Umm, there is a browser called "links." Spelled exactly like that. It is also a text-based browser. Most people think it is quite a bit better than lynx. It's more like w3m than lynx. People who want to browse regular sites in a text-only format often use links rather than lynx because it supports a lot more than lynx does.
Not useful? Ha! It is totally useful- but as I said before, for a small subset of people. For model train enthusiasts, this project is indeed useful and has the potential to become even more so. For me and probably you, no it's not useful- but I don't have an interest in model trains.
Likewise, C++ isn't useful to me, although it certainly is to many other folks 'round the world!
Umm... How long have you been reading slashdot? Most of the stuff that gets posted is like this. Pointless to some. Hell, plenty of it is worse- this is actually cool and useful (although for only a small subset of humanity or even nerdom). This is nerdy, and hence it is worth being posted.
So you mean like a MUD/MOO, but graphical? Heck, by the looks of it, the actual graphics elements wouldn't even have to be very complex. MUDs and MOOs have been doing what you propose for ages, but without the visual element that seems to important to people, especially Americans.
Same here. I can't stand TV because of ads. Annoy the hell out of me. I can watch some TVs shows in DVD form or PBS, but a combination of the retardedness of most TV with the mindnumbing ads is hell for me. No wonder people zone-out like they're on a drug when they watch TV- they have to do something so that they can just passively deal with all the bullshit.
Is there no way to get QT to play fullscreen in Windows in the non-Pro version? On th Mac OS, it is possible via AppleScript- you simply write a script that tells QT to play in full-screen. The menu-option is still blurred out in the QT app, but it works fine via AppleScript.
I doubt it (cuz WSH sucks), but would something like this be possible via the Windows Scripting Host? WHO KNOWS!
A lot of the albums have a whole-album discount. That is, if you want to buy a record with 18 songs, you don't end up paying $1 per each song, coming to $18. It looks like the cost of an album can vary, but msot seemed to be $10 or $11, which is cheaper than buying the physical CD. It sucks how CDs cost $15+ now a days, $20+ at the mall-ripoff places. A few bucks saved is enough for me to buy my music at the iTunes Store, especially because I don't get stuck with all that useless packaging, which detracts from value not adds (to me).
Same argument goes for anything you buy online, I guess. The transaction is encrypted. I have no idea what sort of encryption they use on the servers themselves to make it so super l33t haxors can't just copy credit card files, but I don't know why Apple would be any more retarded than the rest of the world.
I've read that Apple apparently has promised access to th iTunes Music Store sometime in the near future. QuickTime 6.2 in general can play AAC files, but it looks like the most current Windows version of QT is 6.1. I imagine 6.2 will be coming out Real Soon Now for Windows.
Yes,.99$ seems a bit much for me, per song. Some albums have a discount, coming out cheaper than n songs * $1 and what I'd pay in the store, so for situations like that, I'd totally buy it at the Apple Music Store.
Was that really the pun? When reading this, I was thinking the same thing as you posted: "Wow, if that is supposed to be a pun, not only is it contrived, it really sucks." I just assumed there was some miniscule nugget of punnage that was beyond my will to look for it... But I am not alone.
Yeah, a lot of people would like Apple to be infallible, myself included. And a lot of non-Mac folk like to pretend that anyone who uses a Mac thinks that they are- but anyone in their right mind knows that no one or no company is. Everyone fucks up, especially in 1.0s.
Age 12 or 16 in the 4th grade? I don't know about you, but when I was in the 4th grade, I was 9.
It also didn't seem to me that he was basing his argument on the usage of "WorstBuy," in fact, it didn't seem like he had an argument. He simply said that he read that they were no longer going to be carrying this notebook.
Perhaps your accusations about the poster being juvenile have more to do with your need to see like a big, grown-up high school senior than one word of slang. Honestly, everytime I see a post like this, I pass it off as some 17 year old that just wants to feel superior, even though no one really likes him.
I hear people say things like WorstBuy, RatShack or TacoHell all the time without some silly perception that they are making an argument against the establishment in question; it is simply a word.
