I don't normally get up on a soapbox (you live your life, I'll live mine) but all this talk about "next-gen TV" and TiVO lawsuits/etc. just make me laugh.
I tossed my TV in the garbage can in 1989.
And I am much better off without it. You can do the same. Take back your life, Kill your TV.
in this, but from what I have gathered, Motorola was the prime reason Apple chips fell behind, Moto and Co. simply weren't interested (or up to the task?) in producing new chips for them.
With a new division spun off, perhaps this will change?
As an aside, I've installed BeOS on every laptop I've run across (to me, the ability for an OS to run successfully on a laptop is the ultimate test of the capability of the OS) and I've found far *fewer* laptops that BeOS *cannot* run on, than I have found in regards to *nix. Yes, I was surprised, but very pleased. Nothing looks cooler than firing up BeOS on a laptop.
Looking forward to an ultra-modern laptop with YellowTab.
It's the look of the UI that is what makes BeOS so great (although that is indeed a large part of it) it's the fact that it is *consistant* thoughout the OS, regardless of app.
I know this article will generate a ton of "BeOS is dead, who cares" and "Who the hell uses BeOS anymore?" or "What is BeOS?" style posts, so as an avid user of BeOS I will attempt to explain some things:
(1) You'd be surprised how much hardware is supported by BeOS, Athlon XP CPUS, P4s, firewire cards, SCSIs, Magneto Optical, scanners, etc. If it's not natively seen, www.bebits.com (as well as bedrivers.com) is the place to go.
(2) BeOS is a refreshing change of pace from the "Big Brother" of Windows, the "Here's a million bits, put them together yourself" of Linux or the "Our way, the only way" of Apple. BeOS relies on the "less is more" viewpoint. Software packages range in the hundereds of k, as opposed to the hundereds of megs in size, yet still do what they need to do.
(3) I have yet to see a GUI is clean, useful and *consistant* as BeOS.
(4) It just works.
(5) The user base is friendly, enthusiastic and you won't get any of the typical *nix attitudes of "lamer" or "rtfm" in the BeOS user forums.
In your original post you said, and I quote:...and go after the spammers who are obviously promoting/funding these attacks...
My point to you is...prove it.
Note: I am against spammers, the firm I work for owns an ISP, we have the same problems, but proof is much harder to come by....Judging by your wonderful nick, u like spam, so the answer may not be so apparent to you....
Any time I join a newsgroup or a forum, the e.mail address used is filled with spam, the name is ironic....And i cant go after them cuz im not a law enforcement official you fuckin troll....
I'm going to ignore the "troll" comment because anyone who is disagreed with on/. is automatically labeled as such. And one does not hVave to be in law enforcement to stop these fiendish bastards.
So show me where the spammers are promoting this..I do't see anywhere on the net large banners asking for help in fighting the anti-spammers. You say it's obvious...please provide the proof, and if you can get the proof, then why don't you go after them yourself?
I am a writer, though not professionally I have been published on numerous occasions. My word processor of choice was originally AmiPro (2.0!) under Win98se.
Until I discovered BeOS and GoBe Productive. Haven't looked back since. (contention) Best OS/Office package out there. (/contention)
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You'll be *very* pleased by the results. You'll talk to your family more (which may or may not be a good thing), do more things, either by yourself or in groups, and get more out of life.
I look at articles like this, and others related to it, and simply laugh.
I don't have cable TV. I don't have satellite TV, I don't have regular TV, in fact, I don't even *own* a TV.
I haven't owned a TV since 1989 and I don't miss it one single solitary bit.
What I *do* have, is a library of over 1000 books. History, science fiction, biography, operating systems.
All the time I have saved by not watching the boob tube has allowed me to do things (like getting out and getting a life, girlfriend(s), clubs, etc.) that TV slaves can only, well, watch on TV.
So don't just sit there watching the nth rip-offs of star trek, or endless re-runs of beevis and butthead, kill your TV and go *do* something!
*Trust* me on this one, chicks will come out of the woodwork to be with you. Men will tip their hats and police will let you go if you are speeding (all of this is true, my own personal experience)
A buying tip: Whatever model Alfa, buy the last model year of that car, the Italians will have ironed out all the bugs by then.
I put over 250,000 miles on my 1985 Alfa GTV6 150,000 on my 1977 Alfa GTV 150,000 on my 1992 Alfa Spyder
..to head banging heavy metal acid rock at 130 dB..
Allow me to correct you:
There is Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc.)
There is Acid Rock, more properly called Stoner Rock these days (Slow Horse, Winter, etc.)
But there is no such thing as Heavy Metal Acid Rock, unless you are possibly referring to Death Metal, in which case there are bands out there making albums that the Beatles, even in their best days, didn't have the ability, intellect or ideas, to pull off.
