Exactly! My mother-in-law's 486 lasted 8+ years and would still be kicking if Prodigy Classic wasn't going away. I would have bought her an iMac except the school system where she teaches is shifting from Mac OS to Windows.
Those kids a really going to have a lot of practice looking at blue screens by the time they go to work.
I would expect that Unisys agrees with you that paying $5000 is ridiculous if you're a website. I'm sure they expect you to run out and buy a licensed program and use that instead. So they're happy because you're using licensed software and some software manufacturer is happy because they just made another sale.
Oh yes, and they're clients that buy the licenses stop complaining that others are using the algorithm and not having to pay for it. Seems like pretty smart business on the part of Unisys. All they need to do now is publically state that all you need to do to keep legal is to use a fully licensed piece of software somewhere in the process.
That said, I would prefer to just stop using GIFs altogether.
If you want 586 binaries recompile the source. I have several machines, some are 486's, and I perfer to use the same distro on all. 586 binaries prevent me from using some distro's.
I know this has hit several newbies in my LUG. They drag out the 486 and then try to install Stampede or some other Pentium-optimized distro. Really gives them a bad first impression.
Ok, maybe I'm being ignorant, but I've still got an S3-Virge video card and I don't think I need to replace it.
Assuming the only game I play on my Linux machine is Civ:CTP and I don't dual boot, do these new cards offer me anything? I don't think so, in fact, it's getting hard for me to justify any new hardware purchases, except a bit more RAM and maybe a faster processor (and that's just for compressing MP3's!).
I'm mad because lots of people with no/little experience in the stock market are complaining because they don't like the rules.
This is similar to my anger with people that see UNIX and call it backwards and old fashioned because they have to learn how to work a command line. Those are the rules! Just because you don't like them doesn't make them wrong.
Now I haven't seen anything officially, but when I was at the SGI offices last week I could have sworn I heard something about moving the video support beyond the simple frame buffer. When I asked about it, something about a NDA was mumbled.
I'm also pretty certain I saw it running in SMP mode, but the memory detection didn't appear to be correct.
Holding your LUG meeting at SGI has certain advantages.
Yes, I develop closed source applications. I support AIX 4.x, Solaris 2.5 and up, HP-UX 10.2 and up, and Red Hat Linux 5.2 and up.
No, not Linux 2.x, but Red Hat. Why? Because with 3 other platforms to develop on I don't want to take the time to see what, if any, differences I might find on Debian, Slackware, or any of the others. By supporting Red Hat, I can cover Intel, Sparc, and Alpha in a fairly straight forward fashion. Why did I choose Red Hat? It was an easy choice, I already had it and so did the customer.
You want people like me to open the code? Not going to happen. You want me to support all versions of Linux? Pay me more money. Does that make me just another developer whore? I'll let you decide.
Suddenly I have a really strange feeling on the back of my neck because I had been debating between more RAM for my server or a new windscreen for my bike.
Didn't ever think the two passions had anything in common.
This is almost the set of features and price point that I want. The trick is, for a device like this you have to find the right target audience, and for the most part, geeks aren't it. We know that these things aren't as effective as a good palmtop/laptop and headphones so we're waiting for something amazing.
On the other hand, my motorcycle riding brethren are starting to really dig this stuff. Its much easier to tuck one of these inside your jacket than trying to deal with a CD player strapped to your gas tank or the frequent retunning of a normal walkman radio. And the cost? Hell, you're talking to a group that routinely pays >$50 for a pair of gloves and thinks $300 for a jacket is a bargain. $250 for a radio? Sure, why not. Ever see how much it costs to get a good radio in a Goldwing?
How could anyone but a radical anarchist support a concept like "free software"? It may seem like a boon for consumers. But they should realize that a market totally free of prices is not likely to produce quality merchandise and will quickly collapse.
Guess its time to call the nice folks at Linux central at let them know that they don't have any software to sell.
Seriously, the author doesn't have enough of a grasp of the appeal of Linux (more than just techies) or the economics of commodity software (see Red Hat's presentation on the likening of packaged Linux to bottled water). I don't mind articles like this, since I think it'll only slow down the acceptance of Linux a bit and perhaps drive us to create more user friendly features to broaden the appeal.
I think my work place will finally start selling the Linux port of our software (done without permission of course), now if only they'd let me open the source code I could cut down on the support issues.
Hmm... while I certainly agree that most communist governments have failed to achieve their stated goals, it's not fair to claim that capitalism is winning any prizes either. The United States has had to resort to heavy subsidies of its core businesses (agriculture, manufacturing, and education), Canada has had to implement socialist programs to provide the services its people need, many Central and South American countries are unable to stimulate their own economies, and Europe has formed their economic union in order to compete. It would seem that capitalism has its flaws.
