The very first chipset for the pentium II had similar problems. My father's computer, a P2-266 cannot even use 100 or 133MHz DIMMs. They have to be the old 66MHz DIMMs, due to a flaw. And they're all clocked at 66MHz.
So I won't worry too much. Intel has a record of not testing products enough before releasing them. Sometime you just cannot test everything like it does in the real world. Microsoft is a prime example of that, but Linux is just as guilty. (Don't tell me there were never bugs in a stable Linux kernel)
Honda's robots can't do dynamics, just kinetics. What I mean is that they can take actions which are stable at all times, like walking; but not take actions which pass through instabilities, like jumping or running
Here in the netherlands, in Delft, they're developing robots which should be able to that. They focus, not so much on the ability to walk, but on the ability to reclaim energy during walking, thus becoming more efficient. The place they're doing it is at the Delft Biped Laboratory, part of the tudelft
Okay, there goes my Karma. It's just my feeling someone has to say this.
Exchange is much more than just an e-mail solution. It's a way to share information inside organisations. A modern (buzz)word for it is groupware (here's a list). You can keep your agenda in it, look at other people's agenda's, use calendars for meeting rooms, beamers and other comodities, reminders for meetings, cross reference all these, etc. All this, you can sync with your handheld, and is _relatively_ easy. Exchange is backed up by a whole army of newly trained MCSD's who might not know too much of the product, but can get it up and running and are reasonably cheap.
Unfortunately, while there are some alternatives for unices, they're not as proven as Exchange. To get all of the functionality that exchange offers, you need a well trained team of *nix operators with product experience. Those are going to be much more expensive than the knownothing MCSDs. In a corporate environment, costs (licence and operating) and risks are important arguments.
The major showstopper for Exchange would be that it runs on Windows. In an organistion that doesn't already deploy windows as a server environment, the costs for acquiring this knowledge would IMHO outweigh any benefits Exchange may offer.
Of course, if your organisation is going to use it just for mail, then there is no need to use exchange, or any groupware. Probably there are at least 100 reasons not to use exchange, which undoubtedly will be stressed by as much people in this discussion.
I find that as I play Unreal Tournament (like it better than Quake) I already move a lot.
My collegues sometimes make fun of me if I try to dodge a missile by moving briskly aside, mouse, head, body and all. Now these movements may actually be used, so, I think it may add to the total game experience.
If you do too many kicks, it causes a realistic physical simulation of a tear in your pants, which then drop to your ankles and make you fall flat on your face
Which reminds me of the cbm64 game 'way of the exploding fist'. There, if you hit your opponent in a particular way, the karateka's pants would drop.
This entirely unlike DeCSS. DeCSS isn't illegal. It's still in court of the circumvetion of CSS is illegal.
The sourcecode to windows is stolen property (intellectual property by law, whether you acknowledge such a thing or not). So hosting the source code is fencing stolen property. And fencing _is_ illegal in most countries.
I intend to do something similar. The reason for me to choose integrated is that pci-cards sticking out will prevent it from fitting in any decent (flat) case.
I live I the netherlands, and I'm native dutch. The advertisement hung on all trainstations in the area here and some billboards.
However, I didn't send in my cv. It's an advertisement for the public television/radio. Some of my friends/collegues have worked there, and didn't like it.
The ancestors of homo sapiens can be traced back in time further than that.
Besides, the meteorite theory is only one theory. I lend more credibility to the theory that activities in the earth core were the cause of dinosaur extiction (scientific american, oct 1990, Courtillot, A Volcanic Eruption) (as well as the rise of them). Still, that might be triggered by comet inpacts of course.
And get replaced by services that ARE being run by idealistic young students, and who won't try to be concilatory
If you really believe that, then why aren't microsoft, barnes and noble, amazon and shell not out of business yet? You could use the very same argument in some of the discussions about them here on slashdot.
Most people don't care if you make a statement or not. The only thing they care about is their own happiness (read: low prices for (luxury) products). If that happiness hurts other people they don't know and don't see, it does not matter. A minority will care, most people won't.
I'm no a saint either. In the last six months I used products/services from 3 of the above companies. And so has 95% of the slashdot population. Like it or not.
For example, I refuse to believe that all traffic between New Zealand and Australia is routed through the US. That would be unneccesary expensive, not to say plain stupid.
That's absolutely right. Therefor, w3 has set some standards which browsers should comply to. By that standards, as far as CSS is concerned, Netscape4 is _not_ a www browser.
I don't think these are going to disappear beneath the sea. Even a conventional torpedo leaves a bubble trail. Imagine the bubble trail left by such a craft.
