As IBM found with OS/2, once MS percieves you as a threat, they attack like a rabid pit bull.
Nah, that's not the way I see it. The way I see it, Microsoft regards a threat just like the Borg. At first, they are oblivious. But when the enemy makes the first visible threat to Microsoft (most notably, decent USB support in 2.4), they react. Slowly, but surely, they trudge up to their enemy and disable them at first. Then they assimilate them. For instance, where's the Hosts file in Windows NT? Right, in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts by default, along with lmhosts, networks, protocol, and services. Also, remember that famous "look and feel" lawsuit brought up by Apple? That was assimilation as well (with a few changes to prevent infringement), albeit a noble act of assimilation to enhance the UI of Windows.
Either way, Microsoft's message to Linux users and programmers (and to Linus Torvalds himself) is clear: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Fraunhofer IIS, the self-proclaimed authority on high-compression media, decides to force a new format on the people of the world. Furthermore, the source code will be withheld, and the world will play catch-up.
However, I know that this won't happen. We're happy enough with MP3 for now, and when someone open-sources a better standard, we'll try it out. But for now, Fraunhofer IIS remains the "mp3 nazis" of the world.
For all NYTimes articles submitted to Slashdot, have the partners link somewhere visible in the story. Damn those personal information database compilers to hell!!!
...according to the report, toysmart.com would be responsible for destroying the records. I fear that they would just pull a "Let's not and say we did!" and then decide internally to keep the database. Bam, toysmart gets 50,000 smackeroos for KEEPING the database.
Sure, this is pure speculation, but that's the advantage of being a pessimist; you're either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
That's what I'm doing in my Electronic Design class in college. I'll be using HPVEE to have hardware controllers do stuff. Then, I'll use it for my final project to show off a piece of equipment that fulfills a set of objectives. I'm already light-years ahead of what the big hardware design corporations are doing. Take Intel, for instance. They haven't been able to release a reliable chipset for two years!
Phew! That makes me feel a LITTLE better. However, remember that Java is also at 2.0, and look at the problems that still linger (the most notable slowdowns are still due to the nature of Java itself).
...but please, PLEASE promise us that it'll run perfectly on the first version! I hate nothing more than a standard with bugs, loopholes, and vulnerabilities.
Hell, the Amiga started the craze of MOD music, the format of music that is currently used in Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Of course, the file format has been updated over the years to allow for MOD files of over 4 channels (the current limit is 64 with 256 virtual channels [multiple samples in one channel are possible with the Impulse Tracker format]), and the limit of 64K per sample (the current limit is 4MB per sample, more than enough). Even track 10 of the Quake2 CD was made in Impulse Tracker (by Jeremiah Sypult, who is not willing to release the original.IT file of the song).
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The biggest problem at the time was storage and battery draw.
Add to that the fact that any WinCE device crashes on execution of any program (provided and downloaded alike), and you have a troublesome PDA.
It's a great tool for paramedics too.
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They can take pictures with Kodak's CoolPix, and then show the doctors what the hell caused the injury.
Of course, there's the ambulance chasers, who whip out their PDAs and start taking names for litigation. However, the PDA is the number 2 favorite of the ambulance chaser; number 1 is the instantly inflating balloon for putting under women's shirts to feign the third trimester.
In the Boston Globe (where I first found out about 4C and their nefarious plans), I read about the CPRM strategy, and how they whined that they wouldn't be able to implement it globally for computer hard drives. Unfortunately, the craze with firmware-enabled hard-drive controllers (of which HighPoint, Promise, and CMD are the three main culprits) could change this. However, I don't think that the gov could force everyone to replace their hard drive controllers.
Either way, go get 'em Andre! I hope that you'll keep the Win2K users in mind as well, because no anti-DMCA techie leaves another anti-DMCA techie behind.
That's different, though; that's a part of the memory subsystem of the main chipset. And you've been proven wrong by me, Hemos, and AMD themselves. No matter what kind of FUD you're reading on heise.de, arstechnica, or wherever, you're wrong, and you're afraid to be wrong. Go worry about something worthwhile for a change, like the sad case of a low-latency OSS sound system or the 2.6 USB drivers; those two definetly need people working on them.
