A merging would probably be beneficial. Linux and HURD both have unique and useful features (Linux's biggest advantage being the very large number of open source developpers backing it), and I would love to see them together in one operating system. Of course, those who are tired of RMS's "GNU/Linux" should buy one-way tickets to Mars if there's any word on this from the people who control them:) Then again, Linux HURD doesn't sound to bad...
But then some people who are broadband-for-life users may not have the average throughput of an ISDN connection. I occasionally sent a few gigs over my LAN, and at 100Mbps half-duplex I find it a bit slow. In plus, wireless has nothing comparable to a switch: every station in range gets all the packets, which slows the connection.
If I was buying wireless hardware I wouldn't expect to be able to upgrade the speed cheaply, but I think anyone who's using it for something more than consumer internet connection sharing will see speed differences between the two common speeds of wired and wireless networks. Whether they will find it worth upgrading is another question...
I think this is similar to broadband: at first I was the only one who wanted it, but now no one in my familly would think of using dial-up. I started my (wired) LAN a few months ago with 10Mbps, but now I'm on a 100Mbps segment - I just transfered the 30MB fullscreen lord of the rings trailed in 3 seconds (after downloading it to my server while I ate). Also, with wireless all stations in range will get all the packets - that's nice if you want to sniff the network, but I would really like to have a switch instead of hubs to get the maximal bandwidth out of my network. With wireless you can't get anything equivalent to switches.
I'd like to know what MS can do against Linux. Sure, they can convince some customers to use Windows, but that's all. They have no way to directly attack Linux (the only thing they could do is submit bad code as patches, but I doubt that would work).
Demos such as GLExcess (non-interactive program with graphics and sound) are no less art than movies - they are movies, except they're made by realtime rendering instead of being a sequence of stored images. I don't associate them with the kind of art you find in galleries, but they probably are art.
Open Source will actually be hurting AMD. The biggest advantage of the Hammer over the Itanium is that the Hammer can still run native x86 software - Itanium software has to be recompiled. While this will hurt Itanium with commercial software where the vendor may not release an Itanium version, Open Source software can easily be ported and recompiled for a new platform.
You know, I think I agree with him that Linux isn't perfect - I have my linux server, and it's just there! It's boring because it never crashes (although I did once chmod the root directory -x and didn't notice for a few days). I actually have to download stuff and try new software if I want to use it! Linux is too stable for me, I want something that demands to be used every day!
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The first thing I would do with something like this is get the highest quality MP3s I can. At 128Kbps, I could easily fill my nomad jukebox with trance mixes that go from merely cd-size to 3 hours (!). I now download at 160 to 192Kbps, so although it's still a lot of listening time available, I'll outgrow my nomad jukebox soon.
You can do better. Move to Canada - walk with your possesions on your back if you have to. The broadband here is fast (1.5Mbps/384Kbps) and cheap (45$/month), and I have one of the least anal-retentive ISPs i've heard of and very reliable service (all ports are open, for one. Maybe they have some policy of disconnecting people who get infected and they don't worry about closing ports, but I haven't been there:). The installation was good (back in 1999), but when I upgraded to a static IP (and a little extra upload speed) it took a few weeks to get someone to come and change the settings on the router (in retrospect, it would have been funnier if I had let him try the default password a few times). If I had known that they weren't giving me a new modem or anything like that, I would have tried to get the information myself.
It it can shoot down the idea of leaving WIMP, it can shoot down this idea: what works doesn't need to be changed. I like being able to make a small page with a effort proportional to the amount of formatting. I know when you're trying to design a site that looks like it belongs on an interactive CD-ROM it's not so fun, but if you want to do that there are other ways. As for HTTP, I wouldn't even think of replacing it. It's a simple text protocol that gives easy anonymous access to files. Maybe if you're using it for remote administration (as in SSH, not webmin) it's not so good, but using the wrong tool never justifies changing or eliminating that tool.
"somebody on the radio pointed out that as we get better and better at stopping individual acts, the response is for a smaller number of more dedicated enemy to plan more thoroughly. So, for example, the number of hijackings has long been on the decline, but the number of people killed in each hijacking has gone way up."
