considering they already have a working demo/beta, i have to believe that is some sort of typo. it would be too great a business blunder to generate a bunch of anticipation just to knowingly disappoint the world. That's an opinion.
that they had the nerve to get posted to slashdot when everything on the page, including the text, is made of images. i say if they want their website to be all images, they should try to make products that won't be useful or interesting. that way they can avoid further server slow-downs caused by the slashdot effect.
Sure I would. If I were in charge of a distro I could offer to configure everything for the manufacturer's hardware. They pay for each installed copy (indirectly through support), but much less than Windows and less than the distro's retail box price. In return, I'd offer support to the customer of my distro on that vendor's hardware. The consumer wins by having a copy of Linux on their machine that is supported by an established Linux company.
Or you could just have the customer choose to buy support (subcontracted to whatever distro company)for less than the retail box price or just get Linux for free without support.
Either way, Linux gains credibility among the masses because the initial configuration has been tested and tuned for the hardware. It works well so people like it. As the masses start to accept Linux more, more boxed copies are sold.
Linux companies shouldn't fear having their distro downloaded for free.
Even Apple recognized this when they picked BSD as the core for Darwin
there is no proof that this was because of bsd or linux being worse or better. the easiest explanation is liscenses, but that's another argument entirely.
Lucas's narratives tend to reflect a rather benevolently feudal/fascist view of the world, in which an elite group (Jedi) rules over/provides protection to the general classes
don't the Jedi serve the republic? doesn't a republic involve government by representation of the masses?
he has furthermore stated his preference for "benevolent dictator" style organization for his businesses (Lucasfilm/ILM/etc.), as well as indicating that his films are very specifically his own (versus "for the fans")...
i think an artist who is concerned about the interpretation of his work makes his art less valid. i don't always agree with lucas' artistic decisions (jar-jar), but he has the right as an artist to make them. picasso would have been less of an artist had he worried about how critics might percieve it.
as an artist, a person has something to say. if the artist listens too much to the audience, they stop saying anything and simply tell people what they want to hear. the desire to make movies based on what people want to hear is the thing that makes so many movies bad. they become uninspired and uninspiring.
The DMCA is the recording industry's Endangered Species Act -- it's as if a congress of dinosaurs voted to outlaw mammals and asteroids.
The Boston Tea Party was a heroic act of civil disobedience against a state-sponsored monopoly
wow, funny and insightful. there should be extra bonus points for that.
so does the congress of dinosaurs more accurately point out the antiquated hype-crap-to-the-kids business model or the brain-the-size-of-a-pea mentallity of the legislators making laws to protect that business model?
it is difficult to get screen colors to match printed colors. they simply use different color space. (although you can simulate cmyk with rgb somewhat). and differences are easier to see in print. in 24 bit color there are 16M colors, but only 8 bits (256) of variation for each of the 3 primaries. this also one of the reasons that many scanners and printers are capable of more than 24 bit color.
Then there's the alpha (transparency) that isn't considered at all in 24 bit RGB. so that matters, too.
started in the Netherlands, KaZaA is now Australian. The Dutch sold it. all of the fun with shutting Morpheus down was around the same time that the company changed hands.
i agree this is going on too long. i agree that closure would be welcome.
but i don't think that the fact that Microsoft has been in court a long time make this subject cease to be important. i do think this is a hope that Microsoft has. The consumers will stop caring or forget that they've been screwed and spend even more money with Microsoft.
This isn't an isolated case; this is part of the way people think (it seems, especially here in America). People are so bombarded with information and so used to quick gratification that when something important takes a while, they just stop caring.
i'm not trying to say cases involving Microsoft should take their sweet time. i am saying it is important that people keep caring what happens. When people don't care if they get screwed, more bad things will certainly happen.
maybe you didn't mean to be a troll, but you did snag me. so it was successful.
fewer distros. At least in the for profit arena. Hobby distros don't depend on economics as much to stay around because they don't need to stay in business to stay around. I don't mean any disrespect to Mission Critical Linux. But there must be demand to meet the supply of distros.
