...or is Microsoft making themselves an awfully easy target lately?
Microsoft Corp. plans to argue in court hearings next week that if antitrust sanctions sought by state prosecutors are granted, the company would be forced to pull its latestWindows computeroperating systems off the market and be unable to develop new systems.
I couldn't decide which smartass comment to make, so what the hell? I'll post 'em both.
...And a collective cheer was heard from computer users worldwide!
...and...
Good! Pull 'em! Start over and hope you can get it right this time. I mean, the previous code must have been horrible if it wasn't possible, as you claim, to remove something as unrelated to operating system funtionality as the web browser!
I mean seriously, we have or are about to have remakes/redos of Planet of the Apes, Rollerball, H.G. Wells' Time Machine, and others that I can't remember.
New sequels to Terminator, Tron, and Indiana Jones? Argh!
And you know the sequels to all three of those movies are just going to be showcases for SGI & friends, with little to no plot.
But hey, if they do it well, good for them. I'll go see it. I'm just kind of getting sick of movies relying entirely on name recognition to drive sales.
This will be possible as soon as drive manufacturers get around to building hard drives and the like with a native (or at least semi-native) FireWire (aka IEEE1394) interface. Most FireWire cards I have seen have that mystery internal connector. FireWire might even provide enough power to power the drive itself. How does daisy-chaining internal drives with one cable sound?
I haven't read much into Serial ATA, but that sounds promising also.
Well, if you don't like the video, make use of the PCI slot. Ditch the sound card. ATI just announced a PCI Radeon 7000 for the Mac, so I would imagine it's either already out or coming soon for the PC. Sure it's PCI, but it'll still spank a Savage4. Plus, the Radeon 7000 has a DVI port, so you could hook up a nice LCD display.
Having said that, I'd love to see one of these slightly taller, with either 2 PCI slots, or a PCI and an AGP slot. Then there wouldn't be much to complain about! (Actually, I wonder if there would be room for another card with the floppy gone? I mean, who needs a floppy anyway?)
As others have pointed out, it isn't nearly as attractive as the new iMac, I wouldn't mind having it on my desk next to one.:)
...this sounds like a good idea to me. In fact, I'm surprised all the databases weren't already linked together. I mean, you've given this information anyway, what's the difference if all the DMVs have access to it?
For example, I have patented a system of communication not involving face to face speech or psychic transmissions, usually involving another medium for transmission.
That's right, I have patented letter-writing, faxing, email, telephone conversations, chat rooms and telegrams, among others.
In other news, the patent stupidity train keeps a rollin'.
If the Power Mac G5 is introduced at Macworld on Monday*, you can all have your 64-bit goodness by the months end!
*I'm not really expecting it to be released this soon, maybe later this year. But who knows? It could happen.
Ah, this is no ordinary Lisa... This one's running at 18MHz with 9MB of RAM. This is one hot-rodded Lisa... (A stock Lisa has a 5MHz chip and either 512k or 1MB of RAM)
I've seen a server or two running on Mac Pluses (8MHz 68000 vs. the Lisa/Lisa2/MacXL's 5MHz 68000), some Classics (8MHz 68000), LCs (16MHz 68020) and SE/30s (16MHz 68030), but never a Lisa.
Good show to whoever got it set up. Too bad it could never hope to handle a slashdotting...
Believe it or not, Mac Pluses and other 68k Macs (running either MacHTTP or some form of 68k BSD) seem to make pretty good servers for sites with fairly low traffic (Not to mention cheap!). Of course, you'll never see Slashdot running on a Quadra.:)
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
Ah, Sacramento is a real city now that it's gonna get Slashdotted.:) Now if only it had been spelled right. Now some city called "Sacremento" is going to get all the credit.
More on topic, this is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Go artists! Tell the damn RIAA to shove it up their money holes!
I agree, this is very interesting, I'll have to read the whole thing some time. (I've got four computers in front of me, stereo is on, TV is on, and it's 1:30am. I can't pay attention to anything.:)) But I've gotta say -
It's like a planned obsolescence in the intelligence of the species.
- that is one of the creepiest things I've heard in quite a while...
Slashdot Mirror
$1600? Nope. more like $1299. :)
Check the online Apple Store's refurb section. ("Special deals" at the bottom of the left side.) Some really sweet deals in there.
I couldn't decide which smartass comment to make, so what the hell? I'll post 'em both.
...And a collective cheer was heard from computer users worldwide!
...and...
Good! Pull 'em! Start over and hope you can get it right this time. I mean, the previous code must have been horrible if it wasn't possible, as you claim, to remove something as unrelated to operating system funtionality as the web browser!
But
Rip. Mix. Burn.
is much catchier than
Copy songs from a CD onto your hard drive. Rearrange them into the order that you choose. Write these songs to a custom CD.
;)
Yeah, you can always count on a good story from AtAT.
I mean, you know Eisner is coked out of his mind when Intel is defending Apple. I wish ol' Walt was still around to smack some sense into this idiot.
