Hmmmm I will say that AMD is truly in good shape when we can get MB's to make dual athlon systems. Without those AMD can't seriously challenge Intel in the x86 server/workstation markets. Sometime this fall or winter I will be looking to build a new system and it will probably be a SMP system. I hope AMD has SMP enabled chipsets read for that time so we can get SMP Athlon MB's cuz I really want a dual processor Athlon system with RAMBUS memory since it runs at 200mhz.
And we are heading to a 1 world government because the UN storm troops are going to overthrow the federal government and our world will be run by the socialist bankers who will implement the antichrist's 1 world-1 currency system. Yawn. Apparently someone has too much time on their hands if they make allegations like that. I doubt Microsoft would build NSA surveillance software into Windows. If it was proven that they did they would be either driven out of business by lawsuits or they would be so disgraced not even their best marketting people could get their good name back in the eyes of the public.
Microsoft has a right to keep its code closed source. The only things it should be required to keep from doing are integrating software into the OS without giving the user to the option to either unintegrate or replace it with a 3rd party app and they should have to document all Win32 API's they make. Just my $.02
Perhaps what needs to be done is we need to spend less time worrying about Linux and more time worrying about the adoption of open source ideology among Windows and Mac developers. There is already a strong growing open source movement among BeOS developers and Be encourages such development. They figure they make the platform, you make the apps.... and that is why BeOS has a better chance of making open source shine in the public's eyes than Linux/BSD. Be fully documents everything as far as their API goes because they have everything to LOSE by not doing so since all they make is an OS. So what you get is a very powerful, slick commercial quality OS that is open source developer friendly.
The only thing that KDE needs is to adopt a BeOS like usage of MIME. BeOS adds the MIME data as a file attribute thus all tracker has to do is get a list of attributes from the folder. KDE's file manager unfortunately has to guess what type of file a given file is half the time. That said I think there is a resentment (and in many respects, rightfully so) of average users because they are what keeps the status quo in power. I would like to see the Linux team work towards making the kernel better with new hardware and take much less interest in older hardware. That is the difference between Be and the Linux team. Be knows that the future hardware IS ALL THAT COUNTS, yesterday's hardware will be meaningless tomorrow. Even though Be hasn't been able to get quite the support they want/need at least they have the right idea. Anyway KDE 2.0 will bring many features to Linux that have long been missing like a good GUI based web browser. Mozilla still isn't ready for public consumption. One thing that would be good is to add kernel support for Windows binaries so that a Win32 emulator could be made. It could be a case of a user pointing the emulator at the Win32/MFC libraries on their Windows partition and the emulator creates a pseudo-windows environment for the Win32 app. Similar to what Apple is trying to do in MacOS X with non-carbon apps from OS classic.
-backward compatability -faster floating point performance than any PC -costs -can be a dvd player -can be upgraded like a PC -uses Linux as its development platform Sorry but this round belongs to sony
I don't support piracy and I don't think most of us who support DeCSS and its author do. Valenti would do well to understand that if he doesn't. My personal feelings on the matter is that no matter what he says about "wanting to do the right thing" he is really only concerned about keeping the power within the movie industry's elite's hands.
Linus it would seem now respects the rights of a company or person to not make their code open source. That is a critical thing because it will make open source less fringe in the eyes of the mainstream of society. I think open source is great but I think a few things need to be addressed first: -Will open source reduce the corporate demand for computer programmers? -What limits are there on the kinds of products that can be created? Obviously cutting edge games are out of the picture since 1 company would develop the engine and the others would leech off their work. -Probably the most important of all, will Unix/Linux/BSD open source developers ever finally accept Win32, BeOS and Mac open source developers as equals? Believe it or not but there is fairly thriving open source community among BeOS developers and Be encourages open source development. Just some things to keep in mind
Metcalf as usual tries to make inflamatory comments about something that is totally irrelevant and unrelated to open source. The VLIW code morphing technology is proprietary and that has nothing to do with Torvalds because he is just an employee. The fact is that he was hired to make a special copy of Linux for crusoes. What should he have done? Turned down a really cool job which I assume pays well and get a mediocre job at M$, Apple, Adobe, etc? He has a family to think about as well you know.
Why not just call it Netscape Communicator 7.0 or 8.0 or 9.0 to give it an even bigger marketting leap on IE 5.5/6? This is almost as bad as slackware moving from 4.0 to 7.0 in 1 release
Sony's in house developers don't compete with companies like SquareSoft. If anything they avoid competing with such companies because they know that they don't stand a chance plus companies like SquareSoft make the platform. If Final Fantasy 9 was to be made for the dolphin that would take about 5 to 10 million users from the playstation 2 with it to nintendo's camp. Sega has already said that they plan to make the dreamcast their last console. From there they plan to move to being a software company.
