I got on a nostalgia kick after reading this story and found a great site for Star Raiders. You, sir, are correct. I bow to your superior recollection.
Ergo be damned, I miss the Atari and (blast from the past) Wico joysticks of old. They withstood my lower-middle-class whiteboy-in-an-ethnic-neighborhood angst, plowing photon torpedos against the Krylons in Star Raiders.
I'll take a stab at it. You're not seeing much in terms of off-the-shelf, branded AMD-based server systems... since the gigabit ethernet market is pretty much the same as the supported/branded server market, I would guess it would make sense for any optimizations for vendor-provided drivers to be Intel-centric. I did notice that one table that would indicate a bottleneck on the AMD side, but it could also just be that there was a peculiarity with throughput on that one motherboard as well.
Its rare when I find an idea that adjusts the way I deal with newbies. I hadn't even thought of how the purchasing cluelessness of others effects myself when examined in big-picture context. If only more of the manufacturers who make the ala carte parts made the same whiz-bang top-of-the-line overpriced systems.
Mental exercise: copyright law for corporations is modified to extend only until the death of the last contributor to a work. Disney sues to keep an elderly cartoonist or voice actor on life support, though the family wants to let go. Surreal.
Palm has learned from Apple's mistakes? Say what? Seems Palm is reinventing Apple's mistakes instead. Apple's foray into separating their hardware and software, the licensing of the OS to other hardware vendors was a dismal failure. Only after Apple pulled in the licensing reins, and focused on design and tight integration for their own products did they become a player again. Palm was very innovative with the Palm V and the PalmOS has been great in general. But the hardware has started to lag, and they're relying on licensees to push the platform forward. Just like the Macintosh platform in the early-mid nineties. The m500 series is just a re-hash of the V now. They've only come out with evolutionary changes.
I actually agree that splitting the OS and the hardware is probably a good idea in Palm's case. Comparing Palm to Apple in terms of a hardware/software licensing split might not be the best thing to do if you're trying to cast it in a favorable light.:)
Is it just me or is the case upside down in the picture? If they made a mistake like that on the site, I think I'm going to be a bit wary of the hardware...
From where I stand, I see the ultimate fate of humanity isn't looking too different than the Borg. We are in the process of augmenting ourselves with machinery (both within and without) at the same time as we're advancing networking and developing artifical intelligence. To me, the ultimate end result of this curve is large scale human-machine convergence with some form of shared intelligence. There will be the "haves", and the "have-nots" at first... But intelligence is rarely tempered with compassion in groupthink scenarios, and a networked intelligence is the quintessential form of that. In a situation like this, I can see the "have-nots" being:
Assimilated (The hive mind knows what is best for you!)
Subjugated (There are no resources to assimilate, use the unassimilated as slaves to gain the resrouces to complete the task).
Murdered (The cost/benefit of assimilation is too high, and the unassimilated are a potential danger to the hive).
Although its kinda grim, would being a Borg be all that bad? Is being an individual as important as having the seemingly unlimited resources of a hive mind? Is the creativity of a billion people collaborating through a hive mind any more or less than the creativity of a single man?
Last I checked, Amiga was working on a multimedia API for small devices, with a focus on games. The Amiga environment is present on the new Sharp Zaurus. The SDK looks interesting, in spite of it being java-based.:)
More sympathetic to the cause? Oh that's what it was for. I thought that if enough sites changed color it would somehow be impossible for the CDA to pass into law. Silly me!:)
P.S.: That was sarscasm.
P.P.S.: Yes, I know, pointing out my own sarscasm is pretty damn lame
EFF history eh? Makes me want to change my page background black to stop the Communications Decency Act, and put up a Blue Ribbon. I think it all started so people would have an excuse to use the Netscape-proprietary BGCOLOR attribute to the <BODY> tag, and the corresponding <FONT> tags, personally. Heck, I used server-push to make moving images before browsers supported animated GIFs, so I'd take any excuse to mangle a page. In all seriousness, folks... it IS a good idea to donate. They're doing the grunt work to protect our freedoms.
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What kind of phone call would require a real-time view of your rear?
Tried contacting several times, got auto-responder with trite mimicking of ebay feedback.
So you're saying it was like the war in Afganistan?
My head just exploded. I should trap for excessive recursion next time.
