Ah, the ol' usbnet driver. Thanks for the tip. Of course getting a USB2.0 to ethernet setup working and creating virtual NICs would be two different issues. Is there such thing as a generic MAC addeess?
I've seen some of USB1.0/Ethernet adaptors as well so the same thing with 2.0 didn't sound all that far fetched. It sounds quite intriguing, but I suppose there's quite a few details to be worked out. For one I don't think I've seen USB2.0/Ethernet adaptors yet. You'd probably need those to start. Oh wait, the MAC addess would be in those. Hmm, I see you'd need to buy these little adaptors --once you could find 2.0 versions of them-- and then switch them using a regular fast ethernet switch. Perhaps it's not as complicated as a I thought, nor quite as virtual as I had assumed at first. That doesn't mean it aint cool though. Those USB1.0/ethernet adaptors were right cheap as I recall.
I read on some site that USB2.0 could be used to produce virtual NICs. Anybody know someone working on this? It sounds like an interesting way to network a set of boards together with direct connections to each board without using up all the PCI slots. Do you go through a hub of some sort?
It sure sounds interesting to have something like that especially if this fabled memory pooling version of Mosix ever shows up.
Yeah, sounds like a shell game to me.
If more efficient spectrum use is really the goal then all they have to do is go visit their friends in the Department of Commerce who are trying to force the FCC to restrict 802.11a to indoor use only. I think it's safe to assume that the current administration is decidedly anti-wireless for some mysterious reason probably related to --cough-- national security. That's probably why Taiwan already has such restrictions. It certainly wouldn't have anything to do with protecting monopoly telecom interests.
Except that if you look at the PocketPC 2002 spec wireless devices you see that the whole point of using WinCE is to overcome the measly storage that was the market reality of years gone by. While chip performace gaince may be hitting some serious obstacles, storage is still going nuts perhaps more so than ever. That being the case, it's a bit silly to suspect that either WinCE or Symbian is all that relevant to the development of wireless devices. It's already possible to run Debian with KDE and even Quake on a wireless IPaq. The only catch is you need enough storage. As it turns out, the future of storage is probably the brightest area in hardware these days. Cell phones are cell phones, stripped down mini OSs aren't going to make or break anything.
Yeah buddy, so many people act like they have no idea that monopolies are nothing new.
Doesn't the fact that the game Monopoly where most of us first came across the term is a product of the 30s mean anything to anybody?
Yeah, this is the answer to the wrong problem.
The problem isn't spewing out a ton of low cost content that requires the students to use their imagination or assume that it's going to be cool because it's video. Pretending that kids will play along with the curriculum suggests unfamiliarity with the practical side of education. Kids live in a video saturated world as it is. As an instructor, you're competing with Lucas, Spielberg, Sony, the entire movie, video game and music industries not to mention youthful hormones to capture the student's attention. Cheap is not the only thing that counts in this game, it's got to be gripping.
You can theorize about how corners must be cut and how blank media costs are a big issue, but it's not a message that is going to be easily received by those in school admin or by teachers. I think what would be much more useful is proper training of teachers on how to use the tools they do have. High level development tools that were originally Mac based are supposed to be in use throughout the educational community both in the States and in many other countries as well. The problem is that although these tools are supposed to be for "non-programmers" teachers don't see it that way. If more teachers were properly instructed on how to use the tools they do already have and have paid license fees for, there would be a huge variety of custom tailored apps for millions of different lessons. The fact is though that teachers don't believe they have what it takes. I know this for a fact because I write educational titles that I sell to schools because their teachers won't make them themselves although they have purchased licenses for the same stuff I use.
Moreover, we're at the point that most of these educational titles made with the likes of Flash, Director, Authorware, Toolbook and the likes can be run on Linux through Wine. There's really little left to be done except to train the teachers that they can contribute their genuine content.
That way, instead of just movies, we could fill those cheap CDs with real live Multimedia lessons filled with tests and games and music and still shots and graphs and score reports and electronic journals --the whole deal. That doesn't mean no video, but video in a learning context instead of just here check out this video kids.
