This will NOT be a hard transition for apple and they get: (1) a chipmaker that can meet demand (2) a chipmaker that is going to keep innovating with the rest of the market (look at their lack of a powerbook g5 from ibm!) (3!) a platform that is going make people say "why not try a mac" -- if they don't like mac apps for some reason, they can still run all of their windows applications at NATIVE speeds or they can install windows over os x -- or dual boot.
I really can't think about one reason for Apple to not go through with this -- and it's too late for them to take it back. I'm happy. More people WILL be leaving the Windows platform.
I agree completely -- I shouldn't have to worry about configuring SpamAssassin or any other tool for hours to only let X% through every DAY. That's BS.
We need a open standard to either enforce an authentication scheme to totally disallow any incoming mail from someone that didn't sit down for a minute or two and write the e-mail themself OR we need a whole new "e-mail" system, designed from the ground up, to end all of this nonsense. In the latter case we'd have both systems running concurrently but after a while we could phase e-mail 1.0 out -- with spam -- for good.
Try submitting feedback to Apple via their website to ask them to implement features in iTunes -- I've asked them twice and they actually implemented one of my requests. Pretty cool.
Unless someone wanted to create a internet worm-like problem, they *could* do what you're saying, but, the exploit isn't "catchable" through clicking links in away messages. You click a link ANYWHERE on the web and it will execute arbitrary code on your pc. Your away message, if formed by a link using the exploit, would probably look like mumbled garbage.
Gives good insight to speed differences, experiences (they all seem to be pretty good), and technical stuff (cflags, etc). Also I would try asking in #gentoo on irc.freenode.net -- lots of people are running Gentoo on 64-bit processors and are happy to answer questions there.
You know, I'm starting to feel sorry for Intel; they've had a terribly rough year with no performance gains (while AMD has run past them) and failures with the Prescott (overheating, big time). As we've seen on slashdot, they've recently released their roadmap for the next year and we don't even see speed improvements coming then. Well anyway, about the 64-Prescott. This seems like a very desperate move from Intel in the midst of all their problems -- they've had no official release for this new technology move (this seems sketchy... this would normally be a humungous deal!) and, moreso, because they're basing this huge move on the Prescott, a chip which has been pushed beyond it's limits. There's reports everywhere about people's fans on heatsinks melting. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what Intel can manage to push out in the coming quarters -- it doesn't seem like them (as has been said by Intel's CEO in an intra-company memo) and, with their past, it only makes sense that they'll emerge from this alive, and may be in the lead again in the near years to come.
Is this an obsolete skill? With handwriting and voice recognition technologies, is using a QWERTY keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something worth knowing anymore?
Uhh... Last I checked, it's the year 2004 and we haven't stopped using keyboards. How could typing, in the furthest stretch of the imagination, be an "obsolete skill?" Let's ask this question again in a decade from now when people might actually stop using keyboards. Unless I'm horribly misinformed, voice recognition is nowhere near popular and just about 99% of the population is still using the QWERTY layout.
I'm sorry, I'm as big of a Linux fan as the next guy but this comment is a little too zealous for me... I hate having to use windows at work but on the same processor, a Clean windows system operates *graphically* a little faster than I get in Gnome, nevermind daring to compare Linux's "browsing speed" to anything near a "300%" increase over what the standard clean windows xp would do. Linux is superior to Windows in almost every single regard, but the standard desktop suites can undoubtably afford to trim a bit of bloat.
Tell me about it... athlon 64, especially in the realm of 3000/3200+ has really struck a chord of value. For $180 USD you can get a processor that's very much top-of-the-line, runs cool (under 45 deg C full load!) and is open to the future (64bit). If anyone's interested, here's a link to a 3200+ (200mhz more than the 3000+) that I'm building right now that's very much affordable (if you take out the flat screen monitor) and offers almost (fx-53 and operton top it) the best processing performance out there today: http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishHistoryReview.asp ?position=HISTORY&submit=VIEW&ID=874344
You recall quite incorrectly: 754 is going to be the budget socket for a while, 939 is going to be the future of amd's desktop line, and 940 is going to remain the server socket for amd opteron-type processors.
