Except the "Start" button... errm except at that point the computer is already "started" and one of the slections under start is to shut down the computer.... hmmm.
There should be no word on that button... it should be a big windows icon...
I say save money and skip the computers until highschool. Make sure *every kid has their own laptop* in highschool (high school provides). These would be $300-500 units (2GhZ CPU and 1Gig RAM) provided by the school with free software. If the price can't be that low - then tough shit for the manufacturers - the schools should just go buy the machines from India.
It's true that Intel Linux support sux and it's true that the government (which is full of idiots - think Ashcroft) thinks it shoul be "illegal" and that all large established vendors (with the possible exception of IBM) generally despise Linux (BTW they are going to be **seriously** burned - in the same way the U.S. automobile industry was by the Japanese - by Asian manufacturers of Linux devices and computers), but you are wrong on one point:
Intel hardware and support sucks in general - not just for Linux. Intel Pro 2100 network card is a good card "except in Linux" or the 810 is a good video card except in X. No, it is expensive *crap*. Young teenage entrepreneurs in Taiwan are making better cards... and in mainland china Intel... well...
Microsoft will decline in market share and lose stock value (it's been out of whack for years 200/1 P/E nearly a trillion in capitalization and 95% market share can't last for ever folks) but they will be all right and will buy Disney or something and keep on trucking...
What I for one will really watching, and what I really hope happens soon, is the long slow tortuous death by stupidity and cupidity of Intel. It's going to be so surprising to the media so coverage will be silly but still it will be beautiful to watch them go down in flames.
Why not borrow documentation from a Windows software engineer who accidentally photocopies it at work or loses his/her backup copy while he/she is at your house for dinner.
OS/X which has fewer installs than MacOS9 and way fewer installs that Linux supports USB flawlessly and easily.
USB support in FreeBSD and especially NetBSD was lightyears ahead of Linux (of course those systems don't have decent GUI's for USB management since most are linux specific). kernel 2.6 is supposed to catch up. News flash: it hasn't. USB and hotlplu of any consumer electronics device in Linux is HORRIFIC.
If USB support at io/kernel level was good then a plethora of Gtk2/Glade python "installers" for drivers or a hardware browser system://usb or usb:// via konqueror or nautilus that would show attached devices and allow a user to drag and drop a driver might be possible. But we are not there yet DESPITE economics: there is much higher demand and bigger market for USB devices to work under Linux that under OS/X.
I don't really get why so many specific USB drivers are needed anyway... a manufacturer has VERY LITTLE to do to get their device to work under Linux. The problem is they simply WILL NOT DO IT.
When redhat cuts back on Gnome (I expect Gnome to be abandonware very soon) and Gtk it will create the opportunity for KDE to pull far out in front of Gnome (solving one problem re: "the standard desktop")
Linux graphics and desktop usability will only improve when gamers and developers come to the platform en masse (i.e. never)... they won't now becasue there's needless duplication.
How would this guy know? He never uses his own product!
But yew it is a retrenchment. If the company that sells the product doesn't actively support the product, does not invest in getting hardware manaufactures to produce drivers, and publically disses it's own product it is a sign that they are umm retrenching to services only and hoping for a buy out (Novell bought SuSE why won't IBM buy us!!!??).
Because Microsoft wants to loose and introduce a low priced alternative to "open standards" - which in their view will hopefully have been destroyed by patents.
MS is in love with Eolas and SCO these days since they want to prove that open standards are impossible.
it's not like we have to read it all. Most of it is as important as receipts for toilet paper (and production, shipping and marketing data for said ass-wipe).
The medium is the message... and if we look for patterns we'll see the forest and know what are the important bits. Plus we'll have the ability to search for individual trees instantaneously.
Nice idea and I guess most of the pieces are there though not as an "API"...
BTW "Zoe" does part of this already for e-mail. Probably a few procmail scripts in conjunction with a lightweight local hostmail server can do it too...
But integrating voice messages and IM (and FS history do Longhorn do this??) might be hard.
"Can I connect to a SIP server with Skype? No you can't. We have crafted Skype with a proprietary technology that is not compatible with SIP. SIP was simply not good enough for us."
ok linux will run but they haven't designed their system to best use linux features ACPI, dvd, etc. Typical is bad sound support and poor opengl and a modem that won't work with linux.
like most commercial companies they poopoo'ed the Internet.
They'll use the innovation of others, repackage, make it work only on OS/X and Windows and look real innovative while trying to corral the technologie and make it proprietary.
I don't care cause any music apple puts on its server likely sux anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
I have to pay ...
Except the "Start" button ... errm except at that point the computer is already "started" and one of the slections under start is to shut down the computer.... hmmm.
... it should be a big windows icon ...
