Bruce, considering you work in IP insurance, don't you think it's irresponsible of you to post on this story, given your very obvious bias?
And, lets face it.. with the current screwed up patent/IP system, SCO has proved just about anybody can try and take legal action against Linux. However, I seriously doubt that at this point in time either MS,Sun,IBM or HP will try and pull the same shit SCO did. It's obviously a kamikazee aproach.
All Intel need to do is get off their arse and produce a Pentium-M with an 800MHz FSB and 64-bit support, and AMD finally have some competition in terms of performance again.
You would also wonder how the hell they're planning on cooling multiple 4.6GHz CPUs. Surely those things are going to dissipate a serious amount of heat.
If time started, the how did it start? Something must have taken out the first domino brick.
I think Steven Hawking answered that question with the line "What's north of the North Pole?".
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Their 'privacy' statement includes the following - watch out!
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* IP address (your computer''s unique signature)
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The information we collect is aggregated to reflect the population as a whole rather than focused on individuals. We use it to help us better understand the people who visit Atriks.com. In addition, like many other sites with paid advertising, we disclose some of this aggregate information to advertisers to inform them of the number of people who have seen and clicked on their advertisements.
RISC OS does it quite well. In the unlikely event something goes wrong, you can interrupt a bad application and kill it. While pre-emptive multi-tasking is less likely to look you out of your system, it also causes quite a serious performance hit. Cooperative multi-tasking also seems to handle certain things better, for example re-drawing window contents.
However, the main disadvantage with cooperative multi-tasking is that it won't work with multiple CPUs.
IBM exists to make money. It serves no other purpose. The only reason they encourage innovation is because they get free software out of it. They couldn't give a shit about anything that they can't make money out of. Obviously, the slashbot group-think agrees with you (+4?).
"Interesting"? That is one of the worst things that could possibly happen to Linux from a PR point of view. The virus(es?) that attacked SCO were bad enough.
I think one of the problems they had was that a CPU with low power requirements is only particularly useful in embedded (ie handheld) devices, and thus x86 compatibility is not that useful. The embedded market was/is already heavily controlled by ARM-based CPUs to begin with.
I think the problem is that Windows is far too easy to screw up, and stupidity isn't a factor. We've all seen someone click 'Yes' when they shouldn't and get flooded with spyware, or whatever. I've seen some people who are clearly experienced users fuck up a Windows installation many times.
So, why don't you explain who you would describe as 'stupid'? Anyone with less skill than a sysadmin?
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With the obvious exception of configuring it, Pine is relatively easy to use.
Bruce, considering you work in IP insurance, don't you think it's irresponsible of you to post on this story, given your very obvious bias?
And, lets face it.. with the current screwed up patent/IP system, SCO has proved just about anybody can try and take legal action against Linux. However, I seriously doubt that at this point in time either MS,Sun,IBM or HP will try and pull the same shit SCO did. It's obviously a kamikazee aproach.
Price? They built it themselves, so surely that's cheaper than getting it practically pre-built.
OK. Let me re-phrase that:
Turning war into a one-sided computer game is not a good idea.
Any advancement in technology that helps protect and or save the lives of an American soldier get a big thumbs up from me.
Yeah. Fuck everybody else. Asshole.
You're joking, right?
A robot could commit war crimes, and it could easily be blamed on a 'technical fault', the manufacturers, or anyone other than the military.
You also forget that a robot would follow every order given to it, without question. Think about that for a moment.
Probably because no Linux distribution or UNIX vendor would consider bundling IE.
All Intel need to do is get off their arse and produce a Pentium-M with an 800MHz FSB and 64-bit support, and AMD finally have some competition in terms of performance again.
Also you can generally turn off HT in the bios, if you're really interested in seeing what effect it has.
I tried it with 3DMark2003. Turning off HT makes a very small increase in performance.
Centrion isn't just the processor, it's a Pentium M, an Intel chipset on the motherboard, and an Intel wireless chipset.
I'm not an MS fanboy (far from it, in fact), but you are aware that Apache runs on a variety of different CPUs and OSs, right?
You would also wonder how the hell they're planning on cooling multiple 4.6GHz CPUs. Surely those things are going to dissipate a serious amount of heat.
The Sharp Zaurus (and many other PDAs) runs on an Intel XScale, which is without question a RISC processor.
If you read up on the SPARC achitecture, you'll notice that it has a load-store architecture, and is arguably a RISC chip.
If time started, the how did it start? Something must have taken out the first domino brick.
I think Steven Hawking answered that question with the line "What's north of the North Pole?".
Their 'privacy' statement includes the following - watch out!
When you visit Atriks.com, we collect some basic information about your computer, such as:
* IP address (your computer''s unique signature)
* Operating system (eg: Windows 2000)
* Browser software (eg: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape)
* Internet Service Provider (eg: AOL, Mindspring, etc...)
* Other numeric codes used to identify a computer
The information we collect is aggregated to reflect the population as a whole rather than focused on individuals. We use it to help us better understand the people who visit Atriks.com. In addition, like many other sites with paid advertising, we disclose some of this aggregate information to advertisers to inform them of the number of people who have seen and clicked on their advertisements.
RISC OS does it quite well. In the unlikely event something goes wrong, you can interrupt a bad application and kill it. While pre-emptive multi-tasking is less likely to look you out of your system, it also causes quite a serious performance hit. Cooperative multi-tasking also seems to handle certain things better, for example re-drawing window contents.
However, the main disadvantage with cooperative multi-tasking is that it won't work with multiple CPUs.
What does "reasonable care in preventing the use of their software to swap copyrighted music or movies--or child pornography" mean?
It could very well mean not releasing the source code, for a start.
IBM exists to make money. It serves no other purpose. The only reason they encourage innovation is because they get free software out of it. They couldn't give a shit about anything that they can't make money out of. Obviously, the slashbot group-think agrees with you (+4?).
"Interesting"? That is one of the worst things that could possibly happen to Linux from a PR point of view. The virus(es?) that attacked SCO were bad enough.
Try Cedega. It works quite well.
I think one of the problems they had was that a CPU with low power requirements is only particularly useful in embedded (ie handheld) devices, and thus x86 compatibility is not that useful. The embedded market was/is already heavily controlled by ARM-based CPUs to begin with.
Anyone notice the 'Add to Cart' buttons!?
Nope, you're spot on:
For example:
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
cpu MHz : 3015.616
I assume it would be exactly the same with an AMD.
Not that I disagree with you, but the problem with that is that it would technically be euthanasia, which is a kind of touchy subject.
I think the problem is that Windows is far too easy to screw up, and stupidity isn't a factor. We've all seen someone click 'Yes' when they shouldn't and get flooded with spyware, or whatever. I've seen some people who are clearly experienced users fuck up a Windows installation many times.
So, why don't you explain who you would describe as 'stupid'? Anyone with less skill than a sysadmin?