They will have an MP3 player, a computer and a mobile phone but hey - why stop there? Scenario One: Repo Man is Obsolete
Why hire a heavy to get back a car when a customer fails to keep up payments?
John Doe walked to his car this morning, opened the door, put his key in the ignition - and nothing happened.
John Doe had missed a car payment, and his dealership's computer knew this. The dealership's computer simply failed to activate John Doe's car for the coming month.
John Doe walked to work. Scenario Two: Accident Mode
John Doe just had an accident with Mary Contrary. Both automobiles automatically registered the "jolt" and through GPS located one another. They have already exchanged pertinent data such as insurance companies and the time of the accident before the police arrive on the scene. Scenario Three: The LA Freeway Avenger
The FBI has long sought the identity of what locals call the LA Freeway Avenger, a nasty individual who deliberately hacks into automobiles traveling at high speeds on the LA freeways, disables them, and causes fatal accidents.
Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, the company which makes the Internet connection software for today's vehicles, refused to comment.
I don't think/. readers need be reminded that for all practical purposes, save the word processor for the patent dept., Unix and C were built the same way. Quipped Dennis Ritchie once: "We play in a sandbox. That's our job."
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The trick is, you don't own the poor things today. Thanks to Microsoft, UCITA is being pushed hard all across the US. You can't even complain about bad software with UCITA because you specifically will not own a damn thing and cannot cite current consumer legislation.
It's curious that Microsoft should be one of only two organisations that pushed UCITA - against the ACM and the IEEE it must be reminded - and that despite the overwhelming opposition it still got drafted like Billg wanted (ok, he's poor today, we should pity him) and it's going to get passed everywhere - and then suddenly, as a mere coincidence mind you, out comes Hailstorm, MPA and.NET.
Pure coincidence - or what was it Auric Goldfinger said?
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On the one hand we see terror because MS ties up the PC market. It's a monopoly, there is only one way of doing things, and it's not only bad software, it's a *boring* world to live in.
On the other, we have open standards, and things to choose from, and the same people who hate Microsoft want a GUI standard on their Linux boxes.
Sheesh.
At radsoft.net we're putting together an open source cross-platform HTTP client project and we *want* competition, we do *not* want to have any standard.
Merely because "NSI Claims" won't, I think, hold much legal ground. If a domain has expired, the legal transaction which established ownership has as well. As NSI has not embarked on a new legal transaction, it cannot be theirs.
And bye the bye, it's painfully obvious NSI is abusing their position, and that the net now needs to put NSI in its place - offline!
This is a devastating article. That it could be this bad... one wonders what kind of people would exploit the lack of protective legislation like this. What kind of creep would just walk up to a woman and say congrats that you're preggers. Whether it's legal or not, we all know it's goddamn unethical and immoral. Now it seems we have to muster the ACLU and the rest again to put these Brown shirts and Blue meanies back in their place. It just never ends, does it? Do read this article. It is very good!
But this guy is simply brain dead. Who is he anyway? More importantly, who does he think he is? And are we really sure we know that's all he is? An ivy wall doth not a prophet make - especially from someone as dumb as this.
Ok, let's knock C++ instead because it's a piece of junk that has caused more misery on both sides of the planet than any language before and most likely even since.
"obvious that OO is not a panacea"... "the OO paradigm"???? Who is writing? That "OO is not a panacea" has got to be the understatement of the millennium. The weak minded will always seek trendy panaceas, and now the rest of us still have to pay for their wimpy collective mob mania.
Huh? Go visit some real intellects instead. Visit Dennis Ritchie at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ Visit Brian Kernighan at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/ Reality check, Robbie Boy.
It's not a quasar, it's a lady bug, stuck on the lens. And she looks sick too. And 200 inches ain't nuthin'. With 200 inches you can hardly see out your front door.
