So you'd grant them the right to "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness"?
Why not?
Well...before you go granting a machine the same status as a human, or even an animal,
The human brain is nothing but an analog computer with a self modifying architecture, the machine equivelent would be an FPGA, check out this link on self modifying FPGA design, read it understand it. This is the start of something very new, this is just the beginning. Look at the brains of lower-life forms, kinda neat how our brain is just like theirs, but more complex.
I'd like to see you tell me what true "life" really is. What about "liberty"? What does that mean to a machine? And then, of course, what is "happiness" to a machine, and how would you know you would really want the results of that, if it could even exist?
This is what human philosphers have been debating for millenia, what is life, why are we here, and all of the points you raised above.
I'll admit that people that advocate giving rights to machines scare me. Not because I fear that they are a threat to me physically, but because it is clear to me that the above answers have no clear definition yet. We don't really know what they are, and, therefore, these people are moving blindly into an area where they have no business being.
So, since people have these exact same problems, should we have no rights as well, how do you know you aren't the only person on earth who is alive? How do you know other people are thinking beings, you assumed it right? You're not a computer so you write any future computer off as not intelligent as well? So is it your ignorance that has led you to these conclusions?
We do know that rights apply to us; clearly we have "life". I'm not talking about a simplistic definition that everyone seems to work off of...it is clear to me that those definitions are woefully incomplete. But, to go extending this to a machine, and make no mistake, that is what it is and nothing more, is to jump into the relm of foolishness.
I don't know you are truely alive, so should I torture you mercilessly and end your life, I don't know if you are truely alive, the only thing I know is I am, as for you, well you just say so to avoid the torture and death.
Heh, beliefs like that is why slavery existed, why Jews and many other minority groups have died, those beliefs are sadistic.
I hope we nuke the earth so you die, is that what you wanted to hear you ignorant prick.
WTF are you talking about, yep the US is an empire that has colonized so many many countries, you must mean just like we colonized Germany and Japan after WW2, oh shit this is out of a revisionist history book right?
Hey the Germans look free to me, the Japanese as well, oh never mind the USSR was waiting to invade all those years during the cold war and actually outspent us many times over in military hardware - even nukes, but we still stood vigilant.
Without our vigilance you wouldn't have the very voice you now speak with.
Yep, we now have big badass military hardware and the soldiers to operate it, to protect us from narrow minded bastards like yourself, if you were in any sort of power you would be attacking us out of jealousy just like any other two-bit despot.
Hate to say it but most Americans don't care about the rest of the world until you fly jetliners into huge office towers and the center of our military.
Yep, then we get heavy handed because we are pissed, yes then we want blood for blood.
As someone who attended jury duty today, I can say while our system may not be perfect, but it does the job fairly well, though I may not agree with certain laws, jury duty does give me a chance to make a statement, for or against those laws, that is if you are a juror who stands on principle, voting to keep shitty laws at bay helps too.
Keep the buzzwords flowing, keep the newsbites going, ignore all the real issues and instead of an understanding American public, you will have one that simply does not give a shit.
Does not care to hear your voice, you want to dictate to us, that will never happen, turn the fucking keys if the day does occur, no one will have a voice then.
Yep America is a totally evil country raping your women and taking you men into bondage, we conqueror, we spill blood just to do it.
You must be an American yourself, either that or you have not traveled, people the world over believe their taste and judgement of quility if far superior to that of their neighbours.
There wasn't much else we could do to end the oil embargo on IRAQ since the last gulf war.
Simple logic, it took a war to apply the embargo, so it takes a war to remove it, c'mon can't you understand the logic, I supported the war so I could get cheaper gas.
What? We're under quota on lying cheating bastards! How will we fix the problem? Recruit more! Excellent idea! Yes, I agree the problem has not been handled correctly in the past. Mr.President we will put your plan into action now!
Why can't either party have a decent candidate, I think honesty would be a start, I want my president to proudly proclaim when questioned about indescretions, "Yes I inhaled, got a blow-job, made mad money from scumbags and enjoyed it!" "You're pissed you didn't get an invite to the party aren't you?"
