Seems I'm not having such a great day today. Time for me to stop trying to be (non-)helpful. I'll wait for a day when my reading comprehension is operating a bit better.
Again, sorry for jumping all over you like that, but when the moderators start marking such posts as "informative" I get really upset. I always try and apply a quick sanity check when I read something that is such a massive leap forward. I guess since I live in the process world I automagically put the 35 nm to the appropriate item. Again, very sorry.
Quoted from your original post: That's 10MB per (square?) 35 nanometers.
From the post I am replying to: Why "wrong"? From the Yahoo article:
"The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said Monday it has created a fully functional 70 megabit memory chip with transistor switches measuring just 35 nanometers -- about 30 percent smaller than those found on today's state-of-the-art chips."
Now according to Google, there's 10,000,000 nanometers to a cm. Our chip is 35 nm in size. 10,000,000 divided by 35 is 285,714. So we now know that we can put 285,714, 35nm chips in a 1cm strip.
OK, here are your errors:
Original post: No, it is not 10 MB per square 35 nm, the transistors have 35 nm gate lengths, simply meaning the lenth of poly cut to form the gate is 35 nm, probably at least 3x as wide (can't really say without detailed knowledge of their layout). The overall transistor foot print is going to be MUCH bigger than a 35 nm square, as you haven't even included the source and drain, let alone contacts!
Now on to your second post. You say "Our chip is 35 nm in size." It is obvious you do not work for Intel if you are saying your chip is 35 nm in size. The chip is going to be MASSIVE compared to 35 nm (see above point) once you put 500,000,000 of them on the chip.
My only mistake appears to be in accepting the parent's figure of ~10 MB. No, you have many mistakes, primarily seeming to be without a clue of semiconductor processing or circuitry.
Any questions? Yeah, do you feel like uttering any other ignorance while you are here today? I apologize for being rude, but it seems to me like you are trying to put on an air that you know what you are talking about when it is blatantly obvious you are without a clue.
Well, SiC has a wide range for bandgap, 2.2 to 3.25 eV, which is much less stable vs. temperature than Si. This is one of its "problems" for ICs. The other is the difficulty in making large wafers. The huge benefit of its large bandgap is long minority carrier lifetimes....think standard RAM cells that can hold their charge for hundreds of years. The real focus these days for SiC has been discrete power devices since they can function with a much higher junction temperature than silicon devices. Several of my friends from Purdue were in Dr. Cooper's group working with this stuff. Hope that helps a bit. If you want to know more, head here.
Johns Hopkins. My classmates were worse. And actually, if you want more precision than my gross approximations, you have to pay me. This is slashdot; nothing here deserves more than a gross approximation.
I guess that's what Rice and Purdue do to a person, drill it into their head that "back of the envelope" means 3 digits minimum! Too true that/. doesn't justify much more.
Sorry bub, us engineers are taking over. And rounding off? Its what we DO. Next time, I'll use "~="
Sound good?
Not many engineers I know (myself included) are happy with only one significant digit and if you make such a gross approximation, you sure as heck don't write it as a definition! Where the heck did you get your degree from anyway? Of course, now we are way off topic and shouldn't get too personal...
WTF? This is supposed to be a geek site yet we get this? The correct statement is 1 inch == 2.54 cm (this is by definition). Another correct statement would be 5 inches = 12.7 cm, or 12 cm is approximately 4.72 inches, but you sure as heck can't say "twelve centimeters is defined as 5 inches" which is how your post would read. Come on people, let's at least try and stay close to accurate!
Thus, from the date of Friday's filing(Aug.13th) that would place a resolution on the contract question by or about Dec.1st or so, call it Dec.7th for good measure.
Could this possibly make Pearl Harbor day slightly less painful for Americans in the future? One can only hope!
Either go all the way to changing the OS AND the browser, do the right thing, all the way,or don't bother, it's naieve wishful thinking and at best a finger in the dike stopgap measure to try and make windows "secure" on the internet, and at best an incredible waste of time and resources in the OPEN source coding community.
I totally disagree with you. As a user that is stuck on an XP platform because where I work I have no say (and I am far from alone here!), I am absolutely overjoyed that the coding community "wastes" its time and resources to allow me to use my home browser at work. Last time I checked, the community was not out to "make windows 'secure'," but was instead out to make good software for people to use freely. Granted, I am probably starting another flamewar here (which free, blablabla), but I think you need to leave it to the people doing the coding to decide how to spend their time and energy and not foist alternate agendas upon them.
AMD numbers their fabs based on the year they were built. AMD was founded in 1969, so Fab 25 in Austin came online in 1994 (25 years after the founding), Fab 30 in 1999, and Fab 36 is slatted for 2005, so right now Fab 36 isn't making much;).
I used to work at "Fab 15" although it was owned by Sony at the time. Boy do I miss it.
that would mean that whatever we have today, evolved from >20% / >5% of those species that survived?
