Okay, any other ex-Spry employees here that, when they see 'ibox,' think 'Internet in a Box'? Yikes. Time for some therapy to re-supress THOSE particular memories...
I can just imagine an IBM computer coming up with that:
"List of Possible Responses: 1) Go away. 2) Fuck you, SCO. 3) IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated."
To MS, $89 million isn't even peanuts. It's a rounding error. Their stock value probably varies more than that every day. That's "walking around money" for Bill.
You may think it's a long way down to the corner drugstore, but that's peanuts compared to space!
Start a rumour about WMD being stashed on Mars. I guarantee you, a manned Mars program gets major funding! But that would be handled through the Father-errr...Homeland Security Agency, not NASA. _Nothing_ is going to get NASA moving again.
What else would get the US gummint on the space train: Oil on Mars! I can't see environmentalists being able to make a big dent in a drilling-on-Mars project.:)
Why is China interested in space? No SARS there. No student protestors, either.
Still, it'll be good to be able to get good Chinese food while in space. They should open up some restaurants at the LaGrange points and the Moon & Mars. General Tso's Space Chicken!:)
You seem to be confused. Jelly Roll Morton is usually considered to be the first Jazz artist, not Blues. My comments about _Blues_ were not related to Jelly Roll.
If you don't have Jelly Roll Morton in your Jazz collection, you don't HAVE a Jazz collection. Jazz can be really excellent at times, but most is pretty bad. If you want really great music, you must acquaint yourself with the Blues.
Gosh, interesting how Apple seems to be able to make a better browser than MS can for their OS that isn't 'embedded' in the OS.;)
It's also faster under the 'slow' OS X than MS's embedded Windows browser is on Windows, and certainly more standards compliant. Though, to be fair, MS's Mac IE was much better than Windows IE. Maybe Apple could hire away MS's Mac IE team.
I *did* laugh out loud at that one. The only thing more amusing would be to see the same quote by the folks who created C++.:) Why Objective-C doesn't get more attention is quite beyond me...
I don't think a mere day is long enough - many people don't even know about it within a day. If the bittorrent is up immediately, then a week for the regular full kernel would work fine.
> people should be only downloading the patch anyway
Yeah, right, and people should be writing in Esperanto on their Dvorak layout keyboards, too, but that's about the same likelihood.
If they _really_ want people to actually use the patches, they should release the patches first, wait about a week, THEN release the full kernels. Evil, I know.:)
True, but, memory speeds seem to be settling on 400MHz for now, and likely won't go much further in official speeds until DDRII (400 & 533MHz specs already, but 2x the bandwidth per pin per clock as DDR I). I don't see a big move to DDR II happening until next year, at the soonest, so I think we're safe for now. The PPC980 is rumoured to have an on-die memory controller, so you probably better just get used to it.:)
Also note, with the Athlon64 & Opteron, you're not forced to use the on-die memory controller if your chipset has one, you can use it. The best of both worlds, though I don't know if the PPC980 will be like that or not (hell, the on-die controller on the PPC980 is still just a rumour).
More importantly for Apple than just DDR 400 is whether they're going to go dual-channel or not, cuz if they're not, they're only going to get 3.2GB/s outta DDR 400, which is half of the FSB of the PPC970. I can see Apple doing that, as they always like to have an FSB bottleneck of some type, for some reason. I hope they do it right with the 970 machines, though.
Don't get too far out, now. The PPC970 isn't expected to be better than an Athlon64 at non-AltiVec tasks. (At least, comparing spec scores would suggest that. Also the Opteron & Athlon64 have an on-die memory controller, which the PPC970 lacks).
I'll be in line for a dual-proc PPC970 PowerMac later this year, for sure, but it's not because I think it'll be the fastest thing on the block. I think the Athlon64 will have that title, though not by much.
I suspect you won't be getting any Opteron notebooks. You'll likely have to wait for a mobile version of the Athlon64 before you'll see that. I'm betting you'll see PPC970 mobiles before Athlon64 mobiles, too. Just a guess, though.
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If that's the kind of thing you did in the dot-com days, you're probably single-handedly responsible for the dot-com collapse.
Bastard.
Okay, any other ex-Spry employees here that, when they see 'ibox,' think 'Internet in a Box'? Yikes. Time for some therapy to re-supress THOSE particular memories...
Consider, then, the 'Technical Architect,' and his grand scheme. Yikes. Probably closer to the mark than one would like.
Oops, I think you're right. :)
> It's the eight version after OS/2
:)
No, this is hex we're talking about - OS/2, OS/3, etc, OS/A, OS/B, and so on. OS/X is _very_ mature!
"Tell me Mr SCO...what good is a lawsuit...if you don't have any money left to pay your lawyers?"
:/
I think the only company that would be scarier to go up against than IBM, would be GE - they have nukes.
"Happy Fun License may stick to certain types of skin."
"SCO...you've been erased."
I can just imagine an IBM computer coming up with that:
"List of Possible Responses:
1) Go away.
2) Fuck you, SCO.
3) IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated."
Run # 2: "I'll be back."
To MS, $89 million isn't even peanuts. It's a rounding error. Their stock value probably varies more than that every day. That's "walking around money" for Bill.
:)
You may think it's a long way down to the corner drugstore, but that's peanuts compared to space!
Err, sorry, flashback there.
Start a rumour about WMD being stashed on Mars. I guarantee you, a manned Mars program gets major funding! But that would be handled through the Father-errr...Homeland Security Agency, not NASA. _Nothing_ is going to get NASA moving again.
:)
:)
What else would get the US gummint on the space train: Oil on Mars! I can't see environmentalists being able to make a big dent in a drilling-on-Mars project.
Why is China interested in space? No SARS there. No student protestors, either.
Still, it'll be good to be able to get good Chinese food while in space. They should open up some restaurants at the LaGrange points and the Moon & Mars. General Tso's Space Chicken!
> No, to please the fans this movie will actually be shot
> on location in the real live Mordor...
Mmm, that would be the North Island of New Zealand, right?
I'll take the South Island, thanks!
I'd rather have some gum. If I had some gum, I'd chew it and chew it and chew it until allll the flavour was gone.
Then I'd spit it out.
You seem to be confused. Jelly Roll Morton is usually considered to be the first Jazz artist, not Blues. My comments about _Blues_ were not related to Jelly Roll.
If you don't have Jelly Roll Morton in your Jazz collection, you don't HAVE a Jazz collection. Jazz can be really excellent at times, but most is pretty bad. If you want really great music, you must acquaint yourself with the Blues.
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Hey, *somebody* has to back up the Internet from time to time!
:)
:)
...or to find Cheney.
Either that, or all the pr0n encoding.
Best...Tivo...*ever*!
Host this thing at an Internap location, and you're the Ultimate LPB.
Searching for "First Posters" for the Homeland Security people to "visit."
SETI client!
"Every room has every movie ever made in any language." Who do you think hosts *that*?
ILM, seeing the second LOTR movie, decides an 'upgrade' is in order for the SW:EP3 render farm.
It takes this much computing power to find WMD in Iraq.
MS compiling Longhorn builds.
Calculating the question for the answer 42.
BitTorrent!
Gosh, interesting how Apple seems to be able to make a better browser than MS can for their OS that isn't 'embedded' in the OS. ;)
It's also faster under the 'slow' OS X than MS's embedded Windows browser is on Windows, and certainly more standards compliant. Though, to be fair, MS's Mac IE was much better than Windows IE. Maybe Apple could hire away MS's Mac IE team.
I *did* laugh out loud at that one. The only thing more amusing would be to see the same quote by the folks who created C++. :) Why Objective-C doesn't get more attention is quite beyond me...
> Dvorak is useful.
:)
> Esperanto sucks.
Okay, then, Interlingua. There _are_ no elegant-looking or -sounding artificial languages because none are based on French. Erm, I mean 'Freedom.'
I don't think a mere day is long enough - many people don't even know about it within a day. If the bittorrent is up immediately, then a week for the regular full kernel would work fine.
> people should be only downloading the patch anyway
:)
Yeah, right, and people should be writing in Esperanto on their Dvorak layout keyboards, too, but that's about the same likelihood.
If they _really_ want people to actually use the patches, they should release the patches first, wait about a week, THEN release the full kernels. Evil, I know.
True, but, memory speeds seem to be settling on 400MHz for now, and likely won't go much further in official speeds until DDRII (400 & 533MHz specs already, but 2x the bandwidth per pin per clock as DDR I). I don't see a big move to DDR II happening until next year, at the soonest, so I think we're safe for now. The PPC980 is rumoured to have an on-die memory controller, so you probably better just get used to it. :)
Also note, with the Athlon64 & Opteron, you're not forced to use the on-die memory controller if your chipset has one, you can use it. The best of both worlds, though I don't know if the PPC980 will be like that or not (hell, the on-die controller on the PPC980 is still just a rumour).
More importantly for Apple than just DDR 400 is whether they're going to go dual-channel or not, cuz if they're not, they're only going to get 3.2GB/s outta DDR 400, which is half of the FSB of the PPC970. I can see Apple doing that, as they always like to have an FSB bottleneck of some type, for some reason. I hope they do it right with the 970 machines, though.
> Forget Opteron notebook, this is much better.
Don't get too far out, now. The PPC970 isn't expected to be better than an Athlon64 at non-AltiVec tasks. (At least, comparing spec scores would suggest that. Also the Opteron & Athlon64 have an on-die memory controller, which the PPC970 lacks).
I'll be in line for a dual-proc PPC970 PowerMac later this year, for sure, but it's not because I think it'll be the fastest thing on the block. I think the Athlon64 will have that title, though not by much.
I suspect you won't be getting any Opteron notebooks. You'll likely have to wait for a mobile version of the Athlon64 before you'll see that. I'm betting you'll see PPC970 mobiles before Athlon64 mobiles, too. Just a guess, though.