Yes yes yes, let's all root for that OTHER big corporation. Go AMD! I hope you have better sales on your Athlons, because even though I don't hold stock in your company, I irrationally support you anyway! I hope that consumers fail to see how you have an inferior product and all!
What in the world are these morons smoking? If someone like VA Linux is going under even though they are actually selling a concrete product (for the most part), how does Google think that they will stay afloat? THEY DON'T EVEN SELL ANYTHING, FOR GOD SAKES!
I think what they have failed to do is venture into the outside world in the last year, to witness that the days of dotcom hucksterism is over, and stock holders realize that you can't have a profitable company selling banner ad space.
It's sad to see Google out there to prey on unwitting stock buyers, because you can be 99% certain that after the initial IPO at $160/share, they are going to fall even farther through the floor than VA has.
Honestly, this is like hearing that Slashdot is going to announce an IPO. Nice product, but it won't make you a penny in profits.
Yes, of course, they should replace all their IA-32 offerings with an Alpha, so that they can be completely incompatible with 98% of the applications out there! You must be in marketing.
Intel is buying Alpha technology (such as compilers, engineering teams, patents) from Compaq in order to enhance their own 64-bit offering, Itanium.
None of the serious computing vendors or customers buy chips from AMD, and therefore don't bother to put faith in AMD. Why? Perhaps because they need high end RISC processors such as the Sparc III or Alpha.
Honestly, there is a larger market for CPUs than just the desktop market.
However, you have to take into account the fact that the bandwidth is effectively halved because each frame has to travel the backplane TWICE, once in going to the processor, and another time when going back to the destination NIC. There's also the matter of 1.064Gb/sec being the bus's theoretical limit, which means that it will probably never actually transport data that fast.
Heh, this story reminds me of the old Coke machine at a certain university's (CMU?) computer science department that, when fingered, would output the status of the contents of the machine, such as inventory and temperatures, as the.plan file.
Really, this lab that they have on display seems to be really overboard. Who the hell wants or needs all that information at that exact moment and at that exact place? Seems to me that people are just getting lazier (or IBM is encouraging it). I guess that's what you get when you get a bunch of fat, lazy intellectuals together to design "the home of the future." That one guy that was sitting in the automotive prototype looked like he could use a couple of laps around a track to me.
Congratulations to the BSD team for this remarkable achievement, following in the footsteps of some of software engineering's legends. In 1975, Bill Gates
wrote a version of BASIC for the Altair 8800 that was totally debugged before the Altair was even functional. The BSD team is now following in the footsteps of the computer industry's greatest programmers, by writing code for an (as-yet) nonexistent platform.
Given that Gates was operating without modern compilers and debuggers, his achievment is indisputably more impressive, but kudos to the BSD team for being almost as good as Bill Gates.
I don't know if the case that was recently in the Supreme Court was exactly this, but didn't it also involve infrared imaging? Doesn't this satellite monitoring constitute an unlawful search?
I sure need my TV and toaster hooked up to the internet. Why, after 3 months, I won't know how I could have possibly lived without it!
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As for the driver thing, get your head out of your ass.
Yup, that's how logical arguments are won. Please, keep trying to start a flamewar, you're getting better at it.
It's called licensed code.
That is their problem. Perhaps they shouldn't have used licensed code? Food for though, eh?
Why should they write ATI's driver for them?)
Mainly because they wouldn't be writing ATI's driver for them. They are based on different chipsets. You do realize that drivers are hardware specific, right?
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The review that the article links to discusses how nVidia has realized that they can't survive by being in just the graphics business, and that they realized this when they saw the colossal success of the Intel i810 platform, despite its horrific 3D graphics performance.
What they then go on to insinuate, though, is that nVidia is expanding into yet another realm of the PC hardware industry, which is, frankly, a scary thought to me. Not content with having a monopoly on the video card market, they are now going after the logic set market, intending to dethrone Intel in the biggest market of them all: low-cost motherboard chipsets.
What I'm really worried about here is the PC architecture turning into another closed, proprietary, overpriced piece of junk that the Apple has always been. When they start making video cards that are only "compatible" with nVidia chipsets, you will find out what I'm talking about. This is just the beginning of the market consolidation for nVidia. First 3DFX and now this. You can already tell that they are against open standards when they refuse to release open source drivers for their newest cards so that they can be supported under Linux and other free operating systems. What do they have to hide, anyway?
While no one on Slashdot may be interested in buying a motherboard manufactured with this chipset, there will be a lot of people who will. While one may even get decent performance out of the chipset, perhaps even better than the Intel eqivalent, one must consider: is it really the best choice that I can make in the long run? My personal opinion is that the answer is no, it ain't worth it.
You're are asking the most arrogant, technologically misinformed community on the frickin' Earth to give you advice on teaching the elderly to use computers? Choose carefully, now. There are only a few comments here that will be worth taking into consideration.
