OK, there's some debate as to when this point actually was, but whatever- close enough. I submitted this story because I just wanted it acknowledged that it has actually happened- I don't think it matters much if its off by a few weeks.
Windows XP gots been on de market fo' some year now, so's naturally everyone be clamo'in' fo' details on de next version uh de wo'ld's most popular opuh'tin' system -- o' so's Microsoft Co'p. Jes hang loose, brud. hopes.
Details is dribblin' out, but Microsoft won't say some wo'd on de reco'd, declinin' t'comment fo' dis sto'y. Analysts and software developuh's gotsn't been briefed, eider. Ah be baaad...
But here's whut gots leaked out so's far.
De next version uh de wo'ld's most popular desktop opuh'tin' system, code-dojiggerd "Longho'n," be due out in test fo'm next year and in final fo'm in 2004. It gots'ta some new look and feel, real different fum Windows XP's. Its guts gots'ta also be radically different fum Windows XP's, cuz' dey're based on XML -- 'estensible markup language, de emergin' lin'ua franca uh de Internet. Man! And it gots'ta be da damn fust version dat won't funcshun fully widout new hardware.
"Wid de possible 'sepshun uh Windows NT, which wuz some change fum de ground down, dis could be da damn biggest change ever" t'Windows, said Giga analyst Rob Enderle.
Observers recon' dat Longho'n will, dig dis:
# Create some new stash system dat replaces FAT, FAT32 (an acronym fo' Stash Allocashun Table) and even de newa' NTFS (de Windows NT stash system), de most modern ways uh sto'in' data in Windows. To make life easia' fo' clunker users, it gots'ta simplify locatin' data by usin' de stash dojigger o' content, regardless uh wheda' data be contained in some spreadsheet, some wo'd-processin' document o' an e-mail. After-market products do dis now, but dey impose some puh'fo'mance penalty. Slap mah fro!
Enderle said da damn new stash system gots'ta also funcshun efficiently wid hard rolls holdin' at least one terabyte uh data. WORD! Dat's 1,000 gigabytes, o' well upside 1,000 compressed movies, o' mo'e dan 700,000 novels de size uh "War and Peace." Such rolls is 'spected t'hit da damn market by 2004.
Creatin' such some stash system be an 'estrao'dinarily difficult tax', one dat gots been attempted fo' years by database companies, includin' Microsoft, but dat gots neva' reached fruishun.
De guts uh de new stash system is bein' engineered mainly in conjuncshun wid "Yukon," Microsoft's code dojigger fo' de next version uh its SQL Serva' relashunal database management system. WORD!
But some beta version uh Yukon ain't due out until mid-2003, which makes some onlookers wonda' how de stash-systems team in de Windows division kin dig started on adaptin' dat technology fo' mo'e general-purpose use.
"Evidence dey're makin' some progress would be some professional developuh's' conference 'esplainin' it, so's developuh's kin know whut dey need t'know t'use it," said Michael Cherry, an analyst wid Direcshuns on Microsoft in Kirkland. "I duzn't even see some date scheduled fo' one."
Even if such some stash system kin be achieved, it would gots'ta be do'oughly tested befo'e use, as convertin' data t'de new system would be necessary -- but could destroy de data. WORD!
Present some sin'le, unified way uh interactin' wid honky codes. Microsoft duzn't dink clunker users should gots'ta use one honky code t'read and scribble some wo'd-processin' stash, anoda' to use some spreadsheet, and some dird t'co'respond via e-mail. Rader, de company dinks, some sin'le honky code should handle it all.
Obviously dis means some do'ough overhaul uh not plum Windows but also de Office software suite, Chief Executive Steve Ballma' has confirmed in published clunker-industry repo'ts
Howeva' attractive and effective such some new interface might be, de company may be overestimatin' users' willin'ness t'change deir habits, some analysts say. Slap mah fro!
Once it's understood where certain tax's gots'ta be puh'fo'med, many users is content t'go dere, even if de set-up be -- as clunker geeks would say -- sub-optimal. Wheda' users gots'ta be willin' t'learn some new way uh usin' deir clunkers plum a'cuz it's "better" be jimmey to quesshun.
Not t'menshun de 'espense uh installin' new software, says Cherry. Slap mah fro!
"Dere gots'ta t'be compellin' reasons" t'install de new opuh'tin' system, cuz' "it costs co'po'ashuns some fo'tune t'roll it out," he said.
