This cool little Qube has been out for Years. It predates USB1&2, 802.11x, Bluetooth, Divx;-), and decent audio better than the sound-blaster standard. But the Qube series was never meant to do any of these. It was meant for a SOHO web, mail and document server.
Unfortunately after Sun bought Cobalt they gave up on MIPS.
A Great toy for those of us with processor 'fetishes'
Oh yes... The Qube does have of what you mentioned!
OK I admit, I do have a qube2. It's just a regular qube 2 running linux though. It has two 72 pin EDO sockets. So is the max RAM 2*64=128 or 2*128=256 or can one even install 2*256 for 512?
I know I'm asking for a lot but I think many Linux users may want a few more things.
Like Keyboard and mouse support, support for more than two 40 gig drives, and the possibility of putting this thing in a case that doesn't need an 1,800 watt power supply. With these specs I'll bet it's more expensive than a Power Mac G5.
I guess thats a matter of price vs. reliability. Somehow I don't beleive that paddle I keep in my boat would be effective in a plane! On the other hand, I'm quite satisfied with even the inexpensive electronic ignition kits. (For my applications!)
I've been bitten by this so many times, I've put a electronic ignition kit on every one I come across. This has been with boats because for some unknown reason they had them for a long time after cars...
I'd have to say that by far the problem is not the development tools we use. I've used GCC and cosmic (for HC11,12 & 68332) and some ridiculous proprietary IDE for the Hitachi H8S series. I'll have to admit that I'll take vim over these IDEs but JTAGs, BDMs are great. What causes the most problems? Feature creep and the odd attachment management types have to old crufty code. (I supposed they think they paid to much for it).
Currently my favorite hobby is ripping out code for old models or features which marketing has finally admitted no one uses (except of course the marketers at conventions and sales calls) which happen to be the features that were implemented with least thought, specification or clear design. It's surprising how much easier it is to remove code to achieve stability than add code to do the same. It's like re-factoring only better (less filling / tastes great).
So my point is a good compiler, and good debugging tool and VI is fine.
Now I don't do overlapping windowing apps, so I can't comment on the misery these developers must face:)
No that you say it, USENET was (probably still sort of is) great. I wonder what it would look like with a kill filter that was like the E-mail spam filters (that I can't spell) that are available today. Is there a good application out there that does this?
Having lived in the US as well, I can safely say that the guns are not generaly the dangerous things in the US, it's the Americans. As another post mentions guns only play a small role in deaths in the US. I think it is very telling that the murder rate in the US is something on the order of 200 times that over here in Austria. It's their culture I suppose.
It is a human failing! And I believe the smarter you are the more susceptible you to that sort of thing. I've seen good scientists react quite differently to challenges to it. Some find not understanding a problem with a product a personal affront and put amazing efforts and time into their resolution. Unfortunately others, having expending what resources they had, lost all vestiges of ethics and responsibility. I must emphasize these people are good people, I'd be glad for my kids to be in school with theirs or to go to there house for a dinner party, I just won't hire them. In the meanwhile I'm glad to have a very competent QC staff behind to keep me honest! It all a balance between the extreme pressure to release devises quickly and the unbelievable (to me) stupidity to release a product that is not ready (and repeating the Apple Newton fiasco).
Who do I work for... Well, I don't exactly sing praises of the company I work for (or other big businesses) with this moniker, I sort of like the anonymity afforded by it. However evidently it is not too hard to figure if you are sufficient pissed at me, my ex didn't have too much difficulty. Anyway suffice it to say, you won't see me posting pictures of my competitors equipment lab on the internet, sure every serous company has one, but we don't exactly advertise the fact!
I subscribe to Dilbert and a couple of SuSE lists. That's about 150 messages a day. Do you expect SuSE to pay these? I'm sure that you scheme would be the end of such things.
My experience is 15 years in research and development of various diagnostic analyzers. Just because it is not nice, doesn't mean it's wrong. In fact it doesn't mean it doesn't apply to me! It's hard to work on something for a long time with out coming to believe it's the most wonderful thing on earth. And marketing pressures tend to send products out before they are quite ready or sometimes when they should have at all.
