am usually not in favor of incitement to riots, but this position goes a bit too far the other way. Peaceful and non-disruptive protests make sense only when the imbalance of power between the two sides isn't too great. If your position on the totem pole is several feet below its bottom, then all the non-disruptive protests in the world aren't going to do you and your cause any good. At best you'll politely told to fuck off and not bother important gentlemen busy with their important matters.
Hmmmmm..... some how I think that Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. would oh I don't know.... massively disagree with you. Unless you define marches, sit-ins and boycotts as disruptive.
By Occam's Razor, we shouldn't add unnecessary complexity to our explanations if we don't have to
Your kidding right?
BTW, one of the main "arguers" for this view was a certain Mr. Andrew Kaufman. (Part of the reason for the name of the movie.) However it turned out to be one of his hoaxes. (IE. he didn't believe it himself.)
This article is about RTMark's DoS attacks on etoys.com, not about the legal battle.
Of course it makes RTMark look bad, the way they are behaving is quite childish. They would do better to be raising money to help etoy.com's legal battle. Or informing the public about what is going on. What they are doing now is just going to hurt etoy.com and others in the same situation by raising hostility in the corporate world.
My mom *always* calls during the X-files. Every sunday. For me the TiVO would be great because I wouldn't need to buy anymore VCR tapes "just in case" someone calls.....
Then again I'm not a judgemental person who feels the need to put down other people's interests... go figure.
Well, I've used a 32 bit RISC (the PowerPC 603e), with linux and I'm pretty satisfied. The only problem is that intel is just about the only system that seriously gets supported. So things most closed-source products like Metrowerks or Corel Wordperfect don't work.
However in terms of the feel of things I'd say my 603e @ 200Mhz "feels" roughly like a Pentium 233-266. (Both on linux, as long as I'm not doing heavy disk access or 3D stuff.... The linuxPPC scsi/ide drivers seem out of whack to me, but I could be wrong)
As a development machine/webserver, it's great, but like I said if you wanna run a lot of closed-source stuff, that's a different story. (I just got word for Loki that QIIIA won't be available for LinuxPPC for quite a while. sigh, guess I'm gonna have to go buy _another_ computer.:) )
How is my post offtopic, but the post I'm responding to is ontopic?
What the?????
BTW, Mr. Moderator, please read the moderator's guidlines. My post was ontopic for the thread I was posting to... as far as I know that would make my post ontopic according to the moderator's guidlines.
Sigh, of course that makes this post offtopic, but that's ok.
Just because you couldn't connect doesn't mean the server was down. httpd might have gone down and been unnoticed for a few hours or something, leaving you unable to connect, but the OS still being up.
OTHO, something funky did happen, because as another person pointed out it was readin' 30+ days not long ago (in the past few days), so it couldn't have gone down, come back up _and_ been up for 18days w/o a timewarp of some kind....
Does this mean I can buy a cheap ole 486 or 601(PPC) computer, patch my source code with their diffs and have a working TiVO? That would be cool! (Although I assume that they still have properitary(sp?) hardware.)
With or without getting a free(beer) TiVO it's cool that there is a free(speech) one!
Ok, I admit this is offtopic, however, this is the closest story I can think of that's come up recently....
Recently there has been lot of discussion of databases, and who owns them. The US either is considering or passed a law saying a Database(and info contained there-in) is owned by the creating person/company. [I honestly can't remember.]
At anyrate, this got me thinking of a the (possible) need for DGPL. Basically the same as the LGPL, but adding that the database host (i.e. the owner of the server hosting the specific instance of the db) can put restrictions on access allowing them to offset the cost of hosting the machine (administration, i'net connection, etc.). Examples of acceptable restrictions would be 1) any program accessing this database must display the advert. provided, 2) a cost of.000000001 per record returned... something like that.
Is there a lic. that allows this kind of thing, or should I be working on one?
I'm aware this would be hard to enforce, but I think it has some potential...
[Yes, this directly related to something I'm currently working on....and no, I don't want to give out specifics, I will talk in generalities though...]
