I agree with your concept but not the specifics: someone building $1599 system couldn't throw $999 on the processor, what with their markup having the parts cost somewhere between $900-1300. I'd believe it for a $2500 or $3500 system.
It's your internet-incapable Windows/Linux/BSD/Plan 9/HURD/Be/Zeta/Symbian/AmigaOS* system not being able to handle the new Unicorn&Sasquatch Video Experience that is embedded in the story.
*: AmigaOS had this capability from day one, but a lack of advertising means I'm unaware of this fact.
It's the ninth-circle-of-hell compiler optimisation. It does some form of distributed computation using hell's citizens' bones for data storage and avian carriers for data transfer, and will protect your Windows box from spyware because its binaries are more evil.
Because I'm a minor ARM fanatic, they list the ARM7500 system-chip as a milestone in 1994 and ARM7500FE in 1996. Perhaps not putting the system RAM on the chip excludes it from being a true SoC in IBM's terms. Unless IBM wish us to believe that they invented the universe...
I was going to post the same thing, but just above here "Moby Cock" points to the Wikipedia article about Microsoft's Blackcomb project, the thing intended to follow Vista, for which this guy's skills may be relevant.
Like the class-action suit about your overheating power bricks?:P
These words from Allard, repeated throughout this gutsy interview, are the proof that the limited availability is more about public beta testing than production shortages, the hype machine or any thing else.
(Also: Allard was on form with his 'I'm so excited I could *POP*' attitude.)
How does one get this paid rôle as a Troll? Is it like that iPod/LCD monitor 'pyramid' thing? I'm going to need money either to buy better computer parts or get a flat outside my parents' basement (where I use GNOME).
If only you could swap the HDD for one of a respectable size: the 20GB disk supplied at the moment can't hold more than three 4.7 GB DVD's. I also suspect that ISO isn't the correct terminology for an XBOX 306 disk image...
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 17:46 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
Everyone on this list knows the Linux desktop is in a "pick your poison" state right now.
Anyone who's used Linux for a year has experienced this, whatever choices they've made of desktop environment, settings, etc.
We can snipe at each other all day long. (Linus, every time I copy large files between devices on my Linux system my mouse pointer skips. It works fine on my Mac). That's not productive.
Usability is important. Usability encompasses multiple things: functionality, robustness, performance, sensible user interface design. We all need to do a better job of this (insert usability testing/betterdesktop.org plug here).
Yes, some GNOME developers are self-appointed control freak antifeature nazis who've stripped functionality in pursuit of some theoretical "non geek" user who does not exist, thereby crippling their software.
And probably some KDE developers are feature sluts who never saw a checkbox they didn't love, exposing users to all kinds of broken features.
Follow either of these ideas to their logical extremes and we won't have a useful desktop for a large user base.
We need Linux to grow up if we're going to make Linux on the desktop a success. Let's have a grown-up discussion. If I worked for Microsoft I'd be very happy to see you throwing pejoratives around like that on this list.
So, yes, usability is important and Linus being able to bind his mouse buttons to whatever he wants is important, I guess. But it's probably not what's stopping Linux from dominating the desktop market. What's holding Linux back on the desktop? Applications, device support. Time, also. The printing dialog? I don't know.
(By the way, on my GNOME machine at home, there is code running that parses the options from the PPD file and makes a GUI out of them. Maybe this ships in SUSE but not in whatever distro Till is using?)
And how did these readers find him in the first place? By using established internet listings tools. I would be astounded if people who had previously found his podcast were incapable of doing it again. This time they are aware of his brand `Erik's Diner' and can look out for that, despite it's relative inconvenience.
No, I did read the article and understand well what is going on. Like Linus said "backups are for wimps, real men upload to public FTP", this guy is uploading his podcasts to a prominent place on his web site and letting others read the file. His assumption that everyone must use his RSS feed to access the work is naive and wrong. Further, he's using his RSS file (and not others cloned from it) to track site visitors, but there are more people out there than use that file. When their access method changes, he's scared he's lost fans.
I was impressed with his "spending a lot of time lately with folks around the mid-Atlantic region", which to me means he's been on a beach in the Seychelles (too much Sun?) or swimming with Dolphins. Perhaps the Dolphins are key movers in the Web2.0 idea.
BTW: Doesn't a "ballistic trajectory" mean something's going to bomb?
He's losing listeners? I don't buy that: the people who want to hear Erik's Diner will make sure that they hear Erik by getting genuine Vegan.com goodness. I still think that this guy is whining about not keeping control of his brand. Blogs and Podcasts need to control their brand, because they are free content consumed by people who read because of their opinions, views and outlook. Positioning is key and a vital part of media-savvy skills. I'm sorry that Erik had to learn that lesson the hard way.
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His RSS feed was no longer the unique source of downloaders, that's all. The guy had and has many listeners who found access to his podcast through non-sanctioned mirrors of his RSS feed. He thought he controlled the access to his podcast via his RSS feed, but the Internet has lots of redundancy -- without his realising so. Someone else found his material via other means, for which he isn't able to track site visitors, and this upset him. I'm not really sympathetic.
Perhaps there is mileage in protecting one aggregator of news on the web, but you hardly see Taco complaining that ArsTechnica and Digg find ways to present the same news resources to their readers.
I had iTunes bomb out on me while importing stuff. It's been better behaved (but not flawless) since doing an uninstall-reinstall of QuickTime 7.0.3, which I recommend you should do.
(WinXPProSP2/FireFox 1.5 is fine with that iTunes page.)
