In order to use it, people will have to replace pretty much all their existing equipment
See, they said stereo, and eveyone knows these SW wonks have loads more than just one crystal set laying around...soooo. They'll just wind one up for use w/the LEFT channel, and then dial in another Radio Shack Gold Klondike SkyMaster SW68-006 Horizon Buster II for the RIGHT channel, and won't we be the stupid ones:)
Yes, Earl??? Dorothy, I gotta call the guys over at NASA...there's something going on up there. Where's my damn book?....Am I wearing a sign that says 'Earls Slave'...?......WHERE'S MY BOOK?? WHERE'S MY BOOK!! GET ME THAT DAMNNNNNNNNN BOOK?????????
The new chips, rather than being laid out in a traditional manner, where there is a strict heirarchy in terms of data flow and hand off, etc., are said to be more like an large modern urban city, where there are pockets of industrial activity and zones for local administration mixed in with housing and recreation.
The new city has main roads that are rings (one or two), rather than grids where the government is focused in one area....industial parks in another.,...and families and fun parks all bunched up in yet another sequestered section. These ring roads serve to generally define city structure.
The dispersed control of new, very large cities is only possible by taking advantage of modern communication and thoughtful agreement to locallized authority.
When city government sits on a throne, and nothing happens without strict review and approval, a city can become bound up in red tape and suffer accordingly.
By applying this logic to chip layouts, the goal of rapid and coordinated decision making can become a more rapid and efficient process.
Let go of the frontside bus logic for a moment or two, and you'll perhaps see how this can be a leap forward, as opposed to an operational liability
What, you never heard of Otis Marden?
He is considered the first man to realize the potential of the Imperial valley.
He's the guy that opened the first roadside fruit stand in the San Fernando valley, back in 1929. He bought a piece of property out on Highway 10, and set up shop. Old Otis sold oranges, watermelons and avocados. Most people thought he was crazy for settling down way out there.
Once a month he would buy another small parcel of land, and by the time he died, in 1978, his net worth was estimated to be one t-bill shy of $100 million.
His family liquidated all but 100 acres in the mid 80s', and he is now buried where that old friut stand used to be. The only indication he was ever around is a small metal sign, advertising oranges at a dollar a bag.
Hello...this is Anxious Arnie's Aircraft Painting and Renovation Service. Arnie speaking. How can we help you today?
Hi....thanks...this is um....Bob, from the FTC. Do you guys paint...say...helicopters?
Why yes, we do. In fact we have a special running this month. One free with every six orders. How many helicopters do you have and what color did you want?
We have ten helicopters and we want them painted all black.
Oh...I see. Well, we're all out of black right now, sorry...the new Homeland Security Department just had us do a dozen choppers for them. Paint's still wet, as a matter of fact. If you can wait a week, we can do them for you then.
Ok, I understand...let me check with my boss and someone will call you right back, thanks!
[click...bzzzzzz]
Netscape/Lycos, etc. to search for whatever functionality I need, such as a TV listing gill net that sucks data off of different sites, and sluices it into a MySQL db. I then download it with my web client, and do whatever install is needed.
If I need to mod the XML, any handy text editor will do, such as BBEdit.
Other than leeching pre-configured XML, I don't have any tools.
A small band of Australian advocates of open source has joined a growing worldwide army trying to wrest the power of instant messaging away from Titans such as Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, handing it back to individuals and the enterprise.
Imagine if you were to send an email but it bounced back because the recipient lacked the software to understand your message. Or if you tried to make a phone call, but were told by a canned voice that your phone number was not recognised. That is the state of instant messaging (IM) today.
A user must install several IM clients - software chat programs - on their PC to communicate with others, and online chats often cannot be easily carried between services. Although some clients understand a variety of IM systems, they are not widely used and are liable to breaking at the whim of the entrenched proprietary IM providers, such as Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft.
Dubbed "the Linux of IM", Jabber is an XML protocol devised in 1998 that transfers messages in real time across the internet. Its open-source, open-standard architecture readily allows individuals and organisations to create their own services on servers they own.
A side effect is greatly enhanced security and robustness of communications because messages are not sent in the clear to servers on the other side of the world over the insecure internet.
Jabber clients - software programs such as RhymBox that exploit the underlying Jabber architecture - also work with proprietary standards, providing the best of both worlds and unplugging the IM bottleneck.
