In this way, the calendar server is only responsible for serving up the data, and you wouldn't care about the capabilities of the client, because after all the client will determine its own capabilities and process and display the data according to what it can do.
Isn't that what HTML was supposed to be like? *g*.
Of course, someone builds something like this, and the first thing they're going to whinge about is the lack the system's ability to set the colour of your fonts.... *sigh*
Deep Blue was a machine optimised for graph searches. Now, given this, Kasperov claims that there may have been a human component in his match with Deep Blue. According to him, he claims that if a decent human pruned some of the search trees for Deep Blue first, then DB would have no problems performing like a world-class chess player. Something to think about....
Still good for AMD, as this is a chipset designed to support the AMD Athlons. Yeah, it's a Micron chipset, but AMD has said repeatedly in the past that they're not in the chipset business. Of course, after the 760MP chipset announcement, I tend to take that with a bit of salt.
Then again, this may be a killer uniprocessor chipset, but I would've loved to see a 4+way MP chipset with specs otherwise similar to this, taking full-advantage of the EV6-protocol that the Athlon uses. --
Disclaimer: this is a "I heard from a 'reliable source'"-type rumour.
<rumour>
That said, a good friend of mine worked at Intel c.1998 as an intern. He states that Intel at the time lost money on every Celery they sold. How does the processor division stay profitable? The Xeon processors. If this was indeed the case (he didn't work for the finance area, he worked as a geek there), and if it still is the case, then Intel suits must be laughing their arses off as they hand AMD the "enthusiast" crowd, and they take the server arena. Most businesses I know still won't trust AMD with their servers, so even the current crop of 2-way-only Xeons (which are probably just regular PIII's mated to the slot-2 package) can recoup the losses in the consumer arena.
</rumour>
That said, the Athlons seem to be great processors (though I've never used one--the newest box here is a Mobile PII-366 =P)). Maybe that's why AMD is so keen on getting in on the server market?
Just looking at the books of both AMD and Intel can be rather revealing; in The Register's words, AMD is still a chimp compared to Intel's 800lb gorilla. --
A few things. First, though things like Graphics cards will *possibly* tax the limits of PCI, many things that're currently connected to the PCI bus won't tax it. Take, for an instance, that the 33MHz 32bit PCI bus can transfer data at approx. 132MB/s. Now, even Ultra160 transfers data at 160Mb/s (note the b vs B). The ATA100 clocks in, at most, at 100Mb/s. I don't see the 33MHz 32bit PCI being the bottleneck, do you?
Now, if you throw a caching RAID controller on it, things become different. That's why on server-class mb's, you'll find 64bit 66MHz PCI slots, that're, at first-order analysis, *four* times the speed of the 33MHz 32bit PCI.
I'd rather see 64bit 66MHz PCI graphics cards than the current crop of AGP 2x or 4x graphics cards, imo.
Sorry, step, but I'm even more cynical. Maybe they're seeing competition from Oracle increasing, and wanted to streamline? Then they can just dump the DB developers and concentrate efforts on SAP R/3.
For some, the participation in an online community constitutes their leisure time. Yes, it may become a problem, but then, so can just about everything else. --
An esteemed colleague of mine met his now-fiancee online too, and she just moved to the same city to be with him. Wedding scheduled for the Summer of 2001.
That said, many online relationships dissolve. I wish you two the best.
Ewps. I just reread what I said. The case United States of America vs. Microsoft Corporation was decided by a judge, not by a jury of peers. Perhaps this is the distinction? --
</rant> <-- similarly, indicates the end of my rants.
YMMV == "Your Mileage May Vary"
Having gotten through that:
I agree wholeheartedly with what you've just written, actually. Perhaps the lobbying groups need to be accredited? Give them a very firm spending limit on what they can contribute to the politicians' campaigns, and have them be audited every year, that kinda stuff (yes, auditing will become expensive--not a perfect solution, I know).