IE6 being the first browser to implement the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) standard.
Well, there's a change. For once, M$ is implementing an industry standard in their browser. Too bad their support of W3C standards are sketchy at best. Oh well, I guess when you own the market, you can just make up your own standards as you go along...
Well, of course he's suspicious of the results! It looks exactly like someone just took a poll of people's favorite server operating systems! I mean, think about it: who the hell likes x86 Slowaris? Meanwhile, of course, Windows 2000 and Redhat are tied for first. What's curious, now, is that FreeBSD is so far behind both Linux and Windows 2000.
Obviously this "test" is a crock, as FreeBSD would not be that far behind, what with it's surperior network stack and thread handling. Windows 2000 may be a fast system, but it certainly isn't as fast as FreeBSD, despite the fact that MS largely ripped their TCP/IP stack off the FreeBSD project. The jury, however, is still out on where Linux should have placed. It may not be the fastest system in the world, but it certainly rates at least above Windows 2K.
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He may or may not understand that he's "not an expert at everything," but that doesn't mean he listens to people who are, e.g. his own commission on global warming.
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nuclear weapons
That's nuculer, buddy. Remember who we have in the White House now.
Well, for starters, holders of MBAs make very good fuel for furnaces on those cold winter nights. Other than that, I'd say it's a damn tricky question.
I think just the opposite is true of teaching introductory Computer Science courses. One should teach students all about concepts such as OOP and data structures such as the hash table and binary search tree, not to mention the algorithms behind said structure. Teaching a course on what would amount to introductory OS design would be exactly the thing that you would NOT want to teach to first year people, as it would be confusing for first time CS people who are just getting into computers and programming.
As far as I'm concerned, Mr. DiBona is just trying to keep CS "1337" by scaring off people like the boys (and girls) that were in my AP CS class this year. They would have never stuck with it if they had to deal with crap like low-level memory management and buffers, which one really shouldn't have to learn today anyway, what with the easy availability of high level languages such as Python and Java and the abundence of computing resources (Moore's Law).
Really, I applaud them. The more money that they sap from Verizon, the better. Verizon is one of the worst telcos in the country, behind Ameritech and SBC, and, frankly, I can't bring myself to feel sorry for them.
Really, if you live in Verizon country, you would figure that Verizon would have a very hard time proving that those bug reports were faked. Their network absolutely sucks.
Come to think of it, maybe this is just Verizon's way of punishing those who point out that they have a crap network. Seems that most corporate grudges are settled with lawsuits these days. Honestly, they should just unclog our courts and leave them for the deserving people, and corporations should, instead, settle their differences on the field of battle. That's right, you could just give the Bean Counters and lawyers AKs and let the two factions settle their differences in the most American way possible.
Most of the posters here aren't even likely to find a mate (of the opposite sex, anyway), much less reproduce. What in the world posessed you to post a call for parental advice here? All you will get are the unqualified answers of people talking out their ass.
Actually, on second thought, good job on maintaining the status quo.
I fail to see what the big deal is over corporations being able to block access to activities and sites that they think saps productivity. You really have no right to complain if your company does this.
First of all, they own the machines. Not you, them. Therefore, they can have your root password, they can install whatever software they want to on it, and they most certainly can have access to all of the files on it. For example, you have no expectation of the right to encrypt personal files on your business machine, simply because it's not your machine to start with.
Secondly, you are getting paid to *gasp* work for them, instead of browse porn sites all day. That means, among other things, that they can check which sites that you go to in order to make sure that you aren't slacking off on company time. They are perfectly within their rights to do so, and, again, you have no expectation of privacy here. It's simply a more efficient way making sure you aren't goofing off than having a manager come in every once in a while to look over your shoulder.
Now, I can understand that the Slashdot editors would be either opposed to these sort of facts of life, or not comprehending them at all, simply because the quality of their work... leaves much to be desired, to say the least.
Slashdot Mirror
...can it scan my pr0n images and find images similar to it?
I think what they have failed to do is venture into the outside world in the last year, to witness that the days of dotcom hucksterism is over, and stock holders realize that you can't have a profitable company selling banner ad space.
It's sad to see Google out there to prey on unwitting stock buyers, because you can be 99% certain that after the initial IPO at $160/share, they are going to fall even farther through the floor than VA has.
Honestly, this is like hearing that Slashdot is going to announce an IPO. Nice product, but it won't make you a penny in profits.
Intel is buying Alpha technology (such as compilers, engineering teams, patents) from Compaq in order to enhance their own 64-bit offering, Itanium.
None of the serious computing vendors or customers buy chips from AMD, and therefore don't bother to put faith in AMD. Why? Perhaps because they need high end RISC processors such as the Sparc III or Alpha.
Honestly, there is a larger market for CPUs than just the desktop market.
