("hey! we were the first to 1GHz! It's SO much faster than 900MHz!").
First, I'll take your capitalized "so" as sarcasm and reply...why yes, yes it is faster...by 100MHz. That would be 100 Million cycles a second. That is a lot. lets see that would be 1/9th or about 11.1%. Now lets see when you had a 66MHz cpu and your buddy had a 166MHz cpu you were completely blown away. Sure it's a different ratio, but it is still a sizeable step. It's not like they have produced a 933MHz cpu and claimed it made a difference.
Second, if you're building a "low end" processor why the hell are you throwing SCSI at it? If it's low end SCSI doesn't/shouldn't even cross your mind.
Yeah, it's made by Microsoft, but they have a history of making excellent input devices.
What are you talking about? Microsoft has a history...to me anyways...of making undersized and poorly constructed interface devices. The only thing I will give Microsoft credit on is the Natural Keyboard (the first version) and outlook express. I'll stick with Saitek and Logitec devices...large, sturdy, and heavy...so i dont snap the damn thing like the microsoft sidewinder did.
I thought the same thing when I saw the title of the article and even while reading it, however; when I go down to the part where they show some of the actual screens that make up the painting I thought "how kewl". From far away you see this slightly awkward square in the sense of the fact that it's missing a piece, when you get closer you see it's sort of a mosaic, a little closer and you see what each piece of the mosaic is made up of (individual squiggles), then you take a close look at the squiggles and you see that they have a flow to them (each a piece of each other in a way), then you look closer and those squiggles are made up of tiny squares that flow together to make those squiggles. Everything on the painting ties together into itself in a much deeper way then just paint forming a picture. From far away or close up they all work together to give you this feeling of completion in chaos. Digital and Analog working together. Like man in society working with his technology. Don't you see you uneducated uncultured tech weenies! It's art damnit!
and if you buy that...great...I have other b.s. ideas to sell you on. Basically though it's art it's subjective and you're right they shouldn't have needed to add the fact that it was done on a palm. It would have been the same as if he doodled in a sketch book. Not really news but good enough to tell people who don't really get technology to think it is.
Woohoo now my Karma's back down to zero...YES!!! I guess a moderators sense of humor is a little different then mine...sarcasm people...it's called sarcasm...
Does this mean that if M$ does not like one of it's competitor's ideas, that they can go ahead and bully them out of
business, therefore acquiring the competition (and their IP) through a buyout?
They would never do that...it would show that they have monpolistic tendencies. I'm being sarcastic if you didn't pick up on that.
"The main reason to use a case sensitive file system is that C is case sensitive, so every thing should be too, god damnit!!"
This made me smile. Thank you. That was an excellent argument on your part. Well thought out and to the point. I'm serious and a little synical. Sure you could have said:
"I believe the main reason a case sensitive file system is used is that C is case sensitive and the technique was carried over to the file system."
, but it would have never had the impact.
I keep reading it and chuckling. I can hear the "SO THERE!!" even though it's not there.
What ever happened to that flesh eating virus that was around before O.J. I've been wondering about that for a while now...especially with this growth I have on my foot.
"If we can/. that last number up in a significant number of cases, we may change the cost/risk ratio for these companies and get them to change their ways."
I don't want them to change their ways. I love getting free crap from them and hearing them complain because they were too ignorant to figure it out before hand!
Now I dont want to start a huge distro flaming war because everytime one breaks out it's just silly, however; I have also been using SuSE for a couple years but not after trying R.H., Mandrake, and Caldera. The reason I stayed with SuSE is for the large amount of programs I get (6 CD's!!! How great is that?! To bad they changed that with the new release unless you buy the "professional" edition, which is still worth it to me...you may feel different and please flame away) and the configuration programs they have. The only reason I'm saying this is to back Graymalkin's point. Which is a good one.
Now to argue one of his/her points. The basic point behind a distro is to "distribute" Linux, I could be wrong here though because there is the money thing. Which they all do very well and I say this because I have never had a problem finding a distro in the stores when I go looking for it or being in stock on the net. What you do get with a distro is all pretty much just butter.