It is sad that a Linux company has gone under, but maybe this is just a sign that in our (for now) weak economy there isn't room for a bunch of High-End Distributions quite yet. Red Hat is still going strong, but they have name recognition and have been around for a while. I have talked to people who didn't recognize the word "linux" but did recognize "Red Hat." In a time when companies are not spending very much on tech, companies are more likely to go with something they've heard of, regardless of how well it gets the job done. (again, not a slam on how good any distro may be, just a comment on human nature)
Hopefully as Linux continues to pick up speed / market share (which in my opinion it is doing and will continue to do) the need for more companies devoted to the "mission critical" niche will come to be. All it will take is time. More people have heard of Linux now, Linux continues to improve both in quality and ease of use. It is not going away, but sadly not every distro will make it.
Of course non of the lackluster sales of big Media companies has anything to do with their products. It is those thieving customers. Glitter was a disaster of both film and music. They could have made money off of that if it weren't for all the piracy. Really it's Napster's fault.
The business model of hyping mediocrity just isn't paying like it used to. So they're trying to make sure they can just do more of it on a larger scale. It's like the milk is starting to spoil and they hope that by adding more milk it will get rid of the spoilage. The milk has turned and needs to be replaced. They need to work with the customers instead of blaming the only ones who pay them.
The one thing the Media Companies don't want to have to do is make a consistent effort to produce a good product. They just can't accept that hype is less effective than quality but at least as expensive.
"If commercialization was cut down, investors would not support research and development in the IT sector, less projects would be developed, less taxes paid and the government would have less money to run universities, and all the other things that governments do,"
The idea that open-source software would stop innovation and development is ridiculous.
Right now there is both commercial and open-source software. There are all sorts of liscenses. There is innovation on all fronts.
Different teams for both closed and open source projects are hard at work. I don't get how if more people start developing for open-source software that development would stop. Open source developers do not need investor support on the same level as commercial/closed source teams. People code open source because they want to.
And respect is a big commodity on the internet (as discussed here on slashdot), especially in open-source circles. If Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, or any other distro pay employees to code for Linux, they win a lot of respect from users of open-source. Even Sun has figured this out and pays people to work on open-source projects. In press announcements, these companies seem proud of open-source support; they don't seem like they are trying to hide it.
I think Mundie's comments might apply to the scope of Microsoft losing out, but not software development in general.
maybe since we now have the option to buy ad free page hits on slashdot, it would be nice to have an odometer and tripmeter as a customizable slashbox so people could have an idea about how many times they load/. pages. i don't know about anybody else, but i have no idea where i fall in terms of the "percentage of readers" mentioned in the story. if we could track page hits, it would also help us decide how much to spend.
another comment- come on, people. it's not like slashdot is ceasing to be free. also, we are only talking about 5$. this is not going to break your bank. slashdot is offering you a chance not to see ads. this is a new service, not something that has been taken away. the advertisers obviously have to agree to any ad opt-out deal that/. has; otherwise/. would have no more advertisers. basically you pay for whatever would be slashdot's lost add revenue. at the same time you keep the advertisers from pulling out. (if that happened, btw, slashdot would only be available by subscription) if you think this is some sort of sell out, slashdot has had ads for some time. plenty of websites have ads. all they are offering is an alternative.
stop whining. pay or don't. either way you still get the content. i'm all for open source and being able to get things for free, but sometimes it seems like people here only care about what they get for themselves without having to spend any time or money. (no developers, not you. the other guys.)
actually magazine and newspaper subscriptions are cheaper than the newstand price. thus those who buy everyday (all at once by subscribing) do pay less than those who buy otherwise (occasionally at newstands).
although i think linking karma and prices at all is a bad idea, there are ways it can be legal. those with low karma are not an ethnic group. systems could be devised that worked around a singling out of any specific group. it would probably work better to reward rather than punish. high karma posters are compensated for there "contributive work" to slashdot. that's just one example.
the introduction of a karma/money economic is still a bad, bad idea, though
Tom's Hardware has a story about there visit to AMD and the demo they got. They even got to take pictures, but unfortunately were not allowed to reboot to view BIOS messages.
