See, once you start going down this road, you realize that someone, somewhere has produced software with virtually every name possible and sooner or later they're going to decide to want some licensing fee for using their noun, verb, or adjective.
I want to release a product called 'the' or '1.0' and trademark those terms
xplop
xdoodoo
xmess (oh, wait, that's a program)
xcrmnt
But seriously, xfce is nice. I've even run it on some suns instead of *REAL* cde just because it's faster. Although my daily WM in enlightenment/gnome, it's nice to have so many good choices.
domain squatter: an individual with an idea to make money = BAD
domain broker: an 'organization' that can provide you with a domain name, matching phone number, and legal advice on how to maintain your trademark = GOOD?!?
BTW: what exactly is the difference between selling domain names and selling real-estate?
Did anyone complain about people purchasing land cheaply?
I believe that email is less effective as a form of protest and public speech because it's too easy to clean out an entire inbox of thousands of messages.
Compare getting three bags of US mail with 10,000 email messages... how easy is it to clean up the emails vs. regular mail.
Also, there's the idea that regular mail is more 'official' and that you'd be breaking a whole lot of laws to tamper with it, whereas I can set up a yahoo email alias, and never read any of the mail/spam I get and nobody cares.
Unfortunately, I believe that email is a poor political medium because it's too easy to get rid of.
I've thought about what MacOS X could mean... a user-friendly UNIX.
But... the real threat is that MacOS X for Intel could turn Apple into a software company more akin to a linux distro vendor.
I don't think Apple can stall MacOS X for Intel for too long, and I belive that Apple even planned to provide a transition to Intel architecture.
Question is: what could MacOS X on Intel have to offer that users can't already get with Linux? Quicktime?!? A Window manager? An API?
computer professionals too busy to discriminate
on
Racism At Microsoft?
·
· Score: 2
Honestly, in this labor market I have a hard time believing that anyone with *PROPER QUALIFICATIONS* would have trouble finding employment.
We look all over the world for employees, so I don't think that the local city demographics necessarily define the ethnic breakdown for software companies.
In the development side of software shops now, it's sometimes the 'white male' that's a minority. But nobody's worried about that, except that we need more H1B visas.
Technology-enabled companies are probably the *least* discriminatory.
Anyone who thinks that a good website should depend on a plugin/javascript/animated graphics/java/images with no tags/frames/ or overdesigned pages that take forever to load on a 14.4 connection deserves the complaints from users they will get at the email address listed under 'feedback' on their page.
Spend your time on content, and when you've got good content, add in features... but don't ever trade off usability or accessibility for 'animated pull-down menus with sound and all sorts of mouseover hoopla' that won't work with anything but the latest browsers.
Use lynx and links to test your site for navigation. If you can't at least navigate your site with these tools, then it's time start over.
My personal list of website peeves:
- Click here to enter -- Duh!? I already entered the url, doesn't that mean I want to enter?
- anything that says UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- no informational value. Everything on the internet is under construction
- clear 1X1 pixel gifs used for spacing with alt tags that say "spacer" - doing typesetting with 1X1 pixel transparent gifs is a kludge that adds a lot of excess html to your docs
- more than 2 frames in a page - on rare occasion, I can stomach two frames.
- using javascript for something that could be done with standard html - don't use javascript to display text, for example
- websites that play music - saw a sig on/. that said "If I wanted your site to make music, I'd have turned on the radio"
- websites that have all info in non-html or text formats like doc, xls, pdf, ps - Thanks for nothing - just post the info and use html or text. More info and file formats are nice, but put the info in text first.
- websites that try to determine your browser type and give you messages about needing a different browser - deal with what I have. You're in no position to require me to do anything.
- popup ads - did I ask you to open a window?
- any site that says: "Welcome to my website" - duh!
- more than one animated gif on a page
there are more, but I don't have the time to list them all. Bottom line: cut the junk and and leave the content.
