...did a number on your sales. I went out of my way to get it when I saw it over a Fry's in Garland. Works decently and relatively painlessly with all but the latest CVS for the ATI RagePRO (Thanks to you and Gareth!). It's still quite painful and unstable for some out there.
He's got metal louvered grids on the sides and from the looks of it the top. They allow most of the possible airflow through and keep fingers out of the fan unless the case is open.
No- and not until KDE2 ships with a distro...
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I have a little problem with the updates to the current popular desktop environments for Linux (That's both KDE and GNOME, thank you!) in that there's entirely too many piece-parts to the distribution and that it's almost akin to downloading a Linux distribution by it's packages.
As for porting it to GTK+, good luck. Konqeror is tied intimately to the KDE2 framework.
Dramatic jump in quality. Only thing I'm disappointed in is that it took this long to get here (Which I understand- doesn't mean I have to like it...). M17 rocks- not sucks them. My only hope is to see M18 speed it up even further and strip some of the excess fat (There's this cute little console print saying "count=x" where 'x' is the number of keys pressed while in a form's field. I can understand some of that, but there's quite a lot of that sort of thing in M17 from what I can see- it'd be nice to see some of it go bye-bye since it's adding to the code that gets executed and at least slows things down some...)
Chapter 17 of the saga ends on an "up" note...
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I'm using it right now to type this response.
It's undeniably fast on this machine- my only complaint so far is that it's still a little bloated for my liking (I hope they worry about stability and footprint seriously for M18!)
Jury's still out, but I think I just found a new browser...
Realize that if the software infringes on the patent, Intel's going to sue the crap out of you just as surely as they would a hardware only vendor- just because it's software doesn't magically defend something in this day and age (Haven't you all been paying attention all this time? LZW, Amazon's "one-click", etc. C'mon now- they need some sort of shield until the BS about patents in general is sorted through!)
Their new trick is that you have to agree to the EULA before you can even use the damn machines in most cases (unless the machine comes bare or with a Linux install option). Worse, even if you buy a bare machine or a Linux machine, in most cases, you're still paying for that license- and now you've got nothing to send back to MS or to disagree with to get a refund!
Paying for the software doesn't change it's status because you're not buying it. You're paying for the privilege (hence the "license" agreement...) of using it. That's what the EULA says in much fewer words- use of this software means you agree that it's not yours and that it's ours and you will do what we say you can do with it.
For what it'd cost the company to hire even trained monkeys to perform the tasks you propose, most companies will end up spending the same as if they'd just took their lumps from MS and the OEMs. The company's screwed either way.
This could have been done a hell of a lot better. They obviously think that this will be good PR (at least from a shareholder standpoint it is) but it's going to backfire on them (from a public standpoint, it looks to be petty and childish...).
For that reason alone, I have to wonder what Jobs, his upper level execs, their PR department, and their legal department are smoking... Whatever it is, it's gotta be good for them to pull this this way.
Instead of what you suppose, it could be that people are getting tired of using one of the most needed apps for a Linux desktop that is also one of the most buggy/unstable applications for the Linux desktop.
Until either the KDE team, Opera, or Netscape/Mozilla officially deliver something stable, the most stable and usable browser currently available for Linux is Netscape 4.72-ish.
While it's better than the older versions, it's still very unstable. I get hangs from missed DNS queries (The rendering engine should be in a seperate thread from the one doing the fetching and the UI should be seperated as well.). I get hangs and crashes from sloppy resource utilization (If I've been running Netscape for a while (it's been up for a day or so...), the stupid thing just quits displaying pages altogether until I exit and restart.). Java and Javascript crash the thing fairly regularly (about 30-50% of the pages I visit, I can't visit unless I'm using a Windows browser...). Sometimes, when you successfully (or catestrophically) close the UI, the thing leaves behind parts of itself that you need to go through with PS/TOP/KTop/etc. and kill off the process that Netscape's off in la-la land with.
To be sure, it's very likely that some of it is what you're claiming, but, I suspect much of the ire that's coming from this is due to what I just said and the likely possibility that it's getting old for some people.
Ah, Organic LED Lasers... Neato!
