I think you are assuming that this broadband will only be used for some kind of PC based browsing.
This broadband link, whatever it is, will eventually carry the phone traffic, the data for one or more televisions (and radios) in the house, data to be downloaded to the mp6 based stereo system, and everything else.
I think, the issue with broadband is NOT in the pipes, but in the switching. That's where the bottleneck is.
Apart from your generalisations, I think you cover most of the points. But these are differences not problems.
1. You will need structured communications. People think it's OK to decide everything around the water cooler and with ad hoc little conversations, which may work in a small little tech company but is no damn use for managing teams in other countries. Read a good book on project management, and get some proper structures in place. And if you can't handle working with other timezones you've got more problems on your hands than you think anyway!
2. Don't expect anyone to do you favours. If you got paid the salary they are working for you'd not do overtime either. Get a clear agreement, stick to you side of it and don't expect your supplier to do any more or less than their side of it.
3. Don't expect creativity or imagination 'for free'. My turn for generalisation now... I have heared it said that Indian programmers (I've not dealt with any others for outsourcing) don't approach the work creatively, and this a huge benefit. No feature creep. No chrome. No programmers getting bored and learning on the job with your code.
4. It may be that what you are doing is shifting your dull grunt work onto people who earn 1/10 of a U.S. salary. Fine. If you treat them like dull grunts, you'll get what you deserve. They aren't stupid, they are probably twice as smart as the average self-taugh Javascript weenie earning 35K a year (UKPS) doing crap code.
5. It's almost certainly the way of the future. Vast amounts of the repetitive work required by Western industry is outsourced to 2nd world countries. Sooner or later, programming will follow in the footsteps of textiles, toys and the rest. Might as well practice now!
There is no problem. ASCII is an outdated, obsolete standard. It is unsuitable for modern requirements. Get rid of it. All of it. It sucks. The only reason it's still here is because U.S. Unix geeks can't be arsed to learn something new and better.
Everything should be in Unicode. EVERYTHING. Filenames, partition names, variable names in code, EVERYTHING. DNS should support Unicode, SMTP, HTTP, FTP all these protocols should support any text being unicode. Microsoft understands this, Unix doesn't.
Whoa!! Were have you been all last month. Some big companies that haven't ever managed to produce a halfway decent GUI between them _said_ that Gnome was the standard. So it is.
New Open Media i-news lets you ignore all that 'boring stuff' about irrelevant people!
This great technology allows you to simply never even know about millions of other people and events!
Fed up with old people talking on the news about shit like economics? Don't give a damn because you earn 35,000 quid a year sitting on your arse doing Flash movies? Just cut it out with i-news!
"I used to get fed up with old people talking about, like, foreign affairs and stuff", says newly liberated media consumer Natalie. "It's like I don't care about some old Korean people getting worked up about some border somewhere. I wan't even born when the Korean war happened - it was like so dumb, I can't relate to it. But I never see anything about how Napster is the new American Revolution and how the MPAA are doing so much evil in this world."
And that's not all. By ensuring you _ONLY_ use i-news you can live in an entirely me-centric info-verse. Only stuff that directly affects your wealthy techno-cool urban-hip lifestyle will ever reach you! And That means:
MORE colour pieces on cool kids like you!
MORE pseudo philosophical guff about how YOUNG COOL PEOPLE are really way more important than, like, everyone else.
TOTAL coverage of pointless stupid events like the pre-release demo of naff Doom clone computer games.
ENDLESS ranting by self appointed pundits on how the Internet is JUST SO WONDERFUL.
But, remember, i-news also means:
NO people who use long difficult words.
NO lusers in suits who 'totally don't have a clue'
NO pictures of poor people in far away places.
So, get rid of your t.v. don't buy the papers, and tune in to our short-lived open media web site, where you will be guaranteed to:
DISAPPEAR UP YOU OWN BACKSIDE
as you consume endless, meaningless crap while desperately pretending that because you post shit to some bulletin board you are actually part of a community in any meaningful sense.
It is not the job of one OS to play nice with another, any more than it is the job of one program to play nice with the other.
In the case of programs, the OS (or kernel) mediates between them, and stops them trampling on each other's memory etc.
