This is a laptop man...if you find a laptop that has more than that, I want to see it! cause a) that has got to be small fonts or b) that's gotta be one big screen.
Remember, with LCDs, the resolution is proportionate to the screen size. On most in fact, the viewable screen area shrinks with the resolution...
I agree...a switch half-way through is just STUPID! But assuming they test on both platforms each step of the way it isn't necesarilly going to go ka-blooey...the problem is testing...it's got to be thoroughly tested on a dummy system during it's 12 months with NT.
Luckily we're just dealing with NT and unix hear, no win 9x...err that's what I understand.:-)
Cross-platform for unix, win 9x and nt would be hell on earth! I'd probably shoot myself rather than take the job.:-)
While I'd agree for portability, Java is probably the best...especially since it technically won't require a recompile (although native code java compilers do exist...thank God) but speed without using a native-code compiler (which they probably won't since it'd kill the whole portability thing...however I do not know that for sure...i'm not to java savvy) will jsut utterly suck!
Bwahahaha! that's probably true! Unfortunately,my GF at the time didn't think to highly of a guy with long finger nails...not to mention t
hey get in the way of my guitar playing!:-)
I wish to God there was standard laptop parts like desktop parts, but the fact of the matter is: there isn't!
Not to mention that putting a laptop together is a general bitch! I once, when I was working as a computer technician recently, was asked to replace the bios battery in a laptop. The manufacturer said it was doable so I made my attempt...I never even got as far as the battery...I couldn't get the case completely off. Hahaha...putting it back together was even more fun.
It'd be a good idea if the parts were standard, but they aren't...no where near it!
If it is anything like the GeForce 2 Go, it'll be 6 months before who see a laptop with this in it, and I will actually bet it's longers. The Turn around time with laptops and new hardware is longer, because laptops are tpyically used by business users, not gamers, and they simply do not purchase a new laptop every year. I think NVidia will find that their 6 month turn around time on new products won't work quite as well. I hope I'm wrong though, even though this makes my GeForce 2 Go outdated!:-) I'll give them this though, if it's as fast as the specs make it seem: just damn! The GeForce 2 Go is unbelievably fast for a laptop, and it sounds like they have some dvd decoder functions built-in, which is something most laptops need but lack, especially if one could output the dvd playing to the tv-out independant of the LCD output (possible, but not the greatest method, via twinview.)
I'm still trying to figure out who exactly uses Hurd??? The microkernel stuff is very interesting, but who is using it? What's it's device compatibility? binary compatibility? I think the idea of servers having no privies is interesting, if definitely provides for a better security model, but how many NICs does it work with? I see that it has linux driver compatibiltiy glue but that still doesn't mean it works with all of the drivers...all in all, it is probably a great server platform but for desktops/workstations, is doesn't sound to hot. At least that is my take/opinion on it. I've not actually used it, so my opinion is worth a grain of salt, but hey...think what you want.
They are doing what they have to do to make a buck. You can't fault them. Most software would be developed better in the open enviroment, but if that is your only method of distribution, you most likely wont make money. I disagree with one fellow's comment on giving away IP however. IP has a pretty broad definition, and to many companies it means generally anything that can't be reverse engineered. Like NVIDIA and their chips...there really isn't much we can learn from the source to their drivers except how the drivers work and how to program the card...yet the stuff that being stolen would hurt them, such as how the GPUs work can be reverse engineered.
Now how would NVIDIA lose money by giving us the programming spec? Maybe I'm wrong about learning about the GPU from the driver ( I doubt I am ) but even so the chips can still be reverse engineered...hell they tell us how they work, all we are missing in the schematic!:-)
Okay first, comments about this being a typical memo are right on. Big companies send stuff like this out all the time.
But also, this is Microsoft, they have been saying that Linux is the threat for years!
I failed to see what is new or news about this honestly? I mean, we already know corporations send out memos like this, and we already know they regard linux as the threat for years.
