Carmack was simply stating the following: 1) The only Mac target platform in the future will be OS X because of it robustness and native OpengGL capabilities. 2) ALL future ID releases will be developed on OS X. Carmack is a HUGE fan of the NeXT environment, and was one of the main pushers for Apple to adopt OpenGL and position OS X as a gaming platform. He and Jobs have become close through OS X, with Carmack even offering to pospone his wedding(!) in order to be at Mac World. -ShieldWolf
Nice interface but the coloured buttons left me wondering, isn't relying on colour cues a very bad policy in terms of interface? With the considering growing awareness of disabled persons what are colour blind people supposed to do? Also there is not inherentmeaning in coloured buttons, red means close, green minimize? Is this an improvment over button that have visual cues to their meaning, e.g. maximize/minimize in windows? The only cue other then colour is position, and although this works for something ubiquitous like stop lights I can't help but feel it would confuse the hell out of computer users. -SheildWolf
SGI are giving up on two things neither or which is the line itself:
1) They are giving up on selling off the Visual Workstation business
2) They are giving up on making the Visual Workstations with SGI value-add features added in that drove the prices higher, even though that was the only thing that differentiated them in marketplace.
Read the article it states:
Now SGI plans to keep the product line under its own roof, but will drastically reduce the refinements it makes to higher-end desktop systems running Intel chips and often Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, Geoff Stedman, SGI's Visual Workstation marketing director, said in an interview.
Essentially SGI will just make plain-old NT Workstations ala Compaq or Dell.
Man I used to do that too! Hehe, but for full effect yiu have to add a few commas after the print statement in order to stagger the text;) 10 PRINT "K-MART SUCKS ",,, 20 GOTO 10'
I think there is such a thing as too much choice. Newbies won't be attracted to Linux if it has 7 desktops that are incompatible. Furthermore as a vendor who do you support? Netscape/Mozilla went with GTK/Gnome, Corel went with QT/KDE. These programs used to be bundled together on Windows as part of an office suite, now on linux they look like they are from different OS's. This is just going to get worse until one wins out with developers (and it will).
We have to start working on pooling our resources better. We are concurrently working on KDE/GNOME/ENLIGHTENMENT/WM/GNU-FORCE etc. desktops, Microsoft is working on exactly one, Active Desktop. It doesn't matter that we have so many more developers than MS if they are all working on projects that are all simulatanously working at the same goal on completely seperate trees. The whole advantage of Open Source is pooling of resources to gain advantage, if we keep writing all of these seperate projects we are watering down our talent. Of course, many of these projects do not completely overlap, but surely Enlightenment/GNU-Force do or will, as do KDE and GNOME obviously. Clearly we need choice at the desktop level, but is there such a thing as too much?
It is the largest company by Market Capitlization. Which is the combined value of all outstanding stock. MSFT = ~$450,000,000,000, GE = ~$430,000,000,000 It is NOT the largest in ANY of the following categories though:
As a Canadian I may be a little off here, but this is an outsiders take:
Bubba, after the impeachment, is now a lame-duck president with 14 months to go. He is a student of history, and knows well that his place in presidential annals will not be profound. He has tried to make sweeping domestic policies but has been stymied by a Republican Congress, e.g. Health Care reform. He has then turned to Foreign policy e.g. N. Ireland, Middle East, etc. But Billy (Clinton) knows that no one in the US really remembers foreign policy and so he sees his one last chance for an effective domestic policy: breaking up the largest company in the world (Microsoft). It is lasting, powerful, and a worthy legacy. Of course their is another powerful Billy who may just have other ideas...
There is a very simple explanation for the stagnant population of western civilization. It is the empowerment of women: when women have the power to choose when, and if, they will have babies the population growth plummets. The pill is the key to everything, because, for the first time in history, a woman can truly choose when she will have a baby, and therefore control her own destiny. When women get the vote, got to school and begin to enjoy their freedom in country's like Ethiopia, their population growth will go down as well, just wait.
