Now that MIT is depleting the nation's supply of Magic Smoke with their hands-on classed, we may need to go to war with Taiwian and take all of theirs.
I know they have it, there was tons of it in my old motherboard...
AmigaOS is tied to expensive PPC hard(vapor)ware, whereas BeOS works with what you've got - crappy old x86 pentium 120 machines.;) Anyone can try it, or use it.
So don't count it out yet - there are a lot of tireless crazies out there who are working hard to make BeOS into the next Linux (only better)...
Silence, worst of all, Anti-Zealot Zealot! I will contine to drive my Sparrow to work where I help homeless ferrets find new homes, while I wait for my Chicory coffee to be brewed on my homemade percolator, powered by the sun, wind and geothermal energy!
I will continue post only positive things about BeOS until I can afford a Macintosh with OS X! Damn your eyes!
I recall some people saying that about Linux a few years ago.
Zeta doesn't need the GPL, OpenBeOS is taking care of that. Zeta will have the advantage of being done and increasing the user/developer base while OBeOS is working on covering the re-writing bases.
Just keep in mind that there are a lot of niches not covered by the 'big' OSes and distributions that OBeOS can fill. (If there wasn't, why would we need YALD - Yet Another Linux Distribution?)
Anyone who requires/demands resposiveness. Linux and OS X, user input takes a back seat to what's going on 'behind the scenes'. (Windows is sligtly better)
BeOS has always been about instant reaction to the user, no matter what else was going on. Although most programs (with the exception of Mozilla/Phoenix) load too quickly to be intercepted...
If BeOS stays true to it's roots as a media OS - musicians, video artists, animators and their ilk would switch from the ever more bloated, less free(DRM) windows. BeOS needs media, like media needs BeOS.
Zeta's not fully open because much of the code is licenced from Palm, especially network and backend gui code. What this means for OBeOS people is all good (as soon as it's released).
There will be more interest, apps and support for BeOS. Right now the community consists of people who use it, and people who want to. Zeta will bring modern driver support, networking, and to BeOS, and that is something that has improved greatly in the last year. BeBits (in my sig) is somewhat like a sourceforge for BeOS, and the number of drivers written recently are all posted there.
You can also try BeOS out on most modern hardware by grabbing BeOS max (link in my journal), a distribution with most necessary included.
Perhaps this is AOL 'leaking' software in order to finish what SCO started. When WASTE invaribly gets ported and incorporated into other filesharing software(like limewire, for instance), AOL can then jump on the lawsuit train and either: Get some $$$, cause damage to the GPL, bankrupt and own the company/software/IP in question, or use their endless pocketbook to keep others from competing.
Very interesting. Maybe the newest business model is:
1) 'Accidentally' leak code
2) ??? (Wait for it to be adopted and used in other products)
3) Sue dem bitches!!
I hope SCO is DESTROYED UTTERLY by IBM, so we don't have to worry about this shit.
Re:Bunch of nice people work there
on
A Tour of Pixar
·
· Score: 3, Funny
Wish I was talented enough to work there.
You are talented enough to work there!
It's just that you smell of onions and wet dog. And then there's that lazy eye thing. And the severe tourrets syndrome. And the whole deal about your lack of arms. And the incontinence. And the constant running into server racks with your helmet on.
I didn't want to be the one to tell you...
Bathroom effect?? Worst idea ever.
on
A Tour of Pixar
·
· Score: 5, Funny
Here's the "bathroom effect" theory, as Greenberg explains it: "If you have bathrooms that are scattered throughout the building, you use the bathroom nearest to where you're sitting. If there was one bathroom, all kinds of people would come together and talk with one another all the time -- you'd meet different people if you were waiting in line. It would enhance communication, and you'd be talking about things outside of work."
I don't know about you, but when I'm sliding into first, and my pants are about to burst, the last thing on my mind is discussing with coworkers what I was doing at the Chinese massage parlor last night.