Hey I'm in South Florida, does that qualify as "close-enough" to Guantonimo? I think I may have just been kicked out of my party for posting this.|shrug|
These permanent data laws the English seem to like make having a job in gov't IT a very good one to have. Think of the endless amounts of people it will take to monitor these giantic databases of every movement of everyone, all the data sources, automobile movements, credit card transactions, digital video to be cataloged and processed. Correlations would need to be made, algorithms written, statistics created, "bad guys" discovered and tracked. Those Zebras that don't blend and run at the front get the big cat on their ass. A good job awaits those going for English gov't IT, actually any gov't IT field. It would make watching ants seem fun, but the benefits, most gov't jobs have those great benefits, sometimes even unions to protect you from the old.com BS.....
Why are you posting as an AC? My prefs make you invisable. Anyhow...
True the PC and Mac have changed, they have evolved and become better over the years, they now rival old school big iron machines. The new Opteron is an excellent SMP design, they eliminated the shared bus that slows my SMP Intel, the new Mac has a Ghz front side bus. This is the new manditory starting point, this is not an option. The current Amiga userbase is much too small, when all the US Amiga mags went under, I thought hey I liked the European ones better anyhow, when they couldn't float on the new American and European userbase I knew it was over. I still have the last Amiga Format as a memory of what could have been.
The misconception is the current userbase is needed, hate to break it to you, it's not.
The old Amiga user base is what's needed, all those people who spent thousands on a harddisk controler with accelerator and tons of RAM when the PC might have had 2MB (my earliest lowest spec system was an A500 1MB chip, 8MB FAST with GVP controller w/ big scsi drive).
These new systems will not get the old userbase back, it may get a few people running Linux on them, but that's it.
An Apple XServ is a much better deal if you want PowerPC in a rack mount chassis, the new G5 is a better deal if you want performance. The new Opteron will be a better deal if you want your new online games at Max FPS, and have a bunch of TiVo streams to recompress.....
The new PPC Amiga lacks software developers to port and update the old catalog of software, what's out there for 3D now, Newtek moved on from what I understand, not sure about Impulse, all the others are on the PC now.
The market was tough when the Amiga was originally created, in that day the Vic-20 and Apple 2 reigned, when the Amiga was released it was the dawn of the GUI.
Jay Miner and his crew were brilliant, it will be hard to top them. Keep to the original hardware concepts and a new Amiga is possible, remember AmigaOS was a hack from day 1, it was a rushed affair, it was never quite fixed the way the creators intended. It is a port of TripOS after all. Then a Unix TCP stack is stapled on that.
Actually you're right the Mac and PC have changed, we run nothing which resembles DOS or the original MacOS from '84, they evolved the Amiga didn't.
I would like to buy something that is really Amiga, sadly I don't think it will happen. A SMP g5 with a fast multimedia processor to feed a top of the line NVidia or ATI card and sound, is that really too much to ask.
OK, I see I hit on a nerve here. I guess I didn't make it clear enough.
Old Amigas are geeky just like C64s and AppleIIs are, but don't say something is an AMIGA just to MARKET IT, that really does piss me off.
Yep, I really want to FORCE you not to run something called AmigaOS, I think not, do what you want. Necrophilia ain't my thing though:-P
If my attention is not needed call it something else, as long it is called an AMIGA I will hold it to a far higher standard than any other computer, the Amiga DELIVERED that with ELEGENCE in the 80's and early 90's. The Amiga DIED when Commodore did, I couldn't get my AGA Amiga fixed when they were in business, heh, I could imagine getting one fixed after their demise.
I see those who posted below me that just don't get it. I owned the machines, I bought the software, I scripted ARexx, I wrote programs in C, figured out how to use the copperlist, etc. Hell I upgraded the ROMS in my new and old machines and the custom chips in the old machines.
This Amiga is not an AMIGA, it is a beige box ppc clone, it has the same properties as every other computer out there, hell the BeBox had a geek port, what does this have?
Shit, they could have stuck a DSP to the board to assist with the graphics and sound at the very least, at least the prototype 4000s had that.
Give me a SMP G5 or Power4 with a cutting edge DSP, you could call that an Amiga as it would CRUSH the competition like the original did in '85.
This would be my idea of a new Amiga. Kernel -> Linux CLI Userland -> GNU BASH and assoc utilities GUI -> Intuition with high level 3D calls, no X11 Processor -> Power4 or SMP G5 tons of cache and memory as options Graphics -> Off the shelf 8x AGP (DVI HDTV compatible) Sound -> Off the shelf multi-channel 24bit 96KHz CoProcessor -> DSP capable of feeding enough manipulated data to Sound and Graphics.