You're completely correct. And beyond that, I think the fact that Perl has even THAT many projects is astounding: how many source-forge-sized applications do you think people would write in Perl? Pretty impressive since I'd venture to guess that 95% of perl programmers only use perl as their versatile glue/scripting/web language of choice (as opposed to their hardcore production language).
sub _{$b-$a;}print((split(//,",rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ"))[sort _ 0..24])
If there's one huge huge rough spot in Linux/BSD desktop adoption, it's package management. None of the existing systems - ports, rpm, apt/dpkg work in all cases.
Please excuse me for sounding like the typical gentoo fanboy.
Portage seriously addresses this and then some -- to perfection. The "rough spot" has certainly been sanded. I've run through about 7 distros now in my short linux career and I always *hated* downloading and trying to install programs, because they'd always need infinite dependencies below them.
With gentoo, it's one simple command (emerge gaim) and all dependencies are calculated, compared against what you have, and custom-compiled for your system based upon what support you tell gentoo you want your applications to have (gtk, not qt; without jpeg support etc).
The search is over.
Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2 Posted by simoniker on Monday July 12, @05:02PM
MSN, Word Vulnerable To Shell: URI Exploit Posted by timothy on Monday July 12, @07:42PM
4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 13, @11:45AM
Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 13, @08:14AM
Is MS trying to be funny or something? Honestly, I really think you have to try to mess-up this badly this many times in such a short period of time... I can't believe a mainstream revolution leaving MS products isn't occuring...
You're making it sound like society is proclaiming this man savior -- how are we screwed because we're talking about a guy who's doing something pretty unordinary? It's people like you, predicting that the world's going to end with every small mishap or slump, that are actually going to make us "screwed." Lighten up. I realize there's lots of messed up stuff going on in the world but your claim here is just preposterous. P.S. By no means do I not hate reality TV.
"EVERY FUCKING DAY atleast 10 people getting killed"
Do you know how many Iraqis would die and be opressed for the rest of their lives if we didn't overthrow their corrupt regime? Get out of your own head, sir.
Not sure what you mean by "v.3" but as it's been said in the last couple of kernel updates, things aren't actually "escalating rather quickly." Yeah, 2.4 has a version number in the 20s, and there's no problem with that. 2.6 can and will go into the 20s as well; the last version number in x.x.x isn't restricted to a single digit. When Linus feels like he should move onto 2.8, he will.
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Dude, think a little harder.
This will NOT be a hard transition for apple and they get:
(1) a chipmaker that can meet demand
(2) a chipmaker that is going to keep innovating with the rest of the market (look at their lack of a powerbook g5 from ibm!)
(3!) a platform that is going make people say "why not try a mac" -- if they don't like mac apps for some reason, they can still run all of their windows applications at NATIVE speeds or they can install windows over os x -- or dual boot.
I really can't think about one reason for Apple to not go through with this -- and it's too late for them to take it back. I'm happy. More people WILL be leaving the Windows platform.
I thought the same thing when I read the title... "That's ludicrous! Al gore.. again?"
>> Let's hope Vista is more than a new color scheme and fancy GUI components. Why?
I agree completely -- I shouldn't have to worry about configuring SpamAssassin or any other tool for hours to only let X% through every DAY. That's BS.
We need a open standard to either enforce an authentication scheme to totally disallow any incoming mail from someone that didn't sit down for a minute or two and write the e-mail themself OR we need a whole new "e-mail" system, designed from the ground up, to end all of this nonsense. In the latter case we'd have both systems running concurrently but after a while we could phase e-mail 1.0 out -- with spam -- for good.
Try submitting feedback to Apple via their website to ask them to implement features in iTunes -- I've asked them twice and they actually implemented one of my requests. Pretty cool.
Take Bittorrent for example. Does anyone know if he actually lives of it or not?
Down the block from me. Berkeley, CA.
But how are they going to get Jar-Jar into the story so long after Episode 3? : /
Unless someone wanted to create a internet worm-like problem, they *could* do what you're saying, but, the exploit isn't "catchable" through clicking links in away messages. You click a link ANYWHERE on the web and it will execute arbitrary code on your pc. Your away message, if formed by a link using the exploit, would probably look like mumbled garbage.
