I think it is a case of the hardware makers not giving a shit about the whole encoding schemes (not in sonys case, cuz they are obviously involved with the media part)
The hardware makers don't get any benifit from the region code crap, there is no extra $$ for them in that scheme. So who are they to care if 20 lines of code are 'accidentaly' left in and allow a loophole? =]
How soon will it be before we can get XF4 in RPM form? I could just download the tarballs and roll it myself, but I'd like to try to keep everything all rpm kosher on one of my boxes.
I totaly agree! The biggest thing holding me back from deleting my windows partition is the fact that I just can't stand to surf the web and read stuff in general in X, its soo damn ugly and unreadable, and there don't seem to be any good fixes yet.
The Secret Service is a division of the treasury department. They are tasked with stoping counterfiet money production (and other treasury related tasks) and protecting the president.
National secrets are the domain of the NSA, FBI, or other Intelegence beauros, not the SS. They had no reason to be involved in this.
I'd like to see the rendering engine of mozilla modularized to where you could build your own interface. How cool would it be to have a skinable/themable browser that supports all the latest standards?
What's needed isnt a dumbing down of linux in its existing form...what's needed is a covering up of its (relative) dificulty.. Let me explain:
MacOS X, designed to be stupidly easy to use by the guys at apple, yet underneath, its a unix based operating system (hey, linux is unix based too!). What linux needs to get into the avg user market share is a opensource/freesoftware equivelant to the MacOS interface. You don't need a command line that understands human style sentances (dumbing down) you need a GUI that is simple, not overly complicated, and allows the user to do what they need/want easily, like type a letter, or surf the web (covering up).
Are there any projects out there working on a GNU-Bob? =]
Better (as in simpler) hardware support is needed too. Woz once said the ideal computer would have peripherals that upload their drivers to the computer when they are plugged in, making them truely plug and play. Most distributions have made proggress in hardware support. HOW-To's from a few years ago tell you to write down all information about your computer before installing linux, including IRQ assignments, chipset type etc... These days you don't even need to know what an IRQ is to install RedHat or Caldera.
Linux is moving in the right direction, it is just important to realize that, to avoid stepping backwards.
-NH
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Once you have a marriage license, you can be married anyway you like, you arent required to do it the ol christian way.
I'd like to see a slashInterview on all the canidates to find out their stances on the future of the space program and NASA funding. This is a strong factor in my decision on who to vote for, and I havn't seen this issue addressed yet by any canidate.
After reading Katz' reply to q*bert, I totaly lost any respect I may have had for him.
Q*Bert was totaly correct in stating that Katz dumbs down the opinions of the/. community then reads it back to us (which I agree is offensive).
An example is Katz standard form trolls of "computers and technology are good, censorship bad"... no kidding Jon.
His outright arogance in responding to that question is astounding! He starts right off demeaning Q*bert in an attempt to discredit him ("mayor of/.").
I'd like to see a/. poll on wether/.'ers feel katz belongs here on/. or on ZDnet.
NH
Disclaimer: I don't know who Q*bert is, so I'm not defending him in a personal way, I'm merely offended at how katz responded. Also, I'm not a member of the anti katz jihad, I just think he is often out of line, misinformed, and more of an ass then any given handful of/. readers combined.
Seems to me that NASA shouldn't really rely on Russia for anything mission criticle at this point. The Russian economy just isn't in a state to support a space program of this scale.
The money being lost in an attempt to prop up their part of the ISS would probably serve better in building up the base of their economy to support a future space program.
People don't seem to understand that win2k is *NOT* in development. It's been gold for many weeks now, and is in production for shipping in feb.
So any comment about security holes in development kernels is totaly unfounded. There is nothing development about win2k (of course, most linux users will exchange winks when encountering a statement like that;] ).
The real funny is that MS is already releasing broken patches for a product that isn't even available yet!
Sure its technicaly feasible, but so is uberhighspeed bandwidth to every home in america, and we all know how common that is.
The only market for something like this is for rentals, but return visits to drop off a rented movie make up a large precentage of sales for rental shops.. 'Hey, I'm here anyway, why not rent that other movie I've wanted to see.'
Also, it's probably cheaper to have a few copies of a DVD that remain in circulation, then to pay for the infastructer to ship in 30 more copies of the latest disney flick every 3 days.
This new tech is nothing more then a "hey look what we can do" invention, and I doubt it will have any major impact on the home entertainment market, certainly not like DIVX would have.
In light of this recent announcement, I'd like to announce my new company, LinuxTwo!
We will be revolutionizing the industry with our own distribution of the popular "Hello World" application. We intend to set a new standard with our advances in 'hello' and ground breaking 'world' technology.