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When I saw the article header, I wondered what made these lasers different and special from something like Rodamine 6G saturated polycarbonate- now I know. Try the logical progression of that technology that Cambridge Display Technology and several other companies have come up with- Organic LEDs (otherwise known as Light Emitting Plastics, or LEPs). Wonder where they'll take this tech; it's got some interesting prospects- things that would be prohibitively expensive might just become relatively inexpensive and easy to make (like laser gyroscopes, etc...).
Nasty dressing down handed down from the higher court... Based off of apparent precedents in this matter, it appears that Patel is out of bounds on this case in several regards. Even if they lose this case, it appears that Napster will most likely win on appeal (not that it will matter as much if they go down in flames in the process...)
With what you've got right now, you're going to want to do more and more. With each boost of bandwidth, you're going to want to do more. Even with xDSL and Cable, raw, uncompressed video would choke all but the fattest of those pipes. And if you could do that, I'm pretty sure you'd want to do something else at the same time or someone else would.
No, so long as we keep wanting more out of what we've got, we're going to come up with clever ways of reducing the amount of info that we need to carry across from one point to another.
"If you remain supportive of the megapolies, while thinking you don't make an influence, then indeed there will not be an influence, not even by the people who are trying. The only influence can be there if people who think they can't make a influence try to make oine. And that's the toughest challenge of all"
Replace "megapolies" with "government" and you'll see what I mean. It's apathy combined with "you can't fight the " where X is something like a mega corp or the government of your country or locale.
Well, as for a bullet, you'd have to use a dense plasma, no question of that- so it'd not be a defense against smart pebbles sorts of "Star Wars Initiative" attacks. As for a kilojoule laser, well, unless the beam hits the target head-on, the plasma field if it's thick enough will deflect the beam because of refraction. Particle beams would have to be neutron ones because a plasma would deflect ion or electron/proton beams- either that or you'd have to pump up the power to exceed the deflective ability of the plasma field. It's sort of effective against those sorts of things.
What this is likely to be effective against is RF based tracking and attacks since those sorts of things are strongly affected by these low-energy plasmas. (Basically, you're going to have to see it to hit it and most of these systems rely on radar to spot targets...)
...it's a fixed amount of improbability, so if you come up with a improbability field generator and can compute how improbable a drive would be, you could get it.
Of course, everybody'd have to kill you on the spot, since nobody likes a smart*ss...
Basically, they take a high power microwave source at just the right frequency, point it at something electronic, and it fubars any electronics not tempest/EMP hardened on the spot. At higher powers, it starts cooking the target in question, shielded or not. Sort of like a selective EMP attack. It's nasty and they're already using them.
Oh, it's not a hard thing to do (someone at the last InfoWar conference demoed a gadget he cobbled together with about $200 worth of parts)- but because microwaves can easily kill (it can shorten people lives at low levels and kill them outright at high ones...) if you don't know what in the hell you're doing, I don't reccomend you doing this sort of thing at all.
So don't send any love letters to the Times about how bogus the report was by implying that DeCSS was the only way to copy DVDs and that it'd let anybody do it. Send them, if you wish to the AP.
The site's still active and the press release is linked from the site. However, the links for the download of 6.0 seem to go back into the Borland/Inprise site's pages about the same. Wonder what's up? (could be that www.interbase.com can't handle the load that this rollout will generate- it'd/. all but the most robust systems...)
You'd shell out that much for a well stacked dual CPU machine- this sounds like something that'd crush all but the most expensive (say $10K and above) machines. If that is, in fact, the case, $5k's a bargain.
Since Maya and SoftImage seem to have Linux versions in the mill or already out, I'm pretty sure that if they're 64-bit clean (And I'd be surprised if this bunch didn't already have their code that way!) it'd be a simple matter to recompile for MIPS from x86 and have a Linux version of their apps ready to rock and roll.
Yes, they haven't released which OS the GScube will run, but Linux would be a front runner- free, already runs on MIPS anyway, already has a application base that could be fairly easily moved over (and the companies in question would do that in a heartbeat if they thought this machine would take off...).
Wasn't stellar stuff, but I'm actually surprised that it "flopped". What was the losses on that one? (BTW- I am not surprised that Bartok the Magnificent flopped; it was a cheesy attempt at making a for-video market movie akin to the Lion King sequel... It looked to be a piece of crap from the ads...)