But OSS projects, while well known for their good-of-humanity intentions, rarely manage good-for-everyone design. I don't know of an easy way to achieve that goal.
I've no experience of so-called 'extreme programming' methods, but what would unit-tested development do for stability and bug existence? Surely forcing the software to meet its design from day one, and to be able to eliminate failure by controlling its growth. The problem with Windows will always be legacy cruft: why rewrite it when you have the asset already in front of you? (Or will they GPL-rape Wine, date-rape by lawyers' cease-and-desist or buyout Wine?)
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I agree with your concept but not the specifics: someone building $1599 system couldn't throw $999 on the processor, what with their markup having the parts cost somewhere between $900-1300. I'd believe it for a $2500 or $3500 system.
It's a concept album. Don't you get it, dude?
It's your internet-incapable Windows/Linux/BSD/Plan 9/HURD/Be/Zeta/Symbian/AmigaOS* system not being able to handle the new Unicorn&Sasquatch Video Experience that is embedded in the story.
*: AmigaOS had this capability from day one, but a lack of advertising means I'm unaware of this fact.
It's the ninth-circle-of-hell compiler optimisation. It does some form of distributed computation using hell's citizens' bones for data storage and avian carriers for data transfer, and will protect your Windows box from spyware because its binaries are more evil.
Because I'm a minor ARM fanatic, they list the ARM7500 system-chip as a milestone in 1994 and ARM7500FE in 1996. Perhaps not putting the system RAM on the chip excludes it from being a true SoC in IBM's terms. Unless IBM wish us to believe that they invented the universe...
I was going to post the same thing, but just above here "Moby Cock" points to the Wikipedia article about Microsoft's Blackcomb project, the thing intended to follow Vista, for which this guy's skills may be relevant.
Is there a middle ground where a small amount of planning can mitigate a few large-scale problems (in a genuine use of the 80:20 rule)?
His computer and $sys$porn files will be pwned!
She's not called 'Monica' either.
The Mods may not have found you, but I appreciated what you wrote. Ta.
Like the class-action suit about your overheating power bricks?
These words from Allard, repeated throughout this gutsy interview, are the proof that the limited availability is more about public beta testing than production shortages, the hype machine or any thing else.
(Also: Allard was on form with his 'I'm so excited I could *POP*' attitude.)
How does one get this paid rôle as a Troll? Is it like that iPod/LCD monitor 'pyramid' thing? I'm going to need money either to buy better computer parts or get a flat outside my parents' basement (where I use GNOME).
If only you could swap the HDD for one of a respectable size: the 20GB disk supplied at the moment can't hold more than three 4.7 GB DVD's. I also suspect that ISO isn't the correct terminology for an XBOX 306 disk image...
That should be 'rhetorical', from the Latin word 'torica' meaning 'goes round and round'.
Thanks for the laugh.
And how did these readers find him in the first place? By using established internet listings tools. I would be astounded if people who had previously found his podcast were incapable of doing it again. This time they are aware of his brand `Erik's Diner' and can look out for that, despite it's relative inconvenience.
No, I did read the article and understand well what is going on. Like Linus said "backups are for wimps, real men upload to public FTP", this guy is uploading his podcasts to a prominent place on his web site and letting others read the file. His assumption that everyone must use his RSS feed to access the work is naive and wrong. Further, he's using his RSS file (and not others cloned from it) to track site visitors, but there are more people out there than use that file. When their access method changes, he's scared he's lost fans.
I was impressed with his "spending a lot of time lately with folks around the mid-Atlantic region", which to me means he's been on a beach in the Seychelles (too much Sun?) or swimming with Dolphins. Perhaps the Dolphins are key movers in the Web2.0 idea.
BTW: Doesn't a "ballistic trajectory" mean something's going to bomb?
He's losing listeners? I don't buy that: the people who want to hear Erik's Diner will make sure that they hear Erik by getting genuine Vegan.com goodness. I still think that this guy is whining about not keeping control of his brand. Blogs and Podcasts need to control their brand, because they are free content consumed by people who read because of their opinions, views and outlook. Positioning is key and a vital part of media-savvy skills. I'm sorry that Erik had to learn that lesson the hard way.
His RSS feed was no longer the unique source of downloaders, that's all. The guy had and has many listeners who found access to his podcast through non-sanctioned mirrors of his RSS feed. He thought he controlled the access to his podcast via his RSS feed, but the Internet has lots of redundancy -- without his realising so. Someone else found his material via other means, for which he isn't able to track site visitors, and this upset him. I'm not really sympathetic.
Perhaps there is mileage in protecting one aggregator of news on the web, but you hardly see Taco complaining that ArsTechnica and Digg find ways to present the same news resources to their readers.
I had iTunes bomb out on me while importing stuff. It's been better behaved (but not flawless) since doing an uninstall-reinstall of QuickTime 7.0.3, which I recommend you should do.
(WinXPProSP2/FireFox 1.5 is fine with that iTunes page.)
But OSS projects, while well known for their good-of-humanity intentions, rarely manage good-for-everyone design. I don't know of an easy way to achieve that goal.
It's forgivable -- have you seen the number of Ubuntu users asking Debian people for support?
I've no experience of so-called 'extreme programming' methods, but what would unit-tested development do for stability and bug existence? Surely forcing the software to meet its design from day one, and to be able to eliminate failure by controlling its growth. The problem with Windows will always be legacy cruft: why rewrite it when you have the asset already in front of you? (Or will they GPL-rape Wine, date-rape by lawyers' cease-and-desist or buyout Wine?)