But Backoffice is absolutely worthless without NT. Without the privileges of the OS, all backoffice is is a crummy mail server, a really crummy database, an HP Openview/LANdesk knockoff, and an unwieldly Client Access clone.
Microsoft wouldn't make money. But the rest of us would save money. Tons of money. Imagine if we could all use Windows and not have to pay for it. Imagine if all of Bill Gates Money was taken and put back into the economy.
The world of Snow Crash didn't have "cities" to speak of, or countries. Just a mosaic of soveigrn "burbs" off of the many highways.
The virtual city wasn't really a city either, it was one main street filled with banner ads for porn, and the rest of the planet was mooth empty roundness.
It's easy to find headhunters. All you have to do is rot-13 encrypt a copy of your resume, print it out, crumple it up and toss it into a construction site just before they pour the foundation.
Within three or four hours, your Yahoo mail account will have hit its 10-megabite limit, chock full of emails from headhunters from as far away as Chechnya who haven't really read your resume yet, but are sure they have Just The Job For You!
For example, I think the musical scores of John Williams (Star Wars, et al) are the greatest musical achievement of my lifetime, on par with the likes of Vivaldi or Mozart.
Anybody who has an orchestra can perform Vivaldi, because his work is public domain. Not so John Williams. This effectively makes 20th Century Fox the gatekeeper of American culture.
I once read that once a movie or song becomes 50 years old, it automatically turns public domain. Is this true? Does that mean that copying and distributing "Citizen Kane" or "It's a Wonderful Life" is perfectly legal? What about the VHS or DVD?
Redhat and Debian (for example) have different filesystem structures, different packaging systems, different versions of libc, and different utilities.
Packages released for Redhat only (of which there are many) won't work on an out-of-the-box Debian system.
But thanks to the miracle of open source, I can install RPM on my Debian system, fiddle with ld.so.conf, etc. until it works (or I hose it up so bad trying that I have to reinstall.)
I can't forsee a situation where Linux gets all that much more forked than this.
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Seperate BackOffice from NT.
But Backoffice is absolutely worthless without NT.
Without the privileges of the OS, all backoffice is is a crummy mail server, a really crummy database, an HP Openview/LANdesk knockoff, and an unwieldly Client Access clone.
And I'm a 5-year (but repentant) MCSE.
i did say i was uniformed...
I love a man in uniform. Come over and sit by me sailor boy.
Microsoft wouldn't make money. But the rest of us would save money. Tons of money. Imagine if we could all use Windows and not have to pay for it. Imagine if all of Bill Gates Money was taken and put back into the economy.
In the long run, I think we'd all be better off.
I'm on OPB's site right now, they don't seem to know anything about it. April 23rd is all "to be announced".
Gee, not showing in the Seattle/Redmond area? That's a suprise.
Wake me up when it hits the consumer market.
Translation: We don't have any licensees or partners yet...
Now wouldn't that be funny.
If WebTV is any indication, they'll probably do everything in their power to prevent you from doing this, but it should be possible all the same.
Yay! $200 Linux box!
They didn't unveil anything, they just put up a website! I don't see a product.
All this is is vaporware 2.0: Vaporware with a little but of cash spent on a logo and a colorful (yet ultimately disposable) website.
I'm gonna side with RXC on this one. Same old MS vaporware tactics.
Sid Meyer is a racist putz. I can't think of a game he's written that didn't have some minority represented in a conspicuously unflattering way.
Just off the top of my head:
+ "Fanatic" units == Arabs (Civ II)
+ "Converted" Indians can only be employed in manual labor jobs in the colony. Cigar rolling is too complicated for them. (Colonization)
+ Indians are usually hostile, and violate all their treaties within 3-4 turns. (Colonization)
+ The Chinese are the insect-like "human hive" (Alpha Centauri)
They could make it enough unlike the Matrix by not giving everything a greenish tint, and by not including any scenes of exploding tile and masonry.
Matrix II: More Exploding Tile
They don't have to make Y.T. 15, she can be 18.
For that matter, where are they going to get a black/asian actor to play Hiro?
Hoo!
I love it!
"Peter The Kitty" is my new desktop wallpaper.
The Cyberpunk movies have hithertofore sucked because their respective studios refused to take them seriously.
I mean, Keanu Reeves is an ok actor, but the only reason to ever cast him is if you intend for effects, and not acting, to carry the story.
Snow Crash the best cyberpunk book of all time. Whoever picks it up needs to give the project the directing, money, and acting talent it deserves.
How about Mira Sorvino as Y.T.?
A black-asian actor would probably be impossible to come by, Hiro would probably just have to be black.
The world of Snow Crash didn't have "cities" to speak of, or countries. Just a mosaic of soveigrn "burbs" off of the many highways.
The virtual city wasn't really a city either, it was one main street filled with banner ads for porn, and the rest of the planet was mooth empty roundness.
I got a job last week in a restaurant because some guy saw my [geek.] shirt from copyleft.
It's easy to find headhunters. All you have to do is rot-13 encrypt a copy of your resume, print it out, crumple it up and toss it into a construction site just before they pour the foundation.
Within three or four hours, your Yahoo mail account will have hit its 10-megabite limit, chock full of emails from headhunters from as far away as Chechnya who haven't really read your resume yet, but are sure they have Just The Job For You!
*Waaah!*
Another cultural hero of mine destroyed by the facts!
Next I'm going to find out that Richard Stallman is actually some ranting bearded madman.
I've been thinking about this a lot too.
For example, I think the musical scores of John Williams (Star Wars, et al) are the greatest musical achievement of my lifetime, on par with the likes of Vivaldi or Mozart.
Anybody who has an orchestra can perform Vivaldi, because his work is public domain. Not so John Williams. This effectively makes 20th Century Fox the gatekeeper of American culture.
I once read that once a movie or song becomes 50 years old, it automatically turns public domain. Is this true? Does that mean that copying and distributing "Citizen Kane" or "It's a Wonderful Life" is perfectly legal? What about the VHS or DVD?
Unless I'm in Japan. Some of us are you know.
Redhat and Debian (for example) have different filesystem structures, different packaging systems, different versions of libc, and different utilities.
Packages released for Redhat only (of which there are many) won't work on an out-of-the-box Debian system.
But thanks to the miracle of open source, I can install RPM on my Debian system, fiddle with ld.so.conf, etc. until it works (or I hose it up so bad trying that I have to reinstall.)
I can't forsee a situation where Linux gets all that much more forked than this.
I long for the glory days of 1977 when people still knew what it meant to roleplay, and the 12-year-old brats just tormented neighborhood pets.
That's the primary reason I stopped playing Ultima Online. That and overcrowding.
I always wanted to be a nerf herder in my own online universe. This is a dream come true.
Hard drives nuttin, my memory doesn't even go that fast. Neither does my L1 processor cache for that matter.
Anyone up for the DDOS attack to end all DDOS attacks?