The provided example for pointing out the problems with bash was just a really bad pick.
You are not required to use teh shorthand initialization of a variable at export. It is a shotcut and that is all. It is not necessary to use that shortcut. So, while yes it does not behave exclusively like bourne, it is a frivilous point.
I would have liked to have seen some better examples.
"If bash is invoked with sh as its name (argv[0]) then its supposed to act like Bourne - but that just doesnt happen (for example: export FOO=bar is *not* valid Bourne shell syntax, you must say FOO=bar; export FOO)"
Not quite right. the syntax export VAR=VALUE is a shorthand method. It is still perfectly alright to VAR=VALUE and then export VAR.
I've not run into a comptability problem running scripts under bash, but that does not mean they exist. You can of course recompile bash to function differently ie, for statements can act more like C for statements then their bash versions. Still, tinkering with your shell nulls all warranties, in a sense anyway.
Bash has a huge install base and is most likely the shell you will find on most linux systems. If you are really interested in supporting it, you will most likely have to code around its problems. ie, doing a revision check and using X function instead of Y.
"No Problem Sir..."
""
"Up on your right there is a WalMart, do you see it?"
Uh, yeah, sure... but what...
"Pull into the parking lot so I might give you some indepth instructional proceedures."
OK...
"WalMart is having a special on Remington Pump Shotguns, they normally retail for..."
Wait, I need to get to...
"Sure, proceed north for 3 miles and I'll alert you when you reach THAT destination."
"On your right is a StarBucks giving a special discount to OnStar Customers!"
I really really need to get to 1234 bovine...
There is a really important meeting that I must attend, if I don't make it, it could mean the end of my career and all dreams!
"Oh that sounds important..."
""
""
Um, sir, this looks like the same walmart I was at an hour ago. My god, the meeting is over... I'm ruined! What is your problem!
"You've reached WalMart, home of the Wally arsenal collection! Your profile suggests this would be perfect"
Compaq has licensed dos for such things. The floppies are dos driven and require no outside software. Which is what mother board manufacturers would ultimately do if they were to continue to use legacy dos applications for firmware updates.
Hey Bruce, a while back I know you appeared (or were supposed to) at Origins (Columbus,OH) and hosted an all nighter LARP session (Live Action Role Playing). I really wanted to go just see you in person, but alas I wasn't old enough to be hanging out all night in a city that was far from mine.
I really wish I had not missed it, but is there a chance this would ever happen again?
I'm not sure of the details governing this, but I assume one of the RPG companies involve bought and paid this session. How was your experience with such activities?
Both CmdrTaco and Hemos had some good words to say about all of this.
We have seen empires rise and fall in just a short while. We still have some time to see if the open source model will succeed or fail.
VA is doing what it needs to do to survive. This is a good_thing(tm) in my opinion. What is important is they are still giving back to the community. Such is most likely the future we will see. Large companies using and benefiting from those open source works and while be it their base product(s) may not be free in whole, they will provide some method to repay the community as they can.
There will never be one path that all places take. I'm certain there will be some organizations that will survive and profit by completely open source. There will also be those who give back in other means and there will be those will simply give.
Before you ask if corporate welfare is the right path to take, ask yourself what are the goals of many projects. A great deal of effort is to simply produce something others will use and the benefits of having someone else assist in this is definately in line with that idea.
Some tyan motherboards I know of do not require an operating system to flash with.
All is needed is to insert a floppy with a rom image stored in it. Choose whatever particular method you decide.
On boot, if you are holding a specific key, it scan's the floppy drive for an image. If the image is intact, it will update the bios from the image.
I seem to recall some sparc and digital hardware doing this as well. Compaq has a great deal of floppies that have an entire environment to do such fun things. The compaq stuff rides on top of dos.
I was a freshman in college and still fairly clueless. A little better then others and my fancy at the time was hacking on novelle. This started back in highschool and it was really really fun to see what trouble I could cause.
Win95 had just came out, but most of our systems were still Win3.11 and really didn't have the power for that bulky OS. Off the bat I was already jaded with windows. I had to open 3 mosaic sessions on 3 different systems. I would just hop to another box when the current one crashed.
