Disney, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and Warner
At least it's not that second-rate, plastic, mass-produced "evil" - this is first rate, industrial-grade evil.
Oh BTW, good luck breaking the encryption - I know it's possible, but given the current state of encryption technology, any successful attach will almost certainly involve analyzing and back-engineering the chipsets which ship with commercial units. I'm sure most of you know that this is going to be impractical (even if there weren't safeguards in place to prevent even that extreme measure).
Mass is only required for specific types of energy transferrence.
We're only interested in using the energy present in the photons; converting it from kinetic (photon moving at c along a specific path) to kinetic (sail being "pushed" as it alters the vector the aformentioned photon was initially on).
We don't need any mass; we just want the energy. BTW, you might remember an experiment involving the bending of starlight by our Sun during a total eclipse? The stars' apparent position was displaced by something like six angular minutes (should've been occluded by our sun and moon, but was visible due to gravitic "bending", aka gravitic lensing). Gravity can affect photons; gravity is defined as an attraction between two objects with mass; ergo, photons have (infinitessimal but nonzero) mass.
Y'know, the fastest supercomputer on earth, invented and manufactured by IBM?
Comes with SuSE. I'm a contractor at IBM's Rochester facility; guess what I get to play with all day?
BTW, since IBM manufactures POWER architecture machines, doesn't it make more sense for IBM to trundle their AIX product with the servers? From a support standpoint, it makes perfect sense. However, we do provide support for LINUX on POWER architecture here. LINUX is freely downloadable, AIX isn't. If we provided LINUX with servers, that's all the choice a customer would have. By providing AIX, we give our customers more choices.
And remember, unlike certain OTHER OS products coming on the market (no names, but the initials are Microsoft Vista), there will be no attempt to lock users into the OS which ships with POWER architecture hardware.
Look carefully at (virtually any) CD/DVD drive designed for mounting in a half-height 5 1/4" bay.
Now, open ANY cd-jukebox (I've got a 60-slot model; I couldn't afford the 250-slot model). Mechanically, it shouldn't be too difficult to fit the CD/DVD drive mechanism in place of the existing CD; it's a fairly simple mechanism (although hacking the cupholder will certainly be required,.
Fix up the data cabling to support the drive (piece of cake) and hack the front panel controls to allow for inputs from some form of computer interface (serial perhaps - gotta do something with it) (that looks like the hard part, BTW, but I also know that there are/.'ers out there who will read this and say "no, that's easy!").
I thought about building something like this for profit once, but I'll never raise the VC for it. Can Slashdot produce a hack (with free-as-in-beer instructions) to accomplish this? Or has it been done already?
Somehow, I don't think the Greeks who came up with this whole "Olympics" thing cared too much about how the athletes got there, only how well they did once they were there.
Granted, they didn't have doping issues to contend with; yet I suspect that they enjoyed some number of performances by athletes with (even by the standards of the day) maculate pasts.
Regardless, your sole personal opinion is certainly more authoritative than those of numerous professionals. Their MBA's cannot compare with your obvious nerditude, and since the subject includes the word 'computer', your opinion must trump all of those others.
As a (relative) industry insider . . .
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(My dad was a TV repairman - I grew up looking at television damned near 24x7)
Most consumers don't want a realistic looking picture, they want the picture they've seen all of their lives. Even with televisions; many of my wife's family and friends upon hearing about my background, asked me to look at their televisions. Most needed minor convergance/pincushion adjustment, all needed brightness/contrast/color/tint adjustment. I made them all look (IMHO) pretty good.
Virtually every set I touched was changed within a week. The single control that was most nudged: color (think saturation). Everybody is used to the cartoon-level, LSD-induced superbright colors of a children's room. Real skin doesn't look like that!. I could even hold my bare arm up next to a character on TV, show my relatives and friends that this is what the picture should look like (gee, flesh looks like flesh. Grass looks like grass), and within ten minutes they'd be cranking up the color.
I gave up. Nowadays, I tell people "I don't do Windows, and that includes televisions". Yes, I get some wierd looks for it, but I also get bothered a lot less.
Buy the television which matches your pocketbook and your expectation of picture quality. Most of you will never miss the extra quality that a 200-300% increase in price will bring; worse, you'll probably adjust the extra quality right out of the set in a quest to get the lurid color balance you want. By the way, on a new set you should have a pretty good picture if both brightness and contrast are set to mid-range. Cranking both of them to max may look like what you want, but you're just cutting the lifespan of your picture tube in half (applies to CRT's only - I have no idea what the effect is on LCD/Plasma displays).
See clicky's above - there are plenty of people besides myself who considered that action a bailout.
And you've missed the point - B. Gates is not interested in reselling windows via the Apple production chain - that'd be both a legal and a PR nightmare; DOJ may have gone away once, why (with no profit in sight) would M$ tempt fate?
In a more serious vein, I can see another reason why this is incredibly unlikely . . .
Anybody remember a few years ago, when Apple was circling the bowl? Microsoft was being raked over the coals by DOJ for antitrust issues, remember? That's when Mr. Gates and Company pulled a rabbit out of their hat by investing in (bailing out) Apple. In one stroke, Mr. G. had diversified his portfolio while preserving the one (semi-)serious competitor in the Personal Computer market, thereby giving the DOJ a face-saving way to quietly let the whole thing go (don't believe me? Why aren't there three companies headquartered at the Microsoft campus right now?)!
Gates ain't gonna let Apple go Windoze - that'll land him right back in the hash with DOJ.
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(see: palladium, trusted computing)
Disney, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and Warner
At least it's not that second-rate, plastic, mass-produced "evil" - this is first rate, industrial-grade evil.
