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I'm hardly a threat to Hollywood
Hi TwistedOne, Re: Why there's no TiVo for songs on the Radio, That has specific different programs at specific times. Right, as I said, the morning hours are a...
I'm hardly a threat to Hollywood
Rick Puerile? Unfortunately, yes. The Progress Clause said something about incentivizing creation of new works. I don't remember it...
K_Hen
Hi TwistedOne, Re: KHen's ( AquilaDeus' ) automated replies, First a post with quoted material but no original content, and now this ...this... whatever-it-is. You can't diagnose...
K_Hen
in charge of filling up cracks, spieled: PROFILE ON Start psychological profiling Statistics: =========== Approximate word count: 265 Punctuation...
Living with bugs
Hi Ray, Re: How I prefer apps that work well in dark rooms, ...Nothing but black backgrounds, monospaced fonts, 80 columns, this...
Cell Processor Press Release
IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba Disclose Key Details of the Cell Chip Monday February 7, 1:00 pm ET Innovative Design Features Eight Synergistic Cores Together with Power Based Core, Delivers More Than...
Cell Processor Uses Rambus High Speed Interface Solutions
Cell Processor Uses Rambus High Speed Interface Solutions Monday February 7, 1:01 pm ET XDR(R) DRAM and Redwood FlexIO(TM) Processor Bus Provide Unprecedented...
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:05:33 -0800, "Jeremy Williamson" Despite my rather distaste for Rambus the company and recognizing that their technology just doesn't fit into...
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:51:54 -0500, Arrvindh Shriraman And a fat load of good it's...
Some tidbits about CELL
Today is the day that the CELL processor family gets announced. I'll be writing a few things about the various papers at ISSCC on CELL, but before the news conference starts and the papers gets...
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Even at that they're talking about 32W JUST for the SPEs. Add in another chunk for the PPE and you could easily be up in the 50-60W range...
Some tidbits about CELL 219
That buttumes it runs at 100% all the time. Are there any games today that...
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:23:07 +0000 (UTC), Douglas Siebert It doesn't much matter, you need...
Introducing the IBMSonyToshiba Cell Processor Part II: The Cell Architecture
Introducing the IBM-Sony-Toshiba Cell Processor -- Part II: The Cell Architecture By Jon "Hannibal" Stokes In today's session, IBM introduced the overall architecture of the Cell processor. Unfortunately, they didn't include many more microarchitectural...
More InDepth with Cell Processor
Cell processor with ISSCC in announcement Finally, the Cell processor of topic dispersed that veil. It...
Linux Sucks and Nothing in this Group goes to prove otherwise
I've tried Linux, in fact I've tried Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo, ubuntoo, Fedora and Knoppix and all of them suck in one way or another, I have never been able to do half...
Linux Sucks and Nothing in this Group goes to prove otherwise. 225
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:44:32 -0500, Peter Gluckman Well, I've tried Mandake, Red Hat, SUSE, Fedora, Knoppix, and a bunch of other live CDs, and while I've had issues...
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:44:32 -0500, Peter Gluckman I believe that some of them exaggerate a little. - That does not make Linux suck...
COLA Stats 6 Feb 2005
ngstats.pl version 1.8 This report covers 2817 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist...
Linux easy to use, easier to fix 228
begin Error log for Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:21:32 +0000 - Rich Bell caused a details as follows... If you had actually *read...
Linux easy to use, easier to fix 229
OK. Chage the obvious things, of course. Also either install joe or change the editor, too. Make sure you: before running...
Great article 230
Linønut Ironically, in both cases, Windows and Linux, you are pretty much on your own when it comes to problems. I've tried to use MS support, and even "third party support" (I...
Great article 231
Ron Hosogi stated Microsoft's licensing attack succinctly: 'We are forcing them to NOT ship any DRI machines.'" Note the word 'forcing...
Great article 232
Ray Ingles Vaporware announcements: doesn't bother me. Doesn't stop me from buying a product I need. It happens all over, in every industry. Lately we have the 'Cell' processor, which is...
Great article 233
Ah, but a monopoly is prevented from using their monopoly power in one area (e.g., DOS) from protecting or expanding their power in another area (e.g. Windows). It's not illegal...
Great article 234
From what I have read about the margins and discounts involved, it was more like "the only...
Great article 235
That depends on the business don't you think? If you have a business where price is important and margins are small, $20 could very well be a big deal...
Great article 236
mlw Which willing actions by the OEMs, of course, effectively and completely negates every argument you cola bozos have ever made about MS forcing them to do...
Great article 237
mlw Sure there was. There were negotiations on volume, price, delivery schedules, packaging, installation, etc. MS didn't write a "one size fits all OEMs" contract. They had (and still have...
