On the contrary, even Pokemon has a plot, just not much of one. Do you really expect a small childern to understand complex plots? I sure as heck don't ^_^.
The fact that Storm Linux seems to be going bankrupt is not something that should seem unusual. There is quite a bit of competition in the distro world of Linux for a relitivly small market; RedHat, Slackware, SuSe, Turbo, Debian, and other distros provide stiff competition. The good news is that bankruptcy isn't the end of a company. I'm just hoping that Storm Linux will contiune to put out products. Competition is more often than not good for an industry as it premotes the growth of Linux by providing selection of a product that meets one's needs.
At my highschool we have a filter. The thing that I like about it is that it tries to clean up the pages. For instance, if a page has "sheit" on it (like many posts on/.) it would place ---- instead and let the page go through. And it has blocked nasty pages (we teens are very nasty) that I even don't like. More times than not the proxy has not got in the way of research. If I couldn't do it from school, then I'll do it from home. As long as there is a way of getting non-filtered material.
I used to help at the Lindsey Wildlife Museum. At the checking desk we tallied up visitors with an old Apple II (adults, childern, memembers, elderly, ect). One of my many little jobs was to keep a organized record of the printouts. 3 days after Newyears, just when I thought I wasn't affected by the Y2K bug, the printouts had the year as year 0. Now I had to cross that out and mark it as 2000 on every printout. It got very annoying very quickly.
The web page claims that it uses a "dynamic compiler". It compiles the programs as it reads it. Isn't this the same thing as an interperted language such as Visual Basic, Perl scipts, and of the such with the same problems (such as it is normally slow)?
"...if all applications use the same built-in serializer for a certain fileformat, changes to that format would only require a single componentupdate to the operating system."
But then we have incompatible formats still running around. If someone sends you format v2.348 rev 281 and you have v3.123 rev 51 you might not be able to open up the older version. Then if there must be one file format thing that handles everything, it'll be HUGE! That's just to much system related software to me.
"Ofcourse, using a standard DLL in Windows to perform certain tasks doesn't require it to be part of the Operating System, but in what other way can you be certain that all your potential customers have it installed?"
Put it into the distro of the software. Simple as that.
I'm betting that NetZero is just trying to save thier ass. As the article points out, both company's stock dropped dramatically. This is NetZero's chance to destroy Juno. However, both sides will be hurt in legal costs. Since this patent is invalidated because of previous art (just look at Tripod) the court case will probably be dropped, but only after some hefty legal fees. Will they die? I don't know, but I do know that this case isn't worth even having a story. Let them hit eachother as it sure as heck wont matter in the long run.
I've always thought that the violation of the TLDs is what we don't want. Things like organizations using.net's and commercial using.org's. Wouldn't this type of thing stop the confusion or am I missing something here?
So does buying anything on the net, using a credit card anywhere, cruzing the internet, using email, and so on. It is very easy to figure out who buys what, what they eat, have dental flaws, ect. There are companies that base thier business on this type of information gathering and delivery. Don't get to paranoid here.
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Cheater. If you even were took a look at the JavaScript (I don't even know Java!) you would realize that it is imposible to get that response. As far as I can tell, if you were to get under 0, you would have an empty string and thus an empty response. Heck, there is no response of "You are a living god!" at all. Next time you try to make a lie, work a little harder.
I use ethel-ether (Starter Fluid) to power my spud gun. What a result! The reason your gun blew up is because it used PVC where ABS-40 or heigher is a better choice. PVC will, and has to me for a air-powered spud gun, shatter and blow into little pieces. ABS will tear and is much less dangerous to use. I also picked up some rubber siding used on the sides of houses. That way if the chamber does blow up, it wont give the user a hospital trip for stiches. It is worth the little extra for ABS and ethel-ether!!!
The source code in the RFC won't compile on my Linux box with GCC! I don't think the Microsoft would ever be biased against other compilers, would they?!?!?
There's more to it that "security by default". The goverment also is looking at other things such as real-time OSs for critical needs. Then there is that bogus worry that since anyone can get the source, anyone can find that one overlooked bug.
