Both Intel, which this month rocked markets when it forecast third-quarter sales below Wall Street's expectations, and AMD use the same chip architecture, called X-86, which is almost 25 years old.
Ditzel said, however, Transmeta's strategy was to go after the ``two very big niche markets'' of chips for notebooks and Internet mobile devices and that Intel and AMD, strong in chips for desktops and servers, should not be worried about Transmeta.
I have yet to see a product out there that uses a processor from Transmeta. Aside from that, this is just good old FUD-spewing by the boys who made Crusoe. Both Intel (with their P6 core) and AMD (since the K6 days) have stopped executing x86 instructions directly. They do hardware realtime translation of x86 instructions. I'm going to guess that Crusoe does this as well, but partially in software (much like the first PPC-based Macs).
I have yet to see any benchmarks on battery life or processor performance either. I don't care if the battery on my Crusoe-based notebook lasts 1hr more than my Intel-based Thinkpad, if the bloody thing runs at 486-speeds. To substantiate the claim, I would at least like to see performance benchmarks!
Damn Straight! I can also cite one thing from the media's spotlight of the campaigning: An inanimate carbon rod would be better for president than Bush.
Kind of reminds me of the IOP (Inanimate Objects Party) my uni had for the elections.
Actually, it's impossible to keep it backwards-compatible with at least the Undernet implementation (well, as of 2.9.32 or something) of the ircd; there cannot be more than one routes to a given server from another server. --
My wonderful EFnet, that I've enjoyed for so many years (7 or 8), is finally crumbling.
Maybe, but we of the Undernet, when we split away from EFNet, said the same thing years ago:-). When Undernet had similar issues, about three years ago, we said the same too, and started up Yet Another Network (tm). That YAN died, and Undernet is still around. Most EFNet admins are at least halfway clued; give it time....
It's been my experience that IRC servers tend to work best when in a star topology (or something close to it) than in the "spanning tree" they chose to describe in RFC-1459 (now there's an outdated document--anyone know of a completely RFC-1459-compliant network? I didn't think so:-) ). When you have a massive routing-only server, with all the other servers connected to it, it helps a great deal. Mind you, it may work better with multiple central servers, but YMMV.
Right now, speculation of "who is better than who" will be overshadowed by "who has released the software/hardware/network to utilise it". I don't care if i-Mode is superiour to WAP if WAP becomes released first and gains significant marketshare. As a (very lazy) web developer, I'm going to concentrate on the 20% of technology that will allow me to reach 80% of the people, and not the other way around.
Though, I've seen (and used) iMode phones in Tokyo. They're slick, but then, will NTT be able to ram i-Mode through the international standardisation so that I can take an i-Mode phone (almost) anywhere? Will the current international mobile nightmare finally end?
Older, text-based versions of WordPerfect were ported to Unix long ago. You might even still be able to buy them (not from Corel, but from the company that did the actual porting; I forget their name). For a number of years, WordPerfect's cross-platform abilities were touted as a major selling point.
Yes, it's cross-platform (I've seen X11-based Wordperfect on Solaris and AIX, possibly even IRIX at my uni), but the ports themselves *suck*. Even on an Ultra-1, with 256MB of RAM--hardly a slow machine back in 1996, the bloody things *chugged*. No, we were not running CDE, we were running vanilla X11R6 with (I believe) fvwm for the window manager.
Wordperfect 8, on Windows, also was a pain. The installer isn't nearly idiot-proofed for the typical (l)user, and though it's overkill for 99% of the people, the problem I had with Wordperfect is that compared to MS Word, the UI was less intuitive (not saying that MSW has the ultimate UI, mind you, just better than WP8 IMO).
I'm just hoping that Corel Draw would be enough to carry the company through....
I disagree with your point that these companies couldn't afford to pay the full market rates.
Actually, I meant to say that these companies can and should pay the full market rates, regardless of the person's citizenship/immigration status. Currently, they're unwilling to pay these people what they deserve, and that's why I'm a bit disgruntled (though, being a resident alien, *I* get paid the "full market value" whatever that is;p)
Sure, AOL and Time Warner are not telcos. The cable companies, though, are utilities. In my quest to get either DSL or Cable Modem (admittedly in different markets), I've been plagued with provider issues. Just getting the Cox@Home service back in 1998 was a nightmare. However, compared to getting DSL through an alternative ISP, it was a walk in the park.
What makes the FCC think that AOL/Time Warner won't delay installation to the poor sods who elect to not use their own ISP with the cable modem service? For that matter, what exactly is involved when a consumer chooses earthlink over rr? Is it like the CLEC situation, where the CLEC's install their equipment in the telcos' CO?