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I had no desire to buy the Windows version. Besides, I wanted the game as much as a reference app for Utah-GLX as I wanted it for what it was.
...did a number on your sales. I went out of my way to get it when I saw it over a Fry's in Garland. Works decently and relatively painlessly with all but the latest CVS for the ATI RagePRO (Thanks to you and Gareth!). It's still quite painful and unstable for some out there.
He's got metal louvered grids on the sides and from the looks of it the top. They allow most of the possible airflow through and keep fingers out of the fan unless the case is open.
I have a little problem with the updates to the current popular desktop environments for Linux (That's both KDE and GNOME, thank you!) in that there's entirely too many piece-parts to the distribution and that it's almost akin to downloading a Linux distribution by it's packages.
As for porting it to GTK+, good luck. Konqeror is tied intimately to the KDE2 framework.
Dramatic jump in quality. Only thing I'm disappointed in is that it took this long to get here (Which I understand- doesn't mean I have to like it...). M17 rocks- not sucks them. My only hope is to see M18 speed it up even further and strip some of the excess fat (There's this cute little console print saying "count=x" where 'x' is the number of keys pressed while in a form's field. I can understand some of that, but there's quite a lot of that sort of thing in M17 from what I can see- it'd be nice to see some of it go bye-bye since it's adding to the code that gets executed and at least slows things down some...)
I'm using it right now to type this response. It's undeniably fast on this machine- my only complaint so far is that it's still a little bloated for my liking (I hope they worry about stability and footprint seriously for M18!) Jury's still out, but I think I just found a new browser...
Realize that if the software infringes on the patent, Intel's going to sue the crap out of you just as surely as they would a hardware only vendor- just because it's software doesn't magically defend something in this day and age (Haven't you all been paying attention all this time? LZW, Amazon's "one-click", etc. C'mon now- they need some sort of shield until the BS about patents in general is sorted through!)
Their new trick is that you have to agree to the EULA before you can even use the damn machines in most cases (unless the machine comes bare or with a Linux install option). Worse, even if you buy a bare machine or a Linux machine, in most cases, you're still paying for that license- and now you've got nothing to send back to MS or to disagree with to get a refund!
Paying for the software doesn't change it's status because you're not buying it. You're paying for the privilege (hence the "license" agreement...) of using it. That's what the EULA says in much fewer words- use of this software means you agree that it's not yours and that it's ours and you will do what we say you can do with it.
For what it'd cost the company to hire even trained monkeys to perform the tasks you propose, most companies will end up spending the same as if they'd just took their lumps from MS and the OEMs. The company's screwed either way.
This could have been done a hell of a lot better. They obviously think that this will be good PR (at least from a shareholder standpoint it is) but it's going to backfire on them (from a public standpoint, it looks to be petty and childish...).
For that reason alone, I have to wonder what Jobs, his upper level execs, their PR department, and their legal department are smoking... Whatever it is, it's gotta be good for them to pull this this way.
Instead of what you suppose, it could be that people are getting tired of using one of the most needed apps for a Linux desktop that is also one of the most buggy/unstable applications for the Linux desktop.
Until either the KDE team, Opera, or Netscape/Mozilla officially deliver something stable, the most stable and usable browser currently available for Linux is Netscape 4.72-ish.
While it's better than the older versions, it's still very unstable. I get hangs from missed DNS queries (The rendering engine should be in a seperate thread from the one doing the fetching and the UI should be seperated as well.). I get hangs and crashes from sloppy resource utilization (If I've been running Netscape for a while (it's been up for a day or so...), the stupid thing just quits displaying pages altogether until I exit and restart.). Java and Javascript crash the thing fairly regularly (about 30-50% of the pages I visit, I can't visit unless I'm using a Windows browser...). Sometimes, when you successfully (or catestrophically) close the UI, the thing leaves behind parts of itself that you need to go through with PS/TOP/KTop/etc. and kill off the process that Netscape's off in la-la land with.
To be sure, it's very likely that some of it is what you're claiming, but, I suspect much of the ire that's coming from this is due to what I just said and the likely possibility that it's getting old for some people.
When I saw the article header, I wondered what made these lasers different and special from something like Rodamine 6G saturated polycarbonate- now I know. Try the logical progression of that technology that Cambridge Display Technology and several other companies have come up with- Organic LEDs (otherwise known as Light Emitting Plastics, or LEPs). Wonder where they'll take this tech; it's got some interesting prospects- things that would be prohibitively expensive might just become relatively inexpensive and easy to make (like laser gyroscopes, etc...).
