Who will maintain this fork? It will get crustier and crustier and crustier due to the absolute need to NEVER break a binary only driver. Once it gets crusty enough, it won't be possible to backport the changes from Linus' kernel which WILL continue to be developed? Furthermore, this fork will be x86 only. The only real reason this fork will have to exist will be for consumer x86 desktops. This will put off even more devs.
I seriously doubt that you'll find a group of kernel devs who will willingly inflict that situation on themselves. Remember that leak of Windows 2000 source? At least 15% percent of it turned out be kluges meant to prevent particular applications from breaking. We DON'T need to go there.
Like it or not, appeasement is the only remaining option.
Redefining "acceptable losses" is also an option. Kim can destroy a city or two not bring down the apocalypse. Writing off one of those cities and glassing NK once and for all may well be an option on the table. Appeasement on the scale Kim Jong Il is likely to want will REALLY stick in the craws of the powers that be.
An underwater blast would be extremely damaging to any ships in the vicinity. Much of the early nuclear testing compared the damage to ships done by air and water bursts. Water bursts basically wad ships up like tin cans. Of course, NK would have to somehow sneak a device under the fleet and that isn't simple.
I really don't know wtf you're trying to say. Because many hundreds of thousands of applications are defeated by the examiners. I don't even know if we're speaking to the same subject...
One-click (cough!) One-click (cough! cough!) Tab key surfing (hack! wheeze!) Double clicking on a portable device (retch! spitooey!)
For every bullshit application that gets defeated, 100 more slip through. Since you claim to be a bonafide software patent examiner, let me ask the $100 dollar question: WTF are you people smoking and where can I get some of it because it must be really freaking good?
A junior high lab that I used to have to maintain had these really cheezy Gateway 2000s in them. Damn but did I hate these machines. Changing out one of the drives meant 16 to 20 screws were removed before you were ready to put the new drive back in. Of course, those screws had to go back in. The OTHER reason I really hated them was that they were full of sharp edged sheet metal. Those things drew blood from me more than once.
Way back when, I've worked on some Craperd Bells that were even worse. It was as though the insides of them were made from discarded razor blades.
Anything can be "predicted" that way. You just pick a metaphor from the religion and stretch it to cover some current event.
That is why Nostradamus bored me long ago. The exact same quatratains exactly predicted all sorts of different events depending on what era the commentator came from. Come to think of it, much has been made of the predictive power of SF. The problem there is that the seeming hits are trumpeted to the stars and no one remembers the misses. In the case of Trek, designers just emulated it when technology made it practical. The flip open cell phone isn't any sort of prediction from Trek. That would be like saying the Jetsons predicted previous generations of iMacs.
Yeah. They also mentioned vaporware's early Atari history. It was really Atari that brought vaporware to the masses.
Anybody remember the Graduate keyboard for the 2600? How about the Mindlink?
The Atari 2700 with ergonomic wireless joysticks was ready for production then was killed. Let's see...what else? The 7800 keyboard was fully developed then killed. An advanced "Amy" soundchip for the 8-bit computers....yep! Oh yeah and then there was one of my favorites. They had an expansion cage ready to go that would let you add cards to the XL line of machines just like the Apple II. Come to think it, it was only a few odd ball third party devs that made use of the "Parallel Bus Interface" that Atari promised that soooo many nifty things were going to connect to.
Yeah, Atari got me salivating a few times back in the day before I finally learned my lesson.
There is a huge difference between a twitch game you can play for twenty minutes and put down and the huge gameworlds you're thinking about. Something like Warlords and all four paddles would a way better party game than watching the guy who can't get laid finding all the secrets in Super Mario World. Once it starts getting personal, nobody is going to care about the graphics. I'll grant most 2600 and 7800 titles are lousy party games as well. Still, quite a few of them will give you some fun without having to spend hours locating the +4 Attack Sword and the Mystic Rune Scroll.
The whole point is not to have to spend hours beating a game.
Well, I had an ST and I had an 800XL before that. You know what? If I had it to do over again, I'd rather have had the Amiga. The graphics chipset more than offset the slight speed difference between the two processors. Don't get me wrong, the ST had some GREAT games and software but the Amiga graphics setup was simply more capable.
Thanks to Amiga inheriting Atari's old hardware engineers, the Amiga was MUCH more like an Atari than the ST itself. Display lists, graphics hardware that can work off any area in memory, a wide color palette, graphics coprocessors, and all sorts of ways the hardware helped you when trying to animate anything were all Atari 8-bit features that were done bigger and better in the Amiga. The Atari 8-bits owed quite a bit to Jay Miner's genius. The Commodore 16-bits felt like the next generation of those machines and have his handiwork as well.
