That's sort of the plan. It's a "progressive fork", which is to say that during the pilot project (which is invite-only for a bit and starts in 7-10 days), we'll be importing most of the Wikipedia articles off a database dump we got from mid-September-ish and working on getting them up to snuff while we work on the software modifications (and there are several).
Overall, the plan is to have editor-approved versions shown to readers first, and have the un-approved versions a few clicks away.
That's one of the things we're aiming to change. Certified experts will have the power to "approve" sections or pages, and those pages will be shown to unregistered users even if there's a more current "unapproved" version. That, combined with the requirement that you log in to edit, should prevent the need to babysit pages.
I'd say it's far from vaporware though, since an outline of policy exists, and at least a pilot will be up in 10-14 days. Recall that Larry hadn't told anyone about the idea until 9/15, so it went from an idea to waiting on a server and funding in a matter of weeks. We already have the first 100 people in the community, and we already have 3 part-time technical volunteers. It's nowhere near ready, but that's sort of early to expect something.
As Apple just learned with their TPM kernel extension, all that hackers need to do is replace the binary that verifies all other binaries, and the "goodies" are up for grabs.
Apple however, had distributed unprotected versions of 10.4.1 prior to that. And a large amount of the kernel is open-source. There's no assurance you can do that with Windows.
Apple releases an incremental update to OS X 10.2 to 10.3 and charge you for it ($129.00), and when they release a MASSIVE update in September, not a peep of complaints...
They re-did the entire PPC emulation layer (or at least heavily modified it). On my Mac Pro (Intel) it was 200+ MB, but my iBook ran to about 30ish MB. So it's pretty clear that about 160-180 MBs of that update was a Rosetta overhaul for speed and scientific apps. That wasn't 200 MBs of security updates, that was like 30 MBs of security updates.
CRTs still seem to outnumber LCDs in businesses. Most business computers have exactly 0 64-bit apps. Most business computers have less than 3 GB of RAM. They tend to have 512-1024 MB.There's also some wireless stuff, which a lot of businesses don't need on desktops
XP will stay fully supported for quite sometime. Win2K is likely to be EOLed soon.
MS owned like zero IP in the original XBox. That's why they wanted to replace it, because there was no way to bring the costs down on the console over time. In 2-3 years, the costs for the PS3 will be down enough that they can slim it down and make a profit on the slimmed down version. For instance, the Cell will go to 65nm from about 80nm, and that'll cut cooling and stuff, and I assume the GPU will be the same story (as it goes from upper-mid-range to easy to make)
In fact, any Apple computer with a Firewire port can run Tiger, and Leopard will probably run on anything with a G4 or newer. Compared to Windows, where you need a $1500 machine from 2 years ago to have a prayer of running Vista, this is amazing. A B&W G3 tower (which cost $1500 six or seven years ago) can run 10.3 at decent speed (I've used them before in the on-campus library, they're the oldest working computers I've seen at UVA, and I've looked in obscure places). And 10.4 Tiger is even faster than 10.3
I hope we do see it soon. I'm thinking I'm gonna switch to BOINC-Rosetta on my Mac Pro as soon as my current work unit finishes, because it's multi-core and Intel-native.
Sadly, Mac support is still lacking. I've got a Mac Pro with x1900xt, and I'd be happy to donate, but it runs in OS X 99% of the time, so I have to run it emulated, and I can't do the graphics card thing. Any idea when a Universal version (and/or a GPU version) for Mac will be out?
you've got it bass-ackwards. Apple sells the songs for pennies of profit. They sell iPods for $50-$100 profit each (obviously less for the Shuffle). Apple always uses the software/content to sell the hardware. OS X sells Macs, Macs don't sell OS X.
You need evidence to convict someone of filesharing? I thought the big companies just pick a name out of the phone book, and then you're guilty even if you are dead, don't own a computer, can't spell "Limewire" and used to live atop Pike's Peak.
Or worse on Digg: 800 stories about what their founder ate for breakfast this morning, a million links to spam-sites advertising "get a free USB stick" that don't send them, and a billion advertisements for everyone's app or blog's Favorite-App-top-ten-list-OMG!.
