>"ZDNet is reporting a story in which Ximian will >
announce on Monday a project dubbed "Mono" that >
will produce an open-source product to >
challenge Microsoft's.NET initiative."
So, Ximian is about to announce they'll start to copy something that is still vapor ?
I think the real copy here lays in this "pre-announcing" technique which is usually Microsoft's way to discorage their challengers.
Except that Ximian will have to be much more credible if they hope to frighten Microsoft.
This is not a flame, just a reserve about such an overhyped rumour. --
My brother used to work in a Planetarium, in France, where they had a vector-based hemispheric display device.
While the engineer was still taking some classes to understand the way it basically worked, he just read the doc and started to code some games on it, like an asteroids-clone...
On a 20meter-diameter ceiling, this was excellent:-) --
Have you ever not *seen* but *played* with a Vectrex ?
I still enjoy playing Armor Attack in 2-player mode.
A friend of mine once said... "these were the times when ergonomy was still a concept"
I don't agree anymore:
Now, ergonomy has become a concept, at these time, it was a necessity:
How else would you have made a game running on a so pathetically-powerless console entertaining ?
Really, get yourself an emulator and just discover what gaming meant at these times so that you'll end this troll on the right side. --
Deactiving such tags is not the operator's work.
Imagine if everybody invented new tags like this everyday !!!
We'd have to spend our days correct numerous websites.
I think Microsoft should deactivate them by defaut and document the way to turn these smart tags on. --
Forgive this flamy title but I just couldn't help as I read to many things in this article that I consider offending to my Geek minority.
Mac OS X combines the best of Mac OS,
Unix, and entirely new ideas to present the
most
versatile, usable interface ever.
I don't like superlatives, especially in an article that lacks arguments to justify them.
It even borrows a few coveted Windows
features (such as menu windows that stay open
when you click them), but not many.
Has this guy ever used RiscOS?
Most of the features he describes, including this one, that are supposed to be new to GUIs were already in RiscOS (maybe even in Arthur, RiscOS ancestor).
But at least Acorn guys were honest and didn't claim they invented these, they admitted they studied them at the Xerox'PARC. Steve Jobs is also known for his numerous visits there, during the early days of the LISA
So please, dear journalists colleagues: Don't consider that the computing era started only when GUI appeared, or you might soon have bad surprises...:-( --
Actually, I don't have to update all the
thousands of pages contained by all my web
sites.
I then suggest (understand : "Vehemently sustain") that the webmasters who'd want to be smart-tagged should put a Meta Tag in their pages.
They have to be explicitely authorized, not the contrary or nothing will prevent them (or anybody else) in the future to play such a game (with such a reduced press-coverage) before whining it's the user-that-had-not-put-a-Meta-Tag's fault.
--
> really, nobody ever said you had to use whatever MS has to offer.
Yes : the bastard that forces all of my company's employees to use Outlook for our internal communication just forces us to have it running on a window-OS and alongside office, preferably the latest as the formers are incompatible with it.
Even if I want to do some work remotely from home I need some compatible environment, so you see, I am somehow forced.
We are some dozens of Unix admins here and I can guarantee you that if there were *one* Free alternative to Outlook, then we'll all reformat C: and install a Debian. --
The first think that come to my mind is the freedom of initiative, of speech, of discovery.
I want to have the choice.
I want each software editor to have concurrents because this is what stimulates innovation.
Instead of this, we'd have one productivity suite running on one OS with one browser and so on.
Then, we'd have one computer language, one way of developing, and one unique way of designing programs.
So : no.
I prefer the "Vi vs Emacs" war which at least offers one choice.
but maybe I'm answering a troll. --
I personally blame the CRT manufacturers for this extreme lag in display technology. They've really controlled the prices and their technology hasn't increased significantly.
Maybe is that also because no company has managed to offer a significant 3D holographic GUI, in which case nobody is ready to pay for a device that'd allow to improve its display.
Perhaps in a few years when a 3D engine such as Q3 or UT's will be used instead of a windowing system...
I'd therefore rather look for a proper 2D interface (I don't like these overlapping windows that steal your focus whenever a popup appears). --
Well, I can understand that the average lambda AOL^H^H^Hsurfer might prefer using Napster but what about peer-to-peer systems like GNUtella?