Sorry to nit-pick, but it really bugs me when people switch up the greater-than/less-than symbols....I think you meant to type 20% / 5% (less than), remember the "arrow" points to the smaller quantity.
I am seeing so many people posting so many blanket statements, how silly. There is no one answer. I used to drive a Honda Prelude, EPA rating 22/26 (city/highway) and 7.90 on the greenhouse gas emmisions. Before I sold it (a very sad day indeed, but with kids what can you do?) after 67,000 miles I was getting over 32+ mpg (I track this sort of thing). I then inherited my wife's Civic (32/37 mpg, 5.60, listed as a ULEV) and before we mercifully got rid of it (25,000 miles), I was never dipping below 40+ mpg. I then was graced with my new 200 bhp Acura TSX (yes, we are a Honda family). I have been tracking it from day one and logging its gas mileage. EPA predicts 22/29 with a 7.80 on the pollution index, earning an LEV rating from California (EPA rating of 8 on a 10 scale, not available for the other two cars). Now, after 6,700 miles I am averaging 30.79 mpg (yes, I have a spreadsheet for this). If I look at the last 2,400 miles, I am averaging 31.86 mpg (the engine is breaking in). So all this tripe about the hybrids being less polluting and the EPA completely overstating the mileage is just that, tripe. There are way too many factors involved to make such blanket statements, such as you have to have a whimpy engine to get good mileage or not pollute. It is possible to have both worlds.
I'd sell my Red Hat stock as soon as I could pick up the phone and contact my broker...
Which stock would you recommend replacing it with in order to show your support for Linux with your dollars? Would you buy IBM (talk about a small portion of their sales), Novell (again, is it Linux you are supporting), SCO (had to throw that one in there to point out the futility)??? There aren't exactly a whole lot of options of good stocks to purchase that indicate you are buying them to support Linux. That is why I own Redhat stock, I wanted to put my money where my mouth was, and it is paying off quite nicely, thank you very much.
6) insert your "I've just lost more rights" scenario here.
This is something that gets me really upset when topics about driving come up. Driving is in no way, shape, or form a "right." It is a privilege that you are afforded. I do not believe this law is a good idea, don't get me wrong, but not because people have "lost more rights." There is no (and should not be a) "right to drive" in the America.
Actually, the common reticle is a 5x reticle. I used to work with both 1x (whole wafer) and 5x reticles, let me tell you, that could get confusing when dealing with both at once!
Happily, Sir Mix-A-Lot runs his own label, and produces his records in his home studio he set up after "Swass" made him a very rich man over a decade ago (long before "Baby Got Back," this is no one hit wonder).
Conservatives seem to complain an awful lot about the subsidization of Amtrac or passenger rail service(at least in America,) but the subsidization of the automobile costs a lot more.
To heck with automobile subsidies if you want to compare to railroads, let's talk about the trucking industry subsidy! Every time I see one of those trucks whining about paying $20k in taxes I am reminded of my $500+ taxes I pay and the fact that the semis do 20,000 times the damage as a passenger car! Sorry, I am too lazy to look up the 20000x reference, it was in Road & Track many years ago and has stuck with me to this day.
When I was trying to decide whether to return to school for my graduate degrees, a professor told me a saying I found most profound, "knowledge is a form of wealth that can not be stolen from you." Perhaps Alan wishes to enrich himself, no?
As one who has to suffer with Groupwise under Windows at work, I am concerned for your mental well being. For me, GW has been nothing but a leading source of crashes on my desktop. In all likelyhood this is related to our IS department (complete with the Windows experts that plugged my SCSI Zip drive into the parallel port after an upgrade), so I should take your message to heart and not blame Novell.
Specifications:
Chyang Fun CFI-S86 Motherboard
Pentium 4 Support
VIA P4M266 Chipset
DDR200/266 Support - up to 2GB
ATA/133 Support - 2 IDE Ports
Integrated Pro Savage DDR Graphics (ProSavage 8)
2 Serial Ports
4 USB 2.0 Ports (2 Rear, 2 Front)
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Ports
RCA and S-Video TV Out
VIA AC97 Audio
Front Headphone and Microphone Jacks
Front Speaker Out Jack
Onboard Realtek RT8100 LAN
Infra-Red Support
1 PCI Slot
1 AGP Slot
Aluminum Chassis/Plastic Handle/Plexiglas Side and Front Panels
1 5.25" Bay, 2 3.25" Bays (1 External)
(L) 306mm X (W) 212mm X (H) 242mm
150W Power Supply
2 40mm Rear Exhaust Fans
Granted there is only two add on slots, but it still looks to me like a heavily overworked power supply on there. The P4 alone will consume nearly 50W. Add in some drives and all the other goodies and you are in trouble!
