If I worked for Sun, I would have taken that as a wakeup call. Currently Sun is one of the companies that doesn't know quite what to make of little free OS we know and love.
Ah, you're wrong there. Sun do know what to make of it. They see it as a better product that Solaris x86. They also see it as a great appliace OS, hence buying Cobolt. But, remember, Sun isn't competing with Linux, it's competing with MS and IBM.
If you ask me the real players in clean, renewable energy sources for transport should be the petrochemical companies. This is the perfect oppotunity for them all to stay in business when fossil fuels run out.
I've seen a van running on fuel cell technology. It's good because the waste product from combusting hydrogen is water !
Now, combine that with... I think it's electrolosys - but don't flame me if I'm wrong... to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and use the hydrogen as fuel for the fuel cell. Not quite perpetual motion but I'm sure you can see where I'm coming from.
Solaris is in use mainly as a server operating system at the moment
Where is your evidence for this ? The SunRay platform is very popular - and rightly so. I use Solaris on a SunRay and am running the latest Gnome build on it. I think that a better question would be "Which Solaris user needs CDE".
BTW. I can tell you why Sun has adopted Gnome as its desktop: Gnome is very network centric what with Bonobo and all that. This fits in very well with Sun's vision blah blah blah. Not that I'm biased or anything !
That's a very big 'if'. I reckon the chances of the XBox being hardware hackable are so remote that it won't even be worth the effort. And if you could you'll be fuelling the evil empire with cash which which to fight distributers of such documents in the courts by buying it. Much like what has happened with DeCSS. Don't you think ? --
Are Nokia trying to follow Sony's lead into the games market ? And who is there target market ?
Look at the politics involved:
Unix geeks wont buy the X-Box
Unix geeks love the idea of a linux based console but will still question this approach to consoles...
...especially seeing as one has failed.
TiVo uses Linux - and it's a success.
Loki have established themselves pretty well.
I'm sure there's more but I can't think right now. In a way - and I don't mean to troll or invite flames here - I think that it's still a hype thing. I didn't find out until recently that TiVo runs Linux. It's not something it wears on its sleeve. The OS is invisible.
Well, if the bottom falls out of the space program at least they'll have the experience and knowledge to go into the furniture building trade. It's always good to have a second career option.
Hasn't the word 'multimedia' pretty much died from common use. 6 or 7 years ago it was a great word as it described a PC with a CD-ROM drive and a soundcard. But these things became standard so the use of the word dropped more and more. That's why the title of this book struck me. I thought "Multimedia ?! Does anyone actually still use that word ?"
Umm... Excuse me but how can Linux 'lose' to Microsoft ? I ask because it's free. It always has been free and will continue to be free. That's the point. If you are talking about the desktop market Linux may not win but it can't exactly lost can it ? It's free. And if the battle is 'lost' and the 'war' is 'won' by Microsoft do you really think that will be the end of Linux ? No. It's free. The source code is out there. Linux cannot be stopped unless some shitty law comes into place where it's illegal. Can that happen (I'm thinking of the first amendment and stuff). It's the same with the BSD varients. They are free. Linux won't kill them off.
If you are talking servers then right now the 'winner' of that 'battle' is clearly Solaris and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want to know why, it's all to do with scaling.
If you are talking embedded systems then Linux may well corner that market. But that doesn't mean that it'll leave the server or desktop market. That's crazy thinking.
Now, can everyone just do me a favour and SHUT UP ABOUT THE MICROSOFT/LINUX WARS. It's a waste of time. Post a story about Eazel so I can post this witty quote I thought of:
"I gave a company $13m in venture capitalism and all I got was this lousy file manager."
Tech support has become synonymous in most consumers' minds with corporate arrogance and greed
I find this amusing because I feel this from the people I support - the entire user base of the UK for this company. So in my mind this reads:
Users have become synonymous in most tech supports minds with corporate arrogance and greed
On the whole users aren't a problem but those who log highest priority calls with us claiming they can't send email when they are spelling the recipients name incorrectly must have some bizarre superiority complex (this honestly happened to me).
Another example of how arrogant my users can be: This guy was complaining that his computer was not patched into the network. It was. I told him this. He said it wasn't. I checked the machine. The error messages made it perfectly clear to me that the NIC was screwed. I replaced the machine and things worked fine - then (users are invited to give feedback) he complains that "[support] obviously don't know anything about business-critical departments" and how they were the most important people on the fucking planet. Well, he needs to learn the difference between a link being down and a major hardware fault error message.
I want 2ghz that runs on low power and low heat and all the time.
No you don't. Admit it - you want several low power, low heat, SMALL 2ghz processors running in parallel. This technology may provide it.
