Maybe they'll distribute free distro CDs for all the flavors of linux, or discount-coupons for CheapBytes, to 'cut off the air supply' to Red Hat & etc.
And that doesn't explain to anybody what happened to the first Nine major releases of Mac OS X. Are OS X versions 1-9 what Apple dumped that huge heap of cash on in the 90's? (I hope I'm not the only person who remembers how badly Apple failed to 'innovate' their OS before giving up and buying NextStep instead.)
Any time an interface-changeover occurs, it's important to look at what else is on the horizon at the same time. Will the first 5% of drives with this new interface be the only ones without build in Digital 'Rights Management' (DRM) features?
I see this as a great opportunity for the DRM advocates to obsolete all older drives ("sorry, your old drive won't plug into the new motherboards") and force a change-over to the new drives with DRM in their firmware.
If the United States rebels had sent disguised people with bombs into taverns in cities like Boston where British soldiers were taking a break, and killed a mix of soldiers and civillians, they would have been terrorists.
Terrorists nondiscriminatly and deliberately kill civillians, and aim to spread terror throughout non-military populations. The definition is commonly known.
It provides a very intelligent of the whole topic of Mathematics, from the point of view of an adult reader wanting to learn more. The author goes into a lot of the interesting historical and cultural background behind the math.
It's truly a book that belongs in everyone's library.
And those 5000 responders are really, really valuable contacts to have. The anti-spam community and anti-spam sentiment itself have insured that anybody who isn't an easy mark, who it isn't trivial to swindle, has been filtered out.
He's probably stuck, and it's because Apple released their half-closed MkLinux that he's stuck.
Apple Computer really didn't want people crawling around in their hardware, reverse engineering it, figuring out all the warts and details. But that's what Linux kernal hackers do for fun.
They figured "we will throw them a bone, we'll create a dead-end 'Linux' and call it MkLinux."
As a result, they basically let all the air out of the efforts to roll support for Mac hardware into the regular Linux kernal, where it should be. So now there's all the orphaned hardware out there, nobody put the time into it to do it the right way (reverse engineering the hardware, like happened where necessary on x86) and MkLinux is basically a dead end branch.
We don't get to watch static anymore. Most new video equipment throws up that 'blue screen' like we'd get in trouble from staring at random bitmaps or something.
Ummmm, the X-Box developers license is an agreement that you sign with Microsoft. I'm sure there is language in there that constrains what you can do with the tools.
They'll see the $200K and raise you $500K. Got that kinda money to give Microsoft for breach of contract?
however, what it DOES do is on all fronts kill any reason you might have to own a mod chip.
Yes, what Sony did by releasing a Linux kit was relieve the pressure for people to do an aggressive reverse-engineered version that they wouldn't have control over.
It's similar to Apple with MkLinux back in the day. Nobody has really ever gotten the old classic Macs to boot directly to Linux or NetBSD. There are awful kludges involving keeping a little runt MacOS partition on the drive (how disgusting!) to boot from if I want to run NetBSD on an SE/30 (which I did for a time). If Apple hadn't thrown MkLinux out to people, their boot sequence, hardware, etc. would have been far more aggressively reverse-engineered than it ever has been.
Maybe that would be a cheap alternative for someone who wants to build a 'wall of video' display of some sort. For most 'cluster' applications, the video hardware would be wasted, and that's a fairly significant part of the 'typical $450' most people cite when talking about the X-Box innards.
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Maybe they'll distribute free distro CDs for all the flavors of linux, or discount-coupons for CheapBytes, to 'cut off the air supply' to Red Hat & etc.
And that doesn't explain to anybody what happened to the first Nine major releases of Mac OS X. Are OS X versions 1-9 what Apple dumped that huge heap of cash on in the 90's? (I hope I'm not the only person who remembers how badly Apple failed to 'innovate' their OS before giving up and buying NextStep instead.)
Any time an interface-changeover occurs, it's important to look at what else is on the horizon at the same time. Will the first 5% of drives with this new interface be the only ones without build in Digital 'Rights Management' (DRM) features?
I see this as a great opportunity for the DRM advocates to obsolete all older drives ("sorry, your old drive won't plug into the new motherboards") and force a change-over to the new drives with DRM in their firmware.
Just a point to ponder.
The 'X' was supposedly a Roman Numeral ten.
So why would MacOS version 11 be labelled as a dot-release of version 10? Or is this just a minor incremental release?
If the United States rebels had sent disguised people with bombs into taverns in cities like Boston where British soldiers were taking a break, and killed a mix of soldiers and civillians, they would have been terrorists.
