Oooh, dear Microsoft, this is so nice! Please do get so very much pissy with processor manufacturers and their customers. MS trying to pull their usual strategy in the open and free for all PC hardware market (that brought them up in the first place). It's so very much gonna blow up in their face if they're serious about this. I hope so.
This is great news.
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Don't worry if you don't get it. This type of commercial is fairly normal in the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia. It tries to inherit both from those who are pointed into something you don't expect seeing (usually Monty-Python-like funny, using modern sfx) and those that have an elite stance that only a certain group can understand or that lives of people not understanding what it's about right away. The thing that is strange about it is that it combines a strong humorous concept with a rather 'serious' concept. Anyway, whatever you think, these commercials are made by professionals and are quite good actually. They're just so absolutely unsuited for the american market and watching habbits. That's all.
.. what would be next if we'd expected Apple to stay on top of things. Of course, a Tablet. A Newton revival so to speak. Bingo! Seems I was right on. Oh, and don't worry that Apple won't follow through. They will. Just think how it should be and that's the way it will be. Steve Jobs is the closest to a geek and a techie a CEO will ever get. And he never compromises when he know's how it's suposed to be done. I predict the following: The Apple Tablet - probably called iNewton - will have a form factor slightly smaller than the 12" iBook, will - of course (Apple isn't dumb, y'know) - have no keyboard and most certainly have no optical drive. It will have top-notch handwriting recognition (think "Newton with the brakes removed"), a special variant of OS X and it will boot extremly fast. In around about 5 seconds. It will probably have a pen with the ability to switch to ink and a on-screen warning when the pen is in "ink-writing" mode. Some bluetooth thingie in the pen issueing that warning. It will have no clutter, but all the stuff you need and will be the first tablet to truly replace pen and paper.
And - of course - it will sell like hot cakes.
I actually suspect Steve Jobs to present it at the next Mac Expo. Because everytime I think "Gee, that would be nice to have", Apple has it 18 months later the latest. It's allways that way.
Isn't that obvious? Or did I miss something? I'm working with an OSS project that is sponsored by the industry ( www.xical.org ) and various partners working on and with it. All are interessted in results. It's got a fairly good branding and the people working on it are good at selling their services. The rest is a piece of cake. Curiously enough, I have the impression that the customers I'm dealing with couldn't care less if it were OSS or not. They want professional expertise on a solution to a problem they have. Provide that, and you've got your projects sponsor.
Honestly, folks, databases are like crutches: Pathetic, but you when you need them, there's hardly an alternative. They are the living proof that abstract concepts and computer simulation of those on real world hardware need the strangest type of hacks to be mended together.
On top of that - and this is the worse part - what we call databases today is nohing much more of a historically grown apocalyptic chaos. With one of the crappiest programming languages ever as a cornerstone of its technology. A weedy mumbojumbo of wanna-be virtual machines, wanna-be server daemons, makeshift security layers, obstrusive user management and pseudo operating systems and a bazillion proprietary variants of said programmin language. With features bolted on left right and center. This basically is the case with any current DB in widespread use, be it MySQL, Oracle or anything inbetween. And if you look at the core of it Database technology and how long it has been that way there isn't much hope that DB's will go anywhere anytime soon.
Then again, if you want to get a glimpse of a possibly brighter future, I'd actually recomend Zope. I consider it's object relational DB a working proof of avantgarde "database" concepts and a prototype of what DBs generally could look like in the future if anyone were interested.
It's simply not ripe yet. I had the near equivalent of a PDA in 1986. My first computer. It was a Sharp PC 1402. It's to date the longest battery time on a portable computer in existance (ca. 200 hrs). It's lying right in front of me and I still use it today. With hardcover it's still thinner than my Tungsten E lying next to it. In the early to mid nineties we had the HP 200 pocket computers with DOS 5 and Works 5 on ROM. Booted in a second. To date unmatched in versatility. Then we had the Newton. It totally ruled. But PDAs didn't take off. Now they have found their niche. They are ideal for keeping notes, dates and contacts in sync. They run with the crappiest groupware/mailer evar (Outlook) which like 905 of the population think it's the only Groupware/Mailer. They've finally gotten a standard IR interface. The screens have usable contrast and the responsivenes off the touchscreen is good. Calendars are standardized and CPUs are fast enough to render Websites. And curiously enough, all that runs 40 hours on a single load. Still only about a 5th of the running time of my 1402. What I'm saying is in the mean time they have become more usefull to a lot of people as an extra to their workstation at home, so they buy one. Actually an extreme niche situation. VR will probably take of when some online-game-tv-show combo makes use of it. (Gibsons Mona Lisa Overdrive is a plausible scenario for widespread VR). After all, who would've thought that portable multimedia takes of with variant ringtones? My 2 cents.
