So... Mir died of Russian neglect, and so early into its mission the ISS seems to be dying of US neglect. Even if shuttle missions resume the importance of the ISS in US plans has been eclipsed by a moon base and a Mars mission. Lots of people criticize the ISS because it was largely conceived with politics in mind moreso than economics or science. Surely they hate the new US direction even more -- billions more will be blown, over the course of far more administrations who will always be gunning to kill it for more cash -- just to give the impression of superiority over the Chinese. I say either fund and finish the ISS or start a new economical, science-based space project from scratch. But moon bases? Please, ISS doesn't deserve to fall apart for this...
Finally Java 3D has been released. I've long been a critic of Java, largely due to its "2D" nature. I'm very glad to see Java finally go 3D, especially since Open Source rocks and Sun sucks, particularly since they did a deal with Microsoft. Maybe C++ and Pascal will go 3D now, long live that programming language I'm talking about. Yeah... Java...
Funny to see the suits manipulating a "brand" that used to stand for individuality and defiance. Napster has been made the RIAA's bitch and now they want to trot out the name -- shamed and debased -- as some sort of hip corporate brand.
Oooo, "Napster teams with Best Buy." Wow, surely Best Buy is cool and if you want to be an individual you need to head on over to your local box store and buy some Sony / BestBuy / Microsoft / PepsiCo product.
Personally, I think if you're smart you'll ignore everything with the "Napster" label altogether. And if you're really a rebel, try scratching "Best Buy" off the list too. Now that, would be cool...
See? Darl was right all along...
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Thanks, I knew you'd admit I was right sooner or later. I scrubbed both my cheeks smoothe as silk in anticipation of your admission, but on second thought I'd prefer a nice french-kiss on the browneye.
Sorry but you are falling into "retard" status. LAN Manager was based on NetBIOS and NetBEUI was the transport protocol. Neither were routable, and had nothing to do with TCP/IP. In fact, LAN Manager was licensed technology to begin with! Sure, you could run TCP/IP under LANMAN, but you could also run IPX/SPX. This doesn't mean Microsoft "went" TCP/IP any more so than they "went" IPX/SPX. Your memory of the time is passable at best and totally flawed at worst.
See my last comment to parent, where I point out that your hypothesis is completely impossible. Microsoft didn't go IP until years after the competition, and they had no hand in OS/2. I feel like I'm arguing history with a 12-year-old. You were obviously not there, dude, so stop making up stories about what happened. Anyone who was there knows you are wrong.
Ok fine after mocking you mercilessly I will explain why you are such a funny guy.
1. Microsoft was only involved in OS/2 up until version 1.3 2. OS/2 was widely criticized because it did not have built-in networking. So Microsoft certainly didn't introduce TCP/IP in the 80's with OS/2. 3. The first version of OS/2 with built-in networking was OS/2 WARP, which was after OS/2 2.1. This was many years after the IBM/Microsoft rift.
So.... yeah. This is what any decent research will tell you. Rebuttals are welcome, I'm kind of enjoying teaching a new generation about how the 80's played out.;-)
Also, Microsoft adopted TCP/IP back in the 80s with OS/2 so I dunno if you know your history either.
Awww, yer so cute when you have no clue what you're talking about. Microsoft? TCP/IP? OS/2? That's utterly adorable. Go do some research and once you realize how funny that is come back here and we'll have a good ol' laugh about it.
Again, you're mixing up your history. Sure Novell was slow to adopt TCP/IP but that's because IPX/SPX was always routable. Microsoft held onto NetBEUI (ptooie!) for far longer and still won the war. Sure Microsoft competitors made some mis-steps, but no more so than Microsoft. Unfortunately they didn't have an endless supply of cash to help them recover.
No offense, but you don't remember the timeline particularly well. WordPerfect had the poop beaten out of it long before Novell bought it -- caused by their failure to release a Windows version while they still had the superior product. By the time Novell bought it they were a steal. Agreed, not a brilliant move, but not what killed them, either. What really killed Novell was Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) which had built-in networking. Windows NT followed and sealed Netware's fate, despite the fact that NW4 was years ahead of NT. Both instances where the OS was leveraged to strangle the market for a superior product.
