I hope macintosh succeds and gets lots of marketshare.
Especially by doing something like:
[1] Put on lots of free lunches for press journalists, send out lots of powermacs to magazines so osX gets lots of rave reviews.
[2] Wait until lots of interest in Macintosh then slash retail prices to "at cost" - sell direct from factory - flood lots and lots of cheap macintoshes into the market.
Just a quick question - why did you bother correcting his "LICK" to "KICK"? If someone wanted to lick my ass, I wouldn't tell them to kicj it instead...
What will happen if *competent* people start developing it?
Not much. I'd download the source tho, if only for a good laugh.:)
If they opensource _all_ of windows, all dlls and all supporting stuff, and borland open-sourced delphi libs - then maybe developers could port to a better more stable platform - but as it is - no-one would develop for win95ui on Linux / BeOS / Darwin etc for the same reason there's bugger-all Linux dev - no all-in-one hold-my-hand tools.
That said, I agree with the d00d who said that ms is prolly full of competent programmers who grind their teeth at the obvious bugs they can't quash because those quirks have become used as features in 3rd party software!
Like they say - space is only an hours drive, straight up.
I wish there was a cheaper easier way to get into space - like fly a rocket up high, piggybacked to a b52 - then fly it up to LEO using a hydrogen ramjet.
And yeah - "open" design of rockets would probably suck - but it sure would be fun.
Because we can have an uber-nice UI and help porting efforts and just because it'd be a nice codebase to play with.
I don't think splitting up MS would be good for the IT sector - MS has brought out some good stuff, like it or not, and has created the environment where almost every business can and does use a complex IT system - that they can "administer" themselves.
Look! We're stealing marketshare anyways! As long as MS keeps away from "wetwork" it can do all it wants in my book.
(btw: It's really early in the morning here - I'm listening to corrs and making something that's _really_ _really_ cool - if I finish it, maybe it'll even get on slashdot front page tomorrow.:-)
Totally distributed - hotdesk from anywhere - information is king - a totally different change in how computer systems are used. Less transparency between the UI and the hardware - people can't tell how this data got here - but it's important to them so they are happy.
I would be keen to write this - but what would be the limites. Render html from stdin in less than 5kb of perl script? In less than 5kb of realmode dos-code. In less than 5kb of uncompiled C code using a standard library?
My PDA don't have to be Linnux. I just want a bulk-powerful processor, display and touchscreen in a 1.8" diameter pocketwatch.
This would be the most neatest thing. Have Compact Flash so you can store some beck mp3s, or the matrix movie, an ethernet jack so you can sync from anywhere.
The most super tricky bit however - is making a circular display - is this possible?
Umm - are there any ongoing projects to put together pcb / circuit specifications to make a Linuxable pda?
The itsy - did that have specifications? I think a project would be cool that was to make gpl circuit diagrams, so people can buy a crusoe cpu, compactflash card, ethernet driver and a touchscreen lcd - and make a hell funky pda.
Is BCC much more ANSI-compliant than MSVC? I don't know much about anything - I just wanted tO know.
I wish computers came bundled with progamming tools knowadays - DJGPP is free - BCC is free - there are lots of free graphics libraries, networking libraries etc, how come manufacturers dont bundle a programming language with their Dell Inspirons? (et al). I guess it's because warez are all over the internet now - less people are forced to write their own games for entertainment.
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Harrah. Huh? Why slashdot so sloooow.
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Stupid dDOS people attacking something actually important.
There's the car driving banner ad - cmdrtaco pretending to be VA - all the comments are offtopic and the the site is suffering from a DDOS.
Eheh.
BTW: What slashdot story had the most comments ever? (I know gnome/kde used to gets lots long ago - but that was only relative to the ability of the system to cope with them. What did that story get to? 700ish? Have any stories topped 1000 yet?
There's the car driving banner ad - cmdrtaco pretending to be VA - all the comments are offtopic and the the site is suffering from a DDOS.
Eheh.
BTW: What slashdot story had the most comments ever? (I know gnome/kde used to gets lots long ago - but that was only relative to the ability of the system to cope with them. What did that story get to? 700ish? Have any stories topped 1000 yet?
Assuming she's been animated using the "game technologies" - I image that it will be quite surreal to watch her read the news.
How long until there is a open-source replica reading slashdot news - that you could run locally? (I image a Penguin -surprise- would be the first model).
I actually wouldn't mind a full-screen news presenter running on my fuzzy vga screen, babbling away with slashdot / freshmeat / cnn news.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope - never gonna feel truly safe until I got a big block of thermite tied to my hard drive and the dead-mans trigger in my left hand. :)
Win32 Napster Client.
[1] They guy's single - you live nearby and he wants a girlfriend.
[2] He's practising 'talking' so he can get a girlfriend elsewhere.
