will there be hacked vehicles with these devices removed available for illegal activity, completely taking the unsupecting police by surprise, at least for the first few weeks? Surely.
"I would like a computer chip that I could attach to the brains of all my contractors so that they would know exactly what I wanted, when I wanted it, and at what price I wanted it. This would save me a lot of time and a lot of yelling."
Add one for the wife, kids and the rest of the world and it would all be juuust fine.
"Seating is limited so register for this FREE opportunity today!"
So if enough Linux users sign up for this thing it could quickly turn into "SCO's Rotten Egg Roadshow 2003" - or at least they won't reach such a broad audience.
I've gotten used to the embedded dictionaries in mobile phones a long time ago, and once you do it's just as fast as this will be.
OK, maybe you can improve typing speed in your text messages a bit, but I think the odds are better that these extra keys will just interfere with the way myself and millions of others are used to typing messages on their cell phones.
Now, without sounding trollish by bringing American morality into this, I'd just like to quote the article:
"Although scientists in Massachusetts had previously mixed human cells and cow eggs in a similar attempt to make hybrid embryos as a source of stem cells, those experiments were not successful."
According to the article, the americans have tried this earlier with cow eggs, supposedly to create a new breed of unstoppable super soldiers with mad cow disease (source: xfiles.com).
The range of the R/C controllers is quite limited so you would have to ski/hike along with the chopper, but it would be great to survey inaccessible areas, plus you won't have to clim every damn hill
This looks like a nice board, but what are the noise levels from that cooling solution?
I try to build my boxes as quiet as possible, and the OTES coolers on their graphics cards has generally been classified as something you should not expose your neighbour to in most reviews. No environmental specs on Abit's pages either (as usual).
That goes for the d220 microtower in general. The ones configured with WinXP also has a note saying:
Estimated ship date: 7/9/2003
(and the usual footnote with "HP has no responsibility for delays" blah, blah)
I see it first and foremost as a very efficient way of introducing people to linux without first having to convinve them that they need to repartition their box and install a new boot loader ("huh? boot loader?"), let alone install linux. With Knoppix etc. you can demo linux to someone in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
It could also be useful if you do contracting of any sort and would like to work on linux instead of you-know-what (you'd need a USB pen drive or the like for your data).
What the author is _really_ trying to say is that is usually referred to as "playability" and in this article as "fun" is the most important design aspect when creating a game. What else is new?
That aside, I really think that in the future the author should try to state his opinions in a more orderly fashion - this is not an article, it's a short opinion littered with quotes and references which serve no other purpose than obscuring the point he's trying to make.
The point is that new software/newer versions which people currently use don't run on Win9x. This is outdated software for outdated people at best, and you're pointing out limitations yourself.
By 'production environment' I mean more or less any company that depend on one or more computers to get their work done with as little hassle as possible. Home users don't mind _too_ much if they have to dual boot - in a company reboots equal lost profits.
I've never even heard of a production environment employing Win9x - it's either WinNT or Win2000 (and I guess people for the most part have moved on to XP by now).
As I see it the whole point of creating a product like Win4Lin is to coerce the _currently existing_ windows user base over to something more secure and better in general, i.e. Linux. These people are not using a Win9x system (not counting people playing old games of 95/98, but they have no interest in this product anyway).
The point is, you're talking about the past yourself. I'm very much aware that VS 6 runs fine on Win98, but VS 6 is outdated as well. VS.NET (7.0 and the recent 7.1) is quickly becoming the development tool of choice for the VS 6 bunch (at least that's what the VS people I know tell me - I don't use it myself).
Enter Win4Lin 5.0 which does not support operating systems which have been out for 2/3 years and recent applications which will only run on these OS'es. I'd say my point is still valid.
This 5.0 release seem pretty pointless to me. Win95/98/Me has never been in use in any sane production environment. Either people are still using NT or they've moved on to 2000/XP a long time ago.
If this should have been useful it would have had to emulate 2000/XP as well. IMHO this is near pointless software.
What makes you think Windows comes _free_ with your computer? You pay for it like anyone else. Buying a computer with no operating system or building it yourself is cheaper.
What's the point in a Linux emulator for windows when linux is _free_ and can easily be installed on another partition?
Anyway, these issues are completely besides the point. Win4Lin, VMWare etc. are for people that wish to _migrate_ from a Windows to a Linux platform, i.e. they would like to run Linux without the need to dualboot just to use those few (still) needed Windows apps. If you want a Linux emulator for Windows it's because you would want to migrate from Linux to Windows (however unlikely). There's no point however, Linux and it's apps has the source code available so they can just be recompiled for the Windows platform - not so the other way around. This has resulted in nice things like Cygwin etc. (there's even windows KDE ports if you'd like to replace your desktop...)
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will there be hacked vehicles with these devices removed available for illegal activity, completely taking the unsupecting police by surprise, at least for the first few weeks? Surely.
Donald Trump:
"I would like a computer chip that I could attach to the brains of all my contractors so that they would know exactly what I wanted, when I wanted it, and at what price I wanted it. This would save me a lot of time and a lot of yelling."
Add one for the wife, kids and the rest of the world and it would all be juuust fine.
"Seating is limited so register for this FREE opportunity today!"
