Let's just pretend about a scenario in the future, early next year when the PPC G5 comes out. Maybe Apple can get these G5s produced in high quantities at low cost.
Now lets also pretend that a new iMac comes out early next year. It has a G5, LCD, kick-ass design, OS X, etc etc. Can you image the waves such a product would make?
This might sound crazy, but if any company would do such a thing, it would be Apple.
I see these movements across the country to give blood, and I am appalled. The Red Cross currently has a large supply of blood on hand. There is not a need for an influx of millions of gallons of blood right now.
I cannot understand why I am hearing and seeing these recommendations all over. Apparently it's just to make people feel better, and provide some mental gratification for people who are so upset that they want to give blood to feel better about all this.
We should shut down these blood drives, and send people to NYC/DC to help out where there are real problems, or at least to stop waisting people's time giving blood that will be thrown away eventually anyway.
It takes a long time to put together a good Lego creation. Trial and error, following directions, and organization are all involved, and that can really take a lot of hours.
Today's kids don't have the attention span to handle this stuff. They are obsessed with TV, computer, video games, and other lame little things that don't require much time or energy.
Gee, I sound like an old man criticizing today's kids, but I'm only 22...
From what I have read, you have built the entire OS and its components all by yourself.
Where would you be if you had a tight group of good developers? Do you plan on persuing this open-source development ideal of this community?
Also, I have noticed that you have been shying away from BeOS comparisons. I think that you should attempt to lure existing BeOS users to your OS by doing these comparisons, especially with technical details like the APIs and file system.
Also, I don't like the name. I think it should be BeOS II;-) Be sure can't sure you about it now.
The real beauty of the 735 isn't its performance, especially since you'll find it quite difficult to notice a performance difference (in most cases) between it and the 760/KT266. No, the real beauty of the 735 is its price. The ECS board we used in this review retails for less than $80. We have seen it places for as low as $65 plus shipping. This makes the board and the platform the perfect companion for the very low cost Duron and Athlon processors. For less than $200 you can easily upgrade your system to a Duron on a SiS 735 board with DDR SDRAM courtesy of the very aggressive pricing from AMD, SiS and DDR SDRAM manufacturers such as Crucial.
I live in Iowa. The other day a Comcase truck came to my house looking at the cable. I asked them who they were, and they said that they bought AT&T Cable Services.
I assume that Comcast also bought my @Home connection. Seems they are selling off themselves already.
Hey, why does everyone bash Caldera? Because they are not 100% free like Debian? Because they try to make money off a per-plate license?
Hey, if companies want to pay the per-plate thing, let them. It will be good for Caldera, as they are just trying to survive like the other Linux companies. If Caldera dies, so does some open-source sponsorships and development (like Webmin).
I personally like the OpenLinux distro. It is very business-like (or maybe MS-like), but that is appealing to me. I don't like looking at retarded penguin animations while I login. It also has some very cool admin tools, especially for servers.
I am glad to see this Caldera UNIX distro. They are just trying something new, trying to stay in business. That is most important. Stop picking on them.
I use Caldera, and love it. The installation is great (you can even play Solitare while you wait for the packages to be installed), and it is very stable.
There are no lame penguin graphics like on Mandrake... and everything is just KDE.. clean and simple. Very professional-looking, like Windows.
It also has some very nice graphical system administration tools. Also, if you like Webmin, Caldera is its primary sponsor.
People may bash Caldera for their business plans, but hey... they are just trying to survive. I definitely respect them, and their distro. All of the others are just annoying.
You can get the ISOs from ftp.caldera.com. The current version is eDesktop 3.1, and there is a server version there too... also at 3.1 I belive.
but I sure in the hell don't have time. Maybe it is because I have a normal life, and do productive things.
Then, all I have to think about is my uncles, and their obsession with golf. They think they are normal, but they are almost as bad at the people in the Quake tourney.
This guy is very wrong in one respect: these kids (very likely) only excel in a niche of whatever they are doing. If you get them out in the real world where you must have a broad range of knowledge to succeed, then they will fail, miserably.
Case in point: me. Not too long ago, I was in high school with excellent website building skills. People around seen me as a real tech guru, even though I really couldn't write a computer program, or use MS Excel to setup spreadsheets with macros (still don't know how, or intend to ever know).
Also, I just went to the O'Reilly Conference and was a speaker. Just a college kid among speakers who are senior engineers in respected companies. Why is this? Because I have a niche in building Mozilla-based applications.
Yet, I know that once I graduate and head off to work somewhere, it will probably not be doing whatever my niche currently is. Then, I'll just be a regular junior engineer.
This winter I'm gonna try to remedy that by becoming skilled at.NET. Now that I have the taste of success, I don't want to give it up, even if it means becoming a.NET expert.
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Let's just pretend about a scenario in the future, early next year when the PPC G5 comes out. Maybe Apple can get these G5s produced in high quantities at low cost.
Now lets also pretend that a new iMac comes out early next year. It has a G5, LCD, kick-ass design, OS X, etc etc. Can you image the waves such a product would make?
This might sound crazy, but if any company would do such a thing, it would be Apple.
I've seen both spellings about 50% of the time. His name simply doesn't translate directly to English.
