Nope, this got posted on slashdot. The page is hosted on Microsoft servers which tend to hold up fairly well under a slashdot beating. (some might add, unfortunately so). Of course I already knew the difference 15 years ago.
No offense man, but then you go on calling people sticklers in a later post. Could you please read the first few lines of your comment? Don't you agree they may sound a little arrogant? Is that perhaps why geeks aren't popular?
It's somewhat ironic that you even managed to work in a fairly obvious grammar error. And that's recognized by someone who's first language isn't English.
The most ironic thing though is that you only seem to talk about the conclusion, so even though this paper is about reading, did you actually read it???:-)
Of course you failed to mention the other alternative, which is that Apple _removed_ that section. (which is, what it sounds like, what happened)
Still, looking at job adds is an old trick for competitors and journalist to 'research' a company, and Apple of all places should know that.
On the other hand, it's not terribly reliable though. I've known plenty of companies that posted job openings that did not exist, just to get competitors on the wrong foot.
So this 'news' really isn't 'news'. What it basically says is either: a) Apple is going to do something with video; their job add said so and then they tried to cover it up, see? or: b) Apple wants there to be some spread of rumors about video; they released a fake job add and then deleted certain parts to make it more believable.
(b) is maybe too tin-foil, but if I can think of it, I'm sure the people at Apple can too.
Btw. an other issue that I have not seen mentioned (but then again, you don't expect me to read 1700 comments right?) is the fact that I read/. from a multitude of computers.
There's at least 4 here in my house that I use, and then when I go into the office there's a bunch there.
I've already surrendered to the fact that if I post from any of those other machines, it will have to be AC (I'm sorry, but I can't remember all my 326 passwords), but with the subscription system, how are you intending to handle that? (again, a move toward a more agressive ad system will probably mean I won't read from other machines)
I'm sincerely worried that issues like these may reduce the reader base, and as others have pointed out, I too do consider the comments a valuable part of/.
Unfortunately, I'm a little late to this thread, but I hope you'll read it.
I would like to start off by saying that I'm not overly enthusiastic about your plans to make/. a subscription based site.
I would also have to add, that bigger adds are not an option for me:- I'm in fact very depressed about where the good ole internet is heading with this advertising crapola.
Even though I have no real objection against paying you for your site, the fact that you can't tell me exactly how much I'm going to have to pay bothers me.
What I would like to ask you though is, what kind of alternatives have you considered?
Why have you not asked the/. community what type of alternatives _they_ think may work.
I would like to bring up for discussion some alternatives myself:
To get back to the advertising: the advertisement industry is going totally nuts trying to come up with 'something' that works. Be it pop-ups, pop-under, dhtml on top of content, whatever,- I perceive it exactly the same as a person walking up to me in the street with a 10 by 10 feet billboard that starts yelling in my face, whilst keeping me from moving on.
Today they want you to put up bigger ads, tomorrow it's pop-ups, the day after we can't find your site behind all the ads. This basically makes subscription the only option.
What I suggest is that you come up with some creative alternatives. I mean, look at Google,- they have come up with a non-annoying way of allowing companies to advertise. (You really should read up on how their advertising works). Why couldn't this work for/. as well? Advertisements that are 'linked' to a certain subject are a 1000 times less annoying and an equal amount more effective. Since I'm already interested in the subject, it may actually be useful to have some links companies that want to sell their stuff dearly. To become a sponsor should be as easy as it is over @ Google.
An other thing that comes to mind is sponsored submissions. Hey, if AMD comes out with a new CPU, they may as well pay you to announce it. As special header color or something could indicate that it was sponsored.
I was also thinking about something like "paid for 'Ask Slashdot'". This could be very helpful for companies that want industry feedback. For example, our company has a product that is designed for In-Flight Entertainment. But we could consider bringing this product to the general market. It would be interesting though to get some feedback (like, 'that's waaay to expensive' or 'but it's missing an xyz port!'). This would have the side-effect of acknowledging that people that post comments add value to your site.
There could be entirely sponsored sections, like 'what's up with Intel', basically a glorified portal to Intel press releases, but targeted for the/. audience, so using the same/. approach, just with Intel specific news.
