I would have tested the Chinese version, because I would assume I could fine my way through a standard RedHat install without the real text. It would be interesting to see just how much of it still remain English.
Maybe I missed it, but religion isn't in this list. To the vast majority of people, this is an important part of their lives, and any changes would be significant to the social structure.
When it comes to religion, I don't know what to believe. I think that the Bible is a bunch of rubbish, but I have had some personal experiences lately that have struck me as odd. So odd that they make me wonder if being just a plain Atheist is stupid.
I do that that in the future, the major religions will fail, especially Christianity. Today's generation is much less religious that the previous, and I think this trend will continue. Yet, I think something will surface as a "catch all" religion for people who would simply be Atheists otherwise. Maybe this religion will be built on things that we can observe, but not explain.
When it comes down to it all, I mostly believe that when I die, I am dead. IMHO, there is no afterlife, so maybe new "religions" will spring up that focus on maximizing the life we live now. I could possibly go for that.
Another problem with all this was the constant delays of the Copland operating system. Man, I would still love even today to try out a developmental version of that, just to see how far it got.
Both the "Common Hardware Reference Platform" and "PowerPC Platform" were the last hopes of bringing the Mac OS to inexpensive and open hardware to compete with Wintel.
However, it was not a smart business move for Apple to continue with it. They had the Mac OS all set to go (running on the reference platforms), and also some hardware vendors ready to produce these units. In fact, I think PPCP didn't even require a Mac ROM to be present on the motherboard, so it made things that much easier.
Also at the time, there was a Windows NT port for PowerPC. It was rather worthless because there was no Windows software compiled for PowerPC, but it was basically ready to go.
I am sure in some labs at Apple and elsewhere, there were PPCP machines able to boot into either Mac OS or Windows NT. I, reading articles about these machines, was really excited about this, and was wanting to buy one when they came out. If it all did not happen, it probably would not have been an Apple machine either.
FYI, this is all separate from Power Computing and Motorola Mac clones because those were basically the same old Apple motherboards, complete with the ROMS required to run Mac OS.
To add to it, Apple is doing well enough right now to not care about expanding to Intel hardware. If I were Jobs, there is no way in hell I would authorize a Mac OS X for x86 to be released. Not when Mac OS X for PowerPC can still use every developer they have to improve it.
This is a valid question: Why does it take so long for new Debian releases to come out? Even OpenBSD seems to have more releases with security audits, new features, etc.
What makes it even worse is the fact that by the time releases come out, many of the software packages are out of date. Sure, they are almost guaranteed to work, but is it really that big of an issue? I have no problems with rolling my own if a package does not work.
Another thing I do not like about Debian is the installer. Dammit, if the packages are so good, then it should be even easier to create a good installer without many bugs, etc. For Linux itself, there are other installers that can take care of a lot of those development issues.
To personify Debian, I would describe the person as autistic with a generally obsessive mind on minute details, and slow learning capabilities.
To be honest, I really don't plan on buying another desktop system ever again. If needed, I'll build one out of spare/cheap parts. Why? Because I use my laptop anymore 99% of the time.
There will NEVER be a laptop with RIMMS in them because they are too damn hot. Unless the design of them drastically changes in some unknown way, this "NEVER" is a fact.
I think there are some DDR laptop solutions in the pipe now. Yet, there is the problem of the slower system bus speeds on laptops, so it will not matter much until that's fixed too.
laid with Kathleen Fent;-) No doubt it will be illegal MP3 copies of Barry's songs.
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There are some good.NET development books coming out now. Even O'Reilly has had one out for a while (which I have), so the publishing companies seem to be eager to sell.NET.
Right now I am downloading the seven CD Visual Studio.NET Enterprise final version (yep, already warezed), a $2500 program. It even has a version of Visio bundled for doing application modeling, and that somehow automatically starts producing code, from what I understand. This is going to be interesting to try.
I have had the VS.NET Beta 2 for a few months, and it's generally easy to use, but very slow. I mean, a general "Hello World" application takes several seconds to compile, and also at least 3 seconds to execute! I have done the same thing using the raw.NET framwork development tools, and it seemed much faster (probably because my hand-written code was much smaller).
Microsoft is developing a version of the.NET runtime and classes for FreeBSD. I have talked with the lead engineer of this project over e-mail, and he said that it's due to be out in late Spring. I asked him about the Windows Forms stuff, and he said it will be based on Tk (could someone explain the implications of this?). He also said that there are going to be very few UNIX-specific classes, but they hope people will develop those on their own.
OK, I first want to admit that nVidia makes some good graphics chips. Right now there is nothing out there better for gamers (even though I personally don't care about gaming).
My problem with nVidia comes from their arrogance towards my friend, and also me here at the CES. We run a site called Target PC, and we scheduled a meeting with them at the conference. This was my first time meeting them, and my friend's third time. He didn't even want to do, because he knew that he was going to get mad, again. I didn't know what he was talking about, until we got there.