1. If Americans are supposedly so stupid compared to Indians, why exactly was it American engineers who developed the transistor (Bell Labs) You're acutally right with that one.
the airplane (Wright Brothers) They came up with the classic wing profile we still use today. However, there where others flying before that. The german Otto Lilienthal for instance. And it was a french guy who built the first fully functional aeroplane. But again the USians where better at marketing (which is what counts in the end). BTW: Otto Liliental isn't even mentioned in wikipedia (which I find astounding).
the light bulb (Thomas Edison) Wrong. Heinrich Göbel and his glowing bottle was first. Edison only ripped him, did the marketing and made the money. As usuall, the german guy was smart enough to invent, but to dumb to make money of it. Same with the Telefax (Fax). Siemens said no, AT&T said yes. And it was a german inventor who asked siemens fist. Stupid idea. You never go to Siemens with an invention. You go to an US company.
most of the foundation of modern computer science Wrong. Zuse (german) and von Neuman. Zuse built the first functional computer of the kind we use today. (Seperation of CPU and RAM)
the Unix operating system and the C language, Minix (upon which Linux was based), BSD, Java, the laser
Don't know about those. Maybe you're right with that.
the space shuttle, the satellite (yes, the Russians were first with the dog, but we leapfrogged them and our technology was much, much better -- also, Russia was stealing American technology throughout the cold war to help them compete)
The germans the americans gatherd up were better than those the russians could muster. In fact all you've mentioned is based on stuff from Werner von Braun and what he developed before and during the 'Third Reich'. Watch (or read) "The Right Stuff" - there's nice one-liner with someone saying "Our germans are better than their germans." Quite fitting actually.
the nuclear submarine Wrong.... Well, sort of wrong. Otto Hahn (german scientist). (the nuclear part) German 1st WW Reichsmarine (the submarine part)
the skyscraper That one's correct.
steel reinforced concrete Wrong. Rudolf Steiner (austrian) and the inovative architects he gathered to build the second "Goetheanum". Which is the oldest steel reinforced concrete building in the world. And it still is considered by experts as the one that makes best architectural use of this type of material.
a vast number of modern medical procedures Those being? You're making a very vague filler statement here.
the atomic and hydrogen bombs (those German physicists were aided by many American physicists and engineers) Aha. Heary, heary. Ever heard of Oppenheimer?
the atomic power plant, Didn't we have that allready? Otto Hahn?
the Apollo Moon shot (most of the engineers were Americans, don't get started on Nazi rocket scientists...)
Yepp. Let's call them german rocket scientists. And why not? It actually is true. Take that from someone who's father and grandfather have worked with the NASA (Orbiter) and Grumman Aircraft (Lunar Module).
and the personal computer? I could go on, but considering India's main claim to fame is the supposed invention of the number zero, and that it was a cruddy little third world country until the tech boom (and the technology WE GAVE THEM)
India was a high culture a few thousand years ago with writing, math, abstract currency and all that comes with it at a time when Europe was inhabited by hairy grunts barely capable of walking upright. And don't forget: America is something like a european colony - just as europe is very much something like an american colony. So I wouldn't get to worked up about what "WE GAVE THEM"...:-)
After a decade of steaming becoming more widespread in both audience and medium, RealNetworks' RealPlayer has become an embarrassment to even try installing.
Sorry, but you are babbling utter crap. The Realplayer is up to date the only true commercial cross plattform player avaiable, and, legends to the contrary, a very good one. Maybe not up to date with the latest and gratest rich client technologies but SMIL is an open, official full range multimedia document description language and the RealPlayer is it's player, y'know? So if you wan't to do some good you should favour Real Streaming over Quicktime and Mickeysuck WMV whenever a site offers it. Take this from a Mac User who installed the Reaplayer on top of Quicktime.