Having said that, your view on apathy and corruption, I think, is right-on. Perhaps we need to institute something similar to what the Russian election process uses, and require that the politicians being elected be elected by the majority of their consitituents, not the majority of votes. This may/may not cut down on some of the apathy, and with the voting turnouts being so low, it does make for an interesting reform.
Also, I know that this may be a Bad Idea, but what about making not voting a crime or something akin to a traffic violation? Yeah, it'll put some stresses on our beleagured court systems, so this needs to be throughly investigated, and possibly thrown out as a solution.
Lockean philosophy on government states that if the government is unjust, then it is the peoples' duty to overthrow the government. Well, currently, it is unjust, and our Constitution has placed methods for changing the government (i.e. voting!), so quit-cher-whining, and get out there, vote if you can, and use that Right to Assembly!
Not to nitpick, but if you were busted for grand larceny, and was convicted by a trial by jury, wouldn't you start your sentence, regardless of the appellate process? --
Trolls know this well, and so do karma whores, to an extent: it's a simple matter of politics. Democracy was cracked by power-hungry lobbyists pretty much the same way Slashdot was cracked by the trolls. If you want enlightened comments and worthwhile discussions, then placing the debate in the hands of the silent majority is just going to create a mess.
Take Big Brother as an example: are you surprised the pretty face with the missing leg won? This shows you how pathetic it was to let the whole Internet vote. If you compare with Survivor, where the people involved in the action did the voting, there's a modicum of sense that arises. The winner was not the prettiest or the most popular, but the one who worked the hardest and made the most sense.
Bloody hell, you just described what Heinlein described as a problem in Starship Troopers. No, I'm not advocating the transmigration of our society to that outlined in his novel, but I think several reforms are in order (this will be Americentric, as I have no fucking clue as how the other systems work).
First, eliminate the ability of non-individuals to contribute monetarily to campaigns. When corporations and lobbyist groups contribute, we then essentially have built an opportunity for a particular, wealthy, segment of the population to contribute twice for the same fucking person.
Second, impose term limits on the legislative branch. Then, we may see lusers there voting their conscience rather than voting their reelection funding.
Finally, make a judicial review of laws not passed by a certain (i.e. two-thirds) majority of the Congress, or have been "signed" into law via the "do-nothing" method of the President mandatory. That way, in theory, anything "questionable" should get a review for the constitutionality. Assuming again, of course, that the Judges are clued and that they're voting their conscience.
Of course, I just pulled this out of my ass in much less time than it took Heinlein to write his dissertation, or for the current system to develop, or even some reformists to think up of strategies, so YMMV greatly.
From the parent post to the one I'm replying to: "Mozilla is dead".
What I don't like is tight-assed zealots.
Perhaps the old-timers are still around and lurking
We old-timers would call many of the current cap of zealots Linux-weenies, after the similar UNIX-weenies of the bygone era. It's sad, really, when the spirit of the old-school UNIX hackers died at the same time as the popularisation of Linux, many of us left the geek scene.
I made a comment the other day to a coworker, when asked what I thought of Linux as an OS. I replied, "It sucks less than most of them out there" (note: this was being asked by a guy with at least an MS in CS, with a solid grounding in OS theory, and has read about 40-50% of the Linux source, and analised its strengths and weaknesses as a solution. How many of us have actually done so lately?). Yeah, it's more stable than Win9x, but that's like saying my car's faster than a tricycle. Compared even to NT, Linux suddenly seems less stellar.
What I really get annoyed by is the Linux-weenies (who tend to cluster around the ages of ~14-20) who get some half-baked idea in their heads, and try to ram it down everybody elses' throats. Yeah, some of them are downright brilliant (both ideas and the youngun's), but the sheer arrogance of these people sickens me. It kind of reminds me of the MacOS zealotry of the early 90's, actually, when Mac started to die.