I really hope the EU blocks the merger. The only people who will suffer will be the consumers. Yes, the evidence I give is anecdotal, but the experience has been shared by others.
Actually, my project manager was telling me that he's seeing all these req's for Oracle DBA's with N years of experience, MSCS, blah blah, with salaries being excrutiatingly low (say $30k/yr or thereabouts), for obtaining H1B visa's.
I'm all for immigration (hell, I'm one myself), but if you're going to grab people from out-country, pay them the same as his peers are getting paid!
If you can publish a filename on Napster and the file contents don't have to agree with it, that is a flaw.
Going back to the point of a thread in cup (I think), circa 1998 or thereabouts, regarding copy protection schemes:
The data is only as trustworthy as your users. If the system relied upon ID3 tags (or other metadata), then just fake the bloody metadata while keeping the crap contents. As the technology to inspect the data for musical content does not yet exist for practical application, how is the Napster client protect from this? I bet the record companies would love to see an trojan/exploit/virus for the various mp3 players out there...
You've got to be joking. How on earth is it tough for the companies you list, when the CEOs (or ex-CEOs) of two of them are the two richest men in the world?
How else do you think they got that way? They didn't by paying too much for their labor:-)
Not BNL now too! GRRR....I'm tired of having to dislike bands that I used to like.
Why're you disliking the bands that're trying to make money off of their works? IMO, I see absolutely no problems with bands using Napster as a venue of cheap advertisement. However, when recording companies do this....
I realise that sometimes, the differences between bands and recording companies are a bit blurry at best, though. Comments?
Besides, who believes that the majority of people who vote on places such as CNN or MSNBC know anything about the technical superiourity of the various OSen? These polls are worthless to anyone but the most ill-informed; the average Joe will probably be annoyed that his brand-new Dell with the $150 Win2k "upgrade" doesn't run his games as well as his "free" Win98 that came with it. The 14-yr old script kiddie, who just read about Linux may vote for it, reagardless of knowing anything but the most cursory knowledge about it. Face it--popularity contests for these things are meaningless, except to the marketing departments.
That said, I applaud Hemos for giving MSNBC the benefit of the doubt. I just wish/. editorial crew contacted MSNBC and found out the real story (though they may already be doing this...)
I dunno, I found the install relatively painless for my TNT2.
TNT2 has been supported by XFree86 for a long time. How certain are you that you're getting the benefit of the nVidia-written drivers?
Also, at the risk of sounding like the/. sheep, not having open-sourced drivers can make your life a lot more difficult if the closed-source drivers doesn't support your particular flavour of Linux. I went through this with a number of crappy hardware, and I'm no longer willing to do so again. Then again, with the number of games I play in Linux down near zero, I don't think it matters too much:-)
If you want to see the real deal, the genuine benefit of fsaa, just look at the windows boot screen. Would you believe that the resolution of that logo is actually 64x48 pixels. That's right, it was originally a postage stamp. That fine job of anti aliasing alone makes the os worth the purchase price.
<pedantic type="flammable"> By "windows boot screen", I'm going to assume that you mean the Windows 9x family (95/98/ME). That "64x48 pixel" image that you say the OS antialiases is *not* antialiased by the bloody OS. it's also quite a bit larger than 64x48; it's *much* closer to 640x480. Seeing that the unstable toy of an OS *doesn't* antialias on the fly, would you care to reassess your statement?:-)</pedantic>
Ah, the old notion of CYA. What Censorware will allow the libraries to do is to transfer blame to the censorware vendors (as long as the license agreements warrants this). They can say, "Hey, we installed 'sufficient' safeguards for the purposes of filtering that which some may find objectionable, so it's not our fault." This may be important for a small community library, who can ill-afford lawsuits.
However, what I am worried about, and no doubt others are as well, is that this will place power upon the censorware companies to restrict research into areas that they, not the libraries deem objectionable. What's wrong with requiring parental signatures for children? This way, the parents can choose to monitor their childrens' access or not, instead of having a "blanket coverage" for everyone. Alternatively, they can have 2 types of terminals, one censored, available to all, and the other uncensored, available only after a legally responsible party for the user (either the adult user or the juveniles' parent) has absolved all responsibility for the library regarding content online. If the second type of the terminals (uncut and raw) are in an access-controlled room, there really shouldn't be any problems.
uh... *fwap*. The HIV , the virus that causes AIDS, cannot survive outside the body for very long. Furthermore, though it shows up in a myriad of body fluids, the virus primarily infects helper T-cells, a type of blood vessels for combating disease. Besides, they would most likely have screened him over and over again =P
And that's why on *expensive* graphics cards, there used to be a pantone-colour-matching hardware/software combination.