# Include enhanced security. Longho'n gots'ta be da damn fust opuh'tin' system designed fo' use wid PCI Express, de moderbo'd design dat gots'ta succeed da damn PCI standard currently in fo'ce, Enderle said. In addishun t'providin' some puh'fo'mance boost uh up t'eight times current speeds, de new design be required t'harness de increased security features uh Longho'n, which Enderle said is embogot wasted in Microsoft's "Palladium"-branded trustwo'dy-computin' initiative.
"Neida' Linux no' dat slow mo-fo ties de opuh'tin' system t'hardware," he said.
"Dis could brin' some higha' level uh security dan nuthin we've eva' seen. 'S coo', bro. It gots'ta mos' completely prevent da damn platfo'm fum bein' compromised."
To dose "facts" about Longho'n, add da damn hopes uh oda' analysts. Ideally, Longho'n gots'ta "fundamentally integrate" audio, video and images in some "visually stunnin'" manner, much likes de Mac's OS X, said Tim Bajarin, super-dude uh de Campbell, Calif., research firm Creative Strategies Inc. Co' got d' beat!
It should also be able t'synchronize da damn multiple PCs, sucka'al digital assistants and clunker-equipped cell phones -- Microsoft calls dem SmartPhones -- many sucka's gots'ta own, Bajarin said.
But digtin' Longho'n out da damn doo' at Microsoft could be some challenge. De company be strugglin' t'get.Net Serva' -- de fust serva' version uh Windows XP -- shipped. It also gots service packs fo' Windows 2000 and Windows XP t'produce on an ongoin' basis. And some new opuh'tin' system snatch'd at least 20 monds, sometimes 40 monds, Cherry said.
"I'd likes t'see Microsoft act likes de opuh'tin'-system leada' it is, not promisin' sco'es uh new features o' lettin' rumo's fly but steppin' fo'ward and sayin', 'We gots'ta X, Y and Z features and not A, B and C,' " he said.
"Dat would be leadership, especially when so's many sucka's is dependent on ya'."
The market has a way of working these things out. If MS charges too much, people won't buy the product, and their business model will fail. PEople forget that the consumer determines prices by choosing whether or not to buy. This $300 has been dictated by the consumer, and will only change when the consumer changes, monopolies have no bearing on this fact.
To be honest, I hate all OSes. I can use any of the big ones (windows, mac 9, X, linux, BSD) with equal ease, but they all have crippling shortcomings that annoy the hell out of me. I think a lot of people are like me- they don't want to waste time being the monkey that keeps a machine running, they want to use the machine to get the work done. The OS should just be transparent.
Why is this story presented as 'propaganda'? I mean, I disklike windows as much as the next person, but lets at least acknowledge they they have made a serious effort and spent a lot of money to improve security and that that effort has paid off. At least give them props for that.
We nerds ain't so good at appreciating the most significant artistic achievements of our respective generations. Maybe more art-related stories on here would broaden a few horizons?:)
What good can possible come from such a negative event? This is just childish slander. Lets try to be more constructive in our criticisms and make a good name for ourselves (I mean linux advocates when I say ourselves) instead of spouting this silly nonsense.
Q. How can I change my media access control (MAC) address under Windows NT 4.0?
A. Each network adapter card has a MAC address, which machines on local subnets use to talk to each other. MAC addresses are usually burned into the adapters during the manufacturing process. To overwrite a network adapter card's default MAC address, perform the following steps:
1. Start the registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\\Parameters.
3. From the Edit menu, select New - String Value.
4. Type a name of NetworkAddress, and press Enter.
5. Double-click the new value, and enter the adapter's new MAC value.
6. Click OK.
7. Close the registry editor.
8. Reboot the machine.
This makes me very happy- One should be able to deliver their cutting remarks and wage psychiological warfare upon the weak with one liners like "Yeah thats what your mom did last night, cock jocky."
That is the essence of multiplayer gaming, and any attempt to deprive us of that should be fought bitterly.
Sorry, but you must have not been alive during this time period. 3Dfx got killed by strong competition from Nvidia- the GF2 in particular. They were outengineered, plain and simple. Nvidia bought them after they declared bankrupcty and were in tatters.
"An Athlon 2600+ will stomp a P4-2.53GHz, and with
DDR-2700 will parallel a P4-2.8GHz for about $200
less per chip"
No it won't. Not even close. Not "in some apps" not "with this configuration", not in any way shape or form. Even if you get a 2800+ with 3200, 333FSB OCed to 3200 RAM speeds, it is barely on par with a 2.53
That and considering the fact that the 2400 is just now available, and it won't be until 03 that you can get your hands on a 2600 or 2800.
