The Internet Appliance was supposed to replace the PC, not be converted into one. It seems that there are more people buying these contraptions simply to hack on them than for the "as-intended" use!
We have been trolled... I think we are both right, but it only get sillier if we carry this on.
The original comment was that a PIII would be good for playing more pr0n simultaneously, to which I suggested BeOS as an alternative because of its capabilities back in the time when Windows only allowed you to use one MCI device at a time, hence only one video.
Yes, BeOS runs on a PIII... BeOS also runs on a 486. What was YOUR point?
Mine is that Be happens to have multimedia capabilities far beyond those of any X11 based GUI. There is a good reason why RealPlayer and Quake work so much better on Be than X -- they were designed for two completely different things.
Who plays "... violent video games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or Mortal Combat [sic]" anymore?
I can see how those games can lead to violent behavior -- they suck! Personally, I would prefer to commit a violent act against myself than have to figure out some obscenely complicated sequence of buttons to finish off a match, or once again get pissed off because my version of the game did not have the naked chicks on the walls...
What about BeOS on G3/G4 systems? I guess PowerPC is not as open to everyone as Linux is...
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In defense of this comment:
Would you not take a schedule cut to 85% of your normal hours in exchange for a 30-40%/hr. pay raise?
40h * $10 = $400/wk.
($10 * 1.3) * (40h *.85) = $442/wk.
We have a winner!
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I still use Windows on one of my systems, but when presented with the option of external CPE (Cisco 675) for $50 over the free internal Cisco 605, I happily took it. For one, CBOS is much like IOS, which would be interesting on its own. Then there is the fact that NAT and firewalling capabilities are built into it, and accessible via telnet/web/console port. Try finding that functionality in Windows for less than $50! And of course, I must say that I think that as long as the cable networks get opened to competition, cable is going to rule "broadband" anyway, so the point is moot. Why are people unable to understand that fatter pipes carry more water?
No, there will not be a TPM release on DVD soon. Yes, TPM will be released on DVD this year. No, TPM is definitely not going to release on DVD anytime soon. (and so on...)
Regardless of what these EE majors and other so-called experts have to say, the real reason Rambust is going nowhere is cost. Sure, Grambus is not offering a significant/if any performance benefit, but even if it did, the price would have to match performance.
Nobody really likes new technologies that add significant cost through royalties -- see FireWire (ahem) IEEE 1394. USB was free, which is why everyone had those controllers on their motherboards years before they had anything to plug into them.
Rambus would have a great chance if it was not commanding a 500% premium, and perhaps cost only 10-15% more than current SDRAM. If they can get the prices down, which they will not, Intel would have been able to release a four channel solution that would significantly reduce its latency (this is coming) and increase its performance. As the technology became financially reasonable for everyone to use, mass production would bring the price down even further.
Besides, who wants to go back to paying 1995 prices for RAM?
How many Slashdot authors does it take to post a story? Maybe a related article will show up in Apache, YRO, and Ask Slashdot sections, too! There has been more repetition on this subject than a JonKatz article!
I really, really, reaaalllyyy wanted to mention the fact that SecurityFocus had retracted the "weenies backdoor" in any of the articles aleady posted about said bug, especially since it seemed to have already been straightened out the first time around. By then, though, the anti-MS FUD had already taken over.
I guess that's what happens when you're doing things up to the minute...
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I took a glimpse into your mind via the homepage you have listed. You disturb me much more than Mr. Stallman...
When are people going to start blaming Netscape, like they rightfully should? I don't recall them ever making it into the black -- no wonder they went from boom to bust in about four years!
The Netscape IPO was the second (or third) California Gold Rush. There were stories of instant millionaires, and the tech-savvy who could make it there discovered it easy to find financing from people who couldn't get there themselves, but had seen and heard of this gold, and wanted a cut of it for themselves. Sure, there was gold, but most people couldn't make it profitable enough. Surprise, surprise, they went broke.
Anyway, it should come as no surprise that tech stocks are helping to drive down the market. Profitable companies like M$ are in legal trouble, while dot-coms and Linux outfits have not been making money from the get go -- sure sounds like a losing combo to me.
