Thanks for that clarification. Guess that's ok if Sega's OS is nice and stable.. I would prefer a more open standard like OpenGL and the like... I personally like the Playstaion 2 stats better... I don't think the 1 gig discs were a good move when much better tech is available..
I don't think things would go either way... PCs will always have a niche, game consoles cannot overtake PCs without sacrificing nearly all of their advantages. I see Dreamcast as crossing that line. It may be succesful, but I certainly don't like the idea of an OS like WindowsCE running my game console, and I don't want my game console to be able to do the web and email and the like.
What do I like about a game console? Well, I just put in the cartridge/cd, press the power button, and there's the game. No waiting for the system to set up extraneous stuff while booting up, making for fast boots. No need to find out what upgrades the console needs, if it is for the console, it simply works. As far as prices go, consoles are still somewhat cheaper, but that gap seems to be closing...
What do I like about PCs? The flexibility. For general applications, it's nice to have a modular design, being able to choose my OS and have freedom to hack on things. The high resolution is great for multiasking things... Also nice for games, though low-res games on the TV look far better than low-res on monitors, we all have to admit that... Of course, the newest consoles don't look good on TVs anymore... But in any case, the consoles will always have a place for people who want quick, simple game-playing, and the PC will always have a place with people who want general-purpose stuff and hacking stuff..
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It exits already, umm.. 3dwm was one thing I heard of, don't know its status. Another was Objective Reality, a commercial 3D UI for linnux. And ggi has some nifty stuff of things like putting different X sessions on sides of a cube. Really cool stuff. You can try these out if you wish.. Xfree support will be cool tho...
$280 million is nearly pocket change to Bill Gates... Big Brother watching you? nah, far more insidious... Big Bill.... All anti-microsoft encrypted content will be monitored...
Fascinating point, but I'd wager you are a guy, I am too, but I am a bit more sympathetic. The comparison between Arnold Schwarzenegger and female models is a bit unfair. We guys hold women up to a different standard than women hold men. We have the unfortunate innate tendency to hold female beauty a bit too highly with respect to other qualities. When we aren't the ones GETTING the problems, I don't think we have room to say that the problems are silly.
I think the reason people don't talk about men self-esteem as much as women is that women are affected more by it. Sure guys sometimes have problems, or are a bit envious of the people on tv, but women are worse off in this respect.
For one, notice on tv, that there are quite a few guys who I would not think would be considered that attractive. However, it is far more rare for an unattractive women to get anywhere in showbiz.
For another, the way a man looks is less important to women than the way a woman looks to men. I think we can pretty much accept this as truth. Not saying that women never look at looks, just saying that it impatcs them less. That's just the way society has developed through the years. Certain reasons as to why this has developed go through my mind, but I won't waste space with them because I figure people can think about it and form the hyopthesis on their own..
And I am a guy, and I was just speaking from my own observations, like how I know guys who have a bit of a gut and when someone taunts them they will stick it out further and laugh, while I don't know a single woman who'd NOT be hurt by a comment like that...
It may make a change, but probably not for the better... Sure people could interact *online* in that manner, but when you get down to it, if people get interested they will want to meet in person, and with higher expectations of what the other should look like. I see this as furthering the phenomenon of (especially women) looking at what the society creates as beautiful (and in this case, potentially more impossilbe to reach) and have self-esteem dashed more...
I am required to take two advanced literary courses.. Which ones did I choose? One was Science Fiction, and the other.. Fantasy... Not exactly an entire major, but it does show that this isn't the first example of Universities taking this stuff seriously..
Though I think we/. readers may find it amusing, I do not think the article was intended to be a humorous satire, but real speculation about the future of w2k... Just because we like the linux part does not mean that is the only part we interpret as serious when it seems pretty clear that the entire article had the same tone to it..
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That's not perfectly right. Extreme Linux is a very specialized distribution for clustering, so most of the market would ignore that product. And of course you included the linux floppy distributions,and anyone in their right minds would not use a floppy distribution for everyday stuff. I am slightly bothered by the fragmentation, but they all have to remain compatible with one of the major distros (Debian, Redhat, Suse) SO I don't see it as that big of a problem so far...