In the case of OSes, it should really be up to the firmware/hardware/BIOS to enforce rules for OSes on one machine to behave well, by hiding them from each other.
My definition of backward compatibility does not include working with older versions of OTHER PEOPLE'S software. Nor does it include 'working in exactly the same way as the old version'. Or even 'keeping certain boot procedures the same so that other entirely unrelated 3rd party software works the same way as it used to.'
We are slashdot of borg. Reason is futile. You will be moderated.
Of _course_ the title is just a pointless anti-MS jibe. You seem to be forgetting that this is the highest form of humour. Perhaps your implant needs adjusting.
We could have a discussion about the relative merits of the new technology in W2K vs the proven ability of the current system. We could have some people who have experience of running multi-node W2K based mail systems relate their experiences. We could even have some people from the Hotmail technical team post interesting messages about the migration, what tools they are using, and so on.
But, hey, this is a forum for Geeks, so we'll probably just have stupid I love x I hate y comments and some guy from a web design company saying how their new W2K web server crashed on the first day so obviously the Hotmail will never run on W2K.
Alone in the Dark was one of the most important, not to say best, games ever made. It was a huge leap forward, and together with calvados and impressionism was one of France's great contributions to the world.
I notice Alone on the Dark 4 is coming, if not by the original developers, at least by more French ones (www.darkworks.com).
Also, what about Daggerfall by Bethesda?
It's certainly true that Wolfenstein clones have had an undesirable grip on the industry for too long, spurred heavily (IMHO) by the fact that such games translate quite well to consoles.
Increasingly, it only makes commercial sense to develop games for both PC and console, and so the PC is brought down to the console's level. The "little people" genre (theme park, populous, dungeon keeper, AofE, Settlers etc) seems to work poorly and consoles and may have its days numbered because of that.
The whole myst thing brought computer games to people who had never touched one with a barge-pole before. These people then declared that myst was the best game ever written, amazing, mould breaking (sic) hype, hype, hype. Actually, I thought myst was a dreadfully frustrating, limited adventure game that managed to wow naive people with glossy pre-rendered graphics. Ug. Give me Sam and Max hit the Road _any_ time. Mind you I loathe adventure games, so I'm biased.
I spend years telling people to write cross platform code and now we get companies like IBM promoting Linux software.
I hate Linux software, I hate Windows software I'm fed up with this 'one OS to rule the world' crap.
I want cross platform software. Anything that says it works on Linux but not other unixes I don't touch with a barge pole. I get fed up with crap like "KDE, the popular Linux desktop". KDE runs on multiple platforms dammit, as does Gnome, Apache and all the other poster children of the so-called Linux revolution.
I have no interest in Linux software, only good, cross-platform free software.
How is this different from those web sites that munge URL's and render the text into silly accents or flip the pictures over or whatever?
Deja takes an existing public resource (Usenet) and munges it to add some hyperlinks.
whateveritwascalled.com takes an existing public resource (the web) and munges it by adding some BA Baracus quotes and silly pictures.
Remember when the second of these got hit my a copyright infringement notice and/. rushed to their defence? Why the opposite now? Why all mutterings about "it's my usenet post and they can't alter it." What crap.
If I set up a web interface to Usenet that showed all posts with the word 'Microsoft' rendered as 'Micro$oft' would that be wrong, if I made it obvious it had been altered? So what is wrong with what Deja are doing? I'm not convinced the service is all that useful, but there's nothing wrong with it.
No, what's depressing is that some people think you should use an ugly hash of the English language because some committee of computer programmers tell you to, rather than use a more natural expression which absolutely everyone understands anyway and has been in regular use for a long time.
And while we on the subject I don't fight that stupid "say crackers not hackers" losing battle either.
The newest addition to Red Hat's line of award-winning Linux operating systems features more powerful installation, support, availability and clustering capabilities critical to Internet infrastructures
I see. So it's Red Hat's operating system now. Not Red Hat's distribution of _our_ operating system. Riiight.
In fairness to RH, since there's no 'about RH' paragraph this isn't a joint press release and RH may not have had a chance to correct the text.
On the other hand, some might say that this kind Linux^H Red Hat publicity != good.
