Nice idea, but I hope this guy doesn't get arrested for speeding or something. The police would see this. It's illegal for a driver to be able to see a TV screen in a car. Not even with the mirrors.
Nice idea tough, so next time I'm trying a stunt with my car, I can try it first in a game to see if it's possible.;-)
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Why bother with Nature? Nature doesn't need us to make her a favor. If this moth exists, it's probably for a good reason. After all, Earth did fine during billions of years without us, and probably started having problems when we came along. Maybe those kind of things should just be left as is.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Diablo (TM) <-- Notice the TM? You can find it here on their website at http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/profile.shtml
I understand them not to want someone to make an action fantasy movie with the Diablo name, since, as another poster already pointed out, Blizzard owns the right to make a movie entitled this way. Also, if some company were selling a Diablo vaccuum cleaner, there wouldn't be a problem. But this is a movie which seems to have a lot of ressemblences to it's game, and you aren't allowed to do that with copyrighted material.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
It seems to me that at some point, Napster has affected the sales. I was never into the idea of CD singles, but many people still bought them. But now, when you want a single, you get can it free on the web. If I were into singles (which I am not, because they cost too much), I'd be very happy to see Napster and would download the songs I want. True music lovers will always buy an album. But also, people will also realize sometime that a 8$ single is way too much when for double the price you can get the whole thing. So screw the single, I'm downloading it on Napster. And for that part of argument about vinyls and cassettes, even tough Napster can't really much have an impact on the sales of this market, I'd still like to point out the fact that it is possible to rip a vinyl with some cables and a good input jack on a soundcard and have it sound exactly like an MP3 extracted from a CD. Vinyl DO sound better than compact disks, so I wouldn't be surprised if you could rip a vynil with better quality than if you ripped the CD.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Come on, you know that's not what I meant. Why are cars going faster than the speed limit? Because there are of course a minority of morons who will want to drive at 200kph on the highway, or, just for the thrill of it, in a school zone. Now, I don't know many people who buy a 20-pack of CDs just to make backups of their work (in fact, I know not a single one). I sure do know a lot of poeple who have fast cars, but only one of them is a speed freak. It seems to me that the only logic you are applying in this case, is the logic of a 14 or 15 year old who won't pay a penny for other people work, and is very likely one of the first who'll cry foul when some kid at your high school will take your base-ball cap and steals it from you. I can steal, but you can't. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Well, I've looked at a few posts, and it seems to me that I'm one of the few on Slashdot that think that, even tough this is not great for the consumer, it is logical and I can understand why government will be taxing CD-R. Ok so I don't know all the details since I didn't read the whole article because I'm in a hurry, but, from what I've gathered so far, it seems to me that the France government wanted to be a good sport to software company, while being a bitch to others. After all, IF this tax only applied to CD-Rs sold in stores, not the one sold to record companies, this seems logical, since I'm pretty sure that if you asked 20 people what their are doing to do with the blank CD-Rs, I'm sure that that study would show that 75% or more of them are going to copy stuff illegally (games, apps, movies, etc). Since one of the government jobs is to reduce crime and make sure it's citizen aren't doing anything illegal (in this case, it's stealing), then I think it is in it's own rights to tax CD-Rs
I for myself beleive that Linux is not ready for the masses for one simple reason : even tough you have hackers and zealots who will code drivers in their spare time to support their brand new video card, Linux will be really great when after a single installation, every peripherals will be usable, without any downloads what so ever, maybe insert a video card CD and your sound card CD to install the drivers, but everything from HD to DVD and screen and burner will be recognised by the OS and configured properly like Windows does (most of the time). I bought a brand new PC this summer and the only drivers that Win98SE didn't have were of course the Via4In1, the Sound Blaster Live! drivers and the GeForce. Everything else was supported, with no problem. Under Linux, I can't get my soundcard to work without tweaking, my video doesn't work on all distributions, my network cards are not supported, even tough I got the drivers on diskettes, I still have to compile then and add the module, which Jo-Common doesn't know how to do.
