Well, michael says it himself: " We've mentioned this before, but there are a few more details now. ". I don't see why you're bitching, this is, actually, new info.
Win98? You must be fucking kidding. I got my laptop "upgraded" from Win96 (OSR 2, I think) to Win98 SE, and it sucks much worse than it did before.
I would much rather have WinNT because that's really more stable, but that doesn't support a lot of the things my laptop is able to do (no drivers, no USB). Finally, Win2000 is not supported by my company, for laptops, yet.
So I am stuck with Win98 which is crashing on me twice per day, expecially while using IE 5.
It feels like yesterday when 2.0.x (x is some big integer, forgot the exact value) was the best thing on earth and I still have a machine running with 2.0.something
But why does/. never report anything about the developments of HURD? I like the architecture, I was toying with the idea of someday replacing Linux with HURD, would be nice if the website I follow assiduously, would cover it a bit.
OK, I agree and it's good you clarified your attitude of the original post. Makes sense.
And just for the record: I don't own any of the consoles, actually, I don't own any console at all. If I find a console where I can play centipede and some such games together with my wife, I'll go for that. But I doubt I'll find a console with such games, expecially here in Finland:o)
I agree with the premises of your post, (generally speaking) but this bit cracks me up:
Lastly, as for Nintendo's case, I just flat out don't believe those numbers. I talked to the local Best Buy and also to a few electronics stores in the mall just out of curiosity, and they say they've sold more Gamecubes than anything, but they've also had more shipments of Gamecubes, so they haven't sold out.
How scientific is that?
Another thing:
Hmmm. First of all, it seems like the article is referring to actual sales to individuals, not sales to vendors. I'm not 100% sure but I've always thought the companies make their statements by how many items they have sold to vendors, because once the vendor buys it from Nintendo, or Microsoft, or Sony, then they've made their money.
With consoles, that's not the case, to be correct befcause:
a) console makers lose money on each sold unit
b) the important figure, to generate interest from developers (who pay royalties to Sony/MS/nintendo) is the number of individuals that own a certain console.
OK, for those that don't actually want to do it, but are curous about just what this "turned into a full installation" means:
BeOS personal edition comes as a 30something MB download. It's either an.exe self-extractor under win32, or gzip for Linux. In both cases, what it does it expans into a 500 MB file that resides on your (v)fat or ext2 partition, respectively. The whole filesystem, binaries, libraries, everything is contained in that file, and with the boot floppy you actually activate it as a separate disk partition. (the boot floppy is created by the self-extractor, or can the image can be downloaded and dd'd to a floppy under Linux).
The reason why it's considered not a full install, is that you are restricted to a 500 MB partition. Well, that's just on the surface. What you can do is, you can burn this file to a CD (now betips.net comes handy, to learn the details) and thus create an installation CD!
How can that be, you wonder. Well, as a matter of fact, you could installe BeOS off the file you installed on the (v)fat or ext2 partition, while you are booted into BeOS: you just use a utility called "install" (doh!) to install BeOS to another, free partition. You can even create your own BeOS "distros", by installing and modifying the applications and drivers inside the file.
Anyway, if curious, try it yourself, and look for details on betips.
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The disposable PS2!
Seriously now, there must be some better way to get your message accross....
At least come up with something more environment-friendly.
Reminds me of an electric toaster company that bought back a 50 year old toaster to see why it still works LOL! Do you have a link to some some resource on that? I'd reallly lke to give it a look.
However (back to serious mode), I doubt many consumer products are done to last, nowadays. I think exactly the contrary is happening: stuff is done so that it lasts over the warranty period, and that it's impossible or very hard to fix, so that the consumer is forced to buy a new one.
Example: once in the cellar of an old house I have found some old spare parts, like switches, sockets, lightbulb sockets etc. Most of the stuff was made by Siemens during or a bit prior to WW II. Well, that stuff is done in a fantastic way, using ceramic insulators whenever possible. Nowadays, nobody makes ceramic lightbulb sockets. Nobody makes switches that last a lifetime. It's just not a good idea, from a business point of view.
