This is also the first year that Apple has had some real competition in the PowerPC market since the 90's. Genesi's Pegasos I and II along with Eyetechs AmigaONE motherboards shipped in volume this past year, giving Apple something to directly threaten their position, even in a very remote manner.
SCO is claiming that those headers were retrieved from BSDi. Well, there are folk out here that know more about headers than I, where did they come from?
Also, someone told me once that the BSD and GPL licenses were not in-exclusion, but that they could co-inhabit the same code. BSD has one set of limits, namely giving of copyright notice while GPL has other limits tied to it, but they were not mutually exclusive.
Some folk dismiss it as being a waste, but unlike them I've driven in Boston Traffic. The Big Dig is turning a city that was having its traffic issue choking its very lifeblood out of it into a revitalized effort.
That $15 billion did more than just provide some tunnels and bridges, it provided for countless kids education as their mommys and daddys had steady work. It gave thousands of hard workers the money needed to save it away rather than rely social security and medicare. It was more than a public work, it revitalized whole sections of the economy while simultaneously improving the traffic flow in and around one of the oldest cities in the US.
But check the specs again, it's not planned nor even attempted for the A500. It's for the latest models, the most expandible, and even non-Amiga hardware that can run Amiga API's. We're talking it is for Athlons, PowerPC, even 68040/060 machines. A1200's alongside Dells and Pegasos.
AROS runs on PC's, and MorphOS runs on the PowerPC based Pegasos.
And here is Miramax proclaiming it a grand victory. It is such a victory that they just forced hundreds of formerly potential customers into p2p file sharers. Miramax must love how they're encouraging the illegal file sharing that their other movie studio bretheren have damned as dangerous. Give a hand for Miramax, another promoter of P2P technology.
A file swapper is not born, he is created when something desired is not availible at the price desired. When that something is not availible at all, that turns all of those that wish it into p2p file junkies.
There are still folk shooting on Super8 film. There are folk that still edit using 3/4 videotape. There are artists that record using 1950's 4-track recorders.
There will always be a place for these older technologies. Even if the mainstream has passed them by, the great artist will find themselves drawn to one form over another, even if it is not the latest nor the greatest. I recall one photographer that still shoots using glass frames over film. I know of many independent movies shot on Super8 or even 16mm film, when several studios are shifting away from 35mm to digital or IMAX technology. These forms will not just up and dissapear, they will always be there. An anacronism, perhaps, but one to be cherished even today.
A state that needs total accountability for its main industry (gambling) requires the same in the voting process. Right now, in Florida where I live, there is no accountability for fraudulent voting practices so long as you vote for the party in power. I almost want to move to Vegas now.
The scary part here is the pure mathematics found on both ends of the spectrum. A classic pipe organ is a mathematical marvel, much like the computer of today. (I did a paper once on the mathematics of musical instruments, more focused on the Violin, but I made note of the pipe organ as well)
The elegance and simplicity of such ancient instruments from the "Enlightenment" period cover up the true genius it took to design and develop them.
That is actually what I was referring to. Atari had a tremendous leap over the Amiga in the low-cost desktop space. Atari licensed CP/M with its GUI, GEM, and did not defend either when Apple came a calling. (Turned out several years later that Atari had patents that Apple was violating, and could have used them to leveredge against a possible anti-GEM suit)
The ST had the jumpstart on software, but Atari for whatever reason never exploited it. What was even more tragic from my viewpoint was their use of illegal opcodes of the 68000, resulting in a lineup that could not be progressed to new processors in the future. (which was stated in the MC68000 manual, not to use those opcodes for this very reason) An overall mismanaged product lineup which had a lot of potential.
Shoot, if Atari had only released the Jag-on-a-card for the Falcon/TT, they'd have had another jump (since the Voodoo didn't arrive for another few years, and the card, using PCI, could have been sold to PC'ers and given them another leg-up again).
If only IBM pushed OS/2 onto the desktop If only Commodore could market their way out of a paper bag If only Atari hadn't fumbled the desktop and now: if only Novell had pushed for Linux rather than UNIX in the 90's...
Drop one of these on the house of file-swappers, that will teach em. 8)
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In the end, it is all about consumer needs. The consumer needs more, newer, faster, better.
Using an example I saw given, the best selling toys today are cars, much the same as from the 1940's. The difference is in what these cars can do. Take the top-notch must-have car from 1949, some metal pushcar contraption. The hot cars this years, high-end RC machines with more computing power than launched men to the moon.
IT is more important than ever, even as its importance slowly vanishes, becomes part of the general background noise. The more important it gets, the less noticable it is.
An idiot can make a custom cable in less than 3 minutes. (I should know, my step-brother does his own ethernet cables)
That same idiot cannot solder surface mount chips.
I would note, you don't need hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop custom ASIC's anymore. For such a basic interface, the total investment would be under $100k for a usable FPGA based solution.
