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So unfortunately what you write is not very accellerated.
However, you can license Magician classes, which provide an OS-agnostic 3D interface in Java, and works on Win32, Irix, MacOS... not sure about Linux.
The program I test is Java-based, using these extensions. I'm running on very nice hardware so I couldn't describe how it runs on standard systems without geometry accelleration and hardware OpenGL support.
I didn't read this story last night (I was still pissed bout my linux.com "share the wealth" post being deleted... argh), but I noticed at only a couple of hours this had 260+ comments. Now it's like 500.
The last time this happened/./.'ed itself...
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I have 3 complaints which I will voice here.
1) I posted a sincere comment here and it was unfairly deleted 2) I feel this story was "retired" prematurely.... perhaps because of the content of some posts. 3) The low number of posts here may be attributable to wholesale censorship on Slashdot.
Why is it that we criticize the government and Microsoft for not listening to users, and yet here posting a contrary opinion causes your post to be censored?
My *opinion* was why should an individual receive "over a million" for Linux.com for something that belongs to the community? IMO Linus is the REAL owner of linux.com - he holds the "Linux" trademark. By only a small stretch - isn't Linux.com a "derevitave work" of Linux?
This may not have gone to "the highest bidder", but a million bucks is still alot of cash. And since this is now owned by Intel... OOPS I mean VA, I expect non-Intel support to take a downturn (as it already has with Alpha). We can look the the Intel-->Be example... "What PowerPC port?"
I suggested the money be divvied up between the people who wrote free software. This doesn't have to translate into cash - it could help defray the costs of running FSF website, for example.
I certainly went out of my way to avoid causing any offence, but I see that I did just by stating an opposing opinion. Excuse me for being so freakin idealistic.
I'm very disenheartened by this -- I don't think censorship should be exercised so lightly. I mean no insult by QUESTIONING AUTHORITY here, but isn't the point of a "board" supposed to be a representitive body of the Linux Community. If this is REALLY true then discussion here should not be snuffed out when it raises uncomfortable questions.
Is "the board" really an enforcement body? This is certainly a valueable chokepoint in the community, and something that would be extremely valuable to corporations such as Intel and VA.
1) "Linux" is a trademarked name 2) Linux owns Linux (tm) regardless of who registered it. 3) Linux is a community effort, and proceeds for the sale of the domain name should go to the community at large. I'm sure for example it costs money to drive GNU.ORG, no? 4) Some of this money could go to Slashdot.org also so you can say something "un-politically correct" bad about a/. advertiser without you post getting DELETED.
It's plainly obvious Intel is trying to buy or muscle in so the Linux World Domination, if it happens, will ONLY take place on Intel processors. Intel buys off Be, and no PPC version... Intel buys out VA, and no Alpha or AMD versions...
Every popular revolution that has been thwarted, usually happens because the establishment co-opts the movement by inviting the "elite" for dinner. Microsoft and Intel are famous for this.
It's also exceptionally rude to censor someone's post without notifying them, even if after the fact. I'd like to see WHICH part of my post (in the linux.com article) was "Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated.".
Take a look in an old Sears catalog from way back... old DIY'er/"hacker" types would buy an item from it called a standalone electric motor. you could buy all sorts of wacky attachments for it... like shoe polishers, blenders, etc. My grandfather had one of these setups gathering in the basement.
This sounds exactly how we use computers today. True, you are saving money by adding components onto your computer instead of everything standalone, but don't expect the market to support your way of doing things forever. We have computers in the telephone, car, tele, and so on.
Sure, they are not programmable computers, but that's also the point. Only a minority of the world's population use desktop computers. You have to not think in terms of CPU and harddrive.
Apple gets it... look at the demand for the iMac (leave Apple biggotry at the door please..).
3 Com gets it with the Palm computers.
Microsoft doesn't get it with WinCE, which just looks like an effort to stuff a desktop into a smaller device, rather than trying to explore new ideas and change the way we work. (Of course, they could be just trying to dillute the handheld market the way they strategized screwing over Java , and developers).
Someday we'll all sit back smokin cigars and drinkin whiskey, laughing about all this...
It would be nice if Troll Tech opened QT *all* the way, but they only opened it enough still controll it, and I'm sure they really weren't opening it as much as they did just to kill Harmony now. Really. This new license is slightly less divisive than the old one, the net effect being we argue amongst ourselves over what "free" really means. TT is just picking their battles and using well meaning people on both sides as shields and cannon fodder.
