CPU: IBM Gekko Processor (an extension of the IBM
Power PC architecture) System Clock: 400 MHz System Memory: High-speed DRAM technology Memory Bus Bandwidth: 3.2 GB/second Semiconductor Process 0.18 Micron Copper Technology
Graphics: Custom Chip designed by ArtX, Inc. of Palo Alto, CA Clock Speed: 200MHz Semiconductor Processor 0.18 Micron embedded DRAM technology Maximum Polygon Rate: N/A
Software Medium: Proprietary DVD Enhanced counterfeit protection Maximum capacity: 4.7 GB
Needless to say, no boxes have been unveiled so it's all still vapor in that sense.
I'm getting an uncanny image in my head of linux partisans handing these out to people who've just called customer service because their windoze machines BSODed:
"Have the data on your computers ever been hurt because of the negligent actions of an operating-system vendor? Linux could help you receive the relief that you deserve." Of course, the notion of a contingency fee would have to be revamped: "We don't make make money unless you decide to give us money instead of downloading the software separately on your own."
"Are they going to patent air next?" said John Segrich, an analyst with CIBC World Markets, who follows Amazon.com.
Some analyst this guy is! Everyone knows that patents only apply to processes, not physical quantities. Patenting the process of breathing, perhaps, but patenting the air itself? Why, that's absurd!
On a more serious note, it seems Amazon.com has finally found its economic niche -- bringing down the entire global internet economy through frivolous patents and lawsuits. It's too bad it won't actually ever make them profitable. The sooner this company dies, the better.
Of course it's revolutionary! I'll spell it out for you. This discovery combines two important things: electronics and really small stuff! The only drawback is that the scientists haven't managed to graft the prefix "nano" onto this discovery, since their circuitry works on the cellular and not the subcellular level.
Think of the possibilities, man! Soon, we'll be able to put all sorts of stuff in all sorts of places where it doesn't belong. Have you no sense of progress?!!!
WINE's liscense is BSDish, meaning that the source doesn't have to accompany the binaries. So no, Microsoft would not have to release its modifications. And anyway, there's really no reason why they'd have to, since they wouldn't be releasing a modified copy of WINE -- they'd be releasing the binary version of Office that they compiled against a modified copy of WINE that they kept entirely in-house. Remember: Wine isn't just a compatibility layer that will let you run existing win32 binaries -- it's an actual port of the win32 api, meaning that if you have the source to the win32 program (as MS does with Office), then you can compile it against wine and release a truly native Linux program.
As for all these "MS is porting Office to Linux" rumors, it's all old news, since slashdot reported on it 21 minutes from now, right?:)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like this article about Java is the oldest slashdot article, posted back on March 23, 1997. It doesn't even have any comments -- just a summary.
If you want to see what an MS-DOJ article looks like with only 6 comments, look over here. My favorite of the early ones still has to be this one. Even back then, slashdot was having a little bit of trouble with disappearing stories.
You didn't actually forget to say "filters", but you forgot to say it in bold and say it repeatedly: Filters Filters Filters. Filters are the single biggest reason to use iCab over Netscape.
For those of you who don't already know, iCab has (built in) many of the features that normally require a non-caching local proxy like Junkbusters to achieve, and even then iCab usually does better. Image filtering by host (up yours, doubleclick.net), path name, file name, dimensions (ever notice how most ads are 468x59 or 468x60?), etc. Control over which cookies to accept and keep, which to discard, all done without the annoyance of "Don't you want to accept this cookie? If you want me to stop asking, you'll have to turn all cookies off or accept them all regardless."
Technically iCab isn't even a standalone, since it will let you send email. It sure is lightweight, though.
Javascript is useful for lots of stuff. Like check out the link in the middle of this page. You don't even have to click through, yet it will take you to the next page. Think of the ramifications for ad forwarding. Oh wait, that was (d). You're right; javascript is useless.
If you're running Windows (which I wouldn't recommend), then you can run Proxomitron which is a stupidly named yet sublimely wonderful non-caching proxy server (like the Junkbusters one) that you can run on your own client side which will let you strip out all the annoying javascript crap you hate (in addition to filtering out ad banners). You'd actually be able to go to Geocities websites without that stupid branded logo in the corner, that is, if there is anything at Geocities worth seeing. The friend whose computer I set it up on has had only good things to say about it.