How about this: guy volunteers to stay inside and read and post on slashdot for an entire year and not get paid (oh wait, we're already all doing this...);)
Here's a few other interesting ideas for *Guy projects that people could try out and see if they can get a sponsor.
SpendMoneyGuy - guy shops for one year straight and spends lots of money. Follow his shopping adventures online and view his credit card bills online. Review his bank account balances and credit rating.
UpdateLinuxGuy - guy spends one year constantly updating sponsor's linux distribution with latest source from freshmeat. Go online and view the output of 'ls -lR/'
ReinstallWindowsGuy - goy spends one year constantly reinstalling windows and all of the required apps on the computers of various users
WriteCodeGuy - guy spends one year writing code for sponsor's company. Sponsor provides an 8'x8' cubicle and computer and a fridge full of cola.
PumpGasGuy - guy spends one year pumping gas at a gas station. you can go online and chat with him while he's not pumping gas.
WatchTVGuy - guy watches TV for one year. visit the website and watch him watch TV! Site has logs of all the TV shows he watches. Sponsor sells info to networks so they can determine what programs are popular.
Now give DC a keyboard, mouse, X & a browser!
on
Dreamcast Runs Linux
·
· Score: 3
Great! I really like the idea of a "real" $99 computer, and what better hardware to use than a console system where the hardware is standardized and they're sold everywhere.
Is there any easy way to connect any sort of standard keyboard and mouse to a dreamcast (like firewire or usb, maybe?). I know the ps2 has these ports, so it should be very possible to turn a ps2 into a really versatile computer with *STANDARD* components, right?
I can almost envision a day when the 'PC' will lose the low end and much of the gaming market to PDAs and Consoles.
I love my Palm. I also think that USR, 3COM, and now Palm have done *very* little to advance it from the Pilot1000.
- There were 8mb hacks YEARS ago. Yet Palm still continues to make products out of various RAM-limited configurations, and using more than 8mb on a palm requires a MAJOR HACK (tm)
- The screen res is limited, and can't be easily changed so that existing apps can use expanded screen real estate. So, palm is going to have big trouble moving to a new screen size, and that will break compatibility with all of the current palms.
- 8-bit color isn't enough color
- why has it taken so long for a Color palm V? I contend it's because Palm has to space out their new products to create the perception of a product roadmap since they're now so limited by the capabilities of their current platform.
- Palm has a great form factor, but as far as CPU and storage goes, it's far too feeble. Do you think voice recognition is going to work on a 20mhz cpu and fit in a few mb of ram?
OTOH, If I imagine a linux-based PDA, I can imagine that I will never have to worry about my vendor stopping support for old hardware, and I can easily migrate to the next generation platform without losing my apps or my data
and best of all, imagine having gcc on your PDA, and recompiling your own apps!:):):)
I don't know (m)any Government workers who put in the 'standard' 60-100 hour work week that seems to be the norm in Silicon Valley. I do know people with Gov't jobs who work 40 hours a week and less than 5 days a week, tho.
Come to think of it, maybe a 33% pay cut for a 40% hours cut isn't so bad.
Actually it's all our own faults that companies have come to assume that workers will put in 60-100 hours a week. We did it once, so now companies think we can continue to do it eternally.
But there are a few problems:
- the dot.com gold rush is over, and reality is setting it about get-rich-quick schemes. People's motivation for working long hours is decreasing
- IT workers are maturing. Someone straight out of college with no significant other may *like* working 80 hours a week, but take someone with a family and they probably would rather spend their time at home with their children
- there is no labor pool. Vacant positions go unfilled for months, and companies have stressed their staff out to the limits for too long. Now the *ENTIRE* industry is getting collective burnout all at the same time
Thanks for the good work on esd, It finally works well enough that I get lots of plinks and sound from a wide variety of apps under Solaris that used to be silent.
esd does serve a great purpose of being very cross-platform compared with alsa, and OSS. Alsa sources are linux specific. OSS is only free source for linux. If you want to build to a platform other than what they build, you're S.O.L. I *wish* there were lots of other choices, but right now, I'm interested in seeing esd be enhanced, and from a unix portability perspective, I'd prefer that apps were written to use some intermediate layer for accessing sound-related functions.
anyway, thanks ricdude, and keep up the good work on esd, Make sure to keep releases coming!
it *must* work on a read-only NFS server.
on
Send Some Mo' Zilla
·
· Score: 2
This has really got to get fixed. I cannot believe that mozilla must be *LOCALLY* installed to function properly.
