Ok. I'm sorry, but I think it is almost humorous to watch/. react when positive things come from 'evil' places or negative results come from 'good' places. I'm really not trying to troll here, but I'm beginning to think of silicon valley business as/. sports. Root for the home team!
Transmeta has posted poor results, so now we want to change the way we test, etc. They have sacrificed speed for battery life. I think that is acceptable, I want to see longer lasting laptops (even at the expense of speed). I wonder if Linus didn't work for Transmeta if it would get such a defensive response.
The RIAA and the record companies are big monsters as are the media companies. A law like this would have broad effects because it could also affect non music media such as DVD movies, copies of works of art, and such. There is going to be a strong backlash against this from some big names....
I work on 19" and 21" monitors as well as some large flat screens on a daily basis. This would really make my life easier, except the aspect ratio looks a little wide. It looks like it would be great for equipment and security monitering, being able to see many things at once....
The problem with bounding robots, is that the communication time is so slow, they need to have something that can move very slowly and make very carefull movements.
Remember the rover moved one step at a time controlled by earth. To have something moving randomly around would limit the ability of researchers to look at specific things and to be careful.
-Moondog
I'm sorry, you are obviously correct. Gee, a little piece of software that someone could pay a genious such as yourself to develop. Cheap. Now, lets see here. We've got thousands, perhaps millions of computers distributed all over the world. You of course are going to personally install the filter on these machines? Wait, your software only runs on macs and pcs? What about workstations, are you going to develop a platform independent version? How are you going to insure the filtering software doesn't interact poorly with anything else. Surely a genious such as yourself can figure that one out.
For all the small government talk that Bush pushes, it is clear that he believes in small gov't only when it suits him. It will be just another wasteful program to get people to "filter the Internet".
I think the best way to get to integrated appliance servers is to develop them around an open source model like much of the rest of the open source community. Relying on companies to build the tools gives us totally proprietary computers that aren't going to have the flexibility (and they'll be more expensive) that/.'ers require.
I do all my website programming in python. It is great to see the += and related operators now in the syntax. I hope, though, that the developers will limit the new trend to introduce notation that could be seen as 'obfuscated' if used in the wrong hands. I really liked the original philosophy of having the 'anti-perl' syntax. Great work guys! (Although I wish there was support for C style {bracketing} for statements)
Other than cable, both companies pretty much have very dominating (but not monopolistic) stakes in their industries. I wonder where these companies plan to take this....
Online gov't lotteries is a great idea! Tax people from half way around the world. I wonder what the first state will be to get a piece of that. Like my friend always said, Lotteries are for people who are bad at math...
-Moondog
Man the space station is so cool. I really hope they can figure a way to make space exploration more affordable and reliable. Can't wait to see people move in.
I'm not sure why Gary Gygax's opinion on this subject is really that valuable. A person who writes the material that has accusations leveled at it is hardly an impartial subject....
This is great news. Many developers (and administrators) have found that FreeBSD meets their specific needs better than linux and making FreeBSD more available can only have a positive effect. There is certainly room for both FreeBSD and linux in the unix-like os world.
Liquid CO2 is not necessarily a bad thing. CO2 can be converted to elemental oxygen and other good stuff with hydrogen and sunlight using the correct bug. If they have a proton source, I'm willing to be a bug could be engineered to do the right thing in a controlled environment....
There have been some pretty poorly designed complex games. Just like movies with large degrees of complexity (SW EpI), it really comes down to acting and script. If Final Fantasy has a crappy script it, too, will suck -- independent of its great effects. As to games, Dragon's Lair was very popular and was fairly complex for its time. Castle Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake are great examples of increasing complexity with quality of game play increasing (although I have friends who prefer doom). I think it has more to do with good design than the complexity causing the problems.
It is great to see that Bob Young is addressing these problems. It is troubling, that this problems existed in the first place. To compare RH with Microsoft would, of course, be a mistake, but to say that all that is not MS is good, would also be a mistake.
RH admitted mistakes, I think we should all take a deep breath and wait for RH to fix the problems, not address them.
I disagree. I think it would take much longer for Mars to become that comfortable. Not only is temperature an issue, but so is pressure. I wonder if they might have trouble theoretically because of mars' lower mass (and therefore lower gravity). Also, it would take an enormous amount of work to get the PFC's or to manufacture the PFC's on Mars. Geez, it is going to be at LEAST 100 years before we can think of such a project.
I'd love to see some of this technology perfected, commercialized and made lighter. Not so i can dive, but so I can have a laptop I can really throw around, if you know what I mean. Laptops are still relatively delicate, I would love one I could treat like any other notebook.
Although everything before the raq3 is MIPS and had many problems with software compatability, my raq3, and the raq3i and raq4's are all x86's running linux. Fairly straight forward compatability. Don't think that solaris is such a hot idea, though....
How much credibility is this review really going to have? Especially after being turned down by multiple universities, such as MIT, UCSD and UM. The only solution is a justice department independent review, as these universities have suggested. Now by choosing such a no name institution (no offense to IIT), but it is only going to get charged with conspiracy no matter how they respond to the review. I'm glad I'm not in their spot.
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Ok. I'm sorry, but I think it is almost humorous to watch /. react when positive things come from 'evil' places or negative results come from 'good' places. I'm really not trying to troll here, but I'm beginning to think of silicon valley business as /. sports. Root for the home team!
