A contest like this surely states in the rules that ximian employees and/or anyone who has anything whatsoever to do with the project is excluded from participating (or from receiving prizes - i guess they should still let ximian staff submit bugs;-)
Granted it would be better handled by insuring that reliable and impartial benchmarks such as perdormed by AnandTech or Tom'sHardware got the appropriate amount of press, rather than being pushed out of the spotlight by clock speeds.
I'd love to see the day when the CompUsa newspaper inserts include blurbs from Tom's Hardware or AnandTech. Unfortunetly, I think that when soccer mom's decide to buy their kiddies a new computer to do the schoolwork on they aren't going to shop around the same way/. readers would.
Frankly, I feel a little insulted. I mean who is AMD typically selling to... OEMs and people who know the difference. OEMs do most of the selling for their boxes and for the rest of us that buy chips separately, I don't think we need have them try to 'level the playing field' by labeling things differently. All it's going to do is annoy and piss off a lot of people who weren't fooled in the first place.
Yea, but it used to be that those 1.2GhZ Athlon machines the OEM is putting out were sitting next to 2GhZ intel boxes on the store shelf. Now, the Athlon-based system won't say that it's MhZ rating (which to the consumer is synonymous with overall speed) is 70% of the system next to it, it will simply say that it (the amd system) is the faster of the two. And it will have some AMD-contrived number that doesn't mean much.
I think that fooling the consumer into thinking your chip is fastest by using MhZ figures as a measure of overall performance (like intel does) is a dirtier trick than hiding the MhZ altogether. AMD is probably fed up with having their superior chip look inferior due to Intel's number games, so now they get to play some number games of their own. Good for them!
somebody should mod this up. But, knowing the slashdot community, it will get modded down since the author mentions the g4 outperforming something and that could be construed as downright pro-mac.
And this will probably get modded down too. Go on, go for it.
Sure. Every Host will receive every name lookup for the entire network.
I think you need to reread whatever you read that gave you these crazy ideas, because you're making a bunch of good intentioned nerds say wtf and then try to explain the concept to you. Its not a pretty situation.
Wouldn't it have been nice if ebook technology had been around when Ben Franklin instituted the first Libraries in the U.S.? Franklin could have been indited too!
Though your heart is in the right place, your analogy sucks. Sorry.
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But what about the server tax? Am I missing something here? How about free, as in beer and speech. Let me get this straight: I can go to Apple's site [apple.com] and download the source code and/or compiled binaries for QuickTime Streaming Server 3 (Darwin Streaming Server 3) that will work under Windows, FreeBSD, and Red Hat Linux 6.2? WTF am I missing here? I guess all I'm missing is about $60k per server from Real, but I might be wrong...
Its funny... until recently you could stream quciktime from linux, but you couldn't play it...
Could it be that apple would like linux to stay in its server-niche?
Quoted from the "real dirt" page at codeweavers: (in fact, we have significantly aided the development of the ReAktivate project, which has the potential to make our product obsolete)
At least they give the impression that they're honest guys. I mean, they're asking us to buy their product and they can't help but mention its about to get made obsolete by a free alternative program.
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o IE6 drops quicktime, and Linux picks it up. good deal. i must say i'm a little surprised that Apple is better about making a Linux friendly quicktime viewer, especially in light of what asses MS have been over the quicktime plug-in....
If there isn't one already, there will soon be a QuickTime active x component for ie6. And the quicktime-for-linux bit isn't by apple, its by the people at codeweavers. It allows the apple quicktime plugin for windows to work in linux. There is no apple support for quicktime on linux.
...but I think that this is one of the most important news items I've seen in some time. Getting QuickTime to the linux desktop is an incredible step towards making linux viable for the average joe's desktop OS.
Its a shame that apple's "open source commitment" doesn't reach to the QuickTime team, or this would have happened a long time ago...
But perhaps you might post something more productive than "mod this Troll -1 asap". Thanks.
Ha... I actually was refering to my comment when I said mod this comment. I sort of assumed my opinion would be considered trolling by the also-mentioned bastard moderators from hell. Who, I maintain, are bastards.
Nothing to figure. You were just doing it to piss off the other students. You didn't really believe in anything good or bad, by your own admission you were just trying to cause trouble.
So its in the hands of school administrators to decide who's faith is pure enough to be allowed in-school worship? Thats no good at all!
Annoying those of us who don't need him (e.g. the citizens of Minnesota)...
I guess democracy seems cooler when your in the majority, huh? Wow. A system like that could draw a mix of entirely different people into a single group of people with a national identity.
Obviously, C is just being used as a metaphor for the Divine Language of the Great Programmer, which cannot be comprehended by mere mortals or compiled on our measly computers.