I got on a nostalgia kick after reading this story and found a great site for Star Raiders. You, sir, are correct. I bow to your superior recollection.
I'd date myself, except I'm not into guys.
Ergo be damned, I miss the Atari and (blast from the past) Wico joysticks of old. They withstood my lower-middle-class whiteboy-in-an-ethnic-neighborhood angst, plowing photon torpedos against the Krylons in Star Raiders.
Whingy? I love AC's.
What's wrong with being pedantic and vague? Heck, that describes my music to a tee...
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You're both right. It was Bowie AND Queen collaborating. Go watch some VH1, buddy!
Harlan or Larry?
Yes.
Lack-Of-Vavcabulary Nazi?
I'll take a stab at it. You're not seeing much in terms of off-the-shelf, branded AMD-based server systems... since the gigabit ethernet market is pretty much the same as the supported/branded server market, I would guess it would make sense for any optimizations for vendor-provided drivers to be Intel-centric. I did notice that one table that would indicate a bottleneck on the AMD side, but it could also just be that there was a peculiarity with throughput on that one motherboard as well.
Because the hardware on the cards themselves have a maximum MTU.
Somebody set up us the bomb!!
Its rare when I find an idea that adjusts the way I deal with newbies. I hadn't even thought of how the purchasing cluelessness of others effects myself when examined in big-picture context. If only more of the manufacturers who make the ala carte parts made the same whiz-bang top-of-the-line overpriced systems.
Mental exercise: copyright law for corporations is modified to extend only until the death of the last contributor to a work. Disney sues to keep an elderly cartoonist or voice actor on life support, though the family wants to let go. Surreal.
Palm has learned from Apple's mistakes? Say what? Seems Palm is reinventing Apple's mistakes instead. Apple's foray into separating their hardware and software, the licensing of the OS to other hardware vendors was a dismal failure. Only after Apple pulled in the licensing reins, and focused on design and tight integration for their own products did they become a player again. Palm was very innovative with the Palm V and the PalmOS has been great in general. But the hardware has started to lag, and they're relying on licensees to push the platform forward. Just like the Macintosh platform in the early-mid nineties. The m500 series is just a re-hash of the V now. They've only come out with evolutionary changes.
I actually agree that splitting the OS and the hardware is probably a good idea in Palm's case. Comparing Palm to Apple in terms of a hardware/software licensing split might not be the best thing to do if you're trying to cast it in a favorable light. :)
Is it just me or is the case upside down in the picture? If they made a mistake like that on the site, I think I'm going to be a bit wary of the hardware...
I'll just take *one* of these. :)
From where I stand, I see the ultimate fate of humanity isn't looking too different than the Borg. We are in the process of augmenting ourselves with machinery (both within and without) at the same time as we're advancing networking and developing artifical intelligence. To me, the ultimate end result of this curve is large scale human-machine convergence with some form of shared intelligence. There will be the "haves", and the "have-nots" at first... But intelligence is rarely tempered with compassion in groupthink scenarios, and a networked intelligence is the quintessential form of that. In a situation like this, I can see the "have-nots" being:
Although its kinda grim, would being a Borg be all that bad? Is being an individual as important as having the seemingly unlimited resources of a hive mind? Is the creativity of a billion people collaborating through a hive mind any more or less than the creativity of a single man?
Last I checked, Amiga was working on a multimedia API for small devices, with a focus on games. The Amiga environment is present on the new Sharp Zaurus. The SDK looks interesting, in spite of it being java-based. :)
I thought you just had a measuring device for Odo.
More sympathetic to the cause? Oh that's what it was for. I thought that if enough sites changed color it would somehow be impossible for the CDA to pass into law. Silly me! :)
P.S.: That was sarscasm.P.P.S.: Yes, I know, pointing out my own sarscasm is pretty damn lame
EFF history eh? Makes me want to change my page background black to stop the Communications Decency Act, and put up a Blue Ribbon. I think it all started so people would have an excuse to use the Netscape-proprietary BGCOLOR attribute to the <BODY> tag, and the corresponding <FONT> tags, personally. Heck, I used server-push to make moving images before browsers supported animated GIFs, so I'd take any excuse to mangle a page. In all seriousness, folks... it IS a good idea to donate. They're doing the grunt work to protect our freedoms.