MS is loosing ground rapidly in the server market.
It will have tremendous problems carving out a spot in the blade, cluser & beowulf area.
Gnome 2.0 might rival Windows ease of use.
Many GNU/Linux hacks are coming out that make installation and use of Linux on the desktop a breeze.
Interfaces are written that allow windows games to run on Linux without hassle.
Massive numbers of developers and companies are jumping on the Open Source train.
Question is: when is MS pushed out of the software market and will they have diversified enough by then (Xbox, MS Network) and are they competitive enough there to survive? The Open Source momentum is enormous and is not slowing down any.
Want to help MS move to open source? Buy an Xbox:)
Theres no hero in attack of the clones, there's not really someone to identify with. It's a story thats being told in a movie because millions want it to be told. More More More star wars! Has nothing to do with spider man. Weird article...
IBM runs a lot of hardware in the banking world. Almost all ATM machines for example run on OS/2 and banks tend to trust their data to an IBM mainframe.
What is the history of linux at IBM? Was there a grass roots thing amongst developers and/or did senior management suddenly see the light, was it a mixture of these? It's surprised me and many others how suddenly and how thoroughly IBM has become penguinized. So a background story from within would be very interesting to read. Thanks.
Seems like the US wants to waste money on a Mars mission. I think that in 10 to 20 years we'll have very good industrial process control AI (robots) to exploit the moon. There's every reason to go back to the moon now, it's the next logical step after the completion of the Intl. space station. It could be a multilateral effort, US, Russia and Europe to do sometihng constructive. As often remarked, launching stuff from the Moon is significantly cheaper than from Earth. There might be water on the moon, there are plenty of minerals to mine.
If the US wastes money on a silly Mars mission they hand over the moon to China.
Spectacle is a waste of money. It would be more interesting to develop technology (robots, etc) that would carve dwellings on the moon.
Seems to me it would cost much less to set up a permanent colony on the moon and really achieve a next step in human spacetravel that way than to send a few people off to mars just for the spectacle.
The article may be in russian but the pictures arent, take a look at this:
depth adaptive tesselation apparently by not rendering triangles at a distance (that wont be 'seen' at that distance) the card only displays 17,794 triangles instead of 165,150 it has to render without 'depth adaptive tesselation'.
There's not a lot of info on google about "depth adaptive".
It looks like the technology will allow for much higher framerates than so far possible..
has anyone studied the health effects of transmissions in the 5ghz department? Thats double the frequency from 2.4 ghz. I frankly dont like all these tiny microwave transmitters; cellphones, lan, bluetooth, phones, and now lightbulbs... studies in the area are always controversial but some of them are kind of alarming. Maybe my brain is fried already...
Free software is just the beginning of the next big evolution in computing technology.
It's already visible in servers & embedded.
Server hardware companies are making blade & cluster servers - so you can have all the scalability and power you want. Since with GNU/Linux you don't need to purchase license per "computer" (CPU) the cost is very very much lower than with a proprietary os.
Embedded; using GNU software makes embedded programmers release their code to the community so while not exponentially the growth of code, libraries and ports is increasing rapidly.
Open Source adapts incredibly rapidly to new opportunities. AMD's new 64 bit hammer runs linux because people want to see the chips performance, and linux is readily available so the port is created quickly by engineers who simply want something to benchmark their chip.
That's an unsurmountable problem to closed source vendors because they have to pay people to code their OS to the new hardware. By the time a significant portion of closed source stuff has been ported to 64 bit architectures linux will already be almost completely there, because people simply tweak and compile the apps they want to work in 64 bits mode!
No wonder you see a lot of proprietary software companies cash in now and diversify now because how are they going to survive that onslaught?
How cool would it be to be in a humvee, one guy driving, another at the machine gun, perhaps trying to destroy a tank with 6 guys in it, each doing the job of whatever those 6 guys do in a real tank.
You need operation flashpoint if you want to sit with three people in a tank, driver, gunner & commander. Or a jeep with a machine gun mount. Or a helicopter with pilot & gunner. It's great fun!
An interesting side note: the european telephone market is now so fragmented that I can call the US for the equivalent of 0.06 US$ (6 cents US) per minute and that call is not routed over the internet but via a regular long distance provider.