The resources for this already exist, they're just not being used. Instead we have companies that make their living off of crawling way up WinXPs ass to make themselves as incompatible with anything they can so they can hog the market to themselves. That's bullshit and that's the way it is now today in Prince George Fucking Bush's fucked up Monopoly based version of how America is suppose to work.
Well, that and Blockbuster wasn't about to start renting VCDs. Living in Taiwan all through that period made the DVD thing look quite bizarre. Starting way back when in the late 90s these stores started popping up with VCDs. They were licensed and legit too which is difficult for most Americans to understnad. Once you had a CD-R you could have as big a movie collection as you wanted by burning a copy of whatever you rented.
My thoughts exactly. I was like, whoa it's the video game syndrome. You died, press start to continue.
I think KDE3 is great and the inclusion of Xine in RH 7.3 install was very impressive even if I was a bit disappointed with the perfomance. I was floored by what I saw. I assume 8.0 will be a real bitch for Redmond. And as far as bloat, it was still quite nimble on my ol' Cyrix233, albeit with a fat stack of RAM, but these days even cheap bastards can have lots of RAM.
And as far as apps, well people who say things like that obviously haven't installed Wine correctly. It's not that hard. There's thousands of Win9X apps that run fine under Wine already and that includes lots of the high end stuff.
This dude may be the rad hacker, but his opinions on the progress of linux seem tainted by some personal distaste for certain people in the open source community.
Obviously there is an attempt within the IT and semiconductor communities and all of the businesses that they interact with to extend control of products deeper and deeper beyond the purchase transaction itself.
What intrigues me is that this giant push coming from so many directions is creating a pressure. This is just basic physics here right. You push something and you dissipate that force in a specific direction, but the force does not disappear. Indeed, rather than disappearing, it generally tends to seek to return from whence it came. Think of the tide here: it rolls in, it rolls out. Over the course of a day the tide may come in and may go out, but in between the turning of the tide the waves come up the shore and receed far back into the sea many times.
As businesses push their control of products beyond the point of sale, they have every reason to expect that they will begin to lose control of their products before they are sold. Now who's creating the waves here?
Well, we all know that the waves are mostly created by the moon so it's a bit misleading to ask who created the waves. The question for us on the shore is whether the tide is coming in or going out. I think it's going out if you're the ones trying to control the products beyond the point of sale. You can push water, but it's very hard to hold in your hand.
Well, actually it wouldn't be the first time. (See Boxer Rebellion.)
That's scarry shit for Americans like myself living in China because the local "boxing clubs" wiped out the foreigners big time and it wasn't all that long ago.
I've got a plot for a video game about the Boxer Rebellion where this one foriegn dude puts up resistance, but if you read the facts it was total slaughter, hence the US troops.
Let's pray that's all ancient history. Unfortunately, I feel things are getting a little tense on the streets with the US and Japanese financial troubles. When the money runs dry people tend to get ugly and the xenophobia runs high. At least that's what I recall from living in SoCal in the early 80s.
This character acts so concerned about minding Ps and Qs when it comes to fancy dress, but you notice that in the course of this thread he re-posts his same fashion sense diatribes verbatim to different threads ingnoring Slashdot's etiquette. Re-posting is simply trolling, is it not?
Clothes are a very personal form of expression and a publicly stated fascination with garmentry and uniforms in particular is usually suggestive of a desire to express some aspect of one's personal life in public.
That's fine and many people like to use Slashdot to expose themselves in public in this manner --or to use the clothing related metaphor, to come out of the closet. But basically I think he needs some cheese and crackers because it sounds like he has an excess of whine.
This kind of attitude would be like, if you want a new OS, you need to build it using Visual Basic because that's the standard that the authorities have told us to follow and if we don't comply they won't take us seriously.
The answer is fuck "their" standards. Draw the line. Stand up and be a real person not a goddam actor playing a freakin' part (note, that's the word you use in the title of your post). Keep it real homie. You don't have to bow to some conservative asswipes in order to be taken seriously. In fact, if you bow down, they'll kick you in the teeth. This is the oldest trick in the book. You have to put your face on the curb there so I won't kick you in the head bitch, come on do it NOW!