The main processor is there for AI, and UI events as well as doing what processors are meant to, process program data.
When the machine crashes I should still see 3D and sound continue to play as they are controlled by that DSP.
Linux and BSD have many millions of man hours in them, the best minds argue for what is best. I won't defend X11 though.
The Amiga could build on Linux or BSD and deliver a real GUI with exceptional performance, high level 3D acceleration and have a whole array of apps for many NEW willing users to port over.
NDAs are incompatible with opensource, yet they are needed for programming a graphics card with Gee-Wiz functionality, who wouldn't want a chance to bang on an Nvidia chip at the hardware level.
SELECTIVE capitalization courtesy caps-lock and of the old linux FORTUNE program on '94 SLACKWARE.
I haven't heard much out of SCO reguarding indemnification of their clients on the IBM patent issues, when those patent issues are pursued, SCO is gone and anyone running SCO is fsck'd for patent infringement, they can pay IBM (if they license) or switch to Linux:-)
Get the car that changed the auto world, the car that brought motorized transportaion to the masses.
This version is equipped with a gravitational wave disruption unit, allowing you to zip around the world in style with all the same controls you are accustomed to, down to the crank to start and all the retro styling you would expect, any color as long as it's black.
The Amiga is dead, cool while it lasted, bury it, go on, please.
I found it amusing that you must agree to their terms to use their service. So if you mistype a URL on the internet you are agreeing to their terms?
We should figure out how to challenge the validity of their terms since you never actually intend to visit their page, this could possibly be used as a precedent for those click through apps that install spyware like gator and the rest, especially since most are unaware of what that dialog box actually means.....
But dropping something insecure out in the open with full knowledge that it will probably be compromised and then likely used for undesireable activities isn't responsible.
I think we should start with Dell, HPCompaq, Gateway and a host of clueless system integrators before we start attacking/sueing/whatever people doing it for research purposes.
Mom and Pop on the new DSL connection with no firewall,antivirus,monitoring and getting the fun we want more money message from symantec is enough for many people to not care. What does the average casual internet user have to lose by doing nothing?
As an admin who worked on the hack known as a Cobalt (I got the Cobalt rep to almost admit that it was created in a Garage after their failover demo flopped), I would have to agree with Sun, the Cobalt blows, and if their perception of Linux is based upon that, well they're correct, as to why they bought Cobalt I will never understand.
I would rather admin an unpatched 6.2 Redhat box than touch a Cobalt ever again, the hardware defect rate was almost one in every box of five we recieved(before the Sun purchase), I'm just glad I didn't have to process all the RMAs.
OH, so if you purchase Sun's Linux solution, apparently it's broken out of the box. I like Sun hardware and Solaris, but they just need to leave the Linux field and do Solaris exclusively, OpenOffice is a solid product too. Please Sun, stop the half hearted Linux attempts.
And if you have the gvp trap door accelerator in it, the 1200 would become an easy bake oven. Imagine the Amiga was already ahead of it's time in 1993....
The c= 1351 mouse was my first mouse and that along with the 1764 REU(soldered chips to 512) made Geos useable. I even had that Geos programming tool, if I remember it was all in assembeler.
Then I bought an Amiga and it had the exact same design for it's mouse.
Now I use an MS optical trackball and a logitech optical mouse for games (the bigger one that glows blue)
While this may have been a problem in the past the ISS solves this problem, building big stuff in orbit rather than launching it everytime does seem to be a good idea, though I'd be more comfortable in a plane type thing than in a falling rock. I don't believe launching a plane type thing the way a rocket is launched is too smart in the end.
Rich people are cheap, if they weren't cheap, they wouldn't be rich. This is more likely how it would go.
To Mr. Billionaire,
We sincerely appreciate your continued investments in our MegaMultiNational Record Company. As an expression of our thanks we are sending you a copy of every album in our vault, once again, enjoy the music and please don't sell our stock as it will trade at $2.00 tomarrow if you do.
Look, I did not intend to be offensive, I won't take anything away from anyone who has a callsign.
The stuff I'd be interested in would be long distance digital communication, no not morse code but automated digital communication.