However, initial experience has been somewhat disappointing. It's been much slower than Windows 95 (which really surprises me)
Don't be surprised. X windows, and therefore anything that runs on top of it, is a crock of shit. It's the slowest, worst, most bloated piece of crap you can imagine.
As for Star Office, don't even think about it. It too is a slow, tedious bloated thing with a deeply unintuitive UI.
KOffice still looks like the best bet for *nix WP software since it has few enough features and innovations that it might have a comprehensible UI and a decent implementation. And it uses the 'frames' approach to layout, which is probably good.
That's enough ranting. I use KDE on Solaris all the time at work and it's great, but it is still NOT a home/office setup. I can think of nothing worse than handling office tasks on a *nix platform.
I don't get it. IE doesn't correctly support all the W3C standards - but it gets much closer than anyone else, especially Netscape.
Why are MS adding non-standard new stuff? Because it needs to. Why should it wait for the W3C to spend years and years coming up with standards that no one wants, when MS can just go ahead and create its own?
The only thing MS does wrong here is not release the specs to its unilateral innovations. That way they are proprietary innovations rather than open ones. That sucks. But the 'standard' has nothing to do with it. Ever since day one on the web some company (mostly Netscape) has been creating non-standard enhancements. That's fine by me. I can't honestly say that there's any evidence this has hurt the development of the web more than it has helped it.
IE4 and later have by far and away the fastest renderer, and most standards compliance. It supports Java far better than anything else, and faster. It is obviously the best browser around, even if you choose not to use its proprietary features. I look forward to Mozilla overtaking it, but until then kudos for MS for creating software that actually leads this particular field.
This book annoyed me. It was like this single person (who was probably white and over 30!) felt that he could decide whatever went in it. What gave him the right to ignore the many experts under the age of 30 that could have contributed to his ideas? Imagine how much better this book could have been if millions of experienced Open Media readers had been able to review it at Beta stage and submit patches!
After all, we all know that closed source Old Media books are full of stupid bugs, like bad grammar, typos, and people not closing brackets. Conversely, Open Media never has these problems because "With enough eyeballs all typos are shallow".
So, let's have no more of this Old Media. Why wasn't this book submitted under that GPL-like license for books? Where's the website? I mean, this one person OWNS ALL THE RIGHTS TO THIS BOOK. Come on guys wake up! Did you know that most US schools have 100% of their library books under restrictive licenses enforced by greedy publishing companies and authors who won't share their code! We have to change this, because even though almost all publishing companies are pretty nice and let you photocopy stuff for personal use, THEY MIGHT BE BOUGHT UP BY MICROSOFT AT ANY TIME and then Bill would take our books away!
Come and join Open Media books project to work on our Open Media implementation of all the books ever written. We are currently working on "See Spot Run" and have implemented most letters apart from vowels. This should be ready for alpha release soon.
Reading your article has impaired not only my ability to type and spell, but also inhibited my instict to review and check what I write. As you can see your lazy attitude to human communication and reasoned argument is spreading like an evil disease.
It's obvious that young people are much better than old people. I mean, in 30 years time how many of those 'old people' are still going to be around, eh? Hardly any, and that's because they are badly designed, and frankly obsolete.
'young people', able to leverage the power of Open Media development will have their bugs continuously fixed - I bet today's under 30's will still be around in 30 years!
Finally, I'd like to make an uncalled for ad hominem attack on Jon Katz:
Jon, you're probably an OK guy and you're not stupid, but you just talk lazy populist crap most of the time. You pseudo reasoning annoys me. I make my living my thinking very precisely and getting things right. You make yours by waffling and making crude emotional appeal disguised as radical thought. Worst of all, you probably earn more than me.
Many Karmas have died to bring you this information.
Why would anyone want to try to run Linux on a mobile phone? What exactly do you gain over all the other long-standing and well respected things like EPOCH?
How exactly is OS style development going to work on an OS for a burglar alarm - I mean these devices aren't readily available for playing around with.
Maybe Linux really is suited to this stuff, I don't know, but it seems odd to take an OS designed as a multi-user system for one of the world's most powerful* and power-hungry CPU architectures and try to turn it into an OS for a phone.