Transmeta has posted poor results, so now we want to change the way we test, etc. They have sacrificed speed for battery life. I think that is acceptable, I want to see longer lasting laptops (even at the expense of speed). I wonder if Linus didn't work for Transmeta if it would get such a defensive response.
-Moondog
This is just what we need. Dead people raining through our rooves.
-Moondog
The RIAA and the record companies are big monsters as are the media companies. A law like this would have broad effects because it could also affect non music media such as DVD movies, copies of works of art, and such. There is going to be a strong backlash against this from some big names....
-Moondog
I work on 19" and 21" monitors as well as some large flat screens on a daily basis. This would really make my life easier, except the aspect ratio looks a little wide. It looks like it would be great for equipment and security monitering, being able to see many things at once....
-Moondog
The problem with bounding robots, is that the communication time is so slow, they need to have something that can move very slowly and make very carefull movements. Remember the rover moved one step at a time controlled by earth. To have something moving randomly around would limit the ability of researchers to look at specific things and to be careful. -Moondog
I'm sorry, you are obviously correct. Gee, a little piece of software that someone could pay a genious such as yourself to develop. Cheap. Now, lets see here. We've got thousands, perhaps millions of computers distributed all over the world. You of course are going to personally install the filter on these machines? Wait, your software only runs on macs and pcs? What about workstations, are you going to develop a platform independent version? How are you going to insure the filtering software doesn't interact poorly with anything else. Surely a genious such as yourself can figure that one out.
-Moondog
For all the small government talk that Bush pushes, it is clear that he believes in small gov't only when it suits him. It will be just another wasteful program to get people to "filter the Internet".
-Moondog
I think the best way to get to integrated appliance servers is to develop them around an open source model like much of the rest of the open source community. Relying on companies to build the tools gives us totally proprietary computers that aren't going to have the flexibility (and they'll be more expensive) that /.'ers require.
-Moondog
I do all my website programming in python. It is great to see the += and related operators now in the syntax. I hope, though, that the developers will limit the new trend to introduce notation that could be seen as 'obfuscated' if used in the wrong hands. I really liked the original philosophy of having the 'anti-perl' syntax. Great work guys! (Although I wish there was support for C style {bracketing} for statements)
-Moondog
Other than cable, both companies pretty much have very dominating (but not monopolistic) stakes in their industries. I wonder where these companies plan to take this....
-Moondog
Online gov't lotteries is a great idea! Tax people from half way around the world. I wonder what the first state will be to get a piece of that. Like my friend always said, Lotteries are for people who are bad at math... -Moondog
Man the space station is so cool. I really hope they can figure a way to make space exploration more affordable and reliable. Can't wait to see people move in.
-Moondog
I'm not sure why Gary Gygax's opinion on this subject is really that valuable. A person who writes the material that has accusations leveled at it is hardly an impartial subject....
-Moondog
Slashdot should compile a team of people to build a robot. I bet there are a lot of people who would want to participate! Open source robot....
-Moondog
This is great news. Many developers (and administrators) have found that FreeBSD meets their specific needs better than linux and making FreeBSD more available can only have a positive effect. There is certainly room for both FreeBSD and linux in the unix-like os world.
-Moondog
Man now I know why I seem to lose large blocks of time when I play tetris!
-Moondog
Liquid CO2 is not necessarily a bad thing. CO2 can be converted to elemental oxygen and other good stuff with hydrogen and sunlight using the correct bug. If they have a proton source, I'm willing to be a bug could be engineered to do the right thing in a controlled environment....
-Moondog
I prefer the legos myself. Is this really a slashdot story?
There have been some pretty poorly designed complex games. Just like movies with large degrees of complexity (SW EpI), it really comes down to acting and script. If Final Fantasy has a crappy script it, too, will suck -- independent of its great effects. As to games, Dragon's Lair was very popular and was fairly complex for its time. Castle Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake are great examples of increasing complexity with quality of game play increasing (although I have friends who prefer doom). I think it has more to do with good design than the complexity causing the problems.
-Moondog
It is great to see that Bob Young is addressing these problems. It is troubling, that this problems existed in the first place. To compare RH with Microsoft would, of course, be a mistake, but to say that all that is not MS is good, would also be a mistake.
RH admitted mistakes, I think we should all take a deep breath and wait for RH to fix the problems, not address them.
-Moondog
I disagree. I think it would take much longer for Mars to become that comfortable. Not only is temperature an issue, but so is pressure. I wonder if they might have trouble theoretically because of mars' lower mass (and therefore lower gravity). Also, it would take an enormous amount of work to get the PFC's or to manufacture the PFC's on Mars. Geez, it is going to be at LEAST 100 years before we can think of such a project.
-Moondog
Wow, that is cool. Congrats to the Swedes. I wish I had that much time.... :)
-Moondog
I'd love to see some of this technology perfected, commercialized and made lighter. Not so i can dive, but so I can have a laptop I can really throw around, if you know what I mean. Laptops are still relatively delicate, I would love one I could treat like any other notebook.
Although everything before the raq3 is MIPS and had many problems with software compatability, my raq3, and the raq3i and raq4's are all x86's running linux. Fairly straight forward compatability. Don't think that solaris is such a hot idea, though....
How much credibility is this review really going to have? Especially after being turned down by multiple universities, such as MIT, UCSD and UM. The only solution is a justice department independent review, as these universities have suggested. Now by choosing such a no name institution (no offense to IIT), but it is only going to get charged with conspiracy no matter how they respond to the review. I'm glad I'm not in their spot.
-- Moondog