Somehow, 50 years ago, people were not so aware of the laws of business as we know them today. If the "eternal razorblade" was invented, someone would have actually tried to create a product and market it. Not today, even though the patent exists, it's buried in and by some razor producer (BIC, Wilkinson, Gilette, I don't know), because such a patent is more damaging to their business, than useful.
Another example: I suppose you saw the movie "Das Boot", based on a true story. In this movie/sotry, a german submarine rated to 50 meters, falls to under 100 m, and survives! Nowadays, 10% over the rating and it cracks. And you can't really complain, either.
You're right, SABRE is still in use. But I wonder whether, except for the name, the technology behind it is the same. And I don't mean mainframe vs. AIX, (afaik, SABRE is running on AIX nowadays) but the algorytms. I'm not saying it did change dramatically, I really don't know.
mechanical engineers come up with a design that will pass the test of time with flying colors. the B-52 is just an example,but then there is the Morris Minor, the Porsche911 etc. One reason could be that there are no such dramatic technological advances in mechanical engineering, as there are in electronics (for example), so a few talented mechanical designers have the chance of making an outstanding, long-lasting product.
Let me explain this point: as transistors appeared, nobody wanted or had any reason to make computers based on valves or relays. Once you could integrate many transistors on one chip, most of the computer logic moved from discrete to integrated electronics. This, on the other hand, brought about new and more sophisticated logic designs.
In mechanical engineering you can have new alloys, new kinds of bearings, sensors and microcontroller-regulated engines, but the basic concept is totally the same. Today you could (theoretically) employ a mechanical designer from the beginning of the century, and he would be up to speed with his colleagues in a matter of months. And his biggest challenge would be to learn CAD/CAM software usage:o)
Software engineers are probably the most "disposable" of thebunch: advances in software engineering (ans I don't mean just programming, like moving from RPG, PL/1 to Pascal and then to C, C++, Java etc., but advances in project management techniques, requirements management, software quality control, risk management, all that sh*t...) are coming at an incredible speed, even during an alleged economical downturn, that it's not anymore important whether you know something, but how fast you are able to learn something new.
So, if I was to think of one software design from the 60' (not that long ago, even), I can't think of any.
Good points. Now, if you allow me to be a bit nitpicking, if you ionize water, you don't get H2 and O2, but O-- and H+.
Back to serious mode: do you not think that with oxigene in the atmosphere, we could actually have a layer of ozone, which would reduce the effect of ionizing radiation? After all, that's what's happening here at home, it's not just the hydrogene is replenished, the ionization is smaller, too.
Actually, there is a chance to create a stable life-friendly environment on Mars. Think of what made theEarth the way we know it today: what changed the Earth was the evolutionary appearence of plants. Plants have dramatically decreased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, decreasing the temperature in the process.
That made the Earth habitable for most multicellular organisms that we know today (existing and extinct). The only problem with the appearance of plants on the Earth is.. that it's a damn shame it didn't happen ealrier! The only form of life on our planet, for about 3 billion years, was unicellular, not very efficient in photosinthesis(sp?). As soon as plants appeared, other much more complex beings appeared, thanks to a much better climate.
Basically, plants have stabilized the temperature of the Earth on a lower level. I believe that they could do a similar thing on Mars, but on a higher level. If we create an artificial greenhouse effect and we produce a lot of plants that would survive such conditions, these plants could act as a stabilizing mechanism and keep the temperature in some more acceptable margins.
Consider the other advantages: Mars would look a hell of a lot better.
but this needs a followup instead since Dimwit left something out. Namely that those set commands belong in/etc/system Not really, I don't think there is any Sun admin that wouldn't have at least guessed that those were kernel parameters that needed to be set in/etc/system. After all, the original poster even mentioned rebooting the computer in order to activate them.
