I don't see why. In fact, I would say that the WINE project will aid these companies. The migration of the Windows user base to Linux is presently a trickle, and the brave souls who are making the jump are running WINE as a matter of course. WINE makes it a lot easier for these people to make the jump, and increases the number of users that Liniux has. Hence, WINE helps to boost the market size for Loki.
When these people make their jump complete, they will buy Linux software for the platform, as a matter of course. Hence Loki will benefit.
Its a bit like the PSXII benefiting from having full PSX emulation. People will migrate because of WINE, but when they get there they will buy ported programs as a preference.
I envisage more of a combination of the two. 'Dumb terminals' of the future will probably be a hell of a lot more powerful than the top flight PC's of today. I just imagine that the actual code will be first d/loaded, and then executed locally, so that as far as the user is concerned the program is running very quickly, and on the web. Sort of like a super charged Java Applet on speed. I think that cross platform packaging systems would be very useful indeed in such an environment, and may form the backbone of it.
We all know that the future does not lie with any particular OS. We have been repeatedly told this for some time now. Other platforms have been doing thier best to grab this, as we can see with Solaris (Java) and Windows (.NET). In the future, which OS you run will not be important. When I use my computer, I already spend the majority of my time on the web. In 10 or 15 years, things will be fast enough for entire applications to be run on the web, and my local terminal will just be used to store data and connect to the web.
The thing that people forget is that this is a good thing. What Linux needs is to develop a cross platform packaging system such as this so that the web can utilise it, and so that the Linux system is at the centre just when these new developments are taking off. The future is OS independant. If Linux is to survive in such a world, it needs to be independant too.
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You are quite correct. It amazes me that the myth of BSD's network superiority lives on. A study by no less an authority than IBM in the spring of 2000 showed that TCP/IP support in the 2.2.x series kernel was not far behind linux at all. Recent studies, to be found in the same source, even show that the 2.4.x series kernel can even take the lead in some circumstances. IBM researchers put this down to the greater amount of resources that Linux has available to it, and estimate that the Linux codebase is becoming the preferred option for large scale TCP/IP rollouts in some circumstances. This was verified when a Japanese company recently decided to install 20000 Linux distro's across its infrastructure.
This can be nothing but good news for the BSD's. Knowledge of inferiority springs forth competition and improvement, and destroys complacency. Microsoft responded with Windows 2000. What will the BSD'ers respond with? Only time will tell.
Virtual child porn is just like thinking about children in your sexual fantasies. Both should be made illegal. Thinking wrong thoughts, as well as participating in Virtual Realities, should be punished.
The reason that everyone likes Episodes 4 through 6 is that they remind them of their childhood experiances. To watch the original Star Wars is to regress to a childlike state again, free from responsibilities and critical abilities.
The latest Star Wars films do not have such a luxury, and have always been doomed to be judged with a jaundiced eye.I would bet that if Episodes 1&2 had been released in th late 70's, and Episodes 4,5, and 6 were being released now, then it would be the latter suffering from the wrathful criticism of the geek community.
IMO, the problem just now is that the Virtual Community is poised between familiarity and impersonality, because it is still mainly a textual medium. If at some stage we have the technology to extend the medium to video and sound, to offer a more immersive and personal experiance, the number of trolls and flamers will drop immeasurably. This is because people rarely troll or flame IRL, because that is too personal for them to handle. OTOH, they will not troll places where there is no personal investment by the participants either. It would seem that the current level of development of virtual communities is ideal for the troller.
I think that in the future, when technology makes the VC a more personal experiance, the amount of trolling will drop precipitously. One can only hope, anyway.
Developments such as these could bring surveilance technologies to the masses! Why should Big Brother have a monopoly on surveilance technologies? Isn't it better that everyone should have the ability to spy on everyone else? This would keep the governement in check and give freedoms to the individual. The right to bear a minature spy camera should be enshrined in every nations constitution. And when all these cameras are wired up to the peoples internet, the governement will no longer need to maintain a costly secret service and spying industry - we can do it ourselves, in accordance with the open source model. Just like America doesn't need a police force because everyone has guns, and Britain doesn't need a Vice Squad because...emm, er, I don't know.
Truly, the best way to maintain our freedoms is to be vigilant. So on this front, we can see that the Japansese, in the form of Canon and Nikon, are the guardians of our rights.
The big problem I have with the endless barracking that Amazon and other companies are constantly given for their patenting policies is that I just don't know who precisely decides if an idea is 'obvious' or not.
