I cant work out if you're being sarcastic. You didn't mention running Duke Nukem Forver on it, so I think you may be serious.
And thank you for being the first post to talk about the card and/or article, not spelling or grammar.
In the Article, Mr Miller says he's heard quotes "I'd rather buy a used Rage128 from eBay". When this card becomes available, my Rage128 (Pro Ultra) will be on ebay.co.uk. Just so you can be ready;)
I don't know if it will actually be an upgrade to my system, or a sidegrade, but I think this is like buying Fair Trade goods: those traded to afford a broad selection of producers some of the money thrown around by the rich developed world. I.E. I will buy one because I believe in the principle over (perceived lack of) the features.
...and I'm confident that the tinfoil hat on my head is secure, I'll reconfigure my bootloader to scrub my harddisk if the wrong boot password is entered, add a chip to the drive electronics cable to swap bits back and forth and ensure that the whole thing is encrypted in a way that needs to have the disk in my system, and bolt my system to the floor. I may see if building LCD phased glasses to allow the light from my screen into my eyes at appropriate rates will stop someone leaning over my shoulder.
I'm wondering if having a 512 character signal on a random open port that torches the system would be a good idea: you never know when you will want to ring up the thing from The Outside to make sure my parents don't find my porn. I mean, I'm thirty-seven and an adult, but that would be a bit embarrasing. But I don't go Outside too often and growl at anyone coming near my basement and My Precious.
I had heard that Kyoto was stymied in order to make it acceptable to the US state department.
I unerstand that, here on Slashdot where many US programmers are being and have been outsourced, the next question is the toughest one to ask: can you deliberately limit your status to allow others in the rest of the world to flourish?
I think that, in many ways, all the developed nations can afford to do this, to bless all humanity with the standards of living westerners deem 'decent'. But there is some attitude I keep hearing from USAnians that this is idiotic. I don't think it's idiotic, I believe it will lead to a more peaceful planet and a more balanced world economy. The more diverse the marketplaces, the greater ways to spread risk and gain from investment.
Sorry for my mistake about GWB's response to Kyoto; it has been said that he was going to pursue ratifying it, but then did not, claiming the trees can cope with the CO2 output of the States.
I'm puzzled as to why the American people didn't get their Senators to take a different line; the companies who would have extra costs to their businesses under such a treaty helped themselves and their shareholders by stalling it, whereas the American people will be those who face the effects of this. (And those in other parts of the world either less developed or less prepared to adapt to the demands of climate change will have an even tougher time.)
Greater energy within the earth's system means greater diversity in weather systems. So your record lows and Florida's huge hurricanes last year are a part of this process.
The adaptation we need will involve burning less fossil-based fuels, and preparing the rest of the planet to survive the extremes of weather: Bangladesh floods every year the spring rains and this will get worse, so assistance will be needed to avoid massive loss of life. Adaptation so they survive? If you do something...
Funny that Kyoto got ignored by the States when everyone bent over backwards to accommodate the wishes of the US State department.
And to have Putin's personal economic advisor slander the people who put Russia up to Kyoto, led by Tony Blair, with "bribes, blackmail and murder threats" sounds utterly fictitious (unless they were able the possibility that not making a difference now threatens your livelihood, children and very life itself...). I think that's just someone who doesn't want their ways to be curtailed by concern for the environment.
That's basically what it says the US don't want either. I refuse to believe GWB's claim that there are enough forests in the USA to cope with the US production of carbon emissions (a whole quarter of world output!), and so think that something needs to be done.
Global Warming isn't a cover for robbing people of private enterprise today, it's got to be about being alive and able to continue to produce and sell tomorrow and in our childrens' lifetimes. Isn't that a good reason to go light on the resources we have today so there's something for tomorrow?
Does any of the stuff like ACPI work with Linux yet? Can Linux sleep and resume? Does it still eat batteries? God help me.