The situation can be summed up rather simply: with MS you have a company that wishes to control you through a rigid licensing of binary software. With Sun you have a company that wants to rigidly control you (not quite as bad though)through Source-Code licensing. They both are not Open Source, they both give control to a single company, and they are both not what the community wants or needs. You have to see that this is merely a product of Sun't position as a public company, i.e if people are waiting for Sun to Open Source Java and other pieces of software here is a wake-up call:
If for example they Open Sourced Java they lose a revenue stream of Java licensees such as micros~1, IBM and others. Losing revenue is VERY bad for a public company becuause your owners (stockholders) want their stock to INCREASE in value. Sun as a public company can't afford to be altruistic, and it's stock holders may fire a board that does so. There are two ways to compete in a broad marketplace: have the best price, differentitate yourself by product. If Sun GPLed their products then they lose both avenues in order to beat their competitors. Sun would have to move into a service-based revenue stream which would be too difficult to change to at this point. It took IBM YEARS to do this, and Sun's corporate culture wouldn't allow methinks;)
-ShieldWolf
This isn't what the cat _saw_...
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The scientist merely recreated what the cells were processing at an _intermediate_ stage of visual processing. This is where pattern formation and the like take place. This is not at the level of perception and is therefore not what the cat SAW. The higher level brain functions must further parse the data before an event that can be deemed to be what the cat saw takes place.
There have been experiments of this type going on for more than a decade, including Darwinist programming whereby certain algorithms that are more efficient survive. Since this is all a digital SIMULATION we must remember Searle's caution about such experiments; a digital simulation of life by AI practitioners or biologists is not life anymore than a digital simulation of a tornado by meteorologists is a tornado. "No funny tag-line
I have three masqing machines, two at work and one on cable at home;). Yes you don't have a valid Internet IP on the internal network, but this is a GOOD thing - I would rather be secure than have the ability to run a web server on my box, that is what a SERVER is for. Most of your faults can be worked around, such as ICQ file transfers, e.g. port forwarding. Games work fine, I play Quake 2 and 3 all the time through my firewall;) The point is you have to KNOW what you are doing read absolutely everything you can find and then read it again. IP masq is very kewl. You just have to know how it works, and how to configure it properly.
Federico, I would also like to apologize to you since I started this ill-conceived thread. The article made you comments out to be nasty, and I should have assumed that they were taken out of context.
I would like to apologize for my incorrect statement. I confused two separate articles and somehow merged them in my head.:( The comment was actually made by Federico, who states below that it was actually a reporter trying to drum up a story. MY VERY humble apologies.;)
I read an interview with the developers of Gnome where Miguel essentially said he thought E was a piece of sh*t and he kept threatening to re-write it from scratch. How can work in a place that treats you like that? E is a very kewl Window Manager and I was very surprised at how lame the default them for RedHat 6.0 was. Geez it looked just like Windows 95.:(
Jar jar reeeeeeeeeeeeeeked. There is nothing that dumb in the original 3, deal with it, go back and see the original three - no poo jokes there, no impossible to understand chicken-monkey-rasta-morons. If you liked it - kewl for you - I wish I did. Instead I think it was a festering piece of Jar Jar poo and Lucas should let others direct and write the next two stories since he obviously doesn't get it anymore.
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Carmack was simply stating the following: 1) The only Mac target platform in the future will be OS X because of it robustness and native OpengGL capabilities. 2) ALL future ID releases will be developed on OS X. Carmack is a HUGE fan of the NeXT environment, and was one of the main pushers for Apple to adopt OpenGL and position OS X as a gaming platform. He and Jobs have become close through OS X, with Carmack even offering to pospone his wedding(!) in order to be at Mac World. -ShieldWolf
Nice interface but the coloured buttons left me wondering, isn't relying on colour cues a very bad policy in terms of interface? With the considering growing awareness of disabled persons what are colour blind people supposed to do? Also there is not inherentmeaning in coloured buttons, red means close, green minimize? Is this an improvment over button that have visual cues to their meaning, e.g. maximize/minimize in windows? The only cue other then colour is position, and although this works for something ubiquitous like stop lights I can't help but feel it would confuse the hell out of computer users. -SheildWolf
Their names were lame sounding, meaningless and furthermore the companies never, EVER, brought a product to fruition.
