Well, it's already an ad innit? We've covered that ground methinks..
More to the point, they have the money to hire webmonkeys of the calibre they require, so why not force them to use gateway cgis and cookies to force US to see the ads, if they're so paranoid about 'protecting' their investment?
Yes, but what if you want to multithread in a parallelizing system?
In that case, monolithic won't really cut it...
It's DEAD. Resurrection? Keep it discreet...
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I fear I must agree with Morden.
I cashed in my Amiga chips not so long ago, and at one point I _was_ beginning to develop for the Amiga. But it just wasn't economically viable.
Commodore's marketing pushed the machine into its own rut, at a time when the general public weren't ready for a machine which could _multitask_ - and be productive as well as being a games machine. That was the Amiga's death knell.
I would rather learn from its mistakes, and leave it be. I question why people are hovering around this, expecting miracles from Jim Collas. It is not dissimilar to the hero cult which has grown around Linus Torvalds, and of which some slashdotters are more than guilty.
But I fear that from a business viewpoint, any attempt to breed a new Amiga would be up against great marketing difficulties right from the word 'go'.
CORBA + POSIX Slim Linux/BSD = W2K Beater
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What it says.
Right now, Bill is gunning for the enterprise. It is no longer about money for him, I guess, but 'the Microsoft way'. Well, although the 'Microsoft Way' has some good ideas, it doesn't implement a lot of them terribly well.
Let's learn from their successes and their mistakes. I believe component-based development for free POSIX compliant platforms is the way forward.
And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is.
The open source OSes are capable of so much more than Windows. Linux has been hyped up to the nines somewhat lately - I'd really like to see the Linux dev groups borrowing more from BSD as they have been.
He does. He's become blinded by one of two things: 1) big fat cheque 2) big fat ignorance which seems to pollute much of the IT industry, particularly in the UK.
It's the old 'if it looks good, it must be good'. Microsoft give you the pink and furry cover. Unix doesn't. It bares it all.
Now I bet he's suffering from Visual Tool syndrome. That's where a given IT professional begins to believe that MS is the be-all and end-all simply because it's got the GUI which end-users can understand, therefore it becomes corporate king of the castle.
Funny, didn't the Scottish Power Group Plc go with Sun for most of their solutions? Even Scottish Telecom's Call Centres run Sun desktops. Scotland Online, an ISP co-owned by Scottish Telecom, part of the Scottish Power Group, and publishers D.C. Thomson, use Sun boxes to run their ISP operation.
I don't subscribe to the same ideology, I'm afraid, because I've seen that Linux and FreeBSD can achieve superior results with inferior hardware. And the ease of development issue will soon be buried as more and more people begin to develop better sets of visual tools using open technologies such as CORBA and Java.
At the end of the day, we as computer users demand choice. He doesn't appear to have factored consumer choice into the deal. And who's to say that an IT manager is going to go with Microsoft each time, every time?
When it comes to IP, Unix is sheer network glue. Make no mistake. This man is making an idiot of himself. Anyone who would willingly yield both his wrists to Bill, grin at him and yell 'Cuff me bayBEE' should be sectioned/committed - dependence on one vendor for your solutions is just as much of a liability as spreading too far.
One of the beauties of an open source operating system is... conditional compilation.
NT tries to be both a server OS and an interactive desktop OS. Surely we can give people both in a modular way using Linux or FreeBSD as a platform to leverage existing computer hardware?
The other great thing about open source is how much you can strip it down... PicoBSD is a good example. Why fork out $800 bucks for a router or firewall 'black box', when with a little flash RAM and a 486 lying around you can achieve the same thing - IF you're willing to get your hands dirty?
I agree totally that the pundit's outburst was somewhat immature, and that is being kind; I'd really have expected better from Mr Metcalfe.
This is all great, yanno, that we can offload this kind of processing to ASICs specifically designed for the purpose. But any large, regular movement of data still eats up bus bandwidth.
100Mhz system buses are becoming more common, but the PCI bus is actually beginning to have its bandwidth eaten in huge bites (pardon the pun).
