"Valid" and "semantic" are not the same thing. And using a table for non-tabular data/content is not semantic.
Another reason to keep your film camera.
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All the more reason to keep my Canon A-1 circa 1970-something in good working order. The theoretical implications of this technology are disturbing, but I wonder about the actual implementation and the practicality of it. Still, a good, mechanical, film backup camera is a good thing to have for multiple reasons. Speaking as someone who has taken pictures of cops beating up people and of landscapes and what not, and who likes the geekness of the film processing and photo developing chemical and physical technologies.
When I suggested the flag, in jest, to Xeni, I never expected that she actually read email to address... I was just firing off a thought into space. Anyway, here's the full thought:
"Obviously, what we need is a large red flag with a gold copyleft in the upperleft, replacing the hammer and sickle...
But wait... I guess that's spoofing Sovietism, not Communism (or "communism"), which may have more in common with Microsoft.
Just a quick thought."
I think people have already gone-on in circles about there being a difference between Communism, communism, Sovietism, China's brand of stuff, Cuba's, and that a lot of these ideas are seen as economic or governmental organization theories... and when they get confused by either critics or practitioners, well, words and definitions get hijacked.
There's something better than VotePair out there -- and it doesn't capitulate to the idea of "safe states" and it's not "vote trading.
This alternative allows those of you, from whatever side, fed up with the Republicans or the Democrats, to pick something else -- any third party or independent candidate without "stealing" (if you believe that a politician not earning your vote and your vote going somewhere else is a stolen vote) votes. It leaves the two parties proportionately the same against each other and empowers alternatives.
Basically: you find an equally fed-up person on the other side (a co-worker, friend, significant other, whatever) and you both promise -- make a pact -- not to vote for the major party you might normally vote for if their candidate didn't suck so much. Then you can both go vote for a third party or independent.
actually no... the only treaties and other "extra-government" legal stuff that can be signed are ones that are seen by the congress and white house (and can be ruled upon by the surpreme court) to be in compliance with the constitution.
many are inspired constitution -- but those -- various human rights, land mines, torture, other treaties, the u.s. is one of the few countries to vehemently oppose.
the reality is that the u.s., at least at the security council (which this particular treatie doesnot apply to of course) -- and very much so elsewhere -- has the u.n. by the balls.
for the most part, for all the resistance and show in the u.s. media, the u.n. is the u.n. or does very little effectively without (or with, depending on the white house) the u.s.'s blessing.
the media tends to not show, on the broadcast networks (where most people still get their news, if they bother), the other countries protests when they bother to show u.n. proceedings. just a clip of us (negroponte or powell) and a clip of the "bad guy" and very little of the views and *reasoning* presented by the bulk of the relevant u.n. forum.
when you complain about anything that has consensus and mandate to be enforced in the u.n. (or complaints about something not being enforced) you are very often complaining about the white house (not always exclusively, but the u.s., russia and israel are the *most* frequent and, in my opinion, least justifiable, obstacles to otherwise democratic consensus at the u.n.)
my Timbuk2 courier bag with the custom laptop sleeve, made for the powerbook, rocks. the sleeve is removable and lightweight (but a sufficient quarter inch of neoprene all around) with handles -- so it transfers well to my regular backpack and even fits well inside my soft-sided leather breifcase when i don't want to give away my slackerdom right off by looking like a bike messenger.
the messenger bag carries my other gear (external firewire drive, mouse, other stuff) all well and is weatherproof. maybe overkill -- but if you have a need for that too and want a good portable laptop case to boot, it's the way to go.
the FCC is not required to review the diversity of media. a commissioner said as much today. they're required to review the "competition" -- so long as there is no technical monopoly, they've done their job. doesn't matter of there's an oligarchy of corporate/state entities with the same interests that behave similarly.
read the advisory, they just XOR stuff and it's easily reversible. other basestations aren't quite so lame. my submitted post got edited, and one should read the links first anyway.
facts - documented effort 'bout "liberal media"
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on the tangent of the so-called "liberal" media, this essay is a good (published beyond this homepage of the author) critique of his common run-ins of the critiques of Chomsky and Herman's critique of the mainstream media with their "Propaganda Model." http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/herman review.htm. check it out... you'll learn about the propaganda model, and if you don't agree with it - you might at least (hopefully) come up with more creative critiques than what jensen debunks.
