The only real advantage they have left is thier high speed interconnect architecture. I don't know what Altix uses, but even the old Octane had a "crossbar" switching layout rather than a bus.
It is related to the way in which they get 56K out of a POTS line (it wasn't supposed to be possible). The way I understand it, they send data digitally (PCM) to your modem. They can do this because the lines are all digital until they get close to your house. It only works one way, and only if enough of the path between your house and the ISP is digital.
I dispute the your last contention (the others were correct as far as I know). I have yet to see a java app that I could not tell from the UI was a java app. I don't mean that they're all bad, but they're not exactly like native.
Limewire, for example. You can tell it's java, but it is still an attractive interface.
"The internet was doing just fine before you jerks showed up, and look at it now. Therefore kindy open a vein or find another calling, whatever it takes. Just leave us alone, thank you."
Maybe a wiki could be suitable, but it wouldn't matter because these guys seemed to not be prepared to handle one. There's also the not unlikely possiblity that they intended to fail.
The are journalists, after all. I wouldn't put it past them.
20 an hour is way better that the average tech support wage. When I was in school I worked for 8 an hour while they charged 50. Call center employees get about the same, with worse working conditions.
You assume that due process actually exists. If the system worked, I would be inclined to agree with you, but such is not the case. In most cases attacks aren't even investigated unless they hit a certain $$ figure in damages or it's a government system that's hit.
Problem is, both Real and NS were fairly lousy companies with products that once were hot but became bloated and crapulent.
I dropped NS during the awful 4.x years and never looked back. it was just too unstable. There's also the problem that NS was giving navigator away for free even before IE came out. Sure, you were only supposed to download it for eduactional use or something like that, but why buy a box of navigator when you could get the same thing online for free.
Real is probably a better example, they were ahead of the pack in streaming media. But RP quickly became bloatware and eventually spyware to many people. Even the current version is quite obnoxious IMHO, popping up messages about crap I don't care about. (recall the/. angst over RP doing the "phone home" a while back) Also real is still very in-business, unlike netscape.
Probably mostly (execpt for the heat, prescott is a oven comapred to current A64s) true, but I was looking at it in the sense that with AMD they would not be going back to 32 bit only CPUs. Of course, intel could get 64 bit going by the time the consumer boxes roll out, but AMD has it working now.
So portable code is bad programming in your book? The same code on both platforms sounds like as objective a test as you can have. (as long as you choose equally good compilers on both sides)
If he could have benefited from altivec, he probably could have benefited from SSE2/3/whatever. Maybe not as much but in the ballpark.
The "mhz myth" argument is a valid one but it doesn't fully overcome a 2x gap in clock speed. Steve has the right idea, but I do wish he went AMD.
Vader blows up planets, Gates plays cutthroat business and steamrolls competitors. His only official crime is monopoly abuse. Nobody dies from monopoly abuse, while plenty of people are killed or injured by the miseeds of other corporations (that don't get/. coverage).
His misdeeds pale in comparison to any of the people he is uusally comared to, execpt on/., where everything revolves around software and perspective is evil.
True, but OSX will already run on a PC under pearpc. And now the main thing that made it so slow, the need to emulate a ppc, is no longer necessary. (of course you will have to emulate for the existing apps, but supposedly Rosetta will handle that)
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The only real advantage they have left is thier high speed interconnect architecture. I don't know what Altix uses, but even the old Octane had a "crossbar" switching layout rather than a bus.
all the aup's say the same thing so shut the fuck up you waste of skin
That's just around the corner! Doesn't say if this will benefit current reseidential customers though.
I think you just proved his point.
Also, is it 28.8 upstream or 33.6?
Limewire, for example. You can tell it's java, but it is still an attractive interface.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
And how are people with no job going to buy these produts and services? B-ark
True story: When my frined went to trade in his Metro, they dealer gave him the book value to keep it.
We have no system of justice, and the law is whatever you can pay for.
"The internet was doing just fine before you jerks showed up, and look at it now. Therefore kindy open a vein or find another calling, whatever it takes. Just leave us alone, thank you."
I think that sums it up.The are journalists, after all. I wouldn't put it past them.
Suppose it should have been 'informative'
20 an hour is way better that the average tech support wage. When I was in school I worked for 8 an hour while they charged 50. Call center employees get about the same, with worse working conditions.
The studios I've seen pay the photographers up to $9.something an hour. These people have no contracts and no copyrights to the product.
Not BSD the OS, but BSD the license gets plenty on hate here on /.. That's probably caused by that difference in goals the guy above was pointing out.
Why does everyone forget database? If you are going to replace Office you have to do something about Access.
You assume that due process actually exists. If the system worked, I would be inclined to agree with you, but such is not the case. In most cases attacks aren't even investigated unless they hit a certain $$ figure in damages or it's a government system that's hit.
I dropped NS during the awful 4.x years and never looked back. it was just too unstable. There's also the problem that NS was giving navigator away for free even before IE came out. Sure, you were only supposed to download it for eduactional use or something like that, but why buy a box of navigator when you could get the same thing online for free.
Real is probably a better example, they were ahead of the pack in streaming media. But RP quickly became bloatware and eventually spyware to many people. Even the current version is quite obnoxious IMHO, popping up messages about crap I don't care about. (recall theProbably mostly (execpt for the heat, prescott is a oven comapred to current A64s) true, but I was looking at it in the sense that with AMD they would not be going back to 32 bit only CPUs. Of course, intel could get 64 bit going by the time the consumer boxes roll out, but AMD has it working now.
If he could have benefited from altivec, he probably could have benefited from SSE2/3/whatever. Maybe not as much but in the ballpark.
The "mhz myth" argument is a valid one but it doesn't fully overcome a 2x gap in clock speed. Steve has the right idea, but I do wish he went AMD.His misdeeds pale in comparison to any of the people he is uusally comared to, execpt on /., where everything revolves around software and perspective is evil.
True, but OSX will already run on a PC under pearpc. And now the main thing that made it so slow, the need to emulate a ppc, is no longer necessary. (of course you will have to emulate for the existing apps, but supposedly Rosetta will handle that)
Way to take determinism to its extreme.
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