Use most web downloads, and you can save having to use to use your paint package. They put the license in an edit box already, to make it easier to change. Sun certainly do this...
This message on debian-legal (also mentioned on NTK at the time) was what reminded me.
I'm fairly sure(*) that the the constitution protects private individuals against unwarranted search and seizure by the government and it's agents (police). 'search and seizure' by individuals or corporations is also known as B&E, Burgulary, Theft or Trespass.
I dunno - with PC games, it gets more and more of a support burden to have old games out there. I noticed GTA on the shelves the other day - which uses Glide, if I remember correctly - 3dfx is dead at least a year.
Frontier is a good game that was a real pain in the ass at the time of release on the PC, just to get it to run, and then have sound. No-one wants that anymore.
Let's see, BeOS failed to find a market that wanted to buy their (nice) OS with few apps, even in the multimedia segment they claimed to excel in, and Macintosh clones were dependent on a license from Apple, who were very slow/reluctant to make them available in the first place, and then stopped again.
The PC architecture seems to me to be driven by component manufacturers. Video cards, BIOS, CPU, this years fast serial bus replacement, whatever. People like MS add support for those things, not the other way around.
I think SSCA is about the only way that such a decision could be forced on the hardware vendors (not systems, but hardware), and even then - do you know how much of the global PC market is the US? I don't [*], but for companies that already make things for different languages, video standards and voltages, having a US-destined crippled part, and rest-of-the-world non-crippled part isn't so far fetched either (see, I don't live in the US, and nor do ASUS, Toshiba, or Abit - we live with the other 95% of the world's population).
[*] The nearest I could find was one article from Nov 2000 suggesting that "Asia, Japan and Latin America get 25 percent of the output of the PC market." Obviously, that doesn't mention Europe.
Amen. From a couple of quick searches, my Commodore 64 ran about 0.4 MIPS in 1984 and
a current PC (Athlon 1.4Ghz) runs about 4000 MIPS.
My C64 started instantly, gave me access to the display with no lag, and already had drivers loaded to deal with the disk drives, printer and screen.
Today's PC is 10000 faster, roughly speaking. Is it really more than 10000 harder to do all those things nowadays? My PC takes a couple of minutes to start up, even when I haven't changed hardware between restarts and it already knows all it needs to know from the last boot.
Granted, my current PC has 10000 times the memory, and about 100 million times the storage, but the basic interface and OS really should be a bit quicker feeling by now. At this rate, we'll never get to 2001-style AI (or Buck Rogers In The 25th Century-style neon roller disco).
The poster's original question seems to be a reasonable, thought-out question about the implications of VMs in software development.
Too bad it's followed by 4 paras of paranoid rant, which is what people are replying to, by and large. Why doesn't Jamie just post in the forum, like the rest of us proles? Even if I'd blocked him from my view of Slashdot (which I haven't, although looking back over the stories...), this would slip through as a rider on Cliff's story.
[anyway, what is the benefit to BIOS makers and motherboard manufacturers of limiting their market? The degree of support for overclocking in existing mobos and BIOSes shows that they don't care what their large partners think (Intel, AMD)]
Well, which FS has been used in a OS that I can buy in the highstreet for the last 5 years at least? Which FS is the standard for it's operating system?
In terms of active users, I think it is safe to say that there are more MacOS users in the world than Linux users using ReiserFS.
I'm not a Mac fan, but if it's been around since OS 8.1 as part of the only OS for a system that has 3% of the PC Market this year (and 11% in 1997 - just before OS 8.1), there are a LOT of users.
So much for the promise of USB. Why not hassle Creative into providing non-Windows drivers for their existing unit? That's the way it's supposed to work - you have one device for all USB-capable computers...
Heck, we might even get *nix USB drivers out of it.
Since the poster is running a Windows Terminal Server or Citrix-based network, the hacking is not an issue for them, only me. I suspect if you buy a bunch of these from IBM, they might support them (or at least the newer models in the same line - the NetVista).
