" Heaven forbid Intel reduce the 100W portable heater to a lower wattage."
No, based on todays Prescott information and a little guesswork about power disipation increasing with clock speed, we can expect that to become about a 120-150 Watt heater sometime in '05. More power, smaller die? Perhaps they plan to radiate thermal energy out through those clear cases in the future...
Why do you suppose the guy died from a "fall" a couple months ago?
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Agreed, the HDTV confusion appears deliberate to me. HDTV is the latest buzzword, and they'll attach it to the product any way they can. HDTV ready? WTF? My old 13 inch BW set from 1970 is HDTV ready if I buy the right reciever and converter box...
Remember the old "digital ready" speakers? I see a trend here.
"Windows 1.0 hit the store shelves in November 1985"
You do raise doubts for me about the history so I'll have to look into this more. I knew people were using X before I ever saw windows, and the people I knew that used Windows said it was junk until 3.0. But that doesn't mean I truely understand the history. Thanks.
While you're verifying all that stuff, remember, there was another security problem and the solution (from MS) was to remove MS from the trusted list. So make sure THEY didn't sign a cert:-)
They could just rename it zzz-XWindows or something. Not just XWindows, but something that includes it. The name would probably be even more upsetting to Microsoft, but at least X clearly predates MS Windows.
From the letter: "Your web site improperly duplicates the distinctive and proprietary overall look and feel of Google's website, including Google's trade dress and the GOOGLE logo."
Overall look and feel is not a valid claim. See the old Apple vs Microsoft issue. I like google, but I'm not sure I'd like it if they win this. Is "Booble" likely to be confused with "Google"? Not likely.
"I feel like I lose out on a lot of the KDE goodness"
Like the big stupid K menu and all the other stupid looking icons and crap? You want more of that?
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Oh sure. When people use or try to improve GNOME, they are flamed because KDE is obviously superior and has won the competition. Yet KDE fans are supposed to support KOffice when clearly OpenOffice.org has won that competition.
I also thought of doing this several years back. I realized the time had come, and this would be very feasible in the near future (now). What I did instead is work on other peoples cool projects for a living, and continue hobby programming in an area who's time hasn't come yet, but is just a couple more years off from now. Anyone know how to chase VC?
If I was really bent on releasing screeners onto the net (or other motives), I'd do the following:
1) Drop by a big party at someones house whom I secretly hate.
2) Find their copy of a screener
3) Duck out to the car where a laptop awaits and do some ripping.
Perhaps IBM or another large player could get some key software patents and only allow their use in GPLed software. Just a few key innovations or "new ideas" that are likely to catch on. The system can work both ways, it's just that OSS developers don't usually have the money to get patents due to the free (as in beer for once) nature of their products.
I'm still contemplating a patent on a key aspect of software I might release under GPL. It'd be expensive though.
How much would the temperature need to rise to melt the CO2? I don't really care a whole lot about bacteria that may be on Mars, I'd like it to be more inhabitable. Drop some of our own bacteria there to produce enough greenhouse gas to heat it enough to melt the CO2 ice - heating it even more. If something could be found/engineered that would survive, it would grow rapidly (think algae bloom). I know, we don't have enough information about the chemistry of Mars to do this yet, but when do we stop worrying about martian bacteria and start doing something else? Or are we doing that analysis now, but hyping the life and water aspects to keep the public interested?
That's a nice plug for Matlab. Since plugs are not being modded off-topic today:-) Let me say that I know several people who use GNU Octave instead of Matlab. It does most the same things, and its free software. Some just for home use, and some working at small companies that couldn't afford Matlab. You can write code that works on both, so one guy uses Matlab at work and can run the same stuff on Octave at home.
Thanks for the techno-babble. This guys company obviously looked at real world performance. Their understanding of the cause may or may not be correct, but their conclusion (switch to AMD) is correct for them because they compared using the application that matters to them.
"I want to walk the Court through enough of our complaint to help the Court understand that IBM clearly did contribute a lot of the Unix-related information into Linux. We just don't know what it is," Kevin McBride told the court
Surely this points out that:
1) they have no clue and
2) they think any IBM addition to AIX belongs to SCO - i.e. they have no clue.
At what point does their work lose copyright status due to this use? Or can it? It seems that the poems are not being used as a creative expression, but rather a mechanism. You won't even see it unless you like to view all your email headers. I would hope this is a valid legal arguement against this practice. But IANAL. Not that I like spam either, but this could lead down a very bad path. You think patenting codecs is bad? Just think if a bitstream is required to include a copyrighted pass phrase to be used in a "compliant" player.
Just wait till some personable people from China and India come along without accents. Even radio jobs will get outsourced overseas. As all the techies have learned, I you have a job that can be done from anywhere, the lowest bidder on the planet will get it.
