sgi also holds the trademark on OpenML, and is one of several companies involved in something called the Khronos Group which is pushing OpenML as a standard digital media api. This may explain some of the reasoning behind their attempt to change any other Open[A-Z]L.
8 bits per component suffices for display on CRTs in typical office viewing environments, but change the display technology and/or the viewing conditions and you'll need more.
Aren't we missing an important point here? In order for copyright law (and thus the GPL) to apply to any new work, it must be a derivative work of a GPL'd package. What many people seem to be missing is that neither RMS nor Linus nor anybody else involved has the right to say what constitutes a derivative work, although the copyright holder could give away rights as he wishes. The argument about linking or piping will have to be made in court.
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The 486SX/487SX, or how to artificially keep the end-user add-on FPU market alive by disabling FPUs on perfectly good 486s.
The first clock-multiplied 486 is called the DX2 (makes sense -- 2x multiplier). The next one, with a 3x multiplier, is called a DX4. 2 + 1 = 4?
[Somebody already replied claiming AMD made the DX4 and the 4 stood for 486. Sorry, you're completely out to lunch on that.]
The whole "Pentium III makes the Internet go faster" marketing fluff.
The '432.
Memory is fuzzy on this, but I think the 286 had some brain damage about going in and out of protected mode which may have contributed to why we were stuck with real mode x86 DOS-isms for so long. Even fuzzier memories suggest that the workaround to switch modes in a certain direction was to save state information in the keyboard controller and hard reset the CPU.
Despite what a lot of people seem to think, I don't think the 186 was a mistake. Maybe it didn't catch on in PCs, but it was much easier to design around than the 8086 and didn't have the unneeded (at the time) complexity of the 286.
The 486SX/487SX, or how to artificially keep the end-user add-on FPU market alive by disabling FPUs on perfectly good 486s.
The first clock-multiplied 486 is called the DX2 (makes sense -- 2x multiplier). The next one, with a 3x multiplier, is called a DX4. 2 + 1 = 4?
The whole "Pentium III makes the Internet go faster" marketing fluff.
The '432.
Memory is fuzzy on this, but I think the 286 had some brain damage about going in and out of protected mode which may have contributed to why we were stuck with real mode x86 DOS-isms for so long.
I would like to take this opportunity to fling a big "ha, ha, told ya" in Netpliance's direction. I posted this in the Slashdot discussion Meeting With Netpliance this past April 11:
Here's what I'd tell Netpliance:
Please go ahead with whatever onerous changes in terms of service you need to make a buck, but leave the hardware hackable, because in a year or so when you're out of business we'll still be around to make some use of used and surplus i-openers, otherwise they'll all end up in landfills all too soon.
How long before some enterprising hacker figures out how to use starcd.com to look up live playlists and then queue up the song for downloading via Napster? It's a shame that this would be of questionable legality because otherwise this would be perfect. Even curmudgeons like me sometimes like a catchy pop tune now and again but I don't want the other 12 crappy songs on the band's CD.
Kittinger, if I recall correctly, also broke the sound barrier on the way down. I think that he's still the only person, so far, to go faster than mach 1 without a vehicle.
Sounds like a great subject, because practically all real-world projects get into that "death march" stage. (I'm in one right now.) Unfortunately, I wish that somebody other than Yourdon had written the book. Yourdon was so completely out to lunch about Y2K that I don't see why anybody should trust his judgement any more.
Apple's source code was stolen years ago, and somehow free software managed to flourish, untainted. A few months from now, this will be completely forgotten. So, yes, you're being paranoid.
Counting a modem but not a serial cable sounds pretty arbitrary, I'll admit, but any yes/no criteria are going to be arbitrary to some degree. If the PIC could manage to control a modem and dial an ISP, I'd count it, but only together with the modem, not just the bare chip. (Unless someone manages to do the (de)modulation on chip as well -- that would be impressive, even if it only worked at 300 baud.)
I forgot that the Etch-A-Sketch protocol would also need to implement the "turn upside down and shake" for deleting. That would make the mechanics a bit more interesting.
It sounds like this C-64 browser handles its own PPP connection to a dialup ISP. This makes it stand out from earlier tiny web hacks, in my opinion. Browsing the web on a VIC-20/C-64/PIC/etc. is not that impressive a hack if it won't run without being hooked to a specially programmed PC acting as a proxy. Stretching that just a bit, I could browse the web on an Etch-a-Sketch(tm) if I just used a "proxy" PC with a couple of robot arms to translate HTML into the native protocol (up/down and left/right knob twists).
A hack shouldn't really be considered "on the Internet" unless it plugs directly into a phone line, an Ethernet jack, or grabs packets out of the air using a wireless protocol.