Jabber's heavyweight backers include Intel, H-P, Sony, IBM and Hitachi, and telcos including BellSouth in the US and Orange. It is being formalised as XMPP (extensible messaging and presence protocol), an internet standard, by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
Despite such impressive achievements, the adoption of Jabber in Australia has been slow, which is the reason an advocacy and technology steering group, Jabber Australia, was formed in Melbourne this week, says its founding president, Jeremy Lunn.
In Poland, a million users hang off a single server, but there are far fewer users here and so far only 20 people have responded to the request for help on Jabber Australia's jabber.org.au website, Lunn says.
But the local chapter has high-level support from the Jabber Software Foundation in the US that pioneers the protocol. On its board is Melbourne-based Robert Norris, a Jabber Software Foundation council member and lead developer of the open-source JabberD 2 server.
"The key advantage in Jabber remains in the openness," says Lunn. "Jabber doesn't tie consumers to any one program or service provider. Consumers will now have a choice."
Lunn sees Microsoft's and AOL's decision last week to sign a $US750 million peace treaty, making their rival systems compatible or "interoperable", as a "half-baked" yet positive step towards knitting together the IM archipelago.
"It still doesn't allow people to run their own servers, such as in Australia, whether they be individuals, ISPs or businesses," he says.
However, it will make things much easier for users of Jabber because less code needs to be maintained for Jabber to interoperate with other networks, Lunn says. "When these systems do open up to the public, providing they use an open standard as the protocol, it's good for Jabber and all IM users, regardless of whether it's SIMPLE (session initiation protocol for instant messaging and presence leveraging extensions protocol) or the Jabber protocol."
Jabber faces competition from SIMPLE, also wending its way through the Internet Engineering Task Force a few steps behind, which has the support of IBM and Microsoft. But critics such as Lunn say SIMPLE is as simple does - it lacks the functionality and purpose of XMPP/Jabber.
"Although SIMPLE has some great advantages in compa
....that OpenOffice made this a non-issue. Yes, I used to run SoftWindows, etc. but never on a regular basis, and not in the last two or three years. Now that OO is available, I can run it on my Mac and/or Linux boxen and be happy.
No need to check pricing for MS emulator cloaking devices.
"In some ways the Foundstone tale is a microcosm of the ugly side of the dot-com craze--arrogance, greed, mismanagement, and stupidity."
The ugly side?
Spare me 'the pretty side'...I don't want to know...ok, ok..someone tell me about the pretty side of the dot-com craze... Jennifer, in accounting, perhaps? A pale yellow BMW M3 parked on the sand at Pismo Beach? A new pair of oversized Berkenstocks? A shiny new blade server with redundant power supplies and terrabytes of fiber laced storage? Corner office with a wet bar?
As a MS apologist, please remember you are held to strict rules when starting any and all arguments.
Never use open-ended statements, such as "if you do this" and "just about every time", without first reminding readers that you are an expert in your field, and you only discuss facts.
Back in 1996, Apple and Tower Records got together to try this new thing called 'e-business', where people used this other new thing, the internet, to spend money and buy things using networked computers.
Apple was only interested in selling iron, and had no interest in the retail side of things, much less selling CD's, books and video tapes.
Apple had suits as reps, and since Tower's IT department didn't even have email, the 'Pulse' magazine arm of Tower became the cheerleading squad for Russ (owner of Tower Records) and the gang.
Apple 'donated' three AIX equipped Shiners (200MHz), and Tower gathered a group to meld MUSE's song data and Tower's credit card backend into a website. www.tower.com belonged to some company back east, and they turned down a $10k offer for the domain, so www.towerrecords.com was it. A small group of highly talented software guys in the Bay Area were hired to code it all together*, and the growing pains began.
Fast forward to today, and we have ITMS on Xserve and Tower running the latest ASP shopping cart.
Like they say, it's the singer, not the song.
*That group was bought up by MS in a short time, and the e-shop app was shelved...never to be seen again. If you can't compete, kill the competition and bury the body in the backyard....but that's another thread.
What?s New in iMove 3.0.3
iMovie 3.0.3 provides improved performance and stability, especially on G3 processor Macs, for rendering, audio, and the Ken Burns Effect. Refinements to the Ken Burns Effect allow greater control over pan and zoom of digital images, and make it easier to crop digital stills. QuickTime 6.3 is required for improvements to audio sync and audio integrity.
Bluetooth 1.2.1 provides enhanced stability and support for the following Symbian OS based mobile phones: Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650, and Sony Ericsson P800. Bluetooth 1.2.1 is recommended for use with iSync 1.1.
The implications are yours, not mine. Read them any way you wish.
