Once again, revenue from Linux users is insufficient to fund a project. The same thing happened in 1996 when the last wave of commercial vendors tried to sustain projects on Linux revenue. The casulties of that were Ceres Soundstudio among other things.
For its primary use: a database, web, dialup,and email server, Linux is rock solid. If you want to get into esoteric uses like memory hogging video applications it crashes like an egg. The VM crash bug in 2.2.* is pretty horrible and not a big enough problem to get fixed by Linus.
The IRQ lockup in 2.2.* is another monster bug. It got better in 2.2.3 but still happens during extremely rapid I/O shuffling like I was doing on Sunday. Crash, burn, heeyah, over and over and over and over again and not so much as a bedtime story from Linus.
You really should give credit to Rasterman and Mandrake for coining the term "Enlightenment" We may all want stuff without having to pay for it, but at least we can keep the illusion of wanting freedom.
Another win for Steve Jobless
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Once again Steve displays his knack for picking up on good ideas but failing to make it embracable by third parties. That's not to say Apple is all air heads. There are some damn good engineers in their low, entry level, software testing positions:
Really I've never heard of an NT server staying up during even 1000 hits an hour let alone an NT server running compilers and remote X clients during peak hours. When the corporate servers on my lan are crashing and burning the non commercial home Linux box keeps going. As long as VM doesn't run out.
The codec was really developed by some EE called Huang but named after his boss Sorenson. Now that really sucks for Huang.
Steve Jobless has a knack for picking out great ideas like the Imac, firewire, and the GUI, but he falls on his face when it comes to licensing those ideas. Today while every other company realizes licensing their technology to third parties is the only way to survive, Apple is the single company wanting to remain the sole proprietor of its technology.
I don't know a company that wouldn't pick Microsoft if their price for the same merchandise was 10 times higher than a reseller. The Microsoft nametag is alive and well in business.
Damn. I installed it alone. No wonder I can't get a job anywhere like Austin Bunn.
Like W*ndows 2000 isn't hype and buzzwords
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Funny how what has become 1st quarter 2000 release of W*ndows 2000 is regarded as the future of the world by all businesses big and small yet Linux which is here today is all hype and buzzwords.
First transmeta, then StrongARM, now finally a real tangible entity proposes using Linux to eliminate the need for a standard chip architecture. Suddenly recent mass layoffs in the Fl*rida semiconductor industry turn into mass hires and we are able to restart the chip industry.
Seeing how lucasfilm has a lot of money invested in digital theater technology it makes sense for them to screen in digital. We need to make theater technology as idiot proof as possible and digital certainly is easier than film for the idiots who run theaters nowadays.
With the turnover rate of software being what it is, there isn't much danger of turnover clauses kicking users out of college and home. If licenses don't already go ignored, people usually shelve the software after a couple years anyway and move on to better things like work, marriage, kids, overtime. At least my software anyway.
The only problem with mp3 is that the best anyone could do to pay for it was to slap enourmous license fees on all encoders for it. $25 per encoder with a $15,000 annual minimum is outrageous.
does anyone remember back when a 2nd level domain that had even a remote resemblance to your business costed $100 and a simple form? Now you have to find the owner and start bids at $1000. We need more top level domains.
With questions about nerve bandwidth hitting ask slashdot, medical dramas hitting the box office, top rated medical shows taking over prime time, now is a good time to back off from the star studded, super competitive, glamourfest world of biology and become a geek.
I believe one of the reasons they're going to observe decreased sound localization is that binaural methods really don't work. From a technical standpoint, you have two transducers so you should be able to reproduce every sound with two speakers. From a biological standpoint, the shape of the ear causes secondary reflections that actually help us localize sound as coming from behind, in front, up, or down. Headphones don't reproduce those secondary reflections and hence the existance of 5:1 sound systems.
Notice all the guys who live in Silicon valley look high strung and constapated while the guys from Michigan and outer mongoo look relaxed. Maybe if rent wasn't $1000 per month and the sales tax wasn't 8.5% in San Jose you could live there and live at the same time, but then Metamucil would go out of business.
