Re:yeah, but can I pirate videos with this.
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/me prepares to lose huge amounts of karma once the mods hit./me also takes the troll bait.
Well, congratulations for blanketing everyone who reads/. as being pirates. And also to the god-believing members of/. you just accused of sinning. Give this man a cookie, he's almost a MPAA drone already.
As i look over to my left, i see about 10 dvd's (I started late, ok) that are practically useless coasters in my dvd drive under *ANY* os other than a windows based os.
Choice, it's all about choice, nothing more, nothing less. Can I pirate dvd's easier w/ this, yes. Will I, NO!!! Just because I can doesn't mean I WILL.
It's like saying that because I know how to build a atomic-bomb, I will, and I will launch it at you all in your sleep. C'mon, use the white tissue between your shoulders, I WANT TO WATCH MY MOVIES, period, end-of story.
Anyone who has practiced origami has probably, at one time or another, unfolded an origami model and marveled at the intricate crease pattern which forms the "blueprint" of the fold.
I dunno about all of you guys, but the last time I unfolded a origami art paper, I never got it back together, unless crumpling it up after being frustrated counts:). Who comes up with these things? And I want their job if they have that much free time.
FreeBSD? Is that some sort of company? -- Some guy at work today, heh.:P
And now, the moment all you Dreamcast owners have been waiting for (me included),
-in a spanish announcer's voice-
El Fasto Brrrrrooooooaaadbaaaand. -roll the r's-
Let's get ready to Rumble.:)
But honestly, what really good online game that the dreamcast has that this will go good with? Q3A yes, but let's try something a bit more, umm not pc derived, but original game console multiplayer. Sadly I expect few (if any) original multiplayer games for the Dreamcast for awhile anyway.
And if anyone says Chu-Chu Rocket, oooh I'll lose it. How anyone (not from Japan) could like it is beyond my comprehension.
And now for score 1 redundant.
You look like you need a monkey.
--Another quote from No One Lives Forever (game, not movie)
Second, Sega can in principle use this work on NetBSD in official Dreamcast games, much the same way that Apple is using NetBSD as the core for OS X, since NetBSD is free of some of the licensing restrictions of Linux.
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Damn, I gotta pee!
-some goon from No One Lives Forever
Re:Really? What would you have said in 1903?
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Honestly if some crackpots called Orville and Wilbur came up to you in 1903 and said they were inventing a flying machine and were going to test it out at Kitty Hawk, you would have shrugged them off as either insane, stupid, or just mad.
But look at what happened, the few (Orville and Wilbur) proved the many WRONG. And they got to have a cool ride on a very unsafe aircraft.:)
It's alot closer to a "warp" drive than most. For whatever reason this reminds me of the ship that sisko(sp?) sailed from ds9, only it uses plasma and magnetic fields as the sails. I personally want one, screw ion propulsion, it'll eventually run out of fuel anyway, this will be able to produce it's fuel. Whoo!
And what are the Bussard ramjets? IIRCWIPD all a Bussard collector is a assemblage that collects spaceborne hydrogen atoms.
But why call it a Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion? If it pushes limits of magnetic field limits?
Just my untrained programmer mind thinking, I'll go back to reading the OpenGL Blue Book.
-snip-
The Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion, M2P2, system provides a revolutionary means for spacecraft propulsion that can efficiently utilize the energy from solar plasma to accelerate payloads to much higher speeds than can be attained by present chemical (oxidizing) propulsion systems. The system utilizes an innovative configuration of existing technology based on well-established principles of plasma physics. It has the potential of providing low cost propulsion that could power an Interstellar Probe, as well as a manned mission to Mars. The M2P2 system utilizes low energy plasma to inflate a magnetic field beyond the typical scale lengths that can be supported by a standard solenoid magnetic field coil. In space, the inflated magnetic field can be used to reflect high-speed (400 - 1000 km/s) solar wind particles to attain unprecedented acceleration for power input of only a few kW, which can be achieved by solar electric units. Our initial estimates for a minimum system could provide a typical thrust of about 3 Newton continuous (0.6 MW of continuous power), with a specific impulse of 104 to 105 seconds) to produce an increase in speed of about 30 km/s in a period of 3 months. Proposed optimization could allow the development of a system that increases the acceleration level obtained with less expenditure of fuel. The optimized system could enable a mission that would leave the solar system.
