What parts of 1984 does it remind you of? I can't think of many other than the obvious big brother thing. Could you please point out any other parallels? Thanks.
I agree. This is a lame, lame story. Unless these flakes put up some real money then they should shut-up. Worst of all this story has been on slashdot twice... why? Is it that important? Will the website make any difference? (No) So lets drop this crap and cover something useful.
Well, I think the ads are really funny, but they are being posted all over the streets for everyone to see. The only problem I have with it is kids can read those ads too. I don't think I would want my friends little sister saying "What does BlowItOutYourAss.com mean?" or "Why did they say FuckYou...com?". I have no problems with obsenities around adults, but these sticker people need to think that they are posting in a public street where little kids can read this stuff too.
You are a small minded twit. Go back to elementary school where insults like these might make an impression on a third grader. When you grow up come back to slashdot and post something useful or interesting. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but with what you have displayed I have my doubts that there was much to begin with. Later Anonymous Coward. JOhn
Well if skinz.org had alot of money and a legal defense team Apple wouldn't have said shit. But they don't have a slew of lawyers so Apple is trying to intimidate them. If this were to go to court Apple would loose the GUI "Look and Feel" case *again*.
Sorry, but NSI is in charge of the domain transfer from party A to party B. If party C gets the domain then that is NSIs fault. Their job is to insure that domains are transferred correctly. If someone was selling a house, a car, stocks, etc... this would not even make headlines because if the transferring party bungled it up they would pay. NSI is being very arrogrant in claiming they are not at fault. If I had money to throw around I would donate some to the legal defense fund of the poor guy who lost his domain because NSI screwed up. People are just afraid because there isn't a legal precendent for this yet and the guy who lost races.com doesn't have the money to battle one out in court.
As for the people at GreatDomains.com why can't you guys be the nice guy and sell this guy the domain for a reasonable price. You guys know what happened. I don't know how you can sleep good at night knowing what happened.
Well I used to be a subscriber to PC Computing, but when they insisted the best video card was an S3 Virge based piece of crap compared to some Voodoo I decided they didn't know too much. They even still used the outdated ZD Benchmarks for rating video cards even though everyone on the net knew the drivers of video cards were tweaked for this task and therefore irrelevant. They repeated this error by promoting a Banshe when the TNTs were out. They never covered the K6 until years after it was out. No in depth stuff....
Then I was saved by Maximum PC, full of kick ass reviews by kick ass editors. They have also had cool white papers on technical topics. There is none higher when it comes to home computer magazines. All hail Maximum PC...
There is something wrong with communism. It doesn't work period. There is no way supply and demand can be regulated by the government. That is why capitalism works and communism doesn't.
There is no way a society can work efficiently while being ruled by a government which makes every decision for you. In the US you can read what you want. We don't have a government controlled newspaper and we don't have a government controlled TV station. Yes they are regulated, but the media in the US is free to say what they want (unless national security). In China you would be massacred for speaking out against the government and I'm sure the same goes for any other communist country.
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I think this is probably to prevent some damn porn site from doing what ZDNet called "domain hijacking", but is really just copying the Pez page because no one is taking the actual domain.
I seriously doubt that they would prosecute you for doing a review on Pez dispensers. However, they might come after you if you did an inflammatory Anti-Pez Site (don't use logos!!). If you had gobs of money and a good lawyer you could probably beat the case based on "Freedom of Press" as long as your site wasn't too elementary.
OK, just because a company is not Microsoft does not make them good. As a matter of fact I don't like the devious little bastards at Sun. They pretend to be all gung ho for the Linux movement, but their license for StarOffice sucks... and where is JAVA for Linux? Oh well.. don't think I'll pick up JAVA anytime soon.
Anyway, back to the subject. Linux (and BSD for that matter) is doing to the OS industry what IBM Compatibles did to the PC Industry. It is introducing open standards. Let's look back at some closed standards...
