It basically says no one can fuck with our space toys, but we can fuck with anyone else's space toys. It basically says that "Rules Don't Apply to Us".
WHAT rules? The US' space toys are the only ones even remotely capable of fucking anything at all. If any other nation on this planet wants to try to compete, have at it! You'll find the laws of physics are far less forgiving than anything that came out of the UN.
The US is in a position of advantage. They've got capabilities the rest of the world doesn't. Should the US stand idly by and squander that advantage? Seriously, I want to know what you thing the US stands to gain by rolling over and playing dead?
I have a production desktop for my work, a communication desktop with email/IM, and a fun desktop with my music player and such. I can jump between them without moving a lot of windows around. Will that concept be adopted by more than the Gnome/KDE models?
It's a great concept, but it didn't start with Gnome and KDE. Amiga had an oversize scrollable workspace in 1985. swm implemented multiple virtual desktops in 1989.
IE7 is not a value-add for Vista. As a product bundled with Windows, IE7 only needs to be decent enough to keep ignorant consumers from seeking alternatives. How does Microsoft expect to make money with IE7?
The marketshare for web browsing from a Windows PC is shrinking. I'm not just talking about Mac OS X and Linux. Realize that this is the year 2006. We snipe eBay auctions via mobile phone. We get RSS feeds on our PDAs. The people using the web these days are doing it less and less with desktops running Windows. I can't buy IE7 for Windows Mobile or Symbian. IE7 doesn't just fail to add value, it fails to compete at all.
1. A list of which parts of the "rich feature set and productivity enhancements" will be retained in the Thunderbird/Eudora.
2. Which license(s) the new Eudora will be using. Presumably, it'll be MPL, but TFA didn't say.
3. Whether Qualcomm considers this move as shifting Eudora into shutdown mode, economically, or whether they genuinely see a potential for future profits from the new FOSS Eudora.
At this time, all of the oil produced on this world is consumed locally. On this world. I have a strong feeling that this trend will continue for the forseeable future.
Therefore, projected "world" oil exports are ZERO.
I would hope that all serious users of OpenSSL have already patched this. FreeBSD and Debian were on top of it the same day it was announced. Others too, no doubt.
Believe it or not, Google has limited funds for SoC. The real factor was that they'd like to sponsor (1) big-name projects that have a lot of momentum and recognition, or (2) projects that are new and innovative. I used BeOS for years and love it still, but Haiku is too little, too late. Why sponsor reinvention of the wheel?
Nice choice of an animal, too. Those Mac people have style. You wouldn't catch them engraving a woodcut of some cud-chewing African antelope or anything like that.
"Samolet Boldirev s Kolebjuschimsja Predikrylom" http://eroplan.boom.ru/bibl/shavrov2/chr3/p2/bol d. htm
This related to old technology. Interesting to see someone's developing it again. Maybe they developed independently, or maybe they knew aout Boldirev's work. Either way, it's cool:)
Rough translation of link: "Boldirev" aircraft with oscillating slats. Experimental aircraft based on brand new concept of obtaining better thrust and increase in lift coefficient. The slat is installed in front of the wing and is higher than wing leading edge. The slat begins rapid oscillating motion, being rotated about its leading edge by angle of 15 degrees.
Aleksandr Ivanonvich Boldirev was senior engineer in department of aerodynamics at MAI. He experimented on oscillating wing models from 1944 through 1951. In 1946 he presented his original aircraft design to TsAGI. At end of 1947, aircraft was built at MAI.
The craft had very small dimensions: wingspan 6.07m, length 5.0m, chord of wing 1.2m, wing area 7.2m^2. Airfoil profile was NACA-23020 (without the slat), a symmetrical airfoil with leading edge of circular shape and flat surfaces above and below. Chord was 286mm. Mass of aircraft was 180 kg. Takeoff weight was 290 kg.
12345 is a real zipcode in Schenectady, NY. General Electric's Schenectady plant uses that zipcode exclusively. It's not residential, but I doubt the marketroids care.
Yeah, Apple certainly has a lot of work ahead of them to get OS X up to speed.
Rather than a journalled filesystem, they may end up taking UFS (which MacOS X already supports) and adding softupdates. It's rather the more BSD-ish way to it.
Either way, I'd love to see a high performance filesystem for MacOS X. UFS on OSX is really slow right now. HFS+ isn't so bad, but I really wish there was something better.
Never got it installed, there were always some more fun things to do or more important stuff to explore . . . it wasn't open source.
You say you couldn't be bothered to take 30 minutes to install BeOS simply to look at it. Then you blame BeOS for not being open source. Do you take the same attitude to open source community projects? If so, you're not doing open source any good either.
Have you ever read the source to any of your more fun or more important stuff? It takes far longer to read an open source software project, get up to speed with it and start contributing. BeOS takes 15-30 minutes to install, and only 15 seconds to boot. If you don't like it, toss it. No big loss.
