See http://www.ps2linux.com/dmesg.html
It looks like this is a semi-official Japanese site. Considering the Kit is already out in Japan, this is good stuff to see!
Hogarth
Richard is still doing work for Wizards.
He is the lead designer on the next upcoming stand-alone set for Magic, entitled 'Odyssey'.
Peter left when Hasbro made them make a whole bunch of crappy games (NBA, Looney Tunes, etc.) and then was shocked when they lost money on them.
If you're a house painter, I'd recommend against watercolors as a hobby. Why? Maybe it would be nice to do something else for a change, instead of just futz with paint.
I AM a professional programmer, and I DO have computers at home. I even maintain and improve my skills on my home computers. I DO NOT, however, program at home for ANY purposes of developing real software packages. I learn, I train, I familiarize. I do NOT build and deploy. I do NOT market and package.
There's a BIG difference between skill maintenance and learning and spending your off hours developing code your employer wishes you had developed on their time.
It's really VERY easy to avoid IF YOU WANT TO.
Those who do otherwise do so at their own peril.
This is a little bit of a flame -- but I think there are some merits to my comments.
I know many, many slashdotters would probably encourage someone to continue growing and expanding their chosen field in their off hours. This post, to me, suggests exactly why NOT to do that.
Work each day -- and do the work of your employer. When you go home, do something completely different. DO NOT PROGRAM. DO NOT DO ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY LIKE YOUR EMPLOYER. If you program during the day, write haiku at night, or something -- anything -- different. Fingerpaint. Watch Babylon 5 until you barf.
The easiest way to avoid conflicts of interest is TO AVOID CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. Don't dip your pen in company ink. Don't dip your pen in ANY INK that the company may EVER be interested in.
Otherwise, when it comes time to making hard choices, call your lawyer up and for god's sake, stop asking Slashdot. You should know better.
Sega had a Dreamcast release that was 2-3 times more successful than Sony's PS2 release.
The systems were plentiful and only a handful of the games were flawed.
The system is reasonable in cost, and when it does break, Sega supports it with 2-3 week repair and shipment warranty service.
I know people who sent PS2s back in November and still don't have their system back.
Sega is a great company, with a great product. The only problem is when people like you wouldn't even give the thing a chance. That's why they're going out of business.
Hogarth
TiVo uses complex MPEG-2 encoding routines to encode video in real time. A 133Mhz x86 would be unable to keep up with the encoding routines.
In addition, while Tivo's extensions to the Linux OS are open-source, Tivo's software to display the TV programming and maintain listings is proprietary and closed.
Sorry.. no go.
I'd imagine proxying screws the pooch on this one. While it's generally easy to find me at home (*.mrmnh.adelphia.net), absolutely anything that I would do at work goes through the corporate firewall. It will be really annoying if Yahoo targets me with crap thinking I am in Oklahoma when I'm in New Hampshire.
Programmers don't follow standards. Programmers adhere to APIs when it suits their purposes.
There are plenty of standards of behavior in our real lives. Laws against libel, slander, assault, conspiracy, kiddie porn, adultery and all those nasty things apply just fine to the Internet.
What your average Slashdotter objects to is the needless passing of MORE laws to prevent the protection of speech that, as much as a majority of people may not like it, is a valid viewpoint and deserves to exist. Virtually every kind of technology potentially usable to "verify" internet identities or "filter" or "secure" does only one thing -- remove liberty from individuals.
I'll concede that they may not do so very much -- but that they invoke a slippery slope -- once we give up a little, we'll have to give up a lot. I assure you of that.
A company called NewsGuy has varying levels of access, including a basic free web-based service. http://www.newsguy.com (Their paid "Extra" usenet feed has all the binaries groups and is killer.)
(1) The fact that Crusoe doesn't require a whole lot of power doesn't mean that it will automatically be thrown into notebooks with standard Li-Ion batteries and get 1000 hours of battery life. The idea is that if you're more efficient, you need less physical battery. That means smaller system. That means ultralight, which is everything with notebooks these days. I know plenty of folks who would give up a very fast and loaded desktop-equivalent notebook for a VAIO that is light, decent, and looks good.
(2) Less Heat eliminates need for a processor cooling fan. eliminating the need for a fan makes the package smaller. see also #1.
(3) Companies, especially Big Blue, are tired of forking over notebook profits to Intel. period. Crusoe is very affordable, and that will bring prices for notebooks down all over the place. Intel will still dominate, but at least you won't have to pay a premium price just because you want a PIII-600 in your notebook.