Terrorists nondiscriminatly and deliberately kill civillians, and aim to spread terror throughout non-military populations. The definition is commonly known.
A good general book that I picked up a few years ago and am slowly working my way through is 'Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers' by Jan Gullberg.
It provides a very intelligent of the whole topic of Mathematics, from the point of view of an adult reader wanting to learn more. The author goes into a lot of the interesting historical and cultural background behind the math.
It's truly a book that belongs in everyone's library.
Just think. You probably could have given your nephew two bucks for every broken link he could find on your website, and have saved money and grief.
Mailing List admins, and the lists they administer, would suffer from such a limit.
So, you'd have to implement exceptions for Listservs. Whoops, tore a big loophole in that strategy.
And those 5000 responders are really, really valuable contacts to have. The anti-spam community and anti-spam sentiment itself have insured that anybody who isn't an easy mark, who it isn't trivial to swindle, has been filtered out.
and someone far smarter than the spammers are writes a couple pieces of software
That's the kind of role companies like Elcomsoft fill. Remember Dmitry, our hero?
The day will have to come when we don't welcome people who enable spammers for money to be part of our community.
And I think of a precious metal that trades in ingot form for about the same prices as platinum.
Before we get all optomistic, how many light years away are the nearest four of these planets?
He's probably stuck, and it's because Apple released their half-closed MkLinux that he's stuck.
Apple Computer really didn't want people crawling around in their hardware, reverse engineering it, figuring out all the warts and details. But that's what Linux kernal hackers do for fun.
They figured "we will throw them a bone, we'll create a dead-end 'Linux' and call it MkLinux."
As a result, they basically let all the air out of the efforts to roll support for Mac hardware into the regular Linux kernal, where it should be. So now there's all the orphaned hardware out there, nobody put the time into it to do it the right way (reverse engineering the hardware, like happened where necessary on x86) and MkLinux is basically a dead end branch.
Thanks Apple.
They probably took down the site as a defensive gesture.
All kinds of us who don't observe the dress code would have tracked in reality on the black velvet carpeting.
It isn't the slashdot we used to know, is it?
We don't get to watch static anymore. Most new video equipment throws up that 'blue screen' like we'd get in trouble from staring at random bitmaps or something.
Ummmm, the X-Box developers license is an agreement that you sign with Microsoft. I'm sure there is language in there that constrains what you can do with the tools.
They'll see the $200K and raise you $500K. Got that kinda money to give Microsoft for breach of contract?
You don't fool us for a minute!
Larry Ellision is the diametrical opposite of a 'SensitiveMale.'
however, what it DOES do is on all fronts kill any reason you might have to own a mod chip.
Yes, what Sony did by releasing a Linux kit was relieve the pressure for people to do an aggressive reverse-engineered version that they wouldn't have control over.
It's similar to Apple with MkLinux back in the day. Nobody has really ever gotten the old classic Macs to boot directly to Linux or NetBSD. There are awful kludges involving keeping a little runt MacOS partition on the drive (how disgusting!) to boot from if I want to run NetBSD on an SE/30 (which I did for a time). If Apple hadn't thrown MkLinux out to people, their boot sequence, hardware, etc. would have been far more aggressively reverse-engineered than it ever has been.
I am still waiting to hear reports of the first person who runs Linux on a Playstation 2 actually doing anything productive with it.
It seems like a rather expensive 'gee wiz' to me, in the era when lots of other 'gee wiz' things are about $3 to Cheapbytes away.
Somebody gets linux to run on the XBox. They get, say, a Bash prompt to come up.
Microsoft themselves mass produce the Disk and give it to people for free. (it's GPL, they can do that)
The Bash prompt stares the typical X-Box customer in the eye for a few seconds.
Microsoft introduces a patch to the X-Box firmware that scrubs the area of the HD that the Linux disk uses whenever any commercial game is played.
X-Box owner yawns, disk goes to back of pile, never to be inserted again.
Maybe that would be a cheap alternative for someone who wants to build a 'wall of video' display of some sort. For most 'cluster' applications, the video hardware would be wasted, and that's a fairly significant part of the 'typical $450' most people cite when talking about the X-Box innards.
This goofy special-function 'serve big graphic files up to Macs' benchmark is NOT a 'production file server' task. So what the heck?
Wow. What a coincidence that this story pops up, and surprise, the episode in question just happens to be scheduled to broadcast again tomorrow night.
This isn't some sort of tie-in deal is it?
Building rockets is more like welding and metalwork.
i.e. like adding that third, fourth, and fifth spoiler on your Camaro.
I'm sure this guy will concur.