"You have to ask if there were other ways to spend those funds that would have had a better positive impact on mankind."
Since when is that how the government decides how to spend money;-) I agree, something along those lines would be better than Mars. I'd eliminate the deficit, then the debt, then reduce taxes. Then we can talk about going to Mars and humanitarian projects. But in the current environment, I happen to like the Mars pork-project better than many other pork-projects....
If you want to actually use 64 bit software on these processors, you currently need to run Linux. How are the Linux drivers for this flavor of ATI? Most new ATI hardware is not supported - never mind support via 64bit drivers. Need a AMD64/NVidia laptop.
I only read the pages posted to/. but I didn't see anything about the licensing differences between BSD and Linux. Both are open source, one is free software.
I really wish there was a Free X server in common use instead of X"Free"86.
I'm not a biologist, but I think there is a remote chance of a gene you eat getting into one of your cells. I'd imagine the odds are exceedingly slim, and the odds of it getting to cells that create your offspring is approximately zero - but not actually zero. I'm way out of my field on this anyway.
How lame. I figure if I don't break a sweat, I'm not really gaining from a physical activity. DDR MAX gets a decent aerobic workout, but imagine the conversation:
Wow, you've go some muscular hands.
Yea, I developed them by playing with my stiff joystick...
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No, based on todays Prescott information and a little guesswork about power disipation increasing with clock speed, we can expect that to become about a 120-150 Watt heater sometime in '05. More power, smaller die? Perhaps they plan to radiate thermal energy out through those clear cases in the future...
Have they forgotten the laptop market?
Why do you suppose the guy died from a "fall" a couple months ago?
Remember the old "digital ready" speakers? I see a trend here.
However: Free Software == GPL
"Windows 1.0 hit the store shelves in November 1985"
You do raise doubts for me about the history so I'll have to look into this more. I knew people were using X before I ever saw windows, and the people I knew that used Windows said it was junk until 3.0. But that doesn't mean I truely understand the history. Thanks.
While you're verifying all that stuff, remember, there was another security problem and the solution (from MS) was to remove MS from the trusted list. So make sure THEY didn't sign a cert :-)
They could just rename it zzz-XWindows or something. Not just XWindows, but something that includes it. The name would probably be even more upsetting to Microsoft, but at least X clearly predates MS Windows.
Overall look and feel is not a valid claim. See the old Apple vs Microsoft issue. I like google, but I'm not sure I'd like it if they win this. Is "Booble" likely to be confused with "Google"? Not likely.
Like the big stupid K menu and all the other stupid looking icons and crap? You want more of that?
FANatics...
1) Drop by a big party at someones house whom I secretly hate.
2) Find their copy of a screener
3) Duck out to the car where a laptop awaits and do some ripping.
Loads of fun.
I'm still contemplating a patent on a key aspect of software I might release under GPL. It'd be expensive though.
"I want to walk the Court through enough of our complaint to help the Court understand that IBM clearly did contribute a lot of the Unix-related information into Linux. We just don't know what it is," Kevin McBride told the court
Surely this points out that:
1) they have no clue and
2) they think any IBM addition to AIX belongs to SCO - i.e. they have no clue.
At what point does their work lose copyright status due to this use? Or can it? It seems that the poems are not being used as a creative expression, but rather a mechanism. You won't even see it unless you like to view all your email headers. I would hope this is a valid legal arguement against this practice. But IANAL. Not that I like spam either, but this could lead down a very bad path. You think patenting codecs is bad? Just think if a bitstream is required to include a copyrighted pass phrase to be used in a "compliant" player.
Just wait till some personable people from China and India come along without accents. Even radio jobs will get outsourced overseas. As all the techies have learned, I you have a job that can be done from anywhere, the lowest bidder on the planet will get it.
Since when is that how the government decides how to spend money ;-) I agree, something along those lines would be better than Mars. I'd eliminate the deficit, then the debt, then reduce taxes. Then we can talk about going to Mars and humanitarian projects. But in the current environment, I happen to like the Mars pork-project better than many other pork-projects....
If you want to actually use 64 bit software on these processors, you currently need to run Linux. How are the Linux drivers for this flavor of ATI? Most new ATI hardware is not supported - never mind support via 64bit drivers. Need a AMD64/NVidia laptop.
I really wish there was a Free X server in common use instead of X"Free"86.
I'm not a biologist, but I think there is a remote chance of a gene you eat getting into one of your cells. I'd imagine the odds are exceedingly slim, and the odds of it getting to cells that create your offspring is approximately zero - but not actually zero. I'm way out of my field on this anyway.
Wow, you've go some muscular hands.
Yea, I developed them by playing with my stiff joystick...
You probably wouldn't need your left nut on the mission anyway.