Of course it's no concidence... that's the average number of folds they use at the Taco Bell on Route 3 in Clifton, NJ.
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Besides the fact that the sound probably sounds like crap, why would anyone do this rather than get the MP3 player they like and plug it into one of those headphone jack -> cassette adapters?
They've had the adapter technology for years... not that much of a biggie. Ask anyone who had a CD player in the car 8 years ago.
The adapter goes for $20 or less, and you lose limitations imposed on the design of a Digisette
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UNIX is an operating system. MacOS X is an operating system (BSD) with a pretty window manager. Simple enough.
It looks like the evangelism is a justification for positioning MacOS X as a replacement for UNIX on the desktop. My guess would be that it's specifically aimed at keeping Mac users from looking at Linux on the Mac. If Apple cannot signify why *their* UNIX is more than UNIX, and they concede that the reason it's superior is that it is UNIX, then they must justify their product's differentiation.
What happens when ld.so gets corrupted? You say fuck it?
If your filesystem is encrypted, then you can't boot from alternate means and get to your data... or, if you can, and it's done through a password... then who types in the password/key every time the system reboots... unless the key is stored on the drive, once again making the exercise futile.
Implicit in allowing the government to do something which you don't believe will work is the validity you grant to their intentions.
If they were somehow to fix all the technical issues related to encryption, etc., then they could say, "You already gave us permission to do this. We just fixed things."
Oh, and as for the stance those who do nothing wrong have nothing to fear... remember that what is wrong depends on who does the judging. That'll be changing in January, and again in 2004 or 2008.
"I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-Voltaire
Interesting... There are some people that automatically think "Cool! Someone wrote a really tiny OS, I've got to play with it!" whereas others think "Ok, yet another immature OS - of course it's tiny and fast, but that's because it lacks functionality. What's the big deal? I can't run [insert name of favorite app here], so what good is it?"
The really interesting thing is that "[insert name of app]" slot. A few years ago, it might have been "spreadsheet" or "word processor"; several years earlier, it might have been "calculator"; these days it's "TCP/IP and a browser" (and eventually someone will clamour for an MP3 player and a Napster clone, I'll warrant).
Well, I believe in the Sun motto "The Network is the Computer"
Really... the entire function for a computer is to process information of some sort. There must be a way for information to get in, and for it to get out for it to be useful. I believe that networking is one of the best ways to accomplish this on a general basis, and TCP/IP a logical choice to accomplish that task.
the underlying os (and their changes) would remain free, with a for-profit interface. never work you say? heard of OSX?
Yeah. Heard of the BSD license?
if your just going to troll, go read infoworld or something.
I'm trolling because I said that it wasn't in Palm's interest to switch to Linux?
If you want handheld Linux, don't buy a Palm. It's not a biggie, and I'm not saying that Linux doesn't belong in the palm of your hand.
-Nev
It's in Palm's business interest to keep PalmOS as their platform... they make significant amounts of money licensing PalmOS. In order for it to make sense for Palm to go to Linux, they'd have to be convinced that there would at least be a) significant savings in going to Linux, and b) they'd sell so much additional hardware, it'd make up for the loss in revenue from OS licensing.
I don't see the market expanding significantly because of a switch to Linux. Business people don't give a crap what OS it is, as long as it works, and syncs data to their Windows boxes. Geeks are *not* as significant a market for Palm as you seem to imagine.
Besides, they'd lose differentiation in that market. They'd be competing against significantly higher-power hardware in the handheld Linux market. It's far better for them to have the OS as their advantage, and innovate hardware just enough to have new products which cause current owners to upgrade every few years.
PalmOS does not pretend to be more than it is. It is not a computing platform, it is a "keep my notes someplace handy" platform.
Well, I thought of this, and poked around a bit. While I do not hesitate to say that Ethernet is one of the most important technologies in network computing these days, it was invented at PARC in 1972, and named Ethernet in 1973.
