yourself. This is argubly the only real nonconformance.