Long live competition and the breakup of huge monopolies (like at&t)
If a few things in the nearby future go well (Linux becoming top (embedded) OS AND somehow we get control back of our democracy AND nanotech assemblers will work the way they are planned to) then money wont matter anymore and we'll pretty much be part of a massive beowulf cluster.
Open Source and a decent handling of copyright & patent laws is going to be totally critial to becoming a "transhuman" - Open source to own the code that defines a part of you, copyright laws so that nobody can lay claim or patent to your genes that defines a part of you.
Im pretty sure the future is as that article spells out barring some catastrophic or other such event that would change history as it now can be extrapolated. Geewhizzing about it doesnt help, pressuring its development certainly will.
Looks like a lot of "nanotechnology" isnt about little cogwheels spinning and tiny processors humming, its very much more related to biotechnology, the folding of proteins and how our internal DNA/RNA sequencing works, it can accomplish construction and fabrication on a small scale without the wear and tear of anorganic materials. It'll be biotech on the nano schale coupled to electronics on the bigger scale.
We are right to be very worried about what people can do with such technology to control us or harm us. Whether a government is the best safeguard against that is debatable but democracy is only as good as we have made it.
I've got a powerbook g4 450 - got it in summer of last year. Glad to hear you got the dev tools cd.
I run the MDK 8.2 installer here with the aty128fb - thats for the ATI Mach 64 Mobility M3, you might have more recent video hardware in yours and I would strongly suggest checking out mandrakeforum.com to see what they have to say about it.
MDK 8.2 works very well on this powerbook - if it doesnt work at first please see if there are any known issues and/or workarounds having to do with the vid subsystem, it's very much worth it to have a dual boot osx/mdk8.2.
I was disappointed. I got OSX because it is a BSD but whatever they shipped me failed to include a c compiler so one of the first things I had to do when i got my powerbook g4 was install linux on it. That was my first exposure to mandrake (8.0) and it was very positive.
I know there are developer tools available with osx - apparently they should have included the CD with devtools when I bought the powerbook. I didnt get them. Then I had to order an OS upgrade (10.0.4 to 10.1 for $25 - I couldnt get the "free" upgrade anywhere nearby). Then I could finally download the devtools.
Unfortunately for Apple by that time I had a beautiful system with mandrake 8.0, an apache 2.0 beta, a mysql compiled from source and a whole test environment that I can work with anywhere on the planet and that shows what a great processor the G4 is.
I must say OSX is a wonderful OS when you compare it to windows, but it doesn't come close to a BSD or GNU/Linux running a suite of development applications under X. So much depends on what you want the os to do. Maybe I am also one in a long line of new apple customers that isnt used to paying for a lot of software, is used to tweaking the OS, and is making assumptions about installed software and OS requirements that are novel to Apple.
Now I am running MDK 8.2ppc beta on the powerbook and I can most definitely recommend MDK 8.2 on ppc. And I hope apple will port OSX to intel!!
Are you liable when you distribute source code? a) if so, then how about "c programming in xhours" code snippets? b) if not, then would an OS vendor be for compiling & packaging it for your OS
That makes the whole legislation issue sound totally absurd.
I thought it was pretty well clear archaeology is more or less serving a totally outdated ethnicentric way of thinking about civilization. They hate to admit theyve been wrong about some very important historical facts all along.
Archaeology started during the colonial era and a lot of its premises date from those days, some of them havent been critically examined.
If you examine articles like this (added by an earlier poster) you cant help but think the whole "science" of archaeology is a ludicrous waste of money. Given all the recent evidence there is to throw some of its old premises out of the window, and the total unwillingness of the estalished "scientists" to do so, we might as well start the whole thing allover.
Who cares if its accurate now or soon, used often enough and with plenty of user feedback about whats the right and wrong way to translate things this could become a very nifty database and hopefully better at what it does than babelfish which is handy but more than that very amusing:)
I just installed mandrake 8.2 ppc beta and i love it. On the server I use RH 7.2 since ive been using RH since 5.2 and there is no need to switch. I recommend customers to buy RH cd's for server installation because I know it, not because it would be a better choice. I'm certainly going to become a member of the mandrake club because 8.2 ppc is a lot better and less expensive (in additional software) than osx.
