I work for a large SV company that is still Win95 based (yech!). It is an enormous project to move this company to W2k, so the rollout has been really slow, and I imagine this company is not the only one in this position. It seems to me that perhaps the slowness in shipments can be explained, and when companies start to migrate they will pick up. Not that i'm a particular fan of MS, but honestly W2K is a hell of a lot better than using W95 on a daily basis!:)
>I predict MS revenue beating analysts expectations once this forces all these small businesses to buy a legit copy for each workstation.
When the demand is sufficent a crack will be written, probably in the form of bypassing the need for this generated number by patching the program.
Already loads of software makers (Quark, for example) put sniffers into their products to see if anyone else on the network is using the same copy of the product or hardware dongles (also Quark at some point). They have all been cracked at some point or another.
I'm sure there are people out there looking forward to the challenge of cracking Office 2K SP 1.
To distinguish which G3 model people have they often state which color case it has - i.e G3 Beige (early) vs. G3 B/W (Blue and White, a later machine).
>Moral values aren't declining?? WTF! Where have you been? Go outside and look around.
Sure -- i'll find pretty civilized, well off people here in silicon valley. I'm sure you'd tell me i could go look in East Palo Alto to find "declined" moral values.
Why is it that the "moral majority" takes this whole moral decline bullshit as fact? Rich people aren't any less "morally bankrupt" than poor people, they just have fewer temptations and more to lose by messing with societal norms.
I had a point. It was not to confuse the issue of online cheating (there, I said it) with a supposed decline of moral values. Moreover, that peoples' values have not declined at all over time -- instead what we are witnessing is an increase of communication, and the fact that everyone gets to see everyone else in an oddly anonymous way, and what that entails as far as the way people choose to act. Admittedly I could be more coherent, but i've had a long day.
My post wasn't modded up, it was posted at +2; otherwise you'd see something like "interesting" attached to it. I'm posting this one at +1 just because I can:)
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time hearing the "declining moral values" argument and taking it seriously.
People have been complaining about declining values for centuries, and yet our society has not imploded. It's not difficult to find accounts of Europeans visiting the nascent colonies in the 18th century and complaining of the lack of values found in the US. In theory, then, if values have been continuously declining, then shouldn't they have bottomed out at some point?
Values haven't declined at all per se. What has declined is the possibilty of "upstanding people" keeping seperated from those "with no values" in a place as open as the internet. What has declined is accountability, as you (I think) pointed out, and as the article highlights.
People are inherently no better or worse value-wise than they ever have been. It's simply that the rules of engagement have changed, and now they favor freeloading. I'm all for doing something to change the rules, as long as nobody bitches about "declining values".
Well, you could probably make a throat mike version so the person using it wouldn't have to talk very loudly at all (something at which we Americans excel). In my office there is a lot of conversation going on at any time, some of it already with the computer (as in "wtf is the problem this time, you stupid fscking machine!").
Also, sonic dead environments can be engineered w/o too much trouble, like the acoutic isolation boxes in the new parliament building in The Hague. Perhaps sonically dead cubes would catch on for these applications.
Any communications involving the phone could benefit from this tech, and as cellphone use grows, so does the potential of this tech.
Finally, disabled users could benefit greatly from speech-recognition as well.
The reality is, we probably haven't thought of half of the potential applications of the technology because it has always been so crappy. Build it, and someone will find a way to make money off of it, or try.
FWIW, I used to do some Linguistics research and, IMHO, speech recognition is an unfathomably large problem within a problem to solve. Brute force methods like pattern matching will only go so far.
First of all, Apple gets them before anyone. Same as when the 128 card came out. So I imagine they are stockpiling Radeons as we speak
Second, they often announce forthcoming options well before they're available. Remember the 3x 72GB drive array? I still don't think those are ready to ship, but they were announced quite a while ago, IIRC.
Luckily you won't have to sever your nut quite so soon. The cubes aren't shipping for a while (unless you're going to buy one off of the MWNY show floor or something). Enjoy your nut for at least a few weeks.
That's my point. Why don't they make something original! Do they have so little talent/balls that they either have to copy or rehash? I find that hard to believe.
Sweet! It's a DiamondTron -- no more ShadowMask. So how does the Apple Display connector do the trick of carrying both an analog *and* a digital video signal?