-snip-
Think about it, we buy a lcd lego for the screen in the size we want. Then we get the cd accessory, hard drive mounting kit, and processor kit. With technology like Transmeta and processors that can be added-on at will/dynamically, not only could we make it look cool, but we can add on easily, and run any type of app out there for any processor.
This would extend the concept of modular design to computers, and if the blocks could network themselves together and figure out how to use each other in a biological sense, it'd be even cooler.
I just wonder what to name them, Compu-blocks? I better just go back to programming.
Ok, I know no feeding.
Komodo is a IDE, not a file manager. IDE == Integrated Development Environment if you are unaware.
You may now resume your disorder.
Hmm, I've lost more cd's than I can imagine, only to discover them underneath my computer.
What'll happen if we do get these, am I gonna actually get organized for once? Heck no, I'll lose all of them.
I'm all for miniaturization and nanotechnology, but cmon people, let's get serious here. Do we want to promote losing tiny things, or whine about larger, but still easy to lose things?
This wasn't a be mp3 player, it is soundplay. It was created by a Be engineer though, but not Be the company. And considering it was capable of playing mp3's backwards at any rate about a year before any other mp3 player on any platform what does it matter?
And have you considered that because Be is a company that when the RIAA decides to go with a *secure* digital music format, they can then implement it without the whole open-source problems that Linux entails?
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but from a commercial standpoint, Be makes more sense. If I can hire a company to customize the way things look and work underneath without worrying about code and save money developing it, I would. Instead of hiring someone to hack this and that into a bunch of Linux source to get something that will probably not quite what i expected. And there is more accountability with one company working on it. They get blamed for screw ups, who do I blame when the code is open source? And they can keep their trade secrets to themselves if they want.
Is it just me or does anything that's not Linux-based here, get gunned down for any real reason?
Read the article here and realize that each os has it's role. I personally am getting sick of Linux is for everything because it's open source. It isn't. BeOS isn't suited for everything. NT/9x/Me/CE aren't either. QNX is cool, but also not suited for everything. Open/Free/NetBSD have their places as well.
Use the right tool for the job. Isn't open source about choice anymore? I recall people complaining about gimp being ported to win32. If I can't run the software on the os of my choice, what good is it? This is what the source is for, to use, abuse, and port.
Am I the only one seeing this? We have a whole tld allocated for a foodtype?
chunky.soup, creamy.soup, crappy.soup?!?!?!?!?
It just doesn't fit to me.
But.sucks is perfect, I just wonder what'll happen to suck.com.
Disclaimer: these are my OPINIONS, if you don't like them, continue on reading, OS flamewars are pointless. I use all the os's mentioned in the article, they each have uses. A comparison of something similar between all of them is just what this industry needs.
Now while I absolutely love BeOS, I would prefer a outside source benchmark this stuff soon *cough*ArsTechnica*cough* or when the drivers are out and non-beta. If only to provide a very good third party view of drivers, os, performance differences, etc..
It's important to note that Benews IS a BeOS news site, not a Linux site. Therefore there should be zero surprise that the benchmarks are high for BeOS. And while benchmarks never satisfy everyone, I think it's hard to dispute that the figures look good so far.
But I would like a VERY comprehensive review of all three os's running the same app on the same hardware. And with varying hardware that had daemons running, a stripped down configuration built specifically for running games, bleeding edge drivers, stable drivers, etc.. Then repeat for windows, and then run the same tests on Be with the same variances. Basically just be fair about all of the tests, and then draw a unbiased conclusion based on those tests.
If linux does better than Be, GREAT! It will give more people a reason to get rid of windows, which is what everyone wants, right? If Be does better, then it gives more people a reason to dump windows, which is also good.