It would seem to me that the arbiter of that decision should be the average man in the street. Although it such matters may seem obvious to the/. community, they is by no means obvious to the common man. Isn't that what really matters?
Furthermore, another quibble I have is with the allegations that Amazon et al are behaving in a morally incorrect manner by seeking to get these patents granted. If there is a fault, that fault is with the patent office, not with companies that are merely trying to maximise their revenue stream. If I were a shareholder at Amazon, I would be extremely annoyed if Amazon refused to seek these patents.
So I plead with you: blame the government and the patent office, because in this matter any faults are theirs, and theirs alone.
Your example of a contract empowering a company to extuinguish the lives of its critics is, of course, quite correctly illegal. I must stress that I think that this companies actions are wrong.
Personally, I am against big government, and I do not want to see issues such as this decided by the government. I would like to see these issues decided by the common sense of the masses. I have faith in the common man, and I am sure that if this company continues in its course, it will go out of business, purely through the pressures applied by commerce & the free market, through the right of the consumer to choose. We can see that it is attracting a lot of bad publicity already here on/. - this will only get worse over time. Every day that it keeps this clause in its contract, it loses a little business.
This is the right and proper way for this issue to be settled - through the will of the common man, rather than by the dictacts of unscrupulous and inefficient government.
I'm sorry, but they are a commercial company and they have the right to put these terms in their contract. In fact, guess what! They already have. So QED on that one, I'm afraid.
As I've already said, if you don't like it, get your website hosted elsewhere. Its your choice - don't bleat on that your rights to free speech are being compromised when you had a choice of whether to sign the contract or not. Don't like it? Don't sign.
They are a web-hosting company. They are in the media industry. They depend on image, above all. So it is understandable, if a little Draconian, that they wish to control their image to the best of their ability.
However, while I don't like this policy, I still defend their right to pursue it. If you don't like their policy, don't do business with them.
...regarding why Red Hat use RPM, and not Debs? I thought there was a great consensus that the debs system is superior to the RPM system, and considering that Red Hat need not worry about copyright infringement, why do they continue to use RPMs? Is it because they have a perhaps misguided feeling of pride regarding their package management system?
I suppose some will argue that it is because RPM is the 'standard', but the fact is that the standard is pretty much whatever Red Hat decrees it to be.
I just don't understand why Red Hat are continuing to use an arguably outdated system.
I have noticed a trend over the last six months or so. Over the last few years, we have constantly been told that the succesful economies of the future will be service based - and the stock markets bought it, as can be seen from the towering prices of internet and software companies over the last few years.
But now I notice a settling. Traditional manufacturing companies and utilities are making a vengeful comeback, and the dotcoms are suffering in a financial bloodbath.
Could the economy be turning back to the traditional manufacturing model again? I hope so - it is a more solid and sensible base. The simple fact is that dotcoms are merely margin tight vehicles for the distribution of manfactured goods. The manufacturing industries are still the linchpin of our economy.
It would seem to me that these engineers have realised this, and are returning to their bread and butter, away from the papier-mache world of the internet.
They are a symptom of the volatile worldview on Wall Street.
Don't use HTML, at least use XHTML making sure that you segregate style from content.
Whats wrong with HTML? I think it should be used as a standard for document interchange. In fact, guess what! It already is! The prejudics you have against HTML seems to be based on some sort of beutiful idea of stylistic perfection. Well, I don't give a shit about that - HTML is here, its now, and it can be read by loads of apps and its an open standard. HTML is the solution to your portable document problems.You're reading this alright, aren't you?
Bad luck old chap! In bringing up your reasonable points you were socked one for flamebait.
I'm not saying I agree entirely though. Yes Mozilla is slow, yes Mozilla is bloated. These are facts.
But it doesn't matter a hoot. We are not programming for Commodore 64's anymore - it is far better to write bloated code that works than streamlined, optomised code that doesn't. By the time the Mozilla final release reaches a decent segment of the market, computers will be fast enough to take it anyway, in my opinion.
...the Itanium won't be shipping in quantity until autumn 2001 anyway, and most IT managers will not consider using unproven technology until that date anyway.
However, having said that, the on the proven technology front it can only be good for Linux to be ahead - as then it gets the label of being proven sooner than MS Windows, which will be uppermost in IT managers minds.
If you ask me, the battle on this front will not be decide next year, but the year after, when the Itanium is expected to start pushing into the mainstream server market.
