The article doesn't deal with actual technical issues, doesn't explain how poor planning, short-sightedness, and plain arrogance created the situation in the first place, and serves only to try to convince Joe Consumer that "gee, the MPAA is only protecting my rights."
I'd just like to point out that BeOS hasn't been in existence for 1994 days yet. About 1990 days ago, it was running on the Hobbit processor, and people were talking about the soon to appear PowerPC version.
That, plus the tiny number of registered systems, the dual-booting nature of a brand-new OS, and the fact few use it as a server.
Re how about keeping Imperial for consumer stuff, metric for science applications? "just fine"
Actually, I'm not so sure about that. I mean yes, obviously, any system would be fine, so long as it's consistent and made some sense. But much like different countries working together, there are other issues that might appear.
For instance, when people move from being youth learning to drive into university students in science, this puts extra learning curve on their backs. Or when students in elementary are learning about... I dunno, maybe percentages or something, and they see ".2 oz fat" on the milk carton (guessing) and their textbook has nothing but examples of "5g fat", and their answer must be in metric... again, why force this on to their heads?
What is actually gained, long term, from maintaining two separate systems? Short term, those who grew up with Imperial will be comfortable, but long term, we'd be maintaining the status quo -- people complaining about metric not being what they're used to. In perpetuity.
This being Xmas, I was home having an argument with my father today about Canada's adoption of metric 30 years ago. He (age 53) is rather offended by this still today. I was trying to come up with ways to convince him that his personal discomfort was not enough reason to stay Imperial -- and now I've found one.
This discovery has nothing to do with metric specifically, and (rather amusingly) happened in an Imperial (and imperious, sometimes) country. But it's still representative: countries using common systems (metric) allow many to work together, across borders, to solve problems that we could not work out alone. In this case it was three American schools, but in other cases it has been schools or researchers from separate continents.
Yes, NASA messed up the metric thing. But that was based on one country not matching *all* the others, right? So imagine if this discovery is recanted in 3 weeks: "Oops, we were using inches and gallons, not centimeters and litres." This happens too often (even once is too often).
I'm not sure what my point is. I think it's a combination of "cool" and "why isn't everyone metric yet?"
It's obvious slash has been down, based on the huge lack of "Corel is trying to take over the world" posts.
Corel isn't being malicious, it's being accidentally stupid. Somebody somewhere didn't think enough before signing off on those agreements.
Full disclosure: I/used/ to work there, and this is actually why I feel that I can say this.
Hopefully we'll see a response from Corel _soon_. A response that says "oh crap, that's totally not what we meant, here's the new version, our lawyers and our marketers and our sales people are all still getting used to the whole OSS deal." (That's a hint, if anybody at 1600 Carling Avenue is reading!)
'course, if they don't say something soon, I'll start thinking things are not as I thought. Hope that doesn't happen.
While BeOS is great on recognizing hardware and making it "just work", like all operating systems it sometimes doesn't work perfectly.
My first suspicion would be that the cards aren't supported -- though the hardware support list includes them, so a) maybe they're not what you think they are (i.e. are you certain of them), or b) there's a hardware conflict on your PCI bus (or somewhere else) that Linux works around but is blocking Be? I don't know enough technical info on hardware to know why this might happen, but I've heard it can.
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NASA Administrator: "Sure, we want a calendar and a phone list in Atlantis -- but what about videos and MP3s??"
NASA Worker: "Uhh, I'll get right on that."
NASA Administrator: "Can you put in that paperclip thing too?"
- Cam MacLeod
It's all his office's propaganda, of course.
The article doesn't deal with actual technical issues, doesn't explain how poor planning, short-sightedness, and plain arrogance created the situation in the first place, and serves only to try to convince Joe Consumer that "gee, the MPAA is only protecting my rights."
My rights to their monopoly. Bull.
Cam
- Cam MacLeod
I'd just like to point out that BeOS hasn't been in existence for 1994 days yet. About 1990 days ago, it was running on the Hobbit processor, and people were talking about the soon to appear PowerPC version.
That, plus the tiny number of registered systems, the dual-booting nature of a brand-new OS, and the fact few use it as a server.
The info is just not useful.
Cam
- Cam MacLeod
Re how about keeping Imperial for consumer stuff, metric for science applications? "just fine"
... I dunno, maybe percentages or something, and they see ".2 oz fat" on the milk carton (guessing) and their textbook has nothing but examples of "5g fat", and their answer must be in metric... again, why force this on to their heads?
Actually, I'm not so sure about that. I mean yes, obviously, any system would be fine, so long as it's consistent and made some sense. But much like different countries working together, there are other issues that might appear.
For instance, when people move from being youth learning to drive into university students in science, this puts extra learning curve on their backs. Or when students in elementary are learning about
What is actually gained, long term, from maintaining two separate systems? Short term, those who grew up with Imperial will be comfortable, but long term, we'd be maintaining the status quo -- people complaining about metric not being what they're used to. In perpetuity.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
Cam
- Cam MacLeod
This being Xmas, I was home having an argument with my father today about Canada's adoption of metric 30 years ago. He (age 53) is rather offended by this still today. I was trying to come up with ways to convince him that his personal discomfort was not enough reason to stay Imperial -- and now I've found one.
This discovery has nothing to do with metric specifically, and (rather amusingly) happened in an Imperial (and imperious, sometimes) country. But it's still representative: countries using common systems (metric) allow many to work together, across borders, to solve problems that we could not work out alone. In this case it was three American schools, but in other cases it has been schools or researchers from separate continents.
Yes, NASA messed up the metric thing. But that was based on one country not matching *all* the others, right? So imagine if this discovery is recanted in 3 weeks: "Oops, we were using inches and gallons, not centimeters and litres." This happens too often (even once is too often).
I'm not sure what my point is. I think it's a combination of "cool" and "why isn't everyone metric yet?"
Cam
- Cam MacLeod
It's obvious slash has been down, based on the huge lack of "Corel is trying to take over the world" posts.
/used/ to work there, and this is actually why I feel that I can say this.
Corel isn't being malicious, it's being accidentally stupid. Somebody somewhere didn't think enough before signing off on those agreements.
Full disclosure: I
Hopefully we'll see a response from Corel _soon_. A response that says "oh crap, that's totally not what we meant, here's the new version, our lawyers and our marketers and our sales people are all still getting used to the whole OSS deal." (That's a hint, if anybody at 1600 Carling Avenue is reading!)
'course, if they don't say something soon, I'll start thinking things are not as I thought. Hope that doesn't happen.
Cam
- Cam MacLeod
My first suspicion would be that the cards aren't supported -- though the hardware support list includes them, so a) maybe they're not what you think they are (i.e. are you certain of them), or b) there's a hardware conflict on your PCI bus (or somewhere else) that Linux works around but is blocking Be? I don't know enough technical info on hardware to know why this might happen, but I've heard it can.
Good luck!