A Signed win32 version of loadlin that has the privledge of writing to the pertinent areas of memory is not a given.
There are many other reasons for people not to move to Linux. It's really beyond the scope of this comment to enumerate a long list of the numerous reasons/issues, but many people reading this comment will agree.
Pedantic point- you mean 'the printer spray-ink bottles' not 'the printer tonder cartridges' in your comment. So far I don't think printer manufacturers have locked up the toner market as much as the cheap consumer spray-and-pray printer market.
USB didn't really take off and become mass-market until Windows 98.
Sure, it thrived in the Apple ghetto before that, but it'd just be another Apple Desktop Bus back road if Microsoft hadn't (finally!) merged it into their OS with Windows 98.
The point is you can never test SDI, because you are working against an opponent that is consciously trying to work around your system.
Sounds like you're claiming the Military needs to adopt a 'security through obscurity' approach. I thought everybody already had agreed that was wrong.
Or does that only apply as an excuse when people want access to source code?
Most of the free software is available to do trivial tasks where there are a large number of possible applications. 'Play an MP3' is this sort of software.
There is still a market for expensive software to do things that aren't trivial. Video editing in real time, audio editing and synthesis. Engineering simulation and design. These are all areas where there are early 'free software' starts at the kind of robust, and expensive, applications in the commercial market. But when you want to do the real work, you get out the checkbook.
And you'll be likely to see the make-work and hurdles of a formal education as just so much competetiveness for the sake of competetiveness.
Hell, when I was in school I took courses that I thought would be interesting. And I got into trouble regularly with other students because I asked questions beyond the syllabus about topics that weren't even going to be on the test. Boy, that made some of them mad.
The software industry was never the web-hype bullshit game that you describe. It was people producing software and selling it to other people who want to run it on their computers.
Online stores, and websites, are marketing. They are no more 'software' than a real-life store is 'the glass cabinet industry' just because the store happens to use glass cabinets to sell widgets out of.
The above is really an aside to the main issue, tho.
The software 'industry' is changing in part because tools are getting better, and people are learning more how to develop their own code. It's not really that hard to develop computer applications to do what you want them to do, so specialists who are 'software only' will fade way, and 'industry' will view software as one of it's components. The people best qualified to produce a software app for a given application are the people who work in that application, and know the processes. Not the people who produce layer upon layer upon layer more of 'object orientation' in a seeming attempt to abstract away to nothing the actual work being done.
I like LEDs. They work great on my calculator, and I've even seen some pretty flashy action on the front of an Animatronics TeleTubby doll. Bicolor LED matrixes are cool.
I'm afraid there are more than a few of us here who won't weep if it costs you fifteen bucks or so for being an idiot and using software than enables your email account to spam two or three hundred of us at a time.
It could be an economic incentive to move away from that 'global address book' shit once and for all.
I thought everybody was claiming that Spam costs ISP's huge amounts of money. Clearly if that's the case, the cost of this 'tax' will be offset by the savings it produces.
Or is that 'spam costs us lots of money' argument just rhetoric?
That, specificially, is why this idea has no chance whatsoever of going anywhere.
People who subscribe to email lists are some of the most organized people on the net. Try to take away their listservs and you'll see sheer hell break out.
The people of Afghanistan were never really given the free choice to go into either a movie theatre that played films from Hollywood or a movie theatre that played films produced by the Taliban Film Industry.
Whoops! I don't recall the United State ever being them not being given a choice.
And the Backstreet Boys made the first listenable music. Therefore they should be allowed to sue P2P enthusiasts into debt.
Aside: it's sort of shocking to think that there wasn't any usable computer before the iBook. That thing is about 35 generations too new to be called 'innovative' in any meaningful sense as a Personal Computer.
Network Administration would be even easier if all you gave those mere users was a legal pad and a sharpened pencil. You could have them request that you print out their latest email from the server, and maybe even rig up a pneumatic tube to deliver the printed copy to them.
IT People who want back Dumb Terminals because it makes their job easier are like landscape workers who want there only to be huge expanses of lawn, no trees, gardens, or features, because it makes it easier for them to mow.