In any case as far as morse code goes, yep tried different varients of instruction(standard and farnsworth), practiced for hours, it is just not something I can pick up, it all sounds the same to me.
Now the last statement about the test was sarchastic, no 8 year old could pass the higher level tests, at least none that I know of. I was just taking the statement that if the tests are so easy then the hardest part is the code.
The test from 12 or so years ago for the higher level (I think it was the amateur extra) were not simple tests at first glance, but not too much of a problem for myself, I happen to like math and electronics, I just can't do code, at that point I said to hell with it, let it die...and at the rate it's going now it won't be too long if the code stays.
BTW, yes I did own a cb, and I did build a linear for it both transistor and tube based, seriously though, please tell me the difference between the traffic on cb, 2m and 70cm, it all sounds the same to me on my scanner. I personally believe the elitest attitude exhibited by most HAM operators has killed the hobby.
Please vacuum tubes, um how old are the fellows operating them? I think you would be hard pressed to find a new ham who could adjust those two knobs on the front of a vacuum tube linear.
Do you also realize that if your electronics were feeling an EMP chances are you would have a heavy dose of radiation.
BTW if a life threatining emergency should arise I would pull out my ham gear from the closet and get busy, do you honestly think the FCC would care I transmitted on the sacred ham bands if life and limb were threatened?
HAM is percieved as an elitest hobby by many nonHAMS, the world would not end if there were no HAM radio, many people devote themselves to public service on a daily basis and not just when an emergency occurs. We need those people more than HAMs. Here's the deal, want to keep your private club all by yourself, do something to advance the state of communications, do something that can't be done with an existing commercial service, then you get to keep your club, if not I believe my side will win as many of us have recognized the obsolesense of the technology used by these amateur operators. BTW unless there is a secret HAM semiconductor fab, you'd be hard pressed to make me believe HAM radio has contributed anything in the last 10 years. As far as 802.11b goes, hmmm, well doesn't that already exist, were all those guys a defcon HAMs when they did their shootout, I thought not, as any HAM worth his salt knows what they did does violate FCC rules and most HAMs are far to anal retentive to do such a thing, doesn't 802.11b specify the operating frequency as well?????
Well, you have a pretty inefficient spam filter then!
By keeping the CW requirement you have kept many like myself out of the hobby, and because of this we just don't care about your concerns.
Problems with broadband powerline interference in your frequencies, so what. I think the interference is justified as powerline broadband gives more people the ability to communicate than Amateur Radio. Build it all, the hobby has snubbed me because I don't have an ear for morse code, why should I realisticly care about it.
Emergencies, well the thing Amateurs have during an emergency is the desire for public service. They aren't the only ones you know! So an operator with CW can pass third party messages through the worst interference, well so can someone with a sat phone, except the interference is not an issue.
The community's excuses about not wanting to muddy the the HF spectrum are assinine, oooo, so you can send a message around the world, hey I can do that too, except I can send more information with no errors on the Internet.
I think the Amateur bands would be better auctioned for the public's benefit than remain in the hands of a few people who feel change is a bad thing.
If you send code 20 years from now and no one is listening anymore is it worth anything?
And if the tests are so easy, then the only reason you have a call sign is your ability to pound on a paddle in time, and man that is one hell of an intellectual accomplishment.
Take it all away and dissolve it if code stays, I'd rather see the public with more bandwidth for wifi in the Ghz spectrum and use the lower frequencies for a nationwide emergency network between fire/ambulance/police , it certainly would be a more efficent use of spectrum.
The really sad part isn't that everything is given away in the trailers, but that it CAN be given away in the trailers.
Look at the old classics, how much could you give away in a 30 sec clip in Casablanca or Citizen Kane, sure you might give the ending away, but the rest of the movie is entertaining enough to keep watching over and over and very few movies today hold up to that standard.
Oh yeah and the Matrix Reloaded was two hours too long, but during that two hours it did have some cool special effects.
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So you'd grant them the right to "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness"?
Why not?
Well...before you go granting a machine the same status as a human, or even an animal,
The human brain is nothing but an analog computer with a self modifying architecture, the machine equivelent would be an FPGA, check out this link on self modifying FPGA design, read it understand it. This is the start of something very new, this is just the beginning. Look at the brains of lower-life forms, kinda neat how our brain is just like theirs, but more complex.