This sort of thing is a good start, but what really needs to happen is that the names of people who send spammers money needs to be published on a page of shame, so that they may be harrassed
Just in case you haven't noticed they already are marching through the National Mall. I don't think this an extreme point of view either, the biggest thing 911 did to the US was bring the fascists out from under the rocks they normally hide under and swing public opinion towards their crazy ideas.
The whole thing scares the hell out of me, the only real super power left, it's run by bunch oil rich, evangelical fascists and the population seems to think it's a good idea.
But I sort of like the parent's idea, with the stipulation that you should only be able to vote on subjects you are competent on and have a license for.
I think that the fact that most people miss is that recycling is resource management. It does not intrinsically need to be profitable.
This is most obvious when Americans say "Our way is better because we make more money".
Recycling in the US is a mostly a political issue, the article you quote reads like a Microsoft apologist paper than anything else.
Resource management should be deemed successful using other metrics:
Reusing glass bottles rather than recycling them is an example.
Others would be land fill usage and environmental contamination (like from all of our old electronic toys or air pollution from incineration).
Also for recycling to be successful, it most be the norm rather than the exception and the end consumer must do the sorting and separation. Here, there is quite a large fine if you are caught not sorting your trash, and it is levied on all of the flats in the house, so generally your neighbors do not tolerate this sort of thing!
One of my greatest needs is reliable long term storage. Floppies have the long term format benefit, but are too small and too unreliable to be of use. Zip drives are too small, have the COD and the format is somewhat impractical (it's time consuming to setup a PC which doesn't have one already). CD-R & CD-RW are almost big enough, but they make me nervous. I've heard stories of them becoming unreadable after sitting about for a few years. A raid array is impractical, because I don't need all of this data constantly available.
If IKEA doesn't make some sort of storage system for it, I don't want whatever it is!
Honestly though, mounting ISO images of CDs commonly used at work is surpassed in usefulness only by my boot floppy image collection. Now if only I could rid myself of the floppy disk entirely!
Sorry I don't, because my company has adopted the The Capability Im-Maturity Model (CIMM).
Currently we are at "-2. Contemptuous Arrogance"
Mostly, I think, due to corporate reaction and interpretation of the FDA 21 CFR part 11 guidelines for Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures.
I'm having trouble determining who has the head up their arse further, but so far I think it is our corporate regulatory division. The only thing I can say about their interpretation of Part 11 is "Taliban".
Soon I'll have to have a long beard and a have memorized the Qur'an to have write access to CVS/VSS.
But hey all of this looks good to our internal auditors!
You know..."God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Faithful."
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This cool little Qube has been out for Years. It predates USB1&2, 802.11x, Bluetooth, Divx;-), and decent audio better than the sound-blaster standard. But the Qube series was never meant to do any of these. It was meant for a SOHO web, mail and document server.
Unfortunately after Sun bought Cobalt they gave up on MIPS.
A Great toy for those of us with processor 'fetishes'
Oh yes... The Qube does have of what you mentioned!
Is this a function of the board or the OS?
To learn how to develop a game console or games for said console. Read the web site, it's an educational toy, for use in the class room.
I suppose there is no difference
Like Keyboard and mouse support, support for more than two 40 gig drives, and the possibility of putting this thing in a case that doesn't need an 1,800 watt power supply. With these specs I'll bet it's more expensive than a Power Mac G5.
Sure but NAS I think would be better even if a bit more...
That sounds like you think they were honest at some point! When was that? I must have missed it.
I guess thats a matter of price vs. reliability. Somehow I don't beleive that paddle I keep in my boat would be effective in a plane! On the other hand, I'm quite satisfied with even the inexpensive electronic ignition kits. (For my applications!)
I've been bitten by this so many times, I've put a electronic ignition kit on every one I come across. This has been with boats because for some unknown reason they had them for a long time after cars...
Currently my favorite hobby is ripping out code for old models or features which marketing has finally admitted no one uses (except of course the marketers at conventions and sales calls) which happen to be the features that were implemented with least thought, specification or clear design. It's surprising how much easier it is to remove code to achieve stability than add code to do the same. It's like re-factoring only better (less filling / tastes great).
