hmmm... if these rumours turn out to be true that could be a good thing. As someone who has tried both PalmOS and WinCE for a long period of time, WinCE is actually the better of the two (even though it IS made by Microsoft). But how likely is it? Microsoft is built on the foundation of proprietary source code, despite the recent rumors (Ballmer's comments, etc). I won't look for Microsoft Open Source ANYTHING anytime soon! --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
The Register didn't have any sources. True... but the Register has been right on a lot of things in the past. It's like Matt Drudge: take it with a grain of salt, but it is quite likely correct. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Toshiba and NEC are in JAPAN Yes, but they have fabs in Taiwan.
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Please, stick with Linux/Unix/Tech news Some of us aren't big enough gamers to visit blue's on a regular basis but still appreciate it when/. lets us know what is happening with Quake. Now if it was dominated by Quake news, I would see your point. But it's not, and they made the right call here. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
I just don't understand the ruckus about this. The ruckus is about FUD. People don't understand GM, so they fear it. It's like any other kind of FUD that readers of/. are all too familliar with. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
...are JUST THE BEGINNING SIGNS of the next great era. The Great Shedding of Religion. Again?!? How many times must this happen? Nietzsche pointed out that the belief in God died almost 100 years ago ("God is dead") and yet the official signs remain. Religion is as Ventura described, a crutch for the weak-minded. But for the rest of the people... it is a series of meaningless rituals that are done for the sake of tradition. Does anyone really think that Bill Clinton believes in organized religion? Or Steve Forbes? Not likely... but to denounce it a la Ventura is not worthwhile politically. And yet they attend church, etc to appease the few (but vocal weak-minded people). And among those intelligent people who claim they believe, they act their lives in a manner where it becomes obvious that they have cognitively seperated logical beliefs from traditional rituals. They may belief that the Earth was created 7000 years ago... but they understand that we are seeing stars that exploded billions of years ago, with no contradiction. They belief with their mouth but understand with their mind -- strange but true, I know many of them! --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
of course, the most ironic part is that it took a/. user to direct traffic to the Internet Traffic Report, which is also owned by Andover.net Hmmmm.... they still don't have their hats on straight, from a business perspective. ---"Progress is the God of the Machine"
It's not just the cranks and the Luddites sounding the alarm any more. There are hordes or serious-minded people insisting that runaway computing is driving us towards a Cyberclysm Umm..... is it just me or is this totally backwards? It seems that there are just more people becoming Luddites... who were once serious-minded people. People whine and complain about technology, being permanantly connected, etc. But what they don't realize is that IT HAS AN OFF SWICH SO USE IT! You can't do that with non-technological things. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
I agree with you completely. But this will change. 1. Reading from paper is easier on the eyes. Reading on a TFT screen is much easier on the eyes than a CRT. Once the TFT shortage is overcome, prices will finally drop so so we can all give our eyes a rest. 2. You can take it anywhere. Read it outside in the sunshine, or even in bed. True enough. But wait until laptops/PDA and wireless data communications become more prevelant. Then you could take your laptop/PDA anywhere you want (and hopefully we can get a machine with less glare in the sun). 3. People feel safer with a hard copy than just having a file on a computer which could easily be trashed if they are not competant users. Ah... but that fades with time. Power users (such as most of us here) know that this is not a problem. Plus... if it is on the web, who cares if it gets trashed because you can always retrieve it later. Paper will die eventually, just not as quickly as everyone thought! --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
They make a good point: The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend We all know that the driving force behind Scott McNealy is his hatred of Microsoft/billg. What happens when they are not the dominant player anymore? Of course... anyone would be quite silly to think that thin clients would run Solaris when Linux is much cheaper (can't beat free!)
Personally, I think monitoring is not a good idea. If an employee can double his/her productivity by taking short breaks to chat with friends online, then by all means that employee should do so. I agree with you, that taking short breaks is good for productivity. BUT I still think that a company has the right to ignore that and disallow short chats, even if it is damaging to them in the long run. I think that they should be allowed to monitor employee keystrokes... but they should have to warn the employees first and have a well-stated proper use policy so the user can be safe to go onto chat rooms or type personal emails if necessary. --- "Progress is the god of the machine"
Seems like Intel had a hard time finding their competition Hmm... a company that doesn't even have the fastest processor in their own market is hardly a monopoly! The Athalon proves that the x86 chip market is still competitive. But I suppose it wasn't around during their trial... so it didn't really help. What is DOES prove is that hi-tech anti-trust suits suffer from a lack of foresight (Yes, I am including MS) -rt
Anyone else find it curious just how positive an attitude most (obviously not all) posters have towards cloning. I was under the impression that most of the population was opposed to cloning! But then we are smarter than most of the population, I suppose.
That isn't exactly a valid analogy, considering that with our technology we could hunt to extinction pretty much any large land animal we wanted to. Why does that make it any different? All dominant species have some characteristics that make them dominant... it's what makes them *DOMINANT* in the first place. As in: some animals have sharp teeth and claws, and others run/swim/fly very fast to avoid prey. We have brains, which allow us to make tools/weapons which make us the dominant species on earth. It *IS* natural selection at its finest.
hmmm.... anyone with that plan would have to have a LOT of time on their hands to see what happens there.:) Try computer simulations of evolutionary models... they might do something within your great- x10^6 grandkids lifetime.
