Plain old wrong. This is not the first link, but rather a new derivative of it, with a different purpose. OpenBIOS != LinuxBios. ~luge
P.S. This is karma whoring at its worst. Not only is the information incorrect, it would have taken all of two seonds to get it right. Instead, you had to rush to get an early post so that you could get modded up. Furthermore, you address it to Slashdot, so that you can attract the moderators who love to complain about/. However, if you actually cared to improve the quality of/., you could easily have posted it at +2. But no... that would reduce the number of points you could get. Ugh.
I'm 22 and for the past two summers have lived the dream life of actually getting paid to play with legos. There is better work somewhere, maybe... but I doubt it. ~luge
But... but... it's the real pieces that they are selling. There's been discussion about this at lugnet for some time, and my guess would be that Lego knows that the people who would buy giant bags of legos are also the ones who hate the new stuff with a passion. We won't be seeing glowing pieces in bulk for quite a while, I don't think... ~luge
Some friends and I (who happen to have access to 6 Mindstorms kits through school) have been dreaming/fantasizing about building a motorized AT/AT for ages. It'd require a huge amount of parts, but we think we roughly have the mechanics worked out (one RCX per foot.) Argh.. now if only I had the time... ~luge
You are kidding me... that has to be about the most awesome easter egg I've ever heard of, if only because it's completely inaccessible from the OS itself. Crazy... ~luge
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Before you post something, go and search linuxtoday and lwn.net/daily for it. And if it was at eitheronetwo weeks ago maybe you shouldn't post it... ~luge(I come to/. for fresh news... this is about as stale as I've ever seen...)
This is the last time I'm going to respond to one of the "Transmeta is closed source" trolls, I swear. Here is the difference between Free Software and Free Hardware. Opening up the source to Linux allows each and every one of us to grab a compiler and build a kernel and the associated tools. Furthermore, since we can all modify and/or improve and/or fork the code, there is a practical and altruistic value to giving away source. Opening up the source to the Transmeta soft/hard/firm thing (I dunno exactly what to call it) benefits all of us who have multi-billion dollar fabs in our back yards, so that we can modify the chip design and build our own. What? You mean that you don't have a fab in your living room? Funny, me neither. Guess that means that opening up the Transmeta info wouldn't benefit me, or you. Come to think of it, it would only benefit Intel, maybe AMD. Oh yeah, Motorola. Guess that's about it. Does Linus have any kind of obligation to help them out? No. Does it help him out? Nope. Is there any concievable way that it would be good for anyone except those already bloated corporate behemoths? I'm still waiting... ~luge
I finally came to believe in the use of Mozilla for XP development when my net connection went down on my box and I was forced to use chatzilla to access irc from a windows box. when I finally got access again from my Linux box, I fired up chatzilla (just to check and see, since I had never used it on Linux) and it was identical. Every single motion, action, etc. was exactly the same across the two platforms. I guess I expect this from my browser (which is why it never struck me before with Mozilla) but other programs are supposed to be weird and unpredictable and different across platforms (even Java, at the least, has different L&F.) But with Mozilla, there is none of that. You write it once and it just works. So, my point- go get the latest nightly builds from ftp.mozilla.org and play with them, and I think you may see the future of XP design. Or maybe not- but it is definitely worth looking into. ~luge P.S. Oh yeah... forget Linux, Windows, and Apple. Think: "every platform in existence" and then you'll get a clue as to where Mozilla (as a XP UI development tool) is headed.
I think we have a winner:) Good call... I can't find a link to prove it, but I'm pretty sure that the 700 Mhx chip had Windows-specific optimizations while the 400Mhz (while not specifically optimized for Linux) was intended for Linux use. Not sure if it was exclusive, though (whereas the 700 Mhz was definitely for Windows.) ~luge
Since my moderation of this post DOWN doesn't seem to have registered, I'll blow all my moderation in this thread by pointing out that this isn't Bruce Perens. If Taco and Co. really want to bitchslap someone for abusing the system, this guy should be the guy... it's not creative, it's certainly not very funny, and it is badly misleading. It is one thing to lie in posts (sig 11, you listening?) but it is another altogether to lie about your identity in the hopes of confusing or defaming others. ~luge
I'm pretty (though I can't find a link to prove it) that the name is some kind of weird homage to the film. (I think Pike is a film buff- the old Plan 9 windowing system was called 8 1/2, after the Fellini movie. For those of you who aren't familiar with Plan 9 From Outer Space, it is... well, it isn't "Manos: Hands of Fate" but it is pretty terrible. I hesitate to call it a cult "classic" but it is definitely cult:) ~luge
Bruce Sterling's Island's in the Net (1988) also is an early reference to the same concept. The "Islands" the title refers to are, like HavenCo, island nations (real ones this time- whole countries) who "go pirate" and become havens. It goes into much more detail than Gibson, and includes a lot of discussion of the possibility of terrorist attack, tension with the outside world, and all that. Very interesting read. ~luge
P.S. HavenCo isn't anything compared to what Fidel Castro could in CUBAdo if he wanted to. Think about it- a country with pretty normal trade relations with 95% of the world that hates the US and would love nothing more than to host DeCSS and the like and flick us yet another finger. And his successors (no matter what happens, democracy or otherwise) are pretty guaranteed to hate the US and have good fiber to, say, Mexico, no matter what.