There should be no word on that button
I say save money and skip the computers until highschool. Make sure *every kid has their own laptop* in highschool (high school provides). These would be $300-500 units (2GhZ CPU and 1Gig RAM) provided by the school with free software. If the price can't be that low - then tough shit for the manufacturers - the schools should just go buy the machines from India.
before highschool no computers at all
It's true that Intel Linux support sux and it's true that the government (which is full of idiots - think Ashcroft) thinks it shoul be "illegal" and that all large established vendors (with the possible exception of IBM) generally despise Linux (BTW they are going to be **seriously** burned - in the same way the U.S. automobile industry was by the Japanese - by Asian manufacturers of Linux devices and computers), but you are wrong on one point:
... and in mainland china Intel ... well ...
...
Intel hardware and support sucks in general - not just for Linux. Intel Pro 2100 network card is a good card "except in Linux" or the 810 is a good video card except in X. No, it is expensive *crap*. Young teenage entrepreneurs in Taiwan are making better cards
Microsoft will decline in market share and lose stock value (it's been out of whack for years 200/1 P/E nearly a trillion in capitalization and 95% market share can't last for ever folks) but they will be all right and will buy Disney or something and keep on trucking
What I for one will really watching, and what I really hope happens soon, is the long slow tortuous death by stupidity and cupidity of Intel. It's going to be so surprising to the media so coverage will be silly but still it will be beautiful to watch them go down in flames.
...
Why tell Intel the truth?
Why not borrow documentation from a Windows software engineer who accidentally photocopies it at work or loses his/her backup copy while he/she is at your house for dinner.
... if you get your developpers to spend 15 friggin' minutes writing a "driver" for it.
Can you see the economics?
OS/X which has fewer installs than MacOS9 and way fewer installs that Linux supports USB flawlessly and easily.
... a manufacturer has VERY LITTLE to do to get their device to work under Linux. The problem is they simply WILL NOT DO IT.
USB support in FreeBSD and especially NetBSD was lightyears ahead of Linux (of course those systems don't have decent GUI's for USB management since most are linux specific). kernel 2.6 is supposed to catch up. News flash: it hasn't. USB and hotlplu of any consumer electronics device in Linux is HORRIFIC.
If USB support at io/kernel level was good then a plethora of Gtk2/Glade python "installers" for drivers or a hardware browser system://usb or usb:// via konqueror or nautilus that would show attached devices and allow a user to drag and drop a driver might be possible. But we are not there yet DESPITE economics: there is much higher demand and bigger market for USB devices to work under Linux that under OS/X.
I don't really get why so many specific USB drivers are needed anyway
"Not for me, nosiree."
... within 3 years 95% of the world will be using this technology
Doesn't matter
That's what Ballmer implies:
...
17 critical vulnerabilities in Windows2000 and 5-10 times more in Red Hat Linux
http://www.maconlinux.org/sshots.html
when Microsoft visited its library!!!
When redhat cuts back on Gnome (I expect Gnome to be abandonware very soon) and Gtk it will create the opportunity for KDE to pull far out in front of Gnome (solving one problem re: "the standard desktop")
Linux graphics and desktop usability will only improve when gamers and developers come to the platform en masse (i.e. never)
How would this guy know? He never uses his own product!
...
But yew it is a retrenchment. If the company that sells the product doesn't actively support the product, does not invest in getting hardware manaufactures to produce drivers, and publically disses it's own product it is a sign that they are umm retrenching to services only and hoping for a buy out (Novell bought SuSE why won't IBM buy us!!!??).
Be grateful for debian
... take a political science class!
Because Microsoft wants to loose and introduce a low priced alternative to "open standards" - which in their view will hopefully have been destroyed by patents.
MS is in love with Eolas and SCO these days since they want to prove that open standards are impossible.
Microsoft is the only company making software for consumers.
Then you should just use NetBSD and GNUstep ....
:-P
Oh and do't bother ever using an "office suite" cause you're old and don't need one
ACAP is prior art
Google will be taken ove and made "platform specific" or pay to play ... and an "open source" google does not exist and would be impossible to create.
it's not like we have to read it all. Most of it is as important as receipts for toilet paper (and production, shipping and marketing data for said ass-wipe).
... and if we look for patterns we'll see the forest and know what are the important bits. Plus we'll have the ability to search for individual trees instantaneously.
The medium is the message
world: USING LINUX since 1991!!
sco: SUING LINUX til 2011!!
Nice idea and I guess most of the pieces are there though not as an "API" ...
...
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BTW "Zoe" does part of this already for e-mail. Probably a few procmail scripts in conjunction with a lightweight local hostmail server can do it too
But integrating voice messages and IM (and FS history do Longhorn do this??) might be hard.
CacheFS sounds cool
See FAQ:
"Can I connect to a SIP server with Skype?
No you can't. We have crafted Skype with a proprietary technology that
is not compatible with SIP. SIP was simply not good enough for us."
...thus it is bad
does it interoperate with gnomemeeting or run under wine?
ok linux will run but they haven't designed their system to best use linux features ACPI, dvd, etc. Typical is bad sound support and poor opengl and a modem that won't work with linux.
like most commercial companies they poopoo'ed the Internet.
They'll use the innovation of others, repackage, make it work only on OS/X and Windows and look real innovative while trying to corral the technologie and make it proprietary.
I don't care cause any music apple puts on its server likely sux anyway.