He didn't mean boards to cloan the Mac, he ment PowerPC boards following the open IBM PowerPC reference platform (correct me if it's called different), which are 2 very different things.
Apple uses proprietary firmware to make MacOS only bootable on Apple Systems, and I think the stopping of the clones was Steve Jobbs doing (They were cheaper than Apple's offerings, but up to par with Apple's machines).
But somehow, I couln't imagine a clone manufacturer comming up with the beatifull cases that Apple came up with:-)
The market is holding them back, because apart from us Linux/BSD users that dream of a PowerPC based system, no one else would buy it, because MacOS wouldn't run on it and the normal Joe has no user of a PowerPC system running some kind of free *nix.
If they would be manufactured, they would only be manufactured in small quantities, making them expensive as hell.
Maybe the question is stupid, but I've been out of touch with gaming for a while and the article wasn't exactly forthcoming on the game, focusing on the new office space (really important, yhea). All it says is that it's some form of online game, I guess an RPG, and that it is somehow supposed to be revolutionary.
What I would enjoy is if it where an RPG where society, science, and technology develops and advances, somehow like a complete virtual world.
P.S. What is with all teh ASCII art trolls that are currently appearing, did someone discover aalib:-)
I agree, but there are problems with this system that don't crop up with traditional video surveilance systems.
1. Would Borders have told the consumer that they are implementing this system or would they have kept it a secret (then, it would definitly be an invasion of privacy).
2. What would happen if the system mistakes you for a shoplifter.
AFAIK the XBox runs on Intel hardware so it should be doable to get Linux or BSD running on it, but I'm pretty sure that MS put in some weird BIOS or firmware that disables the booting of other Operating Systems.
All I know of the Gamecube is that it is based on some kind of PPC CPU and I think an ATI video chip.
The PS2 is IMHO the bestchoice of the 3 because it is powerfull and Linux is officially sold for it by Sony (albeit only in Japan right now, but hopefully this will change).
Yhea, but if scientists don't release they are seen as worthlesss and their funding is cut even more.
The problem is that in todays society, scientists are seen as a neccesary evil that should be gotten rid of, but they (meaning general society) knows that if they get rid of us, they will get no more nice cell phones and all the other small gadgets that make life easier for humanity.
Today, scientists don't have it easy. Just look at most, learning just for the sake of learning only plays a small role today, most researchers work either for the government or for businesses, and they have to release early and often, because otherwise either their fudning will be cut or they will be fired.
Just a mindless rant on the state of scietific research in todays society
There are russians that have been in space for 6 month to a year and they have not lost their teath, and I have not heard of any problems with anyone spending time on Mir, and no one has said anything on this topic before (AFAIK, I can't read the article:-( ), so assume that the ISS astronauts are in no danger, and they are supposed to spend six month in orbit.
So, IMHO, the article was written by someone who is against a manned mission to mars or any other planet.
->In the old days, explorers ventured into the unknown. If they were very lucky, a third of the original crew returned, crammed into the last ship that wasn't lost in a storm or on an uncharted shallow.
That's true, we have become lazy assed bastards that sit on our butt all day, but you also have to remember that the explorers of old didn't have to worry about finding air to breath and if they where hungry, they just cast out a fishing line.
But still, we have to take chances, even if, after a failed mission, NASA gets attacked everywhere, even here. And we here should know that working on anything advanced, whether it's an operating system or a spaceship automatically leads you to failures. It's what comes out in the end that counts. So would you please stop attaching NASA the next time they lose a probe. Every larg projects come up with difficulty sometime or other, but problems are solved, even if it has to be iwth a second probe.
I'm pretty sure they exist, because here (in Cairo, Egypt), next to my school, there's a fast food place that have a 10" SVGA monitor set up on the PC that they use as a register. It sure is funny seeing a Windows 98 desktop on a 10" Monitor.
>but warm for sure...
So maybe we can send P4 based systenms up to Alaska, Scandinavia, Siberia, and everywhere else where it gets damn cold in winter. Then, we could kill 3 birds with one stone.