*begin off-topic stuff* Now if all you linux users/coders want to impress everyone show us the power of open source and get those figures up to snuff. I thought open source was all about choice, not whose os is better. I wouldn't want anyone using ANY os for the wrong reasons. And if that os doesn't do the job better, what was the point in the switch? If i am wrong on these points, please correct me. *end off-topic stuff*
Anyway, just read it for what it is, a news blurb, and go about your day like I will now.
Let's hope Matrox keeps up their good will towards users. I don't wanna use a Voodoo card, I still hate 3dfx for having pushed Glide waaaaay to long and for releasing miniGL as a wrapper for Glide and not a real OpenGL driver for their cards.
err, I don't know about the Linux drivers etc.. But nVidia is a bastard at releasing specs for their cards.
Example, alot of developers who have been creating a driver for the GeForce card for BeOS ended up hitting a roadblock, how to access the framebuffer IIRC. Well many emails to nVidia later, nothing, It's as if they don't care about the people who use their cards. And all they are asking for is access to creating a 2d driver ONLY! I doubt there's any trade secrets in the 2d code, but apparently nVidia just doesn't give a damn about non-ms os's. So I say screw nVidia, for as much as I like there video cards, I hate the way the company treats it's users choices of os's.
Therefore the TNT card in my system will no longer be replaced with a GeForce card unless nVidia gets it's collective head out of it's ass and releases specs so users could support their favorite os, be it FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS, whatever os you're using.
Matrox here I come, just don't pull a nVidia on me after I get a G400.
You're forgetting that the Pro version will (hopefully) have a java vm, and it will have a more featurefull BeIDE that what's in the devtools zip file, but I tend to use Eddie for programming anyway, I still would rather use make commands and makefiles. And you get support for it too. And hopefully Be makes Gobe keep non-point releases free for registered users just like it has in the past.
Here is the link to Gobe's website, now that they are distributing BeOS they have the info there.
But the mp3 codec is straight from THE source, Fraunhofer IIS and THOMPSON Multimedia, which means it's way better than lame and crew. And there is no need to decode a cd to a wav anymore, the cdda fs addon lets you look at your audio cd like it's full of wavs, drag and drop and boom you're done, just encode away.
And with no mention of a contract, so that gets me out of that, but as for the hardware that's another matter. Well we'll see what modifications they throw on the little i-opener I get. My guess is this is just a stop-gap measure (scare people with words) until they can actually "fix" the hardware so no one can mess with it. If not I'll tell CC that I didn't like it and get my money back, or just keep it around for a footrest.:)
After perusing your website, I have only one question. What do you see as the next generation of user input outside of mice and keyboards?
Personally I would prefer touch screens and voice recognition ala star trek, but even these would seem to be similar to the windowing systems we currently use.
A alternative solution (to me at least) would be a 3D holographic display that would let you truly navigate the web or hard drive by just pointing/touching in the general area you are interested in and having the display change accordingly. But all this goes back to my original question, what interface (or combination of interfaces) would be the most intuitive in your opinion?
Well here's what Jean Louise Gasse had to say in the latest online newsletter. Be newsletter Not only that but it talks how their new networking kit(?) called BONE (BeOS Networking Environment) fits into the picture. All in all a good read, even if you don't like the BeOS.
Legos the coolest real toys ever
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I still love legos. When me and my friends used to get together we'd really come up with some cool stuff to create, model enterprises, etc.. But the wars were the best. I still remember the time we took a whole bunch of legos and arranged them into crude throwing stars. They really hurt, but if you missed and hit the wall you broke a few of your legos. But try and control their direction, you'd have better luck trying to push a car up a hill. But the closest I ever got to my gun was a crude piston like system that required you crank really fast. And then make sure everything was still together.:) But I always wondered, why bother building a really cool gun when you could just get the 2 x 4 bricks by the handful and whip them at your opponent, kinda like a shotgun effect? Ahh the memories.
