Opera is on Beta-2 at the moment, that will fill that gap nicely.
At $39 US a pop? I don't think so.
...the Internet is a small minority reason people use computers. The vast majority use them to do work, and the majority of them are using Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
Are you from Earth, or an extraterrestrial casual observer? Of course people are buying computers to web surf and chat endlessly on irc, among countless other reasons. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are for lamers and casual computer users. Like yourself.
The web is cute and all that but if it disapeared overnight I wouldn't miss it.If the net disapeared I would miss it - email is very useful.
That intensely stupid statement needs no rebutal.
To reiterate on my previous post, computer use and administration is moving from delivering packaged software that has to be installed and deployed to delivering it as a web-based service. Linux needs to implement these new developments into the core operating system.
Linux needs to focus on webcentric applications, like intergrated apps that allow remote, off-site backups of the entire operating system - including partitions and differing filesystems. Another webcentric application Linux NEEDS is a superior web browser. The Mozilla nightly builds are good but can't compete with IE 5 (that's a dead horse we've already flogged).
Open Source developers - God bless every one of them - need to look at the reason a vast majority of people use computers in the first place - IT'S BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET! No doubt most Linux users will agree it only makes sence to find practical and revolutionary ways to merge Linux with the web.
Please moderate this message up so Open Source developers will read this post. Thank you.
I think the truckloads of money keep jwz from keeping his mind on emerging technology and the internet. He's a web-surfer connoisseur now, probably nothing more. Look at his website, it's almost all links. Since i last checked he's got info on the DNA club, (or whatever the hell it's called), but still mainly links to more interesting sites.
But who can blame him?
Owning a nightclub can get you alot more poon-tang than a geek bathing his face in electromagnetic radiation all night long. He cut his mustard, now he wants to party. I'm just puzzled as to why/. would publish this roundabout story when a hundred valid story ideas are being submitted every day?
I should note my gnapster problem was resolved after sending a bug report via Bug Buddy. It works beautifully now, yet i made absolutely no changes to my own configuration whatsoever.
It's great to see that bug reports are actually read and responded to in such a timely fashion. Mad props to the many cool Open Source programmers out there. Hopefully my parent post didn't sound overly critical,
No, in fact it's not. An application should function properly when dependency, distribution and hardware architecture requirements are met. Unless it's in alpha or beta state, there's no excuse!
A virtual 3D desktop environment seems superfluous. Let's perfect Linux desktop functionality and intergration before we move into Lawnmower Man territory. IMHO, seemless webcentric applications like remote system backups and package updates is much more practicle and desirable. I resort to vim not for the sheer pleasure of doing thousands of keystrokes, but because the gui notepads available for Linux are unstable! Gnapster vomits a segmentation fault everytime i try to connect to an OpenNAP server! Linux needs to focus on the important battles, like a superior web browser. No doubt i'll experiment with 3Dsia, and i hope they succeed - but i'll choose substance over style anytime. Linux absolutely owns, and the manic speed of Open Source development is intoxicating, but it's still got a ways to go.
That's already been done unsuccessfully about a thousand times already. A chair won't replace the prying hands of a masseuse, no matter what some yuppy undergraduate scientists say!
The PS/2 may be an adrenaline kick for Sega's ailing DreamCast. The DC's screenshots look better, and desperate parent's who find they're SOL when they shop for an elusive PS/2 in the Christmas rush will probably settle for the DreamCast. I'm sure retailers will push it. If Sega should stay in a holding pattern and continue adding to their roster of games, they should still make a profit.
wasn't just limited to dot com's, it affected any and every branded company on the internet. I own the domain hardcorelinux.com,
but now there's a linuxhardcore.com and hardcoreprocessing.com etc. That's capitalism in a free and democratic system! The domain name marshmello.com recently redirected to Firestone Industrial but has since been bought out by an internet communications company. I call that foresight on the behave of FireStone, not deception.