I use KDE for one month and I don't like it for additional reasons. On MY system (P120/32MB/20GB) it is slow and swaps constantly - even more than Windows 95 with the damn browser extensions. I haven't tried Gnome.99 yet, which may be just as bad on memory - who knows. Opening KDE and Netscape 4.5 on 32 megs causes about a 40 meg swapfile so that even opening a terminal window takes 6 seconds, and I seem to have more mysterious Netscape and X crashes than I ever did without KDE. YUCK!
I like the idea of a *fast* window manager + a launcher program, more than I need a desktop. AfterStep is SO sweet. I think the 1 thing many here can agree on is, fwvm95 really sucks...
Yes, Be was running on PowerPC hardware before, but how can you say it is NOT political when this decision to go Intel-only for future versions COINCIDES with Intel's purchase of a stake in Be??
Building on your arguement, if you accept that Be/PowerPC is a DEAD PRODUCT because it is unsupported, wouldn't it be in Be's best interest to patch for the new CPU's, like those super-smart "freeware" guys do in the Linux community?
Of course, one cannot assume the money Be would make from selling BeOS on PowerPC would be greater than the PAYOFFS Intel slips them.
What a disaster this is for Be public relations. Keeping an open mind, I suppose Be ARE less petty than Microsoft... but this also supports the arguement that they should open SOME of their code. You don't have to give away the jewels to do so either...
It's not just money however.... I think there are some big ego's at Be aww ubset ad da big bad apple...
A good programmer could PROVE your statement by petioning Be for just enough source so they could write their own patch.
The Linux OS team is freaking amazing. We have Linux runnning on at least 6 processors, AND their INTEGRITY can survive an Intel investment!
The ONE QUESTION I have for Be is, would they allow the community to contribute the necessary code to get BeOS working on [horror!] non-Intel based processors. I would be the answer is NO, and this completely KILLS the Be apologist arguement that it's Apple's fault for not providing Be with developer support, because the PowerPC Linux group did it and they don't even get paid for their work.
Greater compression on images only addresses bandwidth issues and completely neglects latency.
We already have JPEG, and and if anything replaces GIF it will be PNG (the sooner the better!). PNG handles "solid" colors well, like GIF, but its an open standard like JPEG is, and supports 8 and 16-bit alpha... rather than the 1-bit alpha "on" and "off" found in GIF 89.
HTTP servers typically start a transfer off relatively slowly, allocating more bandwidth as a file progresses. So unless your image files are really large the server is never reaching potential because it finishes the xfer before increasing the bandwidth. IOW, servers do better with 1 100k file than with 10 10k files.
If the images could be bundled into a container format, like how some Java applets use.JAR, then pages would appear to download more smoothly, especially ones with lots of small images.
Another big waste is "localized" websites that are not at all local. It would help everyone if sites like "Yahoo Boston" were ACTUALLY located *IN* Boston so you weren't dragging a page across the country. It's wasteful. Maintaining a remote webserver is very easy to do if you use UNIX (Yahoo uses BSD..).
Of course, Microsoft's Sidewalk sites can't be remotely maintained because they run on NT [network farms...]. LOL... I wonder what MS' IT budget must be, aside from the fact that they are exempt from hundred thousand dollar NT server licenses...:-D
Nothing will do more to help the web than local caching.
I haven't used my Atari ST and Atari 1200XL in SO long... I'll admit when I was a kid I used to collect this stuff (or was it 'stuph'?)
If my old floppies still work there are probably a few things I can send over. I remember when 90K text files tool FOREVER on my Atari 830 modem (300 baud)... and 90k filled 1 side of a single-density disk. And disk notching.. wow. I feel old.
A lot of the US growth right now is driven by technology companies, mostly software and services. The growth of the internet may have the most short-term benefit for the USA, but in the long term we will have a harder time competing.
Everyone (I use this loosely here) in technology in the US makes good money, and it's easy to lose perspective. How many people do you know that make more money than your general doctor, and will this unbalanced payscale really last? Of course not.
Just like with manufacturing in the US, we will be hit hard once the infrastructure exists. In this case, once enough skilled people exist in a non-USA region where it can support a number of outsourced projects (I'm talking "density" here, like the US Pacific Northwest, New England, and Silicon Valley).
