This is a shame. TSR has long been the M$ of roleplaying, extending their roleplaying system into any and all genres, including some that where is obviously didn't fit. The reason there have been so many additions (patches) is that for anything beyond a quick dungeon crawl, AD&D breaks down quickly in being able to handle the complexities of the rules.
AD&D has largely been a cludge, a hack, since its inception. It has since been surpassed by most other systems that are out there. WhiteWolf, FASA, SJG, and GamesWorkshop all had much more workable systems, that scaled much better. AD&D has just always had more money, more marketing, and a larger installed user base to allow it to maintian it's market dominance, despite the system being crap. The fact that most players would leave AD&D and not look back once they discovered some of the other systems out there only serves to prove how flawed the AD&D's system was.
The reality of the weaknesses in TSR's strategy was revealed once they faced a true open paradigm from the CCG's. It was small, lightweight, and portable, usable on a variety of hardware, and was able to cross a number of language and cultural boundaries by dealing with differng sytems iconically. The wooshing sound that was heard was the rush of players moving to the open CCG style. Of course we saw an incredible influx of different distributions, and there were those that were advocates of one or the other, but in the end it all came down to the same thing: playing cards.
Now, years after they've been beaten in the marketplace, so badly in fact that the've been bought out by one of the upstarts who 've caused their downfall, (And don't think that the upstarts isn't laughing about that every single day) they are forced to look for any way to recapture their glory days. And they release their system to the public.
Unfortunately, they still don't 'get it'. They have kept a number of the key components (D20, PHB) under their strict control, and you still need these to buy in. Sure, they say you can use D20 now, but what's preventing them from pulling that resource in the future, as Unisys has done with GIF's. No, what they are really trying to do is capitalize, finally, on what everybody has been doing all along, since the game was originally released:
Hate to bring this up, but I didn't see AOL specificall mentioned anywhere in the linked article. The closest I could find was:
<i>Mr. Cowpland said the talks are "multifaceted" and involve other computer industry players. Although he wouldn't reveal further details, Corel and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel would likely also want to include a computer maker, a browser company and an Internet service provider.</i>
While AOL could provide 2 of the 3 requirements, and are quite likely to be providing one (Mozilla/Netscape), there is nowhere where they are specifically mentioned. What's the big deal people?
As an aside, would AOL run under Wine? OR would Corel's efforts in that area maybe enable them to port it?
He's not saying that we need to imitate windows to create a better GUI; he's saying that that is what we are doing already.
To provide something new, we need to have a more direct link to what the users of a particular application want. This is something that the commercial houses can and do spend a lot of money on (Aqua, anyone) but in the OSS realm, so much effort is spent in just making the thing run, or better yet, play nice with others (not that there's anything wrong with that), that any UI improvements are an afterthough at best.
We are in a position to take the UI paradigm in any direction we want, but this opportunity is raerely being seized.
At least, that's what I got out of it. Anyone else?
This is kind of a follow-up to the answer you gave for the following question:
5) Revolutionary UNIX GUIs
All respect for info appliances, but we also need a workstation-style interface that can help knowledge workers survive the information flood of modern society. And that's where I think we really need revolutionary designs that go beyond the Mac. For example, ways of managing tens of thousands of documents by a rich set of attributes and content-oriented navigation. Simply showing files as icons in folders doesn't cut it beyond a few hundred.
We also know from many studies that the average user is very bad at hierarchical filing and typically never moves a file once it gets to live in some directory. Even if the file would be better off elsewhere. This problem is magnified several hundred times when it comes to managing email. I am starting to think that the solution is to treat information objects as members of a soup and manage them by attributes rather than by hierarchy and name.
With regards to the above answer, how does everyone here feel about something like the additional (and user-defined) attributes in the BeOS file system, where all the additional e-mail info (subject, header, etc. is contained in attributes attached to the main document.
Alternatively, what about a product like The Brain from Natrificial, which creates a linked 'web' of parent/child attributes to all documents in the FS? Do you find these products more or less usable than others, and are they the right road to be traveling down, or is another direction needed?