(4) Being able to alter the emulation processes at the software level means that this is a chip that will grow and improve with time. Intel's coming out with more SSE multimedia extensions? Patch crusoe. Boom. Upgraded Crusoe. No hardware swap required.
(5) Yes, being able to theoretically emulate anything is pretty lame. Alpha and Dragonball, while potential, are not likely to get emulated with this. What will? PowerPC. I guarantee that Transmeta has a team trying to get down the instruction set for the G4. I know many a web designer who would run out and buy a system if they could run both Windoze and MacOS on the same hardware without something like Virtual PC. It's not as appealing to the market, but it may eventually be part of Transmeta's value proposition. I'd expect to see it within the next 12 months, and expect to see companies like Dell and NEC making notebooks that have full G4 support and Apple jumping on the bandwagon.
Bottom Line: Crusoe is revolutionary. It will take a while for the waves to be made, but we'll all be using faster, cheaper, lighter, cooler, better computers as a result. Intel needed some additional competition.
I agree to some of your points, Brian. The two company split ordered by the court won't do ANY good.. but the reason for that is this:
NGWS. Next Generation Windows Services.
Billy-boy and company believe that the future of computing is through an Application Service Provider type model. They believe that the browser will be the application platform by which they deliver absolutely every component of their value proposition.
By making the split so that Applications (Office) and Browsers (MSIE) are still in the same group, they'll still be able to do this to consumers who rely on Microsoft applications. Not only that, but you can bet your sweet booty that they won't be letting any other ASP's host the applications they develop. They'll only be available by MSN.
Micro$haft has just gotten rolling, and the true power is still residing within one single corporate entity.
I believe that at least 4 splits would have been required to really bring competition back to the market:
One for backoffice software. Win2k, SQL server, IIS, et al.
One for consumer versions of Windows. (WinME)
One for internet service providing (MSN, Expedia, bCentral, Hotmail, etc.)
One for Internet Explorer development
One for application development (Office)
And you know what? I bet you the separate IE company wouldn't be solvent -- couldn't justify its' own expenses. Know what else? Microsoft should HAVE to deal with that.. Netscape did -- that's why Mozilla is Open Source now. That, my friends, would be justice.
WAP is a PROPRIETARY system, designed by phone.com, to permit wireless phone manufacturers and wireless service providers to provide LIMITED information services over LOW BANDWIDTH.
Why do providers like this? Because they make you think you can access the entire web, and they don't have to upgrade their infrastructure to support regular speed data connections.
14.4k/sec was just fine when the only way to surf these stupid things was over a cell phone. With Crusoe-based web pads coming out (likely with built-in wireless connectivity), it will be insufficent.
Why would you want to settle for WAP or WML when you could have access to the entire scope of open standards? TCP/IP? XML? XHTML? CGI? What have you?
phone.com is already charging ridiculous license fees to anyone who wants to actually operate the servers they provide. Yes, the developer suite is free -- but why would you want to develop twice? Granted, handheld screens are small -- but they're not THAT small.
I think that all that the internet and disintermediating technologies have done is show us a more accurate representation of what kinds of people and what kinds of hatred and disgust exist in the world.
It's always existed -- hate and perversion and exploitation -- but it wasn't until recently that Technology allowed one to express that and cause change half-way across the world in a matter of moments.
I think a little Utopianism mindset about technology is OK -- We're looking at nanotechnology in reality these days -- no more poverty, no more homeless, no more starvation, no more squabbling over oil. And I think for very many of us, it will happen in our lifetime.
Hatred will still exist. Power will still exist. Perversion will still exist.
But we'll also have the power to affect change. And eventually, I believe, when hatred and perversion are simply not necessary to enjoy ones' life -- altruism will win, if we all want it to.
I think that enough of us do. Those who support freedom, and free speech, and care less about a paycheck and more about the possibilities of creation do.
Well, the most recent digital data solution available in North America, CDMA data, is now more or less a reality.
SprintPCS's TouchPoint phone supports data connections that were recently flipped on in almost all of Sprint (or should I say Worldcom) PCS's markets.
It's currently 14.4kbps, highly overpriced ($0.20/minute in packages, $0.39/minute a la carte), but still pretty cool.
I've not tried to configure it for Linux, but the manual includes support and directions for PalmOS, stating merely to hook it up via serial, and use the following modem preferences: Modem - Standard Speed - 14,400 Speaker - Off Flow Ctl - Automatic String - AT&FX4 Dial type - Touchtone
and program in your usual ISP's PPP settings and voila.
