Schwartz is retarded. I doubt IBM would let themselves be dependent on Sun in the same way they were dependent on Microsoft in the 80s. If Sun bought Novell to get Suse to have leverage on IBM, IBM could just switch to another distro, or roll their own, or whatever. That's the whole freaking point behind IBM moving from proprietary Unix to Linux on the server.
Or IBM could just keep on selling their hardware with SuSE and keep on developing it themselves, regardless of what Sun wants or thinks it wants. Makes no difference when it's all GPL.
Even for Windows, Firefox is awesome... I left Netscape at version 6.0 (you know, the one with a ton of AOL bloat), and now it's the first time that I feel that a browser can compete with Explorer. It's fast, customizable, cute, compatible... and the extensions thing is just a greaaaaaat idea! Tabbed browsing is also the best thing since sliced bread...
Anyone know how progress is going on a mozilla port to AmigaOS? There's tens of thousands more potential users out there, mozilla developers, who are clamoring for tabbed browsing for amigas.
The clock rate of the CPU went up madly through the 90s but the wind appears to have gone out the sails a little. Is the actual speed of the CPU still climbing but they're doing this without adjusting the clock rate?
I'm hoping that because of this 90nm barrier (or pause, what have you) that the advent of dual core chips actually comes around this time. There have been many promises & comments from the G3 750FX a few years ago up through to today, of chip manufacturers turning to Dual Core CPUs.
I'd rather have one large chip with two 3.6GHz cores than one chip that attempts to get out a mere 400MHz more for 4GHz being delayed again & again.
Of course, there's always dual CPU motherboards...
Man, how many years will Apple cry about supply problems for their damn CPUs
Exactly! I mean if they'd switched to x86 a long time ago they wouldn't have had a thing to complain about. No delays by motorola, no delays by IBM, no delays by intel......except for this BIG SIX MONTH DELAY BY INTEL.
and pranksters could simply reprogram the inventory of an entire store by just walking up and down the isles
What quicker way to make life insanely difficult for a retailer who forces the use of these things upon customers.
How much would it cost to re-manualise their systems if they keep on just losing track of the info in their RFID tags. Hw many would even bother after the 2nd time.
It's been increasingly apparent that I wouldn't buy most CPUs today until they hit a minimum performance level. Until that "minimum" is something that's capable of running almost any app I throw at it.
While that's a moving target and always will be, at the moment what I'm running on it really begs for a CPU like these. And with them as a new low-end, I'm really set for an upgrade.
The last time I felt so excited by a speed upgrade was when I bought my first PPC Amiga. Good to see the IT world can keep on delivering.
Any news on the possibility of an Amiga port? The new Amigas have some awesome hardware. G3 800mhz or higher than 1GHz G4 cpus, DDR and some kind of Radeon.
I think it's a quite obviously untapped market there for games authors, an entire community that grew up on THE games machine clamoring for more.
I have a solution that's faster, relatively quiet, standard, works with many operating systems, is easy to find and not a difficult process to implement.
The main problem I see with complicated A/V systems is that each device stores its own state and the remote is completely unaware of what state each device is in. If one device is out of sync your 25 step macro button is worthless.
I see the problem as not only the remote->device setup sucking, but almost every electronic device's UI sucks too. There's little in the way of standards, and there's too much in the way of trying to compress all 150 functions of say, a VCR, into 5 buttons and one 2-line display, or similar.
Occasionally a device comes out that stuns the world, like the iPod seems to. How curious that what it takes to be so well regarded in its interface is for it to do little more than a cassette player did more than 30 years ago. The iPod may be easy to use, but its reputation is strengthened all the more by the panoply of horrific interfaces on most other gadgets.
The decision finds that the Wiretap Act does not cover interception of communications where the communications are being stored, not transmitted
So now the loophole is telecomms carriers can store messages, and by storing messages they're allowed to listen to them.
Of course, it's no use just to listen to a message to get info on what a subject is up to, it has to be stored for later use, so simply the fact of listening in to a phone conversation and recording it for later use makes it legal to listen to and store for later use.
the clearest sign came when he issued the $17m extortion demand, and instructed the company to 'make the check payable to Myron Tereshchuk.