So, your remark is informative for non-Sun administrators.
Now, honestly, you don't think the studios are going to start producing WMV versions of movies instead of standard MPEG-2, do you, just because some of the players will be able to do it?
They probably will, and this is why: there is always a certain percentage of userbase that will "swallow it", and start bying the same titles in this new whiz-bang superduper format.
And the DVD-player makers will welcome it, to force users to replace their otherwise just fine DVD players with the new ones.
Special case: Sony! They are both a media AND home electronics company. I'll bet they will be the first to embrace the standard (or should I call it "standard"?), because they win both ways, selling more titles and more players. And the sale of one increases the demand for the other. Sony will do it in spite of all the anymosity between them and MS. Love (for money) is stronger than hate. heh
First of all, she is one of the first programmers in the history of computing.
Second, she is probably the programmer with the longest active career: she started before the war, and retired in 1983.
Third, hey, she had a husband 33 years younger than her!
That's true, but according to stochastic nature of sub-particle processes, some electrons will still be able to leave the surface of the metal, even if very few. This is, btw, a good example of demonstrating how, some electrons, even if they have lower energy than a certain energy barrier, will be able to cross that barrier. It's just the likelyhood that's very small, hence the small number of electrons that will make it through.
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That was the point of the original poster: MS is already doing this/cought doing this, including the "dead people" thing.
The Xbox tends to be an enterteinment center, capable of doing games, DVD, Internet and more. The Gamecube does only games, but does them nicely.
Same is with Mira vs. GBA. Mira tends to do many home-entertainment things. GBA is for playing.
See? Same difference. I think Nintendo will do fine, for the time being.
Well, michael says it himself: " We've mentioned this before, but there are a few more details now. ". I don't see why you're bitching, this is, actually, new info.
Yep, and actually most ice is on land, anyway. Greenland, northern Europe, etc. That's a lot of ice on land, man!
try suggesting Win99, i hear that runs off the NT kernel
A.K.A. WinNT 5.0
Win98? You must be fucking kidding. I got my laptop "upgraded" from Win96 (OSR 2, I think) to Win98 SE, and it sucks much worse than it did before.
I would much rather have WinNT because that's really more stable, but that doesn't support a lot of the things my laptop is able to do (no drivers, no USB). Finally, Win2000 is not supported by my company, for laptops, yet.
So I am stuck with Win98 which is crashing on me twice per day, expecially while using IE 5.
I am an avid DVD collector. Got any links where I can order it? I don't mind if it's Region 2 or Region 1, I can watch both (modchip).
Thanks in advance.
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Linux, that is.
It feels like yesterday when 2.0.x (x is some big integer, forgot the exact value) was the best thing on earth and I still have a machine running with 2.0.something
/. never report anything about the developments of HURD? I like the architecture, I was toying with the idea of someday replacing Linux with HURD, would be nice if the website I follow assiduously, would cover it a bit.
But why does
OK, I agree and it's good you clarified your attitude of the original post. Makes sense.
:o)
And just for the record: I don't own any of the consoles, actually, I don't own any console at all. If I find a console where I can play centipede and some such games together with my wife, I'll go for that. But I doubt I'll find a console with such games, expecially here in Finland
I agree with the premises of your post, (generally speaking) but this bit cracks me up:
Lastly, as for Nintendo's case, I just flat out don't believe those numbers. I talked to the local Best Buy and also to a few electronics stores in the mall just out of curiosity, and they say they've sold more Gamecubes than anything, but they've also had more shipments of Gamecubes, so they haven't sold out.
How scientific is that?
Another thing:
Hmmm. First of all, it seems like the article is referring to actual sales to individuals, not sales to vendors. I'm not 100% sure but I've always thought the companies make their statements by how many items they have sold to vendors, because once the vendor buys it from Nintendo, or Microsoft, or Sony, then they've made their money.