So during a session of complaing about the finer points of my dislike of Windows, I was mentioned of an OS that was all command line. I was immediately asking more questions. This was completely amazing to me. With a little memorization a system could be managed with just a few commands and no sluggish point and click bs.
Eventually I hooked up with a group and we founded a computer society on campus. We were all a group driven to explore Linux. So I spent more time learning things about the nix world. This was really at a loss to my class time, but was well worth it.
Then fast forward a few years...
Bills were slowly piling up, which happens when you don't have a job. This led to me seeking a posistion in tech support with the local ISP. ZoomNet was really an interesting place and there was alot to be gained there. Eventually I left tech support and kinda fell into a posistion with our engineering department. After a short while our primary SA left during the OneMain buy out.
I was really scared at this point. No one knew what would happen and no one trusted what was told to them. We all knew consolidation would come at some point and then we would be out of work. I accepted the posistion as the primary SA and wasn't really happy about it. I didn't enjoy the idea of all my friends leaving and with the market really booming I had considered a couple dozen offers of leaving.
I did stay and I learned a great deal in that time. Eventually OneMain ran out of money (lavish spending like most other.com booms). Eventually we were purchased by Earthlink.
It has really been a great experience. I've gotten to go to some great places, meet some interesting people and continue to grow.
During this time my job eventually became my career and as such I really didn't have the time to attend school anymore.
Now it looks as if I might finally return to school and I will now carry with me a great deal more wisdom.
Apparently security coordinators at COMDEX read slashdot. They especially noted the satirical remarks regarding: "What next, strip searches?".
Security personal were noted as saying, "Thats a great idea!" While some were skeptical, others went so far as to improve on the now open source communities ideas. Later, a unanimous decision yeilded on implementing open source specifications for strip searches with body cavity investigations. These would later be utilized at the convention.
COMDEX Security Marshals have decided to fully develope this open source concept and protocals. They are currently in talks with several venture capitalists to fund a new e-commerce web site. No further details were provided at the time of announcement.
Additionaly it should be noted that have been talks concerning a fork in the now ongoing works. One security personal was quite upset with the current implementation.
"I just don't like limiting myself to one hand. Power user's should be able to use two if they really want."
Actually, all you are talking about are better detonater drivers.
The nVidia drivers really sucked for about the first year of win2k. It just so happens they have finally gotten it right about the time of XP releasing. It took about the same time for the linux detonater drivers to really shine as well.
Like I said, perceptions can be fooled by what we want to see. However, if you had been running those same olders drivers on beta XP you would have had the same issues as with your Win2k counterpart.
Your references have no bearing on the discussion of relevancy. Racial and ethnic slurs go a little further past the line (similar to a tomahawk missile crossing the baltic ocean).
Idiot and moron are two very commonly accepted forms of speaking disproval. The context which they are used in denotes the strength of the allegation.
What is deemed offensive is what society deems it as. Those same peers who determine our laws and our values. This is why public nudity is illegal in most places I know, but yet other countries allow public nude beaches (at least topless I've seen). This is because their society deems that not to be offensive.
In our society few would argue that idiot and moron carry the same strength as saying "Nigger."
Thus when I say you are an idiot for using such drstic comparisonss, I have not stepped over the line in my use of language.
If I had said you were a fucking moron for using such drastic comparisons, then I would have stepped over the line.
I'm not sure of the impact that will occurr because microsoft chooses to drop a few words from its thesauras. Perhaps the wrong is where a corporation or smaller entity is choosing the path society should take. I'll remind you, MS has been found to be a monopoly. As such they are treated differently then other entities. They have more resources, leverage, and ability to cause great harm then other organizations. This really means they should be watched a great deal more carefully then the rest.
I have a hard time believing there would actually be an improvement over 98. Windows98 is rather unstable, but that lack of stability comes from the shortcuts they made to increase performance. (ie, run on crap hardware). In the end, the footprint is a great deal smaller then that of the newer OS's.
