...to the days when the search engine market resembled the microcomputer market of the '80s. Several competitors, all with (roughly) the same market share, each with a certain number of hits that the others didn't have. I had to use at least a few of them to assure myself that I was getting something reasonably close to what the whole Web could offer on my search topic (even though no search engine comes close to penetrating all of the pages out there).
If I was looking for something, I'd query Lycos, AltaVistas, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, and Magellan. And, later on, Google. Vastly different results, site designs, site objectives. I won't say it was the most streamlined, elegant experience, but it was kind of fun.
Doing so, these ideas can hopefully be adapted faster and on a broad basis. Now if I can only get......a better server, people would flock by the millions!
I could never enter that. Everything I tried would wind up being colored by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That game has so thoroughly embedded itself in the choose-your-own-adventure part of my brain.
With likes like these, who can blame me?
"You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't."
"A tree outside the window collapses. There is no causal relationship between this event and your picking up the toothbrush."
(1) never needs mowing (2) runs Linux (3) fires warning lasers at door-to-door solicitors (may include the religious type) (4) emits pheromones to attract gorgeous women (5) each blade serves as an access point for a wireless network (6) emulates all known video game consoles (7) kills all insects upon contact (8) blocks spy satellite scans (9) makes julienne fries
Enough with the "I'll believe it when I see them fly at xxxx feet" or "Rutan's an aviator, not an aerospace engineer" or "Only 15 seconds? Bah!' comments. Just suppress the generalizations and childishness for a little while... and watch Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, and SpaceShipOne. Watch them as if you were waiting for the curtain to be raised for an opening act, because that's exactly what this is. This is rocket plane history unfolding.
Rutan and his company aren't doing this for the prize. They're doing it to make a point about certain types of aviation and engineering that have been long derided by NASA and other naysayers as being unrealistic, impossible, et cetera.
Look at Rutan's track record, which includes the development of composites--an absolute breakthrough that the FAA is just now getting around to accepting--and the Long-EZ craft. Look at everything the guy has done, and the company he has, and tell me he doesn't have one hell of a chance at making this thing work.
Hastings expects that Internet VOD market is still relatively small, with relatively long download times for even those with cable or DSL Internet connections.
Is there a rental timeframe? Wouldn't it suck if your download didn't finish before the period was up?
"Just 5K more to go! Just -- " "Sorry. Your rental period for 'My Pipes Need Cleaning' has expired. Thank you and please come again."
He seems to be a man of his word and put his money where his mouth was -
What a marvelously simplistic view. Mr. Green was supporting an old, futile cause. Sun is not going to take over the desktop or server business. Java is not going to become the end-all be-all of enterprise software. Microsoft, Linux, and UNIX have all already done a fine job of that (or very close to it). It may be as simple as that Mr. Green actually believed all of McNealy's prior rhetoric ("network computer"? please) and had his airy ideology punched with a horse-needle when McNealy finally decided to engage in bit of corporate pragmatism.
which you have to respect, whether you agreed with him or not, and is more than you can say about MSFT.
You're telling me Microsoft doesn't put their money where their mouth is? Regarding Windows and the Xbox, for example, they've repeatedly said that they're here for the long haul and that they're not leaving. And you know what? I believe them. Because they have lots of money to put where their mouth is.
McNealy finally grew up, and therefore Sun's corporate policy with respect to Microsoft finally grew up. They were fighting a losing battle against the software titan and Linux--and McNealy must have known this for a long time, because the deal recently struck with Microsoft had actually been in the works for a good long while. Corporate contacts were reportedly telling him to grow up, and it looks as if he has, if not in spirit, then at least in practice.
They are a power player and have no intention of fading away, and they have invested far too much in Java to let it fade away either. And regarding Java itself, there are great things that both Sun and Microsoft have done for it (from a purely objective standpoint of programming, this is very true, and if you can't see that, you're blinded by dogma). The agreement between Sun and Microsoft is specifically designed to facilitate interoperability, and of course this includes Java, and Java components and applications.
It may not be the direction some had originally envisioned, but prevalence (or heck, just survival, if you consider worst-case scenarios) in a different form is often a far better outcome than the death of the original due to obstinacy. If Mr. Green is so dedicated to an outmoded cause that he's willing to give up his employment at Sun, well, I'll give him points for principle but none for pragmatism.