While interviewing for jobs and such, I've seen more companies using FreeBSD for their work than linux. FreeBSD is especially popular with corporations because any in-house improvements they make can be sold without any of the restrictions of the GPL.. And I know at least around me I've seen growth of the FreeBSD userbase around me. Though among normal computer enthusiasts around me I see more linux than FreeBSD, both are growing in the community I know. I personally run linux still, but I've gone back and forth on which I run.
I didn't mean that it was based on an existing kernel. For my purposes I classify a kernel as a UNIX kernel if it complies with the standrads (POSIX, etc..) I think of BeOS as a UNIX system with a specialized interface that doesn't run X... but then again, I've never been quite clear on what distinguishes a unix from a unix-like system.. So I could be completely off base with my definition..
I don't consume caffeine (even Dr. Pepper gives me a migraine) and I'm a fine coder:) My code works and makes sense... Except for once when I had a project that needed finishing by the next day, I satyed up all night without sugar or caffeiene and kinda blacked out at bout 5:30 in the morning because I had been pushing weird hours all week.. I got woke up at about 7 or so and noticed that the project was working, I didn't understand how I did it, or when I did it, and I couldn't make heads or tails out of the code that mysteriously written while I could not rememeber anything, but it worked and I used it:)
I think the GUI is pretty good, as long as there is still option for text-based install, but the neatest thing about that install, in my opinion, is the package installs begin and you can set options and play tetris while it finishes installing packages, I always felt really bored watching installs and wish I had something to do. But I don't know if I'll ever get OpenLinux though.. but still a cool idea.
Another benchmark claiming something that I find hard to believe, but it is amazing how many people in this discussion sit here and defend linux so much, here you are mainly preaching to the choir except some really insecure windows users. Don't get me wrong, a lot of the people here are insecure about linux, but the windows people are VASTLY less secure and more defensive.. Maybe These are the ones afraid that if there was a change they would be phased out for someone with more unix experience? I dunno, I tend to be a bit righteous about linux/FreeBSD for some reason so I guess I don't have much room to talk... The fact remains, if the free operating systems are so horribly bad, why is it so many private users and corporations that use them FEEL like they are more stable and better performing? Oh well, just my righteous two cents.
BeOS of course:) IT is pretty dern straightforward for having unix underneath.. Only reason I'm in linux right noww is I have a small crisis on a drive and I'm afraid windows or BeOS try something for a reason I would not understand and make matters worse... But BeOS is a surprisingly good OS, at least as of 4.5 after they fixed some MAJOR bugs... I can't wait to try out 5 when it comes around.
Linux people have been having this problem of being overly zealous and defnsive as the community has grown and invited all kinds of "wanna-be" techno-elitists... They often don't understand truly the techological part and only care about being able to say "I run linux, so I am elite!" I think MindCraft was unprofessional by posting this, and the same would have happened for trashing windows probably, but this does seem to be a problem. Reminds me of an incident in #linux on efnet.
I was in and some person commented that linux sucked, I responded that "sure, all operating systems suck, linux just sucks less than most everything else out there.." and I was kick-banned because they decided I was a microsoft-loving troll... Even while making a statement that DEFENDs linux, some people that don't think before acting give linux a bad name. For intelligent comments in a channel meant to be helpful to linux users, people are kick-banned too quickly... Oh well, this is probably more my gripe at being a linux advocate banned from a channel about linux, but I truly think it shows a sort of decline in the average intelligence of linux users, sadly.. The kernel is better than it ever has been, just wish the user base was as good as the OS..
I was hoping they would keep the same scheme and I could eventually have a system running with a K0 processor:) But seriously, I don't think the name is good, but I don't really care that much about names, except K9 would have been kinda funny..
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Where it is now? You mean with netscape and emacs in swap?:) Just kidding, after I got over 32 megs of RAM I stopped being always on console and use X a lot more now... and it takes up about 13 megs of memory, which is, I'm sure, less than what Windows used (when I had 64, 50 megs was used by Windows NT without any application running...) Well, despite some people's bashing it is a very nice environment, it might could stand a new replacement, but it is still very well implemented and more flexible than any other GUI engine I've seen...
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Thanks for that clarification. Guess that's ok if Sega's OS is nice and stable.. I would prefer a more open standard like OpenGL and the like... I personally like the Playstaion 2 stats better... I don't think the 1 gig discs were a good move when much better tech is available..