I've already moved all my savings out of funds that hinge on Microsoft, who are doomed since they cannot sustain their empire without the power of owning the desktop (infrastructure). MS will sell MANY FEWER copies of Office once they lose control of the desktop. Even if Linux takes over and Microsoft is forced to port their applications to Linux, and even if they are reasonably well ported. Microsoft will charge a computer maker more for Windows if they bundle applications that compete with Microsoft products, like Office. When Microsoft looses the desktop, stage 2 of their beating begins.
You as a computer maker will add less value if you seland put them in software companies that are less "vulnerable" to OSS projects.
Someday though, programmers will stop putting OTHER people out of work -- and automate their very own job. It's inevitable.
There are ? question mark characters all over the place, which leads me to believe they typed it up in some brain-dead Microsoft product and the quotes got converted to ?'s. (MS doesn't follow character set guidelines, which of course *only* looks bad in non-Microsoft browsers since their browsers aren't standardized either).
Microsoft FUD or clueless techical writer? (bah..)
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It sounds like he approached this subject with preconceived notions. At least he didn't call us "pimply" or "hygene challenged" like last years clueless authors wrote.
He didn't say he tried Linux, and as for the KDE issue the Gnome team is catching up with a desktop without hidden licensing issues. So there... but if you REALLY want to run KDE (and have the extra RAM..) go freaking ahead! Does he expect Linux to have the same desktop look, or is he so cluecless he cannot buy the CD containing what he wants. "[Click] [click] [click].. I'm a computer expert - I can use Windows and a mouse. Microsoft made the internet possible"
He probably first heard of Linux with the Intel investment. Eventually he will be laid off and replaced by someone younger, someone with a clue about technology...
Tim Self, VP Developer Relations of Be, Inc. said; Pentium III's new high performance instructions in conjunction with our flexible approach....
How the hell does a Pentium 3 get CREDIT for running Quake on Be? Notice Be does not reccomend anywhere on their suggested systems pages... NON-INTEL PC's. I won't even dig up the PowerPC issue, even though they still sell but not support that version.
I despise puppets as much as who pulls the strings. At least Red Hat could take an Intel investment without compromising their integrety and licking Intel's face like some scrawny lapdog..
Even if it's motivated in part by their hate for Microsoft.
IBM *really* blew it in the 80's and early 90's. MCA and PS/2's anyone? Oh yeah, and OS/2.
Let's hope the techies driving this (?) at IBM can keep management (?) from screwing things up, like binary-only drivers with closed source. I hope they can find a few tidbits in OS/2 that are worth sharing with us, since by their own quiet admission OS/2 is dead on the desktop, and in mostly in maintanance mode on the server.
Lets see them bundle Creative hardware, and maybe the other hardware vendors will come around and support Linux.
I think we are over that first bump, and now these fence-sitting software vendors will come around. Otherwise, someone'll build a free OSS tool that does the job, like FreeCiv and GIMP. 'Hey, support us or we will assimilate your customers and clone your software!':-D
I say tax all religions for the mafiaso they are. That should keep them distracted long enough that we evolve into a Star Trek utopia of the future, rather than some depressing episode of Paradox.
I wish America got the criminals and Australia got the Puritans (and promptly burned them).
I know this isn't on the front page any longer, but it may help someone.. (then again, don't all/. readers watch Freshmeat also?) Quicktime low level library 0.5.0
I know this isn't on the front page any longer, but it may help someone.. (then again, don't all/. readers watch Freshmeat also?) Quicktime low level library 0.5.0
I was WONDERING when/. would start using the new monochrome Apple logo..
Back OT, I was a HUGE Atari fan from the time of the Atari 400 all the way to 1990, when I had to get a PC for schoolwork (a Mac wasn't even considered because of the price tag at the time).
I lay 100% of the responsibility for Atari at Jack Trammiels feet. They had a few good ideas, the best of which was delivering the most power at the most price, so you had to be plain dumb to prefer a PCjr, which still cost twice what a.5 Mb color ST sold for. GEM wasn't perfect, but it was way ahead of Windows. GEM ended up sucking because Digital stopped maintaining it, some say because of Microsoft pressure (Digital had given up on CPM/GEM and was selling PC's now..)
But in the end the Trammiels just leeched off Atari enthusiasm and stopped innovating. They kept marketing to an absolute min. and skimmed the rest. They kept promising vaporware, and delivered something as horrible as the Jaguar. The jag would have been cool if they delivered it on time, but they chose cheapie Korean manufacturing which delivered non-working systems, setting back launch. Because the Jag was a cart system, and Atari was so stingy, they only sent games to magazines as LOANERS which had to be returned, which was then sent to the next magazine (does anyone see the sense in sending a cart to a game writer 2 months AFTER release? Who reviews old news unless it's a huge hit?). It wasn't TW that killed Atari, it was arrogant management... Amiga owners can also relate to this I am sure.