1. The P4 heats (thus making old fashioned heaters obsolete)
2. The P4 can be used to fry eggs (no more stoves needed)
3. They have more computing power than they ever needed
So, does anyone want to donate P4's to help the freezing ?
>But can I sync to any calander tool on my Linux box ?
No, you can't, and that is exactly why I have decided to order a Visor instead of a CE based device. But you have to admit that WinCE (except the first version) is a usable OS (unlike the other OSes from Redmond).
This is/., and it's reporting on a WinCE based PDA without any windows bashing going on ?
Could someone please wake me up.
Or does this mean that/. has grown up ? I aplaude this, because although Win has absolutely nothing to do on a Server/Workstation/PC, WinCE, is AFAIK actually a pretty good OS, unlike its bigger brothers.
Come on. Have any of you ever heard that gaming causes violence apart from dubious research projects that started showing up after Columbine ?
It's not video games that cause violence, it's just that people/kids predisposed to violent behaviour like to play violent video games. That's all. In order to fight violence, we have to go after the symptons, but that's harder to do than to blaim video games.
But I agree that video games stunt the brain in another sort of way, because peole who enjoy playing video games a lot think that LAN parties are the best way to use computers and a network.:-)
->If you want reliability, use the user space NFS server--it has been around for years, and it can be restarted easily.
I agree. Putting NFS and other servers (Tux, for example) into the kernel looses you all the advantages that a modular system (like *nix is suppsoed to be) has, because if something that's part of the kernelcrashes, it is a lot more probable for the kernel to go down in flames. If the userland server crashes, then the system normally stays up. Thus, the server can be restarted and fixed/patched/reconfigured/whatever without disturbing anything else running on the same box.
Easy
The second most powerful computer will get us the answer to the question of life, the universa, and everything, which we all know is 42, while the most powerful computer will get us the question itself, so we will know how the 42 got to be the answer.
Since you said you needed to support the same product on Linux and Windows, I suggest that you use Kylix if your product is written in Delphi, or, if it is written in C/C++ (I'm not going to touch VB:-)), I recommend that you use QT because it makes cross plattform development much easier. And PLEASE, stay away from wine if you plan to do more than a quick and dirty port for PR reasons (AKA Corel, MusicMatch,...).
Kylix already has an IDE (a good one), and KDevelop is also good (especially for QT development).
AFAIK it is, but not with small lightweight planes, but with ballons.
Baloons would be better suited for this (especially communications), because they can go higher, stay up longer, and have the ability to carry a larger payload.
Maybe someday we will have something similar to Iridium that uses baloons instead of satelittes, thereby beeing cheaper and more affordable ?
>Sending a Mindstorms robot to the ISS should be fun and inspirational -- but I'd like to take the idea a step further.
I agree 100% with the first half, but I'm not sure about taking it a step further, because I don't tkink that Legos and Knex are space grade material.
For example, try using normal Legos to create a watertight container. I challenge you (only normal Lego bricks allowed, and no use of any other materials).
So, IMHO, Legos
can be usefull for experiments involving mechanics and movement in zero G, but not for construction in or on the ISS.
Cool
But what about Pluto Express. We know almost nothing about Pluto (expect that Pluto exists and has a moon), and if we don't launch a probe to Pluto in the next decade or so, it's going to be much harder and way more expensice to reach it.
So, NASA, are you listening ?
LOL
These are probably the same people that install the latest Mandrake, RedHat, or SuSE, make a screenshot and show it to everyone saying : "I run Linux", but then they return to Windows 98 and forget about Linux until they heat that a new version of some distribution is released. They download the ISO and the cycle starts again.
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He didn't mean boards to cloan the Mac, he ment PowerPC boards following the open IBM PowerPC reference platform (correct me if it's called different), which are 2 very different things.
:-)
Apple uses proprietary firmware to make MacOS only bootable on Apple Systems, and I think the stopping of the clones was Steve Jobbs doing (They were cheaper than Apple's offerings, but up to par with Apple's machines).