I guess what I'm saying is, instead of the 'in yer face' approach that seems to dominate the internet, why not take a more co-operative approach. I understand that you want to remain un-biased, and it should always be clear to readers when something is placed because of sponsoring. But I think that could be communicated easily.
The interesting thing is that these kind of scenarios could be implemented in parallel with subscription system. The good thing about that is that you will have instant feedback on how the readers appreciate either one. So instead of following the masses, lead them again!:-)
The story was misleading because it implied that Intel would be dropping Rambus for all of their product lines. The shift was really just in the "workstation" (higher end desktop) space.
Nope, they have an entire line of network processors. The IXP series (now called IXA).
EBN had the sensational headline Intel to drop support of Rambus in new CPU products, but the story goes on to say, "Intel will continue using Direct Rambus memory with its network processors. Also, although not new products, the next iterations of its 850 and 860 chipsets, supporting a 533MHz front-side, will support RDRAM when they arrive, probably in the second half of this year." A little misleading, wouldn't you say?
I don't see how that's so misleading. the i850 is hardly the flagship of Intel's product line, and neither are their network processors.
It's not like any of those are in products that generate the DRAM shortage...
I've been using the 'theirname@mydomain.com' technique whenever I provide an email to on-line stores.
I was amazed when I started receiving spam on 'premaritalagreement.com@mydomain.com' (only the mydomain is fake!) and I contact the people and they denied everything. But at least you can ban that email address and ban the company.
On the other hand it's funny when (for some reason) the company calls you to verify something, and they go over all the stuff and then get to the email. There was one person that just didn't get it: 'yeah, but that's OUR email address', recognizing her companies name.:o)
For those reasons some people generate an obfuscated (rot-13 for example) address.
In any case, the sad thing is that there's not much you can do against the companies that sell your email address, legally...
Unfortunately that didn't work for me after I installed 2K with a NTFS partition.
And the sucky thing is that all the programs where stored in some proprietary format on the CDs, so you couldn't just run the installer for each program,- you have to use the Sony installer (which wouldn't run on NTFS).
What I did was first do a recovery. Then run the installers for _all_ programs through the Sony installer. It creates a temp directory where it copies the installer and files for the program you are installing. So I copied those files into an other directory (since they are deleted as soon as the program is installed). After I had all the original install programs and files I burnt my own CD and installed 2K with NTFS.
I hate Sony. I condemn these kind of policies. It's bad enough that all the software is closed source, but this just takes every bit of freedom away from controlling a machine you payed big bucks for.
My point was though that you loose the drivers, utilities and other software that also come on the recovery CDs (and which you paid for IMHO).
Even though most of the software is crippleware, some of it is useful (like the CD recording software) and not only that,- they advertise and market all this as being part of the product that you buy.
I don't like to pay 59 bucks for Roxio when I thought the thing came with the software already.
Readers who called HP to complain were told that XP was so big that half a dozen or more CDs would be required to deliver all the recovery files.
So they are giving up 4 GB of diskspace for a recovery partition. I really wonder if the marketing material mentions that when they list the size of the harddisk.
Last year I spend several days to extract the drivers and utilities from the Sony Vaio CDs. Never do I want to get as angry as I got during this process.
It was my understanding that we bought a machine INCLUDING an (albeith inferior) OS and a wild variety of software (we specifically needed the FireWire stuff). Well, apparently not so.
The pre-installed Win2K was installed on two partitions using FAT32. It was impossible to get a clean single NTFS partition with the recovery CD's. They simply created the same C: & D: FAT32 partitions. I mean WTF?! Why do they think we ordered the Win2K version for an extra $150??
Even better,- if you installed 2K from a full CD, allowing you to create an NTFS partition, the bundled Sony Viao utilities/programs wouldn't install anymore, claiming a corrupted configuration (and being so nice as to recommend to recover from the provided recovery CDs). So for example, the special utilities needed to get certain keys to work couldn't be installed. So here you bought a $4K piece of crap that you can't use the way you want it to.
I finally hacked my way around it, but I ain't touching a Viao with a ten feet pole anymore.
There probably doesn't even exist a single Windows source tree.