If ever South Park was a hot commodity, it was about 2 years ago before they managed to piss off most of their die-hard fans with the whole Terrance and Phillip debacle (remember that episode? It was *supposed* to be the "who is Cartman's Father" episode).
Speak for yourself. I (and most of my SP watching friends) laughed our asses off. Very reminsicient of a certain Mr. Kaufmann....
BTW, do you happen to have proof that they are no longer "hot"? Slipping ratings? Lack of merchandising? Seems to me that the SP christmas ornaments argue against you! Certainly this is odd timing what with the dismal display of the South Park movie, which grossed *far* less than most predictions...and even failed to be all that funny.
Again speak for yourself.
Did anybody think all of the anal-rape jokes were even remotely funny or necessary?
If you are watching a show/movie that is know and marketed as being offensive, you should not be suprised if it sometimes offends you.
(Remember Orgazmo or Baseketball?) Hmmm... both of which I personally found to be very funny. See my point immediately above.
However, it can do "exact phrase" searches which is almost as good.
For example, searching on Black 47 returns 2,000+ hits when using the default search, but 0 when using an exact phrase....
Linux OTOH returns only two matches... sigh. Actually I wonder how much that has to do with the confusion over the pronunciation(sp?), considering I've never met two people who say it with the same exact phonetics....
Devil = 1 Isn't this perfectly legal under the Sun Community License? It's not real nice, but I was under the impression that all changes to the Java source belonged to Sun. Devil = 0
Overall though, even if this is ok according to "the law", it still bites the big one. I really like Java, it has a great deal of potential, (INMHO) both as a language and as a VM... stuff like this just makes it look really bad.
It's their actions that wory people. Their ignorance of human rights, their clear statement to destroy every government and become the supreme rulers of the world, their infiltration and espionage activities, and the more disgusting things. These people don't need to be banned. Criminals belong into prisons.
Agreed, Criminals belong in prison. However, I was trying to point out that most people's beef is with the orginization, and that if you meet a $cientologist they are not ness. a criminal. Nor IMNSHO should believing in $cientology ness. be a crime... that's a little 1984ish
It goes like this in some people's minds Some $cinetologist are Criminals Tom is a $cientologist ___________________________ Tom is a criminal.
This is not true as any student of elementary logic will tell you.
I'm very fuzzy, but I seem to remember that LRH coined the phrase, referring to how cute and fuzzy squirels will steal nuts from people. Something like that. I talked to a few back when I hung out on alt.religion.scientology. They didn't seem like criminals to me, actually _most_ of them were very nice, just a little wierd. (There was one guy, Homer something that kept drawing me into flame wars....:) )
A bunch of them have banned together and formed a free society (the name of which I can't remember), that persues LRH's ideas w/o the oppressive leadership of the {ahem} Church. (They even liken them selves to the heretics during the Spanish Inquisition.
in general, you are right, but Scientology is a "relogion" that states that it's beliefs are more important than the law.
If you check, most religions say this in one way or another. The law is of man, the Law comes from a higher power. (Or in the case of Buddhism is just how the universe works.)
The german gov't finds the Orginization (the earthly part of the religion) to have done some very bad, bad things. I am already a little quesy with the idea, but I would have a major problem if they where saying that the beliefs of the religion should be banned.
As far as I know example, the german gov, doesn't have any problem with the squirels (the people who leave $cinetology, but keep practicing the "tech").
ince whatever any of us are doing now is likely to be long since on the scrapheap in 10-15 years, people's emotional attachment to any tool just strikes me as silly.
I think you may have hit the nail on the head. You just got me thinking that for me (and apparently yourself) technology is just that a tool. Nothing more special about it than a hammer... it gets the job done. For a fanatic, it seems that thier particular technology is worthy of devotion (imagine protrating yourself infront of a Black-n-decker jigsaw!).
The tools that seem to get the most devotion seem to be seen as being some part of "movement" (Creative (mac), cheap multimedia (was amiga now beos), open source (*bsd, linux, etc.).
