Heh, I suggest a perfectly working, but used 12" iBook[1].
Actually I'm starting to "not get" this thing, even if it is aimed at a totally different market. I mean they've got to know the size of the prototype is prohibitive to coolness. They shouldn't have even shown it. Where are people going to carry this thing around in this day and age when most electronics are the size of a deck of cards at a maximum? I'd almost be embarrased pulling out that prototype to show photos or video. Imagine being in an airport or something with that. I can pull out the Clie[1] anywhere no sweat, I couldn't say the same with this cinderblock.
And all that needs to happen to rip this thing a new one is a PalmOS device with one of those new super-micro HDs. They can already do everything advertised by this, all they need is storage. Hell WinCE devices can do this, and are smaller. Ahh! What's the deal with this thing? Now it's like some sort of unsolvable riddle that I don't want the solution to...
Yes, that's right, people make spelling mistakes and grammar errors online... ha ha, ha.. oh my sides... Let us point out the obvious mistakes so that others can revel in the humor of it all.
Oh, also, let me be the first to welcome you to the Internet!
The page talks about all of the things Apple has stolen from the open source community while still remaining closed source. If OS X is committed to the open source model then point me to the download for OS X source code, or the x86 port of OS X. Perhaps I missed the part in the OS X Eula where it gave me permission to download, install, modify and redistribute OS X free of charge.
Apple takes a lot from OSS without giving a lot in return.
As does anyone who runs Linux and doesn't contribute back. It's called a free ride. I'm guilty of it as much as anyone else, I actually haven't contributed anything directly back to Linux or FreeBSD but I use both operating systems daily. That being said, if you haven't contributed directly to Linux or FreeBSD (and maybe you have, I really can't say) you can't really cast any stones towards Apple, since they have contributed back.
If OS X was open source Microsoft would have been out of business a long time ago.
And if that were true Linux or some other free OS would already have all the marketshare, wouldn't it? I can't even begin to see the connection. MS has dominance because of historical overwhelming marketshare, and the resistance of the average consumer to change.
I'd think they'd just keep the extra horsepower around. I mean why throw the baby out with the bathwater? Rather than replacing existing capacity, add to the capacity they already have (yadda yadda).
It wouldn't surprise me at all though if their G5 implementation is deliberately set up to fully outshine everything they've currently got and then some. Hell they may even be able to surpass the Virginia Tech supercomputer that cost (a mere) $5.2 mil, since they're directly related to the supplier of the hardware.
Could Jobs be aiming for an implementation that could surpass the Virginia Tech computer, giving Apple two places on the Top 500?
I know if I was the CEO of two companies, one that needs obscene computing power, and the other that can deliver obscene computing power, I'd have.. well.. some obscene computing power.
A lot of technology stems from ideas and designs in science-fiction. Always has always will probably. Submarine, Fax machine, just about everything on my desk.
So, like, yeah. It is only a cartoon, but then some guy went out and built technology from that cartoon, so now it's sitting right there on a football feild. Neat.
Disclaimers: 1] I've never seen the cartoon in question, and I'm not going to rush out to grab a copy... for reasons that are my own, and Maddox's. 2] I like anime, just not every single damn thing penned. Flying schoolgirls? Creepy. I'll stick with the giant robots kthx.
If not, that should be stage two. Why buy one $99 minion to bully your colleagues with, when you can buy two that will work as a team (heh). And of course, who could resist the sick pleasure of making them fight each other for batteries.
There are days on this network where I wish the latest MS vulnerability was just a crash. 'member those great days? It may not even get reported because it would be such low key news.
Anyway, for this remote takedown to work, you also have to be running an IPV6 stack, right? At the moment that's a pretty small segment of techies.
Note: I am not an OpenBSD apologist... I am a Mac apologist.
