Cost, however, is much harder to ignore
than principle. When cost and principle
work together, the team is unbeatable.
When there is a conflict, cost often wins.
Dell: The question really is does Linux create new users or does it take users away from Sun or Microsoft. I'm not sure I'd know the answer. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I really care, as long as they use Dell.
The good thing about Michael Dell's attitude is
that it's purely in business self-interest. He
has a good reason to be trusted because he's just
looking at his bottom line.
What's nice is that his bottom line is better off
with Linux. That'll push alot of PHBs to Linux.
This isn't about going after the current set
of Linux users. It's about using linux because
it's a great operating system, and can easily
be embedded.
It's for network appliances that can be sold
for less than today's computers, bringing on
even more AOL users: unexperienced and unwilling
to invest much in computers, in either money
or time learning software.
What user that uses Linux on a normal basis would pay for AOL's service?
Not many at all, except maybe for those sharing
computers w/less 31337 users:-) The point is
that they could sell AOL-only netappliances
like cell-phones: $1 with a year's contract, or
something like that: the machines could be
nearly unhackable (i.e. CPU with linux in ROM,
etc), so the machines could only be usable
for AOL.
Hey, if it gets more people on the net that's
great. If it gets them there without windows,
that's even better.
His point was to have the entire UI setup something like this:
User -> UI -> Scripts -> Application Core
Like how all emacs functionality is implemented atop of e-lisp.
Sorry folks, but Mozilla has turned into a bit of a turkey, and I'm not looking for a browser that's fat and waddles. What started out with noble aims has become yet another piece of open source wishware in which adding "cool" new features becomes a higher priority over things like stability and compactness, supposedly hallmarks of open source. RMS would not be proud.
Yes, obviously Mozilla has forgotten all about
EMACS:-)
Not to flame EMACS (I used to be a big user before vim), or knock on RMS.. but I couldn't resist.:-)
What took mine in was a 10 foot drop to a concrete floor, with a few pounds of books atop of it.. No cracks, no visible breaks inside or out, but the damn thing wouldn't boot.
Yeah, I don't think you'd really need the wireless web capability. My ISP buds tend to use an 8mb palm mostly as a mobile reference card for shitloads of data.
I, however, need to sit in english class listening to a professor go on and on about the symbolism of milk IN the glass. Wireless web connectivity sounds great to me.
Also, I want to put this thing in the middle of an in-vehicle GPS navigation system. Some Mapping software I've found + a marine GPS receiver I mount in my car + Palm VII with MapQuest route control software sounds great to me.
The new Palm VIIx is probably nice (I'm still looking at the stats and I'm not too impressed), but I want to know what makes it cost $150 more.
Me thinx you're overlooking the whole wireless clipped web thingy...
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Before, during, & after the release today, the www.palm.com website has changed twice!
First there was the same page as yesterday.
Then there was a list of palm products.
Then there was a little flash (?) thingy with the previous page moved off to palm.com/products
Wassup with that?
When I hit the 'buy now' button, I got a 404 error. A few hours later, I was able to put it in my shopping cart, but the pages loaded so slowly that I couldn't finish an order. Now, I get a Http/1.1: Server too busy. Icky icky icky.
What people here want is the ability to keep the
GUI from loading and keep all that additional
software from loading. Why? When it fucks up,
which it always has, does, and will do.
Well, WinME DOES still run on DOS. Same ugly
hacks as it ever had. Now they're just trying
to trap you within it. Never was a real OS,
never will be a real OS.
If you want a real OS, I'm sure either the NT
based OSes or a *NIX will do the trick for you
instead. Sure, BeOS too...
Although, it can become quite easy to have
say a perl script with a nice frontend that
downloads the patch, applies it, recompiles,
and reruns lilo.
But doesn't redhat just update their kernel.rpm packages?
Please tell me they're not assuming equal distribution across the IP address range.
With all the mostly unused but allocated Class As and Class Bs that were given out long before we ever knew how popular the net was going to be, firewalls, masquerading, dynamic IPs and God knows what else, how good can sampling be on this network?
This dude's been saying this sort of stuff for years. Wasn't he the one quoting an unnamed 'linux expert' who was using kernel 1.2.xx data when 2.1.xx was out?
Oh, and check out the bottom of the column: Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
Don't be too happy about the FBI knowing more about bad guys -- the bad guys will know how to hide their shit. Your stuff, however, is public knowledge.
Besides, why would you sleep better? Law enforcement has consistantly proven to be too slow and too dumb to handle any problems related to high tech. More often than not, they end up on the side with the most expensive suits-- namely not yours.
I sleep better when I know my crypto's on and my business is my own. When I have a (reasonable) choice between depending on the law or providing for my own defense, I choose my own defense.