But somehow, I couln't imagine a clone manufacturer comming up with the beatifull cases that Apple came up with
->What is holding them back?
The market is holding them back, because apart from us Linux/BSD users that dream of a PowerPC based system, no one else would buy it, because MacOS wouldn't run on it and the normal Joe has no user of a PowerPC system running some kind of free *nix.
If they would be manufactured, they would only be manufactured in small quantities, making them expensive as hell.
Maybe the question is stupid, but I've been out of touch with gaming for a while and the article wasn't exactly forthcoming on the game, focusing on the new office space (really important, yhea). All it says is that it's some form of online game, I guess an RPG, and that it is somehow supposed to be revolutionary.
:-)
What I would enjoy is if it where an RPG where society, science, and technology develops and advances, somehow like a complete virtual world.
P.S. What is with all teh ASCII art trolls that are currently appearing, did someone discover aalib
I agree, but there are problems with this system that don't crop up with traditional video surveilance systems.
1. Would Borders have told the consumer that they are implementing this system or would they have kept it a secret (then, it would definitly be an invasion of privacy).
2. What would happen if the system mistakes you for a shoplifter.
AFAIK the XBox runs on Intel hardware so it should be doable to get Linux or BSD running on it, but I'm pretty sure that MS put in some weird BIOS or firmware that disables the booting of other Operating Systems.
All I know of the Gamecube is that it is based on some kind of PPC CPU and I think an ATI video chip.
The PS2 is IMHO the bestchoice of the 3 because it is powerfull and Linux is officially sold for it by Sony (albeit only in Japan right now, but hopefully this will change).
Yhea, but if scientists don't release they are seen as worthlesss and their funding is cut even more.
The problem is that in todays society, scientists are seen as a neccesary evil that should be gotten rid of, but they (meaning general society) knows that if they get rid of us, they will get no more nice cell phones and all the other small gadgets that make life easier for humanity.
Today, scientists don't have it easy. Just look at most, learning just for the sake of learning only plays a small role today, most researchers work either for the government or for businesses, and they have to release early and often, because otherwise either their fudning will be cut or they will be fired.
Just a mindless rant on the state of scietific research in todays society
There are russians that have been in space for 6 month to a year and they have not lost their teath, and I have not heard of any problems with anyone spending time on Mir, and no one has said anything on this topic before (AFAIK, I can't read the article :-( ), so assume that the ISS astronauts are in no danger, and they are supposed to spend six month in orbit.
So, IMHO, the article was written by someone who is against a manned mission to mars or any other planet.
->In the old days, explorers ventured into the unknown. If they were very lucky, a third of the original crew returned, crammed into the last ship that wasn't lost in a storm or on an uncharted shallow.
That's true, we have become lazy assed bastards that sit on our butt all day, but you also have to remember that the explorers of old didn't have to worry about finding air to breath and if they where hungry, they just cast out a fishing line.
But still, we have to take chances, even if, after a failed mission, NASA gets attacked everywhere, even here. And we here should know that working on anything advanced, whether it's an operating system or a spaceship automatically leads you to failures. It's what comes out in the end that counts.
So would you please stop attaching NASA the next time they lose a probe. Every larg projects come up with difficulty sometime or other, but problems are solved, even if it has to be iwth a second probe.
I'm pretty sure they exist, because here (in Cairo, Egypt), next to my school, there's a fast food place that have a 10" SVGA monitor set up on the PC that they use as a register.
It sure is funny seeing a Windows 98 desktop on a 10" Monitor.
>but warm for sure...
So maybe we can send P4 based systenms up to Alaska, Scandinavia, Siberia, and everywhere else where it gets damn cold in winter. Then, we could kill 3 birds with one stone.
1. The P4 heats (thus making old fashioned heaters obsolete)
2. The P4 can be used to fry eggs (no more stoves needed)
3. They have more computing power than they ever needed
So, does anyone want to donate P4's to help the freezing ?
>But can I sync to any calander tool on my Linux box ?