The 70's were a period of intense UNIX hysteria in Northern Europe. Suits who had practiced saying "IBM" so well finally went for broke and learned the unprecedented four letter mystery "UNIX" by heart and every office had to have a UNIX box. Hardware OEMs were not slow to discover what was going on, and in no time flat the market was flooded with UNIX solutions. Unfortunately, few of these "solutions" were ever tested. Several did not work satisfactorily at all. And UNIX gurus were often heard to mutter "I don't know what the f+++ it is, but it's not UNIX!" The Crusoe is a great omen. But let's watch out for the OEMs. Greed can still spoil the day.
The old IBM adage, "if it works don't fix it," has a new application as the world stumbles over into a new millennium. Today, in 1999, a new group might claim with pride of their favorite OS, "we don't have to fix it, because it works!"
The Holy War between the armies of Linux users, Windows users, and Mac die-hards has grown more vicious than ever. And none of the content of the diatribes actually matters one iota - and certainly not Dr. Goebbel's new anti-Linux page at microsoft.com.
My contention is that the only issue for most users is stability, and measuring stability for these users is straightforward. At the IBM think tank in Hursley in the south of England, where pressure is on to integrate with Windows NT, Linux is a clear favorite. "It's bulletproof," one developer told me. And that's all he needed to say. Stability is what end users want. They don't want blue screens of death, leaky drivers, faulting TCP stacks, and the like. They want to be able to turn on their computer and have it run - and run and run and run without re-booting all the time - and just do what they set out to do. And in this regard, Linux fits the bill, and no other OS comes close.
I am not a Linux user, but I am raised on UNIX. And I do vaguely remember when we got word about a chap across the sea from us in Stockholm who had taken the kernel to something called MINIX as I remember and was working on it. But when a developer tells me what he tells me in such uncertain terms, with such a note of satisfaction in his voice, directly corroborating all I've heard over the months and years - then I purport to know.
The application software will come. Maybe it will be freeware too. There once was a time when all software was officially free anyway. Long before the emergence of the Software Beast in Redmond. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sold hardware - the software just tagged along. It seems we're back there again. You can't get around paying for hardware. The laws guarding software are a real headache. Someone might have to invest in programmers, but then again maybe they don't. Hardware companies might invest in support gurus, but then again they did that back in the old days too. For all MVS ever was, and it's hard to compare apples and oranges here, I don't think IBM would whine that open source was less stable than what they constructed.
And the complexity, as the opposing armies call it, is just a hurdle. The more people use computers - and new generations are being born all the time who know things by 10 that our IT gods never learned in their lifetimes - the more this "hurdle" will turn into an innocuous speed bump - just something else to be learned, like driving a car, cycling a washing machine, filling out an income tax form.
I think - I am guessing here - that the Linux experience might be akin to a Swiss avalanche. It needs momentum. And as it gathers momentum, it gathers power, and thereby more momentum. The more people using it, the more stable and developed it becomes, which results in even more people using it, which results in further stability, and so on and so forth. I don't regard corporate tagging onto the Linux bandwagon as decisive here - I just don't think it will matter much when the final score is in. I think the ordinary users in the field will determine the outcome - the users with PCs on their kitchen tables and cables running over their toasters, huddling over manuals deep in the night. The more the word gets out - the more people who use this system - the more it will spread. Like chatter teeth bumping into chatter teeth - sooner or later they're all yacking away.
Security isn't even an issue. What the web servers of the world run is one thing (and that's basically freeware anyway), what your kitchen gurus need is something quite different. Your kitchen gurus can't even spell security, raised as they are on shortcuts and Start menus and Favorites.
People have forecast the doom of William H. Goebbels 3 before. The Richest Man in the World has only grown richer. It's fashionable, even, to criticize him and his company. It's great gratuitous speculation to let him and his corporation have it when they're on the verge of introducing a new product. And the way it usually goes - once the product is released, in a few weeks, as the oooh's and ahhhh's die down, everyone with the stars still in their eyes, blinded by this new product, will forget this new Winter of Our Discontent.
