The story reads alright for me. Where are you thinking "was" should be? Pointing out all the grammar errors makes the comments harder to read for those truly interested in the story. (i know I'm probably being a bit two-faced here).
Using the software that came with Windows, I cannot rip a CD or burn a copy of one. There is no need to make fun of Apple for trailing behind. Anyway, I'm not sure that the majority of consumers think that CD-ripping is a vital part of an OS.
Theft is an act. It is not something that is created. People can create pirate copies of music with this computer, but they can do that with most modern computers. Why pick on Apple? Why not pick on Redhat for shipping GRip and and MP3 encoder with their distro?
They do not understand, and do not care about security. They only care about not getting things stolen from them, or being cheated.
Other than keeping them securely, how do you go about preventing getting things stolen from you?
In the real world, who takes care of thievery and fraud? Yes, the police and the government.
But the world would be so much more peaceful if things weren't able to be stolen in the 1st place. It is not the government's place to close the front door of my house when I forget, It is not the government's place to turn off file and print sharing through my modem when I forget, and my ISP shouldn't have to block incoming port 80 - if I wanted nobody to connect to my web server, I'd turn it off. It is, however, corporations' place to provide "Joe Sixpack" with software and services that don't share all his personal details and files with the entire world.
The JRE lives in a directory where normal users don't have write permission to. This is definitely the case in UNIX/Linux and our Win NT based machines at home are also set up this way. If someone installs something into a directory that is world writable, then they should be prepared for these kind of things to happen. If an OS insists on putting important things in silly places, then maybe software manufacturers for that OS should make their users aware of this and possible change the permissions on directories after their software has installed? If Windows XP treats users as dumbasses, why should these same users be expected to know anything about securing their system?
I live in a remote area and used to have power cuts regularly. I've used the cell phone and laptop solution several times (since the network equipment needs power). It's always good to have a backup solution, even if your job doesn't depend on it.
British Telecom (and I think Pipex too) pay compensation for downtime on "business class" ISDN and ADSL services. And for those who got BT Business ISDN (not the home highway one), the compensation isn't too bad either:-)
I'm not that familiar with the workings of X. One thing I have noticed though it that with Unreal Tournament running in X on RedHat 7.2 with the latest NVidia drivers (from www.nvidia.com), UT's resolution selection list only shows the current X resolution as an option. Furthermore, if you change teh resolution in the config file to one that is lower than what X currently runs at, the game will still run at the same res as X, just in a smaller box in the middle of a black screen. Setting it to one higher than X means that you don't see the menus cos theyre off the top of the screen.
like all the e-mails being seperate files in a folder.
Say I have 20,000 emails in a year...
If it was on a Linux system, you'd run out of inodes on my disk, if it was on Windows I'd run out of sectors on my disk. Does BeOS have some new way of storing things on a disk that doesn't require such ways of addressing data?
Seperate workspaces at different resolutions is a cool idea and I'm surprised more people haven't talked about it. I assume you're thinking about the problem of the little app that shows the previews of the workspaces not working? it shows a scaled preview, so simply use different scales if workspaces use different resolutions. I could have a 1600x1200 workspace for doing programming and design work, and a 1280x1024 one for playing games (UT on Linux runs quicker at that res on my system), and an 800x600 one for if my gran wanted to use my computer as she might not be able to see text on a 1600x1200 display. This would be a really useful feature to have and might be possible if X was capable of changing resolution without restarting. Can BeOS do that?
it would act like a face-recognizing entry in my PDA
Link it via bluetooth to your PDA and it could remind you of meetings that you're meant to have with the person you've just met face-to-face. You could conveniently re-schedule the meeting to have right now instead. I'd certainly like that, because countless times I've been too submersed in whatever project I'm working on to think about the more real-world things, and I often program things into the organizer on my phone to remind me to go and see someone, etc. This could pop-up a message in front of me saying "Reminder: You are to talk to this person about project xyz at some point today". Thinking of it this way, it could be good for members of the non-geek community who have problems with their memory too.