That must be a typo, there is no way they can be running a P4 on only 150W unless it is a mobile, didn't seem to say so. That GeForce4 sure would struggle with such meager power offerings though...
But, isn't that backwards? Doesn't it make more sense for software makers to optimize for the available hardware? I always thought so. But, then it never until just now occurred to me that AMD is not and never has been in the business of making Intel-compatible chips; they've always been in the business of making Microsoft-compatible chips, and the distinction is not a subtle one.
You may not remember the marketing campaign that went along with the K6 and K6-2 introductions, but they weren't called "better Intel CPU solutions," they were called "better Windows solutions." They were targetting a market, that market runs mostly Windows, so yes, they do build and market their chips to run Windoze better than anyone else.
In an effort to spare their poor server, here is a copy of the change log:
Changes between KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0
This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem corrections that occurred in KDE between the 2.2.2 and 3.0 releases. The primary goal of the KDE 3.0 release is to port the existing codebase of the KDE 2 series to be based on the Qt 3 library.
The use of Qt 3 provides a set of new features and improvements as well as allows a long period of binary compatible releases. General
* A lot of fixes for reported bugs in all applications
* Porting to make full use of the Qt 3 GUI toolkit
* Performance improvements in some areas
* Arts has been splitted in a KDE-independent part and KDE-bindings
Arts
* More PlayObjects (more fileformats)
* Improvements of the MIDI capabilities (alsa support)
* Integration of new GSL scheduling code
* More support for using samples as instruments (.PAT loader)
* Environments/Mixers
* Recording support in the APIs (kretz@kde.org)
* Threaded OSS support (should run more reliable on more kernel drivers)
* Moved code to a separate CVS module
kdelibs
* KSSL: Completion of certificate and CA management tools
* KSSL: X.509 and PKCS12 certificate viewer and import tool part (KPart) - embeddable in Konqueror
* KFileDialog: URL Speedbar
* Support for Icons on Buttons in various dialogs
* A GUI Item class that encapsulates KAction attributes
* Added plugin interface for the Renaming Dialog
* Improved service activation (dcopstart)
* Support for Multi-key shortcuts (emacs-style) added.
* WebDAV support
* Plugin interface for retrieving / modifying meta information of files
* KDirLister is now cached (i.e. directory listings of ftp servers in konqueror)
* Optional emulation of traditional Mac keyboard
* KDEPrint: Improved CUPS support.
kdeaddons
* Improved stability of some of the plugins
kdeadmin
* Reinclusion of KDat
kdeartwork
* Inclusion of several themes (icon, window decoration etc)
kdebase
* KWin: smart mechanism that avoids focus stealing from windows the user is active on by windows that pop-up (M. Ettrich)
* KWin: don't crash when popup-menu of a window is still visible when that window gets closed
* KWin: don't shade/unshade (gross ugly flicker) windows that are moved fast in hover-unshaded state
* KWin: deny to the masochist the resizing of a shaded window
* KWin: automatically unshade on maximize, on restore-from-maximized and on restore-from-minimized
* KWin: work around ugly jre-1.3.1 bug with popup dialogs vanishing forever after first use
* KWin: improve moving by keyboard and bring back Ctrl-key ordered fine/coarse-grained keyboard moving
* KWin: abort keyboard moving of windows with Escape too
* KWin: no active desktop edges on resizing
* KWin: don't warp mouse pointer when touching desktop edge (with active edges enabled) if desktop isn't actually changed
* KWin: contain desktop navigation inside a box (don't wrap around from last to first desktop of a line or column)
* KWin: don't stack windows under desktops
* KWin: gracefully handle more than one desktop client application
* KWin: fix bogus gravitating for non-NW-gravitated windows on session restore (i.e., no more drifting of Xclock when started with -geometry -0-0 or such)
* don't allow +Alt+mouse to do things as if it was Alt+mouse (L.Lunak)
* any mouse button moves window when dragging titlebar, unless mouse click was popping an operations menu (this greatly improves consistency for configurable mouse bindings)
* don't show operation menus for desktop (no more move desktop to desktop 1 %-)
* KTip: center on screen
* KTip: readable on dark color schemes
* Kate: added plugin and new KTextEditor interface
* Kate: XML Plugin
* Konqueror/khtml: GUI for animated gifs: Always / Play Once / Never
* Konqueror/khtml: Major rework of the ECMAScript ("Javascript") implementation
* Konqueror/khtml: Major improviements in the DHTML compatibility
* Konqueror/khtml: Added "smart" window.open Javascript policy that skips popup banners
* Konqueror/khtml: Support for Actions in the new sidebar
* Konqueror/Sidebar: Added "New directory" option
* Konqueror/Sidebar: Added mediaplayer
* Konqueror/fileview: Extended tooltips for information about files
* Konqueror/popup plugins: Added "kuick", the quick copy and move plugin
* Konsole: New parameters: --nomenubar, --noframe, --noscrollbar and -tn (set $TERM=)
* Konsole: Keyboard shortcuts to activate menubar and rename session (Defaults: Ctrl-Alt-m & Ctrl-Alt-s).