1. IBM's MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) - Failed miserably because they wanted to charge royalties for use of their bus. So the industry developed its own "open" architecture... VLB.. and then PCI. Yes, MCA was superior technologically for a long time, but no one wanted to pay royalties. 2. Macintosh - What no clones? Sure their hardware was easy to use. Sure they had plug and play about five years before Windows. But while Apple was sitting on their asses being all anal about their hardware specs Compaq reverse engineered the first PC and an onslaught of PC clone makers made PCs with standards that everyone could develop around the IBM Compatible. This cloned environment made hardware around "open" standards. True, no one shared their schematics for their motherboards, but there were defined standards which every company in the world could develop around. True, things are a bit hectic in the PC world, because their are so many variants of the PC architeture, but if you want to make a video card there is no one holding you back, no company to ask permission from. Want to make a new os? Sure... anyone has access to IBM Compatible standards. That's why BeOS doesn't do PowerPCs anymore because Macintosh shut them out from the G3 on (competing with their OS). Apple is the ultimate closed source proprietary company in the computer world. If it was up to them we would be no where near where the cloned PC revolution has taken us. Of course I can hear some of you saying.. hey doesn't Microsoft have APIs too.. Yes they do, but if you really start to compete with a product of theirs (Office vs. Corel) then Microsoft will always have the upper hand because they make the APIs, they know the undocumented API calls, they wrote the book, you will lose when they want to win (a la sabotage of Quicktime). With Linux everyone is on a level playing field. Anyway, I'm rambling, but the point is that Linux's "Open Source Software" standards will take us much further because it's open and it belongs to the community not just another company that happens not to be called Microsoft. That inspires developers because they know that they can get out of the OS what they put into it. Now I'm sure many of you *BSD users are saying.. we have open software too... well I have no argument for why Linux is getting more press than BSD. All I know is that open software will make a revolution that much larger than the first Compaq clones because it allows everyone in on the action for OS development.
So I give my thanks to all the kernel hackers out there, all the developers for Linux who make programs in their free time and started all of this, to Linus and Alan Cox (and the many other kernel developers). Thanks for making Linux the OS for everyone.
Good point. I was wondering when anyone would mention that. Sun *still* has not put out version 1.2.x of JAVA for Linux, but they have it for Solaris. What a crime. Sun support Linux.. yeah right.
"But then again, I've never been much of a capitalist."
Hey at least you came out and said it, and you do have a good point about people liking the movie so much they downloaded it. However, the beauty of capitalism is that it rewards those who give what society wants. I don't think Star Wars would exist as it is today if there wasn't any money in it. If George Lucas makes a heap from Star Wars good for him. I think he deserves it.
No capitalism isn't fair (its more laize faire.. hehe), but it works and the US proves it.
I side with AOL because like someone else said... they are trying to educate their users to *never* give out passwords and usernames to anyone under any circumstances. Then along comes microsoft with asking for their username and password. This is against AOL policy because with this data people can abuse AOL accounts.
Don't be fooled by Microsoft's new open source stance. The only reason they want open source is because they lost the IM war. AOL is ahead with the ICQ and AOL-IM. So since Microsoft can't dominate they plead for open source. How weak. Anyway, in the end I do like open source, but I realize this is a last act of desparation for Microsoft.
Also, AOL/Netscape/Sun are all businesses they have loyalty to their stockholders, but just because they are big doesn't mean they are always evil. They do what is in their best interest, and so do you.
The reason we give the post office the upper hand is because we can't trust a business outside the government with our nations mail. If they went under the country would be screwed... so we keep USPS.. and as a matter of fact I think they do a great job. You don't? Well how about you contrast them with some other countries services. The difference between our USPS and Ecuador's mail system is like the difference between Q3Test v1.07 and Doom...:)
I don't agree... You can't always judge a processor by its megahertz. The Athlon can do 3 instructions at a time, and I believe the P3 can as well with its new SIMD. So I don't see why the Elbrus with its explicitly parallel architecture could not theoretically do the same. Although, I still have my doubts that this monkey from chat.ru is legit.
Why would you cringe and want to scream? The fight scenes were very entertaining. Maybe not so practical, but this is the *movies*. It's there for *entertainment*. Maybe you should quit being so elitist, use your imagination, and then sit and enjoy the movie and not be so critical of everything. Sure they could have taken the fight to the ground. But the fight scene on the ground would have SUCKED, and everyone on slashdot would have said so.
Sure in Star Wars some asshole could point the deathstar at Luke and tell him to jam the lightsaber in his arse, but that wouldn't be fun. It would be very practical, but it would be a very crappy movie. I loved the fight scenes in the matrix and would love to see more.
Anyone who uses lynx as their sole browser and expects others to cater to their needs is lightyears behind. So, I'm sorry they left you in the dust. The WWW is catered to the visual. You want text? Gopher it!