We're not talking about using useful search engines like google, here. Most search engines will throw all sorts of random results at you regardless of imput.
For a while, the Gnome team had a bonobo fetish. While technically "bonobo" only refered to the set of CORBA interfaces, lots of other stuff got slapped with similarly inspired names -- hence "Tasty Yellow Banana".
For some people it is a religious thing. Plenty of religions ask for the stringency you're describing (Judaism, Seventh Day Adventism, etc.) Mostly, though, it's just a matter of personal disgust -- food residues are often hard to get entirely off plenty of types of cookware, short of using a blowtorch. It's the same reasoning that makes most people (without religious objection) decide not to eat roadkill or their dead pets.
Pretty much the only nutrient that's scarce outside of animal products is B12. The bacteria in your gut will supply 25% or so of your daily requirement, and the rest you can get from pills or fortified foods, both of which are bacterial in origin -- soy milks (Whitewave's Silk, WOOHOOO!) often provide 50% of your daily requirement.
There's some disagreement as to whether spirulina and tempeh provide actual useful-for-human-consumption B12 or just "B12 analog" (which is useless to humans but is counted as B12 owing to the nature of the test used).
If you're careful about your diet, you can do just fine as a vegan. If you're an average ovolacto vegetarian (eats eggs & milk), it's pretty much impossible to screw up.
The daily requirement for tryptophan is around 500mg, which is readily available from plant sources. Here are some such plant sources (source == Heinz Handbook of Nutrition):
As part of this change, we will be discontinuing FreePCNet, our free Internet access service, effective February 14, 2000. After February 14, our local dial-up numbers will no longer work. At that time, all @freepcmail.com accounts will also be shut down. We encourage you to notify your family, friends, and associates with whom you correspond of this change prior to February 14.
Does anyone know when this announcement was made? February 14 has already come and gone, so either this is old news or they really didn't play nice with their customers on the email part -- it couldn't be too hard to set up a temporary forwarding service. I suppose they just expect their customers not to complain after getting to keep the machine for free, eh?:)
Remember, if you don't like the way Hemos spells or whatever, IT'S NOT YOUR SITE! No matter how much money they came into, or how "PROFESSIONAL" you expect this site to be, it doesn't have to. It's THEIR site, they can do whatever the hell they want to with it. If they want to make it a military site for a day with embedded midi files and candy cane coloring and animated oompa loompas, THEY CAN.
While the gist of what you're saying is true, you draw the wrong conclusions. Yes, Rob and Hemos and the rest can do whatever they want with this site, and part of that omnipotence includes allowing or forbidding people from using the site in ways they don't appreciate. They have set up a system where the community gives back its feedback, and if they don't like the feedback then they can change the system.
It's one thing to say: "Hey, we don't think you understand all the effort we put into this site, and we think that you'd realize we're being fair if you did." It's another to complain about people's audacity for "talking back", which is what the site is about in the first place. And the proper place for Rob's rant is not to be attached to this unrelated story but either in its own story, attached to the form you get when you submit a story, or ideally both.
As for the animated oompa loompas, there might be some copyright issues to be worked out first with the Wonka candy company, unless VA Linux is buying them out next. Hey, you never know.
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In this world, you only have to have a couple high-profile public butcherings, and the rest of the populace just files into line like the sheep they are. Occasionally, perhaps rarely, a bunch of sheep get together and arm themselves and make it difficult for the herders, and perhaps even more rarely, the sheep cast off their sheepskins and again become men. But most people just want to go about life milling around and grazing, without much care for how they're being sheared.
He finds a dazzling paradise, but you probably already sense that the only time Hollywood invokes paradise is to create a paradise lost.
More than that, it seems the only time Hollywood invokes paradise is to lose it -- that is, to destroy it. For an idea of the environmental impact that shooting this movie was to cause / did cause, look here. I'm not sure what the final result was, and I'm not sure the movie studio or the Thai government will tell you.