I think the fact that this character that posted the story thinks ten bucks a month to listen to music is a good deal is in line with this pathetic begging for mercy mentality. You don't beg with these assholes, you instruct them that they are on the wrong the side of the fence with all clarity possible using distinct visual cues including clothing, hairstyles, slogans anything that can differentiate you from the existing "standards."
Are you sure Xscale is so hot? I heard that they've been a major disappointment and embarrassment for Intel because they aren't performing anywhere near what you would expect for their clock speeds. I believe I read that on Digitimes. From that, I'd assume a Crusoe would be much more interesting.
So the people who win Nobel Prizes are a primary source of most innovation? Is that right? It's not the millions of students filtering through the universities doing unpaid research under the guidance of people who may or may not have been rewarded Nobel Prizes that develop innovations, but rather the recipeints themselves posses a shamen like aura that produces a constant stream of this substance called "genius" that is then converted to innovation in these places called corporations.
Huh. Man, you must be one of these fucking geniuses.
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The purpose of a corporation is to create wealth for the shareholders. Wealth is created in markets. Corporations produce marketing first and foremost. People commonly confuse marketing with innovation. Just because a label says "New and Improved" or "Upgrade" doesn't represent a genuine innovation in the academic sense. To the consumer it is often enough to produce a sale and so it's a valuable corporate tool. But confusing this image of innovation with genuine innovation as the term is used in universities is foolish in the extreme.
Moreover, the patent strategies of major corporations, particularly since the formation of the pro-monopoly Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in 1982, has been to stifle innovation by staking a claim around a certain financially rewarding intellectual avenues by flooding those patent areas with patents to be used as offensive weapons. This is not innovation by any means although it involves applying for many patents which can be used to provide a false argument that such corporations are innovators when they are, in fact guided by financial and legal experts rather than technicians.
Almost all innovation takes place in schools and not by professors, but by their students. It has been this way all along and people who don't understand this can be forgiven because the history of education is a boring subject for many of today's youth. However, it is not mysterious by any means and the subtitle of the paper suggests the authors are uninformed at best.
Oh! Tab. Damn, I have to confess I never got to that point. So much for my earlier comment about splitting it into two different interfaces for object and scene editing.
Interesting observation about Caligari. I really like the Caligari interface and there used to be an open source modeler with a clone interface and I believe both were based on an old SGI modeler rather than a Caligari innovation.
I always thought the total lack of text --except for the rollover hints-- was very intriguing because it eliminates the need for internationalization, hence the popularity of Truespace in Asia. Indeed an interface like that technically allows a child unable to read to use it although realistically it might be frustrating for most kids, especially slow readers with fetal alcohol syndrome or what have you. But kids and other lingual users aside that graphics only interface with pop-up menus and dialogs that you can easily collapse just looks better and provides better use of the workspace for my tastes. The lack of more shortcuts is the only real downside.
I think an interface like Truespace, with hotkeys enabled and lots more hotkeys and keyboard shortcuts/alternatives added would be a dream. I tried Blender a while back and it seemed like it needed to be split into a few different packages with different viewport configurations like a package specially for modelers ala Lightwatve, an animation package with a layout like Truespace --though with animation controls more like 3DS-- and something else specifically for gaming. When I tried it, it had some stability problems --par for the course in 3D obviously-- but it didn't look too bad.
I wonder what the source looks like in QT3 Designer. I just took a look at that, it's got as many icons as a 3D design package. It looks more like VB or Delphi than C++. They're starting to attract the likes of icon loving weirdos like myself. Things are looking colorful in open source.
--aything with links is essential to reforming legal texts into something useful. In the US, the laws are written in English. It should be the case that anybody with a high school education could read them and understand them with ease. The main reason lawyers get so involved in anything that has the slightest concern with the law is the twisted textual markup that is currently used makes the documents incomprehensible and extremely difficult to understand in full because of the need to obtain the hundreds of essential external references. This is wonderful news.
Even the stilted style of language referred to as legalese is partly a product of the need for a meta context within legal writing. This is long overdo, but awesome nonetheless.
That's the funniest part about the article. On the second page it says there is an energy glut in California because the idiots in the White House convinced everyone there was a huge energy shortage and built all these new gas turbine plants which quickly resulted in overcapacity because . . . wait for it --there was no real electricity shortage to begin with. Electricity technology is ancient, prices change every day especially with hucksters in positions of power.
