p.s. I doubt that this "Lord Of The Rings" movie will be half as good as Star Wars, I don't think that anyone can create as detailed and richly rendered a world as the "galaxy far far away". Rumour has it that George Lucas spent years working on star charts, alien races, even alien languages! before ever penning a word of the Star Wars screenplay. I'm sure Middle Earth is quite simplistic compared to such background detail..
It's always great to discover a new author, and now that Katz has told me about this Tolkein chap, I'll be certain to check out some of his books! I'm a little surprised that this "Lord Of The Rings" book is out already, though, normally novelisations aren't released until after the film hits the cinemas..
>If you think Apples are expensive in the USA.. >boy, you should see the rest of the world.
Isn't that also true of Compaq's, Dell's, IBM's, etc?
Probably. But where Apple's desktop machines always suffer is by comparison to the price of built-from-parts PC's. Yeah, I know, not exactly fair, but it happens. Anyway, in Australia, the difference is greatly magnified. We're talking easily triple the price of a kick-ass frankenstein PC for a kick-ass Mac, sadly.
That's why the only Mac I'd ever buy would be a laptop. They look so much nicer when they're only competing with name-brand PC's, not cloneboxes.:-)
Second Reality was the demo that for the first time allowed PC sceners to feel merely inferior to the Amiga sceners, rather than completely pathetic. I mean, if you want to talk about 1993, you should be talking about "Arte" by Sanity. Go on, you can even find a DivX of it at Amidemos. Arte on a 7Mhz Amiga 500 kicked the arse of Second Reality on your 486..
Still, opinions are funny.. some Amiga sceners liked "Jesus on E"..
If you want to see what Chaos/ex-Sanity and others have been impressing with recently, check out The Product, from The Party 2000.. win32 64k intro, the most impressive 64k of demo I've ever seen!
I guess you missed the price cuts in the last couple of months. A 867MHz PowerPC G4 with the superdrive DVD burner is $2,499.00 and the 17" flat panel screen is $999.
Cretin, he said he was in Australia. Check out the Australian Apple store: 867Mhz G4 with Superdrive is $5,495.00. 17" flat panel screen is $2,299.00. If you want to convert those into US dollars, that's roughly $US2830 for the G4, $US1185 for the screen. And that's with the Assie dollar in its current wretched state - the comparison used to be even more heinous for Apple.
If you think Apples are expensive in the USA.. boy, you should see the rest of the world.
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Then the curious statement is made that the G4 is faster than Pentium 4 despite the slow clock speed because the G4 RISC instructions do more per cycle. Clearly the several people who made the statement would fail their comp arch course.
Well, I don't see any IA32 instruction while will multiply two floating-point registers, add a third register to the result, and then store the whole thing into a fourth register. PowerPC's been doing that forever. Seriously, translate some moderate FP maths into IA32 and PPC assembly, and you'll surely see that the "CISC" IA32 code has a lot more instructions to perform..
Don't even get me started on how much Altivec spanks MMX, 3DNow and SSE..
So before you make a blanket condemnation of the claim that a G4 does more per cycle, please do keep in mind that the "complex" part of the IA32's CISC architecture is the number of stupid, deprecated instructions that nobody ever uses anymore..
Peter Jackson! Ian McKellen! Christopher Lee! Hugo Weaving! Cate Blanchett! John Rhys-Davies! How could anyone not be waiting for this?
Assuming that Natalie Portman will be neither naked nor petrified, the only trump card that When Clones Attack has is Samuel L. Damn, they should have cast him in LotR, maybe as a badass orc or something. "Does Sauron look like a bitch?"
Do you maybe mean Peter Cushing? Christopher Lee wasn't in Star Wars, he was too busy in 1977 making quality films like "Dracula and Son" and "Meatcleaver Massacre". Although I notice with some interest that he is in SW episode 2 as the ludicrously named "Darth Tyranus".
Anyway, my wife dragged me along to see Phantom Menace despite my complete disinterest (how's that for a reversal of the usual Slashdot story?), and frankly, Christopher Lee or no Christopher Lee, if she wants to see episode 2 she's going by herself. Life's too short to watch two more hours of this kind of excrement.
This reminds me of the old Activision copy protection for floppies that supposedly would damage your equipment if you tried to copy them.
I heard rumours of games (back in the Amiga days) that only used maybe the first 60-70 tracks of the 80 on the floppy, then, somewhere right near the outer edge of the disk, was a chunk of metal attached. Under normal use, these outer tracks would never be touched, but if you tried to copy the disk - BANG! bye bye drive head.