Often when we think something will perform better, our perceptions are a bit tainted.
I've done this before, its a rather common reaction.
This is complete guesswork, but here are my thoughts.
There are different ways of doing it. Like actually requiring the user rip it from cd first. Possibly, re-encode existing mp3's as they are sent out. So, joe blow sends out blah.mp3, but the person on the other end of the share gets blah.pmf. So now it cannot be listened to except in the napster client and cannot be distributed unless it was within the napster client. (embedded tags could say its ok for joe blow to play this, but none other)
Give it your best guess, anything you come up with is probably possible and high crackable.
The only selling point.... The music we would download from napster would be completely legit downloads. No worries about wrong doing right?
Now for the nagative side of things...
First off, to keep everyone from distributing these nifty little music files it will most likely come in a protected propietary format. To play you must and most definately will pay. Napster will play it and maybe media player. Remember way back when... there was an article about napster licensing/writing some protected media format. Perhaps someone else can dig up the article.
Assumming they go for a protected media format(now dubbed pmf) there will most likely be a windows only client. I really hate OS lockins. Especially since I stream my mp3's to my workstations. (icecast/mp3) This pmf will probably not work with your existing mp3 player periphreals. (No more music for the car)
Just as everyone has pointed out. We are again likely to see a peer to peer network sharing. You have to pay to share your music.
Maybe I'm wrong, but these assumptions are based from logical guesses (human nature/greed).
I wonder if these still aren't available somewhere and relatively cheaply.
These were absolutely great!
A friend built an 8 foot told humanoid construct. It didn't quite move a great deal, but it was fascinating at the time.
I myself constructed a small two foot electric chair. I took the aluminum from cans and took strips along the arm rests and legs to for conduction. Then later cut the leads from the lights and battery construx thingie. It was quite interesting... mom didn't agree. It was dismantled later to end her shouts.
The system guys behind these large ISP's are *gasp* slashdotters too.
No one wants carnivore on their system. From the information I know (loosely collected from over the internet and slashdot posts), the concerns are that it could too easily gain information from other users. To me carnivore sounds like an overglorified packet sniifer. (Of course we will really never know until the code is released to those who can make an honest assessment)
Earthlink cooperates with the FBI all of the time on warrants. Earthlink has its own software that will serve the needs of the FBI. Thus there is no need for carnivore. So in the end, the FBI's information is gleaned and those communications of customers not cited in the warrant are kept private.
No one is saying, come in, sniff the network for those Arab bastards. Alot of people share the same values as yourselfs.
Slashdot held under the tremendous load. Yeah, it was sluggish at times. It was sluggish when all the other sites were failing.
I stayed home a little earlier on tuesday to watch the news. I didn't want to leave for work, but it wasn't really an option to stay home. I was really hoping I could keep up on the events with most of the major news sources being online.
Slashdot served as a place of information. Many posters were pasting articles as they were able to retrieve them from sites as they opened up temporarily.
All of slashdot team's efforts and the posters deserve a good deal of thanks.
After the terrorist attack it looks like fear will be used to fuel what some legislatures have been wanting.
We don't want to lose our freedom or our lives to an aggressor. Likewise, we don't want to lose our freedom in our own country by our own government.
Already this attack has injected a healthy burst of cash flow into the military.
Now, they wish to limit our cryptography. Of course many threads have pointed out the fact the bad guys(tm) would never use these versions. This is simply using fear to gain what you have wanted all along.
What will fear be used to limit next? What will it be used to gain?
I would not doubt if there is already some conjecture to give more power to government agencies for search and seizure.
I'm all in favor of doing whats possible to strengthen our defences. A healhty checks and balance system must be obtained above all else. This was what our fundamental structure was built on and will continue to serve the needs of the people. Let us not see it destroyed out of fear.
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With an 8 stage pipeline, as opposed to the 20 stage pipeline in the P4, clock frequencies are obviously not as high (~1 GHz). This beast has a small wang... its not the size that counts, but how you use it. (no giggling from the girls damn't)
130 Watts power consumption... Who needs space heaters anyway?
...6mb of on die cache... OY! Hold your wallet tight, not for the light bank accounted!