I support a few thousand unix boxes that mount 99% of all their non-os programs read-only from NFS servers.
Nobody's going to be using mozilla here until this incredibly dumb oversight gets fixed.
And a minor request: Can you provide binaries with gtk/glib statically linked in so that there are not requirements for non-system libraries on the client-side? (maybe not a big deal for linux, but a hassle for other unix versions)
All three of the above categories have different reasons to form opinions about Redhat (and other opensource/linux companies, too BTW).
Slashdot readers are a combination of all of these. I think it's important that we consider Redhat from a number of different angles.
1) Opensource developers: well, we'd (I'm one...) probably quit our day jobs and code for peanuts if we had good management, brilliant co-workers, a fun work environment, and good coffee. - Face it, we love to code and we do it in our spare time. We probably don't care too much about a particular distro, since all of our machines are so highly customized as to become almost a custom distribution. BUT... we do appreciate the fact that Redhat and others pay talented developers to write opensource code that everyone can use.
2) LEECH: - don't care about anything except what they can get for free, complains about anything that doesn't work, makes lots of noise, has more free time than money, doesn't contribute back, thinks Redhat sucks because they're trying to make money.
3) shareholder: - wants to know that RedHat is looking out for it's business interests. Giving back to the community has yet to prove it's business value to investors.
SunOS 4.1.4u was the last release of what people generally refer to as SunOS (bsd-based)
but... with the introduction of Solaris 2.X, Sun retroactively named SunOS 4.X as Solaris 1.X, and internally Solaris 2.X was knows as SunOS 5.X
Confused yet?
Okay, now Sun decides they need "version inflation" to keep up with the likes of MS who jumps from 3.1 to 95 to 2000, so they rename Solaris 2.7 to Solaris 7 -- FOR PURELY MARKETING REASONS. Dumb.
So here's a translation table
SunOS 4.1.4 - (nobody ever calls it solaris 1.X) Solaris 2.4 = SunOS 5.4 Solaris 2.5.1 = SunOS 5.5.1 Solaris 2.6 = SunOS 5.6 Solaris 7 = Solaris 2.7 = SunOS 5.7 Solaris 8 = Solaris 2.8 = SunOS 5.8
I don't think the PC will die as much as the fact that the majority of the consumer devices will be far simpler, disposable, and not require the level of maintenance that current PCs require.
There will always be software developers, large corporations, designers, etc. who need and use workstations and servers (as opposed to "PCs").
What OS and what tools do you think they'll be running?
... and don't discount the potential for using parts of GNOME/SO/LINUX for the foundation of simpler consumer appliances.
(still waiting for linux-based AOL cds to start coming in the mail every month...)
If there were MSOffice for linux and solaris, I'd probably have purchased licenses and have been running it for a long time.
But there's not, and even if MS were to start porting it now, they've lost a whole lot of ground to Opensource office suites, and would have to practically give it away.
So, let's be Honest - Even a split MS may not port MSOffice to unix (try to make the business case for a linux MSOffice port...)
In a cross-platform world, that leaves MS Office out of the running as an option. I don't see any value or performance benefit if it doesn't run on all your platforms.
seems MSFT stock is taking a downturn today. Just my 0.02$ worth.
So, can I claim credit for being the first to use linux as a verb?
linux - v - act of opensource product rapidly gaining marketshare over commercial competitors, forcing competing commercial products to offer more featues or reduce price, and ultimately the opensource product becoming the de-facto standard. EX: (1)OpenSSH linuxed ssh.com's sales of ssh 2.X. (2) PGP was linuxed by GnuPrivacy guard. (3) The market for photoshop has been seriously linuxed by The Gimp. (4) The RIAA fears that napster may linux their embryonic plans for an online music distribution system. (5) Sun's GPL'ing of StarOffice helps offset fears that it will be linuxed by gnumeric and abiword.
