Explain to me how a general purpose PC is not resource limited? If you have Infinite RAM, I'd be very interested to meet your supplier.
Furthermore, what about handheld OS's/environments such as Qtopia and Palm OS? I know that Qtopia uses tap-and-hold, and Palm OS uses it too in some apps. I'm also sure that those were pre-2002 applications of this tech...
Look, the patent was filed on July 12, 2002. If we can't come up with a single pre-2002 OS that used double-clicking, then we're really, really bad off. I mean, Microsoft itself has used it since about 1991 in Windows...
Get on that bittorrent people! I'm only getting 1KiB/s, so the Slashdot effect can't have hit the bittorrent. I know it's hard, but you can all use BT instead of the FTP download. It's inverse slashdot effect, really. The more of us there are, the faster the site is. So hop to!
Yes, and you can't run a webserver, FTP server or do ANY filesharing either. Heck, I bet my SSH server is illegal too. Since all servers are against the user agreement (see my post up towards the top of this article), that means my UT2004 server needs to go, and my VNC server too. Hmm. Maybe I should give up now?
Anybody here ever read a Comcast Usage & Subscriber Agreement? I have. They're quite... chilling to read. Lots of people have posted about the forbidding of running a server of any kind, so here it is: Acceptable Use Policy
The area you're referring to is
(xiv) run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;
For example, take a look at this quote, which makes my browser's caching of Slashdot's GNAA posts illegal:
(ii) post, store, send, transmit, or disseminate any information or material which a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate, regardless of whether this material or its dissemination is unlawful;
Try reading this one: Subscriber Agreement. This section, in particular, gives Comcast permission to view any information transmitted over the network from or to you:
Comcast shall have no obligation to monitor postings or transmissions made in connection with the Service. However, you acknowledge and agree that Comcast and its agents shall have the right to monitor any such postings and transmissions, including without limitation e-mail, newsgroups, chat, IP audio and video, and web space content
Section 9's cool too. It says that you waive the right to sue them in a real court, but instead will have a hearing before a "neutral arbitrator". Anyhow, you should read all that stuff. Some of it's absolutely unique.
I've used Palms and PocketPC's since Palm OS 3.0 and Windows CE 3.0 (PocketPC 2000, that is). The WinCE is a real OS, yes, as many people have pointed out. However, I ask WHO NEEDS MULTITASKING? You can only fit one program at a time on that screen anyhow... Load times for Palm are next to nothing, so what's the point of multitasking when it's just as fast to open the app anew... You can't compare PocketPC to Palm. PosketPC is like Windows, with separate storage and execution memory, and with a footprint bigger than most Palms' RAM + ROM amounts. Palm is a handheld OS that does its job well.
Now if only ParaGraph would release Calligrapher for PalmOS, we'd be good...
different types of screw. If you know of a company that can make, um, 2.9e177 types of screw, you know a company that has used all of the iron in the entire universe...
The first great (FREE) game is called Legends. It is very similar to Tribes and is based off the Torque engine. Fun gameplay, cool maps and an integrated map editor. Get it for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X at http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/
The second game is Vendetta. It is a space combat MMORPG, and since it's a pre-beta game it's free. Don't let that scare you away, though. The gameplay is spectacular, as are the graphics. The community's even fairly decent. Get that one at http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com.
Sadly, neither of these games include source code. Draw your own conclusions.
Due to a new Michigan law (Super DMCA), the legality of my research or these web pages is currently unclear. Felten provides additional information about the resulting restrictions on technology and research.
The web pages will be reinstated once the situation has been resolved.
OutGuess 0.2 - Source Code
Currently, unavailable. See above.
Because they just shipped an updated iBook that does almost all of what the current PB does except DVD burning, for 1/3 less price-wise ($1100 vs $1600).
You got this from The MacRumors Page. This is a rumor from several months ago and is (AFIAK) untrue. These iBooks use Motorola processors. Even the presence of the AltiVec engine is unknown, but I am pretty sure that these aren't IBM procs.
I was viewing the specs and I noticed that the battery was listed as a 50w/h on the 12.1" iBook, as opposed to a 41w/h on the 12" PowerBook. In the past, I know PowerBooks had bigger batteries than iBooks. Does anyone with a G3 iBook know how much theirs is?
Also note that the PowerBook sports the NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chip, whilst the iBook has the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Both fairly good chips.
We all know why this is happening, though. I forsee a G5-based Powerbook with a next-generation graphics card being released in either mid-November or next February- either just in time for the Christmas rush, or long enough after it that people won't know it's coming when Christmas hits, and will buy current generation products.
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Explain to me how a general purpose PC is not resource limited? If you have Infinite RAM, I'd be very interested to meet your supplier.
Furthermore, what about handheld OS's/environments such as Qtopia and Palm OS? I know that Qtopia uses tap-and-hold, and Palm OS uses it too in some apps. I'm also sure that those were pre-2002 applications of this tech...
Look, the patent was filed on July 12, 2002. If we can't come up with a single pre-2002 OS that used double-clicking, then we're really, really bad off. I mean, Microsoft itself has used it since about 1991 in Windows...