-ShieldWolf
SGI are giving up on two things neither or which is the line itself:
1) They are giving up on selling off the Visual Workstation business
2) They are giving up on making the Visual Workstations with SGI value-add features added in that drove the prices higher, even though that was the only thing that differentiated them in marketplace.
Read the article it states:
Now SGI plans to keep the product line under its own roof, but will drastically reduce the refinements it makes to higher-end desktop systems running Intel chips and often Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, Geoff Stedman, SGI's Visual Workstation marketing director, said in an interview.
Essentially SGI will just make plain-old NT Workstations ala Compaq or Dell.
-ShieldWolf
Man I used to do that too! Hehe, but for full effect yiu have to add a few commas after the print statement in order to stagger the text ;)
...
10 PRINT "K-MART SUCKS ",,,
20 GOTO 10'
K-MART SUCKS
K-MART SUCKS
K-MART SUCKS
;)
Being able to own up that a story you wrote was incorrect/inflammatory is the sign of a good newsperson, and helps keep the integrity of /. strong.
-ShieldWolf
I think there is such a thing as too much choice. Newbies won't be attracted to Linux if it has 7 desktops that are incompatible. Furthermore as a vendor who do you support? Netscape/Mozilla went with GTK/Gnome, Corel went with QT/KDE. These programs used to be bundled together on Windows as part of an office suite, now on linux they look like they are from different OS's. This is just going to get worse until one wins out with developers (and it will).
-ShieldWolf
We have to start working on pooling our resources better. We are concurrently working on KDE/GNOME/ENLIGHTENMENT/WM/GNU-FORCE etc. desktops, Microsoft is working on exactly one, Active Desktop. It doesn't matter that we have so many more developers than MS if they are all working on projects that are all simulatanously working at the same goal on completely seperate trees. The whole advantage of Open Source is pooling of resources to gain advantage, if we keep writing all of these seperate projects we are watering down our talent. Of course, many of these projects do not completely overlap, but surely Enlightenment/GNU-Force do or will, as do KDE and GNOME obviously. Clearly we need choice at the desktop level, but is there such a thing as too much?
;P
-ShieldWolf
It is the largest company by Market Capitlization. Which is the combined value of all outstanding stock. MSFT = ~$450,000,000,000, GE = ~$430,000,000,000 It is NOT the largest in ANY of the following categories though:
Yearly Software Revenue (Oracle)
Employees (dunno. maybe GM?)
Total Yearly Revenue (GE)
-ShieldWolf
Flameboy:
;P
I said he is NOW a lame-duck president: the Republican Congress that impeached him (did you forget that) will just crap out any bill he tries.
BTW I get my news from CNN like every other Canadian
As a Canadian I may be a little off here, but this is an outsiders take:
Bubba, after the impeachment, is now a lame-duck president with 14 months to go. He is a student of history, and knows well that his place in presidential annals will not be profound. He has tried to make sweeping domestic policies but has been stymied by a Republican Congress, e.g. Health Care reform. He has then turned to Foreign policy e.g. N. Ireland, Middle East, etc. But Billy (Clinton) knows that no one in the US really remembers foreign policy and so he sees his one last chance for an effective domestic policy: breaking up the largest company in the world (Microsoft). It is lasting, powerful, and a worthy legacy. Of course their is another powerful Billy who may just have other ideas...
