He's talking about servers (notice the enterprise.cnet.com), not desktop OS's. WinNT is trying to define itself as an up and coming high-end OS. The article is saying that Linux is already there and offers more on this front than NT or 2K.
How do you think Polaroid found out that Kodak had ripped off thier patents on instant cameras more than a decade ago. Thier engineers bought one and cracked it open. Polaroid sued and the judge ordered Kodak to pay restitution and try to recall EVERY Kodak instant camera sold. They are now pretty rare collectables.
Actually the PC was reverse engineered. The PC BIOS was infact copywrited by IBM. Compaq(?) used a team of engineered to determine what it needed to run and what it needed to return to the programs. With two teams of engineers they were able to create a "compatible" copy. They knew what went in, and they knew what had to come out, other than that they didn't open it up. IBM sued, clones won! Supreme court ruled it to be "clean reverse-engineering".
Building a mp3 box is like building home stereo for a different room that requires you to hook up a cord to your computer in a anotherroom. That's stupid.
Kinda as stupid as running cable all over thew house to lots of TV to use a central antenna or, Oh wait CABLE TV!
Wireless networking will become standard equipment soon so wires won't even be an issue.
I don't want the slow internet blocking my tv anyway
Hmm, that's like saying that slow monitor that my computer is hooked up to will slow down my computer. Mutually exclusive functions. Your TV displays what you tell it to every millisecond or so, it doesn't do any processing.
Ummmm, last time I checked Apple has no plans to port Aqua or OSX to Sparc, Alpha, SGI, IBM RISC, or even the x86. And that's just hardware! Not to mention all the OS variations on these platforms. I want to see Auqa run as the "industry standard" desktop on my Sun Sparc running Solaris.
Obviuosly someone found a "showstopper" in RC1, so RC2 was added AFTER RC1 came out. Infact on the origional schedule Beta4 was supposed to be RC1. Since the origional beta plan was set there have been two extra releases and a month and a half added to the schedule.
The discalimer at the bottom is tagged onto all press realses about future products. Its a legal thing, more for investors than consumers. It is possible something can happen that will scuttle the project, including flying monkeys from space beating all thier engineers into commas. Gotta be leagally prepared for anything.
Basically they believe that the gaol of these hackers (if they find any) will be for the money or fame. After the three weeks they will give up and go home and never think about it again. However they are just going to end up giving these contestants a taste of flesh and they aren't going to stop. I'm just not that good with words so here are someone else's:
They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or
even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man. These
things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them
all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that
absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and
still calls for more.
They are fools that think otherwise. No great effort was ever
bought. No painting, no music, no poem, no cathedral in stone, no church,
no state was ever raised into being for payment of any kind. No
parthenon, no Thermopylae was ever built or fought for pay or glory; no
Bukhara sacked, or China ground beneath Mongol heel, for loot or power
alone. The payment for doing these things was itself the doing of them.
To wield onself -- to use oneself as a tool in one's own hand --
and so to make or break that which no one else can build or ruin -- THAT
is the greatest pleasure known to man! To one who has felt the chisel in
his hand and set free the angel prisoned in the marble block, or to one
who has felt sword in hand and set homeless the soul that a moment before
lived in the body of his mortal enemy -- to those both come alike the
taste of that rare food spread only for demons or for gods."
"Did linuxconf just change that BACK?"
- Ever have Windows change your custom resources setting back on your SoundBlaster? Its like windows didn't think I was smart enough to look at the jumpers. and enter the correct settings myself.
"What the hell does this crap in sendmail.cf *mean*?" - If local mail is too complicated, just employ the Windows solution (don't install it).
"Oh, there it is. What the %#*@! does this %#$# *mean*?" - Fatal Execption at OE 8231:xxxxx in NDIS.vxd, 'nuff said. Even MS tech support will give youa big "ummmmm.....yeah....".
"It has to be something right here in/etc..." - Try running regedit and then tell me which system is more cryptic.
Now for my speech. Linux is tough to get a handle of at first, especially with/etc, because there is soooo much functionality. There are a billion config files, well, because its does a billion things. If you find that you don't need all the functionality of that "install everything option" (believe me you don't) don't install option you don't need or get a stripped down distro like Corel (Control Panel and F1) which was my starter distro, after being battered into confusion for months with RH 5.2. I now use Mandrake, because of the choice of features it allows me to install and its wonderful config utilites. HardDrake (hardware detection and config) program rules.
"Education is what remains after what has been learned has been forgot". Certs and working knowlege are time limited. The education I'm getting at University is timeless. Sure that "Physics of Semi-conductors" class may not apply to my sys damin job, but figuring out complex realtionships between properties of physics definatly helps the overall thinking process.
