The other slightly embarrassing (for Intel) twist is that the new architecture will be a lot closer to the P6 than to the P7 ("Netburst") core used in the Pentium-4. Essentially, the Pentium-4 was a dead end, and all Intel's x86 plans now involve Pentium-M derived chips.
Yeah, the idea behind Netburst was to streamline everything for clock frequencies as high as possible. This offered marketing advantages (before ppl became used to AMDs xx00+ ratings) and there was a time (shortly before and after the clawhammer) when it seemed like Intel had been right. It seemed that whatever AMD did Intel could just crank up the frequency another 200MHz, there was already speculation about 6GHz and more. But then they ran into the 4GHz barrier (and they weren't the only ones. IBM originally put the Cell at 4GHz+ and now they seem to have troubles at 3.2GHz) and since then Netburst has been dying a slow and painful death =)
This is *Apple* we're talking about. Do you really think that if they handed out licenses we wouldn't have seen official iPod-compatible shops (well apart from iTMS) by now?
and you could have a gaming/Photoshop/Office/UNIX box all in one
Yep, my PC does all that.
Hmm, can't imagine why you wouldn't want a Mac.
Hint: It starts with "price" and ends with "tag".
One box that does all of your desktop stuff, and the "heavy lifting" that your Linux box does.
Or you can get two dedicated boxes both optimized for their special function. I think it comes down to whether you want an iPod and a phone or one of those gadgets that can do both.
Well there's no law that says they have to make it possible that you actually exercise your rights.
Will the public buy a player with BD+ in it?
Makes no difference. An article I've read about BD+ (on the Register iirc) said it's just some "features" of the drm mechanism, that Blu-ray and HD-DVD have in common, rebranded to dazzle the **AA execs. So, whoever wins we get screwed. Any similarities to US presidential elections are purely coincidential.
Apple's application, assigned to iTunes engineer Jeffrey Robbins, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and VP of marketing Phil Schiller, was made on September 26 2002, and describes rotating an input device to navigate in a linear fashion through a user interface. "Although the type of computing device can vary, the improved approaches are particularly well-suited for use with a portable media player," according to the filing.
Now replace 2002 with 1902 and you have a description for the way we've tuned our radios for the last 100 years.
To fulfill its mission of bringing Linux to everyone, the openSUSE project makes SUSE Linux widely available to potential Linux users through a variety of channels, including a complete retail edition with end-user documentation. Only the openSUSE project refines its Linux distribution to the point where non-technical users can have a successful Linux experience.
I've never used Fedora* but judging from some of the comments here and on other boards Fedora is much but not polished. Also, the last SuSE version I've bought in a store was 6.3 (I think), perhaps it's changed but then their manuals were definitely worth the price if you were a linux newbie, most of those I've had are still distributed among friends I've converted to linux.
* note: Of all the different Linux distros out there there are only two that I actively dislike. One is Redhat (old story =) the other is userlinux (I don't like Perens, I don't like his attitude and his approach to the whole story and I think he should have been so honest to call userlinux "Linux for Business" instead. I mean it's the fscking title of his homepage). That doesn't mean that I've never said anything against other distros but that's mostly teasing of the fanboys (e.g. Ubuntu disciples, they're even worse than the Gentoo boys at the height of its popularity, probably because they don't spend 90% of their time compiling and therefore have more time for/. =).
But unfortunatly that's the only thing for Xbox anyone was interested in. (the second table is only for the US market and it's gonna be a lot worse worldwide).
Well you're of course right. In theory. But the number of Xboxes that aren't used for gaming is miniscule and the main reasons Microsoft lost money over the years were:
Too few games. Essentially they had no system seller apart from Halo(2) (well and DoA4 in Japan).
They didn't get the manufacturing costs under control. Sony has made money off the Playstation 2 hardware since a few months after the launch in 2000. Microsoft (mostly due to their use of off-the-shelf components) still doesn't
Microsoft tried to address both problems with Xbox 360 so we'll see how it works out. But whether or not people manage to install Linux on the console is not gonna be a deciding factor
You need the correct codecs. In this case you need the windows codec pack from the mplayer homepage (there is an open source decoder for the video which is why you only lack sound). If SuSE's compiled mplayer with support for win32 codecs you only need to install the codec pack and it will play. If they didn't you'll also have to recompile mplayer.
If you don't have a PC but something else you're out of luck afaik.
