Now, now... since you're so much more knowledgeable than the rest of us, would you care to enlighten us as to how much Microsoft is making, on each Xbox they sell? Expecially since you have looked at the price of bulk lots of components lately
I am not saying you're wrong. I am not saying you're right, either, I just think you have no real way of knowing. What is the price of a 700 MHz Celeron, nowadays? Who the heck knows? You can't find them anywhere, it's an exotic component. For all I (or you) know, it could cost anywhere between $US 3 and $US 100 (because it's so hard to find). Same goes for the 6 GB hard disk.
Yeah, and what do you think about "Hailsrorm"? Maybe nobody noticed, but what is a hailstorm most likely to do? Shatter Windows! This seems to be one of their PR sabotages, too.
You are wrong. Freon and most other CFCs do reach the Ionosphere, where they are broken down into chlorine and fluorites (fluor can's stay in pure state, it's too reactive). It's these that work on destroying the O3 molecules, and causing, as a consequence, an alarming increase in melanomas (skin cancer, to oversimplify it).
It's a very real threat, ask the people down under.
Yes, but the loss per unit is not $150 apiece, either. More like $45 to $50
Interesting, though: this might hurt MS in 2 ways: people who just want to port Linux to the Xbox will not be buying the games, and... likewise, people who just want to RUN Linux on the Xbox, won't be buying much games, either....
Don't be a fool. Only traditional airlines are having problems filling the seats on their flights. However, the budget airlines, who finally "get it", have no problem at all. Easyjet, Go and others, are hugely profitable and are becoming very popular. In fact, they are not only probably the only profitable airlines these days, they are pushing the other companies to start thinking in a different way. As these companies will move in the direction of offering more affordable flights, they will realize that a cheaper aircraft (as in, cheaper to operate) is one of their tools for success.
Usually I would disagree with Robilmo, if nothing else then just for the heck of it;o) but this time I can't but agree completely: this interview really did provde me with straight answers. A very useful and as a consequence, rather envolving.
Now I wish more than 10 questions could have been allowed....
As an aside; I was a bit surprised R. Love hasn't mentioned Caldera's contribution to Linux's TCP/IP stack. If you ask me, that's more useful than RPM.
The fact that you got it wrong by three orders of magnitude, didn't bother a hapless moderator who thought your post was "interesting":o)
Anyway, on the Internet, the distances involved are usually much bigger than 100.00 ft, and yet online gaming doesn't seem to suffer because of that. No, I think this technology (high altitude baloons for signal relay) has some other, very important, inherent weaknesses.
I just finished reading Asimov's classic "The Gods Themselves", where the life and technical details of a lunar space station are described. I really like Asimov's methodical and scientific approach of the topic. Even things like lifestyle and metabolism changes are discussed.
Warmly recommended reading.
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I have always felt that framing someone else's website inside yours is, in fact, something a bit vicious.
So this thing will record uncompressed, digital HDTV information? Can you imagine the bandwidth?
This thing would be excellent for backing up huge storage, I think it even beats DLT tapes in speed, and certainly it beats them in capacity.
But instead, it's used to store video, in uncompressed form (stupid) and with copy protection. Not to speak that tape devices that use media of this lenght are unsuitable for home usage, where a constant temperature and humidity are not guaranteed, and multiple viewing is the norm.
Plus, this is the age of direct access media (CD, VCD, DVD), will people who got used to DVD accept sequential access?
In conclusion: I think this technology will tank, and not many will shed a tear.
And here's why: Transistors and tubes use different principles of physics for operation. Valve amps (the original name for tube amplifiers) are basically voltage driven, so when they distort, even-order harmonics are produced (2nd, 4th, 6th, etc...) while transistor amps are current driven and produce odd-order harmonics (3rd, 5th, 7th, etc....) The fact that tranjo's are current driven while tubes are voltage driven is NOT the reason for the difference in distortion! The reason for it is, simply, in the difference of the transmission curve. The rest of what you said is OK, but it has no bearing whatsoever with the driving method of the device.
After reading this cheerful little event I decided to ask you: what was the expression on the faces of these Microsoft executives, when you delivered your speech about Linux?
Reminds me of our lab sessions (both in analog electronics and telecommunications) at the uni, where we used analog scopes: There always would be some dumbo who failed to apply any signal to both x and y, focusing the whole energy of the electron beam in the center of the scope (damaging the scope's display). The lab technicians were going bonkers about this:o)
So, this is a winner-takes-it-all game? All other Linux companies shoult just give up and leave it to RedHat, right? I hope you are wrong. I hope I won't have to work on a Linux distro I don't like just because the alternatives couldn't survive. There should be room for more than one distribution.
