Perhaps, but there is a difference between not wanting people to use a wrapper that would allow them to use a *non-3DFX* card for "3DFX acceleration", and offering a driver that would allow people to use their 3DFX cards on a non-Windows OS.
Altho the docs could probably be used to augment the glide wrappers.. but 3DFX would go after them anyway, so not much changes.
So have a vote behind the firewall, and send out a move for 'the company' - morale-building, teamwork, all that rot. Or encourage them to enter the game from home.
C'mon, you guys are analysts - ya should be able to figure out some kind of non-whiny solution here.
Gartner is also the main engine behind the 'Y2K' Chicken-Little scare campaign. The way they scream about it, we'll all vaporize a few minutes after the event, and that's if we're lucky.
But I suppose they like to stir people up, since that generates more queries for analyses, and they get paid again.
But this new one has an extra syllable, and doesnt flow as smoothly as Pentium did. Besides, 'Merced' has been used for so long, I think a lot of people will continue to call it that. Merced also isn't just a number, which will help keep the name around a bit longer.
What does the hunger level of the general population in India have to do with how many geeks they have? A vast majority of Americans are technology-idiots, but look where our techs have blazed paths.
And before you Flamebait this post, go work retail in America. You'll see what I mean.
Basically, India is no longer a 4th-world British colony. Your preconceptions are wildly outdated...
Linux is approximately the same age as NT, 7 years. Give or take a couple of opinions.
For the Hyperactive types among us: Linux was not created to compete with anything. It was not created to 'overthrow' Microsoft, or anything so egotistical. It was created by people who needed it to do 'stuff', and do it reliably and cheaply and well. It still is, as far as I can tell.
Why all this talk about competition, Linux must beat NT, Linux is better, Linux this, Linux that? Why not just use it if it can do something for you, and not worry about what the rest of the world thinks?
Linux doesn't need market share to survive, folks, and it doesn't need acceptance by the enterprise-level corporations. Its Cast of Thousands who maintain various aspects of it will continue to do so whether Linux can beat NT on every benchmark or not... they will keep Linux going primarily because THEY use it, not because YOU use it.
Frankly, I think the gun was jumped in this 'race' with NT. Competition was created where none is necessary, or expected, or wanted.
This is why distributed.net is doing the RC5 thing. You think that whole effort is funded on the $10000 prize and that's the sole reason they're doing it? Nope, the point is to debug and test a distributed-work client that will let scientists and researchers do exactly what you want them to be able to do. And if it works like it's supposed to, the dist.net folks are gonna be able to retire early.
Too many people look at a thing and say, 'This should be used for X instead of Y, and right now! Change it! Change it!! Nownownow!!' Mebbe the intermediate steps are NECESSARY to get to where they want it, but no one cares about that. Gotta be instantaneous or nothing. Call it the McDonald's Syndrome.
It isn't going to happen overnight, but at least by supporting the distributed.net RC5 project, it will happen soon.
Lemme guess, you haven't submitted the Linux PPC news, but you expect someone else to? Putting the link in a whiny little post doesn't cut it. Try using the method everyone else uses, the 'submit story' link.
And grab some cheese, you'll find it goes down better with that whine.
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If you have logical partitions created with linux fdisk, the Microsoft fdisk will *not* be able to delete them.
You have to use the linux fdisk in those cases, unless you have access to a low-level formatter.
And they're *just now* getting around to the IRC channels?
Sounds like a PR move. And really bad reflexes.
Perhaps, but there is a difference between not wanting people to use a wrapper that would allow them to use a *non-3DFX* card for "3DFX acceleration", and offering a driver that would allow people to use their 3DFX cards on a non-Windows OS.
Altho the docs could probably be used to augment the glide wrappers.. but 3DFX would go after them anyway, so not much changes.
So have a vote behind the firewall, and send out a move for 'the company' - morale-building, teamwork, all that rot. Or encourage them to enter the game from home.
C'mon, you guys are analysts - ya should be able to figure out some kind of non-whiny solution here.
Gartner is also the main engine behind the 'Y2K' Chicken-Little scare campaign. The way they scream about it, we'll all vaporize a few minutes after the event, and that's if we're lucky.
But I suppose they like to stir people up, since that generates more queries for analyses, and they get paid again.
Dunno. Works just fine for me...
But this new one has an extra syllable, and doesnt flow as smoothly as Pentium did. Besides, 'Merced' has been used for so long, I think a lot of people will continue to call it that. Merced also isn't just a number, which will help keep the name around a bit longer.
Agreed! We gotta deport Missouri, and fast! It's the only way to be sure.
That makes it a Windows problem still (Microsoft Windows NT, after all)...
Or more probably, a Windows+IE problem. I'm seeing the ?'s too.
What does the hunger level of the general population in India have to do with how many geeks they have? A vast majority of Americans are technology-idiots, but look where our techs have blazed paths.
And before you Flamebait this post, go work retail in America. You'll see what I mean.
Basically, India is no longer a 4th-world British colony. Your preconceptions are wildly outdated...
Linux is approximately the same age as NT, 7 years. Give or take a couple of opinions.
For the Hyperactive types among us:
Linux was not created to compete with anything. It was not created to 'overthrow' Microsoft, or anything so egotistical. It was created by people who needed it to do 'stuff', and do it reliably and cheaply and well. It still is, as far as I can tell.
Why all this talk about competition, Linux must beat NT, Linux is better, Linux this, Linux that? Why not just use it if it can do something for you, and not worry about what the rest of the world thinks?
Linux doesn't need market share to survive, folks, and it doesn't need acceptance by the enterprise-level corporations. Its Cast of Thousands who maintain various aspects of it will continue to do so whether Linux can beat NT on every benchmark or not... they will keep Linux going primarily because THEY use it, not because YOU use it.
Frankly, I think the gun was jumped in this 'race' with NT. Competition was created where none is necessary, or expected, or wanted.
This is why distributed.net is doing the RC5 thing. You think that whole effort is funded on the $10000 prize and that's the sole reason they're doing it? Nope, the point is to debug and test a distributed-work client that will let scientists and researchers do exactly what you want them to be able to do. And if it works like it's supposed to, the dist.net folks are gonna be able to retire early.
Too many people look at a thing and say, 'This should be used for X instead of Y, and right now! Change it! Change it!! Nownownow!!' Mebbe the intermediate steps are NECESSARY to get to where they want it, but no one cares about that. Gotta be instantaneous or nothing. Call it the McDonald's Syndrome.
It isn't going to happen overnight, but at least by supporting the distributed.net RC5 project, it will happen soon.
Advertising? They just got $25 MILLION dollars. Why would they need advertising? They're still in dire need of cash?
Yeah, Slashdot is so distrist! Wha! Wha!
Lemme guess, you haven't submitted the Linux PPC news, but you expect someone else to? Putting the link in a whiny little post doesn't cut it. Try using the method everyone else uses, the 'submit story' link.
And grab some cheese, you'll find it goes down better with that whine.
The whole premise is kinda bull anyway, who in their right mind is gonna advertise the launching of a 'spy' satellite in the first place?
"Weather research, yeah, that's the ticket", not, "Yeah, it's a SPY bird, gonna clickclickclick yer old lady nekkid and sell it on the Internet!"