But I'm not so sure this time. I won't be a fool and say Bill will even be scratched by this latest attack from Linux. But you never know. You just never do.
Where we at radsoft.net are stationed, it doesn't matter much really, although personally I am beginning to find the Windows experience rather enervating. We've been trying to fight bloat and compensate for unstable Microsoft system hacks ever since we had to use Windows - I think we've succeeded, but that doesn't mean we're happy about it.
There's one scene where they're just starting the game and they've got cans of soda pop and some munchies and they're both feeling really good, and Ally points at the puter screen and says with a mouth full of whatever, "hey what's that?"
And Matthew issues that classic (which I wish I could quote exactly but I think it's):
There's one scene where they're just starting the game and they've got cans of soda pop and some munchies and they're both feeling really good, and Ally points at the puter screen and says with a mouth full of whatever, "hey what's that?"
And Matthew issues that classic (which I wish I could quote exactly but I think it's):
This is much too benign. To see Gates at face value is to swallow all the political hype we've learned to disregard over the years. There are so many variables here - how much coaching was allowed? What did Gates know in advance? How much did his spin doctors prepare him (as if they weren't involved and like _intensely_ all along)?
Slashdot Mirror
They will have an MP3 player, a computer and a mobile phone but hey - why stop there?
Scenario One: Repo Man is Obsolete
Why hire a heavy to get back a car when a customer fails to keep up payments?
John Doe walked to his car this morning, opened the door, put his key in the ignition - and nothing happened.
John Doe had missed a car payment, and his dealership's computer knew this. The dealership's computer simply failed to activate John Doe's car for the coming month.
John Doe walked to work.
Scenario Two: Accident Mode
John Doe just had an accident with Mary Contrary. Both automobiles automatically registered the "jolt" and through GPS located one another. They have already exchanged pertinent data such as insurance companies and the time of the accident before the police arrive on the scene.
Scenario Three: The LA Freeway Avenger
The FBI has long sought the identity of what locals call the LA Freeway Avenger, a nasty individual who deliberately hacks into automobiles traveling at high speeds on the LA freeways, disables them, and causes fatal accidents.
Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, the company which makes the Internet connection software for today's vehicles, refused to comment.
... And to put UCITA in perspective, check Mark Minasi's Software Conspiracy site.
http://www.softwareconspiracy.com
I don't think /. readers need be reminded that for all practical purposes, save the word processor for the patent dept., Unix and C were built the same way. Quipped Dennis Ritchie once: "We play in a sandbox. That's our job."
Check the author's own page for direct links to most of the major bookstores online who are carrying it:
http://www.tigertools.net/soon.htm
It might be cheaper, as no commission will be earned by the submitter.
Also, this page will tell you what platform requirements the Tiger Tools carry with them.
Cheers.
Or check the author's own page for direct links to most of the major bookstores online who are carrying it:
http://www.tigertools.net/soon.htm
It might be cheaper, as no commission will be earned by the submitter.
Don't keep those precious letters private; publish them so we all know who to not vote for!
Yeah but who are you? You're only the guy who shelled out the cash for the product! They don't care about you! They just want your money!
Wake up!
The trick is, you don't own the poor things today. Thanks to Microsoft, UCITA is being pushed hard all across the US. You can't even complain about bad software with UCITA because you specifically will not own a damn thing and cannot cite current consumer legislation.
.NET.
It's curious that Microsoft should be one of only two organisations that pushed UCITA - against the ACM and the IEEE it must be reminded - and that despite the overwhelming opposition it still got drafted like Billg wanted (ok, he's poor today, we should pity him) and it's going to get passed everywhere - and then suddenly, as a mere coincidence mind you, out comes Hailstorm, MPA and
Pure coincidence - or what was it Auric Goldfinger said?
Johnny's character was but a bit of a side-show.
