- its a slightly stripped down version of 3DS Max - but it's free as long as you register on the web site. It has a few manuals and tutorials to start you off
People love freedom but they sure as hell get upset when anybody else actually tries to use it.
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This could just have easily been "its Linux network crashed"... If you read the link it says an application failed - it does not look like there is enough detail or info to assume that the NT Network or OS crashed.
The highest cause of failure is badly managed systems, followed by badly written applications.
I've seen really good apps run on NT, and really bad apps run (or limp rather) on NT - but thats not NT's fault.
I'm trying to leave this planet, but I personally just don't have the technology or resources to do it yet...
I think that just like we will kill this planet in order to get to a high tech society (us plus all of the third worlders..), we may end up killing this solar system in order learn how to journey to other solar systems - call that high tech traveling society...
Then again, nothing ever pans out quite how you thought it would:-)
If you read all the information this is very far from being about dumb terminals.
MS hate dumb terminals - why would they go in that route?
Its a long term strategy about moving the majority of business to business and business to consumer data around as XML.
It beats the crap out of the way current web pages operate. It sucks... everything currently runs off the server. Now turn it around.. E.g. Imagine if I could get CNN content as XML, then I could view it on any device - not just a web browser.
Then imagine what you could do with it using your local processing power. I can view the content/data the way I want to. I can process it the way I want to. If all information was transmitted this way, it would make for some really interesting ideas and things you could do...
(Disclaimer: I've never run Linux - so shoot me down. Tell me where I'm wrong - cause mostly I'm just making guesses when it comes to Linux and what it can and can't do.)
Microsoft does not really gain anything out of porting office to Linux. They have to:
- develop a whole bunch of "services" that don't really exist under Linux in order to get office to play nicely. (Think OLE / ActiveX type stuff / ADO / OLEDB / ODBC / Unicode? and code pages / Internet Explorer integration...). Where do you stop - there are a lot of things that "exist" on Windows that would probably take a lot of effort to implement in or port to Linux.
- shoot themselves in the revenue foot becuase now people don't have to buy Windows. I know - I know, but the Mac has never historically eaten into Windows sales - It was an extra revenue source. Linux will be detrimental to Windows sales.
- Train people to support linux? and the office on top of it? I don't think so.
Microsoft never wanted to be in the Unix business. A long long time ago Microsoft had one of the most popular *nix OSes for the intel platform (Microsoft Xenix). They sold it off becuase of the way Windows and OS2 were developing - I believe it was bought by SCO and Xenix either became SCO unix or a lot of it went into SCO unix. (long time ago - could be a bit wrong here...)
End result: They have to work incredibly hard for a very small return... It's not going to happen.
But such a computer has been built. It's called the universe - oh wait - now this is starting to get really complex...
and remember the other theory (hitchhikers guide - I think) that says "Once the universe is completely understood it will vanish and be replaced by something even more weird"
And "On a clear disk you can SEEK forever"... I guess the word meta in Transmeta implies some sort of higher order control. So - what are some good business advantages of being able to change your processor instruction set?
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- its a slightly stripped down version of 3DS Max - but it's free as long as you register on the web site. It has a few manuals and tutorials to start you off
Wouldn't it be more economical to capture and mine a mineral rich asteriod?
If the "time to live" of all copyrights, patents etc - only lasted for 3 or 4 years - would the system still work?
Would this be enough of an incentive to still create ideas and content?
People love freedom but they sure as hell get upset when anybody else actually tries to use it.
This could just have easily been "its Linux network crashed"... If you read the link it says an application failed - it does not look like there is enough detail or info to assume that the NT Network or OS crashed.
The highest cause of failure is badly managed systems, followed by badly written applications.
I've seen really good apps run on NT, and really bad apps run (or limp rather) on NT - but thats not NT's fault.
I'm trying to leave this planet, but I personally just don't have the technology or resources to do it yet...
I think that just like we will kill this planet in order to get to a high tech society (us plus all of the third worlders..), we may end up killing this solar system in order learn how to journey to other solar systems - call that high tech traveling society...
Then again, nothing ever pans out quite how you thought it would :-)
If you read all the information this is very far from being about dumb terminals.
MS hate dumb terminals - why would they go in that route?
Its a long term strategy about moving the majority of business to business and business to consumer data around as XML.
It beats the crap out of the way current web pages operate. It sucks ... everything currently runs off the server. Now turn it around.. E.g. Imagine if I could get CNN content as XML, then I could view it on any device - not just a web browser.
Then imagine what you could do with it using your local processing power. I can view the content/data the way I want to. I can process it the way I want to. If all information was transmitted this way, it would make for some really interesting ideas and things you could do...
I wonder if there are any web hosting satellites up in space ...
Err ... what resolution does a TV work at? run at? err - display at? whatever ...
And surely a 600Mhz proc with a good 3D card could power said resolution at quite a decent speed?
I mean this thing does click into a TV right?
(Disclaimer: I've never run Linux - so shoot me down. Tell me where I'm wrong - cause mostly I'm just making guesses when it comes to Linux and what it can and can't do.)
...). Where do you stop - there are a lot of things that "exist" on Windows that would probably take a lot of effort to implement in or port to Linux.
Microsoft does not really gain anything out of porting office to Linux.
They have to:
- develop a whole bunch of "services" that don't really exist under Linux in order to get office to play nicely. (Think OLE / ActiveX type stuff / ADO / OLEDB / ODBC / Unicode? and code pages / Internet Explorer integration
- shoot themselves in the revenue foot becuase now people don't have to buy Windows. I know - I know, but the Mac has never historically eaten into Windows sales - It was an extra revenue source. Linux will be detrimental to Windows sales.
- Train people to support linux? and the office on top of it? I don't think so.
Microsoft never wanted to be in the Unix business. A long long time ago Microsoft had one of the most popular *nix OSes for the intel platform (Microsoft Xenix). They sold it off becuase of the way Windows and OS2 were developing - I believe it was bought by SCO and Xenix either became SCO unix or a lot of it went into SCO unix. (long time ago - could be a bit wrong here...)
End result: They have to work incredibly hard for a very small return... It's not going to happen.
Do people with a photographic memory have to buy or pay for every book they see (or image they view)? Poor buggers...
:-)
Anyone wondered about that?
And who owns the light (or image contained in it) once it leaves the projector...
We own all rights to this work and any elctromagnetic particles that are reflected or refracted through,by or from it
But such a computer has been built. It's called the universe - oh wait - now this is starting to get really complex...
and remember the other theory (hitchhikers guide - I think) that says "Once the universe is completely understood it will vanish and be replaced by something even more weird"
And "On a clear disk you can SEEK forever" ...
I guess the word meta in Transmeta implies some sort of higher order control.
So - what are some good business advantages of being able to change your processor instruction set?