I'm pretty sure this would work equally well with Linux.:) I'll try it from home soon, and let you all know how it works. (on my RedHat5.2+KDE box)
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See http://www.ps2linux.com/dmesg.html It looks like this is a semi-official Japanese site. Considering the Kit is already out in Japan, this is good stuff to see! Hogarth
Richard is still doing work for Wizards. He is the lead designer on the next upcoming stand-alone set for Magic, entitled 'Odyssey'. Peter left when Hasbro made them make a whole bunch of crappy games (NBA, Looney Tunes, etc.) and then was shocked when they lost money on them.
If you're a house painter, I'd recommend against watercolors as a hobby. Why? Maybe it would be nice to do something else for a change, instead of just futz with paint.
I AM a professional programmer, and I DO have computers at home. I even maintain and improve my skills on my home computers. I DO NOT, however, program at home for ANY purposes of developing real software packages. I learn, I train, I familiarize. I do NOT build and deploy. I do NOT market and package.
There's a BIG difference between skill maintenance and learning and spending your off hours developing code your employer wishes you had developed on their time.
It's really VERY easy to avoid IF YOU WANT TO.
Those who do otherwise do so at their own peril.
This is a little bit of a flame -- but I think there are some merits to my comments.
I know many, many slashdotters would probably encourage someone to continue growing and expanding their chosen field in their off hours. This post, to me, suggests exactly why NOT to do that.
Work each day -- and do the work of your employer. When you go home, do something completely different. DO NOT PROGRAM. DO NOT DO ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY LIKE YOUR EMPLOYER. If you program during the day, write haiku at night, or something -- anything -- different. Fingerpaint. Watch Babylon 5 until you barf.
The easiest way to avoid conflicts of interest is TO AVOID CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. Don't dip your pen in company ink. Don't dip your pen in ANY INK that the company may EVER be interested in.
Otherwise, when it comes time to making hard choices, call your lawyer up and for god's sake, stop asking Slashdot. You should know better.
Sega had a Dreamcast release that was 2-3 times more successful than Sony's PS2 release. The systems were plentiful and only a handful of the games were flawed. The system is reasonable in cost, and when it does break, Sega supports it with 2-3 week repair and shipment warranty service. I know people who sent PS2s back in November and still don't have their system back. Sega is a great company, with a great product. The only problem is when people like you wouldn't even give the thing a chance. That's why they're going out of business. Hogarth
TiVo uses complex MPEG-2 encoding routines to encode video in real time. A 133Mhz x86 would be unable to keep up with the encoding routines. In addition, while Tivo's extensions to the Linux OS are open-source, Tivo's software to display the TV programming and maintain listings is proprietary and closed. Sorry.. no go.
I'd imagine proxying screws the pooch on this one. While it's generally easy to find me at home (*.mrmnh.adelphia.net), absolutely anything that I would do at work goes through the corporate firewall. It will be really annoying if Yahoo targets me with crap thinking I am in Oklahoma when I'm in New Hampshire.
Programmers don't follow standards. Programmers adhere to APIs when it suits their purposes.
There are plenty of standards of behavior in our real lives. Laws against libel, slander, assault, conspiracy, kiddie porn, adultery and all those nasty things apply just fine to the Internet.
What your average Slashdotter objects to is the needless passing of MORE laws to prevent the protection of speech that, as much as a majority of people may not like it, is a valid viewpoint and deserves to exist. Virtually every kind of technology potentially usable to "verify" internet identities or "filter" or "secure" does only one thing -- remove liberty from individuals.
I'll concede that they may not do so very much -- but that they invoke a slippery slope -- once we give up a little, we'll have to give up a lot. I assure you of that.
A company called NewsGuy has varying levels of access, including a basic free web-based service. http://www.newsguy.com (Their paid "Extra" usenet feed has all the binaries groups and is killer.)
(1) The fact that Crusoe doesn't require a whole lot of power doesn't mean that it will automatically be thrown into notebooks with standard Li-Ion batteries and get 1000 hours of battery life. The idea is that if you're more efficient, you need less physical battery. That means smaller system. That means ultralight, which is everything with notebooks these days. I know plenty of folks who would give up a very fast and loaded desktop-equivalent notebook for a VAIO that is light, decent, and looks good.
(2) Less Heat eliminates need for a processor cooling fan. eliminating the need for a fan makes the package smaller. see also #1.
(3) Companies, especially Big Blue, are tired of forking over notebook profits to Intel. period. Crusoe is very affordable, and that will bring prices for notebooks down all over the place. Intel will still dominate, but at least you won't have to pay a premium price just because you want a PIII-600 in your notebook.