AOL's lack of concern for users has caused me to have to worry about the AOL stock I own. I was a Netscape stockholder startin around NN3 and I got the AOL stock through the merger. I wish AOL would not only allow people to dial up without their software, but would stop working so much with the federal government. APBOnline had a story about how law enforcement doesn't even really need a warrant to search AOL's network. Pretty scary stuff. Not to mention the fact that AOL could easily be crushed by the $8billion lawsuit against it. If that happens then this will all be irrelevent.
Instead of worrying about how many people are adopting it as a desktop OS, why not instead worry about it as a server OS. The real power to shape the online world is through the server so shouldn't that be where the focus is? Also rather than promoting OSS on Linux, shouldn't there be a concerted effort to promote it among Windows and Mac developers?
That's all well and good but those professing a belief in communism and socialism have killed over 100-120 million people thus far. People forget about things like Mao's cultural revolution (more like the extermination thereof), the slaughter of millions of ukranians, killing fields of cambodia and much more of course. People think that the Nazis were right wingers.... LOL what a joke. NAZI is german for something very like "National Socialist Labor Party" and if you look at their policies you can see they were full of socialism.
Why should the lawyers have to work for the state? By that same logic doctors should as well. The problem with the loser pays concept is what happens if a guy who makes only a middle class wage is taken to court by a huge corporation for something borderline frivolous like the DeCSS case and loses? Why should he/she have to pay the company who sued him/her's legal fees? And about that "You will not want a rich man coming after you!" statement. What exactly is that supposed to mean? They are going to hire a hitman and have me killed? Oops they would find themselves in life in prison or on death row as an accomplice to 1st degree murder. My point about the rich was simple, they are the ones who run the big companies and organizations that are sue happy. Why should they not be punished for suing someone who can't possibly pay the legal fees to hire a competent defense team? Since many cases like the infamous DeCSS cases don't involve money (ie the group is not suing for cash) the defense lawyers must be paid an hourly fee. So what happens is that the lower and middle class people have to hire mediocre lawyers while the rich get the cream of the crop. I am not a socialist, I abhor such systems of government, I just have no sympathy for the rich.
If the person being sued's income is less than $150,000 a year... the company suing must pay all of the person's legal fees. If the MPAA wants to sue the DeCSS coder, then they should have to pay 100% of his legal fees. Such a law is constitutional because it doesn't restrict the right so redress of grievences, it just makes it costly to sue. If a person is suing a company and the person's income is less than say $300,000 the company must pay its own legal expenses. However if BG were to sue a company he would have to pay their legal fees. Let's make the rich pay for the not rich's legal fees since it is usually the rich suing the non-rich over rubbish like the DeCSS case.
This is true. At least they aren't like Amazon.com and insist that it is theirs anyway. I will give them that much too. I wouldn't have any problem with them trademarking whois.net itself if they own it, but not whoise in general.
Mandrake 7.0 will bring a lot of new users to Linux because it is very easy to install and it makes Linux look as modern as Windows in the eyes of newbies (who think Windows IS THE modern OS even though it isn't). If Linux itself and the other important projects like XFree86, BASH, GNOME, KDE, Apache and whatever WM you use stay free then have we not won the ideology side of it? That is the core of any linux distribution. That is basically a functional OS right there. As long as that stays free then does it really matter what corporations support Linux?
The pc era is far from over. We haven't even reached point yet where we will have cmp systems. CMP processors like the MACJ will revolutionize computing! A dual processor CMP system would act like a quad processor system. Just imagine when companies figure out how to fit 10-20 cores on the same processor. The MACJ is able to hold up to 1024 cores on the same processor. I do believe that in reality the PC-is-mainstream-era is only beginning.
Just imagine..... 4 700mhz crusoe processors in 1 computer for under $1300!!!! A 4 700mhz processor desktop would cost a grand total of around $2500 even though the emulation would only make them feel like 500-550mhz processors just think what you could do 6 monthes to a year from now when they have crusoes running over 1ghz!
At least they take a rational stand regarding guns. And what would that be? I hope you aren't blaming the gun. The gun is just a tool. Criminals will always have guns and only a tyrant or tyrant sympathizer would support a government monopoly on deadly force.
The DCMA doesn't protect the consumer, it protects the corporation from the "evil" consumer's belief in the fair use doctrine. The DCMA while great for the corporations basically took the fair use doctrine and put it up against the wall soviet style. What's ironic is that these people don't realize that what is best for the consumer is ultimately best for them.
I don't want to sound like a troll, but shouldn't the indians be more concerned about overpopulation, poverty and the usual like disease, famine and war with pakistahn? It's just like the UN talking about taxing the west's email use to build better telecom infrastructures in 3rd world nations despite the fact that most of the people in those countries are either too poor to afford the necessary equipment or are starving to death.