Never believed 'em though.. too much chance of a bug in the game causing it to read the wrong track and destroy your drive.:-)
Once again an instituation that ALMOST gets it... and then bans at least half of the "Open Source Community" by REQUIRING that stuff made with it be released under the GPL.
To hell with you, troll.
Why should Borland devote their time and money developing tools to allow you to produce closed-source software without paying a penny for the privilege?
And don't give me that "but I want to produce BSD-licensed software" bullshit. The BSD license gives everyone permission to do whatever they like with the code - if you want to grant this permission with regards to your own code, feel free. But who the hell are you to say that anyone can do anything with Borland's code? Don't like it? Write your own goddamn code, don't go trying to use libraries written by people who DON'T want to hand their work to Microsoft on a silver platter.
..the alleged sysadmin went with Redh*t (7.0, no less...isn't that the one with the borken gcc?)
No, that's the one with the more standards complaint gcc that breaks some shitty bug-ridden old C++ code.
Spelling "broken" as "borken" does not make you look like a wise, witty and bearded old-school hacker. It makes you look like a wanker and an idiot. But it could be worse - you could have written "b0rken".
It doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you're stupid about this.
I disagree. "Lame", to me, means one step beyond ignorance - it definitely implies ignorance combined with an arrogant belief that you are not ignorant.
i.e., in the demoscene - you write a demo with a single spinning cube and scrolltext. OK, you're a beginner. You write a demo with a single spinning cube and scrolltext saying what a godlike coder you are. OK, you're fucking lame !!
Calling a blacklist of open relays "censorship" is like calling a virus-scanner censorship. Hey, just the other day I got some email with the "Mawanella" VBS trojan in it.. and goddamn McAfee VirusScan deleted it!! That's censorship!! It's a violation of my first amendment rights!! (never mind that McAfee isn't a government body, and I'm not in the USA anyway, it's still a violation of my first amendment rights!!)
Come on, open relays are flat out misconfigured, broken and harmful to the internet as a whole. In a perfect world, if you didn't know how to set up a mailserver, then your mailserver simply WOULD NOT WORK. Unfortunately this is not a perfect world, and there are ways in which people who don't know how to set up a mailserver can end up with something which APPEARS to work, but is, in fact, broken and harmful. These people should NOT have their mail successfully delivered until they fix their problems.
However, just in case I seem too rabid, I will add that of all the responses I've gotten to my spam complaints (all of which involve open relays being raped by spammers), those from the postmasters of said relays are invariably more polite and friendly than those from the ISPs hosting the spammers.
The happy hacker meets all of your requirements except for the bit about the extra USB ports.
What about the requirement that the main part of the keyboard be a 101-key layout? The happy hacker is a super cut-down 60-key thingie with no function keys, no numeric keypad, no arrow keys, no separate delete & backspace.. might be cool for people who grew up with a Sun Type 3 or whatever it's based on, but I think for most people it'd be as hard to use as switching from qwerty to dvorak.. I certainly would never want one..
Meanwhile, I'm using Spamcop again. I'm surprised how much of an effect it has on new, incoming spam.
Hmm, after seeing this post from you, I decided to go have a look at Spamcop. Does this thing actually work? I fed it a few spams from my mailbox and it got them all wrong, deciding that the appropriate person to flame would be the administrator of MY company's mailserver!
These weren't complicated forgeries or anything, just simple spams with three Received lines:
Received from (our main corporate mailserver) by (my local office mailserver)
Received from (open relay) by (our main corporate mailserver)
Received from (spammer with forged hostname but real IP) by (open relay)
In every case, it decided to "ignore" the second line, treat the third one as a forgery, and simply declare that (my local office mailserver) was being spammed by (our main corporate mailserver) !!
If it can't even cope with this, is Spamcop any use for dealing with any spams other than "loser bulkmailing straight from his dialup account" ?
I mean, I want to like Spamcop, I think it's great that someone's trying to make it easier for non-geeks to get spammers spanked by their ISPs.. but if it's this broken, surely it's going to cause more harm than good??
..and when our qualified personel arrived, we discovered that she wasn't actuually as qualified as we had hoped. Then she quit..
..and then she was erased from the latest "official" version of the story. What the fuck is this? This isn't a "blow-by-blow account", it's a service pack to fix the "bugs" in your last account of what happened!
Go on! Mod me down to -1 again! You'll have to do it a few times before I go below the "post-at-2" threshold!!
..and when our qualified personel arrived, we discovered that she wasn't actuually as qualified as we had hoped. Then she quit..
..and then she was erased from the latest "official" version of the story. What the fuck is this? This isn't a "blow-by-blow account", it's a service pack to fix the "bugs" in your last account of what happened!
