There's a specific amount of chips that don't make it due to being defective right off the wafer. Wouldn't this process increase the percentage of defective chips?
My sister was one of the fortunate (that's debatable) ones to see the Challenger disaster live. She was in first grade, and her class was watching the launch. Suddenly, Challenger broke up. The teacher turned off the TV and started talking to the principal while the children were left to wonder what had happened and why.
That moment was sort of like when JFK was assassinated, and then when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald (on live TV, no less). You knew where you were when you heard the news. Unfortunately, I don't; I was five years old, and no one wanted to tell me.
I'm talking about people with severe radiation poisoning, victims of the gullibility of doctors and the blind faith in radium. Ever heard of Eben Byers? He was a professional golfer that drank two bottles of a radium-laced soft drink every day. After several years, he was suffering from severe radium poisoning in his jaw.
The BusinessWeek article constantly confuses the term "circular" with "spherical". Circular motors already exist, it's the spherical motor that is new.
I'm sure of it. I looked at the press photo of Jobs holding the PowerBook G4 Titanium at the MacWorld expo in SanFran, and he looked like Nissan's famed chief designer.
What's even more eerie, Apple and Nissan both use the same advertising agency (tbwa/chiat/day [they're obviously trying to tap into the *nix crowd]).
"...a finding that could one day halt the development of cancer, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease."
What scares me about this is that in the 1930's and 1940's, radium was touted as the cure for many similar diseases. Unfortunately, radiation poisoning proved them all wrong.
I just want these scientists and doctors to sign a contract with the world stating that they won't genetically manipulate apes.
Hey, ever seen the part in Dune (DeLaurentiis/Lynch production, not the Sci-Fi series) where Gurney and Paul fight with the shields? How about if the bounding model is as grainy as that? It'd be a lot less hard to calculate collisions with such a low polycount, but the functionality would still be there!
UUNet is famous for being the center of all spam; no wonder they're blocked by ORBS. I'm glad to see the pipebomb blow up in the terrorist's face (metaphorically speaking).
Now if only we could do the same to all the ribald trolls of Slashdot.
Many laptops on the market (most notably the lower-priced ones) are geared toward Windows 9X. To cut corners, they use hardware that comes with virtual drivers that emulate certain hardware components of the device (the most notorious example of this scheme being the winmodem). NT can't handle winmodems at all, since they don't have a true COM port, and so neither can Linux, Unix, etc. Also, the Intel 440BX chipset, despite its age and unbelievable longevity on the market, is by far the most supported chipset out there. VIA can't seem to release one fully stable set of NT drivers for its chipsets. Though a chipset driver isn't necessary, an OS can't take advantage of DMA modes for hard drives unless the chipset drivers are in place and stable.
There are other reasons, but I'll leave it like this: NT and *nix have similar demands for hardware stability. None of the "blacklisted" laptops live up to those demands.
If you had original Quake, you would have agreed with me on Half-Life being based on that engine. Compare the weapon-bobbing between Q1 and Half-Life: the same. Try typing in "killserver" in the console during a game in HL. Unlike Q2 (at which point it drops to the console with "Server was killed."), nothing happens. What's the extension for model files? Right,.mdl, and not.md2 like in Quake2. What protocols are supported for multiplayer? Incredibly, IPX as well as TCP/IP are supported in HL (Q2 only supports TCP/IP, while Quake1 supported IPX as well in the original DOS version). The only similarity I see between the HL engine and the Q2 engine is how you seem to drift when standing on moving platforms (in HL, it's most noticeable on tracktrains).
Compaq Presario: AVOID! VIA chipset + WinModem = driver nightmare!
Compaq Armada: Better; since they are designed for NT, Linux should be no problem.
Toshiba Satellite Toshiba Tecra and Satellite >$1500: Consider, though the WinModem is still there; these things were also designed for NT, so Linux should work as well.
Sony VAIO series (excluding F630 and C1VN): Excellent; it uses the Intel 440BX; however, the Yamaha sound chipset isn't supported quite as well. Only consider if you're willing to spend $$$ for a powerful glitzy laptop.
Sony VAIO PCG-F630: AVOID!!! Sony used a VIA chipset and an AMD K6-2 for this one, so expect teething driver problems all over the place.
Dell Inspiron: Almost a shoe-in for Linux.
Dell Latitude: Watch out, this one wasn't designed for NT at all, so Linux probably wouldn't like it.
Either way, I applaud the efforts of Tuxtops; just getting the drivers for each hardware component can be hell (especially when you're stuck in bash because of a bad video driver!).