If these managers were not so petty and greedy, they could have provided competition to Windows even today, protecting some of us from the evil sheriff Bill. PC's may be everywhere today, but the it's only in 1999 do you see $400 E-machines. Atari was providing cheap yet still modern machines 15 years ago, and had JT been aggressive and took outside investment at Atari's peak, they could still be around...
Then again, if we weren't stuck in this current Microsoft Purgatory, and things were a little better -- would as many people be picking up the Linux banner. There's always a silver lining to a mushroom cloud...
Hmmm... since you're the expert I was wondering why you didn't mention the Mac for video editing? Oops.
Even with the imbalance in "overall" market share, a majority of Adobe Premiere users select the Mac as their platform. They probably know something you don't.
The way I see it Linux WILL be the future of multimedia. I shake my head everytime I hear someone do comparisons like this... it's not like "Linux" is a commercial offering struggling to keep up with Microsoft, or hoping they don't get noticed by them (like Be).
Maybe some other open OS will take over, but right now it looks like Linux. One thing I am certain of is once this happens, the billions that are wasted on Microsoft will in the end be extra money in our pockets and to spend on hardware toys. Be patient and everything will eventually fall into place. Once it DOES, no one can take it away, and that's the most important thing. I'm waiting for USB drivers so I can migrate away from SCSI, but I just have to wait.
I for one will build my next Linux box out of Creative components wherever possible...
"QuickTime = animated GIF"? On what technical data are you basing THAT comment on? I'm assuming you're not trolling -- idiot trolls usually hide behind AC logins. Therefore, you MUST simply be uninformed.:)
QuickTime isn't perfect, but it's MILES ahead of anything out there, which is why every digital video editor I've talked to SWEAR by it. It has nothing to do with "Apple loyalty" either, because even the bozo's on NT4 use QuickTime.
MPEG is a good solution for compression and platform independence, given the lack of good QuickTime support on other platforms like Linux.:-/
Quicktime has been selected as the basis of MPEG4 because it works well, and I suspect partly because "its not Microsoft". So eventually you will be able to use a modern video player instead of pea-shooting ata topic you know nothing about.
I wanted one of these cheap 2GB external drives like 2 years ago when I first read about them at macweek.com.
Now instead I can look forward to cheaper quantity with DVD-RAM like the cheapie from Creative (there's another good SCSI model from La Cie electronics also).
Open standard formats are good. Anyone want to argue how expensive ZIP and JAZ disks are when compared to blank CD-RW? Iomega still tightly controls prices for Zip disks.
Too bad... I'd like to see SOMETHING replace the "floppy".
Apple has secured a large volume of DVD-RAM and will be pushing it as "the" recordable media for the Macintosh platform. About time...
Seems to me Motorola has a PERFECT oppurtunity here to market their own line of PowerPC boxes running Linux. They did like becoming a vendor, until Apple pulled the OS plug. Here is a way for Mot to controll "their own OS", and at a penny too.
Unfortunately, since Apple killed the clones the Motorola IT departments have been on a search and destroy missions... to the point of replacing all their Motorola- based Mac's with INTEL-BASED NT boxes. How stupid is that? It's like Pepsi putting a Coke machine in the break room! Duh..
It would be nice to see some real CPU competition, and Linux gives at least a chance of that. x86 is as bad technology as Microsoft is for an OS, and it would be nice to see competing CPU's and OS-agnostic expansion boards for PCI...
We all know about Project Astroturf... the phony grassroots campaign. This is just another part of it. Who cares now? Microsoft is irrelevent...
The reason I use Linux now has LESS to do with Windows generally being inferior as an OS, and more do do with a general boycot of the operating system. I think Linux is great, but I suspect for many of us it is MORE work to stay away from Windows that some would admit, and it's mostly because of things like games, drag and drop, and modem support. Thankfully a good old US Robotics external works great, and now the more progressive game developers have woken up and offering Linux ports.
I wonder is Bill reads Slashdot? Probably not... I wouldn't call him a nerd anyways. Maybe a pirate though.
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So unfortunately what you write is not very accellerated.