If you want to see how mean the thing can get, check out the Philadelphia Inquirer's 'Killing Pablo' website.
"Non-Bloat"? "Non-Bloat" is now a concept? It's like an enhancement, a feature, like white wall tyres?
Anybody ever remember qualified programming?
I'm glad you're not my parent.
On the one hand we see terror because MS ties up the PC market. It's a monopoly, there is only one way of doing things, and it's not only bad software, it's a *boring* world to live in.
On the other, we have open standards, and things to choose from, and the same people who hate Microsoft want a GUI standard on their Linux boxes.
Sheesh.
At radsoft.net we're putting together an open source cross-platform HTTP client project and we *want* competition, we do *not* want to have any standard.
The plural of spouse is spice.
RD/Jcc
... and NSI Claims...
Merely because "NSI Claims" won't, I think, hold much legal ground. If a domain has expired, the legal transaction which established ownership has as well. As NSI has not embarked on a new legal transaction, it cannot be theirs.
And bye the bye, it's painfully obvious NSI is abusing their position, and that the net now needs to put NSI in its place - offline!
RD
This is a devastating article. That it could be this bad... one wonders what kind of people would exploit the lack of protective legislation like this. What kind of creep would just walk up to a woman and say congrats that you're preggers. Whether it's legal or not, we all know it's goddamn unethical and immoral. Now it seems we have to muster the ACLU and the rest again to put these Brown shirts and Blue meanies back in their place. It just never ends, does it? Do read this article. It is very good!
Jcc
But this guy is simply brain dead. Who is he anyway? More importantly, who does he think he is? And are we really sure we know that's all he is? An ivy wall doth not a prophet make - especially from someone as dumb as this.
Jcc
Ok, let's knock C++ instead because it's a piece of junk that has caused more misery on both sides of the planet than any language before and most likely even since.
"obvious that OO is not a panacea"... "the OO paradigm"???? Who is writing? That "OO is not a panacea" has got to be the understatement of the millennium. The weak minded will always seek trendy panaceas, and now the rest of us still have to pay for their wimpy collective mob mania.
Huh? Go visit some real intellects instead. Visit Dennis Ritchie at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ Visit Brian Kernighan at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/ Reality check, Robbie Boy.
It's not a quasar, it's a lady bug, stuck on the lens. And she looks sick too. And 200 inches ain't nuthin'. With 200 inches you can hardly see out your front door.
The 70's were a period of intense UNIX hysteria in Northern Europe. Suits who had practiced saying "IBM" so well finally went for broke and learned the unprecedented four letter mystery "UNIX" by heart and every office had to have a UNIX box. Hardware OEMs were not slow to discover what was going on, and in no time flat the market was flooded with UNIX solutions. Unfortunately, few of these "solutions" were ever tested. Several did not work satisfactorily at all. And UNIX gurus were often heard to mutter "I don't know what the f+++ it is, but it's not UNIX!" The Crusoe is a great omen. But let's watch out for the OEMs. Greed can still spoil the day.
The old IBM adage, "if it works don't fix it," has a new application as the world stumbles over into a new millennium. Today, in 1999, a new group might claim with pride of their favorite OS, "we don't have to fix it, because it works!"
The Holy War between the armies of Linux users, Windows users, and Mac die-hards has grown more vicious than ever. And none of the content of the diatribes actually matters one iota - and certainly not Dr. Goebbel's new anti-Linux page at microsoft.com.
My contention is that the only issue for most users is stability, and measuring stability for these users is straightforward. At the IBM think tank in Hursley in the south of England, where pressure is on to integrate with Windows NT, Linux is a clear favorite. "It's bulletproof," one developer told me. And that's all he needed to say. Stability is what end users want. They don't want blue screens of death, leaky drivers, faulting TCP stacks, and the like. They want to be able to turn on their computer and have it run - and run and run and run without re-booting all the time - and just do what they set out to do. And in this regard, Linux fits the bill, and no other OS comes close.