I thought the comment of Bill Gates that he created Open-Source (err the enviroment in which it can thrive) and that open-source users and programmers are all communists, was much more interesting. It's also on The Register for those of you who don't mind hunting - sorry I don't have the URL on me!:-)
Aaaah, IRC, I used to hang-out on UnDeRnEt back in the day, I was the guy who started #pascal and got X/W into the channel at the time. Hung-out in #C++ alot also. Err I did until I got banned for insulting one of the Ops rather harshly. That was fun back then...I think I'll have to stop by OPN...I have once for help witht he DXR3 drivers...very useful network.
I agree. Commercial software has a place, and RMS needs to understand that. The lack of commercial software for linux is what keeps it a niche (server and special use I mean) operating system rather than a desktop OS.
I'm not going to be one of the voters, but if I were, he would not get my vote. He has no business being there, and even his paragraph long biography shows his egotism.
He needs to get a grip on the reality that commercialism can be good, and that he isn't the king of open-source and needs to lay off stupid stuff like Linux should be referred to as GNU/Linux...I mean really, Linux is the kernel, that fact that gnu tools are used for the kernel's compilation means very little in the naming scheme.
The labels will eventually find out that their lovely little method has backfired on them, when one or all of the following happen: the encryption is cracked, people stop buying the music, or people start copy and selling the copies of the cds with cracked encryption.
No matter what happens though, the results will not be good for the labels-which is good fo rus as consumers usually-however on the interim, it will bite consumers in the rear, because we'll have to deal with these "corrupted" cds.
I can already see one way to copy them: go out of a device with an S/PDIF output, into the S/PDIF input on your Sound Blaster Live. The recording should (this is in theory and assuming the encryption doesn't pass through on the digital output whihc I don't see how it could) be flawless. You have a working rip then, which you can record to a CD-R and play on your computer or other similar devices.
I agree, design with those two is a big issue...i'd say particularly more so with XFree86...In a way with the networking ideas behind XFree86 it makes sense for the purpose but when it's just on your desktop machine...wtf? Err am I making sense?
You didn't spell it correctly, and that's my middlename, which I don't use. I see you like to hold a grudge. That's unhealthy you know...
Why the grudge by the way? If I'm so retarded like you say, why don't you just ignore me? Oh that's because I'm right and you're not and you don't like that. Get a life, please.
No, I didn't say they were stupid, I said they don't have the technical ability to do the deed...most don't anyhow. I've no trouble getting loans by the way, nor am I a future college drop-out...I'm doing very well in college thank you. Nor do I work at a McDonald. I don't need to pay rent, because hey I can live at home with my folks for free. Nor do I bounce checks, and my credit card is paid off at the end of every month thank you.
Bank managers are very intelligent people, but being intelligent does not mean one has technical ability. I doubt Einstein could very easily use a computer, being that he'd never seen one and doesn't know how to use it. Read the context before you post something like that and before insulting someone else.
I think I can agree from experience! haha! Not in development but in my past work as a technician...having the boss ride on me to speed up would slow me down!:-)
Most speed loss is via applications, not the kernel. This compiler can most definitely help out in that area. Mozilla and XFree86 are two that I bet could get a nice boost from it!
Okay, some vulnerabilities might be difficult to get fixed in a couple of days...but with a team of programmers as large as they have...months is quite a stretch...they still have God knows how many vulnerabilities in NT 4 that have been known for some time! The linux folks can patch stuff rather quickly with a fraction of microsoft's financial and wetware resources. Show me the problem.
I wish our local High Schools here in Georgia would give system administrative stuff to students, the networks might run better. The schools in my locale, do not even teach computer-science! Luckily, I didn't have to go to public high school and had the time to teach myself everything I wanted to know - as a result I'm yet to even attend my first CS course in college except for the exams. Whereas many of the people I know who were in larger schools who took AP Computer Science struggle. Sad.
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This is a laptop man...if you find a laptop that has more than that, I want to see it! cause a) that has got to be small fonts or b) that's gotta be one big screen.
Remember, with LCDs, the resolution is proportionate to the screen size. On most in fact, the viewable screen area shrinks with the resolution...
