I believe that some people are way too bothered with Intel/Apple and are actually forgetting to look a little further into the future.
IBM has just sold its PC-department and is yet actualy massively supporting the Linux development. While that started out on Intel/x86 boxes, it is now an operating system that supports an incredible variety of processor platforms, including the recently premiered Cell Processor.
I believe there is a dying horse out there and it is calle Intel/x86. While it might have been a smart move on Apple's side to switch to Intel based processors in the short to mid term range, stragically speaking Apple has just abandoned its platform for the future and I doubt they will switch back to IBM in the foreseeable future. Apple customers would not accept another platform move.
IBM is not interested in short to mid term profits, IBM wants a firm piece of the entire pie in the very long run.
I suspect that IBM's unwillingness (or inability) to met Apple's demands for the G5, I tink this has something to do with its production facilities that are currently undergoing a massive reconstruction to meet the future demand for the cell processor.
Give IBM another two years and it will have produces cell processors for workstations, notebooks and embedded platforms. Not only will they have the fastest platform available, they will also have an operating system available that is already tailored to the specifications of the computing platform of the future.
Apple has had the opportunity to use that very platform, but decided against it.
I am not so sure whether that was a really smart move.
I have decided that I will not be in a position to require a modem any time soon. Apart from that, the IBM R51 is the one you are looking for.
Every component is very well supported natively in Linux, including ACPI control for suspend/resume, fan control, volume buttons, OpenGL with xorg drivers with the same performance as the binary ATI-driver, Synaptics touchpad and a clitstick that has *three* buttons (what a relief for Linuxers on the road), and what's best:
As I understand it, there is no such thing as a high performance GPU in the traditional sense when it comes to the PS3. The RSX is one of the 8 cores of the cell computer and it does all the number crunching of a regular GPU at a core speed of 550 MHz. The high definition video comes out right out of the processor, so no need for NVidia to hope for more business with Sony.
Since IBM has just decided to completely open the cell platform, the Linux community has just been handed the most powerful personal computer on a golden platter. Just imagine: No more waiting to have NVidia add new features to the Linux drivers, because the specs to the most powerful graphics platform is right open for developers.
And all that for the price of a Playstation 3 that comes with some cool stuff like bluetooth remote control.
Have you ever heard about the term short wave propagation? Did you take a look at the HF-spectrum used? Did you try to get these two things together?
With a fraction of the power and a piece of wire an emergency or ham operator can talk to the rest of the world. A pollution of the entire shortwave spectrum will endanger all kinds of communication that relies on it: Military, Emergency, Aviation, Traffic, Navigation.
Worldwide, since shortwaves do not stop at a nation's border.
Has it occured to you that Airbus industries offers more models than just this brandnew thingy called A380?
Airbus has a market share of almost 50% of all commercial planes sold these days and that *excludes* the preorders for the A380. In every segment of commercial transportation Airbus directly competes with Boeing it does so quite well, just take a look at the A320 or A340.
However, there is one segment, where Boeing does *not* compete with Airbus industries and that is the segment for the A380, serving both airlines with a need for efficient long distance flights and high passenger capacity, as well as all the large freight businesses. So far, UPS, FedEx, DHL among others have ordered A380s and this is just the beginning.
It's funny to see Americans still dwelling in the glory of past market dominance and it's even more funny to see arguments and discussions on the question whether the A380 is going to be a success, since that question has already been answered.
Obviously, the market is there, otherwise there would not have been more than 150 orders for the A380 and if the market is there, but no competition to be seen, I'd say that Boeing looks a big loser already. It will take Boeing at least 10 years to come up with an airplane that targets the same buyers and until then every single enterprise and institution in need for a large aircraft that seats up to 850 people (or packs tons of freight)is going to order an A380.
Just in case you were wondering why "WiX" is not going to be terribly popular in German speaking countries, imagine an SAP-release of a "jerkov"-module.
That actually depends on the index a company is listed at.