Linux already has a couple of great software ( Gimp, StarOffice, WordPerfect Suite, some 3D tools) but when the hardware manufacturers will support Linux, that's when users will really start noticing it.
Don't you think that at least Microsoft is trying to push new things around and innovate (instead of mimicking some 'other' operating system like Linux does) is great? And hey, don't blame them if they ever want to keep the code to themselves, face it, they are a company and they have stockholders to please. I'd be surprised if some Open-Source movement tried and succedded at implementing what Microsoft is trying to establish. It's not just a simple browser (okay not so simple, but still, browser and making a new platform for future technologies is somehow different), it's maybe the future of computing.
Well simple, even tough Linux "could" be more difficult to hack than Windows (I'm no guru, so I'll just suppose it is), it's still as unsafe as Windows, because while WinNT code "could" have been stolen, Linux source code is available freely all over the Net, so if someone analyses it well, they could find a hole and exploit it, just as what they would do with the Windows source code.
Hum let's see, there is a build for the Wintel, WInAlpha, some flavor of Unix(the one that comes with SGI computers) and Linux. And all are stable.
So 4 hours for 4 builds on four platforms, with all the same code base, except the os bastraction layer. Anyway, 1.5 to recompile still seems a little bit long, even tough they had to change a hundred lines of code...
Sorry, I never heard of them before. Though it's probably you guys who live in a box, or more precisely : in front of it. There's a bright world out there. You know that place in EverQuest, it seems huge, doesn't it? Well the other one that you could go in if you got up and went trough the door is bigger, and is even more interractive. This world has been Game Of The Year for 4 billion years now!!!
What I don't really get, is how come it takes 1.5 weeks to recompile à 4 million code program. Where I worked we had about 1 million or so line of code and the thing compiled in about 2 hours.
I'm agreeing with you on this. Beside, we haven't been able to figure out some good 3D UI yet. The best we have right now are 3D windows, which are 2D planes set in 3D space... Woohoo!! That's innovation. (!!!) What if I can do a 90 degree turn and see another part of my desktop? Isn't that the same thing as switching desktop under KDE or Gnome???
He didn't say this was the main application, he only used MP4 compression because he knows it's a very intensive FPU test, and since it takes time, it is easier to see a difference between two processors. And best : this "benchmarking" utility is FREE. No wonder he used it! --------------------------------------------- ----- ------------------------
But still, I can't beleive that so many people would be duped by this letter. I was actually coming back to Slashdot to point out the fact that this CAN'T be real, and then I read comment that says that at the end of the article is written "This is SATIRE."
I can't believe that people needed THAT to know it wasn't real. It seemed pretty legit, but the use of "FUD" and the end of the email pretty much gave away the fact that this letter wasn't real. "And for crying out loud, don't leak this memo this year. We all remember what happened to Vinod, right? "
Come on!! Think whatever you want of Bill Gates, he knows that these kind of comments would make him look like a fool, and that some employee would post it to www.linux.org or/. . In fact, it's a shame that Linux.org didn't add to their article "This is a SATIRE" when they originaly posted the story. I'm gald they finally did. Otherwise, if they never told anyone this was a joke, it would have been a very nasty move against Microsoft, knowing they are currently in court.
I mean, the Athlon has already been out for a year now, and it already features double pumped architecture, with a long pipeline for the instructions. And it can issue 3 floating point operations per cycle. Intel has been trying to catch up to AMD with their P4 design, and the only reason why it could be faster is because of the higher clock rate. But when compared at equal speed, you'll see (and it was already proven numerous times on the hardware sites) that the P4 will be slower than the Athlon, even slower than the P3, at the same clock rate. So i really don't see what is so Innovative about the P4. And I don't call that NetBurst crap innovation. Intel is trying to emphacize on it, where the P4 would make Internet go faster. I'm sure a DSL or cable modem would make the net faster, not a processor.
There is no way an IT will ever give you go the go install another Linux, because, if it doesn't work, even tough you claimed full responsibility for it, HE is the one who will have to install back all the necessary applications and Windows to get you back to work.
