I just hope we don't end up with another "Eyes Wide Shut". (A movie that had huge potential, but just came up short.) The biggest compliment I had for "Fight Club", and this is no minor feat, is that the director didn't get in the way of the story. There weren't too many distracting gadgets between the characters and the audience. If this film can be pulled off with the same impressive subtlety, it will be worth seeing.
I've never brought a tear to any mother's face, and that's a desperate way to look at a man who is still a child. Big Country
It is far from a given, that all big commercial databases run without filesystems. The Oracle DBAs here have learned the hard way the value of having something like Veritas filesystem under there databases. Even on AIX, the Sybase DBAs prefer to run over LVM. Its a different world when databases approach 1TB.
Everyone hurry, there is still time to write your own database implementation. Beware though, several names should be reserved: Linus gets lSQL. oSQL nSQL and fSQL go to OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD respectively. Apple will want aSQL, which will actually just be fSQL with the first letter changed. Stallman will write GNUsql, which much to his chagrin, will be called gSQL. Mircrosoft will sue Hughes, claiming that the m in mSQL stands for Microsoft.
Why does everyone feel like they should create their own name when they add code to FreeBSD? The monkeys at AT&T feel they need to call it Eclipse OS. You monkeys feel like you need to call it TrustedBSD. Why don't you give credit where is credit is due, and call it FreeBSD with Trust extensions or something? What do you think this is, Linux?
Differentiating a product is one thing, but intentional fragmentation is something else entirely.
Oh boy, here it comes. What vendor of cheap network cards is going to first on the market
with adjustable MAC network cards? What will be the first website with instructions for changing your MAC?
Why does everyone conveniently ignore the RS/6000? They are to a degree chrp compliant, and come in SMP versions that scale to 24 processors. The B50 even mentions PPC Linux as a supported OS. Is PPC Linux going to be the OS choice for the cheesey people? AIX 5L was designed to eat the large end of the Linux systems lunch. Hopefully PPC advocates won't end up with nothing left to hack on but the modern IIgs equivalent.
If your're going to take up front-page space, please do something original. How about a series of articles on the impact that longer work hours has on the average geek?
How many times did I try to dissuade some clueless newbie from spending his last 99$ on some shitty Virge based card? People don't buy capabilites, they buy price.
The largest part of the video card buying public are mouth breathing morons. You can spend 15 minutes detailing the pros and cons of every good chipset on the market, and they'll still go for the card thats 20$(US) less than the median price. Video card buyers are not loyal. If the average idiot buys one 150-200$ video card every two years, and half of the shelf space is NVIDIA, NVIDIA gets half the sales. If NVIDIA is making money on every board, and 3Dfx is loosing money on every board, its only a matter of time before the CEO is out the door, and the place is up for sale. The amazing thing is how many people anticipated this outcome. Anyone with any sense stopped buying 3Dfx when the TNT2 came out. People are loosing their enthusiasm. Everyone has spent their toy money. The market is going into a downward spiral. Linux distributors are next, and then Apple. 2001 is going to be a very bad year. Be forewarned.
Why doesn't Matrox dominate the market? They're Canadians. Why can't creative find its ass with both hands? They're from Singapore. Why did 3dfx loose their ass? They're from California. Hardware costs money to produce, and its a dog eat dog world. Systems are powerful enough. The next frontier will be making them so useful that everyone must have one to survive.
Microsoft took advantage of a loophole in the system, and the lawyers took advantage of Microsoft. Microsoft was singled out because it is a really big and high profile target.
US West has been doing the same thing with their directory assistance people for years.
The real question is, will more high tech employees suddenly become pro-union when the third-world code mills ramp up production?
Orange Micro made an S100 bus card that allowed backup to video cassette. (VHS or Beta) Back before networks were widespread, we wanted to use them as video modems.
One of the tape manufacturers put up info on a tape drive that could record either data or video onto miniDV. But the product never actually materialized. I think the key tech piece that the drive had going for it, was that it could play back data at differing speeds, depending on what was needed. (To facilitate different mpeg encoding rates. I really wanted to buy one, but it never happened.
Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and Katz.
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Its a mild disappointment, when you realilze that Katz work isn't written to inspire anyone. To a degree, slashdot is that way as well. By definition, the intelligence of half of the readers is below average. But people like believing in things that aren't real.
