On the Slash code page you mention "The only restriction is that you must put a Slashdot Logo and a link back to Slashdot on any site that uses our code. Beyond that, have a ball." I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but that is a violation of the GPL. Maybe you meant to alter the license so that users cannot do whatever they want with the code, as long as they release updates - that are distributed - back into the fold.
We gave Corel hell for it's GPL mistakes. Now it's time to see just how stupid even Slashdot can be. Is there something about the GPL that makes it too hard to understand? Is it freedom? Joseph Elwell.
As a good example look at the huge problem that GNU has coming up with an english word for "free as in speech" rather than "free as in beer". The bottom line is, there is no good word - if you disagree contact GNU
This problem creates havoc in trying to explain people the idea behind free software. Sure they understand "freedom" but there is no good adjective that can be used on objects that are normally bought and sold (commodities), in the english language, to describe this freedom. Because of the lack of a word for it, it becomes much more difficult to understand - and truely limits many people into thinking that free software is something other than what it is meant to be.
Free speech == words that cost no money? If not how do you say it? Joseph Elwell.
40 years from now I'll lean over to my grandson and tell him how I remember so vividly my evening at time Square, "It was so much fun, everyone was screaming and laughing. The ball was getting ready to drop, and the Astrovision had Dan Rathers talking about the event live. Oh Jonny, you should have seen it live - it's just not the same on tv, you know."
Cracked Magazine was always a better magazine. Mad magazine - like Mad TV - is and was always stuck in a rut. Their comedic style fizzled long ago; and was so often dependant on fads that came and went just as easily as their foul humor. Cracked magazine was different - it had and still has humour that goes beyond the childish parody of it's more established competitor.
Cracked magazine was always a little more respectable - in more ways than one. And I think Don Martin recognized Cracked's valuable qualities; which helped lead to his future with Cracked Magazine. I'll always love Don Martin's gift to my life - he gave me the knowledge that despite simplistic drawings a good bag of humour can make everyone laugh.
I've put off buying a DVD player as well as movies until I get my PS2. I think there are a lot of people just like me out there.
Although I must agree that I don't listen to audio cd's on my PSX right now. And when I found out I could I didn't do it for very long; however, when I was on vacation my roommate used my PSX as a cd player almost everyday, so much so that my PSX had some problems loading games for a while. (it's all fine now, kind of weird though).
I think the point that you're missing is the relationship between playing movies vs. playing video games is alot closer than you might imagine. A lot of games now a days are really just walk through movies, and your PSX is required to be attached to your TV anyway, so you're not going to watch a movie and play on your PSX at the same time anyways.
On the other hand, the CD player just isn't related closely enough. Sure, I might not want to watch TV and listen to music at the same time. But my CD player isn't connected to my TV to start with - in fact it's in a completely different room...
As far as kitchen sinking, I think Sony is making some huge mistakes, the PS2 will ship sans modem - that means No internet, and will continue to ship without defaulting to 4 control pad inputs. Which is a huge mistake that the N64 capitalized on. Both of these moves show that Sony is marketing this machine to the single player market (Anyone want to watch me play this movie by myself?), and not moving into the multi-player market that Dreamcast is launching itself into.
The biggest regret I have for buying a PSX over N64 is that there are many more games for the N64 that support 4 players. Whereas the PSX is hurting in that category, because game manufacturers know that PSX owners don't buy the 4 player adapter because they think of it as an "Add-on" as opposed to something they're "Missing". If you didn't get that try this analogy: The 4 player adapter is to the PSX as the Light Gun is to the N64. Not a lot of Games that let you use a Light gun on the N64... Not a lot of 4 player games on the PSX.
Here's hoping that the PS2 will have a modem and 4 controller inputs standard. Joseph Elwell.
And everyone knows that California babes are the best.:P So import some hot babes to Pittsburgh, and while you're at it, import a nice coastline, and year round sun. Joseph Elwell.
I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It looks like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It seems like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (Diamond Age) does not exist yet.
What was that article about Paper Computers? Will that help?
I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It looks like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It seems like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (Diamond Age) does not exist yet.
What was that article about Paper Computers? Will that help?
