What about Zelda type games, where you could keep your map screen open on one monitor, and have the action going on in the other? That seems a perfect fit for this product.
One place where BeOS was beginning to see some success (before the fscking "focus shift") was as the OS behind dedicated audio devices. iZ used beos as the OS for their Radar 24 hard disk recording station, and Tascam used BeOS as the core of a couple of devices that they released. Mr. Phipps and company are hoping that openBeOS might be able to pick up where the BeOS left off in those markets. the inability to have binary drivers could turn off some of those companies from using a particular OS; furthermore, those companies might want to be able to make hardware specific changes to the kernel without having to sacrifice any information about their "trade secrets." As such, a non-GPL'd kernel would be better, from those companies' point of view. This doesn't explain why they don't use a bsd kernel (my guess is that it simply hasn't been developped in the way that they would like), but it does show why they wouldn't want to use the linux kernel.
As far as the comment from the FAQs on the openbeos site, I agree. Using linux doesn't recreate BeOS, which is what the project is aiming to do, but rather extends linux. There's nothing wrong with that, but it isn't the goal of the project. the goal of the project is to recreate beos.
Also, Be, Inc. did start to open source some of the OS (OpenTracker and OpenDeskbar), and, according to an interview I read with a former Be engineer (I'm sorry, I can't recall his name) Be had plans to free more of the code, but found themselves in such a bad situation financially that they never had the chance to spend any time or money on opening any more of the code base.
I've applied gaussian blurs on images in BeOS (obviously not in photoshop, but in natively written image editting programs in BeOS), and at most it has taken a minute and a half to apply the effect. And a large part of that was buffering the image for an instant undo, if needed.
I've had similar experiences with audio effects. BeOS was written to speed up multimedia opperations as well. I don't know where you got your idea that BeOS traded multimedia performance for desktop snappiness. That's just not true.
Parking is easier(believe it or not) Yes, but in NYC, you don't need a car. Boston drivers may be insane, but they're reasonably polite. NYC drivers are suicidal- and downright mean. I've driven in both cities. There's really no difference. And, again, you don't need a car in NYC. It's safer- crime's a fraction of NYC Proof? Crime is in fact very low through most of NYC ('cept south Bronx). Last time I was in NYC, I stayed in a hotel in Harlem. Felt perfectly safe, even coming back to my hotel after midnight. By the time Linuxworld gets here, the Big Dig will be totally done and traffic smooth- and you'll be able to get to Boston downtown from the airport in a matter of maybe 5-10 minutes, and out of the city in 15. Try that in NYC. I'll give you this one. Then again, I hate Logan Airport. I'd much rather deal with Laguardia or JFK. Boston/eastern MA is the birthplace of the revolution. 30 minutes out from Boston is Concord, MA- the first major battle in the revolution. This has to do with... If you really want to push a patriotic angle, well, Statue of Liberty, WTC site. Also where the Federalist Papers were published, and the site of the first presidential innauguration. Boston actually has charm. NYC has nothing but rudeness, dirt, crime, overpopulation... Umm, you didn't go anywhere in NYC, did you? There are plenty of charming places: Little Italy, Chinatown, etc. Where else can you take a tour that's half on land, half on water, SAME vehicle? Hmm? Museum of Science. Museum of Fine Arts. New England Aquarium. Quincy Market. Fanuel Hall. Old Meetinghouse church. MOMA, The Met, The Museum of Natural History, the Guggenheim, Central Park, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Empire State Building. MIT. Harvard. Tufts. BC. BU. Northeastern. In fact, MA as a whole has more colleges than any other state- something like 220 total. True. Our subway costs HALF yours. The system may be dirty+unpredictable, but did I mention it costs half? Like you said, it's dirty and unpredictable. You get what you pay for. Our mayor doesn't suck. In fact, he gets re-elected. Imagine that. He also doesn't support a police department that beats up minorities and officers that get routinely arrested for drunk driving. Umm, what? Giuliani wasn't voted out of office. He was inelligible to run because of term limits. Bloomberg hasn't been up for reelection, yet. And every police department beats up minorities. It's true in boston, NYC, and where I am currently (Dallas). It's also true of Cinncinnatti, LA, Philadelphia, and any other big city.
