This is a borderline silly comment. The difference between the Duron and the T-bird is more than the price difference on the Motherboards that prompted this story on/.
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You ask "Where did the 800,000 accounts come from? ". The article reads:
The Linux win, which is expected to be announced later on Thursday, will mean that all of TeliaNet's 800,000 private Internet customers in Scandinavia and 1,000 corporate clients, will be serviced by a single supercomputer in Copenhagen
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Look at the positive side. Minorities could wear them at job interviews, used to document sexual harrassment and even protecting oneself for being wrongfully accused. What about police stopping you if you were black. I think its a good thing and just the posibility of someone wearing this is a deterent.
Your starting premise is not quite correct. Motorola can clock the current G4 at around 700mhz but due to the 4 stage pipeline this will not buy you anything and the reason its still "stuck" at 500. The redesign will solve some of those issues so your analysis needs 700 as starting point not 500, and you will end up with someting around 1.4G. IBM has G3's at 750+ ready to go.
If I am not mistaken isn't Adabas-D the default database for StarOffice with a fairly tight coupling. Having this GPL'ed can only be a good thing as the monolithic StarOffice is broken up into smaller footprint Office "solutions" used by KDE or Gnome etc..
"Of course, that law suit probably wasn't any help to Bleem, despite the outcome".
That is not totally true. Connectix/ Bleem can probably sue for damages caused by the suit, and most likely get their attorneys fee back. Second this is excellent news for the upcoming Bleem for DreamCast allowing us to play PS1 games andwith better graphics to boot. The DC Bleem keeps on slipping though. I think latest is early Nov.
The IBM POP design used a NorthBridge Designed by a Non IBM company called Aleate or something. The chip had problems and could not be produced in volume. The POP design is dead but there is a few designs in the works but non in production AFAIK. You can make a PowerPC MB with mostly standard PC components except NorthBridge and cache for the PowerPC. Look at http://www.czuba-tech.com/RIORED/english/overview. htm for an open design done by SiliconFruit.
No, The "Honorable" Judge Rehnquist was the one that made the huge political call that a civil lawsuit would not have any effect on a sitting President. If it wasn't for this guy we Clinton would have been spared the deposition and we would have been deprived of all the nonsense following it. Maybe Clinton was economical with the truth but the outragious part is that they got to ask a sitting President such a question.
Maybe there is a "cause and effect" issue at play here. The main reason the code gets reoptimized is due to their market share not because of the processor itself. MMX was a failure and 3DNow would never had seen the light of day if the market didn't demand a response. Thechnological both is (incl screaming Sindy) a waste of resources and better done on the graphics engines.
I know this is off topic (sorry) , but anyone knows why this Slashdot posting has been available via NewsNow for a few hours but does not show up on the main/. site. Seems kind of silly we need to go somewhere else to read/. the latest/. postings.
It this true? If so where can I get more information? I heard that some bbackward african state had the bright to legislate pi=3 but not a western country. Maybe it will help the folks in Lousiane prooving the earth is flat.
Well since the software is mostly free to try out you could argue that this is much less of an issue in the OpenSource arena than any closed source offering. We will probably never have 100% influency free reviews anywhere but Open source seems to be the easiest to check, or at least the cheapest.
Agree. I joined ACLU one year ago and only regret I didn't do it earlier. The information you recieve is very interesting and its only $15 or so per year (you can donate more obviously). Every time you think "Somebody needs to do something about so and so". Rember if it wasn't for ACLU, that Somebody often wouldn't be there.
My feeling is that if Archimedes had never lived, somebody else would have come up with his work. Would you say that of Christ?
Yes I most certainly would. There will never be any shortage of religious nonsense. The religious folks would most probably attending Gnostics gatherings today if Jesus had not been around. They only vanished as they were not as militant as the Christian Ubermacht.
I agree with your note on keeping things in perspective. An interesting observation would be that maybe it was a good thing it got overwritten with something religious. That way its "survivability" thoughout the darkages was highly increased and may be the reason it still exist today. Had it been used for recording financial transactions another possible choice it would most probably have vanished.