I skimmed through the article, but I don't recall seeing any information on whether the companies that Trans Union sold the data to are also similarly restricited. Once the genie is out of the bottle, hasn't the dsamage already been done? What's to prevent the marketing institutions to continue using data they have already gined, and in turn, pass that through to other, potentially larger data-mining companies?
Also, as I'm in the dark on this, are there any laws that prohibit the legitimate institutions from re-selling the information upstream to data companies? What's to prevent Bob's Auto Dealership from turning around and doing the exact same thing that Trans Union just did?
What's the next step? TPing Bezos' front lawn and putting a flaming bag of dog crap on his front porch?
Sounds good...
We meet at 11:30 at the 7-11 down the street, Waitaminute. It's Friday. He might be up late plotting his next fiendish patent (I hear "clicking a button" is still up for grabs). Better make it 12:30am.
Signal11. You in? Thought so. You're in every thread. Alright, hit the PriceClub and get as much TP as you can. No, it doesn't matter what type. We're talkin' *volume* here, brudda.
Kintanon, go get some grocery bags. Paper, not plastic this time.
Kaminsky, you drive.
Alright, now you guys. The Grits boys. We need all the dogcrap you can find. Lots of it. No, I don't know where to find some. I thought you guys knew all the best spots. Just get moving, and HEY!!! WAITAMINTUE!! Don't put the dogcrap down your pants! It's not Hot Grits. Whaddayamean ya wanted to see what it felt like? We need this shit for Bezos.
*TICK*TOCK*TICK*TOCK*
Alright. TP? "Check!" Paper bag "Check!" Dog Crap? "...and Hot Grits too..." Whatever.
There's his door, right past the Naked Petrified Natalie Port...HEY!...Anyways.
Grits boys, start with the TP. We'll get the bag ready.
What?!? We forgot matches? Dammit, alright what was it Linus said. "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome?", shit no, that was Clint Eastwood. Dammit!
Kaminsky, you wired? Good. Toss me your Palm V. Just one quick post to/. Waitasec...we need to make sure it gets read. Hey, Signal11, feel like burning off some Karma here? Whaddaya mean you need it all? You only have like 10,000.
"Subject: GPL = Borg!!!" "Admit it. You're all just Jealous of JC Bill Gates cuz you wish you had the same amount of control!!.. you won't be happy until the GPL has assimilated everything, and noone can make money doing software stuff no more. Well, RoR, cuz the last laugh will be on you when you put yoursleeves out of jobz, and are all forced to learn VB cuz windows still Rulz, you freaking pinko commiez!!!
Discuss amongst yourselves"
That should do it. Luckily, there's no Katz threads on right now, or noone would have seen it from the background noise. Just give it a a little more time...
Hey!! Grits Boyz!!! Put the TP in the TREES, not down your pants!
*Don's Palm V begins to smolder, as Signal11's Karma takes a nosedive*
Signal11: man, am I gonna have to post a lot tomorrow to get that back...
*lights the bag*
Alright guys! Hit the doorbell and RUN FOR IT! This'll show him that we won't take his bid for world domination lying down...
A decent site, with links to most of the major types of Ergonomic keyboards. I haven't had the need to use their product personally, but I guess I can start. Preventative medicine and all that. You can check them out at Ergosci.com
Apprently someone has been spending far too much of their Slashdot-browsing time over at Wrestleline instead. I hope you take steps to rectify this in the future, as/. needs all the page-views they can get.
Forgive my naivete on the subject, but how does Open Source protect against the UCITA? What's to stop a maker of open source software, who shrink wraps their software from pulling the same stunt?
Open Source aside, if RedHat is marketing themselves as a service company, what's to stop them from cutting off the service if the end user breaks the agreement? (using Redhat only for example purposes here)
Does the GPL offer sufficient protection against this, or more importantly, how will the GPL interact with UCITA in general?
(Not trolling, not playing devil's adocate. IANAL, and I just want to know.)
Seems like this is the ideal position for the OOS communtiy to jump in.
