Now I see the horror of hearing sound blaster noise in the deep jungle of Borneo! No!
Seriously, actualy FYI, the village kids else where in non-Borneo part of Malaysia are all addicted to the above mentioned game. Good enough indication of how wired they are?
IAAM (I am a Malaysian), speaking from the most recent cyber-cafe-in-the-village experience.
The argument for x86 architecture is mute, 'cos
1) It's not the 80s. In those days, geeks / nerds were poor guys who saved half their pocket money for up to a year in order to afford a "state of the art" PC.
In year 2000, geeks / nerds drive a second Porsche to work, a third Ferrari for a hot date. What is $2000 for a second computer which happens to be their life line of business?
2) x86 hardware sucks. My latest installation of Linux hangs big time because of mysterious hardware failures -- hard disk getting too big and too fast and x86 manufacturers are simply too cheap-minded to maintain reasonable level of quality control
3) It's good to have diversity. I mean since I am not so familiar with x86 hardware, knowing PPC/Apple hardware will add one more nice paragraph to my CV. See (1) for the cost factor.
This is the Retro of Technologies if you ask me. Indeed, early computer science are good computer science. In those days, computer scientists were real mathematicians. They can recite logic rules in Latin! They made good programs which last FOREVER!
Then came the 90s, pretty faced college babies who just wannabe another millionaire. These guys can't even solve a set of simultaneous equations (wot?) And they made really really bad programs.
A while ago on/. a thread on Multics brought up a few basic OS issues which have never been resolved since Unix Date 0.0.0. Indeed, there has never been a radically improved new OS design since that date. (Err... also Internet is a really really bad patch by one Mr. Bill Joy to the original OS... that's why you have so much problem on Internet today...)
What is 30 years in eternity? On Unix Date 1 Jan 2000, people will look back and say, hey, in between Unix Date year 20-30, nothing fruitful had been contributed to Civilisation. And (hopefully), from Unix Date 1 Jan 0031, "they" have gone back to the basics and re-laid the foundation for the Galactic AC.
I actually first read about OSX in a Fortune magazine dated January this year!! Just says something about me in a mole for such a long time.
Actually I feel a bit tired with Linux now. Sure, the kernel is cool. The shell is not bad. But this KDE/GNOME thing really disappoint me. We need to get past this amateurish tinkering.
I was actually excited by OSX and its looks...
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Please, separate piracy from the true spirit of free software. You guys are tainting a nobel movement with cheap and dirty trinkets ...
Just to register my dismay that yet another social science type avant garde Internet "user" is telling us what Internet is, has been and will be.
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Guess you never use telnet or ftp.
telnet is still the MOST useful Internet application
the subject says it all.
Now I see the horror of hearing sound blaster noise in the deep jungle of Borneo! No!
Seriously, actualy FYI, the village kids else where in non-Borneo part of Malaysia are all addicted to the above mentioned game. Good enough indication of how wired they are?
IAAM (I am a Malaysian), speaking from the most recent cyber-cafe-in-the-village experience.
But then, Linux strongest point is still one is able to compile the kernel, making device patches etc. Strongest point of being open-sourced.
The argument for x86 architecture is mute, 'cos 1) It's not the 80s. In those days, geeks / nerds were poor guys who saved half their pocket money for up to a year in order to afford a "state of the art" PC. In year 2000, geeks / nerds drive a second Porsche to work, a third Ferrari for a hot date. What is $2000 for a second computer which happens to be their life line of business? 2) x86 hardware sucks. My latest installation of Linux hangs big time because of mysterious hardware failures -- hard disk getting too big and too fast and x86 manufacturers are simply too cheap-minded to maintain reasonable level of quality control 3) It's good to have diversity. I mean since I am not so familiar with x86 hardware, knowing PPC/Apple hardware will add one more nice paragraph to my CV. See (1) for the cost factor.
This is the Retro of Technologies if you ask me. Indeed, early computer science are good computer science. In those days, computer scientists were real mathematicians. They can recite logic rules in Latin! They made good programs which last FOREVER! Then came the 90s, pretty faced college babies who just wannabe another millionaire. These guys can't even solve a set of simultaneous equations (wot?) And they made really really bad programs. A while ago on /. a thread on Multics brought up a few basic OS issues which have never been resolved since Unix Date 0.0.0. Indeed, there has never been a radically improved new OS design since that date. (Err ... also Internet is a really really bad patch by one Mr. Bill Joy to the original OS ... that's why you have so much problem on Internet today ...)
What is 30 years in eternity? On Unix Date 1 Jan 2000, people will look back and say, hey, in between Unix Date year 20-30, nothing fruitful had been contributed to Civilisation. And (hopefully), from Unix Date 1 Jan 0031, "they" have gone back to the basics and re-laid the foundation for the Galactic AC.
We are in 21st century. It's the GUI, stupid!
I actually first read about OSX in a Fortune magazine dated January this year!! Just says something about me in a mole for such a long time. Actually I feel a bit tired with Linux now. Sure, the kernel is cool. The shell is not bad. But this KDE/GNOME thing really disappoint me. We need to get past this amateurish tinkering. I was actually excited by OSX and its looks ...