"We'll not sell unix. Period" or something to that effect.
We have to bring this up from time to time, so people will not forget what they've said so firmly. Then, they'll stick to their vow, in order to save face (face ~ stock price)
So, if Linux takes over say 3 years from now, and everyone still remember what they say, they'll not make the move.
The broadcasters will have finally caught up with others. Then they'd say, "let the game be on the net too, but our web sites still have the exclusive rights!"
Let's hope by then the existing net broadcasters would have even better technology, or have already established firm brand names.
Well...my first language is Chinese, (English as a close second;) So I guess that helps. I am learning both (a few years with Japanese already) and find that Latin is the most inflected language I've ever seen...you'll spend more time memorizing words than making sentences. That's why I consider it hard.
By the way, the message was in Italian.
I'm currently learning Latin, and found that it is a pretty hard to learn language. (a word can have several dozens of forms)
Does anyone fine knowing Latin helps learning European languages in general (excluding German)?
I would consider Japanese easy, English medium, French medium hard, Latin hard, and Russian Chinese German most difficult languages, correct me if I'm wrong.
I would not suggest that you come to Rome. The Pope does not allow that we have computers. Perhaps you could obtain a job that explained to other Americans as Italy really is not similar
to a loading of the system. Much people forget that we have had a dictator and fought you in
world war two but they do not preoccupy themselves because there are many gangsters in your cities like New York and Chicago. I cannot believe that you have preoccupied yourselves
translate this of new to English.
BSA: Show me all your licenses. You have a week.
Company A: I have none. We all use GPL'd software.
BSA: I don't care, gimme a check if you have none, and we'll see if you'll get sued. Good luck.
Company A: Ok, here's your check.
And this goes to the papers.
Company B Employee: Let's use opensource software.
Company B Manager: Do we get licenses for that?
Company B Employee: No, but it's not needed.
Company B Manager (reading the newspaper): Hm...let's go for M$ software instead.
"7 times faster" usually means "up to 7 times faster", which in turns, would turns out that "GeForce 2 Ultra outputs 2 fps at 1600x1200x32 with 1M polygons/frame, now we can do 14 fps!!".
I doubt we are going to see even a 1.5x boost of fps at 640x480x16x20K polygons/frame.
A new generation of chips has always been able to outperform an older generation by about 2x ON THE RESOLUTION THAT MATTERS AT THE TIME OF RELEASE, because, my friend, 21" monitors are not exactly cheap.
Therefore, we'll most likely see about 2x performance increase on 1024x768x32 with 30-50K polygons/frame.
So, when people buy these European burners, they'd already paid the Music "Industry" tax, which mean it becomes legitimate to burn your MP3s. Go full speed ahead my friends.
Correct me if I'm wrong. No matter how small our transistors are - as long as there's a thick enough magnetic shield around it, we'll be ok. Don't be too paranoic. Unless the interference somehow sneaks into the shield or somehow starts from within it, I can't see how our stuffs will be damaged.
While, IE also gives you links to Hotmail and all its channels, there is a crucial fact that they are all files ("internet shortcuts") and are VERY EASILY REMOVABLE.
I can't say the same for Netscape. The shop button is built in and you cannot remove it without editing xresources, and there is no "security zones" (site-specific security levels) like IE has.
You can clean IE up with reletively fewer amount of tweaking than Netscape. It is the point.
Labelling useful options "Advanced" or make them nontrivial to change is just another way MS and AOL is controlling the rights of the end users.
In the next release I'll bet anything that Netscape will go the way RealPlayer has gone with respect to privacy, marketing, partnerships, and advertisements.
Were it not for some idiots who provide RealPlayer-only contents I have no idea why any sane person in the world would choose RealPlayer over Media Player.
More information can be found at www.annoyances.org.
Currently, anything from 200 to 400 W AC-DC power supplies are common. If the power consumption of components drop significantly, the extra power could be dessipated as heat (somebody correct me here if I'm wrong). Thus making the power supply hotter...
Still, I look forward to the day when we can have ultra-powerful components that consume so little power that we can all go back and use our old 80 W power supplies...
Sound travels at slower than twice the speed of an ordinary 747 aircraft. 200 times the speed of a 747 aircraft (about 200,000m/s) is not a very big deal on the cosmic scale...
I think even our solar system is moving along that speed circling the centre of the Milkyway. Just my guess tho.
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I mean "we'll not go into the Linux business"
Remember what MS officially said?
"We'll not sell unix. Period" or something to that effect.
We have to bring this up from time to time, so people will not forget what they've said so firmly. Then, they'll stick to their vow, in order to save face (face ~ stock price)
So, if Linux takes over say 3 years from now, and everyone still remember what they say, they'll not make the move.
Then they'll die slowly.
The broadcasters will have finally caught up with others. Then they'd say, "let the game be on the net too, but our web sites still have the exclusive rights!"
Let's hope by then the existing net broadcasters would have even better technology, or have already established firm brand names.
Well...my first language is Chinese, (English as a close second ;) So I guess that helps. I am learning both (a few years with Japanese already) and find that Latin is the most inflected language I've ever seen...you'll spend more time memorizing words than making sentences. That's why I consider it hard.