Staroffice to take away 40% of Microsoft's current revenue stream?
"Over the next three years, we'll have a similar impact on the office-suite market as Linux did to the operating-system market." -- Marco Boerries
now as to replacing the toolkit with GTK, I bet that will take quite a while longer.
All in all, this is a good move for Sun and will do a lot to help enhance and improve SO over the long run
I can see it now... a rush to trademark all available scents at trademarkyourscent.com
TOP TEN SCENTS NEEDING A TRADEMARK - warm chocolate chip cookies - that burning electronics smell when your computer/stereo/tv gets fried - the smell of gunpowder after you light a brick of firecrackers - gasoline - The scent that is added to Natural Gas so you can smell it (does that scent have a name??) - The smell of warm beer in a fraternity house basement - skunk - leather - popcorn - coffee
Slashdot Mirror
See, once you start going down this road, you realize that someone, somewhere has produced software with virtually every name possible and sooner or later they're going to decide to want some licensing fee for using their noun, verb, or adjective.
I want to release a product called 'the' or '1.0' and trademark those terms
worse names than xfce? Sure...
xplop
xdoodoo
xmess (oh, wait, that's a program)
xcrmnt
But seriously, xfce is nice. I've even run it on some suns instead of *REAL* cde just because it's faster. Although my daily WM in enlightenment/gnome, it's nice to have so many good choices.
Noting slows a new sun down like CDE.
http://www.geek-girl.com/ids/1995/0306.html
lots of postings here from 1995 about tripwire and it's predecessors. . .
maybe the USPTO should post their patent requests to slashdot and let us find the prior art before they issue patents.
How about a site like http://find-prior-art.com that pays out money to the first people to find prior art for patent requests?
So, lemme see if I get this right:
domain squatter: an individual with an idea to make money = BAD
domain broker: an 'organization' that can provide you with a domain name, matching phone number, and legal advice on how to maintain your trademark = GOOD?!?
BTW: what exactly is the difference between selling domain names and selling real-estate?
Did anyone complain about people purchasing land cheaply?
Dear SGI: while you claim to own any name starting with Open,
All your base are belong to us!
I believe that email is less effective as a form of protest and public speech because it's too easy to clean out an entire inbox of thousands of messages.
Compare getting three bags of US mail with 10,000 email messages... how easy is it to clean up the emails vs. regular mail.
Also, there's the idea that regular mail is more 'official' and that you'd be breaking a whole lot of laws to tamper with it, whereas I can set up a yahoo email alias, and never read any of the mail/spam I get and nobody cares.
Unfortunately, I believe that email is a poor political medium because it's too easy to get rid of.
I've thought about what MacOS X could mean... a user-friendly UNIX.
But... the real threat is that MacOS X for Intel could turn Apple into a software company more akin to a linux distro vendor.
I don't think Apple can stall MacOS X for Intel for too long, and I belive that Apple even planned to provide a transition to Intel architecture.
Question is: what could MacOS X on Intel have to offer that users can't already get with Linux? Quicktime?!? A Window manager? An API?
Honestly, in this labor market I have a hard time believing that anyone with *PROPER QUALIFICATIONS* would have trouble finding employment.
We look all over the world for employees, so I don't think that the local city demographics necessarily define the ethnic breakdown for software companies.
In the development side of software shops now, it's sometimes the 'white male' that's a minority. But nobody's worried about that, except that we need more H1B visas.
Technology-enabled companies are probably the *least* discriminatory.
Anyone who thinks that a good website should depend on a plugin/javascript/animated graphics/java/images with no tags/frames/ or overdesigned pages that take forever to load on a 14.4 connection deserves the complaints from users they will get at the email address listed under 'feedback' on their page.
