Be is trying to charge people to use a *nix system when there are several more available that are better.
As a BeOS user, I'll take issue with you here.
What's the most common use of a Unix OS? a network server. Be's networking has sucked royally for years; most Be users will readily admit this and give you first hand accounts. How could Be compete with Unix when it had such sorry networking? The simple answer is that it didn't -- and never did.
Be failed, I'll admit, but not for that. The BeOS started out as a desktop OS -- it was supposed to replace the MacOS, remember? -- then tried to morph into a multimedia powerhouse, which wasn't too successful either. I think the simple reason why Be wasn't successful was that people didn't want to be bothered with another OS, no matter how technically superior or nipple-exciting it may be. All alternative OS's face the same problem I would say, the sole difference being that Free operating systems usually don't have to worry about being profitable or running out of venture capital.
I've heard statements like this quite frequently (Bush will stop the MS trial), but I haven't heard any reason why. I'm not saying that he will leave it alone, but I haven't heard anything to say that he will do anything one way or another. Has he or his campaign spoken out against the trial? Are his appointees "pro-Microsoft" or "anti-antitrust?"
I dunno really, and I don't want to turn this into a political thing, I just haven't heard anything about this.
Ah, by why limit yourself to an English interpretation of "5 O'Clock?" In some language out there from another planet and/or dimension, it's 5 O'Clock right here.
As I said, a website should offer two versions. If a user doesn't feel like making that decision, that decision can be made behind their backs. However, for users that can and want to make that decision, it should not be forced upon them. An enabled-by-default checkbox, maybe? "Accept the server's recommendation for site options."
There's nothing wrong with saying "hey, your browser might not work with this." The problem is that server-side browser detection says "I know more than you about what your browser can handle." A good site should, as was suggested, offer two versions. The important part is to let the client choose which one to use, rather than forcing one.
Are you referring to another post by scotay? Because I got a very different impression. Namely, that 'virtual' communities are no different than 'real' communities -- there is no need for such a superficial distinction. 'Real' communities have plenty of pimples too, Jon.
Virtual communities aren't utopias, but neither are 'real' communities.
Well actually, during daylight savings time, there's a two hour jump between timezones that observe it and those that don't. So, theoretically, there could be a point in time where it isn't 5 o'clock anywhere.
And what about when it's 30 past the hour? Are you just being inspecific?
A second is already 10^43 times Planck time. If we want to stick to metrics and universal constants, we can't change it. Speaking of which, we need to change the meter to match Planck length.
Just like VCD discs can be played on PCs, just open then.dat file.
But, uhm, if my VCD player only recognizes.mpg files, how do I open a.dat file? There is a myriad of ways to break compatibility with a fragile player like the MpTrip.
I don't see why they can't just make the CDA format itself.. uh.. format-independent. That is, make no assumption about what type of compression is being used: include a space to indicate what format is being used and let the player decide if it can play that format or not, like AVIs.
Include a space in the specification for new codecs (store them in RAM rather than ROM), and this could be expanded much further. Imagine DVD players that can be flash updated on-the-fly to play DivX movies written to CDA discs, CD players that handle discs with songs in 20 different formats, and so on. Jeez. That'd be cool. Is there any way we can submit this kind of stuff to them?
That sounds like a good idea, but what is so great about BFS is that the implementation was pervasive. You don't have to go to the shell to add, remove or change attributes.
That said, I would happily welcome this sort of change as a fundamental addition to the UI of Windows.
However, I'd also like to see the system be very, very OPEN.
Okaay.. the necessary qualifications in order to be "very, very OPEN," according to your post are:
Drop MP3 and move to Ogg Vorbis.
Have complete networking support.
Ogg Vorbis, being incomplete itself, is supported as much as it can be already under BeOS. The vendors just have to include it. As for preventing users to encode MP3s, I don't see why that's necessary. Give them a good, open encoder like LAME (better than Fraunhofer cited in the article, and supports Ogg), and let the people have their backwards compatibility. Why shouldn't I be able to burn MP3s to disc to play in my MP3-CD player? (I really do own such a beast.) Why take away options when you're trying to be open? Vorbis will always be there too.
For other requirement, it appears that the device will have as much network interconnectivity as required by the vendor. This could range from none to a complete Internet jukebox.
Seems like they've got you covered. Really, this thing will be more open than the TiVo, whose major stumbling block was the filesystem. For this, just pop the hard drive into a BeOS system and you'll be able to hack away and add anything you want, from more net services to reinstating Tracker.
Thank you. We agree. Most modern file systems has similar file indices, but they usually aren't updated in real time, and they're not as expansive as BFS' are. BFS' file attributes and indices may not be revolutionary, but they're available in the same place and used to complement each other, which has an overall revolutionary effect. Working with files in BeOS is something much different than in any other OS I've used. The small things, like having different icons for different shortcuts to the same program and sorting MP3s by genre, then filename are what I miss when I use other OSes.
