I was happy back in 1996 when I got DOSEMU under Linux to run my EPROM Programmer (a Needham PB-10, the one with an ISA card).
I agree that it seems pretty trivial that a compiler works, as compilers mostly just push text and binaries around, they don't call much of the Win32 API.
That's why online music distribution is so scary. Piracy is a real threat to the music industry; but so is a distribution system that gives everyone equal access.
One thing I have never had explained to me is how small artists, who use the Web and internet distribution methods to get their music out and listened to, make any money at it. Nobody is making money from music distributed online. Are these artists going to put up banner ads on a website and get their pennies that way?
So let's hear all the hypothetical ways that they're supposed to earn money.
Why is the negotiating position of these bands so weak that they end up with such a shitty deal?
Just about any idiot (okay, maybe 10% of the population) can make music as good as the average pop music artists. There's no shortage of talent, and 'national stars' are the result of promotion and packaging. There's a myth of 'great talent' that largely isn't the case, and the music studios know this. So they can get rid of anybody who gets uppity and demands much, because the supply of 'stars' is huge.
It's similar in a way to how dishwashers and waitresses don't get much.
And it actually costs *less* money for these institutions, since they're using mostly the same articles they use in their print form, so the only extra money they're having to pay for is for the technology, hardware, and support behind the website itself.
Actually, it costs them revenue in the form of lost sales to give their content away for free on the internet. Since they have other viable means of conveying their content, it's wrong to say it 'costs nothing.' It costs them a considerable amount in lost sales of print versions of their publications.
Re:DVD-A and SACD aren't much better anyway
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However, you can listen to a recording of a regular symphonic orchestra on an LP and get back the realism in the treble.
And I can get fine LP records, some of the best performances ever, for pennies on the dollar.
The quality of Cassettes was less than that of the LPs that people had been accustomed to. Cassettes have inherent defects as an audio playback medium for music.
CDs are 'good enough', in fact better than good enough for most people's enjoyment of music. The new formats are just 'more good enough' and that isn't something people can measure. It isn't anything people care about. So the new formats will just be for the 'elite' who need to feel important and buy the latest shiny-new stuff at the store.
Well, there have been PC cards for Macintosh machines for a long, long time, so I guess you can cram an expensive 'PC' (we'll call it 'an IBM' for the old time Mac Zealots) in a Mac case.
It's possible because the PC is an open architecture.
I can imagine the screaming and sputtering and legal injunctions that would stream out of Steve Job's office, though, if someone tried to implement and market a PowerMac on a PCI card that could be plugged into a PC. It's closed hardware, you see.
Have you priced the FPGA prototyping kits recently?
They're expensive. For one-off projects, it gets expensive really fast. You can't just grab a big FPGA chip and solder it onto your board. The pin density is high enough that you HAVE to have a custom board built, or dedicate an expensive prototyping kit to each project.
I've seen a few people on eBay selling FPGA chips that have been tin-snipped out of scrapped assemblies, though. Because most FPGA board layouts include feedthroughs-per-hole around the FPGA chip for hardware probing and verification, that is a somewhat workable solution.
If you weren't there to see the hype, you'd realize that they promoted NSP as something that we should ALL learn. That it turned into a single niche closed-source product is a significant failure.
Sorry for being such a curmudgeon, but this seems like the equivalent of collecting recordings of the Antique Road Show in lieu of collecting real antiques.
FPGA technology is cool and all that, and there's a limited supply of vintage hardware that makes it a hobby with limited growth potential for marketers and banner advertising on enthusiast websites, but I can't think of a reason why it's cool to emulate a C64 with an FPGA, at least not for more than a few minutes. Do something new and cool with your new stuff.
Intel tried to do this about five years ago. The project was called Native Signal Processing, or NSP. The idea was to do DSP in the main processor, and eliminate the specialized DSP chips in PCs.
It was a failure, except for one product that came out of it. The WinModem.
We 'got to the moon' with the Apollo capsule, but it wasn't a recyclable investment. What useful things have been done with an Apollo capsule in the last decade?
Certainly, the investment return on 'the space program' as a whole can't be debated. It is immense. However, Apollo is not a completely indispensible part of said program.
Websites are one of the most 'generic' kinds of server-oriented products you can deploy. It's one of the few places where there are dozens of options that are all almost identical to the end user.