/. that said "If I wanted your site to make music, I'd have turned on the radio"
Spend your time on content, and when you've got good content, add in features... but don't ever trade off usability or accessibility for 'animated pull-down menus with sound and all sorts of mouseover hoopla' that won't work with anything but the latest browsers.
Use lynx and links to test your site for navigation. If you can't at least navigate your site with these tools, then it's time start over.
My personal list of website peeves:
- Click here to enter -- Duh!? I already entered the url, doesn't that mean I want to enter?
- anything that says UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- no informational value. Everything on the internet is under construction
- clear 1X1 pixel gifs used for spacing with alt tags that say "spacer" - doing typesetting with 1X1 pixel transparent gifs is a kludge that adds a lot of excess html to your docs
- more than 2 frames in a page - on rare occasion, I can stomach two frames.
- using javascript for something that could be done with standard html - don't use javascript to display text, for example
- websites that play music - saw a sig on
- websites that have all info in non-html or text formats like doc, xls, pdf, ps - Thanks for nothing - just post the info and use html or text. More info and file formats are nice, but put the info in text first.
- websites that try to determine your browser type and give you messages about needing a different browser - deal with what I have. You're in no position to require me to do anything.
- popup ads - did I ask you to open a window?
- any site that says: "Welcome to my website" - duh!
- more than one animated gif on a page
there are more, but I don't have the time to list them all. Bottom line: cut the junk and and leave the content.
How about this: guy volunteers to stay inside and read and post on slashdot for an entire year and not get paid (oh wait, we're already all doing this...) ;)
/'
Here's a few other interesting ideas for *Guy projects that people could try out and see if they can get a sponsor.
SpendMoneyGuy - guy shops for one year straight and spends lots of money. Follow his shopping adventures online and view his credit card bills online. Review his bank account balances and credit rating.
UpdateLinuxGuy - guy spends one year constantly updating sponsor's linux distribution with latest source from freshmeat. Go online and view the output of 'ls -lR
ReinstallWindowsGuy - goy spends one year constantly reinstalling windows and all of the required apps on the computers of various users
WriteCodeGuy - guy spends one year writing code for sponsor's company. Sponsor provides an 8'x8' cubicle and computer and a fridge full of cola.
PumpGasGuy - guy spends one year pumping gas at a gas station. you can go online and chat with him while he's not pumping gas.
WatchTVGuy - guy watches TV for one year. visit the website and watch him watch TV! Site has logs of all the TV shows he watches. Sponsor sells info to networks so they can determine what programs are popular.
Great! I really like the idea of a "real" $99 computer, and what better hardware to use than a console system where the hardware is standardized and they're sold everywhere.
Is there any easy way to connect any sort of standard keyboard and mouse to a dreamcast (like firewire or usb, maybe?). I know the ps2 has these ports, so it should be very possible to turn a ps2 into a really versatile computer with *STANDARD* components, right?
I can almost envision a day when the 'PC' will lose the low end and much of the gaming market to PDAs and Consoles.
I love my Palm. I also think that USR, 3COM, and now Palm have done *very* little to advance it from the Pilot1000.
:) :) :)
- There were 8mb hacks YEARS ago. Yet Palm still continues to make products out of various RAM-limited configurations, and using more than 8mb on a palm requires a MAJOR HACK (tm)
- The screen res is limited, and can't be easily changed so that existing apps can use expanded screen real estate. So, palm is going to have big trouble moving to a new screen size, and that will break compatibility with all of the current palms.
- 8-bit color isn't enough color
- why has it taken so long for a Color palm V? I contend it's because Palm has to space out their new products to create the perception of a product roadmap since they're now so limited by the capabilities of their current platform.
- Palm has a great form factor, but as far as CPU and storage goes, it's far too feeble. Do you think voice recognition is going to work on a 20mhz cpu and fit in a few mb of ram?