> My point is that when you're in the middle of the desert and there is nothing to do, we all find ways of amusing ourselves.
Indeed. And I'd like to add that my comments were just on my periphial awareness and involvement in stunts that are comparably tame to the documented and mythical big pranks, and during a relatively short timeline - well after the peak efforts of both of these groups on the campus of the little college I still have to describe as "Ever see the movie Contact? Right, well remember the VLA? Ok, that was in my backyard almost."
I'd also like to add I'm pretty surprised this became an article on Slashdot. I mean, it has relevance to me, but had I no personal connection I never would have made this a front page feature... so I have sympathy with the critics of this discussion happening here & now (not that it's not fun).
Stealth Force Beta was countered by a group called The GSF. Some of us said it stood for "Green Sheep F---ers". An allusion to the lonely miners and their pasttimes in the glowing deserts of New Mexico.
I attended NMT for only two years - '99, '00 - but was a participant in GSF 'operations' during that time. The GSF, according to those older and wiser than I, was created by some, including significant members of the student union as an unofficial guerrilla group to compete/oppose STB. I'm not sure if STB was still around when I was there... GSF participated largely in whimsical pranks and actions bringing the schools administration's focus to various issues amongst the student body when regular campus politics just didn't the trick.
Btw, I've seen some comments that liberal arts students generally don't pull pranks like that... as a CS major when I was at NMT and now something of social science student, I'd have to say there's no empirical data to support that claim. It just takes a combination of creativity, free time (or negligence of other things), and some sense of adventure and/or poltiics.:)
NMT does have something of a complex when it comes to competing with MIT and the like... but it has good reason. It's EE dept has produced robotics teams that have regularly beat MIT, NASA engineers, and hundreds of other schools and institutions at a firefighting competition in Connecticut, it has significant ties to Linux for PPC, RTLinux (the patenting by Victor Yodaikenof that sending a lot of heat in the direction of NMT's mail servers from Slashdot readers/trolls) development by NMT faculty and grads, and several innovations and unique features associated with the school and certain departments also seem to get less attention than the same would elsewhere. Of course, it doesn't help to be small (less than 2000 undergrads) and stuck in the middle of the desert.
sounds like you want an iMac running OS X or Linux for PPC.:) no fan. compact (even more so when the LCD model comes out). runs free software - either the core of the shipping commercial OS, or other flavors of BSD and Linux. sleep and powering-up/down in OS X is *very* fast.
also, actually, it sounds like BeOS on any older PPC mac or x86 box. except BeOS isn't free... plenty of OSS software for it, though.
12345, it's in Schenectady, New York and it belongs to General Electric, Power Systems. (i live in 12304, blocks away.) I love using that one when pestered by Radio Shack people and other places that ask for zip and I used it all of the time in Subscriptions.
Too bad that when I actually am at GEPS (as a "shadow IT" contract worker) I can't get anything but CNBC streamed on the intranet (they rebroadcast it from an internal site, live, continuously, as they own it).
...perhaps Sun should follow Apple's lead? I dunno if they can really do that, and I guess there's no money involved... but Apple seems to be benefitting. Of course, there are a lot of differences. It mean quite a "paradigm shift."
As I listen, at 9:20 Mountain Time, it sounds like the government prosecutor is having trouble defending himself and NS and Java.
He got nailed with the proposal that essentially, the people behind his case, simply want someone else to become the monopoly. The prosecutor is equating "standard" to "monopoly." So, therefore, if java were to become a standard... it's middleware - the JVM - would be a monopoly.
