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This is the equivalent of a webpage which says "UNDER CONSTRUCTION". It's bad practice, and totally pointless.
ABI Word used the "this isn't written" dialog extensively. Part of the dialog was the suggestion that the reader submit code to thier mailing list. Thats the purpose, to frustrate users into writing it. Now I'd be curious to know if it actually made a difference. It's really hard to measure when you think about it.
Thanks for the "?" mark, I noticed that the moment I hit submit... While I respect the ideals you list, I'd still suggest the article gets a little ugly with respect to a concept called "social justice." Tax evasion by large coperations at the expense of the working poor is not always a good thing. Freedom to do what? Kill you? This is not a question.
While I'm admitting that this is an instance of throwing vapor-ware before educated critics, I'm not sure what Sourceforge you were looking at. I won't waste everyones time with the list...
The outspoken reason for this is the idea that "need is an idol requiring sacrifices" (as Ayn Rand put it)
While independent of the technical merits of this project, this fellows hard-line politics are hard to swallow. Does an attack on social justice really help a networking project grow? If he is trying to promote a free environment, why is he launching it from an idealogical point of view. Arguments along the lines of "freedom is a good thing" are useful as a mission statement, but this fellows arguments come across much stronger than a charter should. I'm not so worried about protecting my ideas from the government as the author himself!
I'd go with the first suggestion. A few other people suggested distro's here as well, but that really just means Red Hat doesn't it? If not then it means anyone with a cd burner or a static IP. I think Linus with his main kernel source is the way to go. He already trademarked Linux, why not make a "Works with Linux" logo and restrict it's use to those who are supported by the main kernel tree. This would be another incentive for hw companies to write drivers. Besides all the PC vendors would jump on it, I'd love to see it next to the intel sticker in the store, and we could all print one to put on our boxes. Hmm, and have logo contest to allow the communinty to participate... yes... I think I should be mailing Linus instead.
Game support with WINE would be nice, but I think that it's just asking for trouble since coding compatibility with Microsoft graphics APIs is like shooting at a moving target (and an erratically moving one at that!)
Heres my theroy: If wine can do everything Win98 can then developers won't get sucked into new toys from M$ because Linux compatability will be meaningful at that point. Most of the applications that are important to support are the ones that are already written. They are the ones with a loyal following, not the ones that haven't been written yet for M$'s latest API. If you can decode that last sentance...
He certainly has the submission queue on a Linux box ok. Most of us only reboot for windows games, not some quicktime trailler too. And I'm sure you'd bitch more if he posted a quicktime. But really, get lives or write some code or something.
My deity! Does the man have it in for that server? What the hell did they do to him? "I know, I'll/. a movie." I guess it's better that pissing on a Museum, tho' osm. Did anyone actually get the whole thing before it went mamories up?
Why can't they just say: we're doing it for fun, because we have way too much time on our hands?
Because Alphnumerica has done a lot of things to draw attention to Moz. This just happens to be the furthest out. The idea of Moz being "a platform from which a browser is built" is something the Moz community (not just these folks) have been dreaming of for a while.
who can create the most complete yet unusable operating system that requires another operating system to run.
Bet Amiga is sizing Moz up as competition. Wonder who will run on bare metal first? (Just kidding.) Dude, theres nothing to see here, move along. Every high flying {syntatic,eye}-candy super-hack-toy these days wan't to be OS independant.
Funny how the browser is part of a desktop OS isn't it. If you can't get to the www then who needs it? I mean unless you have real work or something silly like that. I never realised how close Netscape was to cutting in on windows until I read Jackson's finding of fact. And in a way it's interesting how Moz has started to plow ahead again in M$'s darkest hours. I imagine Time-AOL are ready to take another shot at the "Middle Ware" arena. "Poor" M$, kick them when there "down." Ahh well, comes around, goes...
No, games in XUL. Basically skins so sexy that you can make almost any UI out of it. Consider that everything you see in the Moz interface is javascript. Take a look at the.js, it will make you feel humble. And I imagine they will have better input event handling because they don't have to work within a "browser." Although, I imagine javascript can capture all keyboard input too. Someone know that one? I don't see why they can't do a dead knock off of the orig. As long as the still poor although improving optimization of Moz doesn't kill them.
I share the same point of view as the poster. Of course I might not of called the opposition luddites... Being introduced to an Apple][c was one of the most educational experiances of my life. It taught me how solve a problem by creative means instead of just repeating whatever I was taught. This basic skill is overlooked (in my experiance) in most public education. School is in many ways public babysitting that progresses into a slave induction camp at higher grades. At least computers allow more feedback to a child when trying to solve a problem then a red tick on some throw-away assignment. Of course if we all went to the Waldorf system or something then I'd admit that kids might be fine without them.
I wish this weren't the case, but 5/6 of the females in my graduating class this year were Asian. Thats as much flamebait as saying there aren't many girls in CS.