I like AMD, they give better price/performance, but be realistic, they are far behind in the 'king of the hill' race.
Ok I'm not going to use any words that even resemble beowulf or cluster in this post anywhere!
Hopefully AMD will be able to produce a quality product that far down the road. They've been bleeding money at an alarming rate and some say they're focusing too much on marketing instead of engineering- much like 3dfx did back in the day. Let's hope this pans out- my framerate could definitely be more killer.
"the average major-company CEO's compensation from 45 times that of the average worker in the early 1970s to about 500 times worker pay today"
But they are the main figureheads responsible for the astounding progress of our economy- they increase productivity, inspire workers, and set a shining example of moral clarity for all.
Warning: excessively realistic and cynical comments follow
Sorry buddy, but you will not get justice in this country unless you have the money for a team of attack lawyers. Anything that may cost Microsoft money will be dealth with swiftly and efficiently, and unless you can match them benjamin for benjamin on legal fees, it's not going to work. Think I'm wrong? Look at the prosecution and conviction rates for poor people compared to rich people for the exact same crime and similar evidence.
From the article: Ashcroft: "I consider it my job as attorney general to make sure that this and all our freedoms endure"
Which freedoms endure exactly? Ones like not being able to round up US citizens and hold them in perpetuity without charges? Or maybe the freedom to be free from unreasonable search & seizure?
Sorry, but the only freedom I see consistently protected is my country is the freedom to use as much damn oil as you please.
Good, this project should fail. It would allow us to real work on things like AIDS and cancer, instead of wasting cycles on one method that is the least likely way of ever finding any alien life.
I am so proud to live in a country that produces such a game. Fuck the dimwits in the military, I am proud of the people who created this wonderful game. *teary eyes* What a wonderful country.
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OK, there's some debate as to when this point actually was, but whatever- close enough. I submitted this story because I just wanted it acknowledged that it has actually happened- I don't think it matters much if its off by a few weeks.
$1/GB. Wow.
"Can anyone tell me why I would want to spend several k$ on a machine that doesn't even run Linux (yet)?"
This is probably the most clear cut example of blind stupidity I've ever seen on slashdot. Everything is summed up in this quote.
News for Taco, stuff that matters to him. His television. His pop culture prefences. Yadda yadda.
Blah blah corporate rule take over the world why isn't everything free blah blah evil empire conspiracy.
Nonsense.
Windows XP gots been on de market fo' some year now, so's naturally everyone be clamo'in' fo' details on de next version uh de wo'ld's most popular opuh'tin' system -- o' so's Microsoft Co'p. Jes hang loose, brud. hopes.
.Net Serva' -- de fust serva' version uh Windows XP -- shipped. It also gots service packs fo' Windows 2000 and Windows XP t'produce on an ongoin' basis. And some new opuh'tin' system snatch'd at least 20 monds, sometimes 40 monds, Cherry said.
Details is dribblin' out, but Microsoft won't say some wo'd on de reco'd, declinin' t'comment fo' dis sto'y. Analysts and software developuh's gotsn't been briefed, eider. Ah be baaad...
But here's whut gots leaked out so's far.
De next version uh de wo'ld's most popular desktop opuh'tin' system, code-dojiggerd "Longho'n," be due out in test fo'm next year and in final fo'm in 2004. It gots'ta some new look and feel, real different fum Windows XP's. Its guts gots'ta also be radically different fum Windows XP's, cuz' dey're based on XML -- 'estensible markup language, de emergin' lin'ua franca uh de Internet. Man! And it gots'ta be da damn fust version dat won't funcshun fully widout new hardware.
"Wid de possible 'sepshun uh Windows NT, which wuz some change fum de ground down, dis could be da damn biggest change ever" t'Windows, said Giga analyst Rob Enderle.
Observers recon' dat Longho'n will, dig dis:
# Create some new stash system dat replaces FAT, FAT32 (an acronym fo' Stash Allocashun Table) and even de newa' NTFS (de Windows NT stash system), de most modern ways uh sto'in' data in Windows. To make life easia' fo' clunker users, it gots'ta simplify locatin' data by usin' de stash dojigger o' content, regardless uh wheda' data be contained in some spreadsheet, some wo'd-processin' document o' an e-mail. After-market products do dis now, but dey impose some puh'fo'mance penalty. Slap mah fro!
Enderle said da damn new stash system gots'ta also funcshun efficiently wid hard rolls holdin' at least one terabyte uh data. WORD! Dat's 1,000 gigabytes, o' well upside 1,000 compressed movies, o' mo'e dan 700,000 novels de size uh "War and Peace." Such rolls is 'spected t'hit da damn market by 2004.