Huxley may have timed his well, but I find L Ron Hubbard's death more poignant. If I recall correctly, Hubbard died on the same day the Challenger blew up, thereby pushing his name back into a little-read section of the newspaper. Whereas Huxley may have wanted the obscurity of his death, we can rest assured that Hubbard did not. There is a certain delightful poignancy in seeing someone with an ego as large as that get a deserved dose of obscurity.
I can only hope that, in the year 2386, there won't be a similar article about Hubbard.
It'll end up being a complete distrobution when they're done. Then they'll sell the cd's and the documentation and support for the entire distro. Remember, this isn't being aimed at people who want to download the software off the net and install it themselves -- it wouldn't do to say "Here's a filemanager for all you novices out there, but you'll have to install it over an existing scary-to-install installation.
Corel's distro is basically Debian + a filemanager. There's no reason for this company to do differently.
The people who want it to be easy to use are asking for it to be easy to use because they want it to be easy to use -- they find it hard and would like it to be easier. They want the stability and the low hardware requirements and the neat apps and the security and all the other stuff without having to invest a lot more effort. They themselves want this for their own purposes, and they're happy when someone comes along and says: "Sure, I can give you that." Some people simply don't do complex things, and it's usually not prudent/fair to make them learn how to handle complex tasks that don't arise for them.
It's not the number of seats that matters so much (although I could present arguments as to why it does matter) but the satisfaction and happiness of the people who fill them. If Linux doesn't serve their needs perfectly but could do so if someone out there wrote some software to accomodate them, then let that programmer go ahead and do so.; especially if that software is just a shell wrapped around all the technical and gritty details that remain inside for people to play with if they so choose.
Linux isn't just about making an operating system that's fun for hackers to play with. It's supposed about making an operating system that can be extended to fit people's needs as they arise and if someone wants to address them. One of those needs is a click 'n drool interface. You can safely ignore it if it doesn't suit your needs.
They revamped the logo because, quite frankly, it was ugly and anachronistic. They wanted to get away from the individual colors and emphasize the outline, the way Nike has done with its swoosh -- in fact, Steve Jobs has claimed that the apple logo's shapes is one of the most recognized logos around (and that it is apple's "swoosh").
Frankly, I don't blame them. I have an old Powermac 8500 sitting in the corner, and the colored logo against the platinum case is really silly. It made sense back in the Apple II* days when you could only have 16 colors, and so your logo had to use just those colors if you ever wanted to display it on the screen. What was once a technological advance (ooooh, color!) is now just an anachronism (eeew, color!).
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Some more specs can be found here. The gist is:
Needless to say, no boxes have been unveiled so it's all still vapor in that sense.
I'm getting an uncanny image in my head of linux partisans handing these out to people who've just called customer service because their windoze machines BSODed:
"Have the data on your computers ever been hurt because of the negligent actions of an operating-system vendor? Linux could help you receive the relief that you deserve." Of course, the notion of a contingency fee would have to be revamped: "We don't make make money unless you decide to give us money instead of downloading the software separately on your own."
Some analyst this guy is! Everyone knows that patents only apply to processes, not physical quantities. Patenting the process of breathing, perhaps, but patenting the air itself? Why, that's absurd!
On a more serious note, it seems Amazon.com has finally found its economic niche -- bringing down the entire global internet economy through frivolous patents and lawsuits. It's too bad it won't actually ever make them profitable. The sooner this company dies, the better.
McCain did CDA2, not CDA1. CDA1 was a combination of Pressler and Exon.
Of course it's revolutionary! I'll spell it out for you. This discovery combines two important things: electronics and really small stuff! The only drawback is that the scientists haven't managed to graft the prefix "nano" onto this discovery, since their circuitry works on the cellular and not the subcellular level.
Think of the possibilities, man! Soon, we'll be able to put all sorts of stuff in all sorts of places where it doesn't belong. Have you no sense of progress?!!!
WINE's liscense is BSDish, meaning that the source doesn't have to accompany the binaries. So no, Microsoft would not have to release its modifications. And anyway, there's really no reason why they'd have to, since they wouldn't be releasing a modified copy of WINE -- they'd be releasing the binary version of Office that they compiled against a modified copy of WINE that they kept entirely in-house. Remember: Wine isn't just a compatibility layer that will let you run existing win32 binaries -- it's an actual port of the win32 api, meaning that if you have the source to the win32 program (as MS does with Office), then you can compile it against wine and release a truly native Linux program.
