Why the bloody hell do you have enough karma to get an auto +1? THE LINK HE PUT IN THE PARENT TO YOURS WAS the BT suit. JUST CLICK THE LINK!!! AAAAHHHHH!
Stuff like this used really piss me off too, but I finally realized that posting on/. is like throwing shit at a wall. Throw enough of it and something will stick.
The Mayan calander is _more_ advanced than the calander we use.
The calendar we use today dates back to the 1500's and is used not because it is best we could come up with, but for historical reasons. Also I doubt that the Mayans had time pieces as accurtate as our atomic clocks.
The Egyptians built structures that we would struggle to build right now.
We would have a hard time constructing the pyramids using Egyptian techniques but using modern tech we probably could though the expense would be prohibative. But the Egyptians probably could not build structures like Skyscrapers, the Chunnel, Hoover Dam etc.
Atlantis had flying machines, according to the legends.
According to fact so do we. Hell, we have even been to the Moon.
So I gave you at least 3 examples of civilizations that are _more_ advanced than we are now.
No you didn't. You gave examples of three advanced civs who have been matched and surpased by our civilization.
Are you sure that 1.8ghz running at 900 mhz would be any faster than your PIII 600? To reach higher and higher clock speed chip makers have to make trade-offs, deeper pipelines etc, so, mhz for mhz, older processers are often faster.
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From the demographics I once saw on the OSDN Website, it looks like the readers of slashdot are the type of people who are well-off, white, and fairly unlikely to ever experience war except through Quake, CNN, or Neal Stevenson Novels. Why are there always military articles posted on Slashdot?
Here is my take on this issue: First, judging from the comments I have just read, there are at least a few/. readers with military experience. Second the military is often on the bleeding edge of technology. Bleeding edge tech is pretty much what/. is about. So why shouldn't there be military stories on/.
Racial military minority representation has risen from 14 percent in 1975 to 26 percent. This is faster than the rate that African Americans and Latinos have attained Internet access!
Since 1975 military service in the united states has been voluntary. So minorities are joining the military because they want to. Maybe because they find more and greater opportunities in military than in civilian life.
I don't mean to become flamebait here but shouldn't all the *nix people be dancing around a fire singing the praises of Red Flag and the chinese govt's decisions to use it?
Sorry, "Linux, the choice of oppressive governments around the world!" isn't that great a PR move.
One last statement: Since Red Flag is GPL that means that the entire source code has to be realesed etc, etc. Quite neat isn't it? That a totalitarian, communist country is being 'forced' (yeah I'd like to see em prosecute them for a violation of the GPL) to release it's precious code to it's next-gen op system. Quite an accomplishment.
If the Chinese violates copyrights left and right what makes you think they will follow the GPL?
"When Jobs came in he killed the licensing and effectively killed Power Computing and the Motorola division selling the Mac clones. "
This is true but you should mention that Apple bought out Power Computing's MacOS Licence for something like 100 million dollars.
"The sad thing was that Power Computing was putting out a killer mac system, the main big advantage was it had 6 PCI slots where the Apples had only 3 or 2 or 1 depending on the model. The lack of PCI slots was a big gripe at the time of Mac Power Users. Now with USB and Firewire it's kinda moot. "
I think you have your history mixed up a little. Power Computing did have a 6 pci slot mac clone, the PowerTower Pro. But so did Apple, the Power Mac 9500, which eventually became the 9600, which had a much better case. In fact, the PowerTower Pro used a modifed 9500 motherboard. The lack of a six sloted mac did become an issue when apple released the beige G3 but never released the PowerExpress.
"I wish I had gotten one of those Power Computing Power Tower Pro's back then instead of a Performa 6400/200. Only one meg of un-upgradeable video ram in that thing and a 7" useless PCI slot. UNGH!"
You can't really compare a Power Tower Pro and a Performa 6400. The Power Tower Pro was Power Computing top of the line mac while the 6400 was Apple's comsumer level machine. PowerComputing was a little cheaper than Apple but not so much that a Power Tower Pro and a Performa 6400 were in the same price range. A better comparison would be between the 6400 and the PowerBase. Both comsumer machines, but with the PowerBase having some advantages: EDO ram, upgradeable processer, 3 full sized pci slots and the first 3d video card in a Mac.
Much of OS X is closed source but Darwin, it's unix based core, is not. If doing a darwin port doesn't float your boat there is always OpenBSD or NetBSD or even Linux ports that will run on your IIsi cluster.
have to admit that i myself have large reservations about capitalism as it is applied in North America, particularly in the freedoms whihc it allows to Corporations.
Red Hat is a corporation as are pretty much every other linux distribution
The United States Military and Intelligence agencys probably already satellites with better resolution than this. You should have put on your tinfoil hats yesterday
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Why the bloody hell do you have enough karma to get an auto +1? THE LINK HE PUT IN THE PARENT TO YOURS WAS the BT suit. JUST CLICK THE LINK!!! AAAAHHHHH!
/. is like throwing shit at a wall. Throw enough of it and something will stick.
Stuff like this used really piss me off too, but I finally realized that posting on
9:30 PM: X-Files
Remember Prime Time ends at 10 pm on Fox and
I don't think Chris Carter would have liked cutting the X-Files down to a 1/2 hour.
The Yahoo article is just a summary of the Financial Times article in the submission.
GPS, in some form, was operational in 1991, it was used in the Gulf War.
