About a month ago I bought this chip with an ASUS mobo for about $300 dollars at my local fries. I was upgrading from an Athalon 1800+, and the speed incresese is definetly noticesable. This is a great chip, and you can get it for great prices.
Notice that the site is still up after two attempts at slashdotting. This is obviously a site that is hosted by someone with alot of money (probably bungie.)
Charles Walton holds (or rather held) the patent on RFID. Here is a mercury news article that lists Charles Walton as the inventor of RFID, and the holder of the RFID patent. From the article:
"Walton, 83, made about $3 million from patenting RFID technology. But his last royalty-bearing RFID patent expired in the mid-1990s, meaning that he won't share in the potentially gigantic windfall that will be generated as Wal-Mart and the Defense Department begin to require their largest suppliers to put RFID tags millions of warehoused goods."
Never will buy another celeron, having had some very bad experiances with them. If you want a good, cheap proccessor it's always better to go with AMD, becuase their Duron series is much better than the celeron series.
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It would seem to me that this law could actually backfire on the copyright holders (MPAA, RIAA, etc.) This is because it would seem, though I have not read the dull text, that they are "inducing, aiding and abetting" copyright infringement by creating the content in the first place. Without content, what would there be to steal? It would be an interesting case, anyways.
I think the NGage suffers from the same problems of convergence as PDA phones and probably limits itself to a similar, albeit smaller, market slice. Meaning, the people who buy PDA phones are those who would like to have both features but aren't particularly tied to the bonuses that the individual products can provide.
This is true. I own a Treo 300, a convergence device made by Handspring (now PalmOne). It is huge, atracts funny looks whenever I answer or make a call, and fits awkwardly into my pocket. However, it also makes my life easier, because it keeps me from having to have a mobile phone, a mobile email client and a PIM. As a result, the quality of each of these services is lowered, but I get the bonus of having them all in one device. If the one device that does it all is significantly cheaper than the costs of all of the devices it replaces combined, it can succeed in the marketplace.
While it is good news that Nokia finally got rid of that anoying problem with having to take out the battery to change games, but for any serious gamer it would be best to wait for the Nintendo DS or the Sony PSP. The NGage, trying to do so many things (mp3 player, game player, phone) cannot hope to do as well as something that is designed from top to bottom for games. Also, as Nokia has no prior work with gaming (other than the previous NGage) they do not have the funementals of a good game system down. Also, they have very lackluster support from third party developers.
I was suspicious with the HL2 source code theft, but this just looks plin obvious. First of all, it seems that somebody stealing the master != delay. They can just burn another one. Also, the fact that the only person to report on it in that article was the post man himself; no police, etc. leads me to believe that it was just the company pulling a prank to:
A. Get free publicity B. Have an excuse (however bad) to delay the game.
I seem to be missing why exactly the file browser has to moddle real life. It seems that that is a very stupid, almost neurotic approach to software design. Spatial browsers are allow you screen to become extremely cluttered, and prevents you from finding the file that you want. I do not see this as a good thing. The most irritating thing about the Windows 98 file browser for me was this "feature".
And their thing about keeping all of your files in a shallow structure is just plain stupid. This is, however, a very good way to prevent you from finding anything at all. Having a deep structure allows you to keep organized, and it works very well unless you are prohibited by some egotistical gui designers (cough...gnome devs..cough).
I believe that many posters so far have been overly harsh. I was in a similar situation, where I went to a middle school where I was bored sick, and I never had to work ever in class. A's just came naturally, and I was always the most intelligent in my classes. However, when I went to high school I wanted more of a challenge, so I went to a college preparatory school. There I was actually challenged, and I met a lot of people a lot smarter then me, which was a really good experience. I also had to really work hard, or else my grades would fall. The best advice I can give to you is to challenge yourself as much as possible, because only then will you truly learn to work hard and achieve great things in life.