While Blender isn't imidiately accessible as a whole and has a very steep learning curve, it's workspacve management is considered groundbreaking. In fact it's being officially ripped off by newcomers in the 3D tool industry. And its the first 3D pakage that has a completely OpenGL accelerated GUI.
...they can make an advantage of this. Buying MM is all about breeze, flex, flash.lite and whatever flash byproducts MM as been raking in heaps of cash with lately. Now this all is going o be part of one big slow monopoly. The only existing potential competitor to all this is Suns Java Media Framework. It needs serious polishing and usability for non-eggheads but it has the power to step into the ring with Adobe/MM in this ballpark. Did I say "If Sun is smart"? Never mind.
I'm currently in a subsequent large scale Flash / ActionScript project. Flash MX 2004 Pro sucks as IDE but the Flash Plattform and Technology totally rocks. This stuff has made my living for the last 14 months. I so very much pray to god they don't screw this up.... But then again, if they do and some people push XUL or Blender, there will be room again for the fast, small and agile oss cracks. That would save me the bianual upgrade costs.:-)
I so very much hope the ActionScript 2 Team stays in charge. Those are the only ones capable at programming over at MM. Seriously. And I hope that they don't fuck up the Player. And don't make a must-have compiler with a crappy IDE (as MM did) and just double the pricing. My gosh, listen to me.... So this is the kind of stuff you're actually spared from when you go OSS only.
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I actually expect this release to be a milestone in GUI operating systems. Not only is inter-programm communication fully developed, it also gets a easy to use point-and-click interface to access these functions (Automator). What would really rock is if someday Apple had the guts to actually drop the desktop metaphor and introduce some non-overlaping full screen realestate using workspace and application management. Something like blender has - only more accessable of course.
How long have knowledgable users of Windows, Linux and Mac OS dreamed of easy cross-program automation via visual graphical pipes. Once again it's OS X that's years ahead of anything else.
OS X from above, Linux from below.
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Heavens Crickey - what a load of bullcrap in such a short comment. (I dare not call this an 'article').
Yet another wannabe expert on computers babbling incoherent filler-talk about "pendlum swings" and OSS OSes being a "bag o legos" and whatnot.
I've seen articles pitting Linux against Windows and pointing out the advantages of 'doze over Linux in a professional manner, but this one isn't even good for a bad joke. In fact, it's a perfect example of how _not_ to write on this issue.
And then this sorry excuse of a cliffhanger conclusion: "Stay tuned; i'll tell you all about it."
No thanks, Tom Yager, after this my Crapometer is at max for this quarter allready. And I want my 90 seconds back.
The linked column is nothing else but the new media equivalent of trolling. Move along.
"the romantic scenes suck! Because, ya know, the ones in the first trilogy were so wonderfully done!" They were pretty bad.
I actually found the romatic scenes in the first triology (TNH,ESB,TROTJ) quite good. Yes I was between 11 and 13 back then, but I still consider them neat and fun to watch. The dialog wasn't half bad (allthough I just can recall the german dubbing, don't know about the english version for shure) It's things like Leia and Han's "I love you."-"I know." exchange across two movies, which I only really noticed 10 years later that give the whole flick a touch of sit-com/soap-opera that only fans will notice. Not to bad for a series of fun movies, imho.
Reading the Kernel Mailing List and Linus and other debating on the issue is just plain fascinating. A few testruns on monotone and 5 OSS experts are giving commments on what could be wrong, why it is so slow and meanwhile Linus has written "a little toolkit" the last two days that could be usefull as a base for a version management framework. Just watching them work is a pleasure. These people probably do things in an hour for which I would need half a year. If the monotone people (is it a team?) are smart they'll join right now. There are invaluable testresults and accompaning interpretations from kernel developers rolling in on the tool as we speak. In two months from now monotone could finish what otherwise would take a year or two.... Imagine Linus 'helping out a little for a few days' on your OSS project. Cool.