Nasty dressing down handed down from the higher court... Based off of apparent precedents in this matter, it appears that Patel is out of bounds on this case in several regards. Even if they lose this case, it appears that Napster will most likely win on appeal (not that it will matter as much if they go down in flames in the process...)
Think of it this way...
With what you've got right now, you're going to want to do more and more. With each boost of bandwidth, you're going to want to do more. Even with xDSL and Cable, raw, uncompressed video would choke all but the fattest of those pipes. And if you could do that, I'm pretty sure you'd want to do something else at the same time or someone else would.
No, so long as we keep wanting more out of what we've got, we're going to come up with clever ways of reducing the amount of info that we need to carry across from one point to another.
"If you remain supportive of the megapolies, while thinking you don't make an influence, then indeed there will not be an influence, not even by the people who are trying.
The only influence can be there if people who think they can't make a influence try to make oine. And that's the toughest challenge of all"
Replace "megapolies" with "government" and you'll see what I mean. It's apathy combined with "you can't fight the " where X is something like a mega corp or the government of your country or locale.
Well, as for a bullet, you'd have to use a dense plasma, no question of that- so it'd not be a defense against smart pebbles sorts of "Star Wars Initiative" attacks. As for a kilojoule laser, well, unless the beam hits the target head-on, the plasma field if it's thick enough will deflect the beam because of refraction. Particle beams would have to be neutron ones because a plasma would deflect ion or electron/proton beams- either that or you'd have to pump up the power to exceed the deflective ability of the plasma field. It's sort of effective against those sorts of things.
What this is likely to be effective against is RF based tracking and attacks since those sorts of things are strongly affected by these low-energy plasmas. (Basically, you're going to have to see it to hit it and most of these systems rely on radar to spot targets...)
...it's a fixed amount of improbability, so if you come up with a improbability field generator and can compute how improbable a drive would be, you could get it.
Of course, everybody'd have to kill you on the spot, since nobody likes a smart*ss...
(Uh...er...guess I'm in trouble then, aren't I?)
Basically, they take a high power microwave source at just the right frequency, point it at something electronic, and it fubars any electronics not tempest/EMP hardened on the spot. At higher powers, it starts cooking the target in question, shielded or not. Sort of like a selective EMP attack. It's nasty and they're already using them.
Oh, it's not a hard thing to do (someone at the last InfoWar conference demoed a gadget he cobbled together with about $200 worth of parts)- but because microwaves can easily kill (it can shorten people lives at low levels and kill them outright at high ones...) if you don't know what in the hell you're doing, I don't reccomend you doing this sort of thing at all.
So don't send any love letters to the Times about how bogus the report was by implying that DeCSS was the only way to copy DVDs and that it'd let anybody do it. Send them, if you wish to the AP.
The site's still active and the press release is linked from the site. However, the links for the download of 6.0 seem to go back into the Borland/Inprise site's pages about the same. Wonder what's up? (could be that www.interbase.com can't handle the load that this rollout will generate- it'd /. all but the most robust systems...)
You'd shell out that much for a well stacked dual CPU machine- this sounds like something that'd crush all but the most expensive (say $10K and above) machines. If that is, in fact, the case, $5k's a bargain.
Since Maya and SoftImage seem to have Linux versions in the mill or already out, I'm pretty sure that if they're 64-bit clean (And I'd be surprised if this bunch didn't already have their code that way!) it'd be a simple matter to recompile for MIPS from x86 and have a Linux version of their apps ready to rock and roll.
Yes, they haven't released which OS the GScube will run, but Linux would be a front runner- free, already runs on MIPS anyway, already has a application base that could be fairly easily moved over (and the companies in question would do that in a heartbeat if they thought this machine would take off...).
DMA is part of the protected mode disk drivers, along with 32-bit operations.
Wasn't stellar stuff, but I'm actually surprised that it "flopped". What was the losses on that one? (BTW- I am not surprised that Bartok the Magnificent flopped; it was a cheesy attempt at making a for-video market movie akin to the Lion King sequel... It looked to be a piece of crap from the ads...)