But Apple also controls the OS, not just the hardware.
When the PC clones took over, Microsoft got insanely wealthy, and IBM tried to shift course with OS/2, but failed. It always seemed odd to me that IBM couldnt manage to crank out PC's that were cheaper/better than the Compaqs and Dells.
Anyhow.
If Apple allowed commodity hardware, then they'd still have the monopoly over Mac OS that MSFT has over Windows. And if the architecture/OS is as superior as the average slashbot seems to think it is, then in a few years they'd all be hating "big bad monopoly" Apple and loving 'poor little underdog' MSFT.
Do you remember him? Remember his harrowed tale of the afghani technology void? Remember how the editors looked like a bunch of absolute morons?
THATs what a hoax is about, making the victims of said hoax look like fools. Thats what april fools day is about.
Not telling stupid unfunny jokes.
Face it. The trolls run this joint. You can't compete with them on their level. I mean, if "gnome is closed source!" and "evil bit!" are the best you got, well then just give it up and go back to your anti-america flamebaiting.
trashcans, bombs, and Happy Macs are universally recognized by computer literate persons the world over
WTF is a Happy Mac?
I'm computer literate. I've worked on dozens of systems from the commodore PET to the IBM Sys/36 and AS400 to HP 3000 and lately some of the Stratus boxes that started rolling through our companies 'bullpen'.
I've never used a mac except a few times in passing. It was designed explicitly for the non-computer literate.
Oh well, I guess owning a Mac makes you some sort of IT hero around slashdot.
You know what a Happy Mac is but don't know what 'hashing with buckets' means or what a b-tree does or what a two handed clock algorithm for freeing memory is all about.
It's like calling those chimpanzees who point at the picture of a banana when they're hungry 'literate'.
Not so. They'll charge the bank if they can prove the bank was knowingly assisting in a crime. Which is generally the case, as it's pretty much impossible for the bank not to know what's going on.
Go apply for a mortgage at your local bank, see how many questions they start asking if you tell them you're self employed and plonk down a large cash deposit. They wind up neck deep in it if it turns out the cash was cocaine profits, the house and liquid assets get siezed (the house of course is the banks), and many times the loan officer who approves it will face charges.
This isn't about money-laundering, btw. This whole thread is offtopic.
I've noticed a lot of states are requesting Homeland Security funds to "control protestors". The NBC reporter covering the story said with a straight face something like: "Many of the protestors target the same facilities as terrorists and therefore we need funds to protect them.".
The word terrorist is being thrown about by every talking head to get his message on TV, and will soon have no meaning. But what they're talking about is absolutely valid.
Think about it. A terrorist (a real one) attack would likely target a highly populated area, and something symbolic (like the WTC was, or maybe say, the Sears tower in Chicago or the Space Needle or just a big mall downtown).
Protestors are out in the street blocking traffic and impeding peoples ability to move in the exact same areas.
How many more would have died on 9/11 if there were a bunch of dipshit hippies having a 'die in' and dragging newspaper stands in front of the WTC, blocking not only fire trucks and ambulances, but everyone elses avenue to escape to safety?
Not only that, a big raucous crowd would make a great place for a suicide bomber to hide/move freely, if he so chose.
Noone said protesters==terrorists. Protesters (who act like assholes)==threat to public safety.
It has TV out, at least is should, all the other VIA Eden boards do. But its an absolutely gutless processor when it comes to doing DVD. I'd imagine trying to watch a hi-quality DivX on it would be a complete excercise in futility.
You could also spend $200 US bucks on an Xbox and do everything this does and more (they plan to release a generic media playback kit for it)
A few months back when I was looking into building media-centric PC's for the kids. The DVD software, afaik, is proprietary (licenced CSS codes), and embedded within the bootprom.
All in all, it looked like a completely gutless solution, incapable of doing nearly everything I wanted it to do.
It's hardly something to compete with the tivo-like feature set and processing power that the P4/windows based media PC's from big vendors provides.
It's more like a really really expensive, but really really crappy, DVD player. That runs linux.
GPL only means they have to make the source accessible, it doesnt mean they have to give away the iso with all the binaries prebuilt and all the scripts and whatnot that make it an easy-for-joe-dipshit package.
Don't want to wait a week for all that convenience? Download all their GPL'd source and build it yourself.
