It gets even better (worse?) as I can think of a few other markets that Intel is going after...
1) Optical components, such as Transponders and AWG's. Sure they bought most of this technology through acquisition of other companies, but if I remember correctly they fully expect optical to be at least as big as their microprocessor biz within a few years.
2) DSL equipment, through their acquisition of Level One.
3) Software. They make a desktop management product called LanDesk. Really helps in a Windows environment as you can push patches out to all of your nodes automatically. Unfortunately, since it's Windows we're talking about, you still have to load patches on the thing every 15 minutes or so...:-)
I'm not so sure about your statement that everybody else is going to catch-up and pass Intel because they are spread too thin. I personally am typing this on an AMD equipped machine, but looking around me, there are 3 other processors in this room, all Intel. Also, I know from experience that their optical division is working on some really nicely designed products. The optical market will be back at some point, and Intel will be well positioned.
Finally, I don't know about Sun being a great bet for a stock purchase right now.... for my money it seems like all of their products are 'me too' items with no really compelling reasons to choose them. Sparc is a cool architecture, but it's getting hard to justify the cost of Sparc+Solaris as opposed to Linux on X86 or other processors.
So true!!
At one company I worked for the coffee room was stocked originally with Starbucks coffee, and most people thought that was just fine. I have always disliked Starbucks, as it seems something about the way they roast the beans gives the coffee an off flavor. Peet's has been my favorite for years, so after I pleaded with the office manager for a while she started stocking Peet's as well as Starbucks. Within 3 months the Starbucks coffee was not being used anymore, and we stopped buying it.
If anyone from Peet's is listening, your welcome for converting some customers to your coffee!! I think that a gift of a pound or so of beans would not be out of line!!:-)
The Atari 5200 needs to be mentioned....
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first of all 'cause it sucked major ass, and secondly because Atari **COULD** have had sales rights to the Nintendo Entertainment System instead.
Probably one of the biggest f-ups in the history of the electronic entertainment industry.
You can't use a standard, PC-formatted hard drive, according to Eric Harper, Integra's Custom Installation and Product Manager. The formatting is somewhat different, but a knowledgeable user or installer should be able to add another drive to the server.
Anyone know which format is used? I wonder if when they say you can't use a PC standard format, that maybe they really mean you cannot use FAT/VFAT/NTFS?? I certainly hope it is something standard so that you won't have to buy a second/replacement drive from Onkyo - I would imagine that their prices for a drive with a proprietary format would be much more expensive than a standard drive.
Looks pretty cool otherwise....I can definitely attest to the fact that Onkyo makes very solid audio gear. I have an older Onkyo receiver that I have had for almost 10 years, and I'm still impressed by the sound quality.
One thing to remember here is that DSL has two major benefits both related to the fact that you're not on a shared segment like Cable:
1) Your connection speed is more stable. I get 1.5mb day in and day out with my DSL connection. Cable throughput is determined by how many other people are currently online on your neighborhoods segment, and can vary greatly.
2) Your transactions are visible to other subscribers on the same segment. Yes, it is generally against the rules set forth by the cable provider to run a packet sniffer on a cable segment and spy on your neighbors....that does not however mean that people don't do it everyday. DSL is not a shared segment, and is therfore more secure in this regard. Something to think about anyway......
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!
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Sorry, blatantly stolen from Charleton Heston......
Re:Open Source is NOT the issue - it's the IMAGE
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Where to start with this????
You are so very right that Linux has no flashy high dollar marketing suit at the forefront of it's push for popularity. I'd like to respectfully introduce you to a concept that you may just not have thought about yet. That is, most people that use/build/contribute to Linux really don't care if Joe SixPack uses Linux or not. People should use whatever OS they feel will work the best for them regardless of the opinion of others. Yes, I would like to have more attention from the game and app companies, and more Linux users would certainly help there. But like all the other Linux users that I know, I LIKE the fact that I can select an OS on it's merits instead of being lured in by the juvenile happy-mealish antics of the folks that brought us 'features' like an animated paper clip. Also, if you hadn't noticed yet, commercial development for Linux has been picking up at a quite nice clip lately, and it seems to be increasing exponentially. We're working on the games.......