However, you can license Magician classes, which provide an OS-agnostic 3D interface in Java, and works on Win32, Irix, MacOS... not sure about Linux.
The program I test is Java-based, using these extensions. I'm running on very nice hardware so I couldn't describe how it runs on standard systems without geometry accelleration and hardware OpenGL support.
I didn't read this story last night (I was still pissed bout my linux.com "share the wealth" post being deleted... argh), but I noticed at only a couple of hours this had 260+ comments. Now it's like 500.
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The last time this happened
I have 3 complaints which I will voice here.
1) I posted a sincere comment here and it was unfairly deleted
2) I feel this story was "retired" prematurely.... perhaps because of the content of some posts.
3) The low number of posts here may be attributable to wholesale censorship on Slashdot.
Why is it that we criticize the government and Microsoft for not listening to users, and yet here posting a contrary opinion causes your post to be censored?
My *opinion* was why should an individual receive "over a million" for Linux.com for something that belongs to the community? IMO Linus is the REAL owner of linux.com - he holds the "Linux" trademark. By only a small stretch - isn't Linux.com a "derevitave work" of Linux?
This may not have gone to "the highest bidder", but a million bucks is still alot of cash. And since this is now owned by Intel... OOPS I mean VA, I expect non-Intel support to take a downturn (as it already has with Alpha). We can look the the Intel-->Be example... "What PowerPC port?"
I suggested the money be divvied up between the people who wrote free software. This doesn't have to translate into cash - it could help defray the costs of running FSF website, for example.
I certainly went out of my way to avoid causing any offence, but I see that I did just by stating an opposing opinion. Excuse me for being so freakin idealistic.
I'm very disenheartened by this -- I don't think censorship should be exercised so lightly. I mean no insult by QUESTIONING AUTHORITY here, but isn't the point of a "board" supposed to be a representitive body of the Linux Community. If this is REALLY true then discussion here should not be snuffed out when it raises uncomfortable questions.
Is "the board" really an enforcement body? This is certainly a valueable chokepoint in the community, and something that would be extremely valuable to corporations such as Intel and VA.
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2) LINUS owns Linux (tm) regardless of who registered it.
Just correcting typo before the spelling flames arive...
Since my last post got deleted by SOMEONE...
/. advertiser without you post getting DELETED.
1) "Linux" is a trademarked name
2) Linux owns Linux (tm) regardless of who registered it.
3) Linux is a community effort, and proceeds for the sale of the domain name should go to the community at large. I'm sure for example it costs money to drive GNU.ORG, no?
4) Some of this money could go to Slashdot.org also so you can say something "un-politically correct" bad about a
It's plainly obvious Intel is trying to buy or muscle in so the Linux World Domination, if it happens, will ONLY take place on Intel processors. Intel buys off Be, and no PPC version... Intel buys out VA, and no Alpha or AMD versions...
Every popular revolution that has been thwarted, usually happens because the establishment co-opts the movement by inviting the "elite" for dinner. Microsoft and Intel are famous for this.
It's also exceptionally rude to censor someone's post without notifying them, even if after the fact. I'd like to see WHICH part of my post (in the linux.com article) was "Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated.".
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You're wrong here. Just wait...
Take a look in an old Sears catalog from way back... old DIY'er/"hacker" types would buy an item from it called a standalone electric motor. you could buy all sorts of wacky attachments for it... like shoe polishers, blenders, etc. My grandfather had one of these setups gathering in the basement.
This sounds exactly how we use computers today. True, you are saving money by adding components onto your computer instead of everything standalone, but don't expect the market to support your way of doing things forever. We have computers in the telephone, car, tele, and so on.
Sure, they are not programmable computers, but that's also the point. Only a minority of the world's population use desktop computers. You have to not think in terms of CPU and harddrive.
Apple gets it... look at the demand for the iMac (leave Apple biggotry at the door please..).
3 Com gets it with the Palm computers.
Microsoft doesn't get it with WinCE, which just looks like an effort to stuff a desktop into a smaller device, rather than trying to explore new ideas and change the way we work. (Of course, they could be just trying to dillute the handheld market the way they strategized screwing over Java , and developers).
Someday we'll all sit back smokin cigars and drinkin whiskey, laughing about all this...
.99 yet, which may be just as bad on memory - who knows. Opening KDE and Netscape 4.5 on 32 megs causes about a 40 meg swapfile so that even opening a terminal window takes 6 seconds, and I seem to have more mysterious Netscape and X crashes than I ever did without KDE. YUCK!
