(I really can't tell the trolls any more. The 'unix is a stupid 30 year old idea' troll is so old that mebbe you youngsters ain't seen it before)
As Henry Spencer put it: "Those who fail to understand Unix are destined to reimplement it - poorly."
Ideas that work well tend to stick around. Check out things like Writing, Zero, The Wheel...
Unix has a set of abstractions that still manage to fit most applications, and are being extended into new ones.
I notice that a relatively young OS (NT) only incorporated some age old ideas from UNIX into its version 5 release around the year 2000 (symlinks and file mounts, would you believe it?).
Having said all that, it looks like Mr SkyOS has learnt a few lessons and the fact that he has managed to get firefox and others to work is pretty damn impressive, but his OS is doomed, doomed, doomed.
What the hell is it good for, and why should I pay money for things that I can get better, for free?
His work is amazing, but his business plan is from Mars.
Gmail seems to have a reasonably interesting database backend, if only to support their 'labels'.
Dunno if it sql, or more along the lines of the filesystem they described in their whitepaper on google.
Now, m$ is moving to a sql backended operating system. If it ever works, it may be interesting, and would support the sort of advanced features that Gmail is using.
At that stage, with what is finally probably a reliable operating system, it may make some kind of sense to move to doze for all the boxen.
Actually, I have for quite a few years now, bought phones based on the UI. After discovering Nokia's UI to be the best, I stuck with it for several iterations of hardware.
When their UI got too complex, and not as friendly, I decided to shift (now have a T610... it's ok as far as UI goes, but not great, still too many clicks).
I would love to have a more open system, because I can see problems with phone UI's and would love to be able to customize them, or at least make macro's or shortcuts to most needed functions.
"Adds an XBL binding to Shockwave Flash object tags that replaces them with a button you must click in order to play the animation. Quite nice for restoring sanity to your browsing session."
This is actually genius. There should be a public vetting period, with a slashdot style web board, and people can make these exact comments, and present factual evidence. A patent examiner would not necessarily have to be an expert in the field then to make a valid assessment.
I am pretty sure that there is a proof that any configuration of a cube is at most 21 moves away from any other. That is also to say that you can solve any position in 21 moves or less. It is known, I believe, as 'Gods Algorithm'.
So, 25 random moves is at least 4 that are redundant, ie, don't add to the complexity of the puzzle.
If the GPL comes into it at all, it will be regarding whether or not SCO/Caldera had already published the so-called infringing code.
The GPL itself is watertight. It rests on the solid body of copyright code, and if you don't accept the GPL, you must believe that you have no right to copy the code, as the GPL grants you rights you would not normally have.
Indeed the GPL states: "5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it."
Most assuredly, these cases are NOT about the GPL. They are about contract infringement, or patent law, or trade-secret protection.
I cannot take (say) Microsoft Windows, strip out the Microsoft Copyright notice and EULA and replace it with the GPL. I will be sued nearly out of existence if I tried to distribute such a thing. This has nothing to do with the validity or otherwise of the GPL, as I never had copyright on the code in question in the first place. I cannot release it under any licence except that of Microsofts.
At no point in any of this will the validity of the GPL come into question. The only question is that of ownership of the original copyright.
and is now faster than Microsoft's own file serving routines.
Yes and no...
Not for lots of small files. Translating file system semantics can take up a lot of time, and is much slower than windows. This is not likely to be fixed soon. Samba was noticably faster for large files, but I think that m$ have taken steps to make their fileserving faster these days.
Your accounting is off. Let's see, there were what, somewhere near 11 clear handles replying to the original female outing post, plus several ACs. Given a general prevalence of homosekshul-type persons in the broad populace (10% or less), we can conclude that 1 or 2 of you respondants are gay.
Unfortunately, you cannot conclude this. There is no evidence that this is a representative sample of the population. It is likely to be otherwise.
Even assuming the 10% in the general popluation is correct (it's disputed result that came from a Kinsey survey, iirc), you cannot extrapolate it to this population segment.
I would assume that the majority of slashdot consists of white educated males, disproportionate to the general population. What the degree of homosexuality in this population is, I cannot tell.
Possibly higher than the norm, I guess...
For a story about a famous non-representative sample I suggest you see:
OK, fair enough, but I don't know any other way to settle it.
I think you're pretty daft, and would be happy to take money off you. I live by the adage 'put your money where your mouth is or shuttup'.