I would say Cyrix more than likely has rights to Intel's Slot 1, but how that transfers to VIA will be up to the lawyers. My guess is VIA is in the game and they will begin legally producing slot 1 chipsets. I can see no other compelling reason for VIA purchasing Cyrix. Sorry for not doing the research for the first post.
February 3, 1998 Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) and National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) announced they have settled a patent infringement lawsuit and extended the term of the existing patent cross-license agreement between the two companies. The settlement dismisses a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Cyrix Corporation against Intel in May 1997. Cyrix became a wholly owned subsidiary of National Semiconductor on Nov. 17, 1997. Under the settlement, Intel and National agreed to extend the term of their long-standing broad patent cross-license. Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Intel recently kicked VIA out of the Slot 1 boat because of the 133MHz FSB and gave their competitor ALI the rights to produce the Slot 1 boards. So what is a poor chipset manufacturer to do.. oh wait.. Cyrix is for sale? Aha! VIA buys Cyrix so it can use the cross-license to produce Slot 1 boards again, and gain use of Intel's intellectual property. So VIA will now be in the boat whether Intel likes it or not, and as a bonus they get all the cool integrated stuff Cyrix was playing with. That's my take.
In my opinion this is a great event. Linux has not even been around for 5 years and it can compete very well with the most powerful company in the world. So it didn't beat NT this time.. well like another slashdotter said. This is simply cannon fodder for next time. And with truly talented programmers like Alan Cox I'm sure Linux will look much better next time. Big thanks to Alan, Linus, and the *countless* others who have made Linux what it is.
Thats right people will have a hard time on the net if they speak in clicks. Last I checked AltaVista didn't have a language for Ibo on the search engine (or the AV section... hehe)... maybe this "Ring of Fire" is actually going up so that the people that speak clicks can use broadband to communicate their language. We can use text, but they will use audio;)
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What parts of 1984 does it remind you of? I can't think of many other than the obvious big brother thing. Could you please point out any other parallels? Thanks.
JOhn
I agree. This is a lame, lame story. Unless these flakes put up some real money then they should shut-up. Worst of all this story has been on slashdot twice... why? Is it that important? Will the website make any difference? (No) So lets drop this crap and cover something useful.
JOhn
Well, I think the ads are really funny, but they are being posted all over the streets for everyone to see. The only problem I have with it is kids can read those ads too. I don't think I would want my friends little sister saying "What does BlowItOutYourAss.com mean?" or "Why did they say FuckYou...com?". I have no problems with obsenities around adults, but these sticker people need to think that they are posting in a public street where little kids can read this stuff too.
JOhn
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You are a small minded twit. Go back to elementary school where insults like these might make an impression on a third grader. When you grow up come back to slashdot and post something useful or interesting. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but with what you have displayed I have my doubts that there was much to begin with. Later Anonymous Coward. JOhn
Well if skinz.org had alot of money and a legal defense team Apple wouldn't have said shit. But they don't have a slew of lawyers so Apple is trying to intimidate them. If this were to go to court Apple would loose the GUI "Look and Feel" case *again*.
JOhn
Sorry, but NSI is in charge of the domain transfer from party A to party B. If party C gets the domain then that is NSIs fault. Their job is to insure that domains are transferred correctly. If someone was selling a house, a car, stocks, etc... this would not even make headlines because if the transferring party bungled it up they would pay. NSI is being very arrogrant in claiming they are not at fault. If I had money to throw around I would donate some to the legal defense fund of the poor guy who lost his domain because NSI screwed up. People are just afraid because there isn't a legal precendent for this yet and the guy who lost races.com doesn't have the money to battle one out in court.
As for the people at GreatDomains.com why can't you guys be the nice guy and sell this guy the domain for a reasonable price. You guys know what happened. I don't know how you can sleep good at night knowing what happened.
JOhn
I saw Quake 3:Arena for sale in Wal-Mart's flyer. I had a feeling it was going gold soon...
JOhn
Well I used to be a subscriber to PC Computing, but when they insisted the best video card was an S3 Virge based piece of crap compared to some Voodoo I decided they didn't know too much. They even still used the outdated ZD Benchmarks for rating video cards even though everyone on the net knew the drivers of video cards were tweaked for this task and therefore irrelevant. They repeated this error by promoting a Banshe when the TNTs were out. They never covered the K6 until years after it was out. No in depth stuff....
