Wheras Windows-based notebooks with 5 pounds, 5 hour battery, built-in FireWire, built-in Wi-Fi, choice of optical drives, and UNIX-based OS
Well, my 18 month old Dell Inspiron with 15" screen weighs more like 8 pounds, and the batteries only last 4 hours, but we're equivalent so far...
all include future-proof graphics hardware that will never, ever not be able to run a new Windows graphics feature. The latest DirectX always runs at full speed and with all features enabled on every Wintel computer, right?
DX8 works fine. And should I want to upgrade my video card to a GF2Go, I *CAN*.
There are no softwares anywhere in the Wintel world that require a certain level of graphics hardware to function, right?
When my Dell is 3 or 4 years old, I will expect it to not be able to support all the new gee-whiz stuff that will be coming out. If, however, 6 weeks after I bought it, a new version of DX came out that my hardware was unable to support, I would be PISSED.
Doing unix-y stuff in the terminal is great. Codebuilder and CodeWarrior compile times seem fine, etc. It's just when the screen gets busy that performance dies. This is especially disappointing since the main reason I bought this thing (other than development) was for music production, and any graphic-intensive apps (Cubase, Protools Free) cause dropouts, clicks and pops in the audio (Tascam US-428.)
The only reason I haven't already smashed my icebook against the wall for being so goddam slow is that I expected a serious quartz tuneup including hardware acceleration.
It's so slow now it's ALMOST unusable. There are many things about it I love, but if I'm stuck at this speed (feels about the same as a 133 mHz P-II) I have no use for it.
Just a thought... what if magic/esp/supernatural/etc/etc are quantum phenomena and the act of measuring/observing them is enough to make observation pointless??? What if there is a finite limit to the number of "/'s" that one can use in a single lifetime??? I didn't say it was a GOOD thought.
Hey, Mr. Taco, Sir, how about putting a permanent link on the main page that would allow anybody to quickly find their senator/congressman's contact information. Like maybe start being just a little proactive with some of these issues. If even 3% of/. readers actually DID something (call/write) I think it could make a *significant* difference. Weenies, kwhores, and goaters notwhithstanding, I have never seen a forum with a greater number of informed, intelligent, and articulate participants. Some of us probably just need a little kick in the ass to actually DO something other than bitch. (yeah, I'm a hypocrite and karma whore. That doesn't mean I'm WRONG.
If there's a method for accurately accounting for where all the money goes, the ARTISTS sure haven't stumbled on it. They regularly get totally screwed over... in a very lawyer-like way. $2 or $4 here and there for paperclips, photocopies, and other "administrative" fees usually eats up 100% of the money newly successful bands make... they almost always have to renegotiate their contracts before they start rolling in the dough. Does anybody remember when MCA was run by the mafia? (It's true! I read it in Reader's Digest. heh.)
I buy about 200 used books for every new one (fiction, anyway) and I have actually had a few pangs of guilt about cutting the author out of whatever few pennies he would have gotten had I bought the new copy. Anyway, one day I was looking at (SF author) James Hogan's web site, and noticed that he lived in the same city as me, so I sent him an email, apologized for only buying his books used, and offered to buy him a beer to compensate for it. To my surprise, he took me up on it and I ended up buying him 6 pints of Guiness ($30 or so), which as far as I'm concerned eliminated my debt to every other SF author, living or dead, as well.
Actually, truely random data would not have any redundancy whatsoever.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is true ON AVERAGE, but it is possible, however unlikely, that your truly random number generator could generate nothing but zeroes, which would be quite compressible.
Just a couple of random thoughts that nobody will read since this article was posted yesterday
We know carnivore was written by a major player in the software industry, NAI being one of a couple of dozen potential candidates. If this were the case PGP is more of a threat than a failed profit center. (Assuming that whoever developed carnivore is currently making buttloads of money off of it.) Anybody besides me having heavier than usual planned outages from "scheduled maintenance" by your ISP lately?
And even if NAI isn't involved with carnivore, and even assuming that the NSA (or other three letter acronym of your choice) isn't putting pressure on encryption providers, they're probably very nervous about having any of their products go on record as having been used by "terrorists".
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Wheras Windows-based notebooks with 5 pounds, 5 hour battery, built-in FireWire, built-in Wi-Fi, choice of optical drives, and UNIX-based OS
Well, my 18 month old Dell Inspiron with 15" screen weighs more like 8 pounds, and the batteries only last 4 hours, but we're equivalent so far...
all include future-proof graphics hardware that will never, ever not be able to run a new Windows graphics feature. The latest DirectX always runs at full speed and with all features enabled on every Wintel computer, right?
DX8 works fine. And should I want to upgrade my video card to a GF2Go, I *CAN*.
There are no softwares anywhere in the Wintel world that require a certain level of graphics hardware to function, right?
When my Dell is 3 or 4 years old, I will expect it to not be able to support all the new gee-whiz stuff that will be coming out. If, however, 6 weeks after I bought it, a new version of DX came out that my hardware was unable to support, I would be PISSED.