I just installed.9, and unfortuanetly it doesn't allow you to use any old themes or extensions (and as far as I know there aren't any new ones). It did manage to bring over all of my setting to the new version quite nicily, though I have to say that the new default theme isn't nearly as nice as the old one.
Yes, but in that case Minix was used as a tool. That does NOT mean that Linux is in infringement of Minix. I occasionally use VC++ 6 for compiling on Windows systems, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft somehow has some claim to my code. AdTI seems to have some trouble comprehending this idea. Could it be that nobody in that place has writen a line of code in their life?
Now of course he works for Microsoft, so he's going to have a somewhat limited view of open sourcee. But seroiusly, has that happened with MySQL AB (the company the makes MySQL)? Even in the enterprise linux market nobody makes a direct copy of, say, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and sells cheaper support.
I've found it useful to always take anything that comes out the Microsoft Machine with a grain of salt.
They should also look at the fact that very few high profile projects fork. The Linux kernal, Open Office, the GCC, the GIMP, Gnome, KDE: none of them have had meaningful forks. If they manage Java right they won't have one either.
Should embedded software become 'free' too, it would be natural to conclude the value of hardware will spiral downward as well.
I personally fail to see how this could be a bad thing. He seems to ignore the fact that a software (or hardware) company that can't compete with a f/oss competetor doesn't deserve to exist.
While hybrid software appears to be the same as open source, it isn't. Hybrid source code can never be true intellectual property. The actual purpose of hybrid source is to nullify its value as private property, which makes the hybrid source model significantly different from true open source.
Which, of course, is the whole point of open source. Does he think that open source developers slave away just so that some corporate entity can sell all of their hard work?
Brown seems to have a lack of knowledge concering this subject which he claims to know so much about. It is a worrysome prospect, then, that his FUD could actually be believed by someone.
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This isn't anything new. It's been around for quite awhile in fact, being made by the X3D coporation.
He sure seems rabid enough. Hopefully some judge will shut him up soon.
About a month ago I bought this chip with an ASUS mobo for about $300 dollars at my local fries. I was upgrading from an Athalon 1800+, and the speed incresese is definetly noticesable. This is a great chip, and you can get it for great prices.
Reminds me of the thick, 500+ page books teaching qbasic.
is who cares?
Just get AdBlock for FireFox. After a week or so of tuning it you'll almost never see an ad again.
I have to disagree. What is your essence other then your collective thoughts, memories and feelings?
Kungfu!
Notice that the site is still up after two attempts at slashdotting. This is obviously a site that is hosted by someone with alot of money (probably bungie.)
Remind anyone of 'Prey'?
He's the richest man on earth!
"Walton, 83, made about $3 million from patenting RFID technology. But his last royalty-bearing RFID patent expired in the mid-1990s, meaning that he won't share in the potentially gigantic windfall that will be generated as Wal-Mart and the Defense Department begin to require their largest suppliers to put RFID tags millions of warehoused goods."
Never will buy another celeron, having had some very bad experiances with them. If you want a good, cheap proccessor it's always better to go with AMD, becuase their Duron series is much better than the celeron series.
It would seem to me that this law could actually backfire on the copyright holders (MPAA, RIAA, etc.) This is because it would seem, though I have not read the dull text, that they are "inducing, aiding and abetting" copyright infringement by creating the content in the first place. Without content, what would there be to steal? It would be an interesting case, anyways.
I think the NGage suffers from the same problems of convergence as PDA phones and probably limits itself to a similar, albeit smaller, market slice. Meaning, the people who buy PDA phones are those who would like to have both features but aren't particularly tied to the bonuses that the individual products can provide.
This is true. I own a Treo 300, a convergence device made by Handspring (now PalmOne). It is huge, atracts funny looks whenever I answer or make a call, and fits awkwardly into my pocket. However, it also makes my life easier, because it keeps me from having to have a mobile phone, a mobile email client and a PIM. As a result, the quality of each of these services is lowered, but I get the bonus of having them all in one device. If the one device that does it all is significantly cheaper than the costs of all of the devices it replaces combined, it can succeed in the marketplace.