Yes there is. I've worked on it briefly and at the time it was roughly 680MB. This included tons of custom utils and custom versions of assemblers and compilers. (So much for a Chinese wall).
There's nothing magic about M$ code. I've seen better code, but I've also seen worse. It's not terribly difficult to understand the overall structure though.
Even if it did exist, what would programmers say other than "yes, with enough hacking, we can separate this out"? I mean, with enough hacking, you can get OS/2 to emulate Windows, or Linux. And if Windows cannot be split up, it only means that it is not well-modularized (but you guessed that already).
The point is to seperate out a piece that used to be seperate in the first place. (e.g. the browser). All this stuff happens at the shell level and only requires a small part of the source tree. I think it would take very little effort to prove that it can be done (easily).
We need a diversity of operating systems, and that's what remedies should be aimed at. Leave Microsoft's source code alone.
The only way to achieve that is when there is such a thing as fair competition. There's nothing wrong with being a monopoly,- the abuse of power to make competition almost impossible is.
This brings up an other subject that I happened upon whilst looking at the Windows source, and something that may help unravel the infamous AARD code.
If I can make a suggestion: request the entire source tree for Windows 3.1. In the himem.sys source subtree there is a file called sipsim.obj. It's a small file and it contains 1(one) function: ISMSDOS. This function is the AARD code. Even within M$ this file was not distributed as source.
The fact that the function is called ISMSDOS is pretty clear indication that Schulman was right in what he suspected: an attempt to make the code not run on anything but MS-DOS.
If they "can't find" the code, I may be able to assist.;o)
IANSWIAALON, I Am Not Saying Wether I Am A Laywer Or Not. All these disclaimers are starting to piss me off. Of course we are not lawyers here, lawyers have a life and don't post on/.
Now, I'm sure the person understands that (s)he should contact a lawyer, but in the meantime, some feedback from the industry never hurts. In fact I'm also sick and tired that everything has to be settled through lawyers these days. You'd think some common sense would go a long way.
Some things that may help you persuade them to get there heads out of their asses:
First of all, ask them what they consider Intellectual Property in the first place. In fact only very few things fall under IP.
One of the things that does is code (software). However, code falls under normal copyright law, and as such the copyright is by default (so unless you contractually signed it over) owned by the person, or company, that wrote it. Generally beta-testers do not contribute to the code, so they own no rights to it.
Providing an idea/suggestion or finding a bug has nothing to do with this. In fact, even if they patented the idea they provided, they have NO right to the code. You could have to pay them royalties, but that's a different issue.
Patents are also IP, and if you patented something that was their idea, well, yeah, then you may have a problem. The thing is though that a patent is by definition public, so the only rights you'd be talking about are monetary.
Ideas ARE worth something. I keep a book of which the pages are numbered, and if I have any ideas I described them in there. I let someone read the book and sign off on it, every once in a while. The reason for doing this is twofold, but boils down to 'prior-art'. If ever someone patents an idea that I had before, I can prove I have prior-art. Also, because I deal with a lot of source code from third parties, if they ever claim copyright infringement, I can prove I had these ideas before I saw their source.
Basically, they can do with the ideas they provided whatever they want. As a joke you could pull out all the lines of code (although, again, I don't think they have rights to it) that where based on their input (but nothing else). And present that to them. See how useful that is.;o)
Bill Gates "is really annoyed by the incredible pain we put everyone through in computing."
Yeah, he's certainly not alone on that one. However, most of the pain comes from things that are more fundamentally wrong than bugs you could fix in 28 days.
It certainly isn't M$ alone that fails to deliver a user experience the way it should be.
What I mean is having to edit lilo.conf after installing Red Hat to get my XP partition back and running.
Or the fact that Red Hat doesn't boot if my Ethernet is not plugged in.
I'm talking about the UltimateTV box taking 6 seconds to respond to a remote control button being pressed.
Or the empty screen with one button it presents every time you delete a show.
I'm talking about the need to use 3 programs to get video from my digital camera to a recordable DVD under Windows.
And the fact that they don't want to use each others MPEG streams even though they are perfectly conforming to the standard.
Or the fact that when I plug in my digital camera my PC locks up in the first place.
Or the EEPROM emulator software that makes me change 6 settings _every_ time I start the program.