And I second YOUR post. I'm working, right this moment, off of a Blueberry G3-300Mhz iBook. I've been using it non stop since I got it in early 2000. Almost every work day I have taken it with me to the (various) office(s), and every day I've left it running for at least 8 hours, no sleep time. Then I come home and use it. This thing is unstoppable. I'll list some of the horrible ways it's been defiled over the years;
A few months after I got it a co-worker spilled a full LITRE of water into the keyboard by accident. It was drenched. In my shock I just closed it, and we went to get coffee so I could figure out what to do. When I came back it was sizzling because it had simply gone into sleep mode (hey, I was in shock!) After calling Apple, they just said "uh, let it dry out first". I thought they were being smart ass but I did it anyway, and it made a full recovery.
I've dropped it about a dozen times, literally.
I had to replace the power supply once. It was getting frayed, and finally was throwing blue sparks at me before the end. I'm on course to replace it again actually.
About a year and a half ago I got sick of the tiny 3GB hard drive it came with and I went out and got a 30GB laptop drive. I took the whole thing apart like I was defusing a bomb. I killed the speaker, and there's one screw I'm sure I've lost. It trucks on.
And then there's this... Not so bad, just humiliating. (yes, this is VirtualPC trickery, I just think it's funny).
I was thinking this. Why don't they open some of the current code and some of the requirements they need to "the community".
Think of who space enthusiasts are and what a lot of them do; software and hardware development. In a budget crunch a good strategy would be to allow interested hobbyists to write some of the code, and then have NASA's boys peer review it.
The Onion used to run these Absolut ads are 100% attention getting. They were little squares with interactive content in them... not blaring sound files or boxes listing features of booze, but just simple stuff. And everybody's punched the monkey at least once.
There's a big difference between focusing attention to send a message and getting somebody to look somewhere and close a window. I don't think most advertisers online are smart enough to be able to know the difference.
I think NON-INTRUSIVE interactive content in ads is going to be the savior of online advertising in the future, and I think pop-ups have decimated what could have been (in my opinion anyway).
/. is a news relay with user comments. And anyway, how can this model not be fesable? You have a co-lo in the USA (dirt cheap), you have some boxes load balanced with something inexpensive, and you have bandwidth.
Human costs aside, running Slashdot probably costs a fraction of what even running your local corner store costs. I honestly don't know where and how these sites that only serve up HTML and a few images lose money.
Maybe I'm ignorant, and I don't think I am, but bandwidth charges aside none of these sites should be losing money if they have a steady flow of advertising deals. And the deals don't have to be big.
Let's say you've got a one man operation...
If you had 80 customers willing to pay you $80 a month just to be in the ad rotation (forget this CPM crap, it's more confounding to predict than 95th percentile) that's $6500 a month in revenue.
Pulling numbers out of my arse;
You've got a half-cab that'll cost you $600 USD, you've got bandwith that will cost you let's say $1200 USD for a 3Mbit contract (if you've got a good supplier? I don't know, I'm in Canada and we tend to pay a little more for bandwidth). And that's if you have low numbers. 80 ads isn't that many ads in rotation really, you're sort of dogging it if you have a high traffic site and only 80 people come forward to pay for monthly ads cheap.
So now you've got 4400USD left over. Some goes to taxes, and the rest can go into your pocket.
Am I saying a one man operation could run a Linux news site? Sure, why not? You contract out for articles, you admin it yourself etc..
Hell, maybe I'll try it, I just sold myself. Ok that went way longer than I thought it would, I'm going back to work.
This reeks of gouging, even if it is a major release there should be an upgrade discount. People who have recently purchased Apple hardware with OS X.1 installed are getting stiffed by the very company who sold them the hardware in the first place!
How can I justify to myself buying into this when I know 10.3 will come out maybe a year later with the same deal? I don't want to pay $200 a year just in OS updates.
Listen, I'm a fan of Apple and Macintosh, but I shudder to think how things would be if they were in a monopoly position rather than MS. If this is the way they're positioning when they're low on market share it'll be a whole other story if they ever become bigger than the biggest, IMHO.
Many things are free, but bandwidth and hosting are not in that list (even if you think they are, and if you do, it's time to wake up from fantasy land).