The Register has an article that covers the same basic turf as the c|net article mentioned at the top. maybe slightly more in depth.
and of course, everyone around here seems to love to loathe ZDnet these days.
in the pictures at tom's it looks like this thing has a pretty honkin' heat sink. i wonder how much the silicon-on-insulator process used to make these things reduces heat and power consumption.
The thought of what these beauties could do just makes me feel all warm inside. i hope they live up to my expectations.
I remember that Lindows OS has everyone run as root to make WINE work better (at least in the demo discussed in the linked/. article). This is probably what you remember.
If you look on the FAQ page for configuring Lycoris, there are several instances where the answer involves "su to root" or "edit as root." To me that says that they do NOT have everyone running as root, which I agree is a terrible idea.
Wine (WINdows Emulator, which substitutes Unix or X11 calls for Windows API calls, allowing Windows 3.1 and Win32 programs to run) is also included in the distribution and installs automatically by default with no need for user configuration.
Just for the record, Wine Is Not an Emulator!
I just had to put that out there so anyone unfamiliar with WINE who read the article didn't learn it the wrong way. The WINE folk are clear that they like the idea of "Windows Compatability Layer" much better than "Windows Emulator."
that would be the next logical step if linux is to make inroads on the desktop market. linux is pretty well proven on servers, so why not make it more attractive on the desktop?
High reliability and security are ensured because each file has one or more encrypted and digitally signed replicas elsewhere in the cluster.
we can't have it all. we want unbloated, secure software and data. at least MS can now offer us something that might be secure because we have at least 2 copies of everything.
so now that the data might be safe, what are they doing for the OS to make sure i will be able to read my encrypted and digitally signed files?
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considering they already have a working demo/beta, i have to believe that is some sort of typo. it would be too great a business blunder to generate a bunch of anticipation just to knowingly disappoint the world. That's an opinion.
that they had the nerve to get posted to slashdot when everything on the page, including the text, is made of images. i say if they want their website to be all images, they should try to make products that won't be useful or interesting. that way they can avoid further server slow-downs caused by the slashdot effect.
and all of the devices you connect to that super fast firewire card are limited because they all share the same interupt and the same 33 MHz PCI bus.
Sure I would. If I were in charge of a distro I could offer to configure everything for the manufacturer's hardware. They pay for each installed copy (indirectly through support), but much less than Windows and less than the distro's retail box price. In return, I'd offer support to the customer of my distro on that vendor's hardware. The consumer wins by having a copy of Linux on their machine that is supported by an established Linux company.
Or you could just have the customer choose to buy support (subcontracted to whatever distro company)for less than the retail box price or just get Linux for free without support.
Either way, Linux gains credibility among the masses because the initial configuration has been tested and tuned for the hardware. It works well so people like it. As the masses start to accept Linux more, more boxed copies are sold.
Linux companies shouldn't fear having their distro downloaded for free.
Even Apple recognized this when they picked BSD as the core for Darwin
there is no proof that this was because of bsd or linux being worse or better. the easiest explanation is liscenses, but that's another argument entirely.
i can't help it. love star wars, must nit pick.
Lucas's narratives tend to reflect a rather benevolently feudal/fascist view of the world, in which an elite group (Jedi) rules over/provides protection to the general classes
don't the Jedi serve the republic? doesn't a republic involve government by representation of the masses?
he has furthermore stated his preference for "benevolent dictator" style organization for his businesses (Lucasfilm/ILM/etc.), as well as indicating that his films are very specifically his own (versus "for the fans")...
i think an artist who is concerned about the interpretation of his work makes his art less valid. i don't always agree with lucas' artistic decisions (jar-jar), but he has the right as an artist to make them. picasso would have been less of an artist had he worried about how critics might percieve it.
as an artist, a person has something to say. if the artist listens too much to the audience, they stop saying anything and simply tell people what they want to hear. the desire to make movies based on what people want to hear is the thing that makes so many movies bad. they become uninspired and uninspiring.
The DMCA is the recording industry's Endangered Species Act -- it's as if a congress of dinosaurs voted to outlaw mammals and asteroids.