Is Linux dying? Yes. Linux as we knew it in 1993-1995 is dead. Try ramming something like the a.out -> ELF format change down the Linux zealots' throats now. Actually, I would love to see this. It's time to grow up, people. Open is great, but Open isn't the only way to play.
Mozilla-as-Netscape, btw, is dead in many peoples' eyes. It died when Netscape released NS 4.5. It continued to rot as NS, and AOL-NS, released 4.6 and the nauseatingly large patch levels 4.7. Meanwhile, "Public Beta"'s come out every six months, look ugly as sin, and is still not 100% standards-compliant (the best one still out there, imo, is IE 5.0 for the Macintosh). Lovely. This just gives the corporate suits more ammo to not play by the counterculture rules. Sorry, kids, but they/we (I now work for a large multinational as a member of the management now...yeah, I used to be a geek) write the rules. It's time to wake and grow up.
Not sure what category they'd fall under, but I would like a bunch of politicians so I can repeal crap like DMCA and the like. While I'm at it, I'd get rid of patents on mathematical formulae, and deem programs as mathematical formulae. Oh, mommy, can I also get Mr. Bezo to get rid of Amazon.com's 1-Click patent too?
When I looked at the licensing agreements for the "free" Solaris 7, it was only free as a non-commercial license; if you wanted to make money using Solaris, you had to pay Sun the Big Bucks --
Exactly. If a company's going to shell out tens of thousand dollars for *each* SPARC server kit, they're not going to balk at paying a few dozen thousands for Solaris, so it will be supported by the original vendor.
Who this hurts, of course, are the individual owners of SPARC kits. Of course, these people who own the kits will probably not be buying their copy of RH at places like CompUSSR....
True--most finance types probably wouldn't know Alpha from UltraSPARC; they just know that one is made by Compaq and the other by Sun. They probably won't care about the reality; they're just interested in the troll.
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Isn't that what HTML was supposed to be like? *g*.
Of course, someone builds something like this, and the first thing they're going to whinge about is the lack the system's ability to set the colour of your fonts.... *sigh*
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Deep Blue was a machine optimised for graph searches. Now, given this, Kasperov claims that there may have been a human component in his match with Deep Blue. According to him, he claims that if a decent human pruned some of the search trees for Deep Blue first, then DB would have no problems performing like a world-class chess player. Something to think about....
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Still good for AMD, as this is a chipset designed to support the AMD Athlons. Yeah, it's a Micron chipset, but AMD has said repeatedly in the past that they're not in the chipset business. Of course, after the 760MP chipset announcement, I tend to take that with a bit of salt.
Then again, this may be a killer uniprocessor chipset, but I would've loved to see a 4+way MP chipset with specs otherwise similar to this, taking full-advantage of the EV6-protocol that the Athlon uses.
--
Disclaimer: this is a "I heard from a 'reliable source'"-type rumour.
<rumour>
That said, a good friend of mine worked at Intel c.1998 as an intern. He states that Intel at the time lost money on every Celery they sold. How does the processor division stay profitable? The Xeon processors. If this was indeed the case (he didn't work for the finance area, he worked as a geek there), and if it still is the case, then Intel suits must be laughing their arses off as they hand AMD the "enthusiast" crowd, and they take the server arena. Most businesses I know still won't trust AMD with their servers, so even the current crop of 2-way-only Xeons (which are probably just regular PIII's mated to the slot-2 package) can recoup the losses in the consumer arena.
</rumour>
That said, the Athlons seem to be great processors (though I've never used one--the newest box here is a Mobile PII-366 =P)). Maybe that's why AMD is so keen on getting in on the server market?
Just looking at the books of both AMD and Intel can be rather revealing; in The Register's words, AMD is still a chimp compared to Intel's 800lb gorilla.
