They'd have to be running MacOS 10 to make that claim. This appears to be running OS IX. So it's sorta like a cluster of Windows 3.1 machines (running on 286s- i.e. not in '386 enhanced mode').
Lifestyle Weapon? A.I.D.S.?
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It's never seemed that plausible to me, but there are definitely conspiracy theory pundits out there who claim that A.I.D.S. is a 'lifestyle weapon' purposefully released.
I'd like Ask Slashdot articles to be about software and hardware development. Like a discussion of 'How to Build Embedded Controllers out of salvaged 486 motherboards' and stuff like that. I'm sorry, I'm tired of the whining that the web gravy train has run off its rails. This is a geek site, and geeks don't wear neckties. Geeks keep the sponge for their soldering iron wet and/or hack code.
I'm shocked that I had to read this far down the page to find a comment like yours.
I mean, five years ago would anybody online with crediblity be granting sympathy to people crying because they weren't getting their check for posting advertising on their website?? Spam is spam, as far as I'm concerned. Yes, I know that doesn't jive with your 'business model.' O well.
Hormel makes many other products. They even have (or used to have) a product that came in a can labelled 'Potted Meat Food Product.' It was MUCH WORSE than Spam! I remember trying to get rid of it by feeding it to a stray cat. The cat wouldn't have anything to do with it.
You're right. 'Email setups' can cost companies millions of dollars. Particularly when they let the clueless junior employees futz around and pick the one they 'prefer' instead of implementing a company-wide standard.
Plus, it gets the clueless junior employees to wave their arms vigorously in fury that they can't pick their own desktop theme and a skinnable email client. This makes it easier to identify and fire them. Believe me, the most creative and productive employee is the one who focuses on the job, not on what screen saver his PC is running.
Corel Office for Java wasn't vapourware either. I still have a copy of that tucked away on a CD-ROM somewhere.
I even dug it out and tried it a few months ago, on a fast Windows 2000 machine. It's quite responsive on today's hardware. However, it won't print, the file formats are only psuedo-standard, etc. In other words, it's not worth much for anything. Kinda like the Nautilus file manager, which isn't vaporware either.
In other words, maybe they ripped off the Venture Capitalists, sullied the reputation of Open Source to the VC community, and didn't even come out with a final product that's useful. Hope they paid themselves well in the process....
Use them as controllers, as you originally proposed.
Yank out the BIOS. Write your own code in Assembler that talks directly to the hardware. Don't bother plugging I/O cards in, use the buffers for the ISA bus as I/O ports.
Depending on what sort of motherboards you have, it should work fine. I know that back in the day I could do chip-level troubleshooting of any XT-clone motherboard using a schematic from any other XT-clone motherboard. They all used exactly the same circuit back then (before chipsets), all the way to the IC placements.
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I use Eudora for all my personal email at home. I've simply set up a 'Friends and Family' mailbox, as well as mailboxes for the various interests (i.e. NetBSD-Sparc list, Comp.Risks list, Federalist list, eBay correspondence, etc.). I set up filters so that everything gets sorted into the proper mailboxes upon recipt. That way the only thing that lands in the default 'In' box is material for which I haven't set up a filter yet, and Spam.
Naziism was kind of a 'New Age' movement. They thought of themselves as the truly modern people. They rose to power in part because the Nazi movement grasped the power of modernism (modern means of mass communications and control) and used technology effectively. There was also an 'Occult' side to the Nazi movement which sometimes gets mention, though usually out of the mainstream.
The Nazis thought they were transcending history, bringing on a new age of man. Similarly, Communists make this kind of claim. I wouldn't say they are the same thing, though.
The difference is that people who use Microsoft are relying on a big anarchic corporation to review their code. Anybody who tries to slip something in that shouldn't be there will be narked on by someone else who wants a raise for doing so.
You're instead using OpenBSD, a project run by a few individuals in a more laid-back fashion. The head of said project is a well known Usenet troll with a major chip on his shoulder, who was thrown out of the NetBSD Project for his bad behavior.
I burn a lot of VCDs lately, but I'm definitely not interested in this drive. I went out and got a set-top DVD player that I was certain could play back from regular CDR media and also CDRW media. It would be worthless for this kind of disk. All the regular CD drives I use read regular 650 or 700 MB disks that I can burn.
Sorry, this reeks of proprietary. It'll die the way 2.88 MB floppy disks died. Good riddance.
Like where he makes fun of the notion of 'news' and the constant obsession of many people to know what the 'news' is from some place far away from themselves. He goes on and on about this in a fairly enlightened way that's refreshing.
In other words, in Thoreau's perfect world, we wouldn't even know about this wretched little kid.
You're right. Two hundred and fourty-seven different 'clones' out there, all with hardware variations, will lead to an excellent robust game platform. Game developers can write code tuned to specific hardware like on all the other successful game platforms.
You're right. We should just go back to using Vaxen. We could roll things back even farther, but the PDP-11 is far too old to be of use, so we'll only go back to the VAX.
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due to the fact that the PPC7400 has an Altivec unit it is much faster than any comparable Intel processor.
I thought it was because of the translucent case. Oh, and the 'Industrial Design' (or has that buzz phrase gone out of style now?)
They'd have to be running MacOS 10 to make that claim. This appears to be running OS IX. So it's sorta like a cluster of Windows 3.1 machines (running on 286s- i.e. not in '386 enhanced mode').
Stallman wanted it to be called lignux.
It's never seemed that plausible to me, but there are definitely conspiracy theory pundits out there who claim that A.I.D.S. is a 'lifestyle weapon' purposefully released.