At least let me build one. HAHAHAHA. You are kidding, right? If you've got a multi-billion dollar fab in your backyard, let me know... Otherwise, I'm fairly sure that the only people in the world who could build "themselves" a Transmeta ship are Intel and AMD (and IBM, but they are already paid to do that.) I mean, I'm sure Andy Grove would do a backflip if they did this, but it wouldn't do the rest of us a damn bit of good. Stupid troll... go work on your skillz and then come back when you can be at least funny... ~luge
Generally, I'm a pretty trusting person, but I wouldn't believe a word the man says. If his testimony in the trial isn't Clintonian enough, go take a look at his books. Rather, grab a first edition of his first book, and then a second edition. Note all the huge changes- MSN is the future in the first edition, and the 'net is the future the second time around. I mean, it's bad enough to lie and say you didn't say something, but to erase history like that without even acknowledging your initial mistake is pretty scary. ~luge
No big company worth their salt would host at a sketchy place like this. Storing data there would be like waving a giant flag that says "I'm guilty of something... come investigate!" And even if they did, they'd certainly never admit to it if push came to shove. They'd pull their data, run like hell, and hope Prince Roy keeps his mouth shut. ~luge
Probably the biggest reason that they've avoided the military and pseudo-military coups that have plagued the rest of Latin America since the Spaniards were thrown out is that they got rid of their military some time ago and are now constitutionally prohibited from having a military. They still have a pretty strong national police, but still... not the same. Interesting idea, and even more surprising that it works given that some of the nations around are not always stable or benevolent. ~luge
Did Loki or Id ever say anything about the separate binary strategy they pursued for QIII? IIRC, they said that they were going to package the two versions separately so that they could get a better idea of what the size of the market was for Linux games. But that was months ago, and I never heard hide nor hair about the actual results of that experiment. Does anyone who follows games or Loki more closely know what happened? My gut feeling is that if we haven't heard by now, it is a bad sign, but maybe I'm just paranoid. Anyone? Anyone?
Their first album was 1989. So... 11 years v. 19 for Metallica. And not a commercial success until 1994, whereas Metallica has been commercially successful (and one could even argue artistically important) since 1986. I'm not slamming The Offspring or anything, but they aren't anywhere near the musical force (in terms of influence, selling power, or sheer recognition) that Metallica is (or maybe was, considering the last couple of albums.) ~luge
I wish I could agree it was some kind of age/generational thing, but it just isn't. TMBG were formed in 1983, only two years after Metallica (1981). Dre's first album was released in 1992. The difference is that Metallica's Black Album has sold more copies than every TMBG disc ever recorded, and Dre was not only a dominant song-seller, but also has had a hand in the production (and thus the cash stream) of many really successful acts. I won't go so far as to say money corrupts, but it does change perspective and incentives. What I'm trying to say is this: Metallica and Dre, regardless of what generation they are in, are the industry. Whoever replaces them as the next mega-acts will also quickly become part of the industry, and whether or not they "get it" when they were small and poor will be quickly forgotten when they are famous and rolling in the big bucks. I hope you are right about change- but I think that if you expect the change to come from young musicians who retain their values when they strike it rich... well, all I can say is don't hold your breath. ~luge
Yeah, but the bad press of spreading your legs for your fans is a lot different from the bad press of kicking 'em in the nuts. Dunno if she knows that yet. Shame, really- she was one of the few people in the music business I ever respected as even vaguely intelligent. I guess being a mother does change your priorities:) ~luge
Heh. My guess is that they probably wish they were gazillionares... at the point that they are in their careers, most artists are getting screwed hard by their labels and their managers. One of the great ironies of the whole Metallica thing, really, is that they have the least to fear from mp3. As well-known and established artists, they get a much, much higher percentage of the actual revenue stream than a relatively new band like Offspring probably does. So, if they lose a few points in sales it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as a few points might hit a younger and less established bad. (Not to mention they are still living off the fat of the Black album's success... but that's another rant;) ~luge
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Plain old wrong. This is not the first link, but rather a new derivative of it, with a different purpose. OpenBIOS != LinuxBios.
/. However, if you actually cared to improve the quality of /., you could easily have posted it at +2. But no... that would reduce the number of points you could get. Ugh.
