Well, I work for a division of PTC called Windchill (out of Minnesota, how appropriate). I've seen discussion about Pro/E on Linux tossed about for some time now - Not to mention the fact that every other person at Windchill runs Linux on at least one of their workstations (I unfortunately only have an NT box and an RS/6000 - and yes, I did try to run PPCLinux on it to no avail). The use of Linux within Windchill alone could be emough to warrant PTC support for it in several of their products, including Windchill's product (aptly named...Windchill).
that have full driver support!! The 770 was very close with Redhat 5.2, but the sound stuff IBM packs in aren't supported by anything. Maybe they'll be able to support it and everything will be cool...I don't even care if the docking port or the ultrabay or the freakin thousand other features aren't supported...just gimme some of the basics man! Linux laptops rock!! Oh yeah, with linux it ran well over twice as long on a battery as Windows9X:)
Now apple will be chasing around everyone with a CD-ROM and an encoder. Just peachy.
SPAM under same laws as Phone Solicitation?
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ISP Sues Spammer
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As far as I've been able to tell, Spam should (or already does) fall under the same laws governing phone solicitation. I for one *always* tell telemarketers that I'm not interested and to take me off their lists. They are legally required to comply by the FCC. The biggest complaint I have is not that I recieve spam - it's that 9 times out of 10, the return address is a load of hooey. Granted, I could hunt down who sent it, but it's not worth my time when I can simply delete it. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply throw spam under the same laws, require a working return address, and require that all requests to "remove this address from your lists" be complied with?
He says mp3's are too big. Someone previously made the point that raw digital audio is up to 10 times as large, with a small increase in quality. That coupled with the massive speed-up of internet service in most major cities makes this a moot point.
He says the quality isn't good enough. Someone else made the point that 128k mp3's aren't the only option, and the higher bitrate files are almost perfect. Maybe they're twice the size, but still, that's 5 times smaller than raw audio.
He says the RIAA will kill the Rio and MP3. Never happen - it's not illegal to encode audio in MPEG-1 Layer-3 and it's not illegal to play such encoded audio. Under the argument they're trying to use, any sort of permanent storage should be banned because it can hold illegal material. Similarly, how many warez kiddies have you seen distributing zipfiles of copyrighted software? Surely any sort of file compression should be banned to prevent this!
He says MP3 will be replaced by something better and will disappear. Here he's finally right, mp3 is likely to be replaced with Layer-4 encoding which figures repetition over time and across channels into the figure (currently mp3 does not do this, 5 minutes of silence will encode to the same size as 5 minutes of pure noise). This also will beat down the size of files.
The guy doesn't have the facts, he's just irritated that his Rio wasn't as nice as he hoped and wants to beat some mp3 skull to make up for it.
Offical Release to coincide with the P-III
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AMD K6-III released
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As far as I've been able to tell, they are going to officially release the chip itself next monday, to coincide with the big PentiumIII release the same day. That's probably why you (and I) aren't seeing any prices at online reseller pages. Today's announcement was just the "official" announcement of the chip, like Intel's announcement of the PIII a couple weeks ago.
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Well, I work for a division of PTC called Windchill (out of Minnesota, how appropriate). I've seen discussion about Pro/E on Linux tossed about for some time now - Not to mention the fact that every other person at Windchill runs Linux on at least one of their workstations (I unfortunately only have an NT box and an RS/6000 - and yes, I did try to run PPCLinux on it to no avail). The use of Linux within Windchill alone could be emough to warrant PTC support for it in several of their products, including Windchill's product (aptly named...Windchill).
that have full driver support!! The 770 was very close with Redhat 5.2, but the sound stuff IBM packs in aren't supported by anything. Maybe they'll be able to support it and everything will be cool...I don't even care if the docking port or the ultrabay or the freakin thousand other features aren't supported...just gimme some of the basics man! Linux laptops rock!! :)
Oh yeah, with linux it ran well over twice as long on a battery as Windows9X
Now apple will be chasing around everyone with a CD-ROM and an encoder. Just peachy.
As far as I've been able to tell, Spam should (or already does) fall under the same laws governing phone solicitation. I for one *always* tell telemarketers that I'm not interested and to take me off their lists. They are legally required to comply by the FCC. The biggest complaint I have is not that I recieve spam - it's that 9 times out of 10, the return address is a load of hooey. Granted, I could hunt down who sent it, but it's not worth my time when I can simply delete it. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply throw spam under the same laws, require a working return address, and require that all requests to "remove this address from your lists" be complied with?
He says mp3's are too big. Someone previously made the point that raw digital audio is up to 10 times as large, with a small increase in quality. That coupled with the massive speed-up of internet service in most major cities makes this a moot point.
He says the quality isn't good enough. Someone else made the point that 128k mp3's aren't the only option, and the higher bitrate files are almost perfect. Maybe they're twice the size, but still, that's 5 times smaller than raw audio.
He says the RIAA will kill the Rio and MP3. Never happen - it's not illegal to encode audio in MPEG-1 Layer-3 and it's not illegal to play such encoded audio. Under the argument they're trying to use, any sort of permanent storage should be banned because it can hold illegal material. Similarly, how many warez kiddies have you seen distributing zipfiles of copyrighted software? Surely any sort of file compression should be banned to prevent this!
He says MP3 will be replaced by something better and will disappear. Here he's finally right, mp3 is likely to be replaced with Layer-4 encoding which figures repetition over time and across channels into the figure (currently mp3 does not do this, 5 minutes of silence will encode to the same size as 5 minutes of pure noise). This also will beat down the size of files.
The guy doesn't have the facts, he's just irritated that his Rio wasn't as nice as he hoped and wants to beat some mp3 skull to make up for it.
As far as I've been able to tell, they are going to officially release the chip itself next monday, to coincide with the big PentiumIII release the same day. That's probably why you (and I) aren't seeing any prices at online reseller pages. Today's announcement was just the "official" announcement of the chip, like Intel's announcement of the PIII a couple weeks ago.