I'd like Ask Slashdot articles to be about software and hardware development. Like a discussion of 'How to Build Embedded Controllers out of salvaged 486 motherboards' and stuff like that. I'm sorry, I'm tired of the whining that the web gravy train has run off its rails. This is a geek site, and geeks don't wear neckties. Geeks keep the sponge for their soldering iron wet and/or hack code.
I'm shocked that I had to read this far down the page to find a comment like yours.
I mean, five years ago would anybody online with crediblity be granting sympathy to people crying because they weren't getting their check for posting advertising on their website?? Spam is spam, as far as I'm concerned. Yes, I know that doesn't jive with your 'business model.' O well.
Hormel makes many other products. They even have (or used to have) a product that came in a can labelled 'Potted Meat Food Product.' It was MUCH WORSE than Spam! I remember trying to get rid of it by feeding it to a stray cat. The cat wouldn't have anything to do with it.
You're right. 'Email setups' can cost companies millions of dollars. Particularly when they let the clueless junior employees futz around and pick the one they 'prefer' instead of implementing a company-wide standard.
Plus, it gets the clueless junior employees to wave their arms vigorously in fury that they can't pick their own desktop theme and a skinnable email client. This makes it easier to identify and fire them. Believe me, the most creative and productive employee is the one who focuses on the job, not on what screen saver his PC is running.
Corel Office for Java wasn't vapourware either. I still have a copy of that tucked away on a CD-ROM somewhere.
I even dug it out and tried it a few months ago, on a fast Windows 2000 machine. It's quite responsive on today's hardware. However, it won't print, the file formats are only psuedo-standard, etc. In other words, it's not worth much for anything. Kinda like the Nautilus file manager, which isn't vaporware either.
In other words, maybe they ripped off the Venture Capitalists, sullied the reputation of Open Source to the VC community, and didn't even come out with a final product that's useful. Hope they paid themselves well in the process....
Yeah! Sock it to 'the man', etc. etc.
Software can be released under the GPL with the copyright ownership being retained by an individual or corporation. I thought everybody knew that...
Use them as controllers, as you originally proposed.
Yank out the BIOS. Write your own code in Assembler that talks directly to the hardware. Don't bother plugging I/O cards in, use the buffers for the ISA bus as I/O ports.
Depending on what sort of motherboards you have, it should work fine. I know that back in the day I could do chip-level troubleshooting of any XT-clone motherboard using a schematic from any other XT-clone motherboard. They all used exactly the same circuit back then (before chipsets), all the way to the IC placements.
I use Eudora for all my personal email at home. I've simply set up a 'Friends and Family' mailbox, as well as mailboxes for the various interests (i.e. NetBSD-Sparc list, Comp.Risks list, Federalist list, eBay correspondence, etc.). I set up filters so that everything gets sorted into the proper mailboxes upon recipt. That way the only thing that lands in the default 'In' box is material for which I haven't set up a filter yet, and Spam.
Malda using PS/2 where he should use PS2 isn't a spelling problem. It's an ignorance problem.
Naziism was kind of a 'New Age' movement. They thought of themselves as the truly modern people. They rose to power in part because the Nazi movement grasped the power of modernism (modern means of mass communications and control) and used technology effectively. There was also an 'Occult' side to the Nazi movement which sometimes gets mention, though usually out of the mainstream.
The Nazis thought they were transcending history, bringing on a new age of man. Similarly, Communists make this kind of claim. I wouldn't say they are the same thing, though.
When it's supported by enough multiple vendors it will cease to be proprietary.
A bunch of stiffs from academia can set up all the 'standards' they want. It's still just another zip disk if only one vendor supports it.
IOW: we'll see how it fares in the market.
The difference is that people who use Microsoft are relying on a big anarchic corporation to review their code. Anybody who tries to slip something in that shouldn't be there will be narked on by someone else who wants a raise for doing so.
You're instead using OpenBSD, a project run by a few individuals in a more laid-back fashion. The head of said project is a well known Usenet troll with a major chip on his shoulder, who was thrown out of the NetBSD Project for his bad behavior.
Yeah, you've made the right choice. Uh-huh.
I burn a lot of VCDs lately, but I'm definitely not interested in this drive. I went out and got a set-top DVD player that I was certain could play back from regular CDR media and also CDRW media. It would be worthless for this kind of disk. All the regular CD drives I use read regular 650 or 700 MB disks that I can burn.
Sorry, this reeks of proprietary. It'll die the way 2.88 MB floppy disks died. Good riddance.
I don't think she was particularly greedy.
She was a successful writer, earned a substantial amount of money, and was able to continue to explore and spread her ideas widely.
I'm not sure what that has to do with greed.
I like some of the other parts of Thoreau.
Like where he makes fun of the notion of 'news' and the constant obsession of many people to know what the 'news' is from some place far away from themselves. He goes on and on about this in a fairly enlightened way that's refreshing.
In other words, in Thoreau's perfect world, we wouldn't even know about this wretched little kid.
You're right. Two hundred and fourty-seven different 'clones' out there, all with hardware variations, will lead to an excellent robust game platform. Game developers can write code tuned to specific hardware like on all the other successful game platforms.
Oh, wait....
I would pay at least a certain amount of money to have a Koules console game. It's really the best Linux game there is, in my humble opinion.
You're right. We should just go back to using Vaxen. We could roll things back even farther, but the PDP-11 is far too old to be of use, so we'll only go back to the VAX.
My school had 2 ASR-33's, a CRT terminal, and a Silent 700. All with acoustic couplers to dial up a time sharing BASIC computer.
For a school with 1800 students.