Ritz did the same mistake that most companies do, they opt for the obscurity is security model. A smarter model is to instead follow the open source model that uses equipment that is prohibitive for the average user to purchase.
Example, rather than use, say, USB cabling, use some proprietory GPIO system that only Ritz controls. Heck, patent the heck out of it. Only needs a $5 CPLD to impliment a controller, but most casual hackers don't care to get into hardware-hacking on this scale. Sure, someone will break it, but then those capable will be a limited subset of the market, and damage is minimized.
Shoot, I should apply to be a corporate consultant!
Microsoft is seeing this as the end of competition, but I do not see so. Instead they do not seem to be seeing that rather than a single entity out to kill them, they are instead reviving hundreds of little entitys, all out for blood.
Ok, let us say on the remote chance that they kill Linux. Well, coming right on Linux's tail are the BSD's. Then Microsoft has not 1 but a half-dozen smaller, more mobile (and in my opinion better-done) competitors, all ready to cut them. Then there's the open-source BeOS clones coming. Some of them are starting to look pretty damned good from my angle, and could give Microsoft a run for their money by the time Longhorn comes out. Then there's the AmigaOS derivitives that have appeared such as AROS, MorphOS and soon AmigaOS 4.0. All of them make PocketPC look like a joke by comparison. This could give Palm the breathing room to get their footing solid again, and probably Symbian as well.
Microsoft would in short order end up facing not some GPL'd monstrosity of a UNIX clone, but every little project that suddenly gets a boost from the coders that used to be with Linux. If Microsoft brings focus against one, the others exploit holes that they leave open. Right now, Linux is a titan, able to stand up against another titan. But while the Microsoft titan sleeps, the liliputians are getting out the rope.
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You haven't looked very hard either then:
http://www.pegasosppc.com
Loads of pictures.
This is also the first year that Apple has had some real competition in the PowerPC market since the 90's. Genesi's Pegasos I and II along with Eyetechs AmigaONE motherboards shipped in volume this past year, giving Apple something to directly threaten their position, even in a very remote manner.
SCO is claiming that those headers were retrieved from BSDi. Well, there are folk out here that know more about headers than I, where did they come from?
Also, someone told me once that the BSD and GPL licenses were not in-exclusion, but that they could co-inhabit the same code. BSD has one set of limits, namely giving of copyright notice while GPL has other limits tied to it, but they were not mutually exclusive.
as I can remember. And I'm nearing my 30's now.
Some folk dismiss it as being a waste, but unlike them I've driven in Boston Traffic. The Big Dig is turning a city that was having its traffic issue choking its very lifeblood out of it into a revitalized effort.
That $15 billion did more than just provide some tunnels and bridges, it provided for countless kids education as their mommys and daddys had steady work. It gave thousands of hard workers the money needed to save it away rather than rely social security and medicare. It was more than a public work, it revitalized whole sections of the economy while simultaneously improving the traffic flow in and around one of the oldest cities in the US.
Correct, to his A500 it would be.
But check the specs again, it's not planned nor even attempted for the A500. It's for the latest models, the most expandible, and even non-Amiga hardware that can run Amiga API's. We're talking it is for Athlons, PowerPC, even 68040/060 machines. A1200's alongside Dells and Pegasos.
AROS runs on PC's, and MorphOS runs on the PowerPC based Pegasos.
So which 2 books are being ignored for these films?
And here is Miramax proclaiming it a grand victory. It is such a victory that they just forced hundreds of formerly potential customers into p2p file sharers. Miramax must love how they're encouraging the illegal file sharing that their other movie studio bretheren have damned as dangerous. Give a hand for Miramax, another promoter of P2P technology.
A file swapper is not born, he is created when something desired is not availible at the price desired. When that something is not availible at all, that turns all of those that wish it into p2p file junkies.
Sorry state of affairs, honestly.
There are still folk shooting on Super8 film. There are folk that still edit using 3/4 videotape. There are artists that record using 1950's 4-track recorders.
There will always be a place for these older technologies. Even if the mainstream has passed them by, the great artist will find themselves drawn to one form over another, even if it is not the latest nor the greatest. I recall one photographer that still shoots using glass frames over film. I know of many independent movies shot on Super8 or even 16mm film, when several studios are shifting away from 35mm to digital or IMAX technology. These forms will not just up and dissapear, they will always be there. An anacronism, perhaps, but one to be cherished even today.
A state that needs total accountability for its main industry (gambling) requires the same in the voting process. Right now, in Florida where I live, there is no accountability for fraudulent voting practices so long as you vote for the party in power. I almost want to move to Vegas now.
$30 to $60 billion to get to Mars? I know how to do it. Tell Dubya that Martians are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction!
This is indeed a good step for the Opencores project, but the subject itself is misleading.
