Farscape is by far much better. The cinematography was by far much better than lexx. It compares with babylon 5 and even star trek. lexx is a show driven by sex. It's enjoyable but I prefer the content of a good sci-fi show. Plus the plots in farscape are much more interesting than anything lexx can dish out.
China already thinks the worst of us without sending over the worst possible thing to happen to technology since windows. If you ask me AOL/Timewarner is a bigger threat than microsoft could ever be. Talk about underhanded warfare.
I found this article extremely interesting because it looks at the dwindling pc market from the consumer angle. If the machine runs all my games, and all of my recreational and leisure programs who needs to upgrade. Everyone knows the software sells the machine, not the machine itself. Also it brings up another point about the status of the hardware industry. We are still using essentially 20 year old x86 boxes. The model hasn't change only the throughput on such devices. Which brings me to the killer ap, the pc market should really take advice from the embedded market and redefine their ideal for the kill app. It's not windows xp, 2000 or the latest variant, it's the one piece of software that practically no one can live without(voice recognition, high powered games-Unreal2, gps software, office 2001-(perish the thought). windows ce, embedded linux and mach variants are redefining this by giving people options they never had before on a low cost scale in a pda. The killer app in this case becomes a necessity for the user not a nuisance.
Just a scary thought, what if Microsoft thought they could do this by coming out with windows OS x with the linux microkernel at the core. (not frowning on MAc OS x, but the market needs innovation not regurgitation(bad spelling, I know).
Ex Electrical Engineer
Lilo is the ultimate in simplicity. Ideally you do not want a graphical boot loader that may or may not tell what is wrong in the event of a problem with your mbr. I edit/etc/lilo.conf point it off to as many kernel and root volumes as I desire and also without the worry of what to do if I want to boot another distro or os. Also if something goes wrong its easy to pop in a boot disk edit lilo.conf, update the boot loader and restart. It isn't nearly that easy in sun's x86 bootloader, freebsd or windows. Just because it isn't as visually stimulating doesn't mean it isn't as robust. Bells and whistles don't count for squat.
I'm a little confused but when did IBM start worrying about the small scale PC chip market. They are heavily vested in enterprise with PC lines that have AMD and intel chip specs. The article should read Intel is weary of Transmeta and what a joke that is. Intel on a good day has a hard enough time keeping up with AMD,without trying to compete against an innovator like Transmeta. The whole thing is laughable. Wasn't it Intel that shipped experimental CPU's with heat and stability issues to a trade show to compete with amd's pentium killer 1 GHZ. The point I'm trying to make is Transmeta has accomplished the impossible. They have been able to reduce the hardware core of the CPU and built a software layer to replace needless silicon. Intel is just mad they didn't think of it first. Now the embedded systems community is buzzing and rightfully so. The need for massive heat sinks, larger batteries, and multiple fans is no more. I'll be the first on line when someone decides to come out with a PDA with the Transmeta chip and linux to boot.
Sco is infamous for being a bastard cousin of Solaris that sticks to the rigid BSD version of Unix. I have no faith that this current Linux Distro will appeal to the market that RedHat has captured. I for one dislike RedHat but it does something very well. They appeal to the market of recent Windows conversions. Sco is anything but easy to install and represents a communist appeal in the range of linux distros. Suse forever.
Apparently if Microsoft goes down it wants to take down free industry with it. This is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Intel PIII that sends out a digital signal of id on the web. My feeling is free enterprise will live forever.
I can't believe that Fist of the North Star wasn't up there or Akira. When it comes to anime Fist of the North Star was a triumph. Two story plots that are an allegory for the pitfalls of life.
The http mapping for www.redhat.org is www.freebsd.org. Red Hat isn't linux and like gnu's model they aren't Unix. So what in the hell is it. I'll tell you what it is. It is a microsoft version of the linux kernel applying Microsoft tactics to a GPL product. It sickens me. Linux is the flavor of the month and it deserves better than to be prostituted like a transition OS. Wait for 6.3, I'm sure it will have 65,000 known errors like Bill Gates' 2000 once redhat is done with it. $100 for 6.2 deluxe, a joke that has no punchline. I love linux but Bill Joy makes some interesting points.
In the growing discussion of which processors are better:AMD's anthlon or Intel's coppermine it is easy to think that clock speed is the only factor. 1GHz is nice but until AMD uses the Thunderbird core you have nothing but a glorified k75. AMD is also known to do well on floating point calculations, but for integer math Intel rocks. What really needs to be considered is the specs on the ALU. The true speed of you machine still depends on the fetch-execute cycles, but the real delays for number crunching rely on the alu. It is the alu that determines how fast and percise your machine will be able to do real time calculations. And also please use linux. For mission critical applications linux is the only choice. You might also want to consider gravitating toward a 64 bit machine than the standard 32. If this is an option wait for the Sledgehammer or if you can't wait buy a Sun(or the MAJC), the performance hits are too great for the new Intel box:Itanium that uses software for its 32 bit emulation on 64 bit hardware.
