There is a 360 degree walk around of the ISS that requires the IPix plugin, has anyone been able to grab a copy and test it with Mozilla? When I visit the plugin page a Java applet redirects to the usual "Unknown Browser blah blah" page...
The company I work for now (I am sure they would not appreciate me mentioning thier very conservative name, so I'll call them company X) recently purchased company Y for a big chunk of change. Company Y had XX,000 lic' for win95/office. When company X purchased company Y, your frendly neighborhood Software Nazi called and asked for a check for XX,000 win95/office lic's! Win lic's are NON-TRANSFERRABLE! We settled and paid for about half of lic's. I seriously could not believe it. Has anyone else heard of this tactic? Company y was purchasing lic's through some sort of corporate program directly from MS, so all they had to do was read the financial papers, make a phone call and rake in the dough...
How many Linux/BSD/OtherFreeOS fans out there, with their proverbial faces pressed against the fishbowl of corporate ignorance, screaming to unleash the penguin? How many of you are forced into using MSCrap V.2000, because your boss just doesn't believe that if you build the right distribution, and the right file/print/directory architecture, you can distribute software to the desktop, server, etc., with a few simple perl scripts, and pocket change? End users need six things.
1. A pretty desktop with a JPEG of thier dog/cat/kids/car/boat...
2. E-Mail
3. A calendar
4. Word processor
5. Spreadsheet
6. Browser
KDE's apps already fill the bill here (although I am not a KDE fan.) Gnome works. Enlightenment is getting pretty stable. WindowMaker is cool..... and so on. The only real hole here that I can see is Mozilla's bugs, and the big chunk of the net that "only works with IE". Scream at your boss...
Have a nice day.
I went to the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum back in 82 or 83, and they had 6 or seven of these things. I remember one display had a really vivid 3D image of a toy bicycle. The image was slightly transparent, but of good quality from any angle. Projecting these images without actually having the solid inside the projector, is another story altogether. Imagine working in CAD, without having to use viewpoint tools. Just point to an intersection or surface is space, and change properties....
O.K. I have to add the cursory "Yea, but does it run Quake!"
If you read the whole article, you'll notice that Rambus and Intel are still sleeping together (Intel still holds a share in Rambus.) Is this a sort of "good cop, bad cop" kinda thing? Rambus makes a monopoly grab for anything that moves an electron, and Intel is quietly excluded from paying the royalties... Big business is out of control.
Seriously. If there is demand for a free ad based site, someone will fill it.. It may not be Yahoo. It may not be Slashdot. The real "eoconomy" or frontier here is bandwidth, and boxes. When starting a new site and aquiring bandwidth are the major hurdles to overcome, then, something new will happen. Internet2, SatNet, even fsck,ng packet radio, will be the new interesting place to hang. After all, the mall becomes boring after a while, right? Filled with people without purpose... There should/will always be an alternative.
...and build a damn browser based on it. The code is there. If Mozilla is GPL'd (and I have no idea what lic it's under) , FORK. Take the goodies, and run. The Open Source/OS's that work/**it that doesn't belong to Microsoft community needs an Open Source/free as in beer browser period. If Mozilla is not the answer. Start hacking. I guess it's about time I learned C/C++ anyway...
You actually LIKE StinkBads from Internally Botched Mechanisms? Have you hopped into the 'BIOS' lately? Installed NT on one? Been crazed by those ugly disfuntional "ThinkPad Configuration Managers"? Fortunately Linux runs pretty good on the doorstop I have. It would be nice if I could change hardware settings without running UMSDOS.
Since Microsoft's whole approach to a future Office suite seems to be as an Application Service Provider, could this seriously hurt thier future office strategy?
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First few times it was funny... The second few times it was alarming... Now I'm thinking /. should be /..
There is a 360 degree walk around of the ISS that requires the IPix plugin, has anyone been able to grab a copy and test it with Mozilla? When I visit the plugin page a Java applet redirects to the usual "Unknown Browser blah blah" page...
The company I work for now (I am sure they would not appreciate me mentioning thier very conservative name, so I'll call them company X) recently purchased company Y for a big chunk of change. Company Y had XX,000 lic' for win95/office. When company X purchased company Y, your frendly neighborhood Software Nazi called and asked for a check for XX,000 win95/office lic's! Win lic's are NON-TRANSFERRABLE! We settled and paid for about half of lic's. I seriously could not believe it. Has anyone else heard of this tactic? Company y was purchasing lic's through some sort of corporate program directly from MS, so all they had to do was read the financial papers, make a phone call and rake in the dough...
How many Linux/BSD/OtherFreeOS fans out there, with their proverbial faces pressed against the fishbowl of corporate ignorance, screaming to unleash the penguin? How many of you are forced into using MSCrap V.2000, because your boss just doesn't believe that if you build the right distribution, and the right file/print/directory architecture, you can distribute software to the desktop, server, etc., with a few simple perl scripts, and pocket change? End users need six things. 1. A pretty desktop with a JPEG of thier dog/cat/kids/car/boat... 2. E-Mail 3. A calendar 4. Word processor 5. Spreadsheet 6. Browser KDE's apps already fill the bill here (although I am not a KDE fan.) Gnome works. Enlightenment is getting pretty stable. WindowMaker is cool..... and so on. The only real hole here that I can see is Mozilla's bugs, and the big chunk of the net that "only works with IE". Scream at your boss... Have a nice day.
I went to the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum back in 82 or 83, and they had 6 or seven of these things. I remember one display had a really vivid 3D image of a toy bicycle. The image was slightly transparent, but of good quality from any angle. Projecting these images without actually having the solid inside the projector, is another story altogether. Imagine working in CAD, without having to use viewpoint tools. Just point to an intersection or surface is space, and change properties.... O.K. I have to add the cursory "Yea, but does it run Quake!"
If you read the whole article, you'll notice that Rambus and Intel are still sleeping together (Intel still holds a share in Rambus.) Is this a sort of "good cop, bad cop" kinda thing? Rambus makes a monopoly grab for anything that moves an electron, and Intel is quietly excluded from paying the royalties... Big business is out of control.
Seriously. If there is demand for a free ad based site, someone will fill it.. It may not be Yahoo. It may not be Slashdot. The real "eoconomy" or frontier here is bandwidth, and boxes. When starting a new site and aquiring bandwidth are the major hurdles to overcome, then, something new will happen. Internet2, SatNet, even fsck,ng packet radio, will be the new interesting place to hang. After all, the mall becomes boring after a while, right? Filled with people without purpose... There should/will always be an alternative.
Looks like he may be in the lead for a while.
...and build a damn browser based on it. The code is there. If Mozilla is GPL'd (and I have no idea what lic it's under) , FORK. Take the goodies, and run. The Open Source/OS's that work/**it that doesn't belong to Microsoft community needs an Open Source/free as in beer browser period. If Mozilla is not the answer. Start hacking. I guess it's about time I learned C/C++ anyway...
You actually LIKE StinkBads from Internally Botched Mechanisms? Have you hopped into the 'BIOS' lately? Installed NT on one? Been crazed by those ugly disfuntional "ThinkPad Configuration Managers"? Fortunately Linux runs pretty good on the doorstop I have. It would be nice if I could change hardware settings without running UMSDOS.
Personally, I would take this one as far as I could. This is a blantant example of popularity, and commercialism being used to effect outright theft.
Since Microsoft's whole approach to a future Office suite seems to be as an Application Service Provider, could this seriously hurt thier future office strategy?