Open Source doesnt mean what you make with it has to be free. I don't understand the reaction of some of the people here who feel that they shouldnt ask for money or charge for website access.
Linux, GNU & open source arent religious concepts. They're quite natural events or forces in a world that is moving to ever greater complexity and hence needs to be more transparent. Open Source has to be a standard in the future because we will be using embedded systems with incredible complexity (like in robots and networked cars) that can cause serious damage when vulnerable to networked attack.
It's the water thats free not always the beer you make with it:)
Combine everything thats going on into the soup of the future: robotics, quantum technology, biotechnology, high speed wireless internet, satellite communications...
I believe the robots are going to be us, except for advanced machinery in manufacturing the "happening" thing will be integration and interfacing of electronics and biocircuitry with ourselves. You will think and your interface will retrieve data from storage attached to you.
Electronics can monitor your bloodstream for diseases, lack of resources, and the like, and synthesize whatever is required. Good for anyone with a genetic defect or an illness. Good for your general health & wellbeing.
The advantages are so enormous these technologies will be used in that manner. You will probably want to have it. But you'll also realize that at that moment you are not only vulnerable to hackers that try to access your biosystems, also those that create the hardware and software within you are potentially able to upgrade software and firmware that has essentially become a part of your being.
So who will controls that, us, intimately? Open Source at least insures that we will have insight into if not control over who we are developing into...
If you use an image map in a form input type=image the reply you get is action.x=a and action.y=b - depending on the complexity of the image you might get a pretty good "password" out of an a & b range. Helping people remember where they clicked will be more time consuming than reminding them of their password. But a sequence of images.. not a bad thing to try:)
Has anyone here downloaded the Darwin 1.3.1 x86-compatible ISO from apple and whats the experience?
I can understand that some people feel the adoption of BSD over Linux by Apple is a bit of a letdown (they did it before the 2.4 kernel was available anyway) - but what Apple really did was go opensource. It also means that a lot of those great 3rd party apple applications *might* soon be available on any *NIX desktop. Think of running adobe apps on your linux without using wine:)
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Question is: when is MS pushed out of the software market and will they have diversified enough by then (Xbox, MS Network) and are they competitive enough there to survive? The Open Source momentum is enormous and is not slowing down any. Want to help MS move to open source? Buy an Xbox :)
Theres no hero in attack of the clones, there's not really someone to identify with. It's a story thats being told in a movie because millions want it to be told. More More More star wars! Has nothing to do with spider man. Weird article...
IBM runs a lot of hardware in the banking world. Almost all ATM machines for example run on OS/2 and banks tend to trust their data to an IBM mainframe.
What is the history of linux at IBM? Was there a grass roots thing amongst developers and/or did senior management suddenly see the light, was it a mixture of these? It's surprised me and many others how suddenly and how thoroughly IBM has become penguinized. So a background story from within would be very interesting to read. Thanks.
Seems like the US wants to waste money on a
Mars mission. I think that in 10 to 20 years we'll have very good industrial process control AI (robots) to exploit the moon. There's every reason to go back to the moon now, it's the next logical step after the completion of the Intl. space station. It could be a multilateral effort, US, Russia and Europe to do sometihng constructive. As often remarked, launching stuff from the Moon is significantly cheaper than from Earth. There might be water on the moon, there are plenty of minerals to mine.
If the US wastes money on a silly Mars mission they hand over the moon to China.
Spectacle is a waste of money. It would be more interesting to develop technology (robots, etc) that would carve dwellings on the moon.
Seems to me it would cost much less to set up a permanent colony on the moon and really achieve a next step in human spacetravel that way than to send a few people off to mars just for the spectacle.
The article may be in russian but the pictures arent, take a look at this:
:)
depth adaptive tesselation apparently by not rendering triangles at a distance (that wont be 'seen' at that distance) the card only displays 17,794 triangles instead of 165,150 it has to render without 'depth adaptive tesselation'.
There's not a lot of info on google about "depth adaptive".
It looks like the technology will allow for much higher framerates than so far possible..
