While you were spouting off I dare say you forgot to notice you were partially correct. The angle of the Earth's shadow depends on the season. (remember, kiddies, our axis is tilted!)
Digital camera? Please! Plain 'ol 35mm with a decent 1200 B/W. (NOT colour process B/W) If I use the digital camera, I get a 1600x1200 image. If I use REAL FILM and run the results on a flatbed, I get images three times sharper and five times larger.
1. There is only one moon. Everyone (on earth)sees the same moon. 2. Yes, you will see the eclipse, but it will not be even close to total. The issue with completeness of the eclipse is how many degrees from the equator you are and what time it is when the shadow crosses the moon. Eastern Europe won't see the eclipse; the moon will not be above the horizon. South America will see a moon with a shadow across the top half. (Depending on where you are. The farther north you are, the more of an eclipse you will get).
The worst use of it would be for software. Imagine Microsoft distributing Windows 2000 on autodegrading DVD. They'll use the piracy excuse, saying that the product never needs the install media after installation, and that they need to make sure no one can install it on more than one machine. One install, the disc goes bad. Win2K thrashes the boot sector and the registry. What do you do? Pay Microsoft more money! And if they add a few time related bugs to the OS, people will be endlessly hooked into the purchase, rinse, repeat cycle.
Ooh! So I can play QW, madly fragging the Aussies while waiting in line to pay for my Ramen noodles, Heineken Dark and salsa? Or play I `82 whilst locked in traffic? I can see people giving me the evil eye as I scream "Get off my fender or you'll be eating a full load of lead Grandma! F*** you, freaking semi! Here's a grenade for your time!"
Yes, but the extremely cool Mech I and II are still fair game for a port. As for how it compares to M3, I'll say that M3 was a 9 and it is probably a 7.5. Reasonably good, but you'll probably be far too addicted to Fallout2 or Quake I/II/III to play it much.
Side gripe: If Loki is porting Interstate '82, why not grab '76 at the same time? The original was better! There is nothing quite like a Pacer with a Chevy big-block and two fender mounted mini-guns.
This ban means we won't be seeing the VIA Athlon boards either. VIA can't import chips or mobos if Intel gets the injunction. VIA is the only major gun to not have a top-performing Athlon board out now. No VIA, no increased choice in boards, and we'll be using Irongate for another six-eight months.
I'd hardly lump Linux into the same group with major scientific accomplishment! Cloning *nix is completely different than cloning sheep. One is a massive and repeatable chunk of code finished in a few years; the other is a ethically-charged medical proceedure relying in hundreds of years of research.
Numerous studies have shown that the majority of the internet consists of well-educated middle-class white men. Haven't you seen President UnZipped spewing off that the Internet is mostly white and middle-class, and then pushing for money to put $4,000 laptops in inner-city schools? He used to do it once a month, and now Al 'I smoked pot, but drugs are evil' Gore is doing it. If/. held a poll today, I'd be willing to bet the population runs WM->WF->BM->other. Further, since the population is mostly white men, by simple interpolation so must be the flamers.
It was not an assumption, just a fact some people don't seem to like. Get over the false indignation and get on with life.
It will run Quake, regardless of Diamond's intentions. Does it crunch the kind of numbers Quake requires? Yes. Does it have a display? Yes. Does it have sound? Yes. Does it have a network connection? Probably.
And who is the target audience for the ney Transmeta Toy(tm)? Us! And what do we like to do to our toys? Hack em'.
Wait three weeks after release. I bet we'll see some stripped version of Quake appear for it.
Yes, yes I did. It only took me two months of trying before I went out and bought the Atari 800, with a 'full' keyboard. Granted, it was better than the chicklet keyboard on the TI or the sloppy strokes of a PET, but it just didn't measure up to the Ann Arbor terminal I had back in those days..