We will be IPO'ing next week under the stock symbol L1NX.
NH
Hey, if that linuxone guy can do it, why can't I? I just wanna go into space! =]
Didnt they already IPO? which linux distribution was that then? Did the parent company spin off Caldera, and now they are IPO'n as well? Did I miss something? Am I a moron? (or rather is me beinga moron contributing to my confusion?)...
How will linux's desktop use diminish? Will all the Geek X users and theme hackers ditch their pretty/functional desktops and better os and go back to windows because bill gates told us its better then linux? Will all the people working so hard on XFree86, Gnome and KDE decide MS and Apple know whats better and give up?
or up until today. MS just released a patch (I got it from a link here) that lessens the amount of packets sent over high speed connections. I had known this was a problem for a while, because when I switched to using a linux MASQ box to get to the net instead of plugging my winbox right into the cable modem, my pings halved and my download speeds doubled.
This is just an extended version of the crap experiment we see made by journalists all too often.
If he suceeds, so what? Can we make use of his knowledge in our future space exploration? Would we have not lost the Mars probes if one click shopping was more common?
If he fails, does that herald the end of the internet? The automobile didn't spell the end of walking, why should the internet spell the end of going anywhere?
Nothing of value can possibly come from this as far as I can see. This is just another publicity stunt to make money for whatever parties are involved.
Something more worthwhile would be starting a business with every employee from a different city around the country or globe, and have them do all their comunication through the internet (no phone calls, no fax, no paper just email/messaging and file attatchments). Or another idea: Send Katz to Alaska for a year to live/without/ the internet and have him journal the experience, I'm sure enough/.'s would love that one =]
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Looks like the Y2K bug hit them a few hours early, and they are dishing out a cover story about upgrades while they scramble to their mountain retreats! (giving themselves a head start to get away from angry customers and the collapse of civilization)
Forget about your domain, grab the cantines and shotguns!
-Inexpensive Highspeed net access It's gotta be cheap, and its gotta be fast. Also, geeks don't like restrictive services. I want to be able to get a bunch of ip's at low to no extra cost, be able to run a ftp or www server (within reason in regards to traffic) and have static ip's, so I can register a domain. Many areas have net highspeed access, but most dont meet the above criteria. Also, reliability is very important, geeks don't like to be cut off from the net for more then a few miliseconds =]
-Good Food! Most cities can easily answer to this request. Geeks need lots of piza, subs, burgers etc. If your city has nothing but fine dining, don't expect the geeks to come flooding in (not that all geeks dont enjoy fine dining, but we can't live off it =])
-Good job market We gotta be able to pay for our junk food and net access, and this requires a job. Geeks typicaly detest manual labour, so don't expect McDonalds to cut it, we gotta be able to pay for our quad oc3's. You will need to have a large amount of software development firms. You really can't go wrong with a lot of them in your city, you create jobs for the programers, as well as network engineers to build and maintain the hardware. It's important to make your city attractive to software companies, through zoning taxes and whatever else a business will look at when considering your city. A good mix in the field is good as well. Some geeks are artists, some are engineers, so make sure you have some game companies, and some database/business software/network software companies so you can meet the needs of varying geeks.
-Affordable living quarters. Some geeks will be happy with a loft apt in an old factory building, some will want a high end apt or a house. Geeks are frugal, so make sure the rates aren't too obscene.
If your city can manage the things in this list, your well on your way to becomming a geek mecca for the next century.
NightHawk
p.s. if I missed anything important, feel free to add to the list!
Christmas has passed, and with it eToys' worries about the etoy.com domain. Before xmas, when many people were shoping online eToys became concerned that people would end up at etoy.com by accident, and didn't want this to hurt their sales, so they pulled this little stunt to 1. Remove what they deemed offensive from a similar domain 2. Get their name in the news
Xmas is over now, and they dont have anything to gain by dragging this out any further.
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Now the class nerd/know-it-all will no longer receive wedgies and get pushed around at recess, but instead will get pingflooded and e-mail bombed.
And ironicaly, in a way, the class would become a beowulf cluster, as students email eachother parts of answers to the test.
Is distributed test taking the future of educational institutions?
NH
Maybe we can someday replace students with perl scripts....
I think it is a case of the hardware makers not giving a shit about the whole encoding schemes (not in sonys case, cuz they are obviously involved with the media part)
The hardware makers don't get any benifit from the region code crap, there is no extra $$ for them in that scheme. So who are they to care if 20 lines of code are 'accidentaly' left in and allow a loophole? =]
Bout time the man stuck it to the man
NH
How soon will it be before we can get XF4 in RPM form? I could just download the tarballs and roll it myself, but I'd like to try to keep everything all rpm kosher on one of my boxes.