There is a fairly easy work around that piece of legislation. IT has been used in the financial community for a while now. What you need to do is have your Key being held by a custodian outside the UK jurisdiction. Then set up an agreement that in the case of any legal action against you the custodian is automatic required to refuse delivery of the key to you. That way you can not be held in contempt since you abide by the law requesting the key, but you are not getting it since something outside your control hinders it.
God is never an explanation for anything. Its just a different unenlightened label on something not known. Its like the little old lady that told Feynman that the earth was held up by a giant turtle. When Feynman asked what the turtle was standing on she replied another turtle all the way to the bottom. God is just another turtle, best used for soup.
If you like the fact that silly laws like COPA gets nullified think about supporting the ACLU. The minimum cost is around $25 / year and the information on what's going on regarding free speech is easely worth it. I have only been member for a year and regret not joining sooner.
Well I understand your point, however I did cancel my Amazon account and stated plus and I now use Fatbrain for all my books. Bezos' has entered the public debate about patents maybe for other reasons but the boycott did help in some form. At least I think so.
The problem with Boycotting something is that normally it takes a certain size to be measurable by the company being targeted, case in point the Amazon attempt here a few month back. Ebay is different. I would think that a fairly big portion of the Computer Section is populateded by slashdot readers or related geeks being either the buyers or sellers. If a significant portion of those boycotted eBay it might be felt quite fast. Second. Auctions houses has quite significant feedback mechanisms. Meaning the more sellers you have the more buyers you get etc. This works in reverse as well. A boycott that resulted in a migration to another auction site like Yahoo could possible result in eBay never regaining the clout in the computer equipment sector. The risk of that happening is probably enough for eBay to quickly cave in. Worth a try.
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This is a borderline silly comment. The difference between the Duron and the T-bird is more than the price difference on the Motherboards that prompted this story on /.
Check the prices at Pricewatch
You ask "Where did the 800,000 accounts come from? ". The article reads: The Linux win, which is expected to be announced later on Thursday, will mean that all of TeliaNet's 800,000 private Internet customers in Scandinavia and 1,000 corporate clients, will be serviced by a single supercomputer in Copenhagen
Look at the positive side. Minorities could wear them at job interviews, used to document sexual harrassment and even protecting oneself for being wrongfully accused. What about police stopping you if you were black. I think its a good thing and just the posibility of someone wearing this is a deterent.
People can just run an instance of RH Linux on top of the 390 OS. Thereby enabeling applications that might not otherwise run on the Mainframes.
Your starting premise is not quite correct. Motorola can clock the current G4 at around 700mhz but due to the 4 stage pipeline this will not buy you anything and the reason its still "stuck" at 500. The redesign will solve some of those issues so your analysis needs 700 as starting point not 500, and you will end up with someting around 1.4G. IBM has G3's at 750+ ready to go.
If I am not mistaken isn't Adabas-D the default database for StarOffice with a fairly tight coupling. Having this GPL'ed can only be a good thing as the monolithic StarOffice is broken up into smaller footprint Office "solutions" used by KDE or Gnome etc..
"Of course, that law suit probably wasn't any help to Bleem, despite the outcome". That is not totally true. Connectix/ Bleem can probably sue for damages caused by the suit, and most likely get their attorneys fee back. Second this is excellent news for the upcoming Bleem for DreamCast allowing us to play PS1 games andwith better graphics to boot. The DC Bleem keeps on slipping though. I think latest is early Nov.
Sorry Forgot /. need the tag's. Here is a clickable link. PowerPC Motherboard
The IBM POP design used a NorthBridge Designed by a Non IBM company called Aleate or something. The chip had problems and could not be produced in volume. The POP design is dead but there is a few designs in the works but non in production AFAIK. You can make a PowerPC MB with mostly standard PC components except NorthBridge and cache for the PowerPC. Look at http://www.czuba-tech.com/RIORED/english/overview. htm for an open design done by SiliconFruit.
