You are getting it wrong. It isn't GUI on top of CLI or vice-versa.
In unix, there is the OS kernel. On top of this you run a CLI, or a GUI, or both. There _isn't_ any CLI at the bottom of unix. (For those that know what I mean - try running the xserver as init.)
Apple may have a well thought out GUI. There is no reason this should be part of the OS though. You could port the apple GUI to unix and run it there if you wanted to. Nothing short of IP laws stops you.
Don't matter. OS and GUI/CLI is supposed to be separate entities.
Unix was written to be a command-line OS only.
Wrong. GUI's are available for unix, no problem there. If they don't do what you want - write something better. Nothing technical prevents porting the entire macintosh or windows GUI to unix.
there are limits to what you can do with 30 year-old technology
You really show that you don't know what you are talking about here. Sure - nobody wants to run a 30-year old unix. The unixes of today has been rewritten from scratch since then, and contiuously improved. Some of the ideas are old - but they are good and won't necessarily become obsolete.
If being "new" was the criteria for an OS, well, maybe unix would loose. And windows of course, as windows 1.0 is more than 15 years old. There are newer stuff like os/2 and BEos...
Games work fine as free software. Coders is is no problem. Graphics? No big deal - first version is done by coders, and looks ugly. Looks don't matter that much if the game is good. If the game is good someone with a talent figures "Hey - I can get sort of famous by painting some prettier sprites. The same goes for music. First version may be without sound, as that isn't important if the game is good otherwise.
Only marketing types believes that looks are important for a game. Remember 2D video games around 1980? They were fun too! So fun that there are numerous emulators for those old machines. And consider the free game nethack. The main reason it isn't GPL'ed is because it is older than the GPL. It isn't going away either, like those commercial pretty looking games that get boring after a few weeks.
A third world factory probably pollute worse than a US one, but they still get less pollution per capita, as they have substantially fewer factories and fewer cars per capita.
The 3rd world have cheap polluting equipment, but they have so little of it that they still pollute less.
Oil fires in Iraq don't matter that much, it didn't last long. And it don't matter if the oil is wasted or burned doing useful works - it pollutes in either case.
Volcanos have little effect. Massive when they erupt, but they don't last. A week or two and its over.
They have a potential for O(n^2) growth - if you can move them away fast enough. Bots building replicas inside a blender might achieve that for a while. Bots on a surface is limited to (n^2), or possibly (n^2.x) if the surface is fractal. Bots turning a planet into goo will be limited to (n^3)...
The patent also covers a revolutionary test for color blindness based on a simple analysis of the actal genes that cause the problem.
Revolutionary test - bleah. I have a much simpler test: Hey you - which of these is the red one and which is the green one? Can't say? You're colorblind then. Need no sophisticated machinery either. The "revolutionary" may fail, for example for people who became color blind in other ways than the standard genetic fault. (Lead poisoning can do this, for example.)
You can still fit a kernel on a floppy. You just have to compile one that fits that machine instead of every machine. Your 486 don't have pcmcia? Omit that. No scsi? Omit that. And you'll still end up with something small.
Debian Woody works well with 2.4.0. Just do an "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade" and all your packages are up to date and 2.4-ready. Its nice to use a continually upgradable distribution instead of something that just comes out every x months.
Strange advice. I have compiled most kernels since 2.1.129 in/usr/src/linux - never had any problems with that. The directory didn't exist until I created it. Maybe you got a weird distribution?
In the UK you can opt out of paper junk mail
I was wondering whether there is a similar service in other countries?
You can do that to some extent in Norway too. You can tell the post office to not deliver "unadressed mail". That don't stop others (local shops etc.) from delivering junk themselves in densely populated areas. And it don't stop junk mail explicitly adressed to you. The latter can be stopped by calling/writing the sender and tell them to remove you from their database, something our database law require them to do. But there are many senders, and they will sometimes re-aquire your name when they buy an adress list from someone else. You can of course use the law and force them to reveal their source and tell the source to delete you from their list too, but who will bother with doing that all the time?
Fortunately, the same law apply to telemarketing. I don't need to call them - they call me. And then I just say "please delete me from your database, you must according to the law. And then they don't call again.:-)
Wouldn't the argument you make about the cost being passed to the consumer also cause postal rates to increase
No. AOL pays the post office for sending CD's. The postal rates don't increase as a result of this. The price of AOL services may increase, but nobody have to use AOL so no problem.
What if the Victorians had thrown boundless cash at mechanical computers. Just how advanced could we reasonably hope these computers to be?
They had a long way to go. First, they werent that good at mechanical technology. That is one of the reasons Babbage didn't get his computer to work - it needed lots of parts made with very high precision.