Almost as smart as this guy - "A man who walked into a Wal-Mart covered in blood and bought garbage bags Friday was charged with murder after authorities found a stabbed body in a trash bin."
Tulip in the netherlands has revived the Commodore brand. While they're distributing things like an ePet memory stick or an eVic-20 mp3 player, they also have a 'console' to play ancient C64 games.
Of course with the number of C64s still out there and available for $2 from goodwill stores, you may as well go buy the real thing and get to play Impossible Mission instead.
What about spymac? They offer 1GB email and/. has covered them in the past.
Is it that hard for the editors to edit?
Spymac is well worth mentioning as an example of what NOT to do.
"Don't rush in and let a free for all take you down". Spymac may be the first to offer a GB, but it's not yet a "service". It's down far too often to be useful, and when it's up it's often so abysmally slow I just use hotmail instead. In its first days I was lucky to USE my spymac mail account one day out of seven.
Google's invite system looks to be their way of controlling that. They can get a setup working, then increase its size as they want bit by bit, and work out where fixes need to be made.
Instead of pumping power in one place and distributing it around on-chip, the motherboard can do the same just as well, and on a scale that doesn't build heat.
I think it's IBM's Power5 that's planned to have over 2000 pins. More than half are power & ground.
Really, if someone calls you on your business practices because they're considered nasty... is the best reaction to threaten them?
As SCO have taught us - if they're customers or potential customers, the best business practice is to sue them. I think the logic is that if they're too scared to speak out about you, then that's one step towards buying product from you. isn't it?
Ugh. please. go USE a service before promoting it.
Spymac may have 1GB of mail, but the site is FAR from easy to use. It's the definition of bloat, and in the 2 months I tried to use it has been down too often when I've really needed webmail, that I just stopped using it.
Spymac has some good features on paper, pity the implementation isn't there.
How will they ever be ready in time for the November elections?"
That's asking the wrong question! it's "How will the voters handle this?". Well, most will ignore it. They'll vote, and votes will be miscounted. Then someone will become president (exactly who doesn't matter). Then there'll be a small investigation into the voting failure, perhaps a story or two on slashdot, and then the country will keep on using them.
People just aren't interested in a system that works any more. If they have something to complain about and go "oh did you hear the voting in florida was rigged!" it gives them 10 minutes of conversation around the watercooler, then they go ahead with their lives.
Scuse the cynicism, but I suspect it's the most likely outcome
The real thing you need to do is get over yourself. You're not special. There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you. Once you get over yourself, the world is your oyster. "unusually but non-traditionally 'bright' "...jesus...Kill me. Get over yourself.
I'd mod you up if I could, but you're already at +5.
Something that's always annoyed me about geeks (the computer kind) is how much crap they'll spew forth about being special, brighter, smarter. These are people who can work well in a few areas, generally a little academic, and often loners. Go within a few degrees of that description and you have most geeks, most of the slashdot crowd.
Now, not to take away from that - it is a good thing to have capabilities, but so often I see this same type expect that by virtue of that unique set of talents they are above many others. That's so many levels of bullshit. I've known carpenters who can't turn a computer on and barely read who can push out some amazing work from nothing but 3 tools and a couple of boards. Gardeners who can build phenomenal areas with a serenity and comfort matched by nothing else. Musicians who would be lucky to see ten feet in front of them for being lost in their own world, but who can pick up a single instrument and play to melt your heart.
We're nothing special. I'm a geek myself, and that's my specific talent but I don't in any way think that makes me especially bright, or uniquely so in any way other than being a unique individual.
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Schwartz is retarded. I doubt IBM would let themselves be dependent on Sun in the same way they were dependent on Microsoft in the 80s. If Sun bought Novell to get Suse to have leverage on IBM, IBM could just switch to another distro, or roll their own, or whatever. That's the whole freaking point behind IBM moving from proprietary Unix to Linux on the server.
Or IBM could just keep on selling their hardware with SuSE and keep on developing it themselves, regardless of what Sun wants or thinks it wants. Makes no difference when it's all GPL.
Even for Windows, Firefox is awesome... I left Netscape at version 6.0 (you know, the one with a ton of AOL bloat), and now it's the first time that I feel that a browser can compete with Explorer. It's fast, customizable, cute, compatible... and the extensions thing is just a greaaaaaat idea! Tabbed browsing is also the best thing since sliced bread...