But this is so much bullshit on the part of etoys.com If you remember correctly the initial injunction was set so that etoy.com would not have a hearing date until the 27th of Christmas - barring etoy.com from Christmas shoppers (etoys big season). The only reason etoys is "dropping" the suit, is because they've already won. Christmas buying season is over and etoys successfully stymied etoy from recieving hits from users who mistyped the etoys website.
Now is not the time for a pathetic sigh of relief. Now is the time to fight back against etoys. I have never in my life seen so clearly the damages one large company can do to good ole fashion people despite "Social Stability" created through government and law.
Etoys needs to pay. Etoy should not relent. I think RtMark would agree with me when I say that Etoy crossed the line of law on this one. Joseph Elwell.
A little heads up: "I'm stunned Microsoft, et. al., aren't trying to add their own proprietary extensions to the English language and wrestly the whole thing under their proprietary control." Ummm, Microsoft Encarta Dictionary. You can buy it at any bookstore in paper or computer form....
"At least Mosaid waits for the dust to settle before adopting new features. Is mosaic still developping its browser? " Mosaic became Netscape. Same people, new code. Mosaic died shortly after Netscape.
For those of you that keep posting "The code is available already" Why don't you download the code that Malda puts out and see for yourselves whether that code is for real. That code is version 0.3 which is way outdated. For some reason slashdot won't cvs their code. Probably because Malda prefers security through obscurity over peer review.
Anyways, both code bases are based on flawed licenses. (Assuming the writers wanted the code to be free):) Cheers. Joseph Elwell.
If I were him I'd call up my credit card company and tell them to cancel payment.:) That might cause the server to be held up in another fiasco while they sort out Internic trying to charge late fees as well as handling cancellation fees. Joseph Elwell.
This whole quake cheating thing is a non issue. People have been cheating in mutli-player games since day 1. Whether they've been closed source or open source. I remember people cheating in Doom for god's sake. But who cares? Everyone quickly learns who the cheaters are and refuses to play with them. Issue Resolved.
Whenever you play multi player games that let the clients decide the outcomes there will be cheating. Diablo was a good example of this. There were cheats that allowed you to kill a player while in town - something that wasn't supposed to happen. There were ways to create magical items that didn't exist. None of this mattered. Blizzard handled this easily by saying you shouldn't trust anyone. And it was so true. If you play with your friends you'll never have to deal with cheating anyways. If you want to play with random people then you need to learn to make friends and associations that will prevent cheaters from playing with you.
On the other hand, I hear Ultima online and Everquest are good code bases for cheatless systems. From what I understand the client only displays the world and allows users to send known commands back to the server which can be checked server side against the user's character which is only stored on the server and not allowed to be modified by the client. Joseph Elwell.
To find out what Mean Time Between Failure really means, try this Adaptec Whitepaper for an informative look as to how an MTBF can be calculated. Joseph Elwell.
Well, it seems that plenty of people don't like a little sarcasm. It just seems odd that places like Zdnet - that can be harmed by public criticism etc... - allow anonymous posting while mozillazine stifles would be anonymous users from using their forum.
Anyways, for anyone interested there is a really good research paper on Public Forums, calledWhose Forum is this Anyway?
I guess it's an American thing to use litigation as sarcasm. When I was in Switzerland I went Canyoning - two weeks before 21+ kids died at the same place I went. Anyways, when my group was being driven up the mountain in our van - some guy backed up into the van. Wham. Someone in the back seat yelled out, "I'm suing". To which, the drive - a swiss local - replied, "This is Switzerland, go back to America."
It would seem to me like lawsuits could be brought upon web forums that allow anyone view but require login to post. By allowing anyone to view the statements they are making their forum public, which - apparently - the Supreme Court has stated that anonymous input should be allowed.
It's a good thing that Slashdot still has Anonymous posting. But what of other sites, like Mozillazine - an advocate of an "Open Community" forcing logins and registration in order to communicate on their forums. This kind of backwardness makes me wonder what sort of legal rights anonymous users should have. Joseph Elwell.
I was being Sarcastic about the Xserver for windows part... :) I've been using Xoftware since 3.4. I remember when the tech guy laughed at me because he said I should upgrade to 6.0, now I think they're on something like 97.
Although it is nice for people to point out alternatives for those less informed.;) Joseph Elwell.
