Running the installer then prompts you for what extras you want, connects you to Apple, retrieves what you've asked for, uploads fsck-only-knows what kinds of information, and drops the programs and registry entries directly in place.
Welcome to software of the future. Pretty soon everything will be like that. Not just at installation, but at run-time too. Maybe we can give it a clever name? Software-on-demand. Just-in-time distribution.
Since Microsoft has a history of innovation, expect them to lead by example.. This will be the beginning of the end of license management woes, software piracy, and other similar problems. Now you penguin-worshipping, open-source zealots may claim that Microsoft wants more control over you and intends to gather comprehensive statistics about your installed products and usage habits. Well... while technically possible, I'm sure Microsoft can assure us such information won't be collected. We can trust them. Just like you can trust your friends at DoubleClick.
And as added security procaution, you'll be automatically protected from pirated, h@x0red, and virus-infested software because your software will refuse to work unless it can authenticate and validate itself with some Internet-based central authority. I know this will work because servers will have no more downtime thanks to Win2000. And the federal government will protect us from DDoS attacks. So no more worries. (And don't go bothering me with real-life examples of how you can't play your Half-Life video game thingie when WON.net goes down. Video games aren't enterprise-quality "solutions".)
Anyway, don't be down on these innovations. All of these things will be here FOR YOUR PROTECTION. Welcome to the future.
Re:Uh, doesn't seem very "rational" at all
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so until this guy can produce actual evidence that we are "meant" to be here (aside from his nigh-religious clinging to this somehow mysterious and supernatural "meaning of existence"), I shall continue to believe otherwise.
Agreed. You aren't meant to be here, Kaufmann. Please report to the nearest termination center immediately. Thank you. Have a nice day.
Jeepers. With all these wide and varied comments on slashdot, how's the media supposed to discern which of our comments are actually indicative of the views of the hacker community? (Comments ranked at 5 are a pretty good place to start. Duh...)
But the troll and flamebait posts ranked at -1 are soooo much more fun to quote -- especially if your goal is to demonstrate that we're a bunch of kooks. Don't expect your views to be accurately represented anywhere in the media -- what good are comments unless they can be used out of context to help make someone's point.:-)
Bowie J. Poag: System 12 will be a resource stockpile for Linux application developers. For lack of a better buzzword, we don't really know what to call it yet, but the basic premise is this: System 12 (hopefully) will do for Linux application development what Themes.org did for windowmanagers. We're going to be offering a series of free "component toolkits" for developers to include in their own work. In exchange for using our work, we will be offering them free hosting space on our server so they can showcase their work to the community.
Geez. Just exactly why does slashdot seem to attract so many smart people? Could it be that moderators are manually and painstakingly rating the comments so people don't have to look at crap. Without the ability to filter out the garbage, slashdot comments would bear a remarkable resemblance to... usenet news.
The moderation process isn't given enough credit. In my humble opinion, a person's perception of slashdot is based on their comment threshold. Since I only read comments at 3 or above, I have a very high opinion of slashdotters. (I read at 3 so I'm not bothered by comments like this one.):-)
Let's give the moderators some credit here. These are people making the decisions about what you do or don't see on slashdot. No computer program or message filter can accomplish this. It takes genuine human beings to do this.
The commandments say "Thou shall not kill" but does that include inanimate processes?
Those aren't inanimate processes. Didn't you ever see the movie Tron?
Re:Every toaster on the internet?
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Why exactly should every toaster, microwave, dishwasher etc be connected? And even if they are all connected, why in the world do they need their own ip address?
Once enhanced with "net" access, these appliances will report your usage habits back to the manufacturer. (Anyone remember DIVX?) The theory is that they'll be able to improve their product as they better understand how their products are actually used. Since people are reluctant to have their habits recorded in this manner, expect to see "discounts" and other "perks" from devices that allow your usage to be tracked. (Example: People love those supermarket "value" cards -- you get cheaper prices, and the store gets a profile of your shopping habits.)
In the home of tomorrow, "net" outlets will be as common as electrical outlets. The first devices you'll plug in will be your phone, TV, and computer. But it won't be long before the toasters, microwaves, and others follow suit. And Big Brother will be there to watch each and every device.
Browsers like to delay page rendering until they have the HTML for any included layers.
Many browsers also like to know the size of the images before they attempt to render the page. This is good incentive to use those WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes on your IMG tags. I've seen lots of web pages which have been effectively "held hostage" by problematic ad servers. Good thing this never happends on Slashdot. Then again...
