The Aqua interface using things like alpha blending (and others) that X doesn't support. It is not possible to port the Aqua interface to X. Plus the other Mac APIs (the whole Carbon, Cocoa, etc thing) wouldn't work so well with just a new WM.
Will this site be as wonderful as the Linux one? Personally, I find the Web interface clumsy and virtually unusable (I use ftp.linuxberg.com instead of going through the web). What's more, many of the catagories have little or no software. The ISOs and dist archives are neat, but I think that Tucows staff might want to spend a few days checking freshmeat's appindex and downloading some software in order to flesh out some of their catagories.
Not to complain too much, it's a great site when it has what you need. But sometimes what you need isn't there, even if there's a whole catagory for it. I know how the archive's supposed to work, but in some places it's a bit spotty. I hope that the staff could devote some time to adding programs themselves while they're launching a new archive.
Q: Do we remember what Dr. Asimov called this kind of thinking?
A: He called it the "Frankenstein Syndrome", because people who think this way are acting like the people in Frankenstein (more the old movie than the book). In Asimov's books and stories, people feared robots not because they wear dangerous, but because they were different. They feared that technology would compete with them and show them in a bad light.
I don't believe this. The only threat genetic engineering could present would be uniformity. And I just can't see humans doing that. This is just more FUD, from someone who usually champions (in his on twisted way) technology.
Read any of Asimov's robot stories. Read the short story Beggars In Spain (about genetically engineered children) by Nancy Kress. And read this:
What is different, they fear. What they fear, they hate. And what they hate, they destroy.
But if the other side plays fair, I would be happy to do the same. The GPL is designed to encourage sharing. It uses copyright the way it was meant to be used: to protect the rights of the people. The problem is not caused, by and large, by the producers of the music and software to which you refer abusing copyright to protect their own interests.
There will always be criminals, and this does not apply to people who just want to steal something to get a free ride, but rather to the people who believe what's right about copyright.
There are those who steal because they want something for nothing. Then there are those who believe in using copyright as it was meant to be used, not to protect the bottom line of IP Cartels.
Maybe it could work on a subsciption basis: you pay x dollars for a month of access, and you could download how ever many songs you wanted (perhaps there would be a limit to prevent people with DSL from just downloading every CD avalible).
Personally, I think that a scheme where one pays x dollars to download y songs is better. With a time limit, one month might have more releases you like than the next, so you'd waste money on months you hardly used the service. I don't think it would work on a per song basis, because then they'd just charge some inflated rate just like they do now. (Remember when they said CDs would cost less after they had been around for a few years?)
B@rt of NaN also gets into detail about NaN's plans around opensourcing parts of Blender.
Yes, this is good news. Yes, this is exciting news. I won't argue that. But this sounds like the company isn't entirely convinced that the open source route is the way to go.
It's encouraging that this is happening, but disheartening to see that they still want to keep some parts secret.
The new editions are longer and cover a lot more higher leverl stuff, like Windows. But if you look at the older editions, you can start reading all kinds of really low level hardware stuff fairly quickly.
These are some books that I found relevent. I didn't include anythin specifically about asm, since the question seemed to ask about OS design more than the language.
The FreeDOS Kernel is a book about the way the GNU FreeDOS Kernel is designed.
Of course, you can just skip the book and look at code. You can get a free Unix source license for some older stuff at SCO (not x86) or just download a Linux kernel (for the x86)
One of my favourite books about OS design: Inside the IBM PC, by Peter Norton. It's been through many, many editions, and some of the older ones are very detailed about the inner workings of DOS.
Just in general, look at used book stores or the library. You can find some very interesting old books. I seem to remember an old book put out by MS Press, Inside OS/2 or some such, that was pretty good.
But for a while that didn't matter, because their edge was in Linux expertise. Even today, they still have this edge.
I hope so.
The problem for them is that there are no "barriers to entry" to prevent DELL from being able to duplicate that edge....
That's a point I was trying to make in my original comment.
Another good strategic move would be for VA and Penguin to partner or merge with a larger-scale manufacturing company, which is the "if you can't beat em, join em" strategy.
Kinda sad, ain't it?
let's just say I'm a fan of Michael Porter...
I tend to be more of a fan of Woz or Ritchie, but, hey, whatever works!:-)
The problem is that Dell/IBM/? have a huge mindshare advantage. They just see a new market, and step in. Big companies and Joe Consumer buy from an established company they know already instead of the ones that supported the development of the market in the first place.
I don't know if anything can really be done, I like capitalism and all, but it seems kind of unfair at times.
It could be worse. Under communism, we'd have the governement developing OSes, like in China. (No kidding. The PRC really is working on something, the H? OS.)
I guess I shouldn't worry so much about Corporate America taking over. But if this is a pattern and consumers ignore companies founded to pre-load Linux in favour of companies like Dell, then the outlook is sorta grim.
Now that these giant computer manufacturers are preloading Linux, what incentive does Joe Consumer have to buy from a company like Penguin? Those companies found a niche and started selling products. They were here first! Are they just going to get shoved aside or remain small? Or do you think that they still have a chance to become major manufacturers while the older companies are still getting their acts together?
I've been using 1.23 since the day it came out, and it seems good enough to be a full release. If the final releases are as good as this one, the Gimp will start getting major attention in the "mainstream" news. (more than just the articles about the crazy Photoshop clone developed by those free software lunatics)
I look forward to the day when schools start offering Gimp classes instead of Photoshop classes.