<i>At I.B.M., Dr. Wisnieff's laboratory rewrote the underlying code of Windows NT to inflate its display pixel counts. Lotus, a unit of I.B.M., also created a high-resolution-compatible version of its word processor.</i>
With the open availability of specs, OSS programers should be able to step in and provide a solution without something as drastic as a rewrite of NT. (The fact that an IBM lab has access to the NT source strikes me as odd for a whole other reason. Woder is they can fix the rest oif it while they are at it:-)
It also should serve as a heads-up for all app developers, as something that will become an issue in the future. These monitors are going to be designed for the medium end desktop, and Linux has the ability to be ready for when these things arrive, without having to re-write everything.
While I love the author's works, I never put the Hacking + Drugs connection together before reading his works. (Of course, I was 14 at the time, but that may be irrelevant).
I'm just curious if his works, the image of Case in the Gentelman Loser (?) was derived from the hacker / drug sub-culture, or if the drug-use only manifested itself later. The breeding grounds (ie University ) for both may intersect, but how much of a cross-over was there between the drug-users and the geek crowd bathed in the glow of their green-screen terminals?
Off hand, the reality-altering effects of drugs and thge virtual worlds that we now have are both 2 different approaches to altering your perception. A 24 hour EQ session will produce largely the same effects (disorientation, inability to focus, difficulty with speech:-)
Besides, whenever I used to surf whacked, all I could manage was a lame 1st post now and then.
Seems to me that there are already two solutions that will handle exactly what you describe. They are both low cost, intuitive and user-friendly. Arguably, once you've used either product, you may fuind it difficult to manage without them (at least, I know I do;->). The products are:
1) "The Brain" by Natrificial. You can check it out at thebrain.com A relational File-manager for Windows.
For a child that is just starting out, some of the 'raw' science fiction that has been mentioned here may be a little rough. While all the suggestions here have been great (and admittedly, I've read many of them) my personal opionion is that you may need an approcah vector that isn't quite as steep.
Personally, I'd start off with some of the novels that are based on popular Sci-Fi movies and television programs. The subject material will be a little more familar and easier to grasp, and they often don't push the envelope to the extent that you may find yourself explaining some unconfortable themes to your 13 year-old (as opposed to something like "Bio of a Space Tyrant" - please).
By the same token however, be advised that this same lack of an edge means that the books are often pablum. They often are the Sci-fi equivalent of Harlequin Romances, or Mack Bolan: Executioner books. Bu that doesn't mean they can't be enjoyable to sit together and read through.
From a personal perspective, around the age of 10-12, I recall devouring all the "Star Trek" anthologies that populated the school library. Mostly filled with short stories based on the Original Star Trek episodes. Light stuff, quick reads, easy to get into. Eventually, I ventured into 'harder' sci-fi (Asimov, Harrison, and then Gibson), and I was pretty much hooked.
So take an easy approach, and you might find you stay longer, rather than hitting the wall right away, and completely zoning out due to some god-awful ACC novel.
Well, as a short time BeOs user, I find myself spending more and more time in the environment, slowly moving away from Windows inch by inch.
It didn't take too much either. Once I found a Ethernet card that was supported (and this is still one of the key issues), there was less and less reason to use other OSes. The built in capabilities of Be are phenomenal, and the speed and utility of the OS and a pleasant change from any other OS I've used. Admittedly I prefer it over any flavor of Linux I've tried.
But what I see of the strategy may work. Give away the OS for home use to get people to try it, and then license it to corporations for business use. M$ could still make a killing by doing the exact same thing, as they are still the defacto desktop standard in offices around the world.
Be has also positioned itself as a OS for interent appliances, the stripped down 'Stinger' OS. Users can then have compatibility between their home systems and their road-ware, and (hopefully) still be able to make a buck or two. I really like using this, and don't want to see it go the way of the Amiga.
Yeah, I can confirm the success. Though I hafeta admit I haven't been 100% faithful (the holidays is brutal that way).
However, -6" in the waistline, and a net loss of 25 lbs. I;m happy, generall, though I figure I still have another 2" a/o 20 lbs to go.
I figure being consistent with the exercise has actually been more beneficial than the diet itself, as I:m not actually cutting anything out...just being more conscious of the volumes going in.
