Ok, Dark City I can kind of see, but StarS#!+ Troopers!?! (a.k.a. Melrose place goes on a bug hunt).
And what do you know of Wing commander? What you see in the trailers? I don't know about you, but I think a movie needs to be released before it can be considered the "defining movie" of an era.
To make it harder for non-MS programs to import the documents of course! I'm sure the quicksave just sticks deltas at the end of the file (sort of like stuffing a diff at the end of a file) that none of Microsofts's competitors have been able to reverse engineer yet. Has anyone noticed the size of Word documents exploding after a while with the quicksave option on? Then again, these are Word documents, they always take a lot of space...
Have you tried some of the newer IBM Keyboards. I got one with my 350 4 years ago and the tactile feel is just as you described it. The monster is heavy too, easily three times the weight of a regular keyboard. The only problem is that it is a little loud.
They must have sucked in all of the bad marketing from DEC or something. Probabally just another string of corperate blunders that seem to plague all of the major computer manufacturers.
You might want to try a WAIS implementation like FreeWAIS. This is the sort of thing it's good for, and they aren't overly resource intensive. You will have to append to the "inverse files" whenever you add new content, but that isn't as hard as it sounds.
>With IA64, Intel may finally catch up to the Rxk, >UltraSparc, and Alpha chips. Perhaps. But we'll >have to wait for SGI or HP to make a machine that >isn't bogged down by its own bus architecture.
What are you talking about? I can't think of a single SGI machine that has bus/IO bottleneck issues. Even the new Visual Workstation has a new superwide bus that can easily handle a mere Xenon.
I don't know about 100BaseT, but I KNOW your garden variety Pentium II can't fill a Gigabit Ethernet. Heck, an Ultrasparc or a MIPS R10k can only fill an Gigabit to about 50% before topping out. In fact on the large machines were you see Gigabit installed, you generally find a processor devoted to handling the gigabit.
They probabally aren't using a drive at all. They've probabally just designed some program that sends out a specific stream of bits (maybe incrementing numbers) and another end that reads them and then forgets them. A HD would just slow down the test, besides you'd need a Solid State disk with Fibre just to keep up:)
Like the mansion on the rainy night where the butler did it?
This sort of thing goes on all the time, but only in the software field do we find so much flak over the subject.
The biggest problem with the software industry today is that people see lots of money in it (thanks to M$). That sort of high payoff potental is just the sort of thing that attracts lawyors like bees to honey.
Hmm, renders just fine on my SGI O2 with Netscape 4.5. Of course I can't run IE natively (and it takes FOREVER to render under Softwindows, but that is not IE's fault (I think)).
It seems to me that Microsoft is trying to decieve the DOJ in court (under oath?). Certainly these are grounds for a contempt of court charge, yet all I hear is: "One bright eyed DOJ employee noticed the Microsoft Word and Excel icons appeared on the taskbar for the second half of the demo. The DOJ asked Microsoft to remake the video." (Presumeably so they don't forget to hide the taskbar this time).
Plus this I can connect faster to the internet with 98...and a faster modem stuff.
Clinton could have been impeached for stuff like this (well, maybe, but we certainly would have heard about it about a million times).
Maybe it is just because I know they're CGI, but the people there didn't look quite right. They were a little plasticy IMHO, but excellent quality nonetheless. The deciding factor will be of course when I see someone actually moving (and not just the camera panning). Those blinks were quite realistic though! The real question is: Did the developers incorperate enough detail to make the people dynamic instead of wooden.
You mean you want unbiased articles on /. ?????
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I think it's more like News for Nerds, by Nerds. All Nerdly news All the time. (well most of the time.:)
Unless your tax on gas makes the people too poor to afford a new car. Although a tax on gas will reduce the consumption (isn't gas already taxed like 60 and 70 cents on the gallon in some states?) it won't be as dramatic as you thing. Due to the layout of most of the communities in the US, people HAVE to drive to get anywhere (no bus/train/bike paths, and people are out in the suburbs) so a tax on gas is like a tax on water. People will still use it, but they will try to conserve somewhat.
There is one very important purpose that people havn't hit upon. The life of the media. Cartidges wear out (rather quickly even), and the Nintendo (or Super Nintendo) also wear out. I would not be able to play Dr. Mario anymore if it weren't for ines since our regular Nintendo broke down several years ago.
1. You might want to look into MacWrite. 2. Apple had Opendoc first (well, slightly, but they were first) 3. Maybe they did innovate on this one, although I'm not exactly sure what it is:)
UPN is technically a broadcast network, so DirecTV is forbidden by law to carry it unless you live somewhere where you cannot get broadcast TV. Even then you have to fill out a pile of paperwork and pay mucho $$$ to have the honor of getting broadcast TV over your satellite.
Just thank your local special interest groups for that one.
Well, FreeBSDers check the MD5 every time they use the ports system to install something. What's even better is that since the FreeBSDers all have their own copy of the MD5, simply changing it on the site won't help.
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Ok, Dark City I can kind of see, but StarS#!+ Troopers!?! (a.k.a. Melrose place goes on a bug hunt).
And what do you know of Wing commander? What you see in the trailers? I don't know about you, but I think a movie needs to be released before it can be considered the "defining movie" of an era.
