Seriously, these kinds of things were cool when someone thought to do one for the first time, but it's getting old. And the "art" was never very good, just kind of clever.
Parents and children don't need handhelds. I was all excited about handhelds a few years ago, but these days the only people still using them are CS grad students (not that there's anything wrong with that). I only keep mine around because my watch broke. Once the novelty wears off (and it has), the ability to play Asteroids at a movie theater isn't all that great a selling point. Palm is on its way down, and PDAs will be remembered as the pet rock of the late 90's and early 00's.
This is hardly the first project with the goal of creating a small, quick, standards-compliant browser. I predict it will fail like the rest. The reason is simple. While it is of course true that 90% of the users of any given program will only use 10% of the features, they will all use a slightly different 10%. In the end, leaving out the 90% of features that you deem "bloat" will lose far more than the 10% of customers that you were counting on.
You can even see this in the posts that are showing up here already. People are saying, "wow, this looks great, as soon as it has x I'll switch over from Mozilla," "all it needs is y and IE is history," and "this is z away from beating Opera." But, of course, x != y != z, and the end result is a browser that is unusable for just about everyone.
What these teams don't realize is that the web is used for so many different things today that designing a small, general-purpose web browser is all but impossible. A web browser, if it is complete, is by definition a large, complex system. Microsoft and Mozilla have accepted this. It's time for the rest of us to do so as well.
I don't understand why SuSE is only now coming out with Linux 8.1, and Red Hat only just came out with Linux 8.0. Meanwhile, Slackware came out with Linux 8.0 an entire year ago. Why do all the commercial companies find it so hard to keep up? I guess in some sense the open model really is better.
Do people in Southern California even use Linux? I'd think they'd be too busy surfing, shooting their homies, and getting plastic surgery to want to both with command lines and window managers.
Since when did we start giving new heavenly bodies names out of pulp sci-fi? What was wrong with the whole Roman god motif?
Not to mention, shouldn't Quaroroaa be referred to as "beyond Neptune," since we pretty much just finished undiscovering Pluto? Maybe we should just call the new planet "Pluto" and forget about the old one.
845PE, GE, DDR333, AGP 8X, ATA/133, "Blue Mountain", black PCB (finally, someone for black kids to look up to...).
Can someone cut through this heap of jargon and marketroid buzzwordsmithy and tell me how in the name of RMS this affects me, the Linux power user? Does it bother anyone that in three months we'll be reading an identical story about 928BE, TL, MOK444, LBJ 9X, PCP/420, "Grassy Knoll", and yellow LSD? When does it end, and why do we care?
If your ISP is monitoring you, you're out of luck. All your packets are going down a wire to Comcast before they go to whatever "anonymizer" you use. Encryption would help, but if you're doing anything in plaintext then there's not much you can do to prevent them from looking in on it.
(Note to the good folks at Verizon: I'll get my bill in the mail today, I promise.)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - spoken Latin was found dead in a Catholic church this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the linguistics community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy learning all those tenses, there's no denying its contributions to modern language. Truly an Roman icon.
How does that work? It seems to me that any type of hardware sensor needs to experience some change of state (i.e., the application of a non-zero force) to function. The only possible way to achieve a zero force input device on Earth is to enclose the keyboard and mouse surface within an artificial vacuum chamber. My feeling is that this would be prohibitively expensive, but perhaps they've found a cheaper way to do this, in which case the effects on the manufacturing, lubrication, and transportation industries are going to be enormous. Anyone have more details?
While it is always good to see new features available on free OSes, I'm concerned that NetBSD's SMP might affect Linux adversely. Linux's advantage over the *BSDs has always been that it has more cutting-edge features like SMP, preemptive kernel threads, strong math emulation, and journaling filesystems. These features are required in enterprise applications, so many sysadmins choose Linux, despite it's cobbled-together nature and lack of good support, simply because *BSD can't compete. It now appears that the *BSDs are catching up. Sadly, we may see a flash flood of business customers moving to NetBSD. I would recommend selling any Debian stock you stil have lying around.
Source based distros strike me as a little silly. There are only two major CPU manufacturers, each with a handful of models. Only three or four companies make most motherboards. Creative has a de facto monopoly in the sound card market with it's Live! series, and there are only a couple different video chipsets. Everything else conforms to well-known standards, and is hidden behind kernel drivers anyway. To top it off, extremely few applications benefit from any kind of CPU-specific optimization, and almost all of these (mostly things like mp3 and other media players) can be downloaded as optimized binaries. A simple custom kernel can be built in a minute or so on a newer machine, and acheive 99% of the speed gained by an entirely optimized distribution (which is pretty tiny to begin with). Does anyone really think that gzip cares whether it's running on an AMD or an Intel chip? Source based distros are great for "1337" case-modders with no knowledge of software or Linux internals and who have way too much time on their hands. For anyone else, they're just a waste of cycles. I for one will be glad when this fad dies out.