A DIVX type system, even without circumvention, won't succeed because consumers have rejected it, and will reject any other pay per play system that is released. Do you really think so? It's just how it's presented. Indeed, it's about the level of trust that's generated. There's already a very succesful pay per play system for movies. It's called blockbusters.
Based on this I think at best record companies could get a monthly flat rate pricing model for unlimited unrestricted music access, similar to how ISP's charge for their service. Again, we already have this: radio stations. You 'pay' by listening to their commercials.
The way you describe it, the pricing would boil down to the following: a 'tax' on internet connections. As the media industry (which music and movies are part of) and the communications industry are merging, arguments will go up to do exactly what you propose. With the additional side effect that you always pay for movies and music of the industry, even if you don't want their music.
Or, continuing along this line, why not release the kernel part of the driver as open source, while another part (the actual hardware calls) as a closed source library?
It seems to me that you have some good points here, but I don't think you are looking ahead. In the current situation, you are absolutely right: You don't need Linux to run your microwave oven. 99% of the microprocessors used in embedded systems don't need that much power
That's likely to change. Now it's 99%, but the number will drop. Many devices will become more powerful, the possibilities creating the needs.
In the near future, even devices that are very simple today, will have added functionality. They will get a (wireless) internet access, and functionality will be added. Microwaves come with access to cookbooks, and will be monitored for defects. Your watch may tell you where the closest place is you can buy a replacement battery when the current one runs out. The toaster downstairs sends you an instant message (to your watch perhaps) when it's finished toasting. Your fridge may call the grocery store when you run out of fresh milk. Possibilities are virtually endless.
It all depends on information: the generation of the information, the transmission of it and how it is parsed. With an embedded linux system more is possible than with simpler devices. So it may be a very good choice for these devices.
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The very first chipset for the pentium II had similar problems. My father's computer, a P2-266 cannot even use 100 or 133MHz DIMMs. They have to be the old 66MHz DIMMs, due to a flaw. And they're all clocked at 66MHz.
So I won't worry too much. Intel has a record of not testing products enough before releasing them. Sometime you just cannot test everything like it does in the real world. Microsoft is a prime example of that, but Linux is just as guilty. (Don't tell me there were never bugs in a stable Linux kernel)
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Honda's robots can't do dynamics, just kinetics. What I mean is that they can take actions which are stable at all times, like walking; but not take actions which pass through instabilities, like jumping or running
Here in the netherlands, in Delft, they're developing robots which should be able to that. They focus, not so much on the ability to walk, but on the ability to reclaim energy during walking, thus becoming more efficient. The place they're doing it is at the Delft Biped Laboratory, part of the tudelft
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And besides, all 20 countries voted against it, so I would really be surprised if they changed their minds for home politics.
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Microsoft and MPAA are regulated by the government?
Definately. If there weren't stupid laws about intellectual properties, licencing and the like, they wouldn't be able to hold their ground as they do.
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Okay, there goes my Karma. It's just my feeling someone has to say this.
Exchange is much more than just an e-mail solution. It's a way to share information inside organisations. A modern (buzz)word for it is groupware (here's a list). You can keep your agenda in it, look at other people's agenda's, use calendars for meeting rooms, beamers and other comodities, reminders for meetings, cross reference all these, etc. All this, you can sync with your handheld, and is _relatively_ easy. Exchange is backed up by a whole army of newly trained MCSD's who might not know too much of the product, but can get it up and running and are reasonably cheap.
Unfortunately, while there are some alternatives for unices, they're not as proven as Exchange. To get all of the functionality that exchange offers, you need a well trained team of *nix operators with product experience. Those are going to be much more expensive than the knownothing MCSDs. In a corporate environment, costs (licence and operating) and risks are important arguments.
The major showstopper for Exchange would be that it runs on Windows. In an organistion that doesn't already deploy windows as a server environment, the costs for acquiring this knowledge would IMHO outweigh any benefits Exchange may offer.
Of course, if your organisation is going to use it just for mail, then there is no need to use exchange, or any groupware. Probably there are at least 100 reasons not to use exchange, which undoubtedly will be stressed by as much people in this discussion.
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I find that as I play Unreal Tournament (like it better than Quake) I already move a lot.
My collegues sometimes make fun of me if I try to dodge a missile by moving briskly aside, mouse, head, body and all. Now these movements may actually be used, so, I think it may add to the total game experience.
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If you do too many kicks, it causes a realistic physical simulation of a tear in your pants, which then drop to your ankles and make you fall flat on your face
Which reminds me of the cbm64 game 'way of the exploding fist'. There, if you hit your opponent in a particular way, the karateka's pants would drop.