Get real. Let's not form lines in front of the bathroom and watch the girl from accounting do the funny walk, as we hold ourselves to keep from peeing.
Whatever happened to watercoolers?
These people are idiots.
on
A Tour of Pixar
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
All it takes is ONE person to share it. ONE. Then the day is over, time to go home, you've lost the battle.
A projectionist, a kid who works at the theater with a camera behind a wall, somebody with a camera in their glasses, all it takes is ONE.
All this is a waste of time, because you can't be everywhere at once.
If broadband was available to areas with pirate flea-markets, I'm sure it would kill more of that market than anything else.
THis article talks about a high quality rip of Matrix Reloaded. That sure as hell didn't come from a theater-goer with a sony..
Clean your own house before you tell me how dirty mine is.
It sounds good but
on
YOPY Arrives
·
· Score: 1, Funny
I happened to be messing around with this Idea on my old 100mhz powerbook 5300 last night. I copied the 8.5 system folder (minus some extentions) over to a 64 meg flash card. It worked fine, and faster than the slow as hell HD.
I have also done this with a floppy disk version of 7.5 (+/-), on a 4 meg card, and that boot is almost instantaneous. Not a ton of functionality, but it is very cool to see your old hardware spring to life that fast...:)
so the poor bastards waiting at Fileplanet can see:
If you used Bittorrent, you'd be home by now!
I'm averaging 3800 kB/sec (while also nabbing a torrent of Knoppix at 300 Kb/sec!) on a 760/128 DSL line, using the experimental client set to 'unlimited'.
I'm connected to 62 peers, and 14 seeds with 6 copies completed.
Now that SCO has claimed that it owns the rights to Bittorrent, everything that is shared with it, and your very soul, how do you feel about the lawsuit in progress?
Anyone getting messages on 'company e-letterhead' that say something like "Stop sending me spam! I've added your name to 5 spam lists!" ? With their name and a link on the bottom...
As I barely answer real emails, I'm guessing that this is the evil bastard child of spam and troll.
Trollspam - gets you pissed by accusing you of sending email. So you open it and great! a web bug just confirmed your addy.
Ha. Yahoo mail blocks HTML.
I would be happy to chase those fuckers down for a ham sandwich, nevermind 5 bills.
As I understand it, Canada is militarily weak. Why shouldn't they have a school for 'cyber-warfare'? It is one way that they could easily compete offensively - write a virus that takes guidance systems, communication, and perhaps some actual weapons (see American ship and Win NT) offline.
This method would also be cheap in terms of raw materials. If you can threaten an attacking country with the destruction of their economy or failure of basic utillity systems, without having to mobilize a pile of troops, you're money ahead.
Sounds like a plan.
Who will write a Perl script to send (Insert Evil Corporation here) a veritable A$$LOAD of random resumès?
All with names such as "I.P. Freely" and "Rod Johnson", degrees like 'PHD in Beastiality', and work experience like "1987-89: Instrumental in the success of bringing Vacuum Poo Forming(TM) to underpriveledged children.
Slashdot Mirror
I know they have it, there was tons of it in my old motherboard...
So don't count it out yet - there are a lot of tireless crazies out there who are working hard to make BeOS into the next Linux (only better)...
but does it run on Zeta(TM)?
I will continue post only positive things about BeOS until I can afford a Macintosh with OS X! Damn your eyes!
Zeta doesn't need the GPL, OpenBeOS is taking care of that. Zeta will have the advantage of being done and increasing the user/developer base while OBeOS is working on covering the re-writing bases.
Just keep in mind that there are a lot of niches not covered by the 'big' OSes and distributions that OBeOS can fill. (If there wasn't, why would we need YALD - Yet Another Linux Distribution?)
BeOS has always been about instant reaction to the user, no matter what else was going on. Although most programs (with the exception of Mozilla/Phoenix) load too quickly to be intercepted...