Ironically, ex-Commodore engineers had a hand in the ST. Some aspects of the ST do indeed feel like a Commodore 64 16 bits wide.
I thought about doing a reasoned reply to this but I think it would be wasted.
You are insulting, profoundly ignorant, tactless, and make largely unsubstantiated religious sounding statements. You shout a lot and have a foul mouth too.
I'm sure that to yourself you seem profoundly wise. Here is a reality check for you: Real Coders aren't going to be looking to you for sage advice. You aren't interested in doing anything constructive anyway; you seem to be one of those people who feel bigger when they're tearing somebody else down. More than once I have turned in bugreports and suggestions to various projects and gotten satisfaction. I've even written a few (trivial) things myself. I think I'll stick to doing that rather than feeding trolls such as yourself any further.
Needs work boys, needs lots of work. I had high hopes for X.org but they are basically shattered now after seeing those OSX rip off screenshots.
You're bitching at the wrong project. It is the window manager and desktop environment devs who most directly determine the look and feel of what you see on the screen. X.Org writes the bits that expose the functionality of video hardware to application developers and various layers of the OS.
All those screenshots are meant to do is advertise the availability of certain effects and capabilities that up till now could only be achieved with dubious hacks.
As what desktops look like, they can look like anything. Out of the box, they can look like Windows, OS X, or other things entirely. Everybody has the basic elements of windows, widgets, icons, and some sort of pager to work with. As it happens, my desktop doesn't particularly resemble either MacOS or Windows. Get off it already.
Given statements like "10 years behind" coupled with general ignorance and I have to come to the conclusion that your troll-fu is extremely lacking. The low userid only makes it worse. It implies you've been around long enough to know better.
What exactly is so horrid about the fonts? I looked at several of those screenies and didn't see anything that especially jumped out at me as horrible. I most especially did not see the sort of jagged badly scaled hell that was the norm three or four years ago.
Assuming the machine hasn't been reloaded with pirated Windows, go over there and set up a regular user account for them. I've had recent exposure to the latest version and they STILL default to giving the hordes of Linux newbies they are creating root access. There is absolutely NO excuse for this. OS X handles these issues correctly and the way it does it is obvious.
That is probably some or all of the EV1 money. The "Headsurfer" was wined, dined, and cozened by both MS and SCO. The short summary of what happened is that MS gave EV1 a sweetheart deal on Windows server licenses for their hosting farm if they would replace a large swath of their Linux boxes with Windows boxes. MS also used it in their "Get the Facts" campaign. Upon examination, the only thing it really proved is that they have some incompetant Linux admins. The Headsurfer also was seen at a Vegas convention partying it up with Darl. Their licensing of their remaining Linux boxes was announced days later.
EV1 immediately lost a large number of customers. All of their competitors noticed a spike in business from the defectors. They have publically announced regret that they dealt with SCO.
What about terrestrial sized moons in orbit about such a planet? A jovian size body at Mars distance from Sunlike star may well be able to host habitable bodies. I put the hypothetical jovian body at Mars distance because it will reflect a significant amount of energy onto it's moons. There also extra tidal heating to think of.
If I bothered to mod* anymore, I'd've thrown you a point. The level of jingoism here is getting dismaying. It may be that Midwest is the wrong place to form an opinion but one hell of a lot people around here swallow Shrub's line without a second thought. The sentiments of many aren't unlike the grandparent's: "I love anything my government does right or wrong. We're the biggest and the strongest and can do whatever the hell we want." I love my country but my government scares the hell of me. Some of the corporates who have their hands up the government's ass scare me even more. I can't help but notice that the scarier the government gets, the more they wrap themselves in the Flag.
I'm an American who feels the world has gotten a bit less safe because of Iraq. Those people aren't going to be governed by our proxies. There will be guerilla warfare until we leave. No government friendly to this country will last more than an hour or two once we do. Either way, the Muslim extremists will harvest a nice crop of pissed off young men.
Unfortunately, I believe we're going to be stuck with at least four more years of this jackass. It wouldn't surprise in the least if his brother Jeb took over for another eight. The vote cooking shenanagans in Florida (And no, I'm not bitching about the 2000 election. I'm talking about the here and now.) are about as blatant as it gets. I have to wonder what the Republicans didn't get caught doing.
I usually throw my vote away on some third-party candidate but this guy has to go. Not that my vote will matter much, especially if it finds it way into the wrong Diebold machine.