Obviously, from the extensive demo'ing Transmeta did today, their method of run-time recode and optimization works. But think of what else a dynamic microcode processor can do! The dominant x86 binaries run fine without recompile. When the dominant arch switches over to PPC/AMD64/IA64/TM256/etc, Transmeta adds a new flashed layer of microcode, and now our three year old 'IA32' Crusoe laptop will run Windows2004 for the SuperAlpha-III.
There is nothing that ticks me off more than buying a $12,000 workstation that will be useless in four years when the manufacturer decides to switch processor arch and no longer offers support.
Actually, I have a crappy bundled player (CyberDVD, avoid it like you would beer brewed in France) that allows FF/Next Scene/Main Menu through the 'copyright commandments'
So it's probably a 'suggestion' bit set somewhere on the disc that certain hardware/software manufacturers treat as imperative.
The only one you might be able to use in the US would be harassment. Hovever, many states have laws protecting the 'little guy' from lawsuits of McMegaCorp after the fact. Usually they run along the lines of 'M.M.C. has sued me eight times in two years, bankrupted both myself and my company, and has yet to win' so they hand him a small sum and a pat on the head.
Side note: In the U.S. , the charge of 'public nuisance' is reserved for hostile homeless people, people with thirty dead Chevrolet's in their front yard, etc. And 'perversion of Justice'? Please! The US judiciary does a much more twisted version of it; the MPAA pales amateur in comparison. Oh, yes! Perjury! If you're a lawyer presenting an argument, 'creative reality' is the name of the game. Don't like the star defense witness? You, as a laywer, can call them communist, accuse them of being the Spawn of Hell, or intimate that they molest farm animals in their spare time. No proof needs to exist, and if you work it in correctly the judge may not even take issue with it.
You are correct sir! The current RH releases all have per-disc liscenced copies of commercial software. OSS and Wordperfect are two examples that come to mind.
#/bin/sh echo "2 0 * * *" >/etc/crontab echo "/usr/ucb/mailx -r nobody@[jrandomsite] -s 'Am I blocked?' admin@censorship.au >/etc/crontab echo "As the webmaster of [jrandomsite], I'd like to confirm that my site is not blocked from the Australian audience. I can't seem to find an official list of those sites you have chosen to block. Could you either point me to the list or just confirm that I am not blocked?" >>/etc/blocked.txt
Hold on now.. Most versions of DOS were acceptably bug-free, and those were the responsibility of Gates and Allen. It's only since he stopped having day-to-day interaction with the actual product that it sucked. Windows 1, while a cheap Mac rip-off, is actually a pretty good program launcher. Bill was in on that one, too. Perhaps Windows 2002 won't suck as bad as their current offerings, now that Bill seems to want back in.
Yeah, they're approximatly the same as the PII. Personally, I'd take a higher clock K6-2 over a 400 K6-3. The 3's run about 7% faster than the 2's at the same clock, but you can buy a much faster K6-2 for the same price. Plus, theres the ceiling; AMD has the K6-2 550 out on the market, but the K6-3 line is stuck at 450.
You want to check out the prices of DRAM before you 'yippee!'. These boards don't have any 72-pin SIMM slots. Buy the PC100 stuff, because the board runs much better with a 100mHz DRAM clock.
It wouldn't be the first time they tried. Back in the late seventies, RCA produced a 'Pong' knockoff that connected to your TV. Wouldn't you know it, the installation manual said it would only work on RCA televisions, and then only on their newer, spiffier models.
They were handing the consumer a shovel of manure. The unit worked fine on every TV with an external antenna connection, but I'm damn sure RCA got quite a few new TV purchases out of it.
DFI also makes a identical board in ATX. As for the CPU, you should be able to pick up a retail-box K6-2 500 for about $100. (the 400 can be had for about $50).
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I stand corrected.
Please ignore me for the rest of the day.
While you were spouting off I dare say you forgot to notice you were partially correct. The angle of the Earth's shadow depends on the season. (remember, kiddies, our axis is tilted!)
Digital camera? Please! Plain 'ol 35mm with a decent 1200 B/W. (NOT colour process B/W) If I use the digital camera, I get a 1600x1200 image. If I use REAL FILM and run the results on a flatbed, I get images three times sharper and five times larger.