You're right pointing that it is elegant, but it's incorrect. A REALTIME OS is VERY different from a MULTITASKING OS. Basically, a realtime OS is a multitaking OS but better, or precise. One of the big difference is in the time access to a system ressource. Under Windows NT 4,(dont' know about Win2K, my realtime OS course was 2 years ago and Win2k wasn't out yet.) you can get a system semaphore under 5 ms (maybe lower, not sure), which is somehow fast. But in the worst case scenario ( O(n3) anyone? ) it takes about half a second. Okay, so let's say I have this laser now that is working in a patients eye to correct his or her vision, and I have to wait half a second to switch ownership of a semaphore, I guess then the patient is pretty fuc***. What makes OSes like QNX so great is that they always garantee access to system ressource instantly. So if the documentation says 1 ms on X computer configuration, then it will always be as slow or faster, because of the clever multitasking/driver design, which, for now, Windows and Linux haven't implemented. Linux may be more precise (I have nothing to back that up tough, so if someone knows a lot about semaphore access under Linux, drop a line!), but I've seen quite a few times on the net that Linux isn't a realtime OS, and that some poeple right now are working on a revamp of the kernel to make it as precise as a realtime OS so Linux can add it to it's feature (or brag) list.
I've not installed it yet, but a friend of mine borrowed the CD I received from QNX (I was one of the first 5000 lucky ones to register for the free CD a couple of months back.) and he says the installation detected everything, from his video card, to his soundcard, his monitor, his modem, and he was up and running on the net under 5 minutes. He is a real Linux freak, and he had to admit that he was very impressed with the overall quality of the product, and is very happy with his new toy to play with.
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Nice idea, but I hope this guy doesn't get arrested for speeding or something. The police would see this. It's illegal for a driver to be able to see a TV screen in a car. Not even with the mirrors.
;-)
Nice idea tough, so next time I'm trying a stunt with my car, I can try it first in a game to see if it's possible.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Why bother with Nature? Nature doesn't need us to make her a favor. If this moth exists, it's probably for a good reason. After all, Earth did fine during billions of years without us, and probably started having problems when we came along. Maybe those kind of things should just be left as is.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Diablo (TM) <-- Notice the TM? You can find it here on their website at http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/profile.shtml
I understand them not to want someone to make an action fantasy movie with the Diablo name, since, as another poster already pointed out, Blizzard owns the right to make a movie entitled this way. Also, if some company were selling a Diablo vaccuum cleaner, there wouldn't be a problem. But this is a movie which seems to have a lot of ressemblences to it's game, and you aren't allowed to do that with copyrighted material.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
It seems to me that at some point, Napster has affected the sales. I was never into the idea of CD singles, but many people still bought them. But now, when you want a single, you get can it free on the web. If I were into singles (which I am not, because they cost too much), I'd be very happy to see Napster and would download the songs I want. True music lovers will always buy an album. But also, people will also realize sometime that a 8$ single is way too much when for double the price you can get the whole thing. So screw the single, I'm downloading it on Napster. And for that part of argument about vinyls and cassettes, even tough Napster can't really much have an impact on the sales of this market, I'd still like to point out the fact that it is possible to rip a vinyl with some cables and a good input jack on a soundcard and have it sound exactly like an MP3 extracted from a CD. Vinyl DO sound better than compact disks, so I wouldn't be surprised if you could rip a vynil with better quality than if you ripped the CD.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Sure, Microsoft could buy XBox Technologies and get the trademark for pocket change. But what is Sony bought the company? That would be so funny!!! :-)
what if an highway I'm driving on is over a normal boulevard? Will my car go from 100Km/h to 50km/h to obey the street limit of the road UNDER me ???