I'm sure many people can appreciate 64 bit integer ops; for me, it means single instruction xor for the 64 bit hash codes used in chess transposition tables.
Not quite what the intel boys will be using in their next commercial. However, the wizards in marketing will be stressing the enhanced features of porn browsing. The fourth blue intel commando will be a scantily clad woman... further emphasizing the need for this processor which will not just make the internet faster, but will speed on your favorite pron sights.
The my.mp3 software had a client application that would verify you did indeed have the cd.
Later you could listen to the music via streaming at any location from my.mp3's streaming servers which contained those mp3s.
I found this service quite useful and was a member.
However, the music industry did not like this and took suit. It was probably settled out of court. I'm not sure of the details.
If this is the case, then another company now wants to sue mp3.com because they "ripped" the music to mp3 format for the user. Those mp3s were then saved by users and then distributed.
Kinda a shotty lawsuit if this is the concept. They should go ahead and sue people making mp3 rippers too. (doesn't matter they have a legitimate use, people could have distributed mp3s with those utilities!)
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Why Timothy it is still a great day.
;)
We won't be so hard on you anymore! We of course have the new guy to pick on.
We are all just waiting for Chrisd to slip up so that we might flame him to a cinder.
Rest easy young Tim, you are no longer a slashdot boy, you are a slashdot man!
The provided example for pointing out the problems with bash was just a really bad pick.
You are not required to use teh shorthand initialization of a variable at export. It is a shotcut and that is all. It is not necessary to use that shortcut. So, while yes it does not behave exclusively like bourne, it is a frivilous point.
I would have liked to have seen some better examples.
"If bash is invoked with sh as its name (argv[0]) then its supposed to act like Bourne - but that just doesnt happen (for example: export FOO=bar is *not* valid Bourne shell syntax, you must say FOO=bar; export FOO)" Not quite right. the syntax export VAR=VALUE is a shorthand method. It is still perfectly alright to VAR=VALUE and then export VAR. I've not run into a comptability problem running scripts under bash, but that does not mean they exist. You can of course recompile bash to function differently ie, for statements can act more like C for statements then their bash versions. Still, tinkering with your shell nulls all warranties, in a sense anyway. Bash has a huge install base and is most likely the shell you will find on most linux systems. If you are really interested in supporting it, you will most likely have to code around its problems. ie, doing a revision check and using X function instead of Y.
Lost again! Drat!
Oh please OnStar gods help me!
"Hello, OnStar BOFH here"
Yeah, I'm lost, I'm trying to find 1234 Bovine...
"No Problem Sir..."
""
"Up on your right there is a WalMart, do you see it?"
Uh, yeah, sure... but what...
"Pull into the parking lot so I might give you some indepth instructional proceedures."
OK...
"WalMart is having a special on Remington Pump Shotguns, they normally retail for..."
Wait, I need to get to...
"Sure, proceed north for 3 miles and I'll alert you when you reach THAT destination."
"On your right is a StarBucks giving a special discount to OnStar Customers!"
I really really need to get to 1234 bovine...
There is a really important meeting that I must attend, if I don't make it, it could mean the end of my career and all dreams!
"Oh that sounds important..."
""
""
Um, sir, this looks like the same walmart I was at an hour ago. My god, the meeting is over... I'm ruined! What is your problem!
"You've reached WalMart, home of the Wally arsenal collection! Your profile suggests this would be perfect"
AAAAARGG!
How much were those shotguns?
Yeah,
;)
Origins used to be very good about entertaining their players who never left the convention. Onee week long, 24/7 convention fun.
My friends just sleep in the room showing anime 24/7
To bad I missed it though...
I should also point out.
Compaq has licensed dos for such things. The floppies are dos driven and require no outside software. Which is what mother board manufacturers would ultimately do if they were to continue to use legacy dos applications for firmware updates.
