How can the port it to "Red Hat Linux"? Last I was aware, "Red Hat Linux" wasn't an operating system, just a distro. It's kind of funny to see that - until you realize that it will be distributed as RPM's that break on anything else but Red Hat and (likely) Mandrake (and possibly TurboLinux) - no SuSE for you!
Personally, I think that it's stupid to port this stuff to Linux as long as it sags in the areas multimedia and real-time. This port would be better served for BeOS, where the latency for multimedia operations is much lower (and much more predictible). This isn't a flamebait against Linux, just a statement of the facts. Obviously they're looking for hype first before technological feasability.
Hasn't anyone else figured out really why Microsoft keeps extending IE? It's because they need more features in it for it to do what they're trying to do with it - make it the be-all and end-all application deployment and integration widget. Notice how IE is integrated into Office and Visual Studio, not just Windows - Microsoft made a bad decision by choosing to integrate IE (they know it wasn't right for the task, but they had to do it to force Netscape out of the market) and now has to keep extending IE for it to be useful as an integrated product.
On the same token, you could use X-Windows to violate the GPL for 'net applications - I could make a proprietary modification to (for example) GIMP and convince people to run the program over the 'web with Broadway and X11R6. There needs to be a license that counts USING the program as DISTRIBUTING the program. 'nuff said.
First of all: would you favor getting rid of the restrictions on adult videos, too? I think that if you had kids, you'd see it differently. There's nothing stopping a parent from buying the game for his kid, but be realistic: most parents are so offended by the game they'd rather their kids didn't go off and buy it without them knowing. Fair?
And I got news for you, buddy: killing animals for their meat ain't violence. It's called food. Because this article ended up as a vegan rant, I'll respond with one of my own:
There is no moral justification for being anti-meat eating. Any sort of moral justification ends up sounding like a "we're superior to animals" argument. Y'know what I call people like that? Human chauvinist pigs. While it may not be healty to eat meat, it is indeed food. Kids understand the purpose of a slaughterhouse - it's what makes food. Killing animals for pure enjoyment of the kill is hardly the same as killing for food.
And yes, society would fall apart without standards of decency for kids. The govt. is just helping parents enforce these standards.
The Law is a living thing, and it depends on evolving ideas and the variable needs of society; but as it is now, Drugs (not to be confused with medicinal or legal lower-case drugs) are illegal. If enough people in our society agreed to legalize pot, I would still draw the line in the same place, legal vs. illegal.
So you abdicate your right to think to the majority? How does the law get changed? It gets changed when enough people think it's wrong - except if they all acted like you, they wouldn't be thinking it's wrong at all.
Unfortunately different copies of the same CD may be different, esp. if there was a large interval between when the two were produced. This also screws up CDDB databases - with two copies of the same cd, name the tracks of one in your CD player and then stick in the other - it might not recognise the second disc!
The search for water on the moon wasn't for life, rather, it was for a place to build a moon base. Reason? All multicellular earth life needs water to survive (inlcuding us). So, if we're looking for multicellular life outside of earth, we will start by looking for water. There are other issues that affect this - life needs some liquid, and of the choices (which boil down to Ammonia, Methane, and Water) water usually is the best option, from what I remember. This means that best place to look for non-earth life is where there is water.
Then pass around the md5sum of the fake one... as for the ID tags, you could probably make a utility that strips ID tags from the song so two copies of the same song with different ID tags end up with the same sum.
Anybody ever heard of md5sum? Napster really needs to provide an md5sum utility on their servers and clients so they can tell which ones are legit (by sharing the correct md5sum value)...
Waitasecond - I'm farily positive that the DMCA makes md5summing a file and sharing that illegal! Somebody needs to spend their time protesting the DMCA, not Napster...
Hey - I'm not writing an essay here, I was trying to get in as soon as possible because the moderators tend to browse on Highest Scores First.
All of those you mentioned are online conversions of a hard-copy media. You just reinforced my point - find me a non-conversion site that does the same thing!
Actually, you gotta pay for the trademark. POSIX testing is already being funded for Linux, but once that's done, you gotta install CDE before TOG will let you call it UNIX. On that note, Red Hat Enterprise Edition could certainly be called UNIX, if Red Hat wanted to pay TOG's rediculous fees.
Sure, these kids can download any content they want, but what's the worth of it? If all they're downloading is pr0n, what's the point of all of it? The problem is that this Open Media has grasped quantity, but not yet quality. I have yet to see one web site that offers me the quality of information and in-depth reporting that my hard-copy of Time magazine does - and that's not saying much, given how Time acts lately.
