Didn't Babbage never actually get as far as a working prototype? I recall the Science Museum in London had to use computer controlled machining in order to build their working model of the analytical engine - without them they'd never have been able to make the parts accurately enough.
Is that moded redundant because people start screaming about this every time slashdot posts a new kernel release? I'm not sure you're meant to do that, else everytime a story gets posted twice we'd have to mode every comment redundant;-)
This isn't a LAN, it's a MAN (Metropolitan Area NEtwork). A MAN that's based on a protocol more normally used in LANs, but a MAN nevertheless.
They have a rather nifty one in Soho in London that servers the film industry there. No, not that sort of film! Media companies usually have prestige offices there. http://www.sohonet.co.uk/ is the link.
Well, since it's a test transmission to see if Ogg is popular, then slashdotting it sounds like a plan.
BTW, for those not familiar with the BBC radio staions, R4 is speech and R1 is pop music for young people. That sounds dreadfully patronising, doesn't it? Perhaps I should explain, they have R1 for young people and R2 for people who aren't young, so that ancient 30-year olds like me can listen to pop without our heads hurting. Of course, there's a certain amount of Jazz and Big Band music in the R2 Schedules as well, but that can be fun too.
It is a rite of passage in the UK when one grim day you wake up and don't like R1 anymore, and subsequently begin to mutter "dreadful noise, when I was a kid we had proper musicians like Duran Duran". Oh, except you can continue to listen to John Peel as long as you like.*
R3 is classical, R5 is rolling news and sport.
World Service is a mixture of new programming and "best of" to make one channel for world-wide broadcast. Consequentially it is a popular choice at home as well.
*I thought that CowCube session last week was excellent; why has this guy got a hotmail account instead of a record contract?
As mentioned above, the Palm is a PDA, the PPC is a miniature computer. Not the same thing. My Palm does *everything* I need in a box that's 2/5 the price of an Ipaq, much smaller, better battery life.
Yes, an Ipaq or jornada is much more powerful, and would do more, but it's more I don't need, and the cost ($, size, battery life) is one I don't want to pay for stuff I don't use.
Don't assume that 8Mb Palm = 16Mb WinCE. 90% of Palm users find 8Mb more than enough - so it's probably analagous to a 64Mb WinCE box. The 2Mb M100 is the lowest RAM palm anyone ships these days - that's analagous to a 16Mb WinCE box. I've never filled my 8Mb. I do have a 16Mb SD card, but that's just to let me keep lots and lots of books on it rather than just the 2-3 I'm currently reading.
Sure, I can't play GameGear games on it - or MAME, which to me is more serious. But it's a PDA, not a gameboy! It plays enough simple games (chess, solitaire, minesweeper, tetris, Scrabble) for bored moments away from one of my real PCs.
Sure, I can't play DVD or MP3 on it. But I have a laptop for that - so I get a proper screen for the DVD. And MP3? I can buy an ipod for the difference in price between my M500 and an Ipaq.
You can go a day with it nonstop? Great, if that works for you. I need my PDA to never run out of juice, even if I spend a long weekend away from my cradle. Which it does.
Well, IANAMS* but I imagine (from the name if nothing else) plexiglass is "naturally" transparent - i.e. if you just wander in to a factory and order plexiglass, you get transparent; if you want opaque you need to pay extra and wait longer while they color it.
Read the article again - no-one is suggestig you upgrade, in fact almost the reverse. They talk about how all the early adopters of GeForce 2's were, in a sense, burned, because nothing has yet come out that needs that power, and so they could have waited until now (or even later) and picked them up cheap.
So, the point of the articel is to look at how a pre-pre-release game engine works on the different cards. They're saying, a year from now when games are using this kind of engine, what are todays cards going to be like?
Which is surely a Good Thing, since if you are buying a gaming card today you know it'll run everything out now damn fast, it just will it run Quake 6 or UT 5 or whatever. And, more usefully, if you don't want to pay big bucks for the latest and greatest how low down the tree can you safely go? For example, it's clear from this that the various GeForce 2MX variants are not a great buy for futureproofing, and that even the lowest spec GeForce 3 is a big advance.
It isn't quite like that. It's the software licensing arm that won't license BeOS, on the grounds that they want to focus on PalmOS 5, and not worry in the slightest about BeOS.
You might say that is a bogus argument, but would they make enough money out of a licensed but unsupported BeOS to afford the licensing lawyers? I dunno. Pity though.
I was gonna say that.. now I can't, and no mod points so I can't even give you a +1 funny. Ho hum.
There isn't a Linux client but a variety of hackers have made it work under WINE.
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Well, certainly ACT is nifty. But you'll agree it is at the bottom end of the market.