So don't even start with complaining that you couldn't be bothered becuase "it wasn't open source". If you've spent any time around a computer in the last 5 years, you've had a chance to try BeOS. It annoys me that people use open source as an excuse for things. BeOS R4.5 was sitting on your bookshelf for years and you never got off your lazy ass to install it. Open source didn't stop you. Be's lack of developer support didn't stop you either, since you never even got that far. And furthermore, unless you're talking about InterBase, open source doesn't have a damn thing to do with Borland, either.
In addition to the porting work going on moving FreeBSD to other platforms, I'm really looking forward to new stuff in 5.0-CURRENT.
FreeBSD 4.x doesn't do SMP terribly well, for instance. Version 5.0 brings SMPng, kernel scheduler entities, a preemptable kernel and possibly more. It's gonna be awesome.
It's also particularly nice to see FreeBSD booting on Mac hardware. Sure, Apple's already got big chunks of FreeBSD 3.2 inside Darwin, but now we've got 5.0-CURRENT running on PPC, and the source is available. Imagine how sweet MacOS X could be if Apple MFC'ed from this new PPC FreeBSD work that's going on. Mmmmm...
We've been having big delays getting in and out of my local federal facility, too. As a contractor, my employer has lots of charge codes, but there didn't seem to be anything specific enough in our timecard system.
What did I charge for time spent getting searched and those long waits at the gate? MISCELLANEOUS NONPRODUCTIVE. Management understood exactly where I was coming from and they've been really nice about the additional hassles. They did ask me to remove the extra time charges before sending the timecard in to HR, however.
Maybe he got it a different version of the old testament, but I just checked the good old King James Bible and it doesn't make any recommendations on where to get slaves. Exodus 21 only has rules for keeping slaves and servants.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out[1] as the menservants do.
Exodus 21 is all about rules for keeping slaves and indentured servants. However, there is nothing in there that suggests where to get the slaves. It's simply rules for keeping slaves. Nothing advocating stealing them from neighboring lands.
[1] The phrase "go out" appears several times in Exodus 21. It means a slave or servant gaining freedom. For example, in Exodus 21:2
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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It basically says no one can fuck with our space toys, but we can fuck with anyone else's space toys. It basically says that "Rules Don't Apply to Us".
WHAT rules? The US' space toys are the only ones even remotely capable of fucking anything at all. If any other nation on this planet wants to try to compete, have at it! You'll find the laws of physics are far less forgiving than anything that came out of the UN.
The US is in a position of advantage. They've got capabilities the rest of the world doesn't. Should the US stand idly by and squander that advantage? Seriously, I want to know what you thing the US stands to gain by rolling over and playing dead?
I have a production desktop for my work, a communication desktop with email/IM, and a fun desktop with my music player and such. I can jump between them without moving a lot of windows around. Will that concept be adopted by more than the Gnome/KDE models?
It's a great concept, but it didn't start with Gnome and KDE. Amiga had an oversize scrollable workspace in 1985. swm implemented multiple virtual desktops in 1989.
I certainly feel more productive on dual screens vs. a single display.
LCDs are also more productive than CRTs, because they free up more desk space for heaping junk, err... I meant, organizing my work.
IE7 is not a value-add for Vista. As a product bundled with Windows, IE7 only needs to be decent enough to keep ignorant consumers from seeking alternatives. How does Microsoft expect to make money with IE7?
The marketshare for web browsing from a Windows PC is shrinking. I'm not just talking about Mac OS X and Linux. Realize that this is the year 2006. We snipe eBay auctions via mobile phone. We get RSS feeds on our PDAs. The people using the web these days are doing it less and less with desktops running Windows. I can't buy IE7 for Windows Mobile or Symbian. IE7 doesn't just fail to add value, it fails to compete at all.
1. A list of which parts of the "rich feature set and productivity enhancements" will be retained in the Thunderbird/Eudora.
2. Which license(s) the new Eudora will be using. Presumably, it'll be MPL, but TFA didn't say.
3. Whether Qualcomm considers this move as shifting Eudora into shutdown mode, economically, or whether they genuinely see a potential for future profits from the new FOSS Eudora.
At this time, all of the oil produced on this world is consumed locally. On this world. I have a strong feeling that this trend will continue for the forseeable future.
Therefore, projected "world" oil exports are ZERO.
Quite right. revmischa and weev did it for the lulz.
Slashdot. News for time travellers from just arriving here from two and half weeks ago.
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060905.txt
I would hope that all serious users of OpenSSL have already patched this. FreeBSD and Debian were on top of it the same day it was announced. Others too, no doubt.
You're right. *BSD use GNU gcc.
Bashing is silly.
Believe it or not, Google has limited funds for SoC. The real factor was that they'd like to sponsor (1) big-name projects that have a lot of momentum and recognition, or (2) projects that are new and innovative. I used BeOS for years and love it still, but Haiku is too little, too late. Why sponsor reinvention of the wheel?
Nice choice of an animal, too. Those Mac people have style. You wouldn't catch them engraving a woodcut of some cud-chewing African antelope or anything like that.