Yes, you are correct on my misuse of "price fixing", however I still have a point. I not too long ago work for an auto parts store that had different prices (for research) in our store and the one about 10 minutes away. However, its would be illegal for us to jack the price of a starter 10 bucks if we say a customer walk in with a broken one, and less to they guy who is shopping around because his starter is getting "weak". In other words, we would know that this customer with the immobile car most likely would pay the extra money, in fact not even notice it, since he needs the starter, thus maximizing our profits "per customer".
We've all heard the anectote of Star Market raising the price of beer when they discount the diapers. (Assuming men who come in just for diapers on thier way home will buy beer too, or so says thier "Advantage Card").
There is nothing wrong with price adjustment for any reason, but charging three prices at once, and getting assigned a "price group" is wrong.
You can't charge two customers differnt prices, its called price fixing. This happened in the railroad monopoly days. Maximize your profits "per customer".
The schedule says September 4th, which is Monday. Beta3 was two days late. RC1 (Beta 4) was 4 days late, so don't expect it on Monday, but I haven't heard of any showstoppers since RC1.
Bell Atalantic's DSL basically sucks. You can't get it installed now on account of the strike. Either way, they use PPPoE, which make my "always on" connection, not quite alwasy on. Now on to the topic. Bell Atalantic had major difficulties the very week my service was turned on. For teh first day I got 560Kps (I pay for 640), next day and for teh next week it was like 80Kps. I compaliend and I got that week free (like I was able to use it anyway). BA does garuntee a minumum speed.
What I paid the 60 bucks for was the trainer, a graphical setup and decent techie dictionaries. They also threw in a decent headset. The fee RT runs alright, but without the training it makes too many mistakes for me.
Aren't the DVD Video discs very different from the RW media? In fact isn't the RW media mor of a cartidge right now and to play DVD's you'd need a caddie.
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Are there any Slashdotters aiming to provide Web services despite its heavy backing by Microsoft?
Kinda like saying that programmers shouldn't program easy to use GUIs because MS or Apple do it that way
or the allies saying that we shouldn't incoporate jet and rocket technology because the Germans thought of it.
If its the right tool/idea for the job USE IT!
He's talking about servers (notice the enterprise.cnet.com), not desktop OS's. WinNT is trying to define itself as an up and coming high-end OS. The article is saying that Linux is already there and offers more on this front than NT or 2K.
How do you think Polaroid found out that Kodak had ripped off thier patents on instant cameras more than a decade ago. Thier engineers bought one and cracked it open. Polaroid sued and the judge ordered Kodak to pay restitution and try to recall EVERY Kodak instant camera sold. They are now pretty rare collectables.
Actually the PC was reverse engineered. The PC BIOS was infact copywrited by IBM. Compaq(?) used a team of engineered to determine what it needed to run and what it needed to return to the programs. With two teams of engineers they were able to create a "compatible" copy. They knew what went in, and they knew what had to come out, other than that they didn't open it up. IBM sued, clones won! Supreme court ruled it to be "clean reverse-engineering".
MUST be stolen! Someone call the authorities!
Building a mp3 box is like building home stereo for a different room that requires you to hook up a cord to your computer in a anotherroom. That's stupid.
Kinda as stupid as running cable all over thew house to lots of TV to use a central antenna or, Oh wait CABLE TV!
Wireless networking will become standard equipment soon so wires won't even be an issue.
I don't want the slow internet blocking my tv anyway
Hmm, that's like saying that slow monitor that my computer is hooked up to will slow down my computer. Mutually exclusive functions. Your TV displays what you tell it to every millisecond or so, it doesn't do any processing.
to port the .NET frame work to Corel Linux Products, not corel. Corel would probably do it, mircoshaft until its broken up won't even think about it.
Ummmm, last time I checked Apple has no plans to port Aqua or OSX to Sparc, Alpha, SGI, IBM RISC, or even the x86. And that's just hardware! Not to mention all the OS variations on these platforms. I want to see Auqa run as the "industry standard" desktop on my Sun Sparc running Solaris.
Obviuosly someone found a "showstopper" in RC1, so RC2 was added AFTER RC1 came out. Infact on the origional schedule Beta4 was supposed to be RC1. Since the origional beta plan was set there have been two extra releases and a month and a half added to the schedule.
The discalimer at the bottom is tagged onto all press realses about future products. Its a legal thing, more for investors than consumers. It is possible something can happen that will scuttle the project, including flying monkeys from space beating all thier engineers into commas. Gotta be leagally prepared for anything.
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Basically they believe that the gaol of these hackers (if they find any) will be for the money or fame. After the three weeks they will give up and go home and never think about it again. However they are just going to end up giving these contestants a taste of flesh and they aren't going to stop. I'm just not that good with words so here are someone else's:
They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man. These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more.
