Early adopters not being able to shake the infastructure that they have built, and the people who get on later get the best stuff.
To me the FOSS situation is just like the telco & cable situation. Here in the good old USA we have an infastructure that is old and needs replacing (maybe wireless or fiber) and we know how it do it but can't shake loose the change. But in developing countries they are puting in the current best fit.
Here in corp. USA we are saddled with MicroSnot and some mentality which will not let us move forward. But in developing countries they don't have that problem and they also don't have the notion that in order for it be good it must cost a lot. So they will get away from the MicroSnot tax and forward the march of FOSS in to the glory it deserves.
Wouldn't it be nice if the next version of MS Office came with filters to import files from OpenOffice so that the corp USA types can read the files that the rest of the world will be making.
He is total flamebait. I remember reading his articals in some deadtree rag in 1990 about Unix taking over the desktop. He has been spouting retoric and getting paid (quite hansomly I bet) for a long time. Now he is with ABC? I am sure it is just an internship with a stipend (sic).
Honestly though someone should chart his predictions and see how well he has done over the years. Then we could rate his usefullness. My guess is that he is about 10% timely, 10% interseting, and 80% flamebait.
They should have put their message in the web servers executable so that when it gets slashdotted it could just shit itself and we could still get how it works.
This has been a real problem for a very long time in many industrial applications. And it is not limited to the OS but the box as well.
The temptation is way to great for the bean counters and greedy sales typs to switch the robust hardware and OS for the commodity type and save a bundle up front.
Consider a $500 PC and an $2500 industrial PC. If you let the bean counter do the math he will tell you about the 3ghz P4, GeForce 4 100 gig hdd v. the P3 20 gig with an average video card.
Then you explain that the OS's have the same disparity in cost and he starts to get confused
I have said many times before that we have Windows not because it was best but because it was cheapest. Same with the clone PC. MS got to be the default OS because it was generaly 50% of what the other OS's were.
Now when it comes to saving lives the cost should not matter, however, it is still a business. And there are still bean counters and greedy sales people who get to make some very powerful decisions.
With progress and competitive improvements. Just think about the intel effort that would have been put into IA64 if AMD had not been so good. The reverse will be better too when AMD counters with another round.
There will be another (hopefully better) IE too, all thanks to some very good competition from Mozilla and Opera and others.
The whole looking for life in the known universe should be done, but but the actual hopes of being in the right place and the right time is so astronomicaly huge (pun intended) that any rational thinker would concider this much more improbable than the state lottery.
The other side of it is also the quick shots like this artical. There are billions of solar systems out there and we now have a sample of 100 and then there is this quick guess that we are alone....
We have possessed the ability to examine other planets for about a decade, and the ability to explore space for about 4 decades. The earth has supported intelligent life for thousands of years but been in existance for billions.
You have to assume that the other planets intelligent life has a timeline similar to ours. The odds of any timelines colliding have to way higher than hitting the lottery.
So does any of this surprise us? No but it should disgust us. US$793M for rights to broadcast seems a bit rediculous.
However this has been the way it has always been. There is a nice artical in Smithsonian this month about how the ancient Greeks actually did it and there was pleanty of bribery, profits, and raking in the dough back then too.
I have a Sony Vaio SR17 and I think that it is still a great notebook even thought it is 3 years old. However the batterys on these little beastys suck.
My first battery died after a few months and Sony's policy on batterys is 30 days. Now I have 2 after market batterys and I just tried to use them in a trip. I discharged each battery and charged them fully. When I stuck the first battery in to use it there was no power, the second gave me about 1.5 hrs. After charging them again in the hotel I was able to use them each for about 1.5 hrs.
There is the "Start" button which reveals the program listings and there is the CDE type dock system. Syllable seems to have the Start button. With all the different OS's there should be more than 2 menu mechanism's.
I actually liked Program Manager.
I guess everyone is trying to give the new users a break.
The exchange rate is now about.70 USD. So I figure that this comes down to between US$262.5 and USD$350, for the Microsoft tax for the next 4 years. For the respective 15M - 20M Austrailian Dollar.