Not to mention, Linux fixes cross-distro is easy. RH 6.2 uses glibc 2.1 and so does Slackware 7.1. The only HUGE difference is the logo and what directory the software is put in (some distros switch between/sbin and/usr/sbin). A tar and a gzip later and everything is fixed. If they are upgrading anyways they should know where the software was put in the first place. If they don't, I'll be on the other side durring WW3.
Good points but off the mark.
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An OS is just something that allows a basic interface to a device. It does the basic ground work. That's all. An useful OS does not need things like programming libraries, web browsers, and more. Would you feel any different to the fact that your microwave runs IE or Netscape? OS's are much more that just for the desktop and workstation, they are for the microprocessors too. I can live without Quicktime on my graphing calculator.
I'm asking, will they win? Apperently, according to Yahoo!, they own a patent on using a tab-based system to show information for things like options. I haven't heard that MS has been sued for their implementation of it (I'm thinking "System settings" and "Network" in the control pannel). Doesn't that mean that the patent is void when infringment is made because they aren't sueing everyone that infringes?
In order for an aircraft to work efficiently it has to be calculated out just right. For example, the blades on the helicopter wont generate enough lift if the atmosphere is very thin. And to complicate things, helicopters are ill suited for high winds due to its design. The helicopters power is thust downward for lift and at an angle to go somewhere. Because of this power requirement to lift up there is less forward power. A plane, however, has full forward power which is one reason a plane can go many times faster than a helicopter. The problem is with the high winds and the helicopter can fight them going nowhere. There just wouldn't be power to move. Then there is turblence. Too much turblence can rip any aircraft apart in which a helicopter is not an exception.
This idea just might flop. I can trust NASA to get around these limitations, right? RIGHT?
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There is more to this than just being stuck in the old ways. If they were to create a networked system then someone will figure out the protocol and make a adless version of the client. Even then there are the "1337" who would then just record off the sound card.
And what about the people that buy the CDs, encode the MP3s and then share those MP3s with their friends using napster? It's much deeper than just skin deep my friend.
The RDRAM is serial unlike most RAM. This means that the 800Mhz serial speed of RDRAM has the same transfer rate as 100Mhz DDR SDRAM. RDRAM can go faster but do to the serialness of it there has been problems. Here are some general peak transfer rate stats for RAM.
*** Reminder, this is per pin so in theory if there was 2 pins there would be a 1.6GB/s transfer rate. This RAM today is expensive and is meant for workstations/servers.
Nothing will work on ANY system. Period. Computer hardware is so diverse that there can be millions of combonations. To find out what works and what doesn't work the consumer must go out on the net and do some research. If some people had tough times on one sound card and another sound card worked great then buy the good one.
There is only one other solution: Buy a preinstalled Linux/FreeBSD/Windows box with everything working. Only then the consumer doesn't have to bother with I/O, IRQs, support, software and more.
Data can only be carried over a frequency at 1/2 the frequency. In other words, 2kb on a 4Khz band.
Another problem is the earth. Considering that the earth is now proven to be round, high frequencies can not go very far. This is because of the F layer in the ionosphere. Basically every frequency above 50Mhz goes right though this layer but anything below bounces right off. This is the reason that the HAM Radio 10 meter band is so popular. Its frequency is below the 50Mhz cutoff line and it bounces of the surface of the earth too giving worldwide reception. On rare occassions the E layer flares up and frequencys around the 50Mhz band (6 meter HAM band) gets bounced too.
Yet another problem is that even higher frequencies just want to go plain strait. This starts around the 1Ghz and up region.
Putting this all together means that if someone wants long range reception (500+ miles from the tower), the maximum data transfer is incredibly slow. Anything faster means a ton of repeaters or good radios for transmissions from space.
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On the contrary, even Pokemon has a plot, just not much of one. Do you really expect a small childern to understand complex plots? I sure as heck don't ^_^.
The fact that Storm Linux seems to be going bankrupt is not something that should seem unusual. There is quite a bit of competition in the distro world of Linux for a relitivly small market; RedHat, Slackware, SuSe, Turbo, Debian, and other distros provide stiff competition. The good news is that bankruptcy isn't the end of a company. I'm just hoping that Storm Linux will contiune to put out products. Competition is more often than not good for an industry as it premotes the growth of Linux by providing selection of a product that meets one's needs.
