It's basically the Peter Principle applied to a franchise, yes. If the last movie made money, make another one. This will continue until one doesn't make money. So the reason that the traditional wisdom of "sequels suck" is true is that most "franchises" are only good enough to support one movie.
"But we could've split the day a lot more sensibly than 24/60/60. For example we could have 10 seconds to the minute, 10 minutes to the hour, 10 hours to the day."
Actually, the French worked out a fairly clever and consistent way to deal with a metric calendar ages ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Cal endar
Mind you, I suppose that since it's French, the Americans would stay as far away from it as they can.
If you bothered to do a bit of research, you'd see.
The Shuttleworth Foundation pays for the hardware.
The Shuttleworth Foundation pays for the location rental. They're spread all over our country, in malls, universities, and so on, where anybody can find them.
The ISOs are already on the toaster - you can't download and burn warez, because they're not connected to the internet. You bring your own blank CDs along and put them in the burner, use the touchscreen to choose which ISO you want to burn, and it burns it for you. This way, you don't have to download the ISOs, they're already downloaded.
Don't call it a pipedream - it's been working incredibly well for a long time. I know a LOT of people who are now using Linux because of the Freedom Toasters.
It's not about making a kernel that works - if it was, then, yes, Linux has done that. This is about the benefits of microkernel architectures, as opposed to monolithic kernels.
If nothing else, the HURD development will pave the way for other microkernels in the future. And they will come - you don't think we'll be running the Linux kernel for ever, do you?
Did anyone notice that when the BBC asked whether MS is being anti-competitive, with the Department of Justice case, Bill answered in terms of the PC Industry?
First, he avoided the question twice - nit-picking about the court cases and the dates. It's actually quite blatant (and amusing) the way he tries his damnedest not to answer the question. Finally, Stephen Cole pretty much says "Goddammit, Bill, didn't you ever THINK about it?"
Look at his answer. As you say, he talks about the industry, but the actual structure of his sentence doesn't say anything except "The PC industry has done well", followed by "And we founded it based on standards". He uses a lot of buzzwords along the way, though - makes it sound very impressive.
Well, seeing as the whole PC looks a bit like a typewriter, the word processor doesn't need a picture of one. It's not uncommon knowledge that people are happier (and more productive, although that doesn't really hold for a music player) in an environment they are familiar with, even if it's just constructed to look like something they're familiar with.
Would you rather have a music player that required you to type "play" and "stop"? Buttons are the obvious interface, and a "stereo player"-ish layout means the buttons are in obvious places, and don't require you to get used to an unfamiliar interface, at very little extra cost.
If you need huge amounts of unique names, you'll have to go with a system like Pokemon (or a similar one, if your hatred of them overcomes your need for server names;-). Tolkien names, Pratchett names, something like that - they all provide lots of unique names. But, indeed, they all run out. So maybe name all the, e.g. Sun servers, after Roman gods, and all the Mail servers after games like Tron, Pong, Zork, Pacman and Sopwith...;-)
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It's basically the Peter Principle applied to a franchise, yes. If the last movie made money, make another one. This will continue until one doesn't make money. So the reason that the traditional wisdom of "sequels suck" is true is that most "franchises" are only good enough to support one movie.
(Gigli 2, anyone?)
"But we could've split the day a lot more sensibly than 24/60/60. For example we could have 10 seconds to the minute, 10 minutes to the hour, 10 hours to the day."
5 43064 ;-)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=215938&cid=17
Actually, the French worked out a fairly clever and consistent way to deal with a metric calendar ages ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Cal endar
Mind you, I suppose that since it's French, the Americans would stay as far away from it as they can.
If you bothered to do a bit of research, you'd see. The Shuttleworth Foundation pays for the hardware. The Shuttleworth Foundation pays for the location rental. They're spread all over our country, in malls, universities, and so on, where anybody can find them. The ISOs are already on the toaster - you can't download and burn warez, because they're not connected to the internet. You bring your own blank CDs along and put them in the burner, use the touchscreen to choose which ISO you want to burn, and it burns it for you. This way, you don't have to download the ISOs, they're already downloaded. Don't call it a pipedream - it's been working incredibly well for a long time. I know a LOT of people who are now using Linux because of the Freedom Toasters.
It's not about making a kernel that works - if it was, then, yes, Linux has done that. This is about the benefits of microkernel architectures, as opposed to monolithic kernels.
If nothing else, the HURD development will pave the way for other microkernels in the future. And they will come - you don't think we'll be running the Linux kernel for ever, do you?
Did anyone notice that when the BBC asked whether MS is being anti-competitive, with the Department of Justice case, Bill answered in terms of the PC Industry?
First, he avoided the question twice - nit-picking about the court cases and the dates. It's actually quite blatant (and amusing) the way he tries his damnedest not to answer the question. Finally, Stephen Cole pretty much says "Goddammit, Bill, didn't you ever THINK about it?"
Look at his answer. As you say, he talks about the industry, but the actual structure of his sentence doesn't say anything except "The PC industry has done well", followed by "And we founded it based on standards". He uses a lot of buzzwords along the way, though - makes it sound very impressive.
Well, seeing as the whole PC looks a bit like a typewriter, the word processor doesn't need a picture of one. It's not uncommon knowledge that people are happier (and more productive, although that doesn't really hold for a music player) in an environment they are familiar with, even if it's just constructed to look like something they're familiar with.
Would you rather have a music player that required you to type "play" and "stop"? Buttons are the obvious interface, and a "stereo player"-ish layout means the buttons are in obvious places, and don't require you to get used to an unfamiliar interface, at very little extra cost.
If you need huge amounts of unique names, you'll have to go with a system like Pokemon (or a similar one, if your hatred of them overcomes your need for server names ;-). Tolkien names, Pratchett names, something like that - they all provide lots of unique names. But, indeed, they all run out. So maybe name all the, e.g. Sun servers, after Roman gods, and all the Mail servers after games like Tron, Pong, Zork, Pacman and Sopwith... ;-)