Backwards compatibility? Why? I mean you can just recompile, right?
Tell that to Microsoft.
Microsoft is running most of their software on AMD64 in 32bit, thanks to that backward compatibility, but you know they're sweating over getting full 64 out, since Linux has been 64.
Funny how Intel and Microsoft have to scramble to keep up with underdogs, isn't it?
HP killed Alpha in favor of Itanium. Which in turn happenh to be dead at birth.
Makes me think about their technical vision...
Intel sued by DEC for stealing Alpha technology for Pentium
Intel agrees to buy production plant, pay undisclosed cash, continue to make Alphas for DEC
Merced goes on for years, uses lots of Alpha technology.
Revamped as Itanium
Sells for huge $$$$ when it hits the market
Still sells for $$$$
Intel gets clubbed like a baby harp seal by AMD x64
Seems somewhere in that long build up to the release of the Itanium they forgot how they made their money in the first place. Psst! Processors are a commodity.
Intel may have a lot of better technology than AMD, but AMD has clearly shown they've learned a lot about getting a product out there.
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Joe isn't going to run out and change his PC every 6 months. Joe's going to use that sucker until it dies.
I saw a poll in a USENET group about a year ago. Most posters (residents of the USA) were still on Pentium I and Pentium II PC's. $1,000 for a new PC may not sound like much to most slashdotters, but most slashdotters probably don't have kids, a mortgage and a car payment or two. Once you're in that situation $1,000 expense requires it's priority rising past a lot of other items.
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Seriously, though...a big part of what keeps IT rocking and the money flowing in high tech is upgrades. If this ever comes to an end...(shudder)
Same with automobiles. I've got a puny 2.5L four banger in my pickup and I get to work and home as effectively as someone with 7.0+L and monster mudder tires. Common sense is not the forte of car buyers and the way advertising appeals to emotion over practicality should tell you something.
probably goes a way toward explaining that Acer Ferrari laptop...
It would seem that even an old VT100 would have sufficed, but someone was able to sell the store a full blown PC.
Reminds me of the mad rush to get computers on everyones desk, back in the late 80's. What did they run? An ADDS Viewpoint 60 emulator.
ADDS Viewpoint 60: ~$200
PC and Monitor: ~$1,500
One of the first things I recommend to people who've bought a new PC is to go through and uninstall all the crap they don't use/need. Many storebought boats are half sunk by
the amount of crap which comes pre-installed, without, I might add, any damn instruction on how to get rid of it if you don't need it. A friend had a top o' the line PC and was
having serious problems with video editing. I dropped by and uninstalled a massive amount of sh!t and his video editing took about half as long. It don't be amazin', neither.
Those of us who build our own rigs usually have a pretty clear idea what we want and what we don't, thus our smokin' Athlon with Gig o' RAM and Video Card el Luxo can smoke through apps.
I've got a PC at work with a faster clock, but it does SETI sets ssssllllooowwww, while my de-clocked home system zips right through them (declocked for stability, never nailed it down, but don't
really care since it's plenty fast enough.)
I have wondered what kind of terrible timing conflicts happen on a PC when all the devices are extremely fast, but on their own clocks. Seems having more things in sync would improve even more, but
the last hardware I saw work like that was over a decade ago. I can't seem to get straight answers on tuning, either, as most people can't seem to be bothered with it. i.e. which clock and CAS is best for your machine?
Storebought usually are whatever's cheapest (though may actually be faster since some engineer at Dell knows what they're doing.)
So, how many weeks you think until the cease and desist hits?
A month or so. The Astercon name in any publicity should attract those vermin. There's probably been a convention somewhere of Asterix fans and L.E.A.R. will probably feel enough propriety, as stupidly irrelevent as it is to compare cartoons to computer software/hardware, unless some dork hangs a banner somewhere with the Asterix or Obelix characters holding a box, which would imply L.E.A.R. and their fictional characters endorsement.