1024x768 is standard if not really good!
I agree...a switch half-way through is just STUPID! But assuming they test on both platforms each step of the way it isn't necesarilly going to go ka-blooey...the problem is testing...it's got to be thoroughly tested on a dummy system during it's 12 months with NT.
Except it's not their descision is it? Remember, they were _commissioned_ to do it...they don't have the choice.
Luckily we're just dealing with NT and unix hear, no win 9x...err that's what I understand. :-)
:-)
Cross-platform for unix, win 9x and nt would be hell on earth! I'd probably shoot myself rather than take the job.
While I'd agree for portability, Java is probably the best...especially since it technically won't require a recompile (although native code java compilers do exist...thank God) but speed without using a native-code compiler (which they probably won't since it'd kill the whole portability thing...however I do not know that for sure...i'm not to java savvy) will jsut utterly suck!
Aren't some of the 64bit pci buses capable of 66mhz???
Funny? More like informative or insightful!
Bwahahaha! that's probably true! Unfortunately,my GF at the time didn't think to highly of a guy with long finger nails...not to mention t :-)
hey get in the way of my guitar playing!
I wish to God there was standard laptop parts like desktop parts, but the fact of the matter is: there isn't!
Not to mention that putting a laptop together is a general bitch! I once, when I was working as a computer technician recently, was asked to replace the bios battery in a laptop. The manufacturer said it was doable so I made my attempt...I never even got as far as the battery...I couldn't get the case completely off. Hahaha...putting it back together was even more fun.
It'd be a good idea if the parts were standard, but they aren't...no where near it!
If it is anything like the GeForce 2 Go, it'll be 6 months before who see a laptop with this in it, and I will actually bet it's longers. The Turn around time with laptops and new hardware is longer, because laptops are tpyically used by business users, not gamers, and they simply do not purchase a new laptop every year. I think NVidia will find that their 6 month turn around time on new products won't work quite as well. I hope I'm wrong though, even though this makes my GeForce 2 Go outdated! :-) I'll give them this though, if it's as fast as the specs make it seem: just damn! The GeForce 2 Go is unbelievably fast for a laptop, and it sounds like they have some dvd decoder functions built-in, which is something most laptops need but lack, especially if one could output the dvd playing to the tv-out independant of the LCD output (possible, but not the greatest method, via twinview.)
I'm still trying to figure out who exactly uses Hurd??? The microkernel stuff is very interesting, but who is using it? What's it's device compatibility? binary compatibility? I think the idea of servers having no privies is interesting, if definitely provides for a better security model, but how many NICs does it work with? I see that it has linux driver compatibiltiy glue but that still doesn't mean it works with all of the drivers...all in all, it is probably a great server platform but for desktops/workstations, is doesn't sound to hot. At least that is my take/opinion on it. I've not actually used it, so my opinion is worth a grain of salt, but hey...think what you want.
They are doing what they have to do to make a buck. You can't fault them. Most software would be developed better in the open enviroment, but if that is your only method of distribution, you most likely wont make money. I disagree with one fellow's comment on giving away IP however. IP has a pretty broad definition, and to many companies it means generally anything that can't be reverse engineered. Like NVIDIA and their chips...there really isn't much we can learn from the source to their drivers except how the drivers work and how to program the card...yet the stuff that being stolen would hurt them, such as how the GPUs work can be reverse engineered. :-)
Now how would NVIDIA lose money by giving us the programming spec? Maybe I'm wrong about learning about the GPU from the driver ( I doubt I am ) but even so the chips can still be reverse engineered...hell they tell us how they work, all we are missing in the schematic!
If you think that, you didn't read the article I'm referring too. Not using the word communist, does not mean he didn't call us communists.
Okay first, comments about this being a typical memo are right on. Big companies send stuff like this out all the time.
But also, this is Microsoft, they have been saying that Linux is the threat for years!
I failed to see what is new or news about this honestly? I mean, we already know corporations send out memos like this, and we already know they regard linux as the threat for years.