I just can't see m$ walking away from Xbox. Essentially, I think they will clobber Nintendo, and probably give Sony a run for their money.
Sony are probably big enough and cluey enough to compete, but I have seen many many many people bet against m$ and disappear.
The ones that havent can be counted on the fingers of one hand, basically. I can think of Sun, Oracle and maybe Real. Anyone else? Oh yeah, Apple.
What I like about Free/Open source (apart from political stuff) is that it is so very hard for m$ to use their traditional dirty tactics against it. Heaven forbid, they may have to compete fairly, on features and utility to users!
Like the guy who ran the stock portfolio in Wired, selling Microsoft just before the release of Windows95, predicting it would be a failure.
Xbox is a success. Not a huge one yet, and if I was Sony, I would be shit-scared.
I think it will be a long time before Microsoft has a massive failure that threatens the existence of the company. Bill Gates will probably be dead before that happens.
Opensource may well take it's toll on them, but it will be 10-20 years before it starts to really hurt them, and if there is one thing we know about them it's that they don't stand still waiting for competitors get a leg up.
Slashdot Mirror
macos is unix, btw ...
(I really can't tell the trolls any more. The 'unix is a stupid 30 year old idea' troll is so old that mebbe you youngsters ain't seen it before)
...
As Henry Spencer put it: "Those who fail to understand Unix are destined to reimplement it - poorly."
Ideas that work well tend to stick around. Check out things like Writing, Zero, The Wheel
Unix has a set of abstractions that still manage to fit most applications, and are being extended into new ones.
I notice that a relatively young OS (NT) only incorporated some age old ideas from UNIX into its version 5 release around the year 2000 (symlinks and file mounts, would you believe it?).
Having said all that, it looks like Mr SkyOS has learnt a few lessons and the fact that he has managed to get firefox and others to work is pretty damn impressive, but his OS is doomed, doomed, doomed.
What the hell is it good for, and why should I pay money for things that I can get better, for free?
His work is amazing, but his business plan is from Mars.
Just when I thought the art of the subtle troll on /. was dead ...
"average cd collection" = 50 cd's
...
50 x $30 = $1500
iPod = (what?) 5000 songs? 10000? say 5k
so, to fill up your iPod $1500/5000 = $0.30
I think this stuff will really take off when songs are 10cents or less, because capacity is only going to get huger and huger.
There is a limited amount of dosh that ppl will spend on music.
Gmail seems to have a reasonably interesting database backend, if only to support their 'labels'.
Dunno if it sql, or more along the lines of the filesystem they described in their whitepaper on google.
Now, m$ is moving to a sql backended operating system. If it ever works, it may be interesting, and would support the sort of advanced features that Gmail is using.
At that stage, with what is finally probably a reliable operating system, it may make some kind of sense to move to doze for all the boxen.
That is, complained about the moderation. This will be my last post to /.
... what twit could ever mark this tripe up as 'insightful' ... fuck me gently with a chainsaw.
YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
wake up ppl
Do you want to entrust your trolling to some guy writing in between playing Halo, drinking beer, and browsing pornography?
You will not get fired for choosing the Slashdot troll solution so I recommend it as the best option.
story is told in 'The 48 Laws of Power'.
Apparently the guy posed as a top beaurocrat in charge of dismantling the tower because it was too expensive in upkeep (or something).
He even took a bribe from the successful bidder! Now, that is a class act.
Actually, I have for quite a few years now, bought phones based on the UI. After discovering Nokia's UI to be the best, I stuck with it for several iterations of hardware.
... it's ok as far as UI goes, but not great, still too many clicks).
When their UI got too complex, and not as friendly, I decided to shift (now have a T610
I would love to have a more open system, because I can see problems with phone UI's and would love to be able to customize them, or at least make macro's or shortcuts to most needed functions.
But I keep pointing it out ...
...
Stallman will have nothing to do with 'Open Source'. He is for 'Free Software', and sees a big difference between them
is what you want, it rocks. Get it from
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/
"Adds an XBL binding to Shockwave Flash object tags that replaces them with a button you must click in order to play the animation. Quite nice for restoring sanity to your browsing session."
This is actually genius. There should be a public vetting period, with a slashdot style web board, and people can make these exact comments, and present factual evidence. A patent examiner would not necessarily have to be an expert in the field then to make a valid assessment.