NH
I totaly agree! The biggest thing holding me back from deleting my windows partition is the fact that I just can't stand to surf the web and read stuff in general in X, its soo damn ugly and unreadable, and there don't seem to be any good fixes yet.
Something really must be done about this.
NH
The Secret Service is a division of the treasury department. They are tasked with stoping counterfiet money production (and other treasury related tasks) and protecting the president.
National secrets are the domain of the NSA, FBI, or other Intelegence beauros, not the SS.
They had no reason to be involved in this.
I'd like to see the rendering engine of mozilla modularized to where you could build your own interface. How cool would it be to have a skinable/themable browser that supports all the latest standards?
NH
What's needed isnt a dumbing down of linux in its existing form...what's needed is a covering up of its (relative) dificulty.. Let me explain:
MacOS X, designed to be stupidly easy to use by the guys at apple, yet underneath, its a unix based operating system (hey, linux is unix based too!). What linux needs to get into the avg user market share is a opensource/freesoftware equivelant to the MacOS interface. You don't need a command line that understands human style sentances (dumbing down) you need a GUI that is simple, not overly complicated, and allows the user to do what they need/want easily, like type a letter, or surf the web (covering up).
Are there any projects out there working on a GNU-Bob? =]
Better (as in simpler) hardware support is needed too. Woz once said the ideal computer would have peripherals that upload their drivers to the computer when they are plugged in, making them truely plug and play. Most distributions have made proggress in hardware support. HOW-To's from a few years ago tell you to write down all information about your computer before installing linux, including IRQ assignments, chipset type etc...
These days you don't even need to know what an IRQ is to install RedHat or Caldera.
Linux is moving in the right direction, it is just important to realize that, to avoid stepping backwards.
-NH
Once you have a marriage license, you can be married anyway you like, you arent required to do it the ol christian way.
I'd like to see a slashInterview on all the canidates to find out their stances on the future of the space program and NASA funding. This is a strong factor in my decision on who to vote for, and I havn't seen this issue addressed yet by any canidate.
Slashdot seems the perfect forum for this.
After reading Katz' reply to q*bert, I totaly lost any respect I may have had for him.
/. community then reads it back to us (which I agree is offensive).
/.").
/. poll on wether /.'ers feel katz belongs here on /. or on ZDnet.
/. readers combined.
Q*Bert was totaly correct in stating that Katz dumbs down the opinions of the
An example is Katz standard form trolls of "computers and technology are good, censorship bad"... no kidding Jon.
His outright arogance in responding to that question is astounding! He starts right off demeaning Q*bert in an attempt to discredit him ("mayor of
I'd like to see a
NH
Disclaimer: I don't know who Q*bert is, so I'm not defending him in a personal way, I'm merely offended at how katz responded. Also, I'm not a member of the anti katz jihad, I just think he is often out of line, misinformed, and more of an ass then any given handful of
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Seems to me that NASA shouldn't really rely on Russia for anything mission criticle at this point. The Russian economy just isn't in a state to support a space program of this scale.
The money being lost in an attempt to prop up their part of the ISS would probably serve better in building up the base of their economy to support a future space program.
NH
you could buy modular components and basicaly build your own PDA?
Choose how much ram you want, what kind of display, built in stuff like modem or NIC, wireless etc, choose a case for it. Kinda a PDA version of PC's.
People don't seem to understand that win2k is *NOT* in development. It's been gold for many weeks now, and is in production for shipping in feb.
;] ).
So any comment about security holes in development kernels is totaly unfounded. There is nothing development about win2k (of course, most linux users will exchange winks when encountering a statement like that
The real funny is that MS is already releasing broken patches for a product that isn't even available yet!
NightHawk
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The Turtle and the Rabbit will duke it out while the penguin waddles ever closer to the proverbial finish line...
/me wonders if we will see this battle move into the T.V. arena...
"Netware hates, children, do you hate children? Vote Windows for 2000!"
"Gates had lots of pr0n in college, do you want pr0n in the hands of children? Vote NetWare in 2000!"
This may be more fun then the 2000 U.S. presidential elections.
NightHawk
Sure its technicaly feasible, but so is uberhighspeed bandwidth to every home in america, and we all know how common that is.
The only market for something like this is for rentals, but return visits to drop off a rented movie make up a large precentage of sales for rental shops.. 'Hey, I'm here anyway, why not rent that other movie I've wanted to see.'
Also, it's probably cheaper to have a few copies of a DVD that remain in circulation, then to pay for the infastructer to ship in 30 more copies of the latest disney flick every 3 days.