That could make dating so much more reliable for us geeks. Just think what it would be like if you already knew that she shared the same interests, etc. You could probably have built in web access to these things too and check out her online profile. Oh wait... we're probably already sitting in front of our computers looking at her profile before we attempt dating anyway:-)
Yohave a point there - maybe instead of a "case mods" topic, there should be a "show 'n' tell" topic:-)
Unfortunately, technology news has got an awful lot of show'n'tell type stuff going on and that might eventually become an overcrowded topic itself...
"Thursday Intel stated 'hey look, we've just built a 3GHz processor - come and see for yourself at www.intel.com'."
I have not seen one benifit for IPv6. I do not say IP for my toaster. There is not a single benfit for the cost or hasle of the millions of machines that need to changed.
The lifetime of a PC is around 10 years usually. Manye peopel will get a new one before that time is up and many people will use older machines, but I'm making a huge generalisation here. If all new PCs came with IPv6 capabilities (insert preferred "put linux on them" phrase here) then there would be no additional cost or bother caused and everyone would be on IPv6 within the 1st 10 years of the 21st century:-)
Not that it makes a huge difference to anyone, but I feel left out not being able to address an increasingly large portion of the internet because my ISP is'nt providing IPv6 to consumers yet. I would be quite surprised if they don't use IPv6 technology elsewhere though, even if it's just for future safety - why use an addressing system that's rapidly running out of space when you could JUST AS EASILY use one that will last for ages before it runs out of space.
I know that "hey my toaster's got an IP address" is a bit ridiculous (assuming you're not counting Color Classics and the like as toasters;-), but realisticly it would be perfectly possible for all mobile devices (PDAs, Cellphones, etc) to have a unique IP address in the near future.
BTW. I was able to compile it under Debian PowerPC
I was going to point out how ironic it is that someone with a PowerPC is going to this extent to be able to play Quicktime movies that were natively supported under the machine's original operating system.
But then I thought to myself, all those people that got Windows with their machine are probably going to the same extent to play a format that was natively supported by it in Linux too. Sorry, but this all seems very ironic when people are so intent on moveing away from the proprietaryness (my new word of tha day) that the original system exhibited.
Someone's already said something similar here, but I know that people just sit and wait on their own comments being replied to sometimes, so I'll say it. Moore's law is the one that talks about the speed of advances in computing power. You can read all about it on Moore's web page. If we were going by Moore's law (assuming that the speed of a processor can increase uniformly with the amount of transistors we can fit onto it) it would be 5 or 6 years until we hit 100GHz. Unfortunately it will be more difficult to get the required amount of transistors for a processor running at 100GHz that it is to make a NIC run at that speed. Also since Moore talks about the amount of transistors that can be used, who says we're not going to find a way to make it faster with less transistors before 10 years has passed? it's all just speculation.
"Blue Screens" are caused by a fault in the Kernel or something writing to memory it's not meant to be writing to. Assuming normal user processes can only write to their own memory space, then it is a fault of the kernel. Sure, Open GL might be buggy, but it's your Windows kernel that's causing the blue screen. A remotely stable kernel would just complain that the game or whatever was using OpenGL did something nasty, then continue with its work as usual. If an OpenGL app on Linux crashes (yes it can happen) it could mess up a display driver (take NVidia's ones before the 23.13 GLX one for example) and cause X to restart. Notice that it doesn't cause a kernel panic.
always wondered why they even bothered to include OpenGL support in their drivers
If i was a video card driver writer, I'd be concentrating on making the existing one more stable instead of contemplating why we even bother producing it. Doesn't the PS2 (playstation) use OpenGL? Macs use OpenGL. What do SGI machines use? DirectX may be most popular among Windows games programmers, but it's not the only industry standard worth following. If software developers for PCs concentrate purely on DirectX they would never have had some of the amazing games that originated in the console market, as they never had DirectX support to start with.
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The story reads alright for me. Where are you thinking "was" should be? Pointing out all the grammar errors makes the comments harder to read for those truly interested in the story. (i know I'm probably being a bit two-faced here).
Moderators: Where-oh-where is the .sig topic then? If it has no topic, then it's hardly off-topic.