Granted, we'd have to teach Katz how to post to Slashdot first (as opposed to emailing copy to another editor and never browsing the thread)
That's not true, Katz has certainly been known to post replies to comments on his stories. However you may have missed these replies because many moderators (correctly) believe that it is extremely amusing to mod anything by Katz down as "Troll" or "Offtopic".
At the most, the IA-64 may benefit from some of the superior parts of the Alpha (and maybe standard IA-32 CPUs) like the FPU, but for the most part, the Alpha may suffer from NIH syndrome.
At least Compaq say they will port VMS to the Itanium. So while the superior CPU may die out, at least the superior OS will soldier on.
Hang on.. ported to the Itanic? That's a fate worse than death!!
Woz stated that he did not think it was in Apple's best interest to buy NeXT at the time it did. He didn't feel that the operating system was Apple's problem.
I'm flat out astonished that he could possibly have felt that way!
Now, I was only vaguely aware of Apple's goings-on in the 90's (I went from Amiga to Linux and pretty much avoided Apple and Microsoft) but I do recall the endlessly "coming soon" next-generation OS. But I just recently read Jim Carlton's book "Apple", and was stunned by just how much time, how much money, how many completely abandoned efforts went into the quest for a "new" Mac OS before finally merging with NeXT. And even then several more years passed before OS X finally made it out.
Now I can't guarantee that Carlton's book is an objective and unbiased account of the times. But based on that, I got the very strong impression that Apple were never going to successfully write a next-gen OS. If they had rejected NeXT (as they rejected Be..) I'm sure they would have gradually slid into bankruptcy (just as everyone predicted for so many years).
I'd love to know what the Woz thinks would have happened between 1997 and now if Apple had decided it was "not in their best interests" to buy NeXT..?
Why don't all slashdot readers send Ron Wyden some spam mail. You know, tell him how he can get rich by working at home, or how he can lose weight real fast.
Most of the spam I've gotten lately has been offering me merchant accounts for accepting credit card payments. Maybe if I forwarded one of them to Wyden, he could set himself up with a merchant account and accept bribes by credit card! Far more convenient than the old brown paper bag full of twenties!
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p.s. I doubt that this "Lord Of The Rings" movie will be half as good as Star Wars, I don't think that anyone can create as detailed and richly rendered a world as the "galaxy far far away". Rumour has it that George Lucas spent years working on star charts, alien races, even alien languages! before ever penning a word of the Star Wars screenplay. I'm sure Middle Earth is quite simplistic compared to such background detail..
It's always great to discover a new author, and now that Katz has told me about this Tolkein chap, I'll be certain to check out some of his books! I'm a little surprised that this "Lord Of The Rings" book is out already, though, normally novelisations aren't released until after the film hits the cinemas..
>If you think Apples are expensive in the USA..
>boy, you should see the rest of the world.
Isn't that also true of Compaq's, Dell's, IBM's, etc?
Probably. But where Apple's desktop machines always suffer is by comparison to the price of built-from-parts PC's. Yeah, I know, not exactly fair, but it happens. Anyway, in Australia, the difference is greatly magnified. We're talking easily triple the price of a kick-ass frankenstein PC for a kick-ass Mac, sadly.
That's why the only Mac I'd ever buy would be a laptop. They look so much nicer when they're only competing with name-brand PC's, not cloneboxes. :-)
Second Reality was the demo that for the first time allowed PC sceners to feel merely inferior to the Amiga sceners, rather than completely pathetic. I mean, if you want to talk about 1993, you should be talking about "Arte" by Sanity. Go on, you can even find a DivX of it at Amidemos. Arte on a 7Mhz Amiga 500 kicked the arse of Second Reality on your 486..
Still, opinions are funny.. some Amiga sceners liked "Jesus on E"..
If you want to see what Chaos/ex-Sanity and others have been impressing with recently, check out The Product, from The Party 2000.. win32 64k intro, the most impressive 64k of demo I've ever seen!
I guess you missed the price cuts in the last couple of months. A 867MHz PowerPC G4 with the superdrive DVD burner is $2,499.00 and the 17" flat panel screen is $999.
Cretin, he said he was in Australia. Check out the Australian Apple store: 867Mhz G4 with Superdrive is $5,495.00. 17" flat panel screen is $2,299.00. If you want to convert those into US dollars, that's roughly $US2830 for the G4, $US1185 for the screen. And that's with the Assie dollar in its current wretched state - the comparison used to be even more heinous for Apple.
If you think Apples are expensive in the USA.. boy, you should see the rest of the world.