With consoles, that's not the case, to be correct befcause:
a) console makers lose money on each sold unit
b) the important figure, to generate interest from developers (who pay royalties to Sony/MS/nintendo) is the number of individuals that own a certain console.
OK, for those that don't actually want to do it, but are curous about just what this "turned into a full installation" means:
.exe self-extractor under win32, or gzip for Linux. In both cases, what it does it expans into a 500 MB file that resides on your (v)fat or ext2 partition, respectively. The whole filesystem, binaries, libraries, everything is contained in that file, and with the boot floppy you actually activate it as a separate disk partition. (the boot floppy is created by the self-extractor, or can the image can be downloaded and dd'd to a floppy under Linux).
BeOS personal edition comes as a 30something MB download. It's either an
The reason why it's considered not a full install, is that you are restricted to a 500 MB partition. Well, that's just on the surface. What you can do is, you can burn this file to a CD (now betips.net comes handy, to learn the details) and thus create an installation CD!
How can that be, you wonder. Well, as a matter of fact, you could installe BeOS off the file you installed on the (v)fat or ext2 partition, while you are booted into BeOS: you just use a utility called "install" (doh!) to install BeOS to another, free partition. You can even create your own BeOS "distros", by installing and modifying the applications and drivers inside the file.
Anyway, if curious, try it yourself, and look for details on betips.
The disposable PS2!
Seriously now, there must be some better way to get your message accross....
At least come up with something more environment-friendly.
Reminds me of an electric toaster company that bought back a 50 year old toaster to see why it still works
LOL! Do you have a link to some some resource on that? I'd reallly lke to give it a look.
However (back to serious mode), I doubt many consumer products are done to last, nowadays. I think exactly the contrary is happening: stuff is done so that it lasts over the warranty period, and that it's impossible or very hard to fix, so that the consumer is forced to buy a new one.
Example: once in the cellar of an old house I have found some old spare parts, like switches, sockets, lightbulb sockets etc. Most of the stuff was made by Siemens during or a bit prior to WW II. Well, that stuff is done in a fantastic way, using ceramic insulators whenever possible. Nowadays, nobody makes ceramic lightbulb sockets. Nobody makes switches that last a lifetime. It's just not a good idea, from a business point of view.
Somehow, 50 years ago, people were not so aware of the laws of business as we know them today. If the "eternal razorblade" was invented, someone would have actually tried to create a product and market it. Not today, even though the patent exists, it's buried in and by some razor producer (BIC, Wilkinson, Gilette, I don't know), because such a patent is more damaging to their business, than useful.
Another example: I suppose you saw the movie "Das Boot", based on a true story. In this movie/sotry, a german submarine rated to 50 meters, falls to under 100 m, and survives! Nowadays, 10% over the rating and it cracks. And you can't really complain, either.
You're right, SABRE is still in use. But I wonder whether, except for the name, the technology behind it is the same. And I don't mean mainframe vs. AIX, (afaik, SABRE is running on AIX nowadays) but the algorytms. I'm not saying it did change dramatically, I really don't know.
Interesting point, anyway.
mechanical engineers come up with a design that will pass the test of time with flying colors. the B-52 is just an example,but then there is the Morris Minor, the Porsche911 etc. One reason could be that there are no such dramatic technological advances in mechanical engineering, as there are in electronics (for example), so a few talented mechanical designers have the chance of making an outstanding, long-lasting product.
:o)
Let me explain this point: as transistors appeared, nobody wanted or had any reason to make computers based on valves or relays. Once you could integrate many transistors on one chip, most of the computer logic moved from discrete to integrated electronics. This, on the other hand, brought about new and more sophisticated logic designs.