* Konsole: New options: Blinking cursor, configurable line spacing, no/system/visible bell
* Konsole: Monitoring for activity and/or silence, sending of input to all sessions (cluster management)
* Konsole: History of a session can be cleared, searched and saved to a file.
* Konsole: Session types can specify a working directory.
* Konsole: Changed behaviour of "New" in toolbar, now starts session of type last selected.
* Konsole: Session buttons display state (e.g. bell) and session type icons. Double click renames them.
* Konsole: Sessions can be reordered via menu entries or keyboard shortcuts (Default: Ctrl-Shift-Left/Right).
* Konsole: Extend selection until end of line if no more characters are printed on that line.
* Konsole: Stop scrolling of output when selecting.
* Konsole: Drag & drop of selected text (like CDE's dtterm)
* Konsole: Pressing Ctrl while pasting with middle mouse button will send selection buffer.
* Konsole: Hollow out cursor when losing focus.
* Konsole: Support for ScrollLock with LED display.
* Konsole: Write utmp entries (requires installed utempter library).
* Konsole: Proper implementation of secondary device attributes, MODE_Mouse1000 and wrapped lines.
* Konsole: Session management remembers and activates last active session.
* Konsole: DCOP interface, sets environment variables KONSOLE_DCOP & KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION
* Konsole: Made embeddable Konsole part configurable.
* Konsole: KDE Control Center: Added "Terminal Size Hint" option and session type editor.
* Kicker: Implemented support for centerring the panel on screen
* Kicker: new applet: kpf - a web server applet, designed for sharing files
* KControl: Unified behaviour of root-only modules
* KControl: Rearranged dialogs
* KControl: Font Installation Assistant added
kdebindings
* added Objective C bindings
* added C bindings
* updated and improved the existing Java bindings
kdegames
* Various improvements to the games
* Generalized more functionality into a libkdegames
kdegraphics
* KDvi: Copy and paste text from a DVI file
* KDvi: Full text search
* KDvi: Export DVI files to plain text
* KDvi: Forward search with Emacs and XEmacs
* KDvi: Inverse search with a variety of editory
* KDvi: DCOP interface
* KDvi: Improved commandline options
kdemultimedia
* Noatun: Global XML import/export for the playlist
* Noatun: Winamp skin loader
* Noatun: Icecast / shoutcast streaming
* Noatun: Hide close status und tag displaying
kdenetwork
* KMail: Maildir support
* KMail: Distribution lists and aliases
* KMail: SMTP authentication
* KMail: SMTP over SSL/TLS
* KMail: Pipelining for POP3 (faster mail download on slow responding networks)
* KMail: On demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a POP3 server
* KMail: Various improvements for IMAP
* KMail: Permanent header caching
* KMail: Header fetching is much faster
* KMail: Creating/removing of folders
* KMail: Drats/sent-mail/trash folders on the server
* KMail: Mail checking in all folders
* KMail: Automatic configuration of the POP3/IMAP/SMTP security features
* KMail: Automatic encoding selection for outgoing mails
* KMail: DIGEST-MD5 authentication
* KMail: Identity based sent-mail and drafts folders
* KMail: Expiry of old messages
* KMail: Hotkey to temporary switch to fixed width fonts
* KMail: UTF-7 support
* KMail: Enhanced status reports for encrypted/signed messages
KDEPIM
* New Addressbook API (libkabc). Ported applications to use the new API
* KPilot: Rework conduits as plugins
* KPilot: Support for USB Visors
* KPilot: Extensive addition of tooltips
* KPilot: Move to.ui files as much as possible
* KOrganizer: Plugin interface
* KOrganizer: Group scheduling
* KOrganizer: Split alarm daemon in a lowlevel and a GUI frontend
* KOrganizer: pinning contacts to appointments and TODO's
KDESDK
* KBabel: Catalog Manager is now a standalone application
* KBabel: Find/Replace in all files
KDEToys
* New Applet: KWeather
* KWeather: Better reportview, support for european weather data
* KWeather: Improved report view, uses http to get the data more quickly
* KWeather: Improved METAR parser support
* KWeather: added DCOP interface
* KWeather: improved support for iconscaling
KDEUtils
* KRegExpEditor: new
* Kpm got replaced by ksysguard
KDEEdu
* New in KDE 3.0, a collection of edu(cation/tainmnent) applications for KDE
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Seems I'm not having such a great day today. Time for me to stop trying to be (non-)helpful. I'll wait for a day when my reading comprehension is operating a bit better.