-ShieldWolf
There is a very simple explanation for the stagnant population of western civilization. It is the empowerment of women: when women have the power to choose when, and if, they will have babies the population growth plummets. The pill is the key to everything, because, for the first time in history, a woman can truly choose when she will have a baby, and therefore control her own destiny. When women get the vote, got to school and begin to enjoy their freedom in country's like Ethiopia, their population growth will go down as well, just wait.
-ShieldWolf
The situation can be summed up rather simply: with MS you have a company that wishes to control you through a rigid licensing of binary software. With Sun you have a company that wants to rigidly control you (not quite as bad though)through Source-Code licensing. They both are not Open Source, they both give control to a single company, and they are both not what the community wants or needs. You have to see that this is merely a product of Sun't position as a public company, i.e if people are waiting for Sun to Open Source Java and other pieces of software here is a wake-up call:
;)
If for example they Open Sourced Java they lose a revenue stream of Java licensees such as micros~1, IBM and others. Losing revenue is VERY bad for a public company becuause your owners (stockholders) want their stock to INCREASE in value. Sun as a public company can't afford to be altruistic, and it's stock holders may fire a board that does so. There are two ways to compete in a broad marketplace: have the best price, differentitate yourself by product. If Sun GPLed their products then they lose both avenues in order to beat their competitors. Sun would have to move into a service-based revenue stream which would be too difficult to change to at this point. It took IBM YEARS to do this, and Sun's corporate culture wouldn't allow methinks
-ShieldWolf
The scientist merely recreated what the cells were processing at an _intermediate_ stage of visual processing. This is where pattern formation and the like take place. This is not at the level of perception and is therefore not what the cat SAW. The higher level brain functions must further parse the data before an event that can be deemed to be what the cat saw takes place.
t=y ;)
You are so far off it's funnt :P
There have been experiments of this type going on for more than a decade, including Darwinist programming whereby certain algorithms that are more efficient survive. Since this is all a digital SIMULATION we must remember Searle's caution about such experiments; a digital simulation of life by AI practitioners or biologists is not life anymore than a digital simulation of a tornado by meteorologists is a tornado. "No funny tag-line
No it's like the Interstate Authority (or whatever you have in the US) making Fords go slower on their highways so that more people will buy GM ;)
Thank GOD I am Canadian :P
I have three masqing machines, two at work and one on cable at home ;). Yes you don't have a valid Internet IP on the internal network, but this is a GOOD thing - I would rather be secure than have the ability to run a web server on my box, that is what a SERVER is for. ;) The point is you have to KNOW what you are doing read absolutely everything you can find and then read it again. IP masq is very kewl. You just have to know how it works, and how to configure it properly.
Most of your faults can be worked around, such as ICQ file transfers, e.g. port forwarding. Games work fine, I play Quake 2 and 3 all the time through my firewall
-ShieldWolf
Don't forget Keith's - now THAT is a beer ;)
Federico, I would also like to apologize to you since I started this ill-conceived thread. The article made you comments out to be nasty, and I should have assumed that they were taken out of context.
-ShieldWolf
I would like to apologize for my incorrect statement. I confused two separate articles and somehow merged them in my head. :( The comment was actually made by Federico, who states below that it was actually a reporter trying to drum up a story. MY VERY humble apologies. ;)
:)
PS - I think Gnome is KEWL
I read an interview with the developers of Gnome where Miguel essentially said he thought E was a piece of sh*t and he kept threatening to re-write it from scratch. How can work in a place that treats you like that? E is a very kewl Window Manager and I was very surprised at how lame the default them for RedHat 6.0 was. Geez it looked just like Windows 95. :(
My $.02
Uh, yeah nice, criticism ;) YOU DUMB ME smart.
Jar jar reeeeeeeeeeeeeeked. There is nothing that dumb in the original 3, deal with it, go back and see the original three - no poo jokes there, no impossible to understand chicken-monkey-rasta-morons. If you liked it - kewl for you - I wish I did. Instead I think it was a festering piece of Jar Jar poo and Lucas should let others direct and write the next two stories since he obviously doesn't get it anymore.