Take the trouble of advancing the mechanical tech, and what do you get? You could perhaps get a few hundred Hz with todays mechanics. If you want more power you'll need to go parallel instead. We still aren't good at that for general-purpose machines, but of course you can do that for special purpose machines. Oh, and a 100 Hz mechanical computer would wear down fast. Working parts would have to be replaced at regular intervals.
I wish todays boxes could tap right in to the TV. I'd finally have a 19" color monitor!
There are adapters that converts vga to TV. And video cards with tv-out. But the 19" Tv-color monitor isn't so cool with its lousy resolution. Only 625 lines (PAL) or 5xx (NTSC)...
The effect will mainly be "ugly noisy pieces of concrete using up some space". Just like any other manmade structure. A coastal city is worse.
There is no ill effect from using kinetic energy from the sea (not on the sea itself, not on the moon orbit) because this energy is used up today too! It is not as if wave energy is preserved today, it is used up as waves hit the beach, creating sound, deforming the beach, heathing the water slightly.
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Damming the Strait of Gibralter might annoy the large volume of shipping that passes through that gap every day:-)
Building a passageway for ships would be the easy part. The effect of reduced circulation on the environment would be worse.
<I>Government intervention can provide a benefit in one area ( e.g. some subsidized service ), but it is never without a cost at least as great as the benefit ( e.g. higher tax rates ).</I><P>
Of course. Still, tax provided services are newer so expensive that you can't afford them. This cannot be said for market-provided stuff.
Never had that feeling. Many a weapons system can end civilization as we know it - getting absolutely all the humans _by accident_ is harder. Possible with enough radioactive pollution perhaps, if you can be sure it actually spreads everywhere.
Robot fighters won't even come close. Obliterate every city/village with more than 1000 people, and there is still plenty of humanity left when the robots run out of ammo.
Wars will still be bad. The enemy will definitely want to wipe out your robot-factories and your robot-maintenance and refueling bases. All of these manned. They will want to kill your robot-experts, and destroy the entire infrastructure supporting your robot warfare. You having smart robots leads to the idea that "a country without people still won't launch an attack."
_Robot-only_ warfare might happen the day the robots have a completely independent infrastructure, _and_ make all strategic decisions (what war to fight) themselves. The first is unlikely as they would compete with us for raw materials. And I hope the latter never happens.
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You are getting it wrong. It isn't GUI on top of CLI or vice-versa.
In unix, there is the OS kernel. On top of this you run a CLI, or a GUI, or both. There _isn't_ any CLI at the bottom of unix. (For those that know what I mean - try running the xserver as init.)
Apple may have a well thought out GUI. There is no reason this should be part of the OS though. You could port the apple GUI to unix and run it there if you wanted to. Nothing short of IP laws stops you.
Don't matter. OS and GUI/CLI is supposed to be separate entities.
Unix was written to be a command-line OS only.
Wrong. GUI's are available for unix, no problem there. If they don't do what you want - write something better. Nothing technical prevents porting the entire macintosh or windows GUI to unix.
there are limits to what you can do with 30 year-old technology
You really show that you don't know what you are talking about here. Sure - nobody wants to run a 30-year old unix. The unixes of today has been rewritten from scratch since then, and contiuously improved. Some of the ideas are old - but they are good and won't necessarily become obsolete.
If being "new" was the criteria for an OS, well, maybe unix would loose. And windows of course, as windows 1.0 is more than 15 years old. There are newer stuff like os/2 and BEos...
That's what game manufacturers want you to believe, so they can sell you a new surprise when you tire of the previous game.
The statement isn't true in general. People still play chess after a thousand years. Good strategy (computer) games tend to have a long life too.
Games work fine as free software. Coders is is no problem. Graphics? No big deal - first version is done by coders, and looks ugly. Looks don't matter that much if the game is good. If the game is good someone with a talent figures "Hey - I can get sort of famous by painting some prettier sprites. The same goes for music. First version may be without sound, as that isn't important if the game is good otherwise.
Only marketing types believes that looks are important for a game. Remember 2D video games around 1980? They were fun too! So fun that there are numerous emulators for those old machines. And consider the free game nethack. The main reason it isn't GPL'ed is because it is older than the GPL. It isn't going away either, like those commercial pretty looking games that get boring after a few weeks.
Consider the trustix product then. A linux firewall, and a windows program to configure it.
A third world factory probably pollute worse than a US one, but they still get less pollution per capita, as they have substantially fewer factories and fewer cars per capita.
The 3rd world have cheap polluting equipment, but they have so little of it that they still pollute less.
Oil fires in Iraq don't matter that much, it didn't last long. And it don't matter if the oil is wasted or burned doing useful works - it pollutes in either case.