Give me something resembling a worthwhile post, not immature nitpickage. BonrHanzon may have used a silly slang word, but at least his post had information relevant to the VPR Matrix notebook.
I'd like to have a nicer video chip and a higher MHz, but I can't rationalize the money spent considering the fact that I don't play games and that the Genie effect works perfectly. I actually usually use Scale, but they both work fine. Hell, they work fine on my girlfriend's Rev B iMac, zooming along at 233 MHz. QE would be fun to have for other stuff, but nothing to rationalize any sort of upgrade for me.
The PBG4 would be great if you needed the screen space of a 17" LCD, but I prefer a smaller 'book to a huge-ass screen myself.:)
This problem isn't inherent with the metal casings- the 15" PBG4 doesn't have this problem. Why not? Because they've had a few revisions of that design and have worked out the kinks, whereas the 12" and 17" versions are brand spankin new. It will be fixed with the next revision I'd be willing to bet.
I know there are some definately high-end thinkPads, but all the friends I've had with thinkpads had little things flake out or fall off on them. They also were very heavy and very thick. Granted, they were all i-Series, which I understand isn't the top of the line...
If what you need is a "a decently fast Unix-ish laptop with 802.11b," an iBook would more than fit the bill, and not have the heat or wobbly problems of the 12" PB. iBooks are also a helluva lot cheaper than a PowerBook.
For me, I don't really see too much appeal for the price in a PowerBook. I mean, yes, they're incredibly machines, but I am perfectly happy with my 500 MHz 12" iBook. I've had no problems with it for the two years I've owned it, and it was pretty darn cheap to boot. I can safely say that this is the best computer I've ever owned.
And I still end up without much of a dent in the wallet, along with the side effect of getting a very nice, tiny, fast enough machine (naturally, the newer 0.9-1 GHz iBooks are faster) that does everything I need to do well. Having come from Linux/x86 prior to this, I also get a bost in productivity in a number of areas.
Besides, who in their right mind buys computers with a loan? Maybe I'm just safe with my money, but I never buy anything that I can't afford with real money, a house or car excluded. (and I have no car, thank the lawd)
You can always download a boot disk for FreeDOS or Caldera OpenDOS free and legal online. There are a million sites with a barebones MS DOS 6.2 or IBM PC DOS 7 boot images if you need that as well.
It is? I was going to ask how the hell the Catholic church let this- and a lot of other weird gargoyle sculptures in this place fly... Having grown up catholic, I'd be the lsat to believe a Darth Vader head was in a catholic church. But it's not! It's episcopalean! Those guys will do anything for some publicity...:P
Linux wouldn't have to know Scheme for me to write various kernel mods or drivers available for download from my site. It doesn't have to be included with the kernel...
Or, one could use the existing Schemix system as-is, and write some code in Perubthon (heh) to wrap the API and generate scheme code. After all, it is just interfacing with/dev/schemix - you wouldn't even have to mess with sockets or some other RPC format.
It's not a negative attitude, so don't worry. Read the parent to which I replied.:) He said: I wonder if this will fire up a flame war over scripting languages for interfacing with the Linux kernel. My reply was to a question of his.
I haven't seen anyone complaining. And the parent gave a perfect example of people who wanted other languages in gimp, and did write their own instead of "crying".
Indeed, no one is complaining. And that's good. I didn't say anyone is. However, in the event someone did (like the parent mentioned), I would hope that they would just implement it rather than whine about the choice someone else made. That is, someone decided to use Scheme for any number of reasons and took the time and skill to create someone very cool, and anyone who just whines on a board about the choice that this programmer made to use Scheme over something else should either keep their trap shut or do some coding himself.