What a worthless "estimate". You have to assume that Jurasic Park:Lost World has the exact same draw as Star Wars (I'd think it has less), that every person who goes to see it will take the full day off (rationale here?), and that they represent the average American worker (think as many low wage earners will be taking off as, say, well paid programmers?).
I'd just like to voice my enjoyment of the recent moderation practices. I've found that I typically agree with the moderators as to what is a good read and what isn't. Perhaps I don't read as many comments as I once did, but I do have time to read more articles and some of the best comments on thoes articels. I'm happier and am looking forward to this next round of changes.
The problem for a lot of people who care about 3D rendering is that current speeds on Linux (and Intel hardware in general) just aren't up to snuff. Displaying complex molecules and trying to rotate them just doesn't do what you need.
More and more "serious" applications depend on 3D rendering at high speeds. We need to know how close hardware acceleration is to being a reality on Linux so we can plan on whether or not to use it as platform either for development or deployment of product.
But I get paid to write closed-source software so my views may be different from yours.
As much as I like building my own machines, I'd like to be able to order a machine with Linux preinstalled without paying excessive cost or getting zero support.
Listen up, Dell. I have the money set aside for my new machine. I'm giving you 45 days to make an announcement or I'll buy a machine from VA Research.
I never understand why people think that geeks refuse to wear ties. I wear them to work 4 out of 5 days and don't really mind it.
I don't try and wear those cartoon or otherwise humors ties because I think that's like saying "I'll wear a tie, but I'm really much cooler than that."
I've noticed most of the marketroids wear those kind of ties. I just find a decent suit and try to use it as camo so I can hide in my cube and code undisturbed.
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Am I the only one that hates this form factor? Too small to be a desktop replacement, too big to carry descretely.
Give me a palm pilot or a laptop, anything in between is a waste.
Exactly! My mother-in-law's 486 lasted 8+ years and would still be kicking if Prodigy Classic wasn't going away. I would have bought her an iMac except the school system where she teaches is shifting from Mac OS to Windows.
Those kids a really going to have a lot of practice looking at blue screens by the time they go to work.
I would expect that Unisys agrees with you that paying $5000 is ridiculous if you're a website. I'm sure they expect you to run out and buy a licensed program and use that instead. So they're happy because you're using licensed software and some software manufacturer is happy because they just made another sale.
Oh yes, and they're clients that buy the licenses stop complaining that others are using the algorithm and not having to pay for it. Seems like pretty smart business on the part of Unisys. All they need to do now is publically state that all you need to do to keep legal is to use a fully licensed piece of software somewhere in the process.
That said, I would prefer to just stop using GIFs altogether.
If you want 586 binaries recompile the source. I have several machines, some are 486's, and I perfer to use the same distro on all. 586 binaries prevent me from using some distro's.
I know this has hit several newbies in my LUG. They drag out the 486 and then try to install Stampede or some other Pentium-optimized distro. Really gives them a bad first impression.
Ok, maybe I'm being ignorant, but I've still got an S3-Virge video card and I don't think I need to replace it.
Assuming the only game I play on my Linux machine is Civ:CTP and I don't dual boot, do these new cards offer me anything? I don't think so, in fact, it's getting hard for me to justify any new hardware purchases, except a bit more RAM and maybe a faster processor (and that's just for compressing MP3's!).
Please, correct me if I've missed something.
I'm mad because lots of people with no/little experience in the stock market are complaining because they don't like the rules.
This is similar to my anger with people that see UNIX and call it backwards and old fashioned because they have to learn how to work a command line. Those are the rules! Just because you don't like them doesn't make them wrong.
Now I haven't seen anything officially, but when I was at the SGI offices last week I could have sworn I heard something about moving the video support beyond the simple frame buffer. When I asked about it, something about a NDA was mumbled.
I'm also pretty certain I saw it running in SMP mode, but the memory detection didn't appear to be correct.
Holding your LUG meeting at SGI has certain advantages.
Yes, I develop closed source applications. I support AIX 4.x, Solaris 2.5 and up, HP-UX 10.2 and up, and Red Hat Linux 5.2 and up.
No, not Linux 2.x, but Red Hat. Why? Because with 3 other platforms to develop on I don't want to take the time to see what, if any, differences I might find on Debian, Slackware, or any of the others. By supporting Red Hat, I can cover Intel, Sparc, and Alpha in a fairly straight forward fashion. Why did I choose Red Hat? It was an easy choice, I already had it and so did the customer.
You want people like me to open the code? Not going to happen. You want me to support all versions of Linux? Pay me more money. Does that make me just another developer whore? I'll let you decide.
As cable modems and other fat pipes reach every household, you can count on one thing. Plain Old Telephone Service is on its last legs.