...my astronomy teacher would play entire albums of "The Sounds of Jupiter" in the planetarium dome. Pretty weird stuff; it was supposed to be the radio chatter and the background noise of Voyager's miniature nuclear power supply.
...but we should have told him to shut up and let 2.4 speak for itself. Do not pass judgment on this until the kernel has run the gamut of tests. As for the claim of USB support, how many manufacturers of USB hardware are committed to providing Linux 2.4 drivers? Not many, I'm guessing, if not none at all. Perhaps a default USB mouse driver will be included with every 2.4 distro, but the rest of the hardware will be vapor.
Linux gaming on the retail scale is a joke. Sales of Linux-only game titles are pathetic. The Quake 2 and Q3A strategy of allowing access to the data files and having the user download the executable is much more effective. Until MesaGL can become more stable and versatile, and until the OSS sound system can be improved to the performance level of DirectSound (or until something else performs likewise), Linux games will just remain the tinkertoys that they are right now. As far as the future goes, that depends on whether or not any decent or outstanding APIs are developed.
Seriously, I think that another one is long overdue. This time, include the requirement that the patent must exist in the U.S. Patent Offices (or any other country's patent office).
IMHO, the human genome should not be patentable, nor should any individual gene or group of genes. If current genetic patents continue, then we might only be 20 years away from an X-Men scenario.
Unfortunately, yes. I'm STILL waiting for my DSL to be prepared (58 days and counting), so I'm on a 56K right now. When you first buy a computer, unless you scheduled the DSL/Cable modem a month in advance, you'll have to use the modem. And with some DSL providers (Verizon, Telocity, and Pacific Bell, to name a few), the DSL connection is so bogged down due to improper routing, that people would rather use their analog modem than trudge through the 23Kbps/1Kbps connection of their pathetic DSL ISP.
The FCC still hasn't increased the output limit so that 56K modems can actually operate at 56K. And they've had almost three years to do that! Furthermore, they've turned a blind eye to the DSL industry, essentially giving Pacific Hell, Southwestern Hell, and Derision free reign over the DSL market, allowing them to stand in the way of paying customers and bog down competing ISPs who do a much more responsible job as an ISP than the baby bells themselves.
What's that? You don't care about the DSL woes because your T1/T3 is doing just fine? Then maybe you should think about how the baby bells are keeping their prices high while other ISPs are offering $900 to $2500 per month for a T1. However, you still have to go through a baby bell to get the T1/T3 line.
I'll put it this way: if the baby bells can't give a soccer mom a decent Internet connection without fouling up somewhere, then why trust them with a high-speed, high-cost connection to your servers?
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Nah, that's not the way I see it. The way I see it, Microsoft regards a threat just like the Borg. At first, they are oblivious. But when the enemy makes the first visible threat to Microsoft (most notably, decent USB support in 2.4), they react. Slowly, but surely, they trudge up to their enemy and disable them at first. Then they assimilate them. For instance, where's the Hosts file in Windows NT? Right, in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts by default, along with lmhosts, networks, protocol, and services. Also, remember that famous "look and feel" lawsuit brought up by Apple? That was assimilation as well (with a few changes to prevent infringement), albeit a noble act of assimilation to enhance the UI of Windows.
Either way, Microsoft's message to Linux users and programmers (and to Linus Torvalds himself) is clear: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
However, I know that this won't happen. We're happy enough with MP3 for now, and when someone open-sources a better standard, we'll try it out. But for now, Fraunhofer IIS remains the "mp3 nazis" of the world.
For all NYTimes articles submitted to Slashdot, have the partners link somewhere visible in the story. Damn those personal information database compilers to hell!!!
Sure, this is pure speculation, but that's the advantage of being a pessimist; you're either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
That's what I'm doing in my Electronic Design class in college. I'll be using HPVEE to have hardware controllers do stuff. Then, I'll use it for my final project to show off a piece of equipment that fulfills a set of objectives. I'm already light-years ahead of what the big hardware design corporations are doing. Take Intel, for instance. They haven't been able to release a reliable chipset for two years!
Phew! That makes me feel a LITTLE better. However, remember that Java is also at 2.0, and look at the problems that still linger (the most notable slowdowns are still due to the nature of Java itself).