Fact of the matter is, I really like boston. My fiance and I will be either living there, NYC, or Austin (depends on where she goes to grad school). However, there is this insane inferiority complex that a lot of bostonians have with regard to new york. But, NYC isn't for everyone. you have to have a certain toughness and attitude. As my fave t-shirt says, "New York: where the weak are killed and eaten."
Actually, this is one of the few times that someone used "like" correctly. The linked documents are not a textbook on searching; however, they are similar to a textbook on searching. It is, therefore, apropriate to use the preposition "like," since the linked essays are, in fact, like a textbook on searching.
I don't doubt, though, that to many Microsofties it's just a job.
Yes, but in your original post, you cast this as a difference between free software and proprietary software. From what I have heard, everyone at Be, Inc. loved their job (at least until the focus shift), and they were producing proprietary software.
An interesting thought, but, damn, there are a lot of variables. Apart from the ones you named, you could also play with varying the amounts of other important for life elements and chemical (oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, etc.), change the kind of star our sun is, varying the amounts of life-affecting compounds (like methane). It's really mind boggling. I suppose we could just limit the things one could vary in the simulation. It would still be an interesting exercise in trying to determine the upper and lower bounds of what might constitute a "class M" world.
Official numbers are taken from wherever the official weather station is located. Here in Dallas (where I'm living), the numbers are taken from the measurements at D/FW Airport (between Irving and Ft. Worth, TX.) which causes some interesting situations. One summer, despite rain falling all over the Metroplex, the drought we had been going through continued unabated, as no rain fell at the Airport.
I'm a first year teacher at a high school in Irving, TX. All the students in Irving ISD and all the teachers are issued laptop computers (Dell Inspiron or Latitude, depending on how lucky you are). I have tried to do as much as possible with the computers in order to successfully integrate them into the class. The main problem comes from the fact that all students, all the time have wireless access to the web. Even with web filters that have been installed and the limits put in place by their permissions under XP, they almost all find ways around it. Like in the article, we are having budget problems with many teacher lay-offs, as well, but that is due to a myriad of factors (the state's "Robin Hood" funding plan for starters), and the contracts with Dell had been put in place back when IISD actually had a surplus. Ultimately, I think that more tech is a boon, but most teachers will not know how to handle it just yet (give it another generation), and the people admins at the district level are more interested in what sounds good ("We've given all of our kids wireless net access! Hooray!") than what is the reality of the situation("We've given all of our kids ways to download console emulators and pr0n all day at school while they chat with their frineds on IM! Hooray!").
Perhaps, but since, from the beginning of the film's planning, the scouring of the Shire has been left out of the film, I can understand taking out this scene, which is really just tidying up the battle at Isengard. The focus of the film will be book V (1st half of ROTK), and Saruman does nothing in there. The cut scene, in fact, takes place in The Two Towers, and was originally going to be in that film, but was cut for length, and now is being cut from the third film for pacing. The scouring of the Shire is really just a whole lot of denoument. Not that it is not good, or not important to the themes of the story, but that much film after the climax would probably not be tolerated by most audiences.
Evil hath no emotions? Evil is all about our emotions getting out of hand. What leads someone to the dark side (since this is a Star Wars thread)? Fear and anger. Those sound like emotions to me.
When the first Matrix came out, the Wachowski Bros. claimed it was to be their last film; then, it became a really big hit. Suddenly here come two hastily thrown together sequels.
The sales numbers for the Xbox and Game Cube are fairly comparable; however, the PS2, which was backwards compatible with the PS1, blows them both out of the water. Part of the reason that Nintendo has done so well in the portable arena is because the newer iterations of the Gameboy were backwards compatible with the older versions.
Your response seems to assume that there is no such thing as objective truth, at least with regard to human behavior. To expand your argument a little bit ad nauseum, Hitler earnestly believed that the Jews were inferior and were the cause of Germany's, and thus, the master race's problems. How is our sense of morality so superior that it overrides his judgement? Obviously, there must be something in our morality that does override the judgement of Adolf Hitler. Furthermore, I would argue that this is more than simply a battle between different, competing, cultural memes that will utlimately play itself out in Darwinian fashion. Islamic Fundamentalism (indeed, all fundamentalism) is evil, and ultimately, detrimental to our survival, yet fundamentalism still continues to be attractive to members of our species. It should, by all means, simply die out, as you suggest at the end of your post; however, it seems to persist and, perhaps, even to grow overtime. Looking at the situation logically, one can see that overall western liberal democracy is the superior cultural system (in terms of how it benefits humanity), but it will not necessarily be the one that survives this current conflict.