OTOH, If I imagine a linux-based PDA, I can imagine that I will never have to worry about my vendor stopping support for old hardware, and I can easily migrate to the next generation platform without losing my apps or my data
and best of all, imagine having gcc on your PDA, and recompiling your own apps!
That's never gonna happen on a Palm or Wince.
I don't know (m)any Government workers who put in the 'standard' 60-100 hour work week that seems to be the norm in Silicon Valley. I do know people with Gov't jobs who work 40 hours a week and less than 5 days a week, tho.
Come to think of it, maybe a 33% pay cut for a 40% hours cut isn't so bad.
Actually it's all our own faults that companies have come to assume that workers will put in 60-100 hours a week. We did it once, so now companies think we can continue to do it eternally.
But there are a few problems:
- the dot.com gold rush is over, and reality is setting it about get-rich-quick schemes. People's motivation for working long hours is decreasing
- IT workers are maturing. Someone straight out of college with no significant other may *like* working 80 hours a week, but take someone with a family and they probably would rather spend their time at home with their children
- there is no labor pool. Vacant positions go unfilled for months, and companies have stressed their staff out to the limits for too long. Now the *ENTIRE* industry is getting collective burnout all at the same time
Thanks for the good work on esd, It finally works well enough that I get lots of plinks and sound from a wide variety of apps under Solaris that used to be silent. esd does serve a great purpose of being very cross-platform compared with alsa, and OSS. Alsa sources are linux specific. OSS is only free source for linux. If you want to build to a platform other than what they build, you're S.O.L. I *wish* there were lots of other choices, but right now, I'm interested in seeing esd be enhanced, and from a unix portability perspective, I'd prefer that apps were written to use some intermediate layer for accessing sound-related functions. anyway, thanks ricdude, and keep up the good work on esd, Make sure to keep releases coming!
This has really got to get fixed. I cannot believe that mozilla must be *LOCALLY* installed to function properly.
I support a few thousand unix boxes that mount 99% of all their non-os programs read-only from NFS servers.
Nobody's going to be using mozilla here until this incredibly dumb oversight gets fixed.
And a minor request: Can you provide binaries with gtk/glib statically linked in so that there are not requirements for non-system libraries on the client-side? (maybe not a big deal for linux, but a hassle for other unix versions)
All three of the above categories have different reasons to form opinions about Redhat (and other opensource/linux companies, too BTW).
Slashdot readers are a combination of all of these. I think it's important that we consider Redhat from a number of different angles.
1) Opensource developers: well, we'd (I'm one...) probably quit our day jobs and code for peanuts if we had good management, brilliant co-workers, a fun work environment, and good coffee. - Face it, we love to code and we do it in our spare time. We probably don't care too much about a particular distro, since all of our machines are so highly customized as to become almost a custom distribution. BUT... we do appreciate the fact that Redhat and others pay talented developers to write opensource code that everyone can use.
2) LEECH: - don't care about anything except what they can get for free, complains about anything that doesn't work, makes lots of noise, has more free time than money, doesn't contribute back, thinks Redhat sucks because they're trying to make money.
3) shareholder: - wants to know that RedHat is looking out for it's business interests. Giving back to the community has yet to prove it's business value to investors.
it's a difficult balancing act...
... or worse. The negative influences of the internet could turn you into the most deviant being...
A slashdot troll
but seriously, someone ought to run Slashdot archives through the thing and see how many slasdot PAGES would be censored.
Get your facts straight.
SunOS 4.1.4u was the last release of what people generally refer to as SunOS (bsd-based)
but... with the introduction of Solaris 2.X, Sun retroactively named SunOS 4.X as Solaris 1.X, and internally Solaris 2.X was knows as SunOS 5.X
Confused yet?
Okay, now Sun decides they need "version inflation" to keep up with the likes of MS who jumps from 3.1 to 95 to 2000, so they rename Solaris 2.7 to Solaris 7 -- FOR PURELY MARKETING REASONS. Dumb.