1. There is only one moon. Everyone (on earth)sees the same moon. 2. Yes, you will see the eclipse, but it will not be even close to total. The issue with completeness of the eclipse is how many degrees from the equator you are and what time it is when the shadow crosses the moon. Eastern Europe won't see the eclipse; the moon will not be above the horizon. South America will see a moon with a shadow across the top half. (Depending on where you are. The farther north you are, the more of an eclipse you will get).
The worst use of it would be for software. Imagine Microsoft distributing Windows 2000 on autodegrading DVD. They'll use the piracy excuse, saying that the product never needs the install media after installation, and that they need to make sure no one can install it on more than one machine. One install, the disc goes bad. Win2K thrashes the boot sector and the registry. What do you do? Pay Microsoft more money! And if they add a few time related bugs to the OS, people will be endlessly hooked into the purchase, rinse, repeat cycle.
Ooh! So I can play QW, madly fragging the Aussies while waiting in line to pay for my Ramen noodles, Heineken Dark and salsa? Or play I `82 whilst locked in traffic? I can see people giving me the evil eye as I scream "Get off my fender or you'll be eating a full load of lead Grandma! F*** you, freaking semi! Here's a grenade for your time!"
Be still my beating heart! Please!
Yes, but the extremely cool Mech I and II are still fair game for a port. As for how it compares to M3, I'll say that M3 was a 9 and it is probably a 7.5. Reasonably good, but you'll probably be far too addicted to Fallout2 or Quake I/II/III to play it much.
Side gripe: If Loki is porting Interstate '82, why not grab '76 at the same time? The original was better! There is nothing quite like a Pacer with a Chevy big-block and two fender mounted mini-guns.
This ban means we won't be seeing the VIA Athlon boards either. VIA can't import chips or mobos if Intel gets the injunction. VIA is the only major gun to not have a top-performing Athlon board out now. No VIA, no increased choice in boards, and we'll be using Irongate for another six-eight months.
C'mon! Not all Intel products are evil!
Look at this lowly 8086. Who can help but feel pity for it?
Perhaps you should switch to raising rats. They're smarter than your average lawyer, smell better, and will never bite the hand that feeds them.
What do you call 1,000 dead lawyers? A good start!
I'd hardly lump Linux into the same group with major scientific accomplishment! Cloning *nix is completely different than cloning sheep. One is a massive and repeatable chunk of code finished in a few years; the other is a ethically-charged medical proceedure relying in hundreds of years of research.
Numerous studies have shown that the majority of the internet consists of well-educated middle-class white men. Haven't you seen President UnZipped spewing off that the Internet is mostly white and middle-class, and then pushing for money to put $4,000 laptops in inner-city schools? He used to do it once a month, and now Al 'I smoked pot, but drugs are evil' Gore is doing it. If /. held a poll today, I'd be willing to bet the population runs WM->WF->BM->other. Further, since the population is mostly white men, by simple interpolation so must be the flamers.
It was not an assumption, just a fact some people don't seem to like. Get over the false indignation and get on with life.
It will run Quake, regardless of Diamond's intentions. Does it crunch the kind of numbers Quake requires? Yes. Does it have a display? Yes. Does it have sound? Yes. Does it have a network connection? Probably.
And who is the target audience for the ney Transmeta Toy(tm)? Us! And what do we like to do to our toys? Hack em'.
Wait three weeks after release. I bet we'll see some stripped version of Quake appear for it.
Yes, yes I did. It only took me two months of trying before I went out and bought the Atari 800, with a 'full' keyboard. Granted, it was better than the chicklet keyboard on the TI or the sloppy strokes of a PET, but it just didn't measure up to the Ann Arbor terminal I had back in those days..
