Reading in the toilet? BS! First, you can do it in your toilet with you palm or even a notebook. Second, reading in the toilet was never important factor in the book publishing industry. Content and its orientation for specific readers - that's what's important.
In case of eBooks, the way of reading adds something to the formula and as a result the most viable customers for eBook would be people who love (or just used) to read from the screen. Guess who? That's right - computer engineers and web artists. And what do they love to read? The stuff that they have to read: books for their job.
I can prove it. Just check the most successful eBook retail site and see yourself: they have lots books for that audience, new books are coming frequently and the price is very affordable. Oh, by the way, no need to even download it: you can read it right from the web or you can cache it for reading later on any off-line browser. You can cut and paste examples right to your editor or the terminal window. And you can even give up the book from your bookshelf back to to the store and get another one instead!
Any OS, when you cut ALL usefull functions from, becomes good only for booting fast. I did it with Linux: bellow 30 seconds. And even with SCO Open Server: bellow a minute.
What's the point to waste tax-payer's money? Russians have already well designed and well-working cheap boosters. Buy the load and save your money. Cheap for you and good for them.
Globally thinking, all big american corps are outsourcing their business off-shore today. Why not to outsource space technology production and liftoffs to Russia?
You just disconnected your TV cables and from now on you only listen music on your CD player. Or another way around. Either way - Macs don't compete with PCs. Period infinitly.
It's useless to line up non-compatible computers for their competitiveness. Macs do not compete with PCs. Period.
Or let's put it this way: Macs compete with PCs no more than TV set with CD player. Both compete for your money you want to spend for the entertainment equipment, no more. Same between Macs and PCs.
There is a big difference between small factor-comuters and LEGO-like ones. If you need EVERYTHING in your PC then do not call it a small-factor computer. Here we were speaking about small-factor ones. IMHO they should lose everything which is not absolutely necesseary.
So why should a floppy controller be on the motherboard in 21st century, when you can easily buy USB floppy just for a case when you cannot live without floppy?
That's why I don't won't to submit anything to/. anymore - they approve badly written, "grammer-prone" dupes from their friends, but never from unknown people, even if submitted material were good for reading.
It doesn't matter, a geek forum or a fortune-500. People are the same. They love their friends. No matter that it may sacrafice the quality of their business.
Sure. It's BSD -- you can do whatever you want. The BSD license gives you more freedom than GPL.
Sure. That's the difference between GPL and BSDL. With GPL no need to worry - IBM or SGI will contribute something like that to Linux sooner or later (most likely sooner). With BSD don't waste your time: you gotta code it yourself.
This thing, mini-ITX board, still has "Floppy connector" - what a waste of space and energy! Today I expect it to see least in mini-factor boards. How many decades will take more to finally kill the floppy controller on motherboards?
Who will sue the government of China if they violate the GPL?
I've seen some news about death sentence to copiright violators in China. Their goverment wants WTO. Therefore they have no reason to violate any laws.
Microsoft has no reason to cry foul. They will have access to the source code too. They can even improve on the OS and sell it. They just need to make the source code available.
I have no problem if Microsoft will take newly modified but still GPLed code of Linux and sell it. It will be still GPLed and we'll have all Microsoft modifications as well. I think Microsoft has no choice anyway but to switch their software revenue mostly to services (especially support, training, books and online), with Linux or without. So, I won't be surprised to see Microsoft on the same boat with "triad" after all.
So Be positioned BeOS to be better than Windows for certain tasks so people could dual boot, get the benefit of Windows applications for some tasks, get the benefit of BeOS for other tasks, and more applications would be written for BeOS when there was an installed base of BeOS.
And can you reveal the secret here, what are those tasks specifically that require BeOS rather than Windows? I've tried BeOS and have not found anything that I would like more than in Windows. Have I missed anything?
It's not that I love Windows. In fact, after years of working with and trying various OSes for desktop (and server too) applications, from MacOS to OSX to Linux to BSD to SCO to BeOS, I think I am capable to compare such OSes. So, it would be surprise for me to find out that I've missed something in BeOS.
Personally, I think that the only two viable alternatives to Windows are Linux and OSX. Well, OSX has own niche of PPCs where in a long term it has its own trouble from Linux/PPC, thanks to IBM. Apple cannot feed anti-Windows geeks too long with alternative themes, especially after GNOME and KDE distros will have better default themes. Eventually Apple business will collapse back to hardware with application services available for both then-dying OSX AND then-growing Linux/PPC clients.
In a long term Linux is the only viable solution. And there are serious reasons for that:
I trust to open source software: with all other equal features I would prefer Open Source software as I can trust the source more than to any binary code. I cannot trust the same way to BeOS.
I can fix the source code in case of bugs, while I have to wait months until the close-sourse vendor Like Be will send me the fix.
I can contribute the patch back to community being sure that my competitors cannot hijack my modifocation: it's protected by GPL. Well, nothing to worry with BeOS as I cannot fix it anyway.