They are fools that think otherwise. No great effort was ever bought. No painting, no music, no poem, no cathedral in stone, no church, no state was ever raised into being for payment of any kind. No parthenon, no Thermopylae was ever built or fought for pay or glory; no Bukhara sacked, or China ground beneath Mongol heel, for loot or power alone. The payment for doing these things was itself the doing of them.
To wield onself -- to use oneself as a tool in one's own hand -- and so to make or break that which no one else can build or ruin -- THAT is the greatest pleasure known to man! To one who has felt the chisel in his hand and set free the angel prisoned in the marble block, or to one who has felt sword in hand and set homeless the soul that a moment before lived in the body of his mortal enemy -- to those both come alike the taste of that rare food spread only for demons or for gods."
-- Gordon R. Dickson, "Soldier Ask Not"
"Did linuxconf just change that BACK?" - Ever have Windows change your custom resources setting back on your SoundBlaster? Its like windows didn't think I was smart enough to look at the jumpers. and enter the correct settings myself.
"What the hell does this crap in sendmail.cf *mean*?" - If local mail is too complicated, just employ the Windows solution (don't install it).
"Oh, there it is. What the %#*@! does this %#$# *mean*?" - Fatal Execption at OE 8231:xxxxx in NDIS.vxd, 'nuff said. Even MS tech support will give youa big "ummmmm.....yeah....".
"It has to be something right here in /etc..." - Try running regedit and then tell me which system is more cryptic.
Now for my speech. Linux is tough to get a handle of at first, especially with /etc, because there is soooo much functionality. There are a billion config files, well, because its does a billion things. If you find that you don't need all the functionality of that "install everything option" (believe me you don't) don't install option you don't need or get a stripped down distro like Corel (Control Panel and F1) which was my starter distro, after being battered into confusion for months with RH 5.2. I now use Mandrake, because of the choice of features it allows me to install and its wonderful config utilites. HardDrake (hardware detection and config) program rules.
not just the domain. The business is tangable and worth bucks in advertising from those stats he posted.
"Education is what remains after what has been learned has been forgot". Certs and working knowlege are time limited. The education I'm getting at University is timeless. Sure that "Physics of Semi-conductors" class may not apply to my sys damin job, but figuring out complex realtionships between properties of physics definatly helps the overall thinking process.
Yes, you are correct on my misuse of "price fixing", however I still have a point. I not too long ago work for an auto parts store that had different prices (for research) in our store and the one about 10 minutes away. However, its would be illegal for us to jack the price of a starter 10 bucks if we say a customer walk in with a broken one, and less to they guy who is shopping around because his starter is getting "weak". In other words, we would know that this customer with the immobile car most likely would pay the extra money, in fact not even notice it, since he needs the starter, thus maximizing our profits "per customer".
We've all heard the anectote of Star Market raising the price of beer when they discount the diapers. (Assuming men who come in just for diapers on thier way home will buy beer too, or so says thier "Advantage Card").
There is nothing wrong with price adjustment for any reason, but charging three prices at once, and getting assigned a "price group" is wrong.
You can't charge two customers differnt prices, its called price fixing. This happened in the railroad monopoly days. Maximize your profits "per customer".
Extortion now legal in Germany!
In fact I guess the gov't is sponsoring the program check it out!
Here is the offical release schedule for KDE2.
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/re lease-schedule.html
The schedule says September 4th, which is Monday. Beta3 was two days late. RC1 (Beta 4) was 4 days late, so don't expect it on Monday, but I haven't heard of any showstoppers since RC1.
They just count all the "Hello World" programs students write as "applications".
Bell Atalantic's DSL basically sucks. You can't get it installed now on account of the strike. Either way, they use PPPoE, which make my "always on" connection, not quite alwasy on. Now on to the topic. Bell Atalantic had major difficulties the very week my service was turned on. For teh first day I got 560Kps (I pay for 640), next day and for teh next week it was like 80Kps. I compaliend and I got that week free (like I was able to use it anyway). BA does garuntee a minumum speed.
Its does telent and ftp and you can drop to bash and use handwriting recongition on the CL.
What I paid the 60 bucks for was the trainer, a graphical setup and decent techie dictionaries. They also threw in a decent headset. The fee RT runs alright, but without the training it makes too many mistakes for me.
Does anyone know what happened to this project? Its site has disappeared. Anyone have the code sitiing around? It was an Mp3 Player with a voice UI.
Aren't the DVD Video discs very different from the RW media? In fact isn't the RW media mor of a cartidge right now and to play DVD's you'd need a caddie.