I begin to see why the branch happened. How many people could stay on a team with Theo? The poseur attitude is getting pretty common around slashdot. I've never met a Linux devotee who wasn't absolutely sure there was nothing better in the world than Linux. They know very little, but they are sure they're right. Perhaps the only thing sadder than a bunch of Linux freaks, are the apple people. Or maybe the OS/2 mutants. Its funny how a good OS has attracted such a bunch of idiots.
You do as you please with the money, I'll do as I please with the software. If you copy the money, you may be jailed for counterfitting. If I copy the software, I may get jailed for copyright infringement. In both cases, society has something to gain by perserving the value of the item.
The value of each is almost entirely artificial.
On one end of the scale we have commercial software, where you get very little value for your money. On the other end, you have opensource, where you get very little money for your value. We really need something in the middle.
How about software we pay for with kindness? When will the industry mature?
The really funny part is how many Linx running meatheads think they can second guess the most successful processor company ever. The history of the rise of open source software, is really the story of the rise of Intel. People try to pretend like it isn't true, but Torvalds didn't write for the 68K or the PowerPC, he wrote for the x386.
Depending on your budget, these radios sound extremely cool.
I've heard that the Innomedia radios were available at Fry's for a while for 150$ a pair. I've found a place selling the Sima equivalent for 250$ a pair. http://www.pontech.com/products/sima/ There is an article at http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200011/mode m.htm that shows some applications of the radios. I imagine that one of the small computers-on-a-chip could be used to sample the data, and send it up to your computer. These radios also appear to be able to support one to many connections, but not simultaneously.
I'd like to build a mobile robot based on a pair of these. The hard part will be finding an open-source friendly USB webcam. Please excuse the rambling nature of this post, Its been a long day.
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1) They're the size of real refridgerators, not the euro crap.
2) Gas prices are already on the rise. More demand will mean higher prices.
3) Gas generated by biomass would be a better idea.
4) What next, a fart powered PDA?
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I just hope we don't end up with another "Eyes Wide Shut". (A movie that had huge potential, but just came up short.)
The biggest compliment I had for "Fight Club", and this is no minor feat, is that the director didn't get in the way of the story. There weren't too many distracting gadgets between the characters and the audience.
If this film can be pulled off with the same impressive subtlety, it will be worth seeing.
I've never brought a tear to any mother's face, and that's a desperate way to look at a man who is still a child. Big Country
Or Brunner, or Gibson, or Bear.
... Wrap my head in duct tape, run around on fire. Thingy
Please, Clarke is old school, a sociologist. Let it rest.
I wanted to explode, but I was too tired.
It is far from a given, that all big commercial databases run without filesystems.
The Oracle DBAs here have learned the hard way the value of having something like Veritas filesystem under there databases.
Even on AIX, the Sybase DBAs prefer to run over LVM.
Its a different world when databases approach 1TB.
Everyone hurry, there is still time to write your own database implementation.
Beware though, several names should be reserved: Linus gets lSQL.
oSQL nSQL and fSQL go to OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD respectively. Apple will want aSQL, which will actually just be fSQL with the first letter changed. Stallman will write GNUsql, which much to his chagrin, will be called gSQL.
Mircrosoft will sue Hughes, claiming that the m in mSQL stands for Microsoft.
And I want bSQL. Cause its just BS.
Why does everyone feel like they should create their own name when they add code to FreeBSD?
The monkeys at AT&T feel they need to call it Eclipse OS.
You monkeys feel like you need to call it TrustedBSD.
Why don't you give credit where is credit is due, and call it FreeBSD with Trust extensions or something?
What do you think this is, Linux?
Differentiating a product is one thing, but intentional fragmentation is something else entirely.
Oh boy, here it comes. What vendor of cheap network cards is going to first on the market
with adjustable MAC network cards?
What will be the first website with instructions for changing your MAC?
Fun stuff.
Why does everyone conveniently ignore the RS/6000? They are to a degree chrp compliant, and come in SMP versions that scale to 24 processors.
The B50 even mentions PPC Linux as a supported OS.
Is PPC Linux going to be the OS choice for the cheesey people?
AIX 5L was designed to eat the large end of the Linux systems lunch. Hopefully PPC advocates won't end up with nothing left to hack on but the modern IIgs equivalent.
Just what we need, molten hunks of plastic falling to earth.
If your're going to take up front-page space, please do something original.
How about a series of articles on the impact that longer work hours has on the average geek?
How many times did I try to dissuade some clueless newbie from spending his last 99$ on some shitty Virge based card?
People don't buy capabilites, they buy price.
The largest part of the video card buying public are mouth breathing morons. You can spend 15 minutes detailing the pros and cons of every good chipset on the market, and they'll still go for the card thats 20$(US) less than the median price.
