You painted an interesting picture, but left a big gap.
There are a lot of commercial companies actually using Linux, for whom QNX and eCOS are not worth the investment in light of recent kernel advances.
I've considered using eCOS in some of my commercial products, but found that Linux does just as good a job in the right hands... not that its the be-all/end-all of embedded operating systems, but it sure is nice to be able to use the same system on an Intel developers box and an [insert-cpu]-type embedded box, for development and deployment...
Everyone doesn't hate Red Hat. In fact, quite a few people do respect this company, use its products, pay for its products, and are quite happy with it.
Its just that those who hate RH are the only ones talking about it. You're only sampling data from one side of the argument, because you rarely get someone going to a lot of trouble to praise something as avidly as they might criticize it...
Human nature. Get used to it, and try to read it properly.
Plastic is -not- cheap to produce. It may only cost Mankind a few seconds of careless industry, but it costs Nature an extremely longer stretch of time to deal with this substance.
For the sake of a.0005 second event, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of this crap are being assembled and dispersed all over the planet. Offensive by-products of the process required to provide this.0005 seconds of happiness to a lost soul will continue to pollute the planet for years afterwards.
Okay, so you've got the stryofoam coffee cup and these things in one hand, and a big steaming pile of shit in the other hand, and you have to eat one handful or your family gets it.
You decide, what hand do you eat from?
{I'd pick shit. I'd be sick, but at least I'd get over it.}
... is someone to produce a super-mussel in its own shimmering vat, just pumping the stuff out for us to make our own spacecraft hulls with.
Should be easy.
What would be interesting is a genetically mutated mussel for ships which a) roams around sealing cracks, and b) kills all other non super-mussel mussels from the hull.
Maybe a super ship fixing mussel with frickin' lazers on its valves? That'd rock.
But anyway, I'm serious about the shipfixing idea. Why can't we work -with- nature instead of against it all the time, why oh why?
I've had a rev A. tibook since the day they went on sale, and this sucker just keeps on ticking.
It has been around the world with me twice, including some rough jaunts into the Aussie desert, and I've replaced the case myself 3 times (ever done that on any other laptop? thank you pbparts.com!) and it just keeps working.
tiBooks are one well-made computer. They have their con's (keys scratching the screen, duh) but their pro's are definitely more substantial, in my opinion... this thing is a tank.
its those little 'cultural synchronicities' that make linus such a fun person to know;)... as an aussie who grew up in the 70's, linus' quip at the end just rings a bell.
Rubbish. Have you met Steve Jobs? Do you know him personally?
To assume that he's blowing his stack, just because you think you have a 'psychological profile' of him based on some sort of 'critical ability' of yours to read, is not only naive, but patently rude.
('Insightful'? There needs to be a 'Presumptious'...)
I'll bet this was in the works all along for the Apple iPod/iTunes Hegemony Invasion Plan.
... so, apple make the candi-pods price $249 so that they can make licensing deals of their tech to other companies, who are then challenged to make it cheaper/market-it-better... hardware ubiquity drives the store, and a new music channel is now opened even wider... giving consumers 'choice'.
pretty interesting. but i think its going to be even more interesting when sony get their 'my sony music' store working with their new md's...
I've been writing code since '79, commercially since '83.
What I have to say to new "Comp. Sci." majors is this: If you can't find a job, *WRITE CODE*. *DO SOMETHING NEW*.
Software still sells, especially if its good software, which people want. If you've got mad skillz, drop 'em down and/quit sweating the cushy-job/ tip.
Sheesh. Pisses me off, really, actually, to hear -any- computer person winge about 'not being able to find a job'.
Its a computer. Make it do something cool, which someone needs, and you'll have -no problem-.
Slashdot Mirror
You painted an interesting picture, but left a big gap.
There are a lot of commercial companies actually using Linux, for whom QNX and eCOS are not worth the investment in light of recent kernel advances.
I've considered using eCOS in some of my commercial products, but found that Linux does just as good a job in the right hands... not that its the be-all/end-all of embedded operating systems, but it sure is nice to be able to use the same system on an Intel developers box and an [insert-cpu]-type embedded box, for development and deployment...
Everyone doesn't hate Red Hat. In fact, quite a few people do respect this company, use its products, pay for its products, and are quite happy with it.
Its just that those who hate RH are the only ones talking about it. You're only sampling data from one side of the argument, because you rarely get someone going to a lot of trouble to praise something as avidly as they might criticize it...
Human nature. Get used to it, and try to read it properly.
Its whacky, but I think its a good idea.
...
