I know the development platform was running linux, but I'd love to know if the final platform will be running linux on the bottom. That would be a great win for linux. (would this then be - the first port of linux to a 128 bit CPU! that would be Kool!)
The spec's looked great at the game developers con 1999. The demo platform was looking good at E3 99. (they were using laptops with RH to monitor and reset the development platforms on the show floor.) (FYI - word was that they didn't have enough physicists and programmers to fully take advantage of the specs sony published...I wonder how close the end PS II will be to the first published specs)
I wonder if they are still charging royalties per each GAME made. (normally console makers sell the cousoles near cost (maybe even a loss?) and make it up on the royalties. (est $8-9 USD per CD, or $23-25 USD per N64 Cartridge.) hmmm - how would they handle royalties on a Java VM CD? (assuming you could then download play tons of non-graphic intensive java games without paying additional royalties.)
If there are ANY working non-metallic firearms out there, they ARE NOT available to you or me! (maybe the CIA or new KGB has something.)
While firearms do have plastic pieces there is plenty of metal in a firearm to be detected in a functioning metal detector. Even a such firearm disassembled will detectable in the xray machine.
If you still believe otherwise, you've been duped by the mass media.
Have you ever meet ESR? You really should, he's a good speaker, and a good guy.
We all should be thankful to have him working to further the cause of OpenSource. He is a very good spokeperson. The media LOVES to quote PEOPLE. It's how it works. Without him we'd be many steps behind.
Granted there maybe better spokespersons available. If you feel you are one, please step up to the plate. ESR has said that he wouldn't mind "retiring".
BTW - If he wasn't pro-liberties, ALL the way around, including his right to bear arms beliefs, we wouldnt have had a spokesperson who stood up to carry the opensource banner who is as good and as passionate about our cause. ESR gets my vote of confidence time and time again.
FYI, there are other countries than the USA, which consider themselves civilized, and more so than the US of A, and which mostly prohibit firearm. All of Europe, for instance.
You're 100% WRONG - check your facts first. In many parts of Europe you now have greater gun ownership rights than in the USA. Get a CLUE. And it seems that just about every nation is self-centered enough to think that they are more civilized than another. (whatever civilized is supposed to mean - heck I know elders who think any country allowing rock-and-roll are uncivilized countries.)
ESR has every right to express his views, those based on liberty - in all respects. IF he was NOT this sort of individual WE wouldn't have as good of a spokesman for the opensource cause.
hmmmm - I guess you've never been through the LA riots of '92 have ya? You've gotta learn from the past that the authorities can and will at times NOT HELP you at ALL.
All I need for Y2K is an AK47 and plenty of ammo. Anything else I need....I'll just take.
IF YOU"RE in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia Just make certain its an 'friendly' (i.e. no bayonet lugs, no pistol grip, no goofy thumbhole stock) looking rifle - and 30 inches long or longer otherwise (the feds say a rifle is 26+ inches long)... it'll be illegal Jan 1 1900.
checkout http://www.guncompliantstocks.com/ for more info. hmmm - I guess the newer uglier looking but still functional semi-auto AK47 will be called the Y2K47 %^)
>Oh so it's okay to create software that will cause widespread piracy?
So, should we ban xerox copiers? digital cameras? video cameras? scanners? tape recorders? pens and pencils? (that's how copying books originally were done!) cd burners? floppy disks? audio tape?... and as long as we're on a banning binge.. Cars? (perferred in nearly 100% of driveby shootings) Alcohol? Sex? (think of how much violence is related to sex...) Guns?... maybe we should just ban laws, then nothing illegal would be happening.
No one in their right mind should ever overclock(OC) a production machine. It's not worth the added risk and uncertainty.
However, personnal workstations/PC's - well that's a different story. It's always nice to be able to improve your price/performance - even if you're not playing the latest and greatest games. Looks like you can get a 33% increase OC'ing the PIII 500E - not a bad deal if you got PC133 SDRAM. (ps - RAM quality is a big factor in successful OC'ing.)
There is no reason why VA couldn't do another distribution. They got good linux people there, VA is as much a part of linux IMHO as redhat is. VA is actively supporting linux and opensource projects.
I wonder what would have happened if they OpenIPO'ed? Personally, I would have bid the IPO shares upto $40-50 range, figuring that the value would stabilize at least over $100/share when I could sell them.
Yes, lots of work need on the browser I'm able to get a lock up or crash on NS 4.7 numerous times, I've even submitted bug notes to Redhat.
Other items which need to be addressed:
Contact Manager got some vy good ones in windoze.
Financial App aka quicken like thing.
