why is there impetus to do this last mile bullshit (eg supporting the minority of people out in the boondocks, east/west bumfucks....), and consistently not enough impetus for other similar tech companies to support linux (another minority).
fark!. listen to this brainwashing...
I agree with the above about how there is no ethical issue here. but i have my own spin to add.
Have u ever heard of something called respect for your superiors?
The primary reason that joe indepedant (the ask-slashdotter) should have erased the email is because his boss asked him to. All his questioning of motivation, and backstabbing suggests a underlying tone of selfishness. How about some obediance?
Ship up, or ship out.
most of you, including kodak, are not giving any recognition to a country thats been offering video over the air to personal devices for years now: korea.
this is serious evidence of the saturation of computers in society. It helps u bridge the gap between now and the science fiction novels.
I've always thought (well before i knew how to program) that good video games were true pieces of art, to be appreciated with much respect. For those that still don't play them: as much respect as a painting. I'm sure that because u're reading this here on slashdot, you've played a video game before, the odds that u have are far higher if u were a kid in the last 20 yers. But, notice, that there are lots of people that choose (for whatever reason) just not to have technology like this in their lives. This tends to cause a lot of tension between them and their children.
I think its interesting how some people are just never going to interact with tech, no matter how much its at their fingertips.
There is nothing wrong with money.
This is a more complex issue than choosing to include the GPL from code u borrowed.
$$ is behind the knowledge that even allows these standards to be created.
Remember recently how Linus wants to have not much to do with the patent issues that some kernel code bring up and would rather the big linux names take care of it.
Asking for these standards to be implemented in the linux kernel, for all hardware, for free, really goes against the grain of owners.
The issue is very cut and dry:
Linux users have to wait for some node of the non-deterministic mesh that financially supports it to fork over the $$.
Since economic models for supporting this type of activity are not too well practiced, there is hesitance.
The hesitance, and the nature of the web mentioned before, are why linux support is slow.
Do the benefits (in other areas) that linux provides mitigate the costs? Clearly in this case, no.
Some paradigms need to shift before the floodgates permit this far more complex model from delivering the same results that permit standards adoption.
To finish, i have a simple analogy:
centralized,fast napster vs. decentralized,slow gnutella
even though it makes no sense for someone to have so much knowledge, there is more tech in this show than firefly (namely his paper thin cell phone, and imacs;-) )
how has this company managed to get a hold of marketshare?
why does it maintain these 80 million licenses?
what edge does it offer? how does it differ?
is there anything requiring aol to keep its servers open to apps like gaim?
I mean, once gaim starts taking signifigant user-base away, AND if it refuses to do banners, then I think its a lost cause, because AOL could pull the plug.
But, hopefully, the ratio of dorks to marketable people will stay low enough.
well said. Last year I managed to stretch out my laundry cycle to once every 4 weeks. It helps to have lots of underwear and freebie t-shirts and stay inside,naked a lot.
Anyway, I would rather see more work on washer dryer combos that save the transfer step than on this type of point-and-click-woo-its-connected-and-hence better type of stuff.
Face it. Everyone OUGHT to be scared, or concerned about hearing news like this, if you arent, then you are honestly to quaint, and smug with your lax attitude toward the way our tech is shaping.
To calm such fears, it should be known that these japanese companies don't offer anything great in the way of software to these pieces of hardware they put a price tag on.
Yet, I think its good that the japanese companies are letting the world get comfortable with such high tech. Xerox is probably going to end up developing some mega-death bot over the next 20-30 years, and we wont hear about it till its on the battlefields.
Just to calm more fears, this bot is far less advanced than the one from Honda that is for research. And the one from honda is like a bucket of nifty hardware, without anythin decent, SW wise to run it.
But you ought to be concerned, as every day, we come closer to replacing ourselves.
i read somewhere, maybe even here. That solid state memory is going to have a slight paradigm shift.
The advent of 3-d solid state memory, where the tiniest compoments (cells/registers/nodes/bits??) are now being stacked upwards as well as sideways.
This should increase the potential storage/space of solid memory.
I am not sure about how retrieval speed is affected.
I am curiouos, is solid state retrieval much faster than moving drives? (in general, per cost....)
You should be able to bargain for a pIII 500 with some IDE and a case for about $100.
The amount of hardware crap you are going to have to do on this HIGHLY propriety machine. Without any bootable IO?? this is a pointless project. Wait 6 months for a Normal PC with a flatscreen that sells for $500-600.
BTW, how does PPC linux happen. Since, apple's machines are also highly proprietary...they must have a department specifically for linux....in the pre-OSX days (and probably weening out now).