I don't think things would go either way... PCs will always have a niche, game consoles cannot overtake PCs without sacrificing nearly all of their advantages. I see Dreamcast as crossing that line. It may be succesful, but I certainly don't like the idea of an OS like WindowsCE running my game console, and I don't want my game console to be able to do the web and email and the like.
What do I like about a game console? Well, I just put in the cartridge/cd, press the power button, and there's the game. No waiting for the system to set up extraneous stuff while booting up, making for fast boots. No need to find out what upgrades the console needs, if it is for the console, it simply works. As far as prices go, consoles are still somewhat cheaper, but that gap seems to be closing...
What do I like about PCs? The flexibility. For general applications, it's nice to have a modular design, being able to choose my OS and have freedom to hack on things. The high resolution is great for multiasking things... Also nice for games, though low-res games on the TV look far better than low-res on monitors, we all have to admit that... Of course, the newest consoles don't look good on TVs anymore... But in any case, the consoles will always have a place for people who want quick, simple game-playing, and the PC will always have a place with people who want general-purpose stuff and hacking stuff..
It exits already, umm.. 3dwm was one thing I heard of, don't know its status. Another was Objective Reality, a commercial 3D UI for linnux. And ggi has some nifty stuff of things like putting different X sessions on sides of a cube. Really cool stuff. You can try these out if you wish.. Xfree support will be cool tho...
$280 million is nearly pocket change to Bill Gates... Big Brother watching you? nah, far more insidious... Big Bill.... All anti-microsoft encrypted content will be monitored...
I have not seen an Alan Cox enhancement patch posted here, well, never to my recollection... Is there something especially big about this one?
Am I the only one who thought Kismet looked like he could be Crow's ancestor (of mst3k fame :)
Fascinating point, but I'd wager you are a guy, I am too, but I am a bit more sympathetic. The comparison between Arnold Schwarzenegger and female models is a bit unfair. We guys hold women up to a different standard than women hold men. We have the unfortunate innate tendency to hold female beauty a bit too highly with respect to other qualities. When we aren't the ones GETTING the problems, I don't think we have room to say that the problems are silly.
I always understood CGI as meaning Common Gateway Interface in the manner you refer to it.
I think the reason people don't talk about men self-esteem as much as women is that women are affected more by it. Sure guys sometimes have problems, or are a bit envious of the people on tv, but women are worse off in this respect.
For one, notice on tv, that there are quite a few guys who I would not think would be considered that attractive. However, it is far more rare for an unattractive women to get anywhere in showbiz.
For another, the way a man looks is less important to women than the way a woman looks to men. I think we can pretty much accept this as truth. Not saying that women never look at looks, just saying that it impatcs them less. That's just the way society has developed through the years. Certain reasons as to why this has developed go through my mind, but I won't waste space with them because I figure people can think about it and form the hyopthesis on their own..
And I am a guy, and I was just speaking from my own observations, like how I know guys who have a bit of a gut and when someone taunts them they will stick it out further and laugh, while I don't know a single woman who'd NOT be hurt by a comment like that...
It may make a change, but probably not for the better... Sure people could interact *online* in that manner, but when you get down to it, if people get interested they will want to meet in person, and with higher expectations of what the other should look like. I see this as furthering the phenomenon of (especially women) looking at what the society creates as beautiful (and in this case, potentially more impossilbe to reach) and have self-esteem dashed more...
I am required to take two advanced literary courses.. Which ones did I choose? One was Science Fiction, and the other.. Fantasy... Not exactly an entire major, but it does show that this isn't the first example of Universities taking this stuff seriously..
Though I think we /. readers may find it amusing, I do not think the article was intended to be a humorous satire, but real speculation about the future of w2k... Just because we like the linux part does not mean that is the only part we interpret as serious when it seems pretty clear that the entire article had the same tone to it..
That's not perfectly right. Extreme Linux is a very specialized distribution for clustering, so most of the market would ignore that product. And of course you included the linux floppy distributions,and anyone in their right minds would not use a floppy distribution for everyday stuff. I am slightly bothered by the fragmentation, but they all have to remain compatible with one of the major distros (Debian, Redhat, Suse) SO I don't see it as that big of a problem so far...