~luge
P.S. This is karma whoring at its worst. Not only is the information incorrect, it would have taken all of two seonds to get it right. Instead, you had to rush to get an early post so that you could get modded up. Furthermore, you address it to Slashdot, so that you can attract the moderators who love to complain about
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/m indstorms/gallery/k025e.html
I'm 22 and for the past two summers have lived the dream life of actually getting paid to play with legos. There is better work somewhere, maybe... but I doubt it.
~luge
Yeah, but it was a crappy (1/2? 1/4?) scale AT/AT. I mean a "minifig scale" AT/AT, like this one. C'mon... that would be awesome.
~luge
But... but... it's the real pieces that they are selling. There's been discussion about this at lugnet for some time, and my guess would be that Lego knows that the people who would buy giant bags of legos are also the ones who hate the new stuff with a passion. We won't be seeing glowing pieces in bulk for quite a while, I don't think...
~luge
Some friends and I (who happen to have access to 6 Mindstorms kits through school) have been dreaming/fantasizing about building a motorized AT/AT for ages. It'd require a huge amount of parts, but we think we roughly have the mechanics worked out (one RCX per foot.) Argh.. now if only I had the time...
~luge
Not anything special? Clearly, you haven't watched Monty Python lately...
~luge
You are kidding me... that has to be about the most awesome easter egg I've ever heard of, if only because it's completely inaccessible from the OS itself. Crazy...
~luge
Before you post something, go and search linuxtoday and lwn.net/daily for it. And if it was at either one two weeks ago maybe you shouldn't post it... /. for fresh news... this is about as stale as I've ever seen...)
~luge(I come to
This is the last time I'm going to respond to one of the "Transmeta is closed source" trolls, I swear.
Here is the difference between Free Software and Free Hardware. Opening up the source to Linux allows each and every one of us to grab a compiler and build a kernel and the associated tools. Furthermore, since we can all modify and/or improve and/or fork the code, there is a practical and altruistic value to giving away source.
Opening up the source to the Transmeta soft/hard/firm thing (I dunno exactly what to call it) benefits all of us who have multi-billion dollar fabs in our back yards, so that we can modify the chip design and build our own. What? You mean that you don't have a fab in your living room? Funny, me neither. Guess that means that opening up the Transmeta info wouldn't benefit me, or you. Come to think of it, it would only benefit Intel, maybe AMD. Oh yeah, Motorola. Guess that's about it. Does Linus have any kind of obligation to help them out? No. Does it help him out? Nope. Is there any concievable way that it would be good for anyone except those already bloated corporate behemoths? I'm still waiting...
~luge
I finally came to believe in the use of Mozilla for XP development when my net connection went down on my box and I was forced to use chatzilla to access irc from a windows box. when I finally got access again from my Linux box, I fired up chatzilla (just to check and see, since I had never used it on Linux) and it was identical. Every single motion, action, etc. was exactly the same across the two platforms. I guess I expect this from my browser (which is why it never struck me before with Mozilla) but other programs are supposed to be weird and unpredictable and different across platforms (even Java, at the least, has different L&F.) But with Mozilla, there is none of that. You write it once and it just works.
So, my point- go get the latest nightly builds from ftp.mozilla.org and play with them, and I think you may see the future of XP design. Or maybe not- but it is definitely worth looking into.
~luge
P.S. Oh yeah... forget Linux, Windows, and Apple. Think: "every platform in existence" and then you'll get a clue as to where Mozilla (as a XP UI development tool) is headed.
I think we have a winner :) Good call... I can't find a link to prove it, but I'm pretty sure that the 700 Mhx chip had Windows-specific optimizations while the 400Mhz (while not specifically optimized for Linux) was intended for Linux use. Not sure if it was exclusive, though (whereas the 700 Mhz was definitely for Windows.)
~luge
Since my moderation of this post DOWN doesn't seem to have registered, I'll blow all my moderation in this thread by pointing out that this isn't Bruce Perens. If Taco and Co. really want to bitchslap someone for abusing the system, this guy should be the guy... it's not creative, it's certainly not very funny, and it is badly misleading. It is one thing to lie in posts (sig 11, you listening?) but it is another altogether to lie about your identity in the hopes of confusing or defaming others.
~luge
I've heard all kinds of cool things about 8 1/2, but... it's no longer with us. It has been replaced (according to the docs.)
