Who ISN'T a member of least one small minority of users that find feature X in application Y useful to them. It's bound to happen in any application/OS with thousands of features and millions of users (no bug count jokes, please). WTF should we chop it out?
I believe that all of those features have existed in Windows 95 from the outset, with the exception of anything similar to the dock. QuickLaunch bars are essentially the same thing, but they didn't come into existence until ~1997 when IE 4.0 came out.
What kind of a con is that? It's not as if chipsets (from the same manufacturer) don't turn over every year or so, and while the Athlon is just over a year old, there are half a dozen different chipsets for it from four different manufacturers, some of which have already been rendered useless.
Besides, new technology makes the old stuff really cheap. SDRAM is *great* if you ask me, and I plan on snatching up a bunch (including half a GB for my primary system) while it is still considered "obsolete", before they raise the price because of its rarity.
Why not? We've discarded just about everything else from the past 20 years! When was the last time you bought an AT keyboard or an ISA expansion card? PS/2, serial, and parallel ports are being replaced by USB, and IDE is being replaced by Serial ATA.
Each time we get rid of the legacy, the reason is the same -- more headroom. We run out every couple of years, figure out some way to double it, then the process repeats. You can keep making additions to a house, but at some point you'll have to pick up and move to a different lot because you've built it up and out as far as you can.
Yeah, but 56k/DSL/cable speeds really ruin the experience -- I have a 640kbps downstream DSL connection, so I'd have to make ~40 other simultaneous downloads to really simulate a 14.4 connection (or more if you weren't that lucky:)...
Well, that's one of the reasons. There are thousands more, but this one is yours...
On the whole we don't fare much better or worse than the rest of the Western World. You don't really get a choice of where you want to be born, and that's likely to be the same country you live in for the rest of your life.
So many people love those "sky is falling" bits...
1995: Imminent death of foo predicted 1996: Imminent death of foo predicted 1997: Imminent death of foo predicted 1998: Imminent death of foo predicted 1999: Imminent death of foo predicted
If I had bought 10,000 shares of Foobar, Inc. (the makers of foo back in 1995, I'd be one rich mofo...
I have a very itchy trigger finger on my wallet for dually GHz+ Tbirds and half a gig of PC2100. I've sworn off upgrading anything until I see how the the 760MP shakes out. I just hope I can wait until it's merely cutting edge, not bleeding edge kit -- I've been burned once.
That rig would give me tons more headroom than the P3-800 w/ 256 MB RAM that I presently run, but I'm positive that I can find a way to bash my head against it, just like every other upgrade...
Yes, I admit this sounds like the craft of a troll, but I'm not that good:).
Intel's first real competition on the performance desktop in a long time was the Athlon. Intel answered with the Katmai PIII 600, which was essentially an overclocked 550 (as it ran with slightly higher voltage than all other Katmai core P3's). Shortly after that, AMD upped the stakes with 700 MHz and greater Athlons, Intel countered with the Coppermine, which could reach higher clockspeeds. I'm not sure whether processors were being shipped faster in terms of time or performance.
At the same time, the underlying chipsets haven't gotten the chance to keep up. There hasn't been anything as good as the BX chipset in a LONG time...
I'm mostly a VB programmer, so I can code the crap I work on (VB and Flash) at home during the hourlong break between reruns of NewsRadio on my local Fox affiliate. Just like Matthew, we have some C++ programmers that are addicted to Solitaire...
It's because people like myself bitch every time the Katz filter gets circumvented and troll the article incessantly. Yes, I had the Katz filter on, but by coincidence I paid a visit to/. using the browser emulators at http://www.dejavu.org (which naturally don't use my browser cookies) and stumbled upon the article.
1. slashdot.com works!
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2. The real top level assignments are at Yahoo!, Northern Light, et al. Let's not bash GeoCities for hosting nonprofit sites on a.com -- there are plenty of other legitimate reasons, but that's beside the point. Are we supposed to have a.all TLD for non-content specific domains?
Yeah, it works, but only if you are registered -- you just get redirected to the login page. If you have the registration cookie you are once again redirected -- this time to the article at www.nytimes.com. If you don't, you'll have to log in until someone finds a new backdoor (like www10 used to be).
Great service to avoid people being their worst enemy.
It sounds more like a serious restriction in service, if not an invasion of privacy, if you ask me. With my DSL connection, I can run any service I like, as long as I like, because it's my own fault if I get r00ted. I'd really hate to see VNC or FTP wind up as blacklisted services, because I'd have to give a serious rethink on how to transfer MP3's I have ripped and/or code that I have written to and from work. It is likely that there is another solution, but I have better things to do at present.
DNS just points to an IP address, and that host may be serving an almost infinite number of content types, e.g. GeoCities. The answer to your question is its parent company: Yahoo!, or any number of other sites like About, Northern Light, or Google (all.com's).