The Pope died.... Honestly, didn't we have this two days ago? BTW, he said n ot to bug him with Subversion. He's not going to use it because it's not the ideal tool for the job. So say the Subeversion people themselves. He's currently checking out Monotone. But as I said: We had that 2 days ago.
Linus: "Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are already aware of my problems;)"
I would've suggested Arch or Monotone. It's nice to see the Kernel Team not wasting a minute and it gives me a little ego stroking seeing that Linus makes nearly the same choice that I would have. And I've only started using VC on a regular basis recently.
Also known as: WTFNAB? - Who The Fuck Needs A Box?
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Yes, mac laptops are more expensive than their pc counterparts.
Wrong. Point in case: The iBook is the cheapest Subnotebook available. Was one of the main reasons I bought it.... Now I'm actually hooked by Apples OS X, but that's another story. Very many geeks have an iBook running with PPC Debian Linux for the very same reason: Cheap, quality hardware.
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When OS X came, everyone in the Linux/BSD camp said "Cool, the best and smartest thing to do for a vendor - take OSS and build and polish it around your plattform." And everyone said they'd wait until OS X has lost it's glitches and matured. This has happend with Panther. That's why everyone who needs to get 'computer stuff done' with zero hassle and no hardware compatibility problems is flocking towards Apples OS X. Including me. x86 Linux is gaining ground here in germany. Corporations are pondering the alternatives to MS left, right and center, while just the other day a guy at Saturn, a german mass market electronics chain, told me that the mac mini is selling like hot cakes with iMacs going away in its wake and that they'll stock up seriously on mac games within the next few weeks because of that. They currently have two mac compliant games in stock and plan to have 30 in stock by the end of next month! It's as I've said earler: Linux from below, OS X from above. We have some interesting times ahead of us in IT. ... Now if you excuse me, I gotta get going and try out frame skimming on Blender with my new Griffin Powermate I just got for my iBook today.:-)
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Oooh, dear Microsoft, this is so nice! Please do get so very much pissy with processor manufacturers and their customers.
MS trying to pull their usual strategy in the open and free for all PC hardware market (that brought them up in the first place). It's so very much gonna blow up in their face if they're serious about this. I hope so.
This is great news.
Don't worry if you don't get it.
This type of commercial is fairly normal in the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia. It tries to inherit both from those who are pointed into something you don't expect seeing (usually Monty-Python-like funny, using modern sfx) and those that have an elite stance that only a certain group can understand or that lives of people not understanding what it's about right away.
The thing that is strange about it is that it combines a strong humorous concept with a rather 'serious' concept.
Anyway, whatever you think, these commercials are made by professionals and are quite good actually. They're just so absolutely unsuited for the american market and watching habbits. That's all.
Bingo!
Seems I was right on. Oh, and don't worry that Apple won't follow through. They will.
Just think how it should be and that's the way it will be. Steve Jobs is the closest to a geek and a techie a CEO will ever get. And he never compromises when he know's how it's suposed to be done.
I predict the following:
The Apple Tablet - probably called iNewton - will have a form factor slightly smaller than the 12" iBook, will - of course (Apple isn't dumb, y'know) - have no keyboard and most certainly have no optical drive. It will have top-notch handwriting recognition (think "Newton with the brakes removed"), a special variant of OS X and it will boot extremly fast. In around about 5 seconds. It will probably have a pen with the ability to switch to ink and a on-screen warning when the pen is in "ink-writing" mode. Some bluetooth thingie in the pen issueing that warning. It will have no clutter, but all the stuff you need and will be the first tablet to truly replace pen and paper.
And - of course - it will sell like hot cakes.
I actually suspect Steve Jobs to present it at the next Mac Expo. Because everytime I think "Gee, that would be nice to have", Apple has it 18 months later the latest. It's allways that way.
Isn't that obvious?
Or did I miss something?
I'm working with an OSS project that is sponsored by the industry ( www.xical.org ) and various partners working on and with it. All are interessted in results. It's got a fairly good branding and the people working on it are good at selling their services. The rest is a piece of cake.
Curiously enough, I have the impression that the customers I'm dealing with couldn't care less if it were OSS or not. They want professional expertise on a solution to a problem they have.