Let me give you an example: Probably one of the best car makers on theis planet is Porsche. You may not like the car, or you can't afford it, but it's a fact that cars manufactured by Porsche are of outstanding quality in their engineering, resale value and technology incorporated in them.
While it is a corporation operating with money from the stock market, Porsche is not listed in any of the important indexes for one simple reason: They do not publish quarterly revenues, a requirement needed to be listed in the Dow Jones or DAX indexes.
Porsche management is not interested in short term profits, they want to keep the company productive, innovative and competitive and need investors with a long breath and a belief in the company's unique values for the next decades, not quarters.
Fund managers avoid Porsche for that reason and boy, this has done wonders for Porsche, not being dependent on some short term sucker's idea of a company.
Yes, I will buy a Porsche for sure, because I know that people working for this company are part of a long term strategy and I'd like to reward them for their commitment to this, not to some stupid fund manager's wet dream of cashing in.
"The right place to petition against software patent would not be the European Parliament, whose advice gets routinely ignored anyway, but the *individual governments of each country*."
The governments of the respective countries were the entities to ask for a new start of the process. The commission is an independent body elected by the council.
Its power to deny requests for fundamental democratic procedures is what's scaring me.
I can't see anyone in his electorate envisioning this guy just dismissing a democratic process when the request is supported by many of the 25 countries.
One of the reasons for Elecraft's success is its approach to development: It's strikingly similiar to Open Source Software development. Users of Elecraft are more than just customers, they are part of a community whose input is valued and taken into consideration for the improvement of future gear.
The resulting transceiver is a superb piece of equipment, surprisingly devoid of useless bells and whistles, shiny knobs and impractical handling that have become to characteristic of all the modern Japanese transceivers.
A modern FT1000MP is like Windows XP, including the lack of proper documentation and source code, whereas the K2 is just like Linux: transparent, performant and it comes with the source code.
As a morse code buff I will definitely get a K2 should my old TS930 decide to quit one day.
Why approach the PHB? Why not approach the guy familiar with the numbers? Go to the CFO and ask him how much money he spills down the drain for software licenses each and every year, inquire about software upgrades and the costs for that, loss of productivity through viruses, trojans and server downtimes. Talk money.
Take along your notebook, show him an OO-presentation and ask him about the necessity to throw away tons of money for a basic office setup that usually consists of no more than a webbrowser, a spreadsheet application and a word processor. Make him add up the numbers and show him that an enterprise is throwing away tons of money for stuff they can have for free at the same or better level of quality.
A truly dedicated CFO will have an open ear and mind for anything that will save money in the long run. Show him how to save money, tons of money and he will be the one to support you when PHB interfers with his glossy brochures.
Linux IS ready for the corporate desktop when one considers that maintaining a Windows based environment costs money, too. Migrating is the hard and painful step, but maintenance is easier and the cost savings are immense.
No reason to be defensive about Linux: It's a cost saver and that's something no CFO will ignore. CFOs are not the ones who need a glossy desktop, the latest IT-gadgets or shiny brochures. They are the sober type with an understanding for numbers.
"I have a Centrino 1.4 and ATI 9200 Mobility in my Acer Notebook, which is the absolute top (ATI) GFX card with OSS DRI/GLX drivers, It plays Doom3 on low quality but it hardly ever gets choppy and is still scary as hell."
Uhm, buddy, are you saying you have a linux binary for DoomIII to tell us about your experience, or are you playing it via Wine?
Either way, your statement sounds about as much BS as I have heard on/. recently.
That's because Linux is no threat and never has been one. Neither did it threaten AIX as their Unix-OS due to the many hardware specific improvements and development tools of AIX, nor did they have to kow-tow before Microsoft to sell their hardware.
Linux adds the kind of flexibilty they have tried to go after with project Monterey, with the big advantage that Linux already offers a variety of platforms that are interesting for IBM as a hardware vendor: Power-PC, Intel-IA32 and 64. Embracing Linux has already saved them tons of money, money they would otherwise have had to spend on porting AIX to another platform.