I'm not going daft, this was a reply to this comment not to myself ;-P
Using the software that came with Windows, I cannot rip a CD or burn a copy of one. There is no need to make fun of Apple for trailing behind. Anyway, I'm not sure that the majority of consumers think that CD-ripping is a vital part of an OS.
they can create theft if they buy this computer
Theft is an act. It is not something that is created. People can create pirate copies of music with this computer, but they can do that with most modern computers. Why pick on Apple? Why not pick on Redhat for shipping GRip and and MP3 encoder with their distro?
They do not understand, and do not care about security. They only care about not getting things stolen from them, or being cheated.
Other than keeping them securely, how do you go about preventing getting things stolen from you?
In the real world, who takes care of thievery and fraud? Yes, the police and the government.
But the world would be so much more peaceful if things weren't able to be stolen in the 1st place. It is not the government's place to close the front door of my house when I forget, It is not the government's place to turn off file and print sharing through my modem when I forget, and my ISP shouldn't have to block incoming port 80 - if I wanted nobody to connect to my web server, I'd turn it off. It is, however, corporations' place to provide "Joe Sixpack" with software and services that don't share all his personal details and files with the entire world.
The JRE lives in a directory where normal users don't have write permission to. This is definitely the case in UNIX/Linux and our Win NT based machines at home are also set up this way. If someone installs something into a directory that is world writable, then they should be prepared for these kind of things to happen. If an OS insists on putting important things in silly places, then maybe software manufacturers for that OS should make their users aware of this and possible change the permissions on directories after their software has installed? If Windows XP treats users as dumbasses, why should these same users be expected to know anything about securing their system?
next to un-crackable
What does Steve Wozniak have against Captain Crunch? we all know what happened to Oracle when they made similar claims.
I live in a remote area and used to have power cuts regularly. I've used the cell phone and laptop solution several times (since the network equipment needs power). It's always good to have a backup solution, even if your job doesn't depend on it.
British Telecom (and I think Pipex too) pay compensation for downtime on "business class" ISDN and ADSL services. And for those who got BT Business ISDN (not the home highway one), the compensation isn't too bad either :-)
I'm not that familiar with the workings of X. One thing I have noticed though it that with Unreal Tournament running in X on RedHat 7.2 with the latest NVidia drivers (from www.nvidia.com), UT's resolution selection list only shows the current X resolution as an option. Furthermore, if you change teh resolution in the config file to one that is lower than what X currently runs at, the game will still run at the same res as X, just in a smaller box in the middle of a black screen. Setting it to one higher than X means that you don't see the menus cos theyre off the top of the screen.
like all the e-mails being seperate files in a folder.
Say I have 20,000 emails in a year...
If it was on a Linux system, you'd run out of inodes on my disk, if it was on Windows I'd run out of sectors on my disk. Does BeOS have some new way of storing things on a disk that doesn't require such ways of addressing data?
Seperate workspaces at different resolutions is a cool idea and I'm surprised more people haven't talked about it. I assume you're thinking about the problem of the little app that shows the previews of the workspaces not working? it shows a scaled preview, so simply use different scales if workspaces use different resolutions. I could have a 1600x1200 workspace for doing programming and design work, and a 1280x1024 one for playing games (UT on Linux runs quicker at that res on my system), and an 800x600 one for if my gran wanted to use my computer as she might not be able to see text on a 1600x1200 display. This would be a really useful feature to have and might be possible if X was capable of changing resolution without restarting. Can BeOS do that?
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it would act like a face-recognizing entry in my PDA
Link it via bluetooth to your PDA and it could remind you of meetings that you're meant to have with the person you've just met face-to-face. You could conveniently re-schedule the meeting to have right now instead. I'd certainly like that, because countless times I've been too submersed in whatever project I'm working on to think about the more real-world things, and I often program things into the organizer on my phone to remind me to go and see someone, etc. This could pop-up a message in front of me saying "Reminder: You are to talk to this person about project xyz at some point today". Thinking of it this way, it could be good for members of the non-geek community who have problems with their memory too.