Let's have a look at the reactions to the second round of (wanna-be in that case) bombings in London:
BBC: Tube cleared after minor blasts
Foxnews.com: London Put Into Panic
Go watch "Bowling for Columbine" again. That's the central message of the movie. The problem with the US is not the guns or blacks or Texas. It's the culture of fear.
and I can already connect a full size keyboard to my PDA
And? I have a lcd on my wristwatch but that doesn't mean I don't need one on my PDA.
but there will be no "killer app" as a result of this.
With the wireless connectivity, the big screen and the power of the PSP there are lots of cool things you can do with it. IRC and surving suddenly become convenient, lots of games would profit too (especially those not designed for PSP)
We had articles about HL2 and Doom3 on the main page and in both threads half the posts were bitching about the lack of innovation in the games industry.
Now we have an article about a truly innovative franchises on the main page and the ACs are bitching that it's not HL2 or Doom3
I don't see why anyone cares what hardware is under the hood in an apple, no one uses an Apple because it has a PPC. They use it because Apple owns & supports the entire system and the OS is good.
There are a few who care. And the likelihood that a random Mac user who also frequents/. cares about the CPU should be much, Much, MUCH higher than that of the total population (of Mac users =)
Which is a good thing because I don't like half of Apple's styles
It's a hit or miss thing; I liked Aqua (it's getting kinda old, too many bad clones etc., but it was really cool when it came out), I hate brushed metal the widget style, but adore brushed metal the iPod style (i.e. iPod Minis rock) while I think that normal iPods look like cheap mice (Microsoft sold shiny white mice about ten years ago. Afaik they stopped doing that and that's a good thing). Mac Mini, Powerbooks good; iBook, iMac bad, etc.
With Windows even if I get bored of the shiny new looks I can switch back to Windows Classic which is perhaps the most unobtrusive look in existance.
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They should first incorporate a frontend (like SuSE and Mandrake had years ago. I assume they haven't removed it since) to change the monitor values (VertSync and horizontal refresh) without editing/etc/xorg.conf.
I don't know whether they use stupid default values (everything at 60Hz) or if X.org should support some kind of autoconfiguration but doesn't (i.e. I've installed Ubuntu on 3 different computers and it didn't get acceptable values for the display on any of them; Windows did, on all of them) but Linux definitely needs a graphic way of adjusting the values manually
I probably share with you in fearing that an authoritarian, statist (as opposed to libertarian) judge could take the bench...but I think that's more likely with a liberal judge (and even if not, a liberal reading of the constitution would likely be more permissive or an authoritarian legislature and executive.
[sarcasm]Yeah, because the favorite candidates of the religious right would be so much better[/sarcasm].
What the court needs is a moderate in every respect. Moderate as in neither right nor left and moderate as in doesn't want to overthrow the current political system but also not reactionary to the core. But what we're going to get is a right-wing nutjob because Bush wants to stack the court with right-wing activists to guard against the Democrats stacking it with left-wing activists when they come into power again (whenever that may be). Currently the GOP can appoint SCOTUS judges without the Democrats (if they abolish the filibuster) and there are going to be more openings on the Supreme Court over the next few years. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to ensure that the US is going to stay on course in its transformation from the land of the free to Jesusland (well may be I phrased that a bit drastic not to say trollish but you get my drift) for the next decades.
Imho the best solution would be if the Senate and the House would both appoint 4 judges each with 2/3rds majority and the President appoints the chief justice. (perhaps not exactly that way but the idea is to require a 2/3 majority. Then judges would be boring - in a good way. If the court was split into seats appointed by senate/house/president that would reinforce the idea because a 2/3 majority in the Senate wouldn't allow you to change all nine judges (should they die/resign during the time you had that majority))
it's not quite as competitive as you think. See here
IMHO the important difference to the US is that in Japan the passenger companies own the tracks instead of the cargo companies; while JR is mostly private by now that's a relatively new development and definitely not the reason trains in Japan don't suck as much as in the US.
Now apart from the fact that KDE isn't galone GNU/with MS-the iStupid ePrefixes, unless your package manager has a really strange layout, the apps starting with k should be sorted alphabetically by their second (and third, etc) letters so instead of finding the right app among 20000+ packages you only have to search for it in the 6000 kpackages.
So, say I want a KDE photo app...... Kphoto? Klab? Kimp? It seriously limits the availability of an average user to find your program if you tenuously manage to link a witty 'K-name' from a name that describes your app correctly.
