Oh, and of course, the real world reason this isn't such a hot idea is that you can only use multiple channels to boost bandwidth only in WLAN environments where you control where the APs go so you don't have multiple APs interferring with each other.
although the idea is of universal 3D action games that will play well on any platform, it's not going to fly.
First, gamers Want the fastest possible speed on their platforms. They're the people driving the overclocking movement; who buy five grand, tricked out systems, and who also push the gaming industry. They're not going to buy games where there hardware and wideband net connections doesn't matter.
Second, we've already have games that run on multiple platforms. They tend to be written in Java, Flash or other virtual machine style environments where the game designer can focus on the game and not the hardware. Unfortunately, those games tend to be slow, since VMs can never take full advanatage of any givem hardware environment. And slow, to all the gamers I know, means dull.
So, nice ideas folks, but I don't expect any of them to matter in the real world of mainstream gaming designers or players.
In The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert A. Heinlein's billionarie hero D. D. Harriman gets us to the moon, by any trick he can come up with including selling the idea of using carbon black to turn the moon into a giant advertisement. In the story, the ads never happen, and as I recall he never really planned on doing it anyway.
Unfortunately, I suspect we will see ads in the sky soon. Unless, of course, light pollution in urban skies makes such schemes economically unsound. Who knew? Those of us in the country may finally have a reason to be glad that you can't see the night sky in the cities anyway.
We've known for five days now that CA only got the license because they were forced to in a settlement.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1543091,00. as p
"Sam Greenblatt, chief architect of the Linux technology group for CA, in Islandia. N.Y., told eWEEK that while CA "disagrees with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers, CA's license for Linux technology is part of a larger settlement with the Canopy Group [Inc.]. It has nothing to do with SCO's strategy of intimidation."
It will be about the same plus or minus five percent. Most news stories, I'm ashamed to say, have focued on the 'five billion dollars' that SCO is now claiming, without looking at the far more important issue that SCO is essentially trying to rewrite their claims agains IBM at the 11th hour and 59th minute. I doubt that the court will let this fly.
Now, Monday a week from now, if the court rules against SCO's new movements, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see SCO has dropped like a rock. SCO may end up with nothing more than a breech of contract case and that doesn't have nearly the sex appeal of Massive Trade Secret Claims Worth Billions!
>Your right Bruce that is no laughing matter at all. I hadn't dreamed anyone (other than SCO) would take claims like this against the Linux Community seriously.
There's the rub. People outside of Linux do take such claims seriously and making jokes about it only helps tick them off.
It also takes massive bad weather to knock out DirecWay. You'll see a lot more bandwidth trouble because of 'overuse' than you ever will because of weather.
Latency, as many other people have commented, is satellite's real pain in the rump though. That said, if your only other choice is dial-up, the satellite is easily the better choice.
Number 1, the Earth Simulator, runs NEC's Super-UX, a super computer Unix, and number 2, ASCI Q runs Tru64 Unix. Its my understanding that it's due to be replaced by a Cray Red Storm cluster, which will be running Linux.
The bottom line is that we're going to see a lot more supercomputers running Linux and I suspect the number one spot will eventually go to a cluster system running Linux.
OS/2 was sucesful, not just as sucessful as people thought it would be. As for Taligent, it never really got off the ground, like so many grand sounding technical ideas, so I don't think you can call it any more of a failure than so many ideas that stay on the launching pad.
You could do it yourself, or reinvent the wheel, or you could simply use Sputnik's system so that you can make it fancy or leave it at the basics.
I've got nothing to do with Sputnik, except I've played with and I know the founders--they're the same people who were behind LinuxCare--and I like it.
Were I setting up a Hotspot, or a WISP, for that matter, I'd try them first.
Users can choose. At heart, all UserLinux is is a pre-selection of software to make it easier for naive users to get up and running. Don't like it? Put together your own best of Linux distribution.
You're missing Perens' point. It's deliberately meant to include only a subset of all possible Linux programs, including desktops, to make it more usable to business people who don't want to make choices. His target audience just wants a working Linux distribution that's already has the important default decisions already made.
Now, you can disagree with this approach, but it's the approach He decided to take. I think the KDE people involved in this would be far better served by setting up their own KDE-Debian distribution rather than trying to horn in on Perens' project.
I mean, get real, it's just a distribution, it's not an attempt to create the one true Linux.
For more info, see my:
Linux Developers Spar Over Enterprise Desktop Plans http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,141590 0,00.as p
Steven
Best Book for Dealing With Windows Problems Ever
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· Score: 1
Seriously, and I've seen a lot of this kind of book over the years.
Isn't it interesting, 90% of the comments are about the lead paragraph, which has little to do with the rest of the review.
I know some have praised this review, but come on, if your lead graph is both misleading and the only thing that people are writing about, something clearly went wrong between reading the book and writing the review.
Were I grading the review itself, I'd give it a C-.
"What I found interesting was the entire system of government that Weber sets up."
But, he doesn't set it up. As someone mentioned earlier, it's Hornblower in space. So the good guys have royality and a cranky parliment and the other side has a revolutionary democracy that quickly turns into a dictatorship.