So, been there, done that already.
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reported that a paleontologist had found evidence that T-Rex had feathers as a juvenile...
Mmm. That would make the young T-rex a large, cute, fuzzy, yellow animal.
Maybe pokemon isn't that far off. Quite a disturbing thought.
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This entirely unlike DeCSS. DeCSS isn't illegal. It's still in court of the circumvetion of CSS is illegal. The sourcecode to windows is stolen property (intellectual property by law, whether you acknowledge such a thing or not). So hosting the source code is fencing stolen property. And fencing _is_ illegal in most countries.
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And infect the moon with agressive fungi in the process?
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... us techies, with our logical, orderly "there is one correct answer" orientation ...
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If you think that, you really should try PERL. Have fun
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I intend to do something similar. The reason for me to choose integrated is that pci-cards sticking out will prevent it from fitting in any decent (flat) case.
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Hear hear. In mysql the user root has a default blank password. Is that a backdoor too?
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... and about as expensive ...
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I live I the netherlands, and I'm native dutch. The advertisement hung on all trainstations in the area here and some billboards.
However, I didn't send in my cv. It's an advertisement for the public television/radio. Some of my friends/collegues have worked there, and didn't like it.
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No, not very likely.
The ancestors of homo sapiens can be traced back in time further than that.
Besides, the meteorite theory is only one theory. I lend more credibility to the theory that activities in the earth core were the cause of dinosaur extiction (scientific american, oct 1990, Courtillot, A Volcanic Eruption) (as well as the rise of them). Still, that might be triggered by comet inpacts of course.
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And get replaced by services that ARE being run by idealistic young students, and who won't try to be concilatory
If you really believe that, then why aren't microsoft, barnes and noble, amazon and shell not out of business yet? You could use the very same argument in some of the discussions about them here on slashdot.
Most people don't care if you make a statement or not. The only thing they care about is their own happiness (read: low prices for (luxury) products). If that happiness hurts other people they don't know and don't see, it does not matter. A minority will care, most people won't.
I'm no a saint either. In the last six months I used products/services from 3 of the above companies. And so has 95% of the slashdot population. Like it or not.
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I don't that it's a complete map of the internet.
For example, I refuse to believe that all traffic between New Zealand and Australia is routed through the US. That would be unneccesary expensive, not to say plain stupid.
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The web is supposed to be browser-independant
That's absolutely right. Therefor, w3 has set some standards which browsers should comply to. By that standards, as far as CSS is concerned, Netscape4 is _not_ a www browser.
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I don't think these are going to disappear beneath the sea. Even a conventional torpedo leaves a bubble trail. Imagine the bubble trail left by such a craft.
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That may be true, but at the same time it's now illegal here to sell or rent out DVD's other than regio 2. Go figure!
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any release on that particular day has to be bad luck!
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Okay, I'll bite.
A DIVX type system, even without circumvention, won't succeed because consumers have rejected it, and will reject any other pay per play system that is released.
Do you really think so? It's just how it's presented. Indeed, it's about the level of trust that's generated. There's already a very succesful pay per play system for movies. It's called blockbusters.
Based on this I think at best record companies could get a monthly flat rate pricing model for unlimited unrestricted music access, similar to how ISP's charge for their service.
Again, we already have this: radio stations. You 'pay' by listening to their commercials.
The way you describe it, the pricing would boil down to the following: a 'tax' on internet connections. As the media industry (which music and movies are part of) and the communications industry are merging, arguments will go up to do exactly what you propose. With the additional side effect that you always pay for movies and music of the industry, even if you don't want their music.
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Or, continuing along this line, why not release the kernel part of the driver as open source, while another part (the actual hardware calls) as a closed source library?
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It seems to me that you have some good points here, but I don't think you are looking ahead. In the current situation, you are absolutely right:
You don't need Linux to run your microwave oven. 99% of the microprocessors used in embedded systems don't need that much power
That's likely to change. Now it's 99%, but the number will drop. Many devices will become more powerful, the possibilities creating the needs.
In the near future, even devices that are very simple today, will have added functionality. They will get a (wireless) internet access, and functionality will be added. Microwaves come with access to cookbooks, and will be monitored for defects. Your watch may tell you where the closest place is you can buy a replacement battery when the current one runs out. The toaster downstairs sends you an instant message (to your watch perhaps) when it's finished toasting. Your fridge may call the grocery store when you run out of fresh milk. Possibilities are virtually endless.
It all depends on information: the generation of the information, the transmission of it and how it is parsed. With an embedded linux system more is possible than with simpler devices. So it may be a very good choice for these devices.
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