I don't think the big, boy's club, 4.0 MIT grads, silicon valley firms monitor/. as much as you think. There seem to be a lot of low level tech support employees in these companies who do hit sites and pass them around their department, but the guys who run the company, the 4.0 MIT grads who got hired for focusing on grades, are going to be as clueless about/. as you can get.
The integrated sound on mobos is usually the equivalent of a $25 soundblaster 16, the most God awful soundcard you can possibly get. If it's cheaper to get that integrated than it would be seperately you're looking too high in the motherboard price range. These things are only good for about a year before standards change you know.
As for integrated video, current CPU's incorporate most video acceleration on board the CPU. In the future, all video functions will be on board the CPU. Why do you want a motherboard with integrated video support when you know the future video-CPU will require a completely different motherboard?
Kids selling shoes for a living are putting out graphics programs, sound programs, and video programs like gang busters and this guy who works 14 hours a day at a real job on his program can't get but 1 release out in a year? People with jobs know how to get jobs. People without jobs know how to code.
Either that or Corel is porting an office suite.
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Anyways. How many products did Microsoft actually finish porting after the company which was already attempting a competing port got scared off by Microsoft's plan?
The last one was RealPlayer, which Microsoft killed off by introducing an alpha of NetShow without ever finishing it.
Then there was beta of IE4 for unix, which scared off Netscape from ever releasing a browser after 4.5.
And why the fsck do these comments submit when I hit return?
God I'd like to be in that picture with Linus.
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I never thought Linus could be photographed with ordinary mortals like that. Don't you have to be transcended to see Linus in person or something? And then you can't return to Earth.
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Once again, revenue from Linux users is insufficient to fund a project. The same thing happened in 1996 when the last wave of commercial vendors tried to sustain projects on Linux revenue. The casulties of that were Ceres Soundstudio among other things.
For its primary use: a database, web, dialup,and email server, Linux is rock solid. If you want to get into esoteric uses like memory hogging video applications it crashes like an egg. The VM crash bug in 2.2.* is pretty horrible and not a big enough problem to get fixed by Linus.
The IRQ lockup in 2.2.* is another monster bug. It got better in 2.2.3 but still happens during extremely rapid I/O shuffling like I was doing on Sunday. Crash, burn, heeyah, over and over and over and over again and not so much as a bedtime story from Linus.
You really should give credit to Rasterman and Mandrake for coining the term "Enlightenment" We may all want stuff without having to pay for it, but at least we can keep the illusion of wanting freedom.
Once again Steve displays his knack for picking up on good ideas but failing to make it embracable by third parties. That's not to say Apple is all air heads. There are some damn good engineers in their low, entry level, software testing positions:
/quicktime/quickti
a17-202-32-93.apple.com - - [17/Mar/1999:19:15:15 -0500] "GET
melinux HTTP/1.1" 301 357 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)"
Really I've never heard of an NT server staying up during even 1000 hits an hour let alone an NT server running compilers and remote X clients during peak hours. When the corporate servers on my lan are crashing and burning the non commercial home Linux box keeps going. As long as VM doesn't run out.
Funnily enough after the hype about MacOS X look what Apple program was surfing the web:
/quicktime/quickti
a17-202-32-93.apple.com - - [17/Mar/1999:19:15:15 -0500] "GET
melinux HTTP/1.1" 301 357 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)"
About 3 years short lived to be exact.
I'm afraid I'm not quite the Microsoft conoisseur that Hemos is. What is the famous paperclip that everyone on the planet but me worships?
Interesting how Microsoft only claims comsumer interest in Linux when Bill Gates makes an idiot of himself on TV.
The codec was really developed by some EE called Huang but named after his boss Sorenson. Now that really sucks for Huang.