Nothing new here.
Mind you I enjoy the first Harrington books, but then they did get longer without any purpose and the plots staler and that was that.
No, as someone who's followed the history of both SCO and Caldera, before and after their merger, I'd say Caldera's troubles had a lot more to do with IBM leaving them in the lurch with Project Monterey; the slow growth of all dedicated Linux businesses--remember even Red Hat only recently turned a profit; and the reasons that Love gives in the interview.
Had Love stayed on, I think Caldera/SCO was well on its way to righting itself. And, by now, its stock price would be about what it is today.
Shocking? Not really. Something almost everyone forgets, today's SCO stock price should be divided by four when comparing it to Caldera's bad days. Just before Love left, in May 2002 Caldera had a four to one reverse stock split. Thus, today's SCO price of $13.50 is equal to a Aug. 2001 (Caldera acquires SCO) to May 2002 (4/1 split) price of $3.38. For all the stock excitement SCO has generated, by 'long' measurement, McBride's team still hasn't done that much for the stock. That may explain why they're still so focused on winning at any cost.
But had Love stayed, this would have been ironic, I'm quite sure Caldera/SCO, not SuSE, would now be being acquired by Novell.
First, Darl McBride worked in building up Novell Japan and before he left he headed Novell's Embedded Systems Division (NEST). Love would have worked with him at a distance, very different departments, in the late 80s, early 90s.
Please! IBM and HP buy a Linux company? 'Why buy a cow when milk is free' has been their attitude towards Linux for a while now. Besides, IBM will soon own a small share of Novell anyway--more than sufficient to do them good if there's anything to the stories of Novell having enough Unix IP rights left to protect any Linux with a Novell brand on it from SCO attacks.
As for the others, sorry, I keep an eye on all of them, and I haven't see any sign of any of them having any interest in getting into the OS business. AT&T & Lucent have their own problems to fix, and Cisco is finally coming around quite nicely by having stuck to their main business lines.
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And why use three when you can use four?
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http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,1583
Oh, and of course, the real world reason this isn't such a hot idea is that you can only use multiple channels to boost bandwidth only in WLAN environments where you control where the APs go so you don't have multiple APs interferring with each other.
Steven
> create a third version
Correct. The code differences are too vast between the two to actually try to merge one into the other.
Steven
The ship date news had already been reported by Mary Jo Foley, The reporter of Microsoft news, on the 10th.
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Steven
although the idea is of universal 3D action games that will play well on any platform, it's not going to fly.
First, gamers Want the fastest possible speed on their platforms. They're the people driving the overclocking movement; who buy five grand, tricked out systems, and who also push the gaming industry. They're not going to buy games where there hardware and wideband net connections doesn't matter.
Second, we've already have games that run on multiple platforms. They tend to be written in Java, Flash or other virtual machine style environments where the game designer can focus on the game and not the hardware. Unfortunately, those games tend to be slow, since VMs can never take full advanatage of any givem hardware environment. And slow, to all the gamers I know, means dull.
So, nice ideas folks, but I don't expect any of them to matter in the real world of mainstream gaming designers or players.
Steven
In The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert A. Heinlein's billionarie hero D. D. Harriman gets us to the moon, by any trick he can come up with including selling the idea of using carbon black to turn the moon into a giant advertisement. In the story, the ads never happen, and as I recall he never really planned on doing it anyway.
Unfortunately, I suspect we will see ads in the sky soon. Unless, of course, light pollution in urban skies makes such schemes economically unsound. Who knew? Those of us in the country may finally have a reason to be glad that you can't see the night sky in the cities anyway.
Steven
We've known for five days now that CA only got the license because they were forced to in a settlement.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1543091,00
"Sam Greenblatt, chief architect of the Linux technology group for CA, in Islandia. N.Y., told eWEEK that while CA "disagrees with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers, CA's license for Linux technology is part of a larger settlement with the Canopy Group [Inc.]. It has nothing to do with SCO's strategy of intimidation."
With licensees like this, who needs enemies?
Steven
It will be about the same plus or minus five percent. Most news stories, I'm ashamed to say, have focued on the 'five billion dollars' that SCO is now claiming, without looking at the far more important issue that SCO is essentially trying to rewrite their claims agains IBM at the 11th hour and 59th minute. I doubt that the court will let this fly.
Now, Monday a week from now, if the court rules against SCO's new movements, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see SCO has dropped like a rock. SCO may end up with nothing more than a breech of contract case and that doesn't have nearly the sex appeal of Massive Trade Secret Claims Worth Billions!
Steven
> I wonder why Locus avoided the whole publishing house?
Because Baen tends to publish military SF like the titles you mentioned and David Drake's books. Locus has always been prejudied against military SF.
Steven
>Your right Bruce that is no laughing matter at all. I hadn't dreamed anyone (other than SCO) would take claims like this against the Linux Community seriously.
There's the rub. People outside of Linux do take such claims seriously and making jokes about it only helps tick them off.
Steven
It also takes massive bad weather to knock out DirecWay. You'll see a lot more bandwidth trouble because of 'overuse' than you ever will because of weather.