If you like this free version, I'd click on those links, even if they are "annoying", and "waste valuable seconds of your day you could be using to look up photoshop'ed naked jpegs of the cast of Enterprise".
The implosion of the dot-com economy has raised questions about the future of the GNU/Linux operating system and the open source movement that it typifies.
Feh. What questions? The source is still open and still out there. Sure some.com companies have contributed to the pool of open and usable source code out there but the majority of innovation still comes from the user community, many of which aren't making a dime directly off of what they write.
The thing if anything that's been keeping Joe User (who doesn't work in the computer industry) from using Linux is the lack of ease of getting at the entertainment. It doesn't have anything at all to do with the.com crash, in fact I'm starting to think very little ever came of the.com boom per capita.
If User X wants to play CounterStrike, he or she doesn't want to fiddle with Linux until he can get it working, he wants to double-click on the icon. If User X wants to see the latest porn in AVI, all they want to do is double click. It's really just that simple.
KDE's helping alternative OSes get close, but it's not quite there yet. Not to say it won't very soon.
There's almost nothing more reactionary than a computer journalist. They'll cry the end of time just because the batteries on thier digital watch dies. These are the people that brought us Y2K.
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Every once and a while people will, or should I say would have during the obvious period of madness. Now I'm not so sure. Search engines, especially good search engines like Google, have made it less profitable to just own the name and more profitable to have meaningful content or services.
In short, instead of having business.com, or linux.com, it's probably best to have content ON business, and ON Linux. People can and will bookmark sites.
The Satanic Bible, by Anton Szandor Lavey, on a very similar subject.
With the dark power of these two books combined, you'll be sitting on your booty, abusing customers, and generally overcharging everyone in earshot for "work completed" before the next big market crash!
PS, just kidding. You can make a lot of money as a good consultant.
Michael makes it sound like he was just waiting to send in his money. Mike, they've been around for two years plus. If you wanted to slap down the cash and support the Linux portion of this application, before now would have been a good time.
Obviously this leaves Linux users somewhat out in the cold when it comes to using Zero Knowledge, but I mean don't act like saying "if only they had kept Linux support, they would have had one more customer" is going to suddenly make them come around. Especially if if you have no intention to actually dole out cash.
They're dropping Linux support because it's an expensive endevour to keep multiple threads of a commercial proprietary software package going revision after revision, especially if nearly all thier customers (assumably) use Windows.
What this means is there's an opening for competition for people with open source operating systems (and OS-X etc). If there's money in it, I say why not.
For some twisted reason, when I was playing Quake(world) at my peak of Quake playing (during a stint of unemployment) I found I would actually play better than I did with less lag.
This led me to believe that there's a zone you can get into if you play log enough, like a blindfolded ninja, where you're kicking ass regardless of your handicap.
It's all about knowing where your opponent will be.
I've got cable now, so I'm sucking barrel a lot more than I used to. Maybe I should go back to dial-up...
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There are few OSes that are secure at the console, at least without tweaking.
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Heh, I suggest a perfectly working, but used 12" iBook[1].
Actually I'm starting to "not get" this thing, even if it is aimed at a totally different market. I mean they've got to know the size of the prototype is prohibitive to coolness. They shouldn't have even shown it. Where are people going to carry this thing around in this day and age when most electronics are the size of a deck of cards at a maximum? I'd almost be embarrased pulling out that prototype to show photos or video. Imagine being in an airport or something with that. I can pull out the Clie[1] anywhere no sweat, I couldn't say the same with this cinderblock.
And all that needs to happen to rip this thing a new one is a PalmOS device with one of those new super-micro HDs. They can already do everything advertised by this, all they need is storage. Hell WinCE devices can do this, and are smaller. Ahh! What's the deal with this thing? Now it's like some sort of unsolvable riddle that I don't want the solution to...
[1]: Yes, I'm both an Apple and Sony Clie fanboy.
Yes, that's right, people make spelling mistakes and grammar errors online... ha ha, ha.. oh my sides... Let us point out the obvious mistakes so that others can revel in the humor of it all.