Hey Bruce, a while back I know you appeared (or were supposed to) at Origins (Columbus,OH) and hosted an all nighter LARP session (Live Action Role Playing). I really wanted to go just see you in person, but alas I wasn't old enough to be hanging out all night in a city that was far from mine.
I really wish I had not missed it, but is there a chance this would ever happen again?
I'm not sure of the details governing this, but I assume one of the RPG companies involve bought and paid this session. How was your experience with such activities?
Both CmdrTaco and Hemos had some good words to say about all of this.
We have seen empires rise and fall in just a short while. We still have some time to see if the open source model will succeed or fail.
VA is doing what it needs to do to survive. This is a good_thing(tm) in my opinion. What is important is they are still giving back to the community. Such is most likely the future we will see. Large companies using and benefiting from those open source works and while be it their base product(s) may not be free in whole, they will provide some method to repay the community as they can.
There will never be one path that all places take. I'm certain there will be some organizations that will survive and profit by completely open source. There will also be those who give back in other means and there will be those will simply give.
Before you ask if corporate welfare is the right path to take, ask yourself what are the goals of many projects. A great deal of effort is to simply produce something others will use and the benefits of having someone else assist in this is definately in line with that idea.
Some tyan motherboards I know of do not require an operating system to flash with.
All is needed is to insert a floppy with a rom image stored in it. Choose whatever particular method you decide.
On boot, if you are holding a specific key, it scan's the floppy drive for an image. If the image is intact, it will update the bios from the image.
I seem to recall some sparc and digital hardware doing this as well. Compaq has a great deal of floppies that have an entire environment to do such fun things. The compaq stuff rides on top of dos.
Actually, with a primitive HUD this could be entirely useful. Johnny Nmemonic anyone?
It is absolutely perfect for my senior project.
I had planned on using the actual and quite dated power glove, but this is a great replacement.
What is my senior project?
Why designing and implementing a remote control mechanism for my car.
Yeah, sure it probably would end up in a few homicides and going to sleep with the unit on really isn't recommended.
In the begining...
.com booms). Eventually we were purchased by Earthlink.
I was a freshman in college and still fairly clueless. A little better then others and my fancy at the time was hacking on novelle. This started back in highschool and it was really really fun to see what trouble I could cause.
Win95 had just came out, but most of our systems were still Win3.11 and really didn't have the power for that bulky OS. Off the bat I was already jaded with windows. I had to open 3 mosaic sessions on 3 different systems. I would just hop to another box when the current one crashed.
So during a session of complaing about the finer points of my dislike of Windows, I was mentioned of an OS that was all command line. I was immediately asking more questions. This was completely amazing to me. With a little memorization a system could be managed with just a few commands and no sluggish point and click bs.
Eventually I hooked up with a group and we founded a computer society on campus. We were all a group driven to explore Linux. So I spent more time learning things about the nix world. This was really at a loss to my class time, but was well worth it.
Then fast forward a few years...
Bills were slowly piling up, which happens when you don't have a job. This led to me seeking a posistion in tech support with the local ISP. ZoomNet was really an interesting place and there was alot to be gained there. Eventually I left tech support and kinda fell into a posistion with our engineering department. After a short while our primary SA left during the OneMain buy out.
I was really scared at this point. No one knew what would happen and no one trusted what was told to them. We all knew consolidation would come at some point and then we would be out of work. I accepted the posistion as the primary SA and wasn't really happy about it. I didn't enjoy the idea of all my friends leaving and with the market really booming I had considered a couple dozen offers of leaving.
I did stay and I learned a great deal in that time. Eventually OneMain ran out of money (lavish spending like most other
It has really been a great experience. I've gotten to go to some great places, meet some interesting people and continue to grow.
During this time my job eventually became my career and as such I really didn't have the time to attend school anymore.
Now it looks as if I might finally return to school and I will now carry with me a great deal more wisdom.
Apparently security coordinators at COMDEX read slashdot. They especially noted the satirical remarks regarding: "What next, strip searches?".
