Microsoft has a lot of money to throw behind Direct3D. This means that it can hire the best programmers and so Direct3D will obviously be the most successful technology in the future. OpenGL is maintained by a disorganised bunch of hobbyists. How is it supposed to compete with Direct3D?
AFAIK, palm os5 cannot run internet explorer. Considering this story, wouldn't I be better off with a Microsoft Windows-based device if my primary concern is web-compatibility?
Boy, I really stink today. I forgot to put on any deodorant yesterday... doh! And then I didn't have time for a shower this morning. I feel like I should be hacking some new code into the linux kernel!
CLOSING THE EIGHTH International World Wide Web Conference, I predicted the Internet's stock bubble would burst on Nov. 8, 1999. A thousand people hooted at my specificity.
Next, I predicted that the Internet would gigalapse before the end of Y2K. I said I wouldn't eat my column, again, if the Internet doesn't gigalapse, so the audience booed.
Then, having just sat through a ceremony honoring open-source software guru Richard Stallman, I predicted that Linux would fizzle against Windows like all previous Unixes have. The audience, which I'd expected to run me out of town on a rail, fell suddenly silent.
Taken aback, I stopped, looked around, and asked, "What?"
A few long seconds passed before a single, sad voice answered, "We are in mourning."
That sad voice was not Nicholas Petreley's, whose column hangs above mine. Petreley disagrees about the fate of Linux and his beloved Open Source Movement. He is editorial director of LinuxWorld. He's written that Windows will be Linux roadkill. He won't quietly mourn this column.
Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is 30-year-old technology.
The Open Source Movement reminds me of communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin laughs about world domination.
Disagreeing even on how to pronounce Linux -- "leenucks," says Torvalds -- they flip the collective finger at Bill Gates, the software Romanoff whom they'd like to trap in a basement somewhere. Eric Raymond breaks with Stallman, like Trotsky waiting for The People's ice pick. A Soviet Linux lies ahead, with successive five-year plans every three.
OK, communism is too harsh on Linux. Lenin too harsh on Torvalds.
How about the Back-to-the-Earth Movement? How about Linux as organic software grown in utopia by spiritualists?
If North America actually went back to the earth, close to 250 million people would die of starvation before you could say agribusiness. When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement.
Stallman and Torvalds would have us return to the time when software was so new that one person working alone could change the world over the weekend. But modern software, like feeding 6 billion people, is more complicated than that.
Stallman's EMACS was brilliant in the 1970s, but today we demand more, specifically Microsoft Word, which can't be written over a weekend, no matter how much Coke you drink. Multinational corporations are themselves technology invented to get big things done, things that sustain us in the complicated modern world.
Unix and the Internet turn 30 this summer. Both are senile, according to journalist Peter Salus, who like me is old enough, but not too old, to remember. The Open Sores Movement asks us to ignore three decades of innovation. It's just a notch above Luddism. At least they're not bombing Redmond. Not yet anyway.
The hard part of being down on Linux and the Open Sores Movement is worrying about that menace hanging over us at year's end. No, not Y2K, but Linux's nemesis, W2K, Windows 2000, the operating system formerly known as Windows NT 5.0.
W2K is software also from the distant past -- VAX/VMS for Windows. But it will overpower Linux. NT, now approaching 23x6 availability, is already overpowering Linux. NT and NetWare constitute 60 percent of server software shipments. All Unixes make up 17 percent, and Linux is a small fraction of that. When W2K gets here, goodbye Linux.
Let's hope there's something coming soon that's better than both Linux and W2K. What would that be? Java or what? Let's be looking.
What you people fail to understand is that browser standards are defined by what browser people actually USE.
Most normal people (people who use deodorants, have girlfriends, etc.) use IE. Why should hard working web designers put themselves out to cater for a (relatively) small bunch of slashdot readers who use fringe operating systems and browsers.
Sure, this is going to create an internet full of haves and have-nots, but isn't that what real life is like? Come to think of it, most non-IE users probably don't know what life is like outside of their filthy, stinking bedrooms.
This is my first post since I was IP banned. I had trolled a few times but I still seemed to be posting at +1 for ages. I would be proud to have the automatic -1 status bestowed upon me - this would get my posts out of the bland midzone of the sorted list. If this post comes in at -1 then I will feel that I have crossed a chasm and arrived at a new world of slashdot posting.
It is with great sadness that I bring you this news: Napster is dead.
It was at 03:02 PM on the afternoon of June 3rd 2002 that, after many failed attempts to resuscitate the dying peer-to-peer music sharing app, Napster finally passed away. While Napster has been in it's death throes for many months now and it's death has been foreseen for many years, this is still a very sad moment, a great loss for mp3 dabblers and music lovers the world over. Though Napster has passed away, it will surely be fondly remembered for years to come by audiophiles, and the public alike. Even if you didn't enjoy using Napster, there's no denying it's contributions to popular music culture. Truly a Northeastern University icon. It will be missed:(
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What does "60GB" mean?
I can't believe it's 2003 and you open source losers are still stuck squinting at glowing green command lines!!
mahahaha of course you can't
Boring...
Private Michael, you gotta be shittin me - you mean to tell me that you cannot do ONE SINGLE PULL UP?
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...Boies hires SCO Group!
Cats clone YOU!