For $300 I doubt you could buy a Celeron as reliable as something with no moving parts, nor as compact, as quiet and with a 15 minute setup time - all factors for MIS support. I think for corporate use, it does outweigh the other factors. Heck, I want one for myself, just because of the size/noise factor.
There's nothing carved in stone that says that the older law is the less changable one.
Well, the original 'old law' is Article I of the Constitution, which I suspect takes a little more changing than the average law. (actually - does it? I don't remember from my American Studies class, but I assume that's the case)
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Has exceed's performance improved lately? We used to have it at college, and it was a dog, even compared to the old NCD X Terminals that were the alternative.
[I *SO* enjoy it that when Slash refuses to take my post, it also arranges it so that when I go back to edit it, it throws away my words. Awesome UI.]
I've been keeping an eye out for one of these at a decent price...
The IBM Network Station 1000 Model 8362 is a PowerPC-603-based thin client with support for VT emulation, X, ICA/Citrix, local Java apps, 1600x1280x8bit graphics, sound.
The complicated part is that they were designed to be slaved off of a Win2k/NT or AIX box, but people have figured out ways around that for the most part.
Best of all, they're silent, too.
They seem to go on E-Bay for around 300Eur (These guys have them for 450Eur with a 1yr warranty. [for those not in Europe, that's $270 and $400 US, respectively]
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Use most web downloads, and you can save having to use to use your paint package. They put the license in an edit box already, to make it easier to change. Sun certainly do this...
This message on debian-legal (also mentioned on NTK at the time) was what reminded me.
I'm fairly sure(*) that the the constitution protects private individuals against unwarranted search and seizure by the government and it's agents (police). 'search and seizure' by individuals or corporations is also known as B&E, Burgulary, Theft or Trespass.
(*)It's not my constitution
Not as it's only Hardware 3D option. I know I used it with DirectX.
I dunno - with PC games, it gets more and more of a support burden to have old games out there. I noticed GTA on the shelves the other day - which uses Glide, if I remember correctly - 3dfx is dead at least a year.
Frontier is a good game that was a real pain in the ass at the time of release on the PC, just to get it to run, and then have sound. No-one wants that anymore.
Haven't you read? There's a downturn. You have to try and save a few bucks on consultants where you can.
2.5minute commerical breaks every 10 minutes on a tv show SUCKS
so pay a share of the production cost, so they don't need to.
I don't know about you, but the gas coming out of my intestines is a greenhouse gas - methane, I think.
Let's see, BeOS failed to find a market that wanted to buy their (nice) OS with few apps, even in the multimedia segment they claimed to excel in, and Macintosh clones were dependent on a license from Apple, who were very slow/reluctant to make them available in the first place, and then stopped again.
The PC architecture seems to me to be driven by component manufacturers. Video cards, BIOS, CPU, this years fast serial bus replacement, whatever. People like MS add support for those things, not the other way around.
I think SSCA is about the only way that such a decision could be forced on the hardware vendors (not systems, but hardware), and even then - do you know how much of the global PC market is the US? I don't [*], but for companies that already make things for different languages, video standards and voltages, having a US-destined crippled part, and rest-of-the-world non-crippled part isn't so far fetched either (see, I don't live in the US, and nor do ASUS, Toshiba, or Abit - we live with the other 95% of the world's population).
[*] The nearest I could find was one article from Nov 2000 suggesting that "Asia, Japan and Latin America get 25 percent of the output of the PC market." Obviously, that doesn't mention Europe.
Amen. From a couple of quick searches, my Commodore 64 ran about 0.4 MIPS in 1984 and
a current PC (Athlon 1.4Ghz) runs about 4000 MIPS.
My C64 started instantly, gave me access to the display with no lag, and already had drivers loaded to deal with the disk drives, printer and screen.
Today's PC is 10000 faster, roughly speaking. Is it really more than 10000 harder to do all those things nowadays? My PC takes a couple of minutes to start up, even when I haven't changed hardware between restarts and it already knows all it needs to know from the last boot.
Granted, my current PC has 10000 times the memory, and about 100 million times the storage, but the basic interface and OS really should be a bit quicker feeling by now. At this rate, we'll never get to 2001-style AI (or Buck Rogers In The 25th Century-style neon roller disco).