Here's what I have planned for FreeBSD. I will use it as my main os. And then use VMWare for running windows/(and when/if it comes BeOS) as clients. I have already used Debian, RedHat, and lately Stampede Linux, so I am not too scared of unixes, and bash is my second language now.:)
But I just want to know if FreeBSD will run VMWare with any speed/stability. And if I don't have to recompile the whole freaking kernel to get my sound blaster working! That was my main sticking point with linux.
Moderate this down if you want, but it seems that way too many people believe we are in the new millenium and 21st century now.
Allright, I've told this to way too many people and I'll tell it again. The new millenium starts in 2001 as does (surprise) the new 21st century.
You want proof? Alright, count up to 10 and tell me how many numbers you get.
If you started with 0 then you get a cookie. But seeing as how most people start with a 1 we have a problem.
There has never been and never will be a year 0 (BC or AD or whatever). And quite logically, how can you have one? The whole purpose of 0 is to signify a lack of something, how can we lack time?
So using that logic we must start with 1AD after saying goodbye to 1BC. Now it shouldn't take a physics major to tell what year is exactly 2000 years after this year. (if you have no clue it is none other than 2001) So the new century also starts in 2001 not 2000! And a whisper is heard throughout the world, everyone who partied like it's 1999 realizes that they were a year too early.
Just like this century started in 1901 so too must it end 100 years later in 2001.
Now If only the stupid people who write national headline news would get this thru their head, but that's asking them to think, wouldn't want that now would we?:)
-My new sig- "Goddammit! The world is just filling up with more and more idiots! And the computer is giving them access to the world! They're spreading their stupidity! At least they were contained before -- now they're on the loose everywhere!" -- Harlan Ellison in The Onion
Sweet swirling onion rings that sounds cool. Who was this guy and will he open source this? (I have no plans of using it but the code behind it sounds extremely interesting) -If I had a good quote, It'd go here. -me
Slashdot Mirror
/me prepares to lose huge amounts of karma once the mods hit. /me also takes the troll bait.
/. as being pirates. And also to the god-believing members of /. you just accused of sinning. Give this man a cookie, he's almost a MPAA drone already.
Well, congratulations for blanketing everyone who reads
As i look over to my left, i see about 10 dvd's (I started late, ok) that are practically useless coasters in my dvd drive under *ANY* os other than a windows based os.
Choice, it's all about choice, nothing more, nothing less. Can I pirate dvd's easier w/ this, yes. Will I, NO!!! Just because I can doesn't mean I WILL.
It's like saying that because I know how to build a atomic-bomb, I will, and I will launch it at you all in your sleep. C'mon, use the white tissue between your shoulders, I WANT TO WATCH MY MOVIES, period, end-of story.
Linux
NetBSD
If in doubt, research, then post. Or to quote the old addage "Measure twice, cut once", or in geek terms, "Search twice, post once".
And December 7th is not?
Forget the past and you are doomed to repeat it as the old saying goes.
Heh, all we need now is ICP to sing it. :)
From the origami math site:
:). Who comes up with these things? And I want their job if they have that much free time.
:P
Anyone who has practiced origami has probably, at one time or another, unfolded an origami model and marveled at the intricate crease pattern which forms the "blueprint" of the fold.
I dunno about all of you guys, but the last time I unfolded a origami art paper, I never got it back together, unless crumpling it up after being frustrated counts
FreeBSD? Is that some sort of company? -- Some guy at work today, heh.
And now, the moment all you Dreamcast owners have been waiting for (me included),
:)
-in a spanish announcer's voice-
El Fasto Brrrrrooooooaaadbaaaand. -roll the r's-
Let's get ready to Rumble.
But honestly, what really good online game that the dreamcast has that this will go good with? Q3A yes, but let's try something a bit more, umm not pc derived, but original game console multiplayer. Sadly I expect few (if any) original multiplayer games for the Dreamcast for awhile anyway.
And if anyone says Chu-Chu Rocket, oooh I'll lose it. How anyone (not from Japan) could like it is beyond my comprehension.