Latency, as many other people have commented, is satellite's real pain in the rump though. That said, if your only other choice is dial-up, the satellite is easily the better choice.
Steven
Wire recorders go back to at least the early 50s. Anyone know more? I've seen them, and I always found them a fascinating dead-end technology.
Steven
Number 1, the Earth Simulator, runs NEC's Super-UX, a super computer Unix, and number 2, ASCI Q runs Tru64 Unix. Its my understanding that it's due to be replaced by a Cray Red Storm cluster, which will be running Linux.
The bottom line is that we're going to see a lot more supercomputers running Linux and I suspect the number one spot will eventually go to a cluster system running Linux.
Steven
> The only products they shipped was a couple books
If it's not running on silicon, it's not up.
Boy that was a sad waste of money and time.
Steven
OS/2 was sucesful, not just as sucessful as people thought it would be. As for Taligent, it never really got off the ground, like so many grand sounding technical ideas, so I don't think you can call it any more of a failure than so many ideas that stay on the launching pad.
Steven
Visit Sputnik
http://www.sputnik.com/
You could do it yourself, or reinvent the wheel, or you could simply use Sputnik's system so that you can make it fancy or leave it at the basics.
I've got nothing to do with Sputnik, except I've played with and I know the founders--they're the same people who were behind LinuxCare--and I like it.
Were I setting up a Hotspot, or a WISP, for that matter, I'd try them first.
Good luck.
Steven
>unfortunately jounalists don't read slashdot or Groklaw
;-)
Dank! I guess I'll have to stop reading Slashdot and GrokLaw now.
Steven
Users can choose. At heart, all UserLinux is is a pre-selection of software to make it easier for naive users to get up and running. Don't like it? Put together your own best of Linux distribution.
This debate is getting more than a little silly.
Steven
You're missing Perens' point. It's deliberately meant to include only a subset of all possible Linux programs, including desktops, to make it more usable to business people who don't want to make choices. His target audience just wants a working Linux distribution that's already has the important default decisions already made.
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Now, you can disagree with this approach, but it's the approach He decided to take. I think the KDE people involved in this would be far better served by setting up their own KDE-Debian distribution rather than trying to horn in on Perens' project.
I mean, get real, it's just a distribution, it's not an attempt to create the one true Linux.
For more info, see my:
Linux Developers Spar Over Enterprise Desktop Plans
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,14159
Steven
Seriously, and I've seen a lot of this kind of book over the years.
Steven
>Is Sun actually thinking "Hmm, 'Java Desktop System', that's a name people can trust"?
I think they're thinking, McNealy will have a cow if we call it Linux Desktop System.
Steven
Isn't it interesting, 90% of the comments are about the lead paragraph, which has little to do with the rest of the review.
I know some have praised this review, but come on, if your lead graph is both misleading and the only thing that people are writing about, something clearly went wrong between reading the book and writing the review.
Were I grading the review itself, I'd give it a C-.
Steven
"What I found interesting was the entire system of government that Weber sets up."
But, he doesn't set it up. As someone mentioned earlier, it's Hornblower in space. So the good guys have royality and a cranky parliment and the other side has a revolutionary democracy that quickly turns into a dictatorship.
Nothing new here.
Mind you I enjoy the first Harrington books, but then they did get longer without any purpose and the plots staler and that was that.
Alas.
Steven
No, as someone who's followed the history of both SCO and Caldera, before and after their merger, I'd say Caldera's troubles had a lot more to do with IBM leaving them in the lurch with Project Monterey; the slow growth of all dedicated Linux businesses--remember even Red Hat only recently turned a profit; and the reasons that Love gives in the interview.
Had Love stayed on, I think Caldera/SCO was well on its way to righting itself. And, by now, its stock price would be about what it is today.
Shocking? Not really. Something almost everyone forgets, today's SCO stock price should be divided by four when comparing it to Caldera's bad days. Just before Love left, in May 2002 Caldera had a four to one reverse stock split. Thus, today's SCO price of $13.50 is equal to a Aug. 2001 (Caldera acquires SCO) to May 2002 (4/1 split) price of $3.38. For all the stock excitement SCO has generated, by 'long' measurement, McBride's team still hasn't done that much for the stock. That may explain why they're still so focused on winning at any cost.
But had Love stayed, this would have been ironic, I'm quite sure Caldera/SCO, not SuSE, would now be being acquired by Novell.
Steven
First, Darl McBride worked in building up Novell Japan and before he left he headed Novell's Embedded Systems Division (NEST). Love would have worked with him at a distance, very different departments, in the late 80s, early 90s.
Steven
Please! IBM and HP buy a Linux company? 'Why buy a cow when milk is free' has been their attitude towards Linux for a while now. Besides, IBM will soon own a small share of Novell anyway--more than sufficient to do them good if there's anything to the stories of Novell having enough Unix IP rights left to protect any Linux with a Novell brand on it from SCO attacks.
As for the others, sorry, I keep an eye on all of them, and I haven't see any sign of any of them having any interest in getting into the OS business. AT&T & Lucent have their own problems to fix, and Cisco is finally coming around quite nicely by having stuck to their main business lines.
Steven