Again, sorry for jumping all over you like that, but when the moderators start marking such posts as "informative" I get really upset. I always try and apply a quick sanity check when I read something that is such a massive leap forward. I guess since I live in the process world I automagically put the 35 nm to the appropriate item. Again, very sorry.
3 digit minimum? Instead of engineer, you can call me a slacker.
I like that one, it made me smile on a Monday morning.
Quoted from your original post:
That's 10MB per (square?) 35 nanometers.
From the post I am replying to:
Why "wrong"? From the Yahoo article:
"The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said Monday it has created a fully functional 70 megabit memory chip with transistor switches measuring just 35 nanometers -- about 30 percent smaller than those found on today's state-of-the-art chips."
Now according to Google, there's 10,000,000 nanometers to a cm. Our chip is 35 nm in size. 10,000,000 divided by 35 is 285,714. So we now know that we can put 285,714, 35nm chips in a 1cm strip.
OK, here are your errors:
Original post: No, it is not 10 MB per square 35 nm, the transistors have 35 nm gate lengths, simply meaning the lenth of poly cut to form the gate is 35 nm, probably at least 3x as wide (can't really say without detailed knowledge of their layout). The overall transistor foot print is going to be MUCH bigger than a 35 nm square, as you haven't even included the source and drain, let alone contacts!
Now on to your second post. You say "Our chip is 35 nm in size." It is obvious you do not work for Intel if you are saying your chip is 35 nm in size. The chip is going to be MASSIVE compared to 35 nm (see above point) once you put 500,000,000 of them on the chip.
My only mistake appears to be in accepting the parent's figure of ~10 MB.
No, you have many mistakes, primarily seeming to be without a clue of semiconductor processing or circuitry.
Any questions?
Yeah, do you feel like uttering any other ignorance while you are here today? I apologize for being rude, but it seems to me like you are trying to put on an air that you know what you are talking about when it is blatantly obvious you are without a clue.
The technology was developed at NC State University, as I recall.
And Purdue University.
Well, SiC has a wide range for bandgap, 2.2 to 3.25 eV, which is much less stable vs. temperature than Si. This is one of its "problems" for ICs. The other is the difficulty in making large wafers. The huge benefit of its large bandgap is long minority carrier lifetimes....think standard RAM cells that can hold their charge for hundreds of years. The real focus these days for SiC has been discrete power devices since they can function with a much higher junction temperature than silicon devices. Several of my friends from Purdue were in Dr. Cooper's group working with this stuff. Hope that helps a bit. If you want to know more, head here.
Johns Hopkins. My classmates were worse. And actually, if you want more precision than my gross approximations, you have to pay me. This is slashdot; nothing here deserves more than a gross approximation.
/. doesn't justify much more.
I guess that's what Rice and Purdue do to a person, drill it into their head that "back of the envelope" means 3 digits minimum! Too true that
Sorry bub, us engineers are taking over. And rounding off? Its what we DO. Next time, I'll use "~="
Sound good?
Not many engineers I know (myself included) are happy with only one significant digit and if you make such a gross approximation, you sure as heck don't write it as a definition! Where the heck did you get your degree from anyway? Of course, now we are way off topic and shouldn't get too personal...
12cm == 5 inches
WTF? This is supposed to be a geek site yet we get this? The correct statement is 1 inch == 2.54 cm (this is by definition). Another correct statement would be 5 inches = 12.7 cm, or 12 cm is approximately 4.72 inches, but you sure as heck can't say "twelve centimeters is defined as 5 inches" which is how your post would read. Come on people, let's at least try and stay close to accurate!
Could this possibly make Pearl Harbor day slightly less painful for Americans in the future? One can only hope!
Either go all the way to changing the OS AND the browser, do the right thing, all the way,or don't bother, it's naieve wishful thinking and at best a finger in the dike stopgap measure to try and make windows "secure" on the internet, and at best an incredible waste of time and resources in the OPEN source coding community.
I totally disagree with you. As a user that is stuck on an XP platform because where I work I have no say (and I am far from alone here!), I am absolutely overjoyed that the coding community "wastes" its time and resources to allow me to use my home browser at work. Last time I checked, the community was not out to "make windows 'secure'," but was instead out to make good software for people to use freely. Granted, I am probably starting another flamewar here (which free, blablabla), but I think you need to leave it to the people doing the coding to decide how to spend their time and energy and not foist alternate agendas upon them.
AMD numbers their fabs based on the year they were built. AMD was founded in 1969, so Fab 25 in Austin came online in 1994 (25 years after the founding), Fab 30 in 1999, and Fab 36 is slatted for 2005, so right now Fab 36 isn't making much ;).
I used to work at "Fab 15" although it was owned by Sony at the time. Boy do I miss it.
more than 80% of terrestrial life?
more than 95% of marine life?
that would mean that whatever we have today, evolved from >20% / >5% of those species that survived?