Novell didn't look on doe-eyed, the Wordperfect aquisition (which came much later) was a desperate attempt to save themselves once they realized Microsoft could leverage the OS to beat them, *no matter how superior their products were*. It was desperation, not stupidity.
Building on its contributions to the open source community and commitment to interoperability
As one of many people who vividly remembers the success of NetWare 3.x, the current situation seems very alien. Novell virtually died when the fact of the matter is their product was by far the best. Today they have good products, yet they really can't claim an enormous technological edge. Their second coming is, instead, based on commitment to a thriving community, and feeds off anti-Microsoft sentiment. If best-of-breed products didn't work, will this perhaps be the strategy that finally works for them? I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't complain to see Novell take back a sizeable bite of the business that was stolen from them.
Wow, this article finally affirms what I've always known -- that I'm uber-qualified. I have no certifications, degrees, or qualifications of any sort. I am totally 733T! Thank god, I had almost started to believe the nay-sayers.
Oh, and you know how Einstein got bad grades in school? Yeah, well mine are even worse!
Personally I love this idea. It will let my local DSL provider advertise "20x the speed of cable!". Then they can increase the number of subscribers per segment by 20x and I can continue to enjoy these 40k/s downloads while my ISP charges more than they ever have. I think this is a huge step forward, but if I pay a little extra can I also request a boot to the head???
I don't use Nautilus but I decided to read this article just cause it's a slow day. I was amazed at what an absolute buffoon the writer is. Check out some of these choice quotes. Speaking of tabbed browsing:
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site!... I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them..."
What an opinionated moron. I browse the web all in one window, using nothing but tabs. But *apparently* I'm abusing my user interface! Here I thought I just preferred it that way, who knew I was offending a purist! And further for people who don't find spatial Nautilus conducive to browsing:
Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible, and the "master" folders (something like My Images or My Music folders known from Windows) should have their own shortcuts on a GNOME panel
Ahhh, now it's how we're all storing our files the wrong way. Silly us! I appreciate the basic gyst of his argument. "If you change your way of working to conform to your user interface, then you'll find it's completely intuitive. Sorry, no offense to the folks who use and love Nautilus, but you need to keep this buffoon from engaging in any more advocacy.
McDonald's Germany deploys SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for DNS, FTP, and proxy services on the Internet.
I count three servers there, and "FTP" hardly strikes me as a core service for a fast-food company. This is your typical press-release, intended to produce hype but without a lot behind it. It strikes me as grandstanding by Novell since everyone knows McDonalds uses SCO Unix for many of their POS terminals and someone who reads this headline quickly may think they're ripping out Unix and putting in Linux. Sorry, only three boxes at play here.
And no, I'm not defending SCO, I'm just saying this press release doesn't mean much.
Thakadu you make an interesting point. You see, I've long believed that stupidity (or in the context of this discussion, dishonesty) always trumps intelligence or honesty because someone who is intelligent and honest is always willing to listen to reason and different viewpoints. But someone stupid or dishonest will always win because their opinions are not based on truth or logic. A liberal will always say "that's a good point, and there's a grain of truth to what you say" but a conservative will say "goddam you queers and commies, you should all be locked up." Dishonesty/stupidity always trumps honesty/intelligence.
Sorry, you're making a fundamental mistake if you think this boycott is wrong. Yes, people should be free to pick and choose, and compare Linux to Windows and choose Windows if they think it's better, and to say so, publicly, and in advertisements. And people should also be allowed to boycott sites companies or products that they don't like. And they should be allowed to do it even for such illogical reasons as "I love Linux, and I hate Windows". Just smile, shake your head, and go on about your day. You don't have to agree, nor does that make them wrong. Just two different, and perfectly valid, opinions.