As far as your concerns about the marketability of the three gurus that are at the forefront of open source today, these folks are responsible for the tools that millions of people use day in and day out. They BUILT them. I think it would be more than a little disrespectful to try and take away things that they have dedicated their lives to building and try to continue on with the products of their blood sweat and tears without giving them their proper respect. You can dislike these guys all you want (I personally have serious issues's with some of RMS's opinions) but you cannot disrespect any of them.....especially if you are posting ANONYMOUSLY.
DirectX??? I'm not really sure, but if you're so sure that it's needed step up and build it - this is how things are done with open source. I imagine that you might have a bit of a legal battle on your hands though, as I think that this is technology owned by Microsoft (not sure though - comments anyone?).
Focus groups. I agree with you on this one, at least partially. It would be supremely beneficial to most open source efforts if more usability testing was done by the largest group of people that could be managed. It would be helpful to have an extension to Sourceforge for testing like this, as long as it was up to the individual project leaders as to whether or not they actually want to go through with the effort of using it. Remember that these folks are building these projects on their time, and the extent of the impact that you can have on their projects is to suggest and advise, not to dictate.
In closing I feel that I should take this up a level and acknowledge that I am glad that you are trying to offer insight on how to improve things for open source. You are correct in your statements that not much has been done to promote the public image of Linux to the masses. Hopefully you will continue to read/. to keep abreast of what is going on here. I also wish to leave you with one final thought that might help you to understand a bit more of what I believe is the mindset of the average open source fan:
We do not want to build another Microsoft.
The world already has one of those.
We like the open source projects that we use because they offer a way of doing things that works better for us, with more flexibility and choice. And, (pay attention here, this part is important) if we are unsatisfied with the way things work out of the box, we can actually open up the hood and do something about it.
Thanks for your insights, it's good to hear from all sides. Next time however I suggest that you may be better served to refrain from posting anonymously - it tends to knock a few credibility points off by default.
It's a journal. And it's searchable. Am I missing something, or is this just not all that interesting? The way I see it, the real problems that need to be addressed for this type of application to be interesting are:
1) Security. No one in their right mind would place the sum of all of their thoughts into such a corruption-friendly repository without absolute knowledge of it's security.
2) Ease/Automation of data gathering. The article brushes past this issue a bit, but doesn't really cover it. Auto gathering of email and other net communications is easy - what would be interesting are items such as a tool that automatically adds your digital photos and video to this archive when you connect the camera to your USB/FireWire port, or better yet, wirelessly.
3) Ubiquitous input access. For this to really work, you have to be at the point where you have a seamless enough PDA/Cellphone that you are using it for *ALL* notetaking and communications. If instead you are still using (even part of the time) scraps of paper for notetaking, other peoples phones for making calls, etc than all of this generated data will not be included in the database, and the data set will be less useful. The more data functions that you can centralize in this one PDA type device (such as photography and digital video) , the better as you only have to worry about building integration hooks to one device instead of separate devices for each data type.
Looks to me that this will not be truly viable until some work is done in the surrounding technologies.
based on the fact that these Brits are using discarded J&B whiskey tins to make their 'Can-Tennas' their network roll-out parties are probably one hell of a lot more interesting than the ones we have in America with Pringles.....
One benefit that you might not be considering is that for a large organization such as a company, campus or government office having all traffic run over ONE network is much cheaper and easier to maintain. Especially for entities that will have a metropolitan area network linking satellite offices - your long distance costs are cut dramatically.
Plus think about how much easier it is to manage your voicemail and email all from the same tool on your desktop, or over the internet from a remote client.
WINE and WINEX are certainly interesting technologies, and are very useful to a lot of people. That being said, before you get too excited about this situation, open up your history books to the chapter on OS/2 and refresh your memory that the main reasons that this operating system lost out to Windows were:
1) Microsoft's better marketing, and...
2) OS/2's excellent Windows emulation.
IBM essentially made the decision on porting applications over very easy for 3rd party developers. Since the Windows binaries ran on OS/2, why the hell would they put any effort into making a native OS/2 app? Never mind that OS/2 was a FAR better operating system, we can support 2 platforms for the price of one! Case closed! Therefore, what happened was OS/2 ended up with no real 3rd party support, and it ended up just being a slower way to run Windows apps. Not very compelling.
I acknowledge that the situation for Linux is different, as the average user is more committed to Linux than people were with OS/2, but even still, I believe that emulators undermine the overall Linux software development effort. The more foresighted game developers are starting to come around finally - let's continue to give them reasons to build native Linux implementations of their work.