(4) Being able to alter the emulation processes at the software level means that this is a chip that will grow and improve with time. Intel's coming out with more SSE multimedia extensions? Patch crusoe. Boom. Upgraded Crusoe. No hardware swap required.
(5) Yes, being able to theoretically emulate anything is pretty lame. Alpha and Dragonball, while potential, are not likely to get emulated with this. What will? PowerPC. I guarantee that Transmeta has a team trying to get down the instruction set for the G4. I know many a web designer who would run out and buy a system if they could run both Windoze and MacOS on the same hardware without something like Virtual PC. It's not as appealing to the market, but it may eventually be part of Transmeta's value proposition. I'd expect to see it within the next 12 months, and expect to see companies like Dell and NEC making notebooks that have full G4 support and Apple jumping on the bandwagon.
Bottom Line: Crusoe is revolutionary. It will take a while for the waves to be made, but we'll all be using faster, cheaper, lighter, cooler, better computers as a result. Intel needed some additional competition.
Windows "DNA" is definitely ActiveX repackaged.. but I was referring actually to the "megaservices" to which bill & Co have been speaking recently.
Hogarth
NGWS. Next Generation Windows Services.
Billy-boy and company believe that the future of computing is through an Application Service Provider type model. They believe that the browser will be the application platform by which they deliver absolutely every component of their value proposition.
By making the split so that Applications (Office) and Browsers (MSIE) are still in the same group, they'll still be able to do this to consumers who rely on Microsoft applications. Not only that, but you can bet your sweet booty that they won't be letting any other ASP's host the applications they develop. They'll only be available by MSN.
Micro$haft has just gotten rolling, and the true power is still residing within one single corporate entity.
I believe that at least 4 splits would have been required to really bring competition back to the market:
And you know what? I bet you the separate IE company wouldn't be solvent -- couldn't justify its' own expenses. Know what else? Microsoft should HAVE to deal with that.. Netscape did -- that's why Mozilla is Open Source now. That, my friends, would be justice.
Hogarth
WAP is a PROPRIETARY system, designed by phone.com, to permit wireless phone manufacturers and wireless service providers to provide LIMITED information services over LOW BANDWIDTH.
Why do providers like this? Because they make you think you can access the entire web, and they don't have to upgrade their infrastructure to support regular speed data connections.
14.4k/sec was just fine when the only way to surf these stupid things was over a cell phone. With Crusoe-based web pads coming out (likely with built-in wireless connectivity), it will be insufficent.
Why would you want to settle for WAP or WML when you could have access to the entire scope of open standards? TCP/IP? XML? XHTML? CGI? What have you?
phone.com is already charging ridiculous license fees to anyone who wants to actually operate the servers they provide. Yes, the developer suite is free -- but why would you want to develop twice? Granted, handheld screens are small -- but they're not THAT small.
Hogarth
I think that all that the internet and disintermediating technologies have done is show us a more accurate representation of what kinds of people and what kinds of hatred and disgust exist in the world.
It's always existed -- hate and perversion and exploitation -- but it wasn't until recently that Technology allowed one to express that and cause change half-way across the world in a matter of moments.
I think a little Utopianism mindset about technology is OK -- We're looking at nanotechnology in reality these days -- no more poverty, no more homeless, no more starvation, no more squabbling over oil. And I think for very many of us, it will happen in our lifetime.
Hatred will still exist. Power will still exist. Perversion will still exist.
But we'll also have the power to affect change. And eventually, I believe, when hatred and perversion are simply not necessary to enjoy ones' life -- altruism will win, if we all want it to.
I think that enough of us do. Those who support freedom, and free speech, and care less about a paycheck and more about the possibilities of creation do.
Hogarth
Well, the most recent digital data solution available in North America, CDMA data, is now
:) I'll try it from home soon, and let you all know how it works. (on my RedHat5.2+KDE box)
more or less a reality.
SprintPCS's TouchPoint phone supports data connections that were recently flipped on in almost all of Sprint (or should I say Worldcom) PCS's markets.
It's currently 14.4kbps, highly overpriced ($0.20/minute in packages, $0.39/minute a la carte), but still pretty cool.
I've not tried to configure it for Linux, but the manual includes support and directions for PalmOS, stating merely to hook it up via serial, and use the following modem preferences:
Modem - Standard
Speed - 14,400
Speaker - Off
Flow Ctl - Automatic
String - AT&FX4
Dial type - Touchtone
and program in your usual ISP's PPP settings and voila.
I'm pretty sure this would work equally well with Linux.