Anyone else having problems reading this seriously? I've got this image of Cliff Claven trying to administer an NT box with an MSCE training manual... Hmm, wow.. nobody could get an email address before... Obviously since services like hotmail costs so much damn money to use... I love watching dying bloated dinosaurs make their last desperate grasps for dear life...
Firstly, what do they mean by "The movies would be sent over the Web with new data-compressing software known as Divx?" Is this just a non-unique acronym or is this reporter just friggin out of it?
Alright RANT mode on.
Secondly, between all this legal bullshit over computer software use on the internet, snooping with carnivore, and basically the constant harassment of geeks by the pools of the ignorant, how long do they expect us to take this? We are the ones who created this network.
Whenever these fools find some little problem, some hype pusher^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreporter goes buck wild. Porn shown to little kiddies? Give me a fucking break. Welcome to the real world assholes!! But, if you want a solution, try Content-Type: text/html-adult. (That's the jist of an idea I had on the top of my head with no thinking. Please don't try replying with too many plusses/minuses.)
What's going to make me laugh the hardest is when ISPs start realizing the easiest way around this carnivore bullshit is SSL atop of SMTP:-) Or, it'll just push crypto into the MUA. Whee! Way to go fools, you just made your job harder. Don't push us, you don't know what's going on and we do. End of story.
When the gloves come off between the free speechers (who are the most american at the end of the day over these big brother information invasion nazis), and the clueless paranoid (unfortunately the most dangerous and common), do they really think we don't have a solution?
What really gets me is how intellectual property must be protected at all costs EXCEPT when it's private. My email is free territory but I can't store a copy of santana that's played on the fucking radio? OH FUCK YOU.
Ok.. RANT mode off
Anyways, anyone up for buying out an island, set up our own government with no IP or anti-hacking laws, and filling it with anonymous relay machines? Just to piss these assholes off?
If not, remember this my fellow geeks: They are on OUR TURF:-) Computer networks are ours. We design them, we build them, we maintain them. The geniuses trying to figure out how to keep the masses happy are still trying to figure out fucking wordperfect 5.0.
Oh, and we are GLOBAL. Laws passed here do not apply everywhere else. Welcome to the land of offshore servers. As long as one country either doesn't ban or enforce one of these bullshit laws, we're safe. Luckily, there is much chaos out there and big brother isn't that big.
icky. Remember whose 'common sense' it'll be - a 70 year old _IMac_For_Dummies_ judge who differentiates computers by color, and between "computer professionals" and "damn hackers" by media stereotype.
It's going to suck. It's going to suck badly.
Hmm, anyone up for a "Keep your laws off my internet" geek campaign? Lemme know - my email address is real.
Disk I/O is saved. Since most people seem to think that processor & memory are the end all of system performance (read: IDE weenies), they have 5400 rpm drives with a brain dead controller. But they also have a extremely fast (and underutilized) cpu.
Put those together and you have a good case for dynamically linked libraries.
Well, amongst other issues, some of these technologies are very UNIX specific - i.e., NFS is VERY UNIX specific : designed basically as a block device. It's been done, but is much more painful than first imagined.
Starting technologies on the UNIX side will always have the problem that UNIX will always be the one with an advantage on the feature set set. The Windows client will always be the hacked one.
Writing UNIX clients for Windows servers has the advantage that UNIX is so much more flexible that it's probably easier to write then the original Windows clients!
Switching it around is going to make the already broken-hearted Open Source Windows programmer (what kind of sad self-deprecating soul would do that stuff voluntarily?) suicidal. Let's not do that to them. please.
As for this IBM chip. What took you all so long ? SMP on a single chip is an obvious advance.
Actually, the IBM Power architecture was always designed for multiple cores on one die. It not only is not a surprise, but quite common amongst high end CPU architectures. It gets you the speed of one-die SMP, but involves the cost of cooling one of these SOBs.
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The good thing about Michael Dell's attitude is that it's purely in business self-interest. He has a good reason to be trusted because he's just looking at his bottom line.
What's nice is that his bottom line is better off with Linux. That'll push alot of PHBs to Linux.
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It's for network appliances that can be sold for less than today's computers, bringing on even more AOL users: unexperienced and unwilling to invest much in computers, in either money or time learning software.
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Hey, if it gets more people on the net that's great. If it gets them there without windows, that's even better.
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His point was to have the entire UI setup something like this:
User -> UI -> Scripts -> Application Core
Like how all emacs functionality is implemented atop of e-lisp.