The problem is that it is the old geezers who are running the Time magazine, and as such they know how to write, how to formulate an article, etc. What comes out of this Open Media is garbage because it's run by a bunch of kiddies who know nothing of content and quality. It pure-and-simple rubbish - quantity, and not quality.
Of course, this observation isn't as sensationalistic or otherwise hypeable as an Open Media article. There aren't any broad sweeping futuristic predictions in all of this. So, to make this sound more sensationalistic, I'd like to say that JonKatz is a horrible writer. Who taught you how to write?
Open Media are conceived, developed and dominated by the young, especially college kids with access to high-speed bandwidth and teenagers with lots of time and expertise.
Actually, most of the anti-katz posts here are concieved, developed, and dominated by the young, especially college kids with access to high-speed bandwidth and teenagers with lots of time and expertise.
Watch where you're walking - you might step on a troll!
This is the type of thing that takes ten years to get into the marketplace affordably. It's not a cheap thing - most of it is hardware cost that doesn't go down like that!
Do you really think that you could afford one of these babies? I don't think that VA is paying you that much...
That much said, expect around a decade before this technology works it down to a price point such that you can buy it, cheaply. Right now it's mainly for kick-ass CAD, which IBM has been targeting very heavily with its workstations recently.
Personally, I think the best part of this is the fact that Matrox gets attention out of it - they never seem to get as much attention as they should!
But SGI is indeed going to stop making IRIX boxes, and is going to try to convince everybody to move to Linux. The thing is that there won't be any "similar platorms" soon other than Linux - Linux runs on most of their proprietary hardware (at least on SPARC), and IRIX and HPUX are slowly dying. What you'll see as the next-big-thing in UNIX workstations is actually Linux on Itanium, and SCO wants a piece of that pie.
UNIX is not a kernel. UNIX is a trademark. If your system is POSIX and X/Open compliant and contains CDE, you can license the UNIX trademark from The Open Group and get it applied to your system. If I modified BeOS to contain X, ported CDE, and had it certified POSIX and X/Open, then I could pay TOG to let me call it UNIX.
SCO has hired Chase H&Q to explore future directions, including "strategic combinations". Those strategic combinations will almost certainly be with a Linux firm, and almost certainly TurboLinux at that. Here's what I expect SCO to do:
SCO has seemed to have finally discovered the Linux kernel. At the same time, SCO owns a wealth of proprietary technologies and licenses a bunch more. What to expect from this combination is something along the lines of "TurboLinux Enterprise Edition", with SCO's proprietary technologies and licensed technologies (including CDE) making their way into a Linux distro.
At the same time, the number of non-Linux members of The Open Group is shrinking. Expect to see The Open Group forced to open CDE in the same way that it opened Motif soon, and the UNIX trademark being "donated" to certain Linux distrobutions.
Note: This is wholly speculation and is for entertainment purposes only.
While the GNOME projects says it can either be guh-nome or nome, there's already a bunch of people calling it gee-nome - yuck! As for gnutella, that's gunew-tella.
You got that wrong. You can't win is the first law of thermogoddamnics, not thermodynamics. You can't break even is the second law of thermogoddamnics.
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Personally, I think that it's stupid to port this stuff to Linux as long as it sags in the areas multimedia and real-time. This port would be better served for BeOS, where the latency for multimedia operations is much lower (and much more predictible). This isn't a flamebait against Linux, just a statement of the facts. Obviously they're looking for hype first before technological feasability.
Hasn't anyone else figured out really why Microsoft keeps extending IE? It's because they need more features in it for it to do what they're trying to do with it - make it the be-all and end-all application deployment and integration widget. Notice how IE is integrated into Office and Visual Studio, not just Windows - Microsoft made a bad decision by choosing to integrate IE (they know it wasn't right for the task, but they had to do it to force Netscape out of the market) and now has to keep extending IE for it to be useful as an integrated product.
On the same token, you could use X-Windows to violate the GPL for 'net applications - I could make a proprietary modification to (for example) GIMP and convince people to run the program over the 'web with Broadway and X11R6. There needs to be a license that counts USING the program as DISTRIBUTING the program. 'nuff said.
And I got news for you, buddy: killing animals for their meat ain't violence. It's called food. Because this article ended up as a vegan rant, I'll respond with one of my own:
There is no moral justification for being anti-meat eating. Any sort of moral justification ends up sounding like a "we're superior to animals" argument. Y'know what I call people like that? Human chauvinist pigs. While it may not be healty to eat meat, it is indeed food. Kids understand the purpose of a slaughterhouse - it's what makes food. Killing animals for pure enjoyment of the kill is hardly the same as killing for food.
