Your age is showing. I remember Mosaic.I remember accessing Yahoo as a one page list at Stanford. Trumpet Winsock, with a wedge that let it work with Netware. There was more to be had on Gopher, but I was convinced Mosaic was the way to go. My co-workers were sold on Lotus Notes and thought the web was just a toy.
We own a lot to the folks who brought us Gopher, Mosaic, WAIS, Trumpet Winsock, Archie,... often the work of just one or two dedicated folks.
I walked Windows 1.4 on my IBM Portable, 8088, 512KB RAM, monochrom CGI screen. Logitech three button serial port mouse. I did write "ran" but it felt dishonest.
I remember MS sales material -- Byte magazine ads? -- that extolled the virtues of tiled windows. Seems they believed users would find overlapping windows confusing. Then 2.0 came out with overlapping windows and all was forgotten.
I remember how an Apple Lisa salesman had to preset the spreadsheet and word processor windows because they took so long to open. Didn't want the prospective buyer to see that.
Recall how amazed you were the first time you saw X on a hi-res monitor? I could read mail and edit a paper at the same time, side by side, and still have room for a cool analog clock. Windows 3.x looked like a kiddie toy.
According to Robin Williams, who as an alien should know what he is talking about, hydrogen as fuel for cars should be avoided. Remember the Hindenburg? Personally I don't car about the fuel, I just want my flying car.
More impotantly, there is nothing of interest here, even for nerds. The Jobs is going to be questioned. Oh gosh. Start those fies burning, we're gonna roast him.
Right.
Let us know when you have the transcripts. That will be stuff that matters.
Don't just blame the music industry, the attorneys will get most of the dough, leaving a few pennies on the dollar for the plaintiffs. So, how much IS 75 trillion pennies? And how much does that weigh?
The PLATO concept was ahead of its time, but the eventual marketing plan was not. Originally developed at University of Illinois, participation by remote schools was virtually free. Once the concept was proven the technology was sold, as was common then and now, and the buyer charged more than schools could pay.
What PLATO did demonstrate was people's desire to interact. Not only games, but with a primitive form of Email.
PLATO has been an inspiration in my own educational concept, the Open Slate Project. We would be delighted to have more participants, especially from the Slashdot community. Slate tech is moving fast and I am finding it hard to keep up.
One wonders how many other situations like this exist, where critical system tools are basically handled by one person, or a tiny group.
When Unix was on its way to becoming a document processing system the programmer who wrote the formatter was killed in an auto accident. The team that took up the task of completing the program found his code so impenetrable that they abandoned it and started over. The original formatter was named roff, short for run off. The replacement was named nroff, new run off. IIRC this made Unix late for its premier as a document processing system. Eventually this was rewritten to be open-source, and named groff, which is still used to format man pages. Definitely deserving the title of useful software, but is there anyone out there who really understands how it works? All those traps and triggers?
The rationale is that computers make illegal copies on CDs and USB sticks so CDs and USB memory sticks must be taxed proportionally to their the space of storage they offer.
[snip]
I thought this was too devious for Microsoft to dream up on their own. But is it possible for the French government (or any government) to be more devious than Microsoft? Reminds me of a visit to the optometrist: which is better, #1, or #2?
Wired's duty to protect their sources is more important to the nation -- the people -- than helping the government to prosecute those sources. Democracy demands freedom of the press.
This argument is based on a very narrow definition of "commercial." If someone offered CC music on a "Best Love Songs" collection, which sold for $14.99, then yes, that would be commercial use. Let's assume that in this case the ad income goes to offset the production costs. Even the GPL allows copyright owners to charge a duplication fee... "free" is not necessarily zero cost.
Whether or not I am right, the distributor has no obligation to include any particular music, for whatever reason. Arguing legality will not lead to a solution. That will take the distributor to change their position on CC content. Write to them.