Has anyone done a good comparison of Embedded Linux with other embedded OSes?
This seems more about some hardware companies getting scared that the software layer is becoming more important. _They_ would love to have a non-proprietary OS that everyone uses - because then the hardware becomes the deciding factor in product quality.
So, less about really wanting to have the best OS, more about marketplace survival tactics...
They had GTK already in place from Gimp development. They have of course contributed plenty to it since then.
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It's like this.
In the US, mobiles are still seen as luxury items. Everyone who has one not only has a PC in the office, but one or more at home.
Everywhere else in the world that just isn't the case. People from all income brackets in the UK have mobiles. People who can't afford a PC and certainly don't work with them. Over 50% ov people in the UK have a mobile, far more than have a PC and for all I know more than have _access_ to a PC.
So, they stand to become the most ubiquitous net access device. This makes them very important. Given the recent 'texting' post, SMS is apparently unknown in the US still. As pointed out in the discussion on 'texting' it is a very useful technology, and shows that there is demand for asynch. communication on mobiles.
WAP is simply a sophisticated form of SMS as far as most end users are concerned. It means white van man (not translatable outside UK:_) can see the menu when he dials out for a pizza, can get the football scores of other games while he's at one (without having to sellotape a radio to his ear), and so on.
This whole thing really demonstrates the US's complete misunderstanding of the whole mobile comms thing. It makes me laugh.
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I find it very interesting to see all these Americans who don't get mobile technology.
Not only is wireless net access using mobile devices a very good idea, it has taken off in a big way in Japan (although not, in fact, using WAP, but another mechanism).
Given that SMS has also taken off, there seems to be a very strong demand for delivery of salient text onto a small mobile device. I see no reason at this level why WAP (or similar) won't be successful.
It seems hard to me to believe that Windows, that wasn't even really a multiuser multitasking OS until not too long ago, is now smoking the hell out of Linux at what the Unix comminity has been doing for years...
That'll be because your mind is shut. I find it easy to believe that WindowsNT, that has been a multitasking _multithreaded_ operating system for years and years is now smoking the hell out of Linux that barely supported threads at all until not too long ago.
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I think you are assuming that this broadband will only be used for some kind of PC based browsing.
This broadband link, whatever it is, will eventually carry the phone traffic, the data for one or more televisions (and radios) in the house, data to be downloaded to the mp6 based stereo system, and everything else.
I think, the issue with broadband is NOT in the pipes, but in the switching. That's where the bottleneck is.
Apart from your generalisations, I think you cover most of the points. But these are differences not problems.
1. You will need structured communications. People think it's OK to decide everything around the water cooler and with ad hoc little conversations, which may work in a small little tech company but is no damn use for managing teams in other countries. Read a good book on project management, and get some proper structures in place. And if you can't handle working with other timezones you've got more problems on your hands than you think anyway!
2. Don't expect anyone to do you favours. If you got paid the salary they are working for you'd not do overtime either. Get a clear agreement, stick to you side of it and don't expect your supplier to do any more or less than their side of it.
3. Don't expect creativity or imagination 'for free'. My turn for generalisation now... I have heared it said that Indian programmers (I've not dealt with any others for outsourcing) don't approach the work creatively, and this a huge benefit. No feature creep. No chrome. No programmers getting bored and learning on the job with your code.
4. It may be that what you are doing is shifting your dull grunt work onto people who earn 1/10 of a U.S. salary. Fine. If you treat them like dull grunts, you'll get what you deserve. They aren't stupid, they are probably twice as smart as the average self-taugh Javascript weenie earning 35K a year (UKPS) doing crap code.
5. It's almost certainly the way of the future. Vast amounts of the repetitive work required by Western industry is outsourced to 2nd world countries. Sooner or later, programming will follow in the footsteps of textiles, toys and the rest. Might as well practice now!
"I now use paypal to pay my girlfriend back when she picks up dinner "
Whoaaaa. Your life must be REALLY different from mine. Does no one else find this notion wierd and distressing?
There is no problem. ASCII is an outdated, obsolete standard. It is unsuitable for modern requirements. Get rid of it. All of it. It sucks. The only reason it's still here is because U.S. Unix geeks can't be arsed to learn something new and better.