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hmmm... if these rumours turn out to be true that could be a good thing. As someone who has tried both PalmOS and WinCE for a long period of time, WinCE is actually the better of the two (even though it IS made by Microsoft). But how likely is it? Microsoft is built on the foundation of proprietary source code, despite the recent rumors (Ballmer's comments, etc). I won't look for Microsoft Open Source ANYTHING anytime soon! --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
The Register didn't have any sources. True... but the Register has been right on a lot of things in the past. It's like Matt Drudge: take it with a grain of salt, but it is quite likely correct. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Toshiba and NEC are in JAPAN Yes, but they have fabs in Taiwan.
Please, stick with Linux/Unix/Tech news Some of us aren't big enough gamers to visit blue's on a regular basis but still appreciate it when /. lets us know what is happening with Quake. Now if it was dominated by Quake news, I would see your point. But it's not, and they made the right call here. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
I just don't understand the ruckus about this. The ruckus is about FUD. People don't understand GM, so they fear it. It's like any other kind of FUD that readers of /. are all too familliar with. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
...are JUST THE BEGINNING SIGNS of the next great era. The Great Shedding of Religion. Again?!? How many times must this happen? Nietzsche pointed out that the belief in God died almost 100 years ago ("God is dead") and yet the official signs remain. Religion is as Ventura described, a crutch for the weak-minded. But for the rest of the people... it is a series of meaningless rituals that are done for the sake of tradition. Does anyone really think that Bill Clinton believes in organized religion? Or Steve Forbes? Not likely... but to denounce it a la Ventura is not worthwhile politically. And yet they attend church, etc to appease the few (but vocal weak-minded people). And among those intelligent people who claim they believe, they act their lives in a manner where it becomes obvious that they have cognitively seperated logical beliefs from traditional rituals. They may belief that the Earth was created 7000 years ago... but they understand that we are seeing stars that exploded billions of years ago, with no contradiction. They belief with their mouth but understand with their mind -- strange but true, I know many of them! --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
of course, the most ironic part is that it took a /. user to direct traffic to the Internet Traffic Report, which is also owned by Andover.net Hmmmm.... they still don't have their hats on straight, from a business perspective. ---"Progress is the God of the Machine"
It's not just the cranks and the Luddites sounding the alarm any more. There are hordes or serious-minded people insisting that runaway computing is driving us towards a Cyberclysm Umm..... is it just me or is this totally backwards? It seems that there are just more people becoming Luddites... who were once serious-minded people. People whine and complain about technology, being permanantly connected, etc. But what they don't realize is that IT HAS AN OFF SWICH SO USE IT! You can't do that with non-technological things. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
I agree with you completely. But this will change. 1. Reading from paper is easier on the eyes. Reading on a TFT screen is much easier on the eyes than a CRT. Once the TFT shortage is overcome, prices will finally drop so so we can all give our eyes a rest. 2. You can take it anywhere. Read it outside in the sunshine, or even in bed. True enough. But wait until laptops/PDA and wireless data communications become more prevelant. Then you could take your laptop/PDA anywhere you want (and hopefully we can get a machine with less glare in the sun). 3. People feel safer with a hard copy than just having a file on a computer which could easily be trashed if they are not competant users. Ah... but that fades with time. Power users (such as most of us here) know that this is not a problem. Plus... if it is on the web, who cares if it gets trashed because you can always retrieve it later. Paper will die eventually, just not as quickly as everyone thought! --- " Progress is the God of the Machine "
They make a good point: The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend We all know that the driving force behind Scott McNealy is his hatred of Microsoft/billg. What happens when they are not the dominant player anymore? Of course... anyone would be quite silly to think that thin clients would run Solaris when Linux is much cheaper (can't beat free!)
Personally, I think monitoring is not a good idea. If an employee can double his/her productivity by taking short breaks to chat with friends online, then by all means that employee should do so. I agree with you, that taking short breaks is good for productivity. BUT I still think that a company has the right to ignore that and disallow short chats, even if it is damaging to them in the long run. I think that they should be allowed to monitor employee keystrokes... but they should have to warn the employees first and have a well-stated proper use policy so the user can be safe to go onto chat rooms or type personal emails if necessary. --- "Progress is the god of the machine"
Seems like Intel had a hard time finding their competition Hmm... a company that doesn't even have the fastest processor in their own market is hardly a monopoly! The Athalon proves that the x86 chip market is still competitive. But I suppose it wasn't around during their trial... so it didn't really help. What is DOES prove is that hi-tech anti-trust suits suffer from a lack of foresight (Yes, I am including MS) -rt
1) How much will it cost? 2) When can I get one? 3) Can we tweak our digital TV standards to make this work? ARG!
Anyone else find it curious just how positive an attitude most (obviously not all) posters have towards cloning. I was under the impression that most of the population was opposed to cloning! But then we are smarter than most of the population, I suppose.
That isn't exactly a valid analogy, considering that with our technology we could hunt to extinction pretty much any large land animal we wanted to. Why does that make it any different? All dominant species have some characteristics that make them dominant... it's what makes them *DOMINANT* in the first place. As in: some animals have sharp teeth and claws, and others run/swim/fly very fast to avoid prey. We have brains, which allow us to make tools/weapons which make us the dominant species on earth. It *IS* natural selection at its finest.
hmmm.... anyone with that plan would have to have a LOT of time on their hands to see what happens there. :) Try computer simulations of evolutionary models... they might do something within your great- x10^6 grandkids lifetime.