Just tried it on my sprint PCS phone with slashdot. Seems to work great. It is somewhat problematic getting to data on a site laid out with tables, however, as you usually have to sift through your sidebars before getting to the actual content.
It also mentions that the Display is the intel i810 - Having recently helped set one of theseup with Linux (It was under Mandrake 7.0 on an HP Pavillion 6630) - I can attest to the fact that it is indeed a pain in the ass to do. Intel, to their credit, does document it fairly thoroughly and provide an X server for it (http://support.int el.com/support/graphics/intel810/release_notes_1.h tm).
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You didn't actually read the article, did you?. The Japanese have maglev trains as well. old news. If you had actually read the article, you would have noticed they mention that the whole point is to reduce energy consumption.
The bigest flaw I see with these is that they're still analog. Anyone who has ever used a digital panel (such as the SGI 1600SW) knows the advantage of digital, and its precise positioning of pixels on the screen. This would be crucial to the ability of something like this to function adequately.
NetAddress/USA.net is based here in colorado, and are often the target of spammers en masse (a friend recently checked his mailbox and found 17.5 MEGS of spam. It should also be noted here that NetAddress is also the provider of Netscape's WebMail. This affects a lot of mail.
Interesting how the difference in availability between 4 hours and 65 hours of downtime is a meager.69%. 99.99% availability represents a total downtime of 52 minutes per year, or 8.6 seconds per day.
But think about what those extra 61 hours of downtime will cost you if you're an e-business site.
It's funny how they completely ignore the other players in this little game. IBM and their RS/6000's, AS/400's, and S/390's are definitely significant players in the e-business arena, as are HP. Linux is still up and coming, but I don't expect it will be long before it's a major player.
The fact of the matter is that any IT infrastructure is only as good as the person who designed it. Beyond that, hardware and OS become pretty much irrelevant.
The article repeatedly refers to some mysterious "Nelson". Could it be someone dropped a paragraph or two in the final edit that actually told us who "Nelson" actually is?
you would think there would be enough money to hire a copy editor/proofreader. TO graduate from an ordinary amateur news digest to a credible and profesisonal news site, Slashdot severely needs to do something about spelling and grammar.
This may be an international forum, but the outcome of a US presidential election affects far more than the US, just like the election of a leader in any other politically signficant country, such as the UK, Russia, Israel, and so forth. These people's stances on foreign policy affect the course of history for the entire globe.
I would have to agree with you on that one. Having spent the last 7 years in exile from La Belle Province, this was a delightfully refreshing dose of humour, and it made my morning.
I have heard of some cases locally where a few people went out, got as many credit cards as they could, bought all kinds of stuff, and quit their job in November, "to live life to the fullest" because the world was going to end on January 1st.
It's really going to suck to be them, come January 2nd, when they realize that they now have to pay off $50K in credit card debt with no job.
No, suing is a game played by the broke, in an attempt to get rich without any effort. There are plenty of lawyers out there in the US who will take these cases to court for the paltry sum of 1/3 of the settlement.
It reminds me of that guy who sued Toshiba over the non-critical bug in the floppy drive firmware, and then went after 5 other companies when he won. He made that lawyer and his firm rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Let's face it, consumers don't benefit from these suits, the only ones who do are the lawyers and the people who sell things to lawyers. Like the Lexus dealers and the real estate agents who sell them houses big enough to fit their inflated ego.
I would have to agree on the X-cargo name. That was carefully thought up by someone with a sick sense of humour. We need more X-cargos (X-cargots?) and less Itania. Itaniums. whatever.
This is a good attempt on the part of Jane's. While there are some editing gaffes, overall, it does a splendid job of getting the point across to the folks that aren't in the industry. One finds, of course, in the slashdot comments, a lot of whiners pissing and moaning about the writing, the vast majority of whom have enough trouble putting together a complete sentence on their own. Get a clue, guys, you're only perpetuating the stereotype that slashdot readers are a bunch of whiners.
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I would tend to agree with you on the accountability issue. Lot of people out there on the net running around doing stuff they'd never dream of doing in person because they'd get their asses kicked, because they're completely unaccountable for their actions.
I also agree with the other poster who suggested a requirement be to be able to speak in at least one language (lot of people can't even meet that basic requirement - see the AOL bit).
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Just tried it on my sprint PCS phone with slashdot. Seems to work great. It is somewhat problematic getting to data on a site laid out with tables, however, as you usually have to sift through your sidebars before getting to the actual content.
It also mentions that the Display is the intel i810 - Having recently helped set one of theseup with Linux (It was under Mandrake 7.0 on an HP Pavillion 6630) - I can attest to the fact that it is indeed a pain in the ass to do. Intel, to their credit, does document it fairly thoroughly and provide an X server for it (http://support.int el.com/support/graphics/intel810/release_notes_1.h tm).