So here's a translation table
SunOS 4.1.4 - (nobody ever calls it solaris 1.X)
Solaris 2.4 = SunOS 5.4
Solaris 2.5.1 = SunOS 5.5.1
Solaris 2.6 = SunOS 5.6
Solaris 7 = Solaris 2.7 = SunOS 5.7
Solaris 8 = Solaris 2.8 = SunOS 5.8
I don't think the PC will die as much as the fact that the majority of the consumer devices will be far simpler, disposable, and not require the level of maintenance that current PCs require.
There will always be software developers, large corporations, designers, etc. who need and use workstations and servers (as opposed to "PCs").
What OS and what tools do you think they'll be running?
... and don't discount the potential for using parts of GNOME/SO/LINUX for the foundation of simpler consumer appliances.
(still waiting for linux-based AOL cds to start coming in the mail every month...)
you know that TiVO is linux-based, right?
If there were MSOffice for linux and solaris, I'd probably have purchased licenses and have been running it for a long time.
But there's not, and even if MS were to start porting it now, they've lost a whole lot of ground to Opensource office suites, and would have to practically give it away.
So, let's be Honest - Even a split MS may not port MSOffice to unix (try to make the business case for a linux MSOffice port...)
In a cross-platform world, that leaves MS Office out of the running as an option. I don't see any value or performance benefit if it doesn't run on all your platforms.
seems MSFT stock is taking a downturn today. Just my 0.02$ worth.
So, can I claim credit for being the first to use linux as a verb?
linux - v - act of opensource product rapidly gaining marketshare over commercial competitors, forcing competing commercial products to offer more featues or reduce price, and ultimately the opensource product becoming the de-facto standard. EX: (1)OpenSSH linuxed ssh.com's sales of ssh 2.X. (2) PGP was linuxed by GnuPrivacy guard. (3) The market for photoshop has been seriously linuxed by The Gimp. (4) The RIAA fears that napster may linux their embryonic plans for an online music distribution system. (5) Sun's GPL'ing of StarOffice helps offset fears that it will be linuxed by gnumeric and abiword.
Staroffice to take away 40% of Microsoft's current revenue stream?
"Over the next three years, we'll have a similar impact on the office-suite market as Linux did to the operating-system market." -- Marco Boerries
now as to replacing the toolkit with GTK, I bet that will take quite a while longer.
All in all, this is a good move for Sun and will do a lot to help enhance and improve SO over the long run
So.. when does TOG decide to merge their changes with xfree86 and release x11r7?
... x12?
or
I could see the benefits of adjustable transparency for heads-up displays, VR apps and simulators.
;)
It would be great for gaming as well
... and I'm sure that the CPU makers would love to find apps that required more gHz of cpu
I can see it now:
...
...
driving in car...
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP: (phone) 32 New Text Messages received... : Make money from home fast...
{vibrate}: (pager) Congratulations! You have been selected to receive a free subscription to..
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP: (phone) Dear Valued pets.com customer, we just noticed that you're near our affiliate store that sells catbox liners...
{vibrate}: (pager) Hi! This is jiffy lube reminding you that you're overdue for you oil change... we're right on the next block.
{vibrate}: (pager) Safeway is your low price headquarters and we have cantaloupe on sale for
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP: (phone) We've lost our lease! Everything must go! Sofas on sale from $999
{vibrate}: Dear Macy*s Valued customer: Don't miss our semi monthly extra 10% off sale! Take the next exit to get to our store.
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP: (phone) \/\/e 0wN J00, B1AtcH!
Yeah, cool. I can't wait. Whoopee.
I can see it now... a rush to trademark all available scents at trademarkyourscent.com
TOP TEN SCENTS NEEDING A TRADEMARK
- warm chocolate chip cookies
- that burning electronics smell when your computer/stereo/tv gets fried
- the smell of gunpowder after you light a brick of firecrackers
- gasoline
- The scent that is added to Natural Gas so you can smell it (does that scent have a name??)
- The smell of warm beer in a fraternity house basement
- skunk
- leather
- popcorn
- coffee