It's still based on a non-GPL toolkit set... With that in mind is there any move to switch over to a GPL licensed toolset (Gtk comes to mind). Or are there discussions with Troll Tech to have them release a GPL'ed version of QT?
It would seem that Graph On doesn't even have a product out that allows Unixes to use Windows applications remotely. Looking through their product line you'll notice that all of their products communicate Linux/Unix applications to Windows Desktops or to Java clients. Anyone heard of an X server for windows? that's news to me. Joseph Elwell.
No No, This is more Like Star Portal or VNC.
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Taking a look at GraphOn's Homepage you'll notice that they sell a kind of X object handler that can act as an in between from windows to ANY desktop (including Linux). It would seem to me, then, that this move is aimed towards competing with Sun's Star Portal and the likes (Microsoft's Web Office) etc... than it is at trying to get native code ported over.
This looks like a short term goal, Graphon is all about thin computing and NC's. Anyone think the Network Computer is alive? Joseph Elwell.
Slashdot Mirror
On the Slash code page you mention "The only restriction is that you must put a Slashdot Logo and a link back to Slashdot on any site that uses our code. Beyond that, have a ball." I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but that is a violation of the GPL. Maybe you meant to alter the license so that users cannot do whatever they want with the code, as long as they release updates - that are distributed - back into the fold.
We gave Corel hell for it's GPL mistakes. Now it's time to see just how stupid even Slashdot can be. Is there something about the GPL that makes it too hard to understand? Is it freedom?
Joseph Elwell.
As a good example look at the huge problem that GNU has coming up with an english word for "free as in speech" rather than "free as in beer". The bottom line is, there is no good word - if you disagree contact GNU
This problem creates havoc in trying to explain people the idea behind free software. Sure they understand "freedom" but there is no good adjective that can be used on objects that are normally bought and sold (commodities), in the english language, to describe this freedom. Because of the lack of a word for it, it becomes much more difficult to understand - and truely limits many people into thinking that free software is something other than what it is meant to be.
Free speech == words that cost no money? If not how do you say it?
Joseph Elwell.
Anyone catch the expected date of arrival for this new technology? I'm officially labeling this as a "Vaporfuel" - for more reason than one. :P
Joe.
40 years from now I'll lean over to my grandson and tell him how I remember so vividly my evening at time Square, "It was so much fun, everyone was screaming and laughing. The ball was getting ready to drop, and the Astrovision had Dan Rathers talking about the event live. Oh Jonny, you should have seen it live - it's just not the same on tv, you know."
Joseph Elwell.
Sounds like he's pulling a Steve Jobs finally. It won't be long till he returns as interim CEO. :)
Joseph Elwell.
Cracked Magazine was always a better magazine. Mad magazine - like Mad TV - is and was always stuck in a rut. Their comedic style fizzled long ago; and was so often dependant on fads that came and went just as easily as their foul humor. Cracked magazine was different - it had and still has humour that goes beyond the childish parody of it's more established competitor.
Cracked magazine was always a little more respectable - in more ways than one. And I think Don Martin recognized Cracked's valuable qualities; which helped lead to his future with Cracked Magazine. I'll always love Don Martin's gift to my life - he gave me the knowledge that despite simplistic drawings a good bag of humour can make everyone laugh.
Thanks Don.
Joseph Elwell.
I've put off buying a DVD player as well as movies until I get my PS2. I think there are a lot of people just like me out there.
Although I must agree that I don't listen to audio cd's on my PSX right now. And when I found out I could I didn't do it for very long; however, when I was on vacation my roommate used my PSX as a cd player almost everyday, so much so that my PSX had some problems loading games for a while. (it's all fine now, kind of weird though).
I think the point that you're missing is the relationship between playing movies vs. playing video games is alot closer than you might imagine. A lot of games now a days are really just walk through movies, and your PSX is required to be attached to your TV anyway, so you're not going to watch a movie and play on your PSX at the same time anyways.
On the other hand, the CD player just isn't related closely enough. Sure, I might not want to watch TV and listen to music at the same time. But my CD player isn't connected to my TV to start with - in fact it's in a completely different room...
As far as kitchen sinking, I think Sony is making some huge mistakes, the PS2 will ship sans modem - that means No internet, and will continue to ship without defaulting to 4 control pad inputs. Which is a huge mistake that the N64 capitalized on. Both of these moves show that Sony is marketing this machine to the single player market (Anyone want to watch me play this movie by myself?), and not moving into the multi-player market that Dreamcast is launching itself into.