Is there some kind of DSP built into this display, or is it in the video card?
First of all, good thing the logic board is on the sides of the cube, not the bottom. Spill away (at your own risk, of course).
Second, the thing is air cooled, not fan cooled. Heat rises. You figure it out.
Third, either you're going to put it under the desk, in which case the top is covered by the desk, or on top of the desk, in which case you're not going to want to cover it up or put things on top of it because it looks cool and because you want to access the DVD.
Finally, you could make a converse argument for current tower cases. Wow, stupid place for a CD-Rom drive and power button, right in the front where I always kick the damn thing!
Not necessarily. You could run a dual monitor setup with one monitor using the VGA connector and one using the ADC/DVI connector -- I think the card can power two screens (although one would have to be an LCD).
>Of course, there is one, but I'd rather not have to carry this computer around in the rain while it's naked. A normal carrying handle would be a good thing.
I think you could just leave the outside cover on and use the handle on the bottom to carry it around upside-down.
I don't think carrying *any* computer around in the rain is a good idea:) (except maybe a GPS)
Actually, i'm a huge Apple fan (as if that isn't apparent from my other posts) so you're preaching to the choir.
However, the G4 is a lot more power hungry than the G3: it uses almost as much power as a PIII and the die size is quite large. I don't know how they managed to cool it w/o fans, but i'm glad they did. Go cube!
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I work for a large SV company that is still Win95 based (yech!). It is an enormous project to move this company to W2k, so the rollout has been really slow, and I imagine this company is not the only one in this position. It seems to me that perhaps the slowness in shipments can be explained, and when companies start to migrate they will pick up. Not that i'm a particular fan of MS, but honestly W2K is a hell of a lot better than using W95 on a daily basis! :)
>I predict MS revenue beating analysts expectations once this forces all these small businesses to buy a legit copy for each workstation.
When the demand is sufficent a crack will be written, probably in the form of bypassing the need for this generated number by patching the program.
Already loads of software makers (Quark, for example) put sniffers into their products to see if anyone else on the network is using the same copy of the product or hardware dongles (also Quark at some point). They have all been cracked at some point or another.
I'm sure there are people out there looking forward to the challenge of cracking Office 2K SP 1.
BTW, I didn't see Luaka Bop (David Byrne's label?) listed. He's big enough that you'd think he'd be RIAA.
Go heads!
I think they have their own independent label..
Obviously tralse!
;) == :P ?
..or maybe fue, now that I examine it more closely.
The question is, does
Can one find zen in a state of entropy?
To distinguish which G3 model people have they often state which color case it has - i.e G3 Beige (early) vs. G3 B/W (Blue and White, a later machine).
>Moral values aren't declining?? WTF! Where have you been? Go outside and look around.
Sure -- i'll find pretty civilized, well off people here in silicon valley. I'm sure you'd tell me i could go look in East Palo Alto to find "declined" moral values.
Why is it that the "moral majority" takes this whole moral decline bullshit as fact? Rich people aren't any less "morally bankrupt" than poor people, they just have fewer temptations and more to lose by messing with societal norms.
So, when did this "decline" begin..?
>>I'm just sad that it took so long to get to this point. I wonder if they'll bring back the Newton in another 5 years...
It'll be called the Palm XVI (to coincide with Superbowl MXVLIVI)
I had a point. It was not to confuse the issue of online cheating (there, I said it) with a supposed decline of moral values. Moreover, that peoples' values have not declined at all over time -- instead what we are witnessing is an increase of communication, and the fact that everyone gets to see everyone else in an oddly anonymous way, and what that entails as far as the way people choose to act. Admittedly I could be more coherent, but i've had a long day.
:)
My post wasn't modded up, it was posted at +2; otherwise you'd see something like "interesting" attached to it. I'm posting this one at +1 just because I can
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time hearing the "declining moral values" argument and taking it seriously.
People have been complaining about declining values for centuries, and yet our society has not imploded. It's not difficult to find accounts of Europeans visiting the nascent colonies in the 18th century and complaining of the lack of values found in the US. In theory, then, if values have been continuously declining, then shouldn't they have bottomed out at some point?
Values haven't declined at all per se. What has declined is the possibilty of "upstanding people" keeping seperated from those "with no values" in a place as open as the internet. What has declined is accountability, as you (I think) pointed out, and as the article highlights.
