which is the whole point of X. You can have an X server running on Windows (ptui), Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Tru64, AIX, HP-UX, Max OS X, etc, etc, etc and display clients that are actually running on one of the other bazillion X supported platforms. The DirectFB solution works only for the Linux framebuffer. If you hate X, great, then this might be a place for you to develop tools and applications. For the rest of us old hand UNIX folks who have worked with X for years and years who love the network aspects of it, we'll stick with what we got. Even if developing software for it is way hard without several layers of software abstraction (toolkits).
I didn't see any mention of internationalization (I18N) or localization (L10N) in any part of this list. Although the Mozilla site has a section for I18N, L10N and BiDi issues, these parts of the Mozilla site seem especially quiet. The Mozilla Team has obviously been working hard on these issues; you can tell that by the features in the latest 0.9.x releases. It just seems surprising that it wasn't mentioned in the 1.0 statement. They do want World Domination, right?
UNC has been using haptic interfaces, in conjunction with VR technology, to allow [bio]chemists the ability to 'assemble' new compounds at the atomic level. The researchers have grappling arms attached to their hands. The atomic repulsion/attraction is felt by the user, and can be used to figure out how the atoms / molecules should join together.
The real problem is lack of drivers that can support a CD-ROM. Personally I don't miss the CD-ROM very much so the driver is not very high on my personal priority
list.
Although he doesn't miss the CD-ROM, anyone else using an OS for anything but 'play' purposes certainly would. CDs have become the 'new floppies', mainly because there is almost nothing that will fit on a 1.44M (or even 2.88M) floppy. When you are writing the OS for your own goals, experimentation, and purposes, however, what you don't need doesn't get implemented. Good Luck to Kurt on his work.
Our primary Development department tried SO, mainly on Windows machines. They disliked it, and had troubles with some of the document template / form fillin types of tasks we were using for code change forms and suchlike.
However, our secondary development group all run Linux machines as our primary platform. We all use SO, because of its similar interface to MS Office, as well as its success at rendering MS Office documents. What will be a welcome change is individual applications, rather than a monolithic system that brings the machine to its knees. Hint for SO users: run a lighter weight window manager such as Blackbox or IceWM rather than a desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE.
The US government didn't ban overflights of Concorde itself. The ban was on _supersonic_ overflights. Unfortunately, when flying at subsonic speeds, the Concorde's engines change from somewhat inefficient to gross fuel sucking pigs. Flying to inland airports (at one point there was service to Houston) is thus not economically sound.
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which is the whole point of X. You can have an X server running on Windows (ptui), Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Tru64, AIX, HP-UX, Max OS X, etc, etc, etc and display clients that are actually running on one of the other bazillion X supported platforms. The DirectFB solution works only for the Linux framebuffer. If you hate X, great, then this might be a place for you to develop tools and applications. For the rest of us old hand UNIX folks who have worked with X for years and years who love the network aspects of it, we'll stick with what we got. Even if developing software for it is way hard without several layers of software abstraction (toolkits).
I didn't see any mention of internationalization (I18N) or localization (L10N) in any part of this list. Although the Mozilla site has a section for I18N, L10N and BiDi issues, these parts of the Mozilla site seem especially quiet. The Mozilla Team has obviously been working hard on these issues; you can tell that by the features in the latest 0.9.x releases. It just seems surprising that it wasn't mentioned in the 1.0 statement. They do want World Domination, right?
And here is the URL for the research: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/force/
UNC has been using haptic interfaces, in conjunction with VR technology, to allow [bio]chemists the ability to 'assemble' new compounds at the atomic level. The researchers have grappling arms attached to their hands. The atomic repulsion/attraction is felt by the user, and can be used to figure out how the atoms / molecules should join together.
The real problem is lack of drivers that can support a CD-ROM. Personally I don't miss the CD-ROM very much so the driver is not very high on my personal priority
list.
Although he doesn't miss the CD-ROM, anyone else using an OS for anything but 'play' purposes certainly would. CDs have become the 'new floppies', mainly because there is almost nothing that will fit on a 1.44M (or even 2.88M) floppy. When you are writing the OS for your own goals, experimentation, and purposes, however, what you don't need doesn't get implemented. Good Luck to Kurt on his work.
Our primary Development department tried SO, mainly on Windows machines. They disliked it, and had troubles with some of the document template / form fillin types of tasks we were using for code change forms and suchlike.
However, our secondary development group all run Linux machines as our primary platform. We all use SO, because of its similar interface to MS Office, as well as its success at rendering MS Office documents. What will be a welcome change is individual applications, rather than a monolithic system that brings the machine to its knees. Hint for SO users: run a lighter weight window manager such as Blackbox or IceWM rather than a desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE.
'Inland' was perhaps a bad choice. 'Not on the East or West coasts [of the US]' is more what I was shooting for.
The US government didn't ban overflights of Concorde itself. The ban was on _supersonic_ overflights. Unfortunately, when flying at subsonic speeds, the Concorde's engines change from somewhat inefficient to gross fuel sucking pigs. Flying to inland airports (at one point there was service to Houston) is thus not economically sound.