Sorry to nit-pick, but it really bugs me when people switch up the greater-than/less-than symbols....I think you meant to type 20% / 5% (less than), remember the "arrow" points to the smaller quantity.
I am seeing so many people posting so many blanket statements, how silly. There is no one answer. I used to drive a Honda Prelude, EPA rating 22/26 (city/highway) and 7.90 on the greenhouse gas emmisions. Before I sold it (a very sad day indeed, but with kids what can you do?) after 67,000 miles I was getting over 32+ mpg (I track this sort of thing). I then inherited my wife's Civic (32/37 mpg, 5.60, listed as a ULEV) and before we mercifully got rid of it (25,000 miles), I was never dipping below 40+ mpg. I then was graced with my new 200 bhp Acura TSX (yes, we are a Honda family). I have been tracking it from day one and logging its gas mileage. EPA predicts 22/29 with a 7.80 on the pollution index, earning an LEV rating from California (EPA rating of 8 on a 10 scale, not available for the other two cars). Now, after 6,700 miles I am averaging 30.79 mpg (yes, I have a spreadsheet for this). If I look at the last 2,400 miles, I am averaging 31.86 mpg (the engine is breaking in). So all this tripe about the hybrids being less polluting and the EPA completely overstating the mileage is just that, tripe. There are way too many factors involved to make such blanket statements, such as you have to have a whimpy engine to get good mileage or not pollute. It is possible to have both worlds.
I'd sell my Red Hat stock as soon as I could pick up the phone and contact my broker...
Which stock would you recommend replacing it with in order to show your support for Linux with your dollars? Would you buy IBM (talk about a small portion of their sales), Novell (again, is it Linux you are supporting), SCO (had to throw that one in there to point out the futility)??? There aren't exactly a whole lot of options of good stocks to purchase that indicate you are buying them to support Linux. That is why I own Redhat stock, I wanted to put my money where my mouth was, and it is paying off quite nicely, thank you very much.
6) insert your "I've just lost more rights" scenario here.
This is something that gets me really upset when topics about driving come up. Driving is in no way, shape, or form a "right." It is a privilege that you are afforded. I do not believe this law is a good idea, don't get me wrong, but not because people have "lost more rights." There is no (and should not be a) "right to drive" in the America.
Actually, the common reticle is a 5x reticle. I used to work with both 1x (whole wafer) and 5x reticles, let me tell you, that could get confusing when dealing with both at once!
Happily, Sir Mix-A-Lot runs his own label, and produces his records in his home studio he set up after "Swass" made him a very rich man over a decade ago (long before "Baby Got Back," this is no one hit wonder).
Conservatives seem to complain an awful lot about the subsidization of Amtrac or passenger rail service(at least in America,) but the subsidization of the automobile costs a lot more.
To heck with automobile subsidies if you want to compare to railroads, let's talk about the trucking industry subsidy! Every time I see one of those trucks whining about paying $20k in taxes I am reminded of my $500+ taxes I pay and the fact that the semis do 20,000 times the damage as a passenger car! Sorry, I am too lazy to look up the 20000x reference, it was in Road & Track many years ago and has stuck with me to this day.
When I was trying to decide whether to return to school for my graduate degrees, a professor told me a saying I found most profound, "knowledge is a form of wealth that can not be stolen from you." Perhaps Alan wishes to enrich himself, no?
I mean ... can anyone challenge GroupWise?
As one who has to suffer with Groupwise under Windows at work, I am concerned for your mental well being. For me, GW has been nothing but a leading source of crashes on my desktop. In all likelyhood this is related to our IS department (complete with the Windows experts that plugged my SCSI Zip drive into the parallel port after an upgrade), so I should take your message to heart and not blame Novell.
"I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX
Is there such a thing as "defenseless shellfish?" Aren't the shells their defense? It is things like this that keep me up at night...
From their beleagered web server:
Specifications:
Chyang Fun CFI-S86 Motherboard
Pentium 4 Support
VIA P4M266 Chipset
DDR200/266 Support - up to 2GB
ATA/133 Support - 2 IDE Ports
Integrated Pro Savage DDR Graphics (ProSavage 8)
2 Serial Ports
4 USB 2.0 Ports (2 Rear, 2 Front)
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Ports
RCA and S-Video TV Out
VIA AC97 Audio
Front Headphone and Microphone Jacks
Front Speaker Out Jack
Onboard Realtek RT8100 LAN
Infra-Red Support
1 PCI Slot
1 AGP Slot
Aluminum Chassis/Plastic Handle/Plexiglas Side and Front Panels
1 5.25" Bay, 2 3.25" Bays (1 External)
(L) 306mm X (W) 212mm X (H) 242mm
150W Power Supply
2 40mm Rear Exhaust Fans
Granted there is only two add on slots, but it still looks to me like a heavily overworked power supply on there. The P4 alone will consume nearly 50W. Add in some drives and all the other goodies and you are in trouble!