Overall, the main issue is awareness and motivation. If the diet, whichever one you're on gets you thinking about what you eat, and keeps you motivated enough to keep doing it, then it should work.
(Personally I find that doing the exercises while the Playboy channel is on is the best motivation I can find. Nothing like positive reinforcement of why you're doing this in the first place!)
Actually, I'd be worried if you're seeing large piles of boxes of Corel Linux. That likely means they aren't selling *any*. Given the nature of computer retail sales, most stores or chains are paid a stocking fee to actually put product on the shelves. A large endcap or standup ('pyramid') display could likely cost Corel several thousand dollars.
The fact that you are not in a tech -heavy centre may be even worse news. Comp USA may have been paid to place X number of displays, and so have shunted those displays to stores that are off the beaten path so that Corel Linux doesn't interfere with their regular volume business. If Corel was silly enough to not specify where those displays should go, this may well be the case.
Frankly, your report has me a little worried for the future state of Corel Linux.
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This is a shame. TSR has long been the M$ of roleplaying, extending their roleplaying system into any and all genres, including some that where is obviously didn't fit. The reason there have been so many additions (patches) is that for anything beyond a quick dungeon crawl, AD&D breaks down quickly in being able to handle the complexities of the rules.
AD&D has largely been a cludge, a hack, since its inception. It has since been surpassed by most other systems that are out there. WhiteWolf, FASA, SJG, and GamesWorkshop all had much more workable systems, that scaled much better. AD&D has just always had more money, more marketing, and a larger installed user base to allow it to maintian it's market dominance, despite the system being crap. The fact that most players would leave AD&D and not look back once they discovered some of the other systems out there only serves to prove how flawed the AD&D's system was.
The reality of the weaknesses in TSR's strategy was revealed once they faced a true open paradigm from the CCG's. It was small, lightweight, and portable, usable on a variety of hardware, and was able to cross a number of language and cultural boundaries by dealing with differng sytems iconically. The wooshing sound that was heard was the rush of players moving to the open CCG style. Of course we saw an incredible influx of different distributions, and there were those that were advocates of one or the other, but in the end it all came down to the same thing: playing cards.
Now, years after they've been beaten in the marketplace, so badly in fact that the've been bought out by one of the upstarts who 've caused their downfall, (And don't think that the upstarts isn't laughing about that every single day) they are forced to look for any way to recapture their glory days. And they release their system to the public.
Unfortunately, they still don't 'get it'. They have kept a number of the key components (D20, PHB) under their strict control, and you still need these to buy in. Sure, they say you can use D20 now, but what's preventing them from pulling that resource in the future, as Unisys has done with GIF's. No, what they are really trying to do is capitalize, finally, on what everybody has been doing all along, since the game was originally released:
Making up their own stuff.
By PoS, I assume you mean a thin client running Linux, like this?
Simple question: does this project here have anything in common with/A> for BeOS, or are am I simply caught in a hell of Acronym Overlap Confusion?
Hate to bring this up, but I didn't see AOL specificall mentioned anywhere in the linked article. The closest I could find was:
<i>Mr. Cowpland said the talks are "multifaceted" and involve other computer industry players. Although he wouldn't reveal further details, Corel and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel would likely also want to include a computer maker, a browser company and an Internet service provider.</i>
While AOL could provide 2 of the 3 requirements, and are quite likely to be providing one (Mozilla/Netscape), there is nowhere where they are specifically mentioned. What's the big deal people?
As an aside, would AOL run under Wine? OR would Corel's efforts in that area maybe enable them to port it?
Of course, I can't seem to find the same info online, but I hope it is at least a start.
He's not saying that we need to imitate windows to create a better GUI; he's saying that that is what we are doing already.
To provide something new, we need to have a more direct link to what the users of a particular application want. This is something that the commercial houses can and do spend a lot of money on (Aqua, anyone) but in the OSS realm, so much effort is spent in just making the thing run, or better yet, play nice with others (not that there's anything wrong with that), that any UI improvements are an afterthough at best.
We are in a position to take the UI paradigm in any direction we want, but this opportunity is raerely being seized.
