So how does this effect the dreams of those of us who dream of having an SGI flat panel display on our linux machines? Those display's require #9 cards (or at least they used to).
We already Via Voice from IBM, and a new package from CMU for doing speech regonition (Sphinx is the name of it, I think). I know that ViaVoice is a general speech recognition (I've used it), and I think that the CMU one is also for general speech, but I haven't tried it, so I wouldn't swear to that in a court of law.
Besides, for a game, they probably will use a cheat of a general speech recognition system to save CPU cycles.
Finally, you are starting to write some very good stuff. Frankly, I read your old stuff, but it always felt empty, and I always though that you spent too much time regurgitating quotes. This series on corporate power and individualism is good though.
I hope that this doesn't hurt QT and GTKs march foward as the modern toolkits to use too much.
I hate Motif. I hate the look, I hate the feel, and I hate trying to program with it. I was just starting to look forward to it dieing, and they pull this stunt.
Why can't the big unix companies show support for something decent by beafing up the internationalization support of Qt and Gtk, the nport all their code to that. According to the standards put forth as to what would be needed out of a toolkit to replace gtk, in the recent interview with the motif book author, Gtk has everything needed in beta. Stable versions of with the internationalization and Xt like functionality should be released in Gtk+ 1.4, slated for release later this year (I think).
So has anyone here actually tried Nautilus, the file/other stuff manager from Eazel? I've only seen screen shots, and they look OK, but not revolutionary, but maybe the revolution is in the using.
The shoulda nuked the moon. We didn't really need the tides anyway. And without the moon, maybe I wouldn't have to put up with watching love lorn couples comment on how romantic it is.
What's your point? These systems are not based on that architecture - the fact that they'll run unmodified RH6.1 is proof of that, and the datasheet even states, as if it's a benefit, "industry standard architecture and components."
Uhm, I think that RH6.1 will run out of box on the original NT machines as well (since they merged the required patches into the system). I thought that it was older versions of redhat that wouldn't (due to lack of patches to support the machines). That said, these new machines do look supiciously like normal PCs in an SGI case, which will be a big disappointment. The older SGIs intel machines looked really fast.
This does make sense. The reason that CE doesn't make sense in many palm tops is because the UI was made for desktops. However, I highly doubt that anyone is going to try and run X on a palmtop,although, it is possible that they would use TinyX which is a version of the Xlibs made to run on low powered machines, while making it easier for programmers used to X to write applications.
Most likely, a new UI of some sort will be developed. The main hinderance to this is a lack of free hand writing recognition software. It sounds like the above company may have in fact already written some handwriting software, albiet not free stuff.
So, linux on the palm pilot isn't bad. But what might make it actually good? It does have some areas that are better than PalmOS, like networking. Plus, writing C code for PalmOS has some strange quirks. Linux on the Palmtop would probably be good for vertical market applications, as well as the usual group of people who want linux/free software on any computing devices that they use. Personally, I would love a PalmPilot running linux. It might inspire me to write my own hand writing recognition software (I think I know how, but I haven't had the motivation to make that the project that I spend my little shreds of spare time on.).
Uhm, usually the patents only apply to encryption, not decryption. In the case of MP3 (which is relevent here because MP3 is part of the mpeg 2 standard, which DVDs use), despite some initial threats from Fraunhoffer and Thompson, there wasn't anything they could do to people writing the decoding software, since their patents had to do with the psycho accoustic models used for compression, and de-compression didn't need to know anything about those models. To my understanding, decode/decryption/decompresion only is interfered with by patents when there is only one algorithm to decode something, and that algorithm is covered by the patent. However, in many (if not most) cases, there are multiple ways to decode things.
To my knowledge, AOL requires Windows to work. I don't know of any way what soever to get AOL working on linux.
Other than AOL, to my knowledge most ppp ISPs will work with linux unless they need to do something special. For instance, NetZero( which is free) requires Windows. MSN also requires Windows. Juno again also requires Windows.
But non of the companies that I've mentioned so far use normal Windows DUN (Dial Up Networking), they all use special proprietary stuff, which to some extent makes sense. MSN is from MS, so supprise supprise. AOL uses proprietary extensions to DUN, which in theory are simpler for users than normal DUN. In addition, the fact that they are using DUN at all is hidden from the user because the user has to use a proprietary client program anyway. NetZero uses proprietary stuff for their advertising, and Juno is completely proprietary (which allows them to simplify things dramatically for users).
When we start talking about high speed access, things change. Frequently highspeed providers for services like cable and DSL insist that you use Windows or Mac. They even frequently go so far as to verify at your house that you are using a Windows machine or Mac. Some of them port scan every so often to verify that you don't switch to another OS on them, and almost all of them do something involving MAC address to keep your from switching machines.
Despite all the rules about involving Windows or Mac, most DSL and cable internet access systems would work just fine with Linux or other OSs, since they frequently don't use anything proprietary software wise.