That said, no one has whined on here, and that's good. I don't think that my attitude is negative. It is a helluva lot more negative when people complain or second-guess the decisions of people actually doing the programming. Maybe I seemed a little harsh, but I see a lot of that on Slashdot. Slashdot seems to be full of people who have done no coding work, but love to pretend to be experts in areas where they have no knowledge. Know it all pundits.:P
A side effect I didn't even think of! However, a Schemix driver for linux would have to be adapted quite a bit, unless there was a unified driver API. I've never done any driver programming, so I'm not sure how different the driver APIs are in Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Windows, or other Unices. But as with all things, it could be a great thing to have!
a) not many people are registered to get this story, only people who specifically have an interest in the Developer section. It doesn't show up on the regular front page. Most of the idiots who would flame are weeded out that way.
b) Anyone who thinks that the Schemix team should've implemented Perl, Ruby or Python kernel hooks should just quit crying and do the work themselves. There's a good chance that they'd find that in the course of the work that Perl/Ruby/Python would be more work to port into the kernel and use a huge amount of RAM, compared to TinyScheme, upon which Schemix is based. TinyScheme truly is tiny- less than 100k for the entire binary installation including a fair amount of library.
With a more or less pure Java thing like this, Linux simply isn't needed. A "stable and proven reliable operating system" isn't what is needed- just a platform for interpreting/JITing bytecodes. Linux processes, threads, etc aren't used, so why bother with all that needless cruft?
Or better yet, why not just use OSKit? You can use FreeBSD and Linux drivers as well as choose the TCP/IP stack from a couple of choices (incl. Linux, etc).
I presume the argument against a stripped down version of Linux would be detailed on the page, in the FAQ, or answered via an email- why not ask? Perhaps you can write drivers in Java, something you couldn't do in either OSKit or Linux?
Going with Linux would probably be the easiest thing to do, but I imagine there are reasons against it which perhaps those working on this project could share. For one of the distributions of Dynapad (my Smalltalk-based PDA OS/OE) I do more or less what you say- dump most userland tools, including X11 and QPE, and just run a statically linked VM on top of that. I managed to do that with no coding in C, which suits me fine. For people willing to muck around in C, their approach likely has a number of other advantages.
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Umm, there is a browser called "links." Spelled exactly like that. It is also a text-based browser. Most people think it is quite a bit better than lynx. It's more like w3m than lynx. People who want to browse regular sites in a text-only format often use links rather than lynx because it supports a lot more than lynx does.
Not useful? Ha! It is totally useful- but as I said before, for a small subset of people. For model train enthusiasts, this project is indeed useful and has the potential to become even more so. For me and probably you, no it's not useful- but I don't have an interest in model trains.
Likewise, C++ isn't useful to me, although it certainly is to many other folks 'round the world!
Umm... How long have you been reading slashdot? Most of the stuff that gets posted is like this. Pointless to some. Hell, plenty of it is worse- this is actually cool and useful (although for only a small subset of humanity or even nerdom). This is nerdy, and hence it is worth being posted.
Heh... My being too busy in my first life is the exact reason I didn't sign up to play around with this beta test. ;)
So you mean like a MUD/MOO, but graphical? Heck, by the looks of it, the actual graphics elements wouldn't even have to be very complex. MUDs and MOOs have been doing what you propose for ages, but without the visual element that seems to important to people, especially Americans.
Same here. I can't stand TV because of ads. Annoy the hell out of me. I can watch some TVs shows in DVD form or PBS, but a combination of the retardedness of most TV with the mindnumbing ads is hell for me. No wonder people zone-out like they're on a drug when they watch TV- they have to do something so that they can just passively deal with all the bullshit.
Is there no way to get QT to play fullscreen in Windows in the non-Pro version? On th Mac OS, it is possible via AppleScript- you simply write a script that tells QT to play in full-screen. The menu-option is still blurred out in the QT app, but it works fine via AppleScript.
I doubt it (cuz WSH sucks), but would something like this be possible via the Windows Scripting Host? WHO KNOWS!
A lot of the albums have a whole-album discount. That is, if you want to buy a record with 18 songs, you don't end up paying $1 per each song, coming to $18. It looks like the cost of an album can vary, but msot seemed to be $10 or $11, which is cheaper than buying the physical CD. It sucks how CDs cost $15+ now a days, $20+ at the mall-ripoff places. A few bucks saved is enough for me to buy my music at the iTunes Store, especially because I don't get stuck with all that useless packaging, which detracts from value not adds (to me).