It's this kind of right-wing republican rhetoric that really pisses me off. Do not voice an opinion if you have no idea what you're talking about and are only looking to fill/. with your ignorant fear-mongering. I DID NOT cover my house in *aluminum siding* to withstand gunfire. You're a quack.
I did it to keep the aliens from reading my thoughts...
According to Gartner, revenue of Linux-based server hardware rose 57.3 percent over the first quarter, while commercial Unix server revenue fell 2.3 percent.
Is it just me or does 57.3 percent growth genuinely impress you as well? I can only assume the article contains a mistake since it claims 57.3 percent revenue growth for linux-based servers over the first quarter which means "in three months". This strikes me as unlikely, unless Linux is actually destroying everything in its path. Shouldn't this read year over year in which case the 57.3 percent growth happened in 12 months, not 3. Can anyone confirm for sure? Regardless this is fantastic news, it's been a many, many years since we've seen genuine competition in the OS market.
Can anyone shed some light on exactly how noteworthy this is? What is a rough figure for expected brightness (in lumens) from an LCD? How big a deal is 400 lumens for a first-generation consumer product? Are the advantages of OLED primarily brightness and power consumption, or are there image quality advantages as well?
Thanks in advance to any OLED gurus who feel like sharing their knowledge. This is an exciting field but a lot of us are still trying to get up to speed on it...
While I respect this guys rights and wouldn't presume to accuse him of anything, I certainly cannot defend him without reading the court transcripts. ANYONE who was caught in the act of downloading kiddie porn would claim their PC was "hi-jacked" so I don't think this is a defense of any kind, in and of itself. I don't think the feds are technically literate, but I also don't think they're fools. I have a hard time believing they charged someone with downloading kiddie-porn when all that really happened was he saw some pop-ups, like you and I (unfortunately) see a million times a day. Something else took place here.
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So... Mir died of Russian neglect, and so early into its mission the ISS seems to be dying of US neglect. Even if shuttle missions resume the importance of the ISS in US plans has been eclipsed by a moon base and a Mars mission. Lots of people criticize the ISS because it was largely conceived with politics in mind moreso than economics or science. Surely they hate the new US direction even more -- billions more will be blown, over the course of far more administrations who will always be gunning to kill it for more cash -- just to give the impression of superiority over the Chinese. I say either fund and finish the ISS or start a new economical, science-based space project from scratch. But moon bases? Please, ISS doesn't deserve to fall apart for this...
Finally Java 3D has been released. I've long been a critic of Java, largely due to its "2D" nature. I'm very glad to see Java finally go 3D, especially since Open Source rocks and Sun sucks, particularly since they did a deal with Microsoft. Maybe C++ and Pascal will go 3D now, long live that programming language I'm talking about. Yeah... Java...
Funny to see the suits manipulating a "brand" that used to stand for individuality and defiance. Napster has been made the RIAA's bitch and now they want to trot out the name -- shamed and debased -- as some sort of hip corporate brand.
Oooo, "Napster teams with Best Buy." Wow, surely Best Buy is cool and if you want to be an individual you need to head on over to your local box store and buy some Sony / BestBuy / Microsoft / PepsiCo product.
Personally, I think if you're smart you'll ignore everything with the "Napster" label altogether. And if you're really a rebel, try scratching "Best Buy" off the list too. Now that, would be cool...
See? Terrorists!
Thanks, I knew you'd admit I was right sooner or later. I scrubbed both my cheeks smoothe as silk in anticipation of your admission, but on second thought I'd prefer a nice french-kiss on the browneye.
OOooo, thanks, that tickled!
Sorry but you are falling into "retard" status. LAN Manager was based on NetBIOS and NetBEUI was the transport protocol. Neither were routable, and had nothing to do with TCP/IP. In fact, LAN Manager was licensed technology to begin with! Sure, you could run TCP/IP under LANMAN, but you could also run IPX/SPX. This doesn't mean Microsoft "went" TCP/IP any more so than they "went" IPX/SPX. Your memory of the time is passable at best and totally flawed at worst.