Great article 238
DFS Its amazing how you forget Microsoft is a monopoly and that makes *all* the difference in a "negotiation." Changing...
Great article 239
mlw So they're a monopoly. So what? It's not illegal. And the MS monopoly never stopped the OEM from selling another OS. Why do you suppose the OEM vendors agreed to these...
Great article 240
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 21:25 DFS I really do hope that you guys are going to continue with this thread, because it's so interesting. We seem to have here Americans (of all...
Great article 241
That is a fairy tale for children, goat. If you go to an American business school (and I would suspect any British school of the same kind) you...
Great article 242
The answer lies in market segmentation, goat! It's as plain as the nose on your face. Products are targeted at a particular niche of consumers who have similar criteria for evaluating what is "best". The...
Great article 243
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 23:49 billwg Don't be silly:-) In effect he says it twice:- Gates: There are actually a...
Great article 244
It's clear you do not really think at all. Are you really that stupid? I know it must be hard for you but just try and think about it...
Great article 245
DFS Why do you continue to lie. You are worse than O'Reilly and Ann Coulter. Microsoft is a monopoly. They can use their position to bring economic pressure to force an OEM NOT...
Great article 246
In the first place, Microsoft itself is not a monopoly. It has "monopoly power" as...
Great article 247
billwg Hence monopoly. Yes, I was a professional in the industry in the 70s and 80s, and I remember many product comparisons, not...
Great article 248
Long time coming, I bet! I don't agree with that. You are plainly using price-fixing in a negative connotation that implies illegal conduct. Your admitted conditions do not meet any...
Great article 249
mlw They can do no such thing. Those cases are about whiny, non-compebreastive companies crying to abusive governments because their products don't sell. What...
Great article 250
Well maybe you are not a twit and you just have a very poor mail reader and-or ISP. In...
Great article 251
billwg Really? I suppose it will take a SEC investigation to be sure, but the whole Microsoft-BayStar-SCO deal reeks to high heaven, and actions by proxy...
Great article 252
It will take a whole lot more than some slur that you pulled out of thin air, Phil! Granted...
Great article 253
billwg ... So now your spammers can send their spam 2 1-2 times faster and so send...
Great article 254
Personally, I find the 'nobody seems to be having any problem with the expenses involved" claim extraordinary. This has been pulled out of the air, with positively zero supporting information, background...
Help 255
Is it important? RDP is something relatively new to Windows and is a big hit with users. If it existed for linux years...
Help 256
I think that they understand quite well. Anyone who is involved with a commercially successful...
Help 257
billwg I don't see how it can bode ill for Open Source freeware. A lot of people are on many projects and making great inroads. What most people like is 'free...
Help 258
I don't concede that is true to a very great extent, and if it were true now, it is still problematic to continue that way. Someone who likes to develop...
Help 259
billwg .. I'm retired so I am not. But marketing needs money, and Linux is free. So you have a conundrum here. Word of mouth is about all that can be...
Help 260
Giving people more for their money is "retarded"? What are you trying to say, that Linux distributors would do better if they removed...
Help 261
No, silly! You miss the point. In order to promote something that requires some effort on the prospect's part to acquire, you have to motivate them with something that they care...
Help 262
Like what? Do you mean the gross misinterpretation and-or misrepresentation of my post? Perhaps it is, i.e. linux misses the mark on a regular basis! The marketing concept here is called "advantage". A...
Help 263
It is you who miss the point. You think everything is about marketing, but it is not. The people behind Linux, those who do the...
Help 264
You can say that "everything is about marketing" is not correct, but you are mistaken...
Help 265
Doing that does not require putting artificial limitations into the product. What does require that is extracting maximum money from the consumer. The Consumer Debt only cares about the first thing...
Help 266
You label non-optimal choices as artificial limitations without offering any sort of cost-benefit analysis that could prove it. You subsbreastute your judgement for that of the Microsoft product marketing manager involved. Commercial...
Help 267
What the hell does that mean? If a feature is a natural consequence of the...
Help 268
I suspect that you are wrong about linux not having the same problem, but it does not matter since this "limitation of Windows is a valid reason for throttling the...
Help 268 plus 1
I didn't give a very complete answer to this in my other post, and it...
Help 270
You have yet to answer the direct question as to whether or not the front line linux distributions that are creating what market "success" exist for linux can be...
Help 271
I don't know what percentage of Linux users are subject to such restrictions. I think it is small, but neither of us have numbers. I do know that all of the...
Help Discussion, linux 272
For what it's worth, your estimate seems too high to me, too, but I haven't a good idea how to get...
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