has played their Dreamcast online with "Alien Front Online", "Outtrigger", "NFL2k1", etc...will notice that when using one of these "New Fangled" machines it will be like taking a big step in the reverse direction. Is it not sad that when the bar gets set to a certain level -- todays competition does not match up to yesterdays inovation. Just wait until all these people buy Halo and are able to "own" the AI of the machine -- and are left with nowhere else to turn for competition.
People are dumping electricity for candles. Running water for wells. Plumbing for outhouses.
If anyone who has broadband and has a use for their computer being online then why be so retro.
But man -- if this is such a big trend then maybe those "Free ISP's" with the big business plans can give it another go no?
For all things text related I use the VI(de). Others may be more robust, have better features, cost more money -- but damnit I spent 23 1/2 years learning VI , and 1 day without using it may well indeed set me back 10 years in the study of VI. And those $10 a minute calls to the VI helpline can get a bit costly.
than the actual story, is the related stories below it.
* Transmeta CEO to step down March 1, 2001
* Transmeta plans to raise more than $140 million in IPO October 2, 2000
* Transmeta shoots for 700 MHz with new chip January 20, 2000
* Intel clones face tough market September 2, 1998
* Transmeta dumps latest CEO October 16, 2001
* Next Crusoe chip bogged down in testing October 9, 2001
* Transmeta goes after non-PC chip market October 2, 2001
Trying to compare Comdex Atlanta 92 to the "real" comdex in Vegas that year is best explained by a comparison to actually attending a party -- or cleaning up after a party the next morning... (With the ATL being the next morning). I went to both that year and I can say that it was the biggest waste of time in my whole tenure of being a Comdex junky....(although many more ATL and Chicago shows can claim a close second....)
But most Solaris boxes I deal with are rackmounts through a Telnet session. Maybe I have just slept through the "Solaris as a desktop" revolution. Please someone fill me in on what I missed.
If you have been watching PowerPuff Girls videos on your server...please go to the front of the line. That goes beyong geekdom....into a whole new realm.
Agreed (kinda)...This will keep Slackware updated with the new "bells & whistles" upgrades. But how about the boring security patches and bugfixes. I think that is one thing that has a few long time Slackers shaking in their boots. (The fact that no security patches have been updated since August is something to be worried about maybe....)
Yes it is scary. I had a digital camera for work about five years ago before CD Burning was cheap..Hence everything got backed up on floppy's...5 times out of 10 those floppy's seem to have gone bad. 5 years from now -- People putting in CDR's that were burned 5 years previous may encounter the same problem.
If Chevrolet decided to stop making cars would they still be in business? If McDonalds decided "No More Hamburgers" would they still be in business?
/. is going to be left paying the tab for a company that never really had a business plan other than: "We are a hardware company that in the course of 6 months will stop selling hardware..."
"given the choice between the latest two movies, and a 'Notting Hill/Wedding Planner' double feature (or insert your favorite inane chick-flick titles here), you can bet I'm ready to overlook the shortcomings of the SW movies;)"
Amen brother. Even a bad si-fi like TPM is better than that stuff.
If hackability were enough to drive the market -- then we would all still be in awe over the Dreamcast. But it looks like as far as game machines are concerned -- there are legions of 12 year olds out there that just do not car if their Nintendo will never act as their firewall/mp3 server.
Open source is the perfect advertising tool (It got Linus a job)....and people are always looking to make money --- I would think that any one of the core developers for any project would be willing to provide bids against a RFP...hell it would be a great way to make cash against something that you were doing for free. (* Kind of like a high tech portfolio ). Would not the README, and other txt files in a package have enough contact info to send a company in the right direction?...and if not, then it would not be a very good portfolio.
(early google beta days) I felt kinda like a pioneer that had stumbled on a secret pile of gold with Google....Now everyone in the office and the home front swears by google and uses nothing else. This is a perfect example of totally burying the competition in the dirt and then rolling over them....Cheers to Google...If a few more small things would have been in place -- you would have seen Linux doing the same to Windows.....(Imagine if todays Mozilla would have been around when IE4 was new....)
Strike early, strike hard...win!
Here...Here. Well said, mod this guy up. The following line (he typed) is a classic: "(web support... how to I access support if I can't access the net because my redhat install bombed?)"
I would love an "Ask Slashdot" on what distribution off the shelf provides the most value and highest level of support.
Yes you can tell it's fake by the picture....But the biggest givaway is the statement that says it will be available by Christmas. When was the last time something from a major tech company went from prototype leakage to the street in 3 months time. Get real people.
Lame...If you can't catch someones attention with 1 frame of 300x60 (or whatever) then what makes you think that flashing more drivel in multiple frames is going to get someones attention. I have been saying for a long time that ads are a needed evil, and I can live with them...but I second the guy at the top of the thread that says animated gifs have to go. (For a page like/. -- I think it would make it's audience more akin to click tasteful ads..ala google...-- the old "you catch more flys with honey...." phrase would work here...)