The internet is young and still needs to flesh out. Besides, i consider typo sites a form of flattery, and anyone who grabbed a typo/. domain name can't be all that dumb.
Indrema needs to create it's own market, and not associate itself with the PS/2, DreamCast or Xbox - whatever the hell console MicroSoft is pimping. The competition will be way too fierce, and i can't see third party developers getting behing this one when they've got other platforms like the PS/2 with a much larger user base. Instead, Indrema should appeal to the legions of hardcore geeks who want to do their computing on the sofa. Market it as a geek box, not a gaming console!
I wish the Indrema luck though, and personally plan to support it.
but i do know AMD's Athlon CPU thrashed Intel's Katmai within an inch of it's life, and then proceeded to wail on the Coppermine (Intel's 0.18-micron process technology), which was supposed to answer the Athlon CPU's superior performance. This is yet another round scored for AMD. Get used to it Intel, AMD owns the throne.
anytime soon, unless of course they choose to be. Sure there wasn't all this mad hype for the DC as there was for the PS/2 but Sega still has the largest group of hardcore fans. Nintendo had a loyal fan base once upon a time but they shooed them away, instead appealing to runny-nosed kids who wont remember the companies name when they finally turn 7. Nintendo knows branding better than anybody, but they directed this branding toward a fickle audience that change their loyalties quicker than they change socks.
Sega however still maintained their core fan base despite the notorious 32x fiasco. But let's face it, Sega has always been the first on the block. They had cds first, had the net first and were always first to step up to the next round of console wars. Sega has come through for their loyal base of fans time and again - and even if they do fail the masses at large they'll survive as a company...
The only reason Sega and Nintendo would be in bed together is as a huge marketing scheme where the two blue blood game companies rally together to fight the bad sheriff, (kinda like the dukes of hazzard).
and it makes me teary-eyed to see Sega get savagely thrashed by Sony. Sega and Nintendo are the one's responsible for timeless classics like Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Fighter 2 and Super Mario, not Sony. What beat Sega was PlayStations hardware architecture, which was easier for game developers to program for than Saturn's multi-cpu blah-blah-blah. Ergo, third party development flourished for the PlayStation and Sega got the sloppy seconds. Let's hope the DreamCast can withstand the PS/2 marketing flurry and perhaps even wobble Sony with a good combination... God knows Nintendo won't release anything decent for adults!
The music industry just shot itself in the big toe by shutting down Napster. Through the services of Napster, i have discovered bands (re: Red Snapper) i would've never heard of otherwise, and i've sought out their cd's and recommended the bands to friends. Instead of suing the pants off everyone, the RIAA should be thanking Napster for seemlessly introducing the outdated industry into the 21 century. The mp3 is a digital representation of the song - much of the audio signal is removed and repetitous parts "repeated" for lack of a better word - the mp3 falls seriously short of the real thing in a direct comparison. Speaking for myself, downloading and listening to a mp3 is the same as listening to a cd in Towers before i shell out the cash.
I agree, it was a savvy move for Disney. They even have/. pluggin' their products now! Cha-ching!
Genesis P-Orridge speaking of the internet:
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"Literally a whole brain is being built, it's not a metaphor for a brain, it actually is a
brain....What we're really thinking about is when you plug in and go online, you're plugging into all the brains of all the other people who've been there...
We're building a god, but we're building a god with the flaws and the
gifts of everyone on the planet almost, at this rate -- millions of people -- with no real unified agenda and no real dialogue about
what the psychic and neurological and social and economic effect really will be of that acceleration and separation of this larger brain."
Read every throbbing gristle of the Genesis P-Orridge interview here.
I just don't get the remote storage thing. Why would I bother storing files in a remote 25 meg space, when it's cheap to buy a hard drive with 25 gigs?
Off-site remote backup is important because your data can be accessible anywhere on the planet and more secure than it being on a secondary drive (as i know personally).