Nice try to use your lack of position to debate me with, but I'm not biting. Thanks for taking a run at me...try again when you've got a point.
Drives, RAM and cables...of course not. Motherboard...as we agree. The power supply in a new dual processor G4 is BTO from Samsung, and no other manufacturer uses it. The video cards are not PC compatible, nor do they have identical feature sets or ROMs. Lesser commonality means more cost. An aluminum laptop... Who else? Titanium...no one.
No other manufacturer will spend the money for proprietary connectors, switches, tooling, fasteners. most expensive cartons and low yield assembly runs...money is most definitely a factor, and with Dell and HP chasing each other's tails, they will never spend the same...not to mention that Dell has no R & D to speak of...why? Oh, yet again....money. Even Sun is balking at spending the kind of money Apple does these days. I know, I work for the largest electronics manufacturer in Korea, supporting OEMs.
While ID may be the iceing on the cake, unit cost and ROI are the plate that cake is served on.
Chill Napoleon. That entire blurb was cut/paste from the article that I quoted elsewhere....follow that link and go postal over there, if you really want to stomp someone, ok?:)
Or is this some tribal territorial coming of age thing, where you just lash out at the nearest shadow and the naked-to-the-waist women react with approval at your prowess? Because if it is, then I'm on your side, and I'll act all put down and stuff so you can get some later in the tent...it's cool...just tell me, 'cause I can recall what it was like to be all young and stoopid and stuff:)
Slashdot Mirror
In order to use it, people will have to replace pretty much all their existing equipment
:)
......WHERE'S MY BOOK?? WHERE'S MY BOOK!! GET ME THAT DAMNNNNNNNNN BOOK?????????
See, they said stereo, and eveyone knows these SW wonks have loads more than just one crystal set laying around...soooo. They'll just wind one up for use w/the LEFT channel, and then dial in another Radio Shack Gold Klondike SkyMaster SW68-006 Horizon Buster II for the RIGHT channel, and won't we be the stupid ones
Yes, Earl??? Dorothy, I gotta call the guys over at NASA...there's something going on up there. Where's my damn book?....Am I wearing a sign that says 'Earls Slave'...?
massive...not.
:)
You must not be able to count beyond 3, and anything after that is a Carl Sagan number
Rehased hash is still hash...where's the beef?
The new chips, rather than being laid out in a traditional manner, where there is a strict heirarchy in terms of data flow and hand off, etc., are said to be more like an large modern urban city, where there are pockets of industrial activity and zones for local administration mixed in with housing and recreation.
The new city has main roads that are rings (one or two), rather than grids where the government is focused in one area....industial parks in another.,...and families and fun parks all bunched up in yet another sequestered section. These ring roads serve to generally define city structure.
The dispersed control of new, very large cities is only possible by taking advantage of modern communication and thoughtful agreement to locallized authority.
When city government sits on a throne, and nothing happens without strict review and approval, a city can become bound up in red tape and suffer accordingly.
By applying this logic to chip layouts, the goal of rapid and coordinated decision making can become a more rapid and efficient process.
Let go of the frontside bus logic for a moment or two, and you'll perhaps see how this can be a leap forward, as opposed to an operational liability
...seems the joke went way over someone's head, eh? :)
The establishment encourages humor...sorry if it's a bit too sophisticated. Next time I'll dummy it down....not!
What, you never heard of Otis Marden? He is considered the first man to realize the potential of the Imperial valley.
He's the guy that opened the first roadside fruit stand in the San Fernando valley, back in 1929. He bought a piece of property out on Highway 10, and set up shop. Old Otis sold oranges, watermelons and avocados. Most people thought he was crazy for settling down way out there.
Once a month he would buy another small parcel of land, and by the time he died, in 1978, his net worth was estimated to be one t-bill shy of $100 million.
His family liquidated all but 100 acres in the mid 80s', and he is now buried where that old friut stand used to be. The only indication he was ever around is a small metal sign, advertising oranges at a dollar a bag.
Every ALLOW policy must be paired with an associated DENY policy...else your 'policy' is not one of coherent-level intent.
www.lala.land ...?
ring....ring.....
Hello...this is Anxious Arnie's Aircraft Painting and Renovation Service. Arnie speaking. How can we help you today?
Hi....thanks...this is um....Bob, from the FTC. Do you guys paint...say...helicopters?
Why yes, we do. In fact we have a special running this month. One free with every six orders. How many helicopters do you have and what color did you want?
We have ten helicopters and we want them painted all black.