You didn't actually read the article, did you?. The Japanese have maglev trains as well. old news. If you had actually read the article, you would have noticed they mention that the whole point is to reduce energy consumption.
The bigest flaw I see with these is that they're still analog. Anyone who has ever used a digital panel (such as the SGI 1600SW) knows the advantage of digital, and its precise positioning of pixels on the screen. This would be crucial to the ability of something like this to function adequately.
This has been featured on slashdot at least once.. maybe even Twice.
NetAddress/USA.net is based here in colorado, and are often the target of spammers en masse (a friend recently checked his mailbox and found 17.5 MEGS of spam. It should also be noted here that NetAddress is also the provider of Netscape's WebMail. This affects a lot of mail.
Interesting that The Matrix got not one, but four nominations, all in the technical awards (the way it should be).
Interesting how the difference in availability between 4 hours and 65 hours of downtime is a meager .69%. 99.99% availability represents a total downtime of 52 minutes per year, or 8.6 seconds per day.
But think about what those extra 61 hours of downtime will cost you if you're an e-business site.
It's funny how they completely ignore the other players in this little game. IBM and their RS/6000's, AS/400's, and S/390's are definitely significant players in the e-business arena, as are HP. Linux is still up and coming, but I don't expect it will be long before it's a major player.
The fact of the matter is that any IT infrastructure is only as good as the person who designed it. Beyond that, hardware and OS become pretty much irrelevant.
This thing has been around for at least a decade. Hardly new.
The article repeatedly refers to some mysterious "Nelson". Could it be someone dropped a paragraph or two in the final edit that actually told us who "Nelson" actually is?
Augh! I've been spending too much time on IRC! s/Lot's/Lots.
I saw that and almost fell out of my chair laughing. Lot's of subtle and not-so-subtle references to late 20th-century pop culture in this one.
you would think there would be enough money to hire a copy editor/proofreader. TO graduate from an ordinary amateur news digest to a credible and profesisonal news site, Slashdot severely needs to do something about spelling and grammar.
This is old news. There has been a YETI@Home at evilinternet.com since mid-1999.
This may be an international forum, but the outcome of a US presidential election affects far more than the US, just like the election of a leader in any other politically signficant country, such as the UK, Russia, Israel, and so forth. These people's stances on foreign policy affect the course of history for the entire globe.
I would have to agree with you on that one. Having spent the last 7 years in exile from La Belle Province, this was a delightfully refreshing dose of humour, and it made my morning.
Yahoo needs to get a clue.
well, this is more like stuffing a rag in your sibling's mouth and taping it shut with duct tape and *then* ignoring them :)
The marketing drivel on the page says that this thing is "An Exciting Concept"...
Um, is it just a concept, or is it an actual real product?.
I also noticed it's running 2.0. Shouldn't they try something a little more recent? Most of the kinks have been ironed out of 2.2.
In the U.S., judges are elected officials. Next time there's one on the ballot, make sure you ask them what their position is on frivolous lawsuits.
As for taking care of the problem, Shakespeare had it right when he recommended killing all the lawyers.
I have heard of some cases locally where a few people went out, got as many credit cards as they could, bought all kinds of stuff, and quit their job in November, "to live life to the fullest" because the world was going to end on January 1st.
It's really going to suck to be them, come January 2nd, when they realize that they now have to pay off $50K in credit card debt with no job.
No, suing is a game played by the broke, in an attempt to get rich without any effort. There are plenty of lawyers out there in the US who will take these cases to court for the paltry sum of 1/3 of the settlement.
It reminds me of that guy who sued Toshiba over the non-critical bug in the floppy drive firmware, and then went after 5 other companies when he won. He made that lawyer and his firm rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Let's face it, consumers don't benefit from these suits, the only ones who do are the lawyers and the people who sell things to lawyers. Like the Lexus dealers and the real estate agents who sell them houses big enough to fit their inflated ego.
I would have to agree on the X-cargo name. That was carefully thought up by someone with a sick sense of humour. We need more X-cargos (X-cargots?) and less Itania. Itaniums. whatever.
This is a good attempt on the part of Jane's. While there are some editing gaffes, overall, it does a splendid job of getting the point across to the folks that aren't in the industry. One finds, of course, in the slashdot comments, a lot of whiners pissing and moaning about the writing, the vast majority of whom have enough trouble putting together a complete sentence on their own. Get a clue, guys, you're only perpetuating the stereotype that slashdot readers are a bunch of whiners.
I would tend to agree with you on the accountability issue. Lot of people out there on the net running around doing stuff they'd never dream of doing in person because they'd get their asses kicked, because they're completely unaccountable for their actions.
I also agree with the other poster who suggested a requirement be to be able to speak in at least one language (lot of people can't even meet that basic requirement - see the AOL bit).