I also hope Slackware will join UL. Slackware would need to catch up on several points, but it could be done. That way I could work on my preferite distro, while knowing that most of my knowledge and packages I develop, will apply and work on the other UL distros, too.
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Just calm down: non-free versions will contain for-money applications (StarOffice etc.). That's all.
Different software as an added value will NOT make the distros incompatible between them. And that's all we're asking. If this will spark a war, the better for the consumer. Let the Linux vendors compete on features while still keeping compatible among each other. Absolutely perfect for the consumer! This will commoditize Linux while, at the same time, increasing it's value and usefulness.
What the heck are you talking about? Sun is the primary platform on which Oracle runs. Oracle themselves test it first on Sun and then all the rest.
Even the installation: on HP-UX is more convoluted because HP-UX doesn't support RockRidge extensions to iso9660, so the CD management requires additional care. The fact that Oracle didn't care facilitating this problem shows how (un)importan HP-UX is for them.
I guess you mean Open versions of BeOS. Well, the only attention-worthy project is OpenBeOS (sometimes referred to as OBOS). It can't handle this software, or any software, yet. However, BeOS 5. PE (personal edition) is free and just as powerful as the Pro edition. You can even download ISO images of PE with additional drivers and/or software. These would be the BeOS "distributions".
I think this is part of some master plan to conquer the problem of corporations who dont like free software because nobody is acountable
I think this was already discussed ad nauseam, but I still like to point out that StarOffice DOES have a few features that make it money-worth for some companies. One that I can think of off the top of my head: WordPerfect filters.
and you do need a kickass MIDI sequencer, I suggest BeOS + Sequitur. It does not have all the features of Cakewalk (I miss expecially the score) but it does have other special features of it's own, like for example processing filters and filter editing (for new filters), but there are many more.
There are many more good audio tools on BeOS. One more recommendation is XRS, a groove station, similar to FruityLoops. I composed this song completely in XRS, using just the built-in software synths.
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Now, now... since you're so much more knowledgeable than the rest of us, would you care to enlighten us as to how much Microsoft is making, on each Xbox they sell? Expecially since you have looked at the price of bulk lots of components lately
I am not saying you're wrong. I am not saying you're right, either, I just think you have no real way of knowing. What is the price of a 700 MHz Celeron, nowadays? Who the heck knows? You can't find them anywhere, it's an exotic component. For all I (or you) know, it could cost anywhere between $US 3 and $US 100 (because it's so hard to find). Same goes for the 6 GB hard disk.
Yeah, and what do you think about "Hailsrorm"? Maybe nobody noticed, but what is a hailstorm most likely to do? Shatter Windows! This seems to be one of their PR sabotages, too.
BTW. Hailstorm, it so seems, has died.
You are wrong. Freon and most other CFCs do reach the Ionosphere, where they are broken down into chlorine and fluorites (fluor can's stay in pure state, it's too reactive). It's these that work on destroying the O3 molecules, and causing, as a consequence, an alarming increase in melanomas (skin cancer, to oversimplify it).
It's a very real threat, ask the people down under.
Yes, but the loss per unit is not $150 apiece, either. More like $45 to $50
Interesting, though: this might hurt MS in 2 ways: people who just want to port Linux to the Xbox will not be buying the games, and... likewise, people who just want to RUN Linux on the Xbox, won't be buying much games, either....
Don't be a fool. Only traditional airlines are having problems filling the seats on their flights. However, the budget airlines, who finally "get it", have no problem at all. Easyjet, Go and others, are hugely profitable and are becoming very popular. In fact, they are not only probably the only profitable airlines these days, they are pushing the other companies to start thinking in a different way. As these companies will move in the direction of offering more affordable flights, they will realize that a cheaper aircraft (as in, cheaper to operate) is one of their tools for success.
Usually I would disagree with Robilmo, if nothing else then just for the heck of it ;o) but this time I can't but agree completely: this interview really did provde me with straight answers. A very useful and as a consequence, rather envolving.
Now I wish more than 10 questions could have been allowed....
As an aside; I was a bit surprised R. Love hasn't mentioned Caldera's contribution to Linux's TCP/IP stack. If you ask me, that's more useful than RPM.
The fact that you got it wrong by three orders of magnitude, didn't bother a hapless moderator who thought your post was "interesting" :o)
Anyway, on the Internet, the distances involved are usually much bigger than 100.00 ft, and yet online gaming doesn't seem to suffer because of that. No, I think this technology (high altitude baloons for signal relay) has some other, very important, inherent weaknesses.
I just finished reading Asimov's classic "The Gods Themselves", where the life and technical details of a lunar space station are described. I really like Asimov's methodical and scientific approach of the topic. Even things like lifestyle and metabolism changes are discussed.