I mostly agree. Although I think there are two camps. (I'm a vb/vc/et al developer trying to get away from MS)
A sizeable minority of Windows developers I've worked with have not only be _as_ loyal to windows as some linux fanatic, but even more loyal.
I've worked with enough of them on projects over the year that I've noticed some commanalities... 1) First 4GL work was with an MS product 2) Didn't use GUI until windows 3.1 3) First IT work was on Mainframes at Gov't installations (off the top of my head:Army, Navy,AF,Marines) 4) Stubborn refusal to look at other technolgies. (One went so far as to call me grossly incompetent for recomended that we look at Netware/Linux as well as NT for a file/print server!) 5) Not a single one could seem to fully understand Threads or Event driven programming. 6) Usually live or had lived in the US Nortwest. (Although my sample is biased here, about half the developers at my last job where from there.) 7) Overall, just like any fanatic they are _NOT_ fun to work with. I've left several project due to fanatics of one type or another....
You are right, these people are not the majority of Windows developers, but they do exist!
I've often thought about starting some kind of web database where this false/misleading claims could be stored along with pointers to the documents showing the fact to be misleading.
Things like the BYTEmarks and this could be explained. Somethig like the skeptics dictionary. Of course I just don't have the time or the webspace to track down everything.
OTOH, probably could call it either www.phb.com or www.fudbusters.com [who y'gonna call?]...
From said page: Anyway, you're welcome to use the code, but it is provided with no warranty and no support. You're on your own here, and I can't help you if you have problems (and you will have problems! This is fairly alpha code) you are on your own. The only restriction is that you must put a Slashdot Logo and a link back to Slashdot on any site that uses our code. Beyond that, have a ball.
Can someone explain to me why everyone is so gaga over opera? I don't mean this as a flame, I just think there is something I missed.
I downloaded it, played with it, and I found the UI to be confusing (the back and forward buttons are on the top menu, not on the window that it refers to, for example), and not well designed for how I browse the web. (I usually browse durning breaks of concentration, and flip back and forth between an IDE and a specific webpage... opera with it's mdi doesn't allow that easily.)
Sure it's small, but for the $30, I could get more memory, and sure it's fast, but even on my t1 at work the render time is swamped by the download time.
I mean honestly, could someone explain to me, I want to know what I missed!
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I don't mean to be nosey, or opinionated or anything. I'm just asking an honest question...
Do your clients/bosses know you do this? Most business wouldn't be comfortable with losing ~30-40% of the market or having an opinion stated so blantantly. To be perfectly frank, if I saw something like that on a web page... I just wouldn't visit it ever again. I think there are alot of people that agree with me.
...that had netscape not tried to keep up with all the features IE had and just kept to HTML standards and did it well like it had in the past people would still be looking at IE as that annoying program microsoft makes you install when you install windows, and not the better choice.
Again no offense, I'm not flaming or anything... However, you should be aware that Netscape is the one that started extending HTML. Sure they worked like the dickens to get their extensions to become part of the HTML standard, but the fact remains that from the begining they did extend html (remember the CENTER tag? or FRAME? or even tr/td where all netscape specific tags in the begining.)
Personally I disagree with you I've used IE3-5(mac(only to 4.5)/win), Netscape(mac/win/linux) and Opera(win)... and I still perfer Netscape. Sure there are standards that it doesn't support, and it crashes alot but it has two huge advantages over the others don't:
1) A very simple UI. Compared with the last few releases of IE, netscapes UI is very simple and efficient.
2) As you can see I use a mix of OS's, and having to deal with a consistent (mostly) UI across all three is really nice. (there are big diffs between IE4&5 and IE4.5 for the mac, btw).
Granted the above is just my opinion, and you are perfectly free to disagree....