Even in web server technology, however, Microsoft holds somewhat of an edge in 'business' as they've put a lot of 'seamless' integration between MS Office and IIS. If you hit 'edit' in IE on some websites, it prompts you for a password and username then opens Word. In companies this is convenient, because the department secretary can keep a intranet web bulletin board up and running without learning ANYTHING new.
But if you're just slinging pages at the general public on the Internet, these distinctions aren't important. Apache on any number of platforms, even NT, will do you fine.
Zealots of both the extreme left and right are fond of parodying their opponents. It seems that it's easier for them to debate with an imaginary stereotype than a realistic opponent. You're even playing with code-words now, i.e. your 'Fox' reference.
One thing that would improve readability of Gutenberg titles would be for them to loose the huge mass of boilerplate text at the front. Often when I open a Gutenberg textfile I have a hard time finding the title to see exactly what it is I am about to read. There's always a huge mass of the same repetetive stuff up front.
News like this makes me feel glad that I sold my copy of Office XP (retail box upgrade edition) on eBay last month. I went back to running my early version of Office 2000 (which has no registration requirement- just the CD key) and it works just fine.
Actually, for the use most people get from it, Office 4.3 works great, except for the lack of long filenames. Office 4.3 and WfW 3.11 was really probably the highest usability vs. resources-consumed OS/app combo that Microsoft is capable of or will ever achive. Microsoft had to actually wait for Novell to come out with their 'wrapper' of a client package before most businesses would run Windows 95 on the corporate desktop.
Please stop holding your little closed argeument with your parody opponent.
The moves being made by the US are about as far from Colonialism as can be. The colonialists are the French and their ilk. The French are playing little colonial games in the Ivory Coast right now.
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That's a little bit like saying 'the overwhelming majority of music is never intended for commercial distribtution' and having to support your claim by counting all the people who whistle in the elevator or sing in the shower.
ESR's figures include all the inhouse stuff that isn't part of the market. Which is irrelevant to discussions of the market.
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I was happy back in 1996 when I got DOSEMU under Linux to run my EPROM Programmer (a Needham PB-10, the one with an ISA card).
I agree that it seems pretty trivial that a compiler works, as compilers mostly just push text and binaries around, they don't call much of the Win32 API.
That's why online music distribution is so scary. Piracy is a real threat to the music industry; but so is a distribution system that gives everyone equal access.
One thing I have never had explained to me is how small artists, who use the Web and internet distribution methods to get their music out and listened to, make any money at it. Nobody is making money from music distributed online. Are these artists going to put up banner ads on a website and get their pennies that way?
So let's hear all the hypothetical ways that they're supposed to earn money.
Just about any idiot (okay, maybe 10% of the population) can make music as good as the average pop music artists. There's no shortage of talent, and 'national stars' are the result of promotion and packaging. There's a myth of 'great talent' that largely isn't the case, and the music studios know this. So they can get rid of anybody who gets uppity and demands much, because the supply of 'stars' is huge.
It's similar in a way to how dishwashers and waitresses don't get much.
Actually, it costs them revenue in the form of lost sales to give their content away for free on the internet. Since they have other viable means of conveying their content, it's wrong to say it 'costs nothing.' It costs them a considerable amount in lost sales of print versions of their publications.
However, you can listen to a recording of a regular symphonic orchestra on an LP and get back the realism in the treble.
And I can get fine LP records, some of the best performances ever, for pennies on the dollar.
The quality of Cassettes was less than that of the LPs that people had been accustomed to. Cassettes have inherent defects as an audio playback medium for music.
CDs are 'good enough', in fact better than good enough for most people's enjoyment of music. The new formats are just 'more good enough' and that isn't something people can measure. It isn't anything people care about. So the new formats will just be for the 'elite' who need to feel important and buy the latest shiny-new stuff at the store.
Well, there have been PC cards for Macintosh machines for a long, long time, so I guess you can cram an expensive 'PC' (we'll call it 'an IBM' for the old time Mac Zealots) in a Mac case.
It's possible because the PC is an open architecture.
I can imagine the screaming and sputtering and legal injunctions that would stream out of Steve Job's office, though, if someone tried to implement and market a PowerMac on a PCI card that could be plugged into a PC. It's closed hardware, you see.
Have you priced the FPGA prototyping kits recently?