So my point is a good compiler, and good debugging tool and VI is fine.
Now I don't do overlapping windowing apps, so I can't comment on the misery these developers must face :)
No that you say it, USENET was (probably still sort of is) great. I wonder what it would look like with a kill filter that was like the E-mail spam filters (that I can't spell) that are available today. Is there a good application out there that does this?
Having lived in the US as well, I can safely say that the guns are not generaly the dangerous things in the US, it's the Americans. As another post mentions guns only play a small role in deaths in the US. I think it is very telling that the murder rate in the US is something on the order of 200 times that over here in Austria. It's their culture I suppose.
Who do I work for... Well, I don't exactly sing praises of the company I work for (or other big businesses) with this moniker, I sort of like the anonymity afforded by it. However evidently it is not too hard to figure if you are sufficient pissed at me, my ex didn't have too much difficulty. Anyway suffice it to say, you won't see me posting pictures of my competitors equipment lab on the internet, sure every serous company has one, but we don't exactly advertise the fact!
This is a step in the right direction
Beatings for Spammers, Folks who respond to spammers,and folks who run open mail relays!I subscribe to Dilbert and a couple of SuSE lists. That's about 150 messages a day. Do you expect SuSE to pay these? I'm sure that you scheme would be the end of such things.
My experience is 15 years in research and development of various diagnostic analyzers. Just because it is not nice, doesn't mean it's wrong. In fact it doesn't mean it doesn't apply to me! It's hard to work on something for a long time with out coming to believe it's the most wonderful thing on earth. And marketing pressures tend to send products out before they are quite ready or sometimes when they should have at all.
Reason two: No amount of money will solve the problems facing the poor in other nations (or for that matter in the US).
Sadly this money always seems to increase the problems rather than solve them.in my experience, most scientists are much, much more interested in being right, it's an ego thing.
This sort of thing is a good start, but what really needs to happen is that the names of people who send spammers money needs to be published on a page of shame, so that they may be harrassed
Also I wasn't thinking of presidental elections either, I was thinking of of those bills that congress looks at each year.
The whole thing scares the hell out of me, the only real super power left, it's run by bunch oil rich, evangelical fascists and the population seems to think it's a good idea.
But I sort of like the parent's idea, with the stipulation that you should only be able to vote on subjects you are competent on and have a license for.
This is most obvious when Americans say "Our way is better because we make more money".
Recycling in the US is a mostly a political issue, the article you quote reads like a Microsoft apologist paper than anything else.
Resource management should be deemed successful using other metrics:
Reusing glass bottles rather than recycling them is an example. Others would be land fill usage and environmental contamination (like from all of our old electronic toys or air pollution from incineration).Also for recycling to be successful, it most be the norm rather than the exception and the end consumer must do the sorting and separation. Here, there is quite a large fine if you are caught not sorting your trash, and it is levied on all of the flats in the house, so generally your neighbors do not tolerate this sort of thing!
One of my greatest needs is reliable long term storage. Floppies have the long term format benefit, but are too small and too unreliable to be of use. Zip drives are too small, have the COD and the format is somewhat impractical (it's time consuming to setup a PC which doesn't have one already). CD-R & CD-RW are almost big enough, but they make me nervous. I've heard stories of them becoming unreadable after sitting about for a few years. A raid array is impractical, because I don't need all of this data constantly available.
Honestly though, mounting ISO images of CDs commonly used at work is surpassed in usefulness only by my boot floppy image collection. Now if only I could rid myself of the floppy disk entirely!
Currently we are at "-2. Contemptuous Arrogance"
Mostly, I think, due to corporate reaction and interpretation of the FDA 21 CFR part 11 guidelines for Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures.
I'm having trouble determining who has the head up their arse further, but so far I think it is our corporate regulatory division. The only thing I can say about their interpretation of Part 11 is "Taliban".
Soon I'll have to have a long beard and a have memorized the Qur'an to have write access to CVS/VSS.
But hey all of this looks good to our internal auditors!
You know..."God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Faithful."