The statistics are interesting but, undoubtedly skewed.
Women still don't get anything resembling a fair shake in U.S. society.
Women with an interest in the sciences are under encouraged by the established scientific community and are often viewed as 'wierd' by other women.
I see this every day. My wife is a successful chemical engineer. She goes to professional meetings and seminars and is normally the only woman there. She tries to have an intelligent conversation with other women and many of them just glaze over ("That's interesting but I have no idea what you're talking about")
If what this report seems to be pointing at is correct that will change over the next several years. Personally, I think it would be nice to be able to have a technical discussion with more of the women in my life. As a web project designer and developer I do some of my best work when I get beta responses from a broader audience.
Can't agree more. I know of a small group of guys who enter chat rooms masquerading as girls purely for the sake of online... you know. With more and more women entering Byte Club it should change things. One can presume that our collective online perception of how females chat, vs how males chat, will now begin to turn back towards reality. Just once I'd like to know that the screen-name I'm doing the digital dance with is not another "Lola" (a la The Kinks).
I agree. They already have an OS with a perfectly good interface from the command line. I think they meant to say that they're developing a GUI to run atop it.
Correct me if I'm being stupid here but... If they're already running Linux. Why do they need to run an Amiga OS on top of it? Didn't they mean to say that they're going to run a user interface on top of Linux? Why would you ever want the double overhead of running two OSs simultaneously?
Realistically, the site is worth whatever you can get for it. However, Based on what's been said thus far, and the fact that prospective owners would be acquiring not only the look and feel but also the hardware, service, support, and expertise, a quarter mil is a very reasonable price.
The article does state that they've only just launched the project. However, that said, the fact that somebody is actually openly doing serious research into the possibility of antigrav is exciting. This means that antigrav has begun the long, slow move from science fiction to actual science.
Consider the implications for global commerce and travel. If antigrav can be achieved at a feasible cost it would revolutionize the entire transit industry. I have no idea of the actual ratio but the effort to get anything to typical flight altitude is huge, even when compared to just keeping it there.
On refection, IBM's actions regarding Linux look very much like standard practices among larger companies regarding any new technology.
Somebody brings the subject to corporate attention and a study group issues a report. If the report is favorable a decision is made to test the waters a bit by dipping the corporate toes into the kiddie pool.
After a suitable period and more study, if the kiddie pool experience has gone well, we move to wading in the shallows.
More waiting, more study, more dabbling... If this goes well we identify this new technology as favorable and head directly to the diving well. Nevermind those sissy warm-ups on the low dive - we're going straight for the 10 meter platform!
Actually, the world probably does need 20 Linux distros. You and I don't but then, you and I constitute only an ultra extreme minority of 2 among Linux users worldwide. What would be nice is to see various distros targeting more specific segments of the market, e.g.
[name] Linux for the home gamer.
[name] Linux for the family, including K-12 educational tools and family budget tools.
That's RIAA's approach and, no doubt, they had a team of very expensive lawyers put that statement together for them.
However, [mandatory IANAL statement goes here], If you have purchased a copy of the music and, you are making a single copy / mix for your own - non-commercial - personal use and, you are not passing the source disks around or making them available online... you're probably OK under current application of U.S. Title 17.
Granted, all of those MP3s floating around the internet are a separate issue and very well may be a violation of Title 17.
Gut reaction: this is a front story to cover the fact that NASA has lost guidance on this thing and they can't stop it from crashing.
Second take: So they're concerned about contaminating another possibly life bearing orb with bio-material from Earth. Gee, how honorable of them. Sure, any life found there would be microscopic but, if we're ever going to get a chance to study it we have to be sure we didn't munge the research. It's a bit like keeping food, beverages, and cigarettes out of your chem lab.
"Really professor, I mixed two units of phenylalylcryonic acid with six units of mononucleoalanine and about half a Snickers (TM) bar and this is what I got!"
Now my real question is, can they target the impact so we can all watch it happen?
Congratulations, you actually managed to stop me from thrashing NetBEUI on sight. Had the artilery fully loaded and targeted.
I have never... let me say that better... I have NEVER had anything resembling a good experience with NetBEUI. That could be because I've always worked on boxes that were connected to TCP/IP networks and had their own boot devices. Let's just agree that Windows with both TCP/IP and NetBEUI protocols loaded drags like nothing ever dragged before.