Oh, also, let me be the first to welcome you to the Internet!
The page talks about all of the things Apple has stolen from the open source community while still remaining closed source. If OS X is committed to the open source model then point me to the download for OS X source code, or the x86 port of OS X. Perhaps I missed the part in the OS X Eula where it gave me permission to download, install, modify and redistribute OS X free of charge.
Looking for this?
Apple takes a lot from OSS without giving a lot in return.
As does anyone who runs Linux and doesn't contribute back. It's called a free ride. I'm guilty of it as much as anyone else, I actually haven't contributed anything directly back to Linux or FreeBSD but I use both operating systems daily. That being said, if you haven't contributed directly to Linux or FreeBSD (and maybe you have, I really can't say) you can't really cast any stones towards Apple, since they have contributed back.
If OS X was open source Microsoft would have been out of business a long time ago.
And if that were true Linux or some other free OS would already have all the marketshare, wouldn't it? I can't even begin to see the connection. MS has dominance because of historical overwhelming marketshare, and the resistance of the average consumer to change.
I'd think they'd just keep the extra horsepower around. I mean why throw the baby out with the bathwater? Rather than replacing existing capacity, add to the capacity they already have (yadda yadda).
It wouldn't surprise me at all though if their G5 implementation is deliberately set up to fully outshine everything they've currently got and then some. Hell they may even be able to surpass the Virginia Tech supercomputer that cost (a mere) $5.2 mil, since they're directly related to the supplier of the hardware.
Could Jobs be aiming for an implementation that could surpass the Virginia Tech computer, giving Apple two places on the Top 500?
I know if I was the CEO of two companies, one that needs obscene computing power, and the other that can deliver obscene computing power, I'd have.. well.. some obscene computing power.
Ah crap, you've perked my interest! Off I go to the vid store...
A lot of technology stems from ideas and designs in science-fiction. Always has always will probably. Submarine, Fax machine, just about everything on my desk.
So, like, yeah. It is only a cartoon, but then some guy went out and built technology from that cartoon, so now it's sitting right there on a football feild. Neat.
Disclaimers: 1] I've never seen the cartoon in question, and I'm not going to rush out to grab a copy... for reasons that are my own, and Maddox's. 2] I like anime, just not every single damn thing penned. Flying schoolgirls? Creepy. I'll stick with the giant robots kthx.
If not, that should be stage two. Why buy one $99 minion to bully your colleagues with, when you can buy two that will work as a team (heh). And of course, who could resist the sick pleasure of making them fight each other for batteries.
There are days on this network where I wish the latest MS vulnerability was just a crash. 'member those great days? It may not even get reported because it would be such low key news.
Anyway, for this remote takedown to work, you also have to be running an IPV6 stack, right? At the moment that's a pretty small segment of techies.
Note: I am not an OpenBSD apologist... I am a Mac apologist.
I was thinking this. Why don't they open some of the current code and some of the requirements they need to "the community".
Think of who space enthusiasts are and what a lot of them do; software and hardware development. In a budget crunch a good strategy would be to allow interested hobbyists to write some of the code, and then have NASA's boys peer review it.
There's a big difference between focusing attention to send a message and getting somebody to look somewhere and close a window. I don't think most advertisers online are smart enough to be able to know the difference.
I think NON-INTRUSIVE interactive content in ads is going to be the savior of online advertising in the future, and I think pop-ups have decimated what could have been (in my opinion anyway).
I believe the original poster stated that the Sun and Apple programmers that worked on it were volunteering time (not getting paid).
I don't know who works for who on the dayjob side but it wouldn't particularly surprise me if employees from Apple and Sun were contributing.
If you look at The about page It's clear there is participation from at least Sun employees.
I think it's cool. I like OpenOffice. If people are looking for an alternative to MS Office, that's one of your better bets.
256Kbps, and I didn't think everybody on the planet would try to get it at the same time ;)
Well, I can't relly call it my method, but here's a visual description.