OR let's just rename it the GGGPL (gimme gimme gimme public liscense)
It took me all of a saturday to run cat5 to four bedrooms, my wife and I's offices, the rec room (xbox/ps2/divx box), the living room (another xbox), the other living room, and the 'arcade' room thats just sort of an extra room in this fucked up house.
Short of that, there are 'power plug' networks, phone line networks, and wireless, all of which I've used successfully (and transparently). But 100mbit on my local lan (with gigabit in the future) is great.
A community intranet? I really dont want to see the beastiality incest porn that my hillbilly neighbours no doubt live on.
As for more b/w to the demarking point outside, that's all fine by me. But I doubt I'd be willing to pay any more than I do now for my plain jane cablemodem.
If I wasn't moved to buy an LP / CD / Cassette of Guess Who just to get "American Woman", guess what, I'm never going to..
American Woman is probably their lamest song, albeit their most 'commercial' success. Burton Cummings is absolutely brilliant. You're missing out not listening to the rest of the albums, as they were produced at a time when there was still some artistry left in music.
Likewise if you said you werent going to listen to all of "Dark Side of the Moon" because "Money" didn't move you to (or any Floyd album), you're definately missing out.
I guess my point is, albums were worth buying once upon a time. The 2-radio-tracks-plus-filler formula didn't become ubiquitous until recently.
Of course if you remake your point with $FLAVOR-OF-THE-WEEK-BAND then I'll completly agree.
I'll download it off of SoulSeek. See, RIAA, you just lost one CD sale there, and it wont be the last cd i boycott.
Boycotting would be not listening to the music at all. You're going to outright steal it.
"I'm not shoplifting, I'm boycotting the cash register!"
If you feel so strongly, dont buy, listen to, attend the concerts, or partake of any of it.
Right now the bands feel they'll suffer immensely if they don't sign up with the RIAA's agenda. The way to change the status quo is to show them they'll suffer more if they do.
If it was the major flaw the slashbots would want you to think it is, you wouldnt have heard about it first on slashdot. (Did you hear about Code Red, Nimda, Slammer, etc on slashdot first?)
As an aside, here's another nifty coding flaw I found recently:
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been -282 seconds since you last successfully posted a comment
I guess I posted from the future! (cue scary music)
When is the ISP liable? When they expressly condone spam, or do it themselves - OK, fine.
When one of their users spams, and they dont prevent it? Ok, I guess.
When one of their users 37337 linux box is r00t3d and is used as an open relay? Umm.. ok
When one of their users is the victim of a joe job, in other words forged return addresses pointing to the ISP? Ok.. (maybe in this case they could prove innocence, but that doesnt save them legal costs and hassles).
So push that law. Ensure that the only ISP's with pockets deep enough to survive all the litigation are MSN and AOL. Sounds like fun.
Just because MS is for something doesnt make it bad. Despite what you read here.
Sure, you too can sit on your ass and wait for a judge to hand you a big sum of money in some lawsuit. It's the new american dream.
In all seriousness, I don't share the slashbots elation. This is yet another law against communications on the internet.
Espescially how 'spam' is defined. It's not just the nasty people who stuff your pipe full of porn pages.
If this trend continues, watch for mailing lists to go the way of 'net radio. It'll be too expensive to run the $OS-project list because some jackass will start suing, claiming he didnt opt-in.
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But Apple also controls the OS, not just the hardware.
When the PC clones took over, Microsoft got insanely wealthy, and IBM tried to shift course with OS/2, but failed. It always seemed odd to me that IBM couldnt manage to crank out PC's that were cheaper/better than the Compaqs and Dells.
Anyhow.
If Apple allowed commodity hardware, then they'd still have the monopoly over Mac OS that MSFT has over Windows. And if the architecture/OS is as superior as the average slashbot seems to think it is, then in a few years they'd all be hating "big bad monopoly" Apple and loving 'poor little underdog' MSFT.
Do you remember him? Remember his harrowed tale of the afghani technology void? Remember how the editors looked like a bunch of absolute morons?
THATs what a hoax is about, making the victims of said hoax look like fools. Thats what april fools day is about.
Not telling stupid unfunny jokes.
