I had plans to buy one of those PalmPilot thingies later this spring. I was also looking at the TRGpro as another option. After seeing the Transmeta presentation yesterday I'm starting to think seriously about postponing that purchase to see what happens with Crusoe. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Somebody moderate Linus up a couple of karma points. It's an interesting and informative piece.
That said, is there any chance of the Linux community banding together to retain an attorney or two to watch this type of stuff on our behalf? Set up some sort of tax-deductible, charitable endowment to be administered by (*maybe* Transmeta since Linus works there) that pays the legals and keeps things focused. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
So maybe, and I do mean *maybe* our predicting will get a little better. The sad fact is - most of us get our weather from the local guy/gal who gets a printout from a wire service and interprets what they see on a series of 3 or 4 sequential reports. With experience and a little knowledge of historic trends and fluid dynamics this can get fairly accurate for the short term.
The main benefit we should see from new NOAA computers is more efficient operations. We should be able to analyze storm tracks more quickly in cases of major weather events such as hurricane or tornado. Long range forcasting will still have the same level of best guess scenaria it had last week. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
This type of give-away is exactly so many kids get to high school and college knowing everything there is about using a Mac and virtually nothing about any other platform.
Yes, they can just download it for free but, they don't get as much documentation and, if you don't have a system (of any kind) running the online docs are as useless as nipples on men.
They can put the manuals in the school library for everybody to use as needed. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
We will continue to see this type of activity until we have an internationally recognized and sanctioned worldwide patent and trademark authority. With the development of global communications, economics, industry, and trade the need for such an authority grows every day. Each of us as users and as potential entrepreneurs (sp?) has a stake in this. The time has come for people to voice an interest in a global patentent and trademark authority to government officials from the state level on up. The logical governing body at present would be the World Trade Organization. -- "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Excellent idea. It's unfortunate that DVD's less than completely robust security had to be protected through legal means. True security (after all) would protect itself.
BTW, If I had moderator points right now I would moderate the parent coment up just for being an on-topic first post. I think that would be a nice touch/. administrators could apply in the future.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
So many are upset by the article because of this point of that. I agree that it could have been better written. I agree that the author's perceptions/feelings about delays between answers are irrelevant.
What we come down to is this:
We all agree that the man is brilliant beyond measure.
We get a chance to see that while he's an intellectual giant, he's also as human as the rest of us.
Conversationally, although slow, Hawking is fascinating. He has knowledge and understanding on a broad range of subjects. Why else would Cosmopolitan readers vote him one or the 10 sexiest men on the planet? {My wife showed that one to me.})
We come away from this article, not with some Earth shattering pearl of wisdom from Dr. Hawking but, with a glimps into what his world is like. "Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
I was going to moderate the first 3 posts down another notch but I actually had a thought on this topic. I guess somebody else will have to wield the moderation on this one.
So the idea is to increase security in a number of ways including (but not limited to) having each copy of the OS be unique, and having the AV package put the subject in a box and taunt it. (For those of you who haven't seen it, now's a good time to watch that Monty Python "Holy Grail" movie.)
So how strong are the odds that such methods could inadvertently result in some sort of computer auto-immune disorder? Could our anti-virals manage to interpret the kernel as a virulent entity to be removed? Or, are we all just too smart (or lucky) for that to happen? "Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
This is cool, but... We're still dependent on running 3rd party software on an existing Windows machine. I think what we all really want is for somebody to crack enough of the current Win API to be able to load and execute windows programs natively in X.
If anybody out there is successful at this, please figure out how to distrib it anonymously enough that the MS lawyers can't find you.;-) "Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
At this rate the amiga OS will be out of *copyright* by the time the make another amiga.
Copyright won't be a problem. Existing (C) is protected for 75 years. So long as they hold the appropriate patents and trademarks to go along with (C) they're pretty much covered.
It would be good to see Amiga OS in serious development and production. "Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
I think the choice for person of the year should be fairly obvious. Look at who produces the most bandwidth on/. afterall! Just a cursory analysis of this persons knowledge of all things nerdy, social, political, or otherwise makes them the obvious choice.