I'd be willing to pay $19.95 for a Linux distro (being only a CD, the kernel, and enough programs to get it installed and connected to the net for downloading the rest of what I actually want to have on there...and I only have a dialup connection.) The time they would have saved me getting those few programs on a bootable CD-ROM so I can take care of the rest exactly how I want it is worth the 20 bucks. Thats all they really need to do. The rest of it we have just come to expect. Which is wrong. Here's why: A competitor who shall remain nameless but will be referenced from here on as M$ sells an OS for ~$150US which comes with just basic software (enough to get you set up and going to go "purchase" the rest of the software you want),however; Linux distros include tons of free (as in beer and speech) software with their distribution on CD which you don't have to spend your precious bandwidth and time on getting for a price much more resonable then M$. That's more than what you could ask for a company to do. I often feel like I'm ripping them off, but I love it!!! So basically unless a distros price becomes outrageous I dont think they really need to go out on a limb for me they already do more than enough for my needs to get my money.
You need to knock the WWW off the front of the slashdot link or it may drop your preferences.
http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=linux &target=http://slashdot.org
That an excellent point, however; you would have to get RIAA to buy off on it and I can't imagine them doing that since they would lose some control over pricing still. Now if you could get them to agree I'm all for it.
Banner ads don't really bother me in the sense of they are usually out of my way and I seldom even notice them I just roll the scroll wheel a little and they're gone.
Somebody MOD his/her comment up!!!
I agree with you in the fact that everyone should just use GMT. Sure it would be weird at first waking up @ 1300z but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be any worse than daylight savings time. The military also uses system time...seconds from quad z through out the zulu day however telling time with that would be about as useful as telling someone the internet time.
If I recall correctly from the last time this was released on Slashdot IBM stated it was only for R+D and wasn't going to be sold by them to the public...I could be wrong...can someone back me up here? or correct please
Excellent comments on specific things to do. Thank you. As far as my involvment with hackers.com it goes no farther than seeing what is out there and having knowledge of it. Which in the near future could become illegal, however; until then, I do like to know who I'm dealing with when I'm trying to protect my systems.
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The run 'em under wine. I do!
If we can get a team of guys working on an oil rig to land on a comet we sure as hell can mine an asteroid. Come on people use your heads!
First, I'll take your capitalized "so" as sarcasm and reply...why yes, yes it is faster...by 100MHz. That would be 100 Million cycles a second. That is a lot. lets see that would be 1/9th or about 11.1%. Now lets see when you had a 66MHz cpu and your buddy had a 166MHz cpu you were completely blown away. Sure it's a different ratio, but it is still a sizeable step. It's not like they have produced a 933MHz cpu and claimed it made a difference.
Second, if you're building a "low end" processor why the hell are you throwing SCSI at it? If it's low end SCSI doesn't/shouldn't even cross your mind.
What are you talking about? Microsoft has a history...to me anyways...of making undersized and poorly constructed interface devices. The only thing I will give Microsoft credit on is the Natural Keyboard (the first version) and outlook express. I'll stick with Saitek and Logitec devices...large, sturdy, and heavy...so i dont snap the damn thing like the microsoft sidewinder did.
would be humans who live their lives never having to deal with other humans...(thoughts of joy loft through the mind)
and if you buy that...great...I have other b.s. ideas to sell you on. Basically though it's art it's subjective and you're right they shouldn't have needed to add the fact that it was done on a palm. It would have been the same as if he doodled in a sketch book. Not really news but good enough to tell people who don't really get technology to think it is.
*&^$%@#!!!#$(%_@ ass munches...this is like 10 mins from me and you didn't say crap til after it was over...Now I'm ticked!
but I'll patent the edible panty liner. Is that stupid (why would you want your name tagged with that) or just plain gross?
To make that kinda money you better sell some "special" brownies. Otherwise I just can't see it happening.