In my opinion, it just takes one major country to step out of line to render the DVD zoning attempts by the industry moguls more or less obsolete. I say this because the world has now become so sonnected in both the communicative and physical sense, that if Australia bans DVD zoning, its as though a place in my backyard has done so; its no problem to import the players and DVD's from Australia itself.
The only way I can see my vision being thwarted is if the major film companies decide to boycot the Australian market alltogether. It may be worth it for them, financially, in the short term to do so, but I think the ire and publicity would be too much.
I can understand that the demand for increased processing power for CPU's will probably never be sated, but id this true for Graphics cards? Surely once we are in the trillions of polygons per second (at the present rate, soon, probably) and 3d graphics offer photorealism, will there still be a need for better graphics? I would have thought that in 5 or 10 years, Graphics card technology will have got as good as it can usefully get. An example is that we used to judge gaming computers by how many colours they can display, be it 8, 256, or 65536. But once we reached 16 million, there wasn't any further useful improvement that could be made.
I would guess that a similar future awaits graphics card technology. So on what criteria will Graphics cards of the future be judged upon? What will be the defining factors that will give one card an edge over an other once this graphical end of history has been reached? The only one I can think of is price.
Ghana is a country with an average wage of only $160 per year. Out of a total population of 20 million, some 20 thousand are online. Why are we creating charities to get such nations online? Isn't that like forming a charity to send them Beluga Caviar? We should surely be concentrating on building their infrastructure in the proper way, and try to bring them through the industrial revolution first.
It worries me to see that companies such as Shell and BT are contributing funds to send IT technicians there, when what we should be doing is sending agricultural experts and trying to attract magnates of industry.
As the west moves towards an increasingly service based economy, there are opportunities for countries such as Ghana to grab onto our coattails and provide our manufacturing capabilty, before moving up to join us.
I have been interested in Anime from an artistic perspective for quite some time, and it has always seemed to me that one of its central themes is the loss of identity of a culture that has went from fudalism to being the worlds foremost modern international capitalist nation in little under 100 years.
These suits are another expression of the angst that this loss of cultural identity has caused, as the old certainties of Meiji Japan were ripped away and replaced by the values of the soulless Kairetsu. The warrior ethos and clothing of the Samurai has been replaced by the businesswear and corporate values of the salaryman. These suits, and indeed the entire Anime movement, are an unconscious desire to return to the violent certainties of old Japan, IMHO.
It is excellent that these recordings have been released. It will be good to hear the words of one of the greatest and most creative writers of the millenium speak to us down the generations. My sister enjoys painting scenes from the Hobbit, and hopefully these words will give her a new creative input.
Knowing more about the creator means you know more about his works. I look forward to appreciating his genius all the more.
They have detailed information on all the licenses currently used, the conflicts between them and describe suitable business models for each. I mention it because my friend, Jane, works there;) It is suited perfectly to this issue.
It is a little known fact that Microsoft have an enterprise known as The New Brains Project which is intended to harvest child prodigies and give them the assistance they need, especially child prodigies in the computing field. There hasn't been news on this for some time, and perhaps for this child this would not be a good idea, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows anything further about it.
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When these people make their jump complete, they will buy Linux software for the platform, as a matter of course. Hence Loki will benefit.
Its a bit like the PSXII benefiting from having full PSX emulation. People will migrate because of WINE, but when they get there they will buy ported programs as a preference.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
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The thing that people forget is that this is a good thing. What Linux needs is to develop a cross platform packaging system such as this so that the web can utilise it, and so that the Linux system is at the centre just when these new developments are taking off. The future is OS independant. If Linux is to survive in such a world, it needs to be independant too.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
This can be nothing but good news for the BSD's. Knowledge of inferiority springs forth competition and improvement, and destroys complacency. Microsoft responded with Windows 2000. What will the BSD'ers respond with? Only time will tell.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
These are the post-1984 methods of the state.
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The latest Star Wars films do not have such a luxury, and have always been doomed to be judged with a jaundiced eye.I would bet that if Episodes 1&2 had been released in th late 70's, and Episodes 4,5, and 6 were being released now, then it would be the latter suffering from the wrathful criticism of the geek community.
Nothing can live up to a childhood dream.
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I think that in the future, when technology makes the VC a more personal experiance, the amount of trolling will drop precipitously. One can only hope, anyway.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
Truly, the best way to maintain our freedoms is to be vigilant. So on this front, we can see that the Japansese, in the form of Canon and Nikon, are the guardians of our rights.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
It would seem to me that the arbiter of that decision should be the average man in the street. Although it such matters may seem obvious to the /. community, they is by no means obvious to the common man. Isn't that what really matters?
