Uhh, I would call a Kleenex "disposable" because you use it once and throw it away. I've gotten quite a few uses out of my car. Even under the looser definition of "worth repairing," a car is not disposable. People pay other people thousands to do engine and transmission work. So what are you thinking?
Everything I've seen is that while the Hammer will be targeted (and priced) for the desktop, IA-64 is so big and expensive that it will be marketed only as competition to IBM and Sun processors for years to come. If this is true, IA-64 is hardly more interesting than some new expensive, incompatible processor from Hitachi or anybody else.
Oh, brilliant. The least security sensitive wireless networking application imaginable and somebody's "wireless = security concerns" reflex still kicks in!
What about the reverse-engineered Microsoft codecs though? Will those be open-sourced? That would be a great contribution to Open Source, especially since Real would then be volunteering to take on the inevitable legal battle.
I always wished I could get video "reruns" of classes. Where I went they did videoconference classes for remote sites and they kept a tape, but there was only one tape made of each class, you had to go the library to get it, and half the time it was either checked out or permanently lost when you got there.
Actually I'm on the month-to-month plan rather than the annual, for that reason. Yes, it's 50% more expensive that way - a heavy hit - but I figure the $15/mo still reasonable so long as I'm dowloading more than about 3 or 4 cd's worth per month (since $15 is the cost of 1 CD).
I can't promise I'll still be with them in a year, but I'll probably have paid them $75 or so by the time I quit, which money they never would have gotten otherwise.
Check out emusic.com. It's basically that, only not that cheap.
I am a subscriber, so I can honestly say that I download *all* my music, but completely legally. The problem, of course, is selection. Bands who could make millions selling CDs are probably better off *not* being on a service like emusic.
This has been an oft-repeated prediction for about 5 years already. Every few months you see somebody in a University lamenting the awful state of the personal computer and promising an interface more like what you see in movies, and it always fails.
You assume that the something new must be on the horizon because the desktop is maxxed out. I think it's at least as likely that most of the excitement over computers is gone for good, and now people will get interested in something else, like healthcare.
Just think "aerospace," which was hot from the 50s into the 70s, and produced most of the planes we're still using.
I've spent days trying to get video capture working on my AIW Rage 128 under linux, to no avail. Are you using the video 4 linux interface provided by "km"? Or do you capture with Avview?
I'm not a liberal at all, but do you see the irony in your statement given the first sentence of the article, "THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION had asked Congress to approve the Cyber Security Enhancement Act..." (and no I did not add that capitalization myself).
I think half the developers I know have implemented Tetris at one time or another - in Turbo Pascal, as a Java Applet, on HP calculators - it's ubiquitous.
I have always wondered if there were any examples (probably from war) of people bailing over the ocean with no/unopened parachute and surviving. Terminal velocity around sea level is like 120 mph, right? That's pretty fast, but I wonder if there's some chance of surviving an impact with water at that speed.
If this isn't possible, I wonder how close to possible it is. I saw a *really* high-diving competition on TV (not at a pool, but off a cliff) and I'll bet those guys were getting up towards triple-digit speeds.
Remember about 15 years ago when the Japanese were wiping the floor with us and buying up certain American assets such as Hawaii? And then their whole economy went completely down the toilet? Ah, memories.
Not signing Kyoto would probably look like a mere pecadillo compared to invading one country (without, say, a UN mandate) that doesn't appear posed to invade anybody else and has certainly been suffering (the people, that is; not Saddam) while simultaneously violating the sovereignty of countries that host our forces.
I agree with all that. I was just talking about the point of logistics raised by the previous poster. You make a good point about the added forces required for occupation. But other than ordinance, I don't see how we're stocking up on anything. The forces aren't recruiting any more people, as far as I know, and I don't think there have been rush orders for a new fleet of fighter jets or anything like that.
As for the politics, I don't think we should try to fix Iraq. Yes, there's a risk Saddam will get some really nasty weapon, and I'm sure he'd love to share it with anyone willing and able to deploy it on our soil. We definitely run some risk by living on the same planet with Saddam. However, I just don't think toppling every country that might want to harm us - before they even try - is a viable option.