DeBois needs to hurry up and point out that, yeah, that *might* be a valid point - the middleware monpolized by one company. BUT he needs to point out this would increase competition in regards to this: everyone would have to compete on a level playing field insofar as they'd all be developing on one platform. (this of course, begs you to assume that all JVMs are qual, blah blah blah....)
you know that. i know that. debois wasn't so quick to it.
it sounds like he's really gettin' battered on this and web standards.... the judge & co. doesn't realize that web standards aren't a monipoly... they're like highway speeds and yellow lines... they're the rules of the game the developers and software cos need to play to. and the one that plays the best, or plays the worst (but the best tin marketing and such) wins.
obviously most of us are smart enough to realize that "p2p" and the "2-way web" are just rephrasing of the ideals and regrouping of the same technology that the internet is based on. for those of us that know what to do already, we just see a regroup and proprietizing of services and a deviation from standards.
but then again, the web browser (and things spawned from it) is the interface Joe Blow knows well. *sure* he could run Apache, use and FTP client, use Gopher or WAIS, fiddle through IRC and Newsgroups... but all that came and went, arguably, when Netscape made the web browser big.
my dad, a 48 year old man, doesn't like to juggle a different app for every service. however, my dad could easily be an non-technophile entreprenuer or a small business owner or an engineer of some sort running some sort of over-net collaboration...
p2p is "amazing" to these people because it funnels all these other "mysterious" services into one window that they're willing to pay attention too.
p2p == buzzwords. crap. silly. etc. but, then again... lots of idea are recycled. very few things are "revolutionary" or "insanely great."
...certainly won't be the end for Sanchez nor the guys that killed Apple. from those I know who work in/for KnowNow, while they're cloaked in an odd brand of secrecy... it seems if they snagged Sanchez they must have something up their sleeve (though may the guys from MIT that cofounded KnowNow are just old college peeps of Wilfredo... it could be that simple)
it's my guess that they've either got something that finally implements the ideals of the web well enough that they can think they can make lots of money from their implementation of open technology and use of open standards (after all, Sanchez is still "Open Source Manager" or something) or...
...they've got something nifty and threatening to.Net and they're all in it for the quick ride to an MS Buyout.;)
A guy from Microsoft (and alumni of this school) just visited NMT for recruiting, with half his presentation on.NET and half on the standard culture at MS. here's what i've gathered
1).NET allows for one to program in nearly any language (except, given current legalities java - someone else will have to make an interface to.NET for java)
2).Net is allegedly open - and is supposed to do the things that Java was supposed (and still could do) but it's really not like java. it's really like a new architecture thrown on top of the old web... supposed to be a better way to exchange information, utilizing XML...
3) we were told really that anyone could have their products work with.Net and provide.Net services. it just seems that what MS is selling is going to be an OS deeply tied into it... but it'd be open enough for OSS developers to bring in modules into their own products as well. (again, allegedly)
4) this is where microsoft makes money: they've got a large installed base on old NT and Win95 - if they want to take a hold of this "revamping" or exploitation of existing protocols, and still use MS software they're already invested in, they'll have to jump up. it looks like Microsoft is still makin the bucks with their OS... companies will want to deploy.NET internally, etc.
5) of course,.NET will also allow for subscription based releases of software by microsoft to the public... but it seems others would be able to do this too - make their software subscription based using a Microsuck server, or possibly another server with modules written to the "open" DOM spec. but from the rhetoric i heard today, that's really number two when compared to what microsoft would be able to force their own installed base to do by radically developing their OS around.NET
6) it sounds like a good idea if others can develop around it too and we don't have to trust microsoft. but i'm wary.
However, the Palm is still far behind the Newton in many ways.
1) The Newton handwriting recognition adapted to YOU. Yes, it was horrible at first, but MP130s and MP2000s did a more than fair job. With the Palm, while the alphabet isn't a difficult one, the user must adapt to it.