Using Linux does not hurt them and some smart guy has understood that there is whole generation of Non-Microsofties out there whose goodwill towards IBM might in the end pay off very well.
" If US justice required evidence to be registered and certified allowable before claims were filed, the system would shed a lot of its unbearable load. Even the appeals before a judge, of disallowed evidence, would be dealt with in a more efficient manner. It's insane that I'm paying for the legal system that SCO is exploiting to promote its equity, now that its legitimate business has failed, while their travesty hasn't even got any evidence, or demonstrated any basis for their claims. After the years they've pushed this thing through the courts, they should have at least produced some evidence. And they're just the flagship corporate operation lawsuit - billions are spent by my cohort of taxpayers to keep litigious corporations and their lawyers in business. We should nip them in the bud, by simply requiring evidence to make any claims based on it."
"Every good slashdotter should realize that this is impossible. Theregister must just be trying to pull one over on us. I mean, clearly the Bush Administration is in the pocket of Corporations, and would never allow this to happen to big business. Obviously, the story is a farce."
None of these companies involved in the price fixing is American, they only have subsidies in the US. Any profit after taxes will not be to the benefit of the Bushites, which makes them a perfect target.
Infineon is a German company and the government will be happy to take an additional 160 Mio. from any foreign company that it thinks misbehaves.
"To enlighten you, let me give you the rules for a journalist to enter NK:
1. No cellphones.
[...]
Ever wondered why that is so?
Cellphones can only operate locally i.e. line-of-sight. This is a good indicator of an *existing* cellphone network, at least in Pyongyang itself. That wild guess has some more background than obvious at first sight: Martti Laine, a Finnish ham radio operator and executive at NOKIA had the privilege of operating an amateur radio station in Pyongyang in 1999. There is not a single North Korean individual who is allowed to operate an amateur radio station, so one may safely conclude that the North Korean authorities had a good reason to allow Mr. Laine's operation.
I am sure the guys at the NSA had a field day after that, being able to eavesdrop on North Korean cellphone users from 1999 on by using satellites.
With all the security holes exposed in the electronic election gear it should be easy to hack them in such a way that any abuse can be made visible.
Log incidents, put them online and show the world that some very powerful people have a strong interest in these pieces of machinery being insecure to such an extent that the election becomes a joke.
Expose the vulnerabilities and use them to make it impossible to use to the advantage of those who have a strong interest in influencing the outcome of the election.
"And the advent of the computer & internet didn't exactly help the library system either."
Librarians are at the heart of the development of a society. IT-companies should seek out to hire as many librarians as they can. They know how to classify written material, organize stuff and hand it over the way best suited to customers.
I would love to have run search engines run by librarians. Give me librarians as consultants for database technolgy and can we please have librarians as consultants for interface design.
Look at he "IT-specialists" of today and compare it to librarians and their accomplished task of preserving information, put it in readable format, make it searchable and available for the benfit of the people.
" I don't know why copying the CW portion of a SSB/CW conversation is hard, but for me it's far more difficult than pure CW."
It's likely you are not used listening to SSB over a longer period of time. Switching between SSB and CW on the receiving side is extremely difficult, because you need to adapt your "internal" filters from very low bandwidth to rather large bandwidth.
I can listen to CW for hours and hours, but listening to SSB is extremely tiring and makes me want to throw away the headphones after a couple of minutes. Well, I drew the consequences and have lived without a microphone on my rig for the past 20 years or so.
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I believe that some people are way too bothered with Intel/Apple and are actually forgetting to look a little further into the future.
IBM has just sold its PC-department and is yet actualy massively supporting the Linux development. While that started out on Intel/x86 boxes, it is now an operating system that supports an incredible variety of processor platforms, including the recently premiered Cell Processor.
I believe there is a dying horse out there and it is calle Intel/x86. While it might have been a smart move on Apple's side to switch to Intel based processors in the short to mid term range, stragically speaking Apple has just abandoned its platform for the future and I doubt they will switch back to IBM in the foreseeable future. Apple customers would not accept another platform move.
