1) This was a voice interview (or that's what some posts have said), so all typos are not Shatner's fault. Funny stuff, but get over it.
2) This isn't even an interview, it's just a question-answer session. And you got his answers. In an interview there's usually a human doing more than reading questions off a cue-card which allows the possibility of probing deeper if desired.
3) Considering many Slashdot interviews are questions in an expert's bailiwick (ones that the persons asked very much want to blab about) and the whole reason to interview Shatner is his uniqueness, it seems in rather bad taste to criticize his answers because they don't fit in each person's narrow definitions of how he's supposed to answer.
4) He's a human being, for god's sake. Treat him like a person and not like Kirk, some fictional character - one of many - he's portrayed. If you want to interview Kirk, talk to Shatner and ask if it's possible. That could be another set of unique answers (hopefully questions, too) which could surprise even Shatner. If you want an interview with a "has-been" (in other people's opinions), I think his answers to these questions were much more than what was deserved. If you look you'll see many personal parts of Shatner show through.
AFAIR yes, the Transmeta chips are based on long instruction words (xLIW, don't remember what the x is) instead of being RISC (Apple, pseudo-Intel) chips, so the native code is very different from x86 or other PC CPU assembly code.
That's one reason the first 2 processors didn't show so great on performance tests for the first run of a set of code - it took a while to re-write the x86 program instructions so that their CPU could execute them. However they have a cache (size?) so that subsequent runs (of a loop, say) showed a huge performance increase over the first run according to the few sites who tried this and posted results.
Yes, there was also initial talk about being able to run PPC and other chipsets' programs, too. I don't remember but I thought it was a chip on the board which did the instruction translation and caching, so I don't know how they were going to allow a single machine to do different translations - either after a boot or during the same boot-session.
Hope I'm not starting any rumors since I don't have references, but these were the reasons I was initially interested in developing HW for their chips - never got a response from their developer relations, though.
When I was at the Media Lab's Visual Language Workshop we had an assignment to play a few video games. As it turned out, it was my first exposure to Civilization (the original, back in 1993). It was the most fun I'd had with a game to date - no manuals given, just figure out how to play the game and play it. I don't even remember the other games.
IDRTA (I didn't read the article), but for comparative interface studies getting video game assignments can be a good thing. Other posters' bad-mouthing other things like language programs and such are almost right - the computer could be an excellent way to teach/learn many things including languages.
I suppose I haven't done my duty as a comparative consumer to check it out, but since I started my DSL back in January 1999 I've been out of touch with the market. I was surprised when I saw PvpOnline.com's provider's deal for DSL service with a free X-Box/PS2 - when I looked into it, it turned out the cost is > $300 for installation and $199/month for 384Kb service (IIRC), using the same phonelines and I about died! These were supposed to be the consumer rates! I can't believe anyone would pay that much for internet service! (Um, no one is, right?)
Now that my modem is paid off, my total for service with phone service and some free long distance time is less than $75/month including all taxes.
So a new Slashdot poll: How much do you pay a month for your bandwidth? 1) $ 0.446 ($25 AOL/56Kb) 2) $ 0.065 ($50/768Kb ADSL) 3) $ 0.528 ($199/384Kb SDSL) 4) Nothing, I paid it all up front 5) Just enough service to survive on 6) The most bandwidth I could find...
:PP
Available in car stereos?
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So what's the easiest path to getting this new software tech into a consumer product I'm currently in the market for? I've just started looking and though Sony has a CD/R/RW changer which claims MP3 ability, what do I look for to choose a changer and stereo that'll make adoption (or immediate use) of Ogg easiest?
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2) This isn't even an interview, it's just a question-answer session. And you got his answers. In an interview there's usually a human doing more than reading questions off a cue-card which allows the possibility of probing deeper if desired.
3) Considering many Slashdot interviews are questions in an expert's bailiwick (ones that the persons asked very much want to blab about) and the whole reason to interview Shatner is his uniqueness, it seems in rather bad taste to criticize his answers because they don't fit in each person's narrow definitions of how he's supposed to answer.
4) He's a human being, for god's sake. Treat him like a person and not like Kirk, some fictional character - one of many - he's portrayed. If you want to interview Kirk, talk to Shatner and ask if it's possible. That could be another set of unique answers (hopefully questions, too) which could surprise even Shatner. If you want an interview with a "has-been" (in other people's opinions), I think his answers to these questions were much more than what was deserved. If you look you'll see many personal parts of Shatner show through.
Toodles,
That's one reason the first 2 processors didn't show so great on performance tests for the first run of a set of code - it took a while to re-write the x86 program instructions so that their CPU could execute them. However they have a cache (size?) so that subsequent runs (of a loop, say) showed a huge performance increase over the first run according to the few sites who tried this and posted results.
Yes, there was also initial talk about being able to run PPC and other chipsets' programs, too. I don't remember but I thought it was a chip on the board which did the instruction translation and caching, so I don't know how they were going to allow a single machine to do different translations - either after a boot or during the same boot-session.
Hope I'm not starting any rumors since I don't have references, but these were the reasons I was initially interested in developing HW for their chips - never got a response from their developer relations, though.
Ah well,
IDRTA (I didn't read the article), but for comparative interface studies getting video game assignments can be a good thing. Other posters' bad-mouthing other things like language programs and such are almost right - the computer could be an excellent way to teach/learn many things including languages.
Most things just haven't been done right, though.
Now that my modem is paid off, my total for service with phone service and some free long distance time is less than $75/month including all taxes.
So a new Slashdot poll: How much do you pay a month for your bandwidth?
1) $ 0.446 ($25 AOL/56Kb)
2) $ 0.065 ($50
3) $ 0.528 ($199/384Kb SDSL)
4) Nothing, I paid it all up front
5) Just enough service to survive on
6) The most bandwidth I could find
So what's the easiest path to getting this new software tech into a consumer product I'm currently in the market for? I've just started looking and though Sony has a CD/R/RW changer which claims MP3 ability, what do I look for to choose a changer and stereo that'll make adoption (or immediate use) of Ogg easiest?
:PP
Thanks,
His suggestion is that being plain silly is a superior state.
8PP
I thought we were getting away from articles about the FCC...
Oh, and what about a beo...
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