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OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress
DeltaSigma writes: "Michael Phipps, of the OpenBeos team, recently hosted a public Q&A Session where many of the public musings over a completely new open source operating system have been addressed. The answer to all the 'is there room in the market?' questions was answered in a way: 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' Perhaps more /.ers could keep this in mind ..."
Accomodate other readers eh... lets see... what accomodates more people. A plain text document that can be read by pretty much every computer capable of accessing the Internet, or a proprietary binary format that is only viewable by Windows AOHell users... hrmmm.... tough choice.
Is there a syntax file for IRC logs for vim? Just curious . . .
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
a'ite, that was probably the funniest thing I have ever read on slashdot. i remember somwhere on this friggin' site ppl were bashing trolls (it might have been in the faq), anyway - a question was posed "why don't you just ban/block known trolls?", the response was something (quite awfully paraphrased) like 'well, in the beginining trolls were some of the most intelligent, funny, posts, and now the meaning has been taken out of context... since then I have been browsing with a threshold of 0. now I know why. gems like this are completely hillarious, and poke fun at our very nature... like c'mon folks -- if this gets a negative score i'll be very upset. let's look in the mirror, smell the coffee (since it's so close, and grow the hell up... there's such a thing as an anti troll i believe... most of the users on this site are anti-trolls, which are just as bad. MOD PARENT UP BECAUSE I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN WEEKS!
kthxbye
dmarien
OMG, I thought that was one of those "Steven King, Dead at 66" type of messages with a link to goatse.cx. But no, it's true! Although, I didn't see the part about the drano.
Seems to me that the upcomming GNU Hurd of servers, which
gives the users more freedom in user space while maintaining
networking security, opens up a whole new door of user interface
options, including "Smart User Interfaces"
The key to this is how the Hurd using IPC (inner process communication)
and how this can be tapped into in the user space and network
functionality so as to hook a "Smart User Interface" up.
Smart User interface = along the lines of the difference between a dumb
terminal and a smart terminal, where the Smart User Interface is it's own
Operating System yet able to use the resources and security of the Hurd
for number crunching functionality and external firewalled access.
I think even a project like the OSS AMIGA like project AROS would be
very useful here as user accessible IPC had pretty much been made a
standard on the Amiga - and follows in the AROS project
If you want to see it in action, go to www.Centiare.com. If you have any tech questions, send me a private reply at karln@centiare.com. Oh, before I forget:
So, my wife wants to know why I think advertising on the Internet would be a good idea. But first, I should probably explain the family dynamic: she's an Ivy League grad and attorney while I have a UC degree and CPA certificate. Usually, she's the one who is right, so I figure I should probably listen (as if I have a choice).
I figure it makes pretty good economic sense, since many different sites with low CPM rates still get over a million page views per day. Problem is, she replies, there's probably only around 150-200k unique visitors at any of these respective locations, each of whom is triggering around 5-7 page views per person per day.
And besides, she continued, using the Jungean Archetype model to illustrate her point, the target audience is devoted to reason, not emotion. This, I concede, defeats one of my central tenets: applying a test to determine whether a person is Apollonian or Dionysian, left-brain or right-brain, etc. in order to assess the likelihood of downloading Centiare, my cool little cash management/forecasting program for individuals and small businesses.
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And besides, it's free to try, and only $20 to buy!
To be continued ...Centiare