While it is good news that Nokia finally got rid of that anoying problem with having to take out the battery to change games, but for any serious gamer it would be best to wait for the Nintendo DS or the Sony PSP. The NGage, trying to do so many things (mp3 player, game player, phone) cannot hope to do as well as something that is designed from top to bottom for games. Also, as Nokia has no prior work with gaming (other than the previous NGage) they do not have the funementals of a good game system down. Also, they have very lackluster support from third party developers.
I was suspicious with the HL2 source code theft, but this just looks plin obvious. First of all, it seems that somebody stealing the master != delay. They can just burn another one. Also, the fact that the only person to report on it in that article was the post man himself; no police, etc. leads me to believe that it was just the company pulling a prank to:
A. Get free publicity
B. Have an excuse (however bad) to delay the game.
Some things just look too suspicious.
I seem to be missing why exactly the file browser has to moddle real life. It seems that that is a very stupid, almost neurotic approach to software design. Spatial browsers are allow you screen to become extremely cluttered, and prevents you from finding the file that you want. I do not see this as a good thing. The most irritating thing about the Windows 98 file browser for me was this "feature".
And their thing about keeping all of your files in a shallow structure is just plain stupid. This is, however, a very good way to prevent you from finding anything at all. Having a deep structure allows you to keep organized, and it works very well unless you are prohibited by some egotistical gui designers (cough...gnome devs..cough).
I believe that many posters so far have been overly harsh. I was in a similar situation, where I went to a middle school where I was bored sick, and I never had to work ever in class. A's just came naturally, and I was always the most intelligent in my classes. However, when I went to high school I wanted more of a challenge, so I went to a college preparatory school. There I was actually challenged, and I met a lot of people a lot smarter then me, which was a really good experience. I also had to really work hard, or else my grades would fall. The best advice I can give to you is to challenge yourself as much as possible, because only then will you truly learn to work hard and achieve great things in life.
I just installed .9, and unfortuanetly it doesn't allow you to use any old themes or extensions (and as far as I know there aren't any new ones). It did manage to bring over all of my setting to the new version quite nicily, though I have to say that the new default theme isn't nearly as nice as the old one.
Yes, but in that case Minix was used as a tool. That does NOT mean that Linux is in infringement of Minix. I occasionally use VC++ 6 for compiling on Windows systems, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft somehow has some claim to my code. AdTI seems to have some trouble comprehending this idea. Could it be that nobody in that place has writen a line of code in their life?
Now of course he works for Microsoft, so he's going to have a somewhat limited view of open sourcee. But seroiusly, has that happened with MySQL AB (the company the makes MySQL)? Even in the enterprise linux market nobody makes a direct copy of, say, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and sells cheaper support. I've found it useful to always take anything that comes out the Microsoft Machine with a grain of salt.
They should also look at the fact that very few high profile projects fork. The Linux kernal, Open Office, the GCC, the GIMP, Gnome, KDE: none of them have had meaningful forks. If they manage Java right they won't have one either.
It is nice to have a free alternative to paypal, which forces registration on the user, as well as takes a percentage of what the developer makes.
Should embedded software become 'free' too, it would be natural to conclude the value of hardware will spiral downward as well.
I personally fail to see how this could be a bad thing. He seems to ignore the fact that a software (or hardware) company that can't compete with a f/oss competetor doesn't deserve to exist.
While hybrid software appears to be the same as open source, it isn't. Hybrid source code can never be true intellectual property. The actual purpose of hybrid source is to nullify its value as private property, which makes the hybrid source model significantly different from true open source.
Which, of course, is the whole point of open source. Does he think that open source developers slave away just so that some corporate entity can sell all of their hard work? Brown seems to have a lack of knowledge concering this subject which he claims to know so much about. It is a worrysome prospect, then, that his FUD could actually be believed by someone.