I pretty sure they'll sell quite some more OS X packages now. I know many people have been waiting to upgrade from 9.x and Photoshop has been the main reason.
Why would that be? OS X can run MacOS 9.x programs as well as MacOS 9.x - it just loads the classic inviroment like OS/2 loaded the windows 3.x program manager to run windows software. It's a bit slow to start but otherwise it works like a charm...
I'm surprised you didn't mention Verilog -- it's an HDL that is (outside of military contracting) much more popular than VHDL.
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The reason for mentioning VHDL as opposed to Verlog is probably that he's a european HW designer. European designers use VHDL and everyone else uses Verilog.
BTW: I'm studying electrical engineering at Technical University of Denmark and I've never written a single line of Verilog - none of the professors teach it since it would be hard to get a job in europe.
If someone reports a hit, cant they just re-check that data?
You're missing the point with SETI. There is no such thing as "a hit" when analysing these massive amounts of data. Your computer will never give a message like: "Analysis detected a HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMTN, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US from outer space". What your computer does is just an analysis and then the SETI-folks will do the real exciting stuff with the resulting data from your computers work.
The problem before SETI@Home was that the data wasn't analysed completely to detail because these analysis take a shitload of time so they just did a rough analysis, trying to find extreme peaks but no checking for patterns over longer periods of time.
This must be a joke (but a good one). I must admire the amount of work that has been done. The time it must have taken to create the pdf-manual and the presentations in various bandwith-friendly-versions is almost as much as it would take to actually create this silly product.
What would be the reason to do such a product as a PCI-card? If it has it's own processor and runs linux, then it doesn't really use the rest of the pc for anything else but power. I might believe this product if it was a self-contained unit.
The catch-phrases "linux" and "transmeta" only tells me that this was made especially for all the/. people...I'm slightly flattered by the effort to fool us.
This sounds outragous. If these people really posess the programming skill to make this work then I would hate to see it wasted on such a gigantic project that is destined to fail.
But I'm happy to see that it doesn't seem like the team behind all this have managed to produce a single line of code yet. The biggest news on the page seems to be the great progress of the website!
Personally I don't think that there even is a need for a free windows clone. How many of you guys pay for windows anyway? Like mp3 I'll pay for it if i feel it's worth the money.
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I pretty sure they'll sell quite some more OS X packages now. I know many people have been waiting to upgrade from 9.x and Photoshop has been the main reason.
Why would that be? OS X can run MacOS 9.x programs as well as MacOS 9.x - it just loads the classic inviroment like OS/2 loaded the windows 3.x program manager to run windows software. It's a bit slow to start but otherwise it works like a charm...
I'm surprised you didn't mention Verilog -- it's an HDL that is (outside of military contracting) much more popular than VHDL.
[SNIP]
The reason for mentioning VHDL as opposed to Verlog is probably that he's a european HW designer. European designers use VHDL and everyone else uses Verilog.
BTW: I'm studying electrical engineering at Technical University of Denmark and I've never written a single line of Verilog - none of the professors teach it since it would be hard to get a job in europe.
Why, this would NEVER happen on slashdot...
Uhm, the usbdrive.com link seems kinda redundant since this is the link in the article!!!
Did you read beyond the headline before posting??
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You're missing the point with SETI. There is no such thing as "a hit" when analysing these massive amounts of data. Your computer will never give a message like: "Analysis detected a HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMTN, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US from outer space". What your computer does is just an analysis and then the SETI-folks will do the real exciting stuff with the resulting data from your computers work.
The problem before SETI@Home was that the data wasn't analysed completely to detail because these analysis take a shitload of time so they just did a rough analysis, trying to find extreme peaks but no checking for patterns over longer periods of time.
Just a quick thought:
Excuse me, miss. Can I borrow your computer? I need to ping Uranus?
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to do this with a bunch of PC's in stead? Not as pretty but it's someones tax dollars that pay for these...
Here's a cool link for finding pictures (scans, actually) of boobs to e-mail kurt@thepope.org
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This must be a joke (but a good one). I must admire the amount of work that has been done. The time it must have taken to create the pdf-manual and the presentations in various bandwith-friendly-versions is almost as much as it would take to actually create this silly product. /. people...I'm slightly flattered by the effort to fool us.
What would be the reason to do such a product as a PCI-card? If it has it's own processor and runs linux, then it doesn't really use the rest of the pc for anything else but power. I might believe this product if it was a self-contained unit.
The catch-phrases "linux" and "transmeta" only tells me that this was made especially for all the
But I'm happy to see that it doesn't seem like the team behind all this have managed to produce a single line of code yet. The biggest news on the page seems to be the great progress of the website!
Personally I don't think that there even is a need for a free windows clone. How many of you guys pay for windows anyway? Like mp3 I'll pay for it if i feel it's worth the money.