I like using Linux because it has all my apps, and it supports all my hardware. BeOS probably would too, I tried booting it once, and what I noticed was the striking similarity many of the components had to Linux. Bootup, LILO, you name it...
So why couldn't it be more compatible? How about more free? Sure, you can compile a lot of UNIX stuff on it, but not everything. They apparently support a lot of the old baggage in the kernel, but not enough to really get the cross-platform source-compatible benefits.
Multi-threading libraries. Isn't that what glibc2 is supposed to do? Multi-processor support. Don't we have that already? A Media OS. What about The GIMP? Sure, BeOS might have some advantages here, but I don't find it compelling enough to switch.
I also find it offensive when people use open tools and don't contribute back their changes. BeOS did fix this mistake, somewhat, but it isn't even close to open. Sure, I'd use it over MacOS X, but not over Linux.
And yes, I find built-in GUI's offensive. How do *they* know that I want everything to look like that? People argue that this leads to a "consistent user interface", but that won't stop people from writing their own applications with different styles of interfacing with the user. (Winamp. KAI Power Tools. There. No 'consistent user interface' on Windows or the Mac. Ha ha ha.)
I hope BeOS steals market share from Windows, but seeing yet another closed-source commercial OS struggling for dominance doesn't make me feel any better about it. I used to write DOS commands that essentially did functions that basic UNIX system utilities do just because I thought there was functionality lacking. No more will I make excuses for a vendor when I can get something better, or be allowed to do it better myself.
Also, I'm going to get a TV card for Linux. Why? It's cheaper than getting a 17" TV, and neater, too.:)
Everything he said was taken out of context. That doesn't mean that it's false, but I for one would love to know what he meant by "a great way to get to the wrong answer"...
Assuming that the right answer is Sun's Slowlaris? Maybe for multiprocessor boxes, but definitely not for the price...
We've known this about AI for some time now. You can find examples of 'emergent behavior' in simple games, like Conway's Game of Life.
From a few simple rules and their interactions, much complexity springs. It only takes maybe 12 rules to do predicate calculus, (not much PROLOG at all:) but whenever I do it by hand, it seems much harder...
The problem is that not everything can be neatly quantized into rules. That's the problem that the Cyc project has always faced, and they're probably closer to getting a self-learning system than anyone is.
I would love to see AI produce results, I'm sure machines could think and solve complex problems, reason and reach conclusions as we do, but just encoding the basic knowledge we take for granted is a huge task, and trying to make a machine with the capability of doing all of that itself is an even larger one.
...well, maybe it sounds better than regular.mp3, but a bit more digging makes it sound like AAC does better.
That's okay, I have no respect for people who invent cutting-edge technology years before it's time, and forget to release or market it. That's not what I pay my phone bill for...:)
I think we're just seeing someone who isn't informed, that's the only explanation I can come up with... I think it's likely that if he's seen Linux in action, it was a friend struggling with an *old* version of it...
I've seen Linux perform better than Solaris as a desktop, for a third the price. If Linux isn't better than Microsoft's offerings, then UNIX isn't either, and I'd be amazed if Ken said that.
I love UNIX, when I found SunOS I knew I found something far better than DOS. Linus knew the same thing, and modeled early versions of Linux after SunOS. In this respect, it was a backlash against Microsoft, because they made a crappy OS for the PC, that Linus didn't want to use.
However, it was more a backlash against commercial UNIX vendors, because Linus wanted a good, free, x86 UNIX (not Minix), and at the time he couldn't find one.
However, IMO Linux has now far surpassed the commercial UNIXes, *and* it is free. It certainly isn't suitable for every job, but just from what an average distribution ships with these days, it is a far better value than a commercial UNIX, or anything that Microsoft has to offer.
(gcc, g++, egcs, netscape, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, The Gimp. They're all free, too. Need I say more?:)
But it isn't too hard to fix the bug in Perl. It's a friggin' interpreted language, you always have the source. Try that with your average program from the 50's or 60's...
I hate laptops, they annoy me. However, all laptops are not created equal.
The Dell ones are decent. Nice screens, although I've had some trouble with the chargers before.