I'm curious as to how groups of houses that are 100 miles from nowhere that share a party line, are supposed to have broadband. Then you have the places that still don't have any phone service at all. And I am talking about the US here.
That's the crux of the whole "broadband scandal". All the regulatory favors and tax breaks that the guy says total $200 Billion were to subsidize less profitable areas. It's profitable to have broadband in towns or cities, but when it's 20-30 families in a 5-square mile area, it's not, hence the subsidies.
Expose simply looks and behaves so much more efficiently and aesthetically. Try Flip3D when you have 20 windows open, and you'll get an obscured stack of windows that you have to travel through one by one, including the desktop (weirdly, Flip3D puts the desktop in there as a window too). In addition, there's no need to "cycle" through the windows in Exposé, because it displays all windows at once.
Very true. With a button press (or mouse squeeze on my desktop), I can see all the windows at once. So I'm a button press and a click (or a squeeze and a click) away from anything. However, with Flip3D, I'm a button press, a bunch of scrolling, and a click away from anything. Also, Exposé is also useful if I need to see both windows at once, like if I'm typing something based on something I'm reading (summarizing news articles in my case) or if I need to compare 2 or more images for some reason. Also, Exposé runs fine on a 1.33 GHz G4 with 32 MB VRAM (although most OS X eye candy like 64 MB VRAM), while Flip 3D will require 64MB or, more likely, 128MB VRAM.
That's not the point. The point is that at my house (or my parents' house, since I'm at college), we have dial-up, because there's no other option. It's not even 56k broadband, the max speed is 36.6k, and then there's all of AOL's overhead. Everyone should have broadband by now, even if it's only 256k
If the only people who are saying that something is screwed up are the people hurt by it, that's one thing. But it lends a lot more legitimacy to a campaign to have not only victims but beneficiaries calling foul. Not to mention that IBM has a lot more campaigning weight and power than the EFF, GNU Foundation, and everyone else combined.
This has been going on for far too long now and it's been clear to everyone for years now that even the broken patent/copyright system won't side with SCO.
There are still 2 or 3 cases to go (at least the Novell and Red Hat ones) that are waiting on this one. It'll be a while before SCO 100% dies.
"The whole point of copyright is temporary exclusivity"
It's temporary in the sense that Earth is temporary - we're gonna get swallowed by the sun or "Big Crush"ed or something, but the fact is that there's no real reason to believe, given current trends, that copyrights are gonna expire, just like there's no reason to believe the sun won't rise tomorrow. Copyrights have been extended so many times now that it's silly to believe that they'll end without massive changes in Congress.
Most games are aimed both at hardcore and casual gamers. A casual gamer recognizes he needs a least a mid-level system from 2 years to even try to play these games, and that he needs a 1-year old computer to play them half-way well. So he'll be converting to Windows Vista rather quickly (his upgrade cycle is 1-2 years). A hardcore gamer who blows hundreds of dollars on a GFX card will just see Windows Vista as another cost of business if they want to run their games at 1600x1200 with all the options enabled.
I'd like it too, for a different reason. I have a Mac Pro, and I wouldn't mind running Folding at the lower SpeedStep on one or two processors. that'll keep it cool and power-efficient. Since I use it for eyeTV anyways, if I could run Folding and eyeTv at the SpeedStep settings, Folding is practically free for me.
Obviously this boosts bandwidth and cuts latency (like mad), but doesn't this kill the current FSB speed and multiplier method? I mean, your clock speed is FSB clock x multiplier, so what happens if you replace the FSB with a laser?
#2 doesn't work. Here at UVA, on-campus dorms has a 750 MB limit per day. You violate that three times in two weeks and you get capped to 56k for a few days. Do it again and it's a few weeks, and a third time and it's the rest of the semester. But everyone knows that all you have to do is find a wireless router not in use (in an empty library or in a classroom) and you circumvent that dorm-room limit. It's useful when downloading a Linux distro or legal content.