I'd like to see you tell me what true "life" really is. What about "liberty"? What does that mean to a machine? And then, of course, what is "happiness" to a machine, and how would you know you would really want the results of that, if it could even exist?
This is what human philosphers have been debating for millenia, what is life, why are we here, and all of the points you raised above.
I'll admit that people that advocate giving rights to machines scare me. Not because I fear that they are a threat to me physically, but because it is clear to me that the above answers have no clear definition yet. We don't really know what they are, and, therefore, these people are moving blindly into an area where they have no business being.
So, since people have these exact same problems, should we have no rights as well, how do you know you aren't the only person on earth who is alive? How do you know other people are thinking beings, you assumed it right? You're not a computer so you write any future computer off as not intelligent as well? So is it your ignorance that has led you to these conclusions?
We do know that rights apply to us; clearly we have "life". I'm not talking about a simplistic definition that everyone seems to work off of...it is clear to me that those definitions are woefully incomplete. But, to go extending this to a machine, and make no mistake, that is what it is and nothing more, is to jump into the relm of foolishness.
I don't know you are truely alive, so should I torture you mercilessly and end your life, I don't know if you are truely alive, the only thing I know is I am, as for you, well you just say so to avoid the torture and death.
Heh, beliefs like that is why slavery existed, why Jews and many other minority groups have died, those beliefs are sadistic.
I hope we nuke the earth so you die, is that what you wanted to hear you ignorant prick.
WTF are you talking about, yep the US is an empire that has colonized so many many countries,
you must mean just like we colonized Germany and Japan after WW2, oh shit this is out of a revisionist history book right?
Hey the Germans look free to me, the Japanese as well, oh never mind the USSR was waiting to invade all those years during the cold war and actually outspent us many times over in military hardware - even nukes, but we still stood vigilant.
Without our vigilance you wouldn't have the very voice you now speak with.
Yep, we now have big badass military hardware and the soldiers to operate it, to protect us from narrow minded bastards like yourself, if you were in any sort of power you would be attacking us out of jealousy just like any other two-bit despot.
Hate to say it but most Americans don't care about the rest of the world until you fly jetliners into huge office towers and the center of our military.
Yep, then we get heavy handed because we are pissed, yes then we want blood for blood.
As someone who attended jury duty today, I can say while our system may not be perfect, but it does the job fairly well, though I may not agree with certain laws, jury duty does give me a chance to make a statement, for or against those laws, that is if you are a juror who stands on principle, voting to keep shitty laws at bay helps too.
Keep the buzzwords flowing, keep the newsbites going, ignore all the real issues and instead of an understanding American public, you will have one that simply does not give a shit.
Does not care to hear your voice, you want to dictate to us, that will never happen, turn the fucking keys if the day does occur, no one will have a voice then.
Yep America is a totally evil country raping your women and taking you men into bondage, we conqueror, we spill blood just to do it.
Pick the sarchasm out of the post twit.
You must be an American yourself, either that or you have not traveled, people the world over believe their taste and judgement of quility if far superior to that of their neighbours.
RMS Interview in Wired
Here is a link to RMS when he appeared on The ScreenSavers
There wasn't much else we could do to end the oil embargo on IRAQ since the last gulf war.
Simple logic, it took a war to apply the embargo, so it takes a war to remove it, c'mon can't you understand the logic, I supported the war so I could get cheaper gas.
What?
We're under quota on lying cheating bastards!
How will we fix the problem?
Recruit more!
Excellent idea!
Yes, I agree the problem has not been handled correctly in the past.
Mr.President we will put your plan into action now!
Why can't either party have a decent candidate,
I think honesty would be a start,
I want my president to proudly proclaim when questioned about indescretions,
"Yes I inhaled, got a blow-job, made mad money from scumbags and enjoyed it!"
"You're pissed you didn't get an invite to the party aren't you?"
Hey I'm in South Florida, does that qualify as "close-enough" to Guantonimo?
I think I may have just been kicked out of my party for posting this.|shrug|
If anyone needs a shave it's RMS, actually last time I saw him on TV he should have been sheared.
For the slashdotter who doesn't read the articles and just looks for the pictures here it is.
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
This is going on your permanent record young man!
.com BS.....
Damn, it's like school all over again.
These permanent data laws the English seem to like make having a job in gov't IT a very good one to have.