The biggest regret I have for buying a PSX over N64 is that there are many more games for the N64 that support 4 players. Whereas the PSX is hurting in that category, because game manufacturers know that PSX owners don't buy the 4 player adapter because they think of it as an "Add-on" as opposed to something they're "Missing". If you didn't get that try this analogy: The 4 player adapter is to the PSX as the Light Gun is to the N64. Not a lot of Games that let you use a Light gun on the N64... Not a lot of 4 player games on the PSX.
Here's hoping that the PS2 will have a modem and 4 controller inputs standard.
Joseph Elwell.
And everyone knows that California babes are the best. :P
So import some hot babes to Pittsburgh, and while you're at it, import a nice coastline, and year round sun.
Joseph Elwell.
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It looks like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It seems like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (Diamond Age) does not exist yet.
What was that article about Paper Computers? Will that help?
Joseph Elwell.
I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It looks like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "I recall RMS saying once that he disliked O'reilly because they made such good manuals that free software developers would not bother making their own _free_ manuals. I think this seriously comes into play when discussing Linux newbies and their need for coherent manuals. The biggest problem that I see is too many newbies not buying Linux. Why is this a problem, you might ask. Well, it turns out that because they didn't buy Linux, it didn't come with a paper manual. And everyone knows that a paper manual is so much more appealing when trying to find general answers. Digital manuals can be too in-depth or often overwhelm users by their searching capabilities that provide too many results. If more people would buy a bundled Linux distribution rather than downloading Linux for free - at least they couldn't say WFM!
Does this really solve the problem though? Of course not, all the newbies aren't going to rush out and pick up a 50$ copy of Redhat 6 or Suse because they can't find out how to do X. Instead it seems that some alternative needs to be created. In my eyes, this alternative is before it's time. The world isn't really ready for digital books yet - sure, there are a few places stacking up for the new paradigm shift. I just read an article the other day in Infoworld that discussed traditional publishing houses like Houghton Mifflen, Bertelsmann, and Macmillan teaming up with technology partners such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Reciprocal, and Fatbrain.com. However Infoworld agrees with me that "until portable technology had evolved to a point that's truly comparable to the print reading experience, certain types of information will remain in print for some time." In the same report Jack Staff - chief Internet economist at Zona Research - mentioned, "A book is as fine a PDA as you'll ever find. So as long as we still have paper, binding, and so on, there will be people that want to buy books.".
It seems like the technology for Neal Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (Diamond Age) does not exist yet.
What was that article about Paper Computers? Will that help?
Joseph Elwell.
But this is so much bullshit on the part of etoys.com If you remember correctly the initial injunction was set so that etoy.com would not have a hearing date until the 27th of Christmas - barring etoy.com from Christmas shoppers (etoys big season). The only reason etoys is "dropping" the suit, is because they've already won. Christmas buying season is over and etoys successfully stymied etoy from recieving hits from users who mistyped the etoys website.
Now is not the time for a pathetic sigh of relief. Now is the time to fight back against etoys.
I have never in my life seen so clearly the damages one large company can do to good ole fashion people despite "Social Stability" created through government and law.
Etoys needs to pay. Etoy should not relent. I think RtMark would agree with me when I say that Etoy crossed the line of law on this one.
Joseph Elwell.
A little heads up:
"I'm stunned Microsoft, et. al., aren't trying to add their own proprietary extensions to the English language and wrestly the whole thing under their proprietary control."
Ummm, Microsoft Encarta Dictionary. You can buy it at any bookstore in paper or computer form....
"At least Mosaid waits for the dust to settle before adopting new features. Is mosaic still developping its browser? "
Mosaic became Netscape. Same people, new code. Mosaic died shortly after Netscape.
Joseph Elwell.
For those of you that keep posting "The code is available already" Why don't you download the code that Malda puts out and see for yourselves whether that code is for real. That code is version 0.3 which is way outdated. For some reason slashdot won't cvs their code. Probably because Malda prefers security through obscurity over peer review.
:)
Anyways, both code bases are based on flawed licenses. (Assuming the writers wanted the code to be free)
Cheers.
