Actually, I have it on reliable authority that in 2001 Intel will switch over to their Hurricane-style naming scheme. The first name on the list is "Abe"
"Wow! Glenda over in marketing just got her new laptop. It's a 33 GHz Barry!!"
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Unless you're relying on your CPU to do all your Mesa rendering in Quake III (ouch), this kind of speed it overrated.
What can the average person expect to see out of this? Not much, that's for sure. Maybe their MP3s will compress a little faster... I've got nothing against speed (a lot of places still need much more of it) but it's something that the Desktop PC market just doesn't have any use for any more of.
What we need now is innovation. Speed could only take us so far, now we need a brilliant flash of insight into making computing different... Better. What's the next step?
Use that speed. Better voice recognition. Artificial Intelligence systems that can figure out the difference between what the user says, and what the user wants. A machine that understands subtleties... a 3D desktop environment. Wireless T1-level access across the nation. WHY ARE WE STILL COMPUTING LIKE WE DID A DECADE AGO?
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You know, there's a lot of people who think like you, and I'm one of them.
Yeah, get rid of the Flash intro screens. And while you're at it, get rid of those annoying animated buttons. And those blasted popup windows. And color too, because it's just a strain on my eyes. Actually, just get rid of all the images anyway; text is the way to go. Aw, fuck the text, let's just have a big array of lights on my desktop that I can use to view the contents of my CPU registers. Nah, forget that, that's a waste of lightbulbs... I'll just guess what's in the registers, because -- seriously -- it's more fun that way.
Oh wait... I guess I don't agree with you.
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My boss is looking to retire and in a very real sense, he *is* the company. There's a bazillion lines of old Wang-Basic2 code that no one but him understands.
What he's been trying to set up, is having our major customers (a number of lending-banks) pool their resources and buy out the company. Then they could hire a team of programmers to go through the code and document it (if at all possible). Otherwise, when he retires, the company ends and all the banks are left with unsupported software.
It's an interesting idea to have individual customers pay a certain amount to get a desired whole... Almost like Schnier's street-performer protocol, eh?
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The company I work for writes Mortgage Origination software for lending-banks in the US. They've been doing it since 1978 (Wang Minicomputers ) and so they still work "old-style".
If one of our customers needs a feature, they call us up and we quote them a price. Each customer has their own seperate system of code. If a feature is good for everyone, it get's moved into the generic system, and everyone get's it on their next update.
Personally, I think it's extra effort and more complexity, but my boss has been doing it this way longer than I've been on this planet, so I let it be. Still, it's an interesting concept.
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Wow, that was pretty original. Hey, while we're at it, I've patented all sarcastic responses to stupid uncreative posts by retards.
Can we just give the "I patented X" theme a rest? It was only funny the first couple of times... Now it's about as welcome as "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"
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I've talked to the people at Cobalt about their systems (when I was looking to buy one for my company). They're running a RedHat-based system of their own. AFAIK, it's just a stripped down RedHat, with their own selection of software installed.
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Actually, the folks at VMware don't have to raise the bar at all, because right now they're the only bar in town. Freemware is a good project, but it's got a long way to go.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
What did I say about Open Source? Well, it's too late anyway. I've already installed OpenBSD 2.5 as a firewall/NAT in my office. It's working quite nicely too.
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Hey, I'm totally serious about this: Are you one person or a couple of people? I think the original grit-boy should create an account... Of course with the karma-thing now, you'd never be able to post... Oh well.
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I can't believe you're getting so upset over something you're wrong about:-) Yes, the SLASH code is available, but it's pretty out-dated. The current Slashdot system has a bunch of new features that aren't in that release. Also: For a site that advocates the GPL so much, why is Taco releasing SLASH with an advertising clause? I don't care how much he says he loves Open Source -- his actions speak volumes about his real feelings.
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Yeah, but it's not the current source - it's an older version. Rob still hasn't given out the source to the current Slashdot... Kind of ironic for a site like this, eh?
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You may think this is stupid, but 1) I have a high-school education and 2) I would consider the cover-art of a commercial product before buying it. Certainly it would not be a primary factor in my decision-making, but it does play a role.
My reasoning? The quality of design in packaging conveys to me the amount of effort that was put into the whole of the product. Not just the coding, but other things like support, interface design, etc... It's possible that this might cause me to misjudge a product. Oh well, their loss. Most of the stuff I use is Open Source anyway, and in those cases there usually isn't any cover-art to speak of.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Well, I don't want to be a prude here, because I'm just as guilty of MP3 Piracy as anyone. But let's be honest -- why do Napster users need protection? The only reason the RIAA would be prosecuting people would be because they are pirating copyrighted material. Now, I like getting free music, but most of the time it happens to be illegal.
The bottom line is that the RIAA is not "Big Brother". The only reason they're going to bring a suit against someone is if that person is doing something illegal. If they are doing something illegal, then they probably deserve the charges. They don't need protection. Piracy is illegal, plan and simple.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Umm... not quite. Think about it. SETI is already a distributed processing situation. How would getting people at a ball-game help that out. There are at least as many computers working on SETI right now as there are at an average baseball game, so I don't see how having those people in proximity would help at all.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
This is just as dumb as the first post. Sometimes you people get a little too into this whole KDE vs. Gnome war. It's not really a competition.
