You know, the funniest thing about this is:
Until recently, all Macs had a start button. . . on the keyboard. It was how you started and turned off the computer.
Recently (okay, late 98) Windows users started complaining about how the Mac lacked a "Start Button," when in fact, what they were referring to was similar to the ancient Apple menu, which like the start button, Apple has gotten rid of this year.
Mmmm, those friend or foe "pearls." They look aquataciously lickable. What's up with that? Are we going to see Mac OS X ads (a la O'reilleyNet) on Slashdot next?
There is a lot of application for this outside of the sphere of pure abandonware. For example, AOL bought a company and then released the source to what became AOLServer, a nice and open-source http daemon with builtin TCL support (see SourceForge).
There has been much discussion of Free Software in the vein of cottage industry or startups versus large/mature organizations (see D. Winer for example), however, the most interesting examples of broadly deployed Open Source and Free Software are large companies leveraging that against other big co's. (see Apple, IBM, AOL).
What's going to get early Aldus PageMaker code out of Adobe? Money. What's going to keep the developers who'll turn it into a simple Linux page layout app? Money. Who can do that? It'll take some larger organization who isn't interested in the distraction of remarketing software and has much to gain by the broad deployment of that software.
You just think that yur playing Solitare. It is actually a giant distrbuted computing project. With that many hours complete, my estimate is that they are about 1/8 of the way to finding the question to 42.
So what happens when I go to the library and lookit Slashdot?
Do I get charged? Does the library?
What happens to the stuff that is "free," like library and government information?
Is there going to be some RIAA-type organization taking the pennies per page and marginalizing any info source that doesn't conform to their "digital-media protection" racket?
As far as this goes, AOL has the right model: access to content is payed for by access to the network; essentially, you are buying a subscription to their content/service.
Nevermind the Mac part, think:
*durable,
*good keyboard,
*smooth trackpad,
*3 standard NICs (modem, 10BT, 802.11b),
*your choice of *nix distros,
*running mad gui BSD distro outta the box,
*primo battery life,
*space-saving tack-sharp LCD,
*VGA or RCA video out,
*Different.
Okay, okay, it's missing a second mouse button, but if you're in emacs all day long, it isn't like you'll miss that. Go down to Fry's Microcenter, where ever, and open up the terminal app and look around the guts. It's all there.
Jeeze, why not trot out some more tangentially related to bash Apple with?
Product is a piece of crap:
1. Can't play miniCD format in your car changer.
2. Hooking it up to stereo negates purpose of putting the music bytes onto plastic CD bits.
3. Using USB mass storage is like Chinese water torture.
4. RipGo requires special fruity colored and $10 ea. media.
5. Add another brick to the powerstrip Ma! Is not bus powered.
Links:
http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-20 01 1025.html
http://www.imation.com/en_US/products/product_ge ne ric_1.jhtml?Id=IM_PRD341
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Until recently, all Macs had a start button. . . on the keyboard. It was how you started and turned off the computer.
Recently (okay, late 98) Windows users started complaining about how the Mac lacked a "Start Button," when in fact, what they were referring to was similar to the ancient Apple menu, which like the start button, Apple has gotten rid of this year.
Mmmm, those friend or foe "pearls." They look aquataciously lickable. What's up with that? Are we going to see Mac OS X ads (a la O'reilleyNet) on Slashdot next?
There has been much discussion of Free Software in the vein of cottage industry or startups versus large/mature organizations (see D. Winer for example), however, the most interesting examples of broadly deployed Open Source and Free Software are large companies leveraging that against other big co's. (see Apple, IBM, AOL).
What's going to get early Aldus PageMaker code out of Adobe? Money. What's going to keep the developers who'll turn it into a simple Linux page layout app? Money. Who can do that? It'll take some larger organization who isn't interested in the distraction of remarketing software and has much to gain by the broad deployment of that software.
You just think that yur playing Solitare. It is actually a giant distrbuted computing project. With that many hours complete, my estimate is that they are about 1/8 of the way to finding the question to 42.
Are these guys working on Perl.NET? Do I have to have a Passport account to donate?
nuff said.
Motorola Specs for PowerPC's
Linux capable and OpenBSD to boot!
Do I get charged? Does the library?
What happens to the stuff that is "free," like library and government information?
Is there going to be some RIAA-type organization taking the pennies per page and marginalizing any info source that doesn't conform to their "digital-media protection" racket?
As far as this goes, AOL has the right model: access to content is payed for by access to the network; essentially, you are buying a subscription to their content/service.
Nevermind the Mac part, think: *durable, *good keyboard, *smooth trackpad, *3 standard NICs (modem, 10BT, 802.11b), *your choice of *nix distros, *running mad gui BSD distro outta the box, *primo battery life, *space-saving tack-sharp LCD, *VGA or RCA video out, *Different. Okay, okay, it's missing a second mouse button, but if you're in emacs all day long, it isn't like you'll miss that. Go down to Fry's Microcenter, where ever, and open up the terminal app and look around the guts. It's all there.
?? "...beats an iPod if nothing else..."???
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Jeeze, why not trot out some more tangentially related to bash Apple with?
Product is a piece of crap:
1. Can't play miniCD format in your car changer.
2. Hooking it up to stereo negates purpose of putting the music bytes onto plastic CD bits.
3. Using USB mass storage is like Chinese water torture.
4. RipGo requires special fruity colored and $10 ea. media.
5. Add another brick to the powerstrip Ma! Is not bus powered.
Links:
http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-2
http://www.imation.com/en_US/products/product_g