Provide that, and you've got your projects sponsor.
Honestly, folks, databases are like crutches: Pathetic, but you when you need them, there's hardly an alternative. They are the living proof that abstract concepts and computer simulation of those on real world hardware need the strangest type of hacks to be mended together.
On top of that - and this is the worse part - what we call databases today is nohing much more of a historically grown apocalyptic chaos. With one of the crappiest programming languages ever as a cornerstone of its technology. A weedy mumbojumbo of wanna-be virtual machines, wanna-be server daemons, makeshift security layers, obstrusive user management and pseudo operating systems and a bazillion proprietary variants of said programmin language. With features bolted on left right and center. This basically is the case with any current DB in widespread use, be it MySQL, Oracle or anything inbetween.
And if you look at the core of it Database technology and how long it has been that way there isn't much hope that DB's will go anywhere anytime soon.
Then again, if you want to get a glimpse of a possibly brighter future, I'd actually recomend Zope. I consider it's object relational DB a working proof of avantgarde "database" concepts and a prototype of what DBs generally could look like in the future if anyone were interested.
It's simply not ripe yet.
I had the near equivalent of a PDA in 1986. My first computer. It was a Sharp PC 1402. It's to date the longest battery time on a portable computer in existance (ca. 200 hrs). It's lying right in front of me and I still use it today. With hardcover it's still thinner than my Tungsten E lying next to it. In the early to mid nineties we had the HP 200 pocket computers with DOS 5 and Works 5 on ROM. Booted in a second. To date unmatched in versatility. Then we had the Newton. It totally ruled. But PDAs didn't take off.
Now they have found their niche. They are ideal for keeping notes, dates and contacts in sync. They run with the crappiest groupware/mailer evar (Outlook) which like 905 of the population think it's the only Groupware/Mailer. They've finally gotten a standard IR interface. The screens have usable contrast and the responsivenes off the touchscreen is good. Calendars are standardized and CPUs are fast enough to render Websites. And curiously enough, all that runs 40 hours on a single load. Still only about a 5th of the running time of my 1402.
What I'm saying is in the mean time they have become more usefull to a lot of people as an extra to their workstation at home, so they buy one. Actually an extreme niche situation.
VR will probably take of when some online-game-tv-show combo makes use of it. (Gibsons Mona Lisa Overdrive is a plausible scenario for widespread VR). After all, who would've thought that portable multimedia takes of with variant ringtones?
My 2 cents.
1. If Americans are supposedly so stupid compared to Indians, why exactly was it American engineers who developed the transistor (Bell Labs)
... Well, sort of wrong.
:-)
You're acutally right with that one.
the airplane (Wright Brothers)
They came up with the classic wing profile we still use today. However, there where others flying before that. The german Otto Lilienthal for instance. And it was a french guy who built the first fully functional aeroplane. But again the USians where better at marketing (which is what counts in the end). BTW: Otto Liliental isn't even mentioned in wikipedia (which I find astounding).
the light bulb (Thomas Edison)
Wrong.
Heinrich Göbel and his glowing bottle was first. Edison only ripped him, did the marketing and made the money. As usuall, the german guy was smart enough to invent, but to dumb to make money of it. Same with the Telefax (Fax). Siemens said no, AT&T said yes. And it was a german inventor who asked siemens fist. Stupid idea. You never go to Siemens with an invention. You go to an US company.
most of the foundation of modern computer science
Wrong.
Zuse (german) and von Neuman. Zuse built the first functional computer of the kind we use today. (Seperation of CPU and RAM)
the Unix operating system and the C language, Minix (upon which Linux was based), BSD, Java, the laser
Don't know about those. Maybe you're right with that.
the space shuttle, the satellite (yes, the Russians were first with the dog, but we leapfrogged them and our technology was much, much better -- also, Russia was stealing American technology throughout the cold war to help them compete)
The germans the americans gatherd up were better than those the russians could muster. In fact all you've mentioned is based on stuff from Werner von Braun and what he developed before and during the 'Third Reich'. Watch (or read) "The Right Stuff" - there's nice one-liner with someone saying "Our germans are better than their germans." Quite fitting actually.
the nuclear submarine
Wrong.