See my last comment to parent, where I point out that your hypothesis is completely impossible. Microsoft didn't go IP until years after the competition, and they had no hand in OS/2. I feel like I'm arguing history with a 12-year-old. You were obviously not there, dude, so stop making up stories about what happened. Anyone who was there knows you are wrong.
Ok fine after mocking you mercilessly I will explain why you are such a funny guy.
;-)
1. Microsoft was only involved in OS/2 up until version 1.3
2. OS/2 was widely criticized because it did not have built-in networking. So Microsoft certainly didn't introduce TCP/IP in the 80's with OS/2.
3. The first version of OS/2 with built-in networking was OS/2 WARP, which was after OS/2 2.1. This was many years after the IBM/Microsoft rift.
So.... yeah. This is what any decent research will tell you. Rebuttals are welcome, I'm kind of enjoying teaching a new generation about how the 80's played out.
Also, Microsoft adopted TCP/IP back in the 80s with OS/2 so I dunno if you know your history either.
Awww, yer so cute when you have no clue what you're talking about. Microsoft? TCP/IP? OS/2? That's utterly adorable. Go do some research and once you realize how funny that is come back here and we'll have a good ol' laugh about it.
OS/2... Snicker...
Again, you're mixing up your history. Sure Novell was slow to adopt TCP/IP but that's because IPX/SPX was always routable. Microsoft held onto NetBEUI (ptooie!) for far longer and still won the war. Sure Microsoft competitors made some mis-steps, but no more so than Microsoft. Unfortunately they didn't have an endless supply of cash to help them recover.
No offense, but you don't remember the timeline particularly well. WordPerfect had the poop beaten out of it long before Novell bought it -- caused by their failure to release a Windows version while they still had the superior product. By the time Novell bought it they were a steal. Agreed, not a brilliant move, but not what killed them, either. What really killed Novell was Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) which had built-in networking. Windows NT followed and sealed Netware's fate, despite the fact that NW4 was years ahead of NT. Both instances where the OS was leveraged to strangle the market for a superior product.
Novell didn't look on doe-eyed, the Wordperfect aquisition (which came much later) was a desperate attempt to save themselves once they realized Microsoft could leverage the OS to beat them, *no matter how superior their products were*. It was desperation, not stupidity.
Building on its contributions to the open source community and commitment to interoperability
As one of many people who vividly remembers the success of NetWare 3.x, the current situation seems very alien. Novell virtually died when the fact of the matter is their product was by far the best. Today they have good products, yet they really can't claim an enormous technological edge. Their second coming is, instead, based on commitment to a thriving community, and feeds off anti-Microsoft sentiment. If best-of-breed products didn't work, will this perhaps be the strategy that finally works for them? I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't complain to see Novell take back a sizeable bite of the business that was stolen from them.
Very happy someone caught the Calvin and Hobbes reference.
Wow, this article finally affirms what I've always known -- that I'm uber-qualified. I have no certifications, degrees, or qualifications of any sort. I am totally 733T! Thank god, I had almost started to believe the nay-sayers.
Oh, and you know how Einstein got bad grades in school? Yeah, well mine are even worse!
Personally I love this idea. It will let my local DSL provider advertise "20x the speed of cable!". Then they can increase the number of subscribers per segment by 20x and I can continue to enjoy these 40k/s downloads while my ISP charges more than they ever have. I think this is a huge step forward, but if I pay a little extra can I also request a boot to the head???
I don't use Nautilus but I decided to read this article just cause it's a slow day. I was amazed at what an absolute buffoon the writer is. Check out some of these choice quotes. Speaking of tabbed browsing:
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site! ... I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them..."
What an opinionated moron. I browse the web all in one window, using nothing but tabs. But *apparently* I'm abusing my user interface! Here I thought I just preferred it that way, who knew I was offending a purist! And further for people who don't find spatial Nautilus conducive to browsing:
Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible, and the "master" folders (something like My Images or My Music folders known from Windows) should have their own shortcuts on a GNOME panel
Ahhh, now it's how we're all storing our files the wrong way. Silly us! I appreciate the basic gyst of his argument. "If you change your way of working to conform to your user interface, then you'll find it's completely intuitive. Sorry, no offense to the folks who use and love Nautilus, but you need to keep this buffoon from engaging in any more advocacy.