An insightful man who represents the 10% of us who see the forces of the cosmos as a combination of religion and science. Watch the matrix again, religion plays an important role in the beauty that is technology and science. From Taoism to Christianity, each belief seeks to speak of the marvel of life. For an interesting read pick up Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson and Genius by James Gleik.
It is a well known fact that all scientists proclaim themselves as atheists(bad spelling I know), but Freeman Dyson is a cut above the rest. True genius is not about conformity but about individuality. Remember that when its easy to incur that religion should take a backseat to technology. The Ex Electrical Engineer
To me holding a grudge after being terminated from a company is one thing but to have your home ISP listed as a recipient of usernames is just plain dumb. I guess he never heard of TCP spoofing or perhaps using someones email at the company as a drop off point or even perhaps in a/tmp directory that is removed every couple of dayz. The problem is not the software, its the script kiddies who aren't bright enough to use it.
I loved the episode. I'm a big FPS fanatic, from Quake 3 to Ut, and I can't get enough of gun touting and cross fire episodes. The episode in my opinion was a nice change for the people at X-files, whose original format was a bit dry. Don't get me wrong there were a couple of episodes:Santa Claus, seriel killer and the small pox/alien season finale episodes, that left many expecting more. Sometimes too much of a good thing becomes boring. And eventhough many of you disliked it, you have to admit that some scenes had you laughing and/or in awe. One keynote, I found it interesting that X-files pointed out that a warrior/master in fps game play means nothing in the real world.
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The simpsons when they first appeared on TV were not exactly all that funny but eccentric. Then somewhere by the second or third seasons I couldn't help watching them in my college dorm room PJs and all, chuckling as the humor was almost Seinfelf...esk. When they went up against cosby, my all time favorite, Cosby had to revert to doing CBS, yuck. Now the Simpsons have been around for ten years and each episode is like watching old Family matters reruns. Forget the simpsons, Seinfeld for show of the decade is my pick as each season made you laugh at what you might feel subconscious even talking about.
I'm glad that companies realize that Windows CE is not the answer to PDAs/portable devices. On a relevant topic, about three or four months ago Linux Journal ran a story on embedded systems. It goes to show that with the modularity and portability of Linux, developing a port to the wearable computers is more feasible than anything MS can come up with. A dedicated OS for wearable computers makes sense only for a minute, resurrecting the older mentality that code has to be trashed instead of reused, and developed instead of optimized.
From the depths of code mongering, it's refreshing to see a Linux development book that explores the details of linux and code semantics. I do question if this book is as useful as Linux application development(which I'm sure everyone has a copy). I've been into linux for about 3 years now and Unix for at least 7 years, and I find it very hard to find a resource (besides Dr. Linux) that explores Linux from simple howtos to kernel hacking. I will definitely check out this one at Borders.
Is it me or does it seem like this article is a bad anthology on Linux embedded systems. It sounds as though the author was taking stabs in the dark about what linux really means to this market. Linux is small, Unix the father to linux is based entirely on the premise of forking. This should seem obvious because of the fact that you can run seven apps(20 max) on the same desktop and not get the Windows blue screen of death.
Embedded systems is the next wave, but definitely deserving of more than a page of text. Just Slashdot alone has several articles pouring in regarding cheap hardware becoming ideal embedded devices(the router/mp3 player, the tiny web server). The market deserves just as much attention as the desktop market because the desktop phenomena is 20 years old and soon to hit the performance peek. Wake up, progress is all about expanding.
Finally a VHDL platform for linux. This news means inexpensive software to do large scale VLSI chip design and embedded system layouts. I'm curious to find out exactly how much will the package go for if it isn't free for Linux.
For most engineers it is common knowledge how expensive just software and the testbed environment is to developers. i am tired of thumbing through code of ocean or electric that only works on certain environments on a smaller scale. This isn't your grand daddy's pspice.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me, with their larger than life solutions that deflate at the first sign of competition. $319 US for W2K, you've got to be kidding me. Everyone knows that Sun Enterprise, FreeBSD and linux are the most secure and stable server implementations. I can only come up with a few reasons why anyone would buy W2K for home use.