Otto Hahn (german scientist). (the nuclear part)
German 1st WW Reichsmarine (the submarine part)
the skyscraper
That one's correct.
steel reinforced concrete
Wrong.
Rudolf Steiner (austrian) and the inovative architects he gathered to build the second "Goetheanum". Which is the oldest steel reinforced concrete building in the world. And it still is considered by experts as the one that makes best architectural use of this type of material.
a vast number of modern medical procedures
Those being? You're making a very vague filler statement here.
the atomic and hydrogen bombs (those German physicists were aided by many American physicists and engineers)
Aha. Heary, heary. Ever heard of Oppenheimer?
the atomic power plant,
Didn't we have that allready? Otto Hahn?
the Apollo Moon shot (most of the engineers were Americans, don't get started on Nazi rocket scientists...)
Yepp. Let's call them german rocket scientists.
And why not? It actually is true. Take that from someone who's father and grandfather have worked with the NASA (Orbiter) and Grumman Aircraft (Lunar Module).
and the personal computer? I could go on, but considering India's main claim to fame is the supposed invention of the number zero, and that it was a cruddy little third world country until the tech boom (and the technology WE GAVE THEM)
India was a high culture a few thousand years ago with writing, math, abstract currency and all that comes with it at a time when Europe was inhabited by hairy grunts barely capable of walking upright. And don't forget: America is something like a european colony - just as europe is very much something like an american colony. So I wouldn't get to worked up about what "WE GAVE THEM"...
After a decade of steaming becoming more widespread in both audience and medium, RealNetworks' RealPlayer has become an embarrassment to even try installing.
Sorry, but you are babbling utter crap. The Realplayer is up to date the only true commercial cross plattform player avaiable, and, legends to the contrary, a very good one. Maybe not up to date with the latest and gratest rich client technologies but SMIL is an open, official full range multimedia document description language and the RealPlayer is it's player, y'know?
So if you wan't to do some good you should favour Real Streaming over Quicktime and Mickeysuck WMV whenever a site offers it.
Take this from a Mac User who installed the Reaplayer on top of Quicktime.
... that what SCO did was an incredibly stupid idea.
Frankly, I'm not even interested in SCO bulletins anymore.
... your Software and your Operating Systems suck.
Get out of my air. Thank you.
While Blender isn't imidiately accessible as a whole and has a very steep learning curve, it's workspacve management is considered groundbreaking. In fact it's being officially ripped off by newcomers in the 3D tool industry. And its the first 3D pakage that has a completely OpenGL accelerated GUI.
...they can make an advantage of this. Buying MM is all about breeze, flex, flash.lite and whatever flash byproducts MM as been raking in heaps of cash with lately. Now this all is going o be part of one big slow monopoly.
The only existing potential competitor to all this is Suns Java Media Framework. It needs serious polishing and usability for non-eggheads but it has the power to step into the ring with Adobe/MM in this ballpark.
Did I say "If Sun is smart"?
Never mind.
I'm currently in a subsequent large scale Flash / ActionScript project. Flash MX 2004 Pro sucks as IDE but the Flash Plattform and Technology totally rocks. This stuff has made my living for the last 14 months. I so very much pray to god they don't screw this up. ... :-)
... So this is the kind of stuff you're actually spared from when you go OSS only.
But then again, if they do and some people push XUL or Blender, there will be room again for the fast, small and agile oss cracks. That would save me the bianual upgrade costs.
I so very much hope the ActionScript 2 Team stays in charge. Those are the only ones capable at programming over at MM. Seriously.
And I hope that they don't fuck up the Player. And don't make a must-have compiler with a crappy IDE (as MM did) and just double the pricing.
My gosh, listen to me.
Please mod parent up.
That comment is right on.
I actually expect this release to be a milestone in GUI operating systems. Not only is inter-programm communication fully developed, it also gets a easy to use point-and-click interface to access these functions (Automator).
What would really rock is if someday Apple had the guts to actually drop the desktop metaphor and introduce some non-overlaping full screen realestate using workspace and application management. Something like blender has - only more accessable of course.
How long have knowledgable users of Windows, Linux and Mac OS dreamed of easy cross-program automation via visual graphical pipes. Once again it's OS X that's years ahead of anything else.