ACPI is something that is alive and well in the Kernel, reasonably reliably throughout 2.6. Kernel 2.4 had some features but people found it difficult to configure and use. Work still needs to go into each distribution to make the ACPI and APM features a standard part of the Linux experience.
The pages I've read about using Linux on Laptops (er... http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ and others) is that battery life is comparable and sleep/resume is there.
The environmental impact of running a 130 Watt processor all day every day? That's like leaving two lights on in your house...[/fake-comment]
But it's not: the processor needs a PSU to feed it and will require the PSU capable of 300+ watts. Call it 500 for safety, and the computer it's attached to will be burning through those coal seams, that natural gas, and that hard-fought oil, uranium, plutonium, etc.
I'm glad someone made mention the impact on the world outside our basements...
Not sacrilege, but a feature of this new Netscape Browser is to allow the use the IE rendering engine for pages that you select: it's on a context-sensitive menu.
Someone in the Mozillazine pages says that this should switch off after you close the tab or the window it's in to remind people of standards compliance of the Gecko engine.
I think that TFA features Linus also saying that he's in favour of the security thing being closed so as to allow people time to discuss the problem and to not have to drop everything to fix the problem that day.
Can we find someone to suggest that they leverage their expertise in the paradigm of web serving and secure internet internetworking to provide a web-based (or XHTML-derived) management system?
Can we also get the same person to tell them that crackers would already be saying 'pwned'?
I couldn't tell if you were joking or what. However, the microwave oven isn't going to be fully shielded becuse its microwaves are in a different part of the spectrum (off top of head: 12cm wavelength and corresponding 240GHz frequency) for which it would be silly to insulate the microwave oven against all electromagnetic radation.
This isn't intended to be flamebait or a troll (sorry if you thought so): I can't imagine this device finding a market niche as a personal computer. Here's why:
I was thinking about buying myself a second hand G4 Cube from ebay, but thought better of it when I heard about this (because it's an up-to-date design that is comparable in size to the Cube).
Then I realised that it's not a hugely powerful machine and is intended perhaps as a second-machine for the iPod users who are inerested in OS X. But it's not really got enough meat to it to compare with its PC contemporaries (and I wouldn't make the mistake of comparing its 1.42 and 1.25GHz G4 chips with a Pentium 4 at 2.8, 3.2, 3.4 etc. GHz), and its G4 chip already looks outdated next to its G5 PowerMac brothers. I understand that the PowerBooks and iBooks contain G4 chips at present, and it appears to me that this Mac mini might be a laptop-derived design. I think it may end up lumped in the 'great for e-mail and web' trough. I expect people will find ways to turn these pretty boxes into PVRs (hacking a video-in) or expensive STBs, silent home servers and the like, but will not use them for second computers.
I don't want to spark a Mac-antiMac flame war, but do think that these questions remain outstanding. Please honour my non-troll intentions by replying...
Er. Me, too! I've never confused the gaming with reality. I may have played Carmageddon to completion twice (99 levels) or may have spent a hideous number of hours on Goldeneye, but the worst that these did was eye strain, which cleared after a few hours.
I don't think that the future will bring immersive realities so good that people get lost in them until we lose the glass wall between real life and the game world: your display screen.
I was reluctant to post here because of the potential that this becomes cited evidence against gaming.
I'm sorry for being an insensitive clod; I grew up in the middle of the two: the UK. Heavy investments in our (then nationalised) car industry by agents of the KGB put to ruin the labour force and design skills so that there are either one or two UK-owned cars companies producing cars in the UK.
But I suggest that government interference in stuff like healthcare and pensions, when well done, is a good thing.
And my point is that there are too many Americans with irrational prejudice against people who are communists and communist countries, who can let go of these prejudices now that the Cold War is over.
Excuse me, but did you RTFA? I think it says this is a slot with a connector for either USB or PCIe stuff.
And above here (okay, this is Slashdot...), someone says that USB is a polled interface and that makes it not good for stuff that needs interrupts to get heard on the computer, so it needs to be more than just USB.