And that I need to restart it everytime after I have put my PC in Hibernate.
Or the Schematic Capture software that lets you make mistakes that are perfectly detectable by a computer.
Or the PCB layout software that lets you (de)select nets only one at a time, from thousands of nets, without a 'select all' option.
I'm talking about not being able to single step through the kernel with a source-level, color syntaxing debugger that has automatic variable display.
Or a simple NT driver being 270 bloody KiloBytes of C.
I mean, how long can we go on???
Sure, at least if it is Open Source you can do something about it. But there's just so fuckin much that's wrong...
All of the hardware can be had for well under $100
And this is exactly why Linux won't make it bigtime,- there's no money in it. I'm sorry to be so negative (but I'm sure the Karma Police will fix that) but here's a company that's actually doing something kewl, and what do they get? People bitching about 2 hundred fucking dollars.
Have you looked a M$ XP license recently?
I mean, what do you expect? Sony people preparing each individual kit by purchasing used gear from eBay???
Show me an other company selling an add-on kit including harddrive, keyboard, mouse and network adaptor AND an OS for $200,-
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Gore asked for a recount of certain precincts. He got it. He gained a few votes ...
...
Gore then asked for another recount of certain other precincts. He gained a few more votes
The only recount Gore one was the one that the press conducted, which took months and recounted the whole state.
So out of three examples, three times a recount actually gave Gore more votes. And this does NOT bother you?
This got slashdotted!?
:-)
Nope, this got posted on slashdot. The page is hosted on Microsoft servers which tend to hold up fairly well under a slashdot beating. (some might add, unfortunately so). Of course I already knew the difference 15 years ago.
No offense man, but then you go on calling people sticklers in a later post. Could you please read the first few lines of your comment? Don't you agree they may sound a little arrogant? Is that perhaps why geeks aren't popular?
It's somewhat ironic that you even managed to work in a fairly obvious grammar error. And that's recognized by someone who's first language isn't English.
The most ironic thing though is that you only seem to talk about the conclusion, so even though this paper is about reading, did you actually read it???
Plus the /. crew love apple hardware :-)
And that's why they probably should create a seperate iPod topic, so we can choose to not see these sort of useless articles.
But fair enough, it's their site and I don't subscribe so not a lot to complain about.
Of course you failed to mention the other alternative, which is that Apple _removed_ that section. (which is, what it sounds like, what happened)
Still, looking at job adds is an old trick for competitors and journalist to 'research' a company, and Apple of all places should know that.
On the other hand, it's not terribly reliable though. I've known plenty of companies that posted job openings that did not exist, just to get competitors on the wrong foot.
So this 'news' really isn't 'news'. What it basically says is either:
a) Apple is going to do something with video; their job add said so and then they tried to cover it up, see?
or:
b) Apple wants there to be some spread of rumors about video; they released a fake job add and then deleted certain parts to make it more believable.
(b) is maybe too tin-foil, but if I can think of it, I'm sure the people at Apple can too.
Damn, that works really well!
Btw. an other issue that I have not seen mentioned (but then again, you don't expect me to read 1700 comments right?) is the fact that I read /. from a multitude of computers.
/.
There's at least 4 here in my house that I use, and then when I go into the office there's a bunch there.
I've already surrendered to the fact that if I post from any of those other machines, it will have to be AC (I'm sorry, but I can't remember all my 326 passwords), but with the subscription system, how are you intending to handle that? (again, a move toward a more agressive ad system will probably mean I won't read from other machines)
I'm sincerely worried that issues like these may reduce the reader base, and as others have pointed out, I too do consider the comments a valuable part of
Hi Rob,
/. a subscription based site.
/. community what type of alternatives _they_ think may work.
/. as well? Advertisements that are 'linked' to a certain subject are a 1000 times less annoying and an equal amount more effective. Since I'm already interested in the subject, it may actually be useful to have some links companies that want to sell their stuff dearly. To become a sponsor should be as easy as it is over @ Google.
/. audience, so using the same /. approach, just with Intel specific news.
:-)
Unfortunately, I'm a little late to this thread, but I hope you'll read it.