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Um... I'm no English genius (well, I should be) but when you say disinterested do you mean 'disinterested' or 'uninterested' ? 'Uninterest' is pretty self-explanitary whereas 'disinterest' is neither being interested or uninterested. Or something.
I've been listening to this SHOUTcast radio station over the weekend. They play a lot of Bill Hicks and George Carlin and they have a lot of strong poignent views on the way things are and why people act the way they do. My favourite view being that everyone should take magic mushrooms to open up their third eye and see the world for what it is.
On the other hand I think the point that is being made by the family is that the way people act is conditioned into them. Parents see that kids are violent because in a video game they are rewarded for being violent. it's a similar thing to Pavlov's dogs. However - humans (apart from psychopaths and sociopaths) can tell the difference between right and wrong and I think that this assumption that we cannot choose our own actions is wrong.
I'd advise people should make up their own minds on how far they wish to agree with what is being said. Go to the library and pick up a decent book on psychology. Read the sections about determinism and humanism. Read the studies and think how they are relevant and how they are flawed (like, if a study is done in a lab people are less likely to act the same way as they would in public). Also see if you can find someting on passive determinism. It's a sort of cross between determinism and humanism.
These are issues that can be brought up in both prosecution and defence so don't assume it's a black and white issue. Psychology is not an exact science and never will be. Pick the angle you favour most but understand the others.
The fastest lift in Europe is in the Atomium in Brussles. That has a glass floor and ceiling and goes damn fast. It's quite a laugh actually. I rode in it about 8 or 9 years ago. The Atomium kicks ass. I wanna go back.
"Microsoft said its decision not to include built-in support for recording better-sounding MP3
music also avoids it having to pay license fees required by Thomson Multimedia SA and the
Fraunhofer Institut, which collect at least US$2.50 from software vendors for each copy of
recording software based on their MP3 technology.
Now they know how we feel !
In other words, they don't want a taste of their own medicine...
They can dish it out but they can't take it. Oh well, at least they're not trying to buy the rights.
I totally agree with this comment. They both have their advantages. KDE is more mature, Gnome is more network centric. That's why Sun, etc have taken it on.
Personally I really wanted to love KDE2 but it's a bit resource hungry - which is a shame as it's such a lovely environment.
My favourite thing about Unix is the amount of choice you get. There are open standards which people adhere to when writing software which keeps everything compatible. It's world peace !
Well, you make an interesting point. I see where you are coming from in that I'm unclear in what I said. And, yes, I do sort of think that these groups essentially are the same. They just have different reasons and objectives but the same methods of achieving thier goals and the same motivations - to make the world a better place (in their own definition of a better place).
I notice that the various Christian dialects in America are very anti-gay. They promote hatred of homosexuals the same way that Nazis would. Here is where they are similar. They hate gays and don't think they have a place on Earth. Personally, I have no problem with gays and I don't understand why anyone should.
And, surely, if a gang beats your head in they must think you are a worthless human being.
I'm sure that contries' laws would disagree with my opinions but that's what they are - my opinions. I don't tell people to think the way I think and, quite frankly, this would be a wierd world if they did. I'm also sure that a religious opinion - whatever it is - is more acceptable than a far right-wing opinion. But that's because (as Karl Marx said) "Religion is the opiate of the people". I say that religion has killed more people than it has saved due to the hate that it promotes to other groups. Look at the situation in Israel and the hate and the suffering that it has caused.
But I digress...
My point was made at the beginning. I think they are the same - or at least similar - because of the underlying motivation and the methods of promoting opinion.
Well, that's the biggest problem with freedom of speech. Can you draw the line at what's acceptable and what isn't ? Unfortunatley the answer isn't black and white.
You think of the number of people who have died for freedom of speech (about the government and stuff - I'm not really clued up on this stuff) in wars. How would they feel if they died to that some misguided idiot can publish Nazi worshipping literature. In any form.
The flip side is that freedom of speech enables John Skinhead to spout Nazi propagander if he wishes - just as God-loving bible bashers are allowed to preach that we're all going to Hell. Just as I'm able to proclame my atheism and contempt for hate-mongers - as God-loving bible-bashers generally are.
However, I also believe that people can make up their own mind. It's not like hate pages are two-clicks away. You search for it. The fear is that these pages will coax people into forming similar opinions of hate. In my opinion if they are reading those kind of pages then your attitude and opinion is already that way inclined.
Either that or you want to see for yourself just how misguided people who waste their time publishing hate material.
So, in conclusion my point is that if you want to hate blacks, Jews, Gays, whites, minorities, majorities, women, etc you will, regardless of what web pages or literature you read. If you are easily swayed by hate material, surely you can be swayed the other way...
Having watched Robot Wars quite a lot (afterall, it's hosted by Lister off Red Dwarf) I can honestly say that the sportscaster crap is kept to a minimum - but I'm guessing that that's because the English are not very good at it.