After the Mobilix debacle I would think naming would have taken a bit more care.
Also, if you have to provide references for your jokes, you might want to reconsider how funny they are.
Editorial humor is wasted on you.
The point here is we watched something as utterly stupid as les editions rene bust the chops of Mobilix. Can't you see how close Asterisk, which runs in Linux are to their property? I'm sure their lawyers can. Forewarned is forearmed.
I was looking for Asterix and Obelix related articles and collectibles and ended up with a house full of computer communications equipment. This isn't
what I expected and feel terribly misled! It's an error that could have happened to anybody and Les Éditions Albert René need leap into
action and fight the confusing of things like Asterisk and Linux with their property, lest many others be confused by the similarities as I was. Oh, woe! I wonder if it's
too late to cancel my plane ticket and hotel reservations for Astercon.
And Wiki could be confused with the LucasFilm character Wicket W. Warrick and VoIP, well, that should close enough to Poit to be a violation of
Warner Bros. character Pinky... oh, will no one save us from such confusion!
He might want to consier worrying about illegal immigrants crossing his states borders.
Catching dirt-poor people trying to sneak over the border is one thing. Trying to catch well funded people is another. You're not going to see terrorists trying to sneak in from Mexico, as they're more likely to drive across the border from Canada or sail into a harbor in Florida. The hardest part of catching bad men is when they haven't done anything already to be identified for.
That said, do you enjoy inexpensive lettuce, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cabbage, brussels sprouts, artichokes, melons, garlic, etc.? Someone's got to pick them and I don't see any white-european faces out there in those fields.
I am willing to bet it will be struck down as inhibiting legitimate anonymous free speech.
The sad thing is paying the governor and legislatures salaries while they craft this trash then pass it, then have the EFF or some schmuck spend to fight it and burn all that time. Remember these things next election, which is right around the corner (legislature).
What next, screening of Intrastate email by the RIAA and MPAA? I can't send a personal mp3 or mpeg to a friend without signing it?
Dear Mr. Ackthpt,
We have discovered the following copyrighted materials originating from your ISP:
PROUD MURRAY
FORTUNATE SUN
WHO'LL STOP THE REIGN
Cease and desist or we'll get really mean and nasty and mess up your life so fast it'll make your head spin!
I would seriously buy a PlayStation if I could play MULE on it.
The upside to a new MULE release would be online playing against other planeteers. I found the game a riot when playing people, but it was usually hard to get a group together. Not a problem on a network, though.
The signing was hailed by the bill's sponsor, the Motion Picture Association of America,
Well, if they sponsor it, it's gotta be good for the Governator and what's good for him is good for California. You got something to say about that,
Girly-man?
the Motion Picture Association of America, which says it loses $3.5 billion annually to piracy
Hollywood accounting, ya gotta love it, babe.
Governor and video game star Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure aimed at curbing sales of violent video games to children...
Some of Schwarzenegger's movies were spun off into video games that bear the governor's likeness - although they are not among the most violent under the industry's ratings system.
Sure is helpful to have connections to those who determine what violent is. He might want to consider a ban on showing caskets of returning service personnel from Iraq, as that could
upset impressionable television viewers.
Now all we need is some decent games. It would be very cool if Sony would direct some of their lucre towards obtaining rights to M.U.L.E. and Mail Order Monsters and put them on this system.
with all that storage they could make the planet Irata truly shine...
Show me places in the industry or people who have received raises. Not to sound bitter, but I know not a single person in my circle of friends and business associates who've said they're getting raises.
Agreed. Many of my friends are still looking at standing pat, in jobs that pay a heck of a lot less than they used to get with their BSCS.
I'm so cynical I have a tendency to view this as something originating with a wink and a nudge from a political party or supporting organization.
When are the next Job numbers due out? If job growth is still sluggish it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing to put upward pressure on wages as employers compete for talent.
why do you think the evilness has to come from outside Diebold?