Their track record is still much better than Intel's. I wouldn't suddenly consider them careless WRT the rest of the industry. While I'm defending AMD, hardware manufacture is just as hard as software programming and really is a form of programming. Imagine having to ship a product without one bug? I mean sure they have microcode updates, but still thats very very challenging.
Yes this is a very good thing. Allow me to quote the pdf file:
...17,000 artists who expressly approve of sharing music through Napster; by contrast, the major labels released only a totla of 2,600 albums last year, and only 150 of those songs were played on the radio on a regular basis...
My point is that the big labels have a strangle hold on the artists and listening public. They are lining thier pockets while the average consumer is exposed to only a small fraction of the potential amount of music that could be made available to them. The big labels also keep most of the profits derived from the artists work, and only very sucsessful artists can make much money at all. Will this mean more music for the consumer, and more money for the artist? Yes. The big 5 are just scared shitless that they will lose thier middleman position and wan't us to belive that non-traditional means of distribution are wrong.
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Thanks for the "?" mark, I noticed that the moment I hit submit... While I respect the ideals you list, I'd still suggest the article gets a little ugly with respect to a concept called "social justice." Tax evasion by large coperations at the expense of the working poor is not always a good thing. Freedom to do what? Kill you? This is not a question.
While I'm admitting that this is an instance of throwing vapor-ware before educated critics, I'm not sure what Sourceforge you were looking at. I won't waste everyones time with the list...
It's called flash memory. I have seen a QNX demo with 2 megs in a postage stamp size chip. Intel specs here.
Hate to seem a bigot, but I use jjohnst@gaul.csd.uwo.ca.MICROSOFT.COM all the time. Send unrequested mail to the unrequested OS vendor.
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What was I thinking? It should be "Linux* Enabled Technology." Hahaha.
* Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvolds.
I'd go with the first suggestion. A few other people suggested distro's here as well, but that really just means Red Hat doesn't it? If not then it means anyone with a cd burner or a static IP. I think Linus with his main kernel source is the way to go. He already trademarked Linux, why not make a "Works with Linux" logo and restrict it's use to those who are supported by the main kernel tree. This would be another incentive for hw companies to write drivers. Besides all the PC vendors would jump on it, I'd love to see it next to the intel sticker in the store, and we could all print one to put on our boxes. Hmm, and have logo contest to allow the communinty to participate... yes... I think I should be mailing Linus instead.
He certainly has the submission queue on a Linux box ok. Most of us only reboot for windows games, not some quicktime trailler too. And I'm sure you'd bitch more if he posted a quicktime. But really, get lives or write some code or something.
My deity! Does the man have it in for that server? What the hell did they do to him? "I know, I'll /. a movie." I guess it's better that pissing on a Museum, tho' osm. Did anyone actually get the whole thing before it went mamories up?
Why can't they just say: we're doing it for fun, because we have way too much time on our hands?
Because Alphnumerica has done a lot of things to draw attention to Moz. This just happens to be the furthest out. The idea of Moz being "a platform from which a browser is built" is something the Moz community (not just these folks) have been dreaming of for a while.
Funny how the browser is part of a desktop OS isn't it. If you can't get to the www then who needs it? I mean unless you have real work or something silly like that. I never realised how close Netscape was to cutting in on windows until I read Jackson's finding of fact. And in a way it's interesting how Moz has started to plow ahead again in M$'s darkest hours. I imagine Time-AOL are ready to take another shot at the "Middle Ware" arena. "Poor" M$, kick them when there "down." Ahh well, comes around, goes...
No, games in XUL. Basically skins so sexy that you can make almost any UI out of it. Consider that everything you see in the Moz interface is javascript. Take a look at the .js, it will make you feel humble. And I imagine they will have better input event handling because they don't have to work within a "browser." Although, I imagine javascript can capture all keyboard input too. Someone know that one? I don't see why they can't do a dead knock off of the orig. As long as the still poor although improving optimization of Moz doesn't kill them.
I share the same point of view as the poster. Of course I might not of called the opposition luddites... Being introduced to an Apple][c was one of the most educational experiances of my life. It taught me how solve a problem by creative means instead of just repeating whatever I was taught. This basic skill is overlooked (in my experiance) in most public education. School is in many ways public babysitting that progresses into a slave induction camp at higher grades. At least computers allow more feedback to a child when trying to solve a problem then a red tick on some throw-away assignment. Of course if we all went to the Waldorf system or something then I'd admit that kids might be fine without them.
I'll point you to a discussion of the situation by a major artist: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ index.html. This was on /. a while back...
I wish this weren't the case, but 5/6 of the females in my graduating class this year were Asian. Thats as much flamebait as saying there aren't many girls in CS.
Their track record is still much better than Intel's. I wouldn't suddenly consider them careless WRT the rest of the industry. While I'm defending AMD, hardware manufacture is just as hard as software programming and really is a form of programming. Imagine having to ship a product without one bug? I mean sure they have microcode updates, but still thats very very challenging.
Yo signal, why don't you have any posting history on your user page?
Something that hinders competition. You are not competition, but a hindered consumer.
/. needs a lawyer on staff..