What is that stupid wall mount phone doing for me? I'll give it one more month to prove its usefulness, and then out it goes!
Suddenly I have a really strange feeling on the back of my neck because I had been debating between more RAM for my server or a new windscreen for my bike.
Didn't ever think the two passions had anything in common.
I think it has long been known to companies that write software for both UNIX and WinNT that NT is only used in less important situations.
This is nice, but more info for the masses and the small shops than the big corps.
If you make it use CD's you're back to a mechanical device that soaks the batteries and has a poor form factor. Blah!
This is almost the set of features and price point that I want. The trick is, for a device like this you have to find the right target audience, and for the most part, geeks aren't it. We know that these things aren't as effective as a good palmtop/laptop and headphones so we're waiting for something amazing.
On the other hand, my motorcycle riding brethren are starting to really dig this stuff. Its much easier to tuck one of these inside your jacket than trying to deal with a CD player strapped to your gas tank or the frequent retunning of a normal walkman radio. And the cost? Hell, you're talking to a group that routinely pays >$50 for a pair of gloves and thinks $300 for a jacket is a bargain. $250 for a radio? Sure, why not. Ever see how much it costs to get a good radio in a Goldwing?
My favorite quote from the article:
How could anyone but a radical anarchist support a concept like "free software"? It may seem like a boon for consumers. But they should realize that a market totally free of prices is not likely to produce quality merchandise and will quickly collapse.
Guess its time to call the nice folks at Linux central at let them know that they don't have any software to sell.
Seriously, the author doesn't have enough of a grasp of the appeal of Linux (more than just techies) or the economics of commodity software (see Red Hat's presentation on the likening of packaged Linux to bottled water). I don't mind articles like this, since I think it'll only slow down the acceptance of Linux a bit and perhaps drive us to create more user friendly features to broaden the appeal.
I think my work place will finally start selling the Linux port of our software (done without permission of course), now if only they'd let me open the source code I could cut down on the support issues.
They're using their own chipset. Making this a very proprietary box.
Hmm... while I certainly agree that most communist governments have failed to achieve their stated goals, it's not fair to claim that capitalism is winning any prizes either. The United States has had to resort to heavy subsidies of its core businesses (agriculture, manufacturing, and education), Canada has had to implement socialist programs to provide the services its people need, many Central and South American countries are unable to stimulate their own economies, and Europe has formed their economic union in order to compete. It would seem that capitalism has its flaws.
What a worthless "estimate". You have to assume that Jurasic Park:Lost World has the exact same draw as Star Wars (I'd think it has less), that every person who goes to see it will take the full day off (rationale here?), and that they represent the average American worker (think as many low wage earners will be taking off as, say, well paid programmers?).
What a bunch of bullox.
I'd just like to voice my enjoyment of the recent moderation practices. I've found that I typically agree with the moderators as to what is a good read and what isn't. Perhaps I don't read as many comments as I once did, but I do have time to read more articles and some of the best comments on thoes articels. I'm happier and am looking forward to this next round of changes.
The problem for a lot of people who care about 3D rendering is that current speeds on Linux (and Intel hardware in general) just aren't up to snuff. Displaying complex molecules and trying to rotate them just doesn't do what you need.
More and more "serious" applications depend on 3D rendering at high speeds. We need to know how close hardware acceleration is to being a reality on Linux so we can plan on whether or not to use it as platform either for development or deployment of product.
But I get paid to write closed-source software so my views may be different from yours.
As much as I like building my own machines, I'd like to be able to order a machine with Linux preinstalled without paying excessive cost or getting zero support.
Listen up, Dell. I have the money set aside for my new machine. I'm giving you 45 days to make an announcement or I'll buy a machine from VA Research.
I never understand why people think that geeks refuse to wear ties. I wear them to work 4 out of 5 days and don't really mind it.
I don't try and wear those cartoon or otherwise humors ties because I think that's like saying "I'll wear a tie, but I'm really much cooler than that."
I've noticed most of the marketroids wear those kind of ties. I just find a decent suit and try to use it as camo so I can hide in my cube and code undisturbed.
Acronyms are fun!
The problem is if the pictures are being sold and they are not actually from Playboy Enterprises.
There is a very real chance that someone thinks they're buying from a source they trust, but end up with junk and blame Playboy.
Imagine if some properitary software companies starting buying banner space using "Linux" to suck in users that don't fully know the difference.
My wife picked out the car because "it looked sporty and cute"
My mother picked out her computer because "this shade of beige goes with the wall paper".
Maybe techies and gear heads care what's under the hood, but most of the public are happy with their "cute" P-150's and Saturns.
My case at home is ugly as hell... so's my car.