Microsoft has a lot of money to throw behind Direct3D. This means that it can hire the best programmers and so Direct3D will obviously be the most successful technology in the future. OpenGL is maintained by a disorganised bunch of hobbyists. How is it supposed to compete with Direct3D?
AFAIK, palm os5 cannot run internet explorer. Considering this story, wouldn't I be better off with a Microsoft Windows-based device if my primary concern is web-compatibility?
Boy, I really stink today. I forgot to put on any deodorant yesterday... doh! And then I didn't have time for a shower this morning. I feel like I should be hacking some new code into the linux kernel!
Oh, sure, let's all download povray, because computer graphics hasn't moved on any further than glass spheres hovering over a chessboard...
Consider the odds of Linux ever being used by anybody other than small groups of fanatics.
CLOSING THE EIGHTH International World Wide Web Conference, I predicted the Internet's stock bubble would burst on Nov. 8, 1999. A thousand people hooted at my specificity.
Next, I predicted that the Internet would gigalapse before the end of Y2K. I said I wouldn't eat my column, again, if the Internet doesn't gigalapse, so the audience booed.
Then, having just sat through a ceremony honoring open-source software guru Richard Stallman, I predicted that Linux would fizzle against Windows like all previous Unixes have. The audience, which I'd expected to run me out of town on a rail, fell suddenly silent.
Taken aback, I stopped, looked around, and asked, "What?"
A few long seconds passed before a single, sad voice answered, "We are in mourning."
That sad voice was not Nicholas Petreley's, whose column hangs above mine. Petreley disagrees about the fate of Linux and his beloved Open Source Movement. He is editorial director of LinuxWorld. He's written that Windows will be Linux roadkill. He won't quietly mourn this column.
Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is 30-year-old technology.
The Open Source Movement reminds me of communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin laughs about world domination.
Disagreeing even on how to pronounce Linux -- "leenucks," says Torvalds -- they flip the collective finger at Bill Gates, the software Romanoff whom they'd like to trap in a basement somewhere. Eric Raymond breaks with Stallman, like Trotsky waiting for The People's ice pick. A Soviet Linux lies ahead, with successive five-year plans every three.
OK, communism is too harsh on Linux. Lenin too harsh on Torvalds.
How about the Back-to-the-Earth Movement? How about Linux as organic software grown in utopia by spiritualists?
If North America actually went back to the earth, close to 250 million people would die of starvation before you could say agribusiness. When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement.
Stallman and Torvalds would have us return to the time when software was so new that one person working alone could change the world over the weekend. But modern software, like feeding 6 billion people, is more complicated than that.
Stallman's EMACS was brilliant in the 1970s, but today we demand more, specifically Microsoft Word, which can't be written over a weekend, no matter how much Coke you drink. Multinational corporations are themselves technology invented to get big things done, things that sustain us in the complicated modern world.
Unix and the Internet turn 30 this summer. Both are senile, according to journalist Peter Salus, who like me is old enough, but not too old, to remember. The Open Sores Movement asks us to ignore three decades of innovation. It's just a notch above Luddism. At least they're not bombing Redmond. Not yet anyway.
The hard part of being down on Linux and the Open Sores Movement is worrying about that menace hanging over us at year's end. No, not Y2K, but Linux's nemesis, W2K, Windows 2000, the operating system formerly known as Windows NT 5.0.
W2K is software also from the distant past -- VAX/VMS for Windows. But it will overpower Linux. NT, now approaching 23x6 availability, is already overpowering Linux. NT and NetWare constitute 60 percent of server software shipments. All Unixes make up 17 percent, and Linux is a small fraction of that. When W2K gets here, goodbye Linux.
Let's hope there's something coming soon that's better than both Linux and W2K. What would that be? Java or what? Let's be looking.
What you people fail to understand is that browser standards are defined by what browser people actually USE.
Most normal people (people who use deodorants, have girlfriends, etc.) use IE. Why should hard working web designers put themselves out to cater for a (relatively) small bunch of slashdot readers who use fringe operating systems and browsers.
Sure, this is going to create an internet full of haves and have-nots, but isn't that what real life is like? Come to think of it, most non-IE users probably don't know what life is like outside of their filthy, stinking bedrooms.
Thank you for your insightful and on-topic post. Your post was a breath of fresh air - I'm sick and tired of reading off-topic rants and trolls.
I'm afraid not. You see, I don't like the way you smell.
This is my first post since I was IP banned. I had trolled a few times but I still seemed to be posting at +1 for ages. I would be proud to have the automatic -1 status bestowed upon me - this would get my posts out of the bland midzone of the sorted list. If this post comes in at -1 then I will feel that I have crossed a chasm and arrived at a new world of slashdot posting.
It is with great sadness that I bring you this news: Napster is dead.
:(
It was at 03:02 PM on the afternoon of June 3rd 2002 that, after many failed attempts to resuscitate the dying peer-to-peer music sharing app, Napster finally passed away. While Napster has been in it's death throes for many months now and it's death has been foreseen for many years, this is still a very sad moment, a great loss for mp3 dabblers and music lovers the world over. Though Napster has passed away, it will surely be fondly remembered for years to come by audiophiles, and the public alike. Even if you didn't enjoy using Napster, there's no denying it's contributions to popular music culture. Truly a Northeastern University icon. It will be missed
Ph3ar the ever-increasing power of the crapflooders.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies?!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of comments predicting a deluge of comments imagining the ping times.