That said, it's good to be reminded now and then that there are networks out there with hardwired terminals and such that can benefit from this protocol.
All I really want to know is: Where do I sign up for a free give-away of one of these? "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Eventually these IRC bots will get advanced enough to fool not only the human users into thinking they're chatting with another human but, to fool each other into thinking they're fooling a human into same.
These things could be programmed to be the other party in chat room sex, or to catch perverts trying to have chat room sex with a minor.
The ultimate development would, however, be for IRC bots to trick each other into having chat room sex with another bot. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Based on your performance in our Lego Application Process Demonstrating Aptitudes Needed for College Entrance (LAPDANCE), [name of school] is pleased to inform you of your admission to the College of Engineering.
Due to your particularly anal-retentive use of color you were passed over by the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English. However, this same aspect to your creation was considered a strength by admissions specialists for the School of Computer Science....
Yadda - yadda - yadda... "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
So, essentially, Microsoft is making money off of Linux. How clever is that?
As Linux and other non-MS OSs are becoming the OS of choice we can hope to see the MS tax disappear. Meanwhile, I'm glad to be able to buy a Linux installed laptop.
Perhaps, if enough of these things are sold, we can get together some sort of class action against MS for charging us for something we never ordered. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
This is a critical step in making electronic filing of tax returns commonplace. The speed is not the only thing at stake here. There are the obvious security issues but, processing filings electonically will reduce the physical workload on the IRS filing centers dramatically. Reduction in workload combined with more timely processing and the continued increase in revenues should eventually translate into tax breaks for the masses. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Well, if you take the time to browse the Transmeta site you'll be hard pressed to find reference to Linus. Refs to Linux are rampant but no more than those for Windows. Also, OS references of any kind are non-gratuitous in that they are directly relevant to the point being discussed.
If you were able to watch the PCWeek Webcast of the Transmeta press conference you would have seen Linus make only a cameo appearance.
The evidence suggests very strongly that Transmeta is not using Linus or Linux inappropriately to sell Crusoe processors. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
FreeDOS has been a wonderfully successful piece as a component of larger systems. Many *nix users make regular use of it as part of DOSEmu.
16bit Windows emulation is available (not perfect but, available) using WINE.
What, if anything, can you shed on development of Win32 emulation? Will we someday be able to run W95/98 apps in emulation or, are we consigned to pressuring developers to support cross platform? "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
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- The statistics are interesting but, undoubtedly skewed.
- Women still don't get anything resembling a fair shake in U.S. society.
- Women with an interest in the sciences are under encouraged by the established scientific community and are often viewed as 'wierd' by other women.
I see this every day. My wife is a successful chemical engineer. She goes to professional meetings and seminars and is normally the only woman there. She tries to have an intelligent conversation with other women and many of them just glaze over ("That's interesting but I have no idea what you're talking about")If what this report seems to be pointing at is correct that will change over the next several years. Personally, I think it would be nice to be able to have a technical discussion with more of the women in my life. As a web project designer and developer I do some of my best work when I get beta responses from a broader audience.
Can't agree more. I know of a small group of guys who enter chat rooms masquerading as girls purely for the sake of online ... you know. With more and more women entering Byte Club it should change things. One can presume that our collective online perception of how females chat, vs how males chat, will now begin to turn back towards reality. Just once I'd like to know that the screen-name I'm doing the digital dance with is not another "Lola" (a la The Kinks).
As I see it, your problem will not be getting enough information but, how to trim it down.
I agree. They already have an OS with a perfectly good interface from the command line. I think they meant to say that they're developing a GUI to run atop it.
Correct me if I'm being stupid here but... If they're already running Linux. Why do they need to run an Amiga OS on top of it? Didn't they mean to say that they're going to run a user interface on top of Linux? Why would you ever want the double overhead of running two OSs simultaneously?
Realistically, the site is worth whatever you can get for it. However, Based on what's been said thus far, and the fact that prospective owners would be acquiring not only the look and feel but also the hardware, service, support, and expertise, a quarter mil is a very reasonable price.