That is why my nomination for person of the year goes to:
Anonymous Coward
-- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's Ass Holes have conveyed to every Jerk with the potential to Fornicate in the Moose industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, MicroSucks, Compaq, Compaq, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense Weasles to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's Hairy products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such Boneheads and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and Necrophiles that exhibit the potential to contemplate Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly speculate consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not defrag with Microsoft's bicycle." -- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
So Fred Smith in NC buys $1000 of products over the net in 1999. The state of NC claims 6% (or $60) sales tax on that commerce. However, Fred is a little wierd and makes *all* of his net-based purchases from a company that has *all* of it's facilities in say, Ohio.
So, how do I as a citizen of Ohio get NC to cough up the portion of that tax that reduces my company's marketability?
If there is EVER going to be an internet sales tax it will have to be at the federal level and, revenue raised will have to be dispursed to specific projects with a wide support base.
If I were a North Carolinian you could bet the outer banks that I would deny any internet purchases I may have made. "I made those purchases over the phone to a toll-free number and, that company does not have facilities in NC so you can't touch me." -- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
If you are bored when your wife tries on lingerie, you have more problems than just Victoria's Secret SWAT team.
The problem is that VS has *seen* my wife and won't let me in their sub-phone-booth-sized changing rooms because thry're afraid other customers will hear us and want some of what she's getting.;-P -- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
Anyone tried it yet. Having a strong, open-sourced search engine would be a tremendous boone to institutions on a tight budget. We have a reasonably large webspace here and we're always watching for effective ways to make the whole thing searchable. -- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
So, I'm standing around, bored out of my skull, waiting for my wife to finish trying on lingerie, and the Victoria's Secret Supermodel SWAT Team hustles me into a back room, ties me up and starts with the interrogation. How cool is that!?
Seriously, folks. This is kinda scary. It borders on arresting people with a different skin color for agitating the masses by sitting in the fair skinned peoples section. -- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
I haven't seen a Gateway box yet that didn't turn into trouble at expansion time. Want to add a new printer, scanner, video camera?, add more RAM?, more drive space?... God forbid you want to add a NIC! They do stupid stuff inside those Gateways to make them cheap. -- Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
Here's one to show you all what conditioned response will do to you. I pulled up the screenshot and immediately went for the scrollbar. I suppose that could indicate that the interface is well designed.
It's good to see Linux support for new hardware coming out so much sooner. I remember the early days before I was Linuxized, reading about having to write your own device support because manufacturers had never dreamed of their stuff being used on anything other than Windows of Macs.
Still, I wonder if the nVidia coding for OpenGL will be applied to any of their earlier boards. I have an NV1 (Diamond Viper RIVA TNT V770D) board that required a driver download before I could get anything other than 320*240 on.
Already on it big boy. We're in testing now on "compost cam" where we mount cameras on flies and cockroaches to see what's hap'nin' in the pile.
Experimentally, we've loaded one heap with a bunch of scraps from hispanically oriented cuisine in hopes that we'll discover "Spanish Fly."
Once we learn to either train/control the flies or have a viable mechanical counterpart we'll be able to contract behind the scenes for GLOW and WWWF events, or your neighbor's teen-age daughter's slumber party.
We're getting seed money from Stephen S. in Hollywood (among others) with mumblings about a rash of Ed Wood remakes. We hope to go public in about a year or so.
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I had plans to buy one of those PalmPilot thingies later this spring. I was also looking at the TRGpro as another option. After seeing the Transmeta presentation yesterday I'm starting to think seriously about postponing that purchase to see what happens with Crusoe.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
That said, is there any chance of the Linux community banding together to retain an attorney or two to watch this type of stuff on our behalf? Set up some sort of tax-deductible, charitable endowment to be administered by (*maybe* Transmeta since Linus works there) that pays the legals and keeps things focused.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
The main benefit we should see from new NOAA computers is more efficient operations. We should be able to analyze storm tracks more quickly in cases of major weather events such as hurricane or tornado. Long range forcasting will still have the same level of best guess scenaria it had last week.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Yes, they can just download it for free but, they don't get as much documentation and, if you don't have a system (of any kind) running the online docs are as useless as nipples on men.
They can put the manuals in the school library for everybody to use as needed.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
We will continue to see this type of activity until we have an internationally recognized and sanctioned worldwide patent and trademark authority. With the development of global communications, economics, industry, and trade the need for such an authority grows every day. Each of us as users and as potential entrepreneurs (sp?) has a stake in this. The time has come for people to voice an interest in a global patentent and trademark authority to government officials from the state level on up. The logical governing body at present would be the World Trade Organization.
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"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
BTW, If I had moderator points right now I would moderate the parent coment up just for being an on-topic first post. I think that would be a nice touch /. administrators could apply in the future.