I am pretty sure that there is a proof that any configuration of a cube is at most 21 moves away from any other. That is also to say that you can solve any position in 21 moves or less. It is known, I believe, as 'Gods Algorithm'.
So, 25 random moves is at least 4 that are redundant, ie, don't add to the complexity of the puzzle.
If the GPL comes into it at all, it will be regarding whether or not SCO/Caldera had already published the so-called infringing code.
The GPL itself is watertight. It rests on the solid body of copyright code, and if you don't accept the GPL, you must believe that you have no right to copy the code, as the GPL grants you rights you would not normally have.
Indeed the GPL states: "5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it."
Most assuredly, these cases are NOT about the GPL. They are about contract infringement, or patent law, or trade-secret protection.
I cannot take (say) Microsoft Windows, strip out the Microsoft Copyright notice and EULA and replace it with the GPL. I will be sued nearly out of existence if I tried to distribute such a thing. This has nothing to do with the validity or otherwise of the GPL, as I never had copyright on the code in question in the first place. I cannot release it under any licence except that of Microsofts.
At no point in any of this will the validity of the GPL come into question. The only question is that of ownership of the original copyright.
and is now faster than Microsoft's own file serving routines.
...
Yes and no
Not for lots of small files. Translating file system semantics can take up a lot of time, and is much slower than windows. This is not likely to be fixed soon. Samba was noticably faster for large files, but I think that m$ have taken steps to make their fileserving faster these days.
Yay for competition.
Your accounting is off. Let's see, there were what, somewhere near 11 clear handles replying to the original female outing post, plus several ACs. Given a general prevalence of homosekshul-type persons in the broad populace (10% or less), we can conclude that 1 or 2 of you respondants are gay.
...
Unfortunately, you cannot conclude this. There is no evidence that this is a representative sample of the population. It is likely to be otherwise.
Even assuming the 10% in the general popluation is correct (it's disputed result that came from a Kinsey survey, iirc), you cannot extrapolate it to this population segment.
I would assume that the majority of slashdot consists of white educated males, disproportionate to the general population. What the degree of homosexuality in this population is, I cannot tell.
Possibly higher than the norm, I guess
For a story about a famous non-representative sample I suggest you see:
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/segments/progseg7.htm
ok, so it's an acronym, or a term.
...
Photoshop does it natively, GIMP not at all.
I have heard their are patents. On colour. Oh well
OK, fair enough, but I don't know any other way to settle it.
I think you're pretty daft, and would be happy to take money off you. I live by the adage 'put your money where your mouth is or shuttup'.
I just can't see m$ walking away from Xbox. Essentially, I think they will clobber Nintendo, and probably give Sony a run for their money.
Sony are probably big enough and cluey enough to compete, but I have seen many many many people bet against m$ and disappear.
The ones that havent can be counted on the fingers of one hand, basically. I can think of Sun, Oracle and maybe Real. Anyone else? Oh yeah, Apple.
What I like about Free/Open source (apart from political stuff) is that it is so very hard for m$ to use their traditional dirty tactics against it. Heaven forbid, they may have to compete fairly, on features and utility to users!
Alright. How much MONEY do you want to bet on this, and over what timeframe?
I can afford say $500 US, that Microsoft will not dump the Xbox in the next 5 years.
I don't think so. Microsoft was Bill's second company. Traffodata I think was the first.
Bill was a pretty cluey guy. What they did with the altair basic was legendary.
Also, he had a rep as a mean poker player.
Basically, the guy is a fox, very very shrewd. Having a rich, well connected family is just part of the success formula ain't it?
He never said that the AC was from 'this country', just that the type of attitudes that that AC espoused were what is wrong with 'this country'.
I have to totally agree. I switched to IE eventually because Netscape 4 was such a dog.
Now I have gone over to Mozilla, because it is simply a better browser, and cross platform as well.
Like the guy who ran the stock portfolio in Wired, selling Microsoft just before the release of Windows95, predicting it would be a failure.
Xbox is a success. Not a huge one yet, and if I was Sony, I would be shit-scared.
I think it will be a long time before Microsoft has a massive failure that threatens the existence of the company. Bill Gates will probably be dead before that happens.
Opensource may well take it's toll on them, but it will be 10-20 years before it starts to really hurt them, and if there is one thing we know about them it's that they don't stand still waiting for competitors get a leg up.
I woulda thunk they would have learned their lesson from n64 (doesn't play CD's), but, no ... gamecube doesn't play DVD's.