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As for all these "MS is porting Office to Linux" rumors, it's all old news, since slashdot reported on it 21 minutes from now, right?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like this article about Java is the oldest slashdot article, posted back on March 23, 1997. It doesn't even have any comments -- just a summary.
If you want to see what an MS-DOJ article looks like with only 6 comments, look over here. My favorite of the early ones still has to be this one. Even back then, slashdot was having a little bit of trouble with disappearing stories.
You didn't actually forget to say "filters", but you forgot to say it in bold and say it repeatedly: Filters Filters Filters. Filters are the single biggest reason to use iCab over Netscape.
For those of you who don't already know, iCab has (built in) many of the features that normally require a non-caching local proxy like Junkbusters to achieve, and even then iCab usually does better. Image filtering by host (up yours, doubleclick.net), path name, file name, dimensions (ever notice how most ads are 468x59 or 468x60?), etc. Control over which cookies to accept and keep, which to discard, all done without the annoyance of "Don't you want to accept this cookie? If you want me to stop asking, you'll have to turn all cookies off or accept them all regardless."
Technically iCab isn't even a standalone, since it will let you send email. It sure is lightweight, though.
Javascript is useful for lots of stuff. Like check out the link in the middle of this page. You don't even have to click through, yet it will take you to the next page. Think of the ramifications for ad forwarding. Oh wait, that was (d). You're right; javascript is useless.
If you're running Windows (which I wouldn't recommend), then you can run Proxomitron which is a stupidly named yet sublimely wonderful non-caching proxy server (like the Junkbusters one) that you can run on your own client side which will let you strip out all the annoying javascript crap you hate (in addition to filtering out ad banners). You'd actually be able to go to Geocities websites without that stupid branded logo in the corner, that is, if there is anything at Geocities worth seeing. The friend whose computer I set it up on has had only good things to say about it.
Like this southpark parody that's just begging to get slashdotted.
If you search for "girls cout cookies" (a not implausible typo) on webcrawler (an especially crappy search engine), then on the third results page you'll find a link to http://www.xxxtrem.com/index.htm, which is chock full of naked people.
We're not talking about using useful search engines like google, here. Most search engines will throw all sorts of random results at you regardless of imput.
For a while, the Gnome team had a bonobo fetish. While technically "bonobo" only refered to the set of CORBA interfaces, lots of other stuff got slapped with similarly inspired names -- hence "Tasty Yellow Banana".
Your page needs a little help yet.
Your page is missing some stuff. Mostly some type declarations and an alt tag, but there's no reason to be sloppy.
For some people it is a religious thing. Plenty of religions ask for the stringency you're describing (Judaism, Seventh Day Adventism, etc.) Mostly, though, it's just a matter of personal disgust -- food residues are often hard to get entirely off plenty of types of cookware, short of using a blowtorch. It's the same reasoning that makes most people (without religious objection) decide not to eat roadkill or their dead pets.
Pretty much the only nutrient that's scarce outside of animal products is B12. The bacteria in your gut will supply 25% or so of your daily requirement, and the rest you can get from pills or fortified foods, both of which are bacterial in origin -- soy milks (Whitewave's Silk, WOOHOOO!) often provide 50% of your daily requirement.
There's some disagreement as to whether spirulina and tempeh provide actual useful-for-human-consumption B12 or just "B12 analog" (which is useless to humans but is counted as B12 owing to the nature of the test used).
If you're careful about your diet, you can do just fine as a vegan. If you're an average ovolacto vegetarian (eats eggs & milk), it's pretty much impossible to screw up.
The daily requirement for tryptophan is around 500mg, which is readily available from plant sources. Here are some such plant sources (source == Heinz Handbook of Nutrition):
wheat 150-170mg
peas 251mg
soybeans 526mg
pumpkin seeds 560mg
cottonseed flour and meal 591mg
sunflower seed meal 589mg
And useable calcium can be gotten from plant sources. Perhaps not spinach, but brocolli will do nicely.
Does anyone know when this announcement was made? February 14 has already come and gone, so either this is old news or they really didn't play nice with their customers on the email part -- it couldn't be too hard to set up a temporary forwarding service. I suppose they just expect their customers not to complain after getting to keep the machine for free, eh?