They're expensive. For one-off projects, it gets expensive really fast. You can't just grab a big FPGA chip and solder it onto your board. The pin density is high enough that you HAVE to have a custom board built, or dedicate an expensive prototyping kit to each project.
I've seen a few people on eBay selling FPGA chips that have been tin-snipped out of scrapped assemblies, though. Because most FPGA board layouts include feedthroughs-per-hole around the FPGA chip for hardware probing and verification, that is a somewhat workable solution.
You could call it the Nintendo Retreat
If you weren't there to see the hype, you'd realize that they promoted NSP as something that we should ALL learn. That it turned into a single niche closed-source product is a significant failure.
Sorry for being such a curmudgeon, but this seems like the equivalent of collecting recordings of the Antique Road Show in lieu of collecting real antiques.
FPGA technology is cool and all that, and there's a limited supply of vintage hardware that makes it a hobby with limited growth potential for marketers and banner advertising on enthusiast websites, but I can't think of a reason why it's cool to emulate a C64 with an FPGA, at least not for more than a few minutes. Do something new and cool with your new stuff.
Intel tried to do this about five years ago. The project was called Native Signal Processing, or NSP. The idea was to do DSP in the main processor, and eliminate the specialized DSP chips in PCs.
It was a failure, except for one product that came out of it. The WinModem.
is delivered with MS RMS
You scared the HELL out of me with that phrase.
I thought you meant the Microsoft version of Stallman.
So it's sort of a distributed Spruce Goose, where multiple groups of people get to share the egg on their faces, eh?
Yes, you're right.
We 'got to the moon' with the Apollo capsule, but it wasn't a recyclable investment. What useful things have been done with an Apollo capsule in the last decade?
Certainly, the investment return on 'the space program' as a whole can't be debated. It is immense. However, Apollo is not a completely indispensible part of said program.
Maybe this plane should be dubbed the 'Metal Spruce Goose'
If each one of those people who voted chips in £5, that's £1000 for a months work, not bad at all.
However, it's only 100 if more people get involved. I guess you'd better not work cooperatively or you'll be idle 90% of the month.
I have this image of Linus all trussed up and Tove the dominitrix... welll..... we better not go there, this is a FAMILY site, after all. heh.
Websites are one of the most 'generic' kinds of server-oriented products you can deploy. It's one of the few places where there are dozens of options that are all almost identical to the end user.
Even in web server technology, however, Microsoft holds somewhat of an edge in 'business' as they've put a lot of 'seamless' integration between MS Office and IIS. If you hit 'edit' in IE on some websites, it prompts you for a password and username then opens Word. In companies this is convenient, because the department secretary can keep a intranet web bulletin board up and running without learning ANYTHING new.
But if you're just slinging pages at the general public on the Internet, these distinctions aren't important. Apache on any number of platforms, even NT, will do you fine.
I don't understand can you please reformulate?
Zealots of both the extreme left and right are fond of parodying their opponents. It seems that it's easier for them to debate with an imaginary stereotype than a realistic opponent. You're even playing with code-words now, i.e. your 'Fox' reference.
One thing that would improve readability of Gutenberg titles would be for them to loose the huge mass of boilerplate text at the front. Often when I open a Gutenberg textfile I have a hard time finding the title to see exactly what it is I am about to read. There's always a huge mass of the same repetetive stuff up front.
What OS does your firewall run?
If you mean you click on a 'firewall' icon before you go online, ummm.....
News like this makes me feel glad that I sold my copy of Office XP (retail box upgrade edition) on eBay last month. I went back to running my early version of Office 2000 (which has no registration requirement- just the CD key) and it works just fine.
Actually, for the use most people get from it, Office 4.3 works great, except for the lack of long filenames. Office 4.3 and WfW 3.11 was really probably the highest usability vs. resources-consumed OS/app combo that Microsoft is capable of or will ever achive. Microsoft had to actually wait for Novell to come out with their 'wrapper' of a client package before most businesses would run Windows 95 on the corporate desktop.
Please stop holding your little closed argeument with your parody opponent.
The moves being made by the US are about as far from Colonialism as can be. The colonialists are the French and their ilk. The French are playing little colonial games in the Ivory Coast right now.
That's a little bit like saying 'the overwhelming majority of music is never intended for commercial distribtution' and having to support your claim by counting all the people who whistle in the elevator or sing in the shower.
ESR's figures include all the inhouse stuff that isn't part of the market. Which is irrelevant to discussions of the market.