1. The misconception some may have that if it says Windows 2000 its Y2K compliant as opposed to other versions. 2. The overt need to have more bells and whistles. 3. The dire need to run a Windows OS that will crash your system worse than an NT dword dump or Internet Explorer.
I'm quite amazed at how basement embedded systems projects are finally taking center stage. A couple of months ago it was the tiny webserver which I thought was phenomenal but to utilize a router as a mp3 player is quite interesting. I guess I should dust off the EE degree and put it to use. This project just proves that with a little creativity any hardware is useful when it comes to linux, embedded linux. Good stuff.
I'm scared, very scared. With Turbo linux having such a large market share in Japan, a split of linux efforts can only be detrimental to the overall success of linux. Great feature, but I feel it is selfish of Turbo linux to not consult with Linus first before making such a move. So the code wars begin.
When you are knowledgable you are dangerous. When you are knowledgable about computers, your a hacker and that's dangerous. But what of the man or woman who knows computers because he or she loves it? I am so tired of hearing about how hacking can get you a similar sentence to manslaughter. When you reverse engineer you look at the mold of the predecessor and configure it, making it better. When you spend hours configuring your SCSI/IDE cables, and clock chip settings to get that combination of brute force, you are making the most out of what you have. When you examine code finding out how it works, it empowers you to become a better tech. A true hacker(and I'm sure I've heard this on slashdot before) chooses to help people and works to advance the tech community instead of setting it back. Wannabes caught up in malicious actions will be nothing short of lost, as karma has adverse affects on one's future
Well I strongly support linux and whole genre, but I wonder when will linux seriously address issues concerning high end graphics cards as a semi priority? I mean come on, we criticize windows but windows recognizes my hardware no problem. But with linux I have to pay some commerical vendor for a custom X-server. Its the same for Sun. To me running at 640X480 8dpp is no pleasure when I know my card and monitor does at least 1152X864. Also I believe that with Corel and other big name corporations like Red Hat, the linux industry has grown but what's to stop Linux from becoming a version of windows for the 90's. Don't get me wrong linux sympathizers but what is soon to happen is linux will become consumed by big business and what we all love about linux will become baron. What I wanna know is if Linux is planning to follow Microsoft(more code, more power) or is it dedicated to writing clean, useful code?
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Futurama, are you serious? Andromeda, also are you serious. By far the best star trek the original serious.
Farscape is by far much better. The cinematography was by far much better than lexx. It compares with babylon 5 and even star trek. lexx is a show driven by sex. It's enjoyable but I prefer the content of a good sci-fi show. Plus the plots in farscape are much more interesting than anything lexx can dish out.
China already thinks the worst of us without sending over the worst possible thing to happen to technology since windows. If you ask me AOL/Timewarner is a bigger threat than microsoft could ever be. Talk about underhanded warfare.
I found this article extremely interesting because it looks at the dwindling pc market from the consumer angle. If the machine runs all my games, and all of my recreational and leisure programs who needs to upgrade. Everyone knows the software sells the machine, not the machine itself. Also it brings up another point about the status of the hardware industry. We are still using essentially 20 year old x86 boxes. The model hasn't change only the throughput on such devices. Which brings me to the killer ap, the pc market should really take advice from the embedded market and redefine their ideal for the kill app. It's not windows xp, 2000 or the latest variant, it's the one piece of software that practically no one can live without(voice recognition, high powered games-Unreal2, gps software, office 2001-(perish the thought). windows ce, embedded linux and mach variants are redefining this by giving people options they never had before on a low cost scale in a pda. The killer app in this case becomes a necessity for the user not a nuisance. Just a scary thought, what if Microsoft thought they could do this by coming out with windows OS x with the linux microkernel at the core. (not frowning on MAc OS x, but the market needs innovation not regurgitation(bad spelling, I know). Ex Electrical Engineer
Lilo is the ultimate in simplicity. Ideally you do not want a graphical boot loader that may or may not tell what is wrong in the event of a problem with your mbr. I edit /etc/lilo.conf point it off to as many kernel and root volumes as I desire and also without the worry of what to do if I want to boot another distro or os. Also if something goes wrong its easy to pop in a boot disk edit lilo.conf, update the boot loader and restart. It isn't nearly that easy in sun's x86 bootloader, freebsd or windows. Just because it isn't as visually stimulating doesn't mean it isn't as robust. Bells and whistles don't count for squat.