Let me say right now that I have never put cheese on a poor white boy. Besides, I thought a "cracker" was someone who partakes of crack cocaine.
"Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
What we come down to is this:
- We all agree that the man is brilliant beyond measure.
- We get a chance to see that while he's an intellectual giant, he's also as human as the rest of us.
Conversationally, although slow, Hawking is fascinating. He has knowledge and understanding on a broad range of subjects. Why else would Cosmopolitan readers vote him one or the 10 sexiest men on the planet? {My wife showed that one to me.})We come away from this article, not with some Earth shattering pearl of wisdom from Dr. Hawking but, with a glimps into what his world is like.
"Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
So the idea is to increase security in a number of ways including (but not limited to) having each copy of the OS be unique, and having the AV package put the subject in a box and taunt it. (For those of you who haven't seen it, now's a good time to watch that Monty Python "Holy Grail" movie.)
So how strong are the odds that such methods could inadvertently result in some sort of computer auto-immune disorder? Could our anti-virals manage to interpret the kernel as a virulent entity to be removed? Or, are we all just too smart (or lucky) for that to happen?
"Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
If anybody out there is successful at this, please figure out how to distrib it anonymously enough that the MS lawyers can't find you. ;-)
"Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
Copyright won't be a problem. Existing (C) is protected for 75 years. So long as they hold the appropriate patents and trademarks to go along with (C) they're pretty much covered.
It would be good to see Amiga OS in serious development and production.
"Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni."
That is why my nomination for person of the year goes to:
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
I can remove Linux without ever booting to it.
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's Ass Holes have conveyed to every Jerk with the potential to Fornicate in the Moose industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, MicroSucks, Compaq, Compaq, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense Weasles to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's Hairy products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such Boneheads and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and Necrophiles that exhibit the potential to contemplate Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly speculate consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not defrag with Microsoft's bicycle."
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
So, how do I as a citizen of Ohio get NC to cough up the portion of that tax that reduces my company's marketability?
If there is EVER going to be an internet sales tax it will have to be at the federal level and, revenue raised will have to be dispursed to specific projects with a wide support base.
If I were a North Carolinian you could bet the outer banks that I would deny any internet purchases I may have made. "I made those purchases over the phone to a toll-free number and, that company does not have facilities in NC so you can't touch me."
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
The problem is that VS has *seen* my wife and won't let me in their sub-phone-booth-sized changing rooms because thry're afraid other customers will hear us and want some of what she's getting. ;-P
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
Anyone tried it yet. Having a strong, open-sourced search engine would be a tremendous boone to institutions on a tight budget. We have a reasonably large webspace here and we're always watching for effective ways to make the whole thing searchable.
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
Seriously, folks. This is kinda scary. It borders on arresting people with a different skin color for agitating the masses by sitting in the fair skinned peoples section.
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Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
- They just rehashed the Qube. Nothing new here.
- It's a fscking Gateway. Guaranteed to be trouble.
I haven't seen a Gateway box yet that didn't turn into trouble at expansion time. Want to add a new printer, scanner, video camera?, add more RAM?, more drive space?... God forbid you want to add a NIC! They do stupid stuff inside those Gateways to make them cheap.--
Una piccola canzone, un piccolo ballo, poco seltzer giù i vostri pantaloni.
Here's one to show you all what conditioned response will do to you. I pulled up the screenshot and immediately went for the scrollbar. I suppose that could indicate that the interface is well designed.
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Still, I wonder if the nVidia coding for OpenGL will be applied to any of their earlier boards. I have an NV1 (Diamond Viper RIVA TNT V770D) board that required a driver download before I could get anything other than 320*240 on.
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OK, this thread is scaring me. I just started playing Alpha Centauri last night and my first official act was to be destroyed by mind worms.
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Experimentally, we've loaded one heap with a bunch of scraps from hispanically oriented cuisine in hopes that we'll discover "Spanish Fly."
Once we learn to either train/control the flies or have a viable mechanical counterpart we'll be able to contract behind the scenes for GLOW and WWWF events, or your neighbor's teen-age daughter's slumber party.
We're getting seed money from Stephen S. in Hollywood (among others) with mumblings about a rash of Ed Wood remakes. We hope to go public in about a year or so.
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Gotta catch 'em all!
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It would be interesting to see this same survey done in 5 years, 2 years, oh what the heck... 2 months.
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