I do have problems from time to time with Slashdot. The problem I see is with aligning the columns. The center column will start somewhere in the left column. A few reloads does seem to fix it.
I think the ad in the New York Times is to recruit new users, not new developers. Users likely won't read the discussion boards and mailing lists. They aren't going to start reading Slashdot just because they switched to Firefox.
They should be blissfully happy running Firefox, as I am, without knowing about the problems in the developer community.
Looking at these mice remind me of an old trackball ad for (I think) Logitech. It had two trackballs side by side with hands on top of them. One of the trackballs looked like that and had a green alien hand which had four fingers and was symmetric. The other was a TrackMan with a regular human hand.
Looks like the Cordless Optical TrackMan is more my style. I'll have to try one out at a local computer store.
I use this trackball at work and at home. I've been using it for over five years now and I just love them. Unfortunately they seem to be discontinued. What's the best replacement for them? I'd like to stay with a similar style trackball. I don't really want to go back to a mouse.
I was a huge fan of the Oddworld games. I played them both on the PC, then bought them for the PSOne when I got my PS2. If they ported Munch to PS2, I'd buy it.
I didn't read the entire application, I'll admit that. I did do a quick search a found that other patents put their references where they are easy to see and look up.
It is interesting that they don't cite any references in their application. But if you do a quick search for "virtual desktop" you'll get a dozen results with dozens more references. This patent application should be thrown out pretty quickly. This patent was filed in 2002, while a quick search shows references in the 1987 to 1995 time frame.
Thank you for your application fees. Don't call us, we'll call you.
What I like most about bzflag is that it's not a twitch game like so many FPS are. Everyone turns at the same rate and can only shoot forward. That gives the newbies a chance at killing the veterans.
I can't imagine how they can stuff THREE cpus into a box and make any money on the hardware. I know they didn't make any money on the Xbox. It looks to me like they'll lose MUCH MORE per Xbox Next. Perhaps they won't lose that much since not having backwards compatibility will kill their sales.
If they're running Debian, then that's great. But you need to put Linux into the hands of the masses if you want to take over the desktop and the best way to do that is to seed the planet with Linux Live CD's with the same fury that AOL soils the planet with their CD's.
Why don't you try to get AOL to put a live Linux system on their CD for people to try out? AOL is never going to stop sending out CDs. Why not make they useful?
Could you imagine bluejacking bombs?
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You could easily create a small battery powered embedded device running Linux that would just send out bluetooth messages. Drop that on a city bus or subway car and you could spam a ton of people really easily.
Perhaps I should be patenting an idea like that.;)
There's something fishy about that Internet Week article. The editor has filled in or covered up a lot of key sentences in the article. In a 20 paragraph interview they used the square brackets 15 times. That seems like a lot for a interview. What was really said?
A couple years ago I used to do an Internet treasure hunt called the "CyberSurfari." It was run by the SPA and sponsored by search engines like Lycos and Yahoo. During the hunt you would follow links through educational sites mostly targetted at children.
Looks like they are a few weeks away from starting the Spring treassure hunt. It might be something you want to do with your cousins.
I'm running i386 code on the Altix system I'm testing on. I don't really care how fast the code runs, I just want it to run. So the Itanium 2 still runs i386 code.
Yeah, a series 1. With the original drive I was able to outpace the programming guide by using the channel down button. After the upgrade it keeps up. But remember, I REPLACED the original drive, I didn't ADD a second drive.
I upgraded my TiVo (Philips 312) with a Seagate Baracuda IV 80GB 7200rpm and it's running just as cool as the original TiVo drive and just as quiet. I found that using the 7200rpm drive greatly increased the speed of the Programming Guide.
The truth is even Solaris has caught up to Irix in terms of usability, 3d speed, and multimedia-ness unless you get a stack of Onyx machines.
What kind of crack are you smoking? Sun released a new graphics workstation last year that they said could compete with an Octane 2. At the same time SGI released Fuel which roughly doubles performance over Octane 2. At SigGraph Sun was showing an in-development high end graphics targetted at InfiniteReality3. SGI released at the show InfiniteReality4 and also backed it up with 128p (on the show floor). Sun has not caught up.
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I do have problems from time to time with Slashdot. The problem I see is with aligning the columns. The center column will start somewhere in the left column. A few reloads does seem to fix it.
Bitter partisan political stuff??
I think the ad in the New York Times is to recruit new users, not new developers. Users likely won't read the discussion boards and mailing lists. They aren't going to start reading Slashdot just because they switched to Firefox.
They should be blissfully happy running Firefox, as I am, without knowing about the problems in the developer community.
Looking at these mice remind me of an old trackball ad for (I think) Logitech. It had two trackballs side by side with hands on top of them. One of the trackballs looked like that and had a green alien hand which had four fingers and was symmetric. The other was a TrackMan with a regular human hand.