Our site gets several thousand visitors a day, and we both it's beyond reasonable to have nVidia send us reference boards for review like they do for the other major websites like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. We get to talking to they guy about this, and he turns into a major jerk. He starts making up lame numbers, saying that they can't afford to send these cards to us, bla bla. He basically told us that they don't care about us, or our website.
He might as well told us to "get the fuck out of here, and don't come back". My friend said this is how he got treated before, also.
So anyway, I though you all might want to know how they treat reviewers who's names are not Anand or Tom.
The main problem with AIM and Jabber is not the protocol, but AOL blocking the IP Address of Jabber's AIM transport. If it's moved to a new IP, it's usually blocked in a matter of only hours.
Apparently they notice when hundreds of client connections are coming off one IP Address, no problems.
Mac OS X is based off of FreeBSD 3.5, if I remember correctly. Maybe eventually they will move to the 4.x series for Mac OS X, but they apparently wanted to use something time-tested (aka old).
I think it's rather obvious that stel cells are eventually going to be conquered and put to wide usage in medicine... maybe in the near future, or maybe in the far future.
Right now I am 22.. going on 80. In my lifetime, I think that it will be possible for people to extend their lives out as far as they want to, if they have the money.
Basically, I see a time where the rich people will be able to remain ageless, living possibly hundreds of years. Meanwhile, average people would live a normal human life span.
Can you imagine what a social conflict something like this would make? In the past, there have been some very large social class differences, but imagine a gap where one group remains ageless, and another is jealously ageing and dying.
I think that I'm going to start saving my money now...
The article talks about how hundreds, even thousands of OSes can run on one machine. Well, what if the underlying VM architecture, or even the hardware itself crashes?
Now you have hundreds, even thousands of customers mad at you... and all their stuff is on just one machine. Yikes!
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I would have tested the Chinese version, because I would assume I could fine my way through a standard RedHat install without the real text. It would be interesting to see just how much of it still remain English.
Skinner killed him, at the end of last season I think.
Mulder and Scully have almost (and even Mulder even has) died so many times throughout the life of the X-Files that it's not even funny.
A fitting end to the series would be the death of Mulder and Scully. The best way is to have Krycek comes back to life and kill them.
Maybe I missed it, but religion isn't in this list. To the vast majority of people, this is an important part of their lives, and any changes would be significant to the social structure.
When it comes to religion, I don't know what to believe. I think that the Bible is a bunch of rubbish, but I have had some personal experiences lately that have struck me as odd. So odd that they make me wonder if being just a plain Atheist is stupid.
I do that that in the future, the major religions will fail, especially Christianity. Today's generation is much less religious that the previous, and I think this trend will continue. Yet, I think something will surface as a "catch all" religion for people who would simply be Atheists otherwise. Maybe this religion will be built on things that we can observe, but not explain.
When it comes down to it all, I mostly believe that when I die, I am dead. IMHO, there is no afterlife, so maybe new "religions" will spring up that focus on maximizing the life we live now. I could possibly go for that.
Here is a good . Obviously that macuser.com site is no more.
Another problem with all this was the constant delays of the Copland operating system. Man, I would still love even today to try out a developmental version of that, just to see how far it got.
Both the "Common Hardware Reference Platform" and "PowerPC Platform" were the last hopes of bringing the Mac OS to inexpensive and open hardware to compete with Wintel.
However, it was not a smart business move for Apple to continue with it. They had the Mac OS all set to go (running on the reference platforms), and also some hardware vendors ready to produce these units. In fact, I think PPCP didn't even require a Mac ROM to be present on the motherboard, so it made things that much easier.
Also at the time, there was a Windows NT port for PowerPC. It was rather worthless because there was no Windows software compiled for PowerPC, but it was basically ready to go.
I am sure in some labs at Apple and elsewhere, there were PPCP machines able to boot into either Mac OS or Windows NT. I, reading articles about these machines, was really excited about this, and was wanting to buy one when they came out. If it all did not happen, it probably would not have been an Apple machine either.
FYI, this is all separate from Power Computing and Motorola Mac clones because those were basically the same old Apple motherboards, complete with the ROMS required to run Mac OS.
To add to it, Apple is doing well enough right now to not care about expanding to Intel hardware. If I were Jobs, there is no way in hell I would authorize a Mac OS X for x86 to be released. Not when Mac OS X for PowerPC can still use every developer they have to improve it.
This is a valid question: Why does it take so long for new Debian releases to come out? Even OpenBSD seems to have more releases with security audits, new features, etc.
What makes it even worse is the fact that by the time releases come out, many of the software packages are out of date. Sure, they are almost guaranteed to work, but is it really that big of an issue? I have no problems with rolling my own if a package does not work.
Another thing I do not like about Debian is the installer. Dammit, if the packages are so good, then it should be even easier to create a good installer without many bugs, etc. For Linux itself, there are other installers that can take care of a lot of those development issues.
To personify Debian, I would describe the person as autistic with a generally obsessive mind on minute details, and slow learning capabilities.
Put some rockets pointing skyward in remote Nevada, and away we go.
