more like: Okay Dad, click the terminal icon What's that? It looks kinda like a monitor *silence* Like a black square thing *silence* It's in the lower left hand part of the screen Okay I clicked it Did a black window open up? No Um.. did any window open up? Yes, it's white. Okay, that's okay. Do you see a prompt? A what? Do you see a blinking cursor? Does it let you type? Yes Okay now type sudo apt-get install gnome-meeting Okay Is it doing anything? No Did you hit return? Okay I did. Is it doing anything? No What does it say? It doesn't say anything Okay lets try again. Type s u d o space a p t dash g e t space i n s t a l l space g n o m e dash m e e t i n g and press return okay What does it say? nothing In the window where you just typed the letters it doesn't have any words? It says "Sorry try again, password:" Okay, it probably worked the first time and thinks you were entering your password the second time. What? Nevermind, just put in your password and it should be okay. What's my password. I don't know your password, it's whatever you use when you sign into the machine. I don't know You don't know your password? What do you type when you logon to the computer? I don't know The computer... when you first turn it on... you have to type something before you can use it right? Yes. What do you type? Your mother does it. Okay well then we need her on the phone. She's not home. Okay, well.. we aren't going to be able to do this right now then. Um, have mom call me later when she gets home and we can try again.
regular 'ol Xeon is commonly available at 3+ Ghz. That's still hella faster than the Mac any way you look at it. Not to mention if you had two of them.
This was with the 3Ghz Xeon. As far as the rest of your comment, it makes no sense. Hella faster no matter how you look at it? Um... try looking at it with your eyes open, the dual 2Ghz PPC970 beats the dual 3Ghz Xeon in all the tests.
"And come to think of it, what further changes are they planning anyway"
Why would anyone mod up a post as "insightful" when he clearly didn't even RTFA? The changes are adding strong encryption. They are not "making themselves incompatible". The old format still remains unchanged unless you are using encryption. PKWare implemented encryption first but didn't publish complete details on their implementation so WinZip was forced to go their own way.
It's amazing what can be learned by actually reading.
As I was trying to download this file I came to your post. So I flipped on MTV and sure enough the award show was on. About 5 min later I caught Gollum's speech. Lol.
What would Daimler-Crysler do if Microsoft controlled 90% of the worlds petrol stations, and suddenly decided from now on petrol would be poured about a foot to the left of your car rather than into your petrol tank, if you happen to drive a Mercedes?
I imagine we've already agreed to exactly this as a clause in our Enterprise License Agreement. =P
I get his newsletter and I agree that he does tend to slam MS quite a bit and he will occasionally praise Apple and Linux (more often Apple, not so much Linux). But he will very often take jabs like this at Linux with biased, skewed, or otherwise incomplete facts. I get the feeling that alot of it is just pushing back at the slashdot-type MS bashing that is so prominant these days.
Nevertheless, I wouldn't put too much weight in this little article. His newsletter is great for those of us working in an MS world, it helps keep me informed in the latest MS news the way that slashdot keeps me up to date in everything else (well except Novell...slashdot needs more NetWare articles =P ) but I wouldn't give any more credence to his opinions that I would the typical slashdot flamewar.
What better solution? Win2K/XP systems have been running with this workaround in place since September. This means that any benchmarks you've seen done recently have likely been done with 4K paging. Guess what? Athlons still outperform similarly clocked P3/4's. As far as expecting discounts... they are already significantly cheaper than Pentiums, what kinda discount do you expect?
PSO is not "massively multiplayer" The MMORPG has not been tested on the console yet. It's a fairly small thing to let a small group of people (4 or so) to adventure together online. Maintaining a persistent world where thousands of people can be connected and interacting simultaneously is a very different thing. I doubt that it will work simply because of the need to patch the game. Square cannot possibly test the game enough to have all the balance issues and exploits ironed out before it goes live. Yet, unlike a PC, there is no way to easily patch a console game.
I loved my newton but it's handwriting recognition was very poor. I usually ended up jotting things down as pictures and then translating them to text later when I had time.