It would be nice if Troll Tech opened QT *all* the way, but they only opened it enough still controll it, and I'm sure they really weren't opening it as much as they did just to kill Harmony now. Really. This new license is slightly less divisive than the old one, the net effect being we argue amongst ourselves over what "free" really means. TT is just picking their battles and using well meaning people on both sides as shields and cannon fodder.
I use KDE for one month and I don't like it for additional reasons. On MY system (P120/32MB/20GB) it is slow and swaps constantly - even more than Windows 95 with the damn browser extensions. I haven't tried Gnome
I like the idea of a *fast* window manager + a launcher program, more than I need a desktop. AfterStep is SO sweet. I think the 1 thing many here can agree on is, fwvm95 really sucks...
Yes, Be was running on PowerPC hardware before, but how can you say it is NOT political when this decision to go Intel-only for future versions COINCIDES with Intel's purchase of a stake in Be??
Building on your arguement, if you accept that Be/PowerPC is a DEAD PRODUCT because it is unsupported, wouldn't it be in Be's best interest to patch for the new CPU's, like those super-smart "freeware" guys do in the Linux community?
Of course, one cannot assume the money Be would make from selling BeOS on PowerPC would be greater than the PAYOFFS Intel slips them.
What a disaster this is for Be public relations. Keeping an open mind, I suppose Be ARE less petty than Microsoft... but this also supports the arguement that they should open SOME of their code. You don't have to give away the jewels to do so either...
It's not just money however.... I think there are some big ego's at Be aww ubset ad da big bad apple...
A good programmer could PROVE your statement by petioning Be for just enough source so they could write their own patch.
The Linux OS team is freaking amazing. We have Linux runnning on at least 6 processors, AND their INTEGRITY can survive an Intel investment!
The ONE QUESTION I have for Be is, would they allow the community to contribute the necessary code to get BeOS working on [horror!] non-Intel based processors. I would be the answer is NO, and this completely KILLS the Be apologist arguement that it's Apple's fault for not providing Be with developer support, because the PowerPC Linux group did it and they don't even get paid for their work.
Greater compression on images only addresses bandwidth issues and completely neglects latency.
.JAR, then pages would appear to download more smoothly, especially ones with lots of small images.
:-D
We already have JPEG, and and if anything replaces GIF it will be PNG (the sooner the better!). PNG handles "solid" colors well, like GIF, but its an open standard like JPEG is, and supports 8 and 16-bit alpha... rather than the 1-bit alpha "on" and "off" found in GIF 89.
HTTP servers typically start a transfer off relatively slowly, allocating more bandwidth as a file progresses. So unless your image files are really large the server is never reaching potential because it finishes the xfer before increasing the bandwidth. IOW, servers do better with 1 100k file than with 10 10k files.
If the images could be bundled into a container format, like how some Java applets use
Another big waste is "localized" websites that are not at all local. It would help everyone if sites like "Yahoo Boston" were ACTUALLY located *IN* Boston so you weren't dragging a page across the country. It's wasteful. Maintaining a remote webserver is very easy to do if you use UNIX (Yahoo uses BSD..).
Of course, Microsoft's Sidewalk sites can't be remotely maintained because they run on NT [network farms...]. LOL... I wonder what MS' IT budget must be, aside from the fact that they are exempt from hundred thousand dollar NT server licenses...
Nothing will do more to help the web than local caching.
I haven't used my Atari ST and Atari 1200XL in SO long... I'll admit when I was a kid I used to collect this stuff (or was it 'stuph'?)
If my old floppies still work there are probably a few things I can send over. I remember when 90K text files tool FOREVER on my Atari 830 modem (300 baud)... and 90k filled 1 side of a single-density disk. And disk notching.. wow. I feel old.
A lot of the US growth right now is driven by technology companies, mostly software and services. The growth of the internet may have the most short-term benefit for the USA, but in the long term we will have a harder time competing.
Everyone (I use this loosely here) in technology in the US makes good money, and it's easy to lose perspective. How many people do you know that make more money than your general doctor, and will this unbalanced payscale really last? Of course not.
Just like with manufacturing in the US, we will be hit hard once the infrastructure exists. In this case, once enough skilled people exist in a non-USA region where it can support a number of outsourced projects (I'm talking "density" here, like the US Pacific Northwest, New England, and Silicon Valley).