At least, that's what I got out of it. Anyone else?
5) Revolutionary UNIX GUIs
All respect for info appliances, but we also need a workstation-style interface that can help knowledge workers survive the information flood of modern society. And that's where I think we really need revolutionary designs that go beyond the Mac. For example, ways of managing tens of thousands of documents by a rich set of attributes and content-oriented navigation. Simply showing files as icons in folders doesn't cut it beyond a few hundred.
We also know from many studies that the average user is very bad at hierarchical filing and typically never moves a file once it gets to live in some directory. Even if the file would be better off elsewhere. This problem is magnified several hundred times when it comes to managing email. I am starting to think that the solution is to treat information objects as members of a soup and manage them by attributes rather than by hierarchy and name.
With regards to the above answer, how does everyone here feel about something like the additional (and user-defined) attributes in the BeOS file system, where all the additional e-mail info (subject, header, etc. is contained in attributes attached to the main document.
Alternatively, what about a product like The Brain from Natrificial, which creates a linked 'web' of parent/child attributes to all documents in the FS? Do you find these products more or less usable than others, and are they the right road to be traveling down, or is another direction needed?
I skimmed through the article, but I don't recall seeing any information on whether the companies that Trans Union sold the data to are also similarly restricited. Once the genie is out of the bottle, hasn't the dsamage already been done? What's to prevent the marketing institutions to continue using data they have already gined, and in turn, pass that through to other, potentially larger data-mining companies?
Also, as I'm in the dark on this, are there any laws that prohibit the legitimate institutions from re-selling the information upstream to data companies? What's to prevent Bob's Auto Dealership from turning around and doing the exact same thing that Trans Union just did?
What's the next step? TPing Bezos' front lawn and putting a flaming bag of dog crap on his front porch?
/.
Sounds good...
We meet at 11:30 at the 7-11 down the street, Waitaminute. It's Friday. He might be up late plotting his next fiendish patent (I hear "clicking a button" is still up for grabs). Better make it 12:30am.
Signal11. You in? Thought so. You're in every thread. Alright, hit the PriceClub and get as much TP as you can. No, it doesn't matter what type. We're talkin' *volume* here, brudda.
Kintanon, go get some grocery bags. Paper, not plastic this time.
Kaminsky, you drive.
Alright, now you guys. The Grits boys. We need all the dogcrap you can find. Lots of it. No, I don't know where to find some. I thought you guys knew all the best spots. Just get moving, and HEY!!! WAITAMINTUE!! Don't put the dogcrap down your pants! It's not Hot Grits. Whaddayamean ya wanted to see what it felt like? We need this shit for Bezos.
*TICK*TOCK*TICK*TOCK*
Alright. TP?
"Check!"
Paper bag
"Check!"
Dog Crap?
"...and Hot Grits too..."
Whatever.
There's his door, right past the Naked Petrified Natalie Port...HEY!...Anyways.
Grits boys, start with the TP. We'll get the bag ready.
What?!? We forgot matches? Dammit, alright what was it Linus said. "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome?", shit no, that was Clint Eastwood. Dammit!
Kaminsky, you wired? Good. Toss me your Palm V. Just one quick post to
Waitasec...we need to make sure it gets read. Hey, Signal11, feel like burning off some Karma here? Whaddaya mean you need it all? You only have like 10,000.
"Subject: GPL = Borg!!!"
"Admit it. You're all just Jealous of JC Bill Gates cuz you wish you had the same amount of control!!.. you won't be happy until the GPL has assimilated everything, and noone can make money doing software stuff no more. Well, RoR, cuz the last laugh will be on you when you put yoursleeves out of jobz, and are all forced to learn VB cuz windows still Rulz, you freaking pinko commiez!!!
Discuss amongst yourselves"
That should do it. Luckily, there's no Katz threads on right now, or noone would have seen it from the background noise. Just give it a a little more time...
Hey!! Grits Boyz!!! Put the TP in the TREES, not down your pants!
*Don's Palm V begins to smolder, as Signal11's Karma takes a nosedive*
Signal11: man, am I gonna have to post a lot tomorrow to get that back...