The fundamentals of physics and 19th century engineering didn't suddenly get upended two years ago in California. No, it seems a certain set of individuals in Texas that had so much cash they put one of their boys in the Oval Office were fucking with energy prices. Duh.
This locomotive outfit is missing the point. They never will be called into action because the game has been played out. See, you got to keep your eye on the ball son. Now tell me, which shell is the nut under? Oh, lookie there, it's the big white dome in DC. Well, thanks for all ya'lls IRAs and 401ks we gots to go now.
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So let's say they go total nazi all over the US and achieve a complete cease of all file uploading from the US to Kazaa. As improbable as that would be, it would still only take out half --at most-- of the overall Kazaa traffic. Assuming that nobody in Europe, Asia, or South America uses an insanely popular P2P app is a bit ridiculous. In fact, if you look at apps like Donkey which could eventually become even more troublesome for the RIAA than Kazaa, you find the servers are predominantly in Europe, Asia and South America. What is the RIAA going to do about that?
Nah, it aint gonna fly. But what is cool is that once the Dow gets back down to 5000 for a few years we'll probably see the end of prohibition in the US because any small time business like selling weed to your neighbors will be essential to getting the economy started again. 1932, part deux.
These copyright and patent motherfucking RauGun revolution asshole sons of bitches caused these problems by restructuring the courts to create these corrupt mega-monopolies and playing their conservative image shell game while they drained the blood of America. Now we're seeing "best defence is offense" crap. Going after first amendment rights isn't going to cover their asses. The American people are not cowards. These fucks are gonna pay for their crimes and the harder they push the harder they're gonna get hit.
Whoa glass too? Hmm, now I'm intrigued even more. I really appreciated the original post even if the work isn't totally original. It's refreshing to see people who actually try something without assuming that the experts already have everything all sorted out.
Writing viruses is not a crime. Writing shitty OS code isn't either. Writing "Fuck George Bush and the Anglican Church" isn't either.
If the FBI thinks their mission is to go fishing in the citizen's privacy they better be prepared to open their doors, drawers and labs to independent oversight.
Any changes to the OS require the users to learn which is the single greatest cost of software as MS loves to point out when explaining why their solutions are cheaper overall than using open source.
MS programmers may do a helluva job, but if it's anything different from what exists, they create a real problem for themselves. They've got to convince the users that their new system is worth learning and to do that there has to be a motivation. Way back when, the motivation to learn Microsoft's new system was to save money over Macs. They are no longer the cheap fix that made them what they are today. Their only hope is to maintain the staus quo for as long as possible and avoid rocking the boat.
Besides, the desktop, file manager, media player, web browser combo that are what most users assocaiate with the operating software of a PC are mostly seventies ideas that have been done so many ways now it's hard to imagine that these geniuses are going to come up with something genuinely new that doesn't require a steep learning curve or become a major security problem or both.
And, if they're really got some super magic secret surprise it's only a matter of time before there are ten other version of it. Microsoft dug its own grave years ago.
The article is right, the wireless device market for the existing overpriced wireless infrastrucutre is probably already saturated and now every "ODM" in Taiwan is about to bomb the market with more of these overpriced toys, prepare for fallout.
What a case of setting themselves up. Reminds me of a time I went to a gangster down New Year's party and started chatting about how my dad was a Jr. High teacher from the hood. Some of the nice fellas there recalled dear Dad quite readily and apparently harbored some resentment. Smack, bang crash! It was mere luck that I made it out alive. I think the only thing that saved me was they were afraid to get any more blood on themselves.
Looking back I realize I set myself up for that in a big way. My expectations were unrealistic. Dad is like a cop and those guys didn't like cops. These handheld nuts are making the same mistake I did. --Oh this market looks tough, but if we act cute and have lots of enthusiasm we'll be okay.
Pap, pap, pap.
Instead of red blood, they'll be oozing market capitalization and laying off employees by the hundreds. Well, if they're as lucky as me they'll live through it. But I'm not kidding myself, it was just luck. Could have went the other way just as easily. Props to all the soon-to-be-dead handheld homies.