Compaq Armadas piss me off. If I wanted to assemble my extra peripherals every time I go somewhere, I would have brought some blocks from kindergarten.
However, the IBM Thinkpads are the best. I just don't have an extra $6000 lying around. Kudos for offering tips on how to get those things cheaper. (I also don't have an extra $5000 lying around, either, but we can dream...)
And, of course, laptops running Linux are far better than the usual default... but desktops are the best.:)
People who really do devote their lives to 'Jesus' (or more likely his ideals and a Christian code of morals) wouldn't do anything remotely like this, by definition.
However, most of the 'Christians' in the high schools rarely aspire to such a high moral code.
As they show, the actual belief in a God can be kept completely separate from the morals that the religion also teaches.
I don't believe in a God because I don't think it's rational. If I had a good reason, maybe I'd change my mind. However, I live a fairly moral life, because I think it's right, and that's what needs to be taught to avoid situations like this.
Religious zealotry historically has created more violence than it has solved.
Heh. I just hope that the author can navigate the immensely complicated GUI that is slashdot, considering that it's running on one of those Linux boxes. Why don't they just switch to NT? You just *know* that NT *must* do better in large, dynamically-generated web pages, serving them to thousands upon thousands of users every day.
*SARCASM OFF*
Really, I don't see how a system can be more 'easy to use' when it doesn't work most of the time.
And it's all going to be patented to the bits
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Not only are there already too many graphics and video formats to choose from, but there will also be as many new formats as we care to write.
What do I use for lossy compression? JPEG, due to its popularity. Lossless compression? GIF, PNG, xcf.bz2, ps.gz... Use the right tool for the job.:) Combining raw image formats with generic compressors seems like a great idea for lossless compression, even if that does only get you so far.
I'd love to see a new, openly developed, lossy compression scheme. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know where to begin, because most of this work is done by commercial software companies and whatnot...
Nope, I can't, my machine really is a K6/300, not a K6-2/300.:)
(I bought it just before the K6-2's came out. But that's okay, if I wanted a new chip, I'd want, say, an overclocked Celeron, a K6-3 or a K7, or something nifty. But I don't. My K6/300 is more than enough horsepower for me right now, except for testing VMWare. But then, I don't really have much use for Windows, so that doesn't count.:)
What were you using to play it? I know that a friend of mine had pretty good luck with a 486/133.:)
Personally, I'd use mpg123, as optimized as possible, and start out playing mp3's downsampled to 22Khz, mono. If that works, start changing command-line parameters, and see what it supports.
(However, it sounds like that computer might be a good candidate for that hardware decoder board for.mp3's that was just on slashdot...:)
I've got an old P133 that would be more than enough hardware to make something like this. However, I'm sure that if I tried to do it myself I'd destroy it. Also, I wouldn't want to spend the money for better speakers, let alone an LCD display.
Nah, might as well just play mp3's in the background on my K6/300. Gotta hate losing that 10% of CPU or whatever, darn.
My old (PPA) Zip-drive works fine in Linux, but my mother has the same problem in Windows. In her case, it trashes all the icons on the screen and freezes the computer, she has to reboot into safe mode, and change to a lower color depth. (this doesn't happen in 256-colors or less) We thought it was a video card problem, but who knows?
That doesn't even make sense. The whole point of the Internet is the lack of central control, which is why NSI is obsolete, and getting stupider every day.
If NSI is the operating system, could we please format them, and reinstall sooner? I hate it when an operating system does stupid things behind my back without telling me.:)
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Okay. I'll point it out.
:)
I like using Linux because it has all my apps, and it supports all my hardware. BeOS probably would too, I tried booting it once, and what I noticed was the striking similarity many of the components had to Linux. Bootup, LILO, you name it...
So why couldn't it be more compatible? How about more free? Sure, you can compile a lot of UNIX stuff on it, but not everything. They apparently support a lot of the old baggage in the kernel, but not enough to really get the cross-platform source-compatible benefits.
Multi-threading libraries. Isn't that what glibc2 is supposed to do? Multi-processor support. Don't we have that already? A Media OS. What about The GIMP? Sure, BeOS might have some advantages here, but I don't find it compelling enough to switch.
