Socket A CPUs are not produced anymore. AMD stopped production last spring. I was looking for the picture wher they have all the engineers rounded for the final goodbye, but all I could find was this:
Reminds me of the turrets in Half-Life. Actually this could be a great way to defend my computer space for the week after Half-Life 2 is out. I wouldn't have to stop playing, or even say "get out of here". Better gaming through robotics!
I recently moved bask from Gentoo-PPC to Mac OS X + Fink lately after my Linux HD crashed, so I'll tell you what I am missing the most about Gentoo.
First, there are a quite a bunch of advanced build options in Portage that are not available under Fink (see/etc/make.conf). USE variable, easy distcc, easy ccache, powerful package query... These are things that you can't go without once you've tried them.
Fink is nice, but its package tree is smaller and less up to date than Portage is. Besides, nobody will prevent you from having both.
Apart from Portage, Gentoo offers multiple system management facilities. I don't know if these will be ported, but things like rc-update (init script management) and java-config really help.
Finally, I think that what will set Gentoo-MacOS apart from Fink is the number of developper and community size. That is something that cannot be duplicated.
I've been running KDE 3.2 built from CVS on 2004-01-14 for a week and so far, so good. This release should be nice. Now waiting for an ebuild...
It's a bit faster. I wish it would be much faster. But generally when this happens I reboot in XP for a day, then I realize that speed isn't all that counts. Prelinking helps, too.
I think I'll delete KDE 3.1.x entirely, since there is no need for it anymore.
It'd be nice if they could make distributed. Kinda like P2P search engines, but for the web. That way, the main searching server farm wouldn't be tied to any company in particular. That would give Google a run for their money, and would keep Microsoft at bay for another while.
Being open an open search network, some peer servers could specialize in searching what they're hosting, making it possible to index otherwise dynamically generated content. These specialized hosts would act as "search plugins" for some otherwise hard-to-define content.
An authentication method (a la Freenet) would be needed, though. Some form of authority to prevent rogue peers from injecting too much crap in the results.
Overall, a good idea. If they make it, I'll run it.
You seem to have a fixation on drug companies. What's your problem? Drug companies are just just glorified medicine-men. You shouldn't make the assumption that better drugs directly translates to better health.
One of the main points (beside price) of building your own computer is to be able to choose your components, which you dont really have when it comes down to building a Mac since the supported hardware list is so small. _Drivers_ are the biggest hurdle to putting your own Mac together. Unless you want to run Yellow Dog Linux on it, but then it's not a Mac anymore, is it?
You cannot even use standard PC video cards on a Mac, since the Mac architecture expects extension cards to have OpenFirmware compliant firmware. Hence, nice Mac-specific NVidia AGP cards that wont fit anywhere else. Again, there are ways around that, but reliabiality suffers.
Mac OS X / Darwin has some very nice features not found on other mature (i.e. not Hurd) BSD or GNU OSes. Although most of these are very technical in nature (mostly deriving from its microkernel architecture), I guess having a stripped, portable OS X could be useful for systems programming.
First, there are places like Audio/Video appliances where an embedded multimedia-friendly (just look at Darwin's IOKit design) kernel would fit very well, without having recourse to more hardcore-barebones realtime OS (i.e. QNX).
Second, being able to test code for x86 portability (and thus, "future-proofing" it) is a worthy goal, even you dont believe that Apple someday will port OS X to x86. (Maybe x86-64?)
But, from a user perspective, you are right as there is probably no point is using Darwin over other OSes.
My understanding of the unified drivers thing is that you have only one driver distribution for all cards. Makes support easier as customers dont have to know what exact type of card they have.
It was only a matter of time before this happenned. The US military has been using the entertainment industry for so long, now that games are bigger than movies, they have to follow suit. That's where the kids are, and they need fresh meat to grind.
A problem with the new Web Services paradigm is that there is no place for a proprietary protocol anymore. We used to have proprietary encoding schemes over closed transports (IPX). Now we have XML over HTTP over IP, all of which are public standards. Systems that were relying only on obscurity for their security are now fully exposed because data is transmitted "in the clear".