I was really trying to point out the extraordinary disparity between what diwolf is saying "anyone got an ACT clone for Linux?" (which you can answer with the traditional cry of Google/Freshmeat is your friend) and how Cliff was interprting it "does Linux still fall short when it comes to supporting workloads required by applications like ERP , business intelligence, CRM , and supply chain planning" which is a more interesting point for a slashdot discussion, but not the question that was being asked.
These are two very different questions.
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ACT isn't a CRM system. CRM means a big fancy database with lots of business logic behind of it, customised to you, with a big price tag.
ACT, however, is a Contact Management Application.
Basically it is a "PIM-on-steroids" for the seriously heavy user - the salesman who's contact list is his life blood and who needs the best possible tool to handle it, something that goes beyond a PIM.
I think people should calm down a little. I presume you're going to need to be root to do this, yeah? So if Aunt Tilly had root and wants to recompile her kernel, then seems to me she's gonna screw it up anyhow.
I've recompiled the odd kernel myself despite being a bit of a Linux newb, and it's not that hard to do. OK, I broke stuff with a few of my tries, and one or two wouldn't boot, but it was always easy to switch back to a working kernel. Now, if I had a utility that made it all smooth, with it able to semi-automatically swithc me back to a working kernel, I'd be doing it every day.
Look at it as a leveraging thing. Here's something that Linux can do that Windows, MacOS, etc. will never be able to - recompile the kernel for optimization. It's a feature. MAke it easier to use.
You do need to be careful with your strategy, though. I don't know what the exact position is in the US, but bear in mind that where they can, the BSA have whichever local law they bring in with them *confiscate* your computers as "evidence". How long it's going to take you to get them back I leave as an exercise to the reader. How long your business will stay afloat without your computers ditto.
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Didn't Babbage never actually get as far as a working prototype? I recall the Science Museum in London had to use computer controlled machining in order to build their working model of the analytical engine - without them they'd never have been able to make the parts accurately enough.
Ressurected by Linux? What, are Psion gonna make more PDAs because they can run Linux?
Is that moded redundant because people start screaming about this every time slashdot posts a new kernel release? I'm not sure you're meant to do that, else everytime a story gets posted twice we'd have to mode every comment redundant ;-)
This isn't a LAN, it's a MAN (Metropolitan Area NEtwork). A MAN that's based on a protocol more normally used in LANs, but a MAN nevertheless.
They have a rather nifty one in Soho in London that servers the film industry there. No, not that sort of film! Media companies usually have prestige offices there. http://www.sohonet.co.uk/ is the link.
Unless you have a ruggedized notebook assume it is made of glass (a lot of it is ;-)
Seriously, it's an expensive bit of kit so you need to protect it.
Well, since it's a test transmission to see if Ogg is popular, then slashdotting it sounds like a plan.
BTW, for those not familiar with the BBC radio staions, R4 is speech and R1 is pop music for young people. That sounds dreadfully patronising, doesn't it? Perhaps I should explain, they have R1 for young people and R2 for people who aren't young, so that ancient 30-year olds like me can listen to pop without our heads hurting. Of course, there's a certain amount of Jazz and Big Band music in the R2 Schedules as well, but that can be fun too.
It is a rite of passage in the UK when one grim day you wake up and don't like R1 anymore, and subsequently begin to mutter "dreadful noise, when I was a kid we had proper musicians like Duran Duran". Oh, except you can continue to listen to John Peel as long as you like.*
R3 is classical, R5 is rolling news and sport.
World Service is a mixture of new programming and "best of" to make one channel for world-wide broadcast. Consequentially it is a popular choice at home as well.
*I thought that CowCube session last week was excellent; why has this guy got a hotmail account instead of a record contract?
As mentioned above, the Palm is a PDA, the PPC is a miniature computer. Not the same thing. My Palm does *everything* I need in a box that's 2/5 the price of an Ipaq, much smaller, better battery life.
Yes, an Ipaq or jornada is much more powerful, and would do more, but it's more I don't need, and the cost ($, size, battery life) is one I don't want to pay for stuff I don't use.
Don't assume that 8Mb Palm = 16Mb WinCE. 90% of Palm users find 8Mb more than enough - so it's probably analagous to a 64Mb WinCE box. The 2Mb M100 is the lowest RAM palm anyone ships these days - that's analagous to a 16Mb WinCE box. I've never filled my 8Mb. I do have a 16Mb SD card, but that's just to let me keep lots and lots of books on it rather than just the 2-3 I'm currently reading.
Sure, I can't play GameGear games on it - or MAME, which to me is more serious. But it's a PDA, not a gameboy! It plays enough simple games (chess, solitaire, minesweeper, tetris, Scrabble) for bored moments away from one of my real PCs.