Creatin' such some stash system be an 'estrao'dinarily difficult tax', one dat gots been attempted fo' years by database companies, includin' Microsoft, but dat gots neva' reached fruishun.
De guts uh de new stash system is bein' engineered mainly in conjuncshun wid "Yukon," Microsoft's code dojigger fo' de next version uh its SQL Serva' relashunal database management system. WORD!
But some beta version uh Yukon ain't due out until mid-2003, which makes some onlookers wonda' how de stash-systems team in de Windows division kin dig started on adaptin' dat technology fo' mo'e general-purpose use.
"Evidence dey're makin' some progress would be some professional developuh's' conference 'esplainin' it, so's developuh's kin know whut dey need t'know t'use it," said Michael Cherry, an analyst wid Direcshuns on Microsoft in Kirkland. "I duzn't even see some date scheduled fo' one."
Even if such some stash system kin be achieved, it would gots'ta be do'oughly tested befo'e use, as convertin' data t'de new system would be necessary -- but could destroy de data. WORD!
Present some sin'le, unified way uh interactin' wid honky codes. Microsoft duzn't dink clunker users should gots'ta use one honky code t'read and scribble some wo'd-processin' stash, anoda' to use some spreadsheet, and some dird t'co'respond via e-mail. Rader, de company dinks, some sin'le honky code should handle it all.
Obviously dis means some do'ough overhaul uh not plum Windows but also de Office software suite, Chief Executive Steve Ballma' has confirmed in published clunker-industry repo'ts
Howeva' attractive and effective such some new interface might be, de company may be overestimatin' users' willin'ness t'change deir habits, some analysts say. Slap mah fro!
Once it's understood where certain tax's gots'ta be puh'fo'med, many users is content t'go dere, even if de set-up be -- as clunker geeks would say -- sub-optimal. Wheda' users gots'ta be willin' t'learn some new way uh usin' deir clunkers plum a'cuz it's "better" be jimmey to quesshun.
Not t'menshun de 'espense uh installin' new software, says Cherry. Slap mah fro!
"Dere gots'ta t'be compellin' reasons" t'install de new opuh'tin' system, cuz' "it costs co'po'ashuns some fo'tune t'roll it out," he said.
# Include enhanced security. Longho'n gots'ta be da damn fust opuh'tin' system designed fo' use wid PCI Express, de moderbo'd design dat gots'ta succeed da damn PCI standard currently in fo'ce, Enderle said. In addishun t'providin' some puh'fo'mance boost uh up t'eight times current speeds, de new design be required t'harness de increased security features uh Longho'n, which Enderle said is embogot wasted in Microsoft's "Palladium"-branded trustwo'dy-computin' initiative.
"Neida' Linux no' dat slow mo-fo ties de opuh'tin' system t'hardware," he said.
"Dis could brin' some higha' level uh security dan nuthin we've eva' seen. 'S coo', bro. It gots'ta mos' completely prevent da damn platfo'm fum bein' compromised."
To dose "facts" about Longho'n, add da damn hopes uh oda' analysts. Ideally, Longho'n gots'ta "fundamentally integrate" audio, video and images in some "visually stunnin'" manner, much likes de Mac's OS X, said Tim Bajarin, super-dude uh de Campbell, Calif., research firm Creative Strategies Inc. Co' got d' beat!
It should also be able t'synchronize da damn multiple PCs, sucka'al digital assistants and clunker-equipped cell phones -- Microsoft calls dem SmartPhones -- many sucka's gots'ta own, Bajarin said.
But digtin' Longho'n out da damn doo' at Microsoft could be some challenge. De company be strugglin' t'get
"I'd likes t'see Microsoft act likes de opuh'tin'-system leada' it is, not promisin' sco'es uh new features o' lettin' rumo's fly but steppin' fo'ward and sayin', 'We gots'ta X, Y and Z features and not A, B and C,' " he said.
"Dat would be leadership, especially when so's many sucka's is dependent on ya'."
Thats seriously a lot of fucking jolt. Dear god. I mean really, holy fucking shit. Damn.
Mad props to all my OSes that didn't make it. Lots o' good kernels were undone on the streets of Compton.
The market has a way of working these things out. If MS charges too much, people won't buy the product, and their business model will fail. PEople forget that the consumer determines prices by choosing whether or not to buy. This $300 has been dictated by the consumer, and will only change when the consumer changes, monopolies have no bearing on this fact.