Mmmm. Local call.
Much fun is to be had by me.
Excellent. </montyburns>
So go to your local used CD shop to see if it's copy protected (aka "broken"). Look at the number of used CDs.
:)
"OK, let's see, this CD has 5 used copies, this one has 3, this one has 12, this one has 8, this one has 65."
Can you pick the copy protected CD out of that lineup?
(Sure, that particular CD could just suck, but either way, you don't want it.)
I could have sworn that when the first 1GHz laptops came out a few months ago, They took one apart on TechTV to show the water cooling and all.
iPod.
And I guess that dual-gigahertz G4 that it's attached to will get you laid for at least a year...
I mean seriously, we have or are about to have remakes/redos of Planet of the Apes, Rollerball, H.G. Wells' Time Machine, and others that I can't remember.
New sequels to Terminator, Tron, and Indiana Jones? Argh!
And you know the sequels to all three of those movies are just going to be showcases for SGI & friends, with little to no plot.
But hey, if they do it well, good for them. I'll go see it. I'm just kind of getting sick of movies relying entirely on name recognition to drive sales.
</rant>
*Ahem*
:)
I'm sorry. I really couldn't help myself. It was too easy.
But seriously, I have seen a few third party ATX cases with handles built in, and a few bolt-on handle kits.
This will be possible as soon as drive manufacturers get around to building hard drives and the like with a native (or at least semi-native) FireWire (aka IEEE1394) interface. Most FireWire cards I have seen have that mystery internal connector. FireWire might even provide enough power to power the drive itself. How does daisy-chaining internal drives with one cable sound?
I haven't read much into Serial ATA, but that sounds promising also.
Well, if you don't like the video, make use of the PCI slot. Ditch the sound card. ATI just announced a PCI Radeon 7000 for the Mac, so I would imagine it's either already out or coming soon for the PC. Sure it's PCI, but it'll still spank a Savage4. Plus, the Radeon 7000 has a DVI port, so you could hook up a nice LCD display.
:)
Having said that, I'd love to see one of these slightly taller, with either 2 PCI slots, or a PCI and an AGP slot. Then there wouldn't be much to complain about! (Actually, I wonder if there would be room for another card with the floppy gone? I mean, who needs a floppy anyway?)
As others have pointed out, it isn't nearly as attractive as the new iMac, I wouldn't mind having it on my desk next to one.
...this sounds like a good idea to me. In fact, I'm surprised all the databases weren't already linked together. I mean, you've given this information anyway, what's the difference if all the DMVs have access to it?
What's Holding Up Broadband in the U.S.?
I don't know...
[he says as downloading a Darwin ISO at ~250K/second]
For example, I have patented a system of communication not involving face to face speech or psychic transmissions, usually involving another medium for transmission.
That's right, I have patented letter-writing, faxing, email, telephone conversations, chat rooms and telegrams, among others.
In other news, the patent stupidity train keeps a rollin'.
If the Power Mac G5 is introduced at Macworld on Monday*, you can all have your 64-bit goodness by the months end! *I'm not really expecting it to be released this soon, maybe later this year. But who knows? It could happen.
Put all the talentless boy bands (redundant, I know) in the movie. As long as:
a) They don't talk, or "sing."
b) They get killed off post-haste.
Given these two rules, it would be quite enjoyable.
Ah, this is no ordinary Lisa... This one's running at 18MHz with 9MB of RAM.
This is one hot-rodded Lisa... (A stock Lisa has a 5MHz chip and either 512k or 1MB of RAM)
I've seen a server or two running on Mac Pluses (8MHz 68000 vs. the Lisa/Lisa2/MacXL's 5MHz 68000), some Classics (8MHz 68000), LCs (16MHz 68020) and SE/30s (16MHz 68030), but never a Lisa.
:)
Good show to whoever got it set up. Too bad it could never hope to handle a slashdotting...
Believe it or not, Mac Pluses and other 68k Macs (running either MacHTTP or some form of 68k BSD) seem to make pretty good servers for sites with fairly low traffic (Not to mention cheap!). Of course, you'll never see Slashdot running on a Quadra.
Maybe they could upgrade to a Pentium
:)
Uh, hello? This plane is made out of paper! Paper is flammable!
To recap: Paper Airplane + Pentium = Flaming Paper Airplane.
Given two equally equipped airplanes, it's kinda common sense that the one that isn't on fire will fly longer and farther.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
'Nuff said.
Hmm...
My computer has 320 Men in Black of RAM, how about you?
Ah, Sacramento is a real city now that it's gonna get Slashdotted. :) Now if only it had been spelled right. Now some city called "Sacremento" is going to get all the credit.
More on topic, this is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Go artists! Tell the damn RIAA to shove it up their money holes!
I can finally find that %$#@ frisbee I threw up on my roof ten years ago!
Hm, look at that, I'm getting a little bit thin up top...
- that is one of the creepiest things I've heard in quite a while...