*I used to get mod points every two weeks to a month. Once I started getting them every three days, the trolls about Commander Taco's supposed sex life got to be too much. I can hand out 10 mods a month and keep my sanity. 30 or so properly done makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
I don't know. In the episode I remember, he wanted to prove to his old college buddies that he was still cool. The sitcom Bush winds up pouring household chemicals into a lethal-injectee's IV on national television. The Bush on the show didn't really come off terribly intelligent to me. At best, he may have been slightly less stupid than other characters.
Heh heh. Is it a bluff if you wouldn't have gotten it anyway?
Nice try but I'm not one of the basement cave dwellers. I've a wife and a child and that particular argument was had a long time ago. In any case if I were faced with a Windows problem after dealing with them all day, I'd hand her a Knoppix CD, a Windows boot CD and maybe a link to sysinternals.com. I meant it when I said I wouldn't fix Windows machines at home.
"You can have a Windows machine to play those games on but I won't fix it when it messes up. I have to tolerate MS at work; I won't tolerate it in my free time. If you want Windows, you will have to learn to fix it yourself when it goes wrong."
The no-sex threat was a pure bluff....ever notice that is always the first gun to get dragged out if a guy stands his ground?
There are only so many possible decrypts that make sense in the first place. One component of an OTP attacking machine would a natural language parser. Decrypt candidates with "bad" and "moo" in them would definitely merit further analysis. Furthermore, context will rule out a hell of a lot more. If you're monitoring hell I dunno... neo-nazis you suspect of a string of bank robberies then decrypt candidates with strings like "case", "joint", and "heil the furher" would be mighty interesting.
The possible number of messages in a short message is not insurmountable with current technology. This is especially true if you are seeking "intelligence" rather than "evidence".
Of course, given a sufficiently long message text none of this will work. Short messages are still securable for that matter. They just have to be padded before and after with large and random amounts of pad.
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What? You brought down all that heat on them and didn't call the SPA?
I guess I'll have to bow to your wisdom there. I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy.
Is there a normal Hard Disk installer available for it
Yep.
Who will maintain this fork? It will get crustier and crustier and crustier due to the absolute need to NEVER break a binary only driver. Once it gets crusty enough, it won't be possible to backport the changes from Linus' kernel which WILL continue to be developed? Furthermore, this fork will be x86 only. The only real reason this fork will have to exist will be for consumer x86 desktops. This will put off even more devs.
I seriously doubt that you'll find a group of kernel devs who will willingly inflict that situation on themselves. Remember that leak of Windows 2000 source? At least 15% percent of it turned out be kluges meant to prevent particular applications from breaking. We DON'T need to go there.
Like it or not, appeasement is the only remaining option.
Redefining "acceptable losses" is also an option. Kim can destroy a city or two not bring down the apocalypse. Writing off one of those cities and glassing NK once and for all may well be an option on the table. Appeasement on the scale Kim Jong Il is likely to want will REALLY stick in the craws of the powers that be.
An underwater blast would be extremely damaging to any ships in the vicinity. Much of the early nuclear testing compared the damage to ships done by air and water bursts. Water bursts basically wad ships up like tin cans. Of course, NK would have to somehow sneak a device under the fleet and that isn't simple.
I really don't know wtf you're trying to say. Because many hundreds of thousands of applications are defeated by the examiners. I don't even know if we're speaking to the same subject...
One-click (cough!) One-click (cough! cough!) Tab key surfing (hack! wheeze!) Double clicking on a portable device (retch! spitooey!)
For every bullshit application that gets defeated, 100 more slip through. Since you claim to be a bonafide software patent examiner, let me ask the $100 dollar question: WTF are you people smoking and where can I get some of it because it must be really freaking good?
RMS turns up too much in electronics and mathematics. I seriously doubt there is much more going on than MS tweaking RMS' nose.
A junior high lab that I used to have to maintain had these really cheezy Gateway 2000s in them. Damn but did I hate these machines. Changing out one of the drives meant 16 to 20 screws were removed before you were ready to put the new drive back in. Of course, those screws had to go back in. The OTHER reason I really hated them was that they were full of sharp edged sheet metal. Those things drew blood from me more than once.
Way back when, I've worked on some Craperd Bells that were even worse. It was as though the insides of them were made from discarded razor blades.
Anything can be "predicted" that way. You just pick a metaphor from the religion and stretch it to cover some current event.