Unix wasn't created by the OSS "community". Feel free to read up on a cursory history of it.
It's worth mentioning that BSD is a descendant, and Linux is a clone of Unix. The UNIX source was available, but by no means could its license fit the Open Source definition. MANY people had illegal copies of the the copyrighted code, however, which was likely one of the primary inspiration for Free/Open Source software later on.
/. apparently has an automatic rejection script for anything containing "theregister.co.uk". I doubt that ANYTHING containing the string "theregister.co.uk". Those stories eventually get posted -- A WEEK LATER, after C|Net or Yahoo! News posts the same unsubstantiated rumour, and then they are given the credit.
/. could stand to take some lessons from them. Whether the story is true or not, The Register gets the "facts" straight, and they happen to be more accurate than/. itself. Let's not forget that their story writing, grammar, and spelling is oh-so-much much better...
I have two homemade rounded 50 pin SCSI cables. Both of them work. I have never gotten a CD-R coaster or ended up with corrupted data, in spite of the 83 MHz FSB overclocking that causes the PCI bus to run ~25% out of spec @41MHz...
I had less luck with this manufactured round cable, and wound up removing it because it caused the SCSI bus to constantly reset.
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Who ISN'T a member of least one small minority of users that find feature X in application Y useful to them. It's bound to happen in any application/OS with thousands of features and millions of users (no bug count jokes, please). WTF should we chop it out?
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I believe that all of those features have existed in Windows 95 from the outset, with the exception of anything similar to the dock. QuickLaunch bars are essentially the same thing, but they didn't come into existence until ~1997 when IE 4.0 came out.
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What kind of a con is that? It's not as if chipsets (from the same manufacturer) don't turn over every year or so, and while the Athlon is just over a year old, there are half a dozen different chipsets for it from four different manufacturers, some of which have already been rendered useless.
Besides, new technology makes the old stuff really cheap. SDRAM is *great* if you ask me, and I plan on snatching up a bunch (including half a GB for my primary system) while it is still considered "obsolete", before they raise the price because of its rarity.
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Each time we get rid of the legacy, the reason is the same -- more headroom. We run out every couple of years, figure out some way to double it, then the process repeats. You can keep making additions to a house, but at some point you'll have to pick up and move to a different lot because you've built it up and out as far as you can.
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On the whole we don't fare much better or worse than the rest of the Western World. You don't really get a choice of where you want to be born, and that's likely to be the same country you live in for the rest of your life.
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1995: Imminent death of foo predicted
1996: Imminent death of foo predicted
1997: Imminent death of foo predicted
1998: Imminent death of foo predicted
1999: Imminent death of foo predicted
If I had bought 10,000 shares of Foobar, Inc. (the makers of foo back in 1995, I'd be one rich mofo...
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I have a very itchy trigger finger on my wallet for dually GHz+ Tbirds and half a gig of PC2100. I've sworn off upgrading anything until I see how the the 760MP shakes out. I just hope I can wait until it's merely cutting edge, not bleeding edge kit -- I've been burned once.
That rig would give me tons more headroom than the P3-800 w/ 256 MB RAM that I presently run, but I'm positive that I can find a way to bash my head against it, just like every other upgrade...
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Intel's first real competition on the performance desktop in a long time was the Athlon. Intel answered with the Katmai PIII 600, which was essentially an overclocked 550 (as it ran with slightly higher voltage than all other Katmai core P3's). Shortly after that, AMD upped the stakes with 700 MHz and greater Athlons, Intel countered with the Coppermine, which could reach higher clockspeeds. I'm not sure whether processors were being shipped faster in terms of time or performance.
At the same time, the underlying chipsets haven't gotten the chance to keep up. There hasn't been anything as good as the BX chipset in a LONG time...
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Oh shit, now I've probably /.'ed it...
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2. The real top level assignments are at Yahoo!, Northern Light, et al. Let's not bash GeoCities for hosting nonprofit sites on a
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It sounds more like a serious restriction in service, if not an invasion of privacy, if you ask me. With my DSL connection, I can run any service I like, as long as I like, because it's my own fault if I get r00ted. I'd really hate to see VNC or FTP wind up as blacklisted services, because I'd have to give a serious rethink on how to transfer MP3's I have ripped and/or code that I have written to and from work. It is likely that there is another solution, but I have better things to do at present.
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It's worth mentioning that BSD is a descendant, and Linux is a clone of Unix. The UNIX source was available, but by no means could its license fit the Open Source definition. MANY people had illegal copies of the the copyrighted code, however, which was likely one of the primary inspiration for Free/Open Source software later on.
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/. could stand to take some lessons from them. Whether the story is true or not, The Register gets the "facts" straight, and they happen to be more accurate than
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I had less luck with this manufactured round cable, and wound up removing it because it caused the SCSI bus to constantly reset.
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