I have no illusions that Sun is going to open-source one of its most prized, closely-guarded secrets. They are almost Microsoftian in the protection of certain code. Even Green himself said, "Neither IBM nor Sun knows if it's feasible to fulfill the [open source goal] and meet the constraints." That's not a full-fledged denial, but it definitely represents uncertainty, and Sun's pact with Microsoft has perhaps provided a more secure context in which they can continue to develop and market their proprietary products, now armed with a few new advantages.
So what ya gonna do on an OS that is supposed to Just Work, and one day it Just Doesn't? If it was Linux or FreeBSD, I could read the man page, or find out where the log file was.
That's what a tech-savvy user would do, yes. Anyone else will simply send their computer in to be fixed.
The solution ends up being just what it probably was in the Raymond household:
Same as above. The solution for the average consumer is to send that sucker in. They lump everything into "Just Works" or "Just Doesn't." When something "Just Doesn't," they send it in. They care nothing about looking through source code, or man pages, or any other damned thing.
As a former member of the Air Force military police, as a play-by-the-rules guy, Drew Pooters said he was stunned by what he found his manager doing in the Toys "R" Us store in Albuquerque.
What exactly was a former member of the Air Force military police doing working for Toys 'R' Us in anything less than a managerial capacity?
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...to the days when the search engine market resembled the microcomputer market of the '80s. Several competitors, all with (roughly) the same market share, each with a certain number of hits that the others didn't have. I had to use at least a few of them to assure myself that I was getting something reasonably close to what the whole Web could offer on my search topic (even though no search engine comes close to penetrating all of the pages out there).
If I was looking for something, I'd query Lycos, AltaVistas, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, and Magellan. And, later on, Google. Vastly different results, site designs, site objectives. I won't say it was the most streamlined, elegant experience, but it was kind of fun.
"Citizens can't just accept technology at face value."
*looks at Windows-loaded PCs on Best Buy shelf*
Ohhhhh yes they can.
Doing so, these ideas can hopefully be adapted faster and on a broad basis. Now if I can only get... ...a better server, people would flock by the millions!
I could never enter that. Everything I tried would wind up being colored by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That game has so thoroughly embedded itself in the choose-your-own-adventure part of my brain.
With likes like these, who can blame me?
"You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't."
"A tree outside the window collapses. There is no causal relationship between this event and your picking up the toothbrush."
there have been no signs of S-ATA CD-RW and DVD-R/DVD+R drives.
And as the site appears to be Slashdotted (or close to it), there will continue to be no signs.
Claria who have recently changed their name from Gator.
Nice name. But, a frosted dog turd is not a wedding cake; it is still a frosted dog turd. I hope whatever stock they have drops like a brick.
I misread that as:
Gates Files for IPO...
And wondered if my flux capacitor had self-activated.
the "terminator gene".
I'm uneducated in genetics, so I'll just assume that's a gene that gives something cybernetic killing capabilities. AWESOME.
I want a genetically-modified grass that:
(1) never needs mowing
(2) runs Linux
(3) fires warning lasers at door-to-door solicitors (may include the religious type)
(4) emits pheromones to attract gorgeous women
(5) each blade serves as an access point for a wireless network
(6) emulates all known video game consoles
(7) kills all insects upon contact
(8) blocks spy satellite scans
(9) makes julienne fries
Enough with the "I'll believe it when I see them fly at xxxx feet" or "Rutan's an aviator, not an aerospace engineer" or "Only 15 seconds? Bah!' comments. Just suppress the generalizations and childishness for a little while... and watch Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, and SpaceShipOne. Watch them as if you were waiting for the curtain to be raised for an opening act, because that's exactly what this is. This is rocket plane history unfolding.
Rutan and his company aren't doing this for the prize. They're doing it to make a point about certain types of aviation and engineering that have been long derided by NASA and other naysayers as being unrealistic, impossible, et cetera.
Look at Rutan's track record, which includes the development of composites--an absolute breakthrough that the FAA is just now getting around to accepting--and the Long-EZ craft. Look at everything the guy has done, and the company he has, and tell me he doesn't have one hell of a chance at making this thing work.
I will use those speakers specifically for watching anime.
It only seems appropriate.
I've got a PET 2001. Way to leave me and my legions in the dust.
You said "hardware."
(What? It was in the context of the joke.)
They could just set the period to begin after the download was complete... but by then, "My Pipes Need Cleaning: The New Rod" would be out.