Then the curious statement is made that the G4 is faster than Pentium 4 despite the slow clock speed because the G4 RISC instructions do more per cycle. Clearly the several people who made the statement would fail their comp arch course.
Well, I don't see any IA32 instruction while will multiply two floating-point registers, add a third register to the result, and then store the whole thing into a fourth register. PowerPC's been doing that forever. Seriously, translate some moderate FP maths into IA32 and PPC assembly, and you'll surely see that the "CISC" IA32 code has a lot more instructions to perform..
Don't even get me started on how much Altivec spanks MMX, 3DNow and SSE..
So before you make a blanket condemnation of the claim that a G4 does more per cycle, please do keep in mind that the "complex" part of the IA32's CISC architecture is the number of stupid, deprecated instructions that nobody ever uses anymore..
* d.net rc5-64
Well, try this one then. d.net has a comprehensive list of client speeds. Let's have a look at what they have to say..
Pentium IV 1700 - 2.44 MkeysPentium III 1200 - 3.39 Mkeys
Athlon Thunderbird 1400 - 4.98 Mkeys
PowerPC G4 733 - 6.54 Mkeys
PowerPC G4 867 - 7.72 Mkeys
How do you like that benchmark?
Peter Jackson! Ian McKellen! Christopher Lee! Hugo Weaving! Cate Blanchett! John Rhys-Davies! How could anyone not be waiting for this?
Assuming that Natalie Portman will be neither naked nor petrified, the only trump card that When Clones Attack has is Samuel L. Damn, they should have cast him in LotR, maybe as a badass orc or something. "Does Sauron look like a bitch?"
Acting: You're forgetting Christopher Lee.
Do you maybe mean Peter Cushing? Christopher Lee wasn't in Star Wars, he was too busy in 1977 making quality films like "Dracula and Son" and "Meatcleaver Massacre". Although I notice with some interest that he is in SW episode 2 as the ludicrously named "Darth Tyranus".
Anyway, my wife dragged me along to see Phantom Menace despite my complete disinterest (how's that for a reversal of the usual Slashdot story?), and frankly, Christopher Lee or no Christopher Lee, if she wants to see episode 2 she's going by herself. Life's too short to watch two more hours of this kind of excrement.
Take a look at his premature eulogy for Slashdot. Take what he says with a pinch of salt, folks.
OK, I'll take a look.
"The camaraderie and high spirits will soon be replaced by the same rancor and factiousness that permeates the rest of the capitalist world."
Hang on, are you saying Jay was wrong with this prediction??
This reminds me of the old Activision copy protection for floppies that supposedly would damage your equipment if you tried to copy them.
I heard rumours of games (back in the Amiga days) that only used maybe the first 60-70 tracks of the 80 on the floppy, then, somewhere right near the outer edge of the disk, was a chunk of metal attached. Under normal use, these outer tracks would never be touched, but if you tried to copy the disk - BANG! bye bye drive head.
Never believed 'em though.. too much chance of a bug in the game causing it to read the wrong track and destroy your drive. :-)
Once again an instituation that ALMOST gets it ... and then bans at least half of the "Open Source Community" by REQUIRING that stuff made with it be released under the GPL.
To hell with you, troll.
Why should Borland devote their time and money developing tools to allow you to produce closed-source software without paying a penny for the privilege?
And don't give me that "but I want to produce BSD-licensed software" bullshit. The BSD license gives everyone permission to do whatever they like with the code - if you want to grant this permission with regards to your own code, feel free. But who the hell are you to say that anyone can do anything with Borland's code? Don't like it? Write your own goddamn code, don't go trying to use libraries written by people who DON'T want to hand their work to Microsoft on a silver platter.
he could have just accidently hit the o before the r :)
No chance. He was going for that zany ESR-loving hacker jargon file stylee..
Ah, I see my original post was marked "Overrated". The coward's moderation. If you think I'm trolling, call me a goddamn troll.
Damn, that's a different sort of "fat pipe" to the ones most tourists go to the Netherlands for :-)
It doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you're stupid about this.
I disagree. "Lame", to me, means one step beyond ignorance - it definitely implies ignorance combined with an arrogant belief that you are not ignorant.
i.e., in the demoscene - you write a demo with a single spinning cube and scrolltext. OK, you're a beginner. You write a demo with a single spinning cube and scrolltext saying what a godlike coder you are. OK, you're fucking lame !!
Calling a blacklist of open relays "censorship" is like calling a virus-scanner censorship. Hey, just the other day I got some email with the "Mawanella" VBS trojan in it.. and goddamn McAfee VirusScan deleted it!! That's censorship!! It's a violation of my first amendment rights!! (never mind that McAfee isn't a government body, and I'm not in the USA anyway, it's still a violation of my first amendment rights!!)