Really, this lab that they have on display seems to be really overboard. Who the hell wants or needs all that information at that exact moment and at that exact place? Seems to me that people are just getting lazier (or IBM is encouraging it). I guess that's what you get when you get a bunch of fat, lazy intellectuals together to design "the home of the future." That one guy that was sitting in the automotive prototype looked like he could use a couple of laps around a track to me.
Given that Gates was operating without modern compilers and debuggers, his achievment is indisputably more impressive, but kudos to the BSD team for being almost as good as Bill Gates.
Way to go guys!
Sure, they may have Monty Python action figures, but do they have these? I think not.
Now, contrast this to whatever OS MS will probably be using to host these.
Yup, that's how logical arguments are won. Please, keep trying to start a flamewar, you're getting better at it.
It's called licensed code.
That is their problem. Perhaps they shouldn't have used licensed code? Food for though, eh?
Why should they write ATI's driver for them?)
Mainly because they wouldn't be writing ATI's driver for them. They are based on different chipsets. You do realize that drivers are hardware specific, right?
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What they then go on to insinuate, though, is that nVidia is expanding into yet another realm of the PC hardware industry, which is, frankly, a scary thought to me. Not content with having a monopoly on the video card market, they are now going after the logic set market, intending to dethrone Intel in the biggest market of them all: low-cost motherboard chipsets.
What I'm really worried about here is the PC architecture turning into another closed, proprietary, overpriced piece of junk that the Apple has always been. When they start making video cards that are only "compatible" with nVidia chipsets, you will find out what I'm talking about. This is just the beginning of the market consolidation for nVidia. First 3DFX and now this. You can already tell that they are against open standards when they refuse to release open source drivers for their newest cards so that they can be supported under Linux and other free operating systems. What do they have to hide, anyway?
While no one on Slashdot may be interested in buying a motherboard manufactured with this chipset, there will be a lot of people who will. While one may even get decent performance out of the chipset, perhaps even better than the Intel eqivalent, one must consider: is it really the best choice that I can make in the long run? My personal opinion is that the answer is no, it ain't worth it.
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You're are asking the most arrogant, technologically misinformed community on the frickin' Earth to give you advice on teaching the elderly to use computers? Choose carefully, now. There are only a few comments here that will be worth taking into consideration.
You mean the seller, right? Unless the thing's already been sold. In which case, why would you be posting this on Slashdot?
Well, there's a change. For once, M$ is implementing an industry standard in their browser. Too bad their support of W3C standards are sketchy at best. Oh well, I guess when you own the market, you can just make up your own standards as you go along...
Obviously this "test" is a crock, as FreeBSD would not be that far behind, what with it's surperior network stack and thread handling. Windows 2000 may be a fast system, but it certainly isn't as fast as FreeBSD, despite the fact that MS largely ripped their TCP/IP stack off the FreeBSD project. The jury, however, is still out on where Linux should have placed. It may not be the fastest system in the world, but it certainly rates at least above Windows 2K.
He may or may not understand that he's "not an expert at everything," but that doesn't mean he listens to people who are, e.g. his own commission on global warming.
That's nuculer, buddy. Remember who we have in the White House now.
Well, for starters, holders of MBAs make very good fuel for furnaces on those cold winter nights. Other than that, I'd say it's a damn tricky question.
As far as I'm concerned, Mr. DiBona is just trying to keep CS "1337" by scaring off people like the boys (and girls) that were in my AP CS class this year. They would have never stuck with it if they had to deal with crap like low-level memory management and buffers, which one really shouldn't have to learn today anyway, what with the easy availability of high level languages such as Python and Java and the abundence of computing resources (Moore's Law).
Really, if you live in Verizon country, you would figure that Verizon would have a very hard time proving that those bug reports were faked. Their network absolutely sucks.
Come to think of it, maybe this is just Verizon's way of punishing those who point out that they have a crap network. Seems that most corporate grudges are settled with lawsuits these days. Honestly, they should just unclog our courts and leave them for the deserving people, and corporations should, instead, settle their differences on the field of battle. That's right, you could just give the Bean Counters and lawyers AKs and let the two factions settle their differences in the most American way possible.
Actually, on second thought, good job on maintaining the status quo.
First of all, they own the machines. Not you, them. Therefore, they can have your root password, they can install whatever software they want to on it, and they most certainly can have access to all of the files on it. For example, you have no expectation of the right to encrypt personal files on your business machine, simply because it's not your machine to start with.
Secondly, you are getting paid to *gasp* work for them, instead of browse porn sites all day. That means, among other things, that they can check which sites that you go to in order to make sure that you aren't slacking off on company time. They are perfectly within their rights to do so, and, again, you have no expectation of privacy here. It's simply a more efficient way making sure you aren't goofing off than having a manager come in every once in a while to look over your shoulder.
Now, I can understand that the Slashdot editors would be either opposed to these sort of facts of life, or not comprehending them at all, simply because the quality of their work... leaves much to be desired, to say the least.