2) The web browsers for the Newton were full web browsers. "Newtscape" would display and scale as much of a web space as memory allowed. Usually it did a fine job of grayscaling everything, it supported much of the basics that were around then... none of this WAP crap.
3) Battery life... my Newton 110, which I dig out now and then, lasted longer in continuous use than even the lightest, lowest memory palm, I've ever used... a much more efficient machine than the Palm Pilot.
For all practical purposes, unless you're lucky to have an MP2000 around, using a Newton daily might be more of an archane habit than a productivity measure. But the entire line of Newtons set a benchmark that no one has yet eclipsed with their new products.
...the linuxppc-user list has plenty of discussion on making it work. it'd be nice to see "official" prebuilt kernels for the Mac models though - i know a lot of newbies with the flavored boxes rely on this as they don't build their own kernel.
i don't have the time to read all the posts at th moment, but i've skimmed and am a Mac administrator.
1) I think there are Mac admins out there who feel Mac OS X will provide better integrations of Macs on networks where fileshares are served up via NFS from *nix boxes. most of this is in acadamia. so we can stop using CAP, Revrdist and all those other silly things and use the same methods used to keep the rest of the workstations in-line and online.
2) I think the demand is for many of the admin tools to get ported to Mac OS for those of us who regulary use (and respect, and admire) *nix, but also feel the end user experience is on the Mac.. so we can use our really nifty hardware, administer the other Macs - set up for the users with the big icons and all the other stuff you slashdotters hate, but they - actual end users seem to like - and be able to jump from a shell to the Mac apps to simultaneously test and install user stuff.
IN OTHER WORDS: i don't think there is a big demand (yet, and i wonder if there would be) to port *nix stuff to Mac and create a front end for it in Aqua. this is merely for the fact that OS X is a BSD and the new OS will make having Macs a part of your computing environs a good thing, so long as the tools a ported.
i think that's pretty damned obvious and simple. an OS that can be made as powerful as any other *nix...and for the rest of them be made as simple as the original barebones Mac GUI - sounds pretty useful to me.
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"Valid" and "semantic" are not the same thing. And using a table for non-tabular data/content is not semantic.
All the more reason to keep my Canon A-1 circa 1970-something in good working order. The theoretical implications of this technology are disturbing, but I wonder about the actual implementation and the practicality of it. Still, a good, mechanical, film backup camera is a good thing to have for multiple reasons. Speaking as someone who has taken pictures of cops beating up people and of landscapes and what not, and who likes the geekness of the film processing and photo developing chemical and physical technologies.
When I suggested the flag, in jest, to Xeni, I never expected that she actually read email to address... I was just firing off a thought into space. Anyway, here's the full thought:
"Obviously, what we need is a large red flag with a gold copyleft in the upperleft, replacing the hammer and sickle...
But wait... I guess that's spoofing Sovietism, not Communism (or "communism"), which may have more in common with Microsoft.
Just a quick thought."
I think people have already gone-on in circles about there being a difference between Communism, communism, Sovietism, China's brand of stuff, Cuba's, and that a lot of these ideas are seen as economic or governmental organization theories... and when they get confused by either critics or practitioners, well, words and definitions get hijacked.
Me? I just liked the visual.
There's something better than VotePair out there -- and it doesn't capitulate to the idea of "safe states" and it's not "vote trading.
This alternative allows those of you, from whatever side, fed up with the Republicans or the Democrats, to pick something else -- any third party or independent candidate without "stealing" (if you believe that a politician not earning your vote and your vote going somewhere else is a stolen vote) votes. It leaves the two parties proportionately the same against each other and empowers alternatives.
It's called VotePact. There's a simple site explaining it at www.VotePact.com
Basically: you find an equally fed-up person on the other side (a co-worker, friend, significant other, whatever) and you both promise -- make a pact -- not to vote for the major party you might normally vote for if their candidate didn't suck so much. Then you can both go vote for a third party or independent.