I would like to start off by saying that I'm not overly enthusiastic about your plans to make
I would also have to add, that bigger adds are not an option for me:- I'm in fact very depressed about where the good ole internet is heading with this advertising crapola.
Even though I have no real objection against paying you for your site, the fact that you can't tell me exactly how much I'm going to have to pay bothers me.
What I would like to ask you though is, what kind of alternatives have you considered?
Why have you not asked the
I would like to bring up for discussion some alternatives myself:
To get back to the advertising: the advertisement industry is going totally nuts trying to come up with 'something' that works. Be it pop-ups, pop-under, dhtml on top of content, whatever,- I perceive it exactly the same as a person walking up to me in the street with a 10 by 10 feet billboard that starts yelling in my face, whilst keeping me from moving on.
Today they want you to put up bigger ads, tomorrow it's pop-ups, the day after we can't find your site behind all the ads. This basically makes subscription the only option.
What I suggest is that you come up with some creative alternatives. I mean, look at Google,- they have come up with a non-annoying way of allowing companies to advertise. (You really should read up on how their advertising works). Why couldn't this work for
An other thing that comes to mind is sponsored submissions. Hey, if AMD comes out with a new CPU, they may as well pay you to announce it. As special header color or something could indicate that it was sponsored.
I was also thinking about something like "paid for 'Ask Slashdot'". This could be very helpful for companies that want industry feedback. For example, our company has a product that is designed for In-Flight Entertainment. But we could consider bringing this product to the general market. It would be interesting though to get some feedback (like, 'that's waaay to expensive' or 'but it's missing an xyz port!'). This would have the side-effect of acknowledging that people that post comments add value to your site.
There could be entirely sponsored sections, like 'what's up with Intel', basically a glorified portal to Intel press releases, but targeted for the
I guess what I'm saying is, instead of the 'in yer face' approach that seems to dominate the internet, why not take a more co-operative approach. I understand that you want to remain un-biased, and it should always be clear to readers when something is placed because of sponsoring. But I think that could be communicated easily.
The interesting thing is that these kind of scenarios could be implemented in parallel with subscription system. The good thing about that is that you will have instant feedback on how the readers appreciate either one. So instead of following the masses, lead them again!
Good luck!
The story was misleading because it implied that Intel would be dropping Rambus for all of their product lines. The shift was really just in the "workstation" (higher end desktop) space.
Nope, they have an entire line of network processors. The IXP series (now called IXA).
Intel has tons of Non-IA32 processors. Look at developer.intel.com
It has NOTHING to do with IA32 based servers.
EBN had the sensational headline Intel to drop support of Rambus in new CPU products, but the story goes on to say, "Intel will continue using Direct Rambus memory with its network processors. Also, although not new products, the next iterations of its 850 and 860 chipsets, supporting a 533MHz front-side, will support RDRAM when they arrive, probably in the second half of this year." A little misleading, wouldn't you say?
I don't see how that's so misleading. the i850 is hardly the flagship of Intel's product line, and neither are their network processors.
It's not like any of those are in products that generate the DRAM shortage...
... can expect the length of an average day to increase by 11 millionths of a second per decade
And then this:
if the days seem a little longer to you than they used to, it might not be just old age catching up with you.
Yeah! they DO seem 11 / 10 / 365 millionth of a second longer. Thanks for finding an explantion for that one, I had been wondering.
I've been using the 'theirname@mydomain.com' technique whenever I provide an email to on-line stores.
:o)
I was amazed when I started receiving spam on 'premaritalagreement.com@mydomain.com' (only the mydomain is fake!) and I contact the people and they denied everything. But at least you can ban that email address and ban the company.
On the other hand it's funny when (for some reason) the company calls you to verify something, and they go over all the stuff and then get to the email. There was one person that just didn't get it: 'yeah, but that's OUR email address', recognizing her companies name.
For those reasons some people generate an obfuscated (rot-13 for example) address.
In any case, the sad thing is that there's not much you can do against the companies that sell your email address, legally...
Unfortunately that didn't work for me after I installed 2K with a NTFS partition.
And the sucky thing is that all the programs where stored in some proprietary format on the CDs, so you couldn't just run the installer for each program,- you have to use the Sony installer (which wouldn't run on NTFS).
