...but, this is Slashdot, where $1000 is the average yearly salary for most people. Is there a way to build something that does what this thing does, albeit poorly, using Linux and our old spare 486s?
Keyboard nav is much better than links (use numbered links with "G," as in "25g" takes you to - but doesn't follow - link/text entry box #25 on the screen, etc.).
So, you mean you sit there and count how many links are on a page, then figure out where on the page #25 is, and then type all that in to go to it, instead of just scrolling down and clicking or something similar? How incredibly stone-age.
I strongly disagree, A.P. Much of the design is strikingly similar, though shoddy by comparison, IMHO.
Shoddy in what way? How can you discern durability and build quality from the small photos provided on the site? For all you or I know, it could be bombproof.
Same unusual dimensions. Which means they used the same LCD panel, maybe.
Same widescreen format. My Sony Vaio Picturebook has this too. It also does not look like a Titanium Powerbook.
Same keyboard placement relatively to the body shape. You mean below the screen? Yeah, I see that a lot with laptops. Since it has a touchpad instead of a trackball or pointing stick, the keyboard must be set further up. My Gateway Solo notebook has a design like this too -- and it's from 1998.
Same rectangular, curve-free format. I've never seen a laptop with sharp, jagged edges. Or one that wasn't rectangular.
Same silvery body. Except it's mostly black, with a silver cover. I suppose they could've painted it, like Sony does, but what's the point? (Or is Apple the only one "allowed" to use magnesium-colored magnesium?)
Same slot-loading CD drive You mean those OEM parts work in things other than Apple computers?
It's not in any way nuts to say that this design is highly derivative.
It may not be nuts, but your the grounds upon which you base your assertion are tenuous, at best.
Hopefully AMD will be able to produce a quality product that far down the road. They've been bleeding money at an alarming rate and some say they're focusing too much on marketing instead of engineering- much like 3dfx did back in the day.
I donno where you've been, but, "back in the day", 3DFX was the only 3d card manufacturer, and the products they produced were light-years ahead of their competition (who WAS their competition? S3? Nvidia? Remember how hard Nvidia sucked before they bought 3DFX?)
What's even more damaging to your argument is that, back in the day, the only CPU manufacturer worth a damn was Intel. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you know AMD's current line of CPUs is as competitive and high-quality as anything else in the PC arena.
Yes, it is, but go to San Francisco for an example of how to blatantly ignore federal narcotics legislation. The local and state police don't even help the feds bust people. They tend to concentrate more on real crime.
...but, contrary to what the media would have you believe (but, anything for ratings since we're not bombing anyone just yet), child abductions are down quite a bit.
...the light gun for the original "Nintendo" entertainment system has been reverse-engineered for use as a pointing device by the Linux-On-Useless-Crap team! Way to go, fellas!
That's pretty cool. I didn't see them linked from either slashdot or the Speex page, though. More people might become interested in the project if they knew about those; I (like most others, I imagine) simply assumed none existed.
Wow. You added me as a foe because of this? True slashbot to the core, there, sir.
I still stand by my assessment: until it works on windows, it won't be popular with the rest of the world. Had you read the title of the article, you'd have realized this is what I meant when I said it wasn't exactly "for the masses" yet. It doesn't particularly matter if it works for you.
If you want to go off on another half-page rant about the rest of the world's computer users, who are all clearly Windows users who all live in New Yock in the little world your mind has created for you, please feel free. Just stop doing it in fixed-width font.
I would glady pay more in order to have more freedom and less regulation or capping of the bandwith.
Well, then, bring that up to your college, not to me. Remember to tell them what you plan on using your bandwidth for and the liability it opens them up for.
Yes, actually. Probably between 20 and 30 thousand dollars per year.
More than my old DSL bill, that's for damn sure.
So, would you like to help pay for your university's OC3 connection? It's probably costing them the amount of your tuition per month. Plus the salaries of the network administrators, cable monkeys, helpdesk drones, system admins, and secretaries in the IT departmetn, regardless of how underpaid they are in comparison to their peers working elsewhere, is probably a million or two per year. Plus the electricity to run the NOC is probably a million or two per year.
When you kick in a few more hundred dollars per year for a fatter pipe for your college so the rest of us who want to do some real fucking work (and no, this does not involve hand lotion) on the Internet can get it done, we'll talk about what's fair and what isn't.
And, why not? Rosen and Valenti are right: bandwidth isn't cheap. At my last year of college, there were times the Internet was unusable because of Napster users. Making P2P filesharing more difficult is in the best interests of every college, from both a legal and financial standpoint.
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Your mom buys CDs...
Do you? (Your post doesn't mention you purchasing anything, just downloading celtic MP3s.)
- A.P.
...but, this is Slashdot, where $1000 is the average yearly salary for most people. Is there a way to build something that does what this thing does, albeit poorly, using Linux and our old spare 486s?
- A.P.
Keyboard nav is much better than links (use numbered links with "G," as in "25g" takes you to - but doesn't follow - link/text entry box #25 on the screen, etc.).
So, you mean you sit there and count how many links are on a page, then figure out where on the page #25 is, and then type all that in to go to it, instead of just scrolling down and clicking or something similar? How incredibly stone-age.
- A.P.
If being a night janitor at Walgreen's is now considered "programming". . .
Although it is not exclusive to Nazi camps, it is primarily used to describe them.
Yes, I'm sure that, when Method Man describes himself as hailing "from the ghetto", he means he was born 60 years ago in a Nazi prison neighborhood.
Holy fuck, man...
- A.P.
Clearly, you're jealous.