It's one of the basic rules of security: you can't make things impossible, but you can reduce the number of people who can do them, up to a certain point. The only way to be completely secure from attacks is to be the last person alive on earth. Of course, this will make it harder for the theoretical terrorist who wants to attack a trade show, and you get the biggest effect when you cut off the easiest methods of attack.
Also, to successfuly smuggle in weapons as a booth renter, they'd probably have to infiltrate an established company. The prices for entry are probably high enough that it would take a lot of resources to get their own booth. I don't their actions would stop anyone trying to attack the place, because they could always bring in hidden parts and put them together inside (even one person could do some damage).
I have to admit you had me fooled there - I though "Unix soit qui mal y pense" actually made sense and my french skills weren't good enough to decipher it. Then I looked on e2 and found 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' - 'Shame to him who thinks evil of this'. So you are saying that anyone who thinks evil of some unspecified thing ('this', to be replaced by the most likely subject from the context) is or should be Unix.
In this context, it's not as bad - it's only saying that people who think badly of unix should be unix (now if you replaced that with should be converted to unix or something like that it might work) - but you should be careful about using quotes if you don't understand them completely.
He may have exagerated a bit, but he is right on the point of speed increases. The upgrade from 9600bps to 14.4Kbps must have been a big thing at the time (disclaimer: I started at 33.8), but now if someone said they could give me an extra 4.8Kbps on my DSL line (the canadian kind: 1.5Mbps/384Kbps and cheap as hell) I would offer to pay a penny per month. Then again, I have to question anyone who thinks they're important because they've discovered that technology grows exponentially.
"Enlightenment is here [enlightenment.org], not here [enlightenment.com]." (links not copied. Look at the parent to understand)
No, I believe you're wrong. They were actually trying to link to Alex Chiu's site, not the Enlightenment Window Manager. They still got the wrong link, but you don't have the right one either.
And that's why I avoid USB networking equipment even though I have other USB devices and will continue to buy them. I also don't connect my internal hard drives or monitor with USB. Bluetooth is for connecting devices, not transfering data.
As much as Adobe is hated by some people and watched with suspicion by others, there are many free tools to make PDFs on linux, and I think everyone agrees they are the most supported file format for complex documents (and more control than HTML). And of course, you could show them that free tools give them just as much as the much more expensive full version of Acrobat.
Use it a lot, and you won't even have to think about it. My firewalling forces passive FTP, so from now on i'll remember that it's wget --passive-ftp, because I use wget to FTP files and directories frequently. Similarly, i've memorized the fact that du -hc --max-depth=1 in the root directory will give me a nice report on where my GBs are going, because I do that a lot. And I can do ssh/scp in my sleep:)
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By complete inability to understand markets, do you mean they won't let you plug in a serial cable so it can work on every computer? Should they be a 'good little super-capitalist company' like Microsoft instead? You may not want to buy it, but for their fairly small target market it could be a very successful product (although there is the price issue).
When they instead see other OS's being used or promoted, they view them (rightly or wrongly) as competition for their own OS/culture.
The last time I saw this was with MenuetOS - an experimental project that the author decided to release. He wasn't even competing with anyone, and people were complaining:(
No one is forcing you to use it. Why do people always complain when someone decides to write their own OS, or even worse say they should contribute to a more popular project? People who can program are allowed to do whatever they want (prior to certain laws) and release it under whatever license they want, so stop complaining!
You should have ignored the title and at least read the/. story. Unlike the stupid title would imply, the car only detects the emotions of the people in it. That title should be sent the way this car probably will go.
And how many times have they used these to go after OSS programmers who wrote a graphics program with a similar name to theirs? I don't care if they want to protect themselves in every way possible or have so many patents they implode and become a black hole, as long as they don't use them in a bad way. In fact, I'd preffer for IBM to have them than Adobe or Microsoft.
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You know what editor means? Someone who edits. For example, an editor might cut out stupid comments from a post, such as "Fold up pocket monitors?".
Tomorrow's submission: "HP has developped a new ink that lasts longer. Fold up interactive e-books?"