One might have a case to say that it was in the 80s that Ethernet came of age and was the top technology of that decade, along with Novell... but since this is not a "last quarter of a century" thing, let's let it slide.
I read through the comments here and had a bit of a chuckle...
I'm an American born-and-bred citizen working in London on a UK work permit. I've taken a path different from much of the world, taking the opportunity to work outside the US. Why was it so appealing?
Free travel across Europe was one of the reasons, I can't deny it. New Jersey just doesn't tend to strike most Americans as a worldly experience, and I've seen things during my limited business trips which are memories which I'll always have... but that's a digression.
I work as a systems engineer in the Internet field. I've worked with the systems of some of the US's largest media and financial companies. The dot-com explosion started slowing, and I was looking for a new challenge.
Start-up has become a term which has gotten to the "oh, not another one of those" stage. I didn't go to a start-up, but in Europe, anything within the Internet arena has that feel. I'm here to build something where there was nothing. Yes, my schooling was in the US, as was much of my experience. To deny it would be foolish. But for everyone to think that the entirety of the computer related industry is American is ludicrous. There is boundless opportunity outside the US. While Europe (for the most part) is behind the US in 'net culture and last-mile, there are thousands of kilometers of fiber run by Level 3, Global Crossings, GTS, and many others. Power is a bit of an issue, to be sure. The French government's decision that it shall be illegal to have an employee work more than 35 hours per week, well... that's "un-American" and causes me to wonder how they manage to produce anything besides tourism...
...but there are endless opportunities outside the US. Opportunities like those that came and went already in the US. Opportunities to build... and they're not above hiring foreigners to do it. The US is not the only place to go.
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The.NET Enterprise Servers are Microsoft's comprehensive family of server applications for building, deploying and managing next generation integrated Web experiences that move beyond today's world of standalone Web sites. Designed with mission-critical performance in mind,.NET Enterprise Servers will provide fast time to market as well as scalability, reliability and manageability for the global, Web-enabled enterprise. They have been built from the ground up for interoperability using open Web standards such as XML. The.NET Enterprise Servers are a key part of Microsoft's broader.NET strategy, which will enable a distributed computing model for the Internet based on Internet protocols and standards in order to revolutionize the way computers talk to one another on our behalf.
If RIAA were content with charging $5/month flat rate for music access, a portion of which they'd get, wouldn't they open up their own shop and charge either more flat rate, or by the K downloaded?
They have no vested interest in letting Napster provide a portion of that which they could do themselves.
Very interesting question - especially since they own a significant number of non-voting Apple shares, as well.
Microsoft must simply see a benefit in keeping alive the appearance of competition for anti-trust reasons. "Oh, we're the benevolent ones who try to help everyone out when they're down"
At under $9B market cap, I'd prefer to see Larry Ellison buy Apple with his pocket change and see what might happen.
I can see Larry now... "OK, you artsy-fartsy pansy asses... we're going to make this crap into a rip-roarin' e-business platform driving the Internet. iMac? Expensive NC. Let's rip out the storage, use a G4 Cube as your app server running Oracle 9i, and get you some productivity. Enough with the Picasso shit. No more of this Gandhi on ads. I want to have ads with you pot-smokers sitting on the mounds of cash you can make when we straighten you all out."
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....and it was actually post #42! kick ass!
2.4 x Number of machines, not 2.4 x % of machines.
Of course it's no concidence... that's the average number of folds they use at the Taco Bell on Route 3 in Clifton, NJ.
Besides the fact that the sound probably sounds like crap, why would anyone do this rather than get the MP3 player they like and plug it into one of those headphone jack -> cassette adapters?
They've had the adapter technology for years... not that much of a biggie. Ask anyone who had a CD player in the car 8 years ago.
The adapter goes for $20 or less, and you lose limitations imposed on the design of a Digisette
-Nev
and anime being aired is "Stuff that matters."?
You're just pissed that Sony reimplemented the Microchannel bus.