Come on, open relays are flat out misconfigured, broken and harmful to the internet as a whole. In a perfect world, if you didn't know how to set up a mailserver, then your mailserver simply WOULD NOT WORK. Unfortunately this is not a perfect world, and there are ways in which people who don't know how to set up a mailserver can end up with something which APPEARS to work, but is, in fact, broken and harmful. These people should NOT have their mail successfully delivered until they fix their problems.
However, just in case I seem too rabid, I will add that of all the responses I've gotten to my spam complaints (all of which involve open relays being raped by spammers), those from the postmasters of said relays are invariably more polite and friendly than those from the ISPs hosting the spammers.
The happy hacker meets all of your requirements except for the bit about the extra USB ports.
What about the requirement that the main part of the keyboard be a 101-key layout? The happy hacker is a super cut-down 60-key thingie with no function keys, no numeric keypad, no arrow keys, no separate delete & backspace.. might be cool for people who grew up with a Sun Type 3 or whatever it's based on, but I think for most people it'd be as hard to use as switching from qwerty to dvorak.. I certainly would never want one..
Meanwhile, I'm using Spamcop again. I'm surprised how much of an effect it has on new, incoming spam.
Hmm, after seeing this post from you, I decided to go have a look at Spamcop. Does this thing actually work? I fed it a few spams from my mailbox and it got them all wrong, deciding that the appropriate person to flame would be the administrator of MY company's mailserver!
These weren't complicated forgeries or anything, just simple spams with three Received lines:
In every case, it decided to "ignore" the second line, treat the third one as a forgery, and simply declare that (my local office mailserver) was being spammed by (our main corporate mailserver) !!
If it can't even cope with this, is Spamcop any use for dealing with any spams other than "loser bulkmailing straight from his dialup account" ?
I mean, I want to like Spamcop, I think it's great that someone's trying to make it easier for non-geeks to get spammers spanked by their ISPs.. but if it's this broken, surely it's going to cause more harm than good??
..and then she was erased from the latest "official" version of the story. What the fuck is this? This isn't a "blow-by-blow account", it's a service pack to fix the "bugs" in your last account of what happened!
Go on! Mod me down to -1 again! You'll have to do it a few times before I go below the "post-at-2" threshold!!
..and then she was erased from the latest "official" version of the story. What the fuck is this? This isn't a "blow-by-blow account", it's a service pack to fix the "bugs" in your last account of what happened!
And we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Granted, we'd have to teach Katz how to post to Slashdot first (as opposed to emailing copy to another editor and never browsing the thread)
That's not true, Katz has certainly been known to post replies to comments on his stories. However you may have missed these replies because many moderators (correctly) believe that it is extremely amusing to mod anything by Katz down as "Troll" or "Offtopic".
At the most, the IA-64 may benefit from some of the superior parts of the Alpha (and maybe standard IA-32 CPUs) like the FPU, but for the most part, the Alpha may suffer from NIH syndrome.
At least Compaq say they will port VMS to the Itanium. So while the superior CPU may die out, at least the superior OS will soldier on.
Hang on.. ported to the Itanic? That's a fate worse than death!!
Woz stated that he did not think it was in Apple's best interest to buy NeXT at the time it did. He didn't feel that the operating system was Apple's problem.
I'm flat out astonished that he could possibly have felt that way!
Now, I was only vaguely aware of Apple's goings-on in the 90's (I went from Amiga to Linux and pretty much avoided Apple and Microsoft) but I do recall the endlessly "coming soon" next-generation OS. But I just recently read Jim Carlton's book "Apple", and was stunned by just how much time, how much money, how many completely abandoned efforts went into the quest for a "new" Mac OS before finally merging with NeXT. And even then several more years passed before OS X finally made it out.
Now I can't guarantee that Carlton's book is an objective and unbiased account of the times. But based on that, I got the very strong impression that Apple were never going to successfully write a next-gen OS. If they had rejected NeXT (as they rejected Be..) I'm sure they would have gradually slid into bankruptcy (just as everyone predicted for so many years).
I'd love to know what the Woz thinks would have happened between 1997 and now if Apple had decided it was "not in their best interests" to buy NeXT..?
Why don't all slashdot readers send Ron Wyden some spam mail. You know, tell him how he can get rich by working at home, or how he can lose weight real fast.
Most of the spam I've gotten lately has been offering me merchant accounts for accepting credit card payments. Maybe if I forwarded one of them to Wyden, he could set himself up with a merchant account and accept bribes by credit card! Far more convenient than the old brown paper bag full of twenties!