Without copyright, old son, you'd likely not have a textbook. People still generally have this whole "pay me for my knowledge" defect, you see. I know you think information "wants to be free", but it's actually "freeloaders want information to be free", and the producers of information have a lot more value to society than the freeloaders do.
The Internet, by which we participate in this conversation, was created by people willing to think and plan and code not for personal monetary gain but for the betterment of society. Fame and glory. There is no reason this will not work for textbooks. The Open Slate Project advocates fully integrating tablet computers into secondary education, and open source content ranging from Ebooks to apps. The content piece is called Chalk Dust.
Reminds me of the plot of "On Wings of Eagles." EDS was implementing a national ID card system which went beyong the population's threshold. I sure hope we do not see a similar outcome in this case.
This argument does not apply to adults participating in a democracy. It assumes there is a better informed, fully empowered parent. The closest thing to that would be a king, and I don't want one. And I do not want people insisting that God wants me to bathe.
Being different from Windows is a good thing. I use Gnome because I was looking for a clean, simple UI, like an old Mac, for other people to use. I actually prefer Enlightenment and all those beautiful game-like looks. I am all in favor of creativity.
I too float the Smalltalk balloon. My interest in educational software leads me to Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/) but I have heard good things about Pharo, especially if the goal is to produce something that looks more businesslike. There will always be a need for systems software written in C, but nothing beats Smalltalk for rapid development.
Slashdot Mirror
What do we call this new Cold War? The Even Colder War? The Cyburr War? The Big Chill ... no, that's taken. The China Sindrome? Too obscure?
Your age is showing. I remember Mosaic.I remember accessing Yahoo as a one page list at Stanford. Trumpet Winsock, with a wedge that let it work with Netware. There was more to be had on Gopher, but I was convinced Mosaic was the way to go. My co-workers were sold on Lotus Notes and thought the web was just a toy.
We own a lot to the folks who brought us Gopher, Mosaic, WAIS, Trumpet Winsock, Archie, ... often the work of just one or two dedicated folks.
I walked Windows 1.4 on my IBM Portable, 8088, 512KB RAM, monochrom CGI screen. Logitech three button serial port mouse. I did write "ran" but it felt dishonest.
I remember MS sales material -- Byte magazine ads? -- that extolled the virtues of tiled windows. Seems they believed users would find overlapping windows confusing. Then 2.0 came out with overlapping windows and all was forgotten.
I remember how an Apple Lisa salesman had to preset the spreadsheet and word processor windows because they took so long to open. Didn't want the prospective buyer to see that.
Recall how amazed you were the first time you saw X on a hi-res monitor? I could read mail and edit a paper at the same time, side by side, and still have room for a cool analog clock. Windows 3.x looked like a kiddie toy.
Made me think of a Vanuatu namba. Those are held in place by a sharp stick, which involves a piercing. Ouch!
Are there tsunamis on Bespin? Imagine, homework swept away by tibanna gas.
If only Rupert Murdoch would buy Microsoft. Then we would have a single source for all this "news."
Oh yeah, this takes me back ... except I was talking to an early Xenix box. Kermit was everywhere, THE standard, slow but ultra reliable.
According to Robin Williams, who as an alien should know what he is talking about, hydrogen as fuel for cars should be avoided. Remember the Hindenburg? Personally I don't car about the fuel, I just want my flying car.
More impotantly, there is nothing of interest here, even for nerds. The Jobs is going to be questioned. Oh gosh. Start those fies burning, we're gonna roast him.
Right.
Let us know when you have the transcripts. That will be stuff that matters.
Don't just blame the music industry, the attorneys will get most of the dough, leaving a few pennies on the dollar for the plaintiffs. So, how much IS 75 trillion pennies? And how much does that weigh?
The PLATO concept was ahead of its time, but the eventual marketing plan was not. Originally developed at University of Illinois, participation by remote schools was virtually free. Once the concept was proven the technology was sold, as was common then and now, and the buyer charged more than schools could pay.