Did the poll institute have the required means to analyze the traffic they actually generate?
I believe we could have some surprise here. --
Yesterday, an apt-get just upgraded my Communicator to version 4.77.
Here's its list of changes:
"This release contains updated multimedia plug-ins, including
Beatnik, Flash Player, RealPlayer 8, and AOL Instant Messenger
4.0, as well as enhancements for stability."
So I guess this is a suitable alternative to Mozilla or Konqueror (what else ?). --
I suffer from a genetical chronical back ache.
It is really inconvenient when I want to sleep.
Some months ago I bought myself some weights (5 kgs each).
Every morning and evening I spend 5 minutes doing some exercises with them.
The pain disappeared on the second day but whenever I stop exercising for more than a week, it comes back.
Follow my advice : you have to be active against this problem which is serious. --
So at least we are going to have a DVD version of Akira ?
I heard it here as a rumour then as news but I wouldn't believe it (Well, I would but erm...).
No my question is the following:
We all bought it in VHS, we all bought the comic.
So, will it still be Region1 or will the guys releasing it understand that it may not risk to appear in a Theater in Europe and thus they can release it Region-Free?
Basically I have two choices in the former case:
Buy it in the US or Wait for a friend to DivX-ize it for me.
I just hope the relevant guy will catch this: I may get it illegally if you region-lock it.
Now, about the game, well... erm great!;-) --
I don't feel this problem but I may describe you the way I work:
I not only look for some data related to my problem but also to some possible answer elements.
E.g.: to update an Apache module is quite puzzling if you don't actually know the Apache API (I couldn't easilly find relevant info on these), first look at the source code. That's the way I found the ap_table_get or ap_table_set functions.
Once I inserted one of these names in my study, I could easily find some answers, even ones that's say "no, take a look to apache_blabla_bla instead".
Once you have found the missing keyword, you almost have solved your problem by finding relevant info.
>I ofter wonder how anyone can find any
> specifically useful information in the
> newsgroups.
> There is SO much info there that finding
> something specific is literally looking for
> a needle in a haystack, or 16k in a terabyte
> of data.
From my own experience:
Yesterday I needed to modify Stronghold (aka RedHat Apache) source code (thanks, Open source:-).
I don't know if you ever studied it but I have to admit it has been really painful to understand its internal logics until I found out about one function which name i submitted to Google Groups.
3 minutes later I knew all that I needed to sort out my Proxy problem.
Thanks Google Groups, also thanks to the newsgroups community.
I strongly believe that a newsgroups search engine is mandatory to find the answer to your problem as soon as you realize that there are few chances that somebody has not had the same problem as you before and that he has not managed to solve it online. So, if you have a problem, just ask Google groups and you'll be astonished by how quickly you'll refer tothe solution of a similar problem, be it technical/troubleshooting related or a buying decision. --
I saw some old postings that I commited 6 years ago.
I believe that now they're available to anybody, spammers will collect my obsolete email addresses and flood the corresponding ISP.
It is not that I care that much but maybe they should proceed with an user email protection so that automated collection of email addresses becomes tricky enough for most spammers. --
Sorry, but I see Virtual Reality looking rather like this.
Quotes:
Petabit communication pipes and perhaps thousands of high-definition cameras will enable someone to manipulate a "soft camera" that will elicit a view from thousands of angles throughout a stadium dome or from down on the field. "This will let you watch the Super Bowl from the vantage point of the quarterback"...
Forget helmets and data gloves. Nanobots, robots the size of a molecule, will travel through the bloodstream of your brain beaming messages to neurons that will enable the simulation of sight, sound, smell and hearing as well as emotion and sexual sensations. You'll also be able to travel to St. Barth's, attend every game of the World Series or engage Al Gore in a debate.
Virtual immortality will come if the petabyte storage capability provides a "rapid simulated learning environment" that infuses your biological clone with the totality of your experiences. Maybe mind is portable after all.
> Photographs don't have source code.
It all depends on your definition of source code.
I know I should translate the docs in GNUArt so that you may understand my point of view.
We'll discuss it further once this will be done if you wish.
--
FYI, the GNUArt Project which consists of GPL'ing Art has become reality on http://gnuart.org (charter) and http://gnuart.net (gallery) on January 1st, 2001.
