Ummm... I don't count 'Enforcer' as "fully protected memory". Amiga adopted a number of things from Unix, but that wasn't one of them. All memory was shared -- this is what made IPC so fast.
Also, the people involved now have no real links with the hardware developers of the past, as demonstrated by their hiring of various 'software development partners' and spurious hardware platform announcements. It's always someone else doing the work... while the people behind the company itself do nothing but trade off the (once actually worth something) name of Amiga.
I used an A1200 for years, so I'm feeling a little bitter about what has happened to the Name since then...
You're right but the fact that I don't get a salary for posting things here makes it more acceptable.
Maybe posters should get micropayments for high-moderated comments?
I can see the.sigs now...
Hey brother, can you spare a (+1, Informative)?
Mod me up -- my mother needs a rare kidney operation!
Anonymous Coward's highly-rated comments could direct money to charity, or something:)
However, adopting this would make the/. editors' "bitchslap" (multiple modding down of entire threads) a much more lucrative proposition for them, so maybe I should stay quiet:)
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Nautilus acting like Windows Explorer is less Nautilus emulating Windows and more Nautilus better following the concepts laid out by the Macintosh HIG which is one of the best books on computer itnerfaces I've read.
Macintosh HIG are good, but I find the Macintosh Finder too restrictive for the more powerful tasks. This is why I liked DOpus 5 -- regex-like multiple renames, great for renaming multiple pictures, etc. Also things like filetyping by a multitude of file attributes -- extension, name, size, bytes in file headers, etc. All that and an extensible API, so others could write archive browsers, FTP modules, etc. that fit into the same space... some of this is old hat now, but wasn't at the time.
The Macintosh GUI always felt to me like a very carefully dumbed down interface. The best thing about many Amiga programs was that they were usable on that level, but if you went looking there were layers of complexity that were well designed and didn't mess up the entire user experience. (Not all programs were that good, of course, but a larger percentage than on any other platform, I found).
Anyway, I don't know why I'm bothering to mention it... just preaching an aesthetic of usabilty *and* power that few people seem to be able to combine well:/
Well I sure hope that for whatever fee you guys are gonna charge, you're gonna provide spell-checked and fact-checked submissions. Otherwise, I doubt a lot of people will pay to be anoyed. Banner-ads are far from the top of anyone's list of "thing that anoy you about Slashdot".
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones -- bad spelling in comments is something that annoys me.:)
Fact checking? Slashdot? I think you've taken a wrong turn somewhere, this is just a linkfest gone wrong...
The open source library is still fully usable, and the patent void, because of prior art, I mean it was released to them through that avenue;-)
The prior art provision won't help you if the paent filing was made before the release of the library as OSS. It would depend on the license as to whether undeclared patents may later be exercised, and I'm unaware whether the strength of any anti-patent provisions in the (L)GPL have yet been tested in court.
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I think Nautilus has so many features so it can be held up to Windows Explorer which has a huge featureset and is actually competitive with the modern Windows desktop rather than playing catch up with Windows 3.11.
This is why I don't run Nautilus -- because I don't think emulating Windows Explorer is the right way to go, especially considering the amount of resources required. File management nerdvana, for me, was Directory Opus 5 on the Amiga... nothing else even comes near it.
Don't even mention the Nomad. The Lynx stomped it years earlier then died quietly. Man the days of playing Electrocop, what a great game.
Preach it, brother! I still own 3 Lynxes and about 40 games, and ElectroCop was the first game I bought (apart from getting California Games with the system).
Blue Lightning was another great game released at the same time as the machine itself...
Guess it's better to be viewed as CARP than CRAP -- especially as Copyright Royalty Arbitration Panel makes a lot more syntactic sense (unless of course this panel is fully staffed by royalty:)
(ObTrivia: Speaking of acronyms, there are persistent rumours that the MLC (Methodist Ladies' College) in Melbourne, Australia (I'm in Adelaide) was going to change its name to Fitchett Uniting College, Kew. Apparently this suggested name spent several years being batted around committees before someone noticed the obvious:)
My own guess for the desktop is that NVidia will put a CPU core, probably from AMD, in the next generation of their nForce part. That puts CPU, graphics, networking, sound, disk control, and the motherboard logic on a single chip. Their current nForce part already has all of that but the CPU.