To be honest, I hate all OSes. I can use any of the big ones (windows, mac 9, X, linux, BSD) with equal ease, but they all have crippling shortcomings that annoy the hell out of me. I think a lot of people are like me- they don't want to waste time being the monkey that keeps a machine running, they want to use the machine to get the work done. The OS should just be transparent.
7-10% Are you serious? Winamp never gets above 3% on my AXP 2000. Can anyone offer an explanation as to why this is?
Why is this story presented as 'propaganda'? I mean, I disklike windows as much as the next person, but lets at least acknowledge they they have made a serious effort and spent a lot of money to improve security and that that effort has paid off. At least give them props for that.
Hee hee- I feel sorry for people who think NPR conveys some sort of superior culture. Elitism just never seems to die.
We nerds ain't so good at appreciating the most significant artistic achievements of our respective generations. Maybe more art-related stories on here would broaden a few horizons? :)
What good can possible come from such a negative event? This is just childish slander. Lets try to be more constructive in our criticisms and make a good name for ourselves (I mean linux advocates when I say ourselves) instead of spouting this silly nonsense.
Q. How can I change my media access control (MAC) address under Windows NT 4.0?
c es\\Parameters.
A. Each network adapter card has a MAC address, which machines on local subnets use to talk to each other. MAC addresses are usually burned into the adapters during the manufacturing process. To overwrite a network adapter card's default MAC address, perform the following steps:
1. Start the registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi
3. From the Edit menu, select New - String Value.
4. Type a name of NetworkAddress, and press Enter.
5. Double-click the new value, and enter the adapter's new MAC value.
6. Click OK.
7. Close the registry editor.
8. Reboot the machine.
This makes me very happy- One should be able to deliver their cutting remarks and wage psychiological warfare upon the weak with one liners like "Yeah thats what your mom did last night, cock jocky."
That is the essence of multiplayer gaming, and any attempt to deprive us of that should be fought bitterly.
Sorry, but you must have not been alive during this time period. 3Dfx got killed by strong competition from Nvidia- the GF2 in particular. They were outengineered, plain and simple. Nvidia bought them after they declared bankrupcty and were in tatters.
"An Athlon 2600+ will stomp a P4-2.53GHz, and with DDR-2700 will parallel a P4-2.8GHz for about $200 less per chip"
No it won't. Not even close. Not "in some apps" not "with this configuration", not in any way shape or form. Even if you get a 2800+ with 3200, 333FSB OCed to 3200 RAM speeds, it is barely on par with a 2.53
That and considering the fact that the 2400 is just now available, and it won't be until 03 that you can get your hands on a 2600 or 2800.
I like AMD, they give better price/performance, but be realistic, they are far behind in the 'king of the hill' race.
Ok I'm not going to use any words that even resemble beowulf or cluster in this post anywhere!
Hopefully AMD will be able to produce a quality product that far down the road. They've been bleeding money at an alarming rate and some say they're focusing too much on marketing instead of engineering- much like 3dfx did back in the day. Let's hope this pans out- my framerate could definitely be more killer.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!!
Er, sorry, I'll go sit in the corner now.
"the average major-company CEO's compensation from 45 times that of the average worker in the early 1970s to about 500 times worker pay today"
But they are the main figureheads responsible for the astounding progress of our economy- they increase productivity, inspire workers, and set a shining example of moral clarity for all.
Oh wait...
Warning: excessively realistic and cynical comments follow
Sorry buddy, but you will not get justice in this country unless you have the money for a team of attack lawyers. Anything that may cost Microsoft money will be dealth with swiftly and efficiently, and unless you can match them benjamin for benjamin on legal fees, it's not going to work. Think I'm wrong? Look at the prosecution and conviction rates for poor people compared to rich people for the exact same crime and similar evidence.
From the article: Ashcroft: "I consider it my job as attorney general to make sure that this and all our freedoms endure"
Which freedoms endure exactly? Ones like not being able to round up US citizens and hold them in perpetuity without charges? Or maybe the freedom to be free from unreasonable search & seizure?
Sorry, but the only freedom I see consistently protected is my country is the freedom to use as much damn oil as you please.
*Pours out some of the Colt 45 for the OS's from my hood that didn't make it* I'll miss you man.
Good, this project should fail. It would allow us to real work on things like AIDS and cancer, instead of wasting cycles on one method that is the least likely way of ever finding any alien life.
:)
Sorry, someone had say it...
I am so proud to live in a country that produces such a game. Fuck the dimwits in the military, I am proud of the people who created this wonderful game. *teary eyes* What a wonderful country.