The advantage of GNUArt is obvious as, instead of having yet another license, we just exploit a valid existing one.
It is still being translated to english at the moment but you have the fish until then.
The charter was co-written with Richard Stallman. --
> The lesson that "No, you don't have to give
> up all your rights to your work in exchange
> for publication anymore" is one that
> musicians could stand to learn as well.
FYI, the GNUArt Project which consists of GPL'ing Art has become reality on http://gnuart.org (charter) and http://gnuart.net (gallery) on January 1st, 2001.
It is still being translated to english at the moment but you have the fish until then.
The charter was co-written with Richard Stallman. --
I do agree with jyak.
Don't they teach them the following song: "if you trust a child,...".
So, stop blaming corporations each time it is proven that education failed.
Schools are not the parents' backup.
If a child is well educated at home in both Love and confidece, then he will grow as expected.
If his models are either violent or absent, then they won't have the required mature point of view to let them discernate what is good or bad. --
This comment is insightful though it deals with kinda extreme situations... Anyway, I'd like ot know how long the PDA accumulator could last as, for example, if I backlight my Palm III, this means:
I can't actually get the photons I'd need to powerup my device
It really becomes power-hungry
So, are these perpetually loaded PDA only for normal guys working in temperate zone during the day or using a lamp ? Hmmm... --
I didn't say this : Crusoe are powerful, they are actually delivering as many BogoMips under Linux as a PII speedstep.
I tried both so I can tell.
My concern is just about what Timothy called a low-consumption processor:
After reading the specs of the VaioC1VE and its predecessor's specs, I can't tell there is more than a 20% consumption improvement. --
> will low-power chips like the Crusoe extend those hours,
I understand how keen on Linusseries you are but please, just consider the VAIO's autonomy (with or without a Transmeta chip) and please, acknowledge that the only (full-featured) laptop that actually has autonomy are [i|Power]Books. --
Some free ISP such as Free.fr actually use their prestation as a demonstration of their abilities; They can then show:
How wide their bandwidth is
How many users they can handle
How many simultaneous mySQL/PHP apps they can run
So, if you don't think about a free service as a finality, you've got a chance to make money out of it (and in this case, with no banners, ads, etc.). --
Slashdot Mirror
>"ZDNet is reporting a story in which Ximian will .NET initiative."
> announce on Monday a project dubbed "Mono" that
> will produce an open-source product to
> challenge Microsoft's
So, Ximian is about to announce they'll start to copy something that is still vapor ?
I think the real copy here lays in this "pre-announcing" technique which is usually Microsoft's way to discorage their challengers.
Except that Ximian will have to be much more credible if they hope to frighten Microsoft.
This is not a flame, just a reserve about such an overhyped rumour.
--
My brother used to work in a Planetarium, in France, where they had a vector-based hemispheric display device. :-)
While the engineer was still taking some classes to understand the way it basically worked, he just read the doc and started to code some games on it, like an asteroids-clone...
On a 20meter-diameter ceiling, this was excellent
--
Have you ever not *seen* but *played* with a Vectrex ? : :
I still enjoy playing Armor Attack in 2-player mode.
A friend of mine once said... "these were the times when ergonomy was still a concept"
I don't agree anymore
Now, ergonomy has become a concept, at these time, it was a necessity
How else would you have made a game running on a so pathetically-powerless console entertaining ?
Really, get yourself an emulator and just discover what gaming meant at these times so that you'll end this troll on the right side.
--
Deactiving such tags is not the operator's work.
Imagine if everybody invented new tags like this everyday !!!
We'd have to spend our days correct numerous websites.
I think Microsoft should deactivate them by defaut and document the way to turn these smart tags on.
--
Forgive this flamy title but I just couldn't help as I read to many things in this article that I consider offending to my Geek minority.
:-(
Mac OS X combines the best of Mac OS,
Unix, and entirely new ideas to present the
most versatile, usable interface ever.
I don't like superlatives, especially in an article that lacks arguments to justify them.
It even borrows a few coveted Windows
features (such as menu windows that stay open
when you click them), but not many.
Has this guy ever used RiscOS?
Most of the features he describes, including this one, that are supposed to be new to GUIs were already in RiscOS (maybe even in Arthur, RiscOS ancestor).