That, along with the multiplication of software layers (Browser -> Plugin -> Applet -> TCP - > Server -> Servlet -> AppServer -> 10 other middle layers) makes for very complicated systems with slower performance and bigger security holes. All this for no good reason other that going through firewall by riding over HTTP.
I've yet to meet someone explain to me the true advantages of Web Services. They are to me the biggest fad we've seen in corporate computing in recent years. Everybody's doing it, so it must be good.
Which is why in 16-bit color modes, you get 5 bits for red, 5 bits for blue and 6 bits for green. The human eye perceives more shades of green so that's where the extra bit goes.
1) Canada already has its own space agency, it just doesn't launch rockets on its own. But it does just about everything that goes in them. Communication systems, robotics, satelites and astronauts.
2) AFAIK, all canadian astronauts already use NASA's facilities to get up there (including the shuttle). The european cooperation stuff is more about launching satelites and sharing technology.
Launching rockets costs an awful lot of money, and you have to be a BIG country (not just large) to that on your own. And having a launch site near the equator also helps.
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Maybe its about time you go shopping outside. There still are other places to buy things than shopping malls. Places you can walk to.
More over they are still in production.
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Socket A CPUs are not produced anymore. AMD stopped production last spring. I was looking for the picture wher they have all the engineers rounded for the final goodbye, but all I could find was this
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21377
Ok, I've found the damn pic. Here
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24544
Did Dvorak also happen to think that Intel would go out of their way to make an iBook friendly version of Itanium?
I didn't think so. Itanium doesnt scale that low, at least, not for now.
The only non-x86 chips Apple will use for Intel are the XScale CPUs, for future iPods.
Reminds me of the turrets in Half-Life. Actually this could be a great way to defend my computer space for the week after Half-Life 2 is out. I wouldn't have to stop playing, or even say "get out of here". Better gaming through robotics!
And what exactly should this implementation have been? Its easy to criticize, but I would like to know what you are proposing instead. Really.
Because from what I read, java generics look very usable. My only complaint is that they werent in JDK 1.4.
I recently moved bask from Gentoo-PPC to Mac OS X + Fink lately after my Linux HD crashed, so I'll tell you what I am missing the most about Gentoo.
/etc/make.conf). USE variable, easy distcc, easy ccache, powerful package query... These are things that you can't go without once you've tried them.
First, there are a quite a bunch of advanced build options in Portage that are not available under Fink (see
Fink is nice, but its package tree is smaller and less up to date than Portage is. Besides, nobody will prevent you from having both.
Apart from Portage, Gentoo offers multiple system management facilities. I don't know if these will be ported, but things like rc-update (init script management) and java-config really help.
Finally, I think that what will set Gentoo-MacOS apart from Fink is the number of developper and community size. That is something that cannot be duplicated.
I've been running KDE 3.2 built from CVS on 2004-01-14 for a week and so far, so good. This release should be nice. Now waiting for an ebuild...
It's a bit faster. I wish it would be much faster. But generally when this happens I reboot in XP for a day, then I realize that speed isn't all that counts. Prelinking helps, too.
I think I'll delete KDE 3.1.x entirely, since there is no need for it anymore.
Their main points are
1) Linux admins will cost you more than Windows admins.
Well, duh. I guess you get what you pay for. They don't say much about downtime costs, though.
2) Windows is cheaper than a mainframe
Well, duh again. That one is sooooo obvious.
3) Java programmers cost more than VB.Net programmers.
Yeah, but what about code maintenance costs?
What a bunch of crap.
...And then you will be replaced by a robot whose divider wall construction abilities are precise to a tenth of a millimeter. Oops.
Merci pour cette enrichissante tranche d'histoire!
I always thought that BFT stood for "Big Fucking Truck". Just as the BFG-9000 in Doom stood for "Big Fucking Gun"...
When will GMC build it? I want my BFT 550!
It'd be nice if they could make distributed. Kinda like P2P search engines, but for the web. That way, the main searching server farm wouldn't be tied to any company in particular. That would give Google a run for their money, and would keep Microsoft at bay for another while.