If they would have gone the route of switching to open source there would have been a penalty up front of switching the 40,000 people to a different platform and converting the files and fixing problems. Which is not a nice calculatable, negotiatable number, and scares the bejesus out of any bean counter.
But.... in 4 years what next number are they going to talking about cutting? If it were OSS then there would be nothing to cut. The costs are in making the move, after the move is done the cost reduce to what ever it takes to keep it running.
Printers have been sold w/o a cable forever. And the computer that you would attach them too would also not have one. I also bet that the cassette deck that you bought in 1992 did not come with the necessary patch cord as well. Nor did the CD player that you replaced it with in 1995......
This is such an obvious problem I can not believe it made the news. What the parent to this post proposed should work. I believe it could also be called a bastion host on a perimeter network.
Page 107 of the O'Rielly Building Internet Firewalls
There is a great deal of work that should be reviewed by anyone concidering Linux sound / video production and I am supprized that someone has not mentioned it yet.
Planet CCRMA is awesome! This is such a good start for everyone who says "I am not geeky enough to get {insert package here} working". I suspect that the FC2 iso's are close to coming out, the ones for FC1 are excelent. You basicly install FC and then there is a kernel iso and an app iso which installs most of the known linux sound apps. The mailing list is also quite active and the people very helpful.
This would really smell after a while. Nothing quite like fish debris warmed up. Especially if the curent state of your "cave" is anything like the average/.'er whom Mom has given up on (read: pigstye).
They have the courage to choose to be different. That in itself has alot to say about them. I still get the same old question from PC users about what software runs on a Mac.
The same can be said for people that bother to use Mozilla (outside of the/. crowd). It has always amazed me that we can choose from a plethora of car types, colors, and sizes. Joe Sixpack can tell the avantages of each but ask him to explain anything about computers and you will get a blank stare.
Althought this app is interesting I am wondering how long it will be before getting ported away from IE requiremnents. Although I don't know how you would search the computer for files from the sandbox.
I am also wondering how long it will be before the tide changes and we see Mozilla and friends as the req browser?
If the policy's were consistant. For instance the network was isolated and all programs were run through a proxy to get to the Internet, if allowed at all, no attachements on email, real security on all the data all the way around. It is there data after all.
Is bceause everyone who has any intrest in them have a computer museum of their own.
Look at my house. In the attic is an Mac Clasic (which I am sure that I will find a use for one day) a bunch of old PC's and parts from god knows what gizmo. If my wife would let me I have a BeBox, an SGI O2, beer fridge made out of an old mainframe....
I bet everyone that posted to this artical has the same as me.
try out a website that is done in frames with links then compare that to linx. links has really come far in useability and I am sure learned a bit from linx.
and the pro mac open source parts and this artical has some very interesting meat and potatoes.
Office and Windows can not provide the revenue stream that they once did. Cheap computers are here to stay and free software that is good enough for the average everyday Joe rocks the world.
So what is going to happen in a couple of years when the Microsoft tax is repealed? What will the company do to replace that revenue stream? I see some serious questions here.
Just consider the Walmart example (which used to run on Lindows). If the average Joe can get by on a (pretty nice) $300 machine that comes chocked full of software, why would he buy one for a great deal more, and get a barebones OS with a couple of little apps? Seriously there is a big difference in what you get with Lindows and Windows. When people start selling that notion watch out. Microsoft should do a full port Gnome and KDE if they had any sence.
I think that the big crush is going to come when the average everyday business wakes up and says no to the Microsoft tax.
I would imagine that a wristwatch that can do voice processing and movie rendering.
This would seem to hand in hand with the current thinking on on the fly OCR/language translation. I watched a show last night about a camera and PDA gizmo that could translate a road sign for you. I think that one did it via a server based imageing system. But if you do all that internal the posiblilites are endless, and hopefully not trivial, like SMP pong or really fancy ringtones.
low electical power + high CPU power == quick results and small size that does not require a radio flyer full of batteries.
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Early adopters not being able to shake the infastructure that they have built, and the people who get on later get the best stuff.
To me the FOSS situation is just like the telco & cable situation. Here in the good old USA we have an infastructure that is old and needs replacing (maybe wireless or fiber) and we know how it do it but can't shake loose the change. But in developing countries they are puting in the current best fit.