> why are you patenting it ? If its GPLed no one > can claim a patent anyway (prior art). Also has > linus accepted it ? Without that your are > condemmed into staying in the domain of > continous upgrade patches which means you either > struggle to keep ahead of the kernel or you > become obsolete. and what do you mean by > copyrighted ? GPLed code can never be > copyrighted only copylefted
First, you don't know that someone is stealling your prior art until after they already have a patent. At which point it is virtually too late, since getting patents over turned is extremely hard.
Second, they said they were planning this too be a cross platform file system, which means that whether or not Linus officially supports it isn't going to kill the project any more than the head of Sun officially not supporting it will. Second, Linus will probably accept it if it is good. From the sounds of the project, it is too early for him to either have accepted it or rejected it.
And finally, GPLed code can very much be copyrighted. Legally, copylefted is not recognized other than as type of license to copyrighted material. Without copyrights, there is no GPL, only public domain. In fact, it is copyrights that make GPL binding and effective.
Actually, by default any item you create is legally copyrighted. If I remember correctly, if you don't mark any copyright on it, then the best you can hope for in the case of theft is a cease and desist. If you mark it copyrighted, you can collect damages up to a certain limit (damages meaning that you can collect any earnings made directly from your work), and if you register that copyright, you can then collect punitive damages.
While is entirely possible that the Dreamcast has it's own TCP/IP stack, I suspect that what you port scanned was really a proxy server of some sort that the dreamcast uses for it's internet access.
The GPL is not designed to prevent code from being borrowed. It is designed to allow it. So, there is not a thing keeping the FreeBSD developers from adding XFS support to their kernel, or to keep them from copying the linux kernel code that allows Linux to run on SGI intel machines.
In the case a Microsoft and the IP stack, they wouldn't steal the linux IP stack, they would take the FreeBSD stack. And even if they didn't release the source, it would be legal, because that is the way the BSD license works.
If they were to steal the linux IP stack, then if there is any reasonable reason to suspect they did so, the the MS code can be supeaned (sp).
Letting users edit their website through web based forms isn't that hard to do. And you don't really need anything particularly special to do it. Just perl.
On my own web site (or at least the copy locally, I forget when I last uploaded it), the two sides of the table are controlled through a form. When I update one side or the other, it is saved into an index which is accessable through the backpack section below. The backpack section is also generated dynamicly by looking at the files in the backpack dir of my web site. To add something to that section, all I have to do is upload. I'm working on it. It pulls titles out of HTML files, but I need to do something different for images.
Anyway, the whole site uses perl extensively. If you know perl, it would have only taken a handfull of time to write (I wasn't that good with perl. However, the first version was written as part of a company intranet system in ASP. It only took me a few hours to do the dynamic generation from a directory and file editing tasks. The intranet version was much more complex).
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So how does this effect the dreams of those of us who dream of having an SGI flat panel display on our linux machines? Those display's require #9 cards (or at least they used to).
We already Via Voice from IBM, and a new package from CMU for doing speech regonition (Sphinx is the name of it, I think). I know that ViaVoice is a general speech recognition (I've used it), and I think that the CMU one is also for general speech, but I haven't tried it, so I wouldn't swear to that in a court of law.
Besides, for a game, they probably will use a cheat of a general speech recognition system to save CPU cycles.
Finally, you are starting to write some very good stuff. Frankly, I read your old stuff, but it always felt empty, and I always though that you spent too much time regurgitating quotes. This series on corporate power and individualism is good though.
I hope that this doesn't hurt QT and GTKs march foward as the modern toolkits to use too much.
I hate Motif. I hate the look, I hate the feel, and I hate trying to program with it. I was just starting to look forward to it dieing, and they pull this stunt.
Why can't the big unix companies show support for something decent by beafing up the internationalization support of Qt and Gtk, the nport all their code to that. According to the standards put forth as to what would be needed out of a toolkit to replace gtk, in the recent interview with the motif book author, Gtk has everything needed in beta. Stable versions of with the internationalization and Xt like functionality should be released in Gtk+ 1.4, slated for release later this year (I think).
My question is, if we aren't running MacOS, then why is Darwin better than Linux or one of the BSDs?
So has anyone here actually tried Nautilus, the file/other stuff manager from Eazel? I've only seen screen shots, and they look OK, but not revolutionary, but maybe the revolution is in the using.
The shoulda nuked the moon. We didn't really need the tides anyway. And without the moon, maybe I wouldn't have to put up with watching love lorn couples comment on how romantic it is.
What effects will the 5k contest have on the future in your opinion?
This does make sense. The reason that CE doesn't make sense in many palm tops is because the UI was made for desktops. However, I highly doubt that anyone is going to try and run X on a palmtop ,although, it is possible that they would use TinyX which is a version of the Xlibs made to run on low powered machines, while making it easier for programmers used to X to write applications.
Most likely, a new UI of some sort will be developed. The main hinderance to this is a lack of free hand writing recognition software. It sounds like the above company may have in fact already written some handwriting software, albiet not free stuff.