What PLATO did demonstrate was people's desire to interact. Not only games, but with a primitive form of Email.
PLATO has been an inspiration in my own educational concept, the Open Slate Project. We would be delighted to have more participants, especially from the Slashdot community. Slate tech is moving fast and I am finding it hard to keep up.
One wonders how many other situations like this exist, where critical system tools are basically handled by one person, or a tiny group.
When Unix was on its way to becoming a document processing system the programmer who wrote the formatter was killed in an auto accident. The team that took up the task of completing the program found his code so impenetrable that they abandoned it and started over. The original formatter was named roff, short for run off. The replacement was named nroff, new run off. IIRC this made Unix late for its premier as a document processing system. Eventually this was rewritten to be open-source, and named groff, which is still used to format man pages. Definitely deserving the title of useful software, but is there anyone out there who really understands how it works? All those traps and triggers?
As long as we're making a list ...
Don Estridge (IBM), legitimized PCs in business office
Alan Kay (Xerox PARC, Disney) - Dynabook, Smalltalk, Squeak, the father of all GUIs.
The rationale is that computers make illegal copies on CDs and USB sticks so CDs and USB memory sticks must be taxed proportionally to their the space of storage they offer.
[snip]
I thought this was too devious for Microsoft to dream up on their own. But is it possible for the French government (or any government) to be more devious than Microsoft? Reminds me of a visit to the optometrist: which is better, #1, or #2?
Wired's duty to protect their sources is more important to the nation -- the people -- than helping the government to prosecute those sources. Democracy demands freedom of the press.
This is nothing but a get rich quick scheme for Lawyers.
Same bunch chasing after drug companies, so many ads on TV these days, "Were you or anyone you know injured or killed after taking Dr. Zonk's Elixer?"
A lot in common with patent trolls, waste lots of people's time and money hoping to strike gold.
Um, shouldn't that be Oracle collects a license fee ... ?
This argument is based on a very narrow definition of "commercial." If someone offered CC music on a "Best Love Songs" collection, which sold for $14.99, then yes, that would be commercial use. Let's assume that in this case the ad income goes to offset the production costs. Even the GPL allows copyright owners to charge a duplication fee ... "free" is not necessarily zero cost.
Whether or not I am right, the distributor has no obligation to include any particular music, for whatever reason. Arguing legality will not lead to a solution. That will take the distributor to change their position on CC content. Write to them.
"Please insert disk for drive B and press any key to continue."
Unless of course you have the luxury of two floppy disk drives.
Actually, b:\ looks like a dyslexic smiley.
Someone's been reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
The Internet, by which we participate in this conversation, was created by people willing to think and plan and code not for personal monetary gain but for the betterment of society. Fame and glory. There is no reason this will not work for textbooks. The Open Slate Project advocates fully integrating tablet computers into secondary education, and open source content ranging from Ebooks to apps. The content piece is called Chalk Dust.
If this sort of thing appeals to you, consider joining our SourceForge mailing list.
MIT has been doing great work with Open Courseware.
Reminds me of the plot of "On Wings of Eagles." EDS was implementing a national ID card system which went beyong the population's threshold. I sure hope we do not see a similar outcome in this case.
This argument does not apply to adults participating in a democracy. It assumes there is a better informed, fully empowered parent. The closest thing to that would be a king, and I don't want one. And I do not want people insisting that God wants me to bathe.
Being different from Windows is a good thing. I use Gnome because I was looking for a clean, simple UI, like an old Mac, for other people to use. I actually prefer Enlightenment and all those beautiful game-like looks. I am all in favor of creativity.
http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/e16
http://e17-stuff.org/
http://www.enlightenment.org/
I too float the Smalltalk balloon. My interest in educational software leads me to Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/) but I have heard good things about Pharo, especially if the goal is to produce something that looks more businesslike. There will always be a need for systems software written in C, but nothing beats Smalltalk for rapid development.