Trouble is *nobody* pays for borwsers anymore. People have a 'browsers are free mindset' and that will not change.
Opera have been porting their browser to Beos for some time, it is quite frankly, complete crap, it has problems rendering some very basic pages, and it is bug ridden.
The only hope on the horizon is Bezilla, but that has been held back because it was found Beos's networking stack was unable to work with mozilla, so now we have to wait for Bone (the new networking stack)
I do have my doubts about Beos ever getting a competent browser. Be seems to have made some new chums and is quite happy to walk away from Beos users
Yes IA's are very nice, but in pursuing this, Be has essentially abandoned users of its operating system. Beos still lacks a decent browser with java support, let alone any of the other technologies that form part of a browser.
Beos could have expanded to fill its market niche, instead, Be goes in pursuit of embedded folly, afield in which either MS will stamp on them or vendors will eventually opt for linux because of the lack of licencing costs.
I have been interested in this kind of distributed computing for a while. I got to thinking how cool it would be if some kind of distributed computing system could be added to say linux(as a module or something)
I envisage a system were you have resource_buddies-people you have agreed to share idle cpu time with. These buddies would probably need permenent ip add's, but they are becoming increasingly common with broadband links. Anyway, when you are doing something like rendering something with gimp, ior any other cpu intensive task, the kernel module could kick in at a user defined cpu usage level. When active the module could test a few resource buddies to see if any are active and if any have cpu idle time. If it detects idle time it then shares the processing load with the remote system.
Hmm, I would be very interested looking into this further. 2.5 inch notebook HDD's are resonably cheap now for
Where does this stand legally? Could someone buy a bunch of DC's add HDD's and maybe make some other minor modifications. Maybe allowing a monitor to be connected by default, rather than as an add on option(also at a higher res than with the add on)Or adding more memory.
Is it illegal to sell a DC that has been modified?
I think what we will see increasingly is linux based games consoles. A strippe ddown linux kernel coupled with opengl or _insert buzzword api name here_ would be a much cheaper option for console manafactures than developing custom micro OS's.
The next generation(tm) of games consoles will move towards standard configurations of commodity hardware. The Xbox is heading in that direction, but I think others will go much further. This could see linux make it into every household sooner than we thought.
but how long is it likely to be before we see something useful come out of this. That said, with QT/embedded rolling along, I think it would be quite easy to have the DC running BSD running QT running whatever.
The only big show stopper for me is thwe lack of storage. Unlike tyhe ps2, the DC has now usb or firewire ports, which means that adding a hdd ain't going to be easy. In fact, does anyone know if adding a HDD to the DC is doable?
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Im rather worried that they mention monkeys. If I remember correctly the sucess rate for monkeys being sent into space and returning safely is not great.
$25k is the price it can be done for now for non human payloads. Currently human payloads cost a lot more than that. So by 2016, non human payloads should be very cheap to ferry into space.
For me, that is what is interesting about this story. Not that in 15 years I can spend a few hours in space.
Oops. I should have been more clear. The technology to get people sized objects into space for under $25,000 exists now. Obviously when talking about taking real, living, breathing people into space, issues such as life support tend to become kind of important.
With regard to take people in 2016 for *holidays*. Personally I think it will happen much earlier than this, 2010 sounds perfectly possible to me. I actually think 2016 is terminally under ambitious as a timescale.
One other thing I did not consider earlier. The $26,000 being touted, could be easily affordable if they stick with the 2016 timescale. With the economy going the way it is.
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Actually this will not be as risky as you may believe. Given that what is talked about in the article is not going to be available for a number of years yet, it is likely that the method of transportation will be quite a bit different than what you may currently associate with space travel.
Firstly I think there is a good chance liquid fuels-which are the major danger with space vehicles-will not be used for taking people into space. More likely, the *space plane* will have 2 different engines.
The first engine will take the space plane high into the Earth's atmosphere. The second will then kick in giving the space plane sufficent thrust to reach escape velocity, and taking to space plane out of our atmosphere.
This 2 stage approach lessen the big boom risk considerably. It also allows for the *space plane* to use more established, cheaper technology, as most of the assent is handled by standard jet engines, albeit with modifications.
What this demonstrates is the ever decreasing cost of space travel. The price is obviously way beyond the reach of most people, but compared to what it would have cost to do the same thing 5 years ago this represents a dramatic price reduction.
It is now possible to get a human into space for under $25,000, or to look at it another way. It is now possible to get something weighing the same as a human into space for under $25,000. The ever decreasing cost of getting carrying payloads into space will make satellite launches much less costly than they are, which paves the way for all kinds of interesting things.