- A.P.
Shoddy in what way? How can you discern durability and build quality from the small photos provided on the site? For all you or I know, it could be bombproof.
Same unusual dimensions.
Which means they used the same LCD panel, maybe.
Same widescreen format.
My Sony Vaio Picturebook has this too. It also does not look like a Titanium Powerbook.
Same keyboard placement relatively to the body shape.
You mean below the screen? Yeah, I see that a lot with laptops. Since it has a touchpad instead of a trackball or pointing stick, the keyboard must be set further up. My Gateway Solo notebook has a design like this too -- and it's from 1998.
Same rectangular, curve-free format.
I've never seen a laptop with sharp, jagged edges. Or one that wasn't rectangular.
Same silvery body.
Except it's mostly black, with a silver cover. I suppose they could've painted it, like Sony does, but what's the point? (Or is Apple the only one "allowed" to use magnesium-colored magnesium?)
Same slot-loading CD drive
You mean those OEM parts work in things other than Apple computers?
It's not in any way nuts to say that this design is highly derivative.
It may not be nuts, but your the grounds upon which you base your assertion are tenuous, at best.
- A.P.
...have you even looked at the Porsche laptop? The only thing reminiscent of the Titanium Powerbook design is that both are rectangular.
What business is Porche in, anyhow?
This is a joke, right?
- A.P.
Most importantly, perhaps, IBM did it first. When they did it it was an original, innovative idea.
Yeah, nobody had thought to write on shit that didn't belong to them before IBM did it.
Ever visit a ghetto?
- A.P.
No they aren't.
They're expensive because they're better.
Are they somewhat overpriced? Why, yes, they are. But that does not diminish the fact that SCSI kicks IDE's ass all over the place.
Plz do not attempt to refute this. Thx.
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The correct term is "slashtastic".
- A.P.
Hopefully AMD will be able to produce a quality product that far down the road. They've been bleeding money at an alarming rate and some say they're focusing too much on marketing instead of engineering- much like 3dfx did back in the day.
I donno where you've been, but, "back in the day", 3DFX was the only 3d card manufacturer, and the products they produced were light-years ahead of their competition (who WAS their competition? S3? Nvidia? Remember how hard Nvidia sucked before they bought 3DFX?)
What's even more damaging to your argument is that, back in the day, the only CPU manufacturer worth a damn was Intel. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you know AMD's current line of CPUs is as competitive and high-quality as anything else in the PC arena.
In conclusion, stop being retarded.
- A.P.
Yes, it is, but go to San Francisco for an example of how to blatantly ignore federal narcotics legislation. The local and state police don't even help the feds bust people. They tend to concentrate more on real crime.
- A.P.
Precisely where do you intend to go where 20,000 people will have any say whatsoever on a statewide level?
20,000 people might be enough to influence local politics, but good luck getting statewide crack-smoking legislation changed.
- A.P.
I read the URL as "GodotNet dot com".
- A.P.
...but, contrary to what the media would have you believe (but, anything for ratings since we're not bombing anyone just yet), child abductions are down quite a bit.
It's all about how you spin a story these days...
- A.P.
He stole intellectual property that wasn't his and gave it to others. This seems like a pretty open-and-shut case.
- A.P.
...the light gun for the original "Nintendo" entertainment system has been reverse-engineered for use as a pointing device by the Linux-On-Useless-Crap team! Way to go, fellas!
- A.P.
That's pretty cool. I didn't see them linked from either slashdot or the Speex page, though. More people might become interested in the project if they knew about those; I (like most others, I imagine) simply assumed none existed.
- A.P.
Wow. You added me as a foe because of this? True slashbot to the core, there, sir.
I still stand by my assessment: until it works on windows, it won't be popular with the rest of the world. Had you read the title of the article, you'd have realized this is what I meant when I said it wasn't exactly "for the masses" yet. It doesn't particularly matter if it works for you.
If you want to go off on another half-page rant about the rest of the world's computer users, who are all clearly Windows users who all live in New Yock in the little world your mind has created for you, please feel free. Just stop doing it in fixed-width font.
- A.P.
Not to discourage, but it won't really matter to the masses until there's a native, easy-to-use Windows client.
- A.P.
I would glady pay more in order to have more freedom and less regulation or capping of the bandwith.
Well, then, bring that up to your college, not to me. Remember to tell them what you plan on using your bandwidth for and the liability it opens them up for.
- A.P.
Right now my wife and I are watching an old episode of a TV show no longer broadcast in our area or available [on] tape.
Dude, no you're not. You're posting some crap to slashdot.
- A.P.
Do you have any idea how much I pay for college?
Yes, actually. Probably between 20 and 30 thousand dollars per year.
More than my old DSL bill, that's for damn sure.
So, would you like to help pay for your university's OC3 connection? It's probably costing them the amount of your tuition per month. Plus the salaries of the network administrators, cable monkeys, helpdesk drones, system admins, and secretaries in the IT departmetn, regardless of how underpaid they are in comparison to their peers working elsewhere, is probably a million or two per year. Plus the electricity to run the NOC is probably a million or two per year.
When you kick in a few more hundred dollars per year for a fatter pipe for your college so the rest of us who want to do some real fucking work (and no, this does not involve hand lotion) on the Internet can get it done, we'll talk about what's fair and what isn't.
- A.P.
And, why not? Rosen and Valenti are right: bandwidth isn't cheap. At my last year of college, there were times the Internet was unusable because of Napster users. Making P2P filesharing more difficult is in the best interests of every college, from both a legal and financial standpoint.
- A.P.