I've already moved all my savings out of funds that hinge on Microsoft, who are doomed since they cannot sustain their empire without the power of owning the desktop (infrastructure). MS will sell MANY FEWER copies of Office once they lose control of the desktop. Even if Linux takes over and Microsoft is forced to port their applications to Linux, and even if they are reasonably well ported. Microsoft will charge a computer maker more for Windows if they bundle applications that compete with Microsoft products, like Office. When Microsoft looses the desktop, stage 2 of their beating begins.
You as a computer maker will add less value if you seland put them in software companies that are less "vulnerable" to OSS projects.
Someday though, programmers will stop putting OTHER people out of work -- and automate their very own job. It's inevitable.
There are ? question mark characters all over the place, which leads me to believe they typed it up in some brain-dead Microsoft product and the quotes got converted to ?'s. (MS doesn't follow character set guidelines, which of course *only* looks bad in non-Microsoft browsers since their browsers aren't standardized either).
It sounds like he approached this subject with preconceived notions. At least he didn't call us "pimply" or "hygene challenged" like last years clueless authors wrote.
He didn't say he tried Linux, and as for the KDE issue the Gnome team is catching up with a desktop without hidden licensing issues. So there... but if you REALLY want to run KDE (and have the extra RAM..) go freaking ahead! Does he expect Linux to have the same desktop look, or is he so cluecless he cannot buy the CD containing what he wants. "[Click] [click] [click].. I'm a computer expert - I can use Windows and a mouse. Microsoft made the internet possible"
He probably first heard of Linux with the Intel investment. Eventually he will be laid off and replaced by someone younger, someone with a clue about technology...
Tim Self, VP Developer Relations of Be, Inc. said;
Pentium III's new high performance instructions in conjunction with our flexible approach... .
How the hell does a Pentium 3 get CREDIT for running Quake on Be? Notice Be does not reccomend anywhere on their suggested systems pages... NON-INTEL PC's. I won't even dig up the PowerPC issue, even though they still sell but not support that version.
I despise puppets as much as who pulls the strings. At least Red Hat could take an Intel investment without compromising their integrety and licking Intel's face like some scrawny lapdog..
Even if it's motivated in part by their hate for Microsoft.
:-D
IBM *really* blew it in the 80's and early 90's. MCA and PS/2's anyone? Oh yeah, and OS/2.
Let's hope the techies driving this (?) at IBM can keep management (?) from screwing things up, like binary-only drivers with closed source. I hope they can find a few tidbits in OS/2 that are worth sharing with us, since by their own quiet admission OS/2 is dead on the desktop, and in mostly in maintanance mode on the server.
Lets see them bundle Creative hardware, and maybe the other hardware vendors will come around and support Linux.
I think we are over that first bump, and now these fence-sitting software vendors will come around. Otherwise, someone'll build a free OSS tool that does the job, like FreeCiv and GIMP. 'Hey, support us or we will assimilate your customers and clone your software!'
I hate this.
I say tax all religions for the mafiaso they are. That should keep them distracted long enough that we evolve into a Star Trek utopia of the future, rather than some depressing episode of Paradox.
I wish America got the criminals and Australia got the Puritans (and promptly burned them).
"If she weighs less than a duck, she's a witch!"
I know this isn't on the front page any longer, but it may help someone.. (then again, don't all /. readers watch Freshmeat also?) Quicktime low level library 0.5.0
I know this isn't on the front page any longer, but it may help someone.. (then again, don't all /. readers watch Freshmeat also?) Quicktime low level library 0.5.0
I was WONDERING when /. would start using the new monochrome Apple logo..
.5 Mb color ST sold for. GEM wasn't perfect, but it was way ahead of Windows. GEM ended up sucking because Digital stopped maintaining it, some say because of Microsoft pressure (Digital had given up on CPM/GEM and was selling PC's now..)
Back OT, I was a HUGE Atari fan from the time of the Atari 400 all the way to 1990, when I had to get a PC for schoolwork (a Mac wasn't even considered because of the price tag at the time).
I lay 100% of the responsibility for Atari at Jack Trammiels feet. They had a few good ideas, the best of which was delivering the most power at the most price, so you had to be plain dumb to prefer a PCjr, which still cost twice what a
But in the end the Trammiels just leeched off Atari enthusiasm and stopped innovating. They kept marketing to an absolute min. and skimmed the rest. They kept promising vaporware, and delivered something as horrible as the Jaguar. The jag would have been cool if they delivered it on time, but they chose cheapie Korean manufacturing which delivered non-working systems, setting back launch. Because the Jag was a cart system, and Atari was so stingy, they only sent games to magazines as LOANERS which had to be returned, which was then sent to the next magazine (does anyone see the sense in sending a cart to a game writer 2 months AFTER release? Who reviews old news unless it's a huge hit?). It wasn't TW that killed Atari, it was arrogant management... Amiga owners can also relate to this I am sure.