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As far as I can tell, Science has no explanation to offer for this strange--dare I say miraculous?--event. It strikes me as no small coincidence that where we see Science fail is in the prediction of when and under what conditions the Creation of Life takes place. Maybe someone is trying to tell us something...
This sounds like a terrible law, but it may have a good effect. The MPAA and the RIAA are crypto merchants, since they use schemes like CSS and CD copy protection to try to screw over their customers. But under this law, they should have to pay South America! It'll be nice to Hillary Rosin rotting in prison in Buenos Aires!
It's amazing to see how far we've come in such a short time. Five years ago we were all still using Linux 2.0, Microsoft was in court with Apple over the look and feel of Windows for Workgroups (well, some things never change, I guess), and Monica Lewinsky was in the papers every day (hey, not news for nerds, but we all live in real life, too...sometimes!).
Many of us slashdotters have grown as well. From humble beginnings to the dizzying heights of the dot.com boom to the unemployment line (and mom and dad's house again). But it gives us more time to hack on Free Software, so bring it on!
I'd just like to say "thanks" to Rob & the gang who put in long hours on/code and this site--there's nothing like it anywhere else on the web--and to the great community that makes/. so special. You guys are the best friends (and friends of friends!) a lone hacker could ask for, when he isn't debugging perl in vi!
Here's to hoping the next half-decade is as good as the last. Cheers.
What's the word on the ents? I heard they were going to leave out the ents. Also, rumors abound regarding other aspects of the movie. Is it true that Merry and Pippin are going to be portrayed smoking "Shire leaf" out of some sort of a water pipe? Will Legolas be killed, his death avenged by an enraged Gimli? Will there really be a love scene between Samwise and Mr. Frodo? Thanks for any clues.
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Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers.
Seriously, these kinds of things were cool when someone thought to do one for the first time, but it's getting old. And the "art" was never very good, just kind of clever.
Parents and children don't need handhelds. I was all excited about handhelds a few years ago, but these days the only people still using them are CS grad students (not that there's anything wrong with that). I only keep mine around because my watch broke. Once the novelty wears off (and it has), the ability to play Asteroids at a movie theater isn't all that great a selling point. Palm is on its way down, and PDAs will be remembered as the pet rock of the late 90's and early 00's.
This is hardly the first project with the goal of creating a small, quick, standards-compliant browser. I predict it will fail like the rest. The reason is simple. While it is of course true that 90% of the users of any given program will only use 10% of the features, they will all use a slightly different 10%. In the end, leaving out the 90% of features that you deem "bloat" will lose far more than the 10% of customers that you were counting on.
You can even see this in the posts that are showing up here already. People are saying, "wow, this looks great, as soon as it has x I'll switch over from Mozilla," "all it needs is y and IE is history," and "this is z away from beating Opera." But, of course, x != y != z, and the end result is a browser that is unusable for just about everyone.
What these teams don't realize is that the web is used for so many different things today that designing a small, general-purpose web browser is all but impossible. A web browser, if it is complete, is by definition a large, complex system. Microsoft and Mozilla have accepted this. It's time for the rest of us to do so as well.
I don't understand why SuSE is only now coming out with Linux 8.1, and Red Hat only just came out with Linux 8.0. Meanwhile, Slackware came out with Linux 8.0 an entire year ago. Why do all the commercial companies find it so hard to keep up? I guess in some sense the open model really is better.
Do people in Southern California even use Linux? I'd think they'd be too busy surfing, shooting their homies, and getting plastic surgery to want to both with command lines and window managers.
Since when did we start giving new heavenly bodies names out of pulp sci-fi? What was wrong with the whole Roman god motif?
Not to mention, shouldn't Quaroroaa be referred to as "beyond Neptune," since we pretty much just finished undiscovering Pluto? Maybe we should just call the new planet "Pluto" and forget about the old one.
845PE, GE, DDR333, AGP 8X, ATA/133, "Blue Mountain", black PCB (finally, someone for black kids to look up to...).
Can someone cut through this heap of jargon and marketroid buzzwordsmithy and tell me how in the name of RMS this affects me, the Linux power user? Does it bother anyone that in three months we'll be reading an identical story about 928BE, TL, MOK444, LBJ 9X, PCP/420, "Grassy Knoll", and yellow LSD? When does it end, and why do we care?
Aragorn, Son of Arathorn, who wields Orcrist, the Blade Which Was Broken and Forged Again.
Guess my evening's shot. $2 down the tube.
:(
No, I was talking about double-counting each delivery. A CD costs me $40...$20 for this one and $20 for the next one.