Oh...I see. Well, we're all out of black right now, sorry...the new Homeland Security Department just had us do a dozen choppers for them. Paint's still wet, as a matter of fact. If you can wait a week, we can do them for you then.
Ok, I understand...let me check with my boss and someone will call you right back, thanks! [click...bzzzzzz]
...they will only make this mistake one time.
The eventual lynching will occur, and when it does, anyone involved will rue the day.
Money decisions like this are one thing for schools, but having a closed mind in terms of long term resources never goes without attention.
...the 'net.
Netscape/Lycos, etc. to search for whatever functionality I need, such as a TV listing gill net that sucks data off of different sites, and sluices it into a MySQL db. I then download it with my web client, and do whatever install is needed.
If I need to mod the XML, any handy text editor will do, such as BBEdit.
Other than leeching pre-configured XML, I don't have any tools.
Hey, you asked....
...to ask your parents for permission.
Jabbering classes push for more power
By Nathan Cochrane
June 10 2003
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A small band of Australian advocates of open source has joined a growing worldwide army trying to wrest the power of instant messaging away from Titans such as Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, handing it back to individuals and the enterprise.
Imagine if you were to send an email but it bounced back because the recipient lacked the software to understand your message. Or if you tried to make a phone call, but were told by a canned voice that your phone number was not recognised. That is the state of instant messaging (IM) today.
A user must install several IM clients - software chat programs - on their PC to communicate with others, and online chats often cannot be easily carried between services. Although some clients understand a variety of IM systems, they are not widely used and are liable to breaking at the whim of the entrenched proprietary IM providers, such as Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft.
Dubbed "the Linux of IM", Jabber is an XML protocol devised in 1998 that transfers messages in real time across the internet. Its open-source, open-standard architecture readily allows individuals and organisations to create their own services on servers they own.
A side effect is greatly enhanced security and robustness of communications because messages are not sent in the clear to servers on the other side of the world over the insecure internet.
Jabber clients - software programs such as RhymBox that exploit the underlying Jabber architecture - also work with proprietary standards, providing the best of both worlds and unplugging the IM bottleneck.
Jabber's heavyweight backers include Intel, H-P, Sony, IBM and Hitachi, and telcos including BellSouth in the US and Orange. It is being formalised as XMPP (extensible messaging and presence protocol), an internet standard, by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
Despite such impressive achievements, the adoption of Jabber in Australia has been slow, which is the reason an advocacy and technology steering group, Jabber Australia, was formed in Melbourne this week, says its founding president, Jeremy Lunn.
In Poland, a million users hang off a single server, but there are far fewer users here and so far only 20 people have responded to the request for help on Jabber Australia's jabber.org.au website, Lunn says.
But the local chapter has high-level support from the Jabber Software Foundation in the US that pioneers the protocol. On its board is Melbourne-based Robert Norris, a Jabber Software Foundation council member and lead developer of the open-source JabberD 2 server.
"The key advantage in Jabber remains in the openness," says Lunn. "Jabber doesn't tie consumers to any one program or service provider. Consumers will now have a choice."
Lunn sees Microsoft's and AOL's decision last week to sign a $US750 million peace treaty, making their rival systems compatible or "interoperable", as a "half-baked" yet positive step towards knitting together the IM archipelago.
"It still doesn't allow people to run their own servers, such as in Australia, whether they be individuals, ISPs or businesses," he says.
However, it will make things much easier for users of Jabber because less code needs to be maintained for Jabber to interoperate with other networks, Lunn says. "When these systems do open up to the public, providing they use an open standard as the protocol, it's good for Jabber and all IM users, regardless of whether it's SIMPLE (session initiation protocol for instant messaging and presence leveraging extensions protocol) or the Jabber protocol."
Jabber faces competition from SIMPLE, also wending its way through the Internet Engineering Task Force a few steps behind, which has the support of IBM and Microsoft. But critics such as Lunn say SIMPLE is as simple does - it lacks the functionality and purpose of XMPP/Jabber.
"Although SIMPLE has some great advantages in compa
....that OpenOffice made this a non-issue. Yes, I used to run SoftWindows, etc. but never on a regular basis, and not in the last two or three years. Now that OO is available, I can run it on my Mac and/or Linux boxen and be happy.
No need to check pricing for MS emulator cloaking devices.
"In some ways the Foundstone tale is a microcosm of the ugly side of the dot-com craze--arrogance, greed, mismanagement, and stupidity."
The ugly side?