I hope in the American version the contestants make something more interesting than a wedge with a silly name as what usually happens over here.
I can't say I'm convinced about the security of Bluetooth. Security being an issue I guess we can understand why MS don't have interest in it.
"Hmm, Joe Hacker could sit on the grass outside an MS building holding his Bluetooth enabled laptop and hack MS through their internal Bluetooth network."
Well, that would be reason enough for me not to use it.
I think one of the most depressing things of these modern times is that people want someone or something to blame for everything wrong with society. I feel sick at these claim company ads on TV "Have you been in an accident ? Call us and get £££ compensation !".
It feels to me that parents want to point fingers at anything other than themselves for their children's problems. For instance, Columbine - lets blame music and the colour black. The more interest parents take in their childrens' lives, the quicker to help and slower to punish, the more trust children should be able to feel in their parents; these are all issues that should be addressed. Not "what should we ban for the sake of our children". That's why they hate South Park, it is a cleverly executed, very accurate parody of modern society.
An interesting point. If reckon that I would get a cheap Dreamcast just for the achingly lovely graphich and fun of the Tony Hawks series. That's what the PS2 needs. Tony Hawks - none of this futuristic snowboarding type rubbish. I have no idea what it's called but I found it quite funny when I went in to work one Saturday night to shut down a load of desktops to find this guy playing it on a large widescreen TV - And swearing very loudly at it. I'm suprised security didn't come join him.
Oh yeah, don't forget that Linux howto for using a box with a cable modem as a dial-up server for a Dreamcast. You don't even have to buy the add-on ! Smite thine DC-playing enemies with Penguin-power !
If I want an album I will buy it - and so will most other people. It was shown that napster users bought more CDs because they heard them on napster. Considering the cost of production of a CD surely the easiest ways to decrease CD piracy would be to make albums cheaper.
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Ah, you're wrong there. Sun do know what to make of it. They see it as a better product that Solaris x86. They also see it as a great appliace OS, hence buying Cobolt. But, remember, Sun isn't competing with Linux, it's competing with MS and IBM.
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I've seen a van running on fuel cell technology. It's good because the waste product from combusting hydrogen is water !
Now, combine that with... I think it's electrolosys - but don't flame me if I'm wrong... to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and use the hydrogen as fuel for the fuel cell. Not quite perpetual motion but I'm sure you can see where I'm coming from.
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Where is your evidence for this ? The SunRay platform is very popular - and rightly so. I use Solaris on a SunRay and am running the latest Gnome build on it. I think that a better question would be "Which Solaris user needs CDE".
BTW. I can tell you why Sun has adopted Gnome as its desktop: Gnome is very network centric what with Bonobo and all that. This fits in very well with Sun's vision blah blah blah. Not that I'm biased or anything !
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That's a very big 'if'. I reckon the chances of the XBox being hardware hackable are so remote that it won't even be worth the effort. And if you could you'll be fuelling the evil empire with cash which which to fight distributers of such documents in the courts by buying it. Much like what has happened with DeCSS. Don't you think ?
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Look at the politics involved:
I'm sure there's more but I can't think right now. In a way - and I don't mean to troll or invite flames here - I think that it's still a hype thing. I didn't find out until recently that TiVo runs Linux. It's not something it wears on its sleeve. The OS is invisible.
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I just found it funny how a word can build up a crescendo and then be almost forgotten.
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If you are talking servers then right now the 'winner' of that 'battle' is clearly Solaris and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want to know why, it's all to do with scaling.
If you are talking embedded systems then Linux may well corner that market. But that doesn't mean that it'll leave the server or desktop market. That's crazy thinking.
Now, can everyone just do me a favour and SHUT UP ABOUT THE MICROSOFT/LINUX WARS. It's a waste of time. Post a story about Eazel so I can post this witty quote I thought of:
"I gave a company $13m in venture capitalism and all I got was this lousy file manager."
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I find this amusing because I feel this from the people I support - the entire user base of the UK for this company. So in my mind this reads:
On the whole users aren't a problem but those who log highest priority calls with us claiming they can't send email when they are spelling the recipients name incorrectly must have some bizarre superiority complex (this honestly happened to me).
Another example of how arrogant my users can be: This guy was complaining that his computer was not patched into the network. It was. I told him this. He said it wasn't. I checked the machine. The error messages made it perfectly clear to me that the NIC was screwed. I replaced the machine and things worked fine - then (users are invited to give feedback) he complains that "[support] obviously don't know anything about business-critical departments" and how they were the most important people on the fucking planet. Well, he needs to learn the difference between a link being down and a major hardware fault error message.
A bit off-topic, but I hope it amused people.