Video card buyers are not loyal. If the average idiot buys one 150-200$ video card every two years, and half of the shelf space is NVIDIA, NVIDIA gets half the sales.
If NVIDIA is making money on every board, and 3Dfx is loosing money on every board, its only a matter of time before the CEO is out the door, and the place is up for sale.
The amazing thing is how many people anticipated this outcome.
Anyone with any sense stopped buying 3Dfx when the TNT2 came out.
People are loosing their enthusiasm. Everyone has spent their toy money. The market is going into a downward spiral. Linux distributors are next, and then Apple.
2001 is going to be a very bad year. Be forewarned.
Why doesn't Matrox dominate the market? They're Canadians.
Why can't creative find its ass with both hands? They're from Singapore.
Why did 3dfx loose their ass? They're from California.
Hardware costs money to produce, and its a dog eat dog world.
Systems are powerful enough. The next frontier will be making them so useful that everyone must have one to survive.
Microsoft took advantage of a loophole in the system, and the lawyers took advantage of Microsoft.
Microsoft was singled out because it is a really big and high profile target.
US West has been doing the same thing with their directory assistance people for years.
The real question is, will more high tech employees suddenly become pro-union when the third-world code mills ramp up production?
Orange Micro made an S100 bus card that allowed backup to video cassette. (VHS or Beta)
Back before networks were widespread, we wanted to use them as video modems.
One of the tape manufacturers put up info on a tape drive that could record either data or video onto miniDV. But the product never actually materialized.
I think the key tech piece that the drive had going for it, was that it could play back data at differing speeds, depending on what was needed. (To facilitate different mpeg encoding rates.
I really wanted to buy one, but it never happened.
Its a mild disappointment, when you realilze that Katz work isn't written to inspire anyone.
To a degree, slashdot is that way as well.
By definition, the intelligence of half of the readers is below average.
But people like believing in things that aren't real.
I begin to see why the branch happened. How many people could stay on a team with Theo?
The poseur attitude is getting pretty common around slashdot.
I've never met a Linux devotee who wasn't absolutely sure there was nothing better in the world than Linux.
They know very little, but they are sure they're right.
Perhaps the only thing sadder than a bunch of Linux freaks, are the apple people. Or maybe the OS/2 mutants.
Its funny how a good OS has attracted such a bunch of idiots.
You do as you please with the money, I'll do as I please with the software.
If you copy the money, you may be jailed for counterfitting.
If I copy the software, I may get jailed for copyright infringement.
In both cases, society has something to gain by perserving the value of the item.
The value of each is almost entirely artificial.
On one end of the scale we have commercial software, where you get very little value for your money.
On the other end, you have opensource, where you get very little money for your value.
We really need something in the middle.
How about software we pay for with kindness?
When will the industry mature?
The really funny part is how many Linx running meatheads think they can second guess the most successful processor company ever.
The history of the rise of open source software, is really the story of the rise of Intel.
People try to pretend like it isn't true, but Torvalds didn't write for the 68K or the PowerPC, he wrote for the x386.
Depending on your budget, these radios sound extremely cool.
e m.htm that shows some applications of the radios.
I've heard that the Innomedia radios were available at Fry's for a while for 150$ a pair.
I've found a place selling the Sima equivalent for 250$ a pair. http://www.pontech.com/products/sima/
There is an article at http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200011/mod
I imagine that one of the small computers-on-a-chip could be used to sample the data, and send it up to your computer.
These radios also appear to be able to support one to many connections, but not simultaneously.
I'd like to build a mobile robot based on a pair of these. The hard part will be finding an open-source friendly USB webcam.
Please excuse the rambling nature of this post, Its been a long day.
Another sinclair? Who needs it?
What a huge raft of crap. ICANN sucks!
You open source monkeys should all be running postgres anyway.
I'd pay to not run their crap.
If they're not careful, they're going to price themselves out of the village idiot's buidget.
1) They're the size of real refridgerators, not the euro crap. 2) Gas prices are already on the rise. More demand will mean higher prices. 3) Gas generated by biomass would be a better idea. 4) What next, a fart powered PDA?
Of course Monty doesn't like the test results, they're unfavorable to his product.
I get tired of seeing MySQL always be the test case in turorials. Postgres needs more coverage.
Come on, MySQL isn't even under the GPL.
This is proof, that despite all their posturing, Europeans can't find their financial ass with both hands.
You want to make money in the EU, import some dentists!