At my highschool we have a filter. The thing that I like about it is that it tries to clean up the pages. For instance, if a page has "sheit" on it (like many posts on /.) it would place ---- instead and let the page go through. And it has blocked nasty pages (we teens are very nasty) that I even don't like. More times than not the proxy has not got in the way of research. If I couldn't do it from school, then I'll do it from home. As long as there is a way of getting non-filtered material.
They forgot the all horrible Slashdot Moderator job ^_^.
This is one reason I like to use ISO dating. You know, the YYYY-MM-DD format.
I used to help at the Lindsey Wildlife Museum. At the checking desk we tallied up visitors with an old Apple II (adults, childern, memembers, elderly, ect). One of my many little jobs was to keep a organized record of the printouts. 3 days after Newyears, just when I thought I wasn't affected by the Y2K bug, the printouts had the year as year 0. Now I had to cross that out and mark it as 2000 on every printout. It got very annoying very quickly.
The web page claims that it uses a "dynamic compiler". It compiles the programs as it reads it. Isn't this the same thing as an interperted language such as Visual Basic, Perl scipts, and of the such with the same problems (such as it is normally slow)?
Here is another offical homepage (it's just not up updated to the last second): http://pliant.cx/
Only currently does it allow a download for Linux. It only requires X11 in reality. Other than that, I agree.
"...if all applications use the same built-in serializer for a certain fileformat, changes to that format would only require a single componentupdate to the operating system."
But then we have incompatible formats still running around. If someone sends you format v2.348 rev 281 and you have v3.123 rev 51 you might not be able to open up the older version. Then if there must be one file format thing that handles everything, it'll be HUGE! That's just to much system related software to me.
"Ofcourse, using a standard DLL in Windows to perform certain tasks doesn't require it to be part of the Operating System, but in what other way can you be certain that all your potential customers have it installed?"
Put it into the distro of the software. Simple as that.
I'm betting that NetZero is just trying to save thier ass. As the article points out, both company's stock dropped dramatically. This is NetZero's chance to destroy Juno. However, both sides will be hurt in legal costs. Since this patent is invalidated because of previous art (just look at Tripod) the court case will probably be dropped, but only after some hefty legal fees. Will they die? I don't know, but I do know that this case isn't worth even having a story. Let them hit eachother as it sure as heck wont matter in the long run.
I've always thought that the violation of the TLDs is what we don't want. Things like organizations using .net's and commercial using .org's. Wouldn't this type of thing stop the confusion or am I missing something here?
So does buying anything on the net, using a credit card anywhere, cruzing the internet, using email, and so on. It is very easy to figure out who buys what, what they eat, have dental flaws, ect. There are companies that base thier business on this type of information gathering and delivery. Don't get to paranoid here.
Cheater. If you even were took a look at the JavaScript (I don't even know Java!) you would realize that it is imposible to get that response. As far as I can tell, if you were to get under 0, you would have an empty string and thus an empty response. Heck, there is no response of "You are a living god!" at all. Next time you try to make a lie, work a little harder.
I use ethel-ether (Starter Fluid) to power my spud gun. What a result! The reason your gun blew up is because it used PVC where ABS-40 or heigher is a better choice. PVC will, and has to me for a air-powered spud gun, shatter and blow into little pieces. ABS will tear and is much less dangerous to use. I also picked up some rubber siding used on the sides of houses. That way if the chamber does blow up, it wont give the user a hospital trip for stiches. It is worth the little extra for ABS and ethel-ether!!!
1000 shots and still going on my orginal...
The source code in the RFC won't compile on my Linux box with GCC! I don't think the Microsoft would ever be biased against other compilers, would they?!?!?
There's more to it that "security by default". The goverment also is looking at other things such as real-time OSs for critical needs. Then there is that bogus worry that since anyone can get the source, anyone can find that one overlooked bug.