Anyone know how progress is going on a mozilla port to AmigaOS? There's tens of thousands more potential users out there, mozilla developers, who are clamoring for tabbed browsing for amigas.
The clock rate of the CPU went up madly through the 90s but the wind appears to have gone out the sails a little. Is the actual speed of the CPU still climbing but they're doing this without adjusting the clock rate?
I'm hoping that because of this 90nm barrier (or pause, what have you) that the advent of dual core chips actually comes around this time. There have been many promises & comments from the G3 750FX a few years ago up through to today, of chip manufacturers turning to Dual Core CPUs.
I'd rather have one large chip with two 3.6GHz cores than one chip that attempts to get out a mere 400MHz more for 4GHz being delayed again & again.
Of course, there's always dual CPU motherboards...
Man, how many years will Apple cry about supply problems for their damn CPUs
...except for this BIG SIX MONTH DELAY BY INTEL.
Exactly! I mean if they'd switched to x86 a long time ago they wouldn't have had a thing to complain about. No delays by motorola, no delays by IBM, no delays by intel...
No difference no matter which way they go.
> Sir, the word is loosing
Only if you're stupid
and pranksters could simply reprogram the inventory of an entire store by just walking up and down the isles
What quicker way to make life insanely difficult for a retailer who forces the use of these things upon customers.
How much would it cost to re-manualise their systems if they keep on just losing track of the info in their RFID tags. Hw many would even bother after the 2nd time.
Looks good
Apparently not because if he was he would have coded the kernel in Perl!!
I put forward to you... vmlinux.NET
It's been increasingly apparent that I wouldn't buy most CPUs today until they hit a minimum performance level. Until that "minimum" is something that's capable of running almost any app I throw at it.
While that's a moving target and always will be, at the moment what I'm running on it really begs for a CPU like these. And with them as a new low-end, I'm really set for an upgrade.
The last time I felt so excited by a speed upgrade was when I bought my first PPC Amiga. Good to see the IT world can keep on delivering.
Any news on the possibility of an Amiga port? The new Amigas have some awesome hardware. G3 800mhz or higher than 1GHz G4 cpus, DDR and some kind of Radeon.
I think it's a quite obviously untapped market there for games authors, an entire community that grew up on THE games machine clamoring for more.
> I'd replace the dead HD for about $15
Reading, not your strong point.
From the article:
"I won't have to buy a hard drive which at the best deal I can find is about $130 US"
The article submitter's laziness in finding cheap HDs does not mean I cannot find them
Thus my original solution is still the same, and is one I implemented barely a year ago myself.
I have a solution that's faster, relatively quiet, standard, works with many operating systems, is easy to find and not a difficult process to implement.
I'd replace the dead HD for about $15.
Are there any filesystems left that use forked files? Resource, Data and Metadata forks? Any at all?
While MacOS was at a disadvantage being one of the only ones to use it, wouldn't it have been an excellent advantage for ALL filesystems to be forked?
(I don't know the answer to this - anyone who knows more about filesystems, give your thoughts)
The main problem I see with complicated A/V systems is that each device stores its own state and the remote is completely unaware of what state each device is in. If one device is out of sync your 25 step macro button is worthless.
I see the problem as not only the remote->device setup sucking, but almost every electronic device's UI sucks too. There's little in the way of standards, and there's too much in the way of trying to compress all 150 functions of say, a VCR, into 5 buttons and one 2-line display, or similar.
Occasionally a device comes out that stuns the world, like the iPod seems to. How curious that what it takes to be so well regarded in its interface is for it to do little more than a cassette player did more than 30 years ago. The iPod may be easy to use, but its reputation is strengthened all the more by the panoply of horrific interfaces on most other gadgets.
IPV9, for when being able to individually address every single particle in the entire universe just isn't enough.
The decision finds that the Wiretap Act does not cover interception of communications where the communications are being stored, not transmitted
So now the loophole is telecomms carriers can store messages, and by storing messages they're allowed to listen to them.
