Re:The beauty is NOT skin deep.
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Actually we do know what we are missing. Not all people started on linux, and there is enough feedback from the application developer community to create better API's. Where do you think gtk+ came from? From application developers needs. Enhanced API's are coming as there is application developers needs for it. GNOME is pretty young, and UNIX/X doesn't inforce interoperability between apps. But it will happen.
In anycase, as you've noted, you use a unix desktop everyday. It suits your needs now, and tomorrow (No one can copyright a good idea).
Exactly... which is why etoy should get a trademark on etoy.com and then sue etoys.com for their name. They'd have more a chance to win then etoys did. and that would be real funny, at least the temporary injunction.
The battles over, but the war isn't.
How to get money to coders/whats a real charity
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I've thought about this, and the beanies is a really good way of this, but there are so many developers that need funds, and a lot of the projects are not that popular
For example, the PostgreSQL project could probably use a couple bucks. Wouldn't it be nice to have a sql92 complient database with replication support... that's opensource!!
I've donated hardware to a linux developer, but I think the best opportunity for hardware to get out there are company donations, which happens frequently. It's odd, because without an organization behind you (LI/XFree86) I think any individual would feel odd saying. Send me money, send me hardware.
As for "true" charities, there are many of us opensource minded people that think that free software has the potential to give back many times more to the "true" charities. For example:
pgp has saved many lives in oppresive regimes (read zimmermans homepage)
PBS just announced that they are rolling out 600 desktops of win2000 (600*$200=!!!)
Not that "true" charities are less deserving, it's just wrong to think that free-software is just a cheap nerds paradise.
Wow.. so doing one think takes from another?
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This is so dumb. Of course using the internet will take from other things. The analysis that Katz spends is too much. This is a classic case of innumeracy.
As to the cultural impacts, none of us can see what it will mean.
Unfortunetely, they will not be able to kill firewire. But hopefully these threats will bring down the licensing costs of firewire down. Rambus is dealing with this now (make it cheaper or die).
USB2.0 is a big technical challange, and USB wasn't made for it. The problem will be largely with older usb devices attached to the same bus.
Serial ATA and FC are going to eliminate SCSI. In fact SerialATA doesn't have all the checkpoints to compete with firewire. The only reason it is a threat is that this pushes firewire out of the DeviceBay standard, but that's years away from shipping.
Firewire will still persist for the a/v crowd and that will slip more and more into consumer products. Firewire will quadrople in speed soon, so USB2.0 would still be slow.
vmware has to write cdrom drivers, because they cannot let you access the hardware directly. They have to make it appear to the guest OS that it is a native hardware, while still following the rules of the host OS.
But that was one minor point of your statement. I disagree with your thrust by the fact that in commercial software world, if you don't dominate, you lose.
In the free software world, if you don't quit, you win.
Now that these two worlds are colliding, we shall see what philosphy prevails...
Hey, with all the time spent whining about the laptop battery, you could have spilt the beans on the beanies. Feel free to edit out useless notes after you relieze that there is no cause for concern about your battery.
go here. Racks are dumb for end users, unless you have lots of machines with extended lifetimes (ie: your crappy p2 doesn't deserve to be in a rack, but an SGI, SUN does, or >$5k PC server does). Even if you have a bunch of computers, if they are all desktop class, 4U will be wasted in a year when desktops go to 2U vcr style size.
For the person that has four soon to be five computers in his living room, put them in a closet. Or at least start to buy NLX, mATX motherboards so you can get the smaller cases now.
That's not to mention that racks themselve are pricey. What's the goal... coolness or organization..
First, in the update, this guy quotes linus as saying his "gateway" takes a while to boot. He said "8 way" as in 8 CPUs. Second, I though the slashdot questions at the conference were dumb: effectivly the question was "Can you run different instruction sets on the virtual machines" but the virtual machine itself was provided by their software. The question was not based on the information they released, but on earlier rumors. They could have gotten a better answer if they asked "what are the potentials for running different virtual cpus simulaneously" Some questions I'd liked to have seen were: 1) You say the software in the cpu is locked right in the beginning of the bios loading, no chance for viruses. but you also say that you will be able to download fixes off the web. Explain that! 2) How long does it take for writing x86 emulation, and why (x86 complexity, clean room stuff?) 3) How would the transmeta CPU running a simpler (designed for lowpower) CPU instruction set, like dragonball, strongarm compare. Question 3 is especially good, as especially with linux, x86 isn't all that. All they seem to have is the low power x86 chip, but that doesn't mean that it's the low power chip.
Although I dont't think he deserves 2k over all the other worthy entries, rlk certainly deserves the new printer to go in new directions with his code. That's one type of awards I'd like to seen given out: Hardware for those that want to code but don't get the hardware. I've donated hardware to a kernel hacker (albeit only 60 bucks worth), have you?
IBM didn't announce anything about linux.
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Go to their web site. check the news. This (the news about IBM supporting linux) was an interview, with an employee of IBM (albeit a very high up in the ranks employee). Just thought it needed to be said...
Working like crazy on USB, and also providing awesome joystick drivers that support all major game consoles joysticks (except dreamcast)... and the new input layer that will clean up the whole input layer once and for all.