There are more or less 3 categories:
Apps that use K-description as their name (Kedit, Kcalc, etc) - easy to find
Apps using a name describing their function but the C at the beginning of the name is replaced with a K - easy to find
Apps using a non-descript name with some nifty use of a K somewhere in the name - not necessarily easy to find or apparent but it isn't worse than non-descript names for non-KDE applications either (why should Konqueror be any worse than Nautilus or Safari?)
Actually the fact that most KDE applications start with a K makes it easier to find the application you're looking for because at least you know that a K-something pkg probably doesn't contain some obscure database backend. When I was new to linux the X in front of X-apps was a great help and I don't see why new users now shouldn't think the same about K-apps and G-apps
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No, you can't.
AFAIK MS currently sells 3 or 4 different mice that are symmetrical. Apparently you didn't look very hard.
Yeah, the idea behind Netburst was to streamline everything for clock frequencies as high as possible. This offered marketing advantages (before ppl became used to AMDs xx00+ ratings) and there was a time (shortly before and after the clawhammer) when it seemed like Intel had been right. It seemed that whatever AMD did Intel could just crank up the frequency another 200MHz, there was already speculation about 6GHz and more. But then they ran into the 4GHz barrier (and they weren't the only ones. IBM originally put the Cell at 4GHz+ and now they seem to have troubles at 3.2GHz) and since then Netburst has been dying a slow and painful death =)
This is *Apple* we're talking about. Do you really think that if they handed out licenses we wouldn't have seen official iPod-compatible shops (well apart from iTMS) by now?
Yep, my PC does all that.
Hmm, can't imagine why you wouldn't want a Mac.
Hint: It starts with "price" and ends with "tag".
One box that does all of your desktop stuff, and the "heavy lifting" that your Linux box does.
Or you can get two dedicated boxes both optimized for their special function. I think it comes down to whether you want an iPod and a phone or one of those gadgets that can do both.
No
Isn't this a violation of fair use?
Well there's no law that says they have to make it possible that you actually exercise your rights.
Will the public buy a player with BD+ in it?
Makes no difference. An article I've read about BD+ (on the Register iirc) said it's just some "features" of the drm mechanism, that Blu-ray and HD-DVD have in common, rebranded to dazzle the **AA execs. So, whoever wins we get screwed. Any similarities to US presidential elections are purely coincidential.
Apple's application, assigned to iTunes engineer Jeffrey Robbins, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and VP of marketing Phil Schiller, was made on September 26 2002, and describes rotating an input device to navigate in a linear fashion through a user interface. "Although the type of computing device can vary, the improved approaches are particularly well-suited for use with a portable media player," according to the filing.
Now replace 2002 with 1902 and you have a description for the way we've tuned our radios for the last 100 years.
I've never used Fedora* but judging from some of the comments here and on other boards Fedora is much but not polished. Also, the last SuSE version I've bought in a store was 6.3 (I think), perhaps it's changed but then their manuals were definitely worth the price if you were a linux newbie, most of those I've had are still distributed among friends I've converted to linux.
* note: Of all the different Linux distros out there there are only two that I actively dislike. One is Redhat (old story =) the other is userlinux (I don't like Perens, I don't like his attitude and his approach to the whole story and I think he should have been so honest to call userlinux "Linux for Business" instead. I mean it's the fscking title of his homepage). That doesn't mean that I've never said anything against other distros but that's mostly teasing of the fanboys (e.g. Ubuntu disciples, they're even worse than the Gentoo boys at the height of its popularity, probably because they don't spend 90% of their time compiling and therefore have more time for /. =).
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw
But unfortunatly that's the only thing for Xbox anyone was interested in. (the second table is only for the US market and it's gonna be a lot worse worldwide).
- Too few games. Essentially they had no system seller apart from Halo(2) (well and DoA4 in Japan).
- They didn't get the manufacturing costs under control. Sony has made money off the Playstation 2 hardware since a few months after the launch in 2000. Microsoft (mostly due to their use of off-the-shelf components) still doesn't
Microsoft tried to address both problems with Xbox 360 so we'll see how it works out. But whether or not people manage to install Linux on the console is not gonna be a deciding factorThere are 10 types of astronauts on their way to Mars. Those who develop cancer and those who don't.