Since I've adopted the habit of giving away a new and unique email address every time I sign up for something online, I've received spam at only two of those addresses -- the one that I gave to MP3.com and the one that appears on Slashdot.
I'm sure in the latter case that it's not Slashdot's fault, and I'm amazed that anyone would troll for addresses on this forum as the recipients are likely to be as spam-hostile as anyone.
Rational ClearCase installs a file system with extensive versioning properties, but it would be more analagous to NFS than any local disk FS, since transactions are handled by a separate database server. Yes, it's a good idea, even though it's slow (and expensive.)
TransAmerica's probably a walk in the park compared to the International Olympic(26USC0001) Committee. I suppose the picture of the Olympic(26USC1234) Stadium in Sydney probably violates some kind of exclusive broadcast rights. The next logical step will be the IOC's lawyers to "cease and desist" flying satellites over the Olympic(26USC9876) venue.
Here's a challenge: Hot-air balloons use gasoline-powered inflator fans for initial inflation with cold air. These typically have something like a 5hp motor, and can fill 70,000 cubic feet in a few minutes.
(If you use one of these to cool your computer, please use it in a well-ventilated area.)
If that's not enough for you, Moffett Field has the world's largest wind tunnel right in Silicon Valley. Somebody with NASA connections ought to put an open PC in there just to take a few pictures.
It's going to be on the net with a completely different ISP...
If a laptop has a dialup connection, then in the hands of a non-tech-savvy thief, it's going to dial its owner's ISP's dialup number, which will work anywhere in the same area code, and maybe in a much larger area if the laptop is configured in anticipation of mandatory 11-digit dialing.
The real problem is that you can't enforce politeness and etiquette through technology. Who knows -- the rude or self-absorbed types who currently receive calls in the middle of a movie or lecture might start making outgoing calls just to make sure nobody is trying to reach them. The areas just outside the theater or lecture hall will be as thick with cell phones as building entrances are with cigarette smoke.
The building where I work has notoriously poor cell-phone coverage inside, so people tend to migrate to the windows, where my office is. Once I arrived in the morning to find a guy in my office on his cell phone who would not leave even after I made it clear that it was my office. Much like traffic engineering, improvements in technology like this may merely push the problem somewhere else.
Don't bother with expensive test-based Linux certification. That's not going to work except for very few configurations (i.e. out-of-the-box Red Hat). Instead, Linux needs a certification that says all drivers are open sourced and all specs published, including support for all advertised features.
This layout, like other 'optimal' keyboard layouts, is tuned for normal English text. While I doubt that anyone is going to do some heavy-duty programming with a pen, I'd be interested to see whether any keyboard layouts have ever been optimized for computer languages like C++. Not only are relatively rare letters like xyzijk more likely to show up in variable names, but symbols are much more common than they are in normal text, yet few of them are unshifted keystrokes on a normal keyboard, and not even the most useful ones at that.
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sgi also holds the trademark on OpenML, and is one of several companies involved in something called the Khronos Group which is pushing OpenML as a standard digital media api. This may explain some of the reasoning behind their attempt to change any other Open[A-Z]L.
8 bits per component suffices for display on CRTs in typical office viewing environments, but change the display technology and/or the viewing conditions and you'll need more.
To stay ahead of fuzzy matching algorithms, just F,O.L.L.O/W T;H'E P[O]R|N S-P=A,M.M/E;R'S.
Aren't we missing an important point here? In order for copyright law (and thus the GPL) to apply to any new work, it must be a derivative work of a GPL'd package. What many people seem to be missing is that neither RMS nor Linus nor anybody else involved has the right to say what constitutes a derivative work, although the copyright holder could give away rights as he wishes. The argument about linking or piping will have to be made in court.
Just one correction to an informative post -- right astronaut, wrong mission: Alan Shepard was on Apollo 14.
The 486SX/487SX, or how to artificially keep the end-user add-on FPU market alive by disabling FPUs on perfectly good 486s.
The first clock-multiplied 486 is called the DX2 (makes sense -- 2x multiplier). The next one, with a 3x multiplier, is called a DX4. 2 + 1 = 4? [Somebody already replied claiming AMD made the DX4 and the 4 stood for 486. Sorry, you're completely out to lunch on that.]
The whole "Pentium III makes the Internet go faster" marketing fluff.
The '432.
Memory is fuzzy on this, but I think the 286 had some brain damage about going in and out of protected mode which may have contributed to why we were stuck with real mode x86 DOS-isms for so long. Even fuzzier memories suggest that the workaround to switch modes in a certain direction was to save state information in the keyboard controller and hard reset the CPU.