Of course, it's no use just to listen to a message to get info on what a subject is up to, it has to be stored for later use, so simply the fact of listening in to a phone conversation and recording it for later use makes it legal to listen to and store for later use.
bah
the clearest sign came when he issued the $17m extortion demand, and instructed the company to 'make the check payable to Myron Tereshchuk.
Almost as smart as this guy - "A man who walked into a Wal-Mart covered in blood and bought garbage bags Friday was charged with murder after authorities found a stabbed body in a trash bin."
Planning people, planning!
Tulip in the netherlands has revived the Commodore brand. While they're distributing things like an ePet memory stick or an eVic-20 mp3 player, they also have a 'console' to play ancient C64 games.
Of course with the number of C64s still out there and available for $2 from goodwill stores, you may as well go buy the real thing and get to play Impossible Mission instead.
What about spymac? They offer 1GB email and /. has covered them in the past.
Is it that hard for the editors to edit?
Spymac is well worth mentioning as an example of what NOT to do.
"Don't rush in and let a free for all take you down". Spymac may be the first to offer a GB, but it's not yet a "service". It's down far too often to be useful, and when it's up it's often so abysmally slow I just use hotmail instead. In its first days I was lucky to USE my spymac mail account one day out of seven.
Google's invite system looks to be their way of controlling that. They can get a setup working, then increase its size as they want bit by bit, and work out where fixes need to be made.
Many are power/ground.
Instead of pumping power in one place and distributing it around on-chip, the motherboard can do the same just as well, and on a scale that doesn't build heat.
I think it's IBM's Power5 that's planned to have over 2000 pins. More than half are power & ground.
Really, if someone calls you on your business practices because they're considered nasty... is the best reaction to threaten them?
As SCO have taught us - if they're customers or potential customers, the best business practice is to sue them. I think the logic is that if they're too scared to speak out about you, then that's one step towards buying product from you. isn't it?
1. Sue customers.
2. ???
3. Profit.
Ugh. please. go USE a service before promoting it.
Spymac may have 1GB of mail, but the site is FAR from easy to use. It's the definition of bloat, and in the 2 months I tried to use it has been down too often when I've really needed webmail, that I just stopped using it.
Spymac has some good features on paper, pity the implementation isn't there.
Sure, it's a great concept, but there's no practical application for home use. You might see this in very large business or site-to-site communication
I remember hearing almost the exact same thing said when rumors of 56k modems started to filter down to newsgroups.
How will they ever be ready in time for the November elections?"
That's asking the wrong question! it's "How will the voters handle this?". Well, most will ignore it. They'll vote, and votes will be miscounted. Then someone will become president (exactly who doesn't matter). Then there'll be a small investigation into the voting failure, perhaps a story or two on slashdot, and then the country will keep on using them.
People just aren't interested in a system that works any more. If they have something to complain about and go "oh did you hear the voting in florida was rigged!" it gives them 10 minutes of conversation around the watercooler, then they go ahead with their lives.
Scuse the cynicism, but I suspect it's the most likely outcome
The real thing you need to do is get over yourself. You're not special. There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you. Once you get over yourself, the world is your oyster. "unusually but non-traditionally 'bright' "...jesus...Kill me. Get over yourself.
I'd mod you up if I could, but you're already at +5.
Something that's always annoyed me about geeks (the computer kind) is how much crap they'll spew forth about being special, brighter, smarter. These are people who can work well in a few areas, generally a little academic, and often loners. Go within a few degrees of that description and you have most geeks, most of the slashdot crowd.
Now, not to take away from that - it is a good thing to have capabilities, but so often I see this same type expect that by virtue of that unique set of talents they are above many others. That's so many levels of bullshit. I've known carpenters who can't turn a computer on and barely read who can push out some amazing work from nothing but 3 tools and a couple of boards. Gardeners who can build phenomenal areas with a serenity and comfort matched by nothing else. Musicians who would be lucky to see ten feet in front of them for being lost in their own world, but who can pick up a single instrument and play to melt your heart.
We're nothing special. I'm a geek myself, and that's my specific talent but I don't in any way think that makes me especially bright, or uniquely so in any way other than being a unique individual.
And we all have that.
That's right, slashdot readers are mounting a "Dupe Busting Challenge".
However it's still being ignored.