And yes, society would fall apart without standards of decency for kids. The govt. is just helping parents enforce these standards.
So you abdicate your right to think to the majority? How does the law get changed? It gets changed when enough people think it's wrong - except if they all acted like you, they wouldn't be thinking it's wrong at all.
Unfortunately different copies of the same CD may be different, esp. if there was a large interval between when the two were produced. This also screws up CDDB databases - with two copies of the same cd, name the tracks of one in your CD player and then stick in the other - it might not recognise the second disc!
First post?
Then pass around the md5sum of the fake one... as for the ID tags, you could probably make a utility that strips ID tags from the song so two copies of the same song with different ID tags end up with the same sum.
Waitasecond - I'm farily positive that the DMCA makes md5summing a file and sharing that illegal! Somebody needs to spend their time protesting the DMCA, not Napster...
Didn't know he was running a bookstore now...
All of those you mentioned are online conversions of a hard-copy media. You just reinforced my point - find me a non-conversion site that does the same thing!
Actually, you gotta pay for the trademark. POSIX testing is already being funded for Linux, but once that's done, you gotta install CDE before TOG will let you call it UNIX. On that note, Red Hat Enterprise Edition could certainly be called UNIX, if Red Hat wanted to pay TOG's rediculous fees.
The problem is that it is the old geezers who are running the Time magazine, and as such they know how to write, how to formulate an article, etc. What comes out of this Open Media is garbage because it's run by a bunch of kiddies who know nothing of content and quality. It pure-and-simple rubbish - quantity, and not quality.
Of course, this observation isn't as sensationalistic or otherwise hypeable as an Open Media article. There aren't any broad sweeping futuristic predictions in all of this. So, to make this sound more sensationalistic, I'd like to say that JonKatz is a horrible writer. Who taught you how to write?
Actually, most of the anti-katz posts here are concieved, developed, and dominated by the young, especially college kids with access to high-speed bandwidth and teenagers with lots of time and expertise.
Watch where you're walking - you might step on a troll!
This is the type of thing that takes ten years to get into the marketplace affordably. It's not a cheap thing - most of it is hardware cost that doesn't go down like that!
A godly monitor is an PalmPilot display. Anything else is "ungodly".
That much said, expect around a decade before this technology works it down to a price point such that you can buy it, cheaply. Right now it's mainly for kick-ass CAD, which IBM has been targeting very heavily with its workstations recently.
Personally, I think the best part of this is the fact that Matrox gets attention out of it - they never seem to get as much attention as they should!
But SGI is indeed going to stop making IRIX boxes, and is going to try to convince everybody to move to Linux. The thing is that there won't be any "similar platorms" soon other than Linux - Linux runs on most of their proprietary hardware (at least on SPARC), and IRIX and HPUX are slowly dying. What you'll see as the next-big-thing in UNIX workstations is actually Linux on Itanium, and SCO wants a piece of that pie.
UNIX is not a kernel. UNIX is a trademark. If your system is POSIX and X/Open compliant and contains CDE, you can license the UNIX trademark from The Open Group and get it applied to your system. If I modified BeOS to contain X, ported CDE, and had it certified POSIX and X/Open, then I could pay TOG to let me call it UNIX.
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SCO has seemed to have finally discovered the Linux kernel. At the same time, SCO owns a wealth of proprietary technologies and licenses a bunch more. What to expect from this combination is something along the lines of "TurboLinux Enterprise Edition", with SCO's proprietary technologies and licensed technologies (including CDE) making their way into a Linux distro.
At the same time, the number of non-Linux members of The Open Group is shrinking. Expect to see The Open Group forced to open CDE in the same way that it opened Motif soon, and the UNIX trademark being "donated" to certain Linux distrobutions.
Note: This is wholly speculation and is for entertainment purposes only.
No, CDRW doesn't mean UDF. You can burn a CDRW that's just an ISO image, which is all they support - no UDF.
Actually, I call it vim. Sorry.
While the GNOME projects says it can either be guh-nome or nome, there's already a bunch of people calling it gee-nome - yuck! As for gnutella, that's gunew-tella.
You got that wrong. You can't win is the first law of thermogoddamnics, not thermodynamics. You can't break even is the second law of thermogoddamnics.
It's amazing how many people will call it eeh-dee-you. The proper pronunciation is ed-jyou.