*lights the bag*
Alright guys! Hit the doorbell and RUN FOR IT! This'll show him that we won't take his bid for world domination lying down...
*Bing-bong*
Bezos: WTF?
{to be continued...}
A decent site, with links to most of the major types of Ergonomic keyboards. I haven't had the need to use their product personally, but I guess I can start. Preventative medicine and all that. You can check them out at Ergosci.com
Apprently someone has been spending far too much of their Slashdot-browsing time over at Wrestleline instead. I hope you take steps to rectify this in the future, as /. needs all the page-views they can get.
Forgive my naivete on the subject, but how does Open Source protect against the UCITA? What's to stop a maker of open source software, who shrink wraps their software from pulling the same stunt?
Open Source aside, if RedHat is marketing themselves as a service company, what's to stop them from cutting off the service if the end user breaks the agreement? (using Redhat only for example purposes here)
Does the GPL offer sufficient protection against this, or more importantly, how will the GPL interact with UCITA in general?
(Not trolling, not playing devil's adocate. IANAL, and I just want to know.)
Seems like this is the ideal position for the OOS communtiy to jump in.
:-)
<i>At I.B.M., Dr. Wisnieff's laboratory rewrote the underlying code of Windows NT to inflate its display pixel counts. Lotus, a unit of I.B.M., also created a high-resolution-compatible version of its word processor.</i>
With the open availability of specs, OSS programers should be able to step in and provide a solution without something as drastic as a rewrite of NT. (The fact that an IBM lab has access to the NT source strikes me as odd for a whole other reason. Woder is they can fix the rest oif it while they are at it
It also should serve as a heads-up for all app developers, as something that will become an issue in the future. These monitors are going to be designed for the medium end desktop, and Linux has the ability to be ready for when these things arrive, without having to re-write everything.
Perhaps... I'm thinking that it may have been the kind of drugs that were available to me at that age.
While I love the author's works, I never put the Hacking + Drugs connection together before reading his works. (Of course, I was 14 at the time, but that may be irrelevant).
:-)
I'm just curious if his works, the image of Case in the Gentelman Loser (?) was derived from the hacker / drug sub-culture, or if the drug-use only manifested itself later. The breeding grounds (ie University ) for both may intersect, but how much of a cross-over was there between the drug-users and the geek crowd bathed in the glow of their green-screen terminals?
Off hand, the reality-altering effects of drugs and thge virtual worlds that we now have are both 2 different approaches to altering your perception. A 24 hour EQ session will produce largely the same effects (disorientation, inability to focus, difficulty with speech
Besides, whenever I used to surf whacked, all I could manage was a lame 1st post now and then.
Seems to me that there are already two solutions that will handle exactly what you describe. They are both low cost, intuitive and user-friendly. Arguably, once you've used either product, you may fuind it difficult to manage without them (at least, I know I do ;->). The products are:
1) "The Brain" by Natrificial. You can check it out at thebrain.com
A relational File-manager for Windows.
2) BeOS
Clearly the solution is here. The question is: will enough people adopt it to make it work?
{homer}
mmmmm...retro computing....
{/homer}
Seriously though, what were the specs for these machines, and how did they compare to the ubiquitous Apple II's that most schools had instead?
I'm assuming my Vic20 with it's blazing 3.5K was one of the offspring of this fellow, but how did the original rate?
For a child that is just starting out, some of the 'raw' science fiction that has been mentioned here may be a little rough. While all the suggestions here have been great (and admittedly, I've read many of them) my personal opionion is that you may need an approcah vector that isn't quite as steep.
Personally, I'd start off with some of the novels that are based on popular Sci-Fi movies and television programs. The subject material will be a little more familar and easier to grasp, and they often don't push the envelope to the extent that you may find yourself explaining some unconfortable themes to your 13 year-old (as opposed to something like "Bio of a Space Tyrant" - please).
By the same token however, be advised that this same lack of an edge means that the books are often pablum. They often are the Sci-fi equivalent of Harlequin Romances, or Mack Bolan: Executioner books. Bu that doesn't mean they can't be enjoyable to sit together and read through.