Anyone else still able to hear the crazy sound that the Pteradactyl made when he came after you?
RRRRWWWHAAAAA!!!! RRRRWWWHHAAAAAA!!!
Flying around on an ostrich with a lance kicking the crap out of knights and Pteradactyls, and gathering eggs for bonus points! I'd like a bit of whatever they were smoking when they developed that game idea please!!
If for instance a cure for cancer is developed by a research team at WhiteHat Pharmaceuticals, don't they deserve to be compensated for their years of effort in R&D? Say that BlackHat Pharmaceuticals, a rival company that doesn't have the talent and knowledge to develop this on their own "just steals the formula" and releases their version of the drug for 20% of the price that WhiteHat charges (they can make money at this price point after all, since they don't have to pay for R&D) effectively destroying any possibility that WhiteHat will ever be able to make a profit, let alone recoup the money they spend on R&D. Do you think that WhiteHat is going to invest anymore of their time and talent in developing other drugs if this is allowed to happen? Absolutely not. This certainly does NOT advance our society! Now these "People that cannot afford it" that need other drugs are still up shit creek because the drugs that they need will never be developed. Even if the people that stole the formula gave their version of the drug away for free, the overall impact of this action would be extremely negative if it serves to discontinue the further development of new drugs.
Yes, sharing of intellectual property has many benefits to society. The key to this however is that everyone must decide for themselves what they are willing to share, who they are willing to share it with, and under what terms.
The Open Source community is a stellar example of the wonderful things that can happen when the fruits of intellectual labor are shared. Just realize that this is not the perfect solution for all cases, and that it is ultimately up to the owner/creator of intellectual property to decide how it should best be used.
Hmmmmm... This is similar to the way that my system is configured, except I also have Win98 on a third partition. All three OS's work on my machine (at least the Windoze OS's worked last time I bothered booting them, which was several weeks ago).
Did you create the partitions under Windows and then format them as ext3 during the Mandrake install? If so, I wonder if you might have better luck whacking all partitions but the Windows one and then creating new partitions for Mandrake during the install process. It's just a guess, but I could see Windows getting it's little brain confused if it stored some info about the partition table, and then when you rebooted Windows after formatting it as ext3 it didn't know how to mount the ext3 filesystem. Again, this is just a guess.
Of course, the best option of all might just be to remove Windows entirely as I'm going to do when I install the released Mandrake 9, but I realize that this isn't an option for everyone.
'Wearable Computers' are not about having a more powerful computer, just as portable phones are not about having a more powerful phone (web access, text messaging etc notwithstanding).
The idea here is simply one of convenience, and access to computing resources wherever you may happen to need them. Consider the example of an online train schedule: When do you think you would get the most value out of accessing this site - when you're at home in front of the computer, or when you're out at the pub trying to figure out when you need to finish off that beer in order to make the last train home?
I personally will be one of the first adopters of such technology when it becomes workable. getting driving directions while in the car, checking prices online while shopping in a real life mall, checking up on the kids and their babysitter via an X10 type camera in the house.... For me I think that this would eventually end up becoming the machine that I use the most.
Like it or not, I think you may have to get used to the idea of "wearables".
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It gets even better (worse?) as I can think of a few other markets that Intel is going after...
:-)
1) Optical components, such as Transponders and AWG's. Sure they bought most of this technology through acquisition of other companies, but if I remember correctly they fully expect optical to be at least as big as their microprocessor biz within a few years.
2) DSL equipment, through their acquisition of Level One.
3) Software. They make a desktop management product called LanDesk. Really helps in a Windows environment as you can push patches out to all of your nodes automatically. Unfortunately, since it's Windows we're talking about, you still have to load patches on the thing every 15 minutes or so...
I'm not so sure about your statement that everybody else is going to catch-up and pass Intel because they are spread too thin. I personally am typing this on an AMD equipped machine, but looking around me, there are 3 other processors in this room, all Intel. Also, I know from experience that their optical division is working on some really nicely designed products. The optical market will be back at some point, and Intel will be well positioned.
Finally, I don't know about Sun being a great bet for a stock purchase right now.... for my money it seems like all of their products are 'me too' items with no really compelling reasons to choose them. Sparc is a cool architecture, but it's getting hard to justify the cost of Sparc+Solaris as opposed to Linux on X86 or other processors.
Just my opinion...I could be wrong.