That must be a typo, there is no way they can be running a P4 on only 150W unless it is a mobile, didn't seem to say so. That GeForce4 sure would struggle with such meager power offerings though...
But, isn't that backwards? Doesn't it make more sense for software makers to optimize for the available hardware? I always thought so. But, then it never until just now occurred to me that AMD is not and never has been in the business of making Intel-compatible chips; they've always been in the business of making Microsoft-compatible chips, and the distinction is not a subtle one.
You may not remember the marketing campaign that went along with the K6 and K6-2 introductions, but they weren't called "better Intel CPU solutions," they were called "better Windows solutions." They were targetting a market, that market runs mostly Windows, so yes, they do build and market their chips to run Windoze better than anyone else.
In an effort to spare their poor server, here is a copy of the change log:
.ui files as much as possible
Changes between KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0
This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem corrections that occurred in KDE between the 2.2.2 and 3.0 releases. The primary goal of the KDE 3.0 release is to port the existing codebase of the KDE 2 series to be based on the Qt 3 library.
The use of Qt 3 provides a set of new features and improvements as well as allows a long period of binary compatible releases.
General
* A lot of fixes for reported bugs in all applications
* Porting to make full use of the Qt 3 GUI toolkit
* Performance improvements in some areas
* Arts has been splitted in a KDE-independent part and KDE-bindings
Arts
* More PlayObjects (more fileformats)
* Improvements of the MIDI capabilities (alsa support)
* Integration of new GSL scheduling code
* More support for using samples as instruments (.PAT loader)
* Environments/Mixers
* Recording support in the APIs (kretz@kde.org)
* Threaded OSS support (should run more reliable on more kernel drivers)
* Moved code to a separate CVS module
kdelibs
* KSSL: Completion of certificate and CA management tools
* KSSL: X.509 and PKCS12 certificate viewer and import tool part (KPart) - embeddable in Konqueror
* KFileDialog: URL Speedbar
* Support for Icons on Buttons in various dialogs
* A GUI Item class that encapsulates KAction attributes
* Added plugin interface for the Renaming Dialog
* Improved service activation (dcopstart)
* Support for Multi-key shortcuts (emacs-style) added.
* WebDAV support
* Plugin interface for retrieving / modifying meta information of files
* KDirLister is now cached (i.e. directory listings of ftp servers in konqueror)
* Optional emulation of traditional Mac keyboard
* KDEPrint: Improved CUPS support.
kdeaddons
* Improved stability of some of the plugins
kdeadmin
* Reinclusion of KDat
kdeartwork
* Inclusion of several themes (icon, window decoration etc)
kdebase
* KWin: smart mechanism that avoids focus stealing from windows the user is active on by windows that pop-up (M. Ettrich)
* KWin: don't crash when popup-menu of a window is still visible when that window gets closed
* KWin: don't shade/unshade (gross ugly flicker) windows that are moved fast in hover-unshaded state
* KWin: deny to the masochist the resizing of a shaded window
* KWin: automatically unshade on maximize, on restore-from-maximized and on restore-from-minimized
* KWin: work around ugly jre-1.3.1 bug with popup dialogs vanishing forever after first use
* KWin: improve moving by keyboard and bring back Ctrl-key ordered fine/coarse-grained keyboard moving
* KWin: abort keyboard moving of windows with Escape too
* KWin: no active desktop edges on resizing
* KWin: don't warp mouse pointer when touching desktop edge (with active edges enabled) if desktop isn't actually changed
* KWin: contain desktop navigation inside a box (don't wrap around from last to first desktop of a line or column)
* KWin: don't stack windows under desktops
* KWin: gracefully handle more than one desktop client application
* KWin: fix bogus gravitating for non-NW-gravitated windows on session restore (i.e., no more drifting of Xclock when started with -geometry -0-0 or such)
* don't allow +Alt+mouse to do things as if it was Alt+mouse (L.Lunak)
* any mouse button moves window when dragging titlebar, unless mouse click was popping an operations menu (this greatly improves consistency for configurable mouse bindings)
* don't show operation menus for desktop (no more move desktop to desktop 1 %-)
* KTip: center on screen
* KTip: readable on dark color schemes
* Kate: added plugin and new KTextEditor interface
* Kate: XML Plugin
* Konqueror/khtml: GUI for animated gifs: Always / Play Once / Never
* Konqueror/khtml: Major rework of the ECMAScript ("Javascript") implementation
* Konqueror/khtml: Major improviements in the DHTML compatibility
* Konqueror/khtml: Added "smart" window.open Javascript policy that skips popup banners
* Konqueror/khtml: Support for Actions in the new sidebar
* Konqueror/Sidebar: Added "New directory" option
* Konqueror/Sidebar: Added mediaplayer
* Konqueror/fileview: Extended tooltips for information about files
* Konqueror/popup plugins: Added "kuick", the quick copy and move plugin
* Konsole: New parameters: --nomenubar, --noframe, --noscrollbar and -tn (set $TERM=)
* Konsole: Keyboard shortcuts to activate menubar and rename session (Defaults: Ctrl-Alt-m & Ctrl-Alt-s).