IBM is not interested in short to mid term profits, IBM wants a firm piece of the entire pie in the very long run.
I suspect that IBM's unwillingness (or inability) to met Apple's demands for the G5, I tink this has something to do with its production facilities that are currently undergoing a massive reconstruction to meet the future demand for the cell processor.
Give IBM another two years and it will have produces cell processors for workstations, notebooks and embedded platforms. Not only will they have the fastest platform available, they will also have an operating system available that is already tailored to the specifications of the computing platform of the future.
Apple has had the opportunity to use that very platform, but decided against it.
I am not so sure whether that was a really smart move.
Linky. Meet Linky and be happy.
I have decided that I will not be in a position to require a modem any time soon. Apart from that, the IBM R51 is the one you are looking for.
Every component is very well supported natively in Linux, including ACPI control for suspend/resume, fan control, volume buttons, OpenGL with xorg drivers with the same performance as the binary ATI-driver, Synaptics touchpad and a clitstick that has *three* buttons (what a relief for Linuxers on the road), and what's best:
No Windows keys.
As I understand it, there is no such thing as a high performance GPU in the traditional sense when it comes to the PS3. The RSX is one of the 8 cores of the cell computer and it does all the number crunching of a regular GPU at a core speed of 550 MHz. The high definition video comes out right out of the processor, so no need for NVidia to hope for more business with Sony.
Since IBM has just decided to completely open the cell platform, the Linux community has just been handed the most powerful personal computer on a golden platter. Just imagine: No more waiting to have NVidia add new features to the Linux drivers, because the specs to the most powerful graphics platform is right open for developers.
And all that for the price of a Playstation 3 that comes with some cool stuff like bluetooth remote control.
Please mod this up.
Have you ever heard about the term short wave propagation? Did you take a look at the HF-spectrum used? Did you try to get these two things together?
With a fraction of the power and a piece of wire an emergency or ham operator can talk to the rest of the world. A pollution of the entire shortwave spectrum will endanger all kinds of communication that relies on it: Military, Emergency, Aviation, Traffic, Navigation.
Worldwide, since shortwaves do not stop at a nation's border.
Can you type 60 words per minute? Can you watch TV while doing it, having a smoke and a coffee at the same time?
Well, I can do that kind of stuff while hacking out morse code with just two finger of my hand.
Beat this.
Has it occured to you that Airbus industries offers more models than just this brandnew thingy called A380?
Airbus has a market share of almost 50% of all commercial planes sold these days and that *excludes* the preorders for the A380. In every segment of commercial transportation Airbus directly competes with Boeing it does so quite well, just take a look at the A320 or A340.
However, there is one segment, where Boeing does *not* compete with Airbus industries and that is the segment for the A380, serving both airlines with a need for efficient long distance flights and high passenger capacity, as well as all the large freight businesses. So far, UPS, FedEx, DHL among others have ordered A380s and this is just the beginning.
It's funny to see Americans still dwelling in the glory of past market dominance and it's even more funny to see arguments and discussions on the question whether the A380 is going to be a success, since that question has already been answered.
Obviously, the market is there, otherwise there would not have been more than 150 orders for the A380 and if the market is there, but no competition to be seen, I'd say that Boeing looks a big loser already. It will take Boeing at least 10 years to come up with an airplane that targets the same buyers and until then every single enterprise and institution in need for a large aircraft that seats up to 850 people (or packs tons of freight)is going to order an A380.
Just in case you were wondering why "WiX" is not going to be terribly popular in German speaking countries, imagine an SAP-release of a "jerkov"-module.
"wi{x|chs}en" in German means "to jerk-off"
That actually depends on the index a company is listed at.
Let me give you an example: Probably one of the best car makers on theis planet is Porsche. You may not like the car, or you can't afford it, but it's a fact that cars manufactured by Porsche are of outstanding quality in their engineering, resale value and technology incorporated in them.