Here, Here. Mod this guy up. I don't mind ads that are text based and have some taste. Everyone needs to eat...but these damn flashing animated pieces of garbage need to go. Is there some way to turn off multi frame graphics? Google has the right idea...Slashdot seems to be eating hypocritical crow -- why must they "do the norm and start throwing out bandwidth hogging spew"....If you are going to be on fuc*edcompany.com -- do it with some pizazz...Go out with your OWN failed business model....Copying someone elses mistakes is so yesterday.
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As much as I hated reading through that rant, I find it hard to punch holes in it. Whatever happened to "information was meant to be free...", hell I would gladly live without Katz if it meant not having to stare at flashing banner ads....Have some dignity and take a hint from google....(people can appreciate text based/hyperlinked ads...) Hell if I could only count how many times a/. story has lead me to purchase something....If it's money that makes the world go round then so be it, I have spent my fair share on real life products that I heard about, read about on the internet -- hell my family has done 100% of our Christmas shopping online for three years.....And I can gladly say that no stupid add has suckered me in --- if I am shopping I know where to go or at least google can lead me in the right direction....if I want news well that is getting a little harder to find..
But if a site gets 250,000+ hits a day and can't find a way to partner with someone who has a product (or line of products) that people want to buy.....then whose falt is it??? This place would move high tech hardware toys (cutting edge MP3/home audio/tivo type stuff) at a more succesful rate than chocolate commercials on a richard simmons cruise.....I am talking stuff that even the Japanese would be in awe over....They always get the new shit....
Saying that desktop installs (of Linux) will not grow in the future is a very big mistake. 1 Reason I will give is like this: More than 1/2 of "desktop" users are finding that most of their work is happening via a browser and email client. Up until recentlly it is a well known fact that linux lagged WAY behind in the Browser market....but anyone using Galeon, Konq, or even the commercial Opera....can see that the gap is closing FAST....It took a few years to get here...but in those few years the browser has taken over the desktop....now the main (not only) thing Linux needs to compete is a simple browser...and the time of a level playing field in rendering HTML pages is drawing near.
Yes it is absurd...Hence, one of the main reasons I do not use Windows or Microsoft products.....However, no matter how absurd -- it is still the law and the rules. You can't justify walking into a car dealership and stealing a couple cars just because you actually purchased a car there before - but you have a 3 car garage that was feeling kind of empty.
And on the realistic side -- what would this cost in licensing fees to Bill?? Sure it may be a tad snappier than VNC, but does not price figure in there somewhere. I try not to bash Microsoft to much....But I hate it when I see people try to compare things based on the licensing and upgrade fees not factoring in.
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has played their Dreamcast online with "Alien Front Online", "Outtrigger", "NFL2k1", etc...will notice that when using one of these "New Fangled" machines it will be like taking a big step in the reverse direction. Is it not sad that when the bar gets set to a certain level -- todays competition does not match up to yesterdays inovation. Just wait until all these people buy Halo and are able to "own" the AI of the machine -- and are left with nowhere else to turn for competition.
People are dumping electricity for candles. Running water for wells. Plumbing for outhouses.
If anyone who has broadband and has a use for their computer being online then why be so retro. But man -- if this is such a big trend then maybe those "Free ISP's" with the big business plans can give it another go no?
For all things text related I use the VI(de). Others may be more robust, have better features, cost more money -- but damnit I spent 23 1/2 years learning VI , and 1 day without using it may well indeed set me back 10 years in the study of VI. And those $10 a minute calls to the VI helpline can get a bit costly.
than the actual story, is the related stories below it.
* Transmeta CEO to step down March 1, 2001
* Transmeta plans to raise more than $140 million in IPO October 2, 2000
* Transmeta shoots for 700 MHz with new chip January 20, 2000
* Intel clones face tough market September 2, 1998
* Transmeta dumps latest CEO October 16, 2001
* Next Crusoe chip bogged down in testing October 9, 2001
* Transmeta goes after non-PC chip market October 2, 2001
Not exactlly a portfolio of success stories.
Trying to compare Comdex Atlanta 92 to the "real" comdex in Vegas that year is best explained by a comparison to actually attending a party -- or cleaning up after a party the next morning... (With the ATL being the next morning). I went to both that year and I can say that it was the biggest waste of time in my whole tenure of being a Comdex junky....(although many more ATL and Chicago shows can claim a close second....)
to help you heat your house for the winter...Those AMD guys are ok with me.
But most Solaris boxes I deal with are rackmounts through a Telnet session. Maybe I have just slept through the "Solaris as a desktop" revolution. Please someone fill me in on what I missed.
If you have been watching PowerPuff Girls videos on your server...please go to the front of the line. That goes beyong geekdom....into a whole new realm.
Agreed (kinda)...This will keep Slackware updated with the new "bells & whistles" upgrades. But how about the boring security patches and bugfixes. I think that is one thing that has a few long time Slackers shaking in their boots. (The fact that no security patches have been updated since August is something to be worried about maybe....)
Yes it is scary. I had a digital camera for work about five years ago before CD Burning was cheap..Hence everything got backed up on floppy's...5 times out of 10 those floppy's seem to have gone bad. 5 years from now -- People putting in CDR's that were burned 5 years previous may encounter the same problem.