Sounds like if Commodore could have just kept up hardware R&D, the Amiga would have been in with a good chance in today's market...
... that a runtime environment where "Hello World" will require, let's say, several GB of disk, a few hundred MB of RAM, continuous online updating (also requiring continuous hardware updating), and hundreds of old and newly-arriving security holes and exploits, is going to "take over the world."
Sounds just like Java in the 90s, hey?:) (although the security holes are MS's special addition to the experience, I imagine)
I still haven't figured out what happens if you should run into something that blocks the wheels, like a curb or any random piece of debris that may be lying on the road/sidewalk.
I'm not adopting this technology until we get something like the smart skateboards from Snow Crash:)
Altogether though, ebay remains the absolute worst place to get your address harvested, with usenet a close second.
Ebay must be lucrative for spammers; a whole 'audience' of people either with money to spend (buyers), or who are about to have money to spend (sellers). And this 'audience' has already self-selected; they're not afraid to spend their money online...
It's an option-- go to your preferences page and check the box (under "I, Cringely", maybe 20% of the way into the links). Then you won't have to wait for some karma-whore to get his weekly column submitted to be reminded to check his PBS column.
(+1, Sensible)
I've been wanting to post something like this each of the last few weeks, but my messages would have been a lot more inflammatory, so I refrained:)
Enrons Money problems don't really have anyhting to do with the money spent to gain the exeptions to laws.
Neither do Microsoft's problems, which are related to anti-competitive behaviour towards other companies.
Enron surely would have hoped to get something for their money -- or maybe it was paid to distract attention from the shadiness of their business model until all the fat cats had made their money from it.
Its a sad staement on politics in general. Somehow I doubt there are any other companies in the world that don't find a way to influence there governments.
Yes, but there's a pretty big difference between threatening to chop 3000 jobs because of the "poor economic climate" and bribing government officials to ensure favourable decisions. I'd prefer that the people making these sorts of decisions made them on information that was public knowledge, not on who paid them the most.
its up to the reader to decide which is the lesser of two evils
My point being that it doesn't matter which is lesser, they are both still evil, and both should be prosecuted to the extent of the (alleged) illegality.
Actually, Microsoft have been found guilty in a court of law, while Enron hasn't actually reached that stage yet... although the actions of all the people involved suggest that they are as guilty as sin.
Nowhere near as much as Microsoft's did, by the way things look...
Some people would consider giving large amounts of money to people with the potential power to ameliorate your legal troubles bribery -- luckily for Microsoft no-one considers this to be the case here.:/
A sad statement on the American political system, as far as I'm concerned.
I've never understood the idea of 'best picture.' After all, you'd expect the best picture to also have the majority of the other 'bests;' best music, direction, art, blah blah blah. Best movie should be an award to whichever movie wins the most of a list of other bests.
This implies that one award, e.g. Best Song, is exactly equivalent to another one, e.g. Best Director. Maybe they should be weighted -- and then every wing of the Academy can have nasty political fights about how valuable their particular craft is to the overall business of movie-making:)
When you watched "The Sound of Music", did you really think that they might not escape the Nazis? That the movie would end with the von Trapp familly being captured, tortured, poisoned, and burried in mass graves at Auschwitz?
No, but I was hoping against hope that it would end that way...:)
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When the President's plane is hijacked
And how likely is it that this will happen in the real world?
fully protected memory
Ummm... I don't count 'Enforcer' as "fully protected memory". Amiga adopted a number of things from Unix, but that wasn't one of them. All memory was shared -- this is what made IPC so fast.
Also, the people involved now have no real links with the hardware developers of the past, as demonstrated by their hiring of various 'software development partners' and spurious hardware platform announcements. It's always someone else doing the work... while the people behind the company itself do nothing but trade off the (once actually worth something) name of Amiga.