State-owned monopolies are part of the communist way of doing things; competing companies for dollars who break rules about monopolies can be punished by the government in a way a state monopoly can't.
May I assume you're part of the USA population who grew up in the Cold War hearing that Commies were going to destroy the precious freedoms your forefathers fought for? If so, may I ask you to lay that prejudice to rest?
It didn't begin in 2004. Stallman and the FSF were there twenty years beforehand. I just sat through the flash animation to be told that bloggers would pass on free information and people would move from trusting news agencies to trusting computer programs and social contacts for news. But the words of the FSF: "Information wants to be free" got there first.
And the sensationalist trivia? I'm ineligible to comment because this is Slashdot...;)
Troll: "debasement of human existence in order to "treat" a "disease" that's just an excuse for bad parenting."
My partner is doing research into family and ADHD, and has to fight against this myth going round the population. True ADHD is a chemical deficiency in the brain making it difficult for the person suffering to concentrate on tasks. This can be relieved with medication and there are plenty of studies that show medication to be helpful to kids who need it. Also, the recommendation is that, the earlier a child is medicated, the better the outcome of the medication.
Family, diet, exercise and so on all play a factor in the development of every child, no more for those with attention deficit disorder. Perhaps it isn't safe to assume that parents are up to the challenge of bringing children into the world...
I understand that it may currently be a fix-all cure for the trials of parenting at the moment, much like selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs like Prozac) are the fix-all for dull living. But that doesn't mean that these drugs are not helpful to people who really need them.
Ritalin is a Class A drug in the UK (alongside cocaine, esctasy, and heroin), and in its pharmacology it is an amphetamine.
There's plenty of anecdotal stories of parents of ADHD kids using their kids' pills to help them concentrate on exams and the like. Crushed and snorted is more effective than swallowing the pill because it gets into the blood system quicker and in a more-concentrated dose.
However, the same people who tell me about this abuse of the drug have studies coming out of their ears saying that, in the UK, medicating an adolescent with ADHD earlier rather than later has a hugely benficial effect upon the outcome of the treatment process. This may be a combination of socio-economic and familial factors as much as helping the child fit in with the academic goals set in school and consequent fitting-in in society.
I've heard a lot of people talking about a distinction between a manufactured tool and between a behaviour exhibited by a product: were a computer system to be set up to interact intelligently and emotionally, it could be claimed either way that it was behaviour that was designed and intended (and so the machine is just a tool), or that it arose and developed autonomously from the parameters set (and so the machine is something special in itself).
However, there's a problem with this disctinction. I have a cup beside my desk, holding some water. The local minimum of the surface in the cup holding the water is emergent behaviour of the laws of gravity, but I see the cup as a manufactured tool for holding my drinks. I've also become emotionally attached to it because it was a gift...
It might be claimed that the simplicity of a cup does not compare to a far more-complicated thing like an information-processing system or a mechanical machine. I disagree: it will be in the discussion of the simple things that people will be able to play a part in the discussions about this issue, if it becomes one that humanity faces.
The present hope that intelligent behaviour will emerge from the right starting conditions allows the argument that we must respect and coexist with whatever intelligence arises. Hoping to arrive at the right 'formula' of initial conditions for emergent intellient behaviour appears to me to be a piece of one-in-a-googol wishful thinking.
To label intelligent machinery as mere tools and to enslave them would be the same human mistake made over and over in history, where one people group need the assistance of another but fail to respect their capabilities.
Having read William Gibson's Neuromancer, I was wondering when I could have and maintain my own hardware for devices I own. Am I right in thinking that the firmware and some knowledge of the board layout will enable me to fix it and cannibalise the thing?
I think that this development puts this device in contention for the top of my portable HD/music want list -- against the iRiver.
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I cant work out if you're being sarcastic. You didn't mention running Duke Nukem Forver on it, so I think you may be serious.
;)
And thank you for being the first post to talk about the card and/or article, not spelling or grammar.