I'm a little confused but when did IBM start worrying about the small scale PC chip market. They are heavily vested in enterprise with PC lines that have AMD and intel chip specs. The article should read Intel is weary of Transmeta and what a joke that is. Intel on a good day has a hard enough time keeping up with AMD,without trying to compete against an innovator like Transmeta. The whole thing is laughable. Wasn't it Intel that shipped experimental CPU's with heat and stability issues to a trade show to compete with amd's pentium killer 1 GHZ. The point I'm trying to make is Transmeta has accomplished the impossible. They have been able to reduce the hardware core of the CPU and built a software layer to replace needless silicon. Intel is just mad they didn't think of it first. Now the embedded systems community is buzzing and rightfully so. The need for massive heat sinks, larger batteries, and multiple fans is no more. I'll be the first on line when someone decides to come out with a PDA with the Transmeta chip and linux to boot.
Sco is infamous for being a bastard cousin of Solaris that sticks to the rigid BSD version of Unix. I have no faith that this current Linux Distro will appeal to the market that RedHat has captured. I for one dislike RedHat but it does something very well. They appeal to the market of recent Windows conversions. Sco is anything but easy to install and represents a communist appeal in the range of linux distros. Suse forever.
Apparently if Microsoft goes down it wants to take down free industry with it. This is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Intel PIII that sends out a digital signal of id on the web. My feeling is free enterprise will live forever.
I can't believe that Fist of the North Star wasn't up there or Akira. When it comes to anime Fist of the North Star was a triumph. Two story plots that are an allegory for the pitfalls of life.
The http mapping for www.redhat.org is www.freebsd.org. Red Hat isn't linux and like gnu's model they aren't Unix. So what in the hell is it. I'll tell you what it is. It is a microsoft version of the linux kernel applying Microsoft tactics to a GPL product. It sickens me. Linux is the flavor of the month and it deserves better than to be prostituted like a transition OS. Wait for 6.3, I'm sure it will have 65,000 known errors like Bill Gates' 2000 once redhat is done with it. $100 for 6.2 deluxe, a joke that has no punchline. I love linux but Bill Joy makes some interesting points.
In the growing discussion of which processors are better:AMD's anthlon or Intel's coppermine it is easy to think that clock speed is the only factor. 1GHz is nice but until AMD uses the Thunderbird core you have nothing but a glorified k75. AMD is also known to do well on floating point calculations, but for integer math Intel rocks. What really needs to be considered is the specs on the ALU. The true speed of you machine still depends on the fetch-execute cycles, but the real delays for number crunching rely on the alu. It is the alu that determines how fast and percise your machine will be able to do real time calculations. And also please use linux. For mission critical applications linux is the only choice. You might also want to consider gravitating toward a 64 bit machine than the standard 32. If this is an option wait for the Sledgehammer or if you can't wait buy a Sun(or the MAJC), the performance hits are too great for the new Intel box:Itanium that uses software for its 32 bit emulation on 64 bit hardware.
An insightful man who represents the 10% of us who see the forces of the cosmos as a combination of religion and science. Watch the matrix again, religion plays an important role in the beauty that is technology and science. From Taoism to Christianity, each belief seeks to speak of the marvel of life. For an interesting read pick up Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson and Genius by James Gleik.
It is a well known fact that all scientists proclaim themselves as atheists(bad spelling I know), but Freeman Dyson is a cut above the rest. True genius is not about conformity but about individuality. Remember that when its easy to incur that religion should take a backseat to technology.
The Ex Electrical Engineer
To me holding a grudge after being terminated from a company is one thing but to have your home ISP listed as a recipient of usernames is just plain dumb. I guess he never heard of TCP spoofing or perhaps using someones email at the company as a drop off point or even perhaps in a /tmp directory that is removed every couple of dayz. The problem is not the software, its the script kiddies who aren't bright enough to use it.
I loved the episode. I'm a big FPS fanatic, from Quake 3 to Ut, and I can't get enough of gun touting and cross fire episodes. The episode in my opinion was a nice change for the people at X-files, whose original format was a bit dry. Don't get me wrong there were a couple of episodes:Santa Claus, seriel killer and the small pox/alien season finale episodes, that left many expecting more. Sometimes too much of a good thing becomes boring. And eventhough many of you disliked it, you have to admit that some scenes had you laughing and/or in awe. One keynote, I found it interesting that X-files pointed out that a warrior/master in fps game play means nothing in the real world.
The simpsons when they first appeared on TV were not exactly all that funny but eccentric. Then somewhere by the second or third seasons I couldn't help watching them in my college dorm room PJs and all, chuckling as the humor was almost Seinfelf...esk. When they went up against cosby, my all time favorite, Cosby had to revert to doing CBS, yuck. Now the Simpsons have been around for ten years and each episode is like watching old Family matters reruns. Forget the simpsons, Seinfeld for show of the decade is my pick as each season made you laugh at what you might feel subconscious even talking about.
