But the 'tunes' and movies on these modern drives are just lossy copies, for the most part. That makes a big difference no matter how people try to spin it.
Most people that are bombing and killing in Iraq right now are *not* Iraqis.
Then they are outside terrorists and an affliction on the Iraqi people. And what was it you typed above about They're people that see great injustice in their country?
Saddam was loved by most....
You're nuts. Saddam's political faction represented a clear minority of the people in Iraq.
Without the need for oil (of which the US is the world's biggest consumer) the Middle East will no longer be relevant.
That's a pretty ugly position to take. You're pretty much saying 'they can all go to hell' when the need for oil is gone. What ever happened to the idea of human rights?
Apple is in the unique position of owning a huge body of closed-source code, much of which they aquired in the merger with NeXT, that heavily enhances the bare skeleton OS that it runs on top of. Apple makes that bare skeletal OS freely available and Open Source. They take heavy advantage, though, of the one-way-passage to the massive proprietary side of their code base. Mac OS-X is hardly a shining example of the triumph of an Open Source model. If it is, where do I download the source code to the GUI layers that make it worth running on a system? (I'll stick with NetBSD while I wait)
What the hell do you mean? You got angry because I said something that wasn't anti-Microsoft, so you scurried back to that big word 'Monopoly' that you heard was something bad?
Being anti-Microsoft for the sake of being anti-Microsoft is lame and based in ignorance. Using 'Microsoft likes it' as an automatic branding of something as bad is also quite ignorant.
Well, as sort of a response, the BSD-licensed OSes (Open/Net/FreeBSD) seem to be moving along nicely. Apparently the 'magic factor' in the GPL that everybody celebrates isn't that important.
Apple adopted the 'BSD-licensed' OS that they did because it merged smoothly with the NeXT OS from the company that they purchased/were-bought-by when Jobs returned. It had little to do with having 'the best legal advice on the planet.'
the idea of combining poor security with placing reliance of your business operations on the net in such manner
The only businesses not 'placing reliance of business operations on the net' are probably a few ma and paw outfits still using zip drives or floppies to move the info around.
IOW- 'the net' is not necessarily 'the Internet' although it's easier to slag Micro$oft by pretending it is.
A lot of us got over being enamored by Linux back in about 1996 or so. It's cool, it's good to make use of it (X CD Roast rules, for instance, I don't even have a CDR drive installed on a Windows box anymore), but it's actually honest-to-goodness counterproductive to harp about it (i.e. hassle people at work and cop 'superior' cuz you're running ewe-nicks).
It's been almost half a decade since it was worth the effort of harping at people about what OS is installed on their computer equipment.
You're assuming that all Office users even have the 'Clippy' agent installed. Default-Clippy is very 1997, ya know. With Office 2000 came a whole portfolio of 'agent' choices. I, for one, don't even have Clippy installed (just the Sim-earth like globe agent- I love how it blows a volcano when it gets 'angry' about something I've done).
(I've also noticed there's a graphical 'user agent' that pops up in a corner with OpenOffice under certain circumstances. Hmmmm.)
Be fair. Many Slashbots are too young to have corporate experience with intranets and what-not. And some of the 'moderators' of the site, while older, have always only faced out to the Internet, never to an internal intranet.
This confusion is a regular, recurring cause of confusion. Historically, it lends a different light on the whole I.E vs. Netscape battle, one that Internet-centric folks often don't see. Netscape was talking about capturing the corporate Intranet market. Their free browsers, plugged into expensive Netscape server technology running web-based apps. Netscape servers were gonna take over the corporate market. That's what Microsoft felt they had to crush. Microsoft really didn't care much what browser Johnny runs on his basement PII box.
I'm so sick of dongles and having to keep install CDs around.
Me, I like having my install CDs around permanently.
Probably that's why I sold my copy of Office XP on eBay and went back to using Office 2000 (the earlier version that doesn't require 'validation' after an install).
I have useful tools like the Micrografx suite (Designer, Picture Publisher, Flowchart, etc.) which I suspect I'll be using for another decade. Not for collaborative work, just for my own stuff. And they'll work great. Micrografx doesn't even exist anymore (devoured by Corel, who IMO make an inferior product), but my CDs still install fine.
Oh yeah, I'm sure it was a bug. "Kennedy" sounds kind of Middle Eastern, don't you think?
Didn't you know? Ted Kennedy's political wing gets positively furious about 'racial profiling.' This is exactly the kind of fair treatment they demand.
Well, most low-cost LCD displays are very proprietary.
For instance, I have one of those Sega handheld games. It has a cheap color LCD on it.
You're not gonna just dig in there and wire in your circuitry and use it. There have been 'ask slashdot' articles here already about reusing the lcd from an old Laptop.
Generally it's not happening. I wish it were, but I've designed devices with custom LCD displays. Even a simple display with a few hundred elements is a bug-a-bear to interface.
Maybe this one will be hacked, though. Sure would be nice.