Yes, what does "largest potential market" mean, anyways? China would be a huge potental market, IF most of the people weren't poor. The same could be said for Africa. Canada would be a huge market IF only it had 10 times more people. IF is a big word.
I wonder why there isn't more talk about India. Huge population and better government than China. Heaven knows loads of Indians are getting technical skills.
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So what if Intel wasted $1e10, considering the result is such a pig? Intel chose Rambus, too.
Uhh, I would call a Kleenex "disposable" because you use it once and throw it away. I've gotten quite a few uses out of my car. Even under the looser definition of "worth repairing," a car is not disposable. People pay other people thousands to do engine and transmission work. So what are you thinking?
Everything I've seen is that while the Hammer will be targeted (and priced) for the desktop, IA-64 is so big and expensive that it will be marketed only as competition to IBM and Sun processors for years to come. If this is true, IA-64 is hardly more interesting than some new expensive, incompatible processor from Hitachi or anybody else.
This is like bragging about climbing the "tallest" mountain in Kansas.
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Oh, brilliant. The least security sensitive wireless networking application imaginable and somebody's "wireless = security concerns" reflex still kicks in!
Did Dell tell HP they were going to make printers? If so, why? If not, I wonder who spilled the beans and what their bonus will be this year.
Yeah, that was my point, Linux's scheduler upgrade wasn't too graceful. Guess I was a little too "clever" in expressing myself.
Linux has had 3 or 4 different schedulers in the past year alone! Beat that!
What about the reverse-engineered Microsoft codecs though? Will those be open-sourced? That would be a great contribution to Open Source, especially since Real would then be volunteering to take on the inevitable legal battle.
I always wished I could get video "reruns" of classes. Where I went they did videoconference classes for remote sites and they kept a tape, but there was only one tape made of each class, you had to go the library to get it, and half the time it was either checked out or permanently lost when you got there.
I can't promise I'll still be with them in a year, but I'll probably have paid them $75 or so by the time I quit, which money they never would have gotten otherwise.
I am a subscriber, so I can honestly say that I download *all* my music, but completely legally. The problem, of course, is selection. Bands who could make millions selling CDs are probably better off *not* being on a service like emusic.
You assume that the something new must be on the horizon because the desktop is maxxed out. I think it's at least as likely that most of the excitement over computers is gone for good, and now people will get interested in something else, like healthcare.
Just think "aerospace," which was hot from the 50s into the 70s, and produced most of the planes we're still using.
I've spent days trying to get video capture working on my AIW Rage 128 under linux, to no avail. Are you using the video 4 linux interface provided by "km"? Or do you capture with Avview?
But "clock" is not a good word for that signal, because the basic idea of a clock is that it proceeds at a uniform rate.
I'm not a liberal at all, but do you see the irony in your statement given the first sentence of the article, "THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION had asked Congress to approve the Cyber Security Enhancement Act..." (and no I did not add that capitalization myself).
I think half the developers I know have implemented Tetris at one time or another - in Turbo Pascal, as a Java Applet, on HP calculators - it's ubiquitous.
Interesting ,thanks! Sorry I've no mod points for you.
If this isn't possible, I wonder how close to possible it is. I saw a *really* high-diving competition on TV (not at a pool, but off a cliff) and I'll bet those guys were getting up towards triple-digit speeds.
Remember about 15 years ago when the Japanese were wiping the floor with us and buying up certain American assets such as Hawaii? And then their whole economy went completely down the toilet? Ah, memories.
I agree with all that. I was just talking about the point of logistics raised by the previous poster. You make a good point about the added forces required for occupation. But other than ordinance, I don't see how we're stocking up on anything. The forces aren't recruiting any more people, as far as I know, and I don't think there have been rush orders for a new fleet of fighter jets or anything like that.
As for the politics, I don't think we should try to fix Iraq. Yes, there's a risk Saddam will get some really nasty weapon, and I'm sure he'd love to share it with anyone willing and able to deploy it on our soil. We definitely run some risk by living on the same planet with Saddam. However, I just don't think toppling every country that might want to harm us - before they even try - is a viable option.
I wonder why there isn't more talk about India. Huge population and better government than China. Heaven knows loads of Indians are getting technical skills.