>>I would really like to see slashot interview the people from attrition and/or k. williams.
Indeed! Sounds like an excellant idea to me. I feel that JP has turned/. into his personal soapbox instead of answering the questions that slashdotters posed.
I can understand the notion that he might find some of these questions offensive, and even wasteful of his time. However, it seems to me that to flat out call them "stupid" et al is just plain disrespectful to the staff and moderators of/. who undoubtably spent a great deal of effort culling them from the chaff. It is even more apalling to refuse to answer any of the questions at all directly.
Therefore, it seems that since attrition.org has been the focus of a lot of JP counterpoint and investigation, why not interview them? I feel that their viewpoint would be the next best thing to getting answers from JP, and giving them a forum has a sense of balance. (JP having refused the honor)
I think this would also be interesting, because attrition (as opposed to antionline) has gone to great length to prove its points, which would allow a savvy question-writer to be very focused.
~Tiroth
Final note: I don't mean to imply that an attrition interview would need to be confined merely to antionline and its founder; the great thing about a/. interview is that the questions people are most interested in (whatever they may be) would hopefully rise to the top.
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As explained elsewhere, the Visor lacks flash rom and thus cannot use a ROM replacement such as this.
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The fact that it needs a modified Copilot means nothing. Lots of programs that run fine on Palm platforms don't run at all (bus error) on the emulator. The problem is that [Palm OS compliant] programs are a subset of [Programs that run on PalmOS]. However, the emulator is built only to run compliant or mildly misbehaved programs.
Runs on Emu -> Runs on Palm Runs on Emu !- Runs on Palm
-ISA cards don't share IRQs. That means that even with a constant number of IRQs, replacing an ISA card with a PCI generally means more free IRQs, and less conflicts.
-ISA cards (as we've all noticed) don't do PnP worth crap. It's also not always possible to tell what the IRQ/DMA/IO settings are for a given card...they often don't listen to the BIOS when in PnP mode.
-ISA cards are harder to troubleshoot on a system. Believe me, I service computers. I hate ISA cards.
-less ISA slots means more room for PCI slots. Even if these are bridged, it's still a good thing. More slots mean more support for _current_, as opposed to old (legacy) hardware.
-finally, moving from ISA provides more encouragement for designers to take advantage of the more capable bus.
As far as the maturity of Firewire and USB, their time is coming, but I'm skeptical of their ability to replace basic hardware like mice and keyboards. I'm certainly not going to go buy half a dozen keyboards and mice to get the same functionality I currently have, and end up with less USB ports to boot.
Why hasn't this ever occurred? It seems that there is substantial evidence that he has made damaging assertions about persons (e.g. Jericho) that have been proven to be untrue. Now, merely shoddy journalism is not libel, per se, but if there is malice involved then this is potentially illegal. It seems as though an effective way to stop slander and bully tactics would be to merely bring a suit against him. Getting burned in court would make it all the easier for any future victims to claim malice and seek damages.
For the dual celery box I just built, these were the costs: Ethernet: $40 CPUs: $60 each Sound $100 Mobo: $130 Memory: $150 MJPEG: $180 Video $200 Granted, the segment of the market that gets most of the attention is the bleeding edge (P3-600/Athlon) but most people probaly aren't spending the $580 for a high end proc when they can get upwards of 80% of the speed for 10% of the cost. Thus a quick CPU swap and the stolen hardware is good to go.
MAC spoofing pretty much eliminates any threat from people tying you to your NIC. A good question to ask is what is preventing users from doing the same thing to their IBM ID numbers. The weak point has to be the software that queries the hardware. Replace the routines, and just throw out gibberish. Or how about writing software that generates the IDs even on machines that lack them? That would sure throw IBM for a loop. Even if you can't generate valid ID strings, all of those erroneous values would probably tax machines that are attempting to decode the real ID strings.
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>>I would really like to see slashot interview the people from attrition and/or k. williams.
/. into his personal soapbox instead of answering the questions that slashdotters posed.
/. who undoubtably spent a great deal of effort culling them from the chaff. It is even more apalling to refuse to answer any of the questions at all directly.
/. interview is that the questions people are most interested in (whatever they may be) would hopefully rise to the top.
Indeed! Sounds like an excellant idea to me. I feel that JP has turned
I can understand the notion that he might find some of these questions offensive, and even wasteful of his time. However, it seems to me that to flat out call them "stupid" et al is just plain disrespectful to the staff and moderators of
Therefore, it seems that since attrition.org has been the focus of a lot of JP counterpoint and investigation, why not interview them? I feel that their viewpoint would be the next best thing to getting answers from JP, and giving them a forum has a sense of balance. (JP having refused the honor)
I think this would also be interesting, because attrition (as opposed to antionline) has gone to great length to prove its points, which would allow a savvy question-writer to be very focused.
~Tiroth
Final note: I don't mean to imply that an attrition interview would need to be confined merely to antionline and its founder; the great thing about a
As explained elsewhere, the Visor lacks flash rom and thus cannot use a ROM replacement such as this.
The fact that it needs a modified Copilot means nothing. Lots of programs that run fine on Palm platforms don't run at all (bus error) on the emulator. The problem is that [Palm OS compliant] programs are a subset of [Programs that run on PalmOS]. However, the emulator is built only to run compliant or mildly misbehaved programs.
Runs on Emu -> Runs on Palm
Runs on Emu !- Runs on Palm
I would get rid of ISA in a second. Here's why:
-ISA cards don't share IRQs. That means that even with a constant number of IRQs, replacing an ISA card with a PCI generally means more free IRQs, and less conflicts.
-ISA cards (as we've all noticed) don't do PnP worth crap. It's also not always possible to tell what the IRQ/DMA/IO settings are for a given card...they often don't listen to the BIOS when in PnP mode.
-ISA cards are harder to troubleshoot on a system. Believe me, I service computers. I hate ISA cards.
-less ISA slots means more room for PCI slots. Even if these are bridged, it's still a good thing. More slots mean more support for _current_, as opposed to old (legacy) hardware.
-finally, moving from ISA provides more encouragement for designers to take advantage of the more capable bus.
As far as the maturity of Firewire and USB, their time is coming, but I'm skeptical of their ability to replace basic hardware like mice and keyboards. I'm certainly not going to go buy half a dozen keyboards and mice to get the same functionality I currently have, and end up with less USB ports to boot.
Why hasn't this ever occurred? It seems that there is substantial evidence that he has made damaging assertions about persons (e.g. Jericho) that have been proven to be untrue. Now, merely shoddy journalism is not libel, per se, but if there is malice involved then this is potentially illegal. It seems as though an effective way to stop slander and bully tactics would be to merely bring a suit against him. Getting burned in court would make it all the easier for any future victims to claim malice and seek damages.
~Tiroth
For the dual celery box I just built, these were the costs: Ethernet: $40 CPUs: $60 each Sound $100 Mobo: $130 Memory: $150 MJPEG: $180 Video $200 Granted, the segment of the market that gets most of the attention is the bleeding edge (P3-600/Athlon) but most people probaly aren't spending the $580 for a high end proc when they can get upwards of 80% of the speed for 10% of the cost. Thus a quick CPU swap and the stolen hardware is good to go.
MAC spoofing pretty much eliminates any threat from people tying you to your NIC. A good question to ask is what is preventing users from doing the same thing to their IBM ID numbers. The weak point has to be the software that queries the hardware. Replace the routines, and just throw out gibberish. Or how about writing software that generates the IDs even on machines that lack them? That would sure throw IBM for a loop. Even if you can't generate valid ID strings, all of those erroneous values would probably tax machines that are attempting to decode the real ID strings.