Sure, I can't play DVD or MP3 on it. But I have a laptop for that - so I get a proper screen for the DVD. And MP3? I can buy an ipod for the difference in price between my M500 and an Ipaq.
You can go a day with it nonstop? Great, if that works for you. I need my PDA to never run out of juice, even if I spend a long weekend away from my cradle. Which it does.
But if it was made out of transparent concrete you could at least throw all the sotnes you wanted...
Well, IANAMS* but I imagine (from the name if nothing else) plexiglass is "naturally" transparent - i.e. if you just wander in to a factory and order plexiglass, you get transparent; if you want opaque you need to pay extra and wait longer while they color it.
* I Am Not A Materials Scientist
Read the article again - no-one is suggestig you upgrade, in fact almost the reverse. They talk about how all the early adopters of GeForce 2's were, in a sense, burned, because nothing has yet come out that needs that power, and so they could have waited until now (or even later) and picked them up cheap.
So, the point of the articel is to look at how a pre-pre-release game engine works on the different cards. They're saying, a year from now when games are using this kind of engine, what are todays cards going to be like?
Which is surely a Good Thing, since if you are buying a gaming card today you know it'll run everything out now damn fast, it just will it run Quake 6 or UT 5 or whatever. And, more usefully, if you don't want to pay big bucks for the latest and greatest how low down the tree can you safely go? For example, it's clear from this that the various GeForce 2MX variants are not a great buy for futureproofing, and that even the lowest spec GeForce 3 is a big advance.
Well, I bet they're not far off it, though. Say what you like about Jar-Jar, it wasn't *that* obvious he was CGI, was it?
It isn't quite like that. It's the software licensing arm that won't license BeOS, on the grounds that they want to focus on PalmOS 5, and not worry in the slightest about BeOS.
You might say that is a bogus argument, but would they make enough money out of a licensed but unsupported BeOS to afford the licensing lawyers? I dunno. Pity though.
I was gonna say that.. now I can't, and no mod points so I can't even give you a +1 funny. Ho hum.
There isn't a Linux client but a variety of hackers have made it work under WINE.
[CoFR]BigLig
Well, certainly ACT is nifty. But you'll agree it is at the bottom end of the market.
I was really trying to point out the extraordinary disparity between what diwolf is saying "anyone got an ACT clone for Linux?" (which you can answer with the traditional cry of Google/Freshmeat is your friend) and how Cliff was interprting it "does Linux still fall short when it comes to supporting workloads required by applications like ERP , business intelligence, CRM , and supply chain planning" which is a more interesting point for a slashdot discussion, but not the question that was being asked.
These are two very different questions.
ACT isn't a CRM system. CRM means a big fancy database with lots of business logic behind of it, customised to you, with a big price tag.
ACT, however, is a Contact Management Application.
Basically it is a "PIM-on-steroids" for the seriously heavy user - the salesman who's contact list is his life blood and who needs the best possible tool to handle it, something that goes beyond a PIM.
If you rent software, it's on the books as an expense.
If you "buy" software, it's on the books as a Capital Expenditure, i.e. an asset.
Soooo, given a choice which one will the bean counters choose?
Try scrolling down a bit... Status on the Jornadas is that they support the 54x, although it doesn't boot yet.
SPOILER ALERT:
The butler does it, in the library with the scheduler code.
I think people should calm down a little. I presume you're going to need to be root to do this, yeah? So if Aunt Tilly had root and wants to recompile her kernel, then seems to me she's gonna screw it up anyhow.
I've recompiled the odd kernel myself despite being a bit of a Linux newb, and it's not that hard to do. OK, I broke stuff with a few of my tries, and one or two wouldn't boot, but it was always easy to switch back to a working kernel. Now, if I had a utility that made it all smooth, with it able to semi-automatically swithc me back to a working kernel, I'd be doing it every day.
Look at it as a leveraging thing. Here's something that Linux can do that Windows, MacOS, etc. will never be able to - recompile the kernel for optimization. It's a feature. MAke it easier to use.
Heh, how about, every time you download some Windows postcardware you send them a burn of your favorite Linux Distro. Might encourage them!
Exquisite. That's worth clicking the marble. (You naughty man!)
Is that what we're supposed to do with the marble? I guess so.
Well, isn't that a little unfair? The Vx is 3 years older than a Pocket PC 2002.
No no, don't colorize it, re-cut it so it's in chronological order.
(Aparently a film class did this once and report that it's pretty watchable in that condition)
IYes, that is exactly how they work.
You do need to be careful with your strategy, though. I don't know what the exact position is in the US, but bear in mind that where they can, the BSA have whichever local law they bring in with them *confiscate* your computers as "evidence". How long it's going to take you to get them back I leave as an exercise to the reader. How long your business will stay afloat without your computers ditto.
Did you notice it has an easter egg in it? It plays breakout ;-)