Face it. The trolls run this joint. You can't compete with them on their level. I mean, if "gnome is closed source!" and "evil bit!" are the best you got, well then just give it up and go back to your anti-america flamebaiting.
I mean really, how about a creative idea?
The original was neat and has kitch appeal. The 'remake' will be a goofy sfx showcase about a big monkey.
This is really a remake of a remake of a remake of the original.
bah.
No wonder I havent hooked up my DVD player since I moved 11 months ago.
Yeah, it sure would suck if there was a way for all linux users to install binary distributions without a ton of headaches!
good thing you still have to build everything from source to make sure it works.
phew! you had me going.
geek humor is so the opposite of funny
Now, if Goldberg isnt really going to be at backlash, and that's an april fools joke, then THAT would sure suck.
Well that is indeed hardware troubleshooting of the highest order! See a frowny face, pay tech support.
Computer literate indeed!
trashcans, bombs, and Happy Macs are universally recognized by computer literate persons the world over
WTF is a Happy Mac?
I'm computer literate. I've worked on dozens of systems from the commodore PET to the IBM Sys/36 and AS400 to HP 3000 and lately some of the Stratus boxes that started rolling through our companies 'bullpen'.
I've never used a mac except a few times in passing. It was designed explicitly for the non-computer literate.
Oh well, I guess owning a Mac makes you some sort of IT hero around slashdot.
You know what a Happy Mac is but don't know what 'hashing with buckets' means or what a b-tree does or what a two handed clock algorithm for freeing memory is all about.
It's like calling those chimpanzees who point at the picture of a banana when they're hungry 'literate'.
Not so. They'll charge the bank if they can prove the bank was knowingly assisting in a crime. Which is generally the case, as it's pretty much impossible for the bank not to know what's going on.
Go apply for a mortgage at your local bank, see how many questions they start asking if you tell them you're self employed and plonk down a large cash deposit. They wind up neck deep in it if it turns out the cash was cocaine profits, the house and liquid assets get siezed (the house of course is the banks), and many times the loan officer who approves it will face charges.
This isn't about money-laundering, btw. This whole thread is offtopic.
I've noticed a lot of states are requesting Homeland Security funds to "control protestors". The NBC reporter covering the story said with a straight face something like: "Many of the protestors target the same facilities as terrorists and therefore we need funds to protect them.".
The word terrorist is being thrown about by every talking head to get his message on TV, and will soon have no meaning. But what they're talking about is absolutely valid.
Think about it. A terrorist (a real one) attack would likely target a highly populated area, and something symbolic (like the WTC was, or maybe say, the Sears tower in Chicago or the Space Needle or just a big mall downtown).
Protestors are out in the street blocking traffic and impeding peoples ability to move in the exact same areas.
How many more would have died on 9/11 if there were a bunch of dipshit hippies having a 'die in' and dragging newspaper stands in front of the WTC, blocking not only fire trucks and ambulances, but everyone elses avenue to escape to safety?
Not only that, a big raucous crowd would make a great place for a suicide bomber to hide/move freely, if he so chose.
Noone said protesters==terrorists. Protesters (who act like assholes)==threat to public safety.
You mean your right to profit from drug sales, offshore gambling, ponzi schemes and wire fraud?
PayPal is a great litmus test to get some precedent behind PATRIOT.
It has TV out, at least is should, all the other VIA Eden boards do. But its an absolutely gutless processor when it comes to doing DVD. I'd imagine trying to watch a hi-quality DivX on it would be a complete excercise in futility.
You could also spend $200 US bucks on an Xbox and do everything this does and more (they plan to release a generic media playback kit for it)
It's proprietary and embedded in an onboard bootprom.
If you scour through mini-itx.com you'll find mentions of it, it was announced there months ago.
A few months back when I was looking into building media-centric PC's for the kids. The DVD software, afaik, is proprietary (licenced CSS codes), and embedded within the bootprom.
All in all, it looked like a completely gutless solution, incapable of doing nearly everything I wanted it to do.
It's hardly something to compete with the tivo-like feature set and processing power that the P4/windows based media PC's from big vendors provides.
It's more like a really really expensive, but really really crappy, DVD player. That runs linux.
GPL only means they have to make the source accessible, it doesnt mean they have to give away the iso with all the binaries prebuilt and all the scripts and whatnot that make it an easy-for-joe-dipshit package.