Warmly recommended reading.
I have always felt that framing someone else's website inside yours is, in fact, something a bit vicious.
I feel at this point that a comment on pedofile priests is in order, but I don't knowquite how to insert it...
Maybe "it's just my 90 GHz antenna"?
The great majority of Miramax titles are published without Macrovision protection. I don't see Slashdot clamoring about that fact.
So this thing will record uncompressed, digital HDTV information? Can you imagine the bandwidth?
This thing would be excellent for backing up huge storage, I think it even beats DLT tapes in speed, and certainly it beats them in capacity.
But instead, it's used to store video, in uncompressed form (stupid) and with copy protection. Not to speak that tape devices that use media of this lenght are unsuitable for home usage, where a constant temperature and humidity are not guaranteed, and multiple viewing is the norm.
Plus, this is the age of direct access media (CD, VCD, DVD), will people who got used to DVD accept sequential access?
In conclusion: I think this technology will tank, and not many will shed a tear.
And here's why: Transistors and tubes use different principles of physics for operation. Valve amps (the original name for tube amplifiers) are basically voltage driven, so when they distort, even-order harmonics are produced (2nd, 4th, 6th, etc...) while transistor amps are current driven and produce odd-order harmonics (3rd, 5th, 7th, etc....)
The fact that tranjo's are current driven while tubes are voltage driven is NOT the reason for the difference in distortion! The reason for it is, simply, in the difference of the transmission curve. The rest of what you said is OK, but it has no bearing whatsoever with the driving method of the device.
After reading this cheerful little event I decided to ask you: what was the expression on the faces of these Microsoft executives, when you delivered your speech about Linux?
:o)
Talk about priceless
Reminds me of our lab sessions (both in analog electronics and telecommunications) at the uni, where we used analog scopes: There always would be some dumbo who failed to apply any signal to both x and y, focusing the whole energy of the electron beam in the center of the scope (damaging the scope's display). :o)
The lab technicians were going bonkers about this
So, this is a winner-takes-it-all game? All other Linux companies shoult just give up and leave it to RedHat, right? I hope you are wrong. I hope I won't have to work on a Linux distro I don't like just because the alternatives couldn't survive. There should be room for more than one distribution.
I also hope Slackware will join UL. Slackware would need to catch up on several points, but it could be done. That way I could work on my preferite distro, while knowing that most of my knowledge and packages I develop, will apply and work on the other UL distros, too.
Just calm down: non-free versions will contain for-money applications (StarOffice etc.). That's all.
That's why you should read the white paper>/a> rather. Start from Chapter 2. It's fairly technical, and some of the questions you raised are answered there, at least partially. Your configuration question is mostly answered in 2.4.
Different software as an added value will NOT make the distros incompatible between them. And that's all we're asking. If this will spark a war, the better for the consumer. Let the Linux vendors compete on features while still keeping compatible among each other. Absolutely perfect for the consumer! This will commoditize Linux while, at the same time, increasing it's value and usefulness.
What the heck are you talking about? Sun is the primary platform on which Oracle runs. Oracle themselves test it first on Sun and then all the rest.
Even the installation: on HP-UX is more convoluted because HP-UX doesn't support RockRidge extensions to iso9660, so the CD management requires additional care. The fact that Oracle didn't care facilitating this problem shows how (un)importan HP-UX is for them.
I guess you mean Open versions of BeOS. Well, the only attention-worthy project is OpenBeOS (sometimes referred to as OBOS). It can't handle this software, or any software, yet. However, BeOS 5. PE (personal edition) is free and just as powerful as the Pro edition. You can even download ISO images of PE with additional drivers and/or software. These would be the BeOS "distributions".
I downloaded and installed the ISO of Caldera's Workstation 3.1.1, which is the latest version. So, at least for Caldera, I think you are wrong.
I think this is part of some master plan to conquer the problem of corporations who dont like free software because nobody is acountable
I think this was already discussed ad nauseam, but I still like to point out that StarOffice DOES have a few features that make it money-worth for some companies. One that I can think of off the top of my head: WordPerfect filters.
and you do need a kickass MIDI sequencer, I suggest BeOS + Sequitur. It does not have all the features of Cakewalk (I miss expecially the score) but it does have other special features of it's own, like for example processing filters and filter editing (for new filters), but there are many more.
There are many more good audio tools on BeOS. One more recommendation is XRS, a groove station, similar to FruityLoops. I composed this song completely in XRS, using just the built-in software synths.
"This week Microsoft are the good guys. Who are the bad guys, anyone? How 'bout Lucent, we haven't been slandering them in a long time."
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