Yow! What is that other guy in the picture drinking? RedEye? ;)
To make it harder for non-MS programs to import the documents of course! I'm sure the quicksave just sticks deltas at the end of the file (sort of like stuffing a diff at the end of a file) that none of Microsofts's competitors have been able to reverse engineer yet. Has anyone noticed the size of Word documents exploding after a while with the quicksave option on? Then again, these are Word documents, they always take a lot of space...
Pronouncing VI as vye will immediatly brand you as a newbie in several circles.
You forgot XLV and Fibrechannel support. :)
Perhaps you should actually read the post before flaming it, particularly the last sentence.
Have you tried some of the newer IBM Keyboards. I got one with my 350 4 years ago and the tactile feel is just as you described it. The monster is heavy too, easily three times the weight of a regular keyboard. The only problem is that it is a little loud.
They must have sucked in all of the bad marketing from DEC or something. Probabally just another string of corperate blunders that seem to plague all of the major computer manufacturers.
You might want to try a WAIS implementation like FreeWAIS. This is the sort of thing it's good for, and they aren't overly resource intensive. You will have to append to the "inverse files" whenever you add new content, but that isn't as hard as it sounds.
>With IA64, Intel may finally catch up to the Rxk,
>UltraSparc, and Alpha chips. Perhaps. But we'll
>have to wait for SGI or HP to make a machine that
>isn't bogged down by its own bus architecture.
What are you talking about? I can't think of a single SGI machine that has bus/IO bottleneck issues. Even the new Visual Workstation has a new superwide bus that can easily handle a mere Xenon.
I don't know about 100BaseT, but I KNOW your garden variety Pentium II can't fill a Gigabit Ethernet. Heck, an Ultrasparc or a MIPS R10k can only fill an Gigabit to about 50% before topping out. In fact on the large machines were you see Gigabit installed, you generally find a processor devoted to handling the gigabit.
They probabally aren't using a drive at all. They've probabally just designed some program that sends out a specific stream of bits (maybe incrementing numbers) and another end that reads them and then forgets them. A HD would just slow down the test, besides you'd need a Solid State disk with Fibre just to keep up :)
Like the mansion on the rainy night where the butler did it?
This sort of thing goes on all the time, but only in the software field do we find so much flak over the subject.
The biggest problem with the software industry today is that people see lots of money in it (thanks to M$). That sort of high payoff potental is just the sort of thing that attracts lawyors like bees to honey.
Hmm, renders just fine on my SGI O2 with Netscape 4.5. Of course I can't run IE natively (and it takes FOREVER to render under Softwindows, but that is not IE's fault (I think)).
You want a good Windows Text editor, try Vim. :)
:)
It's also a good Unix/Be/etc... editor that everyone should use. Of course this is all IMHO.
It seems to me that Microsoft is trying to decieve the DOJ in court (under oath?). Certainly these are grounds for a contempt of court charge, yet all I hear is:
"One bright eyed DOJ employee noticed the Microsoft Word and Excel icons appeared on the taskbar for the second half of the demo. The DOJ asked Microsoft to remake the video." (Presumeably so they don't forget to hide the taskbar this time).
Plus this I can connect faster to the internet with 98...and a faster modem stuff.
Clinton could have been impeached for stuff like this (well, maybe, but we certainly would have heard about it about a million times).
Maybe it is just because I know they're CGI, but the people there didn't look quite right. They were a little plasticy IMHO, but excellent quality nonetheless. The deciding factor will be of course when I see someone actually moving (and not just the camera panning). Those blinks were quite realistic though!
The real question is: Did the developers incorperate enough detail to make the people dynamic instead of wooden.
I think it's more like News for Nerds, by Nerds. All Nerdly news All the time. (well most of the time. :)
Unless your tax on gas makes the people too poor to afford a new car. Although a tax on gas will reduce the consumption (isn't gas already taxed like 60 and 70 cents on the gallon in some states?) it won't be as dramatic as you thing. Due to the layout of most of the communities in the US, people HAVE to drive to get anywhere (no bus/train/bike paths, and people are out in the suburbs) so a tax on gas is like a tax on water. People will still use it, but they will try to conserve somewhat.
I see you read the article! I wonder how many people got that?
There is one very important purpose that people havn't hit upon. The life of the media. Cartidges wear out (rather quickly even), and the Nintendo (or Super Nintendo) also wear out. I would not be able to play Dr. Mario anymore if it weren't for ines since our regular Nintendo broke down several years ago.
After all, Sun gets and icon. :)
1. You might want to look into MacWrite. :)
2. Apple had Opendoc first (well, slightly, but they were first)
3. Maybe they did innovate on this one, although I'm not exactly sure what it is
UPN is technically a broadcast network, so DirecTV is forbidden by law to carry it unless you live somewhere where you cannot get broadcast TV. Even then you have to fill out a pile of paperwork and pay mucho $$$ to have the honor of getting broadcast TV over your satellite.
Just thank your local special interest groups for that one.
Well, FreeBSDers check the MD5 every time they use the ports system to install something. What's even better is that since the FreeBSDers all have their own copy of the MD5, simply changing it on the site won't help.