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Hmmmm I will say that AMD is truly in good shape when we can get MB's to make dual athlon systems. Without those AMD can't seriously challenge Intel in the x86 server/workstation markets. Sometime this fall or winter I will be looking to build a new system and it will probably be a SMP system. I hope AMD has SMP enabled chipsets read for that time so we can get SMP Athlon MB's cuz I really want a dual processor Athlon system with RAMBUS memory since it runs at 200mhz.
And we are heading to a 1 world government because the UN storm troops are going to overthrow the federal government and our world will be run by the socialist bankers who will implement the antichrist's 1 world-1 currency system. Yawn. Apparently someone has too much time on their hands if they make allegations like that. I doubt Microsoft would build NSA surveillance software into Windows. If it was proven that they did they would be either driven out of business by lawsuits or they would be so disgraced not even their best marketting people could get their good name back in the eyes of the public.
Microsoft has a right to keep its code closed source. The only things it should be required to keep from doing are integrating software into the OS without giving the user to the option to either unintegrate or replace it with a 3rd party app and they should have to document all Win32 API's they make. Just my $.02
Perhaps what needs to be done is we need to spend less time worrying about Linux and more time worrying about the adoption of open source ideology among Windows and Mac developers. There is already a strong growing open source movement among BeOS developers and Be encourages such development. They figure they make the platform, you make the apps.... and that is why BeOS has a better chance of making open source shine in the public's eyes than Linux/BSD. Be fully documents everything as far as their API goes because they have everything to LOSE by not doing so since all they make is an OS. So what you get is a very powerful, slick commercial quality OS that is open source developer friendly.
The only thing that KDE needs is to adopt a BeOS like usage of MIME. BeOS adds the MIME data as a file attribute thus all tracker has to do is get a list of attributes from the folder. KDE's file manager unfortunately has to guess what type of file a given file is half the time. That said I think there is a resentment (and in many respects, rightfully so) of average users because they are what keeps the status quo in power. I would like to see the Linux team work towards making the kernel better with new hardware and take much less interest in older hardware. That is the difference between Be and the Linux team. Be knows that the future hardware IS ALL THAT COUNTS, yesterday's hardware will be meaningless tomorrow. Even though Be hasn't been able to get quite the support they want/need at least they have the right idea. Anyway KDE 2.0 will bring many features to Linux that have long been missing like a good GUI based web browser. Mozilla still isn't ready for public consumption. One thing that would be good is to add kernel support for Windows binaries so that a Win32 emulator could be made. It could be a case of a user pointing the emulator at the Win32/MFC libraries on their Windows partition and the emulator creates a pseudo-windows environment for the Win32 app. Similar to what Apple is trying to do in MacOS X with non-carbon apps from OS classic.
-backward compatability
-faster floating point performance than any PC
-costs -can be a dvd player
-can be upgraded like a PC
-uses Linux as its development platform
Sorry but this round belongs to sony
I don't support piracy and I don't think most of us who support DeCSS and its author do. Valenti would do well to understand that if he doesn't. My personal feelings on the matter is that no matter what he says about "wanting to do the right thing" he is really only concerned about keeping the power within the movie industry's elite's hands.
Linus it would seem now respects the rights of a company or person to not make their code open source. That is a critical thing because it will make open source less fringe in the eyes of the mainstream of society. I think open source is great but I think a few things need to be addressed first: -Will open source reduce the corporate demand for computer programmers?
-What limits are there on the kinds of products that can be created? Obviously cutting edge games are out of the picture since 1 company would develop the engine and the others would leech off their work.
-Probably the most important of all, will Unix/Linux/BSD open source developers ever finally accept Win32, BeOS and Mac open source developers as equals? Believe it or not but there is fairly thriving open source community among BeOS developers and Be encourages open source development.
Just some things to keep in mind
Metcalf as usual tries to make inflamatory comments about something that is totally irrelevant and unrelated to open source. The VLIW code morphing technology is proprietary and that has nothing to do with Torvalds because he is just an employee. The fact is that he was hired to make a special copy of Linux for crusoes. What should he have done? Turned down a really cool job which I assume pays well and get a mediocre job at M$, Apple, Adobe, etc? He has a family to think about as well you know.
Why not just call it Netscape Communicator 7.0 or 8.0 or 9.0 to give it an even bigger marketting leap on IE 5.5/6? This is almost as bad as slackware moving from 4.0 to 7.0 in 1 release
Sony's in house developers don't compete with companies like SquareSoft. If anything they avoid competing with such companies because they know that they don't stand a chance plus companies like SquareSoft make the platform. If Final Fantasy 9 was to be made for the dolphin that would take about 5 to 10 million users from the playstation 2 with it to nintendo's camp. Sega has already said that they plan to make the dreamcast their last console. From there they plan to move to being a software company.