Everything should be in Unicode. EVERYTHING. Filenames, partition names, variable names in code, EVERYTHING. DNS should support Unicode, SMTP, HTTP, FTP all these protocols should support any text being unicode. Microsoft understands this, Unix doesn't.
Whoa!! Were have you been all last month. Some big companies that haven't ever managed to produce a halfway decent GUI between them _said_ that Gnome was the standard. So it is.
Nice :-)
New Open Media i-news lets you ignore all that 'boring stuff' about irrelevant people!
This great technology allows you to simply never even know about millions of other people and events!
Fed up with old people talking on the news about shit like economics? Don't give a damn because you earn 35,000 quid a year sitting on your arse doing Flash movies? Just cut it out with i-news!
"I used to get fed up with old people talking about, like, foreign affairs and stuff", says newly liberated media consumer Natalie. "It's like I don't care about some old Korean people getting worked up about some border somewhere. I wan't even born when the Korean war happened - it was like so dumb, I can't relate to it. But I never see anything about how Napster is the new American Revolution and how the MPAA are doing so much evil in this world."
And that's not all. By ensuring you _ONLY_ use i-news you can live in an entirely me-centric info-verse. Only stuff that directly affects your wealthy techno-cool urban-hip lifestyle will ever reach you! And That means:
MORE colour pieces on cool kids like you!
MORE pseudo philosophical guff about how YOUNG COOL PEOPLE are really way more important than, like, everyone else.
TOTAL coverage of pointless stupid events like the pre-release demo of naff Doom clone computer games.
ENDLESS ranting by self appointed pundits on how the Internet is JUST SO WONDERFUL.
But, remember, i-news also means:
NO people who use long difficult words.
NO lusers in suits who 'totally don't have a clue'
NO pictures of poor people in far away places.
So, get rid of your t.v. don't buy the papers, and tune in to our short-lived open media web site, where you will be guaranteed to:
DISAPPEAR UP YOU OWN BACKSIDE
as you consume endless, meaningless crap while desperately pretending that because you post shit to some bulletin board you are actually part of a community in any meaningful sense.
Hurt
Maim
Destroy
It is not the job of one OS to play nice with another, any more than it is the job of one program to play nice with the other.
In the case of programs, the OS (or kernel) mediates between them, and stops them trampling on each other's memory etc.
In the case of OSes, it should really be up to the firmware/hardware/BIOS to enforce rules for OSes on one machine to behave well, by hiding them from each other.
My definition of backward compatibility does not include working with older versions of OTHER PEOPLE'S software. Nor does it include 'working in exactly the same way as the old version'. Or even 'keeping certain boot procedures the same so that other entirely unrelated 3rd party software works the same way as it used to.'
This IS NOT a backward compatibility issue.
We are slashdot of borg. Reason is futile. You will be moderated.
Of _course_ the title is just a pointless anti-MS jibe. You seem to be forgetting that this is the highest form of humour. Perhaps your implant needs adjusting.
We could have a discussion about the relative merits of the new technology in W2K vs the proven ability of the current system. We could have some people who have experience of running multi-node W2K based mail systems relate their experiences. We could even have some people from the Hotmail technical team post interesting messages about the migration, what tools they are using, and so on.
But, hey, this is a forum for Geeks, so we'll probably just have stupid I love x I hate y comments and some guy from a web design company saying how their new W2K web server crashed on the first day so obviously the Hotmail will never run on W2K.
Hey ho.
Alone in the Dark was one of the most important, not to say best, games ever made. It was a huge leap forward, and together with calvados and impressionism was one of France's great contributions to the world.
:-)
I notice Alone on the Dark 4 is coming, if not by the original developers, at least by more French ones (www.darkworks.com).
Also, what about Daggerfall by Bethesda?
It's certainly true that Wolfenstein clones have had an undesirable grip on the industry for too long, spurred heavily (IMHO) by the fact that such games translate quite well to consoles.
Increasingly, it only makes commercial sense to develop games for both PC and console, and so the PC is brought down to the console's level. The "little people" genre (theme park, populous, dungeon keeper, AofE, Settlers etc) seems to work poorly and consoles and may have its days numbered because of that.