The 'trash' being stored in landfills won't last long enough for archaeologists to find.
It'll all be recycled within the next few centuries.
You want to make your descendents wealthy? Somehow secure the long term 'mineral rights' for some good deep landfill property now.
Biodegradable plastics have their place, but the people really excited about them are the people who love planned obsolescence. Cars that have components made of 'biodegradable plastic' will need constant replenishing.
IOW, the same bloodsuckers who are always doing and advocating things 'for the good of us all.'
But where AMD got the real muscle to be an Intel cloner (as opposed to the whole handful of vendors who were licensed to produce 8088 parts back in the heyday of the XT clone) was when they got their license to produce a '286 part. Something in the way the agreement was written gave them a 'foot in the door' right to produce their competing '386 part, which was a right they uniquely had, unlike the other non-Intel chipmakers.
The 'mulitplier effect' of there being always at least as many of a microcontoller-type as an Intel chip, (because for example, every PC has a mouse and every mouse has a small processor, often a PIC, in it, and almost every PC sold comes with a mouse) doesn't apply to the PPC family nearly as much as it does to the lesser parts, i.e. the stuff Motorola makes real money selling millions of (their salesmen are somewhat responsive if you only want a few hundred thousand, but that's a low-volume order).
I haven't been following their embedded PPC market, since my focus has always been smaller, i.e. parts with under a few K bytes of RAM on-chip, but I know they've pushed it for years.
AMD's 32-bit offerings are basically software-compatible with Intel's 32-bit stuff (the exceptions would be SSE2 and such).
I suppose so. Unless you're into stacking enough AMD 2900 series bit-slice processors end-to-end to make a system 32 bits wide. 70's bipolar logic rulez.
But that would be fun, unlike using a phillips screwdriver to assemble yet another PC Clone.
I guess I'm old fashioned. When I think of the 74xx family, the only CPU-like that comes to my mind is the 74181 ALU. I guess maybe some of the shift registers and latches, too, though.
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But the 'tunes' and movies on these modern drives are just lossy copies, for the most part. That makes a big difference no matter how people try to spin it.
The Holiday Special is readily available on eBay.
The idea of an army of clones is interesting.
The idea of an army of clones was interesting in about 1954.
It's tired, and Lucas' work has mostly been threadbare and tedious.
I watched Star Wars. In 1977.
Haven't seen any of the sequels, or what Lucas seems to be calling 'Prequels.'
I feel it would spoil the memory of the original.
Most people that are bombing and killing in Iraq right now are *not* Iraqis.
Then they are outside terrorists and an affliction on the Iraqi people. And what was it you typed above about They're people that see great injustice in their country?
Saddam was loved by most....
You're nuts. Saddam's political faction represented a clear minority of the people in Iraq.
Without the need for oil (of which the US is the world's biggest consumer) the Middle East will no longer be relevant.
That's a pretty ugly position to take. You're pretty much saying 'they can all go to hell' when the need for oil is gone. What ever happened to the idea of human rights?
Apple is in the unique position of owning a huge body of closed-source code, much of which they aquired in the merger with NeXT, that heavily enhances the bare skeleton OS that it runs on top of. Apple makes that bare skeletal OS freely available and Open Source. They take heavy advantage, though, of the one-way-passage to the massive proprietary side of their code base. Mac OS-X is hardly a shining example of the triumph of an Open Source model. If it is, where do I download the source code to the GUI layers that make it worth running on a system? (I'll stick with NetBSD while I wait)
What the hell do you mean? You got angry because I said something that wasn't anti-Microsoft, so you scurried back to that big word 'Monopoly' that you heard was something bad?
Being anti-Microsoft for the sake of being anti-Microsoft is lame and based in ignorance. Using 'Microsoft likes it' as an automatic branding of something as bad is also quite ignorant.
Well, as sort of a response, the BSD-licensed OSes (Open/Net/FreeBSD) seem to be moving along nicely. Apparently the 'magic factor' in the GPL that everybody celebrates isn't that important.
The only thing you need to know about BSD is that Microsoft favours it.
The only kind of building Microsoft favors are solid buildings which follow the building code.
Does that mean we should all rebel by living in mud huts?
Apple adopted the 'BSD-licensed' OS that they did because it merged smoothly with the NeXT OS from the company that they purchased/were-bought-by when Jobs returned. It had little to do with having 'the best legal advice on the planet.'
the idea of combining poor security with placing reliance of your business operations on the net in such manner
The only businesses not 'placing reliance of business operations on the net' are probably a few ma and paw outfits still using zip drives or floppies to move the info around.
IOW- 'the net' is not necessarily 'the Internet' although it's easier to slag Micro$oft by pretending it is.
Yep. It's all part of the Internet Explorer Evil Conspiracy for Global Domination . Or something.
(typing this in plain old Mozilla 1.7 btw. It's better than IE.)