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i think a plane is way too small to allow cell phone usage.
how can they mention this without mentioning internet in planes.
thats been on the drawing board for years and is barely implemented.
it doesnt even seem to have any interesting new technology.
hemos needs a spanking for unloading 3 articles in a row.
and consistently not enough impetus for other similar tech companies to support linux (another minority).
i think for all the millions of $$ discussed wrt last mile IT on /. , we could have flash,ut2003,quicktime....for linux already.
why is there impetus to do this last mile bullshit (eg supporting the minority of people out in the boondocks, east/west bumfucks....), and consistently not enough impetus for other similar tech companies to support linux (another minority).
fark!. listen to this brainwashing... I agree with the above about how there is no ethical issue here. but i have my own spin to add. Have u ever heard of something called respect for your superiors? The primary reason that joe indepedant (the ask-slashdotter) should have erased the email is because his boss asked him to. All his questioning of motivation, and backstabbing suggests a underlying tone of selfishness. How about some obediance? Ship up, or ship out.
hello? average american slashdotting joe? its called THE LAW.
what are your throughts on grid computing?
actually its a US mandate for all tvs to be digital by 2007.
most of you, including kodak, are not giving any recognition to a country thats been offering video over the air to personal devices for years now: korea.
"A couple even have built in 802.11b so no need for wires."
Ah...so they must send power over the ether....
this is serious evidence of the saturation of computers in society. It helps u bridge the gap between now and the science fiction novels.
I've always thought (well before i knew how to program) that good video games were true pieces of art, to be appreciated with much respect. For those that still don't play them: as much respect as a painting. I'm sure that because u're reading this here on slashdot, you've played a video game before, the odds that u have are far higher if u were a kid in the last 20 yers. But, notice, that there are lots of people that choose (for whatever reason) just not to have technology like this in their lives. This tends to cause a lot of tension between them and their children. I think its interesting how some people are just never going to interact with tech, no matter how much its at their fingertips.
There is nothing wrong with money. This is a more complex issue than choosing to include the GPL from code u borrowed. $$ is behind the knowledge that even allows these standards to be created. Remember recently how Linus wants to have not much to do with the patent issues that some kernel code bring up and would rather the big linux names take care of it. Asking for these standards to be implemented in the linux kernel, for all hardware, for free, really goes against the grain of owners. The issue is very cut and dry: Linux users have to wait for some node of the non-deterministic mesh that financially supports it to fork over the $$. Since economic models for supporting this type of activity are not too well practiced, there is hesitance. The hesitance, and the nature of the web mentioned before, are why linux support is slow. Do the benefits (in other areas) that linux provides mitigate the costs? Clearly in this case, no. Some paradigms need to shift before the floodgates permit this far more complex model from delivering the same results that permit standards adoption. To finish, i have a simple analogy: centralized,fast napster vs. decentralized,slow gnutella
even though it makes no sense for someone to have so much knowledge, there is more tech in this show than firefly (namely his paper thin cell phone, and imacs ;-) )
and the show is really slow moving. But time will tell...
how has this company managed to get a hold of marketshare? why does it maintain these 80 million licenses? what edge does it offer? how does it differ?
i think this suggests that software makers should forget about optimization to fuel the hardware market.
is there anything requiring aol to keep its servers open to apps like gaim? I mean, once gaim starts taking signifigant user-base away, AND if it refuses to do banners, then I think its a lost cause, because AOL could pull the plug. But, hopefully, the ratio of dorks to marketable people will stay low enough.
If u've read stephen wolfram's "a new kind of science" this is exactly the type of graphical thinking he advocates.
i rock. lets see howw all the different mirrors account for this...
well said. Last year I managed to stretch out my laundry cycle to once every 4 weeks. It helps to have lots of underwear and freebie t-shirts and stay inside,naked a lot. Anyway, I would rather see more work on washer dryer combos that save the transfer step than on this type of point-and-click-woo-its-connected-and-hence better type of stuff.
Face it. Everyone OUGHT to be scared, or concerned about hearing news like this, if you arent, then you are honestly to quaint, and smug with your lax attitude toward the way our tech is shaping. To calm such fears, it should be known that these japanese companies don't offer anything great in the way of software to these pieces of hardware they put a price tag on. Yet, I think its good that the japanese companies are letting the world get comfortable with such high tech. Xerox is probably going to end up developing some mega-death bot over the next 20-30 years, and we wont hear about it till its on the battlefields. Just to calm more fears, this bot is far less advanced than the one from Honda that is for research. And the one from honda is like a bucket of nifty hardware, without anythin decent, SW wise to run it. But you ought to be concerned, as every day, we come closer to replacing ourselves.
i read somewhere, maybe even here. That solid state memory is going to have a slight paradigm shift. The advent of 3-d solid state memory, where the tiniest compoments (cells/registers/nodes/bits??) are now being stacked upwards as well as sideways. This should increase the potential storage/space of solid memory. I am not sure about how retrieval speed is affected. I am curiouos, is solid state retrieval much faster than moving drives? (in general, per cost....)
You should be able to bargain for a pIII 500 with some IDE and a case for about $100. The amount of hardware crap you are going to have to do on this HIGHLY propriety machine. Without any bootable IO?? this is a pointless project. Wait 6 months for a Normal PC with a flatscreen that sells for $500-600. BTW, how does PPC linux happen. Since, apple's machines are also highly proprietary...they must have a department specifically for linux....in the pre-OSX days (and probably weening out now).