The whole myst thing brought computer games to people who had never touched one with a barge-pole before. These people then declared that myst was the best game ever written, amazing, mould breaking (sic) hype, hype, hype. Actually, I thought myst was a dreadfully frustrating, limited adventure game that managed to wow naive people with glossy pre-rendered graphics. Ug. Give me Sam and Max hit the Road _any_ time. Mind you I loathe adventure games, so I'm biased.
Still, Close Combat V coming soon...
I spend years telling people to write cross platform code and now we get companies like IBM promoting Linux software.
I hate Linux software, I hate Windows software I'm fed up with this 'one OS to rule the world' crap.
I want cross platform software. Anything that says it works on Linux but not other unixes I don't touch with a barge pole. I get fed up with crap like "KDE, the popular Linux desktop". KDE runs on multiple platforms dammit, as does Gnome, Apache and all the other poster children of the so-called Linux revolution.
I have no interest in Linux software, only good, cross-platform free software.
Grrrrrrrr.......
How is this different from those web sites that munge URL's and render the text into silly accents or flip the pictures over or whatever?
/. rushed to their defence? Why the opposite now? Why all mutterings about "it's my usenet post and they can't alter it." What crap.
Deja takes an existing public resource (Usenet) and munges it to add some hyperlinks.
whateveritwascalled.com takes an existing public resource (the web) and munges it by adding some BA Baracus quotes and silly pictures.
Remember when the second of these got hit my a copyright infringement notice and
If I set up a web interface to Usenet that showed all posts with the word 'Microsoft' rendered as 'Micro$oft' would that be wrong, if I made it obvious it had been altered? So what is wrong with what Deja are doing? I'm not convinced the service is all that useful, but there's nothing wrong with it.
And while we on the subject I don't fight that stupid "say crackers not hackers" losing battle either.
See also the end of this amusing article...
on silly press releases
I see. So it's Red Hat's operating system now. Not Red Hat's distribution of _our_ operating system. Riiight.
In fairness to RH, since there's no 'about RH' paragraph this isn't a joint press release and RH may not have had a chance to correct the text.
On the other hand, some might say that this kind Linux^H Red Hat publicity != good.
However, initial experience has been somewhat disappointing. It's been much slower than Windows 95 (which really surprises me)
Don't be surprised. X windows, and therefore anything that runs on top of it, is a crock of shit. It's the slowest, worst, most bloated piece of crap you can imagine.
As for Star Office, don't even think about it. It too is a slow, tedious bloated thing with a deeply unintuitive UI.
KOffice still looks like the best bet for *nix WP software since it has few enough features and innovations that it might have a comprehensible UI and a decent implementation. And it uses the 'frames' approach to layout, which is probably good.
That's enough ranting. I use KDE on Solaris all the time at work and it's great, but it is still NOT a home/office setup. I can think of nothing worse than handling office tasks on a *nix platform.
I don't get it. IE doesn't correctly support all the W3C standards - but it gets much closer than anyone else, especially Netscape.
Why are MS adding non-standard new stuff? Because it needs to. Why should it wait for the W3C to spend years and years coming up with standards that no one wants, when MS can just go ahead and create its own?
The only thing MS does wrong here is not release the specs to its unilateral innovations. That way they are proprietary innovations rather than open ones. That sucks. But the 'standard' has nothing to do with it. Ever since day one on the web some company (mostly Netscape) has been creating non-standard enhancements. That's fine by me. I can't honestly say that there's any evidence this has hurt the development of the web more than it has helped it.
IE4 and later have by far and away the fastest renderer, and most standards compliance. It supports Java far better than anything else, and faster. It is obviously the best browser around, even if you choose not to use its proprietary features. I look forward to Mozilla overtaking it, but until then kudos for MS for creating software that actually leads this particular field.
This book annoyed me. It was like this single person (who was probably white and over 30!) felt that he could decide whatever went in it. What gave him the right to ignore the many experts under the age of 30 that could have contributed to his ideas? Imagine how much better this book could have been if millions of experienced Open Media readers had been able to review it at Beta stage and submit patches!
After all, we all know that closed source Old Media books are full of stupid bugs, like bad grammar, typos, and people not closing brackets. Conversely, Open Media never has these problems because "With enough eyeballs all typos are shallow".