So if enough Linux users sign up for this thing it could quickly turn into "SCO's Rotten Egg Roadshow 2003" - or at least they won't reach such a broad audience.
I've gotten used to the embedded dictionaries in mobile phones a long time ago, and once you do it's just as fast as this will be.
OK, maybe you can improve typing speed in your text messages a bit, but I think the odds are better that these extra keys will just interfere with the way myself and millions of others are used to typing messages on their cell phones.
Uhm, lets see.. "Dubya dubya..." Errr.. can I have another copy of this please?
If you enjoyed this book then you should probably have a look at Generative Programming by Eisenecker and Czarnecki as well.
Well, maybe there would be more women if only the KDE boys could grow up and stop playing with their food
Now, without sounding trollish by bringing American morality into this, I'd just like to quote the article:
"Although scientists in Massachusetts had previously mixed human cells and cow eggs in a similar attempt to make hybrid embryos as a source of stem cells, those experiments were not successful."
According to the article, the americans have tried this earlier with cow eggs, supposedly to create a new breed of unstoppable super soldiers with mad cow disease (source: xfiles.com).
My old crappy Trust "Ami Mouse Scroll Pro" had two way scrolling buttons when I bought it 4 years ago.
Oh, and to me it's completely useless.
The range of the R/C controllers is quite limited so you would have to ski/hike along with the chopper, but it would be great to survey inaccessible areas, plus you won't have to clim every damn hill
This looks like a nice board, but what are the noise levels from that cooling solution?
I try to build my boxes as quiet as possible, and the OTES coolers on their graphics cards has generally been classified as something you should not expose your neighbour to in most reviews. No environmental specs on Abit's pages either (as usual).
That goes for the d220 microtower in general. The ones configured with WinXP also has a note saying: Estimated ship date: 7/9/2003 (and the usual footnote with "HP has no responsibility for delays" blah, blah)
...that "an entire Hollywood production was created on Linux", at least according to this
Hey, it's even the same company.
Well, if he's using gdb to track it down it's not THAT unlikely...
Now if I could only find some RedHat 8/9 RPM's to make it all hassle free... Oh, f!rSt P0sT!
I see it first and foremost as a very efficient way of introducing people to linux without first having to convinve them that they need to repartition their box and install a new boot loader ("huh? boot loader?"), let alone install linux. With Knoppix etc. you can demo linux to someone in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
It could also be useful if you do contracting of any sort and would like to work on linux instead of you-know-what (you'd need a USB pen drive or the like for your data).
What the author is _really_ trying to say is that is usually referred to as "playability" and in this article as "fun" is the most important design aspect when creating a game. What else is new?
That aside, I really think that in the future the author should try to state his opinions in a more orderly fashion - this is not an article, it's a short opinion littered with quotes and references which serve no other purpose than obscuring the point he's trying to make.
The point is that new software/newer versions which people currently use don't run on Win9x. This is outdated software for outdated people at best, and you're pointing out limitations yourself.
By 'production environment' I mean more or less any company that depend on one or more computers to get their work done with as little hassle as possible. Home users don't mind _too_ much if they have to dual boot - in a company reboots equal lost profits.
I've never even heard of a production environment employing Win9x - it's either WinNT or Win2000 (and I guess people for the most part have moved on to XP by now).
As I see it the whole point of creating a product like Win4Lin is to coerce the _currently existing_ windows user base over to something more secure and better in general, i.e. Linux. These people are not using a Win9x system (not counting people playing old games of 95/98, but they have no interest in this product anyway).
The point is, you're talking about the past yourself. I'm very much aware that VS 6 runs fine on Win98, but VS 6 is outdated as well. VS.NET (7.0 and the recent 7.1) is quickly becoming the development tool of choice for the VS 6 bunch (at least that's what the VS people I know tell me - I don't use it myself).
Enter Win4Lin 5.0 which does not support operating systems which have been out for 2/3 years and recent applications which will only run on these OS'es. I'd say my point is still valid.
This 5.0 release seem pretty pointless to me. Win95/98/Me has never been in use in any sane production environment. Either people are still using NT or they've moved on to 2000/XP a long time ago.
If this should have been useful it would have had to emulate 2000/XP as well. IMHO this is near pointless software.
What makes you think Windows comes _free_ with your computer? You pay for it like anyone else. Buying a computer with no operating system or building it yourself is cheaper.
What's the point in a Linux emulator for windows when linux is _free_ and can easily be installed on another partition?
Anyway, these issues are completely besides the point. Win4Lin, VMWare etc. are for people that wish to _migrate_ from a Windows to a Linux platform, i.e. they would like to run Linux without the need to dualboot just to use those few (still) needed Windows apps. If you want a Linux emulator for Windows it's because you would want to migrate from Linux to Windows (however unlikely). There's no point however, Linux and it's apps has the source code available so they can just be recompiled for the Windows platform - not so the other way around. This has resulted in nice things like Cygwin etc. (there's even windows KDE ports if you'd like to replace your desktop...)
It wasn't a joke at all you might say.
I think that what's actually the point here is that they've shipped 1 billion x86 processors. They make a bunch of other kinds of silicon as well.
Or use someone elses bandwidth at any rate. /.ing an .edu site is quite impressive.