Currently I own an Indigo, Indigo2, and an O2. They are very capable and suprisingly rounded machines.
There's nothing 'surprising' about the roundedness of the 02. You just can't set anything on top of the mini-tower and expect it not to eventually slide off. I have two of them, and the one in storage by definition has to be 'top of the stack' of whatever pile of gear it sits in.
I have a big blue Intel development station from the 1980's. It has a Multibus CPU card in it with an 8085 processor. Older versions of same Development System have an 8080 processor. Gary Kildahl, the creator of the CP/M operating system, wrote it on a big blue Intel system.
So, yes, Intel has made complete hardware systems.
Not all of us just tear shrinkwrap off a box, (or off a few boxes, then get out that phillips screwdriver that lets us pretend we are 'hardware wizards.') Computers are composed of chips and resistors and diodes and transistors and solder and stuff. Haven't you ever soldered together a circuit from scratch? The Intel EPROMs and microcontrollers in some of my projects are complete products unto themselves.
Now, if you're a 'modern consumer' this level of analysis probably seems ridiculous. But, if so, then what are you doing adding comments on Slashdot?
The phrase he used was 'contributed code to FreeBSD' not 'took the FreeBSD code base, extended it and used it without giving the code back to the project.'
The former does occur, though there's a lot of FUD out there implying it doesn't.
Apple has made POWER architecture machines long before Apple adopted 'Power PeeCee' and IBM will continue to make POWER architecture machines long after Apple has moved on. It's a misnomer to call IBM's chips Power PeeCee. My old RS/6000 box, with a POWER1 chipset making up it's CPU, finds 'PowerPC' offensive.
'exclusivity' is supposed to be a bad word, and reflect badly on ATI, or Valve, or something.
(Footnote- All I know is the ATI Rage Pro hardware built into the motherboards of all the machines I run these days (Dell Optiplex GX1's that I get at auctions for from 80 cents to five bucks as complete systems) works fine. I hear that we're supposed to hate ATI or something. The ATI hardware *I* have works great, including when I use it with freenixes.)
I am just waiting for the carping, whining 'Star Wars Collectable' crowd to show up on the scene and loudly complain that these items are 'missing the original packaging, and obviously used.' Which renders MOST Star Wars collectables 'worthless.'
During those 80,000 years, leisure time as such was almost nothing for most of the population.
There are a number of anthropologists (and utopian anarchists) who would disagree. 'Primative' man had ample amounts of leisure time. There weren't mortgage payments to make, and no television advertising to 'train' consumers in what they so badly need to want.
The whole record of 'primative art and culture' debunks the idea that humanity desperately clawed for survival until the invention of the five day work week.
In any case, most sterios have their own DC sinks called CAPICITORS that provide power for the componants after the Sterio's POWER SUPPLY provides "digital shit" as in DC power to the sterio's innards.
Yes, but the digital noise source can enter the sound system through the air. Put a noisy digital device near your preamp and you're looking for trouble.
Actually, anybody who would buy one of those would probably have a seperate power generator in an auxillary building. In this building, pedigreed shetland ponies would run on a treadmill that fed a Swiss-made electric power generator with all silver in the armature windings.
'Power conditioning' conjures up the notion of a bunch of inductors and digital shit, introducing yet MORE noise. It's fine for your server. Don't listen to anything connected to it.
Or was, awhile back. I remember being twisted by his work back in about 1978 in ways that I've never recovered from. And that was late in his work.
People who don't read much but who watch 'sci-fi' on teevee and think they understand the genre probably haven't read 'The Glass Teat' but really, really need to.
If the Democrats go for 'obstuctionist' to 'revolutionary' they will be thrown out on their ear. Politicians already have a hard time staying credible without transforming directly into the shyster 'used car salesman' bombasts many voters suspect them from being. A 'no work gets done' Democratic wing of congress would find itself unelected quickly.
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The commenter below you stated '75% of all new businesses fail.'
I think you eggagerate. You're claiming that greater than 99% of all commercial software projects fail.
There wouldn't be a single paid software developer if that were the case.
Secondly, the extra security has gotten Rawlings front page articles on CNN, NYT, BBC, etc. etc. building up the book hype.
And Slashdot, although it would be nicer if the Slashdot story about the upcoming book didn't start off as a carping whining DRM rant.
Currently I own an Indigo, Indigo2, and an O2. They are very capable and suprisingly rounded machines.
There's nothing 'surprising' about the roundedness of the 02. You just can't set anything on top of the mini-tower and expect it not to eventually slide off. I have two of them, and the one in storage by definition has to be 'top of the stack' of whatever pile of gear it sits in.
I have a big blue Intel development station from the 1980's. It has a Multibus CPU card in it with an 8085 processor. Older versions of same Development System have an 8080 processor. Gary Kildahl, the creator of the CP/M operating system, wrote it on a big blue Intel system.