Do you think RedHat wants KDE to fail? Not a chance. That's crazy. They might want to see Corel/Caldera's distros go under, but not at the cost of a very popular window manager. Moreover, if KDE did miraculously disappear, Corel & Caldera could just pick up Gnome. Wouldn't cost them anything and it wouldn't have the slightest effect on RedHat.
You really don't get the whole "Open Source" idea, do you? It's not about competition. It's about good software.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Remember when MS released Office 97 for the Macintosh? They called it Office 98, even though the functionality and the file formats were the same. I don't see much difference here.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
That's the stupidest thing I've read all day. How the heck can you call KDE a competitor of RedHat's??? Seriously, it's part of their distro and they have nothing to gain by harming it. Moreover, they couldn't harm it even if they wanted to: It's Open Sourced, they don't exactly need to make sales.
RedHat is investing into Mozilla so that they'll get a great browser for their flagship product, not to hurt Konquerer. I'm sure RedHat wants Konquerer to suceed just as much. Where do people like you come from, anyway??
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Well there's nothing that restricts the Sendmail people from ripping out all that "legacy code" and reworking Sendmail in the next version (or the next couple of versions). The only thing stopping them is the amount of effort it would take. With an investment from RedHat, that effort becomes a little easier to fund.
Having said that, I think RedHat probably could have found a more worthwhile project to shell out cash to. Oh well, it's their money, not mine:-)
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Slashdot Mirror
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
"Wow! Glenda over in marketing just got her new laptop. It's a 33 GHz Barry!!"
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
What can the average person expect to see out of this? Not much, that's for sure. Maybe their MP3s will compress a little faster... I've got nothing against speed (a lot of places still need much more of it) but it's something that the Desktop PC market just doesn't have any use for any more of.
What we need now is innovation. Speed could only take us so far, now we need a brilliant flash of insight into making computing different... Better. What's the next step?
Use that speed. Better voice recognition. Artificial Intelligence systems that can figure out the difference between what the user says, and what the user wants. A machine that understands subtleties... a 3D desktop environment. Wireless T1-level access across the nation. WHY ARE WE STILL COMPUTING LIKE WE DID A DECADE AGO?
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Yeah, get rid of the Flash intro screens. And while you're at it, get rid of those annoying animated buttons. And those blasted popup windows. And color too, because it's just a strain on my eyes. Actually, just get rid of all the images anyway; text is the way to go. Aw, fuck the text, let's just have a big array of lights on my desktop that I can use to view the contents of my CPU registers. Nah, forget that, that's a waste of lightbulbs... I'll just guess what's in the registers, because -- seriously -- it's more fun that way.
Oh wait... I guess I don't agree with you.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
What he's been trying to set up, is having our major customers (a number of lending-banks) pool their resources and buy out the company. Then they could hire a team of programmers to go through the code and document it (if at all possible). Otherwise, when he retires, the company ends and all the banks are left with unsupported software.
It's an interesting idea to have individual customers pay a certain amount to get a desired whole... Almost like Schnier's street-performer protocol, eh?
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
If one of our customers needs a feature, they call us up and we quote them a price. Each customer has their own seperate system of code. If a feature is good for everyone, it get's moved into the generic system, and everyone get's it on their next update.
Personally, I think it's extra effort and more complexity, but my boss has been doing it this way longer than I've been on this planet, so I let it be. Still, it's an interesting concept.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Can we just give the "I patented X" theme a rest? It was only funny the first couple of times... Now it's about as welcome as "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Seriously though - I love that poem.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
My reasoning? The quality of design in packaging conveys to me the amount of effort that was put into the whole of the product. Not just the coding, but other things like support, interface design, etc... It's possible that this might cause me to misjudge a product. Oh well, their loss. Most of the stuff I use is Open Source anyway, and in those cases there usually isn't any cover-art to speak of.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
The bottom line is that the RIAA is not "Big Brother". The only reason they're going to bring a suit against someone is if that person is doing something illegal. If they are doing something illegal, then they probably deserve the charges. They don't need protection. Piracy is illegal, plan and simple.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
This is just as dumb as the first post. Sometimes you people get a little too into this whole KDE vs. Gnome war. It's not really a competition.
Do you think RedHat wants KDE to fail? Not a chance. That's crazy. They might want to see Corel/Caldera's distros go under, but not at the cost of a very popular window manager. Moreover, if KDE did miraculously disappear, Corel & Caldera could just pick up Gnome. Wouldn't cost them anything and it wouldn't have the slightest effect on RedHat.
You really don't get the whole "Open Source" idea, do you? It's not about competition. It's about good software.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
RedHat is investing into Mozilla so that they'll get a great browser for their flagship product, not to hurt Konquerer. I'm sure RedHat wants Konquerer to suceed just as much. Where do people like you come from, anyway??
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Having said that, I think RedHat probably could have found a more worthwhile project to shell out cash to. Oh well, it's their money, not mine :-)
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