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Not to flame EMACS (I used to be a big user before vim), or knock on RMS.. but I couldn't resist. :-)
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What took mine in was a 10 foot drop to a concrete floor, with a few pounds of books atop of it.. No cracks, no visible breaks inside or out, but the damn thing wouldn't boot.
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I, however, need to sit in english class listening to a professor go on and on about the symbolism of milk IN the glass. Wireless web connectivity sounds great to me.
Also, I want to put this thing in the middle of an in-vehicle GPS navigation system. Some Mapping software I've found + a marine GPS receiver I mount in my car + Palm VII with MapQuest route control software sounds great to me.
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First there was the same page as yesterday.
Then there was a list of palm products.
Then there was a little flash (?) thingy with the previous page moved off to palm.com/products
Wassup with that?
When I hit the 'buy now' button, I got a 404 error. A few hours later, I was able to put it in my shopping cart, but the pages loaded so slowly that I couldn't finish an order. Now, I get a Http/1.1: Server too busy. Icky icky icky.
I guess Palm wasn't ready for the /. effect.
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What people here want is the ability to keep the GUI from loading and keep all that additional software from loading. Why? When it fucks up, which it always has, does, and will do.
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If you want a real OS, I'm sure either the NT based OSes or a *NIX will do the trick for you instead. Sure, BeOS too...
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With all the mostly unused but allocated Class As and Class Bs that were given out long before we ever knew how popular the net was going to be, firewalls, masquerading, dynamic IPs and God knows what else, how good can sampling be on this network?
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Oh, and check out the bottom of the column:
Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
Yeah, real journalism going on here.
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Besides, why would you sleep better? Law enforcement has consistantly proven to be too slow and too dumb to handle any problems related to high tech. More often than not, they end up on the side with the most expensive suits-- namely not yours.
I sleep better when I know my crypto's on and my business is my own. When I have a (reasonable) choice between depending on the law or providing for my own defense, I choose my own defense.
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Firstly, what do they mean by "The movies would be sent over the Web with new data-compressing software known as Divx?" Is this just a non-unique acronym or is this reporter just friggin out of it?
Alright RANT mode on.
Secondly, between all this legal bullshit over computer software use on the internet, snooping with carnivore, and basically the constant harassment of geeks by the pools of the ignorant, how long do they expect us to take this? We are the ones who created this network.
Whenever these fools find some little problem, some hype pusher^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreporter goes buck wild. Porn shown to little kiddies? Give me a fucking break. Welcome to the real world assholes!! But, if you want a solution, try Content-Type: text/html-adult. (That's the jist of an idea I had on the top of my head with no thinking. Please don't try replying with too many plusses/minuses.)
What's going to make me laugh the hardest is when ISPs start realizing the easiest way around this carnivore bullshit is SSL atop of SMTP :-) Or, it'll just push crypto into the MUA. Whee! Way to go fools, you just made your job harder. Don't push us, you don't know what's going on and we do. End of story.
When the gloves come off between the free speechers (who are the most american at the end of the day over these big brother information invasion nazis), and the clueless paranoid (unfortunately the most dangerous and common), do they really think we don't have a solution?
What really gets me is how intellectual property must be protected at all costs EXCEPT when it's private. My email is free territory but I can't store a copy of santana that's played on the fucking radio? OH FUCK YOU.
Ok.. RANT mode off
Anyways, anyone up for buying out an island, set up our own government with no IP or anti-hacking laws, and filling it with anonymous relay machines? Just to piss these assholes off?
If not, remember this my fellow geeks: They are on OUR TURF :-) Computer networks are ours. We design them, we build them, we maintain them. The geniuses trying to figure out how to keep the masses happy are still trying to figure out fucking wordperfect 5.0.
Oh, and we are GLOBAL. Laws passed here do not apply everywhere else. Welcome to the land of offshore servers. As long as one country either doesn't ban or enforce one of these bullshit laws, we're safe. Luckily, there is much chaos out there and big brother isn't that big.
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It's going to suck. It's going to suck badly.
Hmm, anyone up for a "Keep your laws off my internet" geek campaign? Lemme know - my email address is real.
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Put those together and you have a good case for dynamically linked libraries.
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technologies are very UNIX specific - i.e.,
NFS is VERY UNIX specific : designed basically
as a block device. It's been done, but is
much more painful than first imagined.
Starting technologies on the UNIX side will always
have the problem that UNIX will always be the
one with an advantage on the feature set set.
The Windows client will always be the hacked one.
Writing UNIX clients for Windows servers has
the advantage that UNIX is so much more flexible
that it's probably easier to write then the original Windows clients!
Switching it around is going to make the already
broken-hearted Open Source Windows programmer
(what kind of sad self-deprecating soul would do
that stuff voluntarily?) suicidal. Let's
not do that to them. please.
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