I'm glad that companies realize that Windows CE is not the answer to PDAs/portable devices. On a relevant topic, about three or four months ago Linux Journal ran a story on embedded systems. It goes to show that with the modularity and portability of Linux, developing a port to the wearable computers is more feasible than anything MS can come up with. A dedicated OS for wearable computers makes sense only for a minute, resurrecting the older mentality that code has to be trashed instead of reused, and developed instead of optimized.
Is this a joke? Microsoft is just like the tobacco industry, poisoning young minds. Perhaps he can get Barney to endorse W2K.
From the depths of code mongering, it's refreshing to see a Linux development book that explores the details of linux and code semantics. I do question if this book is as useful as Linux application development(which I'm sure everyone has a copy). I've been into linux for about 3 years now and Unix for at least 7 years, and I find it very hard to find a resource (besides Dr. Linux) that explores Linux from simple howtos to kernel hacking. I will definitely check out this one at Borders.
Is it me or does it seem like this article is a bad anthology on Linux embedded systems. It sounds as though the author was taking stabs in the dark about what linux really means to this market. Linux is small, Unix the father to linux is based entirely on the premise of forking. This should seem obvious because of the fact that you can run seven apps(20 max) on the same desktop and not get the Windows blue screen of death.
Embedded systems is the next wave, but definitely deserving of more than a page of text. Just Slashdot alone has several articles pouring in regarding cheap hardware becoming ideal embedded devices(the router/mp3 player, the tiny web server). The market deserves just as much attention as the desktop market because the desktop phenomena is 20 years old and soon to hit the performance peek. Wake up, progress is all about expanding.
Finally a VHDL platform for linux. This news means inexpensive software to do large scale VLSI chip design and embedded system layouts. I'm curious to find out exactly how much will the package go for if it isn't free for Linux.
For most engineers it is common knowledge how expensive just software and the testbed environment is to developers. i am tired of thumbing through code of ocean or electric that only works on certain environments on a smaller scale. This isn't your grand daddy's pspice.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me, with their larger than life solutions that deflate at the first sign of competition. $319 US for W2K, you've got to be kidding me. Everyone knows that Sun Enterprise, FreeBSD and linux are the most secure and stable server implementations.
I can only come up with a few reasons why anyone would buy W2K for home use.
1. The misconception some may have that if it says Windows 2000 its Y2K compliant as opposed to other versions.
2. The overt need to have more bells and whistles.
3. The dire need to run a Windows OS that will crash your system worse than an NT dword dump or Internet Explorer.
Linux and FreeBSD forever.
I'm quite amazed at how basement embedded systems projects are finally taking center stage. A couple of months ago it was the tiny webserver which I thought was phenomenal but to utilize a router as a mp3 player is quite interesting. I guess I should dust off the EE degree and put it to use. This project just proves that with a little creativity any hardware is useful when it comes to linux, embedded linux. Good stuff.
I'm scared, very scared. With Turbo linux having such a large market share in Japan, a split of linux efforts can only be detrimental to the overall success of linux. Great feature, but I feel it is selfish of Turbo linux to not consult with Linus first before making such a move. So the code wars begin.
When you are knowledgable you are dangerous. When you are knowledgable about computers, your a hacker and that's dangerous. But what of the man or woman who knows computers because he or she loves it? I am so tired of hearing about how hacking can get you a similar sentence to manslaughter. When you reverse engineer you look at the mold of the predecessor and configure it, making it better. When you spend hours configuring your SCSI/IDE cables, and clock chip settings to get that combination of brute force, you are making the most out of what you have. When you examine code finding out how it works, it empowers you to become a better tech.
A true hacker(and I'm sure I've heard this on slashdot before) chooses to help people and works to advance the tech community instead of setting it back. Wannabes caught up in malicious actions will be nothing short of lost, as karma has adverse affects on one's future
Well I strongly support linux and whole genre, but
I wonder when will linux seriously address issues concerning high end graphics cards as a semi priority? I mean come on, we criticize windows but windows recognizes my hardware no problem. But with linux I have to pay some commerical vendor for a custom X-server. Its the same for Sun. To me running at 640X480 8dpp is no pleasure when I know my card and monitor does at least 1152X864.
Also I believe that with Corel and other big name
corporations like Red Hat, the linux industry has grown but what's to stop Linux from becoming a version of windows for the 90's. Don't get me wrong linux sympathizers but what is soon to happen is linux will become consumed by big business and what we all love about linux will become baron. What I wanna know is if Linux is planning to follow Microsoft(more code, more power) or is it dedicated to writing clean, useful code?