Er... if I said Linux has a "toy kernel", would you not consider it a flamebait? I would. (but it wasn't me to mod down the AC, otherwise I wouldn't be posting).
Or BeOS, for that matter, even though BeOS has a wonderful SMP support! That's actually the reason I'm using BeOS today: the way it scales across multiple CPUs is the best among non-servers. Only Solaris can match it, but only in some functions: the UI in BeOS is completely multithreaded.
It's specifically forbidden, at least in Europe, but I remember it was forbidden on the plane to Fort Worth, too. That's why the ThinkPads come with a dummy CD/DVD, to be inserted in place of your CD or DVD, when you need the laptop to work during flight time.
What am I missing here, or is CmdrTaco totally unconsiderate?
VA Linux is notoriously Intel-only, which will bite them in the butt, eventually. Actually, as soon as they will have to start showing profits.
But of course, JMO.
Why is there no code versioning system for the Linux kernel? Will there ever be, ie. will the devtree be moved to some kind of CVS in the future?
I never dared to ask, thinking there's an obvious reason why there is no CVS for Linux, but I'm not so sure anymore. I sure would like to be able to browse the code without having to download the whole thing.
The 7110 had problems in the early versions of the firmware, but the one shipping the last few months is pretty good. It has the best protocol stack and best browser of the competing Ericsson R320 and Motorola Talkabout. I had to test them all, part of my job. I hope you get your hands on these models so you can compare. Try with several WAP sites, browse around, and decide for yourself.
Check the firmware version of the 7110, 4.80 is already rather good (even though about 6 months old). Type *#0000# to check the version.
BTW, IMHO the Motorola Talkabout has an outright ugly and unfriendly screen. Where on earth has Motorola found such cheap, contrastless LCD screens!?
That is wrong. That phone has a really flawed protocol stack, ICMP echo implementation is totally broken. The 7110 has a much better protocol and browser, than both r320 and Motorola Talkabout.
If you sere wondering why you can't use your Ericsson with halfof the existing Wap gateways, well, now you know.
I urge everybody to read it. I know that if you are posting here you have "supposedly" read it, but hey, this is slashdot;o)
Anyhow, I have read it in one breath, it's marvelous, kudos to Mr Marwick!
Now I can start dreaming of extraterrestrial civilizations...
Another BAF fan! Yay!
I personally think BAF is the best cartoon by any standards, but am pretty lonely at home or among friends, with my apprecciation.
I am thoroughly surprised noone has noticed the obvious: the only relevant market where Windows is -not- (yet) a standard is the IA. (not counting the handheld, ultralight stuff where PalmOS rules).
Many companies, expecially various Linux companies, and Be inc. are therefore betting on the IA market, where competition is still possible. "Not so!" (sez Mickeysoft) They want that market, too, and did what I think is obvious: make PROPRIETARY HARDWARE whos specs only MS will know, and therefore, only Windows-supported.
With the $5 billion bribe to AT&T, to sell 5 million WebTVs to their customers (you remember this, right? don't let me dig the url... me lazy) and other similar spins, Mickeysoft is -really serious- about the IA market.
Oh, and just a little rant, please disregard: F*CCCKKKK Mickeysoft!!!!!!
Look, there are two possibilities: either this is not caused by humans, or it is. Most scientist believe it is. Now, we can either do nothing and see what happens, or we can try to stop the pollution and greenhouse gas emission. The former would be simpler, just go on living as you did, but risking -EVERYTHING-
The latter could mean sustainable survival.
I am not sure whether this is correct, I think it's not, but that is not my point now. I wonder whether you took into consideration the deforestation and the thinning of the Ozone layer.
Yes, there is a significant deforestation, which is also a cause of increase of CO2.
Here are some things we do know:
the earth used to be a lot warmer, a thousand years ago. That's when the Norse were farming in Greenland, where there is permafrost and desolation today.
The earth has been a lot colder than it is now. Think about the Ice Ages.
The earth was a lot colder than it is now just 500 years ago. Today they call that the mini ice age, and it's what killed off the Norse colonies in Greenland and North America. As recently as 200 years ago, the canals in Holland were freezing over every winter. That hasn't happened for a long time, now. We seem to be coming out of that mini ice age, but slowly and with steps backwards.
Sorry, but we have at least SOME long-range data, that are very preoccupying.
Look at this: there's a Flash animation running inside Konqueror! Man, I might make a visit back to GUI.