And now for score 1 redundant.
You look like you need a monkey.
--Another quote from No One Lives Forever (game, not movie)
Isn't OSX based on FreeBSD, not NetBSD?
-snippet-
Second, Sega can in principle use this work on NetBSD in official Dreamcast games, much the same way that Apple is using NetBSD as the core for OS X, since NetBSD is free of some of the licensing restrictions of Linux.
-end snippet-
Damn, I gotta pee!
-some goon from No One Lives Forever
Honestly if some crackpots called Orville and Wilbur came up to you in 1903 and said they were inventing a flying machine and were going to test it out at Kitty Hawk, you would have shrugged them off as either insane, stupid, or just mad.
:)
But look at what happened, the few (Orville and Wilbur) proved the many WRONG. And they got to have a cool ride on a very unsafe aircraft.
It's alot closer to a "warp" drive than most. For whatever reason this reminds me of the ship that sisko(sp?) sailed from ds9, only it uses plasma and magnetic fields as the sails. I personally want one, screw ion propulsion, it'll eventually run out of fuel anyway, this will be able to produce it's fuel. Whoo!
And what are the Bussard ramjets? IIRCWIPD all a Bussard collector is a assemblage that collects spaceborne hydrogen atoms.
But why call it a Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion? If it pushes limits of magnetic field limits?
Just my untrained programmer mind thinking, I'll go back to reading the OpenGL Blue Book.
-snip-
The Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion, M2P2, system provides a revolutionary means for spacecraft propulsion that can efficiently utilize the energy from solar plasma to accelerate payloads to much higher speeds than can be attained by present chemical (oxidizing) propulsion systems. The system utilizes an innovative configuration of existing technology based on well-established principles of plasma physics. It has the potential of providing low cost propulsion that could power an Interstellar Probe, as well as a manned mission to Mars. The M2P2 system utilizes low energy plasma to inflate a magnetic field beyond the typical scale lengths that can be supported by a standard solenoid magnetic field coil. In space, the inflated magnetic field can be used to reflect high-speed (400 - 1000 km/s) solar wind particles to attain unprecedented acceleration for power input of only a few kW, which can be achieved by solar electric units. Our initial estimates for a minimum system could provide a typical thrust of about 3 Newton continuous (0.6 MW of continuous power), with a specific impulse of 104 to 105 seconds) to produce an increase in speed of about 30 km/s in a period of 3 months. Proposed optimization could allow the development of a system that increases the acceleration level obtained with less expenditure of fuel. The optimized system could enable a mission that would leave the solar system.
-snip-
Think about it, we buy a lcd lego for the screen in the size we want. Then we get the cd accessory, hard drive mounting kit, and processor kit. With technology like Transmeta and processors that can be added-on at will/dynamically, not only could we make it look cool, but we can add on easily, and run any type of app out there for any processor.
This would extend the concept of modular design to computers, and if the blocks could network themselves together and figure out how to use each other in a biological sense, it'd be even cooler.
I just wonder what to name them, Compu-blocks? I better just go back to programming.
Ok, I know no feeding.
Komodo is a IDE, not a file manager. IDE == Integrated Development Environment if you are unaware.
You may now resume your disorder.
Hmm, I've lost more cd's than I can imagine, only to discover them underneath my computer.
What'll happen if we do get these, am I gonna actually get organized for once? Heck no, I'll lose all of them.
I'm all for miniaturization and nanotechnology, but cmon people, let's get serious here. Do we want to promote losing tiny things, or whine about larger, but still easy to lose things?
This is what happens when I get too much sleep.
And have you considered that because Be is a company that when the RIAA decides to go with a *secure* digital music format, they can then implement it without the whole open-source problems that Linux entails?
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but from a commercial standpoint, Be makes more sense. If I can hire a company to customize the way things look and work underneath without worrying about code and save money developing it, I would. Instead of hiring someone to hack this and that into a bunch of Linux source to get something that will probably not quite what i expected. And there is more accountability with one company working on it. They get blamed for screw ups, who do I blame when the code is open source? And they can keep their trade secrets to themselves if they want.