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actually no... the only treaties and other "extra-government" legal stuff that can be signed are ones that are seen by the congress and white house (and can be ruled upon by the surpreme court) to be in compliance with the constitution.
many are inspired constitution -- but those -- various human rights, land mines, torture, other treaties, the u.s. is one of the few countries to vehemently oppose.
the reality is that the u.s., at least at the security council (which this particular treatie doesnot apply to of course) -- and very much so elsewhere -- has the u.n. by the balls.
for the most part, for all the resistance and show in the u.s. media, the u.n. is the u.n. or does very little effectively without (or with, depending on the white house) the u.s.'s blessing.
the media tends to not show, on the broadcast networks (where most people still get their news, if they bother), the other countries protests when they bother to show u.n. proceedings. just a clip of us (negroponte or powell) and a clip of the "bad guy" and very little of the views and *reasoning* presented by the bulk of the relevant u.n. forum.
when you complain about anything that has consensus and mandate to be enforced in the u.n. (or complaints about something not being enforced) you are very often complaining about the white house (not always exclusively, but the u.s., russia and israel are the *most* frequent and, in my opinion, least justifiable, obstacles to otherwise democratic consensus at the u.n.)
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This sounds like what Apple/IBM/Motorola/Sun started doing a long time ago with Open Firmware:
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my Timbuk2 courier bag with the custom laptop sleeve, made for the powerbook, rocks. the sleeve is removable and lightweight (but a sufficient quarter inch of neoprene all around) with handles -- so it transfers well to my regular backpack and even fits well inside my soft-sided leather breifcase when i don't want to give away my slackerdom right off by looking like a bike messenger.
the messenger bag carries my other gear (external firewire drive, mouse, other stuff) all well and is weatherproof. maybe overkill -- but if you have a need for that too and want a good portable laptop case to boot, it's the way to go.
the FCC is not required to review the diversity of media. a commissioner said as much today. they're required to review the "competition" -- so long as there is no technical monopoly, they've done their job. doesn't matter of there's an oligarchy of corporate/state entities with the same interests that behave similarly.
read the advisory, they just XOR stuff and it's easily reversible. other basestations aren't quite so lame. my submitted post got edited, and one should read the links first anyway.
on the tangent of the so-called "liberal" media, this essay is a good (published beyond this homepage of the author) critique of his common run-ins of the critiques of Chomsky and Herman's critique of the mainstream media with their "Propaganda Model." http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/herman review.htm. check it out... you'll learn about the propaganda model, and if you don't agree with it - you might at least (hopefully) come up with more creative critiques than what jensen debunks.
> My point is that when you're in the middle of the desert and there is nothing to do, we all find ways of amusing ourselves.
Indeed. And I'd like to add that my comments were just on my periphial awareness and involvement in stunts that are comparably tame to the documented and mythical big pranks, and during a relatively short timeline - well after the peak efforts of both of these groups on the campus of the little college I still have to describe as "Ever see the movie Contact? Right, well remember the VLA? Ok, that was in my backyard almost."
I'd also like to add I'm pretty surprised this became an article on Slashdot. I mean, it has relevance to me, but had I no personal connection I never would have made this a front page feature... so I have sympathy with the critics of this discussion happening here & now (not that it's not fun).
Stealth Force Beta was countered by a group called The GSF. Some of us said it stood for "Green Sheep F---ers". An allusion to the lonely miners and their pasttimes in the glowing deserts of New Mexico.
I attended NMT for only two years - '99, '00 - but was a participant in GSF 'operations' during that time. The GSF, according to those older and wiser than I, was created by some, including significant members of the student union as an unofficial guerrilla group to compete/oppose STB. I'm not sure if STB was still around when I was there... GSF participated largely in whimsical pranks and actions bringing the schools administration's focus to various issues amongst the student body when regular campus politics just didn't the trick.
