Linux just needs ONE major box shipper like dell to even offer it as an option-that's it, it'll "take" just swell. Have the same exact box, one has borg, the other has a penguin, with 100$ (whatever) cheaper price tag for the penguin, see what happens.
It already happened. Gateway and Dell. It was a flop. The programs were discontinued, as far as I know.
Well, a lot of it *is* the interface... It helps me remember things that I wouldn't normally remember on my trips into the hierarchies on the various computers. It's truly *one* place to find things... I could do the same thing with shortcuts to different things, but not only do I point to documents, but also to email, web sites, etc. And they're organized by the way that I think, so it doesn't matter if it's a text document, email, web site, application, etc. It's all connected. Also, I get to jot down notes about all kinds of things. No need for multiple text files, or one big text file.
One example:
I run a brick & mortar shop where I'm constantly buying new products. I get requests, I find cool things, and I have to keep track of them. I have a few thoughts that are "immediate", "longer term", and "like to have these if I can find 'em". Sometimes they're requests, so I jot a quick note. Sometimes they're in emails, so I'll link the email. Sometimes they're websites, so I'll link to those. And, I also have links from products, to say, ways I'd like to arrange stuff in the store. I need to get product X. Also, I'd like to re-arrange those shelves like that. And, oh yeah, I also have a bill to pay to vendor Y. And I also have to buy product Z next time I order from vendor Y. And here's the fax number for vendor Y. Oh, and Vendor Y has a custom app to order via EDI. Here's a link to that app. It's all connected in ways that I think to keep it centralized and to jog my memory when I've got hundreds of different things going on. The only drawback is training myself to use it, like any other system. But when I do, I find myself forgetting less, and working much more efficiently.
1. Amazon (I preferred CD-NOW, but now everything is Amazon). Enter in your favorites, and it'll make suggestions based on what other people buy who like music similar to you. Works very well.
2. Launch.com. It's Yahoo now, but Yahoo didn't change the basics... it's still the best streaming radio out there. You continually tweak what songs/artists/albums/genres that you like for your own radio station, and you can also set how much "other music" is inserted into your radio station. That "other music" that's inserted is music that other people with tastes similar to yours also like. Even better than the Amazon thing, since you get to hear the music right away without actively doing anything. Also, I like Yahoo a smidgen more than I like Amazon.
Looking at their financials, I'm not so sure that they're actually driven by profits. They have yet to make any.
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"Thinking" pilots are the cause of most accidents. In the event of a controller fuckup (ie: near collision), the systems on commercial jets tell the pilots what to do. They even talk between themselves (ie: you go up, we'll go down). That's much safer than a pilot taking a 50/50 shot. Hell, read about 3 Mile Island. It happened because of human intervention. If the system was left to it's own accord, nothing bad would've happened at all. What about hijackings? You can't exactly hold a knife to a computer's throat, and no matter how many drunk/unruly passengers you have on a plane, they're not gonna hure the computer.
In the history of major accidents, human intervention is usually the *cause* of most disasters. I, for one, would feel safer in or under a pilotless plane.
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Wow. Ever take a look at the US budget? It's in the TRILLIONS. $4 Million is nothing. Compare that to "real" planes, and the cost of life when one crashes. $4M is chump change, relatively speaking.
Wow. This really is a super troll you've written yourself here. "bury Windows forever"? That's pretty funny. "What we need to do now is strike while the iron's hot and go for the kill."? That one made me shoot soda out of my nose. Hey, is this really ESR???
I'm new to using the Brain, but even I've figured out that web and email do integrate with the Brain just fine. Are you talking about pre v 1.0 beta release, maybe? Those are both definitely in their 2.0 version, and also in their new 3.0 beta.
I use it for my small businesses. I've replaced countless sticky notes of things to do, bills to pay, websites to examine, things to buy this week, things I need to do long term, important emails, important documents that I need to find again quickly, etc., etc. with The Brain. When I use it (and isn't that always the trick? Training yourself to use that instead of what you have been using for so many years.) I don't lose things any more. Not only can I quickly jot down a note, but I can always find it again because it organizes things in a way that makes sense for me. And, for someone as forgetful as me, it's always nice when I'm looking at one thing, and there's something else linked to it that I had *completely* forgotten about.
Also, as someone mentioned earlier, it's a breeze to backup. Everything important is all stored in one directory. Just back up that directory.
I don't generally use very many documents. Pretty much my "Brain" is used for sorting out thoughts, links, & emails. Does it drop any new documents in the "My Brains/NineNine" directory?