Think of the endless amounts of people it will take to monitor these giantic databases of every movement of everyone, all the data sources, automobile movements, credit card transactions, digital video to be cataloged and processed.
Correlations would need to be made, algorithms written, statistics created, "bad guys" discovered and tracked. Those Zebras that don't blend and run at the front get the big cat on their ass.
A good job awaits those going for English gov't IT, actually any gov't IT field. It would make watching ants seem fun, but the benefits, most gov't jobs have those great benefits, sometimes even unions to protect you from the old
No, that would be Columbia, their other product is quite successful here in Florida as well, I'm not speaking of SUN either ;-)
Why are you posting as an AC? My prefs make you invisable. Anyhow...
True the PC and Mac have changed, they have evolved and become better over the years, they now rival old school big iron machines.
The new Opteron is an excellent SMP design, they eliminated the shared bus that slows my SMP Intel, the new Mac has a Ghz front side bus.
This is the new manditory starting point, this is not an option.
The current Amiga userbase is much too small, when all the US Amiga mags went under, I thought hey I liked the European ones better anyhow, when they couldn't float on the new American and European userbase I knew it was over. I still have the last Amiga Format as a memory of what could have been.
The misconception is the current userbase is needed, hate to break it to you, it's not.
The old Amiga user base is what's needed, all those people who spent thousands on a harddisk controler with accelerator and tons of RAM when the PC might have had 2MB (my earliest lowest spec system was an A500 1MB chip, 8MB FAST with GVP controller w/ big scsi drive).
These new systems will not get the old userbase back, it may get a few people running Linux on them, but that's it.
An Apple XServ is a much better deal if you want PowerPC in a rack mount chassis, the new G5 is a better deal if you want performance. The new Opteron will be a better deal if you want your new online games at Max FPS, and have a bunch of TiVo streams to recompress.....
The new PPC Amiga lacks software developers to port and update the old catalog of software, what's out there for 3D now, Newtek moved on from what I understand, not sure about Impulse, all the others are on the PC now.
The market was tough when the Amiga was originally created, in that day the Vic-20 and Apple 2 reigned, when the Amiga was released it was the dawn of the GUI.
Jay Miner and his crew were brilliant, it will be hard to top them. Keep to the original hardware concepts and a new Amiga is possible, remember AmigaOS was a hack from day 1, it was a rushed affair, it was never quite fixed the way the creators intended. It is a port of TripOS after all. Then a Unix TCP stack is stapled on that.
Actually you're right the Mac and PC have changed, we run nothing which resembles DOS or the original MacOS from '84, they evolved the Amiga didn't.
I would like to buy something that is really Amiga, sadly I don't think it will happen. A SMP g5 with a fast multimedia processor to feed a top of the line NVidia or ATI card and sound, is that really too much to ask.
OK, I see I hit on a nerve here. I guess I didn't make it clear enough.
:-P
Old Amigas are geeky just like C64s and AppleIIs are, but don't say something is an AMIGA just to MARKET IT, that really does piss me off.
Yep, I really want to FORCE you not to run something called AmigaOS, I think not, do what you want. Necrophilia ain't my thing though
If my attention is not needed call it something else, as long it is called an AMIGA I will hold it to a far higher standard than any other computer, the Amiga DELIVERED that with ELEGENCE in the 80's and early 90's. The Amiga DIED when Commodore did, I couldn't get my AGA Amiga fixed when they were in business, heh, I could imagine getting one fixed after their demise.
I see those who posted below me that just don't get it. I owned the machines, I bought the software, I scripted ARexx, I wrote programs in C, figured out how to use the copperlist, etc. Hell I upgraded the ROMS in my new and old machines and the custom chips in the old machines.
This Amiga is not an AMIGA, it is a beige box ppc clone, it has the same properties as every other computer out there, hell the BeBox had a geek port, what does this have?
Shit, they could have stuck a DSP to the board to assist with the graphics and sound at the very least, at least the prototype 4000s had that.
Give me a SMP G5 or Power4 with a cutting edge DSP, you could call that an Amiga as it would CRUSH the competition like the original did in '85.
This would be my idea of a new Amiga.