I know this sounds awful and shallow (there's your queue to flame me),but i find BWP is a good gauge of someone's intelligence and taste.If the individual saw the movie and loved it,they've got smarts and probably never considered for a nanosecond buying a Slik Toxik album in their whole life.If however,the person in question saw the movie and hated it- i would have little doubt they have duplicates of the "Hard 'N' Heavy" album and probably belt out every goddamn tune (with feeling) while they listen to it with circa 1970 headphones.
P.S. My first posting on/. and i mention Slik Toxik...it's a bittersweet moment.
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At $39 US a pop? I don't think so.
Are you from Earth, or an extraterrestrial casual observer? Of course people are buying computers to web surf and chat endlessly on irc, among countless other reasons. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are for lamers and casual computer users. Like yourself.
The web is cute and all that but if it disapeared overnight I wouldn't miss it.If the net disapeared I would miss it - email is very useful.
That intensely stupid statement needs no rebutal.
To reiterate on my previous post, computer use and administration is moving from delivering packaged software that has to be installed and deployed to delivering it as a web-based service. Linux needs to implement these new developments into the core operating system.
Open Source developers - God bless every one of them - need to look at the reason a vast majority of people use computers in the first place - IT'S BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET! No doubt most Linux users will agree it only makes sence to find practical and revolutionary ways to merge Linux with the web.
Please moderate this message up so Open Source developers will read this post. Thank you.
I should note my gnapster problem was resolved after sending a bug report via Bug Buddy. It works beautifully now, yet i made absolutely no changes to my own configuration whatsoever.
It's great to see that bug reports are actually read and responded to in such a timely fashion. Mad props to the many cool Open Source programmers out there. Hopefully my parent post didn't sound overly critical,
A virtual 3D desktop environment seems superfluous. Let's perfect Linux desktop functionality and intergration before we move into Lawnmower Man territory. IMHO, seemless webcentric applications like remote system backups and package updates is much more practicle and desirable. I resort to vim not for the sheer pleasure of doing thousands of keystrokes, but because the gui notepads available for Linux are unstable! Gnapster vomits a segmentation fault everytime i try to connect to an OpenNAP server! Linux needs to focus on the important battles, like a superior web browser. No doubt i'll experiment with 3Dsia, and i hope they succeed - but i'll choose substance over style anytime. Linux absolutely owns, and the manic speed of Open Source development is intoxicating, but it's still got a ways to go.
That's already been done unsuccessfully about a thousand times already. A chair won't replace the prying hands of a masseuse, no matter what some yuppy undergraduate scientists say!
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The PS/2 may be an adrenaline kick for Sega's ailing DreamCast. The DC's screenshots look better, and desperate parent's who find they're SOL when they shop for an elusive PS/2 in the Christmas rush will probably settle for the DreamCast. I'm sure retailers will push it. If Sega should stay in a holding pattern and continue adding to their roster of games, they should still make a profit.
wasn't just limited to dot com's, it affected any and every branded company on the internet. I own the domain hardcorelinux.com, but now there's a linuxhardcore.com and hardcoreprocessing.com etc. That's capitalism in a free and democratic system! The domain name marshmello.com recently redirected to Firestone Industrial but has since been bought out by an internet communications company. I call that foresight on the behave of FireStone, not deception. The internet is young and still needs to flesh out. Besides, i consider typo sites a form of flattery, and anyone who grabbed a typo /. domain name can't be all that dumb.
Indrema needs to create it's own market, and not associate itself with the PS/2, DreamCast or Xbox - whatever the hell console MicroSoft is pimping. The competition will be way too fierce, and i can't see third party developers getting behing this one when they've got other platforms like the PS/2 with a much larger user base. Instead, Indrema should appeal to the legions of hardcore geeks who want to do their computing on the sofa. Market it as a geek box, not a gaming console!
I wish the Indrema luck though, and personally plan to support it.