That's bad. Even worse is that they're putting their ODBC connection (should be OLE DB, anyway) at the application level. Jesus christ... that's really amateurish. You'd think that even the most brain dead developer would have quit doing this years ago. I hope their web developer isn't one of the main developers. Try this link
Actually, the article mentions: newdocms isn't a file browser: it is a layer between the hierarchical file system (HFS) and the user. It didn't explain it very well on the web page, but I'd assumed that they both did the same thing... give a different interface between the user and the existing file system.
This is a testament to the power of free software: this sort of innovation could never happen if it weren't for the free software nature of the underlying systems.
This is completely untrue. There are lots of other options (like The Brain) that have been out for a while that have nothing to do with "free software". Hell, the fact that other proprietary systems (that are better, in my opinion) came out earlier shows that not only is "free software" irrelevant in this discussion, but it actually lags behind software driven by the profit model.
I'm already using The Brain. It's *really* unique, and it works. It works very well. And, in addition to organizing files the way YOU want them organized, it also connects random thoughts, web sites, emails, etc. If you haven't seen it, check it out. It's pretty damn incredible.
You're right... free software doesn't need financial support to continue. There will always be a fresh group of young, naive, impressionable college kids to be taken advantage of. And I'm sure that IBM couldn't be happier about that.
Most of these people, represented in the 1.7 % are rich people in the computer field , web-savy and spend time on the internet.
I disagree. I'd say that the 1.7% (closer to 0.5% on my sites) are mostly college kids who don't buy anything... exactly the kind of sufers I *don't* want.
Ah, gotcha. Well, that's still a useless statistic... The site gets virtually no traffic (635K pageviews since Jan 2002!?!), and it definitely isn't representative of users in general.
Well, as much as you'd like to believe that your mother's emailbox is the barometer for all software security worldwide, I'd just like to say that I believe it's my mother's mailbox. She gets no klez email. So, it's not a problem anywhere.
Sorry, but somehow, I think that there's a small window of problems that exists in the range between your mother's email and "extinction level events".
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"Evil"? hahahaha Who's REALLY posting this? George Bush? (ie: "Axis of Evil"). ROTFL
Linux just needs ONE major box shipper like dell to even offer it as an option-that's it, it'll "take" just swell. Have the same exact box, one has borg, the other has a penguin, with 100$ (whatever) cheaper price tag for the penguin, see what happens.
It already happened. Gateway and Dell. It was a flop. The programs were discontinued, as far as I know.
I think it's time everyone stands up to the evil empire
That's right. Go to Wal-Mart to buy your computer. Hehehe. Idiots. You gotta love 'em.
Well, a lot of it *is* the interface... It helps me remember things that I wouldn't normally remember on my trips into the hierarchies on the various computers. It's truly *one* place to find things... I could do the same thing with shortcuts to different things, but not only do I point to documents, but also to email, web sites, etc. And they're organized by the way that I think, so it doesn't matter if it's a text document, email, web site, application, etc. It's all connected. Also, I get to jot down notes about all kinds of things. No need for multiple text files, or one big text file.
One example:
I run a brick & mortar shop where I'm constantly buying new products. I get requests, I find cool things, and I have to keep track of them. I have a few thoughts that are "immediate", "longer term", and "like to have these if I can find 'em". Sometimes they're requests, so I jot a quick note. Sometimes they're in emails, so I'll link the email. Sometimes they're websites, so I'll link to those. And, I also have links from products, to say, ways I'd like to arrange stuff in the store. I need to get product X. Also, I'd like to re-arrange those shelves like that. And, oh yeah, I also have a bill to pay to vendor Y. And I also have to buy product Z next time I order from vendor Y. And here's the fax number for vendor Y. Oh, and Vendor Y has a custom app to order via EDI. Here's a link to that app.
It's all connected in ways that I think to keep it centralized and to jog my memory when I've got hundreds of different things going on. The only drawback is training myself to use it, like any other system. But when I do, I find myself forgetting less, and working much more efficiently.
I've got two ways that I do this:
1. Amazon (I preferred CD-NOW, but now everything is Amazon). Enter in your favorites, and it'll make suggestions based on what other people buy who like music similar to you. Works very well.
2. Launch.com. It's Yahoo now, but Yahoo didn't change the basics... it's still the best streaming radio out there. You continually tweak what songs/artists/albums/genres that you like for your own radio station, and you can also set how much "other music" is inserted into your radio station. That "other music" that's inserted is music that other people with tastes similar to yours also like. Even better than the Amazon thing, since you get to hear the music right away without actively doing anything. Also, I like Yahoo a smidgen more than I like Amazon.
Looking at their financials, I'm not so sure that they're actually driven by profits. They have yet to make any.