Hastings expects that Internet VOD market is still relatively small, with relatively long download times for even those with cable or DSL Internet connections.
Is there a rental timeframe? Wouldn't it suck if your download didn't finish before the period was up?
"Just 5K more to go! Just -- "
"Sorry. Your rental period for 'My Pipes Need Cleaning' has expired. Thank you and please come again."
The servers with the porn titles better have some mighty good hardware.
Actually, it's a very secure system to go on the internet with, for one thing: even the smallest Windows virus won't fit in 32K.
Not quite true. One counterexample: Win32.Driller, a memory-resident virus which is 8K in size.
they will see on the cover a satellite photo of a neighborhood - their own neighborhood. And their house will be graphically circled.
Hopefully some of the subscribers live in neighborhoods with a lot of rooftop pools--and pool parties.
He seems to be a man of his word and put his money where his mouth was -
What a marvelously simplistic view. Mr. Green was supporting an old, futile cause. Sun is not going to take over the desktop or server business. Java is not going to become the end-all be-all of enterprise software. Microsoft, Linux, and UNIX have all already done a fine job of that (or very close to it). It may be as simple as that Mr. Green actually believed all of McNealy's prior rhetoric ("network computer"? please) and had his airy ideology punched with a horse-needle when McNealy finally decided to engage in bit of corporate pragmatism.
which you have to respect, whether you agreed with him or not, and is more than you can say about MSFT.
You're telling me Microsoft doesn't put their money where their mouth is? Regarding Windows and the Xbox, for example, they've repeatedly said that they're here for the long haul and that they're not leaving. And you know what? I believe them. Because they have lots of money to put where their mouth is.
McNealy finally grew up, and therefore Sun's corporate policy with respect to Microsoft finally grew up. They were fighting a losing battle against the software titan and Linux--and McNealy must have known this for a long time, because the deal recently struck with Microsoft had actually been in the works for a good long while. Corporate contacts were reportedly telling him to grow up, and it looks as if he has, if not in spirit, then at least in practice.
They are a power player and have no intention of fading away, and they have invested far too much in Java to let it fade away either. And regarding Java itself, there are great things that both Sun and Microsoft have done for it (from a purely objective standpoint of programming, this is very true, and if you can't see that, you're blinded by dogma). The agreement between Sun and Microsoft is specifically designed to facilitate interoperability, and of course this includes Java, and Java components and applications.
It may not be the direction some had originally envisioned, but prevalence (or heck, just survival, if you consider worst-case scenarios) in a different form is often a far better outcome than the death of the original due to obstinacy. If Mr. Green is so dedicated to an outmoded cause that he's willing to give up his employment at Sun, well, I'll give him points for principle but none for pragmatism.
I have no illusions that Sun is going to open-source one of its most prized, closely-guarded secrets. They are almost Microsoftian in the protection of certain code. Even Green himself said, "Neither IBM nor Sun knows if it's feasible to fulfill the [open source goal] and meet the constraints." That's not a full-fledged denial, but it definitely represents uncertainty, and Sun's pact with Microsoft has perhaps provided a more secure context in which they can continue to develop and market their proprietary products, now armed with a few new advantages.
Ohhh yeah baby...
(Now if PDA stood for Personal Device of Affection, there might be something there.)
You've probably been wishing for a large, armored, waterproof, 15-hour-battery-life, rubberized...
...PDA ...Nnnngh.
Ohhh yeah baby...
(Now if PDA stood for Personal Device of Affection, there might be something there.)
Well, look no further.
Seeing as how it's been Slashdotted... I guess I won't.
So what ya gonna do on an OS that is supposed to Just Work, and one day it Just Doesn't? If it was Linux or FreeBSD, I could read the man page, or find out where the log file was.
That's what a tech-savvy user would do, yes. Anyone else will simply send their computer in to be fixed.
The solution ends up being just what it probably was in the Raymond household:
Same as above. The solution for the average consumer is to send that sucker in. They lump everything into "Just Works" or "Just Doesn't." When something "Just Doesn't," they send it in. They care nothing about looking through source code, or man pages, or any other damned thing.
As a former member of the Air Force military police, as a play-by-the-rules guy, Drew Pooters said he was stunned by what he found his manager doing in the Toys "R" Us store in Albuquerque.
What exactly was a former member of the Air Force military police doing working for Toys 'R' Us in anything less than a managerial capacity?