Q: How many Newtons does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.
Not really. Perhaps you don't play Everquest. One of the biggest problems with Everquest is the "EverCamp" syndrome. Many of the most highly desired items are "camped" endlessly. This means there is an actual waiting list for the item. You show up at a particular location and wait your turn in a line for the chance to get the item. People may wait 12 hours or more in such a line. Other items may not have an explicit line but, due to the rarity of the creature that drops the item, people may find themselves putting in DAYS of Real Life time to aquire this item. Sure you get a sense of satisfaction for earning the said item, but no one can argue that sitting in a room waiting in a line, or waiting for a rare spawn for 12+ hours is fun. It's work, plain and simple. If I can earn the Real Life cash to buy this item in 2 hours then why waste 12 hours of my free time camping for it? I'd rather just buy the item and then spend my in-game hours doing something that I enjoy.
You may not be that crazy. I and a friend of mine were discussing everquest at the bar a few months ago. We were talking about how much everquest is like Real Life(tm) in that you have to put in alot of tedious work in order to earn money for things you want. This lead to the realization that if we could buy, say 10,000 platinum pieces for, say $100 dollars, it would be easily be worth it. It would take us far longer to earn 10Kpp in game than it would to earn $100 in Real Life(tm). $100 RL dollars means very little to me but 10Kpp is a fortune.
It's not that far fetched that a virtual economy could provide a Real Life means of support for someone.
I'm pretty sure that Linus doesn't touch the 2.2.x kernel anymore. In fact, I believe that as soon as 2.2.0 was released, he handed it over to Alan Cox and then Linux moved on exclusively to 2.3.
I'm in the Detroit area to and I love MediaOne. I run a quake2 and quake3 server on my box and even with players on both servers I can still listen to shoutcast and surf the web with no significant delay.
I too had a MessagePad 100 and IMHO it doesn't even begin to compare to the Pilot. Initially the big motivation for the Pilot was synchronization. I lost all my data twice on my Newton. With my Pilot, it's trivial to back it up so I never lose data (I actually sync to several computers even).
(how come no one talks about the fact that you can't write natural language on these Palm things?). Graffiti was an aftermarket product for the Newton years ago
I think you answered your own question. Why do you think that there was a market for Graffiti on the Newton? While natural handwriting recoginition would be nice, I'd rather take a few moments to learn Graffiti (it's really not hard) than fight with Newton recognition.
Q: How many Newton users does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Faux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup!
Seriously though, the Newton was very cool technology and way ahead of its time. As usual, Apple just screwed up. They packed in more and more features and the price rose up and up but they failed to provide a small, low-end model that the average joe could afford. The e-mate looked like it was pretty cool too (I notice some of the WinCE machines heading that direction).
You can't easily search your paper address book for phone numbers, dates, notes, etc.
For example if I get a partially garbled number on my pager I can search for the legible portion on my Pilot and often figure out who called. (This is also usefull for legible numbers that I may or may not want to call back).
Another handy use it to attach a note to meeting events. I enter the participants names and other misc notes. Then I can search for a name and get a list of every time I've met with that person.
Finally, just the sheer volume of information you can fit into such a small space while having it all easily accessable make the Pilot far superior to any paper products.
If you had read the article they specifically state that there will be an IPO.
3Com will make an initial public offering (IPO) for its Palm Computing subsidiary early next year, and intends to subsequently spin-off the balance of the shares of the new publicly traded company to 3Com shareholders.
I'd imagine they licensed it. IBM makes Palm-clones (I've heard rumors that they plan to actually innovate a bit soon, right now they are just clones). Symbol makes a PalmOS device with a built in barcode reader. Qualcomm makes a really slick PalmOS cellphone.
3Com isn't Apple. They aren't going to sit by and let WinCE unseat them, so it benefits them to have PalmOS running on as many devices as they can.
Heh. Where I (and the manitee, incidentally) used to work we regularly refered to our Point of Sale as a Piece Of Shit. The acronym was equally appropiate either way.