Otherwise we risk the start of a biological arms race...and then the whole planet could lose.
I've often thought that the planet would come out a big winner if we managed to wipe ourselves out. Kind of a sad thought, but I cannot help but imagine that the ecosphere would be in much, much better shape just a few hundred years after mankind manages to off itself.
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Everything that we associate with Easter, like the bunnies and such, come from pagan spring fertility rituals. Even the word easter comes from a Germanic pagan word, Oester, that is the name of such a fertitlity rite.
And, truth be told, Easter celebrations in most Christian denominations usually have no resemblance to the Jewish feast of Passover.
No, what it means is that the odds of defeating through legislation only are very low. The odds of defeating spam through other means combined with legislation makes the fight against spam that much easier.
going through the books just to find laws that shouldn't be there but aren't enforced is completely useless. If they're not enforced, then they technically don't exist (a bit of trivia, marjuana is, in fact, illegal in the Netherlands, but no one gives a rat's ass, and the laws are never enforced, so it is essentially legal, or so it was explained to me by the owner of a hash bar in Amsterdam)
the laws that shouldn't be there, but are enforced get enough attention (PATRIOT Act, anyone?) that congressmen don't need to go looking for them; their constituents will let them know.
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that people should get licenses to surf the web.
"Mr. McBride, that will be $699 per credit hour"
That seems cheap for Harvard.
Umm, it didn't fool mine (same system)? Methinks you did something wrong, or misunderstood the test.
What about Zelda type games, where you could keep your map screen open on one monitor, and have the action going on in the other? That seems a perfect fit for this product.
One place where BeOS was beginning to see some success (before the fscking "focus shift") was as the OS behind dedicated audio devices. iZ used beos as the OS for their Radar 24 hard disk recording station, and Tascam used BeOS as the core of a couple of devices that they released. Mr. Phipps and company are hoping that openBeOS might be able to pick up where the BeOS left off in those markets. the inability to have binary drivers could turn off some of those companies from using a particular OS; furthermore, those companies might want to be able to make hardware specific changes to the kernel without having to sacrifice any information about their "trade secrets." As such, a non-GPL'd kernel would be better, from those companies' point of view. This doesn't explain why they don't use a bsd kernel (my guess is that it simply hasn't been developped in the way that they would like), but it does show why they wouldn't want to use the linux kernel.
As far as the comment from the FAQs on the openbeos site, I agree. Using linux doesn't recreate BeOS, which is what the project is aiming to do, but rather extends linux. There's nothing wrong with that, but it isn't the goal of the project. the goal of the project is to recreate beos.
Also, Be, Inc. did start to open source some of the OS (OpenTracker and OpenDeskbar), and, according to an interview I read with a former Be engineer (I'm sorry, I can't recall his name) Be had plans to free more of the code, but found themselves in such a bad situation financially that they never had the chance to spend any time or money on opening any more of the code base.
I've applied gaussian blurs on images in BeOS (obviously not in photoshop, but in natively written image editting programs in BeOS), and at most it has taken a minute and a half to apply the effect. And a large part of that was buffering the image for an instant undo, if needed.
I've had similar experiences with audio effects. BeOS was written to speed up multimedia opperations as well. I don't know where you got your idea that BeOS traded multimedia performance for desktop snappiness. That's just not true.
Parking is easier(believe it or not)
Yes, but in NYC, you don't need a car.
Boston drivers may be insane, but they're reasonably polite. NYC drivers are suicidal- and downright mean.
I've driven in both cities. There's really no difference. And, again, you don't need a car in NYC.
It's safer- crime's a fraction of NYC
Proof? Crime is in fact very low through most of NYC ('cept south Bronx). Last time I was in NYC, I stayed in a hotel in Harlem. Felt perfectly safe, even coming back to my hotel after midnight.