Yeah, right. The new Xbox is the same price while games are more expensive. That's gonna show those people who don't buy any games.
If you don't have a PC but something else you're out of luck afaik.
Aaahh, Japan, last hope of geeks everywhere, I knew they wouldn't disappoint us.
That's the current quote /. puts at the bottom of my page. Just thought it was fitting =)
BBC: Tube cleared after minor blasts
Foxnews.com: London Put Into Panic
Go watch "Bowling for Columbine" again. That's the central message of the movie. The problem with the US is not the guns or blacks or Texas. It's the culture of fear.
not necessarily
and I can already connect a full size keyboard to my PDA
And? I have a lcd on my wristwatch but that doesn't mean I don't need one on my PDA.
but there will be no "killer app" as a result of this.
With the wireless connectivity, the big screen and the power of the PSP there are lots of cool things you can do with it. IRC and surving suddenly become convenient, lots of games would profit too (especially those not designed for PSP)
Now we have an article about a truly innovative franchises on the main page and the ACs are bitching that it's not HL2 or Doom3
There are a few who care. And the likelihood that a random Mac user who also frequents /. cares about the CPU should be much, Much, MUCH higher than that of the total population (of Mac users =)
Which gives you a choice if and when to patch the game you own and we can't have that, can we?
It's a hit or miss thing; I liked Aqua (it's getting kinda old, too many bad clones etc., but it was really cool when it came out), I hate brushed metal the widget style, but adore brushed metal the iPod style (i.e. iPod Minis rock) while I think that normal iPods look like cheap mice (Microsoft sold shiny white mice about ten years ago. Afaik they stopped doing that and that's a good thing). Mac Mini, Powerbooks good; iBook, iMac bad, etc.
With Windows even if I get bored of the shiny new looks I can switch back to Windows Classic which is perhaps the most unobtrusive look in existance.
I don't know whether they use stupid default values (everything at 60Hz) or if X.org should support some kind of autoconfiguration but doesn't (i.e. I've installed Ubuntu on 3 different computers and it didn't get acceptable values for the display on any of them; Windows did, on all of them) but Linux definitely needs a graphic way of adjusting the values manually
[sarcasm]Yeah, because the favorite candidates of the religious right would be so much better[/sarcasm].
What the court needs is a moderate in every respect. Moderate as in neither right nor left and moderate as in doesn't want to overthrow the current political system but also not reactionary to the core. But what we're going to get is a right-wing nutjob because Bush wants to stack the court with right-wing activists to guard against the Democrats stacking it with left-wing activists when they come into power again (whenever that may be). Currently the GOP can appoint SCOTUS judges without the Democrats (if they abolish the filibuster) and there are going to be more openings on the Supreme Court over the next few years. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to ensure that the US is going to stay on course in its transformation from the land of the free to Jesusland (well may be I phrased that a bit drastic not to say trollish but you get my drift) for the next decades.
Imho the best solution would be if the Senate and the House would both appoint 4 judges each with 2/3rds majority and the President appoints the chief justice. (perhaps not exactly that way but the idea is to require a 2/3 majority. Then judges would be boring - in a good way. If the court was split into seats appointed by senate/house/president that would reinforce the idea because a 2/3 majority in the Senate wouldn't allow you to change all nine judges (should they die/resign during the time you had that majority))
IMHO the important difference to the US is that in Japan the passenger companies own the tracks instead of the cargo companies; while JR is mostly private by now that's a relatively new development and definitely not the reason trains in Japan don't suck as much as in the US.
So, say I want a KDE photo app...... Kphoto? Klab? Kimp? It seriously limits the availability of an average user to find your program if you tenuously manage to link a witty 'K-name' from a name that describes your app correctly.
There are more or less 3 categories:
- Apps that use K-description as their name (Kedit, Kcalc, etc) - easy to find
- Apps using a name describing their function but the C at the beginning of the name is replaced with a K - easy to find
- Apps using a non-descript name with some nifty use of a K somewhere in the name - not necessarily easy to find or apparent but it isn't worse than non-descript names for non-KDE applications either (why should Konqueror be any worse than Nautilus or Safari?)
Actually the fact that most KDE applications start with a K makes it easier to find the application you're looking for because at least you know that a K-something pkg probably doesn't contain some obscure database backend. When I was new to linux the X in front of X-apps was a great help and I don't see why new users now shouldn't think the same about K-apps and G-apps