It is strange how oftentimes the air speaks. We are sane as long as we hear voices where there are none. We are insane when we hear nothing, and worse, we are Indeed.... a most interesting observation.
Of course, hearing nothing when we are "hearing" something could be attributed to deafness...
Plus, you have to wonder what all PC World (or whoever tested it) was doing with the laptop while it was running of the glorious "little" battery.. i.e., running CD, DVD, etc. versus just playing FreeCell or xboing.
What a shame for a good company that's been with the PC market since the earliest days. Why then, if the company was so good/so long standing, is it having such woes that it has to close up shop?
but i'd also like to add that it should be about time that people see that Compaq's aren't that good.. at least in my feeble opinion. Then again, put linux on it, and the world's a better place.;-)
they probably couldn't possibly do that because, as computers are so important/popular/fun today, the position of being the first computer is/would be such an honor that they'll probably always fight for it, unless/until it can be proven who actually was the first..
Although, if I could code a really cool game (i.e., really cool to me)/get it to work/etc... I'd be happy enough with just that. But I can see where, when one is trying to make a living out of coding games and doesn't get very far..well, it'd be discouraging (as the article related). but then, I think i'd do just what he said he might do.. switch to a different source of income, and code for fun. that way, your work is appreciated more, by you, the OSS community, etc..
yes, indeed... what do they do now anyway? I just remember them doing the old turbo c/c++/pascal thing.. (I remember/. posting a link to their site where they gave it away for free now) but I'm wondering what their purpose really is.
Well, if this happens, either everyone will start using open source software because it becomes easy to disable any gov't backdoor nonsense (A warrant doesn't do any good without the means to enter...), or it will soon become illegal to run Linux on a PC without government authorization. Or, not.. because I'm thinking the government can't do that.
Then again, if they tried, we'd just switch to another OS, taking Linux with us with a new name.. I mean, for pete's sake, we're talking about the government here. Like they have any clue as to what's going on. It would be too formidable of a task for them to attempt to implement such a regulation, if one such was made.
next thing you know, whichever computer manufacturing company was the first to think up the infamous beige box/tower will sue all the other companies for the same thing.
or, even better, apple will sue HP for selling their towers with the translucent plastic on the front found here. I've seen 'em closer up in stores, of course (and as I know that others have as well..)
anyway, my take is, "spare us the agony!" It's so childish of apple to be doing this. if somebody wanted an apple that bad, they'd go out and buy themselves one. sheesh!
Interesting, I must say... Hence, the people in the discipline become pretty handy with computers and analysis. All in all, astronomical research provides one of the best returns on the federal dollar invested in academic research. Of course, don't tell the government this. Of course, I'll add my $0.01 worth: I think it's great that such innovative, ingeniutive, inventive, etc. people exist. Now, if only the government'd start cutting budgets in other areas, maybe some of those slackers would be forced to actually start thinking a bit.
Then again, I realize that many of you may find that extremist, in which case I'd advise you, and the rest of the "population at large" to ignore me.
another 15 or so to get it back up again, after the 30 it takes to run it go off and play on their Linux/Mac/BeOS/etc. boxes and wait for the inevitable to happen.
That sounds good... and if they do that, they should start vamping up adverts on PowerPC. Those things need to get out there more (I want one): Someone made a good point that, as much as PowerPC has advantages over x86 -- less heat production & energy consumption, greater integer floating point and soon vector processing, etc. -- PowerPC still lacks a good optomizing compiler (at least on Linux). As opposed to that Cyrix I've got..... ugh
I personally _love_ afterstep (although right now I run KDE..). Windows' GUI isn't so userfriendly, it's just that large numbers of people have been working with Windows for so long that they're used to the GUI. For pete's sake, if you'd been working with Blackbox, Afterstep, WindowMaker, etc, for all of your "computing life," you'd say it/they were userfriendly too! It's a matter of what you like, and how bad you're willing to get used to it, and how much you actually use whatever it is you're using so that you get more and more acquainted with it.
Slashdot Mirror
It is strange how oftentimes the air speaks. We are sane as long as we hear voices where there are none. We are insane when we hear nothing, and worse, we are
Indeed.... a most interesting observation.
Of course, hearing nothing when we are "hearing" something could be attributed to deafness...
so, it encrypts keys.. hmmm
well, that sounds pretty cool. wonder why no one thought of this before
mwahaha...
I wonder, then, what error msgs in Windows sound like when broadcast.. or those infamous Blue Screens of Death.
hmmmmm..
I'm still puzzling over how this guy could be churning out wills, etc. on this thing.. sheesh!
It shoomed on over my head...
Kinda like they were going to make an example of Kevin Mitnik?
Jini in a bottle
make your wish come true
(and power your army!)
Interesting...
