The author seems to have not noticed that AT&T is currently in quite a bit of a positive turnaround...
Right after they spun off Lucent and NCR, AT&T started going downhill, but they're already back on track. They seem to be very forward-looking compared to the other LD companies. While most of them bitch about VOIP (Voice-over-IP) technologies, AT&T has been pretty receptive to it, and has pretty much embraced it. While it makes no sense in their current business model, I think that they see their model going obsolete, and want to be in on the ground floor when the other companies are just getting a clue that they might have a problem.
I'm not going ballistic, I just wonder how in the world they thought BSDI... Considering they're not a major player, and they're not doing anything new...
FreeBSD, Linux, and even Slowaris are still developing quite well... BSDI just seems to me like Free/Open/NetBSD but commercial and lagging behind its free brethren.
I started with Slackware... God, that was a bitch to install and continued to be an eternal PITA. I tried RedHat on another machine and never looked back. Even for experienced users, RH is nice. (Until you get into the roll-your-own custom distro stuff for REALLY specific applications.)
BTW, I disagree on the Win95/WinNT thing. WinNT is MUCH easier to install than '95. But RedHat blows NT away hands-down.
Win95 install - Many hours. (Reboot, reboot, reboot)
NT install - 1-2 hours.
RHL -.5 hours or less (Depending on CD-ROM speed.)
Look back in/. articles and you'll find a mailing list dedicated to creation of just such equipment.
So far it's mostly DIY stuff, but there will probably be commercial spinoffs of the ideas here. There's already a car version of what you describe near completion at www.empeg.com, I believe.
Essentially, they're headless Linux boxes with player control through a simplified LCD display and often with a remote control based on a lirc-compatible reciever.
Um, just because they sell it for $129 (not $179), doesn't mean they're making money on it.
Profit != Retail Price
Profit = Retail Price - Numerouse Middleman Cuts - Cost of Goods. With the PSX, I'm almost sure that COGs > Retail Price alone. Sony LOSES money on the consoles.
Not sure how useful this data is, but it's available for $90, and seems to have a wide variety of global data. (Although in lower resolution than some USGS data...)
Bruce's next target? This one should be easy to recover the costs of... Or even better, get it to be a CheapBytes offering...
God, they're STILL using ATI chipsets? When will Apple ever learn?
While ATI made vast improvements with the Rage 128, everything I've seen indicates it still gets blown away by the likes of a Riva TNT (And in visual quality but not 3D performance by the G200)
Apparently the 128 takes a significant performance hit when performing trilinear filtering, while the Riva TNT gets "free" trilinear.
Still, at least Apple isn't using S3.:)
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I agree here.
From the looks of this thing's designe, there is NO WAY IN HELL that video card manufacturers will ever be able to clone this thing, because the video subsystem is highly integrated into the rest of the machine. Essentially, to clone this, you would have to re-engineer an entire machine from the ground up, just like SGI did.
I wish I had the cash for one of these... They look simply *amazing*, although it would be even cooler if they happened to have a decent processor at their heart.
i.e. I have a PC. I have lots of old Nintendo games. I don't have room in my dorm to hook up a classic NES or SNES.
I download the ROMs to games I have. Nothing illegal there, I believe there are laws saying you can make a backup copy of software you own for personal use - That's what the ROM is, a backup of a cart you already own.
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Distilled, PURE H2O is an insulator, and a good one.
Problem is, it dissolves minerals readily, and even a slight ion content makes it much more conductive. One tiny little screwup, and *POOF*
Hmm... Now to get out a shotgun and start pumping some lead under bridges. :)
I agree, but for other reasons.
The author seems to have not noticed that AT&T is currently in quite a bit of a positive turnaround...
Right after they spun off Lucent and NCR, AT&T started going downhill, but they're already back on track. They seem to be very forward-looking compared to the other LD companies. While most of them bitch about VOIP (Voice-over-IP) technologies, AT&T has been pretty receptive to it, and has pretty much embraced it. While it makes no sense in their current business model, I think that they see their model going obsolete, and want to be in on the ground floor when the other companies are just getting a clue that they might have a problem.
I agree...
I'm not going ballistic, I just wonder how in the world they thought BSDI... Considering they're not a major player, and they're not doing anything new...
FreeBSD, Linux, and even Slowaris are still developing quite well... BSDI just seems to me like Free/Open/NetBSD but commercial and lagging behind its free brethren.
Subject says all. CS100 was in Java.
Very easy to learn, but you start hitting brick walls REALLY quickly.
I agree...
NetMeeting has a lot of potential... But it is DOG SLOW!
FrontPage had great potential from what I hear. But it's been going downhill ever since being purchased from Vermeer.
The Win32 version has a GUI, which is what I think he was talking about...
Yep, me too.
.5 hours or less (Depending on CD-ROM speed.)
I started with Slackware... God, that was a bitch to install and continued to be an eternal PITA. I tried RedHat on another machine and never looked back. Even for experienced users, RH is nice. (Until you get into the roll-your-own custom distro stuff for REALLY specific applications.)
BTW, I disagree on the Win95/WinNT thing. WinNT is MUCH easier to install than '95. But RedHat blows NT away hands-down.
Win95 install - Many hours. (Reboot, reboot, reboot)
NT install - 1-2 hours.
RHL -
Look back in /. articles and you'll find a mailing list dedicated to creation of just such equipment.
So far it's mostly DIY stuff, but there will probably be commercial spinoffs of the ideas here. There's already a car version of what you describe near completion at www.empeg.com, I believe.
Essentially, they're headless Linux boxes with player control through a simplified LCD display and often with a remote control based on a lirc-compatible reciever.
Um, just because they sell it for $129 (not $179), doesn't mean they're making money on it.
Profit != Retail Price
Profit = Retail Price - Numerouse Middleman Cuts - Cost of Goods. With the PSX, I'm almost sure that COGs > Retail Price alone. Sony LOSES money on the consoles.
From the aforementioned NOAA site.
Not sure how useful this data is, but it's available for $90, and seems to have a wide variety of global data. (Although in lower resolution than some USGS data...)
Bruce's next target? This one should be easy to recover the costs of... Or even better, get it to be a CheapBytes offering...
I was always wondering why they released source to RTEMS - Now I know why, they were obligated to.
God, they're STILL using ATI chipsets? When will Apple ever learn?
:)
While ATI made vast improvements with the Rage 128, everything I've seen indicates it still gets blown away by the likes of a Riva TNT (And in visual quality but not 3D performance by the G200)
Apparently the 128 takes a significant performance hit when performing trilinear filtering, while the Riva TNT gets "free" trilinear.
Still, at least Apple isn't using S3.
I agree here.
From the looks of this thing's designe, there is NO WAY IN HELL that video card manufacturers will ever be able to clone this thing, because the video subsystem is highly integrated into the rest of the machine. Essentially, to clone this, you would have to re-engineer an entire machine from the ground up, just like SGI did.
I wish I had the cash for one of these... They look simply *amazing*, although it would be even cooler if they happened to have a decent processor at their heart.
What about ROMs made from games you own?
i.e. I have a PC. I have lots of old Nintendo games. I don't have room in my dorm to hook up a classic NES or SNES.
I download the ROMs to games I have. Nothing illegal there, I believe there are laws saying you can make a backup copy of software you own for personal use - That's what the ROM is, a backup of a cart you already own.