Surely a device of this kind is best connected via a channel of FireWire bandwidth? But back to my point about PCI... FireWire is implemented on certain motherboards using a PCI-to-1394 bridge chip... what do we do when the PCI bandwidth runs out?:-) It'll make your box take a performance hit of some kind.
I honestly couldn't agree more. I'd say more on this but I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I can't get enough of diving into systems and learning about them, and it does make me seem like a selfish pr1ck sometimes to those I love and care about.
The key I think is trying to strike a balance, rather than oscillating between two polar behaviors...
I think I've said it once, and I'll say it again.... we really need a TAPI abstraction layer for UNIX.
As TAPI is MS copyright, we can't use that, but Siemens sunk a ton of input into the spec. We can look at the TAPI, and perhaps produce an open source alternative which is object-based, using CORBA/IDL. Methinks that would rock.
I currently have one big dream app idea for TAPI, and I'm not telling anyone what it is because I want to write it myself (open source, of course) - all I'm saying is I love music...
Although we do have computers in our brains, in the form of our brains, the problem with human thought is that it's not quite 'linear' or 'computatational'.
Human beings lend themselves well to solving 'fuzzy' problems, but stuff like 2+2 and matrix muls eats time. Most of us have to count it out in our heads in some way.
Now if we could reverse engineer our brains and engineer in our own ALUs to our own cortexes, that would be very handy. I could delegate computational processing to that computer-like part of my brain, and leave the rest of my brain and consciousness free to deal with the more pressing fuzzy problems human beings are so good at - like abstraction, problem solving, decision making and model building.
What I'm saying is that if we harness this innovation, and use it for the good of humanity, all well and good. It could equally be used to control people. Usual hacker disclaimers/restrictions apply, but from a hacker p.o.v, I like the idea of having more control over my own brain. If I could engineer new computational functionality into it, leaving the rest of my brain free to do the important things, that would be great.
See the difference between 'arithmetic' and 'mathematics'. One isn't really a subset of the other. Arithmetic is what computers do. Mathematics explains why and how they do it.
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Well, it's already an ad innit?
We've covered that ground methinks..
More to the point, they have the money to hire webmonkeys of the calibre they require, so why not force them to use gateway cgis and cookies to force US to see the ads, if they're so paranoid about 'protecting' their investment?
Yes, but what if you want to multithread in a parallelizing system?
In that case, monolithic won't really cut it...
I fear I must agree with Morden.
I cashed in my Amiga chips not so long ago, and at one point I _was_ beginning to develop for the Amiga. But it just wasn't economically viable.
Commodore's marketing pushed the machine into its own rut, at a time when the general public weren't ready for a machine which could _multitask_ - and be productive as well as being a games machine. That was the Amiga's death knell.
I would rather learn from its mistakes, and leave it be. I question why people are hovering around this, expecting miracles from Jim Collas. It is not dissimilar to the hero cult which has grown around Linus Torvalds, and of which some slashdotters are more than guilty.
But I fear that from a business viewpoint, any attempt to breed a new Amiga would be up against great marketing difficulties right from the word 'go'.
What it says.
Right now, Bill is gunning for the enterprise. It
is no longer about money for him, I guess, but
'the Microsoft way'. Well, although the 'Microsoft Way' has some good ideas, it doesn't implement a
lot of them terribly well.
Let's learn from their successes and their mistakes. I believe component-based development for free POSIX compliant platforms is the way forward.
And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is.
The open source OSes are capable of so much more than Windows. Linux has been hyped up to the nines
somewhat lately - I'd really like to see the Linux dev groups borrowing more from BSD as they have been.
He does. He's become blinded by one of two things:
1) big fat cheque
2) big fat ignorance which seems to pollute much of the IT industry, particularly in the UK.
It's the old 'if it looks good, it must be good'. Microsoft give you the pink and furry cover. Unix doesn't. It bares it all.
Now I bet he's suffering from Visual Tool syndrome. That's where a given IT professional begins to believe that MS is the be-all and end-all simply because it's got the GUI which end-users can understand, therefore it becomes corporate king of the castle.