When you get food stamps (no charge), subsidized housing (as little as $1.00/month) fixed rate utility bills ($20-$40/mo) and welfare checks ($600/mo) what *else* do you have to spend your (our) money on?
Always wondered what happened to the programmer on stage, who plugged in the scanner and caused a BSOD in front of millions.
He's probably been blackballed from the entire computer industry by now and is sitting in a homeless shelter muttering to himself about buffer overruns...
Having done building inspection work in housing projects (for too damn many years) I can tell you, the "poor" have more disposable income than you or I.
Do you know it's against the law to evict someone from a housing project apartment? So they are 2, 4 or more months late on their rent, they can't kick them out. The people living there know this, and abuse the system. I've inspected over 10,000 units under HUD (Housing and Urban Development) and the *vast* majority of those people have nicer cars than I (lexus, cadillac, infiniti, etc.) a TV in every room, new furniture, etc etc etc, because the taxpayer pays for it all.
Food stamps get them all the food they want, shrimp, crab, fish, steaks, meanwhile they drive new Ford Excursions (this was personally witnessed by several people I know) and still collecting "wel-fare" payments, which, of course, increase with every kid.
In short, I know how she got a computer and internet access, you and I paid for it.
Pre-DRM enabled motherboards. I have quite a few Asus boards here, good up to (IIRC) Athlon 3000s. Should be good enough for a long time to come for the average customer.
What concerns me, is the addition of DRM into, say, the next generation video cards. It's all well and good to "merely" have an Intel P4 3.0 Ghz, or Amd Athlon 3000+, but what happens when Doom3 or beyond comes out and a new video card is needed? What is said new card has DRM on it, and decides not to play any videos you happen to own?
In short, where do we draw the line? Corps have finally started to get wise on the old adage about a frog and boiling water, it's high time Joe Generic does as well.
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I don't normally get up on a soapbox (you live your life, I'll live mine) but all this talk about "next-gen TV" and TiVO lawsuits/etc. just make me laugh.
I tossed my TV in the garbage can in 1989.
And I am much better off without it.
You can do the same. Take back your life, Kill your TV.
in this, but from what I have gathered, Motorola was the prime reason Apple chips fell behind, Moto and Co. simply weren't interested (or up to the task?) in producing new chips for them.
With a new division spun off, perhaps this will change?
But how about a high-priced call girl that would strap a web cam on the VIP and broadcast it (streaming of course) to the readers of /.?
That's gotta be pretty expensive...
Wouldn't a good firewall prevent this sort of program?
Maybe I'm missing something here but it seems to me it would be easy to defeat.
You can't keep a great OS down!!!
As an aside, I've installed BeOS on every laptop I've run across (to me, the ability for an OS to run successfully on a laptop is the ultimate test of the capability of the OS) and I've found far *fewer* laptops that BeOS *cannot* run on, than I have found in regards to *nix. Yes, I was surprised, but very pleased. Nothing looks cooler than firing up BeOS on a laptop.
Looking forward to an ultra-modern laptop with YellowTab.
It's the look of the UI that is what makes BeOS so great (although that is indeed a large part of it) it's the fact that it is *consistant* thoughout the OS, regardless of app.
Something that *nix lacks....
I know this article will generate a ton of "BeOS is dead, who cares" and "Who the hell uses BeOS anymore?" or "What is BeOS?" style posts, so as an avid user of BeOS I will attempt to explain some things:
(1) You'd be surprised how much hardware is supported by BeOS, Athlon XP CPUS, P4s, firewire cards, SCSIs, Magneto Optical, scanners, etc. If it's not natively seen, www.bebits.com (as well as bedrivers.com) is the place to go.
(2) BeOS is a refreshing change of pace from the "Big Brother" of Windows, the "Here's a million bits, put them together yourself" of Linux or the "Our way, the only way" of Apple. BeOS relies on the "less is more" viewpoint. Software packages range in the hundereds of k, as opposed to the hundereds of megs in size, yet still do what they need to do.
(3) I have yet to see a GUI is clean, useful and *consistant* as BeOS.
(4) It just works.
(5) The user base is friendly, enthusiastic and you won't get any of the typical *nix attitudes of "lamer" or "rtfm" in the BeOS user forums.
In your original post you said, and I quote: ...and go after the spammers who are obviously promoting/funding these attacks...
...Judging by your wonderful nick, u like spam, so the answer may not be so apparent to you. ...
...And i cant go after them cuz im not a law enforcement official you fuckin troll....
/. is automatically labeled as such. And one does not hVave to be in law enforcement to stop these fiendish bastards.
My point to you is...prove it.
Note: I am against spammers, the firm I work for owns an ISP, we have the same problems, but proof is much harder to come by.
Any time I join a newsgroup or a forum, the e.mail address used is filled with spam, the name is ironic.