From a personal perspective, around the age of 10-12, I recall devouring all the "Star Trek" anthologies that populated the school library. Mostly filled with short stories based on the Original Star Trek episodes. Light stuff, quick reads, easy to get into. Eventually, I ventured into 'harder' sci-fi (Asimov, Harrison, and then Gibson), and I was pretty much hooked.
So take an easy approach, and you might find you stay longer, rather than hitting the wall right away, and completely zoning out due to some god-awful ACC novel.
Let's see:
UT: Check!
Q3A: Check!
Civ:CTP: Check! (and hopefully Civ3)
Howabout:
Everquest (time sink #1)
Mechwarrior
Operational Art of War (I think that's the name)
Rollercoaster Tycoon
what else do you really need?
As for games we're likely to never see for Linux:
AOE
AOE2
AC
FS2K
Well, close. Since the Crusoe700 ends up emulating a PIII-500, it still ends up being "only" 15 times less power consumption.
Whether this translates directly (1:1) into heat dissipation and battery life, I'm not sure.
However, there are a couple other questions:
1) How does this Power consupmtion compare with the chips in other small computing appliances, like the Palms and WinCE pieces.
2) Will this much horspower actually validate WinCE as a platform, or are we better off applying the power to a more elegant solution?
Well, as a short time BeOs user, I find myself spending more and more time in the environment, slowly moving away from Windows inch by inch.
It didn't take too much either. Once I found a Ethernet card that was supported (and this is still one of the key issues), there was less and less reason to use other OSes. The built in capabilities of Be are phenomenal, and the speed and utility of the OS and a pleasant change from any other OS I've used. Admittedly I prefer it over any flavor of Linux I've tried.
But what I see of the strategy may work. Give away the OS for home use to get people to try it, and then license it to corporations for business use. M$ could still make a killing by doing the exact same thing, as they are still the defacto desktop standard in offices around the world.
Be has also positioned itself as a OS for interent appliances, the stripped down 'Stinger' OS. Users can then have compatibility between their home systems and their road-ware, and (hopefully) still be able to make a buck or two. I really like using this, and don't want to see it go the way of the Amiga.
Anyways, enough rambling, back to work...
Check out IBM's Redbook's website. This was pointed out in that IBM thread today.
Specifically, look at this. Sections 2.2 and Appendix B (Sect 16.8.1) should have what you're looking for.
Of course, it is for a Netfinity running Redhat 6.0 or 6.1, but I'm sure you can edit it for your particulars.
Yeah, I can confirm the success. Though I hafeta admit I haven't been 100% faithful (the holidays is brutal that way).
However, -6" in the waistline, and a net loss of 25 lbs. I;m happy, generall, though I figure I still have another 2" a/o 20 lbs to go.
I figure being consistent with the exercise has actually been more beneficial than the diet itself, as I:m not actually cutting anything out...just being more conscious of the volumes going in.
Overall, the main issue is awareness and motivation. If the diet, whichever one you're on gets you thinking about what you eat, and keeps you motivated enough to keep doing it, then it should work.
(Personally I find that doing the exercises while the Playboy channel is on is the best motivation I can find. Nothing like positive reinforcement of why you're doing this in the first place!)
We will be making an announcement on January 8th, 2000 with one of our partners at CES in Las Vegas, and more details will follow that release.
Is thewre anyone here who will be in attendance at the CES to check out what they have to say?
Actually, I'd be worried if you're seeing large piles of boxes of Corel Linux. That likely means they aren't selling *any*. Given the nature of computer retail sales, most stores or chains are paid a stocking fee to actually put product on the shelves. A large endcap or standup ('pyramid') display could likely cost Corel several thousand dollars.
The fact that you are not in a tech -heavy centre may be even worse news. Comp USA may have been paid to place X number of displays, and so have shunted those displays to stores that are off the beaten path so that Corel Linux doesn't interfere with their regular volume business. If Corel was silly enough to not specify where those displays should go, this may well be the case.
Frankly, your report has me a little worried for the future state of Corel Linux.