Just look at the pictures
has anyone studied the health effects of transmissions in the 5ghz department? Thats double the frequency from 2.4 ghz. I frankly dont like all these tiny microwave transmitters; cellphones, lan, bluetooth, phones, and now lightbulbs... studies in the area are always controversial but some of them are kind of alarming. Maybe my brain is fried already...
Great post mesozoic!
Free software is just the beginning of the next big evolution in computing technology.
It's already visible in servers & embedded.
Server hardware companies are making blade & cluster servers - so you can have all the scalability and power you want. Since with GNU/Linux you don't need to purchase license per "computer" (CPU) the cost is very very much lower than with a proprietary os.
Embedded; using GNU software makes embedded programmers release their code to the community so while not exponentially the growth of code, libraries and ports is increasing rapidly.
Open Source adapts incredibly rapidly to new opportunities. AMD's new 64 bit hammer runs linux because people want to see the chips performance, and linux is readily available so the port is created quickly by engineers who simply want something to benchmark their chip.
That's an unsurmountable problem to closed source vendors because they have to pay people to code their OS to the new hardware. By the time a significant portion of closed source stuff has been ported to 64 bit architectures linux will already be almost completely there, because people simply tweak and compile the apps they want to work in 64 bits mode!
No wonder you see a lot of proprietary software companies cash in now and diversify now because how are they going to survive that onslaught?
You need operation flashpoint if you want to sit with three people in a tank, driver, gunner & commander. Or a jeep with a machine gun mount. Or a helicopter with pilot & gunner. It's great fun!
An interesting side note: the european telephone market is now so fragmented that I can call the US for the equivalent of 0.06 US$ (6 cents US) per minute and that call is not routed over the internet but via a regular long distance provider.
Long live competition and the breakup of huge monopolies (like at&t)
If a few things in the nearby future go well (Linux becoming top (embedded) OS AND somehow we get control back of our democracy AND nanotech assemblers will work the way they are planned to) then money wont matter anymore and we'll pretty much be part of a massive beowulf cluster.
Open Source and a decent handling of copyright & patent laws is going to be totally critial to becoming a "transhuman" - Open source to own the code that defines a part of you, copyright laws so that nobody can lay claim or patent to your genes that defines a part of you.
Im pretty sure the future is as that article spells out barring some catastrophic or other such event that would change history as it now can be extrapolated. Geewhizzing about it doesnt help, pressuring its development certainly will.
Looks like a lot of "nanotechnology" isnt about little cogwheels spinning and tiny processors humming, its very much more related to biotechnology, the folding of proteins and how our internal DNA/RNA sequencing works, it can accomplish construction and fabrication on a small scale without the wear and tear of anorganic materials. It'll be biotech on the nano schale coupled to electronics on the bigger scale.
We are right to be very worried about what people can do with such technology to control us or harm us. Whether a government is the best safeguard against that is debatable but democracy is only as good as we have made it.
I've got a powerbook g4 450 - got it in summer of last year. Glad to hear you got the dev tools cd.
I run the MDK 8.2 installer here with the aty128fb - thats for the ATI Mach 64 Mobility M3, you might have more recent video hardware in yours and I would strongly suggest checking out mandrakeforum.com to see what they have to say about it.
MDK 8.2 works very well on this powerbook - if it doesnt work at first please see if there are any known issues and/or workarounds having to do with the vid subsystem, it's very much worth it to have a dual boot osx/mdk8.2.
I was disappointed. I got OSX because it is a BSD but whatever they shipped me failed to include a c compiler so one of the first things I had to do when i got my powerbook g4 was install linux on it. That was my first exposure to mandrake (8.0) and it was very positive.
I know there are developer tools available with osx - apparently they should have included the CD with devtools when I bought the powerbook. I didnt get them. Then I had to order an OS upgrade (10.0.4 to 10.1 for $25 - I couldnt get the "free" upgrade anywhere nearby). Then I could finally download the devtools.
Unfortunately for Apple by that time I had a beautiful system with mandrake 8.0, an apache 2.0 beta, a mysql compiled from source and a whole test environment that I can work with anywhere on the planet and that shows what a great processor the G4 is.
I must say OSX is a wonderful OS when you compare it to windows, but it doesn't come close to a BSD or GNU/Linux running a suite of development applications under X. So much depends on what you want the os to do. Maybe I am also one in a long line of new apple customers that isnt used to paying for a lot of software, is used to tweaking the OS, and is making assumptions about installed software and OS requirements that are novel to Apple.