In the Article, Mr Miller says he's heard quotes "I'd rather buy a used Rage128 from eBay". When this card becomes available, my Rage128 (Pro Ultra) will be on ebay.co.uk. Just so you can be ready
I don't know if it will actually be an upgrade to my system, or a sidegrade, but I think this is like buying Fair Trade goods: those traded to afford a broad selection of producers some of the money thrown around by the rich developed world. I.E. I will buy one because I believe in the principle over (perceived lack of) the features.
You implicitly suggest that Amazon runs Gentoo-flavour GNU/Linux on its servers. Can you back that up?
Does anyone know which Linux they have or if Amazon roll their own entirely?
...and I'm confident that the tinfoil hat on my head is secure, I'll reconfigure my bootloader to scrub my harddisk if the wrong boot password is entered, add a chip to the drive electronics cable to swap bits back and forth and ensure that the whole thing is encrypted in a way that needs to have the disk in my system, and bolt my system to the floor. I may see if building LCD phased glasses to allow the light from my screen into my eyes at appropriate rates will stop someone leaning over my shoulder.
I'm wondering if having a 512 character signal on a random open port that torches the system would be a good idea: you never know when you will want to ring up the thing from The Outside to make sure my parents don't find my porn. I mean, I'm thirty-seven and an adult, but that would be a bit embarrasing. But I don't go Outside too often and growl at anyone coming near my basement and My Precious.
(Some or all of the above may not be true.)
I had heard that Kyoto was stymied in order to make it acceptable to the US state department.
I unerstand that, here on Slashdot where many US programmers are being and have been outsourced, the next question is the toughest one to ask: can you deliberately limit your status to allow others in the rest of the world to flourish?
I think that, in many ways, all the developed nations can afford to do this, to bless all humanity with the standards of living westerners deem 'decent'. But there is some attitude I keep hearing from USAnians that this is idiotic. I don't think it's idiotic, I believe it will lead to a more peaceful planet and a more balanced world economy. The more diverse the marketplaces, the greater ways to spread risk and gain from investment.
Sorry for my mistake about GWB's response to Kyoto; it has been said that he was going to pursue ratifying it, but then did not, claiming the trees can cope with the CO2 output of the States.
I'm puzzled as to why the American people didn't get their Senators to take a different line; the companies who would have extra costs to their businesses under such a treaty helped themselves and their shareholders by stalling it, whereas the American people will be those who face the effects of this. (And those in other parts of the world either less developed or less prepared to adapt to the demands of climate change will have an even tougher time.)
Greater energy within the earth's system means greater diversity in weather systems. So your record lows and Florida's huge hurricanes last year are a part of this process.
The adaptation we need will involve burning less fossil-based fuels, and preparing the rest of the planet to survive the extremes of weather: Bangladesh floods every year the spring rains and this will get worse, so assistance will be needed to avoid massive loss of life. Adaptation so they survive? If you do something...
Funny that Kyoto got ignored by the States when everyone bent over backwards to accommodate the wishes of the US State department.
And to have Putin's personal economic advisor slander the people who put Russia up to Kyoto, led by Tony Blair, with "bribes, blackmail and murder threats" sounds utterly fictitious (unless they were able the possibility that not making a difference now threatens your livelihood, children and very life itself...). I think that's just someone who doesn't want their ways to be curtailed by concern for the environment.
That's basically what it says the US don't want either. I refuse to believe GWB's claim that there are enough forests in the USA to cope with the US production of carbon emissions (a whole quarter of world output!), and so think that something needs to be done.
Global Warming isn't a cover for robbing people of private enterprise today, it's got to be about being alive and able to continue to produce and sell tomorrow and in our childrens' lifetimes. Isn't that a good reason to go light on the resources we have today so there's something for tomorrow?
Does any of the stuff like ACPI work with Linux yet? Can Linux sleep and resume? Does it still eat batteries?
God help me.
