Be isn't looking to supplant Windows. Their goal is peaceful coexistance. If you re-read the story, you will see that they want to be dual-booted or launched from an icon on the Windows desktop. This is in-line with their goal of building a specialized multimedia OS, complementing the general purpose Windows.
And as for Be thanking Linux: For what? Linux inherited the alt-OS-du-jour crown from OS/2, who inherited it from DR-DOS. Linux and BeOS are just lucky enough to be around at a time when traditional media outlets consider computer stories newsworthy.
Those of you saying "borrow an iMac or 95 machine" are missing the point. You can swap out your "approved" OS/machine for your prefferred one and bask in the glory of having fooled Bell Atlantic, but that doesn't solve the problem.
Bell Atlantic is giving their on-site techs a script, telling them to follow that script, and punt if anything deviates from that script. I've seen this mentality before: "Our trained-chimp techs know more than you, because they work for us."
If you want that to change, you must stand up to Bell Atlantic. If you can't use your non-Intel, non-iMac hardware, your non-Windows, non-MacOS8 operating system, your non-3Com ethernet card, take your business elsewhere. If enough people tell them this upfront, they'll get the message that they can't run a public service like a heavy-handed internal IT department.
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I doubt that they would take PS2 backwards, so I would guess S-Video Out will stay.
According to GameSpot, Playstation 2 will also be "digital TV ready." Whatever that means.
Keith Russell
Be isn't looking to supplant Windows. Their goal is peaceful coexistance. If you re-read the story, you will see that they want to be dual-booted or launched from an icon on the Windows desktop. This is in-line with their goal of building a specialized multimedia OS, complementing the general purpose Windows.
And as for Be thanking Linux: For what? Linux inherited the alt-OS-du-jour crown from OS/2, who inherited it from DR-DOS. Linux and BeOS are just lucky enough to be around at a time when traditional media outlets consider computer stories newsworthy.
Keith Russell
Those of you saying "borrow an iMac or 95 machine" are missing the point. You can swap out your "approved" OS/machine for your prefferred one and bask in the glory of having fooled Bell Atlantic, but that doesn't solve the problem.
Bell Atlantic is giving their on-site techs a script, telling them to follow that script, and punt if anything deviates from that script. I've seen this mentality before: "Our trained-chimp techs know more than you, because they work for us."
If you want that to change, you must stand up to Bell Atlantic. If you can't use your non-Intel, non-iMac hardware, your non-Windows, non-MacOS8 operating system, your non-3Com ethernet card, take your business elsewhere. If enough people tell them this upfront, they'll get the message that they can't run a public service like a heavy-handed internal IT department.