Didn't imply it would. Much computer crime starts on the inside. All you need is a programmer or two who have strong political sentiments and enough knowledge and, BAM!, SCOTUS awards Bush another 4 years.
vbs script running in the background, well, they don't say it but it seems obvious that GEMS is running in Windows, the most breakable OS
in the world. I'd think with that in mind that little scripts are the lease of their worries. If someone compromises their network and server enough
to install and run a script, they've got considerably more at their fingertips.
"There's 14,375 votes for Bush, 14,374 for Kerry and 2,793,036 for Mr. Magoo, let's tell the public about this 4 years after the election, OK?"
Seriously, there's a lot of the big chrome things with ape-hangers around Santa Cruz these days. It's the latest thing (you know it's the latest thing cuz it looks silly), but at least they're not driving.
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Tell that to Microsoft.
Microsoft is running most of their software on AMD64 in 32bit, thanks to that backward compatibility, but you know they're sweating over getting full 64 out, since Linux has been 64.
Funny how Intel and Microsoft have to scramble to keep up with underdogs, isn't it?
Makes me think about their technical vision
Intel sued by DEC for stealing Alpha technology for Pentium
Intel agrees to buy production plant, pay undisclosed cash, continue to make Alphas for DEC
Merced goes on for years, uses lots of Alpha technology.
Revamped as Itanium
Sells for huge $$$$ when it hits the market
Still sells for $$$$
Intel gets clubbed like a baby harp seal by AMD x64
Seems somewhere in that long build up to the release of the Itanium they forgot how they made their money in the first place. Psst! Processors are a commodity.
Intel may have a lot of better technology than AMD, but AMD has clearly shown they've learned a lot about getting a product out there.
I saw a poll in a USENET group about a year ago. Most posters (residents of the USA) were still on Pentium I and Pentium II PC's. $1,000 for a new PC may not sound like much to most slashdotters, but most slashdotters probably don't have kids, a mortgage and a car payment or two. Once you're in that situation $1,000 expense requires it's priority rising past a lot of other items.
Same with automobiles. I've got a puny 2.5L four banger in my pickup and I get to work and home as effectively as someone with 7.0+L and monster mudder tires. Common sense is not the forte of car buyers and the way advertising appeals to emotion over practicality should tell you something.
probably goes a way toward explaining that Acer Ferrari laptop...
Reminds me of the mad rush to get computers on everyones desk, back in the late 80's. What did they run? An ADDS Viewpoint 60 emulator.
ADDS Viewpoint 60: ~$200
PC and Monitor: ~$1,500
One of the first things I recommend to people who've bought a new PC is to go through and uninstall all the crap they don't use/need. Many storebought boats are half sunk by the amount of crap which comes pre-installed, without, I might add, any damn instruction on how to get rid of it if you don't need it. A friend had a top o' the line PC and was having serious problems with video editing. I dropped by and uninstalled a massive amount of sh!t and his video editing took about half as long. It don't be amazin', neither.
Those of us who build our own rigs usually have a pretty clear idea what we want and what we don't, thus our smokin' Athlon with Gig o' RAM and Video Card el Luxo can smoke through apps. I've got a PC at work with a faster clock, but it does SETI sets ssssllllooowwww, while my de-clocked home system zips right through them (declocked for stability, never nailed it down, but don't really care since it's plenty fast enough.)
I have wondered what kind of terrible timing conflicts happen on a PC when all the devices are extremely fast, but on their own clocks. Seems having more things in sync would improve even more, but the last hardware I saw work like that was over a decade ago. I can't seem to get straight answers on tuning, either, as most people can't seem to be bothered with it. i.e. which clock and CAS is best for your machine? Storebought usually are whatever's cheapest (though may actually be faster since some engineer at Dell knows what they're doing.)