No I'm just a decent human being who... /Update Mode Set Flame = 1 Where User='Myddrin'/ 1) Is sick and tired of your(collective) damn whining and puling about 'Oh this isn't news', 'ohhh, I'm so freaking deprived becuase someone posted the same story twice.' , 'I have no life beyond slashdot.' 2) Is getting sick and tired of seeing ignorant insults being lobbed at the people who run this site. If you don't like it, stop reading... or form some competition... if that's too much like work, or using your damn mind then shut your #$@$!n' yap. 3) Actually thinks that the people who run/. might actually have feelings. Did you ever think of that you no-brained-yellow-bellied-couldn't-program-your-wa y-down-a-one-way-street-moron? 4) Has some Karma to burn and feels like getting moderated down responding to scumbags like you who are sitting infront of a machine at the school library because no-one will get close enough to your stink to actually talk to you. /Update Mode Set Flame = 0 Where User='Myddrin'/ Have a nice day... RobK
To the best of my knowledge, most of this stuff is outside the scope of the linux source tree. We're talking a large amount of work here to make linux take a moderate advantage of the underlying hardware. If they've done it, more power to them. But is just seems to be rumors to me.
OTHO, it would be a huge advantage to IBM to make this move.
1) Having a single source base for everything (M$ has been hyping this up for Win2000, btw) from mobile to mainframe. This would let them cut down on the # (and/or cost)of developers for packages like Dominio.
2) Linux OS developers are most likely cheaper than the OS/390 experts. (There are prob. more linux devs. anyway) And a lot of the work is free (GPL'd).
3) Marketing Marketing Marketing....
4) If they can get this to market before Win2000 it pulls the feet out from under M$ for the "one source base everywhere".
5) Marketing (yeah, I know but it's a biggie...)
6) Makes them look good to the Linux community. (This seems to be becoming an important competition "Who is more Open Source friendly"...
So not only are they seeing a a cost savings (eventually), it makes them look like "the good guys," something IBM isn't used to.
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am usually not in favor of incitement to riots, but this position goes a bit too far the other way. Peaceful and non-disruptive protests make sense only when the imbalance of power between the two sides isn't too great. If your position on the totem pole is several feet below its bottom, then all the non-disruptive protests in the world aren't going to do you and your cause any good. At best you'll politely told to fuck off and not bother important gentlemen busy with their important matters.
Hmmmmm..... some how I think that Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. would oh I don't know.... massively disagree with you. Unless you define marches, sit-ins and boycotts as disruptive.
By Occam's Razor, we shouldn't add unnecessary complexity to our explanations if we don't have to
Your kidding right?
BTW, one of the main "arguers" for this view was a certain Mr. Andrew Kaufman. (Part of the reason for the name of the movie.) However it turned out to be one of his hoaxes. (IE. he didn't believe it himself.)
The guy has a +1 bonus for having a high karma.
I do to, but I always turn it off.....
So any press is good press?
Maybe the should go out a sacrifice a few babies...
This article is about RTMark's DoS attacks on etoys.com, not about the legal battle.
Of course it makes RTMark look bad, the way they are behaving is quite childish. They would do better to be raising money to help etoy.com's legal battle. Or informing the public about what is going on. What they are doing now is just going to hurt etoy.com and others in the same situation by raising hostility in the corporate world.
My mom *always* calls during the X-files. Every sunday. For me the TiVO would be great because
I wouldn't need to buy anymore VCR tapes "just in case" someone calls.....
Then again I'm not a judgemental person who feels the need to put down other people's interests...
go figure.
Well, I've used a 32 bit RISC (the PowerPC 603e), with linux and I'm pretty satisfied. The only problem is that intel is just about the only system that seriously gets supported. So things most closed-source products like Metrowerks or Corel Wordperfect don't work.
:) )
However in terms of the feel of things I'd say my 603e @ 200Mhz "feels" roughly like a Pentium 233-266. (Both on linux, as long as I'm not doing heavy disk access or 3D stuff.... The linuxPPC scsi/ide drivers seem out of whack to me, but I could be wrong)
As a development machine/webserver, it's great, but like I said if you wanna run a lot of closed-source stuff, that's a different story. (I just got word for Loki that QIIIA won't be available for LinuxPPC for quite a while. sigh, guess I'm gonna have to go buy _another_ computer.