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Ah, the ol' usbnet driver. Thanks for the tip. Of course getting a USB2.0 to ethernet setup working and creating virtual NICs would be two different issues. Is there such thing as a generic MAC addeess?
I've seen some of USB1.0/Ethernet adaptors as well so the same thing with 2.0 didn't sound all that far fetched. It sounds quite intriguing, but I suppose there's quite a few details to be worked out. For one I don't think I've seen USB2.0/Ethernet adaptors yet. You'd probably need those to start. Oh wait, the MAC addess would be in those. Hmm, I see you'd need to buy these little adaptors --once you could find 2.0 versions of them-- and then switch them using a regular fast ethernet switch. Perhaps it's not as complicated as a I thought, nor quite as virtual as I had assumed at first. That doesn't mean it aint cool though. Those USB1.0/ethernet adaptors were right cheap as I recall.
I read on some site that USB2.0 could be used to produce virtual NICs. Anybody know someone working on this? It sounds like an interesting way to network a set of boards together with direct connections to each board without using up all the PCI slots. Do you go through a hub of some sort?
It sure sounds interesting to have something like that especially if this fabled memory pooling version of Mosix ever shows up.
Yeah, sounds like a shell game to me.
If more efficient spectrum use is really the goal then all they have to do is go visit their friends in the Department of Commerce who are trying to force the FCC to restrict 802.11a to indoor use only. I think it's safe to assume that the current administration is decidedly anti-wireless for some mysterious reason probably related to --cough-- national security. That's probably why Taiwan already has such restrictions. It certainly wouldn't have anything to do with protecting monopoly telecom interests.
Except that if you look at the PocketPC 2002 spec wireless devices you see that the whole point of using WinCE is to overcome the measly storage that was the market reality of years gone by. While chip performace gaince may be hitting some serious obstacles, storage is still going nuts perhaps more so than ever. That being the case, it's a bit silly to suspect that either WinCE or Symbian is all that relevant to the development of wireless devices. It's already possible to run Debian with KDE and even Quake on a wireless IPaq. The only catch is you need enough storage. As it turns out, the future of storage is probably the brightest area in hardware these days. Cell phones are cell phones, stripped down mini OSs aren't going to make or break anything.
Yeah buddy, so many people act like they have no idea that monopolies are nothing new.
Doesn't the fact that the game Monopoly where most of us first came across the term is a product of the 30s mean anything to anybody?
Yeah, this is the answer to the wrong problem.
The problem isn't spewing out a ton of low cost content that requires the students to use their imagination or assume that it's going to be cool because it's video. Pretending that kids will play along with the curriculum suggests unfamiliarity with the practical side of education. Kids live in a video saturated world as it is. As an instructor, you're competing with Lucas, Spielberg, Sony, the entire movie, video game and music industries not to mention youthful hormones to capture the student's attention. Cheap is not the only thing that counts in this game, it's got to be gripping.
You can theorize about how corners must be cut and how blank media costs are a big issue, but it's not a message that is going to be easily received by those in school admin or by teachers. I think what would be much more useful is proper training of teachers on how to use the tools they do have. High level development tools that were originally Mac based are supposed to be in use throughout the educational community both in the States and in many other countries as well. The problem is that although these tools are supposed to be for "non-programmers" teachers don't see it that way. If more teachers were properly instructed on how to use the tools they do already have and have paid license fees for, there would be a huge variety of custom tailored apps for millions of different lessons. The fact is though that teachers don't believe they have what it takes. I know this for a fact because I write educational titles that I sell to schools because their teachers won't make them themselves although they have purchased licenses for the same stuff I use.
Moreover, we're at the point that most of these educational titles made with the likes of Flash, Director, Authorware, Toolbook and the likes can be run on Linux through Wine. There's really little left to be done except to train the teachers that they can contribute their genuine content.
That way, instead of just movies, we could fill those cheap CDs with real live Multimedia lessons filled with tests and games and music and still shots and graphs and score reports and electronic journals --the whole deal. That doesn't mean no video, but video in a learning context instead of just here check out this video kids.
The resources for this already exist, they're just not being used. Instead we have companies that make their living off of crawling way up WinXPs ass to make themselves as incompatible with anything they can so they can hog the market to themselves. That's bullshit and that's the way it is now today in Prince George Fucking Bush's fucked up Monopoly based version of how America is suppose to work.