Kernel -> Linux
CLI Userland -> GNU BASH and assoc utilities
GUI -> Intuition with high level 3D calls, no X11
Processor -> Power4 or SMP G5 tons of cache and memory as options
Graphics -> Off the shelf 8x AGP (DVI HDTV compatible)
Sound -> Off the shelf multi-channel 24bit 96KHz
CoProcessor -> DSP capable of feeding enough manipulated data to Sound and Graphics.
The main processor is there for AI, and UI events as well as doing what processors are meant to, process program data.
When the machine crashes I should still see 3D and sound continue to play as they are controlled by that DSP.
Linux and BSD have many millions of man hours in them, the best minds argue for what is best.
I won't defend X11 though.
The Amiga could build on Linux or BSD and deliver a real GUI with exceptional performance, high level 3D acceleration and have a whole array of apps for many NEW willing users to port over.
NDAs are incompatible with opensource, yet they are needed for programming a graphics card with Gee-Wiz functionality, who wouldn't want a chance to bang on an Nvidia chip at the hardware level.
SELECTIVE capitalization courtesy caps-lock and of the old linux FORTUNE program on '94 SLACKWARE.
I haven't heard much out of SCO reguarding indemnification of their clients on the IBM patent issues, when those patent issues are pursued, SCO is gone and anyone running SCO is fsck'd for patent infringement, they can pay IBM (if they license) or switch to Linux :-)
I have started building replica Ford Model Ts.
Get the car that changed the auto world, the car that brought motorized transportaion to the masses.
This version is equipped with a gravitational wave disruption unit, allowing you to zip around the world in style with all the same controls you are accustomed to, down to the crank to start and all the retro styling you would expect, any color as long as it's black.
The Amiga is dead, cool while it lasted, bury it, go on, please.
(former hardcore Amiga fanatic)
I found it amusing that you must agree to their terms to use their service. So if you mistype a URL on the internet you are agreeing to their terms?
We should figure out how to challenge the validity of their terms since you never actually intend to visit their page, this could possibly be used as a precedent for those click through apps that install spyware like gator and the rest, especially since most are unaware of what that dialog box actually means.....
But dropping something insecure out in the open with full knowledge that it will probably be compromised and then likely used for undesireable activities isn't responsible.
I think we should start with Dell, HPCompaq, Gateway and a host of clueless system integrators before we start attacking/sueing/whatever people doing it for research purposes.
Mom and Pop on the new DSL connection with no firewall,antivirus,monitoring and getting the fun we want more money message from symantec is enough for many people to not care. What does the average casual internet user have to lose by doing nothing?
As an admin who worked on the hack known as a Cobalt (I got the Cobalt rep to almost admit that it was created in a Garage after their failover demo flopped), I would have to agree with Sun, the Cobalt blows, and if their perception of Linux is based upon that, well they're correct, as to why they bought Cobalt I will never understand.
I would rather admin an unpatched 6.2 Redhat box than touch a Cobalt ever again, the hardware defect rate was almost one in every box of five we recieved(before the Sun purchase), I'm just glad I didn't have to process all the RMAs.
OH, so if you purchase Sun's Linux solution, apparently it's broken out of the box. I like Sun hardware and Solaris, but they just need to leave the Linux field and do Solaris exclusively, OpenOffice is a solid product too. Please Sun, stop the half hearted Linux attempts.
And if you have the gvp trap door accelerator in it, the 1200 would become an easy bake oven. Imagine the Amiga was already ahead of it's time in 1993....
The c= 1351 mouse was my first mouse and that along with the 1764 REU(soldered chips to 512) made Geos useable. I even had that Geos programming tool, if I remember it was all in assembeler.
Then I bought an Amiga and it had the exact same design for it's mouse.
Now I use an MS optical trackball and a logitech optical mouse for games (the bigger one that glows blue)
While this may have been a problem in the past the ISS solves this problem, building big stuff in orbit rather than launching it everytime does seem to be a good idea, though I'd be more comfortable in a plane type thing than in a falling rock.
I don't believe launching a plane type thing the way a rocket is launched is too smart in the end.
Rich people are cheap, if they weren't cheap, they wouldn't be rich. This is more likely how it would go.
To Mr. Billionaire,
We sincerely appreciate your continued investments in our MegaMultiNational Record Company. As an expression of our thanks we are sending you a copy of every album in our vault, once again, enjoy the music and please don't sell our stock as it will trade at $2.00 tomarrow if you do.