It's a lot less expensive than the iopener, that's a plus.
Of course it is, ever since NetPliance bundled the service inside the box, the iOpener jumped up in price by $200. They pulled the old version because people were hacking it to turn it into an ultra-cheap x86 machine. After having many units sold but far fewer users registered for the service, though, NetPliance finally grew a brain and bundled the license. Auntie Eula knows no limits.
CMGI, which I believe is in Brockton, Massachusetts (not far from my current position), has also bought the name to the Patriots' new field (therefore calling it CMGI Field). The new stadium project hasn't even started excavation yet, and CMGI is putting out commercials for season skybox tickets by using the 3D mock-up of the new field. CMGI also loves venture capital; take one CMGI venture, tvisions. CMGI paid for advertising banners all over the MBTA subway system, beckoning out, "Join a pre-IPO company...", but we all know about what has happened to the majority of pre-IPO companies for the past two years.
Hopefully, CMGI and their "@ventures" will collapse, and Bob Kraft will be left on his knees behind Governor Celluci, begging for more state funding since his largest corporate sponsor has dried up.
BTW, on an offtopic note, how does ArseTechnica sound as an Ars-spoof site?
So you're saying that Slashdot is the Robin Hood of the Internet? With Rob Malda's insatiable appetite for new gadgets, and a fat wallet with which he purchases said gadgets, I just can't believe that either. Furthermore, the companies that make the gadgets often cut corners to save money, when in fact they could've had a larget return on the small investment in the design process.
Sue the entire Internet? Require every Internet user to pay an "AltaVista" tax? Cut off all noncompliant sites from search queries? Or perhaps even more nefarious acts?
Ugh. Ever since Compaq started holding the reins of Altavista, they have become more megalomaniacal by the minute.
Microsoft's Media Player can ONLY display videos in primary mode. Same for RealPlayer. And save for all DVD playback software. The reason being that in primary mode, taking a screenshot with the PrintScreen button results in a big black box where the window is. Only the program itself can capture a screenshot if it's configured to do so, and believe me, the programmers aren't gonna do that.
Hell yes, computers are mostly to blame for the California outages. Just look at how many affluent people with computers are living there; millions of people, meaning that there are millions of computers. And don't forget about Silicon Valley and its tens of thousands of servers, running 24/7 with their 4- to 32-way SMP boards, their redundant power supplies, and their 8-drive RAID cages chewing up thousands of watts per server.
Of course the computers contribute to the problem. However, the utility companies are also to blame due to lack of planning for the future. They should've seen this coming a mile away back in 1980, but they didn't. They had their chance in 1990, but they still sat on their hands. By 1995, California was already hip deep in the Internet, not to mention the software business which was in full swing for 15 solid years. Instead, they just sat on their hands, kept the generators running, and bought electricity by the megawatt from adjacent states. In the end, everyone loses.
Babelfish is a real butt-saver; that is, except in German pages without the proper accent marks; for example, "korper" doesn't translate as "body" unless it's entered as "körper".
Now, both MS Media Player and RealPlayer will be declared obsolete by an open-sourced player and format that doesn't infringe. What could be better? I'll tell you: if it'll be even better if they don't make the player display the video file on the primary surface. Exercise your god-given right to take screenshots of movies!
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There's a specific amount of chips that don't make it due to being defective right off the wafer. Wouldn't this process increase the percentage of defective chips?
That moment was sort of like when JFK was assassinated, and then when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald (on live TV, no less). You knew where you were when you heard the news. Unfortunately, I don't; I was five years old, and no one wanted to tell me.
I'm talking about people with severe radiation poisoning, victims of the gullibility of doctors and the blind faith in radium. Ever heard of Eben Byers? He was a professional golfer that drank two bottles of a radium-laced soft drink every day. After several years, he was suffering from severe radium poisoning in his jaw.
The BusinessWeek article constantly confuses the term "circular" with "spherical". Circular motors already exist, it's the spherical motor that is new.
What's even more eerie, Apple and Nissan both use the same advertising agency (tbwa/chiat/day [they're obviously trying to tap into the *nix crowd]).
What scares me about this is that in the 1930's and 1940's, radium was touted as the cure for many similar diseases. Unfortunately, radiation poisoning proved them all wrong.
I just want these scientists and doctors to sign a contract with the world stating that they won't genetically manipulate apes.
All of the computers in the lab start up with it, and I hate it so much that I don't just close msmsgs, I terminate its process.
More like killing an amoeba with a howitzer.
