Not sure what you mean about not being able to schedule PHP scripts to run. I do just that for several recurring tasks - PHP scritps I've written to do log crunching, and to generate all the static HTML at www.kissthisguy.com once a day. The PHP scripts are run via cron just like any other script would be. I'd far rather do things like this in PHP than in perl. It's a cleaner language (to me).
Hunh? I spent quite a bit of time - a couple of pages - talking about how painful the speed difference was. I also noted that i'm not sitting on my thumbs waiting for OSX, but that multitasking compared to BeOS is abysmal.
osnews.com isn't my site, and osnews.com is unbiased toward any particular OS. It's a site for people who are interested in keeping on top of OS technology.
A design flaw in 75% of windows users, or in windows itself?
Sorry, couldn't resist. But it seems like the former to me. Just because people aren't curious about anything beneath the immediately obvious is not a reason to call it a windows design flaw.
Well, you shouldn't doubt me, since I was just relaying the information I received from Gassee. I wasn't part of the pre-trial proceedings, while he was. But yes, you do have to take his word for it, as I don't think this will be easy information to verify.
You're right - the article doesn't pain the whole picture of Be's failure - just one part of it. I'd love to do a complete rundown of the factors that accounted for Be's failure someday, but not for Byte (this was, unfortunately, my last column for them). We'll see...
Try adding new hardware to a BeOS machine. You don't have to install drivers. You don't get prompted for them. The machine just keeps working as expected.
Try removing and replacing your motherboard, video card, network card, sound card, and rebooting. Getting your X machine back up and running will be a hair-pulling experience. Your BeOS machine will come back to full GUI in 15 seconds, just like it was before you changed the hardware.
It's remarkable. Linux is a long, long away from that kind of grace.
I have been following AudioRequest forever. I even gave it full coverage in the MP3 book I wrote for O'Reilly. I did not in any way imply that Be was the first company to do something like this.
Ummm... is there something about BeOS/BeIA you don't like? Is there something about me you don't like? Am I ever anything but civil? Do I get my facts wrong? Is BeOS anything but incredible? What exactly is your beef?
Ogg Vorbis encoders have been available for BeOS almost from the start of the Ogg project. There's no reason why any vendor who wants Ogg support on Aura can't request it on the device. Cake.
1) I am not a Linux hater (though I don't understand why anyone would want to use Linux as a desktop OS when BeOS is in the world).
2) The article had nothing whatsoever to do with Linux.
3) The section you mention had nothing whatsoever to do with any OS. The technique I described could be used by any OS and has absolutely nothing to do with BeIA.
"Our" streets? How are they ours? Since when we are we entitled to steal just because it's suddenly so easy? Napster is neutral technology, but most Napster users are thieves. It's really simple. Listeners don't have some inalienable right to free music. If a musician or label wants to give away music, that's fine. Very few do.
Chapter 2 of the book, "How the Codec Works" tells you about a lot more than just the file format -- it's a pretty in-depth examination of the technical details of the MP3 algorithm / codec.
You need to read a little more carefully -- in one part of the review, Eugenia states that disabling the 2nd processor in BeOS resulted in only a.6 fps drop in performance. This is because Quake II is not multithreaded. So the "unfair hardware advantage" doesn't wash.
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Not sure what you mean about not being able to schedule PHP scripts to run. I do just that for several recurring tasks - PHP scritps I've written to do log crunching, and to generate all the static HTML at www.kissthisguy.com once a day. The PHP scripts are run via cron just like any other script would be. I'd far rather do things like this in PHP than in perl. It's a cleaner language (to me).
Hunh? I spent quite a bit of time - a couple of pages - talking about how painful the speed difference was. I also noted that i'm not sitting on my thumbs waiting for OSX, but that multitasking compared to BeOS is abysmal.
osnews.com isn't my site, and osnews.com is unbiased toward any particular OS. It's a site for people who are interested in keeping on top of OS technology.
Shall I fax you a copy of my driver's license? ;)
- Scot Hacker
- Scot Hacker
There's always The Archive of Misheard Lyrics. Not a reliable research source, but it sure is hilarious...
A design flaw in 75% of windows users, or in windows itself?
Sorry, couldn't resist. But it seems like the former to me. Just because people aren't curious about anything beneath the immediately obvious is not a reason to call it a windows design flaw.
Huevos is a not-uncommon metaphor for balls... no? At least I've heard it a bunch of times...
Well, you shouldn't doubt me, since I was just relaying the information I received from Gassee. I wasn't part of the pre-trial proceedings, while he was. But yes, you do have to take his word for it, as I don't think this will be easy information to verify.
You're right - the article doesn't pain the whole picture of Be's failure - just one part of it. I'd love to do a complete rundown of the factors that accounted for Be's failure someday, but not for Byte (this was, unfortunately, my last column for them). We'll see...
Try adding new hardware to a BeOS machine. You don't have to install drivers. You don't get prompted for them. The machine just keeps working as expected.
Try removing and replacing your motherboard, video card, network card, sound card, and rebooting. Getting your X machine back up and running will be a hair-pulling experience. Your BeOS machine will come back to full GUI in 15 seconds, just like it was before you changed the hardware.
It's remarkable. Linux is a long, long away from that kind of grace.
No. It implies that 99.9% of people still listen to MP3s on their computers, not in the living room.
Why not? If that's what the vendor wants it to do, then that's what Be will make it do. It's a simple equation.
I have been following AudioRequest forever. I even gave it full coverage in the MP3 book I wrote for O'Reilly. I did not in any way imply that Be was the first company to do something like this.
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Ummm... is there something about BeOS/BeIA you don't like? Is there something about me you don't like? Am I ever anything but civil? Do I get my facts wrong? Is BeOS anything but incredible? What exactly is your beef?
Ogg Vorbis encoders have been available for BeOS almost from the start of the Ogg project. There's no reason why any vendor who wants Ogg support on Aura can't request it on the device. Cake.
Uhh... looks like you might want to read the article again. And this time, consider paying attention to what it says.
1) I am not a Linux hater (though I don't understand why anyone would want to use Linux as a desktop OS when BeOS is in the world). 2) The article had nothing whatsoever to do with Linux. 3) The section you mention had nothing whatsoever to do with any OS. The technique I described could be used by any OS and has absolutely nothing to do with BeIA.
"Our" streets? How are they ours? Since when we are we entitled to steal just because it's suddenly so easy? Napster is neutral technology, but most Napster users are thieves. It's really simple. Listeners don't have some inalienable right to free music. If a musician or label wants to give away music, that's fine. Very few do.
Chapter 2 of the book, "How the Codec Works" tells you about a lot more than just the file format -- it's a pretty in-depth examination of the technical details of the MP3 algorithm / codec.
You can get the Jean-Paul Sartre Existential Icon Action Pack here:
http://www.benews.com/mc/icons.php
That's www.betips.net. Information about the public BONE testing going on there can be read at:
http://www.benews.com/story/3264.1.html
Yes, BONE is young and I've had some problems, but the performance is leagues beyond what I was getting under the old net_server.
You need to read a little more carefully -- in one part of the review, Eugenia states that disabling the 2nd processor in BeOS resulted in only a .6 fps drop in performance. This is because Quake II is not multithreaded. So the "unfair hardware advantage" doesn't wash.
http://www.betips.net/cgi-bin/chu nga.pl?ID=tip526