The LGPL'd SPARC-compatible processor Leon was put to silicon a long while ago.
Give credit where credit is due, the Leon tracked over this territory years before OpenRISC.
The scary part here is the pure mathematics found on both ends of the spectrum. A classic pipe organ is a mathematical marvel, much like the computer of today. (I did a paper once on the mathematics of musical instruments, more focused on the Violin, but I made note of the pipe organ as well)
The elegance and simplicity of such ancient instruments from the "Enlightenment" period cover up the true genius it took to design and develop them.
The fabled new character from Return of the King would be an ideal inclusion on this new Hobbit movie. 8)
this only applys if you live in the US or in a country willing to go along with the US.
Anyone for moving to Nicuragua?
That is actually what I was referring to. Atari had a tremendous leap over the Amiga in the low-cost desktop space. Atari licensed CP/M with its GUI, GEM, and did not defend either when Apple came a calling. (Turned out several years later that Atari had patents that Apple was violating, and could have used them to leveredge against a possible anti-GEM suit)
The ST had the jumpstart on software, but Atari for whatever reason never exploited it. What was even more tragic from my viewpoint was their use of illegal opcodes of the 68000, resulting in a lineup that could not be progressed to new processors in the future. (which was stated in the MC68000 manual, not to use those opcodes for this very reason) An overall mismanaged product lineup which had a lot of potential.
Shoot, if Atari had only released the Jag-on-a-card for the Falcon/TT, they'd have had another jump (since the Voodoo didn't arrive for another few years, and the card, using PCI, could have been sold to PC'ers and given them another leg-up again).
Hindsight is always 20/20.
If only IBM pushed OS/2 onto the desktop
If only Commodore could market their way out of a paper bag
If only Atari hadn't fumbled the desktop
and now:
if only Novell had pushed for Linux rather than UNIX in the 90's...
Drop one of these on the house of file-swappers, that will teach em. 8)
In the end, it is all about consumer needs. The consumer needs more, newer, faster, better.
Using an example I saw given, the best selling toys today are cars, much the same as from the 1940's. The difference is in what these cars can do. Take the top-notch must-have car from 1949, some metal pushcar contraption. The hot cars this years, high-end RC machines with more computing power than launched men to the moon.
IT is more important than ever, even as its importance slowly vanishes, becomes part of the general background noise. The more important it gets, the less noticable it is.
Talk about giving someone the finger, geesh.
In 1995, I saw an ad in the local paper for a Java programmer. Had an interesting by-line:
5 years Java experience required.
Um..
Ahem...
I bought several Xilinx Spartan's for under the $11 price tag given here.
But if you want some real savings, do a PLD or PIC.
An idiot can make a custom cable in less than 3 minutes. (I should know, my step-brother does his own ethernet cables)
That same idiot cannot solder surface mount chips.
I would note, you don't need hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop custom ASIC's anymore. For such a basic interface, the total investment would be under $100k for a usable FPGA based solution.
Ritz did the same mistake that most companies do, they opt for the obscurity is security model. A smarter model is to instead follow the open source model that uses equipment that is prohibitive for the average user to purchase.
Example, rather than use, say, USB cabling, use some proprietory GPIO system that only Ritz controls. Heck, patent the heck out of it. Only needs a $5 CPLD to impliment a controller, but most casual hackers don't care to get into hardware-hacking on this scale. Sure, someone will break it, but then those capable will be a limited subset of the market, and damage is minimized.
Shoot, I should apply to be a corporate consultant!
Microsoft is seeing this as the end of competition, but I do not see so. Instead they do not seem to be seeing that rather than a single entity out to kill them, they are instead reviving hundreds of little entitys, all out for blood.
Ok, let us say on the remote chance that they kill Linux. Well, coming right on Linux's tail are the BSD's. Then Microsoft has not 1 but a half-dozen smaller, more mobile (and in my opinion better-done) competitors, all ready to cut them. Then there's the open-source BeOS clones coming. Some of them are starting to look pretty damned good from my angle, and could give Microsoft a run for their money by the time Longhorn comes out. Then there's the AmigaOS derivitives that have appeared such as AROS, MorphOS and soon AmigaOS 4.0. All of them make PocketPC look like a joke by comparison. This could give Palm the breathing room to get their footing solid again, and probably Symbian as well.
Microsoft would in short order end up facing not some GPL'd monstrosity of a UNIX clone, but every little project that suddenly gets a boost from the coders that used to be with Linux. If Microsoft brings focus against one, the others exploit holes that they leave open. Right now, Linux is a titan, able to stand up against another titan. But while the Microsoft titan sleeps, the liliputians are getting out the rope.
The primary targets appear to be gambling sites.
Why is it whenever the mob is involved, their first target are gambling sites? Next thing it will be online porn and pharmacudicals.