Is it just me or does anything that's not Linux-based here, get gunned down for any real reason?
Read the article here and realize that each os has it's role. I personally am getting sick of Linux is for everything because it's open source. It isn't. BeOS isn't suited for everything. NT/9x/Me/CE aren't either. QNX is cool, but also not suited for everything. Open/Free/NetBSD have their places as well.
Use the right tool for the job. Isn't open source about choice anymore? I recall people complaining about gimp being ported to win32. If I can't run the software on the os of my choice, what good is it? This is what the source is for, to use, abuse, and port.
Now time for the mods to mark me as flamebait. :)
Am I the only one seeing this? We have a whole tld allocated for a foodtype? chunky.soup, creamy.soup, crappy.soup?!?!?!?!? It just doesn't fit to me. But .sucks is perfect, I just wonder what'll happen to suck.com.
Disclaimer: these are my OPINIONS, if you don't like them, continue on reading, OS flamewars are pointless. I use all the os's mentioned in the article, they each have uses. A comparison of something similar between all of them is just what this industry needs.
Now while I absolutely love BeOS, I would prefer a outside source benchmark this stuff soon *cough*ArsTechnica*cough* or when the drivers are out and non-beta. If only to provide a very good third party view of drivers, os, performance differences, etc..
It's important to note that Benews IS a BeOS news site, not a Linux site. Therefore there should be zero surprise that the benchmarks are high for BeOS. And while benchmarks never satisfy everyone, I think it's hard to dispute that the figures look good so far.
But I would like a VERY comprehensive review of all three os's running the same app on the same hardware. And with varying hardware that had daemons running, a stripped down configuration built specifically for running games, bleeding edge drivers, stable drivers, etc.. Then repeat for windows, and then run the same tests on Be with the same variances. Basically just be fair about all of the tests, and then draw a unbiased conclusion based on those tests.
If linux does better than Be, GREAT! It will give more people a reason to get rid of windows, which is what everyone wants, right? If Be does better, then it gives more people a reason to dump windows, which is also good.
*begin off-topic stuff*
Now if all you linux users/coders want to impress everyone show us the power of open source and get those figures up to snuff. I thought open source was all about choice, not whose os is better. I wouldn't want anyone using ANY os for the wrong reasons. And if that os doesn't do the job better, what was the point in the switch? If i am wrong on these points, please correct me.
*end off-topic stuff*
Anyway, just read it for what it is, a news blurb, and go about your day like I will now.
Let's hope Matrox keeps up their good will towards users. I don't wanna use a Voodoo card, I still hate 3dfx for having pushed Glide waaaaay to long and for releasing miniGL as a wrapper for Glide and not a real OpenGL driver for their cards.
err, I don't know about the Linux drivers etc.. But nVidia is a bastard at releasing specs for their cards.
Example, alot of developers who have been creating a driver for the GeForce card for BeOS ended up hitting a roadblock, how to access the framebuffer IIRC. Well many emails to nVidia later, nothing, It's as if they don't care about the people who use their cards. And all they are asking for is access to creating a 2d driver ONLY! I doubt there's any trade secrets in the 2d code, but apparently nVidia just doesn't give a damn about non-ms os's. So I say screw nVidia, for as much as I like there video cards, I hate the way the company treats it's users choices of os's.
Therefore the TNT card in my system will no longer be replaced with a GeForce card unless nVidia gets it's collective head out of it's ass and releases specs so users could support their favorite os, be it FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS, whatever os you're using.
Matrox here I come, just don't pull a nVidia on me after I get a G400.
You're forgetting that the Pro version will (hopefully) have a java vm, and it will have a more featurefull BeIDE that what's in the devtools zip file, but I tend to use Eddie for programming anyway, I still would
rather use make commands and makefiles. And you get support for it too. And hopefully Be makes Gobe keep non-point releases free for registered users just like it has in the past.