Sheesh, this goatse thing is so old now it is getting pretty boring. I assume your are not children anymore, in which case you are quite entitled to look at naughty pictures whenever you want. I know your excited, and you want to tell all your buddies, but just calm down little web wizard.
Systems like this might be a revenue stream for OSS in general and more specifically Gnome. That said, the very sniff of capitalistic intentions has the average/. reader ready to start nailing folk to crosses
Windows is commercial software, as such you have *paid* for it and justifiably complain when X or Y does not work. However, none of the projects in SourceForge are commercially orientated, as such, they are developed by people in their spare time. These people don't get payment for the time they spend in these projects.
Again, Im not saying people should refrain from criticising OSS projects if they feel the need. However,just because you think a project is a white elephant does not mean it is worthless. Critisism is only worthwhile when there is a clear objective. When people start berating certain projects on SourceForge, one can only assume their objective is to see these projects given up on.
Therein lies you arrogance...
'So why would you think I bashed SourceForge when I merely made a comment for developers to get off their asses and follow through on their projects instead of dishing out dreams and hopes '
You seem to assume that a bit of criticism from you and every developer with a project on SourceForge will jump. Someone developing OSS is not in any way obligated to finish it, be that at all/in a timeframe you or anyone else finds acceptable.
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Opera have been porting their browser to Beos for some time, it is quite frankly, complete crap, it has problems rendering some very basic pages, and it is bug ridden.
The only hope on the horizon is Bezilla, but that has been held back because it was found Beos's networking stack was unable to work with mozilla, so now we have to wait for Bone (the new networking stack)
I do have my doubts about Beos ever getting a competent browser. Be seems to have made some new chums and is quite happy to walk away from Beos users
Beos could have expanded to fill its market niche, instead, Be goes in pursuit of embedded folly, afield in which either MS will stamp on them or vendors will eventually opt for linux because of the lack of licencing costs.
*disclaimer: I apologise for what was without doubt the crappest attempt of humour ever ventured on /. *
I envisage a system were you have resource_buddies-people you have agreed to share idle cpu time with. These buddies would probably need permenent ip add's, but they are becoming increasingly common with broadband links. Anyway, when you are doing something like rendering something with gimp, ior any other cpu intensive task, the kernel module could kick in at a user defined cpu usage level. When active the module could test a few resource buddies to see if any are active and if any have cpu idle time. If it detects idle time it then shares the processing load with the remote system.
Anyway, just a thought, probably never happen
seti@work got me fired
Is it illegal to sell a DC that has been modified?
The next generation(tm) of games consoles will move towards standard configurations of commodity hardware. The Xbox is heading in that direction, but I think others will go much further. This could see linux make it into every household sooner than we thought.
The only big show stopper for me is thwe lack of storage. Unlike tyhe ps2, the DC has now usb or firewire ports, which means that adding a hdd ain't going to be easy. In fact, does anyone know if adding a HDD to the DC is doable?
For me, that is what is interesting about this story. Not that in 15 years I can spend a few hours in space.
One other thing I did not consider earlier. The $26,000 being touted, could be easily affordable if they stick with the 2016 timescale. With the economy going the way it is.
Firstly I think there is a good chance liquid fuels-which are the major danger with space vehicles-will not be used for taking people into space. More likely, the *space plane* will have 2 different engines.
The first engine will take the space plane high into the Earth's atmosphere. The second will then kick in giving the space plane sufficent thrust to reach escape velocity, and taking to space plane out of our atmosphere.
This 2 stage approach lessen the big boom risk considerably. It also allows for the *space plane* to use more established, cheaper technology, as most of the assent is handled by standard jet engines, albeit with modifications.
Sheesh, this goatse thing is so old now it is getting pretty boring. I assume your are not children anymore, in which case you are quite entitled to look at naughty pictures whenever you want. I know your excited, and you want to tell all your buddies, but just calm down little web wizard.
Windows is commercial software, as such you have *paid* for it and justifiably complain when X or Y does not work. However, none of the projects in SourceForge are commercially orientated, as such, they are developed by people in their spare time. These people don't get payment for the time they spend in these projects. Again, Im not saying people should refrain from criticising OSS projects if they feel the need. However,just because you think a project is a white elephant does not mean it is worthless. Critisism is only worthwhile when there is a clear objective. When people start berating certain projects on SourceForge, one can only assume their objective is to see these projects given up on.
Therein lies you arrogance... 'So why would you think I bashed SourceForge when I merely made a comment for developers to get off their asses and follow through on their projects instead of dishing out dreams and hopes ' You seem to assume that a bit of criticism from you and every developer with a project on SourceForge will jump. Someone developing OSS is not in any way obligated to finish it, be that at all/in a timeframe you or anyone else finds acceptable.
So many words, and yet, so little actually said!