Security personal were noted as saying, "Thats a great idea!" While some were skeptical, others went so far as to improve on the now open source communities ideas. Later, a unanimous decision yeilded on implementing open source specifications for strip searches with body cavity investigations. These would later be utilized at the convention.
COMDEX Security Marshals have decided to fully develope this open source concept and protocals. They are currently in talks with several venture capitalists to fund a new e-commerce web site. No further details were provided at the time of announcement.
Additionaly it should be noted that have been talks concerning a fork in the now ongoing works. One security personal was quite upset with the current implementation.
"I just don't like limiting myself to one hand. Power user's should be able to use two if they really want."
Although I'm certain it should read 'and' and not 'amd', it brings up certain other questions.
I'm wondering Rob's true intentions. I believe he might be trying to send subliminal messages to buy AMD chips.
Rather quite SLACKWARE mischievious LINUX if you ask me.
Actually, all you are talking about are better detonater drivers.
The nVidia drivers really sucked for about the first year of win2k. It just so happens they have finally gotten it right about the time of XP releasing. It took about the same time for the linux detonater drivers to really shine as well.
Like I said, perceptions can be fooled by what we want to see. However, if you had been running those same olders drivers on beta XP you would have had the same issues as with your Win2k counterpart.
Your references have no bearing on the discussion of relevancy. Racial and ethnic slurs go a little further past the line (similar to a tomahawk missile crossing the baltic ocean).
Idiot and moron are two very commonly accepted forms of speaking disproval. The context which they are used in denotes the strength of the allegation.
What is deemed offensive is what society deems it as. Those same peers who determine our laws and our values. This is why public nudity is illegal in most places I know, but yet other countries allow public nude beaches (at least topless I've seen). This is because their society deems that not to be offensive.
In our society few would argue that idiot and moron carry the same strength as saying "Nigger."
Thus when I say you are an idiot for using such drstic comparisonss, I have not stepped over the line in my use of language.
If I had said you were a fucking moron for using such drastic comparisons, then I would have stepped over the line.
I'm not sure of the impact that will occurr because microsoft chooses to drop a few words from its thesauras. Perhaps the wrong is where a corporation or smaller entity is choosing the path society should take. I'll remind you, MS has been found to be a monopoly. As such they are treated differently then other entities. They have more resources, leverage, and ability to cause great harm then other organizations. This really means they should be watched a great deal more carefully then the rest.
Do you have any benchmarks to prove this.
I have a hard time believing there would actually be an improvement over 98. Windows98 is rather unstable, but that lack of stability comes from the shortcuts they made to increase performance. (ie, run on crap hardware). In the end, the footprint is a great deal smaller then that of the newer OS's.
Often when we think something will perform better, our perceptions are a bit tainted.
I've done this before, its a rather common reaction.
This is complete guesswork, but here are my thoughts.
There are different ways of doing it. Like actually requiring the user rip it from cd first. Possibly, re-encode existing mp3's as they are sent out. So, joe blow sends out blah.mp3, but the person on the other end of the share gets blah.pmf. So now it cannot be listened to except in the napster client and cannot be distributed unless it was within the napster client. (embedded tags could say its ok for joe blow to play this, but none other)
Give it your best guess, anything you come up with is probably possible and high crackable.
OK...
The only selling point.... The music we would download from napster would be completely legit downloads. No worries about wrong doing right?
Now for the nagative side of things...
First off, to keep everyone from distributing these nifty little music files it will most likely come in a protected propietary format. To play you must and most definately will pay. Napster will play it and maybe media player. Remember way back when... there was an article about napster licensing/writing some protected media format. Perhaps someone else can dig up the article.
Assumming they go for a protected media format(now dubbed pmf) there will most likely be a windows only client. I really hate OS lockins. Especially since I stream my mp3's to my workstations. (icecast/mp3) This pmf will probably not work with your existing mp3 player periphreals. (No more music for the car)
Just as everyone has pointed out. We are again likely to see a peer to peer network sharing. You have to pay to share your music.
Maybe I'm wrong, but these assumptions are based from logical guesses (human nature/greed).