Despite what a lot of people seem to think, I don't think the 186 was a mistake. Maybe it didn't catch on in PCs, but it was much easier to design around than the 8086 and didn't have the unneeded (at the time) complexity of the 286.
The 486SX/487SX, or how to artificially keep the end-user add-on FPU market alive by disabling FPUs on perfectly good 486s. The first clock-multiplied 486 is called the DX2 (makes sense -- 2x multiplier). The next one, with a 3x multiplier, is called a DX4. 2 + 1 = 4? The whole "Pentium III makes the Internet go faster" marketing fluff. The '432. Memory is fuzzy on this, but I think the 286 had some brain damage about going in and out of protected mode which may have contributed to why we were stuck with real mode x86 DOS-isms for so long.
Here's what I'd tell Netpliance: Please go ahead with whatever onerous changes in terms of service you need to make a buck, but leave the hardware hackable, because in a year or so when you're out of business we'll still be around to make some use of used and surplus i-openers, otherwise they'll all end up in landfills all too soon.
How long before some enterprising hacker figures out how to use starcd.com to look up live playlists and then queue up the song for downloading via Napster? It's a shame that this would be of questionable legality because otherwise this would be perfect. Even curmudgeons like me sometimes like a catchy pop tune now and again but I don't want the other 12 crappy songs on the band's CD.
Kittinger, if I recall correctly, also broke the sound barrier on the way down. I think that he's still the only person, so far, to go faster than mach 1 without a vehicle.
Sounds like a great subject, because practically all real-world projects get into that "death march" stage. (I'm in one right now.) Unfortunately, I wish that somebody other than Yourdon had written the book. Yourdon was so completely out to lunch about Y2K that I don't see why anybody should trust his judgement any more.
Apple's source code was stolen years ago, and somehow free software managed to flourish, untainted. A few months from now, this will be completely forgotten. So, yes, you're being paranoid.
I forgot that the Etch-A-Sketch protocol would also need to implement the "turn upside down and shake" for deleting. That would make the mechanics a bit more interesting.
A hack shouldn't really be considered "on the Internet" unless it plugs directly into a phone line, an Ethernet jack, or grabs packets out of the air using a wireless protocol.
What is this futuristic transporation marvel? A motorcycle.
I'm sure in the latter case that it's not Slashdot's fault, and I'm amazed that anyone would troll for addresses on this forum as the recipients are likely to be as spam-hostile as anyone.
Rational ClearCase installs a file system with extensive versioning properties, but it would be more analagous to NFS than any local disk FS, since transactions are handled by a separate database server. Yes, it's a good idea, even though it's slow (and expensive.)
TransAmerica's probably a walk in the park compared to the International Olympic(26USC0001) Committee. I suppose the picture of the Olympic(26USC1234) Stadium in Sydney probably violates some kind of exclusive broadcast rights. The next logical step will be the IOC's lawyers to "cease and desist" flying satellites over the Olympic(26USC9876) venue.
Sounds exactly like the IP equivalent of declining a collect call from "Itsaboy Eightpounds".
(If you use one of these to cool your computer, please use it in a well-ventilated area.)
If that's not enough for you, Moffett Field has the world's largest wind tunnel right in Silicon Valley. Somebody with NASA connections ought to put an open PC in there just to take a few pictures.
If a laptop has a dialup connection, then in the hands of a non-tech-savvy thief, it's going to dial its owner's ISP's dialup number, which will work anywhere in the same area code, and maybe in a much larger area if the laptop is configured in anticipation of mandatory 11-digit dialing.
The building where I work has notoriously poor cell-phone coverage inside, so people tend to migrate to the windows, where my office is. Once I arrived in the morning to find a guy in my office on his cell phone who would not leave even after I made it clear that it was my office. Much like traffic engineering, improvements in technology like this may merely push the problem somewhere else.
Don't bother with expensive test-based Linux certification. That's not going to work except for very few configurations (i.e. out-of-the-box Red Hat). Instead, Linux needs a certification that says all drivers are open sourced and all specs published, including support for all advertised features.
This layout, like other 'optimal' keyboard layouts, is tuned for normal English text. While I doubt that anyone is going to do some heavy-duty programming with a pen, I'd be interested to see whether any keyboard layouts have ever been optimized for computer languages like C++. Not only are relatively rare letters like xyzijk more likely to show up in variable names, but symbols are much more common than they are in normal text, yet few of them are unshifted keystrokes on a normal keyboard, and not even the most useful ones at that.
no more "the amiga is dead and buried" posts and no more "my Amiga 500 multitasks faster than any PC ever will" posts?