~luge
I'm pretty (though I can't find a link to prove it) that the name is some kind of weird homage to the film. (I think Pike is a film buff- the old Plan 9 windowing system was called 8 1/2, after the Fellini movie. For those of you who aren't familiar with Plan 9 From Outer Space, it is... well, it isn't "Manos: Hands of Fate" but it is pretty terrible. I hesitate to call it a cult "classic" but it is definitely cult :)
~luge
Bruce Sterling's Island's in the Net (1988) also is an early reference to the same concept. The "Islands" the title refers to are, like HavenCo, island nations (real ones this time- whole countries) who "go pirate" and become havens. It goes into much more detail than Gibson, and includes a lot of discussion of the possibility of terrorist attack, tension with the outside world, and all that. Very interesting read.
~luge
P.S. HavenCo isn't anything compared to what Fidel Castro could in CUBAdo if he wanted to. Think about it- a country with pretty normal trade relations with 95% of the world that hates the US and would love nothing more than to host DeCSS and the like and flick us yet another finger. And his successors (no matter what happens, democracy or otherwise) are pretty guaranteed to hate the US and have good fiber to, say, Mexico, no matter what.
At least let me build one.
HAHAHAHA. You are kidding, right? If you've got a multi-billion dollar fab in your backyard, let me know... Otherwise, I'm fairly sure that the only people in the world who could build "themselves" a Transmeta ship are Intel and AMD (and IBM, but they are already paid to do that.) I mean, I'm sure Andy Grove would do a backflip if they did this, but it wouldn't do the rest of us a damn bit of good. Stupid troll... go work on your skillz and then come back when you can be at least funny...
~luge
Generally, I'm a pretty trusting person, but I wouldn't believe a word the man says. If his testimony in the trial isn't Clintonian enough, go take a look at his books. Rather, grab a first edition of his first book, and then a second edition. Note all the huge changes- MSN is the future in the first edition, and the 'net is the future the second time around. I mean, it's bad enough to lie and say you didn't say something, but to erase history like that without even acknowledging your initial mistake is pretty scary. ~luge
No big company worth their salt would host at a sketchy place like this. Storing data there would be like waving a giant flag that says "I'm guilty of something... come investigate!" And even if they did, they'd certainly never admit to it if push came to shove. They'd pull their data, run like hell, and hope Prince Roy keeps his mouth shut.
~luge
Probably the biggest reason that they've avoided the military and pseudo-military coups that have plagued the rest of Latin America since the Spaniards were thrown out is that they got rid of their military some time ago and are now constitutionally prohibited from having a military. They still have a pretty strong national police, but still... not the same. Interesting idea, and even more surprising that it works given that some of the nations around are not always stable or benevolent.
~luge
Did Loki or Id ever say anything about the separate binary strategy they pursued for QIII? IIRC, they said that they were going to package the two versions separately so that they could get a better idea of what the size of the market was for Linux games. But that was months ago, and I never heard hide nor hair about the actual results of that experiment. Does anyone who follows games or Loki more closely know what happened? My gut feeling is that if we haven't heard by now, it is a bad sign, but maybe I'm just paranoid. Anyone? Anyone?
Their first album was 1989. So... 11 years v. 19 for Metallica. And not a commercial success until 1994, whereas Metallica has been commercially successful (and one could even argue artistically important) since 1986. I'm not slamming The Offspring or anything, but they aren't anywhere near the musical force (in terms of influence, selling power, or sheer recognition) that Metallica is (or maybe was, considering the last couple of albums.)
~luge
I wish I could agree it was some kind of age/generational thing, but it just isn't. TMBG were formed in 1983, only two years after Metallica (1981). Dre's first album was released in 1992. The difference is that Metallica's Black Album has sold more copies than every TMBG disc ever recorded, and Dre was not only a dominant song-seller, but also has had a hand in the production (and thus the cash stream) of many really successful acts. I won't go so far as to say money corrupts, but it does change perspective and incentives. What I'm trying to say is this: Metallica and Dre, regardless of what generation they are in, are the industry. Whoever replaces them as the next mega-acts will also quickly become part of the industry, and whether or not they "get it" when they were small and poor will be quickly forgotten when they are famous and rolling in the big bucks. I hope you are right about change- but I think that if you expect the change to come from young musicians who retain their values when they strike it rich... well, all I can say is don't hold your breath.
~luge
Yeah, but the bad press of spreading your legs for your fans is a lot different from the bad press of kicking 'em in the nuts. Dunno if she knows that yet. Shame, really- she was one of the few people in the music business I ever respected as even vaguely intelligent. I guess being a mother does change your priorities :)
~luge
Heh. My guess is that they probably wish they were gazillionares... at the point that they are in their careers, most artists are getting screwed hard by their labels and their managers. One of the great ironies of the whole Metallica thing, really, is that they have the least to fear from mp3. As well-known and established artists, they get a much, much higher percentage of the actual revenue stream than a relatively new band like Offspring probably does. So, if they lose a few points in sales it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as a few points might hit a younger and less established bad. (Not to mention they are still living off the fat of the Black album's success... but that's another rant;)
~luge