Have they thought about auctioning MIR off on E-bay?
NO
Will it let me use the cat under X and will it let me shut off the light?
NO and NO
I'm amazed there is no .riaa or .mpaa and the like.
Woohoo now my Karma's back down to zero...YES!!! I guess a moderators sense of humor is a little different then mine...sarcasm people...it's called sarcasm...
They would never do that...it would show that they have monpolistic tendencies. I'm being sarcastic if you didn't pick up on that.
Yes by moving up in market share.
This made me smile. Thank you. That was an excellent argument on your part. Well thought out and to the point. I'm serious and a little synical. Sure you could have said:
"I believe the main reason a case sensitive file system is used is that C is case sensitive and the technique was carried over to the file system."
, but it would have never had the impact.
I keep reading it and chuckling. I can hear the "SO THERE!!" even though it's not there.
What ever happened to that flesh eating virus that was around before O.J. I've been wondering about that for a while now...especially with this growth I have on my foot.
I don't want them to change their ways. I love getting free crap from them and hearing them complain because they were too ignorant to figure it out before hand!
Now I dont want to start a huge distro flaming war because everytime one breaks out it's just silly, however; I have also been using SuSE for a couple years but not after trying R.H., Mandrake, and Caldera. The reason I stayed with SuSE is for the large amount of programs I get (6 CD's!!! How great is that?! To bad they changed that with the new release unless you buy the "professional" edition, which is still worth it to me...you may feel different and please flame away) and the configuration programs they have. The only reason I'm saying this is to back Graymalkin's point. Which is a good one. Now to argue one of his/her points. The basic point behind a distro is to "distribute" Linux, I could be wrong here though because there is the money thing. Which they all do very well and I say this because I have never had a problem finding a distro in the stores when I go looking for it or being in stock on the net. What you do get with a distro is all pretty much just butter. I'd be willing to pay $19.95 for a Linux distro (being only a CD, the kernel, and enough programs to get it installed and connected to the net for downloading the rest of what I actually want to have on there...and I only have a dialup connection.) The time they would have saved me getting those few programs on a bootable CD-ROM so I can take care of the rest exactly how I want it is worth the 20 bucks. Thats all they really need to do. The rest of it we have just come to expect. Which is wrong. Here's why: A competitor who shall remain nameless but will be referenced from here on as M$ sells an OS for ~$150US which comes with just basic software (enough to get you set up and going to go "purchase" the rest of the software you want) ,however; Linux distros include tons of free (as in beer and speech) software with their distribution on CD which you don't have to spend your precious bandwidth and time on getting for a price much more resonable then M$. That's more than what you could ask for a company to do. I often feel like I'm ripping them off, but I love it!!! So basically unless a distros price becomes outrageous I dont think they really need to go out on a limb for me they already do more than enough for my needs to get my money.
You need to knock the WWW off the front of the slashdot link or it may drop your preferences. http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=linux &target=http://slashdot.org
That an excellent point, however; you would have to get RIAA to buy off on it and I can't imagine them doing that since they would lose some control over pricing still. Now if you could get them to agree I'm all for it. Banner ads don't really bother me in the sense of they are usually out of my way and I seldom even notice them I just roll the scroll wheel a little and they're gone. Somebody MOD his/her comment up!!!
I agree with you in the fact that everyone should just use GMT. Sure it would be weird at first waking up @ 1300z but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be any worse than daylight savings time. The military also uses system time...seconds from quad z through out the zulu day however telling time with that would be about as useful as telling someone the internet time.
If I recall correctly from the last time this was released on Slashdot IBM stated it was only for R+D and wasn't going to be sold by them to the public...I could be wrong...can someone back me up here? or correct please
Excellent comments on specific things to do. Thank you. As far as my involvment with hackers.com it goes no farther than seeing what is out there and having knowledge of it. Which in the near future could become illegal, however; until then, I do like to know who I'm dealing with when I'm trying to protect my systems.
What if he only wanted it to be viewed on his own released DVD player licensed through him?