The Boston Tea Party was a heroic act of civil disobedience against a state-sponsored monopoly
wow, funny and insightful. there should be extra bonus points for that.
so does the congress of dinosaurs more accurately point out the antiquated hype-crap-to-the-kids business model or the brain-the-size-of-a-pea mentallity of the legislators making laws to protect that business model?
it matters for print.
it is difficult to get screen colors to match printed colors. they simply use different color space. (although you can simulate cmyk with rgb somewhat). and differences are easier to see in print. in 24 bit color there are 16M colors, but only 8 bits (256) of variation for each of the 3 primaries. this also one of the reasons that many scanners and printers are capable of more than 24 bit color.
Then there's the alpha (transparency) that isn't considered at all in 24 bit RGB. so that matters, too.
started in the Netherlands, KaZaA is now Australian. The Dutch sold it. all of the fun with shutting Morpheus down was around the same time that the company changed hands.
i agree this is going on too long. i agree that closure would be welcome.
but i don't think that the fact that Microsoft has been in court a long time make this subject cease to be important. i do think this is a hope that Microsoft has. The consumers will stop caring or forget that they've been screwed and spend even more money with Microsoft.
This isn't an isolated case; this is part of the way people think (it seems, especially here in America). People are so bombarded with information and so used to quick gratification that when something important takes a while, they just stop caring.
i'm not trying to say cases involving Microsoft should take their sweet time. i am saying it is important that people keep caring what happens. When people don't care if they get screwed, more bad things will certainly happen.
maybe you didn't mean to be a troll, but you did snag me. so it was successful.
MCL doesn't make a distro, they do clustering and remote management stuff.
thanks (everyone) for info on MCL. I suppose that's what I get for just reading the article and not looking at MCL's website as well.
I guess nobody wanted to pay the premium for the difference between garunteed uptime and standard Linux uptime.
I can see that. It doesn't surprise me that MCL is having trouble, but I still think it's sad.
fewer distros. At least in the for profit arena. Hobby distros don't depend on economics as much to stay around because they don't need to stay in business to stay around. I don't mean any disrespect to Mission Critical Linux. But there must be demand to meet the supply of distros.
It is sad that a Linux company has gone under, but maybe this is just a sign that in our (for now) weak economy there isn't room for a bunch of High-End Distributions quite yet. Red Hat is still going strong, but they have name recognition and have been around for a while. I have talked to people who didn't recognize the word "linux" but did recognize "Red Hat." In a time when companies are not spending very much on tech, companies are more likely to go with something they've heard of, regardless of how well it gets the job done. (again, not a slam on how good any distro may be, just a comment on human nature)
Hopefully as Linux continues to pick up speed / market share (which in my opinion it is doing and will continue to do) the need for more companies devoted to the "mission critical" niche will come to be. All it will take is time. More people have heard of Linux now, Linux continues to improve both in quality and ease of use. It is not going away, but sadly not every distro will make it.
Of course non of the lackluster sales of big Media companies has anything to do with their products. It is those thieving customers. Glitter was a disaster of both film and music. They could have made money off of that if it weren't for all the piracy. Really it's Napster's fault.
The business model of hyping mediocrity just isn't paying like it used to. So they're trying to make sure they can just do more of it on a larger scale. It's like the milk is starting to spoil and they hope that by adding more milk it will get rid of the spoilage. The milk has turned and needs to be replaced. They need to work with the customers instead of blaming the only ones who pay them.
The one thing the Media Companies don't want to have to do is make a consistent effort to produce a good product. They just can't accept that hype is less effective than quality but at least as expensive.
"If commercialization was cut down, investors would not support research and development in the IT sector, less projects would be developed, less taxes paid and the government would have less money to run universities, and all the other things that governments do,"
The idea that open-source software would stop innovation and development is ridiculous.
Right now there is both commercial and open-source software. There are all sorts of liscenses. There is innovation on all fronts.
Different teams for both closed and open source projects are hard at work. I don't get how if more people start developing for open-source software that development would stop. Open source developers do not need investor support on the same level as commercial/closed source teams. People code open source because they want to.
And respect is a big commodity on the internet (as discussed here on slashdot), especially in open-source circles. If Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, or any other distro pay employees to code for Linux, they win a lot of respect from users of open-source. Even Sun has figured this out and pays people to work on open-source projects. In press announcements, these companies seem proud of open-source support; they don't seem like they are trying to hide it.