Who wants to pay any license fee when there are good freely downloadable distros? IMHO Windows is the last viable license-fee based OS on the market.
With Linux community around the world I have more chances to find helpers, who will code in Linux for me with cheap price and a good quality. The only same big community is of Windows developers. BeOS doesn't have a community of such size and never had any chances to have it.
When the installation base is big the chances to find bugs are bigger too. Well, with such a bad OS design as Windows has it's not help. That's why another OS of a big community, Linux, has it's chances in a long term. BeOS does not have chances by this reason too.
IMHO, BeOS did not have any chances. It was too late: Linux is already uprising, being free, open-source and broadly-distributed. The final OS war will be between Windows and Linux. Of course untill new OS will come, which will have to be also free and open-source from one habd, and significuntly better than Linux from the other hand. But I don't think it's possible. It's more likely that Linux will fork and the competition will be between Linux branches.
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Dot Net is also anything but small. It's possible to create ROMmable Java applications in just a couple megs of flash memory. On the other hand, there's no such thing as embedded dot Net just yet.
The comparison must be between.Net and J2EE, while J2ME and even J2SE are seriously lacking in component architecture and other features comparing to both.Net and J2EE.
So, once we make a comparison correctly (J2EE vs.Net) we can state: there is no such thing as embeddable J2EE just yet, while there is something like compact.Net framework.
Seems to me Java is anyhing but small, comparing to.Net - probably thanks to the way how.Net is based on XML.
Either way, I'll want $699 for my fp, beeyotch.
I think you've been in a serious rush with your fp, that's why you comment is so poor. I just wonder why is your comment so overrated? Is there such thing as FM (First Mod)?
The mod is right - your comment is so funny. They are not listening to us, they never do. Instead, they try "to combat piracy and bring consumers back into stores", that has nothing to do with "listening to some of the consumer's complaints" and that is exactly what the CNN article is saying.
The only way to force RIAA members to price properly is to make RIAA to compete with something big that is not RIAA. I guess the thread of P2P + upcoming and growing online music stores + customer's conviniece shifting from CD to MP3 format = that big competitor of RIAA.
add a database that works more like Access (maybe php or jsp scripting)
Done. It can connect to PostgreSQL (I am sure to other OSS DBMS as well), which is already extremely programmable, even more than Oracle, Access and SQL server altogether: PL/SQL, PL/Python, PL/Perl, PL/PHP, PL/TCL and others (and you can add any your language interpreter using the API provided).
However, PostgreSQL still has problems with native distros for both Windows and OSX. Perhaps Apple should help with PostgreSQL in OSX - they usually love BSDL more than GPL (read: they love to rip without contributing back).
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In case of eBooks, the way of reading adds something to the formula and as a result the most viable customers for eBook would be people who love (or just used) to read from the screen. Guess who? That's right - computer engineers and web artists. And what do they love to read? The stuff that they have to read: books for their job.
I can prove it. Just check the most successful eBook retail site and see yourself: they have lots books for that audience, new books are coming frequently and the price is very affordable. Oh, by the way, no need to even download it: you can read it right from the web or you can cache it for reading later on any off-line browser. You can cut and paste examples right to your editor or the terminal window. And you can even give up the book from your bookshelf back to to the store and get another one instead!
Any OS, when you cut ALL usefull functions from, becomes good only for booting fast. I did it with Linux: bellow 30 seconds. And even with SCO Open Server: bellow a minute.
What's the point to waste tax-payer's money? Russians have already well designed and well-working cheap boosters. Buy the load and save your money. Cheap for you and good for them.
Globally thinking, all big american corps are outsourcing their business off-shore today. Why not to outsource space technology production and liftoffs to Russia?
You just disconnected your TV cables and from now on you only listen music on your CD player. Or another way around. Either way - Macs don't compete with PCs. Period infinitly.
Or let's put it this way: Macs compete with PCs no more than TV set with CD player. Both compete for your money you want to spend for the entertainment equipment, no more. Same between Macs and PCs.
There is a big difference between small factor-comuters and LEGO-like ones. If you need EVERYTHING in your PC then do not call it a small-factor computer. Here we were speaking about small-factor ones. IMHO they should lose everything which is not absolutely necesseary.
So why should a floppy controller be on the motherboard in 21st century, when you can easily buy USB floppy just for a case when you cannot live without floppy?
It doesn't matter, a geek forum or a fortune-500. People are the same. They love their friends. No matter that it may sacrafice the quality of their business.
Say it to IBM and SGI. They would like to hear your arguments just to discover that years of research and practice were useless.
Sure. That's the difference between GPL and BSDL. With GPL no need to worry - IBM or SGI will contribute something like that to Linux sooner or later (most likely sooner). With BSD don't waste your time: you gotta code it yourself.
Some applications, like OpenSSH, have keychain functionality too.