I also find it offensive when people use open tools and don't contribute back their changes. BeOS did fix this mistake, somewhat, but it isn't even close to open. Sure, I'd use it over MacOS X, but not over Linux.
And yes, I find built-in GUI's offensive. How do *they* know that I want everything to look like that? People argue that this leads to a "consistent user interface", but that won't stop people from writing their own applications with different styles of interfacing with the user.
(Winamp. KAI Power Tools. There. No 'consistent user interface' on Windows or the Mac. Ha ha ha.)
I hope BeOS steals market share from Windows, but seeing yet another closed-source commercial OS struggling for dominance doesn't make me feel any better about it. I used to write DOS commands that essentially did functions that basic UNIX system utilities do just because I thought there was functionality lacking. No more will I make excuses for a vendor when I can get something better, or be allowed to do it better myself.
Also, I'm going to get a TV card for Linux. Why? It's cheaper than getting a 17" TV, and neater, too.
Everything he said was taken out of context. That doesn't mean that it's false, but I for one would love to know what he meant by "a great way to get to the wrong answer"...
Assuming that the right answer is Sun's Slowlaris? Maybe for multiprocessor boxes, but definitely not for the price...
Anyone have any more info on this?
We've known this about AI for some time now. You can find examples of 'emergent behavior' in simple games, like Conway's Game of Life.
:) but whenever I do it by hand, it seems much harder...
From a few simple rules and their interactions, much complexity springs. It only takes maybe 12 rules to do predicate calculus, (not much PROLOG at all
The problem is that not everything can be neatly quantized into rules. That's the problem that the Cyc project has always faced, and they're probably closer to getting a self-learning system than anyone is.
I would love to see AI produce results, I'm sure machines could think and solve complex problems, reason and reach conclusions as we do, but just encoding the basic knowledge we take for granted is a huge task, and trying to make a machine with the capability of doing all of that itself is an even larger one.
...well, maybe it sounds better than regular .mp3, but a bit more digging makes it sound like AAC does better.
:)
That's okay, I have no respect for people who invent cutting-edge technology years before it's time, and forget to release or market it. That's not what I pay my phone bill for...
I think we're just seeing someone who isn't informed, that's the only explanation I can come up with... I think it's likely that if he's seen Linux in action, it was a friend struggling with an *old* version of it...
:)
I've seen Linux perform better than Solaris as a desktop, for a third the price. If Linux isn't better than Microsoft's offerings, then UNIX isn't either, and I'd be amazed if Ken said that.
I love UNIX, when I found SunOS I knew I found something far better than DOS. Linus knew the same thing, and modeled early versions of Linux after SunOS. In this respect, it was a backlash against Microsoft, because they made a crappy OS for the PC, that Linus didn't want to use.
However, it was more a backlash against commercial UNIX vendors, because Linus wanted a good, free, x86 UNIX (not Minix), and at the time he couldn't find one.
However, IMO Linux has now far surpassed the commercial UNIXes, *and* it is free. It certainly isn't suitable for every job, but just from what an average distribution ships with these days, it is a far better value than a commercial UNIX, or anything that Microsoft has to offer.
(gcc, g++, egcs, netscape, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, The Gimp. They're all free, too. Need I say more?
Here's some info from '98
Not until next year. :)
But it isn't too hard to fix the bug in Perl. It's a friggin' interpreted language, you always have the source. Try that with your average program from the 50's or 60's...
Yep, that pisses me off more than anything. What views these files? Not xanim on UNIX, MoviePlayer on a Mac, or Media Player on NT... only Win '98.
:)
"Let's make a movie file that many people can't see. I bet they'll love that. And the file is 2k smaller!"
Proprietary codecs can bite me. I wish they had a "design flaw" where they became open source in the year 2000. y2k licensing issues, anybody?
$6.99 is the price for RH6 *plus* three archive CDs (Spring '99). That's such a good deal that I already paid the $12 for it yesterday. :)
I hate laptops, they annoy me. However, all laptops are not created equal.
:)
The Dell ones are decent. Nice screens, although I've had some trouble with the chargers before.
Compaq Armadas piss me off. If I wanted to assemble my extra peripherals every time I go somewhere, I would have brought some blocks from kindergarten.