"ICANN stay here as long as I want" -Initial Boardmembers
-Nev
Scan the barcode for proof!
-Nev
UNIX is an operating system. MacOS X is an operating system (BSD) with a pretty window manager. Simple enough.
It looks like the evangelism is a justification for positioning MacOS X as a replacement for UNIX on the desktop. My guess would be that it's specifically aimed at keeping Mac users from looking at Linux on the Mac. If Apple cannot signify why *their* UNIX is more than UNIX, and they concede that the reason it's superior is that it is UNIX, then they must justify their product's differentiation.
-Nev
What happens when ld.so gets corrupted? You say fuck it?
If your filesystem is encrypted, then you can't boot from alternate means and get to your data... or, if you can, and it's done through a password... then who types in the password/key every time the system reboots... unless the key is stored on the drive, once again making the exercise futile.
-Nev
Implicit in allowing the government to do something which you don't believe will work is the validity you grant to their intentions.
If they were somehow to fix all the technical issues related to encryption, etc., then they could say, "You already gave us permission to do this. We just fixed things."
Oh, and as for the stance those who do nothing wrong have nothing to fear... remember that what is wrong depends on who does the judging. That'll be changing in January, and again in 2004 or 2008.
"I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-Voltaire
-Nev
Interesting... There are some people that automatically think "Cool! Someone wrote a really tiny OS, I've got to play with it!" whereas others think "Ok, yet another immature OS - of course it's tiny and fast, but that's because it lacks functionality. What's the big deal? I can't run [insert name of favorite app here], so what good is it?"
The really interesting thing is that "[insert name of app]" slot. A few years ago, it might have been "spreadsheet" or "word processor"; several years earlier, it might have been "calculator"; these days it's "TCP/IP and a browser" (and eventually someone will clamour for an MP3 player and a Napster clone, I'll warrant).
Well, I believe in the Sun motto "The Network is the Computer"
Really... the entire function for a computer is to process information of some sort. There must be a way for information to get in, and for it to get out for it to be useful. I believe that networking is one of the best ways to accomplish this on a general basis, and TCP/IP a logical choice to accomplish that task.
-Nev
Put in networking and TCP/IP and maybe it'd be useful for something...
Until then? Uh...
"Sure... we'll thaw you out... when we figure out how
-Nev
the underlying os (and their changes) would remain free, with a for-profit interface. never work you say? heard of OSX? Yeah. Heard of the BSD license? if your just going to troll, go read infoworld or something. I'm trolling because I said that it wasn't in Palm's interest to switch to Linux? If you want handheld Linux, don't buy a Palm. It's not a biggie, and I'm not saying that Linux doesn't belong in the palm of your hand. -Nev
It's in Palm's business interest to keep PalmOS as their platform... they make significant amounts of money licensing PalmOS. In order for it to make sense for Palm to go to Linux, they'd have to be convinced that there would at least be a) significant savings in going to Linux, and b) they'd sell so much additional hardware, it'd make up for the loss in revenue from OS licensing.
I don't see the market expanding significantly because of a switch to Linux. Business people don't give a crap what OS it is, as long as it works, and syncs data to their Windows boxes. Geeks are *not* as significant a market for Palm as you seem to imagine.
Besides, they'd lose differentiation in that market. They'd be competing against significantly higher-power hardware in the handheld Linux market. It's far better for them to have the OS as their advantage, and innovate hardware just enough to have new products which cause current owners to upgrade every few years.
PalmOS does not pretend to be more than it is. It is not a computing platform, it is a "keep my notes someplace handy" platform.
-Nev
Sun is switching the Cube OS from Linux to Solaris because they have invested tons of money in a clustering solution for Solaris.
WHAT?!?!
Who the hell is talking about clustering Qubes?
Lay off the crack, dude.
-Nev
Screw uncertainty. MS shareholders would be better off with two smaller monopolies anyway...