How is my post offtopic, but the
post I'm responding to is ontopic?
What the?????
BTW, Mr. Moderator, please read the
moderator's guidlines. My post was ontopic for the thread I was posting to... as far as I know
that would make my post ontopic according to the moderator's guidlines.
Sigh, of course that makes this post offtopic, but
that's ok.
Just because you couldn't connect doesn't mean the server was down. httpd might have gone down and been unnoticed for a few hours or something, leaving you unable to connect, but the OS still being up.
OTHO, something funky did happen, because as another person pointed out it was readin' 30+ days not long ago (in the past few days), so it couldn't have gone down, come back up _and_ been up for 18days w/o a timewarp of some kind....
Let's do the timewarp AGAAAAAAAAAAAIN....
RobK
Does this mean I can buy a cheap ole 486 or 601(PPC) computer, patch my source code with their diffs and have a working TiVO? That would be cool! (Although I assume that they still have properitary(sp?) hardware.)
With or without getting a free(beer) TiVO it's cool that there is a free(speech) one!
Ok, I admit this is offtopic, however, this is the closest story I can think of that's come up recently....
.000000001 per record returned... something like that.
Recently there has been lot of discussion of databases, and who owns them. The US either is considering or passed a law saying a Database(and info contained there-in) is owned by the creating person/company. [I honestly can't remember.]
At anyrate, this got me thinking of a the (possible) need for DGPL. Basically the same as the LGPL, but adding that the database host (i.e. the owner of the server hosting the specific instance of the db) can put restrictions on access allowing them to offset the cost of hosting the machine (administration, i'net connection, etc.). Examples of acceptable restrictions would be 1) any program accessing this database must display the advert. provided, 2) a cost of
Is there a lic. that allows this kind of thing, or should I be working on one?
I'm aware this would be hard to enforce, but I think it has some potential...
[Yes, this directly related to something I'm currently working on....and no, I don't want to give out specifics, I will talk in generalities though...]
If ever South Park was a hot commodity, it was about 2 years ago before they managed to piss off most of their die-hard fans with the whole Terrance and Phillip debacle (remember that episode? It was *supposed* to be the "who is Cartman's Father" episode).
Speak for yourself. I (and most of my SP watching friends) laughed our asses off. Very reminsicient of a certain Mr. Kaufmann....
BTW, do you happen to have proof that they are no longer "hot"? Slipping ratings? Lack of merchandising? Seems to me that the SP christmas ornaments argue against you!
Certainly this is odd timing what with the dismal display of the South Park movie, which grossed *far* less than most predictions...and even failed to be all that funny.
Again speak for yourself.
Did anybody think all of the anal-rape jokes were even remotely funny or necessary?
If you are watching a show/movie that is know and marketed as being offensive, you should not be suprised if it sometimes offends you.
(Remember Orgazmo or Baseketball?)
Hmmm... both of which I personally found to be very funny. See my point immediately above.
However, it can do "exact phrase" searches which is almost as good.
For example, searching on Black 47 returns 2,000+ hits when using the default search, but 0 when using an exact phrase....
Linux OTOH returns only two matches... sigh. Actually I wonder how much that has to do with the confusion over the pronunciation(sp?), considering I've never met two people who say it with the same exact phonetics....
Oh well,
RobK
Devil = 1
Isn't this perfectly legal under the Sun Community License? It's not real nice, but I was under the impression that all changes to the Java source belonged to Sun.
Devil = 0
Overall though, even if this is ok according to "the law", it still bites the big one. I really like Java, it has a great deal of potential, (INMHO) both as a language and as a VM... stuff like this just makes it look really bad.
RobK
It's their actions that wory people. Their ignorance of human rights, their clear statement to destroy every government and become the supreme rulers of the world, their infiltration and espionage activities, and the more disgusting things.
These people don't need to be banned. Criminals belong into prisons.