A for effort, though, champ.
From the review:
Circus Maximus, a game I returned after one day, cost me a full month of waiting: 2 weeks for it to arrive and 2 weeks for the next game to arrive.
With those accounting skills, I wonder if the reviewer isn't a former Enron employee.
If your ISP is monitoring you, you're out of luck. All your packets are going down a wire to Comcast before they go to whatever "anonymizer" you use. Encryption would help, but if you're doing anything in plaintext then there's not much you can do to prevent them from looking in on it.
(Note to the good folks at Verizon: I'll get my bill in the mail today, I promise.)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - spoken Latin was found dead in a Catholic church this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the linguistics community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy learning all those tenses, there's no denying its contributions to modern language. Truly an Roman icon.
Whoa, I forgot about that page. I should update it this weekend. I have one more set of pictures to find and two sets of grades to put up. Thanks.
Is a written language. Nobody speaks it.
How does that work? It seems to me that any type of hardware sensor needs to experience some change of state (i.e., the application of a non-zero force) to function. The only possible way to achieve a zero force input device on Earth is to enclose the keyboard and mouse surface within an artificial vacuum chamber. My feeling is that this would be prohibitively expensive, but perhaps they've found a cheaper way to do this, in which case the effects on the manufacturing, lubrication, and transportation industries are going to be enormous. Anyone have more details?
While it is always good to see new features available on free OSes, I'm concerned that NetBSD's SMP might affect Linux adversely. Linux's advantage over the *BSDs has always been that it has more cutting-edge features like SMP, preemptive kernel threads, strong math emulation, and journaling filesystems. These features are required in enterprise applications, so many sysadmins choose Linux, despite it's cobbled-together nature and lack of good support, simply because *BSD can't compete. It now appears that the *BSDs are catching up. Sadly, we may see a flash flood of business customers moving to NetBSD. I would recommend selling any Debian stock you stil have lying around.
Source based distros strike me as a little silly. There are only two major CPU manufacturers, each with a handful of models. Only three or four companies make most motherboards. Creative has a de facto monopoly in the sound card market with it's Live! series, and there are only a couple different video chipsets. Everything else conforms to well-known standards, and is hidden behind kernel drivers anyway. To top it off, extremely few applications benefit from any kind of CPU-specific optimization, and almost all of these (mostly things like mp3 and other media players) can be downloaded as optimized binaries. A simple custom kernel can be built in a minute or so on a newer machine, and acheive 99% of the speed gained by an entirely optimized distribution (which is pretty tiny to begin with). Does anyone really think that gzip cares whether it's running on an AMD or an Intel chip? Source based distros are great for "1337" case-modders with no knowledge of software or Linux internals and who have way too much time on their hands. For anyone else, they're just a waste of cycles. I for one will be glad when this fad dies out.
There was no such thing as a web site in 1875.
As far as I can tell, Science has no explanation to offer for this strange--dare I say miraculous?--event. It strikes me as no small coincidence that where we see Science fail is in the prediction of when and under what conditions the Creation of Life takes place. Maybe someone is trying to tell us something...
I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture
Translation: "I have 230GB of tentacle rape hentai."
This sounds like a terrible law, but it may have a good effect. The MPAA and the RIAA are crypto merchants, since they use schemes like CSS and CD copy protection to try to screw over their customers. But under this law, they should have to pay South America! It'll be nice to Hillary Rosin rotting in prison in Buenos Aires!
Everyone has a right to see clearly, even those of us born with vision problems. Free spectacles should be available to everyone!
It's amazing to see how far we've come in such a short time. Five years ago we were all still using Linux 2.0, Microsoft was in court with Apple over the look and feel of Windows for Workgroups (well, some things never change, I guess), and Monica Lewinsky was in the papers every day (hey, not news for nerds, but we all live in real life, too...sometimes!).
/code and this site--there's nothing like it anywhere else on the web--and to the great community that makes /. so special. You guys are the best friends (and friends of friends!) a lone hacker could ask for, when he isn't debugging perl in vi!
Many of us slashdotters have grown as well. From humble beginnings to the dizzying heights of the dot.com boom to the unemployment line (and mom and dad's house again). But it gives us more time to hack on Free Software, so bring it on!
I'd just like to say "thanks" to Rob & the gang who put in long hours on
Here's to hoping the next half-decade is as good as the last. Cheers.
What's the word on the ents? I heard they were going to leave out the ents. Also, rumors abound regarding other aspects of the movie. Is it true that Merry and Pippin are going to be portrayed smoking "Shire leaf" out of some sort of a water pipe? Will Legolas be killed, his death avenged by an enraged Gimli? Will there really be a love scene between Samwise and Mr. Frodo? Thanks for any clues.