In mechanical engineering you can have new alloys, new kinds of bearings, sensors and microcontroller-regulated engines, but the basic concept is totally the same. Today you could (theoretically) employ a mechanical designer from the beginning of the century, and he would be up to speed with his colleagues in a matter of months. And his biggest challenge would be to learn CAD/CAM software usage
Software engineers are probably the most "disposable" of thebunch: advances in software engineering (ans I don't mean just programming, like moving from RPG, PL/1 to Pascal and then to C, C++, Java etc., but advances in project management techniques, requirements management, software quality control, risk management, all that sh*t...) are coming at an incredible speed, even during an alleged economical downturn, that it's not anymore important whether you know something, but how fast you are able to learn something new.
So, if I was to think of one software design from the 60' (not that long ago, even), I can't think of any.
Good points. Now, if you allow me to be a bit nitpicking, if you ionize water, you don't get H2 and O2, but O-- and H+.
Back to serious mode: do you not think that with oxigene in the atmosphere, we could actually have a layer of ozone, which would reduce the effect of ionizing radiation? After all, that's what's happening here at home, it's not just the hydrogene is replenished, the ionization is smaller, too.
Just an idea, what do you think?
Actually, there is a chance to create a stable life-friendly environment on Mars. Think of what made theEarth the way we know it today: what changed the Earth was the evolutionary appearence of plants. Plants have dramatically decreased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, decreasing the temperature in the process.
That made the Earth habitable for most multicellular organisms that we know today (existing and extinct). The only problem with the appearance of plants on the Earth is.. that it's a damn shame it didn't happen ealrier! The only form of life on our planet, for about 3 billion years, was unicellular, not very efficient in photosinthesis(sp?). As soon as plants appeared, other much more complex beings appeared, thanks to a much better climate.
Basically, plants have stabilized the temperature of the Earth on a lower level. I believe that they could do a similar thing on Mars, but on a higher level. If we create an artificial greenhouse effect and we produce a lot of plants that would survive such conditions, these plants could act as a stabilizing mechanism and keep the temperature in some more acceptable margins.
Consider the other advantages: Mars would look a hell of a lot better.
but this needs a followup instead since Dimwit left something out. Namely that those set commands belong in /etc/system
/etc/system. After all, the original poster even mentioned rebooting the computer in order to activate them.
Not really, I don't think there is any Sun admin that wouldn't have at least guessed that those were kernel parameters that needed to be set in
So, your remark is informative for non-Sun administrators.
(here goes my karma. Oh well...)
As much as I admire your work, I don't think this sort of attitude is conducive to more help:
If you are indeed serious about this, come help out Werner and myself on wv or wv2 instead of re-duplicating our efforts.
Please mod this troll down.
How can you seriously expect someone to help you, while you are asking other people to mod him/her down? Doesn't that seem a bit belligerant to you?
Don't letyour ego get in the way of your goals, and you'll accomplish much more, and will be more respected.
Let's just say that I did a purposeful misinterpretation :op
Now, honestly, you don't think the studios are going to start producing WMV versions of movies instead of standard MPEG-2, do you, just because some of the players will be able to do it?
They probably will, and this is why: there is always a certain percentage of userbase that will "swallow it", and start bying the same titles in this new whiz-bang superduper format.
And the DVD-player makers will welcome it, to force users to replace their otherwise just fine DVD players with the new ones.
Special case: Sony! They are both a media AND home electronics company. I'll bet they will be the first to embrace the standard (or should I call it "standard"?), because they win both ways, selling more titles and more players. And the sale of one increases the demand for the other. Sony will do it in spite of all the anymosity between them and MS. Love (for money) is stronger than hate. heh
First of all, she is one of the first programmers in the history of computing.
Second, she is probably the programmer with the longest active career: she started before the war, and retired in 1983.
Third, hey, she had a husband 33 years younger than her!
I think she got a few things worth of envy, huh?
That's true, but according to stochastic nature of sub-particle processes, some electrons will still be able to leave the surface of the metal, even if very few. This is, btw, a good example of demonstrating how, some electrons, even if they have lower energy than a certain energy barrier, will be able to cross that barrier. It's just the likelyhood that's very small, hence the small number of electrons that will make it through.
the robot pet vibrator.