Agreed, Criminals belong in prison. However, I was trying to point out that most people's beef is with the orginization, and that if you meet a $cientologist they are not ness. a criminal. Nor IMNSHO should believing in $cientology ness. be a crime... that's a little 1984ish
It goes like this in some people's minds
Some $cinetologist are Criminals
Tom is a $cientologist
___________________________
Tom is a criminal.
This is not true as any student of elementary logic will tell you.
I'm very fuzzy, but I seem to remember that LRH coined the phrase, referring to how cute and fuzzy squirels will steal nuts from people. Something like that. I talked to a few back when I hung out on alt.religion.scientology. They didn't seem like criminals to me, actually _most_ of them were very nice, just a little wierd. (There was one guy, Homer something that kept drawing me into flame wars.... :) )
A bunch of them have banned together and formed a free society (the name of which I can't remember), that persues LRH's ideas w/o the oppressive leadership of the {ahem} Church. (They even liken them selves to the heretics during the Spanish Inquisition.
I think there might be more info on xemu.net , but I can't be sure.
RobK
in general, you are right, but Scientology is a "relogion" that states that it's beliefs are more important than the law.
If you check, most religions say this in one way or another. The law is of man, the Law comes from a higher power. (Or in the case of Buddhism is just how the universe works.)
The german gov't finds the Orginization (the earthly part of the religion) to have done some very bad, bad things. I am already a little quesy with the idea, but I would have a major problem if they where saying that the beliefs of the religion should be banned.
As far as I know example, the german gov, doesn't have any problem with the squirels (the people who leave $cinetology, but keep practicing the "tech").
Just my 2 cents worth....
RobK (Buddhist)
ince whatever any of us are doing now is likely to be long since on the scrapheap in 10-15 years, people's emotional attachment to any tool just strikes me as silly.
I think you may have hit the nail on the head. You just got me thinking that for me (and apparently yourself) technology is just that a tool. Nothing more special about it than a hammer... it gets the job done. For a fanatic, it seems that thier particular technology is worthy of devotion (imagine protrating yourself infront of a Black-n-decker jigsaw!).
The tools that seem to get the most devotion seem to be seen as being some part of "movement" (Creative (mac), cheap multimedia (was amiga now beos), open source (*bsd, linux, etc.).
Hmmmm... gives me alot to think about!
I mostly agree. Although I think there are two camps. (I'm a vb/vc/et al developer trying to get away from MS)
:Army, Navy,AF,Marines)
A sizeable minority of Windows developers I've worked with have not only be _as_ loyal to windows as some linux fanatic, but even more loyal.
I've worked with enough of them on projects over the year that I've noticed some commanalities...
1) First 4GL work was with an MS product
2) Didn't use GUI until windows 3.1
3) First IT work was on Mainframes at Gov't installations (off the top of my head
4) Stubborn refusal to look at other technolgies. (One went so far as to call me grossly incompetent for recomended that we look at Netware/Linux as well as NT for a file/print server!)
5) Not a single one could seem to fully understand Threads or Event driven programming.
6) Usually live or had lived in the US Nortwest. (Although my sample is biased here, about half the developers at my last job where from there.)
7) Overall, just like any fanatic they are _NOT_ fun to work with. I've left several project due to fanatics of one type or another....
You are right, these people are not the majority of Windows developers, but they do exist!
I've often thought about starting some kind of web database where this false/misleading claims could be stored along with pointers to the documents showing the fact to be misleading.
Things like the BYTEmarks and this could be explained. Somethig like the skeptics dictionary. Of course I just don't have the time or the webspace to track down everything.
OTOH, probably could call it either www.phb.com or www.fudbusters.com [who y'gonna call?]...
ummm... is this what you are looking for?
From said page:
Anyway, you're welcome to use the code, but it is provided with no warranty and no support. You're on your own here, and I can't help you if you have problems (and you will have problems! This is fairly alpha code) you are on your own. The only restriction is that you must put a Slashdot Logo and a link back to Slashdot on any site that uses our code. Beyond that, have a ball.