Come on, you know that's not what I meant. Why are cars going faster than the speed limit? Because there are of course a minority of morons who will want to drive at 200kph on the highway, or, just for the thrill of it, in a school zone. Now, I don't know many people who buy a 20-pack of CDs just to make backups of their work (in fact, I know not a single one). I sure do know a lot of poeple who have fast cars, but only one of them is a speed freak. It seems to me that the only logic you are applying in this case, is the logic of a 14 or 15 year old who won't pay a penny for other people work, and is very likely one of the first who'll cry foul when some kid at your high school will take your base-ball cap and steals it from you. I can steal, but you can't. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Well, I've looked at a few posts, and it seems to me that I'm one of the few on Slashdot that think that, even tough this is not great for the consumer, it is logical and I can understand why government will be taxing CD-R. Ok so I don't know all the details since I didn't read the whole article because I'm in a hurry, but, from what I've gathered so far, it seems to me that the France government wanted to be a good sport to software company, while being a bitch to others. After all, IF this tax only applied to CD-Rs sold in stores, not the one sold to record companies, this seems logical, since I'm pretty sure that if you asked 20 people what their are doing to do with the blank CD-Rs, I'm sure that that study would show that 75% or more of them are going to copy stuff illegally (games, apps, movies, etc). Since one of the government jobs is to reduce crime and make sure it's citizen aren't doing anything illegal (in this case, it's stealing), then I think it is in it's own rights to tax CD-Rs
I wonder is we could launch a DoS attack on a DreamCast and bring it down to it's knee's. :-)
I for myself beleive that Linux is not ready for the masses for one simple reason : even tough you have hackers and zealots who will code drivers in their spare time to support their brand new video card, Linux will be really great when after a single installation, every peripherals will be usable, without any downloads what so ever, maybe insert a video card CD and your sound card CD to install the drivers, but everything from HD to DVD and screen and burner will be recognised by the OS and configured properly like Windows does (most of the time). I bought a brand new PC this summer and the only drivers that Win98SE didn't have were of course the Via4In1, the Sound Blaster Live! drivers and the GeForce. Everything else was supported, with no problem. Under Linux, I can't get my soundcard to work without tweaking, my video doesn't work on all distributions, my network cards are not supported, even tough I got the drivers on diskettes, I still have to compile then and add the module, which Jo-Common doesn't know how to do.
Linux already has a couple of great software ( Gimp, StarOffice, WordPerfect Suite, some 3D tools) but when the hardware manufacturers will support Linux, that's when users will really start noticing it.
Hum, if I give it beans, will it fart??? Just askin' !!!
Don't you think that at least Microsoft is trying to push new things around and innovate (instead of mimicking some 'other' operating system like Linux does) is great? And hey, don't blame them if they ever want to keep the code to themselves, face it, they are a company and they have stockholders to please. I'd be surprised if some Open-Source movement tried and succedded at implementing what Microsoft is trying to establish. It's not just a simple browser (okay not so simple, but still, browser and making a new platform for future technologies is somehow different), it's maybe the future of computing.
Well simple, even tough Linux "could" be more difficult to hack than Windows (I'm no guru, so I'll just suppose it is), it's still as unsafe as Windows, because while WinNT code "could" have been stolen, Linux source code is available freely all over the Net, so if someone analyses it well, they could find a hole and exploit it, just as what they would do with the Windows source code.
So now all the anorexic people out there can eat less and still manage to be in shape. That should make Calista Flockhart happy!!!
Hum let's see, there is a build for the Wintel, WInAlpha, some flavor of Unix(the one that comes with SGI computers) and Linux. And all are stable.
So 4 hours for 4 builds on four platforms, with all the same code base, except the os bastraction layer. Anyway, 1.5 to recompile still seems a little bit long, even tough they had to change a hundred lines of code...
Sorry, I never heard of them before. Though it's probably you guys who live in a box, or more precisely : in front of it. There's a bright world out there. You know that place in EverQuest, it seems huge, doesn't it? Well the other one that you could go in if you got up and went trough the door is bigger, and is even more interractive. This world has been Game Of The Year for 4 billion years now!!!
What I don't really get, is how come it takes 1.5 weeks to recompile à 4 million code program. Where I worked we had about 1 million or so line of code and the thing compiled in about 2 hours.