ACPI is something that is alive and well in the Kernel, reasonably reliably throughout 2.6. Kernel 2.4 had some features but people found it difficult to configure and use. Work still needs to go into each distribution to make the ACPI and APM features a standard part of the Linux experience.
The pages I've read about using Linux on Laptops (er... http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ and others) is that battery life is comparable and sleep/resume is there.
The environmental impact of running a 130 Watt processor all day every day? That's like leaving two lights on in your house...[/fake-comment]
But it's not: the processor needs a PSU to feed it and will require the PSU capable of 300+ watts. Call it 500 for safety, and the computer it's attached to will be burning through those coal seams, that natural gas, and that hard-fought oil, uranium, plutonium, etc.
I'm glad someone made mention the impact on the world outside our basements...
Not sacrilege, but a feature of this new Netscape Browser is to allow the use the IE rendering engine for pages that you select: it's on a context-sensitive menu.
Someone in the Mozillazine pages says that this should switch off after you close the tab or the window it's in to remind people of standards compliance of the Gecko engine.
I think that TFA features Linus also saying that he's in favour of the security thing being closed so as to allow people time to discuss the problem and to not have to drop everything to fix the problem that day.
Can we find someone to suggest that they leverage their expertise in the paradigm of web serving and secure internet internetworking to provide a web-based (or XHTML-derived) management system?
Can we also get the same person to tell them that crackers would already be saying 'pwned'?
I couldn't tell if you were joking or what. However, the microwave oven isn't going to be fully shielded becuse its microwaves are in a different part of the spectrum (off top of head: 12cm wavelength and corresponding 240GHz frequency) for which it would be silly to insulate the microwave oven against all electromagnetic radation.
This isn't intended to be flamebait or a troll (sorry if you thought so): I can't imagine this device finding a market niche as a personal computer. Here's why:
I was thinking about buying myself a second hand G4 Cube from ebay, but thought better of it when I heard about this (because it's an up-to-date design that is comparable in size to the Cube).
Then I realised that it's not a hugely powerful machine and is intended perhaps as a second-machine for the iPod users who are inerested in OS X. But it's not really got enough meat to it to compare with its PC contemporaries (and I wouldn't make the mistake of comparing its 1.42 and 1.25GHz G4 chips with a Pentium 4 at 2.8, 3.2, 3.4 etc. GHz), and its G4 chip already looks outdated next to its G5 PowerMac brothers. I understand that the PowerBooks and iBooks contain G4 chips at present, and it appears to me that this Mac mini might be a laptop-derived design. I think it may end up lumped in the 'great for e-mail and web' trough. I expect people will find ways to turn these pretty boxes into PVRs (hacking a video-in) or expensive STBs, silent home servers and the like, but will not use them for second computers.
I don't want to spark a Mac-antiMac flame war, but do think that these questions remain outstanding. Please honour my non-troll intentions by replying...
It's on the web store, and is listed as £68 and £99 for the small and big models, respectively.
Er. Me, too! I've never confused the gaming with reality. I may have played Carmageddon to completion twice (99 levels) or may have spent a hideous number of hours on Goldeneye, but the worst that these did was eye strain, which cleared after a few hours.
I don't think that the future will bring immersive realities so good that people get lost in them until we lose the glass wall between real life and the game world: your display screen.
I was reluctant to post here because of the potential that this becomes cited evidence against gaming.
I'm sorry for being an insensitive clod; I grew up in the middle of the two: the UK. Heavy investments in our (then nationalised) car industry by agents of the KGB put to ruin the labour force and design skills so that there are either one or two UK-owned cars companies producing cars in the UK.
But I suggest that government interference in stuff like healthcare and pensions, when well done, is a good thing.
And my point is that there are too many Americans with irrational prejudice against people who are communists and communist countries, who can let go of these prejudices now that the Cold War is over.
Excuse me, but did you RTFA? I think it says this is a slot with a connector for either USB or PCIe stuff.