Can someone explain to me why everyone is so gaga over opera? I don't mean this as a flame, I just think there is something I missed.
I downloaded it, played with it, and I found the UI to be confusing (the back and forward buttons are on the top menu, not on the window that it refers to, for example), and not well designed for how I browse the web. (I usually browse durning breaks of concentration, and flip back and forth between an IDE and a specific webpage... opera with it's mdi doesn't allow that easily.)
Sure it's small, but for the $30, I could get more memory, and sure it's fast, but even on my t1 at work the render time is swamped by the download time.
I mean honestly, could someone explain to me, I want to know what I missed!
I don't mean to be nosey, or opinionated or anything. I'm just asking an honest question...
...that had netscape not tried to keep up with all the features IE had and just kept to HTML standards and did it well like it had in the past people would still be looking at IE as that annoying program microsoft makes you install when you install windows, and not the better choice.
Do your clients/bosses know you do this? Most business wouldn't be comfortable with losing ~30-40% of the market or having an opinion stated so blantantly. To be perfectly frank, if I saw something like that on a web page... I just wouldn't visit it ever again. I think there are alot of people that agree with me.
Again no offense, I'm not flaming or anything...
However, you should be aware that Netscape is the one that started extending HTML. Sure they worked like the dickens to get their extensions to become part of the HTML standard, but the fact remains that from the begining they did extend html (remember the CENTER tag? or FRAME? or even tr/td where all netscape specific tags in the begining.)
Personally I disagree with you I've used IE3-5(mac(only to 4.5)/win), Netscape(mac/win/linux) and Opera(win)... and I still perfer Netscape. Sure there are standards that it doesn't support, and it crashes alot but it has two huge advantages over the others don't:
1) A very simple UI. Compared with the last few releases of IE, netscapes UI is very simple and efficient.
2) As you can see I use a mix of OS's, and having to deal with a consistent (mostly) UI across all three is really nice. (there are big diffs between IE4&5 and IE4.5 for the mac, btw).
Granted the above is just my opinion, and you are perfectly free to disagree....
RobK
No I'm just a decent human being who... /. might actually have feelings. Did you ever think of that you no-brained-yellow-bellied-couldn't-program-your-wa y-down-a-one-way-street-moron?
/Update Mode Set Flame = 1 Where User='Myddrin'/
1) Is sick and tired of your(collective) damn whining and puling about 'Oh this isn't news', 'ohhh, I'm so freaking deprived becuase someone posted the same story twice.' , 'I have no life beyond slashdot.'
2) Is getting sick and tired of seeing ignorant insults being lobbed at the people who run this site. If you don't like it, stop reading... or form some competition... if that's too much like work, or using your damn mind then shut your #$@$!n' yap.
3) Actually thinks that the people who run
4) Has some Karma to burn and feels like getting moderated down responding to scumbags like you who are sitting infront of a machine at the school library because no-one will get close enough to your stink to actually talk to you.
/Update Mode Set Flame = 0 Where User='Myddrin'/
Have a nice day...
RobK
To the best of my knowledge, most of this stuff is outside the scope of the linux source tree. We're talking a large amount of work here to make linux take a moderate advantage of the underlying hardware. If they've done it, more power to them. But is just seems to be rumors to me.
OTHO, it would be a huge advantage to IBM to make this move.
1) Having a single source base for everything (M$ has been hyping this up for Win2000, btw) from mobile to mainframe. This would let them cut down on the # (and/or cost)of developers for packages like Dominio.
2) Linux OS developers are most likely cheaper than the OS/390 experts. (There are prob. more linux devs. anyway) And a lot of the work is free (GPL'd).
3) Marketing Marketing Marketing....
4) If they can get this to market before Win2000 it pulls the feet out from under M$ for the "one source base everywhere".
5) Marketing (yeah, I know but it's a biggie...)
6) Makes them look good to the Linux community. (This seems to be becoming an important competition "Who is more Open Source friendly"...
So not only are they seeing a a cost savings (eventually), it makes them look like "the good guys," something IBM isn't used to.