Sincerely,
Greedy Record Company Bastards
Hehe, too funny, I have the exact same machine with slack on it as well, how much harddrive space do you have on yours :-)
Works great for minicom, I still use it frequently, mainly on the TiVo and Cisco stuff.
Look, I did not intend to be offensive, I won't take anything away from anyone who has a callsign.
The stuff I'd be interested in would be long distance digital communication, no not morse code but automated digital communication.
In any case as far as morse code goes, yep tried different varients of instruction(standard and farnsworth), practiced for hours, it is just not something I can pick up, it all sounds the same to me.
Now the last statement about the test was sarchastic, no 8 year old could pass the higher level tests, at least none that I know of. I was just taking the statement that if the tests are so easy then the hardest part is the code.
The test from 12 or so years ago for the higher level (I think it was the amateur extra) were not simple tests at first glance, but not too much of a problem for myself, I happen to like math and electronics, I just can't do code, at that point I said to hell with it, let it die...and at the rate it's going now it won't be too long if the code stays.
BTW, yes I did own a cb, and I did build a linear for it both transistor and tube based, seriously though, please tell me the difference between the traffic on cb, 2m and 70cm, it all sounds the same to me on my scanner.
I personally believe the elitest attitude exhibited by most HAM operators has killed the hobby.
Please vacuum tubes, um how old are the fellows operating them? I think you would be hard pressed to find a new ham who could adjust those two knobs on the front of a vacuum tube linear.
Do you also realize that if your electronics were feeling an EMP chances are you would have a heavy dose of radiation.
BTW if a life threatining emergency should arise I would pull out my ham gear from the closet and get busy, do you honestly think the FCC would care I transmitted on the sacred ham bands if life and limb were threatened?
HAM is percieved as an elitest hobby by many nonHAMS, the world would not end if there were no HAM radio, many people devote themselves to public service on a daily basis and not just when an emergency occurs. We need those people more than HAMs.
Here's the deal, want to keep your private club all by yourself, do something to advance the state of communications, do something that can't be done with an existing commercial service, then you get to keep your club, if not I believe my side will win as many of us have recognized the obsolesense of the technology used by these amateur operators.
BTW unless there is a secret HAM semiconductor fab, you'd be hard pressed to make me believe HAM radio has contributed anything in the last 10 years.
As far as 802.11b goes, hmmm, well doesn't that already exist, were all those guys a defcon HAMs when they did their shootout, I thought not, as any HAM worth his salt knows what they did does violate FCC rules and most HAMs are far to anal retentive to do such a thing, doesn't 802.11b specify the operating frequency as well?????
Well, you have a pretty inefficient spam filter then!
By keeping the CW requirement you have kept many like myself out of the hobby, and because of this we just don't care about your concerns.
Problems with broadband powerline interference in your frequencies, so what. I think the interference is justified as powerline broadband gives more people the ability to communicate than Amateur Radio. Build it all, the hobby has snubbed me because I don't have an ear for morse code, why should I realisticly care about it.
Emergencies, well the thing Amateurs have during an emergency is the desire for public service. They aren't the only ones you know! So an operator with CW can pass third party messages through the worst interference, well so can someone with a sat phone, except the interference is not an issue.
The community's excuses about not wanting to muddy the the HF spectrum are assinine, oooo, so you can send a message around the world, hey I can do that too, except I can send more information with no errors on the Internet.
I think the Amateur bands would be better auctioned for the public's benefit than remain in the hands of a few people who feel change is a bad thing.
If you send code 20 years from now and no one is listening anymore is it worth anything?
And if the tests are so easy, then the only reason you have a call sign is your ability to pound on a paddle in time, and man that is one hell of an intellectual accomplishment.
Take it all away and dissolve it if code stays, I'd rather see the public with more bandwidth for wifi in the Ghz spectrum and use the lower frequencies for a nationwide emergency network between fire/ambulance/police , it certainly would be a more efficent use of spectrum.
The really sad part isn't that everything is given away in the trailers, but that it CAN be given away in the trailers.
Look at the old classics, how much could you give away in a 30 sec clip in Casablanca or Citizen Kane, sure you might give the ending away, but the rest of the movie is entertaining enough to keep watching over and over and very few movies today hold up to that standard.
Oh yeah and the Matrix Reloaded was two hours too long, but during that two hours it did have some cool special effects.