Slashdot Mirror
more like:
Okay Dad, click the terminal icon
What's that?
It looks kinda like a monitor
*silence*
Like a black square thing
*silence*
It's in the lower left hand part of the screen
Okay I clicked it
Did a black window open up?
No
Um.. did any window open up?
Yes, it's white.
Okay, that's okay. Do you see a prompt?
A what?
Do you see a blinking cursor? Does it let you type?
Yes
Okay now type sudo apt-get install gnome-meeting
Okay
Is it doing anything?
No
Did you hit return?
Okay I did.
Is it doing anything?
No
What does it say?
It doesn't say anything
Okay lets try again. Type s u d o space a p t dash g e t space i n s t a l l space g n o m e dash m e e t i n g and press return
okay
What does it say?
nothing
In the window where you just typed the letters it doesn't have any words?
It says "Sorry try again, password:"
Okay, it probably worked the first time and thinks you were entering your password the second time.
What?
Nevermind, just put in your password and it should be okay.
What's my password.
I don't know your password, it's whatever you use when you sign into the machine.
I don't know
You don't know your password? What do you type when you logon to the computer?
I don't know
The computer... when you first turn it on... you have to type something before you can use it right?
Yes.
What do you type?
Your mother does it.
Okay well then we need her on the phone.
She's not home.
Okay, well.. we aren't going to be able to do this right now then. Um, have mom call me later when she gets home and we can try again.
regular 'ol Xeon is commonly available at 3+ Ghz. That's still hella faster than the Mac any way you look at it. Not to mention if you had two of them.
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/
This was with the 3Ghz Xeon. As far as the rest of your comment, it makes no sense. Hella faster no matter how you look at it? Um... try looking at it with your eyes open, the dual 2Ghz PPC970 beats the dual 3Ghz Xeon in all the tests.
"And come to think of it, what further changes are they planning anyway"
Why would anyone mod up a post as "insightful" when he clearly didn't even RTFA? The changes are adding strong encryption. They are not "making themselves incompatible". The old format still remains unchanged unless you are using encryption. PKWare implemented encryption first but didn't publish complete details on their implementation so WinZip was forced to go their own way.
It's amazing what can be learned by actually reading.
As I was trying to download this file I came to your post. So I flipped on MTV and sure enough the award show was on. About 5 min later I caught Gollum's speech. Lol.
Um... when us older guys were in college we didn't have Kazaa or napster. You know what we had to do to get music? We bought CDs!
We didn't have any money... we were poor... and yet somehow we managed to scrape $12 up now and then for a new CD.
You know it! 4-digit old school!
I imagine we've already agreed to exactly this as a clause in our Enterprise License Agreement. =P
I get his newsletter and I agree that he does tend to slam MS quite a bit and he will occasionally praise Apple and Linux (more often Apple, not so much Linux). But he will very often take jabs like this at Linux with biased, skewed, or otherwise incomplete facts. I get the feeling that alot of it is just pushing back at the slashdot-type MS bashing that is so prominant these days.
Nevertheless, I wouldn't put too much weight in this little article. His newsletter is great for those of us working in an MS world, it helps keep me informed in the latest MS news the way that slashdot keeps me up to date in everything else (well except Novell...slashdot needs more NetWare articles =P ) but I wouldn't give any more credence to his opinions that I would the typical slashdot flamewar.
What better solution? Win2K/XP systems have been running with this workaround in place since September. This means that any benchmarks you've seen done recently have likely been done with 4K paging. Guess what? Athlons still outperform similarly clocked P3/4's. As far as expecting discounts... they are already significantly cheaper than Pentiums, what kinda discount do you expect?
PSO is not "massively multiplayer" The MMORPG has not been tested on the console yet. It's a fairly small thing to let a small group of people (4 or so) to adventure together online. Maintaining a persistent world where thousands of people can be connected and interacting simultaneously is a very different thing. I doubt that it will work simply because of the need to patch the game. Square cannot possibly test the game enough to have all the balance issues and exploits ironed out before it goes live. Yet, unlike a PC, there is no way to easily patch a console game.