I thought the comment of Bill Gates that he created Open-Source (err the enviroment in which it can thrive) and that open-source users and programmers are all communists, was much more interesting. It's also on The Register for those of you who don't mind hunting - sorry I don't have the URL on me! :-)
*thinks to himself...how is commenting on the usefulness of OPN offtopic?*
Aaaah, IRC, I used to hang-out on UnDeRnEt back in the day, I was the guy who started #pascal and got X/W into the channel at the time. Hung-out in #C++ alot also. Err I did until I got banned for insulting one of the Ops rather harshly. That was fun back then...I think I'll have to stop by OPN...I have once for help witht he DXR3 drivers...very useful network.
I agree. Commercial software has a place, and RMS needs to understand that. The lack of commercial software for linux is what keeps it a niche (server and special use I mean) operating system rather than a desktop OS.
I'm not going to be one of the voters, but if I were, he would not get my vote. He has no business being there, and even his paragraph long biography shows his egotism.
He needs to get a grip on the reality that commercialism can be good, and that he isn't the king of open-source and needs to lay off stupid stuff like Linux should be referred to as GNU/Linux...I mean really, Linux is the kernel, that fact that gnu tools are used for the kernel's compilation means very little in the naming scheme.
Anyhow...off my soapbox.
If it can be devised, it has a demise.
The labels will eventually find out that their lovely little method has backfired on them, when one or all of the following happen: the encryption is cracked, people stop buying the music, or people start copy and selling the copies of the cds with cracked encryption.
No matter what happens though, the results will not be good for the labels-which is good fo rus as consumers usually-however on the interim, it will bite consumers in the rear, because we'll have to deal with these "corrupted" cds.
I can already see one way to copy them: go out of a device with an S/PDIF output, into the S/PDIF input on your Sound Blaster Live. The recording should (this is in theory and assuming the encryption doesn't pass through on the digital output whihc I don't see how it could) be flawless. You have a working rip then, which you can record to a CD-R and play on your computer or other similar devices.
I agree, design with those two is a big issue...i'd say particularly more so with XFree86...In a way with the networking ideas behind XFree86 it makes sense for the purpose but when it's just on your desktop machine...wtf? Err am I making sense?
You didn't spell it correctly, and that's my middlename, which I don't use. I see you like to hold a grudge. That's unhealthy you know...
Why the grudge by the way? If I'm so retarded like you say, why don't you just ignore me? Oh that's because I'm right and you're not and you don't like that. Get a life, please.
No, I didn't say they were stupid, I said they don't have the technical ability to do the deed...most don't anyhow. I've no trouble getting loans by the way, nor am I a future college drop-out...I'm doing very well in college thank you. Nor do I work at a McDonald. I don't need to pay rent, because hey I can live at home with my folks for free. Nor do I bounce checks, and my credit card is paid off at the end of every month thank you.
Bank managers are very intelligent people, but being intelligent does not mean one has technical ability. I doubt Einstein could very easily use a computer, being that he'd never seen one and doesn't know how to use it. Read the context before you post something like that and before insulting someone else.
I think I can agree from experience! haha! Not in development but in my past work as a technician...having the boss ride on me to speed up would slow me down! :-)
Most speed loss is via applications, not the kernel. This compiler can most definitely help out in that area. Mozilla and XFree86 are two that I bet could get a nice boost from it!
Okay, some vulnerabilities might be difficult to get fixed in a couple of days...but with a team of programmers as large as they have...months is quite a stretch...they still have God knows how many vulnerabilities in NT 4 that have been known for some time! The linux folks can patch stuff rather quickly with a fraction of microsoft's financial and wetware resources. Show me the problem.
I wish our local High Schools here in Georgia would give system administrative stuff to students, the networks might run better. The schools in my locale, do not even teach computer-science! Luckily, I didn't have to go to public high school and had the time to teach myself everything I wanted to know - as a result I'm yet to even attend my first CS course in college except for the exams. Whereas many of the people I know who were in larger schools who took AP Computer Science struggle. Sad.