* Konsole: New options: Blinking cursor, configurable line spacing, no/system/visible bell
* Konsole: Monitoring for activity and/or silence, sending of input to all sessions (cluster management)
* Konsole: History of a session can be cleared, searched and saved to a file.
* Konsole: Session types can specify a working directory.
* Konsole: Changed behaviour of "New" in toolbar, now starts session of type last selected.
* Konsole: Session buttons display state (e.g. bell) and session type icons. Double click renames them.
* Konsole: Sessions can be reordered via menu entries or keyboard shortcuts (Default: Ctrl-Shift-Left/Right).
* Konsole: Extend selection until end of line if no more characters are printed on that line.
* Konsole: Stop scrolling of output when selecting.
* Konsole: Drag & drop of selected text (like CDE's dtterm)
* Konsole: Pressing Ctrl while pasting with middle mouse button will send selection buffer.
* Konsole: Hollow out cursor when losing focus.
* Konsole: Support for ScrollLock with LED display.
* Konsole: Write utmp entries (requires installed utempter library).
* Konsole: Proper implementation of secondary device attributes, MODE_Mouse1000 and wrapped lines.
* Konsole: Session management remembers and activates last active session.
* Konsole: DCOP interface, sets environment variables KONSOLE_DCOP & KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION
* Konsole: Made embeddable Konsole part configurable.
* Konsole: KDE Control Center: Added "Terminal Size Hint" option and session type editor.
* Kicker: Implemented support for centerring the panel on screen
* Kicker: new applet: kpf - a web server applet, designed for sharing files
* KControl: Unified behaviour of root-only modules
* KControl: Rearranged dialogs
* KControl: Font Installation Assistant added
kdebindings
* added Objective C bindings
* added C bindings
* updated and improved the existing Java bindings
kdegames
* Various improvements to the games
* Generalized more functionality into a libkdegames
kdegraphics
* KDvi: Copy and paste text from a DVI file
* KDvi: Full text search
* KDvi: Export DVI files to plain text
* KDvi: Forward search with Emacs and XEmacs
* KDvi: Inverse search with a variety of editory
* KDvi: DCOP interface
* KDvi: Improved commandline options
kdemultimedia
* Noatun: Global XML import/export for the playlist
* Noatun: Winamp skin loader
* Noatun: Icecast / shoutcast streaming
* Noatun: Hide close status und tag displaying
kdenetwork
* KMail: Maildir support
* KMail: Distribution lists and aliases
* KMail: SMTP authentication
* KMail: SMTP over SSL/TLS
* KMail: Pipelining for POP3 (faster mail download on slow responding networks)
* KMail: On demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a POP3 server
* KMail: Various improvements for IMAP
* KMail: Permanent header caching
* KMail: Header fetching is much faster
* KMail: Creating/removing of folders
* KMail: Drats/sent-mail/trash folders on the server
* KMail: Mail checking in all folders
* KMail: Automatic configuration of the POP3/IMAP/SMTP security features
* KMail: Automatic encoding selection for outgoing mails
* KMail: DIGEST-MD5 authentication
* KMail: Identity based sent-mail and drafts folders
* KMail: Expiry of old messages
* KMail: Hotkey to temporary switch to fixed width fonts
* KMail: UTF-7 support
* KMail: Enhanced status reports for encrypted/signed messages
KDEPIM
* New Addressbook API (libkabc). Ported applications to use the new API
* KPilot: Rework conduits as plugins
* KPilot: Support for USB Visors
* KPilot: Extensive addition of tooltips
* KPilot: Move to
* KOrganizer: Plugin interface
* KOrganizer: Group scheduling
* KOrganizer: Split alarm daemon in a lowlevel and a GUI frontend
* KOrganizer: pinning contacts to appointments and TODO's
KDESDK
* KBabel: Catalog Manager is now a standalone application
* KBabel: Find/Replace in all files
KDEToys
* New Applet: KWeather
* KWeather: Better reportview, support for european weather data
* KWeather: Improved report view, uses http to get the data more quickly
* KWeather: Improved METAR parser support
* KWeather: added DCOP interface
* KWeather: improved support for iconscaling
KDEUtils
* KRegExpEditor: new
* Kpm got replaced by ksysguard
KDEEdu
* New in KDE 3.0, a collection of edu(cation/tainmnent) applications for KDE
Last modified: Sat Apr 6 21:32:57 EST 2002
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