A month or so. The Astercon name in any publicity should attract those vermin. There's probably been a convention somewhere of Asterix fans and L.E.A.R. will probably feel enough propriety, as stupidly irrelevent as it is to compare cartoons to computer software/hardware, unless some dork hangs a banner somewhere with the Asterix or Obelix characters holding a box, which would imply L.E.A.R. and their fictional characters endorsement.
After the Mobilix debacle I would think naming would have taken a bit more care.
Editorial humor is wasted on you.
The point here is we watched something as utterly stupid as les editions rene bust the chops of Mobilix. Can't you see how close Asterisk, which runs in Linux are to their property? I'm sure their lawyers can. Forewarned is forearmed.
or is that four-armed?
For reference, please see this and this
Catching dirt-poor people trying to sneak over the border is one thing. Trying to catch well funded people is another. You're not going to see terrorists trying to sneak in from Mexico, as they're more likely to drive across the border from Canada or sail into a harbor in Florida. The hardest part of catching bad men is when they haven't done anything already to be identified for.
That said, do you enjoy inexpensive lettuce, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cabbage, brussels sprouts, artichokes, melons, garlic, etc.? Someone's got to pick them and I don't see any white-european faces out there in those fields.
The sad thing is paying the governor and legislatures salaries while they craft this trash then pass it, then have the EFF or some schmuck spend to fight it and burn all that time. Remember these things next election, which is right around the corner (legislature).
What next, screening of Intrastate email by the RIAA and MPAA? I can't send a personal mp3 or mpeg to a friend without signing it?
The upside to a new MULE release would be online playing against other planeteers. I found the game a riot when playing people, but it was usually hard to get a group together. Not a problem on a network, though.
T3, but it's violence for good which is Ok, right?
Well, if they sponsor it, it's gotta be good for the Governator and what's good for him is good for California. You got something to say about that, Girly-man?
the Motion Picture Association of America, which says it loses $3.5 billion annually to piracy
Hollywood accounting, ya gotta love it, babe.
Governor and video game star Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure aimed at curbing sales of violent video games to children. ..
Some of Schwarzenegger's movies were spun off into video games that bear the governor's likeness - although they are not among the most violent under the industry's ratings system.
Sure is helpful to have connections to those who determine what violent is. He might want to consider a ban on showing caskets of returning service personnel from Iraq, as that could upset impressionable television viewers.
Note: these are Google cached as the site seems to be slashdotted.
Maybe they have Yusef Islam, dangerous music from a hight level threat to the USA. Kinda puts all that gangsta rap to shame, no?
we listened to Peace Train and we LIKED IT!
with all that storage they could make the planet Irata truly shine...
Agreed. Many of my friends are still looking at standing pat, in jobs that pay a heck of a lot less than they used to get with their BSCS.
I'm so cynical I have a tendency to view this as something originating with a wink and a nudge from a political party or supporting organization.
When are the next Job numbers due out? If job growth is still sluggish it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing to put upward pressure on wages as employers compete for talent.
Meanwhile the administrators are trying to get 17% and I don't mean retroactive or anything, just a big fat raise.
'Diebold' is probably some obscure germanic dialect for
I think it's nausea.
You know... Diebold does a lot of work with financial systems. Is this what they call the Harbinger of Doom?
Didn't imply it would. Much computer crime starts on the inside. All you need is a programmer or two who have strong political sentiments and enough knowledge and, BAM!, SCOTUS awards Bush another 4 years.
"There's 14,375 votes for Bush, 14,374 for Kerry and 2,793,036 for Mr. Magoo, let's tell the public about this 4 years after the election, OK?"
1938 Velocar Type H
1953 Velo-Velocar (I'm not sure this is the right picture as it mentions 4 wheels in the description)
Seriously, there's a lot of the big chrome things with ape-hangers around Santa Cruz these days. It's the latest thing (you know it's the latest thing cuz it looks silly), but at least they're not driving.
That's pretty unlikely considering there was only one golden bail.
Oh, wait... maybe it could be like golden bail and no golden bail.