Steve Jobless has a knack for picking out great ideas like the Imac, firewire, and the GUI, but he falls on his face when it comes to licensing those ideas. Today while every other company realizes licensing their technology to third parties is the only way to survive, Apple is the single company wanting to remain the sole proprietor of its technology.
I don't know a company that wouldn't pick Microsoft if their price for the same merchandise was 10 times higher than a reseller. The Microsoft nametag is alive and well in business.
Damn. I installed it alone. No wonder I can't get a job anywhere like Austin Bunn.
Funny how what has become 1st quarter 2000 release of W*ndows 2000 is regarded as the future of the world by all businesses big and small yet Linux which is here today is all hype and buzzwords.
First transmeta, then StrongARM, now finally a real tangible entity proposes using Linux to eliminate the need for a standard chip architecture. Suddenly recent mass layoffs in the Fl*rida semiconductor industry turn into mass hires and we are able to restart the chip industry.
Seeing how lucasfilm has a lot of money invested in digital theater technology it makes sense for them to screen in digital. We need to make theater technology as idiot proof as possible and digital certainly is easier than film for the idiots who run theaters nowadays.
With the turnover rate of software being what it is, there isn't much danger of turnover clauses kicking users out of college and home. If licenses don't already go ignored, people usually shelve the software after a couple years anyway and move on to better things like work, marriage, kids, overtime. At least my software anyway.
The only problem with mp3 is that the best anyone could do to pay for it was to slap enourmous license fees on all encoders for it. $25 per encoder with a $15,000 annual minimum is outrageous.
does anyone remember back when a 2nd level domain that had even a remote resemblance to your business costed $100 and a simple form? Now you have to find the owner and start bids at $1000. We need more top level domains.
With questions about nerve bandwidth hitting ask slashdot, medical dramas hitting the box office, top rated medical shows taking over prime time, now is a good time to back off from the star studded, super competitive, glamourfest world of biology and become a geek.
I believe one of the reasons they're going to observe decreased sound localization is that binaural methods really don't work. From a technical standpoint, you have two transducers so you should be able to reproduce every sound with two speakers. From a biological standpoint, the shape of the ear causes secondary reflections that actually help us localize sound as coming from behind, in front, up, or down. Headphones don't reproduce those secondary reflections and hence the existance of 5:1 sound systems.
Notice all the guys who live in Silicon valley look high strung and constapated while the guys from Michigan and outer mongoo look relaxed. Maybe if rent wasn't $1000 per month and the sales tax wasn't 8.5% in San Jose you could live there and live at the same time, but then Metamucil would go out of business.
I don't think the big, boy's club, 4.0 MIT grads, silicon valley firms monitor /. as much as you think. There seem to be a lot of low level tech support employees in these companies who do hit sites and pass them around their department, but the guys who run the company, the 4.0 MIT grads who got hired for focusing on grades, are going to be as clueless about /. as you can get.
The integrated sound on mobos is usually the equivalent of a $25 soundblaster 16, the most God awful soundcard you can possibly get. If it's cheaper to get that integrated than it would be seperately you're looking too high in the motherboard price range. These things are only good for about a year before standards change you know.
As for integrated video, current CPU's incorporate most video acceleration on board the CPU. In the future, all video functions will be on board the CPU. Why do you want a motherboard with integrated video support when you know the future video-CPU will require a completely different motherboard?
Kids selling shoes for a living are putting out graphics programs, sound programs, and video programs like gang busters and this guy who works 14 hours a day at a real job on his program can't get but 1 release out in a year? People with jobs know how to get jobs. People without jobs know how to code.
Anyways. How many products did Microsoft actually finish porting after the company which was already attempting a competing port got scared off by Microsoft's plan?
The last one was RealPlayer, which Microsoft killed off by introducing an alpha of NetShow without ever finishing it.
Then there was beta of IE4 for unix, which scared off Netscape from ever releasing a browser after 4.5.
And why the fsck do these comments submit when I hit return?
I never thought Linus could be photographed with ordinary mortals like that. Don't you have to be transcended to see Linus in person or something? And then you can't return to Earth.