If Chevrolet decided to stop making cars would they still be in business? If McDonalds decided "No More Hamburgers" would they still be in business?
/. is going to be left paying the tab for a company that never really had a business plan other than: "We are a hardware company that in the course of 6 months will stop selling hardware..."
"given the choice between the latest two movies, and a 'Notting Hill/Wedding Planner' double feature (or insert your favorite inane chick-flick titles here), you can bet I'm ready to overlook the shortcomings of the SW movies ;)"
Amen brother. Even a bad si-fi like TPM is better than that stuff.
If hackability were enough to drive the market -- then we would all still be in awe over the Dreamcast. But it looks like as far as game machines are concerned -- there are legions of 12 year olds out there that just do not car if their Nintendo will never act as their firewall/mp3 server.
Open source is the perfect advertising tool (It got Linus a job)....and people are always looking to make money --- I would think that any one of the core developers for any project would be willing to provide bids against a RFP...hell it would be a great way to make cash against something that you were doing for free. (* Kind of like a high tech portfolio ). Would not the README, and other txt files in a package have enough contact info to send a company in the right direction?...and if not, then it would not be a very good portfolio.
(early google beta days) I felt kinda like a pioneer that had stumbled on a secret pile of gold with Google....Now everyone in the office and the home front swears by google and uses nothing else. This is a perfect example of totally burying the competition in the dirt and then rolling over them....Cheers to Google...If a few more small things would have been in place -- you would have seen Linux doing the same to Windows.....(Imagine if todays Mozilla would have been around when IE4 was new....)
Strike early, strike hard...win!
Here...Here. Well said, mod this guy up. The following line (he typed) is a classic: "(web support... how to I access support if I can't access the net because my redhat install bombed?)"
I would love an "Ask Slashdot" on what distribution off the shelf provides the most value and highest level of support.
Yes you can tell it's fake by the picture....But the biggest givaway is the statement that says it will be available by Christmas. When was the last time something from a major tech company went from prototype leakage to the street in 3 months time. Get real people.
Lame...If you can't catch someones attention with 1 frame of 300x60 (or whatever) then what makes you think that flashing more drivel in multiple frames is going to get someones attention. I have been saying for a long time that ads are a needed evil, and I can live with them...but I second the guy at the top of the thread that says animated gifs have to go. (For a page like /. -- I think it would make it's audience more akin to click tasteful ads..ala google...-- the old "you catch more flys with honey...." phrase would work here...)
But do you have to sign over your soul in blood to Sony??? They scare me.
** Disclamer: I am a disgruntled Dreamcast owner.
Here, Here. Mod this guy up. I don't mind ads that are text based and have some taste. Everyone needs to eat...but these damn flashing animated pieces of garbage need to go. Is there some way to turn off multi frame graphics? Google has the right idea...Slashdot seems to be eating hypocritical crow -- why must they "do the norm and start throwing out bandwidth hogging spew"....If you are going to be on fuc*edcompany.com -- do it with some pizazz...Go out with your OWN failed business model....Copying someone elses mistakes is so yesterday.
As much as I hated reading through that rant, I find it hard to punch holes in it. Whatever happened to "information was meant to be free...", hell I would gladly live without Katz if it meant not having to stare at flashing banner ads....Have some dignity and take a hint from google....(people can appreciate text based/hyperlinked ads...) Hell if I could only count how many times a /. story has lead me to purchase something....If it's money that makes the world go round then so be it, I have spent my fair share on real life products that I heard about, read about on the internet -- hell my family has done 100% of our Christmas shopping online for three years.....And I can gladly say that no stupid add has suckered me in --- if I am shopping I know where to go or at least google can lead me in the right direction....if I want news well that is getting a little harder to find..
But if a site gets 250,000+ hits a day and can't find a way to partner with someone who has a product (or line of products) that people want to buy.....then whose falt is it??? This place would move high tech hardware toys (cutting edge MP3/home audio/tivo type stuff) at a more succesful rate than chocolate commercials on a richard simmons cruise.....I am talking stuff that even the Japanese would be in awe over....They always get the new shit....
Saying that desktop installs (of Linux) will not grow in the future is a very big mistake. 1 Reason I will give is like this: More than 1/2 of "desktop" users are finding that most of their work is happening via a browser and email client. Up until recentlly it is a well known fact that linux lagged WAY behind in the Browser market....but anyone using Galeon, Konq, or even the commercial Opera....can see that the gap is closing FAST....It took a few years to get here...but in those few years the browser has taken over the desktop....now the main (not only) thing Linux needs to compete is a simple browser...and the time of a level playing field in rendering HTML pages is drawing near.
Yes it is absurd...Hence, one of the main reasons I do not use Windows or Microsoft products.....However, no matter how absurd -- it is still the law and the rules. You can't justify walking into a car dealership and stealing a couple cars just because you actually purchased a car there before - but you have a 3 car garage that was feeling kind of empty.
And on the realistic side -- what would this cost in licensing fees to Bill?? Sure it may be a tad snappier than VNC, but does not price figure in there somewhere. I try not to bash Microsoft to much....But I hate it when I see people try to compare things based on the licensing and upgrade fees not factoring in.