For them to totally drop MS, overhaul their service and support division and sell blank or Linux installed PCs only? They're not going to do that, and the truth of it is that such a move would kill them.
Yeah, but the odds of the open source community declaring a holiday in Dell's honor is vastly increased. And the Linux publicity might actually turn a few heads in the mainstream.:-)
Yeah, you're stuck either buying a dvdcube or a Q.
Of course if you already have a DVD-ROM drive and a seperate DVD player and tons of friends with DVD players and DVD-ROMs it isn't a huge loss.
(analog rewind/fast forward would be cool though, I'm happy with my leigion of Pikmin and infinite supply of Super Monkey Ball(s), soon to be played under cover of Eternal Darkness.:-)
I'd throw you an anonymous hello there but its disabled.
I've found the best way to keep privacy is to avoid using terms in one place that can search out the others. Kudos to the person who hunts down my semi-sloppy trail of usenet posts.
Using different usernames in different places is one key element of that, though it ties in with my domain and from there its not excruciatingly hard I don't imagine.
The spam flood hasn't been bad, only when virii are harvesting email addresses does it get really annoying. And there is one or two virus laden slashdotters out there I think.
Feel free to reply through my email, now that I can't see a number (46), my karma isn't that exciting any more, but I still like it and this is one of the few cases a -1 offtopic would be accurate.
I like cfdisk, but last few times I've used it I've noticed it is doing its megabyte to cylinder calculations wrong and I have to do math to give it wrong figures so it'll do what I want.
Many new games let you have either 16 bit or 32 bit color
Many old games do too.;-)
For 16 bit, it's 4 bits per component.
Thats new to me. It used to be that 16 bit was usually RRRRRGGGGGGBBBBB, or five bits per channel plus an extra optional green channel for the masochists. The alpha channel was just a feature of 32 bit modes to fill up that extra byte without having to offer extra bits on the DAC.
Its been argued that RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLL (using that byte for luminance) would offer a much greater range of color and more importantly grayscale bitdepth.
Since unlike my previous suggestion monitors cannot accurately display clear.:-)
I seem to remember a few hacks to programs running on C64s that would do exactly that...they would borrow the video memory and use it as system memory if you didn't have enough to run whatever it was you wanted to run.
Dude, all the C64 had was system memory. The VIC was just given a pointer to a paved over area of system memory to display off of. You could display whatever you wanted though. ROM, I/O registers, BASIC token space, etc.
would have to look a while to tell the difference between 24 bit and 32 bit graphics.
Assuming 32 bit graphics are a variant of RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAA, there should be no difference compared to 24 bit unless your monitor can show what is behind it.
Or you were talking about layering/3-D surfaces with transparent attributes rendered by the card (which is a pretty far out concept for the AOL grandmother).
If you are refering to an anti-virus program that spreads across the internet
We're talking about virus programs that spread across the internet. After a ridiculous amount of time negligently broadcasting virii their net pipe should just be shut down.
If thats not happening then it seems reasonable that using the unpatched hole that the virus used or new rootkit functionality the virus brought along for the ride the damned virus should be remotely disabled and the hole plugged.
And of course as you say, some of the responsibility lies with the maker of the software that was placed in such a compromisable position. I don't see many web hosts suing Microsoft though.
Slashdot Mirror
I've gotten impatient.
:-)
HERE!
I think this proves the patent system is fatally flawed and needs to be torn down, and optionally replaced.
I dunno how fast you'd get sued, but your bandwidth costs will skyrocket. :-)
For them to totally drop MS, overhaul their service and support division and sell blank or Linux installed PCs only? They're not going to do that, and the truth of it is that such a move would kill them.
:-)
Yeah, but the odds of the open source community declaring a holiday in Dell's honor is vastly increased. And the Linux publicity might actually turn a few heads in the mainstream.
I know Knoppix is great for people who have a laptop and don't want to use any harddrive space for Linux. :-)
gamecube don't play dvds
:-)
Yeah, you're stuck either buying a dvdcube or a Q.
Of course if you already have a DVD-ROM drive and a seperate DVD player and tons of friends with DVD players and DVD-ROMs it isn't a huge loss.
(analog rewind/fast forward would be cool though, I'm happy with my leigion of Pikmin and infinite supply of Super Monkey Ball(s), soon to be played under cover of Eternal Darkness.
I wonder if they are going to advertise the fact that Dells come with DOS now.
:-)
Its a major step up from Windows I assume.
Pull off an Amiga-like homeostasis and you should get a rock solid system in return.
I'd throw you an anonymous hello there but its disabled.