-Nev
Well, I thought of this, and poked around a bit. While I do not hesitate to say that Ethernet is one of the most important technologies in network computing these days, it was invented at PARC in 1972, and named Ethernet in 1973.
One might have a case to say that it was in the 80s that Ethernet came of age and was the top technology of that decade, along with Novell... but since this is not a "last quarter of a century" thing, let's let it slide.
-Nev
I read through the comments here and had a bit of a chuckle...
I'm an American born-and-bred citizen working in London on a UK work permit. I've taken a path different from much of the world, taking the opportunity to work outside the US. Why was it so appealing?
Free travel across Europe was one of the reasons, I can't deny it. New Jersey just doesn't tend to strike most Americans as a worldly experience, and I've seen things during my limited business trips which are memories which I'll always have... but that's a digression.
I work as a systems engineer in the Internet field. I've worked with the systems of some of the US's largest media and financial companies. The dot-com explosion started slowing, and I was looking for a new challenge.
Start-up has become a term which has gotten to the "oh, not another one of those" stage. I didn't go to a start-up, but in Europe, anything within the Internet arena has that feel. I'm here to build something where there was nothing. Yes, my schooling was in the US, as was much of my experience. To deny it would be foolish. But for everyone to think that the entirety of the computer related industry is American is ludicrous. There is boundless opportunity outside the US. While Europe (for the most part) is behind the US in 'net culture and last-mile, there are thousands of kilometers of fiber run by Level 3, Global Crossings, GTS, and many others. Power is a bit of an issue, to be sure. The French government's decision that it shall be illegal to have an employee work more than 35 hours per week, well... that's "un-American" and causes me to wonder how they manage to produce anything besides tourism...
...but there are endless opportunities outside the US. Opportunities like those that came and went already in the US. Opportunities to build... and they're not above hiring foreigners to do it. The US is not the only place to go.
Just my 2.
-Nev
Uh, yes it is. From MS's web site...
.NET Platform
.NET Enterprise Servers are Microsoft's comprehensive family of server applications for building, deploying and managing next generation integrated Web experiences that move beyond today's world of standalone Web sites. Designed with mission-critical performance in mind, .NET Enterprise Servers will provide fast time to market as well as scalability, reliability and manageability for the global, Web-enabled enterprise. They have been built from the ground up for interoperability using open Web standards such as XML. The .NET Enterprise Servers are a key part of Microsoft's broader .NET strategy, which will enable a distributed computing model for the Internet based on Internet protocols and standards in order to revolutionize the way computers talk to one another on our behalf.
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-Nev
If RIAA were content with charging $5/month flat rate for music access, a portion of which they'd get, wouldn't they open up their own shop and charge either more flat rate, or by the K downloaded?
They have no vested interest in letting Napster provide a portion of that which they could do themselves.
-Nev
Very interesting question - especially since they own a significant number of non-voting Apple shares, as well.
Microsoft must simply see a benefit in keeping alive the appearance of competition for anti-trust reasons. "Oh, we're the benevolent ones who try to help everyone out when they're down"
At under $9B market cap, I'd prefer to see Larry Ellison buy Apple with his pocket change and see what might happen.
I can see Larry now... "OK, you artsy-fartsy pansy asses... we're going to make this crap into a rip-roarin' e-business platform driving the Internet. iMac? Expensive NC. Let's rip out the storage, use a G4 Cube as your app server running Oracle 9i, and get you some productivity. Enough with the Picasso shit. No more of this Gandhi on ads. I want to have ads with you pot-smokers sitting on the mounds of cash you can make when we straighten you all out."
-Nev
.NET is about XML-capable apps. Is that too f'ing difficult for everyone to understand?
Talk about a bunch of raving anti-MS people.
Ok, so MS trying to co-opt XML... not good that they're acting like they invented it, but chill, folks... chill...
-Nev
We all know that the only good thing to come out of Redmond is fdisk /mbr. Don't go getting all wimp on us...
-Nev