That could make dating so much more reliable for us geeks. Just think what it would be like if you already knew that she shared the same interests, etc. You could probably have built in web access to these things too and check out her online profile. Oh wait... we're probably already sitting in front of our computers looking at her profile before we attempt dating anyway :-)
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Anyone else thinking Taco's got himself shares in Apple or something?Yohave a point there - maybe instead of a "case mods" topic, there should be a "show 'n' tell" topic :-)
Unfortunately, technology news has got an awful lot of show'n'tell type stuff going on and that might eventually become an overcrowded topic itself...
"Thursday Intel stated 'hey look, we've just built a 3GHz processor - come and see for yourself at www.intel.com'."
I have not seen one benifit for IPv6. I do not say IP for my toaster. There is not a single benfit for the cost or hasle of the millions of machines that need to changed.
:-)
;-), but realisticly it would be perfectly possible for all mobile devices (PDAs, Cellphones, etc) to have a unique IP address in the near future.
The lifetime of a PC is around 10 years usually. Manye peopel will get a new one before that time is up and many people will use older machines, but I'm making a huge generalisation here. If all new PCs came with IPv6 capabilities (insert preferred "put linux on them" phrase here) then there would be no additional cost or bother caused and everyone would be on IPv6 within the 1st 10 years of the 21st century
Not that it makes a huge difference to anyone, but I feel left out not being able to address an increasingly large portion of the internet because my ISP is'nt providing IPv6 to consumers yet. I would be quite surprised if they don't use IPv6 technology elsewhere though, even if it's just for future safety - why use an addressing system that's rapidly running out of space when you could JUST AS EASILY use one that will last for ages before it runs out of space.
I know that "hey my toaster's got an IP address" is a bit ridiculous (assuming you're not counting Color Classics and the like as toasters
BTW. I was able to compile it under Debian PowerPC
I was going to point out how ironic it is that someone with a PowerPC is going to this extent to be able to play Quicktime movies that were natively supported under the machine's original operating system.
But then I thought to myself, all those people that got Windows with their machine are probably going to the same extent to play a format that was natively supported by it in Linux too. Sorry, but this all seems very ironic when people are so intent on moveing away from the proprietaryness (my new word of tha day) that the original system exhibited.
Who say's Moore's law isn't just for Intel chips, after all he does work for intel.
Wow, female geek detected i think :-) Can I... urm... get your... screen name? ;-)
... or a 110GHz IBM?
Someone's already said something similar here, but I know that people just sit and wait on their own comments being replied to sometimes, so I'll say it. Moore's law is the one that talks about the speed of advances in computing power. You can read all about it on Moore's web page. If we were going by Moore's law (assuming that the speed of a processor can increase uniformly with the amount of transistors we can fit onto it) it would be 5 or 6 years until we hit 100GHz. Unfortunately it will be more difficult to get the required amount of transistors for a processor running at 100GHz that it is to make a NIC run at that speed. Also since Moore talks about the amount of transistors that can be used, who says we're not going to find a way to make it faster with less transistors before 10 years has passed? it's all just speculation.
But they have GIMP, what more could they need? ;-)
"Blue Screens" are caused by a fault in the Kernel or something writing to memory it's not meant to be writing to. Assuming normal user processes can only write to their own memory space, then it is a fault of the kernel. Sure, Open GL might be buggy, but it's your Windows kernel that's causing the blue screen. A remotely stable kernel would just complain that the game or whatever was using OpenGL did something nasty, then continue with its work as usual. If an OpenGL app on Linux crashes (yes it can happen) it could mess up a display driver (take NVidia's ones before the 23.13 GLX one for example) and cause X to restart. Notice that it doesn't cause a kernel panic.
always wondered why they even bothered to include OpenGL support in their drivers
If i was a video card driver writer, I'd be concentrating on making the existing one more stable instead of contemplating why we even bother producing it. Doesn't the PS2 (playstation) use OpenGL? Macs use OpenGL. What do SGI machines use? DirectX may be most popular among Windows games programmers, but it's not the only industry standard worth following. If software developers for PCs concentrate purely on DirectX they would never have had some of the amazing games that originated in the console market, as they never had DirectX support to start with.