Furthermore, another quibble I have is with the allegations that Amazon et al are behaving in a morally incorrect manner by seeking to get these patents granted. If there is a fault, that fault is with the patent office, not with companies that are merely trying to maximise their revenue stream. If I were a shareholder at Amazon, I would be extremely annoyed if Amazon refused to seek these patents.
So I plead with you: blame the government and the patent office, because in this matter any faults are theirs, and theirs alone.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
Personally, I am against big government, and I do not want to see issues such as this decided by the government. I would like to see these issues decided by the common sense of the masses. I have faith in the common man, and I am sure that if this company continues in its course, it will go out of business, purely through the pressures applied by commerce & the free market, through the right of the consumer to choose. We can see that it is attracting a lot of bad publicity already here on /. - this will only get worse over time. Every day that it keeps this clause in its contract, it loses a little business.
This is the right and proper way for this issue to be settled - through the will of the common man, rather than by the dictacts of unscrupulous and inefficient government.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
As I've already said, if you don't like it, get your website hosted elsewhere. Its your choice - don't bleat on that your rights to free speech are being compromised when you had a choice of whether to sign the contract or not. Don't like it? Don't sign.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
However, while I don't like this policy, I still defend their right to pursue it. If you don't like their policy, don't do business with them.
There really isn't anything more to be said.
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I suppose some will argue that it is because RPM is the 'standard', but the fact is that the standard is pretty much whatever Red Hat decrees it to be.
I just don't understand why Red Hat are continuing to use an arguably outdated system.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
But now I notice a settling. Traditional manufacturing companies and utilities are making a vengeful comeback, and the dotcoms are suffering in a financial bloodbath.
Could the economy be turning back to the traditional manufacturing model again? I hope so - it is a more solid and sensible base. The simple fact is that dotcoms are merely margin tight vehicles for the distribution of manfactured goods. The manufacturing industries are still the linchpin of our economy.
It would seem to me that these engineers have realised this, and are returning to their bread and butter, away from the papier-mache world of the internet.
They are a symptom of the volatile worldview on Wall Street.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
Whats wrong with HTML? I think it should be used as a standard for document interchange. In fact, guess what! It already is! The prejudics you have against HTML seems to be based on some sort of beutiful idea of stylistic perfection. Well, I don't give a shit about that - HTML is here, its now, and it can be read by loads of apps and its an open standard. HTML is the solution to your portable document problems.You're reading this alright, aren't you?
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
I'm not saying I agree entirely though. Yes Mozilla is slow, yes Mozilla is bloated. These are facts.
But it doesn't matter a hoot. We are not programming for Commodore 64's anymore - it is far better to write bloated code that works than streamlined, optomised code that doesn't. By the time the Mozilla final release reaches a decent segment of the market, computers will be fast enough to take it anyway, in my opinion.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
However, having said that, the on the proven technology front it can only be good for Linux to be ahead - as then it gets the label of being proven sooner than MS Windows, which will be uppermost in IT managers minds.
If you ask me, the battle on this front will not be decide next year, but the year after, when the Itanium is expected to start pushing into the mainstream server market.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
The only way I can see my vision being thwarted is if the major film companies decide to boycot the Australian market alltogether. It may be worth it for them, financially, in the short term to do so, but I think the ire and publicity would be too much.
God bless Australia fair.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
I would guess that a similar future awaits graphics card technology. So on what criteria will Graphics cards of the future be judged upon? What will be the defining factors that will give one card an edge over an other once this graphical end of history has been reached? The only one I can think of is price.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
It worries me to see that companies such as Shell and BT are contributing funds to send IT technicians there, when what we should be doing is sending agricultural experts and trying to attract magnates of industry.
As the west moves towards an increasingly service based economy, there are opportunities for countries such as Ghana to grab onto our coattails and provide our manufacturing capabilty, before moving up to join us.
Lets not do things back to front here.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
These suits are another expression of the angst that this loss of cultural identity has caused, as the old certainties of Meiji Japan were ripped away and replaced by the values of the soulless Kairetsu. The warrior ethos and clothing of the Samurai has been replaced by the businesswear and corporate values of the salaryman. These suits, and indeed the entire Anime movement, are an unconscious desire to return to the violent certainties of old Japan, IMHO.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
Knowing more about the creator means you know more about his works. I look forward to appreciating his genius all the more.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
They have detailed information on all the licenses currently used, the conflicts between them and describe suitable business models for each. I mention it because my friend, Jane, works there ;) It is suited perfectly to this issue.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
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