Btw, I've seen some comments that liberal arts students generally don't pull pranks like that... as a CS major when I was at NMT and now something of social science student, I'd have to say there's no empirical data to support that claim. It just takes a combination of creativity, free time (or negligence of other things), and some sense of adventure and/or poltiics. :)
NMT does have something of a complex when it comes to competing with MIT and the like... but it has good reason. It's EE dept has produced robotics teams that have regularly beat MIT, NASA engineers, and hundreds of other schools and institutions at a firefighting competition in Connecticut, it has significant ties to Linux for PPC, RTLinux (the patenting by Victor Yodaikenof that sending a lot of heat in the direction of NMT's mail servers from Slashdot readers/trolls) development by NMT faculty and grads, and several innovations and unique features associated with the school and certain departments also seem to get less attention than the same would elsewhere. Of course, it doesn't help to be small (less than 2000 undergrads) and stuck in the middle of the desert.
Socorro is a hell of a place.
http://machination.org/matt/index.cgi/2003/01/01#2 003-01-01_secretsocietiesNMT
sounds like you want an iMac running OS X or Linux for PPC. :) no fan. compact (even more so when the LCD model comes out). runs free software - either the core of the shipping commercial OS, or other flavors of BSD and Linux. sleep and powering-up/down in OS X is *very* fast.
also, actually, it sounds like BeOS on any older PPC mac or x86 box. except BeOS isn't free... plenty of OSS software for it, though.
12345, it's in Schenectady, New York and it belongs to General Electric, Power Systems. (i live in 12304, blocks away.) I love using that one when pestered by Radio Shack people and other places that ask for zip and I used it all of the time in Subscriptions.
Too bad that when I actually am at GEPS (as a "shadow IT" contract worker) I can't get anything but CNBC streamed on the intranet (they rebroadcast it from an internal site, live, continuously, as they own it).
...perhaps Sun should follow Apple's lead? I dunno if they can really do that, and I guess there's no money involved... but Apple seems to be benefitting. Of course, there are a lot of differences. It mean quite a "paradigm shift."
As I listen, at 9:20 Mountain Time, it sounds like the government prosecutor is having trouble defending himself and NS and Java.
He got nailed with the proposal that essentially, the people behind his case, simply want someone else to become the monopoly. The prosecutor is equating "standard" to "monopoly." So, therefore, if java were to become a standard... it's middleware - the JVM - would be a monopoly.
DeBois needs to hurry up and point out that, yeah, that *might* be a valid point - the middleware monpolized by one company. BUT he needs to point out this would increase competition in regards to this: everyone would have to compete on a level playing field insofar as they'd all be developing on one platform. (this of course, begs you to assume that all JVMs are qual, blah blah blah....)
you know that. i know that. debois wasn't so quick to it.
it sounds like he's really gettin' battered on this and web standards.... the judge & co. doesn't realize that web standards aren't a monipoly... they're like highway speeds and yellow lines... they're the rules of the game the developers and software cos need to play to. and the one that plays the best, or plays the worst (but the best tin marketing and such) wins.
these lawyers are morons.
and my grammer, as well as my proof-reading, sucks when i'm in a rush, sorry.
obviously most of us are smart enough to realize that "p2p" and the "2-way web" are just rephrasing of the ideals and regrouping of the same technology that the internet is based on. for those of us that know what to do already, we just see a regroup and proprietizing of services and a deviation from standards.
but then again, the web browser (and things spawned from it) is the interface Joe Blow knows well. *sure* he could run Apache, use and FTP client, use Gopher or WAIS, fiddle through IRC and Newsgroups... but all that came and went, arguably, when Netscape made the web browser big.
my dad, a 48 year old man, doesn't like to juggle a different app for every service. however, my dad could easily be an non-technophile entreprenuer or a small business owner or an engineer of some sort running some sort of over-net collaboration...
p2p is "amazing" to these people because it funnels all these other "mysterious" services into one window that they're willing to pay attention too.
p2p == buzzwords. crap. silly. etc. but, then again... lots of idea are recycled. very few things are "revolutionary" or "insanely great."
it's my guess that they've either got something that finally implements the ideals of the web well enough that they can think they can make lots of money from their implementation of open technology and use of open standards (after all, Sanchez is still "Open Source Manager" or something) or...
but i know nothing.