Don't want to wait a week for all that convenience? Download all their GPL'd source and build it yourself.
OR let's just rename it the GGGPL (gimme gimme gimme public liscense)
"Hi! I'm Patty, I'm the neighbourhood welcome wagon! Here's a free copy of linux!"
"WOW GREAT! And I just ran out of toilet paper!"
no more than an unwired house.
It took me all of a saturday to run cat5 to four bedrooms, my wife and I's offices, the rec room (xbox/ps2/divx box), the living room (another xbox), the other living room, and the 'arcade' room thats just sort of an extra room in this fucked up house.
Short of that, there are 'power plug' networks, phone line networks, and wireless, all of which I've used successfully (and transparently). But 100mbit on my local lan (with gigabit in the future) is great.
A community intranet? I really dont want to see the beastiality incest porn that my hillbilly neighbours no doubt live on.
As for more b/w to the demarking point outside, that's all fine by me. But I doubt I'd be willing to pay any more than I do now for my plain jane cablemodem.
If I wasn't moved to buy an LP / CD / Cassette of Guess Who just to get "American Woman", guess what, I'm never going to..
American Woman is probably their lamest song, albeit their most 'commercial' success. Burton Cummings is absolutely brilliant. You're missing out not listening to the rest of the albums, as they were produced at a time when there was still some artistry left in music.
Likewise if you said you werent going to listen to all of "Dark Side of the Moon" because "Money" didn't move you to (or any Floyd album), you're definately missing out.
I guess my point is, albums were worth buying once upon a time. The 2-radio-tracks-plus-filler formula didn't become ubiquitous until recently.
Of course if you remake your point with $FLAVOR-OF-THE-WEEK-BAND then I'll completly agree.
I'll download it off of SoulSeek. See, RIAA, you just lost one CD sale there, and it wont be the last cd i boycott.
Boycotting would be not listening to the music at all. You're going to outright steal it.
"I'm not shoplifting, I'm boycotting the cash register!"
If you feel so strongly, dont buy, listen to, attend the concerts, or partake of any of it.
Right now the bands feel they'll suffer immensely if they don't sign up with the RIAA's agenda. The way to change the status quo is to show them they'll suffer more if they do.
If it was the major flaw the slashbots would want you to think it is, you wouldnt have heard about it first on slashdot. (Did you hear about Code Red, Nimda, Slammer, etc on slashdot first?)
As an aside, here's another nifty coding flaw I found recently:
I guess I posted from the future! (cue scary music)
You're caught in a time warp.
As a sibling post pointed out, most recent cards are 32 bit native. Most are much faster in 32 bit than 16 bit mode.
Get yourself a newer radeon and run 3DMarks and other benches in 32bit and then 16bit to convince yourself.
Does your average linux user actually have any finances to manage?
-1: Troll
Umm
This is about the US of A.
They'll use tin cans and string in Iraq for all anyone in congress cares. But at least they neednt worry about being executed for what they say.
Do you run an ISP?
When is the ISP liable? When they expressly condone spam, or do it themselves - OK, fine.
When one of their users spams, and they dont prevent it? Ok, I guess.
When one of their users 37337 linux box is r00t3d and is used as an open relay? Umm.. ok
When one of their users is the victim of a joe job, in other words forged return addresses pointing to the ISP? Ok.. (maybe in this case they could prove innocence, but that doesnt save them legal costs and hassles).
So push that law. Ensure that the only ISP's with pockets deep enough to survive all the litigation are MSN and AOL. Sounds like fun.
Just because MS is for something doesnt make it bad. Despite what you read here.
Sure, you too can sit on your ass and wait for a judge to hand you a big sum of money in some lawsuit. It's the new american dream.
In all seriousness, I don't share the slashbots elation. This is yet another law against communications on the internet.
Espescially how 'spam' is defined. It's not just the nasty people who stuff your pipe full of porn pages.
If this trend continues, watch for mailing lists to go the way of 'net radio. It'll be too expensive to run the $OS-project list because some jackass will start suing, claiming he didnt opt-in.
Go play some of the games at CartoonNetwork.com, or others have pointed out homestarrunner.com.
The best thing about flash is how easy it is to work with. It's easily an order of magnitude less complicated than a java applet.