People are inherently no better or worse value-wise than they ever have been. It's simply that the rules of engagement have changed, and now they favor freeloading. I'm all for doing something to change the rules, as long as nobody bitches about "declining values".
Not to mention the HoJo and Hilton in the 2001 space station...
Clarke was way ahead.
Well, you could probably make a throat mike version so the person using it wouldn't have to talk very loudly at all (something at which we Americans excel). In my office there is a lot of conversation going on at any time, some of it already with the computer (as in "wtf is the problem this time, you stupid fscking machine!").
Also, sonic dead environments can be engineered w/o too much trouble, like the acoutic isolation boxes in the new parliament building in The Hague. Perhaps sonically dead cubes would catch on for these applications.
Any communications involving the phone could benefit from this tech, and as cellphone use grows, so does the potential of this tech.
Finally, disabled users could benefit greatly from speech-recognition as well.
The reality is, we probably haven't thought of half of the potential applications of the technology because it has always been so crappy. Build it, and someone will find a way to make money off of it, or try.
FWIW, I used to do some Linguistics research and, IMHO, speech recognition is an unfathomably large problem within a problem to solve. Brute force methods like pattern matching will only go so far.
>RADEON's are not yet avilable in supply. Duh.
First of all, Apple gets them before anyone. Same as when the 128 card came out. So I imagine they are stockpiling Radeons as we speak
Second, they often announce forthcoming options well before they're available. Remember the 3x 72GB drive array? I still don't think those are ready to ship, but they were announced quite a while ago, IIRC.
Somewhere else in the review it says that the fan is "purely cosmetic".
Luckily you won't have to sever your nut quite so soon. The cubes aren't shipping for a while (unless you're going to buy one off of the MWNY show floor or something). Enjoy your nut for at least a few weeks.
Then why aren't the Radeon cards being offered in the regular PM G4s? That is what bums me out.
I suppose you didn't read the thread about the Radeon. It definitely does not blow (unless, of course, you mean 'blow away').
Amen to that, brother! I'm still drooling over the SW1600 flat panel display. Oops, better wipe off that drool before I fry a few more pixels :)
That's my point. Why don't they make something original! Do they have so little talent/balls that they either have to copy or rehash? I find that hard to believe.
Sweet! It's a DiamondTron -- no more ShadowMask. So how does the Apple Display connector do the trick of carrying both an analog *and* a digital video signal?
Is there some kind of DSP built into this display, or is it in the video card?
First of all, good thing the logic board is on the sides of the cube, not the bottom. Spill away (at your own risk, of course).
Second, the thing is air cooled, not fan cooled. Heat rises. You figure it out.
Third, either you're going to put it under the desk, in which case the top is covered by the desk, or on top of the desk, in which case you're not going to want to cover it up or put things on top of it because it looks cool and because you want to access the DVD.
Finally, you could make a converse argument for current tower cases. Wow, stupid place for a CD-Rom drive and power button, right in the front where I always kick the damn thing!
Not necessarily. You could run a dual monitor setup with one monitor using the VGA connector and one using the ADC/DVI connector -- I think the card can power two screens (although one would have to be an LCD).
I think I just read a new low. From CNN'sarticleA on the new Apple offerings:
"In addition, the G4s will feature an added gigabyte ethernet on the motherboard to speed applications and provide more bandwidth storage."
"The G4s feature dual 500 MHz processors in a "velocity engine."
"There is no mouse button and the entire surface of the top of the mouse responds to finger pressure, so no mouse pad is needed."
I'm sure there are other gems in there if you're really interested. Obviously Michele Masterson doesn't write tech stories very often.
>Of course, there is one, but I'd rather not have to carry this computer around in the rain while it's naked. A normal carrying handle would be a good thing.
:) (except maybe a GPS)
I think you could just leave the outside cover on and use the handle on the bottom to carry it around upside-down.
I don't think carrying *any* computer around in the rain is a good idea
Actually, i'm a huge Apple fan (as if that isn't apparent from my other posts) so you're preaching to the choir.
However, the G4 is a lot more power hungry than the G3: it uses almost as much power as a PIII and the die size is quite large. I don't know how they managed to cool it w/o fans, but i'm glad they did. Go cube!