Your right a Rev A iMac doesn't have firewire out of the box but it is an option with this card
Just posting to cancel out my moderation, it was supposed to be underrated not overrated
sorry
If you are in the market for a controller for your palm check here
Have you checked here? They seem to have at least some success getting the 1400 to work.
.. I know it sounds trollish, but I must inquire: why would you ever want to run 10 mp3s at once? Particularly while watching movies?
Obviously so you can listen to all your alternate audio tracks
You didn't click my link did you?
Anyway in country that places such importance on music production you would think Apple would hold its own.
For some reason I thought Apple might have been #1 :)
The Mayan calander is _more_ advanced than the calander we use.
The calendar we use today dates back to the 1500's and is used not because it is best we could come up with, but for historical reasons. Also I doubt that the Mayans had time pieces as accurtate as our atomic clocks.
The Egyptians built structures that we would struggle to build right now.
We would have a hard time constructing the pyramids using Egyptian techniques but using modern tech we probably could though the expense would be prohibative. But the Egyptians probably could not build structures like Skyscrapers, the Chunnel, Hoover Dam etc.
Atlantis had flying machines, according to the legends.
According to fact so do we. Hell, we have even been to the Moon.
So I gave you at least 3 examples of civilizations that are _more_ advanced than we are now.
No you didn't. You gave examples of three advanced civs who have been matched and surpased by our civilization.
... in POG form!
Sorry, one of my favorite lines.
Are you sure that 1.8ghz running at 900 mhz would be any faster than your PIII 600? To reach higher and higher clock speed chip makers have to make trade-offs, deeper pipelines etc, so, mhz for mhz, older processers are often faster.
From the demographics I once saw on the OSDN Website, it looks like the readers of slashdot are the type of people who are well-off, white, and fairly unlikely to ever experience war except through Quake, CNN, or Neal Stevenson Novels. Why are there always military articles posted on Slashdot?
/. readers with military experience. Second the military is often on the bleeding edge of technology. Bleeding edge tech is pretty much what /. is about. So why shouldn't there be military stories on /.
Here is my take on this issue: First, judging from the comments I have just read, there are at least a few
Racial military minority representation has risen from 14 percent in 1975 to 26 percent. This is faster than the rate that African Americans and Latinos have attained Internet access!
Since 1975 military service in the united states has been voluntary. So minorities are joining the military because they want to. Maybe because they find more and greater opportunities in military than in civilian life.
I don't mean to become flamebait here but shouldn't all the *nix people be dancing around a fire singing the praises of Red Flag and the chinese govt's decisions to use it?
Sorry, "Linux, the choice of oppressive governments around the world!" isn't that great a PR move.
One last statement: Since Red Flag is GPL that means that the entire source code has to be realesed etc, etc. Quite neat isn't it? That a totalitarian, communist country is being 'forced' (yeah I'd like to see em prosecute them for a violation of the GPL) to release it's precious code to it's next-gen op system. Quite an accomplishment.
If the Chinese violates copyrights left and right what makes you think they will follow the GPL?
hope its MIPS based and 64bit and not PowerPC which ISA IMHO is pants and only IBM produce chips
Motorola says hi.
"When Jobs came in he killed the licensing and effectively killed Power Computing and the Motorola division selling the Mac clones. "
This is true but you should mention that Apple bought out Power Computing's MacOS Licence for something like 100 million dollars.
"The sad thing was that Power Computing was putting out a killer mac system, the main big advantage was it had 6 PCI slots where the Apples had only 3 or 2 or 1 depending on the model. The lack of PCI slots was a big gripe at the time of Mac Power Users. Now with USB and Firewire it's kinda moot. "
I think you have your history mixed up a little. Power Computing did have a 6 pci slot mac clone, the PowerTower Pro. But so did Apple, the Power Mac 9500, which eventually became the 9600, which had a much better case. In fact, the PowerTower Pro used a modifed 9500 motherboard. The lack of a six sloted mac did become an issue when apple released the beige G3 but never released the PowerExpress.
"I wish I had gotten one of those Power Computing Power Tower Pro's back then instead of a Performa 6400/200. Only one meg of un-upgradeable video ram in that thing and a 7" useless PCI slot. UNGH!"
You can't really compare a Power Tower Pro and a Performa 6400. The Power Tower Pro was Power Computing top of the line mac while the 6400 was Apple's comsumer level machine. PowerComputing was a little cheaper than Apple but not so much that a Power Tower Pro and a Performa 6400 were in the same price range. A better comparison would be between the 6400 and the PowerBase. Both comsumer machines, but with the PowerBase having some advantages: EDO ram, upgradeable processer, 3 full sized pci slots and the first 3d video card in a Mac.
Much of OS X is closed source but Darwin, it's unix based core, is not. If doing a darwin port doesn't float your boat there is always OpenBSD or NetBSD or even Linux ports that will run on your IIsi cluster.
Or Pangeasoft
have to admit that i myself have large reservations about capitalism as it is applied in North America, particularly in the freedoms whihc it allows to Corporations.
Red Hat is a corporation as are pretty much every other linux distribution
Disney, Inc. borrowed from Hugo and Andersen; why can't you borrow from Disney?
Hugo and Andersen are dead, Disney Inc. is immortal.
The United States Military and Intelligence agencys probably already satellites with better resolution than this. You should have put on your tinfoil hats yesterday
Do you mean Star Trek? That died in the early 1990's.
Apple also has the following opensource projects:
Quicktime Streaming Server
Openplay and Net Sprocket
Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA)
HeaderDoc
Documentation
Also Apple has summited source back to projects like Apace and GCC.