By the time Linuxworld gets here, the Big Dig will be totally done and traffic smooth- and you'll be able to get to Boston downtown from the airport in a matter of maybe 5-10 minutes, and out of the city in 15. Try that in NYC.
I'll give you this one. Then again, I hate Logan Airport. I'd much rather deal with Laguardia or JFK.
Boston/eastern MA is the birthplace of the revolution. 30 minutes out from Boston is Concord, MA- the first major battle in the revolution.
This has to do with... If you really want to push a patriotic angle, well, Statue of Liberty, WTC site. Also where the Federalist Papers were published, and the site of the first presidential innauguration.
Boston actually has charm. NYC has nothing but rudeness, dirt, crime, overpopulation...
Umm, you didn't go anywhere in NYC, did you? There are plenty of charming places: Little Italy, Chinatown, etc.
Where else can you take a tour that's half on land, half on water, SAME vehicle? Hmm?
Museum of Science. Museum of Fine Arts. New England Aquarium. Quincy Market. Fanuel Hall. Old Meetinghouse church.
MOMA, The Met, The Museum of Natural History, the Guggenheim, Central Park, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Empire State Building.
MIT. Harvard. Tufts. BC. BU. Northeastern. In fact, MA as a whole has more colleges than any other state- something like 220 total.
True.
Our subway costs HALF yours. The system may be dirty+unpredictable, but did I mention it costs half?
Like you said, it's dirty and unpredictable. You get what you pay for.
Our mayor doesn't suck. In fact, he gets re-elected. Imagine that. He also doesn't support a police department that beats up minorities and officers that get routinely arrested for drunk driving.
Umm, what? Giuliani wasn't voted out of office. He was inelligible to run because of term limits. Bloomberg hasn't been up for reelection, yet. And every police department beats up minorities. It's true in boston, NYC, and where I am currently (Dallas). It's also true of Cinncinnatti, LA, Philadelphia, and any other big city.
Fact of the matter is, I really like boston. My fiance and I will be either living there, NYC, or Austin (depends on where she goes to grad school). However, there is this insane inferiority complex that a lot of bostonians have with regard to new york. But, NYC isn't for everyone. you have to have a certain toughness and attitude. As my fave t-shirt says, "New York: where the weak are killed and eaten."
Oh, yeah: Red Sox suck. Go Yankees!
Actually, this is one of the few times that someone used "like" correctly. The linked documents are not a textbook on searching; however, they are similar to a textbook on searching. It is, therefore, apropriate to use the preposition "like," since the linked essays are, in fact, like a textbook on searching.
I don't doubt, though, that to many Microsofties it's just a job.
Yes, but in your original post, you cast this as a difference between free software and proprietary software. From what I have heard, everyone at Be, Inc. loved their job (at least until the focus shift), and they were producing proprietary software.
An interesting thought, but, damn, there are a lot of variables. Apart from the ones you named, you could also play with varying the amounts of other important for life elements and chemical (oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, etc.), change the kind of star our sun is, varying the amounts of life-affecting compounds (like methane). It's really mind boggling. I suppose we could just limit the things one could vary in the simulation. It would still be an interesting exercise in trying to determine the upper and lower bounds of what might constitute a "class M" world.
Official numbers are taken from wherever the official weather station is located. Here in Dallas (where I'm living), the numbers are taken from the measurements at D/FW Airport (between Irving and Ft. Worth, TX.) which causes some interesting situations. One summer, despite rain falling all over the Metroplex, the drought we had been going through continued unabated, as no rain fell at the Airport.
Here in Seattle the weather forcasts are wrong more than they are right.
How the Hell can you screw up a weather forecast for Seattle?
"Tomorrow's weather forecast: 'Rain'"
For example, swapping Venus and Mars would probably make the temperature range of each planet fairly close to liquid water temperatures.
I would really love to see NASA undertake this. That'd be awesome.
They are a natural human reaction to perceived attacks on X, where X is something into which a great deal of time/work/hope has been invested.
It's not just X, either, but also emacs, KDE, Gnome...