Now I am running MDK 8.2ppc beta on the powerbook and I can most definitely recommend MDK 8.2 on ppc. And I hope apple will port OSX to intel!!
I should have done a bit of research :) Descent 1 music is here
Anyone into descent check out Descent4.net
- Dont laugh - I got the music midi files from descent 1 (the game) and have been coding to that - brings back memories from when programming wasnt work
- Comfy chair!
- 19" or greater monitor!
- Code when you want/need!
- Code at Home!
- Take your fav keyboard & mouse along with your laptop
- When you get an idea, GO AFK, once the idea gets some time to ripen you'll be all charged to tackle it
But most of all make whatever you program a positive experience for your users. There's nothing like a "wow dude well done" from a happy user.Are you liable when you distribute source code?
a) if so, then how about "c programming in xhours" code snippets?
b) if not, then would an OS vendor be for compiling & packaging it for your OS
That makes the whole legislation issue sound totally absurd.
at least we'd have a say in our own mythology without being "unscientific" :)
I thought it was pretty well clear archaeology is more or less serving a totally outdated ethnicentric way of thinking about civilization. They hate to admit theyve been wrong about some very important historical facts all along.
Archaeology started during the colonial era and a lot of its premises date from those days, some of them havent been critically examined.
If you examine articles like this (added by an earlier poster) you cant help but think the whole "science" of archaeology is a ludicrous waste of money. Given all the recent evidence there is to throw some of its old premises out of the window, and the total unwillingness of the estalished "scientists" to do so, we might as well start the whole thing allover.
Maybe "social science" is just a total oxymoron.
Who cares if its accurate now or soon, used often enough and with plenty of user feedback about whats the right and wrong way to translate things this could become a very nifty database and hopefully better at what it does than babelfish which is handy but more than that very amusing :)
I just installed mandrake 8.2 ppc beta and i love it. On the server I use RH 7.2 since ive been using RH since 5.2 and there is no need to switch. I recommend customers to buy RH cd's for server installation because I know it, not because it would be a better choice. I'm certainly going to become a member of the mandrake club because 8.2 ppc is a lot better and less expensive (in additional software) than osx.
:)
Open Source doesnt mean what you make with it has to be free. I don't understand the reaction of some of the people here who feel that they shouldnt ask for money or charge for website access.
Linux, GNU & open source arent religious concepts. They're quite natural events or forces in a world that is moving to ever greater complexity and hence needs to be more transparent. Open Source has to be a standard in the future because we will be using embedded systems with incredible complexity (like in robots and networked cars) that can cause serious damage when vulnerable to networked attack.
It's the water thats free not always the beer you make with it
Combine everything thats going on into the soup of the future: robotics, quantum technology, biotechnology, high speed wireless internet, satellite communications...
I believe the robots are going to be us, except for advanced machinery in manufacturing the "happening" thing will be integration and interfacing of electronics and biocircuitry with ourselves. You will think and your interface will retrieve data from storage attached to you.
Electronics can monitor your bloodstream for diseases, lack of resources, and the like, and synthesize whatever is required. Good for anyone with a genetic defect or an illness. Good for your general health & wellbeing.
The advantages are so enormous these technologies will be used in that manner. You will probably want to have it. But you'll also realize that at that moment you are not only vulnerable to hackers that try to access your biosystems, also those that create the hardware and software within you are potentially able to upgrade software and firmware that has essentially become a part of your being.
So who will controls that, us, intimately? Open Source at least insures that we will have insight into if not control over who we are developing into...
If you use an image map in a form input type=image the reply you get is action.x=a and action.y=b - depending on the complexity of the image you might get a pretty good "password" out of an a & b range. Helping people remember where they clicked will be more time consuming than reminding them of their password. But a sequence of images.. not a bad thing to try :)
I can understand that some people feel the adoption of BSD over Linux by Apple is a bit of a letdown (they did it before the 2.4 kernel was available anyway) - but what Apple really did was go opensource. It also means that a lot of those great 3rd party apple applications *might* soon be available on any *NIX desktop. Think of running adobe apps on your linux without using wine:)