Then I was saved by Maximum PC, full of kick ass reviews by kick ass editors. They have also had cool white papers on technical topics. There is none higher when it comes to home computer magazines. All hail Maximum PC...
JOhn
There is something wrong with communism. It doesn't work period. There is no way supply and demand can be regulated by the government. That is why capitalism works and communism doesn't.
There is no way a society can work efficiently while being ruled by a government which makes every decision for you. In the US you can read what you want. We don't have a government controlled newspaper and we don't have a government controlled TV station. Yes they are regulated, but the media in the US is free to say what they want (unless national security). In China you would be massacred for speaking out against the government and I'm sure the same goes for any other communist country.
I appreciate it. Thanks for posting.
JOhn
I think this is probably to prevent some damn porn site from doing what ZDNet called "domain hijacking", but is really just copying the Pez page because no one is taking the actual domain.
I seriously doubt that they would prosecute you for doing a review on Pez dispensers. However, they might come after you if you did an inflammatory Anti-Pez Site (don't use logos!!). If you had gobs of money and a good lawyer you could probably beat the case based on "Freedom of Press" as long as your site wasn't too elementary.
JOhn
OK, just because a company is not Microsoft does not make them good. As a matter of fact I don't like the devious little bastards at Sun. They pretend to be all gung ho for the Linux movement, but their license for StarOffice sucks... and where is JAVA for Linux? Oh well.. don't think I'll pick up JAVA anytime soon.
Anyway, back to the subject. Linux (and BSD for that matter) is doing to the OS industry what IBM Compatibles did to the PC Industry. It is introducing open standards. Let's look back at some closed standards...
1. IBM's MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) - Failed miserably because they wanted to charge royalties for use of their bus. So the industry developed its own "open" architecture... VLB.. and then PCI. Yes, MCA was superior technologically for a long time, but no one wanted to pay royalties. 2. Macintosh - What no clones? Sure their hardware was easy to use. Sure they had plug and play about five years before Windows. But while Apple was sitting on their asses being all anal about their hardware specs Compaq reverse engineered the first PC and an onslaught of PC clone makers made PCs with standards that everyone could develop around the IBM Compatible. This cloned environment made hardware around "open" standards. True, no one shared their schematics for their motherboards, but there were defined standards which every company in the world could develop around. True, things are a bit hectic in the PC world, because their are so many variants of the PC architeture, but if you want to make a video card there is no one holding you back, no company to ask permission from. Want to make a new os? Sure... anyone has access to IBM Compatible standards. That's why BeOS doesn't do PowerPCs anymore because Macintosh shut them out from the G3 on (competing with their OS). Apple is the ultimate closed source proprietary company in the computer world. If it was up to them we would be no where near where the cloned PC revolution has taken us. Of course I can hear some of you saying.. hey doesn't Microsoft have APIs too.. Yes they do, but if you really start to compete with a product of theirs (Office vs. Corel) then Microsoft will always have the upper hand because they make the APIs, they know the undocumented API calls, they wrote the book, you will lose when they want to win (a la sabotage of Quicktime). With Linux everyone is on a level playing field. Anyway, I'm rambling, but the point is that Linux's "Open Source Software" standards will take us much further because it's open and it belongs to the community not just another company that happens not to be called Microsoft. That inspires developers because they know that they can get out of the OS what they put into it. Now I'm sure many of you *BSD users are saying.. we have open software too... well I have no argument for why Linux is getting more press than BSD. All I know is that open software will make a revolution that much larger than the first Compaq clones because it allows everyone in on the action for OS development.
So I give my thanks to all the kernel hackers out there, all the developers for Linux who make programs in their free time and started all of this, to Linus and Alan Cox (and the many other kernel developers). Thanks for making Linux the OS for everyone.
Good point. I was wondering when anyone would mention that. Sun *still* has not put out version 1.2.x of JAVA for Linux, but they have it for Solaris. What a crime. Sun support Linux.. yeah right.
JOhn
"But then again, I've never been much of a capitalist."
Hey at least you came out and said it, and you do have a good point about people liking the movie so much they downloaded it. However, the beauty of capitalism is that it rewards those who give what society wants. I don't think Star Wars would exist as it is today if there wasn't any money in it. If George Lucas makes a heap from Star Wars good for him. I think he deserves it.