5.6 -- Selected to attract attention
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There was a "Perl Town Hall" at the end of last years Perl Conference. During the question and answer session, perl users griped about being at the mercy of evil sysadmins who refused to install new versions of Perl solely based on the version of the product. Their sysadmins would reason, "The version number has increased by only one-thousandth of a point. Such an insignificant upgrade is not worthy of my precious sysadmin time!" (My sysadmins also subscribe to this foolish belief. But thanks to linux, I now have my own box where I can do what I please. But that's another story.)
Anyway, the panel (which consisted of Larry Wall, Chip S, brian d foy, Tim Bunce, Dick Hardt, Gurusamy Sarathy, Tim O'Reilly, and other people whom I can't remember right now) agreed that new versions of Perl should indeed have bigger version numbers -- something which more accurately represents the significance of the release. During this "town hall", they promised to do something about it. It looks like they finally have. It's good to see the change.
Where I work, I have an additional problem. I'm surrounded by people who HAVE been exposed to Perl. They, however, have dismissed Perl as a non-viable solution. Why? Well, their last exposure to Perl was back in the pre-4.0 days. Even though Perl has grown considerbly since then, they've never come back to take a second look and see the improvements. They've dismissed it forever. (Well, perhaps not forever, but it would take quite a bit to get them to give Perl another chance.)
So what would get these people to come back for another look? A new (much needed) edition of "Programming Perl"? A new primary version number -- Perl 6.0? Or maybe a new name altogether? I'm optimistic about Topaz. Even if Topaz has the same functionality as Perl, I believe the new name will attract some much-deserved attention. But that's just my very humble opinion.
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What if it fell over and crushed someone? Who would I sue?
Don't old UNIX hacks refer to # as "splat"?
We should pronounce this new language "C splat".
Oh my God. You slashdotted educatedescort.com. You bastards.
Running the installer then prompts you for what extras you want, connects you to Apple, retrieves what you've asked for, uploads fsck-only-knows what kinds of information, and drops the programs and registry entries directly in place.
Welcome to software of the future. Pretty soon everything will be like that. Not just at installation, but at run-time too. Maybe we can give it a clever name? Software-on-demand. Just-in-time distribution.
Since Microsoft has a history of innovation, expect them to lead by example.. This will be the beginning of the end of license management woes, software piracy, and other similar problems. Now you penguin-worshipping, open-source zealots may claim that Microsoft wants more control over you and intends to gather comprehensive statistics about your installed products and usage habits. Well... while technically possible, I'm sure Microsoft can assure us such information won't be collected. We can trust them. Just like you can trust your friends at DoubleClick.
And as added security procaution, you'll be automatically protected from pirated, h@x0red, and virus-infested software because your software will refuse to work unless it can authenticate and validate itself with some Internet-based central authority. I know this will work because servers will have no more downtime thanks to Win2000. And the federal government will protect us from DDoS attacks. So no more worries. (And don't go bothering me with real-life examples of how you can't play your Half-Life video game thingie when WON.net goes down. Video games aren't enterprise-quality "solutions".)
Anyway, don't be down on these innovations. All of these things will be here FOR YOUR PROTECTION. Welcome to the future.
so until this guy can produce actual evidence that we are "meant" to be here (aside from his nigh-religious clinging to this somehow mysterious and supernatural "meaning of existence"), I shall continue to believe otherwise.
Agreed. You aren't meant to be here, Kaufmann. Please report to the nearest termination center immediately. Thank you. Have a nice day.
he was convicted of illegally breaking into Intel's computers while he worked as a consultant for them.
I'll wager all of Randall's Linux boxen boast "AMD Inside". :-)
This article is just in time to draw attention to the problems in Perl land.
will the last one leaving please turn the lights out, please?
Jeepers. With all these wide and varied comments on slashdot, how's the media supposed to discern which of our comments are actually indicative of the views of the hacker community? (Comments ranked at 5 are a pretty good place to start. Duh...)
But the troll and flamebait posts ranked at -1 are soooo much more fun to quote -- especially if your goal is to demonstrate that we're a bunch of kooks. Don't expect your views to be accurately represented anywhere in the media -- what good are comments unless they can be used out of context to help make someone's point. :-)
Bill's having a hard time trying to see the bright side of all this. But at least he can use this as an excuse when W2K doesn't ship in Feb 2000.