If every FS had unlimited, indexed, real-time, pervasive file attributes, I would be quite happy. I don't see them readily available with any of the other major players, so BFS does have something unique and special that makes it stand above the crowd. If not in terms of innovation, then in terms of application.
The dumbest part is that the page renders perfectly fine in IE. The only reason this asshole is doing it is to force users to switch just to view his lame site.
Limiting choice is a bad thing when MS does it and it's bad thing when assholes like him do it.
What about the dragon who is killed by a falling steel door? A guy I was watching this with called it from a mile away and yelled "RIPOFF!" at the top of his lungs when it finally happened.
How about when Darth Vader persuades Princess Leia in the dungeon or Amidala's meeting with the Senate? The list goes on and on.
I think the only difference between this and Star Wars is that when Luke has the chance to kill Vader and Palpatine, he does.
Anyone remember what color Vader's lips were in ROTJ when Luke takes his mask off? I could swear that they're blue.
I hate how people confuse UFOs with alien spacecraft. A UFO may be an alien spacecraft, but an alien spacecraft can never be a UFO. If you know it's an alien spacecraft, it's no longer unidentified.
Anyway, the idea behind magnetic propulsion is that the Earth acts like a big magnet and provides the opposite reaction; as you move forward, the Earth moves back by a small amount.
Easy solution: if you want a secure network, wireless may not be for you. Some of us want to play games and share files, and we don't need a secured line for that.
Once they're aware enough of the application to recognize a "requested" inbound connection that doesn't exactly match an "originated" connection, the problem goes away.
One word: huh? I'm not exactly sure what you mean here.
If you mean that the router automatically associates ports with internal clients or applications that request it, such a solution doesn't scale well at all. (See a post above about a T1 in an apartment building.)
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My description of what? My plan or yours? It works well enough for me. I suppose if your filters don't work well, it'd be better. However, where I have to create and delete accounts for every fake email through the web with Sneakemail, I can create accounts out of thin air and 'delete' them quite quickly with any filtering program I want. To each his own, and I do not mean to disparage your efforts.
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Be is trying to charge people to use a *nix system when there are several more available that are better.
As a BeOS user, I'll take issue with you here.
What's the most common use of a Unix OS? a network server. Be's networking has sucked royally for years; most Be users will readily admit this and give you first hand accounts. How could Be compete with Unix when it had such sorry networking? The simple answer is that it didn't -- and never did.
Be failed, I'll admit, but not for that. The BeOS started out as a desktop OS -- it was supposed to replace the MacOS, remember? -- then tried to morph into a multimedia powerhouse, which wasn't too successful either. I think the simple reason why Be wasn't successful was that people didn't want to be bothered with another OS, no matter how technically superior or nipple-exciting it may be. All alternative OS's face the same problem I would say, the sole difference being that Free operating systems usually don't have to worry about being profitable or running out of venture capital.
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I've heard statements like this quite frequently (Bush will stop the MS trial), but I haven't heard any reason why. I'm not saying that he will leave it alone, but I haven't heard anything to say that he will do anything one way or another. Has he or his campaign spoken out against the trial? Are his appointees "pro-Microsoft" or "anti-antitrust?"
I dunno really, and I don't want to turn this into a political thing, I just haven't heard anything about this.
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Ah, by why limit yourself to an English interpretation of "5 O'Clock?" In some language out there from another planet and/or dimension, it's 5 O'Clock right here.
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As I said, a website should offer two versions. If a user doesn't feel like making that decision, that decision can be made behind their backs. However, for users that can and want to make that decision, it should not be forced upon them. An enabled-by-default checkbox, maybe? "Accept the server's recommendation for site options."
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God, I'm going to move to Oregon. How's the weather?
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There's nothing wrong with saying "hey, your browser might not work with this." The problem is that server-side browser detection says "I know more than you about what your browser can handle." A good site should, as was suggested, offer two versions. The important part is to let the client choose which one to use, rather than forcing one.
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Are you referring to another post by scotay? Because I got a very different impression. Namely, that 'virtual' communities are no different than 'real' communities -- there is no need for such a superficial distinction. 'Real' communities have plenty of pimples too, Jon.
Virtual communities aren't utopias, but neither are 'real' communities.
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Well actually, during daylight savings time, there's a two hour jump between timezones that observe it and those that don't. So, theoretically, there could be a point in time where it isn't 5 o'clock anywhere.
And what about when it's 30 past the hour? Are you just being inspecific?
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We should define the second in terms of Planck time.
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A second is already 10^43 times Planck time. If we want to stick to metrics and universal constants, we can't change it. Speaking of which, we need to change the meter to match Planck length.
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Actually I hear GWB used to play video games all the time while governor of Texas, so he's got experience.
And, of course, if you remember the Starcraft 64 commercials, Saddam Hussein is bad at least RTSes.