No, you can't, and that is exactly why I have decided to order a Visor instead of a CE based device.
But you have to admit that WinCE (except the first version) is a usable OS (unlike the other OSes from Redmond).
This is /., and it's reporting on a WinCE based PDA without any windows bashing going on ?
/. has grown up ? I aplaude this, because although Win has absolutely nothing to do on a Server/Workstation/PC, WinCE, is AFAIK actually a pretty good OS, unlike its bigger brothers.
Could someone please wake me up.
Or does this mean that
Come on. Have any of you ever heard that gaming causes violence apart from dubious research projects that started showing up after Columbine ? It's not video games that cause violence, it's just that people/kids predisposed to violent behaviour like to play violent video games. That's all. In order to fight violence, we have to go after the symptons, but that's harder to do than to blaim video games.
:-)
But I agree that video games stunt the brain in another sort of way, because peole who enjoy playing video games a lot think that LAN parties are the best way to use computers and a network.
->If you want reliability, use the user space NFS server--it has been around for years, and it can be restarted easily.
I agree. Putting NFS and other servers (Tux, for example) into the kernel looses you all the advantages that a modular system (like *nix is suppsoed to be) has, because if something that's part of the kernelcrashes, it is a lot more probable for the kernel to go down in flames. If the userland server crashes, then the system normally stays up. Thus, the server can be restarted and fixed/patched/reconfigured/whatever without disturbing anything else running on the same box.
Easy
The second most powerful computer will get us the answer to the question of life, the universa, and everything, which we all know is 42, while the most powerful computer will get us the question itself, so we will know how the 42 got to be the answer.
But what's Intel going to do as soon as Via P4 boards hit the market, sue every single board manufacturer ?
This could be the step that makes the P4 affordable, but then Intel looses RAMBUS royalties
(AFAIK Intel collects them) and the sales of its chipsets.
Intel is just spreading bull to scare customers away from Via over to Intel.
Since you said you needed to support the same product on Linux and Windows, I suggest that you use Kylix if your product is written in Delphi, or, if it is written in C/C++ (I'm not going to touch VB :-)), I recommend that you use QT because it makes cross plattform development much easier. And PLEASE, stay away from wine if you plan to do more than a quick and dirty port for PR reasons (AKA Corel, MusicMatch,...).
Kylix already has an IDE (a good one), and KDevelop is also good (especially for QT development).
Another choice is Vim.
Isn't something similar beeing planned already ?
AFAIK it is, but not with small lightweight planes, but with ballons.
Baloons would be better suited for this (especially communications), because they can go higher, stay up longer, and have the ability to carry a larger payload.
Maybe someday we will have something similar to Iridium that uses baloons instead of satelittes, thereby beeing cheaper and more affordable ?
>Sending a Mindstorms robot to the ISS should be fun and inspirational -- but I'd like to take the idea a step further.
I agree 100% with the first half, but I'm not sure about taking it a step further, because I don't tkink that Legos and Knex are space grade material.
For example, try using normal Legos to create a watertight container. I challenge you (only normal Lego bricks allowed, and no use of any other materials).
So, IMHO, Legos can be usefull for experiments involving mechanics and movement in zero G, but not for construction in or on the ISS.
Cool But what about Pluto Express. We know almost nothing about Pluto (expect that Pluto exists and has a moon), and if we don't launch a probe to Pluto in the next decade or so, it's going to be much harder and way more expensice to reach it.
So, NASA, are you listening ?
>Which might help explain another number that keeps cropping up: 5% of the OS market.
Seriously, documentation can have nothing to do with marketshare. M$ documentation is terrible. Even MSDN is filled with marketing speak.
If you want an example of good documentation, look at FreeBSD, and what marketshare does it have ?
LOL These are probably the same people that install the latest Mandrake, RedHat, or SuSE, make a screenshot and show it to everyone saying : "I run Linux", but then they return to Windows 98 and forget about Linux until they heat that a new version of some distribution is released. They download the ISO and the cycle starts again.