"Samolet Boldirev s Kolebjuschimsja Predikrylom"l d. htm
:)
http://eroplan.boom.ru/bibl/shavrov2/chr3/p2/bo
This related to old technology. Interesting to see someone's developing it again. Maybe they developed independently, or maybe they knew aout Boldirev's work. Either way, it's cool
Rough translation of link:
"Boldirev" aircraft with oscillating slats.
Experimental aircraft based on brand new concept of obtaining better thrust and increase in lift coefficient. The slat is installed in front of the wing and is higher than wing leading edge. The slat begins rapid oscillating motion, being rotated about its leading edge by angle of 15 degrees.
Aleksandr Ivanonvich Boldirev was senior engineer in department of aerodynamics at MAI. He experimented on oscillating wing models from 1944 through 1951. In 1946 he presented his original aircraft design to TsAGI. At end of 1947, aircraft was built at MAI.
The craft had very small dimensions: wingspan 6.07m, length 5.0m, chord of wing 1.2m, wing area 7.2m^2. Airfoil profile was NACA-23020 (without the slat), a symmetrical airfoil with leading edge of circular shape and flat surfaces above and below. Chord was 286mm. Mass of aircraft was 180 kg. Takeoff weight was 290 kg.
etc...
12345 is a real zipcode in Schenectady, NY. General Electric's Schenectady plant uses that zipcode exclusively. It's not residential, but I doubt the marketroids care.
Rather than a journalled filesystem, they may end up taking UFS (which MacOS X already supports) and adding softupdates. It's rather the more BSD-ish way to it.
Either way, I'd love to see a high performance filesystem for MacOS X. UFS on OSX is really slow right now. HFS+ isn't so bad, but I really wish there was something better.
You say you couldn't be bothered to take 30 minutes to install BeOS simply to look at it. Then you blame BeOS for not being open source. Do you take the same attitude to open source community projects? If so, you're not doing open source any good either.
Have you ever read the source to any of your more fun or more important stuff? It takes far longer to read an open source software project, get up to speed with it and start contributing. BeOS takes 15-30 minutes to install, and only 15 seconds to boot. If you don't like it, toss it. No big loss.
So don't even start with complaining that you couldn't be bothered becuase "it wasn't open source". If you've spent any time around a computer in the last 5 years, you've had a chance to try BeOS. It annoys me that people use open source as an excuse for things. BeOS R4.5 was sitting on your bookshelf for years and you never got off your lazy ass to install it. Open source didn't stop you. Be's lack of developer support didn't stop you either, since you never even got that far. And furthermore, unless you're talking about InterBase, open source doesn't have a damn thing to do with Borland, either.
Grrr.
In addition to the porting work going on moving FreeBSD to other platforms, I'm really looking forward to new stuff in 5.0-CURRENT.
FreeBSD 4.x doesn't do SMP terribly well, for instance. Version 5.0 brings SMPng, kernel scheduler entities, a preemptable kernel and possibly more. It's gonna be awesome.
It's also particularly nice to see FreeBSD booting on Mac hardware. Sure, Apple's already got big chunks of FreeBSD 3.2 inside Darwin, but now we've got 5.0-CURRENT running on PPC, and the source is available. Imagine how sweet MacOS X could be if Apple MFC'ed from this new PPC FreeBSD work that's going on. Mmmmm...
We've been having big delays getting in and out of my local federal facility, too. As a contractor, my employer has lots of charge codes, but there didn't seem to be anything specific enough in our timecard system.
What did I charge for time spent getting searched and those long waits at the gate? MISCELLANEOUS NONPRODUCTIVE. Management understood exactly where I was coming from and they've been really nice about the additional hassles. They did ask me to remove the extra time charges before sending the timecard in to HR, however.
It depends. Newton's handwriting recognition could actually learn your particular writing style. Palm's Graffiti forces users to write with graffiti.
Why not call it the eWalk instead?
Imagine an Apple ad campaign with little furry creatures running around the forest carrying colorful translucent PDAs.
Ebay!
Apple Newton PDAs are nifty.
Michael said: It has been made (and LGPL'd) by Digital Convergence
Hah. I'd be very surprised if Digital Convergence ever released any open source software. At least they gave away free hardware. That's pretty cool.
The SliMP3 ethernet MP3 player.
Maybe he got it a different version of the old testament, but I just checked the good old King James Bible and it doesn't make any recommendations on where to get slaves. Exodus 21 only has rules for keeping slaves and servants.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out[1] as the menservants do.
Exodus 21 is all about rules for keeping slaves and indentured servants. However, there is nothing in there that suggests where to get the slaves. It's simply rules for keeping slaves. Nothing advocating stealing them from neighboring lands.
[1] The phrase "go out" appears several times in Exodus 21. It means a slave or servant gaining freedom. For example, in Exodus 21:2
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Some of my favorite browsers can do that, others can't. How frustrating.