I used an A1200 for years, so I'm feeling a little bitter about what has happened to the Name since then...
You're right but the fact that I don't get a salary for posting things here makes it more acceptable.
.sigs now...
:)
/. editors' "bitchslap" (multiple modding down of entire threads) a much more lucrative proposition for them, so maybe I should stay quiet :)
Maybe posters should get micropayments for high-moderated comments?
I can see the
Hey brother, can you spare a (+1, Informative)?
Mod me up -- my mother needs a rare kidney operation!
Anonymous Coward's highly-rated comments could direct money to charity, or something
However, adopting this would make the
Nautilus acting like Windows Explorer is less Nautilus emulating Windows and more Nautilus better following the concepts laid out by the Macintosh HIG which is one of the best books on computer itnerfaces I've read.
:/
Macintosh HIG are good, but I find the Macintosh Finder too restrictive for the more powerful tasks. This is why I liked DOpus 5 -- regex-like multiple renames, great for renaming multiple pictures, etc. Also things like filetyping by a multitude of file attributes -- extension, name, size, bytes in file headers, etc. All that and an extensible API, so others could write archive browsers, FTP modules, etc. that fit into the same space... some of this is old hat now, but wasn't at the time.
The Macintosh GUI always felt to me like a very carefully dumbed down interface. The best thing about many Amiga programs was that they were usable on that level, but if you went looking there were layers of complexity that were well designed and didn't mess up the entire user experience. (Not all programs were that good, of course, but a larger percentage than on any other platform, I found).
Anyway, I don't know why I'm bothering to mention it... just preaching an aesthetic of usabilty *and* power that few people seem to be able to combine well
Well I sure hope that for whatever fee you guys are gonna charge, you're gonna provide spell-checked and fact-checked submissions. Otherwise, I doubt a lot of people will pay to be anoyed. Banner-ads are far from the top of anyone's list of "thing that anoy you about Slashdot".
:)
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones -- bad spelling in comments is something that annoys me.
Fact checking? Slashdot? I think you've taken a wrong turn somewhere, this is just a linkfest gone wrong...
The open source library is still fully usable, and the patent void, because of prior art, I mean it was released to them through that avenue ;-)
The prior art provision won't help you if the paent filing was made before the release of the library as OSS. It would depend on the license as to whether undeclared patents may later be exercised, and I'm unaware whether the strength of any anti-patent provisions in the (L)GPL have yet been tested in court.
I think Nautilus has so many features so it can be held up to Windows Explorer which has a huge featureset and is actually competitive with the modern Windows desktop rather than playing catch up with Windows 3.11.
This is why I don't run Nautilus -- because I don't think emulating Windows Explorer is the right way to go, especially considering the amount of resources required. File management nerdvana, for me, was Directory Opus 5 on the Amiga... nothing else even comes near it.
Don't even mention the Nomad. The Lynx stomped it years earlier then died quietly. Man the days of playing Electrocop, what a great game.
Preach it, brother! I still own 3 Lynxes and about 40 games, and ElectroCop was the first game I bought (apart from getting California Games with the system).
Blue Lightning was another great game released at the same time as the machine itself...
Actually, around here most lottery winners keep their jobs. A job gives an identity.
:)
How many lottery winners do you know? I think I might have found somewhere to move...
when they were choosing the acronym.
:)
:)
Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel
Guess it's better to be viewed as CARP than CRAP -- especially as Copyright Royalty Arbitration Panel makes a lot more syntactic sense (unless of course this panel is fully staffed by royalty
(ObTrivia: Speaking of acronyms, there are persistent rumours that the MLC (Methodist Ladies' College) in Melbourne, Australia (I'm in Adelaide) was going to change its name to Fitchett Uniting College, Kew. Apparently this suggested name spent several years being batted around committees before someone noticed the obvious
My own guess for the desktop is that NVidia will put a CPU core, probably from AMD, in the next generation of their nForce part. That puts CPU, graphics, networking, sound, disk control, and the motherboard logic on a single chip. Their current nForce part already has all of that but the CPU.