I'm a first year teacher at a high school in Irving, TX. All the students in Irving ISD and all the teachers are issued laptop computers (Dell Inspiron or Latitude, depending on how lucky you are). I have tried to do as much as possible with the computers in order to successfully integrate them into the class. The main problem comes from the fact that all students, all the time have wireless access to the web. Even with web filters that have been installed and the limits put in place by their permissions under XP, they almost all find ways around it. Like in the article, we are having budget problems with many teacher lay-offs, as well, but that is due to a myriad of factors (the state's "Robin Hood" funding plan for starters), and the contracts with Dell had been put in place back when IISD actually had a surplus. Ultimately, I think that more tech is a boon, but most teachers will not know how to handle it just yet (give it another generation), and the people admins at the district level are more interested in what sounds good ("We've given all of our kids wireless net access! Hooray!") than what is the reality of the situation("We've given all of our kids ways to download console emulators and pr0n all day at school while they chat with their frineds on IM! Hooray!").
Perhaps, but since, from the beginning of the film's planning, the scouring of the Shire has been left out of the film, I can understand taking out this scene, which is really just tidying up the battle at Isengard. The focus of the film will be book V (1st half of ROTK), and Saruman does nothing in there. The cut scene, in fact, takes place in The Two Towers, and was originally going to be in that film, but was cut for length, and now is being cut from the third film for pacing. The scouring of the Shire is really just a whole lot of denoument. Not that it is not good, or not important to the themes of the story, but that much film after the climax would probably not be tolerated by most audiences.
Evil hath no emotions? Evil is all about our emotions getting out of hand. What leads someone to the dark side (since this is a Star Wars thread)? Fear and anger. Those sound like emotions to me.
When the first Matrix came out, the Wachowski Bros. claimed it was to be their last film; then, it became a really big hit. Suddenly here come two hastily thrown together sequels.
My father would graft tomatoes and potatoes all the time, actually. Great way to get more out of limited garden space.
The sales numbers for the Xbox and Game Cube are fairly comparable; however, the PS2, which was backwards compatible with the PS1, blows them both out of the water. Part of the reason that Nintendo has done so well in the portable arena is because the newer iterations of the Gameboy were backwards compatible with the older versions.
Your response seems to assume that there is no such thing as objective truth, at least with regard to human behavior. To expand your argument a little bit ad nauseum, Hitler earnestly believed that the Jews were inferior and were the cause of Germany's, and thus, the master race's problems. How is our sense of morality so superior that it overrides his judgement? Obviously, there must be something in our morality that does override the judgement of Adolf Hitler. Furthermore, I would argue that this is more than simply a battle between different, competing, cultural memes that will utlimately play itself out in Darwinian fashion. Islamic Fundamentalism (indeed, all fundamentalism) is evil, and ultimately, detrimental to our survival, yet fundamentalism still continues to be attractive to members of our species. It should, by all means, simply die out, as you suggest at the end of your post; however, it seems to persist and, perhaps, even to grow overtime. Looking at the situation logically, one can see that overall western liberal democracy is the superior cultural system (in terms of how it benefits humanity), but it will not necessarily be the one that survives this current conflict.
Otherwise we risk the start of a biological arms race...and then the whole planet could lose.
I've often thought that the planet would come out a big winner if we managed to wipe ourselves out. Kind of a sad thought, but I cannot help but imagine that the ecosphere would be in much, much better shape just a few hundred years after mankind manages to off itself.
Dr. Mike Hunt, OBGYN
Everything that we associate with Easter, like the bunnies and such, come from pagan spring fertility rituals. Even the word easter comes from a Germanic pagan word, Oester, that is the name of such a fertitlity rite.
And, truth be told, Easter celebrations in most Christian denominations usually have no resemblance to the Jewish feast of Passover.
No, what it means is that the odds of defeating through legislation only are very low. The odds of defeating spam through other means combined with legislation makes the fight against spam that much easier.
going through the books just to find laws that shouldn't be there but aren't enforced is completely useless. If they're not enforced, then they technically don't exist (a bit of trivia, marjuana is, in fact, illegal in the Netherlands, but no one gives a rat's ass, and the laws are never enforced, so it is essentially legal, or so it was explained to me by the owner of a hash bar in Amsterdam)
the laws that shouldn't be there, but are enforced get enough attention (PATRIOT Act, anyone?) that congressmen don't need to go looking for them; their constituents will let them know.