Great. A new religious text, only a few days old, and already we have people trying to arbitrarly tell us which parts are metaphor and which are not. It's no wonder Jesus was remembered as a white guy!
had a club called: C.H.A.O.S (Christ has all our anwsers)
I remember that. But then they changed it to the C.I.A.: Christians in Action. They sang songs around the flagpole, put up posters with bible passages around school, and even got some airtime on the school P.A. now and then.
I had a talk with the vice-principal about it. He agreed that they were probably crossing the line in some areas, but said it was "too popular to shut down". This is in sunny liberal california, btw.
considering that you'd be typing with a stylus instead of 10 fingers, you're at square one regardless of layout. I bet its worth learning though, for people who have to put a lot of data into their palm devices by hand.
well, if you get kicked off both for DMCA violations you still left up shit creek. Having a choice of two corporations is only slightly better than having one option in the first place.
Oh really? The article states that the DMCA requires your ISP to disconnect you unless they want to be be held liable too. No ISP would risk a lawsuit for someone who probably did violate copyright.
But what if the MPAA's alegation, like many it makes, is false? If the ISP terminates a user's account based on a false accusation the user might just have legal claims against them.
My ISP, who is very top-notch, probably wouldn't just go pull the plug on a user unless they were sure the grounds to were valid. I hope.
Sidenote - Last I checked, FireWire = IEEE1394, which is a standard. Apple didn't invent it.
Who do you think submitted it as a standard? Apple's highspeed video transer system wouldn't go very far if camera manufacturers couldn't use it. So, like many things, they proposed it as a standard. Apple owns the trademark on the name FireWire though, which is why other people either call it 1394 or think up clever names like iLink.
Publicity stunt? What did Apple have to do with it from a marketing standpoint? They regularly give an Emmy for this sort of thing - technological advances in TV and film.
I think from the POV of some/. readers, Apple can magically choose to be given an award.
I wonder if these same people think the actors can decide "I think I'll win one this year" as a publicity stunt. Maybe their agent recomended it?;-)
Didn't those Jeff Goldbloom ads win an emmy too? If not those then it was some other Apple ad. In any case, the threat of Jeff Goldblum probably doesn't frighten the emmy people much.
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A contest like this surely states in the rules that ximian employees and/or anyone who has anything whatsoever to do with the project is excluded from participating (or from receiving prizes - i guess they should still let ximian staff submit bugs ;-)
I can't imagine they are in great shape financially.
I think their Stuffed Monkey sales will keep them afloat...
Granted it would be better handled by insuring that reliable and impartial benchmarks such as perdormed by AnandTech or Tom'sHardware got the appropriate amount of press, rather than being pushed out of the spotlight by clock speeds.
/. readers would.
I'd love to see the day when the CompUsa newspaper inserts include blurbs from Tom's Hardware or AnandTech. Unfortunetly, I think that when soccer mom's decide to buy their kiddies a new computer to do the schoolwork on they aren't going to shop around the same way
Frankly, I feel a little insulted. I mean who is AMD typically selling to ... OEMs and people who know the difference. OEMs do most of the selling for their boxes and for the rest of us that buy chips separately, I don't think we need have them try to 'level the playing field' by labeling things differently. All it's going to do is annoy and piss off a lot of people who weren't fooled in the first place.
Yea, but it used to be that those 1.2GhZ Athlon machines the OEM is putting out were sitting next to 2GhZ intel boxes on the store shelf. Now, the Athlon-based system won't say that it's MhZ rating (which to the consumer is synonymous with overall speed) is 70% of the system next to it, it will simply say that it (the amd system) is the faster of the two. And it will have some AMD-contrived number that doesn't mean much.
I think that fooling the consumer into thinking your chip is fastest by using MhZ figures as a measure of overall performance (like intel does) is a dirtier trick than hiding the MhZ altogether. AMD is probably fed up with having their superior chip look inferior due to Intel's number games, so now they get to play some number games of their own. Good for them!
where's some mod points when I need them?!
somebody should mod this up. But, knowing the slashdot community, it will get modded down since the author mentions the g4 outperforming something and that could be construed as downright pro-mac.
And this will probably get modded down too. Go on, go for it.
Sure. Every Host will receive every name lookup for the entire network.
I think you need to reread whatever you read that gave you these crazy ideas, because you're making a bunch of good intentioned nerds say wtf and then try to explain the concept to you. Its not a pretty situation.
Wouldn't it have been nice if ebook technology had been around when Ben Franklin instituted the first Libraries in the U.S.? Franklin could have been indited too!
Though your heart is in the right place, your analogy sucks. Sorry.
But what about the server tax? Am I missing something here? How about free, as in beer and speech. Let me get this straight: I can go to Apple's site [apple.com] and download the source code and/or compiled binaries for QuickTime Streaming Server 3 (Darwin Streaming Server 3) that will work under Windows, FreeBSD, and Red Hat Linux 6.2? WTF am I missing here? I guess all I'm missing is about $60k per server from Real, but I might be wrong ...
