a) Yankelovich's quote about dropping support for Project Wonderland was on 1/31. b) the wonderland project immediately became a community supported project called Open Wonderland c) it's misleading for the author to talk about Project Wonderland like it's part of Solaris. it's a java project developing an extensible 3D virtual environment. d) the comment from Peter Tribble was made 2/14, approx 2 weeks after Oracle's acquisition of Sun. e) on 2/26 after the OpenSolaris annual meeting Tribble gives a number of quotes about Oracle commiting themselves to support the project sad spreading of out of date misinformation
i actually used FYCD to rip all my CDs to FLAC. got a great deal because i work with the guy, so didn't have to pay shipping. but it was really convenient to have somebody else do the work, and have the whole collection organized in a set of DVDs for back up.
I recall submitting messages to an LED sign in someone's development office. I think it was netscape's... anyone else recall this? it had a webcam pointed at it, so once it was submitted and scrolling you got to see what it looked like to them...
i'll have to check my old harddrives, and archives to see if i still have the capture of my "i am a pineapple" message...
i have some audio CDs that I made in 1997 burned at 2x. well actually a guy down the hall at school (the only one with a burner) made them for me, and now every player i put them in skips like crazy. might just be burning technology in its infancy, but i'd say this estimation is right on. maybe not within 2 years, but within 5 i wouldn't trust burned audio CDs. although some DATA CDs burned on SONY disks at 4x (forget the brand of the burner) made in 1998 still appear to be doing well...
looks like we made short work of their Linux install. appears the math dept. page (dept. responsible for their being written up for using Linux) has been slashdotted already. in only 10 minutes by my clock.
now people have heard of that supposedly GUI based OS called MacOS right?
as the story goes (according to me), Xerox PARC develops a language called Smalltalk. this OO language has this funny little feature that a user interacts with it via Graphics. They also develop the computer to go along w/ the language that's based on the same idea. the user interacts w/ objects on the computer via graphics.
Apple likes the idea, and adopts it for a new computer named Lisa. The Lisa becomes the Macintosh and gets popular...
I'm really surpsied no comments on FORTH have been moded up. pbForth was one of the 1st language/OS combos i ever heard about. i guess Forth's just not as popular as Smalltalk...
and here i thought i was in the geek land of obscure is cool...
from the article: "Users will eventually be able to keep every document they read, every picture they view, all the audio they hear and a good portion of what they see," says Gemmell.
imagine the hay-day that various companies would have with people storing everything they see. "i'm sorry you'll have to delete your life from age 11 through 12 because you don't have access to the copyright to that TV show. oh, and bill gates would like to confiscate every memory of any Ansel Adams picture you've ever seen.... thanks you can deposit those memories in the trash can as you leave...."
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a) Yankelovich's quote about dropping support for Project Wonderland was on 1/31.
b) the wonderland project immediately became a community supported project called Open Wonderland
c) it's misleading for the author to talk about Project Wonderland like it's part of Solaris. it's a java project developing an extensible 3D virtual environment.
d) the comment from Peter Tribble was made 2/14, approx 2 weeks after Oracle's acquisition of Sun.
e) on 2/26 after the OpenSolaris annual meeting Tribble gives a number of quotes about Oracle commiting themselves to support the project
sad spreading of out of date misinformation
i beg to differ, that it's not a commercially viable product.
i definitely see a market for a tiny OS to run on embedded x86 devices...
i used FYCD. I know that they do some serious work making sure tags are handled properly and appropriately...
i actually used FYCD to rip all my CDs to FLAC. got a great deal because i work with the guy, so didn't have to pay shipping. but it was really convenient to have somebody else do the work, and have the whole collection organized in a set of DVDs for back up.
has proven that profound advances in technology do not always render old technologies obsolete.
yeah, it's not obsolete, just expensive, and not as easy to come by...
Perhaps the reason why Springfield cannot be mapped 100% is because of the springfield paradox
I recall submitting messages to an LED sign in someone's development office. I think it was netscape's... anyone else recall this?
it had a webcam pointed at it, so once it was submitted and scrolling you got to see what it looked like to them...
i'll have to check my old harddrives, and archives to see if i still have the capture of my "i am a pineapple" message...
i tried it yesterday, and am writing this from the morgue...
yep it works.
i have some audio CDs that I made in 1997 burned at 2x. well actually a guy down the hall at school (the only one with a burner) made them for me, and now every player i put them in skips like crazy.
might just be burning technology in its infancy, but i'd say this estimation is right on. maybe not within 2 years, but within 5 i wouldn't trust burned audio CDs. although some DATA CDs burned on SONY disks at 4x (forget the brand of the burner) made in 1998 still appear to be doing well...
Scientists compare meteors to Volkswagon Bugs because obviously the Bug was designed by an alien...
are we now to be witness to the 1st /.ing of a (formerly) living being?
looks like we made short work of their Linux install.
appears the math dept. page (dept. responsible for their being written up for using Linux) has been slashdotted already.
in only 10 minutes by my clock.
see pachinko
great place that everything2 is...
now people have heard of that supposedly GUI based OS called MacOS right?
as the story goes (according to me), Xerox PARC develops a language called Smalltalk. this OO language has this funny little feature that a user interacts with it via Graphics. They also develop the computer to go along w/ the language that's based on the same idea. the user interacts w/ objects on the computer via graphics.
Apple likes the idea, and adopts it for a new computer named Lisa. The Lisa becomes the Macintosh and gets popular...
I'm really surpsied no comments on FORTH have been moded up. pbForth was one of the 1st language/OS combos i ever heard about. i guess Forth's just not as popular as Smalltalk...
and here i thought i was in the geek land of obscure is cool...
"Users will eventually be able to keep every document they read, every picture they view, all the audio they hear and a good portion of what they see," says Gemmell.
imagine the hay-day that various companies would have with people storing everything they see. "i'm sorry you'll have to delete your life from age 11 through 12 because you don't have access to the copyright to that TV show. oh, and bill gates would like to confiscate every memory of any Ansel Adams picture you've ever seen.... thanks you can deposit those memories in the trash can as you leave...."
sorry, i don't have the homework assignment because last night my life crashed...
same press release, only on the us site. most've probably found it, but here 'tis. http://www.suse.com/us/products/susesoft/suse73/in dex.html