Not to mention, Linux fixes cross-distro is easy. RH 6.2 uses glibc 2.1 and so does Slackware 7.1. The only HUGE difference is the logo and what directory the software is put in (some distros switch between /sbin and /usr/sbin). A tar and a gzip later and everything is fixed. If they are upgrading anyways they should know where the software was put in the first place. If they don't, I'll be on the other side durring WW3.
An OS is just something that allows a basic interface to a device. It does the basic ground work. That's all. An useful OS does not need things like programming libraries, web browsers, and more. Would you feel any different to the fact that your microwave runs IE or Netscape? OS's are much more that just for the desktop and workstation, they are for the microprocessors too. I can live without Quicktime on my graphing calculator.
I'm asking, will they win? Apperently, according to Yahoo!, they own a patent on using a tab-based system to show information for things like options. I haven't heard that MS has been sued for their implementation of it (I'm thinking "System settings" and "Network" in the control pannel). Doesn't that mean that the patent is void when infringment is made because they aren't sueing everyone that infringes?
In order for an aircraft to work efficiently it has to be calculated out just right. For example, the blades on the helicopter wont generate enough lift if the atmosphere is very thin. And to complicate things, helicopters are ill suited for high winds due to its design. The helicopters power is thust downward for lift and at an angle to go somewhere. Because of this power requirement to lift up there is less forward power. A plane, however, has full forward power which is one reason a plane can go many times faster than a helicopter. The problem is with the high winds and the helicopter can fight them going nowhere. There just wouldn't be power to move. Then there is turblence. Too much turblence can rip any aircraft apart in which a helicopter is not an exception.
This idea just might flop. I can trust NASA to get around these limitations, right? RIGHT?
There is more to this than just being stuck in the old ways. If they were to create a networked system then someone will figure out the protocol and make a adless version of the client. Even then there are the "1337" who would then just record off the sound card.
And what about the people that buy the CDs, encode the MP3s and then share those MP3s with their friends using napster? It's much deeper than just skin deep my friend.
The RDRAM is serial unlike most RAM. This means that the 800Mhz serial speed of RDRAM has the same transfer rate as 100Mhz DDR SDRAM. RDRAM can go faster but do to the serialness of it there has been problems. Here are some general peak transfer rate stats for RAM.
PC133 SDRAM: 1GB/s
DDR SDRAM 100Mhz: 1.6GB/s
DDR SDRAM 133MHz: 2GB/s
RDRAM 800Mhz: 1.6GB/s
Synchlink DRAM: 800MB/s PER PIN***
*** Reminder, this is per pin so in theory if there was 2 pins there would be a 1.6GB/s transfer rate. This RAM today is expensive and is meant for workstations/servers.
Nothing will work on ANY system. Period. Computer hardware is so diverse that there can be millions of combonations. To find out what works and what doesn't work the consumer must go out on the net and do some research. If some people had tough times on one sound card and another sound card worked great then buy the good one.
There is only one other solution:
Buy a preinstalled Linux/FreeBSD/Windows box with everything working. Only then the consumer doesn't have to bother with I/O, IRQs, support, software and more.
"The Amiga SDK implements a new GCC backend, that is; instead of having GCC output Intel- or Alpha-binaries, it outputs VP code. "
Since the GCC compiler is GPL'ed, doesn't that mean that the whole modified compiler is GPL'ed and consequencly open source?
Data can only be carried over a frequency at 1/2 the frequency. In other words, 2kb on a 4Khz band.
Another problem is the earth. Considering that the earth is now proven to be round, high frequencies can not go very far. This is because of the F layer in the ionosphere. Basically every frequency above 50Mhz goes right though this layer but anything below bounces right off. This is the reason that the HAM Radio 10 meter band is so popular. Its frequency is below the 50Mhz cutoff line and it bounces of the surface of the earth too giving worldwide reception. On rare occassions the E layer flares up and frequencys around the 50Mhz band (6 meter HAM band) gets bounced too.
Yet another problem is that even higher frequencies just want to go plain strait. This starts around the 1Ghz and up region.
Putting this all together means that if someone wants long range reception (500+ miles from the tower), the maximum data transfer is incredibly slow. Anything faster means a ton of repeaters or good radios for transmissions from space.