Human costs aside, running Slashdot probably costs a fraction of what even running your local corner store costs. I honestly don't know where and how these sites that only serve up HTML and a few images lose money.
Maybe I'm ignorant, and I don't think I am, but bandwidth charges aside none of these sites should be losing money if they have a steady flow of advertising deals. And the deals don't have to be big.
Let's say you've got a one man operation...
If you had 80 customers willing to pay you $80 a month just to be in the ad rotation (forget this CPM crap, it's more confounding to predict than 95th percentile) that's $6500 a month in revenue.
Pulling numbers out of my arse;
You've got a half-cab that'll cost you $600 USD, you've got bandwith that will cost you let's say $1200 USD for a 3Mbit contract (if you've got a good supplier? I don't know, I'm in Canada and we tend to pay a little more for bandwidth). And that's if you have low numbers. 80 ads isn't that many ads in rotation really, you're sort of dogging it if you have a high traffic site and only 80 people come forward to pay for monthly ads cheap.
So now you've got 4400USD left over. Some goes to taxes, and the rest can go into your pocket.
Am I saying a one man operation could run a Linux news site? Sure, why not? You contract out for articles, you admin it yourself etc..
Hell, maybe I'll try it, I just sold myself. Ok that went way longer than I thought it would, I'm going back to work.
How can I justify to myself buying into this when I know 10.3 will come out maybe a year later with the same deal? I don't want to pay $200 a year just in OS updates.
Listen, I'm a fan of Apple and Macintosh, but I shudder to think how things would be if they were in a monopoly position rather than MS. If this is the way they're positioning when they're low on market share it'll be a whole other story if they ever become bigger than the biggest, IMHO.
If you like this free version, I'd click on those links, even if they are "annoying", and "waste valuable seconds of your day you could be using to look up photoshop'ed naked jpegs of the cast of Enterprise".
No irony, really.
Understand that. The world does not run on pixie dust, it runs on cash unfortunately.
Feh. What questions? The source is still open and still out there. Sure some
The thing if anything that's been keeping Joe User (who doesn't work in the computer industry) from using Linux is the lack of ease of getting at the entertainment. It doesn't have anything at all to do with the
If User X wants to play CounterStrike, he or she doesn't want to fiddle with Linux until he can get it working, he wants to double-click on the icon. If User X wants to see the latest porn in AVI, all they want to do is double click. It's really just that simple.
KDE's helping alternative OSes get close, but it's not quite there yet. Not to say it won't very soon.
There's almost nothing more reactionary than a computer journalist. They'll cry the end of time just because the batteries on thier digital watch dies. These are the people that brought us Y2K.
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Just for today.
In short, instead of having business.com, or linux.com, it's probably best to have content ON business, and ON Linux. People can and will bookmark sites.
With the dark power of these two books combined, you'll be sitting on your booty, abusing customers, and generally overcharging everyone in earshot for "work completed" before the next big market crash!
PS, just kidding. You can make a lot of money as a good consultant.
Michael makes it sound like he was just waiting to send in his money. Mike, they've been around for two years plus. If you wanted to slap down the cash and support the Linux portion of this application, before now would have been a good time.
Obviously this leaves Linux users somewhat out in the cold when it comes to using Zero Knowledge, but I mean don't act like saying "if only they had kept Linux support, they would have had one more customer" is going to suddenly make them come around. Especially if if you have no intention to actually dole out cash.
They're dropping Linux support because it's an expensive endevour to keep multiple threads of a commercial proprietary software package going revision after revision, especially if nearly all thier customers (assumably) use Windows.
What this means is there's an opening for competition for people with open source operating systems (and OS-X etc). If there's money in it, I say why not.
This led me to believe that there's a zone you can get into if you play log enough, like a blindfolded ninja, where you're kicking ass regardless of your handicap.
It's all about knowing where your opponent will be.
I've got cable now, so I'm sucking barrel a lot more than I used to. Maybe I should go back to dial-up...
There are few OSes that are secure at the console, at least without tweaking.