If these managers were not so petty and greedy, they could have provided competition to Windows even today, protecting some of us from the evil sheriff Bill. PC's may be everywhere today, but the it's only in 1999 do you see $400 E-machines. Atari was providing cheap yet still modern machines 15 years ago, and had JT been aggressive and took outside investment at Atari's peak, they could still be around...
Then again, if we weren't stuck in this current Microsoft Purgatory, and things were a little better -- would as many people be picking up the Linux banner. There's always a silver lining to a mushroom cloud...
Hmmm... since you're the expert I was wondering why you didn't mention the Mac for video editing? Oops.
Even with the imbalance in "overall" market share, a majority of Adobe Premiere users select the Mac as their platform. They probably know something you don't.
The way I see it Linux WILL be the future of multimedia. I shake my head everytime I hear someone do comparisons like this... it's not like "Linux" is a commercial offering struggling to keep up with Microsoft, or hoping they don't get noticed by them (like Be).
Maybe some other open OS will take over, but right now it looks like Linux. One thing I am certain of is once this happens, the billions that are wasted on Microsoft will in the end be extra money in our pockets and to spend on hardware toys. Be patient and everything will eventually fall into place. Once it DOES, no one can take it away, and that's the most important thing. I'm waiting for USB drivers so I can migrate away from SCSI, but I just have to wait.
I for one will build my next Linux box out of Creative components wherever possible...
"QuickTime = animated GIF"? On what technical data are you basing THAT comment on? I'm assuming you're not trolling -- idiot trolls usually hide behind AC logins. Therefore, you MUST simply be uninformed. :)
:-/
QuickTime isn't perfect, but it's MILES ahead of anything out there, which is why every digital video editor I've talked to SWEAR by it. It has nothing to do with "Apple loyalty" either, because even the bozo's on NT4 use QuickTime.
MPEG is a good solution for compression and platform independence, given the lack of good QuickTime support on other platforms like Linux.
Quicktime has been selected as the basis of MPEG4 because it works well, and I suspect partly because "its not Microsoft". So eventually you will be able to use a modern video player instead of pea-shooting ata topic you know nothing about.
Cheers,
Scott
I wanted one of these cheap 2GB external drives like 2 years ago when I first read about them at macweek.com.
Now instead I can look forward to cheaper quantity with DVD-RAM like the cheapie from Creative (there's another good SCSI model from La Cie electronics also).
Open standard formats are good. Anyone want to argue how expensive ZIP and JAZ disks are when compared to blank CD-RW? Iomega still tightly controls prices for Zip disks.
Too bad... I'd like to see SOMETHING replace the "floppy".
Apple has secured a large volume of DVD-RAM and will be pushing it as "the" recordable media for the Macintosh platform. About time...
Seems to me Motorola has a PERFECT oppurtunity here to market their own line of PowerPC boxes running Linux. They did like becoming a vendor, until Apple pulled the OS plug. Here is a way for Mot to controll "their own OS", and at a penny too.
Unfortunately, since Apple killed the clones the Motorola IT departments have been on a search and destroy missions... to the point of replacing all their Motorola- based Mac's with INTEL-BASED NT boxes. How stupid is that? It's like Pepsi putting a Coke machine in the break room! Duh..
It would be nice to see some real CPU competition, and Linux gives at least a chance of that. x86 is as bad technology as Microsoft is for an OS, and it would be nice to see competing CPU's and OS-agnostic expansion boards for PCI...
We all know about Project Astroturf... the phony grassroots campaign. This is just another part of it. Who cares now? Microsoft is irrelevent...
The reason I use Linux now has LESS to do with Windows generally being inferior as an OS, and more do do with a general boycot of the operating system. I think Linux is great, but I suspect for many of us it is MORE work to stay away from Windows that some would admit, and it's mostly because of things like games, drag and drop, and modem support. Thankfully a good old US Robotics external works great, and now the more progressive game developers have woken up and offering Linux ports.
I wonder is Bill reads Slashdot? Probably not... I wouldn't call him a nerd anyways. Maybe a pirate though.