Yep yep yep.
Doing unix-y stuff in the terminal is great. Codebuilder and CodeWarrior compile times seem fine, etc. It's just when the screen gets busy that performance dies. This is especially disappointing since the main reason I bought this thing (other than development) was for music production, and any graphic-intensive apps (Cubase, Protools Free) cause dropouts, clicks and pops in the audio (Tascam US-428.)
The only reason I haven't already smashed my icebook against the wall for being so goddam slow is that I expected a serious quartz tuneup including hardware acceleration.
It's so slow now it's ALMOST unusable. There are many things about it I love, but if I'm stuck at this speed (feels about the same as a 133 mHz P-II) I have no use for it.
They need to take this up with their web designer. Deep linking is easily preventable.
Just a thought... what if magic/esp/supernatural/etc/etc are quantum phenomena and the act of measuring/observing them is enough to make observation pointless??? What if there is a finite limit to the number of "/'s" that one can use in a single lifetime???
I didn't say it was a GOOD thought.
Hey, Mr. Taco, Sir, how about putting a permanent link on the main page that would allow anybody to quickly find their senator/congressman's contact information. Like maybe start being just a little proactive with some of these issues. If even 3% of /. readers actually DID something (call/write) I think it could make a *significant* difference. Weenies, kwhores, and goaters notwhithstanding, I have never seen a forum with a greater number of informed, intelligent, and articulate participants. Some of us probably just need a little kick in the ass to actually DO something other than bitch.
(yeah, I'm a hypocrite and karma whore. That doesn't mean I'm WRONG.
Without the ability to click handsfree, this thing is utterly worthless.
IIRC, Yourdon is something of an egomaniac.
I don't imagine that there are many subjects that he doesn't feel qualified to write a book about.
If there's a method for accurately accounting for where all the money goes, the ARTISTS sure haven't stumbled on it. They regularly get totally screwed over... in a very lawyer-like way. $2 or $4 here and there for paperclips, photocopies, and other "administrative" fees usually eats up 100% of the money newly successful bands make... they almost always have to renegotiate their contracts before they start rolling in the dough. Does anybody remember when MCA was run by the mafia? (It's true! I read it in Reader's Digest. heh.)
In the end, ALL wars are won or lost by men carrying guns and shooting at each other. Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, etc all prove the rule.
And since you apparently haven't notice, some things are worth fighting for EVEN WHEN YOU KNOW YOU'RE DOOMED TO FAILURE.
I don't know about "Bible Belt", but it's a totally Christian organization. That's why you won't find one open on Sundays.
That's life in a free market economy.
Be happy that somebody with larger pockets than you is doing something about it, no matter what their reason might be.
ASCAP disagrees with you on that point.
However, the establishment is responsible for ASCAP fees, not the band.
You mean "worser".
I buy about 200 used books for every new one (fiction, anyway) and I have actually had a few pangs of guilt about cutting the author out of whatever few pennies he would have gotten had I bought the new copy. Anyway, one day I was looking at (SF author) James Hogan's web site, and noticed that he lived in the same city as me, so I sent him an email, apologized for only buying his books used, and offered to buy him a beer to compensate for it. To my surprise, he took me up on it and I ended up buying him 6 pints of Guiness ($30 or so), which as far as I'm concerned eliminated my debt to every other SF author, living or dead, as well.
"Outdated" in what way, specifically?
Unix predates OS/2, Windows, and Dos among others. Does that make it "outdated"?
Yep, IF you don't count the last couple of books which he wrote after he got sick.
count me as another "idiot" who still uses :wq
Same vintage, different binaries, of course. The model 16 was a 68000 machine.
I sure hope all the songs it sings are properly licensed.
Actually, truely random data would not have any redundancy whatsoever.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is true ON AVERAGE, but it is possible, however unlikely, that your truly random number generator could generate nothing but zeroes, which would be quite compressible.
And most MIS grads laugh at the CS people who shit their pants when giving public presentations, negotiating, or simply communicating with peers.
Careful, the points on your head are showing.
It sickens me to see people refer to listening to stolen music or watching pirated movies as their civil liberties
Does it sicken you more or less than wearing white after labor day?
And how to you verify if someone is or isn't a farmer?
Make him show you the shit on his boots.
Just a couple of random thoughts that nobody will read since this article was posted yesterday
We know carnivore was written by a major player in the software industry, NAI being one of a couple of dozen potential candidates. If this were the case PGP is more of a threat than a failed profit center. (Assuming that whoever developed carnivore is currently making buttloads of money off of it.) Anybody besides me having heavier than usual planned outages from "scheduled maintenance" by your ISP lately?
And even if NAI isn't involved with carnivore, and even assuming that the NSA (or other three letter acronym of your choice) isn't putting pressure on encryption providers, they're probably very nervous about having any of their products go on record as having been used by "terrorists".