What amuses me most is that even fore-knowing these issues, Bush still got his share of votes EVEN ON SLASHDOT POLL!. Now, don't blame me. I was wishing hard it had been the other way. (BTW, I am among the 24% of non US citizens)
Excuse me...not that I know of a file extension named URL, but I had to note they were forbidden too. Does that mean that when I send an URL on e-mail, people reading it in outlook wont be able to open it? What a pitty. (ROTFL)
Of course it is not about just symbolic links. Despite the benefits it may bring in authomatic space, which will certeinly fall MUCH behind their alleged 80% economy, it is not nearly as functional as symbolic links.
It is clear from the article that one cannot creat a symbolic link to a directory. And although not clear, I dont think it will be possible to manually create symbolic links, if one wishes to.
That, IMHO, reduces its functionality to much less than that of symbolic links.
Well, it seens it is always the samething. Today, they build the dam thing in a Lab. Next week, you will be able to buy one of them for a couple thousand bucks at ebay. Them they hit the shelves at Amazon and other places...
In a year or so they will be comming free with your favorite breakfast cereal...
Hmmm...I think that not even Galactus would have dreant of that. Should make a nice sauce to go with planets.
No Regulons? what about disk space?? And bandwidth for that matter.
Were it actually true that there were no regulons, the first information re-arranger Bot out-there would make the amount of information explode to infinity.
I had read an interesting on this topic once, Data Smog, from David Shenk. Check it out. (Sorry for linking pointing to the bookstore, it was actually the first place I thought I could find the book on the web.)
Maybe it is not connected with this issue at all, but as its being announced just along with it, Id bet that the cancelling of a Java stantard plan is something to worry about.
Ok. This withdraw would be a sad thing at any time.
Well, they are getting all kids out of the norm, or that behave differently, no doubt there. But what schools are made for, in first place, if not exactly to making that: assure that we all think and act alike? It is that that schools do, and had ever done. Nothing strange there.
I'd like to call the attention to the fact that the main argument for why Open Source would not work, on Mr. Metcalfe's view is that the methodology of work on Open Source, oftenly a single man writing all code for a program, can not compete with teams of hundreds of programmers developing a Godzilla sized project.
In my opinion, nothing is more incorrect. That could be valid if the final product was to be physically made, and needed, to some extension, of physical work to get completed. It's software we are talking here, not car building or something.
The main error of Mr. Metcalfe may lay in his gets the view that larger is better. That doesn't remain true for software. 90% of the tasks done today os MS - Office would be done equally well on a 300 KB text editor with a spreadsheet, of concise code and needed features. What makes up for the sales of such "fat ware" is sheer marketing.
Another error is to assume that each Open Source programer has to start from scratch. This is not true. The amount of work spent to develop the free software libraries one is using in a project may very well surpass, and by far, the work done for any limited team on a large corp. And as the base of Open Source programers grows, so grows the superiority of it's libraries over customized ones.
And even if one assumes that MS-Office is better because it can recognize 200 kinds of image files, because there were 100 programers working for it to work that way, over a year or so, on the Open Source, the part that recognizes the same 200 files is already made. Everything a mn would have to do is to implement them. Unlike 200 different screwdrivers, the programmer doesn't have to buy and keep at home all of them. They are free, and infinitely reproducible.
The main reason why big companies work is just that: accumulated Capital. Only a large factory could have the means, machinery and personnel to build in series a 2 ton car. Anyone can have a $800,00 desktop machine that will allow one to write all the software he needs for life.
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What amuses me most is that even fore-knowing these issues, Bush still got his share of votes EVEN ON SLASHDOT POLL!. Now, don't blame me. I was wishing hard it had been the other way. (BTW, I am among the 24% of non US citizens)
Excuse me...not that I know of a file extension named URL, but I had to note they were forbidden too. Does that mean that when I send an URL on e-mail, people reading it in outlook wont be able to open it? What a pitty. (ROTFL)
Of course it is not about just symbolic links. Despite the benefits it may bring in authomatic space, which will certeinly fall MUCH behind their alleged 80% economy, it is not nearly as functional as symbolic links.
It is clear from the article that one cannot creat a symbolic link to a directory. And although not clear, I dont think it will be possible to manually create symbolic links, if one wishes to.
That, IMHO, reduces its functionality to much less than that of symbolic links.
Well, it seens it is always the samething.
Today, they build the dam thing in a Lab. Next week, you will be able to buy one of them for a couple thousand bucks at ebay. Them they hit the shelves at Amazon and other places...
In a year or so they will be comming free with your favorite breakfast cereal...
Hmmm...I think that not even Galactus would have dreant of that. Should make a nice sauce to go with planets.
Of course they had already had the technology to do this on the past, but it seens they had improved something on security since.
No Regulons? what about disk space?? And bandwidth for that matter. Were it actually true that there were no regulons, the first information re-arranger Bot out-there would make the amount of information explode to infinity. I had read an interesting on this topic once, Data Smog , from David Shenk. Check it out. (Sorry for linking pointing to the bookstore, it was actually the first place I thought I could find the book on the web.)
Maybe it is not connected with this issue at all, but as its being announced just along with it,
Id bet that the cancelling of a Java stantard plan is something to worry about.
Ok. This withdraw would be a sad thing at any time.
Well, they are getting all kids out of the norm, or that behave differently, no doubt there.
But what schools are made for, in first place, if not exactly to making that: assure that we all think and act alike?
It is that that schools do, and had ever done. Nothing strange there.
Just to remember what is the "Missing Graphics Chip", after all.
It is a customized Chip that integrates 4MB VRAM with 16 processors working in parallel, one for each screen section. I'd guess.
And all of that at 150MHz. That makes for the aclaimmed 75 million polygons per second and 48Gbps data transfer rate (within VRAM) announced.
Just check it at SONY's official playstation page.
And how then will this Antivirus tell the OS from the viruses in Windows case?
I'd like to call the attention to the fact that the main argument for why
Open Source would not work, on Mr. Metcalfe's view is that the methodology of work on
Open Source, oftenly a single man writing all code for a program, can not compete
with teams of hundreds of programmers developing a Godzilla sized project.
In my opinion, nothing is more incorrect. That could be valid if the final
product was to be physically made, and needed, to some extension, of physical
work to get completed. It's software we are talking here, not car building
or something.
The main error of Mr. Metcalfe may lay in his gets the view that larger is better.
That doesn't remain true for software. 90% of the tasks done today os MS - Office would be done equally well on a 300 KB text editor with a spreadsheet, of concise code and needed features. What makes up for the sales of such "fat ware" is sheer marketing.
Another error is to assume that each Open Source programer has to start from
scratch. This is not true. The amount of work spent to develop the free software libraries
one is using in a project may very well surpass, and by far, the work done for
any limited team on a large corp. And as the base of Open Source programers grows,
so grows the superiority of it's libraries over customized ones.
And even if one assumes that MS-Office is better because it can recognize 200
kinds of image files, because there were 100 programers working for it to work that way,
over a year or so, on the Open Source, the part that recognizes the same 200 files is already made. Everything a mn would have to do is to implement them. Unlike 200 different
screwdrivers, the programmer doesn't have to buy and keep at home all of them. They
are free, and infinitely reproducible.
The main reason why big companies work is just that: accumulated Capital. Only a large factory could have the means, machinery and personnel to build in series a 2 ton car.
Anyone can have a $800,00 desktop machine that will allow one to write all the software he needs for life.
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