To be honest, I really don't plan on buying another desktop system ever again. If needed, I'll build one out of spare/cheap parts. Why? Because I use my laptop anymore 99% of the time.
There will NEVER be a laptop with RIMMS in them because they are too damn hot. Unless the design of them drastically changes in some unknown way, this "NEVER" is a fact.
I think there are some DDR laptop solutions in the pipe now. Yet, there is the problem of the slower system bus speeds on laptops, so it will not matter much until that's fixed too.
The version of Windows XP Pro making the rounds with Warex is a special corporate version that does not require the registration.
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It's quite handy, if I say so myself
laid with Kathleen Fent ;-) No doubt it will be illegal MP3 copies of Barry's songs.
There are some good .NET development books coming out now. Even O'Reilly has had one out for a while (which I have), so the publishing companies seem to be eager to sell .NET.
.NET framwork development tools, and it seemed much faster (probably because my hand-written code was much smaller).
.NET runtime and classes for FreeBSD. I have talked with the lead engineer of this project over e-mail, and he said that it's due to be out in late Spring. I asked him about the Windows Forms stuff, and he said it will be based on Tk (could someone explain the implications of this?). He also said that there are going to be very few UNIX-specific classes, but they hope people will develop those on their own.
Right now I am downloading the seven CD Visual Studio.NET Enterprise final version (yep, already warezed), a $2500 program. It even has a version of Visio bundled for doing application modeling, and that somehow automatically starts producing code, from what I understand. This is going to be interesting to try.
I have had the VS.NET Beta 2 for a few months, and it's generally easy to use, but very slow. I mean, a general "Hello World" application takes several seconds to compile, and also at least 3 seconds to execute! I have done the same thing using the raw
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"Company X Sucks because they won't give me freebies"
Well I didn't fly all the way down to Las Vegas, put on a suit, and go talk to nVida in a professional manner just to get told to fuck off.
BTW, I asked the guy about open-source, and he laughed at me, and told me that they don't want to deal with it.
OK, I first want to admit that nVidia makes some good graphics chips. Right now there is nothing out there better for gamers (even though I personally don't care about gaming).
My problem with nVidia comes from their arrogance towards my friend, and also me here at the CES. We run a site called Target PC, and we scheduled a meeting with them at the conference. This was my first time meeting them, and my friend's third time. He didn't even want to do, because he knew that he was going to get mad, again. I didn't know what he was talking about, until we got there.
Our site gets several thousand visitors a day, and we both it's beyond reasonable to have nVidia send us reference boards for review like they do for the other major websites like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. We get to talking to they guy about this, and he turns into a major jerk. He starts making up lame numbers, saying that they can't afford to send these cards to us, bla bla. He basically told us that they don't care about us, or our website.
He might as well told us to "get the fuck out of here, and don't come back". My friend said this is how he got treated before, also.
So anyway, I though you all might want to know how they treat reviewers who's names are not Anand or Tom.
To clarify, you can run your own AIM transport on your own Jabber server, and it will probably not get blocked.
However, major Jabber servers like Jabber.org and Jabber.com have been blocked for several months.
If you want to, you can use your Jabber.org account, but leach off someone else's AIM transport. That's what I do (and it's working fine right now).
The main problem with AIM and Jabber is not the protocol, but AOL blocking the IP Address of Jabber's AIM transport. If it's moved to a new IP, it's usually blocked in a matter of only hours.
Apparently they notice when hundreds of client connections are coming off one IP Address, no problems.
I am talking about the FreeBSD distribution... not the BSD 4.4 OS. There is a big difference there!
In the meantime, go download Dano...right Eugenia? ;-)
Mac OS X is based off of FreeBSD 3.5, if I remember correctly. Maybe eventually they will move to the 4.x series for Mac OS X, but they apparently wanted to use something time-tested (aka old).
I think this release also comes with an official Sun JDK. Is this correct?
I know that he has been heavily involved with Mozilla for well over a year, maybe even over two years. Cool guy.
I think it's rather obvious that stel cells are eventually going to be conquered and put to wide usage in medicine... maybe in the near future, or maybe in the far future.
Right now I am 22.. going on 80. In my lifetime, I think that it will be possible for people to extend their lives out as far as they want to, if they have the money.
Basically, I see a time where the rich people will be able to remain ageless, living possibly hundreds of years. Meanwhile, average people would live a normal human life span.
Can you imagine what a social conflict something like this would make? In the past, there have been some very large social class differences, but imagine a gap where one group remains ageless, and another is jealously ageing and dying.
I think that I'm going to start saving my money now...
The article talks about how hundreds, even thousands of OSes can run on one machine. Well, what if the underlying VM architecture, or even the hardware itself crashes?
Now you have hundreds, even thousands of customers mad at you... and all their stuff is on just one machine. Yikes!
No-no, my uncle is the real Tom Murphy.
I was struck by the resemblence of the new iMac to the oft-used Pixar lamp.
Considering that, this new design is no real surprise.