From the press release:
McDonald's Germany deploys SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for DNS, FTP, and proxy services on the Internet.
I count three servers there, and "FTP" hardly strikes me as a core service for a fast-food company. This is your typical press-release, intended to produce hype but without a lot behind it. It strikes me as grandstanding by Novell since everyone knows McDonalds uses SCO Unix for many of their POS terminals and someone who reads this headline quickly may think they're ripping out Unix and putting in Linux. Sorry, only three boxes at play here.
And no, I'm not defending SCO, I'm just saying this press release doesn't mean much.
Too bad this bad-boy's not around anymore, I'd give anything to see the Linux port.
Thakadu you make an interesting point. You see, I've long believed that stupidity (or in the context of this discussion, dishonesty) always trumps intelligence or honesty because someone who is intelligent and honest is always willing to listen to reason and different viewpoints. But someone stupid or dishonest will always win because their opinions are not based on truth or logic. A liberal will always say "that's a good point, and there's a grain of truth to what you say" but a conservative will say "goddam you queers and commies, you should all be locked up." Dishonesty/stupidity always trumps honesty/intelligence.
Sorry, you're making a fundamental mistake if you think this boycott is wrong. Yes, people should be free to pick and choose, and compare Linux to Windows and choose Windows if they think it's better, and to say so, publicly, and in advertisements. And people should also be allowed to boycott sites companies or products that they don't like. And they should be allowed to do it even for such illogical reasons as "I love Linux, and I hate Windows". Just smile, shake your head, and go on about your day. You don't have to agree, nor does that make them wrong. Just two different, and perfectly valid, opinions.
It's this kind of right-wing republican rhetoric that really pisses me off. Do not voice an opinion if you have no idea what you're talking about and are only looking to fill /. with your ignorant fear-mongering. I DID NOT cover my house in *aluminum siding* to withstand gunfire. You're a quack.
I did it to keep the aliens from reading my thoughts...
libertarian freaks, nuttily suspicious of centralized power', who would 'scream to the high heavens if they found anything wrong'
Hmmm...
libertarian...
suspicious of centralized power...
scream to high heaven if there is a loophole in the democratic system...
Wow, three compliments in a row, Thanks NYT!!!
According to Gartner, revenue of Linux-based server hardware rose 57.3 percent over the first quarter, while commercial Unix server revenue fell 2.3 percent.
Is it just me or does 57.3 percent growth genuinely impress you as well? I can only assume the article contains a mistake since it claims 57.3 percent revenue growth for linux-based servers over the first quarter which means "in three months". This strikes me as unlikely, unless Linux is actually destroying everything in its path. Shouldn't this read year over year in which case the 57.3 percent growth happened in 12 months, not 3. Can anyone confirm for sure? Regardless this is fantastic news, it's been a many, many years since we've seen genuine competition in the OS market.
Can anyone shed some light on exactly how noteworthy this is? What is a rough figure for expected brightness (in lumens) from an LCD? How big a deal is 400 lumens for a first-generation consumer product? Are the advantages of OLED primarily brightness and power consumption, or are there image quality advantages as well?
Thanks in advance to any OLED gurus who feel like sharing their knowledge. This is an exciting field but a lot of us are still trying to get up to speed on it...
While I respect this guys rights and wouldn't presume to accuse him of anything, I certainly cannot defend him without reading the court transcripts. ANYONE who was caught in the act of downloading kiddie porn would claim their PC was "hi-jacked" so I don't think this is a defense of any kind, in and of itself. I don't think the feds are technically literate, but I also don't think they're fools. I have a hard time believing they charged someone with downloading kiddie-porn when all that really happened was he saw some pop-ups, like you and I (unfortunately) see a million times a day. Something else took place here.