If BeOS stays true to it's roots as a media OS - musicians, video artists, animators and their ilk would switch from the ever more bloated, less free(DRM) windows. BeOS needs media, like media needs BeOS.
There will be more interest, apps and support for BeOS. Right now the community consists of people who use it, and people who want to. Zeta will bring modern driver support, networking, and to BeOS, and that is something that has improved greatly in the last year. BeBits (in my sig) is somewhat like a sourceforge for BeOS, and the number of drivers written recently are all posted there.
You can also try BeOS out on most modern hardware by grabbing BeOS max (link in my journal), a distribution with most necessary included.
Pay no attention to those scabs!
Very interesting. Maybe the newest business model is:
1) 'Accidentally' leak code
2) ??? (Wait for it to be adopted and used in other products)
3) Sue dem bitches!!
I hope SCO is DESTROYED UTTERLY by IBM, so we don't have to worry about this shit.
I sugarest erybondy get ron too$!!
All I want to know is: which one will they moon?
You are talented enough to work there!
It's just that you smell of onions and wet dog. And then there's that lazy eye thing. And the severe tourrets syndrome. And the whole deal about your lack of arms. And the incontinence. And the constant running into server racks with your helmet on.
I didn't want to be the one to tell you...
I don't know about you, but when I'm sliding into first, and my pants are about to burst, the last thing on my mind is discussing with coworkers what I was doing at the Chinese massage parlor last night.
Get real. Let's not form lines in front of the bathroom and watch the girl from accounting do the funny walk, as we hold ourselves to keep from peeing.
Whatever happened to watercoolers?
A projectionist, a kid who works at the theater with a camera behind a wall, somebody with a camera in their glasses, all it takes is ONE.
All this is a waste of time, because you can't be everywhere at once. If broadband was available to areas with pirate flea-markets, I'm sure it would kill more of that market than anything else.
THis article talks about a high quality rip of Matrix Reloaded. That sure as hell didn't come from a theater-goer with a sony..
Clean your own house before you tell me how dirty mine is.
does it run Windows CE?
I have also done this with a floppy disk version of 7.5 (+/-), on a 4 meg card, and that boot is almost instantaneous. Not a ton of functionality, but it is very cool to see your old hardware spring to life that fast... :)
I'm averaging 3800 kB/sec (while also nabbing a torrent of Knoppix at 300 Kb/sec!) on a 760/128 DSL line, using the experimental client set to 'unlimited'.
I'm connected to 62 peers, and 14 seeds with 6 copies completed.
Bittorrent so rocks.
Now that SCO has claimed that it owns the rights to Bittorrent, everything that is shared with it, and your very soul, how do you feel about the lawsuit in progress?
Homes destroyed, their leader missing, pandemonium falling into utter madness.
Roads crumbled, storehouses plundered, the sky is literally falling.
You can really mess up an anthill when you're 10 years old.
The MEEDO is how long it takes for me to do something.
This post is .30 MEEDOs. You owe me 10,000 dollars.
(I only need to sell one.)
As I barely answer real emails, I'm guessing that this is the evil bastard child of spam and troll.
Trollspam - gets you pissed by accusing you of sending email. So you open it and great! a web bug just confirmed your addy.
Ha. Yahoo mail blocks HTML.
I would be happy to chase those fuckers down for a ham sandwich, nevermind 5 bills.
This method would also be cheap in terms of raw materials. If you can threaten an attacking country with the destruction of their economy or failure of basic utillity systems, without having to mobilize a pile of troops, you're money ahead. Sounds like a plan.
I would hope the editors would try and be a little less transparent.
I swear, sometimes I feel invisible around here.
The longer they keep this info under their hats, the less I believe they have any leg to stand on.
All with names such as "I.P. Freely" and "Rod Johnson", degrees like 'PHD in Beastiality', and work experience like "1987-89: Instrumental in the success of bringing Vacuum Poo Forming(TM) to underpriveledged children.