Sounds like if Commodore could have just kept up hardware R&D, the Amiga would have been in with a good chance in today's market...
... that a runtime environment where "Hello World" will require, let's say, several GB of disk, a few hundred MB of RAM, continuous online updating (also requiring continuous hardware updating), and hundreds of old and newly-arriving security holes and exploits, is going to "take over the world."
:) (although the security holes are MS's special addition to the experience, I imagine)
Sounds just like Java in the 90s, hey?
I still haven't figured out what happens if you should run into something that blocks the wheels, like a curb or any random piece of debris that may be lying on the road/sidewalk.
:)
I'm not adopting this technology until we get something like the smart skateboards from Snow Crash
Altogether though, ebay remains the absolute worst place to get your address harvested, with usenet a close second.
Ebay must be lucrative for spammers; a whole 'audience' of people either with money to spend (buyers), or who are about to have money to spend (sellers). And this 'audience' has already self-selected; they're not afraid to spend their money online...
It's an option-- go to your preferences page and check the box (under "I, Cringely", maybe 20% of the way into the links). Then you won't have to wait for some karma-whore to get his weekly column submitted to be reminded to check his PBS column.
:)
(+1, Sensible)
I've been wanting to post something like this each of the last few weeks, but my messages would have been a lot more inflammatory, so I refrained
No *sane* company
Except maybe VALinux?
Are you sure they fit that qualification?
You don't think that obstruction of justice and contempt of court would be an incentive for MS to be more compliant?
Didn't seem to work during the rest of the court case. (e.g. that video 'incident')
Enrons Money problems don't really have anyhting to do with the money spent to gain the exeptions to laws.
Neither do Microsoft's problems, which are related to anti-competitive behaviour towards other companies.
Enron surely would have hoped to get something for their money -- or maybe it was paid to distract attention from the shadiness of their business model until all the fat cats had made their money from it.
Its a sad staement on politics in general. Somehow I doubt there are any other companies in the world that don't find a way to influence there governments.
Yes, but there's a pretty big difference between threatening to chop 3000 jobs because of the "poor economic climate" and bribing government officials to ensure favourable decisions. I'd prefer that the people making these sorts of decisions made them on information that was public knowledge, not on who paid them the most.
its up to the reader to decide which is the lesser of two evils
My point being that it doesn't matter which is lesser, they are both still evil, and both should be prosecuted to the extent of the (alleged) illegality.
Actually, Microsoft have been found guilty in a court of law, while Enron hasn't actually reached that stage yet... although the actions of all the people involved suggest that they are as guilty as sin.
Enron was in far worse shit than Microsoft ever was.
Yeah, but an anti-trust lawsuit is hardly a walk in the park (or at least it shouldn't be).
Nowhere near as much as Microsoft's did, by the way things look...
:/
Some people would consider giving large amounts of money to people with the potential power to ameliorate your legal troubles bribery -- luckily for Microsoft no-one considers this to be the case here.
A sad statement on the American political system, as far as I'm concerned.
I've never understood the idea of 'best picture.' After all, you'd expect the best picture to also have the majority of the other 'bests;' best music, direction, art, blah blah blah. Best movie should be an award to whichever movie wins the most of a list of other bests.
:)
This implies that one award, e.g. Best Song, is exactly equivalent to another one, e.g. Best Director. Maybe they should be weighted -- and then every wing of the Academy can have nasty political fights about how valuable their particular craft is to the overall business of movie-making
When you watched "The Sound of Music", did you really think that they might not escape the Nazis? That the movie would end with the von Trapp familly being captured, tortured, poisoned, and burried in mass graves at Auschwitz?
:)
No, but I was hoping against hope that it would end that way...
"Luke Skywalker was a terrorist"
Haven't you heard? If they are on our side we call them "freedom fighters".
:/
Well, when I first created this account (back in the heady days of the dotcom boom) that was a parody of Sun's "we're the dot in .com" campaign.
.sig makes no sense at all :)
That ended a while ago, and now my