While interviewing for jobs and such, I've seen more companies using FreeBSD for their work than linux. FreeBSD is especially popular with corporations because any in-house improvements they make can be sold without any of the restrictions of the GPL.. And I know at least around me I've seen growth of the FreeBSD userbase around me. Though among normal computer enthusiasts around me I see more linux than FreeBSD, both are growing in the community I know. I personally run linux still, but I've gone back and forth on which I run.
I didn't mean that it was based on an existing kernel. For my purposes I classify a kernel as a UNIX kernel if it complies with the standrads (POSIX, etc..) I think of BeOS as a UNIX system with a specialized interface that doesn't run X... but then again, I've never been quite clear on what distinguishes a unix from a unix-like system.. So I could be completely off base with my definition..
I don't consume caffeine (even Dr. Pepper gives me a migraine) and I'm a fine coder :) My code works and makes sense... Except for once when I had a project that needed finishing by the next day, I satyed up all night without sugar or caffeiene and kinda blacked out at bout 5:30 in the morning because I had been pushing weird hours all week.. I got woke up at about 7 or so and noticed that the project was working, I didn't understand how I did it, or when I did it, and I couldn't make heads or tails out of the code that mysteriously written while I could not rememeber anything, but it worked and I used it :)
I thought the web servers were always IIS, but the backend was Solaris.. unless that has changed nothing special going on..
Umm, My / is under 100 megs, I don't know what you are putting in slash, if it is large, it probably should go in /home or /usr/local :)
I think the GUI is pretty good, as long as there is still option for text-based install, but the neatest thing about that install, in my opinion, is the package installs begin and you can set options and play tetris while it finishes installing packages, I always felt really bored watching installs and wish I had something to do. But I don't know if I'll ever get OpenLinux though.. but still a cool idea.
Another benchmark claiming something that I find hard to believe, but it is amazing how many people in this discussion sit here and defend linux so much, here you are mainly preaching to the choir except some really insecure windows users. Don't get me wrong, a lot of the people here are insecure about linux, but the windows people are VASTLY less secure and more defensive.. Maybe These are the ones afraid that if there was a change they would be phased out for someone with more unix experience? I dunno, I tend to be a bit righteous about linux/FreeBSD for some reason so I guess I don't have much room to talk...
The fact remains, if the free operating systems are so horribly bad, why is it so many private users and corporations that use them FEEL like they are more stable and better performing? Oh well, just my righteous two cents.
BeOS of course :) IT is pretty dern straightforward for having unix underneath.. Only reason I'm in linux right noww is I have a small crisis on a drive and I'm afraid windows or BeOS try something for a reason I would not understand and make matters worse... But BeOS is a surprisingly good OS, at least as of 4.5 after they fixed some MAJOR bugs... I can't wait to try out 5 when it comes around.
Linux people have been having this problem of being overly zealous and defnsive as the community has grown and invited all kinds of "wanna-be" techno-elitists... They often don't understand truly the techological part and only care about being able to say "I run linux, so I am elite!" I think MindCraft was unprofessional by posting this, and the same would have happened for trashing windows probably, but this does seem to be a problem. Reminds me of an incident in #linux on efnet.
I was in and some person commented that linux sucked, I responded that "sure, all operating systems suck, linux just sucks less than most everything else out there.." and I was kick-banned because they decided I was a microsoft-loving troll... Even while making a statement that DEFENDs linux, some people that don't think before acting give linux a bad name. For intelligent comments in a channel meant to be helpful to linux users, people are kick-banned too quickly... Oh well, this is probably more my gripe at being a linux advocate banned from a channel about linux, but I truly think it shows a sort of decline in the average intelligence of linux users, sadly.. The kernel is better than it ever has been, just wish the user base was as good as the OS..
I was hoping they would keep the same scheme and I could eventually have a system running with a K0 processor :) But seriously, I don't think the name is good, but I don't really care that much about names, except K9 would have been kinda funny..
Where it is now? You mean with netscape and emacs in swap? :) Just kidding, after I got over 32 megs of RAM I stopped being always on console and use X a lot more now... and it takes up about 13 megs of memory, which is, I'm sure, less than what Windows used (when I had 64, 50 megs was used by Windows NT without any application running...) Well, despite some people's bashing it is a very nice environment, it might could stand a new replacement, but it is still very well implemented and more flexible than any other GUI engine I've seen...
Glad you warned me to expect much, else I might have not been able to have my expectations disappointed..