OTOH, I am very used to CLI for whatever I use Linux for.
They did -not- pump all of the air from the bag. They even added paper tissues, if you have noticed.The paper tissue alone would add one millimeter of air layer, if not more. And they had more than that around the CPU, if you have noticed.
And the temperature measured was probably not on the CPU itself, but on the plastic bag's surface (from the inside). -65 would be WAY too good to be true if it was measured on the CPU, the thermal gradient is, unfortunately, much higher.
Even the overclocking results show it clearly that the poor CPU was sweating bigtime.
I stand by what I said. You are wrong.
Funny that they didn't realize that putting the mobo in a plastic bag creates a thermal shield (air) around it! And air is the BEST thermal insulator, after vacuum. These guys must be pretty weak in physics, I figure.
Actually, putting the mobo in that bag should have increased the temperature around the CPU: I guess the fan was not deactivated, so it was turning inside a very limited space, which creates a considerable mechanical resistance to the circulation of the air. This, in turn, makes the fan itself overheat, and hence the CPU, too.
I was wondering if this happens to others, too: since some time (a month or so) I noticed that my karma would decrease by 4 and sometimes 6 points overnight. I could never track any of my posts moderated down. I went back to some 2 month old posts, but I coud find no evidence of negative moderation. I think something is fishy here.
Disclaimer: English is not my mother tongue. AFAIK, when someone in the media refers to "systems", they mean a whole computer, not the CPU. So, and according to the article, this is not the thunderbird's fault. In other words, it's not AMD's fault. In other words, the original poster is a bit too harsh in condemning AMD. Expesially calling AMD desperate? I would say the only company that is "desperate" in the CPU business, right now is Intel.
Slashdot Mirror
The link "IDC stats for July" http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 104&STORY=/www/story/09-06-2000/00013053 22&EDATE=
;o)
has nothing to do with IDC whatsoever! The source is Mandrakesoft, and the data was collected by some anonymous computer group.
Did moderators check what's behind these links? Or is Internet becoming the DisInfromation highway?
That article is not based on IDC data at all!!! Do moderators actually read what's behind these links?
Er... if I said Linux has a "toy kernel", would you not consider it a flamebait? I would. (but it wasn't me to mod down the AC, otherwise I wouldn't be posting).
Or BeOS, for that matter, even though BeOS has a wonderful SMP support! That's actually the reason I'm using BeOS today: the way it scales across multiple CPUs is the best among non-servers. Only Solaris can match it, but only in some functions: the UI in BeOS is completely multithreaded.
It's specifically forbidden, at least in Europe, but I remember it was forbidden on the plane to Fort Worth, too. That's why the ThinkPads come with a dummy CD/DVD, to be inserted in place of your CD or DVD, when you need the laptop to work during flight time.
What am I missing here, or is CmdrTaco totally unconsiderate?
VA Linux is notoriously Intel-only, which will bite them in the butt, eventually. Actually, as soon as they will have to start showing profits.
But of course, JMO.
That actually sux bigtime. I know we would go nuts in 0 seconds without ClearCase, in my company.
Why is there no code versioning system for the Linux kernel? Will there ever be, ie. will the devtree be moved to some kind of CVS in the future?
I never dared to ask, thinking there's an obvious reason why there is no CVS for Linux, but I'm not so sure anymore. I sure would like to be able to browse the code without having to download the whole thing.
I just tried with my Nokia 8110i, and it worked just fine, no lokups.
The Ericsson WAP phones have a pretty fucked-up protocol stack.
The 7110 had problems in the early versions of the firmware, but the one shipping the last few months is pretty good. It has the best protocol stack and best browser of the competing Ericsson R320 and Motorola Talkabout. I had to test them all, part of my job. I hope you get your hands on these models so you can compare. Try with several WAP sites, browse around, and decide for yourself.
Check the firmware version of the 7110, 4.80 is already rather good (even though about 6 months old). Type *#0000# to check the version.
BTW, IMHO the Motorola Talkabout has an outright ugly and unfriendly screen. Where on earth has Motorola found such cheap, contrastless LCD screens!?
That is wrong. That phone has a really flawed protocol stack, ICMP echo implementation is totally broken. The 7110 has a much better protocol and browser, than both r320 and Motorola Talkabout.
If you sere wondering why you can't use your Ericsson with halfof the existing Wap gateways, well, now you know.