IIRC, on the high-end #9GXE cards (around 1993) you can get this thing that will measure the colour saturation and whatnot, and will send adjustment values, until it gets it right. So, Green xxxx.x will be Green xxxx.x on screen too.
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I have yet to see a product out there that uses a processor from Transmeta. Aside from that, this is just good old FUD-spewing by the boys who made Crusoe. Both Intel (with their P6 core) and AMD (since the K6 days) have stopped executing x86 instructions directly. They do hardware realtime translation of x86 instructions. I'm going to guess that Crusoe does this as well, but partially in software (much like the first PPC-based Macs).
I have yet to see any benchmarks on battery life or processor performance either. I don't care if the battery on my Crusoe-based notebook lasts 1hr more than my Intel-based Thinkpad, if the bloody thing runs at 486-speeds. To substantiate the claim, I would at least like to see performance benchmarks!
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Kind of reminds me of the IOP (Inanimate Objects Party) my uni had for the elections.
Arthur Galpin for President in 2000!
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Actually, it's impossible to keep it backwards-compatible with at least the Undernet implementation (well, as of 2.9.32 or something) of the ircd; there cannot be more than one routes to a given server from another server.
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Maybe, but we of the Undernet, when we split away from EFNet, said the same thing years ago :-). When Undernet had similar issues, about three years ago, we said the same too, and started up Yet Another Network (tm). That YAN died, and Undernet is still around. Most EFNet admins are at least halfway clued; give it time....
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It's been my experience that IRC servers tend to work best when in a star topology (or something close to it) than in the "spanning tree" they chose to describe in RFC-1459 (now there's an outdated document--anyone know of a completely RFC-1459-compliant network? I didn't think so :-) ). When you have a massive routing-only server, with all the other servers connected to it, it helps a great deal. Mind you, it may work better with multiple central servers, but YMMV.
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Funny, when I left EFNet (c. 1994), Undernet seemed to have better-adjusted people than EF....
Then again, Undernet died the day they chose to make some of the admin channels a "general help" channel.
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X opened up X11R6.4 a while ago. XFree86 4.0 is based upon it, so there is no reason why they couldn't port XFree86 4.0 to MacOS X.
That said, it may be easier for them legally if they used the X.org's reference implementation.
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Right now, speculation of "who is better than who" will be overshadowed by "who has released the software/hardware/network to utilise it". I don't care if i-Mode is superiour to WAP if WAP becomes released first and gains significant marketshare. As a (very lazy) web developer, I'm going to concentrate on the 20% of technology that will allow me to reach 80% of the people, and not the other way around.
Though, I've seen (and used) iMode phones in Tokyo. They're slick, but then, will NTT be able to ram i-Mode through the international standardisation so that I can take an i-Mode phone (almost) anywhere? Will the current international mobile nightmare finally end?
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and on an NT box, clicking on "cancel" just throws you back to the "hit ctl-alt-del to login" prompt....
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Yes, it's cross-platform (I've seen X11-based Wordperfect on Solaris and AIX, possibly even IRIX at my uni), but the ports themselves *suck*. Even on an Ultra-1, with 256MB of RAM--hardly a slow machine back in 1996, the bloody things *chugged*. No, we were not running CDE, we were running vanilla X11R6 with (I believe) fvwm for the window manager.
Wordperfect 8, on Windows, also was a pain. The installer isn't nearly idiot-proofed for the typical (l)user, and though it's overkill for 99% of the people, the problem I had with Wordperfect is that compared to MS Word, the UI was less intuitive (not saying that MSW has the ultimate UI, mind you, just better than WP8 IMO).
I'm just hoping that Corel Draw would be enough to carry the company through....
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Actually, I meant to say that these companies can and should pay the full market rates, regardless of the person's citizenship/immigration status. Currently, they're unwilling to pay these people what they deserve, and that's why I'm a bit disgruntled (though, being a resident alien, *I* get paid the "full market value" whatever that is ;p)
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...and bad for everyone else.
Sure, AOL and Time Warner are not telcos. The cable companies, though, are utilities. In my quest to get either DSL or Cable Modem (admittedly in different markets), I've been plagued with provider issues. Just getting the Cox@Home service back in 1998 was a nightmare. However, compared to getting DSL through an alternative ISP, it was a walk in the park.
What makes the FCC think that AOL/Time Warner won't delay installation to the poor sods who elect to not use their own ISP with the cable modem service? For that matter, what exactly is involved when a consumer chooses earthlink over rr? Is it like the CLEC situation, where the CLEC's install their equipment in the telcos' CO?