Well, that and Blockbuster wasn't about to start renting VCDs. Living in Taiwan all through that period made the DVD thing look quite bizarre. Starting way back when in the late 90s these stores started popping up with VCDs. They were licensed and legit too which is difficult for most Americans to understnad. Once you had a CD-R you could have as big a movie collection as you wanted by burning a copy of whatever you rented.
My thoughts exactly. I was like, whoa it's the video game syndrome. You died, press start to continue.
I think KDE3 is great and the inclusion of Xine in RH 7.3 install was very impressive even if I was a bit disappointed with the perfomance. I was floored by what I saw. I assume 8.0 will be a real bitch for Redmond. And as far as bloat, it was still quite nimble on my ol' Cyrix233, albeit with a fat stack of RAM, but these days even cheap bastards can have lots of RAM.
And as far as apps, well people who say things like that obviously haven't installed Wine correctly. It's not that hard. There's thousands of Win9X apps that run fine under Wine already and that includes lots of the high end stuff.
This dude may be the rad hacker, but his opinions on the progress of linux seem tainted by some personal distaste for certain people in the open source community.
Obviously there is an attempt within the IT and semiconductor communities and all of the businesses that they interact with to extend control of products deeper and deeper beyond the purchase transaction itself.
What intrigues me is that this giant push coming from so many directions is creating a pressure. This is just basic physics here right. You push something and you dissipate that force in a specific direction, but the force does not disappear. Indeed, rather than disappearing, it generally tends to seek to return from whence it came. Think of the tide here: it rolls in, it rolls out. Over the course of a day the tide may come in and may go out, but in between the turning of the tide the waves come up the shore and receed far back into the sea many times.
As businesses push their control of products beyond the point of sale, they have every reason to expect that they will begin to lose control of their products before they are sold. Now who's creating the waves here?
Well, we all know that the waves are mostly created by the moon so it's a bit misleading to ask who created the waves. The question for us on the shore is whether the tide is coming in or going out. I think it's going out if you're the ones trying to control the products beyond the point of sale. You can push water, but it's very hard to hold in your hand.
Well, actually it wouldn't be the first time. (See Boxer Rebellion.)
That's scarry shit for Americans like myself living in China because the local "boxing clubs" wiped out the foreigners big time and it wasn't all that long ago.
I've got a plot for a video game about the Boxer Rebellion where this one foriegn dude puts up resistance, but if you read the facts it was total slaughter, hence the US troops.
Let's pray that's all ancient history. Unfortunately, I feel things are getting a little tense on the streets with the US and Japanese financial troubles. When the money runs dry people tend to get ugly and the xenophobia runs high. At least that's what I recall from living in SoCal in the early 80s.
This character acts so concerned about minding Ps and Qs when it comes to fancy dress, but you notice that in the course of this thread he re-posts his same fashion sense diatribes verbatim to different threads ingnoring Slashdot's etiquette. Re-posting is simply trolling, is it not?
Clothes are a very personal form of expression and a publicly stated fascination with garmentry and uniforms in particular is usually suggestive of a desire to express some aspect of one's personal life in public.
That's fine and many people like to use Slashdot to expose themselves in public in this manner --or to use the clothing related metaphor, to come out of the closet. But basically I think he needs some cheese and crackers because it sounds like he has an excess of whine.
This kind of attitude would be like, if you want a new OS, you need to build it using Visual Basic because that's the standard that the authorities have told us to follow and if we don't comply they won't take us seriously.
The answer is fuck "their" standards. Draw the line. Stand up and be a real person not a goddam actor playing a freakin' part (note, that's the word you use in the title of your post). Keep it real homie. You don't have to bow to some conservative asswipes in order to be taken seriously. In fact, if you bow down, they'll kick you in the teeth. This is the oldest trick in the book. You have to put your face on the curb there so I won't kick you in the head bitch, come on do it NOW!
I think the fact that this character that posted the story thinks ten bucks a month to listen to music is a good deal is in line with this pathetic begging for mercy mentality. You don't beg with these assholes, you instruct them that they are on the wrong the side of the fence with all clarity possible using distinct visual cues including clothing, hairstyles, slogans anything that can differentiate you from the existing "standards."