However, the IBM Thinkpads are the best. I just don't have an extra $6000 lying around. Kudos for offering tips on how to get those things cheaper. (I also don't have an extra $5000 lying around, either, but we can dream...)
And, of course, laptops running Linux are far better than the usual default... but desktops are the best.
I don't think so.
People who really do devote their lives to 'Jesus' (or more likely his ideals and a Christian code of morals) wouldn't do anything remotely like this, by definition.
However, most of the 'Christians' in the high schools rarely aspire to such a high moral code.
As they show, the actual belief in a God can be kept completely separate from the morals that the religion also teaches.
I don't believe in a God because I don't think it's rational. If I had a good reason, maybe I'd change my mind. However, I live a fairly moral life, because I think it's right, and that's what needs to be taught to avoid situations like this.
Religious zealotry historically has created more violence than it has solved.
Hell no!
Coke and Pixie Stix forever!!!
(sorry, I'm a Coke addict,
and I like dusting it...)
*SARCASM ON*
Heh. I just hope that the author can navigate the immensely complicated GUI that is slashdot, considering that it's running on one of those Linux boxes. Why don't they just switch to NT? You just *know* that NT *must* do better in large, dynamically-generated web pages, serving them to thousands upon thousands of users every day.
*SARCASM OFF*
Really, I don't see how a system can be more 'easy to use' when it doesn't work most of the time.
Not only are there already too many graphics and video formats to choose from, but there will also be as many new formats as we care to write.
:) Combining raw image formats with generic compressors seems like a great idea for lossless compression, even if that does only get you so far.
What do I use for lossy compression? JPEG, due to its popularity. Lossless compression? GIF, PNG, xcf.bz2, ps.gz... Use the right tool for the job.
I'd love to see a new, openly developed, lossy compression scheme. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know where to begin, because most of this work is done by commercial software companies and whatnot...
I don't know how accurate their CPU usage reporting is... I've used more CPU under NT by moving the mouse. (try it, it's fun! :)
Nope, I can't, my machine really is a K6/300, not a K6-2/300. :)
:)
(I bought it just before the K6-2's came out. But that's okay, if I wanted a new chip, I'd want, say, an overclocked Celeron, a K6-3 or a K7, or something nifty. But I don't. My K6/300 is more than enough horsepower for me right now, except for testing VMWare. But then, I don't really have much use for Windows, so that doesn't count.
What were you using to play it? I know that a friend of mine had pretty good luck with a 486/133. :)
.mp3's that was just on slashdot... :)
Personally, I'd use mpg123, as optimized as possible, and start out playing mp3's downsampled to 22Khz, mono. If that works, start changing command-line parameters, and see what it supports.
(However, it sounds like that computer might be a good candidate for that hardware decoder board for
As requested, Here's a link.
I've got an old P133 that would be more than enough hardware to make something like this. However, I'm sure that if I tried to do it myself I'd destroy it. Also, I wouldn't want to spend the money for better speakers, let alone an LCD display.
Nah, might as well just play mp3's in the background on my K6/300. Gotta hate losing that 10% of CPU or whatever, darn.
Now if only I had a CD-burner...
Anyone know if SCO Merge runs under ibcs2?
It'd be interesting to compare it to VMWare...
I didn't know New Jerusalem had this much porn!
(Those whacky techno Christians, what are we going to do with them?)
Fnord.
Sounds good to me...
:)
...if they weren't sorority sisters.
(hmm. Coding nubile women. Sure beats coding drugs. Atheists playing God, yeah, baby...)
My old (PPA) Zip-drive works fine in Linux, but my mother has the same problem in Windows. In her case, it trashes all the icons on the screen and freezes the computer, she has to reboot into safe mode, and change to a lower color depth. (this doesn't happen in 256-colors or less) We thought it was a video card problem, but who knows?
:)
Darn proprietary drivers...
That doesn't even make sense. The whole point of the Internet is the lack of central control, which is why NSI is obsolete, and getting stupider every day.
If NSI is the operating system, could we please format them, and reinstall sooner? I hate it when an operating system does stupid things behind my back without telling me.
Heh. A watermark on sound.
:)
Maybe you'll see it in your winamp plug-ins.