That is why Nostradamus bored me long ago. The exact same quatratains exactly predicted all sorts of different events depending on what era the commentator came from. Come to think of it, much has been made of the predictive power of SF. The problem there is that the seeming hits are trumpeted to the stars and no one remembers the misses. In the case of Trek, designers just emulated it when technology made it practical. The flip open cell phone isn't any sort of prediction from Trek. That would be like saying the Jetsons predicted previous generations of iMacs.
Yeah. They also mentioned vaporware's early Atari history. It was really Atari that brought vaporware to the masses.
Anybody remember the Graduate keyboard for the 2600? How about the Mindlink?
The Atari 2700 with ergonomic wireless joysticks was ready for production then was killed. Let's see...what else? The 7800 keyboard was fully developed then killed. An advanced "Amy" soundchip for the 8-bit computers....yep! Oh yeah and then there was one of my favorites. They had an expansion cage ready to go that would let you add cards to the XL line of machines just like the Apple II. Come to think it, it was only a few odd ball third party devs that made use of the "Parallel Bus Interface" that Atari promised that soooo many nifty things were going to connect to.
Yeah, Atari got me salivating a few times back in the day before I finally learned my lesson.
There is a huge difference between a twitch game you can play for twenty minutes and put down and the huge gameworlds you're thinking about. Something like Warlords and all four paddles would a way better party game than watching the guy who can't get laid finding all the secrets in Super Mario World. Once it starts getting personal, nobody is going to care about the graphics. I'll grant most 2600 and 7800 titles are lousy party games as well. Still, quite a few of them will give you some fun without having to spend hours locating the +4 Attack Sword and the Mystic Rune Scroll.
The whole point is not to have to spend hours beating a game.
ST = 8 Mhz
Amiga = 7.2 Mhzzzzzzz...
Well, I had an ST and I had an 800XL before that. You know what? If I had it to do over again, I'd rather have had the Amiga. The graphics chipset more than offset the slight speed difference between the two processors. Don't get me wrong, the ST had some GREAT games and software but the Amiga graphics setup was simply more capable.
Thanks to Amiga inheriting Atari's old hardware engineers, the Amiga was MUCH more like an Atari than the ST itself. Display lists, graphics hardware that can work off any area in memory, a wide color palette, graphics coprocessors, and all sorts of ways the hardware helped you when trying to animate anything were all Atari 8-bit features that were done bigger and better in the Amiga. The Atari 8-bits owed quite a bit to Jay Miner's genius. The Commodore 16-bits felt like the next generation of those machines and have his handiwork as well.
Ironically, ex-Commodore engineers had a hand in the ST. Some aspects of the ST do indeed feel like a Commodore 64 16 bits wide.
I doubt much will happen until Sarge releases. Once that puppy is baked, Unstable can start getting even more bleeding edge.
I thought about doing a reasoned reply to this but I think it would be wasted.
You are insulting, profoundly ignorant, tactless, and make largely unsubstantiated religious sounding statements. You shout a lot and have a foul mouth too.
I'm sure that to yourself you seem profoundly wise. Here is a reality check for you: Real Coders aren't going to be looking to you for sage advice. You aren't interested in doing anything constructive anyway; you seem to be one of those people who feel bigger when they're tearing somebody else down. More than once I have turned in bugreports and suggestions to various projects and gotten satisfaction. I've even written a few (trivial) things myself. I think I'll stick to doing that rather than feeding trolls such as yourself any further.
Needs work boys, needs lots of work. I had high hopes for X.org but they are basically shattered now after seeing those OSX rip off screenshots.
You're bitching at the wrong project. It is the window manager and desktop environment devs who most directly determine the look and feel of what you see on the screen. X.Org writes the bits that expose the functionality of video hardware to application developers and various layers of the OS.
All those screenshots are meant to do is advertise the availability of certain effects and capabilities that up till now could only be achieved with dubious hacks.
As what desktops look like, they can look like anything. Out of the box, they can look like Windows, OS X, or other things entirely. Everybody has the basic elements of windows, widgets, icons, and some sort of pager to work with. As it happens, my desktop doesn't particularly resemble either MacOS or Windows. Get off it already.
Given statements like "10 years behind" coupled with general ignorance and I have to come to the conclusion that your troll-fu is extremely lacking. The low userid only makes it worse. It implies you've been around long enough to know better.
What exactly is so horrid about the fonts? I looked at several of those screenies and didn't see anything that especially jumped out at me as horrible. I most especially did not see the sort of jagged badly scaled hell that was the norm three or four years ago.
wasn't installing on his new LINDOWS machine.