I think Mundie's comments might apply to the scope of Microsoft losing out, but not software development in general.
yes, but in karma. you probably meant in money.
maybe since we now have the option to buy ad free page hits on slashdot, it would be nice to have an odometer and tripmeter as a customizable slashbox so people could have an idea about how many times they load /. pages. i don't know about anybody else, but i have no idea where i fall in terms of the "percentage of readers" mentioned in the story. if we could track page hits, it would also help us decide how much to spend.
/. has; otherwise /. would have no more advertisers. basically you pay for whatever would be slashdot's lost add revenue. at the same time you keep the advertisers from pulling out. (if that happened, btw, slashdot would only be available by subscription) if you think this is some sort of sell out, slashdot has had ads for some time. plenty of websites have ads. all they are offering is an alternative.
another comment- come on, people. it's not like slashdot is ceasing to be free. also, we are only talking about 5$. this is not going to break your bank. slashdot is offering you a chance not to see ads. this is a new service, not something that has been taken away. the advertisers obviously have to agree to any ad opt-out deal that
stop whining. pay or don't. either way you still get the content. i'm all for open source and being able to get things for free, but sometimes it seems like people here only care about what they get for themselves without having to spend any time or money. (no developers, not you. the other guys.)
actually magazine and newspaper subscriptions are cheaper than the newstand price. thus those who buy everyday (all at once by subscribing) do pay less than those who buy otherwise (occasionally at newstands).
although i think linking karma and prices at all is a bad idea, there are ways it can be legal. those with low karma are not an ethnic group. systems could be devised that worked around a singling out of any specific group. it would probably work better to reward rather than punish. high karma posters are compensated for there "contributive work" to slashdot. that's just one example.
the introduction of a karma/money economic is still a bad, bad idea, though
only available for free to solaris users. anyone else can still buy it. and openoffice will still be a "light" version available to everybody
saw some more stories on this subject.
Tom's Hardware has a story about there visit to AMD and the demo they got. They even got to take pictures, but unfortunately were not allowed to reboot to view BIOS messages.
The Register has an article that covers the same basic turf as the c|net article mentioned at the top. maybe slightly more in depth.
and of course, everyone around here seems to love to loathe ZDnet these days.
in the pictures at tom's it looks like this thing has a pretty honkin' heat sink. i wonder how much the silicon-on-insulator process used to make these things reduces heat and power consumption.
The thought of what these beauties could do just makes me feel all warm inside. i hope they live up to my expectations.
actually, it looks like it will not be necessary to log in as root on Lycoris.
control+F and type subgeek to find my other comments about not needing to be root.
I remember that Lindows OS has everyone run as root to make WINE work better (at least in the demo discussed in the linked /. article). This is probably what you remember.
If you look on the FAQ page for configuring Lycoris, there are several instances where the answer involves "su to root" or "edit as root." To me that says that they do NOT have everyone running as root, which I agree is a terrible idea.
Wine (WINdows Emulator, which substitutes Unix or X11 calls for Windows API calls, allowing Windows 3.1 and Win32 programs to run) is also included in the distribution and installs automatically by default with no need for user configuration.
Just for the record, Wine Is Not an Emulator!
I just had to put that out there so anyone unfamiliar with WINE who read the article didn't learn it the wrong way. The WINE folk are clear that they like the idea of "Windows Compatability Layer" much better than "Windows Emulator."
that would be the next logical step if linux is to make inroads on the desktop market. linux is pretty well proven on servers, so why not make it more attractive on the desktop?
High reliability and security are ensured because each file has one or more encrypted and digitally signed replicas elsewhere in the cluster.
we can't have it all. we want unbloated, secure software and data. at least MS can now offer us something that might be secure because we have at least 2 copies of everything.
so now that the data might be safe, what are they doing for the OS to make sure i will be able to read my encrypted and digitally signed files?
maybe they were, but i still think that umberto boccioni made some great sculptures.
yeah, i guess even their predictions were pretty misguided, too. here we are 100 years later and technology hasn't solved our problems yet.