Okay, everyone, STOP saying "But the T-800 destroyed himself -- how could there possibly be a sequel?!" If you've watched the T2 commercials, you'd know that the T-800s can be mass produced. And they all look like Arnold. Arnold plays a T-800 in T3; but he's not the T-800 from T2. Geddit?
VIA's chipsets and its CPUs are completely different creatures. Their CPUs are based on the research and work of different companies they acquired -- Cyrix, IDT, and Centaur.
Whether or not any of THOSE companies can produce a completely functional x86 is up for debate, but you should realize that the work that has gone into the development of VIA CPUs belongs to other companies, and not VIA itself.
I'm sorry, but if you spent $650 on a GeForce3 two weeks ago, you are truly a jackass. They haven't cost that much since they were first released. Mwave has Guillemot's offering listed as being $352 now, so you need to either do us all a favor and cut the drama or learn how to shop around.
I think that if this goes to court, it will lose. KIllustrator is a name that was obviously chosen so as to appear as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Nevermind that it's a free product. It's not like this program handles disk partitioning; it does the same thing Adobe's offering does. What you have here is a program that does essentially the same thing as another company's program, and you want me to believe that it's just a coincidence that the names are similar? That's infringement.
FIRSTLY, Westwood doesn't have to bring anything new to the genre to get my respect. They INVENTED it. Emperor of Dune looks absolutely amazing; I've never seen ANY game (much less RTS) that looks like it, so that's something new. And, besides, Westwood games are a blast. You've gotta play RED ALERT (especially the new RA2).
You guys and gals don't seem to get it. You guys are all "Well, how about claim.com or iaimtoplease.com or aimhigh.com" -- I don't like it, but AOL isn't simply attacking anyone with AIM in their name. That's not the case.The A-I-M in AIMster REALLY DOES stand for "AOL Instant Messanger," and I think you all know it. That name belongs to AOL. It isn't a matter of having the same three letters in the same order -- that's not the issue. Using someone else's product name is. Is it cool to go after some harmless band of programmers? No, but thinking AOL is goin' after them just because they happen to have some letters in their name is just ignorant. It works with AIM and the name was chosen to communicate that.
"...there are mounds of competitors products who are just as good..."
You're wrong there. Nevermind the fact that they wrote drivers for cheaters, there is NO company that puts out better hardware --more specifically: motherboards-- than ASUS.
Dude, AMD USED to be an also-ran. Back in the K5 days. Hell, even during the K6 days -- it's not those chips could really compete on a performance level. AMD's been around a lot longer than you think. They're a leader now, yeah, but things weren't always this way.
Slightly off-topic, but..
AMD's K7 processor is called the Athlon. A-T-H-L-O-N. Not Athalon, or Athelon, or Ahalon. It's ATHLON. Damn, people, get it straight.
I think a bunch of you are missing the point. We shouldn't want to choose an office suite and make everyone use that. Having StarOffice's document format as the "standard" is just as bad as using MS's.doc. What we need is a file format that all the suites can use. This community's software is more about freedom --choices-- than anything else, so I don't really think we should be attempting to limit ourselves to one particular application to do all our word processing.
Yeah, the provision makes sense. I mean, we hand out stiffer penalties to burgalars that wear gloves, and rapists that wear condoms, so why not do the same to computer hackers?
While Carnivore does have some serious implications regarding online privacy, Marcus Thomas made a good point when he said that any information gathered by an unauthorized wiretap would be inadmissable in criminal court.
What is everybody worried about? If the FBI were to read your e-mail before you were a suspected threat, what would they be able to do with that information? Nothing. They certainly couldn't take you to court.
>> ny other scripting languages aren't even worth considering. What!? TCL/TK all the way, baby! If ya write it correctly, TCL/TK code is completely portable. GUI development is easy; writing applications in it is quick and relatively painless; and with TCLPro, you can make Win32.EXEs.
It may seem unnecessary with read-only media such as CD-ROMs but what would you rather? That the OS tries to automatically mount any CD that you put in the drive? What if it's a music CD? Surely YOU should be able to tell the computer what you want rather than having it try to second-guess you all the time like a certain other OS that shall remain nameless!
Yeah, I see your point. Thanks! (And, yes, I DID mean "It seems unecessary to mount CD-ROMs/floppies," not "The mount command is useless. Period.")
Setting up Sound: As far as I can tell, this requires a kernel recompile.
More like SEVERAL recompiles. If you're a newbie, you'll mess up. And then you'll have to do it again. And then it won't work. So you'll have to do it again. I spent an ENTIRE day trying to get my sound to work under RH6.0. Everytime I play something other than CD-AUDIO, the system HANGS. It really pisses me off.
The Linux Community as a whole needs to remember us newbies. The "Do it yourself" or "RTFM" (or oftentimes "RTF HOWTO") attitude PUTS OFF NEWBIES. We need things easier, dammit! But I digress..
Oh, and definately get rid of MOUNT thing. That seems totally unecessary to me.
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Okay, everyone, STOP saying "But the T-800 destroyed himself -- how could there possibly be a sequel?!" If you've watched the T2 commercials, you'd know that the T-800s can be mass produced. And they all look like Arnold. Arnold plays a T-800 in T3; but he's not the T-800 from T2. Geddit?
You are ignoring the fact that SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards are popular today -- despite their dimunitive size.
And in response to your assertion that 8CM DVDs aren't used: Nintendo's GameCube utilizes this media.