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That's sort of the plan. It's a "progressive fork", which is to say that during the pilot project (which is invite-only for a bit and starts in 7-10 days), we'll be importing most of the Wikipedia articles off a database dump we got from mid-September-ish and working on getting them up to snuff while we work on the software modifications (and there are several).
Overall, the plan is to have editor-approved versions shown to readers first, and have the un-approved versions a few clicks away.
That's one of the things we're aiming to change. Certified experts will have the power to "approve" sections or pages, and those pages will be shown to unregistered users even if there's a more current "unapproved" version. That, combined with the requirement that you log in to edit, should prevent the need to babysit pages.
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day...
I'd say it's far from vaporware though, since an outline of policy exists, and at least a pilot will be up in 10-14 days. Recall that Larry hadn't told anyone about the idea until 9/15, so it went from an idea to waiting on a server and funding in a matter of weeks. We already have the first 100 people in the community, and we already have 3 part-time technical volunteers. It's nowhere near ready, but that's sort of early to expect something.
As Apple just learned with their TPM kernel extension, all that hackers need to do is replace the binary that verifies all other binaries, and the "goodies" are up for grabs.
Apple however, had distributed unprotected versions of 10.4.1 prior to that. And a large amount of the kernel is open-source. There's no assurance you can do that with Windows.
Apple releases an incremental update to OS X 10.2 to 10.3 and charge you for it ($129.00), and when they release a MASSIVE update in September, not a peep of complaints...
They re-did the entire PPC emulation layer (or at least heavily modified it). On my Mac Pro (Intel) it was 200+ MB, but my iBook ran to about 30ish MB. So it's pretty clear that about 160-180 MBs of that update was a Rosetta overhaul for speed and scientific apps. That wasn't 200 MBs of security updates, that was like 30 MBs of security updates.
CRTs still seem to outnumber LCDs in businesses. Most business computers have exactly 0 64-bit apps. Most business computers have less than 3 GB of RAM. They tend to have 512-1024 MB.There's also some wireless stuff, which a lot of businesses don't need on desktops
XP will stay fully supported for quite sometime. Win2K is likely to be EOLed soon.
Bingo.
MS owned like zero IP in the original XBox. That's why they wanted to replace it, because there was no way to bring the costs down on the console over time. In 2-3 years, the costs for the PS3 will be down enough that they can slim it down and make a profit on the slimmed down version. For instance, the Cell will go to 65nm from about 80nm, and that'll cut cooling and stuff, and I assume the GPU will be the same story (as it goes from upper-mid-range to easy to make)
In fact, any Apple computer with a Firewire port can run Tiger, and Leopard will probably run on anything with a G4 or newer. Compared to Windows, where you need a $1500 machine from 2 years ago to have a prayer of running Vista, this is amazing. A B&W G3 tower (which cost $1500 six or seven years ago) can run 10.3 at decent speed (I've used them before in the on-campus library, they're the oldest working computers I've seen at UVA, and I've looked in obscure places). And 10.4 Tiger is even faster than 10.3
I hope we do see it soon. I'm thinking I'm gonna switch to BOINC-Rosetta on my Mac Pro as soon as my current work unit finishes, because it's multi-core and Intel-native.
Sadly, Mac support is still lacking. I've got a Mac Pro with x1900xt, and I'd be happy to donate, but it runs in OS X 99% of the time, so I have to run it emulated, and I can't do the graphics card thing. Any idea when a Universal version (and/or a GPU version) for Mac will be out?
you've got it bass-ackwards. Apple sells the songs for pennies of profit. They sell iPods for $50-$100 profit each (obviously less for the Shuffle). Apple always uses the software/content to sell the hardware. OS X sells Macs, Macs don't sell OS X.
You need evidence to convict someone of filesharing? I thought the big companies just pick a name out of the phone book, and then you're guilty even if you are dead, don't own a computer, can't spell "Limewire" and used to live atop Pike's Peak.
Or worse on Digg: 800 stories about what their founder ate for breakfast this morning, a million links to spam-sites advertising "get a free USB stick" that don't send them, and a billion advertisements for everyone's app or blog's Favorite-App-top-ten-list-OMG!.