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Just like VCD discs can be played on PCs, just open then .dat file.
.mpg files, how do I open a .dat file? There is a myriad of ways to break compatibility with a fragile player like the MpTrip.
But, uhm, if my VCD player only recognizes
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I don't see why they can't just make the CDA format itself .. uh .. format-independent. That is, make no assumption about what type of compression is being used: include a space to indicate what format is being used and let the player decide if it can play that format or not, like AVIs.
Include a space in the specification for new codecs (store them in RAM rather than ROM), and this could be expanded much further. Imagine DVD players that can be flash updated on-the-fly to play DivX movies written to CDA discs, CD players that handle discs with songs in 20 different formats, and so on. Jeez. That'd be cool. Is there any way we can submit this kind of stuff to them?
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That sounds like a good idea, but what is so great about BFS is that the implementation was pervasive. You don't have to go to the shell to add, remove or change attributes.
That said, I would happily welcome this sort of change as a fundamental addition to the UI of Windows.
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What about ID3v2?
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Okaay.. the necessary qualifications in order to be "very, very OPEN," according to your post are:
- Drop MP3 and move to Ogg Vorbis.
- Have complete networking support.
Ogg Vorbis, being incomplete itself, is supported as much as it can be already under BeOS. The vendors just have to include it. As for preventing users to encode MP3s, I don't see why that's necessary. Give them a good, open encoder like LAME (better than Fraunhofer cited in the article, and supports Ogg), and let the people have their backwards compatibility. Why shouldn't I be able to burn MP3s to disc to play in my MP3-CD player? (I really do own such a beast.) Why take away options when you're trying to be open? Vorbis will always be there too.For other requirement, it appears that the device will have as much network interconnectivity as required by the vendor. This could range from none to a complete Internet jukebox.
Seems like they've got you covered. Really, this thing will be more open than the TiVo, whose major stumbling block was the filesystem. For this, just pop the hard drive into a BeOS system and you'll be able to hack away and add anything you want, from more net services to reinstating Tracker.
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BFS is a nice filesystem
Thank you. We agree. Most modern file systems has similar file indices, but they usually aren't updated in real time, and they're not as expansive as BFS' are. BFS' file attributes and indices may not be revolutionary, but they're available in the same place and used to complement each other, which has an overall revolutionary effect. Working with files in BeOS is something much different than in any other OS I've used. The small things, like having different icons for different shortcuts to the same program and sorting MP3s by genre, then filename are what I miss when I use other OSes.
If every FS had unlimited, indexed, real-time, pervasive file attributes, I would be quite happy. I don't see them readily available with any of the other major players, so BFS does have something unique and special that makes it stand above the crowd. If not in terms of innovation, then in terms of application.
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The dumbest part is that the page renders perfectly fine in IE. The only reason this asshole is doing it is to force users to switch just to view his lame site.
Limiting choice is a bad thing when MS does it and it's bad thing when assholes like him do it.
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Mare Infinitus. Endymion, damnit.
Wait, that's four. Damnit, now it's eleven.
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You're just dusting the surface..
What about the dragon who is killed by a falling steel door? A guy I was watching this with called it from a mile away and yelled "RIPOFF!" at the top of his lungs when it finally happened.
How about when Darth Vader persuades Princess Leia in the dungeon or Amidala's meeting with the Senate? The list goes on and on.
I think the only difference between this and Star Wars is that when Luke has the chance to kill Vader and Palpatine, he does.
Anyone remember what color Vader's lips were in ROTJ when Luke takes his mask off? I could swear that they're blue.
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I hate how people confuse UFOs with alien spacecraft. A UFO may be an alien spacecraft, but an alien spacecraft can never be a UFO. If you know it's an alien spacecraft, it's no longer unidentified.
Anyway, the idea behind magnetic propulsion is that the Earth acts like a big magnet and provides the opposite reaction; as you move forward, the Earth moves back by a small amount.
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I am epileptic, and while strobing or flickering lights give me a righteous headache, they've never actually induced a real seizure.
Anyone have some more specific information about this?
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Easy solution: if you want a secure network, wireless may not be for you. Some of us want to play games and share files, and we don't need a secured line for that.
And oh yeah, you can encrypt this stuff.
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Once they're aware enough of the application to recognize a "requested" inbound connection that doesn't exactly match an "originated" connection, the problem goes away.
One word: huh? I'm not exactly sure what you mean here.
If you mean that the router automatically associates ports with internal clients or applications that request it, such a solution doesn't scale well at all. (See a post above about a T1 in an apartment building.)
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My description of what? My plan or yours? It works well enough for me. I suppose if your filters don't work well, it'd be better. However, where I have to create and delete accounts for every fake email through the web with Sneakemail, I can create accounts out of thin air and 'delete' them quite quickly with any filtering program I want. To each his own, and I do not mean to disparage your efforts.
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