"...prisoners of the Microsoft model..." "... 50 million lines of bulky and balky code, bloated top-secret fatware that can crash out of the blue and that only works the way Microsoft wants it to work." "...$89...for Windows 98...upwards of $300 that a box of office strength Windows 2000 can cost."
Coates on Linux:
"...2.5 million lines (at most) of highly flexible, free-to-use and free-to-modify software that almost never crashes and that works any way a programmer cares to make it work."
"...free, crash proof, flexible, (and) lean..."
"...the product of a... man every bit as technologically adroit... as Gates ever was."
Hackers and students. Weren't there a couple of guys named Gates and Allen years ago who were sort of in this category who were trying to start a software company? Should be obvious from their rapid descent into obscurity that ahckers and students will never produce anything with a future.
As I recall, the phonograph record cleaning product Discwasher was an outgrowth of the discovery that some sort of microscopic organisms were eating their way into vinyl blood bags and contaminating the blood. The resemblance between Discwasher fluid and soaking solution for hard contact lenses wasn't entirely co-incidental.
If there's an analog audio tape format that doesn't use a driven metal capstan and a freewheeling rubber (or fiber) pinch roller with the tape squeezed between them it's certainly the exception rather than the rule, as maintaining the proper tension and speed with just the supply and take-up reel motors would be a lot more complex and expensive, and a magnetic tape format that works without the tape rubbing the head as it moves past it would be even less likely. Tape acts on the the tape path as a kind of very fine grit sandpaper and just like sandpaper what it wears out wears it out as well, so tape sheds oxide; unavoidable fact of life.
and binary code can be untarred.
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And a newbie transistioning over from Windows is probably wondering at this point if it can be unfeathered as well. Linux can become the world's favorite OS and wipe MS off the desktop or it can be a closed clique but it can't do both.
Doesn't Garcia have a couple of widows or previous wives or whatever fighting over his estate? Could one (or both)of them have a lawyer that's pressuring these other lawyers to plug as many leaks as possible in the money bucket?
Did I detect a suggestion that people know what they're talking about before posting here? You don't seriously expect something like that to catch on around here, do you?
Self-censoring isn't when you filter what you see and hear, it's when you don't say or do something which you might otherwise. If I'm out at a bar in the company of friends, I might very well use language that I would not have used over the air or in front of children. If I had grown up in the Soviet Union, I probably would have restrained myself from publicly criticizing the government. Both are examples of self-censorship. As you can see, the reasons for it vary, so sometimes it's a Good Thing, and sometimes not. Think of self-censorship as self-editing. I don't think anyone's accused Katz of that.
Caldera is quoted on this topic(Doesn't Caldera also have a certification program?) in the article
If a Katz posts in the forest and nobody...
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, it's still on the ground. If Katz posts to Slashdot and everybody filters it, it's still there. If somebody new comes along without their Katz filter on and they want to read a Katz post if one is there, then all those other Slashdot readers who filtered him out don't keep the new person from seeing the Katz post. That ain't censorship.
The problem was that Ian Fleming sold the movie rights for Casino Royale to someone other than the people who bought the rights for all the other stuff so there was no way that there was going to be a Casino Royale movie with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, or any of their "nothing like the guy in the book" successors (although if Fleming's character had been born 20 or 30 years later, Dalton could be appropriate). Trying to use the ownership of the movie rights to that one book to create a competing "James Bond Franchise" (especially since the Dr. No people probably had the rights any tie-in stuff--T-shirts, lunchboxes, toy guns, aftershave, whatever--all sewn up)would probably have gotten them and their first movie tied up in court cases that would be still be going on right now, 30 years later, even as we type. Instead they went the "no possible way could you mistake it for the Sean Connery stuff" parody route and we got that great Dusty Springfield (R.I.P.) song, "The Look of Love".
The way I heard it was that the end of prohibition was going to turn a lot of federal cops and bureaucrats from important and powerful people to excess baggage so they needed to demonize something else in order to create a new demand for their services.
As I recall, about a year ago when AOL went to flat rate (and got super slashdotted by demand)they yanked a whole bunch of volunteers freebie accounts, apparently just to be cheap. 4 hours a week and $21.95 a month works out to around a buck and a quarter an hour, but somehow AOL thinks they're the ones doing the volunteers a favor. Go figure.
My comment was a. Making fun of the way the article omitted mentioning John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, the names on the first transistor patent, b. Wondering how two separate elements, silicon and germanium, suddenly became one material.
Just think, if Shockley hadn't had those other two guys getting in the way he could have started off with germanium made of silicon instead of that lousy germanium made out of germanium.
Not as much as the idea of someone other than the police using it. Can you say "Case the joint"? At least the law could use it to discover that a man, a woman, and two small children might mean that they're not at the place where they were expecting to pull a no-knock on five full grown drug dealers
I think the idea is that your flat panel HDTV will also *be* the speaker.
BTW, Fisher and poly-planer were doing the flat panel speaker thing about 25 years ago, the same time as the whole Quadriphonic (that was one of the spellings!) / 4-channel fiasco.
Does anyone remember the piano sounding board-shaped musical instrument speaker from, IIRC, Yamaha?
Do such things exist? And speaking of hardware items of interest to perhaps 3 people on the entire planet, does anyone know of a PCI bus IDE/floppy controller and I/O and game port card? I thought I'd tracked down a DTC part number but the chips it was to use failed to materialize.
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If it's running MS you could call it the iLose.
Lose your work, lose your temper, lose your spare time...
Coates on Microsoft:
... man every bit as technologically adroit... as Gates ever was."
"...prisoners of the Microsoft model..."
"... 50 million lines of bulky and balky code, bloated top-secret fatware that can crash out of the blue and that only works the way Microsoft wants it to work."