We know who he is anyway... It doesn't matter.
Offtopic:
I see these movements across the country to give blood, and I am appalled. The Red Cross currently has a large supply of blood on hand. There is not a need for an influx of millions of gallons of blood right now.
I cannot understand why I am hearing and seeing these recommendations all over. Apparently it's just to make people feel better, and provide some mental gratification for people who are so upset that they want to give blood to feel better about all this.
We should shut down these blood drives, and send people to NYC/DC to help out where there are real problems, or at least to stop waisting people's time giving blood that will be thrown away eventually anyway.
This could turn out to be a reincarnation of the IBM/Compaq scenario of the 80s.
Yet, I wonder which one is technically farther along, PetrOS or WINE?
I think maybe he means http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,60124,00 .asp.
It takes a long time to put together a good Lego creation. Trial and error, following directions, and organization are all involved, and that can really take a lot of hours.
Today's kids don't have the attention span to handle this stuff. They are obsessed with TV, computer, video games, and other lame little things that don't require much time or energy.
Gee, I sound like an old man criticizing today's kids, but I'm only 22...
I thought it said ... Nixon Faces Resignation
Time for bed it seems.
Whatever happened to the ones that just shut up?
but when can I actually buy a computer with this technology? 10 years from now?
I like to see research of this type, but there needs to be more research with short-term effect.
From what I have read, you have built the entire OS and its components all by yourself.
;-) Be sure can't sure you about it now.
Where would you be if you had a tight group of good developers? Do you plan on persuing this open-source development ideal of this community?
Also, I have noticed that you have been shying away from BeOS comparisons. I think that you should attempt to lure existing BeOS users to your OS by doing these comparisons, especially with technical details like the APIs and file system.
Also, I don't like the name. I think it should be BeOS II
FreeBSD 3.2? Why not the 4.x series?
Yep :-)
BTW, what's going on with the BeNews server?
Here posted today. Basically the SiS 735 wins:
The real beauty of the 735 isn't its performance, especially since you'll find it quite difficult to notice a performance difference (in most cases) between it and the 760/KT266. No, the real beauty of the 735 is its price. The ECS board we used in this review retails for less than $80. We have seen it places for as low as $65 plus shipping. This makes the board and the platform the perfect companion for the very low cost Duron and Athlon processors. For less than $200 you can easily upgrade your system to a Duron on a SiS 735 board with DDR SDRAM courtesy of the very aggressive pricing from AMD, SiS and DDR SDRAM manufacturers such as Crucial.
I live in Iowa. The other day a Comcase truck came to my house looking at the cable. I asked them who they were, and they said that they bought AT&T Cable Services.
I assume that Comcast also bought my @Home connection. Seems they are selling off themselves already.
Hey, why does everyone bash Caldera? Because they are not 100% free like Debian? Because they try to make money off a per-plate license?
Hey, if companies want to pay the per-plate thing, let them. It will be good for Caldera, as they are just trying to survive like the other Linux companies. If Caldera dies, so does some open-source sponsorships and development (like Webmin).
I personally like the OpenLinux distro. It is very business-like (or maybe MS-like), but that is appealing to me. I don't like looking at retarded penguin animations while I login. It also has some very cool admin tools, especially for servers.
I am glad to see this Caldera UNIX distro. They are just trying something new, trying to stay in business. That is most important. Stop picking on them.
3 inch CDR drive in my new Be/Palm OS device next year. That would rock.
That's because hardly anyone *really* involved with BeOS wanted Apple to buy Be. That would have been a definite killer to BeOS development.
When you think about it... Palm OS looks more like BeOS than any other OS out there. For example... that tab in the upper left corner.
There are no lame penguin graphics like on Mandrake... and everything is just KDE.. clean and simple. Very professional-looking, like Windows.
It also has some very nice graphical system administration tools. Also, if you like Webmin, Caldera is its primary sponsor.
People may bash Caldera for their business plans, but hey... they are just trying to survive. I definitely respect them, and their distro. All of the others are just annoying.
You can get the ISOs from ftp.caldera.com. The current version is eDesktop 3.1, and there is a server version there too... also at 3.1 I belive.
Then, all I have to think about is my uncles, and their obsession with golf. They think they are normal, but they are almost as bad at the people in the Quake tourney.
Oh, and he said that OS X is going to be his new development platform. No lie. Wish I had a link for ya :-(
Case in point: me. Not too long ago, I was in high school with excellent website building skills. People around seen me as a real tech guru, even though I really couldn't write a computer program, or use MS Excel to setup spreadsheets with macros (still don't know how, or intend to ever know).
Also, I just went to the O'Reilly Conference and was a speaker. Just a college kid among speakers who are senior engineers in respected companies. Why is this? Because I have a niche in building Mozilla-based applications.
Yet, I know that once I graduate and head off to work somewhere, it will probably not be doing whatever my niche currently is. Then, I'll just be a regular junior engineer.
This winter I'm gonna try to remedy that by becoming skilled at .NET. Now that I have the taste of success, I don't want to give it up, even if it means becoming a .NET expert.
No its not. My Linux box was doing it before I even turned on the W2k server box. So there :-P
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