But at least Acorn guys were honest and didn't claim they invented these, they admitted they studied them at the Xerox'PARC. Steve Jobs is also known for his numerous visits there, during the early days of the LISA
So please, dear journalists colleagues: Don't consider that the computing era started only when GUI appeared, or you might soon have bad surprises...
--
Actually, I don't have to update all the thousands of pages contained by all my web sites.
I then suggest (understand : "Vehemently sustain") that the webmasters who'd want to be smart-tagged should put a Meta Tag in their pages.
They have to be explicitely authorized, not the contrary or nothing will prevent them (or anybody else) in the future to play such a game (with such a reduced press-coverage) before whining it's the user-that-had-not-put-a-Meta-Tag's fault.
--
> really, nobody ever said you had to use whatever MS has to offer.
Yes : the bastard that forces all of my company's employees to use Outlook for our internal communication just forces us to have it running on a window-OS and alongside office, preferably the latest as the formers are incompatible with it.
Even if I want to do some work remotely from home I need some compatible environment, so you see, I am somehow forced.
We are some dozens of Unix admins here and I can guarantee you that if there were *one* Free alternative to Outlook, then we'll all reformat C: and install a Debian.
--
The first think that come to my mind is the freedom of initiative, of speech, of discovery.
I want to have the choice.
I want each software editor to have concurrents because this is what stimulates innovation.
Instead of this, we'd have one productivity suite running on one OS with one browser and so on.
Then, we'd have one computer language, one way of developing, and one unique way of designing programs.
So : no.
I prefer the "Vi vs Emacs" war which at least offers one choice.
but maybe I'm answering a troll.
--
I personally blame the CRT manufacturers for this extreme lag in display technology. They've really controlled the prices and their technology hasn't increased significantly.
Maybe is that also because no company has managed to offer a significant 3D holographic GUI, in which case nobody is ready to pay for a device that'd allow to improve its display.
Perhaps in a few years when a 3D engine such as Q3 or UT's will be used instead of a windowing system...
I'd therefore rather look for a proper 2D interface (I don't like these overlapping windows that steal your focus whenever a popup appears).
--
Well, I can understand that the average lambda AOL^H^H^Hsurfer might prefer using Napster but what about peer-to-peer systems like GNUtella?
Did the poll institute have the required means to analyze the traffic they actually generate?
I believe we could have some surprise here.
--
Yesterday, an apt-get just upgraded my Communicator to version 4.77.
:
Here's its list of changes
"This release contains updated multimedia plug-ins, including
Beatnik, Flash Player, RealPlayer 8, and AOL Instant Messenger
4.0, as well as enhancements for stability."
So I guess this is a suitable alternative to Mozilla or Konqueror (what else ?).
--
I suffer from a genetical chronical back ache.
It is really inconvenient when I want to sleep.
Some months ago I bought myself some weights (5 kgs each).
Every morning and evening I spend 5 minutes doing some exercises with them.
The pain disappeared on the second day but whenever I stop exercising for more than a week, it comes back.
Follow my advice : you have to be active against this problem which is serious.
--
So at least we are going to have a DVD version of Akira ? ;-)
I heard it here as a rumour then as news but I wouldn't believe it (Well, I would but erm...).
No my question is the following:
We all bought it in VHS, we all bought the comic.
So, will it still be Region1 or will the guys releasing it understand that it may not risk to appear in a Theater in Europe and thus they can release it Region-Free?
Basically I have two choices in the former case: Buy it in the US or Wait for a friend to DivX-ize it for me.
I just hope the relevant guy will catch this: I may get it illegally if you region-lock it.
Now, about the game, well... erm great!
--
I don't feel this problem but I may describe you the way I work:
I not only look for some data related to my problem but also to some possible answer elements.
E.g.: to update an Apache module is quite puzzling if you don't actually know the Apache API (I couldn't easilly find relevant info on these), first look at the source code. That's the way I found the ap_table_get or ap_table_set functions. Once I inserted one of these names in my study, I could easily find some answers, even ones that's say "no, take a look to apache_blabla_bla instead".
Once you have found the missing keyword, you almost have solved your problem by finding relevant info.
--
>I ofter wonder how anyone can find any : :-).
> specifically useful information in the
> newsgroups.
> There is SO much info there that finding
> something specific is literally looking for
> a needle in a haystack, or 16k in a terabyte
> of data.