By the way, the message was in Italian.
I'm currently learning Latin, and found that it is a pretty hard to learn language. (a word can have several dozens of forms)
Does anyone fine knowing Latin helps learning European languages in general (excluding German)?
I would consider Japanese easy, English medium, French medium hard, Latin hard, and Russian Chinese German most difficult languages, correct me if I'm wrong.
I would not suggest that you come to Rome. The Pope does not allow that we have computers. Perhaps you could obtain a job that explained to other Americans as Italy really is not similar
to a loading of the system. Much people forget that we have had a dictator and fought you in
world war two but they do not preoccupy themselves because there are many gangsters in your cities like New York and Chicago. I cannot believe that you have preoccupied yourselves
translate this of new to English.
Damn. I seem to be just another victim.
I'm learning it and found it somewhat interesting. Does it help learn Italian Spanish or Franch?
Fact is, wordiness IS IRRELEVENT TO readability. We have two very good examples:Python and Ruby.
For anyone who haven't tried Ruby, I recommend it. It is already more popular than Python in Japan. http://www.ruby-lang.org
BSA: Show me all your licenses. You have a week.
Company A: I have none. We all use GPL'd software.
BSA: I don't care, gimme a check if you have none, and we'll see if you'll get sued. Good luck.
Company A: Ok, here's your check.
And this goes to the papers.
Company B Employee: Let's use opensource software.
Company B Manager: Do we get licenses for that?
Company B Employee: No, but it's not needed.
Company B Manager (reading the newspaper): Hm...let's go for M$ software instead.
"7 times faster" usually means "up to 7 times faster", which in turns, would turns out that "GeForce 2 Ultra outputs 2 fps at 1600x1200x32 with 1M polygons/frame, now we can do 14 fps!!".
I doubt we are going to see even a 1.5x boost of fps at 640x480x16x20K polygons/frame.
A new generation of chips has always been able to outperform an older generation by about 2x ON THE RESOLUTION THAT MATTERS AT THE TIME OF RELEASE, because, my friend, 21" monitors are not exactly cheap.
Therefore, we'll most likely see about 2x performance increase on 1024x768x32 with 30-50K polygons/frame.
So, when people buy these European burners, they'd already paid the Music "Industry" tax, which mean it becomes legitimate to burn your MP3s. Go full speed ahead my friends.
Correct me if I'm wrong. No matter how small our transistors are - as long as there's a thick enough magnetic shield around it, we'll be ok. Don't be too paranoic. Unless the interference somehow sneaks into the shield or somehow starts from within it, I can't see how our stuffs will be damaged.
No, read the ZDNet article. It is literally there.
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I own my desk.
I like ch0c0lat3s!!
Therefore my desk likes ch0c0lat3s!!
I use my desk to sit my monitor.
My desk owns 4 corners.
Therefore, my desk uses its 4 corners to sit my monitor.
While, IE also gives you links to Hotmail and all its channels, there is a crucial fact that they are all files ("internet shortcuts") and are VERY EASILY REMOVABLE.
I can't say the same for Netscape. The shop button is built in and you cannot remove it without editing xresources, and there is no "security zones" (site-specific security levels) like IE has.
You can clean IE up with reletively fewer amount of tweaking than Netscape. It is the point.
Labelling useful options "Advanced" or make them nontrivial to change is just another way MS and AOL is controlling the rights of the end users.
In the next release I'll bet anything that Netscape will go the way RealPlayer has gone with respect to privacy, marketing, partnerships, and advertisements.
Were it not for some idiots who provide RealPlayer-only contents I have no idea why any sane person in the world would choose RealPlayer over Media Player.
More information can be found at www.annoyances.org.
>They lost their OEM sales to Nvidia and ATI
As far as I know, 3dfx never had gained any real OEM sales, so, they lost nothing.
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See...there might be a minor issue here.
The lack of suitable Power Supplies.
Currently, anything from 200 to 400 W AC-DC power supplies are common. If the power consumption of components drop significantly, the extra power could be dessipated as heat (somebody correct me here if I'm wrong). Thus making the power supply hotter...
Still, I look forward to the day when we can have ultra-powerful components that consume so little power that we can all go back and use our old 80 W power supplies...
Geez you're still living in the world where nobody knows m/s = metre per second.
It is a world of METRICS. Leave your own little world of 18th century and join us!
Better yet, reply with your real handle so we can send it to the Smithsonians.
Say that again moron.
Improve the game-making tools, and make some Linux-only killer games. Then they'll come.
747 CAN fly around 1000 km/h.
It is 277m/s. Ask anyone who fly often.
Everytime I'm on a 747 I'm seeing speeds like 800 to 1000 km/h on the report screen. Go figure.
whoops, not 200,000m/s.
It is 200,000 km/h = 55556m/s.
Which is even slower.
100 times faster than a supersonic jet is....
C'mon. Nothing.
Sound travels at slower than twice the speed of an ordinary 747 aircraft. 200 times the speed of a 747 aircraft (about 200,000m/s) is not a very big deal on the cosmic scale...
I think even our solar system is moving along that speed circling the centre of the Milkyway. Just my guess tho.