Being open an open search network, some peer servers could specialize in searching what they're hosting, making it possible to index otherwise dynamically generated content. These specialized hosts would act as "search plugins" for some otherwise hard-to-define content.
An authentication method (a la Freenet) would be needed, though. Some form of authority to prevent rogue peers from injecting too much crap in the results.
Overall, a good idea. If they make it, I'll run it.
You seem to have a fixation on drug companies. What's your problem? Drug companies are just just glorified medicine-men. You shouldn't make the assumption that better drugs directly translates to better health.
As both a Mac and PC owner :
One of the main points (beside price) of building your own computer is to be able to choose your components, which you dont really have when it comes down to building a Mac since the supported hardware list is so small. _Drivers_ are the biggest hurdle to putting your own Mac together. Unless you want to run Yellow Dog Linux on it, but then it's not a Mac anymore, is it?
You cannot even use standard PC video cards on a Mac, since the Mac architecture expects extension cards to have OpenFirmware compliant firmware. Hence, nice Mac-specific NVidia AGP cards that wont fit anywhere else. Again, there are ways around that, but reliabiality suffers.
I can think of so many uses for a home 100mbps internet link that you wouldn't be able to download the list with your measly 56kbps modem.
Sorry.
Here is a a browser that doesnt lack merit, so maybe we could change its name to the Award Browser?
Mac OS X / Darwin has some very nice features not found on other mature (i.e. not Hurd) BSD or GNU OSes. Although most of these are very technical in nature (mostly deriving from its microkernel architecture), I guess having a stripped, portable OS X could be useful for systems programming.
First, there are places like Audio/Video appliances where an embedded multimedia-friendly (just look at Darwin's IOKit design) kernel would fit very well, without having recourse to more hardcore-barebones realtime OS (i.e. QNX).
Second, being able to test code for x86 portability (and thus, "future-proofing" it) is a worthy goal, even you dont believe that Apple someday will port OS X to x86. (Maybe x86-64?)
But, from a user perspective, you are right as there is probably no point is using Darwin over other OSes.
For a second I imagined Noam Chomsky with a large machine gun.
My understanding of the unified drivers thing is that you have only one driver distribution for all cards. Makes support easier as customers dont have to know what exact type of card they have.
It was only a matter of time before this happenned. The US military has been using the entertainment industry for so long, now that games are bigger than movies, they have to follow suit. That's where the kids are, and they need fresh meat to grind.
A problem with the new Web Services paradigm is that there is no place for a proprietary protocol anymore. We used to have proprietary encoding schemes over closed transports (IPX). Now we have XML over HTTP over IP, all of which are public standards. Systems that were relying only on obscurity for their security are now fully exposed because data is transmitted "in the clear".
That, along with the multiplication of software layers (Browser -> Plugin -> Applet -> TCP - > Server -> Servlet -> AppServer -> 10 other middle layers) makes for very complicated systems with slower performance and bigger security holes. All this for no good reason other that going through firewall by riding over HTTP.
I've yet to meet someone explain to me the true advantages of Web Services. They are to me the biggest fad we've seen in corporate computing in recent years. Everybody's doing it, so it must be good.
Twenty Sensa-Trac?
Isn't Sensa-Trac a brand of razor?
Why would Indians base their currency on razors? So they can stay on the cutting edge?
Those crazy Buddhists...
Which is why in 16-bit color modes, you get 5 bits for red, 5 bits for blue and 6 bits for green. The human eye perceives more shades of green so that's where the extra bit goes.
1) Canada already has its own space agency, it just doesn't launch rockets on its own. But it does just about everything that goes in them. Communication systems, robotics, satelites and astronauts. 2) AFAIK, all canadian astronauts already use NASA's facilities to get up there (including the shuttle). The european cooperation stuff is more about launching satelites and sharing technology. Launching rockets costs an awful lot of money, and you have to be a BIG country (not just large) to that on your own. And having a launch site near the equator also helps.