While the gist of what you're saying is true, you draw the wrong conclusions. Yes, Rob and Hemos and the rest can do whatever they want with this site, and part of that omnipotence includes allowing or forbidding people from using the site in ways they don't appreciate. They have set up a system where the community gives back its feedback, and if they don't like the feedback then they can change the system.
It's one thing to say: "Hey, we don't think you understand all the effort we put into this site, and we think that you'd realize we're being fair if you did." It's another to complain about people's audacity for "talking back", which is what the site is about in the first place. And the proper place for Rob's rant is not to be attached to this unrelated story but either in its own story, attached to the form you get when you submit a story, or ideally both.
As for the animated oompa loompas, there might be some copyright issues to be worked out first with the Wonka candy company, unless VA Linux is buying them out next. Hey, you never know.
In this world, you only have to have a couple high-profile public butcherings, and the rest of the populace just files into line like the sheep they are. Occasionally, perhaps rarely, a bunch of sheep get together and arm themselves and make it difficult for the herders, and perhaps even more rarely, the sheep cast off their sheepskins and again become men. But most people just want to go about life milling around and grazing, without much care for how they're being sheared.
Repeat after me: baaaaa. baaaaa.
He finds a dazzling paradise, but you probably already sense that the only time Hollywood invokes paradise is to create a paradise lost.
More than that, it seems the only time Hollywood invokes paradise is to lose it -- that is, to destroy it. For an idea of the environmental impact that shooting this movie was to cause / did cause, look here. I'm not sure what the final result was, and I'm not sure the movie studio or the Thai government will tell you.
Huxley may have timed his well, but I find L Ron Hubbard's death more poignant. If I recall correctly, Hubbard died on the same day the Challenger blew up, thereby pushing his name back into a little-read section of the newspaper. Whereas Huxley may have wanted the obscurity of his death, we can rest assured that Hubbard did not. There is a certain delightful poignancy in seeing someone with an ego as large as that get a deserved dose of obscurity.
I can only hope that, in the year 2386, there won't be a similar article about Hubbard.
It'll end up being a complete distrobution when they're done. Then they'll sell the cd's and the documentation and support for the entire distro. Remember, this isn't being aimed at people who want to download the software off the net and install it themselves -- it wouldn't do to say "Here's a filemanager for all you novices out there, but you'll have to install it over an existing scary-to-install installation.
Corel's distro is basically Debian + a filemanager. There's no reason for this company to do differently.
The people who want it to be easy to use are asking for it to be easy to use because they want it to be easy to use -- they find it hard and would like it to be easier. They want the stability and the low hardware requirements and the neat apps and the security and all the other stuff without having to invest a lot more effort. They themselves want this for their own purposes, and they're happy when someone comes along and says: "Sure, I can give you that." Some people simply don't do complex things, and it's usually not prudent/fair to make them learn how to handle complex tasks that don't arise for them.
It's not the number of seats that matters so much (although I could present arguments as to why it does matter) but the satisfaction and happiness of the people who fill them. If Linux doesn't serve their needs perfectly but could do so if someone out there wrote some software to accomodate them, then let that programmer go ahead and do so.; especially if that software is just a shell wrapped around all the technical and gritty details that remain inside for people to play with if they so choose.
Linux isn't just about making an operating system that's fun for hackers to play with. It's supposed about making an operating system that can be extended to fit people's needs as they arise and if someone wants to address them. One of those needs is a click 'n drool interface. You can safely ignore it if it doesn't suit your needs.
They revamped the logo because, quite frankly, it was ugly and anachronistic. They wanted to get away from the individual colors and emphasize the outline, the way Nike has done with its swoosh -- in fact, Steve Jobs has claimed that the apple logo's shapes is one of the most recognized logos around (and that it is apple's "swoosh").
Frankly, I don't blame them. I have an old Powermac 8500 sitting in the corner, and the colored logo against the platinum case is really silly. It made sense back in the Apple II* days when you could only have 16 colors, and so your logo had to use just those colors if you ever wanted to display it on the screen. What was once a technological advance (ooooh, color!) is now just an anachronism (eeew, color!).