I got this email from George Lucas on this subject earlier today:
>---------- Forwarded message ------- > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:02:26 -0500 (PDT) > From: George Lucas <xxxx@thx.com> > To: LocalYokel@Rednecks.com > Subject: RE: TPM DVD > >Hello, Mr. Slackjaw! > > Thank you for a very well crafted flame urging me > to release TPM on DVD. I have read your arguments, > and followed the link to the "Slashdot" site hat you > gave me, and have decided that I am being quite > foolish about this business. > > We have been secretly working on a special DVD > release of this movie, but from what I see on this > website you sent me to, the cat is already out of > the bag. The TPM DVD will be released shortly as > Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace SE. We had > intended to make the "s" stand for "Special", but it > is clear that it should stand for "Slashdot". ILM > has been working quite feverishly to add a subplot > involving the capture of Queen Amidala in her quar- > ters. As she is changing into the costume of her ser- > vant, the captors will freeze her in a block of car- > bonite. For all intents and purposes, Natalie > Portman, naked and petrified. > > Thank you, and please be patient. The final touches > will be made as soon as we complete our open source > Beowulf cluster. Thank you.
Not too long ago, I remember the European/. readers touting how wonderfully respectful their cultures were about others' opinions and privacy, but here we are with the odd anti-privacy web hosting rules in France, and the pushover British ISP's willing to pull a page for any reason.
Here is one part of the article that makes no sense to me: "To do this, he first runs the trace route (tracert) program which comes, for example, with Windows 95."
Windows 95 doesn't have nslookup, but a ping would do just as nicely, and get done more quickly.
And then I begin to wonder about a site like The Register... Could Rambus(t), Inc. have the site pulled because of their (admitted) daily beatings on the company?
When I worked for an ISP, various departments got a few complaints about the content of a few sites. We did nothing about them unless they drew excessive traffic, usually porn and warez. We didn't care about anything else, and if we were ever asked about so-and-so's fat stack of Atari and NES ROM's... "We never knew about it".
The bottom line is that no ISP should have to police its own users.
What is the world coming to when Hemos isn't the one who posts an article about nanotechnology? The social implications of nanotech are quite simple -- Hemos will get along with the rest of the dudes at the Holland geek compound if he has little nanobots rolling around do his share of the chores...
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The Internet Appliance was supposed to replace the PC, not be converted into one. It seems that there are more people buying these contraptions simply to hack on them than for the "as-intended" use!
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We have been trolled... I think we are both right, but it only get sillier if we carry this on.
The original comment was that a PIII would be good for playing more pr0n simultaneously, to which I suggested BeOS as an alternative because of its capabilities back in the time when Windows only allowed you to use one MCI device at a time, hence only one video.
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To get around registration for any NYTimes articles, simply substitute "partners" for "www", e.g.: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyb er/cyberlaw/28law.html y berlaw/28law.html
instead of:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/c
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Mine is that Be happens to have multimedia capabilities far beyond those of any X11 based GUI. There is a good reason why RealPlayer and Quake work so much better on Be than X -- they were designed for two completely different things.
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when you have BeOS instead? It sure costs a lot less...
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I'm only into overclocking if it makes my system FASTER...
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NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
This makes me sadder than when Bambi's mom died...
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An up to date kernel would be nice, too -- has this been covered with 2.1r4, or is Debian still installing Kernel 2.0?
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One thing about Debian is that you can't find an ISO or even a prepackaged set on CD of frozen/potato... This place is no exception.
Sure, I have the bandwidth and tools to download the trees and burn it myself, perhaps I am too lazy for not wanting to do both?
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Who plays "... violent video games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or Mortal Combat [sic]" anymore?
I can see how those games can lead to violent behavior -- they suck! Personally, I would prefer to commit a violent act against myself than have to figure out some obscenely complicated sequence of buttons to finish off a match, or once again get pissed off because my version of the game did not have the naked chicks on the walls...
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What about BeOS on G3/G4 systems? I guess PowerPC is not as open to everyone as Linux is...
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Would you not take a schedule cut to 85% of your normal hours in exchange for a 30-40%/hr. pay raise?
.85) = $442/wk.
40h * $10 = $400/wk.
($10 * 1.3) * (40h *
We have a winner!
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I still use Windows on one of my systems, but when presented with the option of external CPE (Cisco 675) for $50 over the free internal Cisco 605, I happily took it. For one, CBOS is much like IOS, which would be interesting on its own. Then there is the fact that NAT and firewalling capabilities are built into it, and accessible via telnet/web/console port. Try finding that functionality in Windows for less than $50! And of course, I must say that I think that as long as the cable networks get opened to competition, cable is going to rule "broadband" anyway, so the point is moot. Why are people unable to understand that fatter pipes carry more water?