Netcraft has the following to say about usvms.gpo.gov:
usvms.gpo.gov is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP2 on DIGITAL UNIX
Phew! If it woulda said IIS, then I know we'd be in for trouble. :-)
An interview with Bowie J. Poag just went up today on linux.com. Here's an excerpt:
linux.com: What's System 12 all about?
Bowie J. Poag: System 12 will be a resource stockpile for Linux application developers. For lack of a better buzzword, we don't really know what to call it yet, but the basic premise is this: System 12 (hopefully) will do for Linux application development what Themes.org did for windowmanagers. We're going to be offering a series of free "component toolkits" for developers to include in their own work. In exchange for using our work, we will be offering them free hosting space on our server so they can showcase their work to the community.
Visit the System 12 site if you're anxious.
ram
flynn
yori
tron
And everyone's personal favorite:
mcp
Doesn't Moore's Law state that Microsoft apps double their bloat every 18 months? This is still holding true.
Geez. Just exactly why does slashdot seem to attract so many smart people? Could it be that moderators are manually and painstakingly rating the comments so people don't have to look at crap. Without the ability to filter out the garbage, slashdot comments would bear a remarkable resemblance to... usenet news.
The moderation process isn't given enough credit. In my humble opinion, a person's perception of slashdot is based on their comment threshold. Since I only read comments at 3 or above, I have a very high opinion of slashdotters. (I read at 3 so I'm not bothered by comments like this one.) :-)
Let's give the moderators some credit here. These are people making the decisions about what you do or don't see on slashdot. No computer program or message filter can accomplish this. It takes genuine human beings to do this.
The commandments say "Thou shall not kill" but does that include inanimate processes?
Those aren't inanimate processes. Didn't you ever see the movie Tron?
Why exactly should every toaster, microwave, dishwasher etc be connected? And even if they are all connected, why in the world do they need their own ip address?
Once enhanced with "net" access, these appliances will report your usage habits back to the manufacturer. (Anyone remember DIVX?) The theory is that they'll be able to improve their product as they better understand how their products are actually used. Since people are reluctant to have their habits recorded in this manner, expect to see "discounts" and other "perks" from devices that allow your usage to be tracked. (Example: People love those supermarket "value" cards -- you get cheaper prices, and the store gets a profile of your shopping habits.)
In the home of tomorrow, "net" outlets will be as common as electrical outlets. The first devices you'll plug in will be your phone, TV, and computer. But it won't be long before the toasters, microwaves, and others follow suit. And Big Brother will be there to watch each and every device.
IPv6: Putting the 6 in 666.
Browsers like to delay page rendering until they have the HTML for any included layers.
Many browsers also like to know the size of the images before they attempt to render the page. This is good incentive to use those WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes on your IMG tags. I've seen lots of web pages which have been effectively "held hostage" by problematic ad servers. Good thing this never happends on Slashdot. Then again...
There was a "Perl Town Hall" at the end of last years Perl Conference. During the question and answer session, perl users griped about being at the mercy of evil sysadmins who refused to install new versions of Perl solely based on the version of the product. Their sysadmins would reason, "The version number has increased by only one-thousandth of a point. Such an insignificant upgrade is not worthy of my precious sysadmin time!" (My sysadmins also subscribe to this foolish belief. But thanks to linux, I now have my own box where I can do what I please. But that's another story.)
Anyway, the panel (which consisted of Larry Wall, Chip S, brian d foy, Tim Bunce, Dick Hardt, Gurusamy Sarathy, Tim O'Reilly, and other people whom I can't remember right now) agreed that new versions of Perl should indeed have bigger version numbers -- something which more accurately represents the significance of the release. During this "town hall", they promised to do something about it. It looks like they finally have. It's good to see the change.
Where I work, I have an additional problem. I'm surrounded by people who HAVE been exposed to Perl. They, however, have dismissed Perl as a non-viable solution. Why? Well, their last exposure to Perl was back in the pre-4.0 days. Even though Perl has grown considerbly since then, they've never come back to take a second look and see the improvements. They've dismissed it forever. (Well, perhaps not forever, but it would take quite a bit to get them to give Perl another chance.)
So what would get these people to come back for another look? A new (much needed) edition of "Programming Perl"? A new primary version number -- Perl 6.0? Or maybe a new name altogether? I'm optimistic about Topaz. Even if Topaz has the same functionality as Perl, I believe the new name will attract some much-deserved attention. But that's just my very humble opinion.