Same argument goes for anything you buy online, I guess. The transaction is encrypted. I have no idea what sort of encryption they use on the servers themselves to make it so super l33t haxors can't just copy credit card files, but I don't know why Apple would be any more retarded than the rest of the world.
I've read that Apple apparently has promised access to th iTunes Music Store sometime in the near future. QuickTime 6.2 in general can play AAC files, but it looks like the most current Windows version of QT is 6.1. I imagine 6.2 will be coming out Real Soon Now for Windows.
.99$ seems a bit much for me, per song. Some albums have a discount, coming out cheaper than n songs * $1 and what I'd pay in the store, so for situations like that, I'd totally buy it at the Apple Music Store.
Yes,
Was that really the pun? When reading this, I was thinking the same thing as you posted: "Wow, if that is supposed to be a pun, not only is it contrived, it really sucks." I just assumed there was some miniscule nugget of punnage that was beyond my will to look for it... But I am not alone.
Man. You are so right about the "pun."
Yeah, a lot of people would like Apple to be infallible, myself included. And a lot of non-Mac folk like to pretend that anyone who uses a Mac thinks that they are- but anyone in their right mind knows that no one or no company is. Everyone fucks up, especially in 1.0s.
Age 12 or 16 in the 4th grade? I don't know about you, but when I was in the 4th grade, I was 9.
It also didn't seem to me that he was basing his argument on the usage of "WorstBuy," in fact, it didn't seem like he had an argument. He simply said that he read that they were no longer going to be carrying this notebook.
Perhaps your accusations about the poster being juvenile have more to do with your need to see like a big, grown-up high school senior than one word of slang. Honestly, everytime I see a post like this, I pass it off as some 17 year old that just wants to feel superior, even though no one really likes him.
I hear people say things like WorstBuy, RatShack or TacoHell all the time without some silly perception that they are making an argument against the establishment in question; it is simply a word.
Give me something resembling a worthwhile post, not immature nitpickage. BonrHanzon may have used a silly slang word, but at least his post had information relevant to the VPR Matrix notebook.
I'd like to have a nicer video chip and a higher MHz, but I can't rationalize the money spent considering the fact that I don't play games and that the Genie effect works perfectly. I actually usually use Scale, but they both work fine. Hell, they work fine on my girlfriend's Rev B iMac, zooming along at 233 MHz. QE would be fun to have for other stuff, but nothing to rationalize any sort of upgrade for me.
:)
The PBG4 would be great if you needed the screen space of a 17" LCD, but I prefer a smaller 'book to a huge-ass screen myself.
This problem isn't inherent with the metal casings- the 15" PBG4 doesn't have this problem. Why not? Because they've had a few revisions of that design and have worked out the kinks, whereas the 12" and 17" versions are brand spankin new. It will be fixed with the next revision I'd be willing to bet.
I know there are some definately high-end thinkPads, but all the friends I've had with thinkpads had little things flake out or fall off on them. They also were very heavy and very thick. Granted, they were all i-Series, which I understand isn't the top of the line...
If what you need is a "a decently fast Unix-ish laptop with 802.11b," an iBook would more than fit the bill, and not have the heat or wobbly problems of the 12" PB. iBooks are also a helluva lot cheaper than a PowerBook.
For me, I don't really see too much appeal for the price in a PowerBook. I mean, yes, they're incredibly machines, but I am perfectly happy with my 500 MHz 12" iBook. I've had no problems with it for the two years I've owned it, and it was pretty darn cheap to boot. I can safely say that this is the best computer I've ever owned.
And I still end up without much of a dent in the wallet, along with the side effect of getting a very nice, tiny, fast enough machine (naturally, the newer 0.9-1 GHz iBooks are faster) that does everything I need to do well. Having come from Linux/x86 prior to this, I also get a bost in productivity in a number of areas.
