A few readers have written in unhappy that they're about to become MSN customers, too.
Big fucking deal. Switch providers. I was unhappy when Time Warner (my cable provider) merged with AOL, but I didn't complain. I switched to Comcast (and got a nice cable modem deal in the process.
But there's such a push for Open Source software to "invade" predominantly MS corporations -- corporations that are "employers" and by your definition should be able to dictate what software they run.
Why should IT people fight hard to install rogue software on their systems?
I'd beg to differ. The Palm platform is surprisingly robust, and 3Com has focused on what has mattered: battery life and weight. All of these other features you are proposing exacberate that.
I think it needs some work yet:) But it was cool running 'ps' on a handheld.
Ah yes. And that's exactly why most businessmen will buy this PDA. Why go for simplicity and elegance in the Palm when you can run a process-check on something that shouldn't even have processes.
Also, interesting that Taco lets a piece of non-functional hardware slide when it's a review copy, but if it's a review copy of some MS or RedHat software that fouls up, it's all over the front page with "from the I-told-you-so dept."
If I submit the story as "Fervent" it gets ignored, but if I submit the same story as "Anonymous Coward", in the same 5 minute period, it gets accepted. Hmmm...
Surprise, surprise, free support is available for Microsoft products. It's called Usenet, user web sites, etc. Exactly the same as Linux and FreeBSD, just the source isn't open. Help is easy (and free) to find when you know where to look.
This may seem like an odd question (setting aside the "cool factor" of having a PS2 with Linux... which, right now, doesn't seem too amazingly cool without a keyboard) but why would Sony want to do this? They're losing money on the console sales, but $200 to turn a machine into a Linux workstation isn't nearly as profitable as selling a bunch of $40 games. (Besides, what Linux maven will pay $200 for a Linux distro).
Strangely enough, this isn't too far out of Sony's master plans. The GSCube, their 3rd-generation console, runs almost entirely on Linux according to this month's issue of Wired magazine. It's a large, ugly beast but very powerful -- many many processors.
But still, PS2 + Linux doesn't make a whole lot of business sense.
What's the current limit on most of these games? 16 in a 32-person match? (I think that's what it is in UT).
Spectating in UT seems to be handled pretty efficiently. You're just getting the display data. Nothing is really traveling back, so you can swoop your camera around, follow players, etc. (It's fun to put a camera on the lead player when you have a large projection screen at a LAN party).
I don't know if there would actually be the draw to have 1000's of people watch a Quake/UT game though. I mean, tournaments are fun, but are there even that many fans who'd want to watch?
Why don't they do this with UT? (By the way, what's the fascination with Quake on this site? Its small open source clause? UT has a free Linux version too, you know. And to me, the Game of the Year for 2000 should get more recognition than "number two". Then again, Diablo gets a lot of recognition here for some unknown reason too...)
But the fact remains that in most democracies, citizens have the right to communicate without police eavesdropping - hence the requirement (here) for a court-order to institute a wiretap.
But how often are you honestly going to get a police wiretap on some stolen MP3's? That's all I see on FreeNet right now.
That is a good question though. If it uses encryption and defeats traffic analysis (see below) what are these people possibly sending around? Child porn? Death threats to world leaders?
Anything else, like MP3's, really wouldn't need that level of protection.
As far as I can tell, these things aren't truly "free", especially because we all have to go over some backbone of the internet at sometime or another. My cable modem provider, for example, has pretty good access to the data I send around.
If FreeNet had a network outside the internet, it could be considered free.
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Big fucking deal. Switch providers. I was unhappy when Time Warner (my cable provider) merged with AOL, but I didn't complain. I switched to Comcast (and got a nice cable modem deal in the process.
I sold my two DSL modems on eBay and got a cable modem for free from Comcast Online. Never been happier.
Well, actually, maybe not. Active channels bombed too.
Why should IT people fight hard to install rogue software on their systems?
I'd beg to differ. The Palm platform is surprisingly robust, and 3Com has focused on what has mattered: battery life and weight. All of these other features you are proposing exacberate that.
But that's still a debatable argument. If open source necessarily precipitates total security. As far as I know, no one has (or even can) prove this.
"Processes" and "storing a few elements of the state of a running program" are two completely different things. Read up on OS design, kid.
How is this fair?
Ah yes. And that's exactly why most businessmen will buy this PDA. Why go for simplicity and elegance in the Palm when you can run a process-check on something that shouldn't even have processes.
Also, interesting that Taco lets a piece of non-functional hardware slide when it's a review copy, but if it's a review copy of some MS or RedHat software that fouls up, it's all over the front page with "from the I-told-you-so dept."
No, really. I submitted this article.
If I submit the story as "Fervent" it gets ignored, but if I submit the same story as "Anonymous Coward", in the same 5 minute period, it gets accepted. Hmmm...
Surprise, surprise, free support is available for Microsoft products. It's called Usenet, user web sites, etc. Exactly the same as Linux and FreeBSD, just the source isn't open. Help is easy (and free) to find when you know where to look.
Doing a search on "sweet sucking schoolgirl" came up with a result. :) Ah, my days of porn as a teenager came back beautifully. lol
Somebody rated both my comments "Overrated" simply because they didn't like UT. Give me a break.
Just because an engine can do curved surfaces doesn't mean the artists used them to the best of their ability.
Strangely enough, this isn't too far out of Sony's master plans. The GSCube, their 3rd-generation console, runs almost entirely on Linux according to this month's issue of Wired magazine. It's a large, ugly beast but very powerful -- many many processors.
But still, PS2 + Linux doesn't make a whole lot of business sense.
Spectating in UT seems to be handled pretty efficiently. You're just getting the display data. Nothing is really traveling back, so you can swoop your camera around, follow players, etc. (It's fun to put a camera on the lead player when you have a large projection screen at a LAN party).
I don't know if there would actually be the draw to have 1000's of people watch a Quake/UT game though. I mean, tournaments are fun, but are there even that many fans who'd want to watch?
Why don't they do this with UT? (By the way, what's the fascination with Quake on this site? Its small open source clause? UT has a free Linux version too, you know. And to me, the Game of the Year for 2000 should get more recognition than "number two". Then again, Diablo gets a lot of recognition here for some unknown reason too...)
Exactly what version of Windows NT are they running in that VMWare screenshot? Those icons look like very early 4.0.
But how often are you honestly going to get a police wiretap on some stolen MP3's? That's all I see on FreeNet right now.
Anything else, like MP3's, really wouldn't need that level of protection.
Except traffic analysis... encryption isn't an end-all.
If FreeNet had a network outside the internet, it could be considered free.
How does that run? Is the sound okay?
That's what I was wondering. With all this licensing, why aren't they more in the black? Too much surplus hardware units at Palm?