I'm glad you didn't say 'Orange' as Apple Computer ran the Orange Computer Company out of business with lawsuits, for producing the 'Orange Peel' Apple 2 clone.
Apple has done a lot of that kind of thing in their history. They're kind of the RIAA of computer makers.
TeX didn't come out of the fabled 'Free Software Movement' though. It came about because one brilliant individual, Donald Knuth, needed a typesetting system for his books.
It was a case of 'scratch an itch' to be certain, but it was definitely NOT an example of the kind of "peer-written" software that gets called 'Free Software'. Namely because it's just too damn good for that label.
The thing is, except for the colorful name-calling aspects of your parody, a lot of the core message rings true.
People can and do learn, outside an expensive credential-bound 'Higher Educational Institution' where the politically correct get tenure and any dissent from the 'correct line' is mocked and discredited. All you have to do is go to the library and there are many books and other resources to learn from.
I personally think Rush Limbaugh is banal and panders to a lowest-common-denominator far too much. He harps on a few chosen issues to keep his ratings up. But the energy that he taps from regular people in his audience is legitimate. People feel disenfranchised from what the 'intellectual elite' insist is 'the way' things ought to be.
Of course, it's much easier for pundits of the Left and Right to engage in little tackling matches with parodies of their opponents than to actually propose or implement constructive change.
Why would Apple graft their 'Unix technologies', which are essentially a GUI desktop which pretty much masks the UNIX beneath it entirely, onto Solaris? To have two competing 'desktop' OSes? If Apple had any interest at all in Sun it would be for their Server technologies and market share. The Solaris desktop would go away completely if Apple ran the show. A year into the merger there probably wouldn't even be Star Office for Solaris anymore.
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A Signed win32 version of loadlin that has the privledge of writing to the pertinent areas of memory is not a given.
There are many other reasons for people not to move to Linux. It's really beyond the scope of this comment to enumerate a long list of the numerous reasons/issues, but many people reading this comment will agree.
There have now been over ten years of Linux.
Well, since the iMac is a clone of the Lear-Siegler ADM3a, what the heck...
Pedantic point- you mean 'the printer spray-ink bottles' not 'the printer tonder cartridges' in your comment. So far I don't think printer manufacturers have locked up the toner market as much as the cheap consumer spray-and-pray printer market.
USB didn't really take off and become mass-market until Windows 98.
Sure, it thrived in the Apple ghetto before that, but it'd just be another Apple Desktop Bus back road if Microsoft hadn't (finally!) merged it into their OS with Windows 98.
Flags aren't generally designed to be of a size to cover shame.
What the heck is 'covering shame' in the first place?
Howard Zinn's flavor of revisionist history gets laughed at these days. Face it: the 'New Left' is old and tired now.
Mutually Assured Destruction is your whole game plan, huh?
What makes you think every rogue state out there thinks the way you do?
Please stop thinking this is 1964.
The point is you can never test SDI, because you are working against an opponent that is consciously trying to work around your system.
Sounds like you're claiming the Military needs to adopt a 'security through obscurity' approach. I thought everybody already had agreed that was wrong.
Or does that only apply as an excuse when people want access to source code?
Mercy! What could be worse than a vi flamefest embedded in a dvorak flamefest?
I personally like vi because it comes standard on everything. Not as standard as ed but still almost always available.
So instead of 'Blame Canada' we should 'Blame Microsoft', eh?
Most of the free software is available to do trivial tasks where there are a large number of possible applications. 'Play an MP3' is this sort of software.
There is still a market for expensive software to do things that aren't trivial. Video editing in real time, audio editing and synthesis. Engineering simulation and design. These are all areas where there are early 'free software' starts at the kind of robust, and expensive, applications in the commercial market. But when you want to do the real work, you get out the checkbook.
And you'll be likely to see the make-work and hurdles of a formal education as just so much competetiveness for the sake of competetiveness.
Hell, when I was in school I took courses that I thought would be interesting. And I got into trouble regularly with other students because I asked questions beyond the syllabus about topics that weren't even going to be on the test. Boy, that made some of them mad.
The software industry was never the web-hype bullshit game that you describe. It was people producing software and selling it to other people who want to run it on their computers.