And above here (okay, this is Slashdot...), someone says that USB is a polled interface and that makes it not good for stuff that needs interrupts to get heard on the computer, so it needs to be more than just USB.
State-owned monopolies are part of the communist way of doing things; competing companies for dollars who break rules about monopolies can be punished by the government in a way a state monopoly can't.
May I assume you're part of the USA population who grew up in the Cold War hearing that Commies were going to destroy the precious freedoms your forefathers fought for? If so, may I ask you to lay that prejudice to rest?
It didn't begin in 2004. Stallman and the FSF were there twenty years beforehand. I just sat through the flash animation to be told that bloggers would pass on free information and people would move from trusting news agencies to trusting computer programs and social contacts for news. But the words of the FSF: "Information wants to be free" got there first.
;)
And the sensationalist trivia? I'm ineligible to comment because this is Slashdot...
I'm gunning for -1 offtopic with a
OMG!1!! LMAO!!11!!
wink
Troll: "debasement of human existence in order to "treat" a "disease" that's just an excuse for bad parenting."
My partner is doing research into family and ADHD, and has to fight against this myth going round the population. True ADHD is a chemical deficiency in the brain making it difficult for the person suffering to concentrate on tasks. This can be relieved with medication and there are plenty of studies that show medication to be helpful to kids who need it. Also, the recommendation is that, the earlier a child is medicated, the better the outcome of the medication.
Family, diet, exercise and so on all play a factor in the development of every child, no more for those with attention deficit disorder. Perhaps it isn't safe to assume that parents are up to the challenge of bringing children into the world...
I understand that it may currently be a fix-all cure for the trials of parenting at the moment, much like selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs like Prozac) are the fix-all for dull living. But that doesn't mean that these drugs are not helpful to people who really need them.
Ritalin is a Class A drug in the UK (alongside cocaine, esctasy, and heroin), and in its pharmacology it is an amphetamine.
There's plenty of anecdotal stories of parents of ADHD kids using their kids' pills to help them concentrate on exams and the like. Crushed and snorted is more effective than swallowing the pill because it gets into the blood system quicker and in a more-concentrated dose.
However, the same people who tell me about this abuse of the drug have studies coming out of their ears saying that, in the UK, medicating an adolescent with ADHD earlier rather than later has a hugely benficial effect upon the outcome of the treatment process. This may be a combination of socio-economic and familial factors as much as helping the child fit in with the academic goals set in school and consequent fitting-in in society.
I've heard a lot of people talking about a distinction between a manufactured tool and between a behaviour exhibited by a product: were a computer system to be set up to interact intelligently and emotionally, it could be claimed either way that it was behaviour that was designed and intended (and so the machine is just a tool), or that it arose and developed autonomously from the parameters set (and so the machine is something special in itself).
However, there's a problem with this disctinction. I have a cup beside my desk, holding some water. The local minimum of the surface in the cup holding the water is emergent behaviour of the laws of gravity, but I see the cup as a manufactured tool for holding my drinks. I've also become emotionally attached to it because it was a gift...
It might be claimed that the simplicity of a cup does not compare to a far more-complicated thing like an information-processing system or a mechanical machine. I disagree: it will be in the discussion of the simple things that people will be able to play a part in the discussions about this issue, if it becomes one that humanity faces.
The present hope that intelligent behaviour will emerge from the right starting conditions allows the argument that we must respect and coexist with whatever intelligence arises. Hoping to arrive at the right 'formula' of initial conditions for emergent intellient behaviour appears to me to be a piece of one-in-a-googol wishful thinking.
To label intelligent machinery as mere tools and to enslave them would be the same human mistake made over and over in history, where one people group need the assistance of another but fail to respect their capabilities.
Having read William Gibson's Neuromancer, I was wondering when I could have and maintain my own hardware for devices I own. Am I right in thinking that the firmware and some knowledge of the board layout will enable me to fix it and cannibalise the thing?
I think that this development puts this device in contention for the top of my portable HD/music want list -- against the iRiver.