Volcanos have little effect. Massive when they erupt, but they don't last. A week or two and its over.
They have a potential for O(n^2) growth - if you can move them away fast enough. Bots building replicas inside a blender might achieve that for a while. Bots on a surface is limited to (n^2), or possibly (n^2.x) if the surface is fractal. Bots turning a planet into goo will be limited to (n^3)...
Didn't the human genome project publish every sequence? Sure - they haven't necessarily figured out what each sequence is for, but they got them all.
Revolutionary test - bleah. I have a much simpler test: Hey you - which of these is the red one and which is the green one? Can't say? You're colorblind then. Need no sophisticated machinery either. The "revolutionary" may fail, for example for people who became color blind in other ways than the standard genetic fault. (Lead poisoning can do this, for example.)
No, but you may need a licence to make copies...
You can still fit a kernel on a floppy. You just have to compile one that fits that machine instead of every machine. Your 486 don't have pcmcia? Omit that. No scsi? Omit that. And you'll still end up with something small.
Debian Woody works well with 2.4.0. Just do an "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade" and all your packages are up to date and 2.4-ready. Its nice to use a continually upgradable distribution instead of something that just comes out every x months.
Strange advice. I have compiled most kernels since 2.1.129 in /usr/src/linux - never had any problems with that. The directory didn't exist until I created it. Maybe you got a weird distribution?
I was wondering whether there is a similar service in other countries?
You can do that to some extent in Norway too. You can tell the post office to not deliver "unadressed mail". That don't stop others (local shops etc.) from delivering junk themselves in densely populated areas. And it don't stop junk mail explicitly adressed to you. The latter can be stopped by calling/writing the sender and tell them to remove you from their database, something our database law require them to do. But there are many senders, and they will sometimes re-aquire your name when they buy an adress list from someone else. You can of course use the law and force them to reveal their source and tell the source to delete you from their list too, but who will bother with doing that all the time?
Fortunately, the same law apply to telemarketing. I don't need to call them - they call me. And then I just say "please delete me from your database, you must according to the law. And then they don't call again. :-)
Time spent when thousands of employees (including the well-paid) deals with their daily email.
No. AOL pays the post office for sending CD's. The postal rates don't increase as a result of this. The price of AOL services may increase, but nobody have to use AOL so no problem.
They had a long way to go. First, they werent that good at mechanical technology. That is one of the reasons Babbage didn't get his computer to work - it needed lots of parts made with very high precision.
Take the trouble of advancing the mechanical tech, and what do you get? You could perhaps get a few hundred Hz with todays mechanics. If you want more power you'll need to go parallel instead. We still aren't good at that for general-purpose machines, but of course you can do that for special purpose machines. Oh, and a 100 Hz mechanical computer would wear down fast. Working parts would have to be replaced at regular intervals.
There are adapters that converts vga to TV. And video cards with tv-out. But the 19" Tv-color monitor isn't so cool with its lousy resolution. Only 625 lines (PAL) or 5xx (NTSC)...
You have the right to free _speech_. You have no right to _email_!
The effect will mainly be "ugly noisy pieces of concrete using up some space". Just like any other manmade structure. A coastal city is worse.
There is no ill effect from using kinetic energy from the sea (not on the sea itself, not on the moon orbit) because this energy is used up today too! It is not as if wave energy is preserved today, it is used up as waves hit the beach, creating sound, deforming the beach, heathing the water slightly.
Building a passageway for ships would be the easy part. The effect of reduced circulation on the environment would be worse.
<I>Government intervention can provide a benefit in one area ( e.g. some subsidized service ), but it is never without a cost at least as great as the benefit ( e.g. higher tax rates ).</I><P>
Of course. Still, tax provided services are newer so expensive that you can't afford them. This cannot be said for market-provided stuff.
Never had that feeling. Many a weapons system can end civilization as we know it - getting absolutely all the humans _by accident_ is harder. Possible with enough radioactive pollution perhaps, if you can be sure it actually spreads everywhere.
Robot fighters won't even come close. Obliterate every city/village with more than 1000 people, and there is still plenty of humanity left when the robots run out of ammo.
Wars will still be bad. The enemy will definitely want to wipe out your robot-factories and your robot-maintenance and refueling bases. All of these manned. They will want to kill your robot-experts, and destroy the entire infrastructure supporting your robot warfare. You having smart robots leads to the idea that "a country without people still won't launch an attack."
_Robot-only_ warfare might happen the day the robots have a completely independent infrastructure, _and_ make all strategic decisions (what war to fight) themselves. The first is unlikely as they would compete with us for raw materials. And I hope the latter never happens.