What I did was first do a recovery. Then run the installers for _all_ programs through the Sony installer. It creates a temp directory where it copies the installer and files for the program you are installing. So I copied those files into an other directory (since they are deleted as soon as the program is installed). After I had all the original install programs and files I burnt my own CD and installed 2K with NTFS.
I hate Sony. I condemn these kind of policies. It's bad enough that all the software is closed source, but this just takes every bit of freedom away from controlling a machine you payed big bucks for.
My point was though that you loose the drivers, utilities and other software that also come on the recovery CDs (and which you paid for IMHO).
Even though most of the software is crippleware, some of it is useful (like the CD recording software) and not only that,- they advertise and market all this as being part of the product that you buy.
I don't like to pay 59 bucks for Roxio when I thought the thing came with the software already.
Readers who called HP to complain were told that XP was so big that half a dozen or more CDs would be required to deliver all the recovery files.
So they are giving up 4 GB of diskspace for a recovery partition. I really wonder if the marketing material mentions that when they list the size of the harddisk.
Last year I spend several days to extract the drivers and utilities from the Sony Vaio CDs. Never do I want to get as angry as I got during this process.
It was my understanding that we bought a machine INCLUDING an (albeith inferior) OS and a wild variety of software (we specifically needed the FireWire stuff). Well, apparently not so.
The pre-installed Win2K was installed on two partitions using FAT32. It was impossible to get a clean single NTFS partition with the recovery CD's. They simply created the same C: & D: FAT32 partitions. I mean WTF?! Why do they think we ordered the Win2K version for an extra $150??
Even better,- if you installed 2K from a full CD, allowing you to create an NTFS partition, the bundled Sony Viao utilities/programs wouldn't install anymore, claiming a corrupted configuration (and being so nice as to recommend to recover from the provided recovery CDs). So for example, the special utilities needed to get certain keys to work couldn't be installed. So here you bought a $4K piece of crap that you can't use the way you want it to.
I finally hacked my way around it, but I ain't touching a Viao with a ten feet pole anymore.
There probably doesn't even exist a single Windows source tree.
;o)
Yes there is. I've worked on it briefly and at the time it was roughly 680MB. This included tons of custom utils and custom versions of assemblers and compilers. (So much for a Chinese wall).
There's nothing magic about M$ code. I've seen better code, but I've also seen worse. It's not terribly difficult to understand the overall structure though.
Even if it did exist, what would programmers say other than "yes, with enough hacking, we can separate this out"? I mean, with enough hacking, you can get OS/2 to emulate Windows, or Linux. And if Windows cannot be split up, it only means that it is not well-modularized (but you guessed that already).
The point is to seperate out a piece that used to be seperate in the first place. (e.g. the browser). All this stuff happens at the shell level and only requires a small part of the source tree. I think it would take very little effort to prove that it can be done (easily).
We need a diversity of operating systems, and that's what remedies should be aimed at. Leave Microsoft's source code alone.
The only way to achieve that is when there is such a thing as fair competition. There's nothing wrong with being a monopoly,- the abuse of power to make competition almost impossible is.
This brings up an other subject that I happened upon whilst looking at the Windows source, and something that may help unravel the infamous AARD code.
If I can make a suggestion: request the entire source tree for Windows 3.1. In the himem.sys source subtree there is a file called sipsim.obj. It's a small file and it contains 1(one) function: ISMSDOS. This function is the AARD code. Even within M$ this file was not distributed as source.
The fact that the function is called ISMSDOS is pretty clear indication that Schulman was right in what he suspected: an attempt to make the code not run on anything but MS-DOS.
If they "can't find" the code, I may be able to assist.
IANSWIAALON, I Am Not Saying Wether I Am A Laywer Or Not. All these disclaimers are starting to piss me off. Of course we are not lawyers here, lawyers have a life and don't post on /.
;o)
Now, I'm sure the person understands that (s)he should contact a lawyer, but in the meantime, some feedback from the industry never hurts. In fact I'm also sick and tired that everything has to be settled through lawyers these days. You'd think some common sense would go a long way.
Some things that may help you persuade them to get there heads out of their asses:
First of all, ask them what they consider Intellectual Property in the first place. In fact only very few things fall under IP.