So, let's have no more of this Old Media. Why wasn't this book submitted under that GPL-like license for books? Where's the website? I mean, this one person OWNS ALL THE RIGHTS TO THIS BOOK. Come on guys wake up! Did you know that most US schools have 100% of their library books under restrictive licenses enforced by greedy publishing companies and authors who won't share their code! We have to change this, because even though almost all publishing companies are pretty nice and let you photocopy stuff for personal use, THEY MIGHT BE BOUGHT UP BY MICROSOFT AT ANY TIME and then Bill would take our books away!
Come and join Open Media books project to work on our Open Media implementation of all the books ever written. We are currently working on "See Spot Run" and have implemented most letters apart from vowels. This should be ready for alpha release soon.
Reading your article has impaired not only my ability to type and spell, but also inhibited my instict to review and check what I write. As you can see your lazy attitude to human communication and reasoned argument is spreading like an evil disease.
I will now implode.
Thanks.
It's obvious that young people are much better than old people. I mean, in 30 years time how many of those 'old people' are still going to be around, eh? Hardly any, and that's because they are badly designed, and frankly obsolete.
'young people', able to leverage the power of Open Media development will have their bugs continuously fixed - I bet today's under 30's will still be around in 30 years!
Finally, I'd like to make an uncalled for ad hominem attack on Jon Katz:
Jon, you're probably an OK guy and you're not stupid, but you just talk lazy populist crap most of the time. You pseudo reasoning annoys me. I make my living my thinking very precisely and getting things right. You make yours by waffling and making crude emotional appeal disguised as radical thought. Worst of all, you probably earn more than me.
Many Karmas have died to bring you this information.
Why would anyone want to try to run Linux on a mobile phone? What exactly do you gain over all the other long-standing and well respected things like EPOCH?
How exactly is OS style development going to work on an OS for a burglar alarm - I mean these devices aren't readily available for playing around with.
Maybe Linux really is suited to this stuff, I don't know, but it seems odd to take an OS designed as a multi-user system for one of the world's most powerful* and power-hungry CPU architectures and try to turn it into an OS for a phone.
Has anyone done a good comparison of Embedded Linux with other embedded OSes?
This seems more about some hardware companies getting scared that the software layer is becoming more important. _They_ would love to have a non-proprietary OS that everyone uses - because then the hardware becomes the deciding factor in product quality.
So, less about really wanting to have the best OS, more about marketplace survival tactics...
*Powerful relative to CPUs for embedded devices
They had GTK already in place from Gimp development. They have of course contributed plenty to it since then.
It's like this.
:_) can see the menu when he dials out for a pizza, can get the football scores of other games while he's at one (without having to sellotape a radio to his ear), and so on.
In the US, mobiles are still seen as luxury items. Everyone who has one not only has a PC in the office, but one or more at home.
Everywhere else in the world that just isn't the case. People from all income brackets in the UK have mobiles. People who can't afford a PC and certainly don't work with them. Over 50% ov people in the UK have a mobile, far more than have a PC and for all I know more than have _access_ to a PC.
So, they stand to become the most ubiquitous net access device. This makes them very important. Given the recent 'texting' post, SMS is apparently unknown in the US still. As pointed out in the discussion on 'texting' it is a very useful technology, and shows that there is demand for asynch. communication on mobiles.
WAP is simply a sophisticated form of SMS as far as most end users are concerned. It means white van man (not translatable outside UK
This whole thing really demonstrates the US's complete misunderstanding of the whole mobile comms thing. It makes me laugh.
I find it very interesting to see all these Americans who don't get mobile technology.
Not only is wireless net access using mobile devices a very good idea, it has taken off in a big way in Japan (although not, in fact, using WAP, but another mechanism).
Given that SMS has also taken off, there seems to be a very strong demand for delivery of salient text onto a small mobile device. I see no reason at this level why WAP (or similar) won't be successful.
That'll be because your mind is shut. I find it easy to believe that WindowsNT, that has been a multitasking _multithreaded_ operating system for years and years is now smoking the hell out of Linux that barely supported threads at all until not too long ago.