This new tech is nothing more then a "hey look what we can do" invention, and I doubt it will have any major impact on the home entertainment market, certainly not like DIVX would have.
NightHawk
In light of this recent announcement, I'd like to announce my new company, LinuxTwo!
We will be revolutionizing the industry with our own distribution of the popular "Hello World" application.
We intend to set a new standard with our advances in 'hello' and ground breaking 'world' technology.
We will be IPO'ing next week under the stock symbol L1NX.
NH
Hey, if that linuxone guy can do it, why can't I? I just wanna go into space! =]
Didnt they already IPO? which linux distribution was that then? Did the parent company spin off Caldera, and now they are IPO'n as well? Did I miss something? Am I a moron? (or rather is me beinga moron contributing to my confusion?)...
NightHawk
How will linux's desktop use diminish? Will all the Geek X users and theme hackers ditch their pretty/functional desktops and better os and go back to windows because bill gates told us its better then linux? Will all the people working so hard on XFree86, Gnome and KDE decide MS and Apple know whats better and give up?
Me thinks not.
or up until today. MS just released a patch (I got it from a link here) that lessens the amount of packets sent over high speed connections. I had known this was a problem for a while, because when I switched to using a linux MASQ box to get to the net instead of plugging my winbox right into the cable modem, my pings halved and my download speeds doubled.
This is just an extended version of the crap experiment we see made by journalists all too often.
/without/ the internet and have him journal the experience, I'm sure enough /.'s would love that one =]
If he suceeds, so what? Can we make use of his knowledge in our future space exploration? Would we have not lost the Mars probes if one click shopping was more common?
If he fails, does that herald the end of the internet? The automobile didn't spell the end of walking, why should the internet spell the end of going anywhere?
Nothing of value can possibly come from this as far as I can see. This is just another publicity stunt to make money for whatever parties are involved.
Something more worthwhile would be starting a business with every employee from a different city around the country or globe, and have them do all their comunication through the internet (no phone calls, no fax, no paper just email/messaging and file attatchments).
Or another idea: Send Katz to Alaska for a year to live
NightHawk
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Am I the only one who remebers the Woz? At the least he should get honorable mention =]
I thought ZD was the eternal Weyland Smithers to the Monty Burns that is Bill Gates.
Sounds like a stir up in Spring^H^H^H^H^H^H Redmond.
Looks like the Y2K bug hit them a few hours early, and they are dishing out a cover story about upgrades while they scramble to their mountain retreats! (giving themselves a head start to get away from angry customers and the collapse of civilization)
Forget about your domain, grab the cantines and shotguns!
You just need the following things:
-Inexpensive Highspeed net access
It's gotta be cheap, and its gotta be fast. Also, geeks don't like restrictive services. I want to be able to get a bunch of ip's at low to no extra cost, be able to run a ftp or www server (within reason in regards to traffic) and have static ip's, so I can register a domain. Many areas have net highspeed access, but most dont meet the above criteria. Also, reliability is very important, geeks don't like to be cut off from the net for more then a few miliseconds =]
-Good Food!
Most cities can easily answer to this request. Geeks need lots of piza, subs, burgers etc. If your city has nothing but fine dining, don't expect the geeks to come flooding in (not that all geeks dont enjoy fine dining, but we can't live off it =])
-Good job market
We gotta be able to pay for our junk food and net access, and this requires a job. Geeks typicaly detest manual labour, so don't expect McDonalds to cut it, we gotta be able to pay for our quad oc3's. You will need to have a large amount of software development firms. You really can't go wrong with a lot of them in your city, you create jobs for the programers, as well as network engineers to build and maintain the hardware. It's important to make your city attractive to software companies, through zoning taxes and whatever else a business will look at when considering your city. A good mix in the field is good as well. Some geeks are artists, some are engineers, so make sure you have some game companies, and some database/business software/network software companies so you can meet the needs of varying geeks.
-Affordable living quarters.
Some geeks will be happy with a loft apt in an old factory building, some will want a high end apt or a house. Geeks are frugal, so make sure the rates aren't too obscene.
If your city can manage the things in this list, your well on your way to becomming a geek mecca for the next century.
NightHawk
p.s. if I missed anything important, feel free to add to the list!
Christmas has passed, and with it eToys' worries about the etoy.com domain. Before xmas, when many people were shoping online eToys became concerned that people would end up at etoy.com by accident, and didn't want this to hurt their sales, so they pulled this little stunt to
1. Remove what they deemed offensive from a similar domain
2. Get their name in the news
Xmas is over now, and they dont have anything to gain by dragging this out any further.