...but please, PLEASE promise us that it'll run perfectly on the first version! I hate nothing more than a standard with bugs, loopholes, and vulnerabilities.
Hell, the Amiga started the craze of MOD music, the format of music that is currently used in Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Of course, the file format has been updated over the years to allow for MOD files of over 4 channels (the current limit is 64 with 256 virtual channels [multiple samples in one channel are possible with the Impulse Tracker format]), and the limit of 64K per sample (the current limit is 4MB per sample, more than enough). Even track 10 of the Quake2 CD was made in Impulse Tracker (by Jeremiah Sypult, who is not willing to release the original .IT file of the song).
Add to that the fact that any WinCE device crashes on execution of any program (provided and downloaded alike), and you have a troublesome PDA.
Of course, there's the ambulance chasers, who whip out their PDAs and start taking names for litigation. However, the PDA is the number 2 favorite of the ambulance chaser; number 1 is the instantly inflating balloon for putting under women's shirts to feign the third trimester.
Feed it salsa, and then see if it produces methane and endures a gas leak! It would be the first robot to fart! Now there's a true leap for science!
Not as long as a Linux user has a spare Quadra 660AV that he wants to convert over! And don't forget the PPC603ev!
Either way, go get 'em Andre! I hope that you'll keep the Win2K users in mind as well, because no anti-DMCA techie leaves another anti-DMCA techie behind.
That's different, though; that's a part of the memory subsystem of the main chipset. And you've been proven wrong by me, Hemos, and AMD themselves. No matter what kind of FUD you're reading on heise.de, arstechnica, or wherever, you're wrong, and you're afraid to be wrong. Go worry about something worthwhile for a change, like the sad case of a low-latency OSS sound system or the 2.6 USB drivers; those two definetly need people working on them.
So you do admit that Linus should shut up!
...my astronomy teacher would play entire albums of "The Sounds of Jupiter" in the planetarium dome. Pretty weird stuff; it was supposed to be the radio chatter and the background noise of Voyager's miniature nuclear power supply.
...but we should have told him to shut up and let 2.4 speak for itself. Do not pass judgment on this until the kernel has run the gamut of tests. As for the claim of USB support, how many manufacturers of USB hardware are committed to providing Linux 2.4 drivers? Not many, I'm guessing, if not none at all. Perhaps a default USB mouse driver will be included with every 2.4 distro, but the rest of the hardware will be vapor.
It's an x86 with a hard drive and a video card, isn't it?
Linux gaming on the retail scale is a joke. Sales of Linux-only game titles are pathetic. The Quake 2 and Q3A strategy of allowing access to the data files and having the user download the executable is much more effective. Until MesaGL can become more stable and versatile, and until the OSS sound system can be improved to the performance level of DirectSound (or until something else performs likewise), Linux games will just remain the tinkertoys that they are right now. As far as the future goes, that depends on whether or not any decent or outstanding APIs are developed.
After all, they're marketing the iMac to all the other Fannie Maes and Ellie Maes and Tammy Fays. They're losing their "catering to the yokels" edge.
Cool! I'd better take the green line to Park Street and go outside to investigate.
IMHO, the human genome should not be patentable, nor should any individual gene or group of genes. If current genetic patents continue, then we might only be 20 years away from an X-Men scenario.
Unfortunately, yes. I'm STILL waiting for my DSL to be prepared (58 days and counting), so I'm on a 56K right now. When you first buy a computer, unless you scheduled the DSL/Cable modem a month in advance, you'll have to use the modem. And with some DSL providers (Verizon, Telocity, and Pacific Bell, to name a few), the DSL connection is so bogged down due to improper routing, that people would rather use their analog modem than trudge through the 23Kbps/1Kbps connection of their pathetic DSL ISP.
Independence Limited.
Freedom of...
Choice is made for you my friend.
Freedom of...
Speech is words that they will bend.
Freedom no longer frees you.
What's that? You don't care about the DSL woes because your T1/T3 is doing just fine? Then maybe you should think about how the baby bells are keeping their prices high while other ISPs are offering $900 to $2500 per month for a T1. However, you still have to go through a baby bell to get the T1/T3 line.
I'll put it this way: if the baby bells can't give a soccer mom a decent Internet connection without fouling up somewhere, then why trust them with a high-speed, high-cost connection to your servers?