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No you don't. Admit it - you want several low power, low heat, SMALL 2ghz processors running in parallel. This technology may provide it.
The article quotes Moore's law and how in 18 to 20 years we would have reached the physical limits of silicon. Does this imply that this technology will not be commercially available for the majority of this time ?
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This reminds me of this slashdot story.
I've been listening to this SHOUTcast radio station over the weekend. They play a lot of Bill Hicks and George Carlin and they have a lot of strong poignent views on the way things are and why people act the way they do. My favourite view being that everyone should take magic mushrooms to open up their third eye and see the world for what it is.
On the other hand I think the point that is being made by the family is that the way people act is conditioned into them. Parents see that kids are violent because in a video game they are rewarded for being violent. it's a similar thing to Pavlov's dogs. However - humans (apart from psychopaths and sociopaths) can tell the difference between right and wrong and I think that this assumption that we cannot choose our own actions is wrong.
I'd advise people should make up their own minds on how far they wish to agree with what is being said. Go to the library and pick up a decent book on psychology. Read the sections about determinism and humanism. Read the studies and think how they are relevant and how they are flawed (like, if a study is done in a lab people are less likely to act the same way as they would in public). Also see if you can find someting on passive determinism. It's a sort of cross between determinism and humanism.
These are issues that can be brought up in both prosecution and defence so don't assume it's a black and white issue. Psychology is not an exact science and never will be. Pick the angle you favour most but understand the others.
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Now they know how we feel !
In other words, they don't want a taste of their own medicine...
They can dish it out but they can't take it. Oh well, at least they're not trying to buy the rights.
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Personally I really wanted to love KDE2 but it's a bit resource hungry - which is a shame as it's such a lovely environment.
My favourite thing about Unix is the amount of choice you get. There are open standards which people adhere to when writing software which keeps everything compatible. It's world peace !
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I notice that the various Christian dialects in America are very anti-gay. They promote hatred of homosexuals the same way that Nazis would. Here is where they are similar. They hate gays and don't think they have a place on Earth. Personally, I have no problem with gays and I don't understand why anyone should.
And, surely, if a gang beats your head in they must think you are a worthless human being.
I'm sure that contries' laws would disagree with my opinions but that's what they are - my opinions. I don't tell people to think the way I think and, quite frankly, this would be a wierd world if they did. I'm also sure that a religious opinion - whatever it is - is more acceptable than a far right-wing opinion. But that's because (as Karl Marx said) "Religion is the opiate of the people". I say that religion has killed more people than it has saved due to the hate that it promotes to other groups. Look at the situation in Israel and the hate and the suffering that it has caused.
But I digress...
My point was made at the beginning. I think they are the same - or at least similar - because of the underlying motivation and the methods of promoting opinion.
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You think of the number of people who have died for freedom of speech (about the government and stuff - I'm not really clued up on this stuff) in wars. How would they feel if they died to that some misguided idiot can publish Nazi worshipping literature. In any form.
The flip side is that freedom of speech enables John Skinhead to spout Nazi propagander if he wishes - just as God-loving bible bashers are allowed to preach that we're all going to Hell. Just as I'm able to proclame my atheism and contempt for hate-mongers - as God-loving bible-bashers generally are.
However, I also believe that people can make up their own mind. It's not like hate pages are two-clicks away. You search for it. The fear is that these pages will coax people into forming similar opinions of hate. In my opinion if they are reading those kind of pages then your attitude and opinion is already that way inclined.
Either that or you want to see for yourself just how misguided people who waste their time publishing hate material.
So, in conclusion my point is that if you want to hate blacks, Jews, Gays, whites, minorities, majorities, women, etc you will, regardless of what web pages or literature you read. If you are easily swayed by hate material, surely you can be swayed the other way...
Anyone agree ?
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I hope in the American version the contestants make something more interesting than a wedge with a silly name as what usually happens over here.
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"Hmm, Joe Hacker could sit on the grass outside an MS building holding his Bluetooth enabled laptop and hack MS through their internal Bluetooth network."
Well, that would be reason enough for me not to use it.
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That was pretty quick. The /. effect in full motion ? Oh well, we all make silly mistakes sometimes.
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It feels to me that parents want to point fingers at anything other than themselves for their children's problems. For instance, Columbine - lets blame music and the colour black. The more interest parents take in their childrens' lives, the quicker to help and slower to punish, the more trust children should be able to feel in their parents; these are all issues that should be addressed. Not "what should we ban for the sake of our children". That's why they hate South Park, it is a cleverly executed, very accurate parody of modern society.
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Oh yeah, don't forget that Linux howto for using a box with a cable modem as a dial-up server for a Dreamcast. You don't even have to buy the add-on ! Smite thine DC-playing enemies with Penguin-power !
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