I'm sure there are companies around doing this sort of research
Not true, I have customers signed up already!
Okay, just kidding. Really. Put away your credit card.
But we should have an open, public, maintainable database which is -not- under the exclusive domain of Verisign for these things.
I can think of plenty of private uses of RFID which I would not want Verisign to be involved in, in the slightest.
Great, now I'm gonna get all sorts of abuse from this open port.
... "UK Police Enlargment Pills", "Guaranteed Police Enlargement", "My Police Never Felt Bigger" ... gah!
I can see it now
Time to re-apply for that penguin-counting position on Antartica...
Where do you buy the parts?
pbparts.com has come to my rescue so many times, I can't think of buying a tiBook again without having a relationship with these guys ...
... can't do it with a Dell!
Anyway, tiBook. The best 'user-replaceable/serviceable' laptop you can invest in. *tons* of after-market parts.
I've replaced the case on mine 3 times. Not easy, definitely like gutting a fish and expecting it to swim again, but hey
Sure, and what about all the hydrocarbons used to make that special soft rock?
The plastic will not go through your system, it'll sit there, eternally, trying to be digested.
...
Neither will the styrofoam.
Shit-eating may not be fun, but it sure does get peoples attention
... in society today.
.0005 second event, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of this crap are being assembled and dispersed all over the planet. Offensive by-products of the process required to provide this .0005 seconds of happiness to a lost soul will continue to pollute the planet for years afterwards.
Plastic is -not- cheap to produce. It may only cost Mankind a few seconds of careless industry, but it costs Nature an extremely longer stretch of time to deal with this substance.
For the sake of a
Okay, so you've got the stryofoam coffee cup and these things in one hand, and a big steaming pile of shit in the other hand, and you have to eat one handful or your family gets it.
You decide, what hand do you eat from?
{I'd pick shit. I'd be sick, but at least I'd get over it.}
duh. put them on the -inside- of the crack you have to seal.
anyway, if the plates do seal up, not to worry! they'll just show up somewhere else - hey cool, World Tectonic Lottery!
... is someone to produce a super-mussel in its own shimmering vat, just pumping the stuff out for us to make our own spacecraft hulls with.
Should be easy.
What would be interesting is a genetically mutated mussel for ships which a) roams around sealing cracks, and b) kills all other non super-mussel mussels from the hull.
Maybe a super ship fixing mussel with frickin' lazers on its valves? That'd rock.
But anyway, I'm serious about the shipfixing idea. Why can't we work -with- nature instead of against it all the time, why oh why?
fark is shit for tek news... boingboing.net ... ?
The trouble is, what are the options? Where are the /. 'competitors' of any note these days?
I've had a rev A. tibook since the day they went on sale, and this sucker just keeps on ticking.
... this thing is a tank.
It has been around the world with me twice, including some rough jaunts into the Aussie desert, and I've replaced the case myself 3 times (ever done that on any other laptop? thank you pbparts.com!) and it just keeps working.
tiBooks are one well-made computer. They have their con's (keys scratching the screen, duh) but their pro's are definitely more substantial, in my opinion
... 'with TAA' ...
;) ... as an aussie who grew up in the 70's, linus' quip at the end just rings a bell.
its those little 'cultural synchronicities' that make linus such a fun person to know
canny finns.
Alas, it looks like this is all the WBM has on it...
Try the Way Back Machine ...
Rubbish. Have you met Steve Jobs? Do you know him personally?
...)
To assume that he's blowing his stack, just because you think you have a 'psychological profile' of him based on some sort of 'critical ability' of yours to read, is not only naive, but patently rude.
('Insightful'? There needs to be a 'Presumptious'
I'll bet this was in the works all along for the Apple iPod/iTunes Hegemony Invasion Plan.
pretty interesting. but i think its going to be even more interesting when sony get their 'my sony music' store working with their new md's
oh man. you think you wasted time?
...
since chips&dips, i been in this hole
I've been writing code since '79, commercially since '83.
/quit sweating the cushy-job/ tip.
What I have to say to new "Comp. Sci." majors is this: If you can't find a job, *WRITE CODE*. *DO SOMETHING NEW*.
Software still sells, especially if its good software, which people want. If you've got mad skillz, drop 'em down and
Sheesh. Pisses me off, really, actually, to hear -any- computer person winge about 'not being able to find a job'.
Its a computer. Make it do something cool, which someone needs, and you'll have -no problem-.
Now that is something I'd like to have a look at.
Anyone seen it/got it/set-it-up-for-kix?
Well hey, glad to meet you.