Besides, who in their right mind buys computers with a loan? Maybe I'm just safe with my money, but I never buy anything that I can't afford with real money, a house or car excluded. (and I have no car, thank the lawd)
You can always download a boot disk for FreeDOS or Caldera OpenDOS free and legal online. There are a million sites with a barebones MS DOS 6.2 or IBM PC DOS 7 boot images if you need that as well.
It is? I was going to ask how the hell the Catholic church let this- and a lot of other weird gargoyle sculptures in this place fly... Having grown up catholic, I'd be the lsat to believe a Darth Vader head was in a catholic church. But it's not! It's episcopalean! Those guys will do anything for some publicity... :P
Linux wouldn't have to know Scheme for me to write various kernel mods or drivers available for download from my site. It doesn't have to be included with the kernel...
Or, one could use the existing Schemix system as-is, and write some code in Perubthon (heh) to wrap the API and generate scheme code. After all, it is just interfacing with /dev/schemix - you wouldn't even have to mess with sockets or some other RPC format.
It's not a negative attitude, so don't worry. Read the parent to which I replied. :) He said: I wonder if this will fire up a flame war over scripting languages for interfacing with the Linux kernel. My reply was to a question of his.
:P
I haven't seen anyone complaining. And the parent gave a perfect example of people who wanted other languages in gimp, and did write their own instead of "crying".
Indeed, no one is complaining. And that's good. I didn't say anyone is. However, in the event someone did (like the parent mentioned), I would hope that they would just implement it rather than whine about the choice someone else made. That is, someone decided to use Scheme for any number of reasons and took the time and skill to create someone very cool, and anyone who just whines on a board about the choice that this programmer made to use Scheme over something else should either keep their trap shut or do some coding himself.
That said, no one has whined on here, and that's good. I don't think that my attitude is negative. It is a helluva lot more negative when people complain or second-guess the decisions of people actually doing the programming. Maybe I seemed a little harsh, but I see a lot of that on Slashdot. Slashdot seems to be full of people who have done no coding work, but love to pretend to be experts in areas where they have no knowledge. Know it all pundits.
A side effect I didn't even think of! However, a Schemix driver for linux would have to be adapted quite a bit, unless there was a unified driver API. I've never done any driver programming, so I'm not sure how different the driver APIs are in Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Windows, or other Unices. But as with all things, it could be a great thing to have!
I doubt this will fire up any flame war because:
a) not many people are registered to get this story, only people who specifically have an interest in the Developer section. It doesn't show up on the regular front page. Most of the idiots who would flame are weeded out that way.
b) Anyone who thinks that the Schemix team should've implemented Perl, Ruby or Python kernel hooks should just quit crying and do the work themselves. There's a good chance that they'd find that in the course of the work that Perl/Ruby/Python would be more work to port into the kernel and use a huge amount of RAM, compared to TinyScheme, upon which Schemix is based. TinyScheme truly is tiny- less than 100k for the entire binary installation including a fair amount of library.
With a more or less pure Java thing like this, Linux simply isn't needed. A "stable and proven reliable operating system" isn't what is needed- just a platform for interpreting/JITing bytecodes. Linux processes, threads, etc aren't used, so why bother with all that needless cruft?
Or better yet, why not just use OSKit? You can use FreeBSD and Linux drivers as well as choose the TCP/IP stack from a couple of choices (incl. Linux, etc).
I presume the argument against a stripped down version of Linux would be detailed on the page, in the FAQ, or answered via an email- why not ask? Perhaps you can write drivers in Java, something you couldn't do in either OSKit or Linux?
Going with Linux would probably be the easiest thing to do, but I imagine there are reasons against it which perhaps those working on this project could share. For one of the distributions of Dynapad (my Smalltalk-based PDA OS/OE) I do more or less what you say- dump most userland tools, including X11 and QPE, and just run a statically linked VM on top of that. I managed to do that with no coding in C, which suits me fine. For people willing to muck around in C, their approach likely has a number of other advantages.