Convince others to port get Adobe, and Macromedia to port at least their webcentric tools, and of course photoshop. (gimp is nice...but if we want to get some of the web designer user types we'll need the tools they loved ported.)
I tired DAMN hard... wiring funds and ALL. NOT a DAMN thing!
I get a strong feeling that the various IPO brokers are playing games with us... I mean at least with the lottery you can see what your ODDS are. Wouldn't it be nice to see at least the past ODDS are to get into these? Then I could figure out if I should spend the money on the lotto instead of wasting the money on wiring funds.
Can't move funds into Etrade quick enough.
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Dang!
While I understand that the IPO amount can change at any time, it is getting very frustating just attempting to keep up with the pricing changes, especially attempting to wire funds back and forth to cover the opportunity to get into the IPO at Etrade!
According to Etrade they expect this to price in the morning, EASTERN time! Which means the banks will still be closed here on the West coast (Calif)!
Yes, of course, it would be nice to have enough funds just sitting about in an Etrade account, BUT some of us just dont have enough 'idle' funds.
Fact is, the Etrade Broker said that they're not even certain if the price will not increase AGAIN. I wouldn't doubt it. MAYBE VA linux should have gone OPEN IPO?
Daves hit it right ON. As have many others noticing that THIS is a CORE application in determining the success of Linux.
In a former job, programmers installed IE on a Solaris Box, much to my sadness - becuase IE just did somethings better for these users.
In my personal experience with NS 4.7 and RH 6.0 I experienced lockups (with Java and JS disabled) and what appeared to be a failure to release memory resources. I have never experienced problems as bad on the win95/98 version of NS 4. IF MS leads in Java/CSS/XML with IE the rest of the platforms (inc linux) WILL always be a distant 2nd choice.
I liked this on IRIX, as it told me what each CPU was doing at the time of the crash in human readable form. While I maynot have know exactly what died it was nicer to get some idea than reading a hex chars. If you had an enterprise service level contract, SGI could then analyze the dump and determine what went wrong. Naturally, they're not the only OS vendor that can do it.
BUT - it is great news to here that vendors with enterprise experience are improving Linux!
Hmmm - why can't SGI make cobalt style machines? at least then we could afford some stocks...
Looks like the MS lobby is going to Rally Borg troops to counter attack via congress.
I just visted MS Freedom to Innovate and am feeling rather ill at their abuse of patrotic (USA) symbols. Looks like they are encouraging people to write letters to congress. (and sign up for free MS propaganda) I'm certain that they will get a LOT of MS consultants and Drones to write to congress. (see the cast your vote link.)
Hmmm - this came just in time for Bill Gates to change the spin on his Fall Comdex Keynote!
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The spec's looked great at the game developers con 1999. The demo platform was looking good at E3 99. (they were using laptops with RH to monitor and reset the development platforms on the show floor.)
(FYI - word was that they didn't have enough physicists and programmers to fully take advantage of the specs sony published...I wonder how close the end PS II will be to the first published specs)
I wonder if they are still charging royalties per each GAME made. (normally console makers sell the cousoles near cost (maybe even a loss?) and make it up on the royalties. (est $8-9 USD per CD, or $23-25 USD per N64 Cartridge.) hmmm - how would they handle royalties on a Java VM CD? (assuming you could then download play tons of non-graphic intensive java games without paying additional royalties.)
While firearms do have plastic pieces there is plenty of metal in a firearm to be detected in a functioning metal detector. Even a such firearm disassembled will detectable in the xray machine.
If you still believe otherwise, you've been duped by the mass media.
Have you ever meet ESR? You really should, he's a good speaker, and a good guy.
We all should be thankful to have him working to further the cause of OpenSource. He is a very good spokeperson. The media LOVES to quote PEOPLE. It's how it works. Without him we'd be many steps behind.
Granted there maybe better spokespersons available. If you feel you are one, please step up to the plate. ESR has said that he wouldn't mind "retiring".
BTW - If he wasn't pro-liberties, ALL the way around, including his right to bear arms beliefs, we wouldnt have had a spokesperson who stood up to carry the opensource banner who is as good and as passionate about our cause. ESR gets my vote of confidence time and time again.
You're 100% WRONG - check your facts first. In many parts of Europe you now have greater gun ownership rights than in the USA. Get a CLUE. And it seems that just about every nation is self-centered enough to think that they are more civilized than another. (whatever civilized is supposed to mean - heck I know elders who think any country allowing rock-and-roll are uncivilized countries.)
ESR has every right to express his views, those based on liberty - in all respects. IF he was NOT this sort of individual WE wouldn't have as good of a spokesman for the opensource cause.
hmmmm - I guess you've never been through the LA riots of '92 have ya? You've gotta learn from the past that the authorities can and will at times NOT HELP you at ALL.