So, yes, Intel has made complete hardware systems.
Depends on what you mean by 'complete'.
Not all of us just tear shrinkwrap off a box, (or off a few boxes, then get out that phillips screwdriver that lets us pretend we are 'hardware wizards.') Computers are composed of chips and resistors and diodes and transistors and solder and stuff. Haven't you ever soldered together a circuit from scratch? The Intel EPROMs and microcontrollers in some of my projects are complete products unto themselves.
Now, if you're a 'modern consumer' this level of analysis probably seems ridiculous. But, if so, then what are you doing adding comments on Slashdot?
It could easily be said that 'in real life nobody is a socialist, everybody is a capitalist more or less.'
But really, few people own capital and employ others to create wealth in the original sense of the term, so it's irrelevant.
The phrase he used was 'contributed code to FreeBSD' not 'took the FreeBSD code base, extended it and used it without giving the code back to the project.'
The former does occur, though there's a lot of FUD out there implying it doesn't.
OMG. Typo up there. First sentence should start:
IBM has made POWER architecture machines....
Apple has made POWER architecture machines long before Apple adopted 'Power PeeCee' and IBM will continue to make POWER architecture machines long after Apple has moved on. It's a misnomer to call IBM's chips Power PeeCee. My old RS/6000 box, with a POWER1 chipset making up it's CPU, finds 'PowerPC' offensive.
'exclusivity' is supposed to be a bad word, and reflect badly on ATI, or Valve, or something.
(Footnote- All I know is the ATI Rage Pro hardware built into the motherboards of all the machines I run these days (Dell Optiplex GX1's that I get at auctions for from 80 cents to five bucks as complete systems) works fine. I hear that we're supposed to hate ATI or something. The ATI hardware *I* have works great, including when I use it with freenixes.)
True, but there ARE some pretty odd fetishists out there. I used to know of a few 'fat girl fetishist' geeks, years and YEARS ago.
I am just waiting for the carping, whining 'Star Wars Collectable' crowd to show up on the scene and loudly complain that these items are 'missing the original packaging, and obviously used.' Which renders MOST Star Wars collectables 'worthless.'
Unlike Canada, France, Germany, etc who really have *NO* excuse at all.
Ah, but that's where you are wrong. France would help, but their storm troops are all engaged right now in the Ivory Coast.
if 'many have patented it' wouldn't they all be shooting at each other too much to notice you and your laser-clad spaceship?
During those 80,000 years, leisure time as such was almost nothing for most of the population.
There are a number of anthropologists (and utopian anarchists) who would disagree. 'Primative' man had ample amounts of leisure time. There weren't mortgage payments to make, and no television advertising to 'train' consumers in what they so badly need to want.
The whole record of 'primative art and culture' debunks the idea that humanity desperately clawed for survival until the invention of the five day work week.
The vocal removing software sucks rocks. It doesn't remove shit here, but otherwise the lyrics stuff is cool.
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Your freshman comp professor's head just exploded.
Naw. One person invents the telephone. Someone else comes along and develops a bad half-baked copy of the telephone.
(which then is dubbed GNU/telephone due to political issues)
Perhaps because with more people should come more people making things.
What if 'innovation' doesn't scale that way?
It could be that more people just means more sloths watching 'sports' on television.
In Newton's day it would not have been referred to as 'dabbling.'
Think about it.
In any case, most sterios have their own DC sinks called CAPICITORS that provide power for the componants after the Sterio's POWER SUPPLY provides "digital shit" as in DC power to the sterio's innards.
Yes, but the digital noise source can enter the sound system through the air. Put a noisy digital device near your preamp and you're looking for trouble.
True, but some of the 'Classics' from Disney aren't available anywhere. I had to get 'Songs of the South' at a flea market, and only on VHS.
Hey, this is Slashdot.
Some of us don't even need an end-result improvement in mind to void our warranties. We open the box to see how it works, just because.
Actually, anybody who would buy one of those would probably have a seperate power generator in an auxillary building. In this building, pedigreed shetland ponies would run on a treadmill that fed a Swiss-made electric power generator with all silver in the armature windings.
'Power conditioning' conjures up the notion of a bunch of inductors and digital shit, introducing yet MORE noise. It's fine for your server. Don't listen to anything connected to it.
Ellison is almost a 'litmus test for geeks.'
Or was, awhile back. I remember being twisted by his work back in about 1978 in ways that I've never recovered from. And that was late in his work.
People who don't read much but who watch 'sci-fi' on teevee and think they understand the genre probably haven't read 'The Glass Teat' but really, really need to.
If the Democrats go for 'obstuctionist' to 'revolutionary' they will be thrown out on their ear. Politicians already have a hard time staying credible without transforming directly into the shyster 'used car salesman' bombasts many voters suspect them from being. A 'no work gets done' Democratic wing of congress would find itself unelected quickly.