I'm going to ignore the "troll" comment because anyone who is disagreed with on
So show me where the spammers are promoting this..I do't see anywhere on the net large banners asking for help in fighting the anti-spammers. You say it's obvious...please provide the proof, and if you can get the proof, then why don't you go after them yourself?
..Whatever the source of the apparent error, it illustrates how difficult it can be to definitively match a person to an online screen name.
...
A Comcast spokeswoman, Sarah Eder, would not comment, citing customer privacy concerns.
Citing customer privacy concerns....but they have no problems rolling their own customers to gangs like the RIAA....
..he isn't a very good geek?
I am a writer, though not professionally I have been published on numerous occasions. My word processor of choice was originally AmiPro (2.0!) under Win98se.
Until I discovered BeOS and GoBe Productive. Haven't looked back since. (contention) Best OS/Office package out there. (/contention)
A guide to Practical Reality Distortion Fields?
Sign me up!
that many in the Open Source Community are content to imitate Microsoft's latest offerings, but copy exploits is, in my opinion, going too far! ;-)
...it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. ...
So tell that to a prospective employer that is reading a resume full of typos like this...
You'll be *very* pleased by the results. You'll talk to your family more (which may or may not be a good thing), do more things, either by yourself or in groups, and get more out of life.
Do it!
I look at articles like this, and others related to it, and simply laugh.
I don't have cable TV. I don't have satellite TV, I don't have regular TV, in fact, I don't even *own* a TV.
I haven't owned a TV since 1989 and I don't miss it one single solitary bit.
What I *do* have, is a library of over 1000 books. History, science fiction, biography, operating systems.
All the time I have saved by not watching the boob tube has allowed me to do things (like getting out and getting a life, girlfriend(s), clubs, etc.) that TV slaves can only, well, watch on TV.
So don't just sit there watching the nth rip-offs of star trek, or endless re-runs of beevis and butthead, kill your TV and go *do* something!
There is only one choice:
Alfa Romeo.
*Trust* me on this one, chicks will come out of the woodwork to be with you. Men will tip their hats and police will let you go if you are speeding (all of this is true, my own personal experience)
A buying tip: Whatever model Alfa, buy the last model year of that car, the Italians will have ironed out all the bugs by then.
I put over 250,000 miles on my 1985 Alfa GTV6
150,000 on my 1977 Alfa GTV
150,000 on my 1992 Alfa Spyder
You can't go wrong!
..to head banging heavy metal acid rock at 130 dB..
Allow me to correct you:
There is Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc.)
There is Acid Rock, more properly called Stoner Rock these days (Slow Horse, Winter, etc.)
But there is no such thing as Heavy Metal Acid Rock, unless you are possibly referring to Death Metal, in which case there are bands out there making albums that the Beatles, even in their best days, didn't have the ability, intellect or ideas, to pull off.
..The bill sets a vision and goals for the future of NASA..
You are aware, Congress, that you can't legislate the advace of technology right?
Right?
Wreck your credit score every 7 years by declaring bankruptcy.
:-)
Then no one will want to steal your ID
Actually, you can.
When you get food stamps (no charge), subsidized housing (as little as $1.00/month) fixed rate utility bills ($20-$40/mo) and welfare checks ($600/mo) what *else* do you have to spend your (our) money on?
Always wondered what happened to the programmer on stage, who plugged in the scanner and caused a BSOD in front of millions.
He's probably been blackballed from the entire computer industry by now and is sitting in a homeless shelter muttering to himself about buffer overruns...
Having done building inspection work in housing projects (for too damn many years) I can tell you, the "poor" have more disposable income than you or I.
Do you know it's against the law to evict someone from a housing project apartment? So they are 2, 4 or more months late on their rent, they can't kick them out. The people living there know this, and abuse the system. I've inspected over 10,000 units under HUD (Housing and Urban Development) and the *vast* majority of those people have nicer cars than I (lexus, cadillac, infiniti, etc.) a TV in every room, new furniture, etc etc etc, because the taxpayer pays for it all.
Food stamps get them all the food they want, shrimp, crab, fish, steaks, meanwhile they drive new Ford Excursions (this was personally witnessed by several people I know) and still collecting "wel-fare" payments, which, of course, increase with every kid.
In short, I know how she got a computer and internet access, you and I paid for it.
Pre-DRM enabled motherboards. I have quite a few Asus boards here, good up to (IIRC) Athlon 3000s. Should be good enough for a long time to come for the average customer.
What concerns me, is the addition of DRM into, say, the next generation video cards. It's all well and good to "merely" have an Intel P4 3.0 Ghz, or Amd Athlon 3000+, but what happens when Doom3 or beyond comes out and a new video card is needed? What is said new card has DRM on it, and decides not to play any videos you happen to own?
In short, where do we draw the line? Corps have finally started to get wise on the old adage about a frog and boiling water, it's high time Joe Generic does as well.