A merging would probably be beneficial. Linux and HURD both have unique and useful features (Linux's biggest advantage being the very large number of open source developpers backing it), and I would love to see them together in one operating system. Of course, those who are tired of RMS's "GNU/Linux" should buy one-way tickets to Mars if there's any word on this from the people who control them :) Then again, Linux HURD doesn't sound to bad...
But then some people who are broadband-for-life users may not have the average throughput of an ISDN connection. I occasionally sent a few gigs over my LAN, and at 100Mbps half-duplex I find it a bit slow. In plus, wireless has nothing comparable to a switch: every station in range gets all the packets, which slows the connection.
If I was buying wireless hardware I wouldn't expect to be able to upgrade the speed cheaply, but I think anyone who's using it for something more than consumer internet connection sharing will see speed differences between the two common speeds of wired and wireless networks. Whether they will find it worth upgrading is another question...
I think this is similar to broadband: at first I was the only one who wanted it, but now no one in my familly would think of using dial-up. I started my (wired) LAN a few months ago with 10Mbps, but now I'm on a 100Mbps segment - I just transfered the 30MB fullscreen lord of the rings trailed in 3 seconds (after downloading it to my server while I ate). Also, with wireless all stations in range will get all the packets - that's nice if you want to sniff the network, but I would really like to have a switch instead of hubs to get the maximal bandwidth out of my network. With wireless you can't get anything equivalent to switches.
I'd like to know what MS can do against Linux. Sure, they can convince some customers to use Windows, but that's all. They have no way to directly attack Linux (the only thing they could do is submit bad code as patches, but I doubt that would work).
Demos such as GLExcess (non-interactive program with graphics and sound) are no less art than movies - they are movies, except they're made by realtime rendering instead of being a sequence of stored images. I don't associate them with the kind of art you find in galleries, but they probably are art.
Open Source will actually be hurting AMD. The biggest advantage of the Hammer over the Itanium is that the Hammer can still run native x86 software - Itanium software has to be recompiled. While this will hurt Itanium with commercial software where the vendor may not release an Itanium version, Open Source software can easily be ported and recompiled for a new platform.
You know, I think I agree with him that Linux isn't perfect - I have my linux server, and it's just there! It's boring because it never crashes (although I did once chmod the root directory -x and didn't notice for a few days). I actually have to download stuff and try new software if I want to use it! Linux is too stable for me, I want something that demands to be used every day!
The first thing I would do with something like this is get the highest quality MP3s I can. At 128Kbps, I could easily fill my nomad jukebox with trance mixes that go from merely cd-size to 3 hours (!). I now download at 160 to 192Kbps, so although it's still a lot of listening time available, I'll outgrow my nomad jukebox soon.
You can do better. Move to Canada - walk with your possesions on your back if you have to. The broadband here is fast (1.5Mbps/384Kbps) and cheap (45$/month), and I have one of the least anal-retentive ISPs i've heard of and very reliable service (all ports are open, for one. Maybe they have some policy of disconnecting people who get infected and they don't worry about closing ports, but I haven't been there :). The installation was good (back in 1999), but when I upgraded to a static IP (and a little extra upload speed) it took a few weeks to get someone to come and change the settings on the router (in retrospect, it would have been funnier if I had let him try the default password a few times). If I had known that they weren't giving me a new modem or anything like that, I would have tried to get the information myself.
It it can shoot down the idea of leaving WIMP, it can shoot down this idea: what works doesn't need to be changed. I like being able to make a small page with a effort proportional to the amount of formatting. I know when you're trying to design a site that looks like it belongs on an interactive CD-ROM it's not so fun, but if you want to do that there are other ways. As for HTTP, I wouldn't even think of replacing it. It's a simple text protocol that gives easy anonymous access to files. Maybe if you're using it for remote administration (as in SSH, not webmin) it's not so good, but using the wrong tool never justifies changing or eliminating that tool.
"somebody on the radio pointed out that as we get better and better at stopping individual acts, the response is for a smaller number of more dedicated enemy to plan more thoroughly. So, for example, the number of hijackings has long been on the decline, but the number of people killed in each hijacking has gone way up."
