Quite right. Mind you, we Brits don't help matters when we the call the British Olympic team 'Great Britain' (rather than 'United Kingdom' or simply 'Britain').
Yeah, 'cause those people in the non-English-speaking countries aren't very intelligent at all, are they? Look at the Japanese! Idiots - the whole lot of 'em!
Have a gander at Solar Century. When I can afford £20,000 to replace my roof, I'll have one that can give me 125% of the power I need. If the UK government had any sense, they would mandate that all new homes be fitted with these. Economies of scale kick in, price tumbles, goodbye power stations. Sorted.
Hmmmm. My knowledge of economics is very small, but when does near-total ignorance prevent a post to Slashdot? I'd say that if demand increases then usually so does the price, and if nobody wants a particular item, the price falls. A quick glance at ebay should illustrate.
Has anyone considered what an extraordinary situation it is where government tax collectors are collecting taxes which are funneled straight to corporations?
His coolness JWZ is another famous Unix-disliker but thankfully this does not stop him producing excellent hacks for it, gawd bless him.
But on a different tack...
I haven't heard or read any of Miguel's speech, but if the quote about X11's 'non-policy' and crack-smoking is accurate - then for once I think the lad has gone too far.
What if the MIT guys had built in a big featureful window manager and all manner of other goodies into X originally? Many years later, would those same X guys (Keith Packard among them) be able to knock up a small X server for the Compaq Ipaq handheld and be certain that loads of handy apps will be able to run it? Er... perhaps not.
Cool anti-aliased fonts and an advanced metadata/bundling/call-it-what-you-will system where icons, start-up scripts and libraries all form part of the application package which can be deployed just by copying a directory from A to B.
Think about it. Yes, a lot of apps could be solved by a simple recompile. But what about
those of us who use applications that are no longer being developed by the authors? We'll
have to make do without those, which is one point against.
I'd say that's the fault of the Palm community - this wouldn't be a problem if Free (open source) software was more prevalent on Palms.
Well, _two_ if you want to stay inside your customs allowance of £145. This is what I plan to do when I fly out to Dayton, OH in a couple of weeks time (for reasons other than just acquiring cheap hardware!).
This is all assuming they have any in stock of course (unlikely - but worth a go).
So let's suppose that our nightmares come true and Slashdot becomes a mouthpiece for VA and posts unashamedly biased reports. The cost of entry to this little marketplace is so amazingly low that a competing site (let's call it Crashpoint) would appear within days, if not hours, and we would all skip over there to get our daily fix of nerdnews. We Slashdot readers aren't stupid and it's not as if anybody would have to rebuild something like cnn.com from scratch.
The result would be that Slash loses its ad revenue and VA loses a very valuable jewel in its crown. So if the Slashdot/VA guys have any sort of clue, they'll continue to be independent.
As an aside, it wouldn't hurt for Slashdot to have a prominent 'Part of the VA Network' banner or something so that all know where we stand.
As another aside, I think it would make sense if there were more competition to Slashdot, just to keep the guys on their toes. If only ntk were updated daily. I wouldn't point my browser anywhere else.
Crashpoint.com is available at all good domain name resellers, by the way.
...or in the BBC's case 'to celebrate, we are broadcasting a night of Python programmes on BBC2 with some extra new material starring honorary Pythons Eddie Izzard and Peter Sissons!'
Second I'd hate having to live under stringent conditions on how the outside of my house would look. Third everything is as expensive as hell. You'd have to be making serious money to keep up any kind of a respectable lifestyle.
You've been to England, then (!). Seriously though, I thought Mr Katz' article was interesting and well-balanced and I can't work out why he and his articles attract so much vitriol.
Slashdot Mirror
Now google "environmental damage from oil shale extraction".
Quite right. Mind you, we Brits don't help
matters when we the call the British Olympic team 'Great Britain' (rather than 'United Kingdom' or simply 'Britain').
Yeah, and he had to write his own C compiler, C library, assembler, linker and text editor to do it, didn't he?
Nothing wrong with that
Or ITV Digital
Shame it's missing some sort of digital audio output. How hard can it be?
The dell/rio/empeg home audio reciever box is similarly impaired, which is even less forgivable.
Yeah, 'cause those people in the non-English-speaking countries aren't very intelligent at all, are they? Look at the Japanese! Idiots - the whole lot of 'em!
Have a gander at Solar Century. When I can afford £20,000 to replace my roof, I'll have one that can give me 125% of the power I need. If the UK government had any sense, they would mandate that all new homes be fitted with these. Economies of scale kick in, price tumbles, goodbye power stations. Sorted.
Hmmmm. My knowledge of economics is very small, but when does near-total ignorance prevent a post to Slashdot? I'd say that if demand increases then usually so does the price, and if nobody wants a particular item, the price falls. A quick glance at ebay should illustrate.
His coolness JWZ is another famous Unix-disliker but thankfully this does not stop him producing excellent hacks for it, gawd bless him.
But on a different tack...
I haven't heard or read any of Miguel's speech, but if the quote about X11's 'non-policy' and crack-smoking is accurate - then for once I think
the lad has gone too far.
What if the MIT guys had built in a big featureful window manager and all manner of other goodies into X originally? Many years later, would those same X guys (Keith Packard among them) be able to knock up a small X server for the Compaq Ipaq handheld and be certain that loads of handy apps will be able to run it? Er... perhaps not.
Cool anti-aliased fonts and an advanced metadata/bundling/call-it-what-you-will system where icons, start-up scripts and libraries
all form part of the application package which
can be deployed just by copying a directory from
A to B.
Welcome to the world of RISC OS, circa 1989.
I'd say that's the fault of the Palm community - this wouldn't be a problem if Free (open source) software was more prevalent on Palms.
Alan Cox is Welsh.
> _several_ £60 computers
Well, _two_ if you want to stay inside your customs allowance of £145. This is what I plan to do when I fly out to Dayton, OH in a couple of weeks time (for reasons other than just acquiring cheap hardware!).
This is all assuming they have any in stock of course (unlikely - but worth a go).
Moog (in the UK)
So let's suppose that our nightmares come true and Slashdot becomes a mouthpiece for VA and posts unashamedly biased reports. The cost of entry to this little marketplace is so amazingly low that a competing site (let's call it Crashpoint) would appear within days, if not hours, and we would all skip over there to get our daily fix of nerdnews. We Slashdot readers aren't stupid and it's not as if anybody would have to rebuild something like cnn.com from scratch.
The result would be that Slash loses its ad revenue and VA loses a very valuable jewel in its crown. So if the Slashdot/VA guys have any sort of clue, they'll continue to be independent.
As an aside, it wouldn't hurt for Slashdot to have a prominent 'Part of the VA Network' banner or something so that all know where we stand.
As another aside, I think it would make sense if there were more competition to Slashdot, just to keep the guys on their toes. If only ntk were updated daily. I wouldn't point my browser anywhere else.
Crashpoint.com is available at all good domain name resellers, by the way.
Mobile Linux is not what a lot of people think it is.
See this post from the Main Man.
...or in the BBC's case 'to celebrate, we are broadcasting a night of Python programmes on BBC2 with some extra new material starring honorary Pythons Eddie Izzard and Peter Sissons!'
You've been to England, then (!). Seriously though, I thought Mr Katz' article was interesting and well-balanced and I can't work out why he and his articles attract so much vitriol.
...but nobody listened.
The author appears to be clinging on to the
old idea that ease-of-use and raw power don't
mix. NEXTSTEP is as much counter-proof as
you need.