Funny, didn't the Scottish Power Group Plc go with Sun for most of their solutions? Even Scottish Telecom's Call Centres run Sun desktops. Scotland Online, an ISP co-owned by Scottish Telecom, part of the Scottish Power Group, and publishers D.C. Thomson, use Sun boxes to run their ISP operation.
I don't subscribe to the same ideology, I'm afraid, because I've seen that Linux and FreeBSD can achieve superior results with inferior hardware. And the ease of development issue will soon be buried as more and more people begin to develop better sets of visual tools using open technologies such as CORBA and Java.
At the end of the day, we as computer users demand choice. He doesn't appear to have factored consumer choice into the deal. And who's to say that an IT manager is going to go with Microsoft each time, every time?
When it comes to IP, Unix is sheer network glue. Make no mistake. This man is making an idiot of himself. Anyone who would willingly yield both his wrists to Bill, grin at him and yell 'Cuff me bayBEE' should be sectioned/committed - dependence on one vendor for your solutions is just as much of a liability as spreading too far.
One of the beauties of an open source operating system is... conditional compilation.
NT tries to be both a server OS and an interactive desktop OS. Surely we can give people both in a modular way using Linux or FreeBSD as a platform to leverage existing computer hardware?
The other great thing about open source is how much you can strip it down... PicoBSD is a good example. Why fork out $800 bucks for a router or firewall 'black box', when with a little flash RAM and a 486 lying around you can achieve the same thing - IF you're willing to get your hands dirty?
I agree totally that the pundit's outburst was somewhat immature, and that is being kind; I'd really have expected better from Mr Metcalfe.
This is all great, yanno, that we can offload
:-) It'll make your box take a performance
this kind of processing to ASICs specifically
designed for the purpose. But any large, regular
movement of data still eats up bus bandwidth.
100Mhz system buses are becoming more common, but
the PCI bus is actually beginning to have its
bandwidth eaten in huge bites (pardon the pun).
Surely a device of this kind is best connected via
a channel of FireWire bandwidth? But back to my
point about PCI... FireWire is implemented on
certain motherboards using a PCI-to-1394 bridge
chip... what do we do when the PCI bandwidth runs out?
hit of some kind.
I must have been chatting to him on IRC on and
off for a year or two. It only clicked once I
saw the COMDEX reports on NetWinder who he was.
I still have yet to see Linux actually running on
StrongARM. I believe it's quite smart.
Bravo!
I honestly couldn't agree more. I'd say more on this but I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I can't get enough of diving into systems and learning about them, and it does make me seem like a selfish pr1ck sometimes to those I love and care about.
The key I think is trying to strike a balance, rather than oscillating between two polar behaviors...
I think I've said it once, and I'll say it again.... we really need a TAPI abstraction layer for UNIX.
As TAPI is MS copyright, we can't use that, but
Siemens sunk a ton of input into the spec. We can
look at the TAPI, and perhaps produce an open source alternative which is object-based, using CORBA/IDL. Methinks that would rock.
I currently have one big dream app idea for TAPI, and I'm not telling anyone what it is because I want to write it myself (open source, of course) - all I'm saying is I love music...
That may be all well and true.
Although we do have computers in our brains, in the form of our brains, the problem with human thought is that it's not quite 'linear' or 'computatational'.
Human beings lend themselves well to solving 'fuzzy' problems, but stuff like 2+2 and matrix muls eats time. Most of us have to count it out in our heads in some way.
Now if we could reverse engineer our brains and engineer in our own ALUs to our own cortexes, that would be very handy. I could delegate computational processing to that computer-like part of my brain, and leave the rest of my brain and consciousness free to deal with the more pressing fuzzy problems human beings are so good at - like abstraction, problem solving, decision making and model building.
What I'm saying is that if we harness this innovation, and use it for the good of humanity, all well and good. It could equally be used to control people. Usual hacker disclaimers/restrictions apply, but from a hacker p.o.v, I like the idea of having more control over my own brain. If I could engineer new computational functionality into it, leaving the rest of my brain free to do the important things, that would be great.
See the difference between 'arithmetic' and 'mathematics'. One isn't really a subset of the other. Arithmetic is what computers do. Mathematics explains why and how they do it.