Hey, ever seen the part in Dune (DeLaurentiis/Lynch production, not the Sci-Fi series) where Gurney and Paul fight with the shields? How about if the bounding model is as grainy as that? It'd be a lot less hard to calculate collisions with such a low polycount, but the functionality would still be there!
Now if only we could do the same to all the ribald trolls of Slashdot.
There are other reasons, but I'll leave it like this: NT and *nix have similar demands for hardware stability. None of the "blacklisted" laptops live up to those demands.
If you had original Quake, you would have agreed with me on Half-Life being based on that engine. Compare the weapon-bobbing between Q1 and Half-Life: the same. Try typing in "killserver" in the console during a game in HL. Unlike Q2 (at which point it drops to the console with "Server was killed."), nothing happens. What's the extension for model files? Right, .mdl, and not .md2 like in Quake2. What protocols are supported for multiplayer? Incredibly, IPX as well as TCP/IP are supported in HL (Q2 only supports TCP/IP, while Quake1 supported IPX as well in the original DOS version). The only similarity I see between the HL engine and the Q2 engine is how you seem to drift when standing on moving platforms (in HL, it's most noticeable on tracktrains).
Compaq Presario: AVOID! VIA chipset + WinModem = driver nightmare!
Compaq Armada: Better; since they are designed for NT, Linux should be no problem.
Toshiba Satellite Toshiba Tecra and Satellite >$1500: Consider, though the WinModem is still there; these things were also designed for NT, so Linux should work as well.
Sony VAIO series (excluding F630 and C1VN): Excellent; it uses the Intel 440BX; however, the Yamaha sound chipset isn't supported quite as well. Only consider if you're willing to spend $$$ for a powerful glitzy laptop.
Sony VAIO PCG-F630: AVOID!!! Sony used a VIA chipset and an AMD K6-2 for this one, so expect teething driver problems all over the place.
Dell Inspiron: Almost a shoe-in for Linux.
Dell Latitude: Watch out, this one wasn't designed for NT at all, so Linux probably wouldn't like it.
Either way, I applaud the efforts of Tuxtops; just getting the drivers for each hardware component can be hell (especially when you're stuck in bash because of a bad video driver!).
The First Wives Club featured Microsoft Office, so does that mean that it instantly lost karma in its Slashdot rating?
DnD? As in "Dungeons and Dragons"? Gee, I hope that the Wizards know.
I thought that there were already a bunch of suits against Microsoft. Don't stoke the campfire if you're sitting on a dripping can of gasoline!
Of course it is, ever since NetPliance bundled the service inside the box, the iOpener jumped up in price by $200. They pulled the old version because people were hacking it to turn it into an ultra-cheap x86 machine. After having many units sold but far fewer users registered for the service, though, NetPliance finally grew a brain and bundled the license. Auntie Eula knows no limits.
Hopefully, CMGI and their "@ventures" will collapse, and Bob Kraft will be left on his knees behind Governor Celluci, begging for more state funding since his largest corporate sponsor has dried up.
BTW, on an offtopic note, how does ArseTechnica sound as an Ars-spoof site?
Hypocrisy within hypocrisy within hypocrisy...
Ugh. Ever since Compaq started holding the reins of Altavista, they have become more megalomaniacal by the minute.
Microsoft's Media Player can ONLY display videos in primary mode. Same for RealPlayer. And save for all DVD playback software. The reason being that in primary mode, taking a screenshot with the PrintScreen button results in a big black box where the window is. Only the program itself can capture a screenshot if it's configured to do so, and believe me, the programmers aren't gonna do that.
Of course the computers contribute to the problem. However, the utility companies are also to blame due to lack of planning for the future. They should've seen this coming a mile away back in 1980, but they didn't. They had their chance in 1990, but they still sat on their hands. By 1995, California was already hip deep in the Internet, not to mention the software business which was in full swing for 15 solid years. Instead, they just sat on their hands, kept the generators running, and bought electricity by the megawatt from adjacent states. In the end, everyone loses.
Babelfish is a real butt-saver; that is, except in German pages without the proper accent marks; for example, "korper" doesn't translate as "body" unless it's entered as "körper".
Now, both MS Media Player and RealPlayer will be declared obsolete by an open-sourced player and format that doesn't infringe. What could be better? I'll tell you: if it'll be even better if they don't make the player display the video file on the primary surface. Exercise your god-given right to take screenshots of movies!
Just so isolated inside the Redmond campus that they'd rather not divulge any other secrets/vulnerabilities/etc.