Guys don't like talking. Talking sucks. (so i made some sweeping and incorrect generalisations - so what?)
Especially by doing something like:
[1] Put on lots of free lunches for press journalists, send out lots of powermacs to magazines so osX gets lots of rave reviews.
[2] Wait until lots of interest in Macintosh then slash retail prices to "at cost" - sell direct from factory - flood lots and lots of cheap macintoshes into the market.
[3] Bring price back up and be happy.
Link here.
Bummer.
I wonder if this will make life better? I wonder if BeOS will become to next platform of choice?
I appreciate it might take 200 hundred years - but that's not long in the grander scheme of things.
Do we have the technology that will get it that far and slow it down - and not break??? :)
(August 2231: "I can't believe they put NT on that probe ship - oh my fscking god!)
WTF? Get your apopoleptic *grainy* arse off of Slashdot now bitch!
Yeah - that was gonna be my one big concession, grep, awk, sed, etc and piping - they're really fun under Linux. It's just not the same with dos.
Not gay. But you can take his offer.
Not much. I'd download the source tho, if only for a good laugh. :)
If they opensource _all_ of windows, all dlls and all supporting stuff, and borland open-sourced delphi libs - then maybe developers could port to a better more stable platform - but as it is - no-one would develop for win95ui on Linux / BeOS / Darwin etc for the same reason there's bugger-all Linux dev - no all-in-one hold-my-hand tools.
That said, I agree with the d00d who said that ms is prolly full of competent programmers who grind their teeth at the obvious bugs they can't quash because those quirks have become used as features in 3rd party software!
They'll be easier to hunt down. :)
Also: What makes Linux such a kick-arse dev platform? Isn't win with perl, mysql, httpd and djgpp just as good?
I wish there was a cheaper easier way to get into space - like fly a rocket up high, piggybacked to a b52 - then fly it up to LEO using a hydrogen ramjet.
And yeah - "open" design of rockets would probably suck - but it sure would be fun.
I don't think splitting up MS would be good for the IT sector - MS has brought out some good stuff, like it or not, and has created the environment where almost every business can and does use a complex IT system - that they can "administer" themselves.
Look! We're stealing marketshare anyways! As long as MS keeps away from "wetwork" it can do all it wants in my book.
(btw: It's really early in the morning here - I'm listening to corrs and making something that's _really_ _really_ cool - if I finish it, maybe it'll even get on slashdot front page tomorrow. :-)
I've seen it and it looks very COOL. A big metal x, all chromy and shiny with a cool glowing orb in the middle.
BTW: The x-windows x is fscking ugly!
Hooray for cool cases! I'm hanging out for a perfect hermetical sphere case for my servers, so I can stack them like a family of rats.
if (antennaeangle Yeah, I know it'd be harder than that - but wouldn't some kinda hack like that be sort of how they did apollo?
They should send them to the moon to use as bounce communications for when we start to colon-hehehehe-ize.
Firstpost!
I would be keen to write this - but what would be the limites. Render html from stdin in less than 5kb of perl script? In less than 5kb of realmode dos-code. In less than 5kb of uncompiled C code using a standard library?
This would be the most neatest thing. Have Compact Flash so you can store some beck mp3s, or the matrix movie, an ethernet jack so you can sync from anywhere.
The most super tricky bit however - is making a circular display - is this possible?
The itsy - did that have specifications? I think a project would be cool that was to make gpl circuit diagrams, so people can buy a crusoe cpu, compactflash card, ethernet driver and a touchscreen lcd - and make a hell funky pda.
I wish computers came bundled with progamming tools knowadays - DJGPP is free - BCC is free - there are lots of free graphics libraries, networking libraries etc, how come manufacturers dont bundle a programming language with their Dell Inspirons? (et al). I guess it's because warez are all over the internet now - less people are forced to write their own games for entertainment.
Ben Nolan
There's the car driving banner ad - cmdrtaco pretending to be VA - all the comments are offtopic and the the site is suffering from a DDOS.
Eheh.
BTW: What slashdot story had the most comments ever? (I know gnome/kde used to gets lots long ago - but that was only relative to the ability of the system to cope with them. What did that story get to? 700ish? Have any stories topped 1000 yet?
Ben
Eheh.
BTW: What slashdot story had the most comments ever? (I know gnome/kde used to gets lots long ago - but that was only relative to the ability of the system to cope with them. What did that story get to? 700ish? Have any stories topped 1000 yet?
Ben
How long until there is a open-source replica reading slashdot news - that you could run locally? (I image a Penguin -surprise- would be the first model).
I actually wouldn't mind a full-screen news presenter running on my fuzzy vga screen, babbling away with slashdot / freshmeat / cnn news.
I think it's a good idea.
Ben