IF YOU"RE in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia Just make certain its an 'friendly' (i.e. no bayonet lugs, no pistol grip, no goofy thumbhole stock) looking rifle - and 30 inches long or longer otherwise (the feds say a rifle is 26+ inches long)... it'll be illegal Jan 1 1900.
checkout http://www.guncompliantstocks.com/ for more info. hmmm - I guess the newer uglier looking but still functional semi-auto AK47 will be called the Y2K47 %^)
So, should we ban xerox copiers? digital cameras? video cameras? scanners? tape recorders? pens and pencils? (that's how copying books originally were done!) cd burners? floppy disks? audio tape? ... and as long as we're on a banning binge.. ... maybe we should just ban laws, then nothing illegal would be happening.
Cars? (perferred in nearly 100% of driveby shootings) Alcohol? Sex? (think of how much violence is related to sex...) Guns?
No one in their right mind should ever overclock(OC) a production machine. It's not worth the added risk and uncertainty.
However, personnal workstations/PC's - well that's a different story. It's always nice to be able to improve your price/performance - even if you're not playing the latest and greatest games. Looks like you can get a 33% increase OC'ing the PIII 500E - not a bad deal if you got PC133 SDRAM. (ps - RAM quality is a big factor in successful OC'ing.)
there is already a backlash against linux due to the hype.
There is no reason why VA couldn't do another distribution. They got good linux people there, VA is as much a part of linux IMHO as redhat is. VA is actively supporting linux and opensource projects.
I'm certain you can BET on it.
someone mentioned to me that Linus could finally afford to get a nice house in the valley with the shares that redhat allocated to him.
I must say I'm having trouble imagining RHS actually being well to do! %^)
I wonder what would have happened if they OpenIPO'ed? Personally, I would have bid the IPO shares upto $40-50 range, figuring that the value would stabilize at least over $100/share when I could sell them.
Other items which need to be addressed:
Contact Manager got some vy good ones in windoze.
Financial App aka quicken like thing.
Convince others to port get Adobe, and Macromedia to port at least their webcentric tools, and of course photoshop. (gimp is nice...but if we want to get some of the web designer user types we'll need the tools they loved ported.)
I tired DAMN hard... wiring funds and ALL. NOT a DAMN thing!
I get a strong feeling that the various IPO brokers are playing games with us... I mean at least with the lottery you can see what your ODDS are. Wouldn't it be nice to see at least the past ODDS are to get into these? Then I could figure out if I should spend the money on the lotto instead of wasting the money on wiring funds.
Dang!
While I understand that the IPO amount can change at any time, it is getting very frustating just attempting to keep up with the pricing changes, especially attempting to wire funds back and forth to cover the opportunity to get into the IPO at Etrade!
According to Etrade they expect this to price in the morning, EASTERN time! Which means the banks will still be closed here on the West coast (Calif)!
Yes, of course, it would be nice to have enough funds just sitting about in an Etrade account, BUT some of us just dont have enough 'idle' funds.
Fact is, the Etrade Broker said that they're not even certain if the price will not increase AGAIN. I wouldn't doubt it. MAYBE VA linux should have gone OPEN IPO?
Daves hit it right ON. As have many others noticing that THIS is a CORE application in determining the success of Linux.
In a former job, programmers installed IE on a Solaris Box, much to my sadness - becuase IE just did somethings better for these users.
In my personal experience with NS 4.7 and RH 6.0 I experienced lockups (with Java and JS disabled) and what appeared to be a failure to release memory resources. I have never experienced problems as bad on the win95/98 version of NS 4. IF MS leads in Java/CSS/XML with IE the rest of the platforms (inc linux) WILL always be a distant 2nd choice.
This is good news!
I liked this on IRIX, as it told me what each CPU was doing at the time of the crash in human readable form. While I maynot have know exactly what died it was nicer to get some idea than reading a hex chars. If you had an enterprise service level contract, SGI could then analyze the dump and determine what went wrong. Naturally, they're not the only OS vendor that can do it.
BUT - it is great news to here that vendors with enterprise experience are improving Linux!
Hmmm - why can't SGI make cobalt style machines? at least then we could afford some stocks...
Looks like the MS lobby is going to Rally Borg troops to counter attack via congress.
I just visted MS Freedom to Innovate and am feeling rather ill at their abuse of patrotic (USA) symbols. Looks like they are encouraging people to write letters to congress. (and sign up for free MS propaganda) I'm certain that they will get a LOT of MS consultants and Drones to write to congress. (see the cast your vote link.)
Hmmm - this came just in time for Bill Gates to change the spin on his Fall Comdex Keynote!