VIA's chipsets and its CPUs are completely different creatures. Their CPUs are based on the research and work of different companies they acquired -- Cyrix, IDT, and Centaur.
Whether or not any of THOSE companies can produce a completely functional x86 is up for debate, but you should realize that the work that has gone into the development of VIA CPUs belongs to other companies, and not VIA itself.
I'm sorry, but if you spent $650 on a GeForce3 two weeks ago, you are truly a jackass. They haven't cost that much since they were first released. Mwave has Guillemot's offering listed as being $352 now, so you need to either do us all a favor and cut the drama or learn how to shop around.
Is there any particular reason you think Dell would manufacture a PC with an nFORCE in it?
I think that if this goes to court, it will lose. KIllustrator is a name that was obviously chosen so as to appear as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Nevermind that it's a free product. It's not like this program handles disk partitioning; it does the same thing Adobe's offering does. What you have here is a program that does essentially the same thing as another company's program, and you want me to believe that it's just a coincidence that the names are similar? That's infringement.
This article was in Reader`s Digest *years* ago.
FIRSTLY, Westwood doesn't have to bring anything new to the genre to get my respect. They INVENTED it. Emperor of Dune looks absolutely amazing; I've never seen ANY game (much less RTS) that looks like it, so that's something new. And, besides, Westwood games are a blast. You've gotta play RED ALERT (especially the new RA2).
You guys and gals don't seem to get it. You guys are all "Well, how about claim.com or iaimtoplease.com or aimhigh.com" -- I don't like it, but AOL isn't simply attacking anyone with AIM in their name. That's not the case.The A-I-M in AIMster REALLY DOES stand for "AOL Instant Messanger," and I think you all know it. That name belongs to AOL. It isn't a matter of having the same three letters in the same order -- that's not the issue. Using someone else's product name is. Is it cool to go after some harmless band of programmers? No, but thinking AOL is goin' after them just because they happen to have some letters in their name is just ignorant. It works with AIM and the name was chosen to communicate that.
"...there are mounds of competitors products who are just as good..." You're wrong there. Nevermind the fact that they wrote drivers for cheaters, there is NO company that puts out better hardware --more specifically: motherboards-- than ASUS.
Dude, AMD USED to be an also-ran. Back in the K5 days. Hell, even during the K6 days -- it's not those chips could really compete on a performance level. AMD's been around a lot longer than you think. They're a leader now, yeah, but things weren't always this way.
Slightly off-topic, but.. AMD's K7 processor is called the Athlon. A-T-H-L-O-N. Not Athalon, or Athelon, or Ahalon. It's ATHLON. Damn, people, get it straight.
I think a bunch of you are missing the point. We shouldn't want to choose an office suite and make everyone use that. Having StarOffice's document format as the "standard" is just as bad as using MS's .doc. What we need is a file format that all the suites can use. This community's software is more about freedom --choices-- than anything else, so I don't really think we should be attempting to limit ourselves to one particular application to do all our word processing.
Yeah, the provision makes sense. I mean, we hand out stiffer penalties to burgalars that wear gloves, and rapists that wear condoms, so why not do the same to computer hackers?
While Carnivore does have some serious implications regarding online privacy, Marcus Thomas made a good point when he said that any information gathered by an unauthorized wiretap would be inadmissable in criminal court.
What is everybody worried about? If the FBI were to read your e-mail before you were a suspected threat, what would they be able to do with that information? Nothing. They certainly couldn't take you to court.
>> ny other scripting languages aren't even worth considering. What!? TCL/TK all the way, baby! If ya write it correctly, TCL/TK code is completely portable. GUI development is easy; writing applications in it is quick and relatively painless; and with TCLPro, you can make Win32 .EXEs.
How could we forget about Tim Berners-Lee? I mean, he's only responsible for the WWW! Where would geeks be without him?
Oh, yeah, and don't forget Linus!
Which is, of course... Japan.
I'm in the first Industrialized Country to go through Y2K! What do you think of that?
Ha, I guess there ARE people out there that know what the hell those patents were talking about! :)
A 3-D window manager is probably as useful as that hacked up DOOM that lets you kill processes with a a shotgun!
How do.. you... pronouce that?
This story should've been in the Humor category, not the Microsoft one. ;)
It may seem unnecessary with read-only media such as CD-ROMs but what would you rather? That the OS tries to automatically mount any CD that you put in the drive? What if it's a music CD? Surely YOU should be able to tell the computer what you want rather than having it try to second-guess you all the time like a certain other OS that shall remain nameless!
Yeah, I see your point. Thanks! (And, yes, I DID mean "It seems unecessary to mount CD-ROMs/floppies," not "The mount command is useless. Period.")
Modeline calculations scare me...
Oh, God.. TELL me about it!
Setting up Sound: As far as I can tell, this requires a kernel recompile.
More like SEVERAL recompiles. If you're a newbie, you'll mess up. And then you'll have to do it again. And then it won't work. So you'll have to do it again. I spent an ENTIRE day trying to get my sound to work under RH6.0. Everytime I play something other than CD-AUDIO, the system HANGS. It really pisses me off.
The Linux Community as a whole needs to remember us newbies. The "Do it yourself" or "RTFM" (or oftentimes "RTF HOWTO") attitude PUTS OFF NEWBIES. We need things easier, dammit! But I digress..
Oh, and definately get rid of MOUNT thing. That seems totally unecessary to me.