Joseph Elwell.
If I were him I'd call up my credit card company and tell them to cancel payment. :) That might cause the server to be held up in another fiasco while they sort out Internic trying to charge late fees as well as handling cancellation fees.
Joseph Elwell.
This whole quake cheating thing is a non issue. People have been cheating in mutli-player games since day 1. Whether they've been closed source or open source. I remember people cheating in Doom for god's sake. But who cares? Everyone quickly learns who the cheaters are and refuses to play with them. Issue Resolved.
Whenever you play multi player games that let the clients decide the outcomes there will be cheating. Diablo was a good example of this. There were cheats that allowed you to kill a player while in town - something that wasn't supposed to happen. There were ways to create magical items that didn't exist. None of this mattered. Blizzard handled this easily by saying you shouldn't trust anyone. And it was so true. If you play with your friends you'll never have to deal with cheating anyways. If you want to play with random people then you need to learn to make friends and associations that will prevent cheaters from playing with you.
On the other hand, I hear Ultima online and Everquest are good code bases for cheatless systems. From what I understand the client only displays the world and allows users to send known commands back to the server which can be checked server side against the user's character which is only stored on the server and not allowed to be modified by the client.
Joseph Elwell.
To find out what Mean Time Between Failure really means, try this Adaptec Whitepaper for an informative look as to how an MTBF can be calculated.
Joseph Elwell.
Well, it seems that plenty of people don't like a little sarcasm. It just seems odd that places like Zdnet - that can be harmed by public criticism etc... - allow anonymous posting while mozillazine stifles would be anonymous users from using their forum.
Anyways, for anyone interested there is a really good research paper on Public Forums, calledWhose Forum is this Anyway?
I guess it's an American thing to use litigation as sarcasm. When I was in Switzerland I went Canyoning - two weeks before 21+ kids died at the same place I went. Anyways, when my group was being driven up the mountain in our van - some guy backed up into the van. Wham. Someone in the back seat yelled out, "I'm suing". To which, the drive - a swiss local - replied, "This is Switzerland, go back to America."
Go read the research paper.
Joseph Elwell.
It would seem to me like lawsuits could be brought upon web forums that allow anyone view but require login to post. By allowing anyone to view the statements they are making their forum public, which - apparently - the Supreme Court has stated that anonymous input should be allowed.
It's a good thing that Slashdot still has Anonymous posting. But what of other sites, like Mozillazine - an advocate of an "Open Community" forcing logins and registration in order to communicate on their forums. This kind of backwardness makes me wonder what sort of legal rights anonymous users should have.
Joseph Elwell.
You should also update the previous article for those people link directly to slashdot. Joseph Elwell.
I can read a press release just like the next guy. But have you seen their product? Remember LinuxOne? They had a press release too.
Point of fact: A press release does not a product make.
Saying "It WILL" do something only points out that sadly 'it DOESN'T' do anything right now.
Joseph Elwell.
I was being Sarcastic about the Xserver for windows part...
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I've been using Xoftware since 3.4. I remember when the tech guy laughed at me because he said I should upgrade to 6.0, now I think they're on something like 97.
Although it is nice for people to point out alternatives for those less informed.
Joseph Elwell.
It's still based on a non-GPL toolkit set... With that in mind is there any move to switch over to a GPL licensed toolset (Gtk comes to mind). Or are there discussions with Troll Tech to have them release a GPL'ed version of QT?
It would seem that Graph On doesn't even have a product out that allows Unixes to use Windows applications remotely. Looking through their product line you'll notice that all of their products communicate Linux/Unix applications to Windows Desktops or to Java clients. Anyone heard of an X server for windows? that's news to me.
Joseph Elwell.
Taking a look at GraphOn's Homepage you'll notice that they sell a kind of X object handler that can act as an in between from windows to ANY desktop (including Linux). It would seem to me, then, that this move is aimed towards competing with Sun's Star Portal and the likes (Microsoft's Web Office) etc... than it is at trying to get native code ported over.
This looks like a short term goal, Graphon is all about thin computing and NC's. Anyone think the Network Computer is alive?
Joseph Elwell.
A Little Background on Mathew Szulik.
So, is he going to play nice? He used to be Red Hat's President.
Joseph Elwell.