Assuming the machine hasn't been reloaded with pirated Windows, go over there and set up a regular user account for them. I've had recent exposure to the latest version and they STILL default to giving the hordes of Linux newbies they are creating root access. There is absolutely NO excuse for this. OS X handles these issues correctly and the way it does it is obvious.
What is your major malfunction Mr. Robertson?
That is probably some or all of the EV1 money. The "Headsurfer" was wined, dined, and cozened by both MS and SCO. The short summary of what happened is that MS gave EV1 a sweetheart deal on Windows server licenses for their hosting farm if they would replace a large swath of their Linux boxes with Windows boxes. MS also used it in their "Get the Facts" campaign. Upon examination, the only thing it really proved is that they have some incompetant Linux admins. The Headsurfer also was seen at a Vegas convention partying it up with Darl. Their licensing of their remaining Linux boxes was announced days later.
EV1 immediately lost a large number of customers. All of their competitors noticed a spike in business from the defectors. They have publically announced regret that they dealt with SCO.
If most of the updates will be available for current versions of Windows, what is the incentive to upgrade?
Why the spiffy new desktop theme that lets you this is the newest high tech deal, of course!
What about terrestrial sized moons in orbit about such a planet? A jovian size body at Mars distance from Sunlike star may well be able to host habitable bodies. I put the hypothetical jovian body at Mars distance because it will reflect a significant amount of energy onto it's moons. There also extra tidal heating to think of.
If I bothered to mod* anymore, I'd've thrown you a point. The level of jingoism here is getting dismaying. It may be that Midwest is the wrong place to form an opinion but one hell of a lot people around here swallow Shrub's line without a second thought. The sentiments of many aren't unlike the grandparent's: "I love anything my government does right or wrong. We're the biggest and the strongest and can do whatever the hell we want." I love my country but my government scares the hell of me. Some of the corporates who have their hands up the government's ass scare me even more. I can't help but notice that the scarier the government gets, the more they wrap themselves in the Flag.
I'm an American who feels the world has gotten a bit less safe because of Iraq. Those people aren't going to be governed by our proxies. There will be guerilla warfare until we leave. No government friendly to this country will last more than an hour or two once we do. Either way, the Muslim extremists will harvest a nice crop of pissed off young men.
Unfortunately, I believe we're going to be stuck with at least four more years of this jackass. It wouldn't surprise in the least if his brother Jeb took over for another eight. The vote cooking shenanagans in Florida (And no, I'm not bitching about the 2000 election. I'm talking about the here and now.) are about as blatant as it gets. I have to wonder what the Republicans didn't get caught doing.
I usually throw my vote away on some third-party candidate but this guy has to go. Not that my vote will matter much, especially if it finds it way into the wrong Diebold machine.
*I used to get mod points every two weeks to a month. Once I started getting them every three days, the trolls about Commander Taco's supposed sex life got to be too much. I can hand out 10 mods a month and keep my sanity. 30 or so properly done makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
I don't know. In the episode I remember, he wanted to prove to his old college buddies that he was still cool. The sitcom Bush winds up pouring household chemicals into a lethal-injectee's IV on national television. The Bush on the show didn't really come off terribly intelligent to me. At best, he may have been slightly less stupid than other characters.
Heh heh. Is it a bluff if you wouldn't have gotten it anyway?
Nice try but I'm not one of the basement cave dwellers. I've a wife and a child and that particular argument was had a long time ago. In any case if I were faced with a Windows problem after dealing with them all day, I'd hand her a Knoppix CD, a Windows boot CD and maybe a link to sysinternals.com. I meant it when I said I wouldn't fix Windows machines at home.
"You can have a Windows machine to play those games on but I won't fix it when it messes up. I have to tolerate MS at work; I won't tolerate it in my free time. If you want Windows, you will have to learn to fix it yourself when it goes wrong."
The no-sex threat was a pure bluff....ever notice that is always the first gun to get dragged out if a guy stands his ground?
There are only so many possible decrypts that make sense in the first place. One component of an OTP attacking machine would a natural language parser. Decrypt candidates with "bad" and "moo" in them would definitely merit further analysis. Furthermore, context will rule out a hell of a lot more. If you're monitoring hell I dunno... neo-nazis you suspect of a string of bank robberies then decrypt candidates with strings like "case", "joint", and "heil the furher" would be mighty interesting.
The possible number of messages in a short message is not insurmountable with current technology. This is especially true if you are seeking "intelligence" rather than "evidence".
Of course, given a sufficiently long message text none of this will work. Short messages are still securable for that matter. They just have to be padded before and after with large and random amounts of pad.