Here is the link to Gobe's website, now that they are distributing BeOS they have the info there.
But the mp3 codec is straight from THE source, Fraunhofer IIS and THOMPSON Multimedia, which means it's way better than lame and crew. And there is no need to decode a cd to a wav anymore, the cdda fs addon lets you look at your audio cd like it's full of wavs, drag and drop and boom you're done, just encode away.
And with no mention of a contract, so that gets me out of that, but as for the hardware that's another matter. Well we'll see what modifications they throw on the little i-opener I get. My guess is this is just a stop-gap measure (scare people with words) until they can actually "fix" the hardware so no one can mess with it. If not I'll tell CC that I didn't like it and get my money back, or just keep it around for a footrest. :)
After perusing your website, I have only one question. What do you see as the next generation of user input outside of mice and keyboards?
Personally I would prefer touch screens and voice recognition ala star trek, but even these would seem to be similar to the windowing systems we currently use.
A alternative solution (to me at least) would be a 3D holographic display that would let you truly navigate the web or hard drive by just pointing/touching in the general area you are interested in and having the display change accordingly. But all this goes back to my original question, what interface (or combination of interfaces) would be the most intuitive in your opinion?
Well here's what Jean Louise Gasse had to say in the latest online newsletter. Be newsletter Not only that but it talks how their new networking kit(?) called BONE (BeOS Networking Environment) fits into the picture. All in all a good read, even if you don't like the BeOS.
I still love legos. When me and my friends used to get together we'd really come up with some cool stuff to create, model enterprises, etc.. But the wars were the best. I still remember the time we took a whole bunch of legos and arranged them into crude throwing stars. They really hurt, but if you missed and hit the wall you broke a few of your legos. But try and control their direction, you'd have better luck trying to push a car up a hill. But the closest I ever got to my gun was a crude piston like system that required you crank really fast. And then make sure everything was still together. :) But I always wondered, why bother building a really cool gun when you could just get the 2 x 4 bricks by the handful and whip them at your opponent, kinda like a shotgun effect? Ahh the memories.
Here's what I have planned for FreeBSD. I will use it as my main os. And then use VMWare for running windows/(and when/if it comes BeOS) as clients. I have already used Debian, RedHat, and lately Stampede Linux, so I am not too scared of unixes, and bash is my second language now. :)
But I just want to know if FreeBSD will run VMWare with any speed/stability. And if I don't have to recompile the whole freaking kernel to get my sound blaster working! That was my main sticking point with linux.
Moderate this down if you want, but it seems that way too many people believe we are in the new millenium and 21st century now.
:)
Allright, I've told this to way too many people and I'll tell it again. The new millenium starts in 2001 as does (surprise) the new 21st century.
You want proof? Alright, count up to 10 and tell me how many numbers you get.
If you started with 0 then you get a cookie. But seeing as how most people start with a 1 we have a problem.
There has never been and never will be a year 0 (BC or AD or whatever). And quite logically, how can you have one? The whole purpose of 0 is to signify a lack of something, how can we lack time?
So using that logic we must start with 1AD after saying goodbye to 1BC. Now it shouldn't take a physics major to tell what year is exactly 2000 years after this year. (if you have no clue it is none other than 2001) So the new century also starts in 2001 not 2000! And a whisper is heard throughout the world, everyone who partied like it's 1999 realizes that they were a year too early.
Just like this century started in 1901 so too must it end 100 years later in 2001.
Now If only the stupid people who write national headline news would get this thru their head, but that's asking them to think, wouldn't want that now would we?
-My new sig-
"Goddammit! The world is just filling up with more and more idiots! And the computer is giving them access to the world! They're spreading their stupidity! At least they were contained before -- now they're on the loose everywhere!"
-- Harlan Ellison in The Onion
Sweet swirling onion rings that sounds cool. Who was this guy and will he open source this? (I have no plans of using it but the code behind it sounds extremely interesting) -If I had a good quote, It'd go here. -me