No capitalism isn't fair (its more laize faire.. hehe), but it works and the US proves it.
JOhn
I side with AOL because like someone else said... they are trying to educate their users to *never* give out passwords and usernames to anyone under any circumstances. Then along comes microsoft with asking for their username and password. This is against AOL policy because with this data people can abuse AOL accounts.
Don't be fooled by Microsoft's new open source stance. The only reason they want open source is because they lost the IM war. AOL is ahead with the ICQ and AOL-IM. So since Microsoft can't dominate they plead for open source. How weak. Anyway, in the end I do like open source, but I realize this is a last act of desparation for Microsoft.
Also, AOL/Netscape/Sun are all businesses they have loyalty to their stockholders, but just because they are big doesn't mean they are always evil. They do what is in their best interest, and so do you.
JOhn
The reason we give the post office the upper hand is because we can't trust a business outside the government with our nations mail. If they went under the country would be screwed... so we keep USPS.. and as a matter of fact I think they do a great job. You don't? Well how about you contrast them with some other countries services. The difference between our USPS and Ecuador's mail system is like the difference between Q3Test v1.07 and Doom... :)
JOhn
I don't agree... You can't always judge a processor by its megahertz. The Athlon can do 3 instructions at a time, and I believe the P3 can as well with its new SIMD. So I don't see why the Elbrus with its explicitly parallel architecture could not theoretically do the same. Although, I still have my doubts that this monkey from chat.ru is legit.
JOhn
Why would you cringe and want to scream? The fight scenes were very entertaining. Maybe not so practical, but this is the *movies*. It's there for *entertainment*. Maybe you should quit being so elitist, use your imagination, and then sit and enjoy the movie and not be so critical of everything. Sure they could have taken the fight to the ground. But the fight scene on the ground would have SUCKED, and everyone on slashdot would have said so.
Sure in Star Wars some asshole could point the deathstar at Luke and tell him to jam the lightsaber in his arse, but that wouldn't be fun. It would be very practical, but it would be a very crappy movie. I loved the fight scenes in the matrix and would love to see more.
JOhn
Anyone who uses lynx as their sole browser and expects others to cater to their needs is lightyears behind. So, I'm sorry they left you in the dust. The WWW is catered to the visual. You want text? Gopher it!
JOhn
I would say Cyrix more than likely has rights to Intel's Slot 1, but how that transfers to VIA will be up to the lawyers. My guess is VIA is in the game and they will begin legally producing slot 1 chipsets. I can see no other compelling reason for VIA purchasing Cyrix. Sorry for not doing the research for the first post.
February 3, 1998
Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) and National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) announced they have settled a patent infringement lawsuit and extended the term of the existing patent cross-license agreement between the two companies. The settlement dismisses a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Cyrix Corporation against Intel in May 1997. Cyrix became a wholly owned subsidiary of National Semiconductor on Nov. 17, 1997. Under the settlement, Intel and National agreed to extend the term of their long-standing broad patent cross-license. Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
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National and Cyrix Press Release
Intel's Press Release
This info found easily thanks to Google. Google rules!
WARNING: The following is all speculation.
Intel recently kicked VIA out of the Slot 1 boat because of the 133MHz FSB and gave their competitor ALI the rights to produce the Slot 1 boards. So what is a poor chipset manufacturer to do.. oh wait.. Cyrix is for sale? Aha! VIA buys Cyrix so it can use the cross-license to produce Slot 1 boards again, and gain use of Intel's intellectual property. So VIA will now be in the boat whether Intel likes it or not, and as a bonus they get all the cool integrated stuff Cyrix was playing with. That's my take.
JOhn
In my opinion this is a great event. Linux has not even been around for 5 years and it can compete very well with the most powerful company in the world. So it didn't beat NT this time.. well like another slashdotter said. This is simply cannon fodder for next time. And with truly talented programmers like Alan Cox I'm sure Linux will look much better next time. Big thanks to Alan, Linus, and the *countless* others who have made Linux what it is.
Thats right people will have a hard time on the net if they speak in clicks. Last I checked AltaVista didn't have a language for Ibo on the search engine (or the AV section... hehe)... maybe this "Ring of Fire" is actually going up so that the people that speak clicks can use broadband to communicate their language. We can use text, but they will use audio ;)
JOhn
Holy cow! That is a very good observation. I am impressed! Gives the logo a little extra meaning now...
JOhn