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Damn them, now I'll have to put in a P.O. for a space heater *and* a new server =P
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<pedantic>
A few things. First, though things like Graphics cards will *possibly* tax the limits of PCI, many things that're currently connected to the PCI bus won't tax it. Take, for an instance, that the 33MHz 32bit PCI bus can transfer data at approx. 132MB/s. Now, even Ultra160 transfers data at 160Mb/s (note the b vs B). The ATA100 clocks in, at most, at 100Mb/s. I don't see the 33MHz 32bit PCI being the bottleneck, do you?
Now, if you throw a caching RAID controller on it, things become different. That's why on server-class mb's, you'll find 64bit 66MHz PCI slots, that're, at first-order analysis, *four* times the speed of the 33MHz 32bit PCI.
I'd rather see 64bit 66MHz PCI graphics cards than the current crop of AGP 2x or 4x graphics cards, imo.
</pedantic>
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Sorry, step, but I'm even more cynical. Maybe they're seeing competition from Oracle increasing, and wanted to streamline? Then they can just dump the DB developers and concentrate efforts on SAP R/3.
Then again, I may be speaking out of my arse.
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For some, the participation in an online community constitutes their leisure time. Yes, it may become a problem, but then, so can just about everything else.
--
An esteemed colleague of mine met his now-fiancee online too, and she just moved to the same city to be with him. Wedding scheduled for the Summer of 2001.
That said, many online relationships dissolve. I wish you two the best.
--
Ewps. I just reread what I said. The case United States of America vs. Microsoft Corporation was decided by a judge, not by a jury of peers. Perhaps this is the distinction?
--
First, some definitions:
<rant> <-- indicates a beginning of my rants.
</rant> <-- similarly, indicates the end of my rants.
YMMV == "Your Mileage May Vary"
Having gotten through that:
I agree wholeheartedly with what you've just written, actually. Perhaps the lobbying groups need to be accredited? Give them a very firm spending limit on what they can contribute to the politicians' campaigns, and have them be audited every year, that kinda stuff (yes, auditing will become expensive--not a perfect solution, I know).
Having said that, your view on apathy and corruption, I think, is right-on. Perhaps we need to institute something similar to what the Russian election process uses, and require that the politicians being elected be elected by the majority of their consitituents, not the majority of votes. This may/may not cut down on some of the apathy, and with the voting turnouts being so low, it does make for an interesting reform.
Also, I know that this may be a Bad Idea, but what about making not voting a crime or something akin to a traffic violation? Yeah, it'll put some stresses on our beleagured court systems, so this needs to be throughly investigated, and possibly thrown out as a solution.
Lockean philosophy on government states that if the government is unjust, then it is the peoples' duty to overthrow the government. Well, currently, it is unjust, and our Constitution has placed methods for changing the government (i.e. voting!), so quit-cher-whining, and get out there, vote if you can, and use that Right to Assembly!
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Not to nitpick, but if you were busted for grand larceny, and was convicted by a trial by jury, wouldn't you start your sentence, regardless of the appellate process?
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Who's Bob Lande? I think CNet will take just about anyone who can sound officious enough =P
For the humour-impaired: that was a joke =P
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Bloody hell, you just described what Heinlein described as a problem in Starship Troopers. No, I'm not advocating the transmigration of our society to that outlined in his novel, but I think several reforms are in order (this will be Americentric, as I have no fucking clue as how the other systems work).
First, eliminate the ability of non-individuals to contribute monetarily to campaigns. When corporations and lobbyist groups contribute, we then essentially have built an opportunity for a particular, wealthy, segment of the population to contribute twice for the same fucking person.
Second, impose term limits on the legislative branch. Then, we may see lusers there voting their conscience rather than voting their reelection funding.
Finally, make a judicial review of laws not passed by a certain (i.e. two-thirds) majority of the Congress, or have been "signed" into law via the "do-nothing" method of the President mandatory. That way, in theory, anything "questionable" should get a review for the constitutionality. Assuming again, of course, that the Judges are clued and that they're voting their conscience.