Oh BTW, good luck breaking the encryption - I know it's possible, but given the current state of encryption technology, any successful attach will almost certainly involve analyzing and back-engineering the chipsets which ship with commercial units. I'm sure most of you know that this is going to be impractical (even if there weren't safeguards in place to prevent even that extreme measure).
You're right - little indeed to do with the TLP, just answering another ignorant post made by another anonymous coward.
Not you, was it? ;^D
Now release your hatred and your journey toward the Dark Side will be complete!
Which is sad, really.
We're only interested in using the energy present in the photons; converting it from kinetic (photon moving at c along a specific path) to kinetic (sail being "pushed" as it alters the vector the aformentioned photon was initially on).
We don't need any mass; we just want the energy. BTW, you might remember an experiment involving the bending of starlight by our Sun during a total eclipse? The stars' apparent position was displaced by something like six angular minutes (should've been occluded by our sun and moon, but was visible due to gravitic "bending", aka gravitic lensing). Gravity can affect photons; gravity is defined as an attraction between two objects with mass; ergo, photons have (infinitessimal but nonzero) mass.
Comes with SuSE. I'm a contractor at IBM's Rochester facility; guess what I get to play with all day?
BTW, since IBM manufactures POWER architecture machines, doesn't it make more sense for IBM to trundle their AIX product with the servers? From a support standpoint, it makes perfect sense. However, we do provide support for LINUX on POWER architecture here. LINUX is freely downloadable, AIX isn't. If we provided LINUX with servers, that's all the choice a customer would have. By providing AIX, we give our customers more choices.
And remember, unlike certain OTHER OS products coming on the market (no names, but the initials are Microsoft Vista), there will be no attempt to lock users into the OS which ships with POWER architecture hardware.
Think twice, enter once.
For the record, I'm not holding my breath on this one . . .
Now, open ANY cd-jukebox (I've got a 60-slot model; I couldn't afford the 250-slot model). Mechanically, it shouldn't be too difficult to fit the CD/DVD drive mechanism in place of the existing CD; it's a fairly simple mechanism (although hacking the cupholder will certainly be required,.
Fix up the data cabling to support the drive (piece of cake) and hack the front panel controls to allow for inputs from some form of computer interface (serial perhaps - gotta do something with it) (that looks like the hard part, BTW, but I also know that there are /.'ers out there who will read this and say "no, that's easy!").
I thought about building something like this for profit once, but I'll never raise the VC for it. Can Slashdot produce a hack (with free-as-in-beer instructions) to accomplish this? Or has it been done already?
Guess I was wrong.
Granted, they didn't have doping issues to contend with; yet I suspect that they enjoyed some number of performances by athletes with (even by the standards of the day) maculate pasts.
Interesting - NewEgg can get me Windows MCE, but Microsoft still insists that the only way to get MCE is to have it preinstalled by an OEM.
I'll let my wife keep using her current Linux-based solution (TiVO, now the wholly-owned property of Microsoft IIRC).
Oh, BTW - FIRST POST!
Besides, why would you want to invest in Apple hardware and then get it all grotty with Windows nonsense?
and has a pretty little flower-bed of white gardenias!
Modding me 'insightful' is just 'sad'.
Regardless, your sole personal opinion is certainly more authoritative than those of numerous professionals. Their MBA's cannot compare with your obvious nerditude, and since the subject includes the word 'computer', your opinion must trump all of those others.
Most consumers don't want a realistic looking picture, they want the picture they've seen all of their lives. Even with televisions; many of my wife's family and friends upon hearing about my background, asked me to look at their televisions. Most needed minor convergance/pincushion adjustment, all needed brightness/contrast/color/tint adjustment. I made them all look (IMHO) pretty good.
Virtually every set I touched was changed within a week. The single control that was most nudged: color (think saturation). Everybody is used to the cartoon-level, LSD-induced superbright colors of a children's room. Real skin doesn't look like that!. I could even hold my bare arm up next to a character on TV, show my relatives and friends that this is what the picture should look like (gee, flesh looks like flesh. Grass looks like grass), and within ten minutes they'd be cranking up the color.
I gave up. Nowadays, I tell people "I don't do Windows, and that includes televisions". Yes, I get some wierd looks for it, but I also get bothered a lot less.
Buy the television which matches your pocketbook and your expectation of picture quality. Most of you will never miss the extra quality that a 200-300% increase in price will bring; worse, you'll probably adjust the extra quality right out of the set in a quest to get the lurid color balance you want. By the way, on a new set you should have a pretty good picture if both brightness and contrast are set to mid-range. Cranking both of them to max may look like what you want, but you're just cutting the lifespan of your picture tube in half (applies to CRT's only - I have no idea what the effect is on LCD/Plasma displays).
And you're asking me to accept 'The Register' as more authoritative than 'CNN'?
I don't want whatever you're smoking - it's done melted your brain!
So, they were B. Clinton's attack dogs when they started that fiasco? 'Splains a lot, doesn't it?
And you've missed the point - B. Gates is not interested in reselling windows via the Apple production chain - that'd be both a legal and a PR nightmare; DOJ may have gone away once, why (with no profit in sight) would M$ tempt fate?
Fire 2
Fire 3
Pick the one you like - I've got more!
'Nuff said? ;^D
Anybody remember a few years ago, when Apple was circling the bowl? Microsoft was being raked over the coals by DOJ for antitrust issues, remember? That's when Mr. Gates and Company pulled a rabbit out of their hat by investing in (bailing out) Apple. In one stroke, Mr. G. had diversified his portfolio while preserving the one (semi-)serious competitor in the Personal Computer market, thereby giving the DOJ a face-saving way to quietly let the whole thing go (don't believe me? Why aren't there three companies headquartered at the Microsoft campus right now?)!
Gates ain't gonna let Apple go Windoze - that'll land him right back in the hash with DOJ.
The other 90% are really teriffic liars.