Tough times ahead for MS.
I'd just do this:
...
apt-get install sp2
or
apt-get update sp2
Oh, wait.
Wrong OS.
Sorry.
Forget about it.
... when it comes to shitty columns."
Heavens Crickey - what a load of bullcrap in such a short comment. (I dare not call this an 'article').
Yet another wannabe expert on computers babbling incoherent filler-talk about "pendlum swings" and OSS OSes being a "bag o legos" and whatnot.
I've seen articles pitting Linux against Windows and pointing out the advantages of 'doze over Linux in a professional manner, but this one isn't even good for a bad joke. In fact, it's a perfect example of how _not_ to write on this issue.
And then this sorry excuse of a cliffhanger conclusion: "Stay tuned; i'll tell you all about it."
No thanks, Tom Yager, after this my Crapometer is at max for this quarter allready. And I want my 90 seconds back.
The linked column is nothing else but the new media equivalent of trolling. Move along.
"the romantic scenes suck! Because, ya know, the ones in the first trilogy were so wonderfully done!" They were pretty bad.
I actually found the romatic scenes in the first triology (TNH,ESB,TROTJ) quite good. Yes I was between 11 and 13 back then, but I still consider them neat and fun to watch. The dialog wasn't half bad (allthough I just can recall the german dubbing, don't know about the english version for shure) It's things like Leia and Han's "I love you."-"I know." exchange across two movies, which I only really noticed 10 years later that give the whole flick a touch of sit-com/soap-opera that only fans will notice. Not to bad for a series of fun movies, imho.
Reading the Kernel Mailing List and Linus and other debating on the issue is just plain fascinating. A few testruns on monotone and 5 OSS experts are giving commments on what could be wrong, why it is so slow and meanwhile Linus has written "a little toolkit" the last two days that could be usefull as a base for a version management framework. ... Imagine Linus 'helping out a little for a few days' on your OSS project. Cool.
Just watching them work is a pleasure. These people probably do things in an hour for which I would need half a year. If the monotone people (is it a team?) are smart they'll join right now. There are invaluable testresults and accompaning interpretations from kernel developers rolling in on the tool as we speak. In two months from now monotone could finish what otherwise would take a year or two.
The Pope died. ...
Honestly, didn't we have this two days ago?
BTW, he said n ot to bug him with Subversion. He's not going to use it because it's not the ideal tool for the job. So say the Subeversion people themselves. He's currently checking out Monotone. But as I said: We had that 2 days ago.
Linus: "Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are already aware of my problems ;)"
I would've suggested Arch or Monotone. It's nice to see the Kernel Team not wasting a minute and it gives me a little ego stroking seeing that Linus makes nearly the same choice that I would have. And I've only started using VC on a regular basis recently.
Debian.
Also known as:
WTFNAB? - Who The Fuck Needs A Box?
Yes, mac laptops are more expensive than their pc counterparts.
... Now I'm actually hooked by Apples OS X, but that's another story. Very many geeks have an iBook running with PPC Debian Linux for the very same reason: Cheap, quality hardware.
Wrong.
Point in case: The iBook is the cheapest Subnotebook available. Was one of the main reasons I bought it.
When OS X came, everyone in the Linux/BSD camp said "Cool, the best and smartest thing to do for a vendor - take OSS and build and polish it around your plattform." And everyone said they'd wait until OS X has lost it's glitches and matured. This has happend with Panther. That's why everyone who needs to get 'computer stuff done' with zero hassle and no hardware compatibility problems is flocking towards Apples OS X. Including me.
... Now if you excuse me, I gotta get going and try out frame skimming on Blender with my new Griffin Powermate I just got for my iBook today. :-)
x86 Linux is gaining ground here in germany. Corporations are pondering the alternatives to MS left, right and center, while just the other day a guy at Saturn, a german mass market electronics chain, told me that the mac mini is selling like hot cakes with iMacs going away in its wake and that they'll stock up seriously on mac games within the next few weeks because of that. They currently have two mac compliant games in stock and plan to have 30 in stock by the end of next month!
It's as I've said earler: Linux from below, OS X from above. We have some interesting times ahead of us in IT.