Many companies are moving to this method. They will freely distribute their software. However, the software does not work until a serial number "unlocks" the software. This may sound like the way software has always been; it has, but it's not the future. In the future software companies, such as Microsoft, will freely distribute their software, then you go online and purchase a license. Depending on the company this license could be time limiting as well. So the sale is actually of a license.
Good call, I bet you are right.
I only hope they upgrade the memory (curently 99MB) to at least 128MB. Since this is marketed to college kids it really should have a built in ethernet card. And since this is MTV they should upgrade the sound system- decent audio card/on board plus the speakers definately need some work.
If this computer used the Nvidia nForce design this would be a multimedia powerhouse. It is actually a perfect application for the mobo. It was meant for the low-price market but gives very good quality. Any college kid needs good graphics for his games, and 5.1 dolby surround for his/her movies. Than all the added features such as a tv/radio tuner. This PC may be the ultimate box for any living room. w00t!
I go to school at The Wentworth Institute of Technology and the internet connection is great because it was well thought out and executed. We are a small school in Boston with about 1200 kids on campus and 3300 total. All dorms and classrooms have a switched 10/100mbs connection, the dorm and classroom buildings are linked to each other and the network operations center with gigabit over fiber. Our school has a limited DS3 which is suprisingly adequate. The reason is: they use bandwith shaping at the firewall to adjust the amount of peer to peer file sharing programs that get through. This makes everyone happy, good response from web sites and you can still use the P2P programs. I can routinely get approxomately 600KB/s from downloads from FilePlanet.com.
What the GNU community has to do now is create quality configuration tools for our text based config files. Yes, modifying the text file directly is very powerful, but MSCEs and n00bs don't understand that; they may not even understand a part of the configuration. However, this is where Microsoft has the upperhand- easy setup/deployment. I know everyone hates this idea but: Apache NEEDS a graphical configuration wizard. I encourage someone to work on this right away as I am currently working on a configuration tool for Samba.
- Mike
Rational Software makes a program called SoDa wich will create documentation from source into a MS Word document.
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First off, going on a first date to dinner and having to tell your girlfriend that you need to take a call from a video game would be pretty dorky.
hahahaha... Mod this shit up as mad funny.
There's a difference between FIRST and Botball.
1. FIRST is by high school kids who have very little knowledge before going in.
2. FIRST's robots get built in 6 weeks or you don't play.
"Waiting for Star Wars is an art project designed to capture the evolution and journey of one person's wait for a single event (Star Wars Episode II). It will be captured by time-indexed photographs taken every hour as well as pictures and video of the people we interact with."
It would be great, but I don't seen it happening. A top of the line G4 currently uses PC133 SDRAM and ATA/166 hard drives. They will more than likely unveil future plans for 64bit, but I think we will see something more modest in terms of hardware at the show like maybe DDR-SDRAM and ATA/133 hard drives in a brand new G5 (and I guess you could also count the new case as hardware too).
Always consider that leak is intentional
In the letter Microsoft said they will have DH Brown perform independant tests to show what MS products are in the long run less expensive than Linux and particularly IBM's linux mainframe offering.
MS hopes that system admins (the MSCE kind) will see this and say, "wow, Microsft is really serious about their products being less. I knew that linux trend was a fad." Microsoft never has to have the research done, some folks will already believe it just because Microsoft implies that it is true.
Of course this letter ain't fooling the Slashdot crowd...
Perhaps, since you live in Australia and have such high taxes your government wants to supress internet usage because they don't collect sales tax on internet sales.
Sure, Intel's Itanium is out but no one is taking that seriously in the desktop market. Way too pricey for most users. AMD's 64 bit chip code named Hammer will come out in the first quarter of 2002. This is when the rest of us will see 64 bit computing.
I think this shows the power of open source software. Everyone, thought Rik's system would be great. Unfortunately it was not, so Linus used Arcangeli's new VM code. Problem solved. Stable as ever. This major OS change happened over a couple months I bet Redmond couldn't make that happen if a VM bug was found now in XP.
I first eXPerienced this phenomenon while using Office XP's speech recognition technology. I did all the training so Office knew my voice very well. However, it would never type a "swear word" after I would say it. Shit turns to ship, and so forth. It makes me really uneasy that Microsoft removes functionality from a produst because they think it will appeal to the "video games cause violence" population.
Putting this type of technology on a mobo will be a logistics nightmare. This will take the cooperation of processor makers, chipset manafacturers, peripheal manafacturers... need I go on.
I bet we will first see this from the graphics card industry. They our in the best position to be the first ones to capitalize on fiber. They do not need other companies cooperation. They have the AGP bus and it's their territory from there.
I believe the AGP bus provides 6.4 GB/s of data transfer. However, what causes the slowdown is the GPU hitting its RAM. If that was made optical we would be seeing come crazy stuff coming out of the likes of ID Software.
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I have met Dean Kamen andhave seen him many times at FIRST events. The denim is a trademark for him. He will never let it go.