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Is anyone else getting bored to tears about this?
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Did this book have to be written overseas and imported to the U.S, or is it simply illegal to export this book outside the U.S.?
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If it didn't make things even more offtopic, I would like to be set straight...
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Nobody really likes new technologies that add significant cost through royalties -- see FireWire (ahem) IEEE 1394. USB was free, which is why everyone had those controllers on their motherboards years before they had anything to plug into them.
Rambus would have a great chance if it was not commanding a 500% premium, and perhaps cost only 10-15% more than current SDRAM. If they can get the prices down, which they will not, Intel would have been able to release a four channel solution that would significantly reduce its latency (this is coming) and increase its performance. As the technology became financially reasonable for everyone to use, mass production would bring the price down even further.
Besides, who wants to go back to paying 1995 prices for RAM?
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Well, I still want the "Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified" version that Lucas promised me in this fake genuine email he sent to meB...
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I really, really, reaaalllyyy wanted to mention the fact that SecurityFocus had retracted the "weenies backdoor" in any of the articles aleady posted about said bug, especially since it seemed to have already been straightened out the first time around. By then, though, the anti-MS FUD had already taken over.
I guess that's what happens when you're doing things up to the minute...
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I took a glimpse into your mind via the homepage you have listed. You disturb me much more than Mr. Stallman...
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When are people going to start blaming Netscape, like they rightfully should? I don't recall them ever making it into the black -- no wonder they went from boom to bust in about four years!
The Netscape IPO was the second (or third) California Gold Rush. There were stories of instant millionaires, and the tech-savvy who could make it there discovered it easy to find financing from people who couldn't get there themselves, but had seen and heard of this gold, and wanted a cut of it for themselves. Sure, there was gold, but most people couldn't make it profitable enough. Surprise, surprise, they went broke.
Anyway, it should come as no surprise that tech stocks are helping to drive down the market. Profitable companies like M$ are in legal trouble, while dot-coms and Linux outfits have not been making money from the get go -- sure sounds like a losing combo to me.
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>---------- Forwarded message -------
> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:02:26 -0500 (PDT)
> From: George Lucas <xxxx@thx.com>
> To: LocalYokel@Rednecks.com
> Subject: RE: TPM DVD
>
>Hello, Mr. Slackjaw!
>
> Thank you for a very well crafted flame urging me
> to release TPM on DVD. I have read your arguments,
> and followed the link to the "Slashdot" site hat you
> gave me, and have decided that I am being quite
> foolish about this business.
>
> We have been secretly working on a special DVD
> release of this movie, but from what I see on this
> website you sent me to, the cat is already out of
> the bag. The TPM DVD will be released shortly as
> Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace SE. We had
> intended to make the "s" stand for "Special", but it
> is clear that it should stand for "Slashdot". ILM
> has been working quite feverishly to add a subplot
> involving the capture of Queen Amidala in her quar-
> ters. As she is changing into the costume of her ser-
> vant, the captors will freeze her in a block of car-
> bonite. For all intents and purposes, Natalie
> Portman, naked and petrified.
>
> Thank you, and please be patient. The final touches
> will be made as soon as we complete our open source
> Beowulf cluster. Thank you.
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Here is one part of the article that makes no sense to me:
"To do this, he first runs the trace route (tracert) program which comes, for example, with Windows 95."
Windows 95 doesn't have nslookup, but a ping would do just as nicely, and get done more quickly.
And then I begin to wonder about a site like The Register... Could Rambus(t), Inc. have the site pulled because of their (admitted) daily beatings on the company?
When I worked for an ISP, various departments got a few complaints about the content of a few sites. We did nothing about them unless they drew excessive traffic, usually porn and warez. We didn't care about anything else, and if we were ever asked about so-and-so's fat stack of Atari and NES ROM's... "We never knew about it".
The bottom line is that no ISP should have to police its own users.
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What is the world coming to when Hemos isn't the one who posts an article about nanotechnology? The social implications of nanotech are quite simple -- Hemos will get along with the rest of the dudes at the Holland geek compound if he has little nanobots rolling around do his share of the chores...
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