Get on that bittorrent people! I'm only getting 1KiB/s, so the Slashdot effect can't have hit the bittorrent. I know it's hard, but you can all use BT instead of the FTP download. It's inverse slashdot effect, really. The more of us there are, the faster the site is. So hop to!
Yes, and you can't run a webserver, FTP server or do ANY filesharing either. Heck, I bet my SSH server is illegal too. Since all servers are against the user agreement (see my post up towards the top of this article), that means my UT2004 server needs to go, and my VNC server too. Hmm. Maybe I should give up now?
The area you're referring to is
For example, take a look at this quote, which makes my browser's caching of Slashdot's GNAA posts illegal:
Try reading this one: Subscriber Agreement. This section, in particular, gives Comcast permission to view any information transmitted over the network from or to you: Section 9's cool too. It says that you waive the right to sue them in a real court, but instead will have a hearing before a "neutral arbitrator". Anyhow, you should read all that stuff. Some of it's absolutely unique.
If I don't get modded up for this, I'll be amazed
Actually, there was a slashdot story on that awhile back.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/09
As I indicated before, FSV is another great and similar program, except it's open-source and doesn't require a SGI Workstation. :P
You mean the SGI FSN 3D Navigator?
http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
A good replacement is the open-source fsv:
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
Original
A very good explaination about Intel's iCOMP benchmarks can be found Here
However, all of Intel's recent benchamarking references to "SysMark 2004" results.
This guide was posted on the Gentoo Forums by shiznix. Find it here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709
I know you Slashdot users hate Gentoo, but this is actually an excellent guide that features animated menus and all!
I've used Palms and PocketPC's since Palm OS 3.0 and Windows CE 3.0 (PocketPC 2000, that is). The WinCE is a real OS, yes, as many people have pointed out. However, I ask WHO NEEDS MULTITASKING? You can only fit one program at a time on that screen anyhow... Load times for Palm are next to nothing, so what's the point of multitasking when it's just as fast to open the app anew... You can't compare PocketPC to Palm. PosketPC is like Windows, with separate storage and execution memory, and with a footprint bigger than most Palms' RAM + ROM amounts. Palm is a handheld OS that does its job well.
Now if only ParaGraph would release Calligrapher for PalmOS, we'd be good...
That's not possible. That's ((7^5)^42) possible combinations. That's...
9 ,440,265,806,872,857,454,825,971,478,227,030,758,9 94,845,68,211,269,420,967,793,722,538,182,128,973, 384,834,980,350,726,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000
29,552,103,763,367,575,802,884,002,475,539,577,80
different types of screw. If you know of a company that can make, um, 2.9e177 types of screw, you know a company that has used all of the iron in the entire universe...
Probably gunk from removing the heatsink, no? I don't think they were in a big hurry to clear off the name of the inside informant...
The first great (FREE) game is called Legends. It is very similar to Tribes and is based off the Torque engine. Fun gameplay, cool maps and an integrated map editor. Get it for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X at http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/
The second game is Vendetta. It is a space combat MMORPG, and since it's a pre-beta game it's free. Don't let that scare you away, though. The gameplay is spectacular, as are the graphics. The community's even fairly decent. Get that one at http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com.
Sadly, neither of these games include source code. Draw your own conclusions.
Yep. And as an added benefit, it'd remove all your cells. Like blood cells, and skin cells, and brain cells!
Due to a new Michigan law (Super DMCA), the legality of my research or these web pages is currently unclear. Felten provides additional information about the resulting restrictions on technology and research.
The web pages will be reinstated once the situation has been resolved.
OutGuess 0.2 - Source Code Currently, unavailable. See above.
Source: (http://www.outguess.org/download.php)
Information is sparse, but one would think that 0Install (http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/) would be prior art...
Because they just shipped an updated iBook that does almost all of what the current PB does except DVD burning, for 1/3 less price-wise ($1100 vs $1600).
You got this from The MacRumors Page. This is a rumor from several months ago and is (AFIAK) untrue. These iBooks use Motorola processors. Even the presence of the AltiVec engine is unknown, but I am pretty sure that these aren't IBM procs.
I was viewing the specs and I noticed that the battery was listed as a 50w/h on the 12.1" iBook, as opposed to a 41w/h on the 12" PowerBook. In the past, I know PowerBooks had bigger batteries than iBooks. Does anyone with a G3 iBook know how much theirs is?
Also note that the PowerBook sports the NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chip, whilst the iBook has the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Both fairly good chips. We all know why this is happening, though. I forsee a G5-based Powerbook with a next-generation graphics card being released in either mid-November or next February- either just in time for the Christmas rush, or long enough after it that people won't know it's coming when Christmas hits, and will buy current generation products.
Let's say it takes x years to make Mars livable. Every year we spend waiting to go there makes that x + 1.
The answer? Be american and get the dictator, then be american again and do the great thing as soon as someone else tries to do it before you...
Bravo! Finally someone who doesn't think that it's alright to consume a greater percentage of fuel per person than any other country in the world...
fsv.sourceforge.net Almost identical program, but open-source and for Linux. Now if only there was a way to run apps with it...