Or you can encrypt all your passwords with pgp for free. Works fin for me on at least 5 OSes: Linux, Windows, Mac, Unix and BSD.
And even moreover keep the backup of your Palm in your bank. Just for a case if your PDA is stolen or broken.
bootable, exactly. That's why I need a bootable USB CDROM and/or a bootable HDD. 1.4MB media must die as it's not enough even for the kernel today.
This thing, mini-ITX board, still has "Floppy connector" - what a waste of space and energy! Today I expect it to see least in mini-factor boards. How many decades will take more to finally kill the floppy controller on motherboards?
I don't. Do you mind to provide any links to remind?
I've seen some news about death sentence to copiright violators in China. Their goverment wants WTO. Therefore they have no reason to violate any laws.
If they do it based on Linux - the result will be GPLed. Period.
I have no problem if Microsoft will take newly modified but still GPLed code of Linux and sell it. It will be still GPLed and we'll have all Microsoft modifications as well. I think Microsoft has no choice anyway but to switch their software revenue mostly to services (especially support, training, books and online), with Linux or without. So, I won't be surprised to see Microsoft on the same boat with "triad" after all.
And can you reveal the secret here, what are those tasks specifically that require BeOS rather than Windows? I've tried BeOS and have not found anything that I would like more than in Windows. Have I missed anything?
It's not that I love Windows. In fact, after years of working with and trying various OSes for desktop (and server too) applications, from MacOS to OSX to Linux to BSD to SCO to BeOS, I think I am capable to compare such OSes. So, it would be surprise for me to find out that I've missed something in BeOS.
Personally, I think that the only two viable alternatives to Windows are Linux and OSX. Well, OSX has own niche of PPCs where in a long term it has its own trouble from Linux/PPC, thanks to IBM. Apple cannot feed anti-Windows geeks too long with alternative themes, especially after GNOME and KDE distros will have better default themes. Eventually Apple business will collapse back to hardware with application services available for both then-dying OSX AND then-growing Linux/PPC clients.
In a long term Linux is the only viable solution. And there are serious reasons for that:
- I trust to open source software: with all other equal features I would prefer Open Source software as I can trust the source more than to any binary code. I cannot trust the same way to BeOS.
- I can fix the source code in case of bugs, while I have to wait months until the close-sourse vendor Like Be will send me the fix.
- I can contribute the patch back to community being sure that my competitors cannot hijack my modifocation: it's protected by GPL. Well, nothing to worry with BeOS as I cannot fix it anyway.
- Who wants to pay any license fee when there are good freely downloadable distros? IMHO Windows is the last viable license-fee based OS on the market.
- With Linux community around the world I have more chances to find helpers, who will code in Linux for me with cheap price and a good quality. The only same big community is of Windows developers. BeOS doesn't have a community of such size and never had any chances to have it.
- When the installation base is big the chances to find bugs are bigger too. Well, with such a bad OS design as Windows has it's not help. That's why another OS of a big community, Linux, has it's chances in a long term. BeOS does not have chances by this reason too.
IMHO, BeOS did not have any chances. It was too late: Linux is already uprising, being free, open-source and broadly-distributed. The final OS war will be between Windows and Linux. Of course untill new OS will come, which will have to be also free and open-source from one habd, and significuntly better than Linux from the other hand. But I don't think it's possible. It's more likely that Linux will fork and the competition will be between Linux branches.The comparison must be between .Net and J2EE, while J2ME and even J2SE are seriously lacking in component architecture and other features comparing to both .Net and J2EE.
So, once we make a comparison correctly (J2EE vs .Net) we can state: there is no such thing as embeddable J2EE just yet, while there is something like compact .Net framework.
Seems to me Java is anyhing but small, comparing to .Net - probably thanks to the way how .Net is based on XML.
Either way, I'll want $699 for my fp, beeyotch.
I think you've been in a serious rush with your fp, that's why you comment is so poor. I just wonder why is your comment so overrated? Is there such thing as FM (First Mod)?
Hellooo! Did you forget who is the main hero here? Should I remind everyone that it is possible only because Microsoft made it possible?
I hope Taiwan goverment will finally recognize the source of the problem and outlaw it on the territory of the iseland.
The only way to force RIAA members to price properly is to make RIAA to compete with something big that is not RIAA. I guess the thread of P2P + upcoming and growing online music stores + customer's conviniece shifting from CD to MP3 format = that big competitor of RIAA.
Done. It can connect to PostgreSQL (I am sure to other OSS DBMS as well), which is already extremely programmable, even more than Oracle, Access and SQL server altogether: PL/SQL, PL/Python, PL/Perl, PL/PHP, PL/TCL and others (and you can add any your language interpreter using the API provided).
However, PostgreSQL still has problems with native distros for both Windows and OSX. Perhaps Apple should help with PostgreSQL in OSX - they usually love BSDL more than GPL (read: they love to rip without contributing back).