While it is a corporation operating with money from the stock market, Porsche is not listed in any of the important indexes for one simple reason: They do not publish quarterly revenues, a requirement needed to be listed in the Dow Jones or DAX indexes.
Porsche management is not interested in short term profits, they want to keep the company productive, innovative and competitive and need investors with a long breath and a belief in the company's unique values for the next decades, not quarters.
Fund managers avoid Porsche for that reason and boy, this has done wonders for Porsche, not being dependent on some short term sucker's idea of a company.
Yes, I will buy a Porsche for sure, because I know that people working for this company are part of a long term strategy and I'd like to reward them for their commitment to this, not to some stupid fund manager's wet dream of cashing in.
"The right place to petition against software patent would not be the European Parliament, whose advice gets routinely ignored anyway, but the *individual governments of each country*."
The governments of the respective countries were the entities to ask for a new start of the process. The commission is an independent body elected by the council.
Its power to deny requests for fundamental democratic procedures is what's scaring me.
I can't see anyone in his electorate envisioning this guy just dismissing a democratic process when the request is supported by many of the 25 countries.
Who is this guy?
One of the reasons for Elecraft's success is its approach to development: It's strikingly similiar to Open Source Software development. Users of Elecraft are more than just customers, they are part of a community whose input is valued and taken into consideration for the improvement of future gear.
The resulting transceiver is a superb piece of equipment, surprisingly devoid of useless bells and whistles, shiny knobs and impractical handling that have become to characteristic of all the modern Japanese transceivers.
A modern FT1000MP is like Windows XP, including the lack of proper documentation and source code, whereas the K2 is just like Linux: transparent, performant and it comes with the source code.
As a morse code buff I will definitely get a K2 should my old TS930 decide to quit one day.
DF5JT
I have always wondered about that.
Why approach the PHB? Why not approach the guy familiar with the numbers? Go to the CFO and ask him how much money he spills down the drain for software licenses each and every year, inquire about software upgrades and the costs for that, loss of productivity through viruses, trojans and server downtimes. Talk money.
Take along your notebook, show him an OO-presentation and ask him about the necessity to throw away tons of money for a basic office setup that usually consists of no more than a webbrowser, a spreadsheet application and a word processor. Make him add up the numbers and show him that an enterprise is throwing away tons of money for stuff they can have for free at the same or better level of quality.
A truly dedicated CFO will have an open ear and mind for anything that will save money in the long run. Show him how to save money, tons of money and he will be the one to support you when PHB interfers with his glossy brochures.
Linux IS ready for the corporate desktop when one considers that maintaining a Windows based environment costs money, too. Migrating is the hard and painful step, but maintenance is easier and the cost savings are immense.
No reason to be defensive about Linux: It's a cost saver and that's something no CFO will ignore. CFOs are not the ones who need a glossy desktop, the latest IT-gadgets or shiny brochures. They are the sober type with an understanding for numbers.
"I have a Centrino 1.4 and ATI 9200 Mobility in my Acer Notebook, which is the absolute top (ATI) GFX card with OSS DRI/GLX drivers, It plays Doom3 on low quality but it hardly ever gets choppy and is still scary as hell."
/. recently.
Uhm, buddy, are you saying you have a linux binary for DoomIII to tell us about your experience, or are you playing it via Wine?
Either way, your statement sounds about as much BS as I have heard on
"I wonder why IBM looks like such a good ally."
That's because Linux is no threat and never has been one. Neither did it threaten AIX as their Unix-OS due to the many hardware specific improvements and development tools of AIX, nor did they have to kow-tow before Microsoft to sell their hardware.
Linux adds the kind of flexibilty they have tried to go after with project Monterey, with the big advantage that Linux already offers a variety of platforms that are interesting for IBM as a hardware vendor: Power-PC, Intel-IA32 and 64. Embracing Linux has already saved them tons of money, money they would otherwise have had to spend on porting AIX to another platform.
Using Linux does not hurt them and some smart guy has understood that there is whole generation of Non-Microsofties out there whose goodwill towards IBM might in the end pay off very well.