Well said inq. I personally can't wait til 2001 when the Sledgehammer - AMD's 64-bit processor - hits the market.
but i do know AMD's Athlon CPU thrashed Intel's Katmai within an inch of it's life, and then proceeded to wail on the Coppermine (Intel's 0.18-micron process technology), which was supposed to answer the Athlon CPU's superior performance. This is yet another round scored for AMD. Get used to it Intel, AMD owns the throne.
anytime soon, unless of course they choose to be. Sure there wasn't all this mad hype for the DC as there was for the PS/2 but Sega still has the largest group of hardcore fans. Nintendo had a loyal fan base once upon a time but they shooed them away, instead appealing to runny-nosed kids who wont remember the companies name when they finally turn 7. Nintendo knows branding better than anybody, but they directed this branding toward a fickle audience that change their loyalties quicker than they change socks.
Sega however still maintained their core fan base despite the notorious 32x fiasco. But let's face it, Sega has always been the first on the block. They had cds first, had the net first and were always first to step up to the next round of console wars. Sega has come through for their loyal base of fans time and again - and even if they do fail the masses at large they'll survive as a company...
The only reason Sega and Nintendo would be in bed together is as a huge marketing scheme where the two blue blood game companies rally together to fight the bad sheriff, (kinda like the dukes of hazzard).
and it makes me teary-eyed to see Sega get savagely thrashed by Sony. Sega and Nintendo are the one's responsible for timeless classics like Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Fighter 2 and Super Mario, not Sony. What beat Sega was PlayStations hardware architecture, which was easier for game developers to program for than Saturn's multi-cpu blah-blah-blah. Ergo, third party development flourished for the PlayStation and Sega got the sloppy seconds. Let's hope the DreamCast can withstand the PS/2 marketing flurry and perhaps even wobble Sony with a good combination... God knows Nintendo won't release anything decent for adults!
The music industry just shot itself in the big toe by shutting down Napster. Through the services of Napster, i have discovered bands (re: Red Snapper) i would've never heard of otherwise, and i've sought out their cd's and recommended the bands to friends. Instead of suing the pants off everyone, the RIAA should be thanking Napster for seemlessly introducing the outdated industry into the 21 century. The mp3 is a digital representation of the song - much of the audio signal is removed and repetitous parts "repeated" for lack of a better word - the mp3 falls seriously short of the real thing in a direct comparison. Speaking for myself, downloading and listening to a mp3 is the same as listening to a cd in Towers before i shell out the cash.
I agree, it was a savvy move for Disney. They even have /. pluggin' their products now! Cha-ching!
brain.
We're building a god, but we're building a god with the flaws and the
gifts of everyone on the planet almost, at this rate -- millions of people -- with no real unified agenda and no real dialogue about
what the psychic and neurological and social and economic effect really will be of that acceleration and separation of this larger brain."
Read every throbbing gristle of the Genesis P-Orridge interview here.
I just don't get the remote storage thing. Why would I bother storing files in a remote 25 meg space, when it's cheap to buy a hard drive with 25 gigs?
Off-site remote backup is important because your data can be accessible anywhere on the planet and more secure than it being on a secondary drive (as i know personally).
Cheers Greg! I plan on using their help in the near future.
Amen to that!Square Pusher are brilliant,and i'll add anything from the Dj Ninja label or Aphex Twin.
I know this sounds awful and shallow (there's your queue to flame me),but i find BWP is a good gauge of someone's intelligence and taste.If the individual saw the movie and loved it,they've got smarts and probably never considered for a nanosecond buying a Slik Toxik album in their whole life.If however,the person in question saw the movie and hated it- i would have little doubt they have duplicates of the "Hard 'N' Heavy" album and probably belt out every goddamn tune (with feeling) while they listen to it with circa 1970 headphones.
/. and i mention Slik Toxik...it's a bittersweet moment.
P.S. My first posting on