From my own experience
Yesterday I needed to modify Stronghold (aka RedHat Apache) source code (thanks, Open source
I don't know if you ever studied it but I have to admit it has been really painful to understand its internal logics until I found out about one function which name i submitted to Google Groups.
3 minutes later I knew all that I needed to sort out my Proxy problem.
Thanks Google Groups, also thanks to the newsgroups community.
I strongly believe that a newsgroups search engine is mandatory to find the answer to your problem as soon as you realize that there are few chances that somebody has not had the same problem as you before and that he has not managed to solve it online.
So, if you have a problem, just ask Google groups and you'll be astonished by how quickly you'll refer tothe solution of a similar problem, be it technical/troubleshooting related or a buying decision.
--
I saw some old postings that I commited 6 years ago.
I believe that now they're available to anybody, spammers will collect my obsolete email addresses and flood the corresponding ISP.
It is not that I care that much but maybe they should proceed with an user email protection so that automated collection of email addresses becomes tricky enough for most spammers.
--
Quotes:
- Petabit communication pipes and perhaps thousands of high-definition cameras will enable someone to manipulate a "soft camera" that will elicit a view from thousands of angles throughout a stadium dome or from down on the field.
- Forget helmets and data gloves. Nanobots, robots the size of a molecule, will travel through the bloodstream of your brain beaming messages to neurons that will enable the simulation of sight, sound, smell and hearing as well as emotion and sexual sensations. You'll also be able to travel to St. Barth's, attend every game of the World Series or engage Al Gore in a debate.
- Virtual immortality will come if the petabyte storage capability provides a "rapid simulated learning environment" that infuses your biological clone with the totality of your experiences. Maybe mind is portable after all.
Ouch, frightening."This will let you watch the Super Bowl from the vantage point of the quarterback"...
--
> Photographs don't have source code.
It all depends on your definition of source code.
I know I should translate the docs in GNUArt so that you may understand my point of view.
We'll discuss it further once this will be done if you wish.
--
FYI, the GNUArt Project which consists of GPL'ing Art has become reality on http://gnuart.org (charter) and http://gnuart.net (gallery) on January 1st, 2001.
The advantage of GNUArt is obvious as, instead of having yet another license, we just exploit a valid existing one.
It is still being translated to english at the moment but you have the fish until then.
The charter was co-written with Richard Stallman.
--
> The lesson that "No, you don't have to give
> up all your rights to your work in exchange
> for publication anymore" is one that
> musicians could stand to learn as well.
FYI, the GNUArt Project which consists of GPL'ing Art has become reality on http://gnuart.org (charter) and http://gnuart.net (gallery) on January 1st, 2001.
It is still being translated to english at the moment but you have the fish until then.
The charter was co-written with Richard Stallman.
--
I do agree with jyak.
Don't they teach them the following song: "if you trust a child,...".
So, stop blaming corporations each time it is proven that education failed.
Schools are not the parents' backup.
If a child is well educated at home in both Love and confidece, then he will grow as expected.
If his models are either violent or absent, then they won't have the required mature point of view to let them discernate what is good or bad.
--
Anyway, I'd like ot know how long the PDA accumulator could last as, for example, if I backlight my Palm III, this means:
- I can't actually get the photons I'd need to powerup my device
- It really becomes power-hungry
So, are these perpetually loaded PDA only for normal guys working in temperate zone during the day or using a lamp ?Hmmm...
--
I didn't say this : Crusoe are powerful, they are actually delivering as many BogoMips under Linux as a PII speedstep. :
I tried both so I can tell.
My concern is just about what Timothy called a low-consumption processor
After reading the specs of the VaioC1VE and its predecessor's specs, I can't tell there is more than a 20% consumption improvement.
--
> will low-power chips like the Crusoe extend those hours,
I understand how keen on Linusseries you are but please, just consider the VAIO's autonomy (with or without a Transmeta chip) and please, acknowledge that the only (full-featured) laptop that actually has autonomy are [i|Power]Books.
--
- How wide their bandwidth is
- How many users they can handle
- How many simultaneous mySQL/PHP apps they can run
So, if you don't think about a free service as a finality, you've got a chance to make money out of it (and in this case, with no banners, ads, etc.).--