:-)
I've found the best way to keep privacy is to avoid using terms in one place that can search out the others. Kudos to the person who hunts down my semi-sloppy trail of usenet posts.
Using different usernames in different places is one key element of that, though it ties in with my domain and from there its not excruciatingly hard I don't imagine.
The spam flood hasn't been bad, only when virii are harvesting email addresses does it get really annoying. And there is one or two virus laden slashdotters out there I think.
Feel free to reply through my email, now that I can't see a number (46), my karma isn't that exciting any more, but I still like it and this is one of the few cases a -1 offtopic would be accurate.
Seen Return of the Killer Tomatos yet?
he is a superior speaker? comepared to who? or what?
:-)
I dunno, but I think I'll stick with Altec Lansing. Too much bias ruins a speaker.
Yes, I'm one of those few mythic creatures, a ./ poster with no Y chromosome.
:-)
Are you also one of the huge crowd of XXers that have a plot on LiveJournal.com?
Move your hand left to go back, right to go forward, and up and down to scroll the document (not viable for pr0n).
:-)
What? You go up and down, he/she/it goes up and down. How wouldn't that work?
Saying Fox sucks, incidentally, is smearing the network that gave you the Simpsons. That alone is heresy in my book.
:-)
Simpsons has knocked Fox on a few occasions.
Admitedly, quicktime is a better file format.
Its a shame their proprietary video player is so lousy on Windows.
(I'm serious, how can they make it so bad, all other video players have a solid display.)
I like cfdisk, but last few times I've used it I've noticed it is doing its megabyte to cylinder calculations wrong and I have to do math to give it wrong figures so it'll do what I want.
Voxels have a couple of important advantages, such as that things don't get angular edges at all
I've always visualized a voxel as a cube.
Maybe you mean that wacky nurb stuff?
"Nuclear Worms"? Seriously, what genius came up with that one?
:-)
Baldea's bait shop, Slattery says: "That was a bit of marketing genius from Mike."
Do I get points for quoting the contents of a page one link away?
"less than 450 lbs"
:-)
I guess that rules out my wheelbarrel full of bricks design.
I was looking forward to tying with alot of these people.
To store kinetic energy a flywheen needs mass. The kind of mass that isn't ultra-light, hence providing minimal inertia.
The model described in the article isn't any kind of real terrorist threat due to its limited payload capacity
:-)
You don't need alot of Ebola to mess someone up, and it doesn't take much radioactive crap to have a building torn down.
Many new games let you have either 16 bit or 32 bit color
;-)
:-)
Many old games do too.
For 16 bit, it's 4 bits per component.
Thats new to me. It used to be that 16 bit was usually RRRRRGGGGGGBBBBB, or five bits per channel plus an extra optional green channel for the masochists. The alpha channel was just a feature of 32 bit modes to fill up that extra byte without having to offer extra bits on the DAC.
Its been argued that RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLL (using that byte for luminance) would offer a much greater range of color and more importantly grayscale bitdepth.
Since unlike my previous suggestion monitors cannot accurately display clear.
I forget the movie, but I remember the line "damn daffodils" used several times in it.
The weirdest line I've ever heard, and yes, it made no sense at all.
I seem to remember a few hacks to programs running on C64s that would do exactly that...they would borrow the video memory and use it as system memory if you didn't have enough to run whatever it was you wanted to run.
Dude, all the C64 had was system memory. The VIC was just given a pointer to a paved over area of system memory to display off of. You could display whatever you wanted though. ROM, I/O registers, BASIC token space, etc.
would have to look a while to tell the difference between 24 bit and 32 bit graphics.
Assuming 32 bit graphics are a variant of RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAA, there should be no difference compared to 24 bit unless your monitor can show what is behind it.
Or you were talking about layering/3-D surfaces with transparent attributes rendered by the card (which is a pretty far out concept for the AOL grandmother).
They say thats 100 times more powerful than today's popular overpriced top-end mediocre chip.
So in two years let computing get a few times faster, then multiply by 16 processor cores, then throw in some disappointment.
That sounds about right.
If you are refering to an anti-virus program that spreads across the internet
We're talking about virus programs that spread across the internet. After a ridiculous amount of time negligently broadcasting virii their net pipe should just be shut down.
If thats not happening then it seems reasonable that using the unpatched hole that the virus used or new rootkit functionality the virus brought along for the ride the damned virus should be remotely disabled and the hole plugged.
And of course as you say, some of the responsibility lies with the maker of the software that was placed in such a compromisable position. I don't see many web hosts suing Microsoft though.