Consider the implications for global commerce and travel. If antigrav can be achieved at a feasible cost it would revolutionize the entire transit industry. I have no idea of the actual ratio but the effort to get anything to typical flight altitude is huge, even when compared to just keeping it there.
Somebody brings the subject to corporate attention and a study group issues a report. If the report is favorable a decision is made to test the waters a bit by dipping the corporate toes into the kiddie pool.
After a suitable period and more study, if the kiddie pool experience has gone well, we move to wading in the shallows.
More waiting, more study, more dabbling... If this goes well we identify this new technology as favorable and head directly to the diving well. Nevermind those sissy warm-ups on the low dive - we're going straight for the 10 meter platform!
This is assuming we are using the U.S. notation of mm/dd/yy hh:mm for date/time format.
Otherwise, using YYYY/mm/dd hh:mm you have to wait until the year May 9, 3141 for: 3141/5/9 to come around.
- Are they going to go public or, will they remain privately held?
- What about a revenue stream? How the heck are they going to raise long term funding?
- Can I get in on the ground level as an investor? If I do, will there be dividends?
and many more. As a user who is interested in the long term health of Linux I'd like to hear more of the details.However, [mandatory IANAL statement goes here], If you have purchased a copy of the music and, you are making a single copy / mix for your own - non-commercial - personal use and, you are not passing the source disks around or making them available online... you're probably OK under current application of U.S. Title 17.
Granted, all of those MP3s floating around the internet are a separate issue and very well may be a violation of Title 17.
Second take: So they're concerned about contaminating another possibly life bearing orb with bio-material from Earth. Gee, how honorable of them. Sure, any life found there would be microscopic but, if we're ever going to get a chance to study it we have to be sure we didn't munge the research. It's a bit like keeping food, beverages, and cigarettes out of your chem lab.
Now my real question is, can they target the impact so we can all watch it happen?Apparantly the joke's over. As of 7:48 am Wednesday 2000-03-01 the only contact information for Microsoft is Mark Williams.
I have never... let me say that better... I have NEVER had anything resembling a good experience with NetBEUI. That could be because I've always worked on boxes that were connected to TCP/IP networks and had their own boot devices. Let's just agree that Windows with both TCP/IP and NetBEUI protocols loaded drags like nothing ever dragged before.
That said, it's good to be reminded now and then that there are networks out there with hardwired terminals and such that can benefit from this protocol.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
All I really want to know is: Where do I sign up for a free give-away of one of these?
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
These things could be programmed to be the other party in chat room sex, or to catch perverts trying to have chat room sex with a minor.
The ultimate development would, however, be for IRC bots to trick each other into having chat room sex with another bot.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Based on your performance in our Lego Application Process Demonstrating Aptitudes Needed for College Entrance (LAPDANCE), [name of school] is pleased to inform you of your admission to the College of Engineering.
Due to your particularly anal-retentive use of color you were passed over by the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English. However, this same aspect to your creation was considered a strength by admissions specialists for the School of Computer Science....
Yadda - yadda - yadda ...
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
As Linux and other non-MS OSs are becoming the OS of choice we can hope to see the MS tax disappear. Meanwhile, I'm glad to be able to buy a Linux installed laptop.
Perhaps, if enough of these things are sold, we can get together some sort of class action against MS for charging us for something we never ordered.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Although I haven't tried it myself for overseas calls, Netscape was touting something called Net2Phone. Their site says they do international calls. Domestic calls, while not FREE, only cost one cent per minute.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
This is a critical step in making electronic filing of tax returns commonplace. The speed is not the only thing at stake here. There are the obvious security issues but, processing filings electonically will reduce the physical workload on the IRS filing centers dramatically. Reduction in workload combined with more timely processing and the continued increase in revenues should eventually translate into tax breaks for the masses.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
If you were able to watch the PCWeek Webcast of the Transmeta press conference you would have seen Linus make only a cameo appearance.
The evidence suggests very strongly that Transmeta is not using Linus or Linux inappropriately to sell Crusoe processors.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
16bit Windows emulation is available (not perfect but, available) using WINE.
What, if anything, can you shed on development of Win32 emulation? Will we someday be able to run W95/98 apps in emulation or, are we consigned to pressuring developers to support cross platform?
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."