The poster's original question seems to be a reasonable, thought-out question about the implications of VMs in software development.
Too bad it's followed by 4 paras of paranoid rant, which is what people are replying to, by and large. Why doesn't Jamie just post in the forum, like the rest of us proles? Even if I'd blocked him from my view of Slashdot (which I haven't, although looking back over the stories...), this would slip through as a rider on Cliff's story.
[anyway, what is the benefit to BIOS makers and motherboard manufacturers of limiting their market? The degree of support for overclocking in existing mobos and BIOSes shows that they don't care what their large partners think (Intel, AMD)]
I don't think they are anymore. They used to own Polygram which was sold to Seagram, since merged with Vivendi/Universal (I think).
Well, which FS has been used in a OS that I can buy in the highstreet for the last 5 years at least? Which FS is the standard for it's operating system?
In terms of active users, I think it is safe to say that there are more MacOS users in the world than Linux users using ReiserFS.
I'm not a Mac fan, but if it's been around since OS 8.1 as part of the only OS for a system that has 3% of the PC Market this year (and 11% in 1997 - just before OS 8.1), there are a LOT of users.
they don't see becoming mainstream any time soon.
I think it's safe to say HFS is more 'mainstream' than ReiserFS!
So much for the promise of USB. Why not hassle Creative into providing non-Windows drivers for their existing unit? That's the way it's supposed to work - you have one device for all USB-capable computers...
Heck, we might even get *nix USB drivers out of it.
...you are talking about putting something offensive on a person's private property...
That would be my screen.
That would be (from a quick grep of /usr/share/games/fortune - your handy local quotes reference)
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. -- Hanlon's Razor
Since the poster is running a Windows Terminal Server or Citrix-based network, the hacking is not an issue for them, only me. I suspect if you buy a bunch of these from IBM, they might support them (or at least the newer models in the same line - the NetVista).
For $300 I doubt you could buy a Celeron as reliable as something with no moving parts, nor as compact, as quiet and with a 15 minute setup time - all factors for MIS support. I think for corporate use, it does outweigh the other factors. Heck, I want one for myself, just because of the size/noise factor.
and I haven't seen a thin client that does RDP and not ICA.
;-)
You mean apart from rdesktop, the one you mentioned?
I like the idea though, having been playing with VNC a lot in the last few weeks. Are there actually specs for ICA though?
Solaris has been available for intel since about 1994.
Sun actually had SunOS available on i386 before that (on the Sun 386i).
Ummm, I don't know about JBoss, but isn't Tomcat the reference implementation of Sun's specs?
There's nothing carved in stone that says that the older law is the less changable one.
Well, the original 'old law' is Article I of the Constitution, which I suspect takes a little more changing than the average law. (actually - does it? I don't remember from my American Studies class, but I assume that's the case)
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I can say things like ni...r
.s? Is it a special Swiss character, like umlauts or other accented characters?
Really? How do you pronounce the
Actually, the lurkers aren't freeloaders since they aren't consuming resources.
Sure they are - every page view takes resources. The 'Slashdot Effect' is not the result of lots of people posting to a site, after all.
Has exceed's performance improved lately? We used to have it at college, and it was a dog, even compared to the old NCD X Terminals that were the alternative.
[I *SO* enjoy it that when Slash refuses to take my post, it also arranges it so that when I go back to edit it, it throws away my words. Awesome UI.]
I've been keeping an eye out for one of these at a decent price...
The IBM Network Station 1000 Model 8362 is a PowerPC-603-based thin client with support for VT emulation, X, ICA/Citrix, local Java apps, 1600x1280x8bit graphics, sound.
The complicated part is that they were designed to be slaved off of a Win2k/NT or AIX box, but people have figured out ways around that for the most part.
Best of all, they're silent, too.
They seem to go on E-Bay for around 300Eur (These guys have them for 450Eur with a 1yr warranty. [for those not in Europe, that's $270 and $400 US, respectively]