So, linux on the palm pilot isn't bad. But what might make it actually good? It does have some areas that are better than PalmOS, like networking. Plus, writing C code for PalmOS has some strange quirks. Linux on the Palmtop would probably be good for vertical market applications, as well as the usual group of people who want linux/free software on any computing devices that they use. Personally, I would love a PalmPilot running linux. It might inspire me to write my own hand writing recognition software (I think I know how, but I haven't had the motivation to make that the project that I spend my little shreds of spare time on.).
Uhm, usually the patents only apply to encryption, not decryption. In the case of MP3 (which is relevent here because MP3 is part of the mpeg 2 standard, which DVDs use), despite some initial threats from Fraunhoffer and Thompson, there wasn't anything they could do to people writing the decoding software, since their patents had to do with the psycho accoustic models used for compression, and de-compression didn't need to know anything about those models. To my understanding, decode/decryption/decompresion only is interfered with by patents when there is only one algorithm to decode something, and that algorithm is covered by the patent. However, in many (if not most) cases, there are multiple ways to decode things.
To my knowledge, AOL requires Windows to work. I don't know of any way what soever to get AOL working on linux.
Other than AOL, to my knowledge most ppp ISPs will work with linux unless they need to do something special. For instance, NetZero( which is free) requires Windows. MSN also requires Windows. Juno again also requires Windows.
But non of the companies that I've mentioned so far use normal Windows DUN (Dial Up Networking), they all use special proprietary stuff, which to some extent makes sense. MSN is from MS, so supprise supprise. AOL uses proprietary extensions to DUN, which in theory are simpler for users than normal DUN. In addition, the fact that they are using DUN at all is hidden from the user because the user has to use a proprietary client program anyway. NetZero uses proprietary stuff for their advertising, and Juno is completely proprietary (which allows them to simplify things dramatically for users).
When we start talking about high speed access, things change. Frequently highspeed providers for services like cable and DSL insist that you use Windows or Mac. They even frequently go so far as to verify at your house that you are using a Windows machine or Mac. Some of them port scan every so often to verify that you don't switch to another OS on them, and almost all of them do something involving MAC address to keep your from switching machines.
Despite all the rules about involving Windows or Mac, most DSL and cable internet access systems would work just fine with Linux or other OSs, since they frequently don't use anything proprietary software wise.
> why are you patenting it ? If its GPLed no one
> can claim a patent anyway (prior art). Also has
> linus accepted it ? Without that your are
> condemmed into staying in the domain of
> continous upgrade patches which means you either
> struggle to keep ahead of the kernel or you
> become obsolete. and what do you mean by
> copyrighted ? GPLed code can never be
> copyrighted only copylefted
First, you don't know that someone is stealling your prior art until after they already have a patent. At which point it is virtually too late, since getting patents over turned is extremely hard.
Second, they said they were planning this too be a cross platform file system, which means that whether or not Linus officially supports it isn't going to kill the project any more than the head of Sun officially not supporting it will. Second, Linus will probably accept it if it is good. From the sounds of the project, it is too early for him to either have accepted it or rejected it.
And finally, GPLed code can very much be copyrighted. Legally, copylefted is not recognized other than as type of license to copyrighted material. Without copyrights, there is no GPL, only public domain. In fact, it is copyrights that make GPL binding and effective.
Actually, by default any item you create is legally copyrighted. If I remember correctly, if you don't mark any copyright on it, then the best you can hope for in the case of theft is a cease and desist. If you mark it copyrighted, you can collect damages up to a certain limit (damages meaning that you can collect any earnings made directly from your work), and if you register that copyright, you can then collect punitive damages.
While is entirely possible that the Dreamcast has it's own TCP/IP stack, I suspect that what you port scanned was really a proxy server of some sort that the dreamcast uses for it's internet access.
The GPL is not designed to prevent code from being borrowed. It is designed to allow it. So, there is not a thing keeping the FreeBSD developers from adding XFS support to their kernel, or to keep them from copying the linux kernel code that allows Linux to run on SGI intel machines.
In the case a Microsoft and the IP stack, they wouldn't steal the linux IP stack, they would take the FreeBSD stack. And even if they didn't release the source, it would be legal, because that is the way the BSD license works.
If they were to steal the linux IP stack, then if there is any reasonable reason to suspect they did so, the the MS code can be supeaned (sp).
Letting users edit their website through web based forms isn't that hard to do. And you don't really need anything particularly special to do it. Just perl.
On my own web site (or at least the copy locally, I forget when I last uploaded it), the two sides of the table are controlled through a form. When I update one side or the other, it is saved into an index which is accessable through the backpack section below. The backpack section is also generated dynamicly by looking at the files in the backpack dir of my web site. To add something to that section, all I have to do is upload. I'm working on it. It pulls titles out of HTML files, but I need to do something different for images.
Anyway, the whole site uses perl extensively. If you know perl, it would have only taken a handfull of time to write (I wasn't that good with perl. However, the first version was written as part of a company intranet system in ASP. It only took me a few hours to do the dynamic generation from a directory and file editing tasks. The intranet version was much more complex).