I loved my newton but it's handwriting recognition was very poor. I usually ended up jotting things down as pictures and then translating them to text later when I had time.
Q: How many Newtons does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.
Not really. Perhaps you don't play Everquest. One of the biggest problems with Everquest is the "EverCamp" syndrome. Many of the most highly desired items are "camped" endlessly. This means there is an actual waiting list for the item. You show up at a particular location and wait your turn in a line for the chance to get the item. People may wait 12 hours or more in such a line. Other items may not have an explicit line but, due to the rarity of the creature that drops the item, people may find themselves putting in DAYS of Real Life time to aquire this item. Sure you get a sense of satisfaction for earning the said item, but no one can argue that sitting in a room waiting in a line, or waiting for a rare spawn for 12+ hours is fun. It's work, plain and simple. If I can earn the Real Life cash to buy this item in 2 hours then why waste 12 hours of my free time camping for it? I'd rather just buy the item and then spend my in-game hours doing something that I enjoy.
You may not be that crazy. I and a friend of mine were discussing everquest at the bar a few months ago. We were talking about how much everquest is like Real Life(tm) in that you have to put in alot of tedious work in order to earn money for things you want. This lead to the realization that if we could buy, say 10,000 platinum pieces for, say $100 dollars, it would be easily be worth it. It would take us far longer to earn 10Kpp in game than it would to earn $100 in Real Life(tm). $100 RL dollars means very little to me but 10Kpp is a fortune.
It's not that far fetched that a virtual economy could provide a Real Life means of support for someone.
er.. Of course I mean "Linus moved on to 2.3" It's hard to type "Linus" my fingers just seem to jump to the "x" automatically
I'm pretty sure that Linus doesn't touch the 2.2.x kernel anymore. In fact, I believe that as soon as 2.2.0 was released, he handed it over to Alan Cox and then Linux moved on exclusively to 2.3.
I'm in the Detroit area to and I love MediaOne. I run a quake2 and quake3 server on my box and even with players on both servers I can still listen to shoutcast and surf the web with no significant delay.
(how come no one talks about the fact that you can't write natural language on these Palm things?). Graffiti was an aftermarket product for the Newton years ago
I think you answered your own question. Why do you think that there was a market for Graffiti on the Newton? While natural handwriting recoginition would be nice, I'd rather take a few moments to learn Graffiti (it's really not hard) than fight with Newton recognition.
Q: How many Newton users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Faux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup!
Seriously though, the Newton was very cool technology and way ahead of its time. As usual, Apple just screwed up. They packed in more and more features and the price rose up and up but they failed to provide a small, low-end model that the average joe could afford. The e-mate looked like it was pretty cool too (I notice some of the WinCE machines heading that direction).
For example if I get a partially garbled number on my pager I can search for the legible portion on my Pilot and often figure out who called. (This is also usefull for legible numbers that I may or may not want to call back).
Another handy use it to attach a note to meeting events. I enter the participants names and other misc notes. Then I can search for a name and get a list of every time I've met with that person.
Finally, just the sheer volume of information you can fit into such a small space while having it all easily accessable make the Pilot far superior to any paper products.
3Com will make an initial public offering (IPO) for its Palm Computing subsidiary early next year, and intends to subsequently spin-off the balance of the shares of the new publicly traded company to 3Com shareholders.
(sigh) And some moderator moderated you up.
The pdQ (PalmOS cellphone) is here if you want to see it. It's way overpriced but still cool as hell.
3Com isn't Apple. They aren't going to sit by and let WinCE unseat them, so it benefits them to have PalmOS running on as many devices as they can.
Still, I'd have to agree that it seems odd.
Heh. Where I (and the manitee, incidentally) used to work we regularly refered to our Point of Sale as a Piece Of Shit. The acronym was equally appropiate either way.
(and I also second no more Wesley)
Funny you should mention that... I use a 486sx25 to brush my cat.