Well, I've found it pretty helpful just to go on over to the Gentoo 64-bit forums and just read random threads that seem interesting.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=46
Gives good insight to speed differences, experiences (they all seem to be pretty good), and technical stuff (cflags, etc). Also I would try asking in #gentoo on irc.freenode.net -- lots of people are running Gentoo on 64-bit processors and are happy to answer questions there.
You know, I'm starting to feel sorry for Intel; they've had a terribly rough year with no performance gains (while AMD has run past them) and failures with the Prescott (overheating, big time). As we've seen on slashdot, they've recently released their roadmap for the next year and we don't even see speed improvements coming then. Well anyway, about the 64-Prescott. This seems like a very desperate move from Intel in the midst of all their problems -- they've had no official release for this new technology move (this seems sketchy ... this would normally be a humungous deal!) and, moreso, because they're basing this huge move on the Prescott, a chip which has been pushed beyond it's limits. There's reports everywhere about people's fans on heatsinks melting. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what Intel can manage to push out in the coming quarters -- it doesn't seem like them (as has been said by Intel's CEO in an intra-company memo) and, with their past, it only makes sense that they'll emerge from this alive, and may be in the lead again in the near years to come.
Is this an obsolete skill? With handwriting and voice recognition technologies, is using a QWERTY keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something worth knowing anymore?
Uhh... Last I checked, it's the year 2004 and we haven't stopped using keyboards. How could typing, in the furthest stretch of the imagination, be an "obsolete skill?" Let's ask this question again in a decade from now when people might actually stop using keyboards. Unless I'm horribly misinformed, voice recognition is nowhere near popular and just about 99% of the population is still using the QWERTY layout.
I'm sorry, I'm as big of a Linux fan as the next guy but this comment is a little too zealous for me... I hate having to use windows at work but on the same processor, a Clean windows system operates *graphically* a little faster than I get in Gnome, nevermind daring to compare Linux's "browsing speed" to anything near a "300%" increase over what the standard clean windows xp would do. Linux is superior to Windows in almost every single regard, but the standard desktop suites can undoubtably afford to trim a bit of bloat.
Tell me about it... athlon 64, especially in the realm of 3000/3200+ has really struck a chord of value. For $180 USD you can get a processor that's very much top-of-the-line, runs cool (under 45 deg C full load!) and is open to the future (64bit). If anyone's interested, here's a link to a 3200+ (200mhz more than the 3000+) that I'm building right now that's very much affordable (if you take out the flat screen monitor) and offers almost (fx-53 and operton top it) the best processing performance out there today: http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishHistoryReview.asp ?position=HISTORY&submit=VIEW&ID=874344
You recall quite incorrectly: 754 is going to be the budget socket for a while, 939 is going to be the future of amd's desktop line, and 940 is going to remain the server socket for amd opteron-type processors.
With 2004.0 having been 2.6-based, this release, 2004.2, actually makes the third 2.6-kernel release for gentoo this year.
Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2
Posted by simoniker on Monday July 12, @05:02PM
MSN, Word Vulnerable To Shell: URI Exploit
Posted by timothy on Monday July 12, @07:42PM
4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 13, @11:45AM
Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 13, @08:14AM
Is MS trying to be funny or something? Honestly, I really think you have to try to mess-up this badly this many times in such a short period of time... I can't believe a mainstream revolution leaving MS products isn't occuring...
When are the masses going to learn?
You're making it sound like society is proclaiming this man savior -- how are we screwed because we're talking about a guy who's doing something pretty unordinary? It's people like you, predicting that the world's going to end with every small mishap or slump, that are actually going to make us "screwed." Lighten up. I realize there's lots of messed up stuff going on in the world but your claim here is just preposterous.
P.S. By no means do I not hate reality TV.
"EVERY FUCKING DAY atleast 10 people getting killed"
Do you know how many Iraqis would die and be opressed for the rest of their lives if we didn't overthrow their corrupt regime? Get out of your own head, sir.
*shakes head*
Not sure what you mean by "v.3" but as it's been said in the last couple of kernel updates, things aren't actually "escalating rather quickly." Yeah, 2.4 has a version number in the 20s, and there's no problem with that. 2.6 can and will go into the 20s as well; the last version number in x.x.x isn't restricted to a single digit. When Linus feels like he should move onto 2.8, he will.