Are you sure Xscale is so hot? I heard that they've been a major disappointment and embarrassment for Intel because they aren't performing anywhere near what you would expect for their clock speeds. I believe I read that on Digitimes. From that, I'd assume a Crusoe would be much more interesting.
But I got Versions 2 and 3 going under wine. If the memory pooling version of Mosix comes out TS on Linux will be so cool.
So the people who win Nobel Prizes are a primary source of most innovation? Is that right? It's not the millions of students filtering through the universities doing unpaid research under the guidance of people who may or may not have been rewarded Nobel Prizes that develop innovations, but rather the recipeints themselves posses a shamen like aura that produces a constant stream of this substance called "genius" that is then converted to innovation in these places called corporations.
Huh. Man, you must be one of these fucking geniuses.
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The purpose of a corporation is to create wealth for the shareholders. Wealth is created in markets. Corporations produce marketing first and foremost. People commonly confuse marketing with innovation. Just because a label says "New and Improved" or "Upgrade" doesn't represent a genuine innovation in the academic sense. To the consumer it is often enough to produce a sale and so it's a valuable corporate tool. But confusing this image of innovation with genuine innovation as the term is used in universities is foolish in the extreme.
Moreover, the patent strategies of major corporations, particularly since the formation of the pro-monopoly Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in 1982, has been to stifle innovation by staking a claim around a certain financially rewarding intellectual avenues by flooding those patent areas with patents to be used as offensive weapons. This is not innovation by any means although it involves applying for many patents which can be used to provide a false argument that such corporations are innovators when they are, in fact guided by financial and legal experts rather than technicians.
Almost all innovation takes place in schools and not by professors, but by their students. It has been this way all along and people who don't understand this can be forgiven because the history of education is a boring subject for many of today's youth. However, it is not mysterious by any means and the subtitle of the paper suggests the authors are uninformed at best.
Oh! Tab. Damn, I have to confess I never got to that point. So much for my earlier comment about splitting it into two different interfaces for object and scene editing.
Interesting observation about Caligari. I really like the Caligari interface and there used to be an open source modeler with a clone interface and I believe both were based on an old SGI modeler rather than a Caligari innovation.
I always thought the total lack of text --except for the rollover hints-- was very intriguing because it eliminates the need for internationalization, hence the popularity of Truespace in Asia. Indeed an interface like that technically allows a child unable to read to use it although realistically it might be frustrating for most kids, especially slow readers with fetal alcohol syndrome or what have you. But kids and other lingual users aside that graphics only interface with pop-up menus and dialogs that you can easily collapse just looks better and provides better use of the workspace for my tastes. The lack of more shortcuts is the only real downside.
I think an interface like Truespace, with hotkeys enabled and lots more hotkeys and keyboard shortcuts/alternatives added would be a dream. I tried Blender a while back and it seemed like it needed to be split into a few different packages with different viewport configurations like a package specially for modelers ala Lightwatve, an animation package with a layout like Truespace --though with animation controls more like 3DS-- and something else specifically for gaming. When I tried it, it had some stability problems --par for the course in 3D obviously-- but it didn't look too bad.
I wonder what the source looks like in QT3 Designer. I just took a look at that, it's got as many icons as a 3D design package. It looks more like VB or Delphi than C++. They're starting to attract the likes of icon loving weirdos like myself. Things are looking colorful in open source.
--aything with links is essential to reforming legal texts into something useful. In the US, the laws are written in English. It should be the case that anybody with a high school education could read them and understand them with ease. The main reason lawyers get so involved in anything that has the slightest concern with the law is the twisted textual markup that is currently used makes the documents incomprehensible and extremely difficult to understand in full because of the need to obtain the hundreds of essential external references. This is wonderful news.
Even the stilted style of language referred to as legalese is partly a product of the need for a meta context within legal writing. This is long overdo, but awesome nonetheless.
That's the funniest part about the article. On the second page it says there is an energy glut in California because the idiots in the White House convinced everyone there was a huge energy shortage and built all these new gas turbine plants which quickly resulted in overcapacity because . . . wait for it --there was no real electricity shortage to begin with. Electricity technology is ancient, prices change every day especially with hucksters in positions of power.