"...$89...for Windows 98...upwards of $300 that a box of office strength Windows 2000 can cost."
Coates on Linux:
"...2.5 million lines (at most) of highly flexible, free-to-use and free-to-modify software that almost never crashes and that works any way a programmer cares to make it work."
"...free, crash proof, flexible, (and) lean..."
"...the product of a
Multiple personality disorder maybe?
Hackers and students. Weren't there a couple of guys named Gates and Allen years ago who were sort of in this category who were trying to start a software company? Should be obvious from their rapid descent into obscurity that ahckers and students will never produce anything with a future.
Last weeks Cringely details exactly how MS "buys" shelf space.
As I recall, the phonograph record cleaning product Discwasher was an outgrowth of the discovery that some sort of microscopic organisms were eating their way into vinyl blood bags and contaminating the blood. The resemblance between Discwasher fluid and soaking solution for hard contact lenses wasn't entirely co-incidental.
And as I've pointed out elswhere, if you leave 2 or more in a drawer somewhere, they breed like coathangers.
If there's an analog audio tape format that doesn't use a driven metal capstan and a freewheeling rubber (or fiber) pinch roller with the tape squeezed between them it's certainly the exception rather than the rule, as maintaining the proper tension and speed with just the supply and take-up reel motors would be a lot more complex and expensive, and a magnetic tape format that works without the tape rubbing the head as it moves past it would be even less likely. Tape acts on the the tape path as a kind of very fine grit sandpaper and just like sandpaper what it wears out wears it out as well, so tape sheds oxide; unavoidable fact of life.
And a newbie transistioning over from Windows is probably wondering at this point if it can be unfeathered as well.
Linux can become the world's favorite OS and wipe MS off the desktop or it can be a closed clique but it can't do both.
Doesn't Garcia have a couple of widows or previous wives or whatever fighting over his estate? Could one (or both)of them have a lawyer that's pressuring these other lawyers to plug as many leaks as possible in the money bucket?
Did I detect a suggestion that people know what they're talking about before posting here?
You don't seriously expect something like that to catch on around here, do you?
Nah, those are just big ears.
Self-censoring isn't when you filter what you see and hear, it's when you don't say or do something which you might otherwise. If I'm out at a bar in the company of friends, I might very well use language that I would not have used over the air or in front of children. If I had grown up in the Soviet Union, I probably would have restrained myself from publicly criticizing the government. Both are examples of self-censorship. As you can see, the reasons for it vary, so sometimes it's a Good Thing, and sometimes not.
Think of self-censorship as self-editing. I don't think anyone's accused Katz of that.
Caldera is quoted on this topic(Doesn't Caldera also have a certification program?) in the article
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, it's still on the ground. If Katz posts to Slashdot and everybody filters it, it's still there. If somebody new comes along without their Katz filter on and they want to read a Katz post if one is there, then all those other Slashdot readers who filtered him out don't keep the new person from seeing the Katz post. That ain't censorship.
Mad magazine is as famous for its artists as it is for its writers, perhaps even more so.
The problem was that Ian Fleming sold the movie rights for Casino Royale to someone other than the people who bought the rights for all the other stuff so there was no way that there was going to be a Casino Royale movie with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, or any of their "nothing like the guy in the book" successors (although if Fleming's character had been born 20 or 30 years later, Dalton could be appropriate). Trying to use the ownership of the movie rights to that one book to create a competing "James Bond Franchise" (especially since the Dr. No people probably had the rights any tie-in stuff--T-shirts, lunchboxes, toy guns, aftershave, whatever--all sewn up)would probably have gotten them and their first movie tied up in court cases that would be still be going on right now, 30 years later, even as we type.
Instead they went the "no possible way could you mistake it for the Sean Connery stuff" parody route and we got that great Dusty Springfield (R.I.P.) song, "The Look of Love".
The way I heard it was that the end of prohibition was going to turn a lot of federal cops and bureaucrats from important and powerful people to excess baggage so they needed to demonize something else in order to create a new demand for their services.
As I recall, about a year ago when AOL went to flat rate (and got super slashdotted by demand)they yanked a whole bunch of volunteers freebie accounts, apparently just to be cheap.
4 hours a week and $21.95 a month works out to around a buck and a quarter an hour, but somehow AOL thinks they're the ones doing the volunteers a favor. Go figure.
I'm so sick of seeing and hearing these words in connection to software and web browsing that I can't even stand coffee ads these days.
("internet" or "browsing" or "whatever" *experience* comes in a close and annoying second)
Good article!
(which probably explains the low flame count)
My comment was
a. Making fun of the way the article omitted mentioning John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, the names on the first transistor patent,
b. Wondering how two separate elements, silicon and germanium, suddenly became one material.
Just think, if Shockley hadn't had those other two guys getting in the way he could have started off with germanium made of silicon instead of that lousy germanium made out of germanium.
Not as much as the idea of someone other than the police using it. Can you say "Case the joint"? At least the law could use it to discover that a man, a woman, and two small children might mean that they're not at the place where they were expecting to pull a no-knock on five full grown drug dealers
I think the idea is that your flat panel HDTV will also *be* the speaker.
BTW, Fisher and poly-planer were doing the flat panel speaker thing about 25 years ago, the same time as the whole Quadriphonic (that was one of the spellings!) / 4-channel fiasco.
Does anyone remember the piano sounding board-shaped musical instrument speaker from, IIRC, Yamaha?
Do such things exist? And speaking of hardware items of interest to perhaps 3 people on the entire planet, does anyone know of a PCI bus IDE/floppy controller and I/O and game port card? I thought I'd tracked down a DTC part number but the chips it was to use failed to materialize.