Looks like the Cordless Optical TrackMan is more my style. I'll have to try one out at a local computer store.
I use this trackball at work and at home. I've been using it for over five years now and I just love them. Unfortunately they seem to be discontinued. What's the best replacement for them? I'd like to stay with a similar style trackball. I don't really want to go back to a mouse.
Any ideas?
I was a huge fan of the Oddworld games. I played them both on the PC, then bought them for the PSOne when I got my PS2. If they ported Munch to PS2, I'd buy it.
I didn't read the entire application, I'll admit that. I did do a quick search a found that other patents put their references where they are easy to see and look up.
It is interesting that they don't cite any references in their application. But if you do a quick search for "virtual desktop" you'll get a dozen results with dozens more references. This patent application should be thrown out pretty quickly. This patent was filed in 2002, while a quick search shows references in the 1987 to 1995 time frame.
Thank you for your application fees. Don't call us, we'll call you.
What I like most about bzflag is that it's not a twitch game like so many FPS are. Everyone turns at the same rate and can only shoot forward. That gives the newbies a chance at killing the veterans.
So let's see if I have the math right. It was $100 new 47 years ago. Assuming 8% inflation...
>>> 100*(1.08**47)
3723.2012168838069
So in 47 years it's only worth $77 more than the inflation on the $100 you would have spent on it. That's a wonderful investment.
I can't imagine how they can stuff THREE cpus into a box and make any money on the hardware. I know they didn't make any money on the Xbox. It looks to me like they'll lose MUCH MORE per Xbox Next. Perhaps they won't lose that much since not having backwards compatibility will kill their sales.
Monkey's don't have hands!?!?
If they're running Debian, then that's great. But you need to put Linux into the hands of the masses if you want to take over the desktop and the best way to do that is to seed the planet with Linux Live CD's with the same fury that AOL soils the planet with their CD's.
Why don't you try to get AOL to put a live Linux system on their CD for people to try out? AOL is never going to stop sending out CDs. Why not make they useful?
You could easily create a small battery powered embedded device running Linux that would just send out bluetooth messages. Drop that on a city bus or subway car and you could spam a ton of people really easily.
;)
Perhaps I should be patenting an idea like that.
Are they going to force you to use little USB doggles to let you log in? Seems like a strange requirement for an OS.
There's something fishy about that Internet Week article. The editor has filled in or covered up a lot of key sentences in the article. In a 20 paragraph interview they used the square brackets 15 times. That seems like a lot for a interview. What was really said?
Must be pretty easy to do that in a wide open desert.
I'd like to see a slashbox for this too.
A couple years ago I used to do an Internet treasure hunt called the "CyberSurfari." It was run by the SPA and sponsored by search engines like Lycos and Yahoo. During the hunt you would follow links through educational sites mostly targetted at children.
Looks like they are a few weeks away from starting the Spring treassure hunt. It might be something you want to do with your cousins.
I'm running i386 code on the Altix system I'm testing on. I don't really care how fast the code runs, I just want it to run. So the Itanium 2 still runs i386 code.
ia64 is backwards compatible with ia32. It just runs ia32 code really slowly.
Yeah, a series 1. With the original drive I was able to outpace the programming guide by using the channel down button. After the upgrade it keeps up. But remember, I REPLACED the original drive, I didn't ADD a second drive.
I upgraded my TiVo (Philips 312) with a Seagate Baracuda IV 80GB 7200rpm and it's running just as cool as the original TiVo drive and just as quiet. I found that using the 7200rpm drive greatly increased the speed of the Programming Guide.
Seriously, it looks pretty sweet, but I was more excited by the Origin 3900 -- 16 processors in one C-Brick (4U).
Shh. Don't tell anybody. The new server is nothing more than an Origin 3900 (a.k.a. SN2) with Itanium2 processors instead of R14000 processors.
Wrong, the Origin 3900 is just a repackaged Origin 3000. It doesn't use the SN2-related ASICs at all.
The inside of a MIPS CX-brick is mostly empty space. It was designed this way, back in the mid-1990s, specifically to accommodate IA-64 CPUs.
The CX-brick is the new C-brick for the Origin 3900. The old C-brick was mostly empty space.
The truth is even Solaris has caught up to Irix in terms of usability, 3d speed, and multimedia-ness unless you get a stack of Onyx machines.
What kind of crack are you smoking? Sun released a new graphics workstation last year that they said could compete with an Octane 2. At the same time SGI released Fuel which roughly doubles performance over Octane 2. At SigGraph Sun was showing an in-development high end graphics targetted at InfiniteReality3. SGI released at the show InfiniteReality4 and also backed it up with 128p (on the show floor). Sun has not caught up.
I hope this move hurts Sun as much as it hurt SGI.