AOL's lack of concern for users has caused me to have to worry about the AOL stock I own. I was a Netscape stockholder startin around NN3 and I got the AOL stock through the merger. I wish AOL would not only allow people to dial up without their software, but would stop working so much with the federal government. APBOnline had a story about how law enforcement doesn't even really need a warrant to search AOL's network. Pretty scary stuff. Not to mention the fact that AOL could easily be crushed by the $8billion lawsuit against it. If that happens then this will all be irrelevent.
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Too restrictive. Why not allow them to be licensed for whatever purpose you want so long as they aren't contaminated by proprietary extensions?
Instead of worrying about how many people are adopting it as a desktop OS, why not instead worry about it as a server OS. The real power to shape the online world is through the server so shouldn't that be where the focus is? Also rather than promoting OSS on Linux, shouldn't there be a concerted effort to promote it among Windows and Mac developers?
That's all well and good but those professing a belief in communism and socialism have killed over 100-120 million people thus far. People forget about things like Mao's cultural revolution (more like the extermination thereof), the slaughter of millions of ukranians, killing fields of cambodia and much more of course. People think that the Nazis were right wingers.... LOL what a joke. NAZI is german for something very like "National Socialist Labor Party" and if you look at their policies you can see they were full of socialism.
Why should the lawyers have to work for the state? By that same logic doctors should as well. The problem with the loser pays concept is what happens if a guy who makes only a middle class wage is taken to court by a huge corporation for something borderline frivolous like the DeCSS case and loses? Why should he/she have to pay the company who sued him/her's legal fees? And about that "You will not want a rich man coming after you!" statement. What exactly is that supposed to mean? They are going to hire a hitman and have me killed? Oops they would find themselves in life in prison or on death row as an accomplice to 1st degree murder. My point about the rich was simple, they are the ones who run the big companies and organizations that are sue happy. Why should they not be punished for suing someone who can't possibly pay the legal fees to hire a competent defense team? Since many cases like the infamous DeCSS cases don't involve money (ie the group is not suing for cash) the defense lawyers must be paid an hourly fee. So what happens is that the lower and middle class people have to hire mediocre lawyers while the rich get the cream of the crop. I am not a socialist, I abhor such systems of government, I just have no sympathy for the rich.
If the person being sued's income is less than $150,000 a year... the company suing must pay all of the person's legal fees. If the MPAA wants to sue the DeCSS coder, then they should have to pay 100% of his legal fees. Such a law is constitutional because it doesn't restrict the right so redress of grievences, it just makes it costly to sue. If a person is suing a company and the person's income is less than say $300,000 the company must pay its own legal expenses. However if BG were to sue a company he would have to pay their legal fees. Let's make the rich pay for the not rich's legal fees since it is usually the rich suing the non-rich over rubbish like the DeCSS case.
This is true. At least they aren't like Amazon.com and insist that it is theirs anyway. I will give them that much too. I wouldn't have any problem with them trademarking whois.net itself if they own it, but not whoise in general.
Mandrake 7.0 will bring a lot of new users to Linux because it is very easy to install and it makes Linux look as modern as Windows in the eyes of newbies (who think Windows IS THE modern OS even though it isn't). If Linux itself and the other important projects like XFree86, BASH, GNOME, KDE, Apache and whatever WM you use stay free then have we not won the ideology side of it? That is the core of any linux distribution. That is basically a functional OS right there. As long as that stays free then does it really matter what corporations support Linux?
The pc era is far from over. We haven't even reached point yet where we will have cmp systems. CMP processors like the MACJ will revolutionize computing! A dual processor CMP system would act like a quad processor system. Just imagine when companies figure out how to fit 10-20 cores on the same processor. The MACJ is able to hold up to 1024 cores on the same processor. I do believe that in reality the PC-is-mainstream-era is only beginning.
Just imagine..... 4 700mhz crusoe processors in 1 computer for under $1300!!!! A 4 700mhz processor desktop would cost a grand total of around $2500 even though the emulation would only make them feel like 500-550mhz processors just think what you could do 6 monthes to a year from now when they have crusoes running over 1ghz!
At least they take a rational stand regarding guns. And what would that be? I hope you aren't blaming the gun. The gun is just a tool. Criminals will always have guns and only a tyrant or tyrant sympathizer would support a government monopoly on deadly force.
The DCMA doesn't protect the consumer, it protects the corporation from the "evil" consumer's belief in the fair use doctrine. The DCMA while great for the corporations basically took the fair use doctrine and put it up against the wall soviet style. What's ironic is that these people don't realize that what is best for the consumer is ultimately best for them.
I don't want to sound like a troll, but shouldn't the indians be more concerned about overpopulation, poverty and the usual like disease, famine and war with pakistahn? It's just like the UN talking about taxing the west's email use to build better telecom infrastructures in 3rd world nations despite the fact that most of the people in those countries are either too poor to afford the necessary equipment or are starving to death.