Its funny... until recently you could stream quciktime from linux, but you couldn't play it...
Could it be that apple would like linux to stay in its server-niche?
Quoted from the "real dirt" page at codeweavers:
(in fact, we have significantly aided the development of the ReAktivate project, which has the potential to make our product obsolete)
At least they give the impression that they're honest guys. I mean, they're asking us to buy their product and they can't help but mention its about to get made obsolete by a free alternative program.
o IE6 drops quicktime, and Linux picks it up. good deal. i must say i'm a little surprised that Apple is better about making a Linux friendly quicktime viewer, especially in light of what asses MS have been over the quicktime plug-in....
If there isn't one already, there will soon be a QuickTime active x component for ie6. And the quicktime-for-linux bit isn't by apple, its by the people at codeweavers. It allows the apple quicktime plugin for windows to work in linux. There is no apple support for quicktime on linux.
...but I think that this is one of the most important news items I've seen in some time. Getting QuickTime to the linux desktop is an incredible step towards making linux viable for the average joe's desktop OS.
Its a shame that apple's "open source commitment" doesn't reach to the QuickTime team, or this would have happened a long time ago...
But perhaps you might post something more productive than "mod this Troll -1 asap". Thanks.
Ha...
I actually was refering to my comment when I said mod this comment. I sort of assumed my opinion would be considered trolling by the also-mentioned bastard moderators from hell. Who, I maintain, are bastards.
Nothing to figure. You were just doing it to piss off the other students. You didn't really believe in anything good or bad, by your own admission you were just trying to cause trouble.
So its in the hands of school administrators to decide who's faith is pure enough to be allowed in-school worship?
Thats no good at all!
Annoying those of us who don't need him (e.g. the citizens of Minnesota)...
I guess democracy seems cooler when your in the majority, huh?
Wow. A system like that could draw a mix of entirely different people into a single group of people with a national identity.
Obviously, C is just being used as a metaphor for the Divine Language of the Great Programmer, which cannot be comprehended by mere mortals or compiled on our measly computers.
Great. A new religious text, only a few days old, and already we have people trying to arbitrarly tell us which parts are metaphor and which are not. It's no wonder Jesus was remembered as a white guy!
had a club called: C.H.A.O.S (Christ has all our anwsers)
I remember that. But then they changed it to the C.I.A.: Christians in Action. They sang songs around the flagpole, put up posters with bible passages around school, and even got some airtime on the school P.A. now and then.
I had a talk with the vice-principal about it. He agreed that they were probably crossing the line in some areas, but said it was "too popular to shut down". This is in sunny liberal california, btw.
(There are some good arguments against having "bible clubs" at school--this isn't one of them.)
So, rather than counter his point you just say his "argument isn't good"? You're one to talk!
ok, mod this Troll -1 asap.
bastard moderators from hell.
considering that you'd be typing with a stylus instead of 10 fingers, you're at square one regardless of layout. I bet its worth learning though, for people who have to put a lot of data into their palm devices by hand.
You learn to live life without it
thats crazy talk! stop befre you scare the children!
well, if you get kicked off both for DMCA violations you still left up shit creek. Having a choice of two corporations is only slightly better than having one option in the first place.
Oh really? The article states that the DMCA requires your ISP to disconnect you unless they want to be be held liable too. No ISP would risk a lawsuit for someone who probably did violate copyright.
But what if the MPAA's alegation, like many it makes, is false? If the ISP terminates a user's account based on a false accusation the user might just have legal claims against them.
My ISP, who is very top-notch, probably wouldn't just go pull the plug on a user unless they were sure the grounds to were valid.
I hope.
Sidenote - Last I checked, FireWire = IEEE1394, which is a standard. Apple didn't invent it.
Who do you think submitted it as a standard? Apple's highspeed video transer system wouldn't go very far if camera manufacturers couldn't use it. So, like many things, they proposed it as a standard. Apple owns the trademark on the name FireWire though, which is why other people either call it 1394 or think up clever names like iLink.
Publicity stunt? What did Apple have to do with it from a marketing standpoint? They regularly give an Emmy for this sort of thing - technological advances in TV and film.
/. readers, Apple can magically choose to be given an award.
;-)
I think from the POV of some
I wonder if these same people think the actors can decide "I think I'll win one this year" as a publicity stunt.
Maybe their agent recomended it?
Didn't those Jeff Goldbloom ads win an emmy too?
If not those then it was some other Apple ad. In any case, the threat of Jeff Goldblum probably doesn't frighten the emmy people much.
Phil is a funny guy. Take for example the way he lists his phone number online.