No, The "Honorable" Judge Rehnquist was the one that made the huge political call that a civil lawsuit would not have any effect on a sitting President. If it wasn't for this guy we Clinton would have been spared the deposition and we would have been deprived of all the nonsense following it. Maybe Clinton was economical with the truth but the outragious part is that they got to ask a sitting President such a question.
Maybe there is a "cause and effect" issue at play here. The main reason the code gets reoptimized is due to their market share not because of the processor itself. MMX was a failure and 3DNow would never had seen the light of day if the market didn't demand a response. Thechnological both is (incl screaming Sindy) a waste of resources and better done on the graphics engines.
OT: I'm on 6.3 - any reason to go 6.4? Yes XFree86 4.0 support. 7.0 is out and will be on the ftp servers here shortly.
I know this is off topic (sorry) , but anyone knows why this Slashdot posting has been available via NewsNow for a few hours but does not show up on the main /. site. Seems kind of silly we need to go somewhere else to read /. the latest /. postings.
It this true? If so where can I get more information? I heard that some bbackward african state had the bright to legislate pi=3 but not a western country. Maybe it will help the folks in Lousiane prooving the earth is flat.
Well since the software is mostly free to try out you could argue that this is much less of an issue in the OpenSource arena than any closed source offering. We will probably never have 100% influency free reviews anywhere but Open source seems to be the easiest to check, or at least the cheapest.
Agree. I joined ACLU one year ago and only regret I didn't do it earlier. The information you recieve is very interesting and its only $15 or so per year (you can donate more obviously). Every time you think "Somebody needs to do something about so and so". Rember if it wasn't for ACLU, that Somebody often wouldn't be there.
Yes I most certainly would. There will never be any shortage of religious nonsense. The religious folks would most probably attending Gnostics gatherings today if Jesus had not been around. They only vanished as they were not as militant as the Christian Ubermacht.
I agree with your note on keeping things in perspective. An interesting observation would be that maybe it was a good thing it got overwritten with something religious. That way its "survivability" thoughout the darkages was highly increased and may be the reason it still exist today. Had it been used for recording financial transactions another possible choice it would most probably have vanished.
There is a fairly easy work around that piece of legislation. IT has been used in the financial community for a while now. What you need to do is have your Key being held by a custodian outside the UK jurisdiction. Then set up an agreement that in the case of any legal action against you the custodian is automatic required to refuse delivery of the key to you. That way you can not be held in contempt since you abide by the law requesting the key, but you are not getting it since something outside your control hinders it.
I guess Leonard Cohen got it wrong. His lyric was "first we take manhattan, then we take Berlin" :-)
God is never an explanation for anything. Its just a different unenlightened label on something not known. Its like the little old lady that told Feynman that the earth was held up by a giant turtle. When Feynman asked what the turtle was standing on she replied another turtle all the way to the bottom. God is just another turtle, best used for soup.
If you like the fact that silly laws like COPA gets nullified think about supporting the ACLU. The minimum cost is around $25 / year and the information on what's going on regarding free speech is easely worth it. I have only been member for a year and regret not joining sooner.
Well I understand your point, however I did cancel my Amazon account and stated plus and I now use Fatbrain for all my books. Bezos' has entered the public debate about patents maybe for other reasons but the boycott did help in some form. At least I think so.
The problem with Boycotting something is that normally it takes a certain size to be measurable by the company being targeted, case in point the Amazon attempt here a few month back. Ebay is different. I would think that a fairly big portion of the Computer Section is populateded by slashdot readers or related geeks being either the buyers or sellers. If a significant portion of those boycotted eBay it might be felt quite fast. Second. Auctions houses has quite significant feedback mechanisms. Meaning the more sellers you have the more buyers you get etc. This works in reverse as well. A boycott that resulted in a migration to another auction site like Yahoo could possible result in eBay never regaining the clout in the computer equipment sector. The risk of that happening is probably enough for eBay to quickly cave in. Worth a try.
Use the code 2000CELEBRATE and you will get 10% rebate. They are doing this to celebrate a new new piece of software they put together.