I really hope the EU blocks the merger. The only people who will suffer will be the consumers. Yes, the evidence I give is anecdotal, but the experience has been shared by others.
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Actually, my project manager was telling me that he's seeing all these req's for Oracle DBA's with N years of experience, MSCS, blah blah, with salaries being excrutiatingly low (say $30k/yr or thereabouts), for obtaining H1B visa's.
I'm all for immigration (hell, I'm one myself), but if you're going to grab people from out-country, pay them the same as his peers are getting paid!
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Going back to the point of a thread in cup (I think), circa 1998 or thereabouts, regarding copy protection schemes:
The data is only as trustworthy as your users. If the system relied upon ID3 tags (or other metadata), then just fake the bloody metadata while keeping the crap contents. As the technology to inspect the data for musical content does not yet exist for practical application, how is the Napster client protect from this? I bet the record companies would love to see an trojan/exploit/virus for the various mp3 players out there...
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How else do you think they got that way? They didn't by paying too much for their labor :-)
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Why're you disliking the bands that're trying to make money off of their works? IMO, I see absolutely no problems with bands using Napster as a venue of cheap advertisement. However, when recording companies do this....
I realise that sometimes, the differences between bands and recording companies are a bit blurry at best, though. Comments?
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Or one that's moving really fast. Then again, all you need to do is to place the sucker into a decaying elliptical orbit....
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Besides, who believes that the majority of people who vote on places such as CNN or MSNBC know anything about the technical superiourity of the various OSen? These polls are worthless to anyone but the most ill-informed; the average Joe will probably be annoyed that his brand-new Dell with the $150 Win2k "upgrade" doesn't run his games as well as his "free" Win98 that came with it. The 14-yr old script kiddie, who just read about Linux may vote for it, reagardless of knowing anything but the most cursory knowledge about it. Face it--popularity contests for these things are meaningless, except to the marketing departments.
That said, I applaud Hemos for giving MSNBC the benefit of the doubt. I just wish /. editorial crew contacted MSNBC and found out the real story (though they may already be doing this...)
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earlier in the thread:
TNT2 has been supported by XFree86 for a long time. How certain are you that you're getting the benefit of the nVidia-written drivers?
Also, at the risk of sounding like the /. sheep, not having open-sourced drivers can make your life a lot more difficult if the closed-source drivers doesn't support your particular flavour of Linux. I went through this with a number of crappy hardware, and I'm no longer willing to do so again. Then again, with the number of games I play in Linux down near zero, I don't think it matters too much :-)
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<pedantic type="flammable"> By "windows boot screen", I'm going to assume that you mean the Windows 9x family (95/98/ME). That "64x48 pixel" image that you say the OS antialiases is *not* antialiased by the bloody OS. it's also quite a bit larger than 64x48; it's *much* closer to 640x480. Seeing that the unstable toy of an OS *doesn't* antialias on the fly, would you care to reassess your statement? :-)</pedantic>
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Heh. I do personally know a head librarian in a county library in Michigan. It might be interesting to try it :-)
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Ah, the old notion of CYA. What Censorware will allow the libraries to do is to transfer blame to the censorware vendors (as long as the license agreements warrants this). They can say, "Hey, we installed 'sufficient' safeguards for the purposes of filtering that which some may find objectionable, so it's not our fault." This may be important for a small community library, who can ill-afford lawsuits.
However, what I am worried about, and no doubt others are as well, is that this will place power upon the censorware companies to restrict research into areas that they, not the libraries deem objectionable. What's wrong with requiring parental signatures for children? This way, the parents can choose to monitor their childrens' access or not, instead of having a "blanket coverage" for everyone. Alternatively, they can have 2 types of terminals, one censored, available to all, and the other uncensored, available only after a legally responsible party for the user (either the adult user or the juveniles' parent) has absolved all responsibility for the library regarding content online. If the second type of the terminals (uncut and raw) are in an access-controlled room, there really shouldn't be any problems.
Any comments?
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Sort of like Al Gore's famed "Open Source Web Page" idea? *ducks and runs for cover*
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uh... *fwap*. The HIV , the virus that causes AIDS, cannot survive outside the body for very long. Furthermore, though it shows up in a myriad of body fluids, the virus primarily infects helper T-cells, a type of blood vessels for combating disease. Besides, they would most likely have screened him over and over again =P
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And that's why on *expensive* graphics cards, there used to be a pantone-colour-matching hardware/software combination.
IIRC, on the high-end #9GXE cards (around 1993) you can get this thing that will measure the colour saturation and whatnot, and will send adjustment values, until it gets it right. So, Green xxxx.x will be Green xxxx.x on screen too.
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