"Thinking" pilots are the cause of most accidents. In the event of a controller fuckup (ie: near collision), the systems on commercial jets tell the pilots what to do. They even talk between themselves (ie: you go up, we'll go down). That's much safer than a pilot taking a 50/50 shot. Hell, read about 3 Mile Island. It happened because of human intervention. If the system was left to it's own accord, nothing bad would've happened at all. What about hijackings? You can't exactly hold a knife to a computer's throat, and no matter how many drunk/unruly passengers you have on a plane, they're not gonna hure the computer.
In the history of major accidents, human intervention is usually the *cause* of most disasters. I, for one, would feel safer in or under a pilotless plane.
Wow. Ever take a look at the US budget? It's in the TRILLIONS. $4 Million is nothing. Compare that to "real" planes, and the cost of life when one crashes. $4M is chump change, relatively speaking.
Wow. This really is a super troll you've written yourself here. "bury Windows forever"? That's pretty funny. "What we need to do now is strike while the iron's hot and go for the kill."? That one made me shoot soda out of my nose. Hey, is this really ESR???
Bytheway, where did you find that crappy stat, from Nena (99 luftballons) [www.nena.de] or what ?
From My Brain!
I'm new to using the Brain, but even I've figured out that web and email do integrate with the Brain just fine. Are you talking about pre v 1.0 beta release, maybe? Those are both definitely in their 2.0 version, and also in their new 3.0 beta.
I use it for my small businesses. I've replaced countless sticky notes of things to do, bills to pay, websites to examine, things to buy this week, things I need to do long term, important emails, important documents that I need to find again quickly, etc., etc. with The Brain. When I use it (and isn't that always the trick? Training yourself to use that instead of what you have been using for so many years.) I don't lose things any more. Not only can I quickly jot down a note, but I can always find it again because it organizes things in a way that makes sense for me. And, for someone as forgetful as me, it's always nice when I'm looking at one thing, and there's something else linked to it that I had *completely* forgotten about.
Also, as someone mentioned earlier, it's a breeze to backup. Everything important is all stored in one directory. Just back up that directory.
I don't generally use very many documents. Pretty much my "Brain" is used for sorting out thoughts, links, & emails. Does it drop any new documents in the "My Brains/NineNine" directory?
That's bad. Even worse is that they're putting their ODBC connection (should be OLE DB, anyway) at the application level. Jesus christ... that's really amateurish. You'd think that even the most brain dead developer would have quit doing this years ago. I hope their web developer isn't one of the main developers. Try this link
Actually, the article mentions:
newdocms isn't a file browser: it is a layer between the hierarchical file system (HFS) and the user. It didn't explain it very well on the web page, but I'd assumed that they both did the same thing... give a different interface between the user and the existing file system.
The Brain isn't free :( newdocms is, HUGE advantage
That would be a valid point if the two products did the same thing. The Brain seems to do a lot more, and it's very graphical. It's for the $80.
The Brain doesn't work on non-Window$ systems, newdocms does
newdocms doesn't work on Windows systems. It's not useable for 99% of all PC users. That's not too good.
This is a testament to the power of free software: this sort of innovation could never happen if it weren't for the free software nature of the underlying systems.
This is completely untrue. There are lots of other options (like The Brain) that have been out for a while that have nothing to do with "free software". Hell, the fact that other proprietary systems (that are better, in my opinion) came out earlier shows that not only is "free software" irrelevant in this discussion, but it actually lags behind software driven by the profit model.
I'm already using The Brain. It's *really* unique, and it works. It works very well. And, in addition to organizing files the way YOU want them organized, it also connects random thoughts, web sites, emails, etc. If you haven't seen it, check it out. It's pretty damn incredible.
but Linux is more than happy on a system of that caliber.
...As long as you don't go *anything* more graphical than ASCII.
You're right... free software doesn't need financial support to continue. There will always be a fresh group of young, naive, impressionable college kids to be taken advantage of. And I'm sure that IBM couldn't be happier about that.
And the sample size of your experiment is what? 1000 users a day? Even that many?
Most of these people, represented in the 1.7 % are rich people in the computer field , web-savy and spend time on the internet.
I disagree. I'd say that the 1.7% (closer to 0.5% on my sites) are mostly college kids who don't buy anything... exactly the kind of sufers I *don't* want.
Ah, gotcha. Well, that's still a useless statistic... The site gets virtually no traffic (635K pageviews since Jan 2002!?!), and it definitely isn't representative of users in general.
Where did you get 80.61%? It's closer to 96% on my site.
Well, as much as you'd like to believe that your mother's emailbox is the barometer for all software security worldwide, I'd just like to say that I believe it's my mother's mailbox. She gets no klez email. So, it's not a problem anywhere.
Sorry, but somehow, I think that there's a small window of problems that exists in the range between your mother's email and "extinction level events".