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Actually we do know what we are missing. Not all people started on linux, and there is enough feedback from the application developer community to create better API's. Where do you think gtk+ came from? From application developers needs. Enhanced API's are coming as there is application developers needs for it. GNOME is pretty young, and UNIX/X doesn't inforce interoperability between apps. But it will happen.
In anycase, as you've noted, you use a unix desktop everyday. It suits your needs now, and tomorrow (No one can copyright a good idea).
Exactly... which is why etoy should get a trademark on etoy.com and then sue etoys.com for their name. They'd have more a chance to win then etoys did. and that would be real funny, at least the temporary injunction.
The battles over, but the war isn't.
For example, the PostgreSQL project could probably use a couple bucks. Wouldn't it be nice to have a sql92 complient database with replication support... that's opensource!!
I've donated hardware to a linux developer, but I think the best opportunity for hardware to get out there are company donations, which happens frequently. It's odd, because without an organization behind you (LI/XFree86) I think any individual would feel odd saying. Send me money, send me hardware.
As for "true" charities, there are many of us opensource minded people that think that free software has the potential to give back many times more to the "true" charities. For example:
- pgp has saved many lives in oppresive regimes (read zimmermans homepage)
- PBS just announced that they are rolling out 600 desktops of win2000 (600*$200=!!!)
Not that "true" charities are less deserving, it's just wrong to think that free-software is just a cheap nerds paradise.This is so dumb. Of course using the internet will take from other things. The analysis that Katz spends is too much. This is a classic case of innumeracy.
As to the cultural impacts, none of us can see what it will mean.
Unfortunetely, they will not be able to kill firewire. But hopefully these threats will bring down the licensing costs of firewire down. Rambus is dealing with this now (make it cheaper or die).
USB2.0 is a big technical challange, and USB wasn't made for it. The problem will be largely with older usb devices attached to the same bus.
Serial ATA and FC are going to eliminate SCSI. In fact SerialATA doesn't have all the checkpoints to compete with firewire. The only reason it is a threat is that this pushes firewire out of the DeviceBay standard, but that's years away from shipping.
Firewire will still persist for the a/v crowd and that will slip more and more into consumer products. Firewire will quadrople in speed soon, so USB2.0 would still be slow.
vmware has to write cdrom drivers, because they
cannot let you access the hardware directly. They have to make it appear to the guest OS that it
is a native hardware, while still following the rules of the host OS.
But that was one minor point of your statement. I disagree with your thrust by the fact that in commercial software world, if you don't dominate, you lose.
In the free software world, if you don't quit, you win.
Now that these two worlds are colliding, we shall
see what philosphy prevails...
Trademarks can be anything, as long as:
1) There isn't already another trademark with
the same name registered.
2) It isn't simply descriptive. This is why open source didn't get it. The defined the term before registering it.
Otherwise things like Bob, and Java certainly wouldn't have been trademarked.
Hey, with all the time spent whining about the laptop battery, you could have spilt the beans on the beanies. Feel free to edit out useless notes after you relieze that there is no cause for concern about your battery.
steganography, mix up his stuff in some bill clinton avi's... that'll get them. http://www.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/
go here. Racks are dumb for end users, unless you have lots of machines with extended lifetimes (ie: your crappy p2 doesn't deserve to be in a rack, but an SGI, SUN does, or >$5k PC server does). Even if you have a bunch of computers, if they are all desktop class, 4U will be wasted in a year when desktops go to 2U vcr style size.
For the person that has four soon to be five computers in his living room, put them in a closet. Or at least start to buy NLX, mATX motherboards so you can get the smaller cases now.
That's not to mention that racks themselve are pricey. What's the goal... coolness or organization..
First, in the update, this guy quotes linus as saying his "gateway" takes a while to boot. He said "8 way" as in 8 CPUs. Second, I though the slashdot questions at the conference were dumb: effectivly the question was "Can you run different instruction sets on the virtual machines" but the virtual machine itself was provided by their software. The question was not based on the information they released, but on earlier rumors. They could have gotten a better answer if they asked "what are the potentials for running different virtual cpus simulaneously" Some questions I'd liked to have seen were: 1) You say the software in the cpu is locked right in the beginning of the bios loading, no chance for viruses. but you also say that you will be able to download fixes off the web. Explain that! 2) How long does it take for writing x86 emulation, and why (x86 complexity, clean room stuff?) 3) How would the transmeta CPU running a simpler (designed for lowpower) CPU instruction set, like dragonball, strongarm compare. Question 3 is especially good, as especially with linux, x86 isn't all that. All they seem to have is the low power x86 chip, but that doesn't mean that it's the low power chip.
I guess they are worth more cause the chips get smarter over time ;)
Although I dont't think he deserves 2k over all the other worthy entries, rlk certainly deserves the new printer to go in new directions with his code. That's one type of awards I'd like to seen given out: Hardware for those that want to code but don't get the hardware. I've donated hardware to a kernel hacker (albeit only 60 bucks worth), have you?
Go to their web site. check the news. This (the news about IBM supporting linux) was an interview, with an employee of IBM (albeit a very high up in the ranks employee). Just thought it needed to be said...
Working like crazy on USB, and also providing awesome joystick drivers that support all major game consoles joysticks (except dreamcast)... and the new input layer that will clean up the whole input layer once and for all.