I wonder if these still aren't available somewhere and relatively cheaply.
These were absolutely great!
A friend built an 8 foot told humanoid construct. It didn't quite move a great deal, but it was fascinating at the time.
I myself constructed a small two foot electric chair. I took the aluminum from cans and took strips along the arm rests and legs to for conduction. Then later cut the leads from the lights and battery construx thingie. It was quite interesting... mom didn't agree. It was dismantled later to end her shouts.
The system guys behind these large ISP's are *gasp* slashdotters too.
No one wants carnivore on their system. From the information I know (loosely collected from over the internet and slashdot posts), the concerns are that it could too easily gain information from other users. To me carnivore sounds like an overglorified packet sniifer. (Of course we will really never know until the code is released to those who can make an honest assessment)
Earthlink cooperates with the FBI all of the time on warrants. Earthlink has its own software that will serve the needs of the FBI. Thus there is no need for carnivore. So in the end, the FBI's information is gleaned and those communications of customers not cited in the warrant are kept private.
No one is saying, come in, sniff the network for those Arab bastards. Alot of people share the same values as yourselfs.
This is not the end of civil liberties.
Slashdot held under the tremendous load. Yeah, it was sluggish at times. It was sluggish when all the other sites were failing.
I stayed home a little earlier on tuesday to watch the news. I didn't want to leave for work, but it wasn't really an option to stay home. I was really hoping I could keep up on the events with most of the major news sources being online.
Slashdot served as a place of information. Many posters were pasting articles as they were able to retrieve them from sites as they opened up temporarily.
All of slashdot team's efforts and the posters deserve a good deal of thanks.
As always, keep up the good work.
After the terrorist attack it looks like fear will be used to fuel what some legislatures have been wanting.
We don't want to lose our freedom or our lives to an aggressor. Likewise, we don't want to lose our freedom in our own country by our own government.
Already this attack has injected a healthy burst of cash flow into the military.
Now, they wish to limit our cryptography. Of course many threads have pointed out the fact the bad guys(tm) would never use these versions. This is simply using fear to gain what you have wanted all along.
What will fear be used to limit next? What will it be used to gain?
I would not doubt if there is already some conjecture to give more power to government agencies for search and seizure.
I'm all in favor of doing whats possible to strengthen our defences. A healhty checks and balance system must be obtained above all else. This was what our fundamental structure was built on and will continue to serve the needs of the people. Let us not see it destroyed out of fear.
With an 8 stage pipeline, as opposed to the 20 stage pipeline in the P4, clock frequencies are obviously not as high (~1 GHz).
...6mb of on die cache...
This beast has a small wang... its not the size that counts, but how you use it. (no giggling from the girls damn't)
130 Watts power consumption...
Who needs space heaters anyway?
OY! Hold your wallet tight, not for the light bank accounted!
I'm sure many people can appreciate 64 bit integer ops; for me, it means single instruction xor for the 64 bit hash codes used in chess transposition tables.
Not quite what the intel boys will be using in their next commercial. However, the wizards in marketing will be stressing the enhanced features of porn browsing. The fourth blue intel commando will be a scantily clad woman... further emphasizing the need for this processor which will not just make the internet faster, but will speed on your favorite pron sights.
Well I went through the process of sending their customer relations department a nice letter.
I calmly informed them if quality drivers for their products ceased to emerge in the marketplace that I would seek other alternatives.
At the time I felt like an informed reader and now I feel like an ass.
The my.mp3 software had a client application that would verify you did indeed have the cd.
Later you could listen to the music via streaming at any location from my.mp3's streaming servers which contained those mp3s.
I found this service quite useful and was a member.
However, the music industry did not like this and took suit. It was probably settled out of court. I'm not sure of the details.
If this is the case, then another company now wants to sue mp3.com because they "ripped" the music to mp3 format for the user. Those mp3s were then saved by users and then distributed.
Kinda a shotty lawsuit if this is the concept. They should go ahead and sue people making mp3 rippers too. (doesn't matter they have a legitimate use, people could have distributed mp3s with those utilities!)