Online stores, and websites, are marketing. They are no more 'software' than a real-life store is 'the glass cabinet industry' just because the store happens to use glass cabinets to sell widgets out of.
The above is really an aside to the main issue, tho.
The software 'industry' is changing in part because tools are getting better, and people are learning more how to develop their own code. It's not really that hard to develop computer applications to do what you want them to do, so specialists who are 'software only' will fade way, and 'industry' will view software as one of it's components. The people best qualified to produce a software app for a given application are the people who work in that application, and know the processes. Not the people who produce layer upon layer upon layer more of 'object orientation' in a seeming attempt to abstract away to nothing the actual work being done.
I like LEDs. They work great on my calculator, and I've even seen some pretty flashy action on the front of an Animatronics TeleTubby doll. Bicolor LED matrixes are cool.
I'm afraid there are more than a few of us here who won't weep if it costs you fifteen bucks or so for being an idiot and using software than enables your email account to spam two or three hundred of us at a time.
It could be an economic incentive to move away from that 'global address book' shit once and for all.
I thought everybody was claiming that Spam costs ISP's huge amounts of money. Clearly if that's the case, the cost of this 'tax' will be offset by the savings it produces.
Or is that 'spam costs us lots of money' argument just rhetoric?
That, specificially, is why this idea has no chance whatsoever of going anywhere.
People who subscribe to email lists are some of the most organized people on the net. Try to take away their listservs and you'll see sheer hell break out.
You know, you're right.
The people of Afghanistan were never really given the free choice to go into either a movie theatre that played films from Hollywood or a movie theatre that played films produced by the Taliban Film Industry.
Whoops! I don't recall the United State ever being them not being given a choice.
And the Backstreet Boys made the first listenable music. Therefore they should be allowed to sue P2P enthusiasts into debt.
Aside: it's sort of shocking to think that there wasn't any usable computer before the iBook. That thing is about 35 generations too new to be called 'innovative' in any meaningful sense as a Personal Computer.
Dude,
Network Administration would be even easier if all you gave those mere users was a legal pad and a sharpened pencil. You could have them request that you print out their latest email from the server, and maybe even rig up a pneumatic tube to deliver the printed copy to them.
IT People who want back Dumb Terminals because it makes their job easier are like landscape workers who want there only to be huge expanses of lawn, no trees, gardens, or features, because it makes it easier for them to mow.
I'm glad you didn't say 'Orange' as Apple Computer ran the Orange Computer Company out of business with lawsuits, for producing the 'Orange Peel' Apple 2 clone.
Apple has done a lot of that kind of thing in their history. They're kind of the RIAA of computer makers.
Actually, the components of 'X' that look like Windows, namely Motif, were copied from Microsoft Windows.
Don't be ludicrous and claim that Microsoft copied the Tab Window Manager.
TeX didn't come out of the fabled 'Free Software Movement' though. It came about because one brilliant individual, Donald Knuth, needed a typesetting system for his books.
It was a case of 'scratch an itch' to be certain, but it was definitely NOT an example of the kind of "peer-written" software that gets called 'Free Software'. Namely because it's just too damn good for that label.
The thing is, except for the colorful name-calling aspects of your parody, a lot of the core message rings true.
People can and do learn, outside an expensive credential-bound 'Higher Educational Institution' where the politically correct get tenure and any dissent from the 'correct line' is mocked and discredited. All you have to do is go to the library and there are many books and other resources to learn from.
I personally think Rush Limbaugh is banal and panders to a lowest-common-denominator far too much. He harps on a few chosen issues to keep his ratings up. But the energy that he taps from regular people in his audience is legitimate. People feel disenfranchised from what the 'intellectual elite' insist is 'the way' things ought to be.
Of course, it's much easier for pundits of the Left and Right to engage in little tackling matches with parodies of their opponents than to actually propose or implement constructive change.
Why would Apple graft their 'Unix technologies', which are essentially a GUI desktop which pretty much masks the UNIX beneath it entirely, onto Solaris? To have two competing 'desktop' OSes?
If Apple had any interest at all in Sun it would be for their Server technologies and market share. The Solaris desktop would go away completely if Apple ran the show. A year into the merger there probably wouldn't even be Star Office for Solaris anymore.