This story seems to coincide with this thread posted earlier today.
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory happened to be looking at the presumed site of the hole at the moment it absorbed a comet, blasting x-rays off into space as a byproduct.
That hole in the center of the galaxy is Microsoft. It wasn't absorbing a comet, but rather our Department of Justice.
A HREF="http://slashdot-at-synack-dot.org">Gambit Thirty-Two writes "Old news, but Sendmail has ported their MTA to Linux390." And in other news: sitz writes "It would appear as though some madman has port apache to WinCE . It's only been tested on a couple of platforms (including the Jornada 720, and is 'based on the WinNT port, with lots of dirty modifications'. That's still pretty swanky. I've also set up a mirror of this site, which will be up for a couple of weeks."
The problem is that it costs lots of money to install and maintain this. For example: I did not have cable to my house at all. AT&T sends me some junk mail about FREE INSTALLATION so I took them up on it. They sent a tech to my house for nearly the entire day (I'm sure that those beers didn't help). So now AT&T and @Home are left to recoup the costs of the tech being at my house to install the damn service to begin with. And then there is the extreme amount of bandwidth that I use (I have registered over 3 MBit/s for hours on end at times).
The maintenance costs on the fiber alone is going to cost more than half of what the average broadband customer will pay every month. Where does the profit come in? Or better yet, when?
This sounds like the same arguments people were using for infrared ports a few years back, and that caught on like sandpaper pantyhose.
The only reason that infrared did not catch on is because Microsoft products do not support the IRDA Standard "out of the box". Heck, with Windows 9X, you could at least download the appropriate software to coax the OS into support but with Windows 2000, Mircosoft has dropped support altogether. Why did they do this? Because the Palm Pilot did not use their software, of course.
You'll find that Wince devices seem to work much better with Windows IR. If only they were more popular, perhaps the Microsoft implementation would be more popular.
My cordless phone drops the 802.11b connection to a bare minimum if it doesn't block it altogether. I once tried to set up a WiFi network at a customer's house and after trying several pieces of equipment, we finally figured out that it was the neighbors cordless phone causing the WLAN to go down every few minutes.
With the 802.11x security problems that have been exposed recently, I'd say that we need a new wireless standard altogether. One that is all-encompassing. Low power/bandwidth for those portables and more bandwidth for the other devices.
EVERYONE will do this if it "matures" to likings..
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In other news... Slashdot's "swordboy" announced that he will drop Windows 2000 for Linux if it matures to his liking
So will every other consumer and business in the world (save MS).
I'm always putting my lappie in my otherwise empty briefcase.
What the hell do you do for a living? Or is it that you don't use your laptop for work? At minimum, you should always have an AC adapter in there. If they could build in the AC adapter and plug, then this may prove more practical. Until then, I prefer ergonomics over the geekness of this laptop. Hell, get a Z case and a pair of hand cuffs and be done with it. A large carrying case is something that most people with a laptop need. You may be a rare exception.
When is the industry going to realize that we need a new compact format PC. This thing looks great but its pricey when you compare it to the costs of off the shelf components.
How about a "disposable" PC form factor? Currently, you can get a mini-ATX with integrated LAN/video/modem/sound for well under $100 US. Pitch the dimm slots, processor ZIF socket, and PCI/ISA slots for non-expandable, non-upgradeable permanant RAM, processor and a firewire or USB expansion standard. This would cut even more overhead off the cost of the individual components. Buy them all on one small board. This improves reliability in harsh environments as well. Screw upgrading things on an individual basis. You can get a Duron 750 for under $30. Have you seen the price of RAM these days?
There is so much computing power to be leveraged by other markets. This may very well be the thing that brings the PC to other markets.
Nobody forced Microsoft to support the damn plug-ins to begin with. Microsoft adopted a defacto standard because they needed to bump Netscape. Now they have taken Netscape out of the picture and have subsequently dropped the plug-in support.
I wouldn't want one of these people working for me if I ran a large computer-centric firm. But then again, I don't want them using the handicapped spaces either. There has to be some intermediary. And where is gov't funding for voice recognition software? It is so close.
Right now, it costs an arm and a leg for the broadband ISPs to get that last mile in. I say, let em finish eating the cost and *then* deregulate. This helps prevent more Covads from going under.
When I ordered AT&T cable internet, they sent a tech to my house for the *entire* day since I did not have cable to the house at all in the first place. I'm sure that AT&T still has not recovered the cost of this with their $40/month service. I'm not sure that things are much better for DSL. The Ameritechs out there can eat the cost for now as they have other bread and butter to play with.
60 frames per second divided by.4 (frames per second) = 150. If we oversimplify and apply Moore's law to the speed of 3D processors, we will halve this every 18 months.
As I see it, we are about 7 - 8 years away from this kind of rendering in real time.
What is currently being done in the matter of multi-channel compressed audio? At this point, all of these formats seem to support stereo only. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement a Dolby Digital compression algorithm. There is currently limited support for the format outside of DVDs but the music that is out there is impressive. Perhaps the OV guys could put something together after they finalize this format?
Slashdot Mirror
Typical slashdot bias...
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory happened to be looking at the presumed site of the hole at the moment it absorbed a comet, blasting x-rays off into space as a byproduct.
That hole in the center of the galaxy is Microsoft. It wasn't absorbing a comet, but rather our Department of Justice.
Sigh...
Will I need to use the multi-monitor support to display the 64 bit BSODs?