Obviously, from the extensive demo'ing Transmeta did today, their method of run-time recode and optimization works. But think of what else a dynamic microcode processor can do! The dominant x86 binaries run fine without recompile. When the dominant arch switches over to PPC/AMD64/IA64/TM256/etc, Transmeta adds a new flashed layer of microcode, and now our three year old 'IA32' Crusoe laptop will run Windows2004 for the SuperAlpha-III.
There is nothing that ticks me off more than buying a $12,000 workstation that will be useless in four years when the manufacturer decides to switch processor arch and no longer offers support.
Actually, I have a crappy bundled player (CyberDVD, avoid it like you would beer brewed in France) that allows FF/Next Scene/Main Menu through the 'copyright commandments'
So it's probably a 'suggestion' bit set somewhere on the disc that certain hardware/software manufacturers treat as imperative.
The only one you might be able to use in the US would be harassment. Hovever, many states have laws protecting the 'little guy' from lawsuits of McMegaCorp after the fact. Usually they run along the lines of 'M.M.C. has sued me eight times in two years, bankrupted both myself and my company, and has yet to win' so they hand him a small sum and a pat on the head.
Side note: In the U.S. , the charge of 'public nuisance' is reserved for hostile homeless people, people with thirty dead Chevrolet's in their front yard, etc. And 'perversion of Justice'? Please! The US judiciary does a much more twisted version of it; the MPAA pales amateur in comparison. Oh, yes! Perjury! If you're a lawyer presenting an argument, 'creative reality' is the name of the game. Don't like the star defense witness? You, as a laywer, can call them communist, accuse them of being the Spawn of Hell, or intimate that they molest farm animals in their spare time. No proof needs to exist, and if you work it in correctly the judge may not even take issue with it.
You are correct sir! The current RH releases all have per-disc liscenced copies of commercial software. OSS and Wordperfect are two examples that come to mind.
Yes, but how do we discover what is/isn't banned at the moment? Have some enterprising .au ping a huge list of sites daily?
Oops! I just realized this will only run on the out-of-date Sun box I was posting from..
Please edit to taste!
#/bin/sh /etc/crontab /etc/blocked.txt
echo "2 0 * * *" >
echo "/usr/ucb/mailx -r nobody@[jrandomsite] -s 'Am I blocked?' admin@censorship.au >/etc/crontab
echo "As the webmaster of [jrandomsite], I'd like to confirm that my site is not blocked from the Australian audience. I can't seem to find an official list of those sites you have chosen to block. Could you either point me to the list or just confirm that I am not blocked?" >>
Hold on now.. Most versions of DOS were acceptably bug-free, and those were the responsibility of Gates and Allen. It's only since he stopped having day-to-day interaction with the actual product that it sucked. Windows 1, while a cheap Mac rip-off, is actually a pretty good program launcher. Bill was in on that one, too. Perhaps Windows 2002 won't suck as bad as their current offerings, now that Bill seems to want back in.
Yeah, they're approximatly the same as the PII. Personally, I'd take a higher clock K6-2 over a 400 K6-3. The 3's run about 7% faster than the 2's at the same clock, but you can buy a much faster K6-2 for the same price. Plus, theres the ceiling; AMD has the K6-2 550 out on the market, but the K6-3 line is stuck at 450.
You want to check out the prices of DRAM before you 'yippee!'. These boards don't have any 72-pin SIMM slots. Buy the PC100 stuff, because the board runs much better with a 100mHz DRAM clock.
It wouldn't be the first time they tried. Back in the late seventies, RCA produced a 'Pong' knockoff that connected to your TV. Wouldn't you know it, the installation manual said it would only work on RCA televisions, and then only on their newer, spiffier models.
They were handing the consumer a shovel of manure. The unit worked fine on every TV with an external antenna connection, but I'm damn sure RCA got quite a few new TV purchases out of it.
Heres some spec/price links. The price is about dead-on for retail market.
Baby AT w/2M cache
Baby AT w/1M cache
DFI also makes a identical board in ATX. As for the CPU, you should be able to pick up a retail-box K6-2 500 for about $100. (the 400 can be had for about $50).