It looks very similar to Amazon's EC2 hosted server service. They even have a simplified database system much like EC2. That in itself is enough to scare a lot of people away due to the pain of future migration. It's actually nothing like EC2--EC2 is a virtualization platform. You run an entire machine image of your choice on Amazon's infrastructure, and there's no explicit persistent storage except through the Ec2 interface.
Google's offering is more like a web framework hosted on Google's servers. Much different.
Yes, I'm a corporate shill, but rPath's rBuilder tools are specifically designed to do what the poster is asking: manage appliances based on Linux: http://www.rpath.com/
Sounds like you're really shoehorning a lot of things in order to make your "everything is a document" model work, especially in regards to the terminal stuff. Sessions might work for AIM and gkrellm, but terminals?
I wish people would stop comparing napster to things like windows file sharing and ftp. Ftp and SMB have mostly legitimate uses. Napster doesn't. Napster is like a switchblade. It's generally illegal to carry a switchblade in the US, because most switchblades are used to commit crimes. It's not illegal to carry a pocketknife, though.
You can't look at this completely objectively, saying "Well, napster just transfers 0s and 1s, therefore, shouldn't any digital transfer system be banned?" It's an elementry logical fallacy, and it makes whoever say it look like a warez kiddy who just wants free music.
Please people, debate this with some shread of moral and logical respectibility. Back to the switchblade metaphore, if switchblades were not generally used to commit crimes (if napster only traded legal/unsigned music), they wouldn't be illegal to carry.
Yeah, whatever. How is this so much different from a regular cell phone? Bet it takes about the same mental power to yap on the phone for 5 minutes than it does to glance down at a few words. People in the US chat all the time driving, as I'm sure you're aware of. They also use their phones in other inappropriate places like movie theaters. Nothing new, move along. Some people are stupid. Not just people in the Philippines.
Have somebody put up a web message board called "Anonymous Apogee Negative Comment Board". They have no jurisdiction over it and I can't hardly imagine them trying to track down posters. I'd sure as heck post with my real contact info anyway. I bought CK4 for CGA, they sent me an EGA version. Boy was I frustrated! I can't hardly complain about the game though..
I used to love sitting around reading manuals to my latest toy when I couldn't be at the computer. On the bus, in the bathroom, etc. When I was 12, I memorized the SimCity 2000 manual before I played the game. I had received the game for Christmas, but my family was visiting relatives about 1500 miles away from home. What would I have done if all the manuals were on disk? I would have stared at the cd cover, most likely.
Electronic-only manuals make troubleshooting and following tutorials a pain. Ever tried to follow a detailed tutorial switching back and forth between a PDF reader (PDF has its own evil problems, but I won't get into that now) and a complex application? Last I checked most readers don't include bookmark tools. Where are sticky notes when you need them?
What's more important. Calming the masses, or making the truth heard? Let's censor the radicals, keep the populace under control. Sounds like a plan, Orwell!
No scriptural justification? What scriptures are you reading?:)
My KJV in James 2:14 through 22 says otherwise. Works are an expression of faith. Jesus' last and greatest commandment was to love our neighbors. Is that not a work? We're saved through faith, judged by works.
I ported that to perl and added an irc interface. Check it out at http://kipper.crk.umn.edu/~gerla/hazel. perl. Requires Net::IRC, Storable, and Data::Dumper, all available from CPAN.
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Google's offering is more like a web framework hosted on Google's servers. Much different.
Yes, I'm a corporate shill, but rPath's rBuilder tools are specifically designed to do what the poster is asking: manage appliances based on Linux: http://www.rpath.com/
How did you like the elevator ride down? Dark and kinda clanky. I worked on this project when I was in school--good to see some results already!
Check your /tmp directory--gconf and ORBit will create temporary directories named like that in ~ if /tmp is unwritable.
Sounds like you're really shoehorning a lot of things in order to make your "everything is a document" model work, especially in regards to the terminal stuff. Sessions might work for AIM and gkrellm, but terminals?
Boy, do you ever sound boring!
Learn C/C++ better. Stupid mistakes are not an inherent property of C.
I've been a happy user of Gaim for a long time. I chipped in with the paypal stuff. -Tim
Bah, you're no karma whore. You'll never be as whorish as Signal 11, so why even try? Even your name is a copout. FAKE!
LOL Millennium hand, shrimp?
You can't look at this completely objectively, saying "Well, napster just transfers 0s and 1s, therefore, shouldn't any digital transfer system be banned?" It's an elementry logical fallacy, and it makes whoever say it look like a warez kiddy who just wants free music.
Please people, debate this with some shread of moral and logical respectibility. Back to the switchblade metaphore, if switchblades were not generally used to commit crimes (if napster only traded legal/unsigned music), they wouldn't be illegal to carry.
-Tim
Yeah, whatever. How is this so much different from a regular cell phone? Bet it takes about the same mental power to yap on the phone for 5 minutes than it does to glance down at a few words. People in the US chat all the time driving, as I'm sure you're aware of. They also use their phones in other inappropriate places like movie theaters. Nothing new, move along. Some people are stupid. Not just people in the Philippines.
Have somebody put up a web message board called "Anonymous Apogee Negative Comment Board". They have no jurisdiction over it and I can't hardly imagine them trying to track down posters. I'd sure as heck post with my real contact info anyway. I bought CK4 for CGA, they sent me an EGA version. Boy was I frustrated! I can't hardly complain about the game though..
Stupid laws.
Has anyone read Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus?
Excellent book by OSC dealing with time travel and temporal sequencing. I almost enjoyed it more than Ender's Game.
-Tim
I used to love sitting around reading manuals to my latest toy when I couldn't be at the computer. On the bus, in the bathroom, etc. When I was 12, I memorized the SimCity 2000 manual before I played the game. I had received the game for Christmas, but my family was visiting relatives about 1500 miles away from home. What would I have done if all the manuals were on disk? I would have stared at the cd cover, most likely.
Electronic-only manuals make troubleshooting and following tutorials a pain. Ever tried to follow a detailed tutorial switching back and forth between a PDF reader (PDF has its own evil problems, but I won't get into that now) and a complex application? Last I checked most readers don't include bookmark tools. Where are sticky notes when you need them?
Nothing can beat paper manuals so far.
What's more important. Calming the masses, or making the truth heard? Let's censor the radicals, keep the populace under control. Sounds like a plan, Orwell!
-Tim
No scriptural justification? What scriptures are you reading? :)
My KJV in James 2:14 through 22 says otherwise.
Works are an expression of faith. Jesus' last and greatest commandment was to love our neighbors. Is that not a work? We're saved through faith, judged by works.
Slashdot probably ate my account. timg@rrv.net.
Beware, it might be broken. -Tim