"Hmmm...I wonder if he can prove that COMPARATOR and SIM do not contain any SCO code? "
Easy. Run COMPARATOR and SIM through COMPARATOR and SIM.
" If US justice required evidence to be registered and certified allowable before claims were filed, the system would shed a lot of its unbearable load. Even the appeals before a judge, of disallowed evidence, would be dealt with in a more efficient manner. It's insane that I'm paying for the legal system that SCO is exploiting to promote its equity, now that its legitimate business has failed, while their travesty hasn't even got any evidence, or demonstrated any basis for their claims. After the years they've pushed this thing through the courts, they should have at least produced some evidence. And they're just the flagship corporate operation lawsuit - billions are spent by my cohort of taxpayers to keep litigious corporations and their lawyers in business. We should nip them in the bud, by simply requiring evidence to make any claims based on it."
Just ran out of mod points. Fuck.
"Every good slashdotter should realize that this is impossible. Theregister must just be trying to pull one over on us. I mean, clearly the Bush Administration is in the pocket of Corporations, and would never allow this to happen to big business. Obviously, the story is a farce."
None of these companies involved in the price fixing is American, they only have subsidies in the US. Any profit after taxes will not be to the benefit of the Bushites, which makes them a perfect target.
Infineon is a German company and the government will be happy to take an additional 160 Mio. from any foreign company that it thinks misbehaves.
"To enlighten you, let me give you the rules for a journalist to enter NK:
1. No cellphones.
[...]
Ever wondered why that is so?
Cellphones can only operate locally i.e. line-of-sight. This is a good indicator of an *existing* cellphone network, at least in Pyongyang itself. That wild guess has some more background than obvious at first sight: Martti Laine, a Finnish ham radio operator and executive at NOKIA had the privilege of operating an amateur radio station in Pyongyang in 1999. There is not a single North Korean individual who is allowed to operate an amateur radio station, so one may safely conclude that the North Korean authorities had a good reason to allow Mr. Laine's operation.
I am sure the guys at the NSA had a field day after that, being able to eavesdrop on North Korean cellphone users from 1999 on by using satellites.
Do a google search for "P51BH"
With all the security holes exposed in the electronic election gear it should be easy to hack them in such a way that any abuse can be made visible.
Log incidents, put them online and show the world that some very powerful people have a strong interest in these pieces of machinery being insecure to such an extent that the election becomes a joke.
Expose the vulnerabilities and use them to make it impossible to use to the advantage of those who have a strong interest in influencing the outcome of the election.
"As for security: fine. Sorta secure. Secure Lite."
As for pregnancy: fine. Sorta pregnant. Pregnant Lite.
"Um... AFAIK, everything is in CVS"
Really? Where is it?
CVS/cvs does not return any hits on the transgaming website.
"The MS Word support in Open Office, for example, just isn't good enough for serious, professional use. "
No. MS Word just isn't good enough for serious, professional use. It's a professional use hinderance application.
"And the advent of the computer & internet didn't exactly help the library system either."
Librarians are at the heart of the development of a society. IT-companies should seek out to hire as many librarians as they can. They know how to classify written material, organize stuff and hand it over the way best suited to customers.
I would love to have run search engines run by librarians. Give me librarians as consultants for database technolgy and can we please have librarians as consultants for interface design.
Look at he "IT-specialists" of today and compare it to librarians and their accomplished task of preserving information, put it in readable format, make it searchable and available for the benfit of the people.
" I don't know why copying the CW portion of a SSB/CW conversation is hard, but for me it's far more difficult than pure CW."
It's likely you are not used listening to SSB over a longer period of time. Switching between SSB and CW on the receiving side is extremely difficult, because you need to adapt your "internal" filters from very low bandwidth to rather large bandwidth.
I can listen to CW for hours and hours, but listening to SSB is extremely tiring and makes me want to throw away the headphones after a couple of minutes. Well, I drew the consequences and have lived without a microphone on my rig for the past 20 years or so.