I'm agreeing with you on this. Beside, we haven't been able to figure out some good 3D UI yet. The best we have right now are 3D windows, which are 2D planes set in 3D space... Woohoo!! That's innovation. (!!!) What if I can do a 90 degree turn and see another part of my desktop? Isn't that the same thing as switching desktop under KDE or Gnome???
He didn't say this was the main application, he only used MP4 compression because he knows it's a very intensive FPU test, and since it takes time, it is easier to see a difference between two processors. And best : this "benchmarking" utility is FREE. No wonder he used it!- ----- ------------------------
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But still, I can't beleive that so many people would be duped by this letter. I was actually coming back to Slashdot to point out the fact that this CAN'T be real, and then I read comment that says that at the end of the article is written "This is SATIRE." /. . In fact, it's a shame that Linux.org didn't add to their article "This is a SATIRE" when they originaly posted the story. I'm gald they finally did. Otherwise, if they never told anyone this was a joke, it would have been a very nasty move against Microsoft, knowing they are currently in court.
I can't believe that people needed THAT to know it wasn't real. It seemed pretty legit, but the use of "FUD" and the end of the email pretty much gave away the fact that this letter wasn't real. "And for crying out loud, don't leak this memo this year. We all remember what happened to Vinod, right? "
Come on!! Think whatever you want of Bill Gates, he knows that these kind of comments would make him look like a fool, and that some employee would post it to www.linux.org or
AMEN TO THAT!!! You're totally right, I wished I wrote that comment myself. :-)))
I mean, the Athlon has already been out for a year now, and it already features double pumped architecture, with a long pipeline for the instructions. And it can issue 3 floating point operations per cycle. Intel has been trying to catch up to AMD with their P4 design, and the only reason why it could be faster is because of the higher clock rate. But when compared at equal speed, you'll see (and it was already proven numerous times on the hardware sites) that the P4 will be slower than the Athlon, even slower than the P3, at the same clock rate. So i really don't see what is so Innovative about the P4. And I don't call that NetBurst crap innovation. Intel is trying to emphacize on it, where the P4 would make Internet go faster. I'm sure a DSL or cable modem would make the net faster, not a processor.
There is no way an IT will ever give you go the go install another Linux, because, if it doesn't work, even tough you claimed full responsibility for it, HE is the one who will have to install back all the necessary applications and Windows to get you back to work.
You're right pointing that it is elegant, but it's incorrect. A REALTIME OS is VERY different from a MULTITASKING OS. Basically, a realtime OS is a multitaking OS but better, or precise. One of the big difference is in the time access to a system ressource. Under Windows NT 4,(dont' know about Win2K, my realtime OS course was 2 years ago and Win2k wasn't out yet.) you can get a system semaphore under 5 ms (maybe lower, not sure), which is somehow fast. But in the worst case scenario ( O(n3) anyone? ) it takes about half a second. Okay, so let's say I have this laser now that is working in a patients eye to correct his or her vision, and I have to wait half a second to switch ownership of a semaphore, I guess then the patient is pretty fuc***. What makes OSes like QNX so great is that they always garantee access to system ressource instantly. So if the documentation says 1 ms on X computer configuration, then it will always be as slow or faster, because of the clever multitasking/driver design, which, for now, Windows and Linux haven't implemented. Linux may be more precise (I have nothing to back that up tough, so if someone knows a lot about semaphore access under Linux, drop a line!), but I've seen quite a few times on the net that Linux isn't a realtime OS, and that some poeple right now are working on a revamp of the kernel to make it as precise as a realtime OS so Linux can add it to it's feature (or brag) list.
I've not installed it yet, but a friend of mine borrowed the CD I received from QNX (I was one of the first 5000 lucky ones to register for the free CD a couple of months back.) and he says the installation detected everything, from his video card, to his soundcard, his monitor, his modem, and he was up and running on the net under 5 minutes. He is a real Linux freak, and he had to admit that he was very impressed with the overall quality of the product, and is very happy with his new toy to play with.
According to a book I own, fiber optics can go about tens of kilometers long. So probably more than 10 kilometers, but less than a hundred.