This is what Be is focusing on: multimedia. Performance on all kinds of graphics, sound, and other media-related things is going to be higher. Most every other OS could stand to learn a few things from the threading model of the BeOS. This is the kind of thing that the product was optimized for, so this is what it is going to be best at. Every OS has strengths.
If you have never explicitly agreed to keep it secret, you didn't have to. Look at everything you've signed: does telling pepole violate anything there? If it doesn't, you're home free.
I want to be able to see my lights when I want to and not see them when I don't want to. This way, I can just move the card. This isn't just the power light; I've got other, more important indicators to deal with. Plus, it saves money on Post-its.
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The Aqua interface using things like alpha blending (and others) that X doesn't support. It is not possible to port the Aqua interface to X. Plus the other Mac APIs (the whole Carbon, Cocoa, etc thing) wouldn't work so well with just a new WM.
The Official 5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive
Not to complain too much, it's a great site when it has what you need. But sometimes what you need isn't there, even if there's a whole catagory for it. I know how the archive's supposed to work, but in some places it's a bit spotty. I hope that the staff could devote some time to adding programs themselves while they're launching a new archive.
A: He called it the "Frankenstein Syndrome", because people who think this way are acting like the people in Frankenstein (more the old movie than the book). In Asimov's books and stories, people feared robots not because they wear dangerous, but because they were different. They feared that technology would compete with them and show them in a bad light.
I don't believe this. The only threat genetic engineering could present would be uniformity. And I just can't see humans doing that. This is just more FUD, from someone who usually champions (in his on twisted way) technology.
Read any of Asimov's robot stories. Read the short story Beggars In Spain (about genetically engineered children) by Nancy Kress. And read this:
What is different, they fear. What they fear, they hate. And what they hate, they destroy.
Read some of the articles here.
There will always be criminals, and this does not apply to people who just want to steal something to get a free ride, but rather to the people who believe what's right about copyright.
There are those who steal because they want something for nothing. Then there are those who believe in using copyright as it was meant to be used, not to protect the bottom line of IP Cartels.
Personally, I think that a scheme where one pays x dollars to download y songs is better. With a time limit, one month might have more releases you like than the next, so you'd waste money on months you hardly used the service. I don't think it would work on a per song basis, because then they'd just charge some inflated rate just like they do now. (Remember when they said CDs would cost less after they had been around for a few years?)
Yes, this is good news. Yes, this is exciting news. I won't argue that. But this sounds like the company isn't entirely convinced that the open source route is the way to go.
It's encouraging that this is happening, but disheartening to see that they still want to keep some parts secret.
The new editions are longer and cover a lot more higher leverl stuff, like Windows. But if you look at the older editions, you can start reading all kinds of really low level hardware stuff fairly quickly.
It was just an example.
The FreeDOS Kernel is a book about the way the GNU FreeDOS Kernel is designed.
Of course, you can just skip the book and look at code. You can get a free Unix source license for some older stuff at SCO (not x86) or just download a Linux kernel (for the x86)
One of my favourite books about OS design: Inside the IBM PC, by Peter Norton. It's been through many, many editions, and some of the older ones are very detailed about the inner workings of DOS.
Just in general, look at used book stores or the library. You can find some very interesting old books. I seem to remember an old book put out by MS Press, Inside OS/2 or some such, that was pretty good.
I hope so.
The problem for them is that there are no "barriers to entry" to prevent DELL from being able to duplicate that edge....
That's a point I was trying to make in my original comment.
Another good strategic move would be for VA and Penguin to partner or merge with a larger-scale manufacturing company, which is the "if you can't beat em, join em" strategy.
Kinda sad, ain't it?
let's just say I'm a fan of Michael Porter...
I tend to be more of a fan of Woz or Ritchie, but, hey, whatever works! :-)
I don't know if anything can really be done, I like capitalism and all, but it seems kind of unfair at times.
It could be worse. Under communism, we'd have the governement developing OSes, like in China. (No kidding. The PRC really is working on something, the H? OS.)
I guess I shouldn't worry so much about Corporate America taking over. But if this is a pattern and consumers ignore companies founded to pre-load Linux in favour of companies like Dell, then the outlook is sorta grim.
They might also have been getting sick of MS and the Windows distribution agreements.
Now that these giant computer manufacturers are preloading Linux, what incentive does Joe Consumer have to buy from a company like Penguin? Those companies found a niche and started selling products. They were here first! Are they just going to get shoved aside or remain small? Or do you think that they still have a chance to become major manufacturers while the older companies are still getting their acts together?
It shouldn't. That's mostly a bugfix release, the interface shouldn't change. If anything, things should work better.
Whoops... that's 1.1.23
I look forward to the day when schools start offering Gimp classes instead of Photoshop classes.
This is what Be is focusing on: multimedia. Performance on all kinds of graphics, sound, and other media-related things is going to be higher. Most every other OS could stand to learn a few things from the threading model of the BeOS. This is the kind of thing that the product was optimized for, so this is what it is going to be best at. Every OS has strengths.
Parts of it are. The Tracker (like MacOS Finder), for instance, is avalible as source.
The best thing about Current is that the a and n disk sets are folded into one big set.
I never claimed I had names. I just pointed out a problem.
If you have never explicitly agreed to keep it secret, you didn't have to. Look at everything you've signed: does telling pepole violate anything there? If it doesn't, you're home free.
I want to be able to see my lights when I want to and not see them when I don't want to. This way, I can just move the card. This isn't just the power light; I've got other, more important indicators to deal with. Plus, it saves money on Post-its.