One of the things that does is code (software). However, code falls under normal copyright law, and as such the copyright is by default (so unless you contractually signed it over) owned by the person, or company, that wrote it. Generally beta-testers do not contribute to the code, so they own no rights to it.
Providing an idea/suggestion or finding a bug has nothing to do with this. In fact, even if they patented the idea they provided, they have NO right to the code. You could have to pay them royalties, but that's a different issue.
Patents are also IP, and if you patented something that was their idea, well, yeah, then you may have a problem. The thing is though that a patent is by definition public, so the only rights you'd be talking about are monetary.
Ideas ARE worth something. I keep a book of which the pages are numbered, and if I have any ideas I described them in there. I let someone read the book and sign off on it, every once in a while. The reason for doing this is twofold, but boils down to 'prior-art'. If ever someone patents an idea that I had before, I can prove I have prior-art. Also, because I deal with a lot of source code from third parties, if they ever claim copyright infringement, I can prove I had these ideas before I saw their source.
Basically, they can do with the ideas they provided whatever they want. As a joke you could pull out all the lines of code (although, again, I don't think they have rights to it) that where based on their input (but nothing else). And present that to them. See how useful that is.
Exhaust is side mounted too so air can escape pretty easily
And steam and grease enters with the same amount of ease, I presume.
but how much movie do you plan to watch while you slap a Pizza in the microwave or get a new brewsky from the fridge?
I mean, that's all I ever do in the kitchen...
Reading this:
;o)
Dr John Sallis, who treated the boy at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital, said: "It was quite clear this boy had major problems.
After reading this:
The 15-year-old boy spent seven hours a day playing computer games (emphasis mine)
I'd say, yes, but the problem with his hands is only the beginning.
Bill Gates "is really annoyed by the incredible pain we put everyone through in computing."
Yeah, he's certainly not alone on that one. However, most of the pain comes from things that are more fundamentally wrong than bugs you could fix in 28 days.
It certainly isn't M$ alone that fails to deliver a user experience the way it should be.
What I mean is having to edit lilo.conf after installing Red Hat to get my XP partition back and running.
Or the fact that Red Hat doesn't boot if my Ethernet is not plugged in.
I'm talking about the UltimateTV box taking 6 seconds to respond to a remote control button being pressed.
Or the empty screen with one button it presents every time you delete a show.
I'm talking about the need to use 3 programs to get video from my digital camera to a recordable DVD under Windows.
And the fact that they don't want to use each others MPEG streams even though they are perfectly conforming to the standard.
Or the fact that when I plug in my digital camera my PC locks up in the first place.
Or the EEPROM emulator software that makes me change 6 settings _every_ time I start the program.
And that I need to restart it everytime after I have put my PC in Hibernate.
Or the Schematic Capture software that lets you make mistakes that are perfectly detectable by a computer.
Or the PCB layout software that lets you (de)select nets only one at a time, from thousands of nets, without a 'select all' option.
I'm talking about not being able to single step through the kernel with a source-level, color syntaxing debugger that has automatic variable display.
Or a simple NT driver being 270 bloody KiloBytes of C.
I mean, how long can we go on???
Sure, at least if it is Open Source you can do something about it. But there's just so fuckin much that's wrong...
Rainmaker's website who make the tech he's talking about. (Like no one would have found this link otherwise)
You got to wonder if this is one of the SEC sites.
All of the hardware can be had for well under $100
And this is exactly why Linux won't make it bigtime,- there's no money in it. I'm sorry to be so negative (but I'm sure the Karma Police will fix that) but here's a company that's actually doing something kewl, and what do they get? People bitching about 2 hundred fucking dollars.
Have you looked a M$ XP license recently?
I mean, what do you expect? Sony people preparing each individual kit by purchasing used gear from eBay???
Show me an other company selling an add-on kit including harddrive, keyboard, mouse and network adaptor AND an OS for $200,-
I wonder if Wine or lindows would efficiently run on this now
Is the PS2 an x86? Wine only emulates the Windows API calls but certainly does not emulate the CPU.
So first you invite people to join your mailing list to then send them messages they can't read. Am I getting it now?