Here in corp. USA we are saddled with MicroSnot and some mentality which will not let us move forward. But in developing countries they don't have that problem and they also don't have the notion that in order for it be good it must cost a lot. So they will get away from the MicroSnot tax and forward the march of FOSS in to the glory it deserves.
Wouldn't it be nice if the next version of MS Office came with filters to import files from OpenOffice so that the corp USA types can read the files that the rest of the world will be making.
He is total flamebait. I remember reading his articals in some deadtree rag in 1990 about Unix taking over the desktop. He has been spouting retoric and getting paid (quite hansomly I bet) for a long time. Now he is with ABC? I am sure it is just an internship with a stipend (sic).
Honestly though someone should chart his predictions and see how well he has done over the years. Then we could rate his usefullness. My guess is that he is about 10% timely, 10% interseting, and 80% flamebait.
They should have put their message in the web servers executable so that when it gets slashdotted it could just shit itself and we could still get how it works.
Point, click, Administrator?
How can they take advantage of LSASS on Mac OSX?
Unless I am mistaken LSASS is unique to Win2k, XP, and 2003.
This has been a real problem for a very long time in many industrial applications. And it is not limited to the OS but the box as well.
The temptation is way to great for the bean counters and greedy sales typs to switch the robust hardware and OS for the commodity type and save a bundle up front.
Consider a $500 PC and an $2500 industrial PC. If you let the bean counter do the math he will tell you about the 3ghz P4, GeForce 4 100 gig hdd v. the P3 20 gig with an average video card.
Then you explain that the OS's have the same disparity in cost and he starts to get confused
I have said many times before that we have Windows not because it was best but because it was cheapest. Same with the clone PC. MS got to be the default OS because it was generaly 50% of what the other OS's were.
Now when it comes to saving lives the cost should not matter, however, it is still a business. And there are still bean counters and greedy sales people who get to make some very powerful decisions.
With progress and competitive improvements. Just think about the intel effort that would have been put into IA64 if AMD had not been so good. The reverse will be better too when AMD counters with another round.
There will be another (hopefully better) IE too, all thanks to some very good competition from Mozilla and Opera and others.
The whole looking for life in the known universe should be done, but but the actual hopes of being in the right place and the right time is so astronomicaly huge (pun intended) that any rational thinker would concider this much more improbable than the state lottery.
The other side of it is also the quick shots like this artical. There are billions of solar systems out there and we now have a sample of 100 and then there is this quick guess that we are alone....
We have possessed the ability to examine other planets for about a decade, and the ability to explore space for about 4 decades. The earth has supported intelligent life for thousands of years but been in existance for billions.
You have to assume that the other planets intelligent life has a timeline similar to ours. The odds of any timelines colliding have to way higher than hitting the lottery.
So does any of this surprise us?
No but it should disgust us. US$793M for rights to broadcast seems a bit rediculous.
However this has been the way it has always been. There is a nice artical in Smithsonian this month about how the ancient Greeks actually did it and there was pleanty of bribery, profits, and raking in the dough back then too.
I have a Sony Vaio SR17 and I think that it is still a great notebook even thought it is 3 years old. However the batterys on these little beastys suck.
My first battery died after a few months and Sony's policy on batterys is 30 days. Now I have 2 after market batterys and I just tried to use them in a trip. I discharged each battery and charged them fully. When I stuck the first battery in to use it there was no power, the second gave me about 1.5 hrs. After charging them again in the hotel I was able to use them each for about 1.5 hrs.
Love the notebook hate the batterys.
Or is there only 2 different menu systems now?
There is the "Start" button which reveals the program listings and there is the CDE type dock system. Syllable seems to have the Start button. With all the different OS's there should be more than 2 menu mechanism's.
I actually liked Program Manager.
I guess everyone is trying to give the new users a break.
The exchange rate is now about .70 USD. So I figure that this comes down to between US$262.5 and USD$350, for the Microsoft tax for the next 4 years. For the respective 15M - 20M Austrailian Dollar.
If they would have gone the route of switching to open source there would have been a penalty up front of switching the 40,000 people to a different platform and converting the files and fixing problems. Which is not a nice calculatable, negotiatable number, and scares the bejesus out of any bean counter.