Of course, I just pulled this out of my ass in much less time than it took Heinlein to write his dissertation, or for the current system to develop, or even some reformists to think up of strategies, so YMMV greatly.
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<rant>
From the parent post to the one I'm replying to: "Mozilla is dead".
What I don't like is tight-assed zealots.
Perhaps the old-timers are still around and lurking
We old-timers would call many of the current cap of zealots Linux-weenies, after the similar UNIX-weenies of the bygone era. It's sad, really, when the spirit of the old-school UNIX hackers died at the same time as the popularisation of Linux, many of us left the geek scene.
I made a comment the other day to a coworker, when asked what I thought of Linux as an OS. I replied, "It sucks less than most of them out there" (note: this was being asked by a guy with at least an MS in CS, with a solid grounding in OS theory, and has read about 40-50% of the Linux source, and analised its strengths and weaknesses as a solution. How many of us have actually done so lately?). Yeah, it's more stable than Win9x, but that's like saying my car's faster than a tricycle. Compared even to NT, Linux suddenly seems less stellar.
What I really get annoyed by is the Linux-weenies (who tend to cluster around the ages of ~14-20) who get some half-baked idea in their heads, and try to ram it down everybody elses' throats. Yeah, some of them are downright brilliant (both ideas and the youngun's), but the sheer arrogance of these people sickens me. It kind of reminds me of the MacOS zealotry of the early 90's, actually, when Mac started to die.
Is Linux dying? Yes. Linux as we knew it in 1993-1995 is dead. Try ramming something like the a.out -> ELF format change down the Linux zealots' throats now. Actually, I would love to see this. It's time to grow up, people. Open is great, but Open isn't the only way to play.
Mozilla-as-Netscape, btw, is dead in many peoples' eyes. It died when Netscape released NS 4.5. It continued to rot as NS, and AOL-NS, released 4.6 and the nauseatingly large patch levels 4.7. Meanwhile, "Public Beta"'s come out every six months, look ugly as sin, and is still not 100% standards-compliant (the best one still out there, imo, is IE 5.0 for the Macintosh). Lovely. This just gives the corporate suits more ammo to not play by the counterculture rules. Sorry, kids, but they/we (I now work for a large multinational as a member of the management now...yeah, I used to be a geek) write the rules. It's time to wake and grow up.
</rant>
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Not sure what category they'd fall under, but I would like a bunch of politicians so I can repeal crap like DMCA and the like. While I'm at it, I'd get rid of patents on mathematical formulae, and deem programs as mathematical formulae. Oh, mommy, can I also get Mr. Bezo to get rid of Amazon.com's 1-Click patent too?
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Is h ere , at h ttp ://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.esat.kuleuven .ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/.
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When I looked at the licensing agreements for the "free" Solaris 7, it was only free as a non-commercial license; if you wanted to make money using Solaris, you had to pay Sun the Big Bucks
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Given the open source nature of the proposed beastie, that would definately be in the "cheaper than a PS2" category, no? *grin*
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Exactly. If a company's going to shell out tens of thousand dollars for *each* SPARC server kit, they're not going to balk at paying a few dozen thousands for Solaris, so it will be supported by the original vendor.
Who this hurts, of course, are the individual owners of SPARC kits. Of course, these people who own the kits will probably not be buying their copy of RH at places like CompUSSR....
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NASA needs to think of ratings because that's how the politicians gauge the popularity of spending billions of tax dollars for space.
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They're betting that it'll grow explosively after they release their processors. Mind you, I really don't see this happening, but we'll see...
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Nah... think open sourced software documentation. If it sucks, rewrite it.
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True--most finance types probably wouldn't know Alpha from UltraSPARC; they just know that one is made by Compaq and the other by Sun. They probably won't care about the reality; they're just interested in the troll.
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Only if the gateway-side abstracts the rest of the network and makes it seem like a single über-server.
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