A guy from Microsoft (and alumni of this school) just visited NMT for recruiting, with half his presentation on .NET and half on the standard culture at MS. here's what i've gathered
.NET allows for one to program in nearly any language (except, given current legalities java - someone else will have to make an interface to .NET for java)
.Net is allegedly open - and is supposed to do the things that Java was supposed (and still could do) but it's really not like java. it's really like a new architecture thrown on top of the old web... supposed to be a better way to exchange information, utilizing XML...
.Net and provide .Net services. it just seems that what MS is selling is going to be an OS deeply tied into it... but it'd be open enough for OSS developers to bring in modules into their own products as well. (again, allegedly)
.NET internally, etc.
.NET will also allow for subscription based releases of software by microsoft to the public... but it seems others would be able to do this too - make their software subscription based using a Microsuck server, or possibly another server with modules written to the "open" DOM spec. but from the rhetoric i heard today, that's really number two when compared to what microsoft would be able to force their own installed base to do by radically developing their OS around .NET
1)
2)
3) we were told really that anyone could have their products work with
4) this is where microsoft makes money: they've got a large installed base on old NT and Win95 - if they want to take a hold of this "revamping" or exploitation of existing protocols, and still use MS software they're already invested in, they'll have to jump up. it looks like Microsoft is still makin the bucks with their OS... companies will want to deploy
5) of course,
6) it sounds like a good idea if others can develop around it too and we don't have to trust microsoft. but i'm wary.
However, the Palm is still far behind the Newton in many ways.
1) The Newton handwriting recognition adapted to YOU. Yes, it was horrible at first, but MP130s and MP2000s did a more than fair job. With the Palm, while the alphabet isn't a difficult one, the user must adapt to it.
2) The web browsers for the Newton were full web browsers. "Newtscape" would display and scale as much of a web space as memory allowed. Usually it did a fine job of grayscaling everything, it supported much of the basics that were around then... none of this WAP crap.
3) Battery life... my Newton 110, which I dig out now and then, lasted longer in continuous use than even the lightest, lowest memory palm, I've ever used... a much more efficient machine than the Palm Pilot.
For all practical purposes, unless you're lucky to have an MP2000 around, using a Newton daily might be more of an archane habit than a productivity measure. But the entire line of Newtons set a benchmark that no one has yet eclipsed with their new products.
...the linuxppc-user list has plenty of discussion on making it work. it'd be nice to see "official" prebuilt kernels for the Mac models though - i know a lot of newbies with the flavored boxes rely on this as they don't build their own kernel.
i don't have the time to read all the posts at th moment, but i've skimmed and am a Mac administrator.
...and for the rest of them be made as simple as the original barebones Mac GUI - sounds pretty useful to me.
1) I think there are Mac admins out there who feel Mac OS X will provide better integrations of Macs on networks where fileshares are served up via NFS from *nix boxes. most of this is in acadamia. so we can stop using CAP, Revrdist and all those other silly things and use the same methods used to keep the rest of the workstations in-line and online.
2) I think the demand is for many of the admin tools to get ported to Mac OS for those of us who regulary use (and respect, and admire) *nix, but also feel the end user experience is on the Mac.. so we can use our really nifty hardware, administer the other Macs - set up for the users with the big icons and all the other stuff you slashdotters hate, but they - actual end users seem to like - and be able to jump from a shell to the Mac apps to simultaneously test and install user stuff.
IN OTHER WORDS: i don't think there is a big demand (yet, and i wonder if there would be) to port *nix stuff to Mac and create a front end for it in Aqua. this is merely for the fact that OS X is a BSD and the new OS will make having Macs a part of your computing environs a good thing, so long as the tools a ported.
i think that's pretty damned obvious and simple. an OS that can be made as powerful as any other *nix
just my $.02, though.