But.... in 4 years what next number are they going to talking about cutting? If it were OSS then there would be nothing to cut. The costs are in making the move, after the move is done the cost reduce to what ever it takes to keep it running.
In the cube next to me I saw an engineer apply 120v in to the DataHighway port of a AB SLC 5/04 PLC.
When the snap, crackle, and poof was quickly over, he looked up at us and said:
"You know when you let the smoke out of these magic devices they stop working."
Printers have been sold w/o a cable forever. And the computer that you would attach them too would also not have one. I also bet that the cassette deck that you bought in 1992 did not come with the necessary patch cord as well. Nor did the CD player that you replaced it with in 1995......
This is such an obvious problem I can not believe it made the news. What the parent to this post proposed should work. I believe it could also be called a bastion host on a perimeter network.
Page 107 of the O'Rielly Building Internet Firewalls
There is a great deal of work that should be reviewed by anyone concidering Linux sound / video production and I am supprized that someone has not mentioned it yet.
Planet CCRMA is awesome! This is such a good start for everyone who says "I am not geeky enough to get {insert package here} working". I suspect that the FC2 iso's are close to coming out, the ones for FC1 are excelent. You basicly install FC and then there is a kernel iso and an app iso which installs most of the known linux sound apps. The mailing list is also quite active and the people very helpful.
Strong work from Fernando Lopez-Lezcano!!!
I can see it now:
They have the courage to choose to be different. That in itself has alot to say about them. I still get the same old question from PC users about what software runs on a Mac.
/. crowd). It has always amazed me that we can choose from a plethora of car types, colors, and sizes. Joe Sixpack can tell the avantages of each but ask him to explain anything about computers and you will get a blank stare.
The same can be said for people that bother to use Mozilla (outside of the
Althought this app is interesting I am wondering how long it will be before getting ported away from IE requiremnents. Although I don't know how you would search the computer for files from the sandbox.
I am also wondering how long it will be before the tide changes and we see Mozilla and friends as the req browser?
If the policy's were consistant. For instance the network was isolated and all programs were run through a proxy to get to the Internet, if allowed at all, no attachements on email, real security on all the data all the way around. It is there data after all.
Is bceause everyone who has any intrest in them have a computer museum of their own.
Look at my house. In the attic is an Mac Clasic (which I am sure that I will find a use for one day) a bunch of old PC's and parts from god knows what gizmo. If my wife would let me I have a BeBox, an SGI O2, beer fridge made out of an old mainframe....
I bet everyone that posted to this artical has the same as me.
try out a website that is done in frames with links then compare that to linx. links has really come far in useability and I am sure learned a bit from linx.
and the pro mac open source parts and this artical has some very interesting meat and potatoes.
Office and Windows can not provide the revenue stream that they once did. Cheap computers are here to stay and free software that is good enough for the average everyday Joe rocks the world.
So what is going to happen in a couple of years when the Microsoft tax is repealed? What will the company do to replace that revenue stream? I see some serious questions here.
Just consider the Walmart example (which used to run on Lindows). If the average Joe can get by on a (pretty nice) $300 machine that comes chocked full of software, why would he buy one for a great deal more, and get a barebones OS with a couple of little apps? Seriously there is a big difference in what you get with Lindows and Windows. When people start selling that notion watch out. Microsoft should do a full port Gnome and KDE if they had any sence.
I think that the big crush is going to come when the average everyday business wakes up and says no to the Microsoft tax.
It is all Audrey's fault.
I would imagine that a wristwatch that can do voice processing and movie rendering.
This would seem to hand in hand with the current thinking on on the fly OCR/language translation. I watched a show last night about a camera and PDA gizmo that could translate a road sign for you. I think that one did it via a server based imageing system. But if you do all that internal the posiblilites are endless, and hopefully not trivial, like SMP pong or really fancy ringtones.
low electical power + high CPU power == quick results and small size that does not require a radio flyer full of batteries.
The average life of a console (even one which is mostly a PC) seems to be measured in years, but we get a new PC's from Sony every quarter.
Does not Moore's law apply to game console's?