Plus, you have to wonder what all PC World (or whoever tested it) was doing with the laptop while it was running of the glorious "little" battery.. i.e., running CD, DVD, etc. versus just playing FreeCell or xboing.
They ought to... I mean, just because Sun/IBM couldn't "do" it, doesn't mean that the rest of the programming community couldn't.
Then again, I can't/don't program, but if I did, I'd help out.
And that, dear friends, is my $0.00002 worth.
What a shame for a good company that's been with the PC market since the earliest days.
Why then, if the company was so good/so long standing, is it having such woes that it has to close up shop?
Tis indeed a sad thing.
indeed.. and life without windows would be heaven indeed....
Amen to that..
;-)
but i'd also like to add that it should be about time that people see that Compaq's aren't that good.. at least in my feeble opinion. Then again, put linux on it, and the world's a better place.
good questions/answers,.. over all
the "may i have your children?" really got me
hoo! what a riot!
they probably couldn't possibly do that because, as computers are so important/popular/fun today, the position of being the first computer is/would be such an honor that they'll probably always fight for it, unless/until it can be proven who actually was the first..
I can imagine so.
Although, if I could code a really cool game (i.e., really cool to me)/get it to work/etc... I'd be happy enough with just that. But I can see where, when one is trying to make a living out of coding games and doesn't get very far..well, it'd be discouraging (as the article related). but then, I think i'd do just what he said he might do.. switch to a different source of income, and code for fun. that way, your work is appreciated more, by you, the OSS community, etc..
indeed, the GIMP screenshot was beautiful.. having never actually seen BeOS, it just looked cool. I'll have to check it out one of these days...
yes, indeed... what do they do now anyway? I just remember them doing the old turbo c/c++/pascal thing.. (I remember /. posting a link to their site where they gave it away for free now) but I'm wondering what their purpose really is.
hmmmm...
perhaps i should check out their page.
Well, if this happens, either everyone will start using open source software because it becomes easy to disable any gov't backdoor nonsense (A warrant doesn't do any good without the means to enter...), or it will soon become illegal to run Linux on a PC without government authorization.
Or, not.. because I'm thinking the government can't do that.
Then again, if they tried, we'd just switch to another OS, taking Linux with us with a new name.. I mean, for pete's sake, we're talking about the government here. Like they have any clue as to what's going on. It would be too formidable of a task for them to attempt to implement such a regulation, if one such was made.
next thing you know, whichever computer manufacturing company was the first to think up the infamous beige box/tower will sue all the other companies for the same thing.
or, even better, apple will sue HP for selling their towers with the translucent plastic on the front found here. I've seen 'em closer up in stores, of course (and as I know that others have as well..)
anyway, my take is, "spare us the agony!" It's so childish of apple to be doing this. if somebody wanted an apple that bad, they'd go out and buy themselves one. sheesh!
I can imagine Beowulf would really rock with this... hee hee hee hee hee... oh the fun we could have!
yay!
Good reigns again!
isn't that a M$ thing?
(I realize that was a dumb/bad question, but... I felt the need to know)
Interesting, I must say... Hence, the people in the discipline become pretty handy with computers and analysis. All in all, astronomical research provides one of the best returns on the federal dollar invested in academic research. Of course, don't tell the government this. Of course, I'll add my $0.01 worth: I think it's great that such innovative, ingeniutive, inventive, etc. people exist. Now, if only the government'd start cutting budgets in other areas, maybe some of those slackers would be forced to actually start thinking a bit.
Then again, I realize that many of you may find that extremist, in which case I'd advise you, and the rest of the "population at large" to ignore me.
I'm finished now. Thank you for your time.
another 15 or so to get it back up again, after the 30 it takes to run it go off and play on their Linux/Mac/BeOS/etc. boxes and wait for the inevitable to happen.
muahaha!
gcc optimizations on LinuxPowerPC anyone? :)
That sounds good... and if they do that, they should start vamping up adverts on PowerPC. Those things need to get out there more (I want one):
Someone made a good point that, as much as PowerPC has advantages over x86 -- less heat production & energy consumption, greater integer floating point and soon vector processing, etc. -- PowerPC still lacks a good optomizing compiler (at least on Linux).
As opposed to that Cyrix I've got..... ugh
windows' GUI.. ugh!
I personally _love_ afterstep (although right now I run KDE..). Windows' GUI isn't so userfriendly, it's just that large numbers of people have been working with Windows for so long that they're used to the GUI. For pete's sake, if you'd been working with Blackbox, Afterstep, WindowMaker, etc, for all of your "computing life," you'd say it/they were userfriendly too! It's a matter of what you like, and how bad you're willing to get used to it, and how much you actually use whatever it is you're using so that you get more and more acquainted with it.