A lot of us got over being enamored by Linux back in about 1996 or so. It's cool, it's good to make use of it (X CD Roast rules, for instance, I don't even have a CDR drive installed on a Windows box anymore), but it's actually honest-to-goodness counterproductive to harp about it (i.e. hassle people at work and cop 'superior' cuz you're running ewe-nicks).
It's been almost half a decade since it was worth the effort of harping at people about what OS is installed on their computer equipment.
You're assuming that all Office users even have the 'Clippy' agent installed. Default-Clippy is very 1997, ya know. With Office 2000 came a whole portfolio of 'agent' choices. I, for one, don't even have Clippy installed (just the Sim-earth like globe agent- I love how it blows a volcano when it gets 'angry' about something I've done).
(I've also noticed there's a graphical 'user agent' that pops up in a corner with OpenOffice under certain circumstances. Hmmmm.)
Be fair. Many Slashbots are too young to have corporate experience with intranets and what-not. And some of the 'moderators' of the site, while older, have always only faced out to the Internet, never to an internal intranet.
This confusion is a regular, recurring cause of confusion. Historically, it lends a different light on the whole I.E vs. Netscape battle, one that Internet-centric folks often don't see. Netscape was talking about capturing the corporate Intranet market. Their free browsers, plugged into expensive Netscape server technology running web-based apps. Netscape servers were gonna take over the corporate market. That's what Microsoft felt they had to crush. Microsoft really didn't care much what browser Johnny runs on his basement PII box.
Anyhow...
I'm so sick of dongles and having to keep install CDs around.
Me, I like having my install CDs around permanently.
Probably that's why I sold my copy of Office XP on eBay and went back to using Office 2000 (the earlier version that doesn't require 'validation' after an install).
I have useful tools like the Micrografx suite (Designer, Picture Publisher, Flowchart, etc.) which I suspect I'll be using for another decade. Not for collaborative work, just for my own stuff. And they'll work great. Micrografx doesn't even exist anymore (devoured by Corel, who IMO make an inferior product), but my CDs still install fine.
Oh yeah, I'm sure it was a bug. "Kennedy" sounds kind of Middle Eastern, don't you think?
Didn't you know? Ted Kennedy's political wing gets positively furious about 'racial profiling.' This is exactly the kind of fair treatment they demand.
Well, most low-cost LCD displays are very proprietary.
For instance, I have one of those Sega handheld games. It has a cheap color LCD on it.
You're not gonna just dig in there and wire in your circuitry and use it. There have been 'ask slashdot' articles here already about reusing the lcd from an old Laptop.
Generally it's not happening. I wish it were, but I've designed devices with custom LCD displays. Even a simple display with a few hundred elements is a bug-a-bear to interface.
Maybe this one will be hacked, though. Sure would be nice.
The 'trash' being stored in landfills won't last long enough for archaeologists to find.
It'll all be recycled within the next few centuries.
You want to make your descendents wealthy? Somehow secure the long term 'mineral rights' for some good deep landfill property now.
Biodegradable plastics have their place, but the people really excited about them are the people who love planned obsolescence. Cars that have components made of 'biodegradable plastic' will need constant replenishing.
IOW, the same bloodsuckers who are always doing and advocating things 'for the good of us all.'
Well, the old film disposable camera often has a good and usable strobe bulb, strobe capacitor, etc.
A bunch of them could make some pretty cool visual effect things.
Not just beavers and rodents. The manufacturing of this camera crushes cute little puppies and kittens!
Also, a manatee has to die for each 100 cameras produced.
But where AMD got the real muscle to be an Intel cloner (as opposed to the whole handful of vendors who were licensed to produce 8088 parts back in the heyday of the XT clone) was when they got their license to produce a '286 part. Something in the way the agreement was written gave them a 'foot in the door' right to produce their competing '386 part, which was a right they uniquely had, unlike the other non-Intel chipmakers.
The 'mulitplier effect' of there being always at least as many of a microcontoller-type as an Intel chip, (because for example, every PC has a mouse and every mouse has a small processor, often a PIC, in it, and almost every PC sold comes with a mouse) doesn't apply to the PPC family nearly as much as it does to the lesser parts, i.e. the stuff Motorola makes real money selling millions of (their salesmen are somewhat responsive if you only want a few hundred thousand, but that's a low-volume order).
I haven't been following their embedded PPC market, since my focus has always been smaller, i.e. parts with under a few K bytes of RAM on-chip, but I know they've pushed it for years.
AMD's 32-bit offerings are basically software-compatible with Intel's 32-bit stuff (the exceptions would be SSE2 and such).
I suppose so. Unless you're into stacking enough AMD 2900 series bit-slice processors end-to-end to make a system 32 bits wide. 70's bipolar logic rulez.
But that would be fun, unlike using a phillips screwdriver to assemble yet another PC Clone.
Apple gets all of the 74xx family (G4) chips
I guess I'm old fashioned. When I think of the 74xx family, the only CPU-like that comes to my mind is the 74181 ALU. I guess maybe some of the shift registers and latches, too, though.