am not criticising free software, or those who create it, merely saying that it is disingenuous to tell people that you can get rich from writing open source.
Not only that but it's impossible to make the ends meet as shown by SUSE's and RedHat's examples. More will follow suit just like Microsoft predicted.
Maybe we really won't need proprietary games? Judging by the progress made by freeciv we really won't need CivIII. Check out this screenshot for example. It's stunning!
I doubt you'd squeeze the linux kernel itself into a single floppy. Besides the QNX demo DID include both a filesystem and a file manager. It also contains a file manager and a file editor. As for the driver it is true that only the bare necessary minimum is included but let's do an experiment: take your linux system, remove ALL the drivers you don't use and quote the footprint. I'm not even talking about including XFree86.
Linux is an OK unix clone (and a very average one at that). But when it comes to embedded stuff it can't touch commercial offerings. Wake up and smell the coffee or the revolution will pass you by.
PS. I'm in no way associated with QNX Inc. Just a humble fan of their OS.
Apparently, a reasonably normal Linux system can be shoehorned into 8MB of storage, with zlib decompression-on-demand and such
And we're supposed to be impressed? Let me break the news here. QNX did it ages ago when they squeezed their kernel, GUI, web browser, mail client and tcp/ip stack into a SINGLE 1.44 MB floppy. Oh, the power of Closed Source!
Slashdot is adopting Mark Twain's plan for improvement of English spelling. Here's the uncensored, unedited version of the plan:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s," and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c," "y" and "x"--bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez--tu riplais "ch," "sh," and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
I haven't seen the commercials you mentioned but I expect them to be pretty lame. As someone who recently moved from the UK to Canada I generally feel that TV in general and commercials in particular are of extremly low quality here. They are generally very noisy (to the point that I hit "mute" every time they come on) and in your face. British ones at least try to amuse and some are pretty good at that. There are exceptions however, one of the best ads I've seen so far is the Tivo golf commercial. It's quite funny actually unlike those other "funny" US commercials where the punchline is so blatantly obvious that only retards could laugh at them.
I'm pretty grumpy 'cause i don't have good telly anymore. I'd trade my 60 US cable channels for the five I had back in the UK. I thought the license was a rip off. Now I think it's a bargain.
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Not only that but it's impossible to make the ends meet as shown by SUSE's and RedHat's examples. More will follow suit just like Microsoft predicted.
Maybe we really won't need proprietary games? Judging by the progress made by freeciv we really won't need CivIII. Check out this screenshot for example. It's stunning!
Linux is an OK unix clone (and a very average one at that). But when it comes to embedded stuff it can't touch commercial offerings. Wake up and smell the coffee or the revolution will pass you by.
PS. I'm in no way associated with QNX Inc. Just a humble fan of their OS.
And we're supposed to be impressed? Let me break the news here. QNX did it ages ago when they squeezed their kernel, GUI, web browser, mail client and tcp/ip stack into a SINGLE 1.44 MB floppy. Oh, the power of Closed Source!
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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s," and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c," "y" and "x"--bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez--tu riplais "ch," "sh," and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
I'm pretty grumpy 'cause i don't have good telly anymore. I'd trade my 60 US cable channels for the five I had back in the UK. I thought the license was a rip off. Now I think it's a bargain.
The book is "Design Patterns" by the Gang of Four