I am not a Linux user, but I am raised on UNIX. And I do vaguely remember when we got word about a chap across the sea from us in Stockholm who had taken the kernel to something called MINIX as I remember and was working on it. But when a developer tells me what he tells me in such uncertain terms, with such a note of satisfaction in his voice, directly corroborating all I've heard over the months and years - then I purport to know.
The application software will come. Maybe it will be freeware too. There once was a time when all software was officially free anyway. Long before the emergence of the Software Beast in Redmond. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sold hardware - the software just tagged along. It seems we're back there again. You can't get around paying for hardware. The laws guarding software are a real headache. Someone might have to invest in programmers, but then again maybe they don't. Hardware companies might invest in support gurus, but then again they did that back in the old days too. For all MVS ever was, and it's hard to compare apples and oranges here, I don't think IBM would whine that open source was less stable than what they constructed.
And the complexity, as the opposing armies call it, is just a hurdle. The more people use computers - and new generations are being born all the time who know things by 10 that our IT gods never learned in their lifetimes - the more this "hurdle" will turn into an innocuous speed bump - just something else to be learned, like driving a car, cycling a washing machine, filling out an income tax form.
I think - I am guessing here - that the Linux experience might be akin to a Swiss avalanche. It needs momentum. And as it gathers momentum, it gathers power, and thereby more momentum. The more people using it, the more stable and developed it becomes, which results in even more people using it, which results in further stability, and so on and so forth. I don't regard corporate tagging onto the Linux bandwagon as decisive here - I just don't think it will matter much when the final score is in. I think the ordinary users in the field will determine the outcome - the users with PCs on their kitchen tables and cables running over their toasters, huddling over manuals deep in the night. The more the word gets out - the more people who use this system - the more it will spread. Like chatter teeth bumping into chatter teeth - sooner or later they're all yacking away.
Security isn't even an issue. What the web servers of the world run is one thing (and that's basically freeware anyway), what your kitchen gurus need is something quite different. Your kitchen gurus can't even spell security, raised as they are on shortcuts and Start menus and Favorites.
People have forecast the doom of William H. Goebbels 3 before. The Richest Man in the World has only grown richer. It's fashionable, even, to criticize him and his company. It's great gratuitous speculation to let him and his corporation have it when they're on the verge of introducing a new product. And the way it usually goes - once the product is released, in a few weeks, as the oooh's and ahhhh's die down, everyone with the stars still in their eyes, blinded by this new product, will forget this new Winter of Our Discontent.
But I'm not so sure this time. I won't be a fool and say Bill will even be scratched by this latest attack from Linux. But you never know. You just never do.
Where we at radsoft.net are stationed, it doesn't matter much really, although personally I am beginning to find the Windows experience rather enervating. We've been trying to fight bloat and compensate for unstable Microsoft system hacks ever since we had to use Windows - I think we've succeeded, but that doesn't mean we're happy about it.
Rick Downes
Wargames is the ultimate.
There's one scene where they're just starting the game and they've got cans of soda pop and some munchies and they're both feeling really good, and Ally points at the puter screen and says with a mouth full of whatever, "hey what's that?"
And Matthew issues that classic (which I wish I could quote exactly but I think it's):
"I don't know - BUT IT'S GREAT!"
Wargames is the ultimate.
There's one scene where they're just starting the game and they've got cans of soda pop and some munchies and they're both feeling really good, and Ally points at the puter screen and says with a mouth full of whatever, "hey what's that?"
And Matthew issues that classic (which I wish I could quote exactly but I think it's):
"I don't know - BUT IT'S GREAT!"
This is much too benign. To see Gates at face value is to swallow all the political hype we've learned to disregard over the years. There are so many variables here - how much coaching was allowed? What did Gates know in advance? How much did his spin doctors prepare him (as if they weren't involved and like _intensely_ all along)?
Much too benign. Misguided?
Balderdash!