It's one of the basic rules of security: you can't make things impossible, but you can reduce the number of people who can do them, up to a certain point. The only way to be completely secure from attacks is to be the last person alive on earth. Of course, this will make it harder for the theoretical terrorist who wants to attack a trade show, and you get the biggest effect when you cut off the easiest methods of attack.
Also, to successfuly smuggle in weapons as a booth renter, they'd probably have to infiltrate an established company. The prices for entry are probably high enough that it would take a lot of resources to get their own booth. I don't their actions would stop anyone trying to attack the place, because they could always bring in hidden parts and put them together inside (even one person could do some damage).
I have to admit you had me fooled there - I though "Unix soit qui mal y pense" actually made sense and my french skills weren't good enough to decipher it. Then I looked on e2 and found 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' - 'Shame to him who thinks evil of this'. So you are saying that anyone who thinks evil of some unspecified thing ('this', to be replaced by the most likely subject from the context) is or should be Unix.
In this context, it's not as bad - it's only saying that people who think badly of unix should be unix (now if you replaced that with should be converted to unix or something like that it might work) - but you should be careful about using quotes if you don't understand them completely.
He may have exagerated a bit, but he is right on the point of speed increases. The upgrade from 9600bps to 14.4Kbps must have been a big thing at the time (disclaimer: I started at 33.8), but now if someone said they could give me an extra 4.8Kbps on my DSL line (the canadian kind: 1.5Mbps/384Kbps and cheap as hell) I would offer to pay a penny per month. Then again, I have to question anyone who thinks they're important because they've discovered that technology grows exponentially.
"Enlightenment is here [enlightenment.org], not here [enlightenment.com]." (links not copied. Look at the parent to understand)
No, I believe you're wrong. They were actually trying to link to Alex Chiu's site, not the Enlightenment Window Manager. They still got the wrong link, but you don't have the right one either.
And that's why I avoid USB networking equipment even though I have other USB devices and will continue to buy them. I also don't connect my internal hard drives or monitor with USB. Bluetooth is for connecting devices, not transfering data.
As much as Adobe is hated by some people and watched with suspicion by others, there are many free tools to make PDFs on linux, and I think everyone agrees they are the most supported file format for complex documents (and more control than HTML). And of course, you could show them that free tools give them just as much as the much more expensive full version of Acrobat.
Use it a lot, and you won't even have to think about it. My firewalling forces passive FTP, so from now on i'll remember that it's wget --passive-ftp, because I use wget to FTP files and directories frequently. Similarly, i've memorized the fact that du -hc --max-depth=1 in the root directory will give me a nice report on where my GBs are going, because I do that a lot. And I can do ssh/scp in my sleep :)
By complete inability to understand markets, do you mean they won't let you plug in a serial cable so it can work on every computer? Should they be a 'good little super-capitalist company' like Microsoft instead? You may not want to buy it, but for their fairly small target market it could be a very successful product (although there is the price issue).
At least they're well targeted. You won't see a full-page ad on CNet talking about "vaginal yeast infections" :)
Lots of people who can program need Linux desktop apps. They will write them, and they will eventually be far better than Office. End of story.
When they instead see other OS's being used or promoted, they view them (rightly or wrongly) as competition for their own OS/culture.
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The last time I saw this was with MenuetOS - an experimental project that the author decided to release. He wasn't even competing with anyone, and people were complaining
No one is forcing you to use it. Why do people always complain when someone decides to write their own OS, or even worse say they should contribute to a more popular project? People who can program are allowed to do whatever they want (prior to certain laws) and release it under whatever license they want, so stop complaining!
You should have ignored the title and at least read the /. story. Unlike the stupid title would imply, the car only detects the emotions of the people in it. That title should be sent the way this car probably will go.
And how many times have they used these to go after OSS programmers who wrote a graphics program with a similar name to theirs? I don't care if they want to protect themselves in every way possible or have so many patents they implode and become a black hole, as long as they don't use them in a bad way. In fact, I'd preffer for IBM to have them than Adobe or Microsoft.