A HREF="http://slashdot-at-synack-dot.org">Gambit Thirty-Two writes "Old news, but Sendmail has ported their MTA to Linux390." And in other news: sitz writes "It would appear as though some madman has port apache to WinCE . It's only been tested on a couple of platforms (including the Jornada 720, and is 'based on the WinNT port, with lots of dirty modifications'. That's still pretty swanky. I've also set up a mirror of this site, which will be up for a couple of weeks."
The link is broken.
What kind of bandwidth is the two-cans-and-a-string modem providing these days, anyway?
Come on...
We all know that alcohol makes the best social "lubricant".
Not so fast...
The problem is that it costs lots of money to install and maintain this. For example: I did not have cable to my house at all. AT&T sends me some junk mail about FREE INSTALLATION so I took them up on it. They sent a tech to my house for nearly the entire day (I'm sure that those beers didn't help). So now AT&T and @Home are left to recoup the costs of the tech being at my house to install the damn service to begin with. And then there is the extreme amount of bandwidth that I use (I have registered over 3 MBit/s for hours on end at times).
The maintenance costs on the fiber alone is going to cost more than half of what the average broadband customer will pay every month. Where does the profit come in? Or better yet, when?
This sounds like the same arguments people were using for infrared ports a few years back, and that caught on like sandpaper pantyhose.
The only reason that infrared did not catch on is because Microsoft products do not support the IRDA Standard "out of the box". Heck, with Windows 9X, you could at least download the appropriate software to coax the OS into support but with Windows 2000, Mircosoft has dropped support altogether. Why did they do this? Because the Palm Pilot did not use their software, of course.
You'll find that Wince devices seem to work much better with Windows IR. If only they were more popular, perhaps the Microsoft implementation would be more popular.
Telocity
BigNutz (BigNet
and now to AT&T @Home
This is probably all a sham so that AOL can waltz in and take over the infrastructure.
My cordless phone drops the 802.11b connection to a bare minimum if it doesn't block it altogether. I once tried to set up a WiFi network at a customer's house and after trying several pieces of equipment, we finally figured out that it was the neighbors cordless phone causing the WLAN to go down every few minutes.
With the 802.11x security problems that have been exposed recently, I'd say that we need a new wireless standard altogether. One that is all-encompassing. Low power/bandwidth for those portables and more bandwidth for the other devices.
In other news... Slashdot's "swordboy" announced that he will drop Windows 2000 for Linux if it matures to his liking
So will every other consumer and business in the world (save MS).
This is not news.
What the hell do you do for a living? Or is it that you don't use your laptop for work? At minimum, you should always have an AC adapter in there. If they could build in the AC adapter and plug, then this may prove more practical. Until then, I prefer ergonomics over the geekness of this laptop. Hell, get a Z case and a pair of hand cuffs and be done with it. A large carrying case is something that most people with a laptop need. You may be a rare exception.
When is the industry going to realize that we need a new compact format PC. This thing looks great but its pricey when you compare it to the costs of off the shelf components.
How about a "disposable" PC form factor? Currently, you can get a mini-ATX with integrated LAN/video/modem/sound for well under $100 US. Pitch the dimm slots, processor ZIF socket, and PCI/ISA slots for non-expandable, non-upgradeable permanant RAM, processor and a firewire or USB expansion standard. This would cut even more overhead off the cost of the individual components. Buy them all on one small board. This improves reliability in harsh environments as well. Screw upgrading things on an individual basis. You can get a Duron 750 for under $30. Have you seen the price of RAM these days?
There is so much computing power to be leveraged by other markets. This may very well be the thing that brings the PC to other markets.
Nobody forced Microsoft to support the damn plug-ins to begin with. Microsoft adopted a defacto standard because they needed to bump Netscape. Now they have taken Netscape out of the picture and have subsequently dropped the plug-in support.
Monopoly could not be spelled out any clearer
- The problem is this:
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Netscape plug ins run on three platforms. (Unix, Mac, Windows)
Exactly what Microsoft must have been thinking!Check out this moron. Paint the moon!
Can we discriminate against them now? If so, then I need to learn how to type. As the saying goes: old hackers never die - they just learn to type.
I wouldn't want one of these people working for me if I ran a large computer-centric firm. But then again, I don't want them using the handicapped spaces either. There has to be some intermediary. And where is gov't funding for voice recognition software? It is so close.
This would be worth it just for the sake of the helium. Even a small leek (or even seepage) would cause everyone to sound like the chipmunks.
[done in best Alvin voice]: Oh the humanity!
For some reason, rock candy comes to mind.
Right now, it costs an arm and a leg for the broadband ISPs to get that last mile in. I say, let em finish eating the cost and *then* deregulate. This helps prevent more Covads from going under.
When I ordered AT&T cable internet, they sent a tech to my house for the *entire* day since I did not have cable to the house at all in the first place. I'm sure that AT&T still has not recovered the cost of this with their $40/month service. I'm not sure that things are much better for DSL. The Ameritechs out there can eat the cost for now as they have other bread and butter to play with.
The ungodly massive number of man-hours that went into:
Related quote from the Simpsons:
"Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It puts tremendous stress on the aminators hands."
60 frames per second divided by .4 (frames per second) = 150. If we oversimplify and apply Moore's law to the speed of 3D processors, we will halve this every 18 months.
As I see it, we are about 7 - 8 years away from this kind of rendering in real time.
Thoughts? Comments? Complaints?
Perhaps they could even optimize the ".1" in "5.1" for low frequency effects.
What is currently being done in the matter of multi-channel compressed audio? At this point, all of these formats seem to support stereo only. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement a Dolby Digital compression algorithm. There is currently limited support for the format outside of DVDs but the music that is out there is impressive. Perhaps the OV guys could put something together after they finalize this format?