I urge everybody to read it. I know that if you are posting here you have "supposedly" read it, but hey, this is slashdot ;o)
Anyhow, I have read it in one breath, it's marvelous, kudos to Mr Marwick!
Now I can start dreaming of extraterrestrial civilizations...
Another BAF fan! Yay! I personally think BAF is the best cartoon by any standards, but am pretty lonely at home or among friends, with my apprecciation.
I am thoroughly surprised noone has noticed the obvious: the only relevant market where Windows is -not- (yet) a standard is the IA. (not counting the handheld, ultralight stuff where PalmOS rules).
Many companies, expecially various Linux companies, and Be inc. are therefore betting on the IA market, where competition is still possible. "Not so!" (sez Mickeysoft) They want that market, too, and did what I think is obvious: make PROPRIETARY HARDWARE whos specs only MS will know, and therefore, only Windows-supported.
With the $5 billion bribe to AT&T, to sell 5 million WebTVs to their customers (you remember this, right? don't let me dig the url... me lazy) and other similar spins, Mickeysoft is -really serious- about the IA market.
Oh, and just a little rant, please disregard: F*CCCKKKK Mickeysoft!!!!!!
(2) Is there an actual net increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
The answer is a BIG F*CKING YES!
Hummm... I guess many /.-ers will dismiss the dangers of global warming, but here's a different view.
Look, there are two possibilities: either this is not caused by humans, or it is. Most scientist believe it is. Now, we can either do nothing and see what happens, or we can try to stop the pollution and greenhouse gas emission. The former would be simpler, just go on living as you did, but risking -EVERYTHING-
The latter could mean sustainable survival.
I am not sure whether this is correct, I think it's not, but that is not my point now. I wonder whether you took into consideration the deforestation and the thinning of the Ozone layer.
Yes, there is a significant deforestation, which is also a cause of increase of CO2.
Here are some things we do know:
the earth used to be a lot warmer, a thousand years ago. That's when the Norse were farming in Greenland, where there is permafrost and desolation today.
The earth has been a lot colder than it is now. Think about the Ice Ages.
The earth was a lot colder than it is now just 500 years ago. Today they call that the mini ice age, and it's what killed off the Norse colonies in Greenland and North America. As recently as 200 years ago, the canals in Holland were freezing over every winter. That hasn't happened for a long time, now. We seem to be coming out of that mini ice age, but slowly and with steps backwards.
Sorry, but we have at least SOME long-range data, that are very preoccupying.
Two British scientists say the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere is higher than for 20 million years.
USA alone produces 35% of all the greenhouse gases. That's why they have been hammered at the Kyoto convention, but will never meet their target.
Next time there's a wildfire near to you, don't blame "mother nature".
Look at this: there's a Flash animation running inside Konqueror! Man, I might make a visit back to GUI. OTOH, I am very used to CLI for whatever I use Linux for.
They did -not- pump all of the air from the bag. They even added paper tissues, if you have noticed.The paper tissue alone would add one millimeter of air layer, if not more. And they had more than that around the CPU, if you have noticed. And the temperature measured was probably not on the CPU itself, but on the plastic bag's surface (from the inside). -65 would be WAY too good to be true if it was measured on the CPU, the thermal gradient is, unfortunately, much higher. Even the overclocking results show it clearly that the poor CPU was sweating bigtime. I stand by what I said. You are wrong.
Funny that they didn't realize that putting the mobo in a plastic bag creates a thermal shield (air) around it! And air is the BEST thermal insulator, after vacuum. These guys must be pretty weak in physics, I figure.
Actually, putting the mobo in that bag should have increased the temperature around the CPU: I guess the fan was not deactivated, so it was turning inside a very limited space, which creates a considerable mechanical resistance to the circulation of the air. This, in turn, makes the fan itself overheat, and hence the CPU, too.
Really, really dumb....
I was wondering if this happens to others, too: since some time (a month or so) I noticed that my karma would decrease by 4 and sometimes 6 points overnight. I could never track any of my posts moderated down. I went back to some 2 month old posts, but I coud find no evidence of negative moderation. I think something is fishy here.
Any comments?
Disclaimer: English is not my mother tongue. AFAIK, when someone in the media refers to
"systems", they mean a whole computer, not the CPU. So, and according to the article,
this is not the thunderbird's fault. In other words, it's not AMD's fault.
In other words, the original poster is a bit too harsh in condemning AMD.
Expesially calling AMD desperate? I would say the only company that is "desperate" in the CPU business, right now is Intel.