Spare me 'the pretty side'...I don't want to know...ok, ok..someone tell me about the pretty side of the dot-com craze... Jennifer, in accounting, perhaps? A pale yellow BMW M3 parked on the sand at Pismo Beach? A new pair of oversized Berkenstocks? A shiny new blade server with redundant power supplies and terrabytes of fiber laced storage? Corner office with a wet bar?
But then he would have to be associated with BJoss, and yes, my dain is bramaged, thank you for noticing.
Don't recall if I mentioned it here before or not...but I did give it to MacInTouch a short time ago, when ITMS opened. Just an historical footnote.
As a MS apologist, please remember you are held to strict rules when starting any and all arguments.
- Never use open-ended statements, such as "if you do this" and "just about every time", without first reminding readers that you are an expert in your field, and you only discuss facts.
- When arguing that the user is the principal cause of computer problems, be sure to also state that MS has always had a policy of considering the user's needs first and foremost when designing products.
- Never end a comment by stating "But I'm sure we can twist this into an anti-MS thread anyway" without a friendly wave (all fingers out) and a smile.
Be careful out there.I budget for all of my porn....
I do not budget for violence, thank you.
Back in 1996, Apple and Tower Records got together to try this new thing called 'e-business', where people used this other new thing, the internet, to spend money and buy things using networked computers.
Apple was only interested in selling iron, and had no interest in the retail side of things, much less selling CD's, books and video tapes.
Apple had suits as reps, and since Tower's IT department didn't even have email, the 'Pulse' magazine arm of Tower became the cheerleading squad for Russ (owner of Tower Records) and the gang.
Apple 'donated' three AIX equipped Shiners (200MHz), and Tower gathered a group to meld MUSE's song data and Tower's credit card backend into a website. www.tower.com belonged to some company back east, and they turned down a $10k offer for the domain, so www.towerrecords.com was it. A small group of highly talented software guys in the Bay Area were hired to code it all together*, and the growing pains began.
Fast forward to today, and we have ITMS on Xserve and Tower running the latest ASP shopping cart.
Like they say, it's the singer, not the song.
*That group was bought up by MS in a short time, and the e-shop app was shelved...never to be seen again. If you can't compete, kill the competition and bury the body in the backyard....but that's another thread.
From ZDNet UK....slightly amusing...but a valid point, none the less.
iMovie 3.03 via the website...(this one, if an improvement, is badly needed).
What?s New in iMove 3.0.3
iMovie 3.0.3 provides improved performance and stability, especially on G3 processor Macs, for rendering, audio, and the Ken Burns Effect. Refinements to the Ken Burns Effect allow greater control over pan and zoom of digital images, and make it easier to crop digital stills. QuickTime 6.3 is required for improvements to audio sync and audio integrity.
Bluetooth 1.2.1 provides enhanced stability and support for the following Symbian OS based mobile phones: Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650, and Sony Ericsson P800. Bluetooth 1.2.1 is recommended for use with iSync 1.1.
The implications are yours, not mine. Read them any way you wish.
Nice try to use your lack of position to debate me with, but I'm not biting. Thanks for taking a run at me...try again when you've got a point.
Beg to differ, Sir.
Drives, RAM and cables...of course not. Motherboard...as we agree. The power supply in a new dual processor G4 is BTO from Samsung, and no other manufacturer uses it. The video cards are not PC compatible, nor do they have identical feature sets or ROMs. Lesser commonality means more cost. An aluminum laptop... Who else? Titanium...no one.
No other manufacturer will spend the money for proprietary connectors, switches, tooling, fasteners. most expensive cartons and low yield assembly runs...money is most definitely a factor, and with Dell and HP chasing each other's tails, they will never spend the same...not to mention that Dell has no R & D to speak of...why? Oh, yet again....money. Even Sun is balking at spending the kind of money Apple does these days. I know, I work for the largest electronics manufacturer in Korea, supporting OEMs.
While ID may be the iceing on the cake, unit cost and ROI are the plate that cake is served on.
Chill Napoleon. That entire blurb was cut/paste from the article that I quoted elsewhere....follow that link and go postal over there, if you really want to stomp someone, ok? :)
:)
Or is this some tribal territorial coming of age thing, where you just lash out at the nearest shadow and the naked-to-the-waist women react with approval at your prowess? Because if it is, then I'm on your side, and I'll act all put down and stuff so you can get some later in the tent...it's cool...just tell me, 'cause I can recall what it was like to be all young and stoopid and stuff
But you'll still owe me an apology!