The fundamentals of physics and 19th century engineering didn't suddenly get upended two years ago in California. No, it seems a certain set of individuals in Texas that had so much cash they put one of their boys in the Oval Office were fucking with energy prices. Duh.
This locomotive outfit is missing the point. They never will be called into action because the game has been played out. See, you got to keep your eye on the ball son. Now tell me, which shell is the nut under? Oh, lookie there, it's the big white dome in DC. Well, thanks for all ya'lls IRAs and 401ks we gots to go now.
So let's say they go total nazi all over the US and achieve a complete cease of all file uploading from the US to Kazaa. As improbable as that would be, it would still only take out half --at most-- of the overall Kazaa traffic. Assuming that nobody in Europe, Asia, or South America uses an insanely popular P2P app is a bit ridiculous. In fact, if you look at apps like Donkey which could eventually become even more troublesome for the RIAA than Kazaa, you find the servers are predominantly in Europe, Asia and South America. What is the RIAA going to do about that?
Nah, it aint gonna fly. But what is cool is that once the Dow gets back down to 5000 for a few years we'll probably see the end of prohibition in the US because any small time business like selling weed to your neighbors will be essential to getting the economy started again. 1932, part deux.
These copyright and patent motherfucking RauGun revolution asshole sons of bitches caused these problems by restructuring the courts to create these corrupt mega-monopolies and playing their conservative image shell game while they drained the blood of America. Now we're seeing "best defence is offense" crap. Going after first amendment rights isn't going to cover their asses. The American people are not cowards. These fucks are gonna pay for their crimes and the harder they push the harder they're gonna get hit.
Whoa glass too? Hmm, now I'm intrigued even more. I really appreciated the original post even if the work isn't totally original. It's refreshing to see people who actually try something without assuming that the experts already have everything all sorted out.
Writing viruses is not a crime. Writing shitty OS code isn't either. Writing "Fuck George Bush and the Anglican Church" isn't either.
If the FBI thinks their mission is to go fishing in the citizen's privacy they better be prepared to open their doors, drawers and labs to independent oversight.
Any changes to the OS require the users to learn which is the single greatest cost of software as MS loves to point out when explaining why their solutions are cheaper overall than using open source.
MS programmers may do a helluva job, but if it's anything different from what exists, they create a real problem for themselves. They've got to convince the users that their new system is worth learning and to do that there has to be a motivation. Way back when, the motivation to learn Microsoft's new system was to save money over Macs. They are no longer the cheap fix that made them what they are today. Their only hope is to maintain the staus quo for as long as possible and avoid rocking the boat.
Besides, the desktop, file manager, media player, web browser combo that are what most users assocaiate with the operating software of a PC are mostly seventies ideas that have been done so many ways now it's hard to imagine that these geniuses are going to come up with something genuinely new that doesn't require a steep learning curve or become a major security problem or both.
And, if they're really got some super magic secret surprise it's only a matter of time before there are ten other version of it. Microsoft dug its own grave years ago.
The article is right, the wireless device market for the existing overpriced wireless infrastrucutre is probably already saturated and now every "ODM" in Taiwan is about to bomb the market with more of these overpriced toys, prepare for fallout.
What a case of setting themselves up. Reminds me of a time I went to a gangster down New Year's party and started chatting about how my dad was a Jr. High teacher from the hood. Some of the nice fellas there recalled dear Dad quite readily and apparently harbored some resentment. Smack, bang crash! It was mere luck that I made it out alive. I think the only thing that saved me was they were afraid to get any more blood on themselves.
Looking back I realize I set myself up for that in a big way. My expectations were unrealistic. Dad is like a cop and those guys didn't like cops. These handheld nuts are making the same mistake I did. --Oh this market looks tough, but if we act cute and have lots of enthusiasm we'll be okay.
Pap, pap, pap.
Instead of red blood, they'll be oozing market capitalization and laying off employees by the hundreds. Well, if they're as lucky as me they'll live through it. But I'm not kidding myself, it was just luck. Could have went the other way just as easily. Props to all the soon-to-be-dead handheld homies.