Many companies are moving to this method. They will freely distribute their software. However, the software does not work until a serial number "unlocks" the software. This may sound like the way software has always been; it has, but it's not the future. In the future software companies, such as Microsoft, will freely distribute their software, then you go online and purchase a license. Depending on the company this license could be time limiting as well. So the sale is actually of a license.
Good call, I bet you are right.
I only hope they upgrade the memory (curently 99MB) to at least 128MB. Since this is marketed to college kids it really should have a built in ethernet card. And since this is MTV they should upgrade the sound system- decent audio card/on board plus the speakers definately need some work.
If this computer used the Nvidia nForce design this would be a multimedia powerhouse. It is actually a perfect application for the mobo. It was meant for the low-price market but gives very good quality. Any college kid needs good graphics for his games, and 5.1 dolby surround for his/her movies. Than all the added features such as a tv/radio tuner. This PC may be the ultimate box for any living room. w00t!
I go to school at The Wentworth Institute of Technology and the internet connection is great because it was well thought out and executed. We are a small school in Boston with about 1200 kids on campus and 3300 total. All dorms and classrooms have a switched 10/100mbs connection, the dorm and classroom buildings are linked to each other and the network operations center with gigabit over fiber. Our school has a limited DS3 which is suprisingly adequate. The reason is: they use bandwith shaping at the firewall to adjust the amount of peer to peer file sharing programs that get through. This makes everyone happy, good response from web sites and you can still use the P2P programs. I can routinely get approxomately 600KB/s from downloads from FilePlanet.com.
What the GNU community has to do now is create quality configuration tools for our text based config files. Yes, modifying the text file directly is very powerful, but MSCEs and n00bs don't understand that; they may not even understand a part of the configuration. However, this is where Microsoft has the upperhand- easy setup/deployment. I know everyone hates this idea but: Apache NEEDS a graphical configuration wizard. I encourage someone to work on this right away as I am currently working on a configuration tool for Samba.
- Mike
Rational Software makes a program called SoDa wich will create documentation from source into a MS Word document.
First off, going on a first date to dinner and having to tell your girlfriend that you need to take a call from a video game would be pretty dorky. hahahaha... Mod this shit up as mad funny.
There's a difference between FIRST and Botball.
1. FIRST is by high school kids who have very little knowledge before going in.
2. FIRST's robots get built in 6 weeks or you don't play.
"Waiting for Star Wars is an art project designed to capture the evolution and journey of one person's wait for a single event (Star Wars Episode II). It will be captured by time-indexed photographs taken every hour as well as pictures and video of the people we interact with."
WTF has this guy been smoking?
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It would be great, but I don't seen it happening. A top of the line G4 currently uses PC133 SDRAM and ATA/166 hard drives. They will more than likely unveil future plans for 64bit, but I think we will see something more modest in terms of hardware at the show like maybe DDR-SDRAM and ATA/133 hard drives in a brand new G5 (and I guess you could also count the new case as hardware too).
Always consider that leak is intentional
In the letter Microsoft said they will have DH Brown perform independant tests to show what MS products are in the long run less expensive than Linux and particularly IBM's linux mainframe offering.
MS hopes that system admins (the MSCE kind) will see this and say, "wow, Microsft is really serious about their products being less. I knew that linux trend was a fad."
Microsoft never has to have the research done, some folks will already believe it just because Microsoft implies that it is true.
Of course this letter ain't fooling the Slashdot crowd...
Perhaps, since you live in Australia and have such high taxes your government wants to supress internet usage because they don't collect sales tax on internet sales.
Why did they put Microsoft's PocketPC 2002 in Sepetember and not include Windows XP in October or the Linux 2.4 kernel in February?
Sure, Intel's Itanium is out but no one is taking that seriously in the desktop market. Way too pricey for most users. AMD's 64 bit chip code named Hammer will come out in the first quarter of 2002. This is when the rest of us will see 64 bit computing.
I think this shows the power of open source software. Everyone, thought Rik's system would be great. Unfortunately it was not, so Linus used Arcangeli's new VM code. Problem solved. Stable as ever. This major OS change happened over a couple months I bet Redmond couldn't make that happen if a VM bug was found now in XP.
I first eXPerienced this phenomenon while using Office XP's speech recognition technology. I did all the training so Office knew my voice very well. However, it would never type a "swear word" after I would say it. Shit turns to ship, and so forth.
It makes me really uneasy that Microsoft removes functionality from a produst because they think it will appeal to the "video games cause violence" population.
Putting this type of technology on a mobo will be a logistics nightmare. This will take the cooperation of processor makers, chipset manafacturers, peripheal manafacturers... need I go on. I bet we will first see this from the graphics card industry. They our in the best position to be the first ones to capitalize on fiber. They do not need other companies cooperation. They have the AGP bus and it's their territory from there. I believe the AGP bus provides 6.4 GB/s of data transfer. However, what causes the slowdown is the GPU hitting its RAM. If that was made optical we would be seeing come crazy stuff coming out of the likes of ID Software.