I'm curious as to how groups of houses that are 100 miles from nowhere that share a party line, are supposed to have broadband. Then you have the places that still don't have any phone service at all. And I am talking about the US here.
That's the crux of the whole "broadband scandal". All the regulatory favors and tax breaks that the guy says total $200 Billion were to subsidize less profitable areas. It's profitable to have broadband in towns or cities, but when it's 20-30 families in a 5-square mile area, it's not, hence the subsidies.
expose runs fine on the 400mhz g4 we have at work. It just takes a bit longer for the windows to get into place
I wasn't talking slow, I was talking flawless while playing a video and having 5-10 other screens open.
Expose simply looks and behaves so much more efficiently and aesthetically. Try Flip3D when you have 20 windows open, and you'll get an obscured stack of windows that you have to travel through one by one, including the desktop (weirdly, Flip3D puts the desktop in there as a window too). In addition, there's no need to "cycle" through the windows in Exposé, because it displays all windows at once.
Very true. With a button press (or mouse squeeze on my desktop), I can see all the windows at once. So I'm a button press and a click (or a squeeze and a click) away from anything. However, with Flip3D, I'm a button press, a bunch of scrolling, and a click away from anything.
Also, Exposé is also useful if I need to see both windows at once, like if I'm typing something based on something I'm reading (summarizing news articles in my case) or if I need to compare 2 or more images for some reason.
Also, Exposé runs fine on a 1.33 GHz G4 with 32 MB VRAM (although most OS X eye candy like 64 MB VRAM), while Flip 3D will require 64MB or, more likely, 128MB VRAM.
That's not the point. The point is that at my house (or my parents' house, since I'm at college), we have dial-up, because there's no other option. It's not even 56k broadband, the max speed is 36.6k, and then there's all of AOL's overhead. Everyone should have broadband by now, even if it's only 256k
If the only people who are saying that something is screwed up are the people hurt by it, that's one thing. But it lends a lot more legitimacy to a campaign to have not only victims but beneficiaries calling foul. Not to mention that IBM has a lot more campaigning weight and power than the EFF, GNU Foundation, and everyone else combined.
This has been going on for far too long now and it's been clear to everyone for years now that even the broken patent/copyright system won't side with SCO.
There are still 2 or 3 cases to go (at least the Novell and Red Hat ones) that are waiting on this one. It'll be a while before SCO 100% dies.
"The whole point of copyright is temporary exclusivity"
It's temporary in the sense that Earth is temporary - we're gonna get swallowed by the sun or "Big Crush"ed or something, but the fact is that there's no real reason to believe, given current trends, that copyrights are gonna expire, just like there's no reason to believe the sun won't rise tomorrow. Copyrights have been extended so many times now that it's silly to believe that they'll end without massive changes in Congress.
Most games are aimed both at hardcore and casual gamers. A casual gamer recognizes he needs a least a mid-level system from 2 years to even try to play these games, and that he needs a 1-year old computer to play them half-way well. So he'll be converting to Windows Vista rather quickly (his upgrade cycle is 1-2 years). A hardcore gamer who blows hundreds of dollars on a GFX card will just see Windows Vista as another cost of business if they want to run their games at 1600x1200 with all the options enabled.
I'd like it too, for a different reason. I have a Mac Pro, and I wouldn't mind running Folding at the lower SpeedStep on one or two processors. that'll keep it cool and power-efficient. Since I use it for eyeTV anyways, if I could run Folding and eyeTv at the SpeedStep settings, Folding is practically free for me.
Obviously this boosts bandwidth and cuts latency (like mad), but doesn't this kill the current FSB speed and multiplier method? I mean, your clock speed is FSB clock x multiplier, so what happens if you replace the FSB with a laser?
#2 doesn't work. Here at UVA, on-campus dorms has a 750 MB limit per day. You violate that three times in two weeks and you get capped to 56k for a few days. Do it again and it's a few weeks, and a third time and it's the rest of the semester. But everyone knows that all you have to do is find a wireless router not in use (in an empty library or in a classroom) and you circumvent that dorm-room limit. It's useful when downloading a Linux distro or legal content.
Dude, you're pretty frakked up. Get help.