If anyone from Peet's is listening, your welcome for converting some customers to your coffee!! I think that a gift of a pound or so of beans would not be out of line!! :-)
first of all 'cause it sucked major ass, and secondly because Atari **COULD** have had sales rights to the Nintendo Entertainment System instead.
Probably one of the biggest f-ups in the history of the electronic entertainment industry.
You can't use a standard, PC-formatted hard drive, according to Eric Harper, Integra's Custom Installation and Product Manager. The formatting is somewhat different, but a knowledgeable user or installer should be able to add another drive to the server.
Anyone know which format is used? I wonder if when they say you can't use a PC standard format, that maybe they really mean you cannot use FAT/VFAT/NTFS?? I certainly hope it is something standard so that you won't have to buy a second/replacement drive from Onkyo - I would imagine that their prices for a drive with a proprietary format would be much more expensive than a standard drive.
Looks pretty cool otherwise....I can definitely attest to the fact that Onkyo makes very solid audio gear. I have an older Onkyo receiver that I have had for almost 10 years, and I'm still impressed by the sound quality.
I have a SCSI scanner that I'd like to hook up to my IDE only machine. Hopefully these devices are not responsible for their server being unavailable!
and not enough fertilizer.
The solution to both problems should be obvious.
1) Your connection speed is more stable. I get 1.5mb day in and day out with my DSL connection. Cable throughput is determined by how many other people are currently online on your neighborhoods segment, and can vary greatly.
2) Your transactions are visible to other subscribers on the same segment. Yes, it is generally against the rules set forth by the cable provider to run a packet sniffer on a cable segment and spy on your neighbors....that does not however mean that people don't do it everyday. DSL is not a shared segment, and is therfore more secure in this regard. Something to think about anyway......
Sorry, blatantly stolen from Charleton Heston......
You are so very right that Linux has no flashy high dollar marketing suit at the forefront of it's push for popularity. I'd like to respectfully introduce you to a concept that you may just not have thought about yet. That is, most people that use/build/contribute to Linux really don't care if Joe SixPack uses Linux or not. People should use whatever OS they feel will work the best for them regardless of the opinion of others. Yes, I would like to have more attention from the game and app companies, and more Linux users would certainly help there. But like all the other Linux users that I know, I LIKE the fact that I can select an OS on it's merits instead of being lured in by the juvenile happy-mealish antics of the folks that brought us 'features' like an animated paper clip. Also, if you hadn't noticed yet, commercial development for Linux has been picking up at a quite nice clip lately, and it seems to be increasing exponentially. We're working on the games.......
As far as your concerns about the marketability of the three gurus that are at the forefront of open source today, these folks are responsible for the tools that millions of people use day in and day out. They BUILT them. I think it would be more than a little disrespectful to try and take away things that they have dedicated their lives to building and try to continue on with the products of their blood sweat and tears without giving them their proper respect. You can dislike these guys all you want (I personally have serious issues's with some of RMS's opinions) but you cannot disrespect any of them.....especially if you are posting ANONYMOUSLY.
DirectX??? I'm not really sure, but if you're so sure that it's needed step up and build it - this is how things are done with open source. I imagine that you might have a bit of a legal battle on your hands though, as I think that this is technology owned by Microsoft (not sure though - comments anyone?).
Focus groups. I agree with you on this one, at least partially. It would be supremely beneficial to most open source efforts if more usability testing was done by the largest group of people that could be managed. It would be helpful to have an extension to Sourceforge for testing like this, as long as it was up to the individual project leaders as to whether or not they actually want to go through with the effort of using it. Remember that these folks are building these projects on their time, and the extent of the impact that you can have on their projects is to suggest and advise, not to dictate.
In closing I feel that I should take this up a level and acknowledge that I am glad that you are trying to offer insight on how to improve things for open source. You are correct in your statements that not much has been done to promote the public image of Linux to the masses. Hopefully you will continue to read /. to keep abreast of what is going on here. I also wish to leave you with one final thought that might help you to understand a bit more of what I believe is the mindset of the average open source fan:
We do not want to build another Microsoft.
The world already has one of those.
We like the open source projects that we use because they offer a way of doing things that works better for us, with more flexibility and choice. And, (pay attention here, this part is important) if we are unsatisfied with the way things work out of the box, we can actually open up the hood and do something about it.
Thanks for your insights, it's good to hear from all sides. Next time however I suggest that you may be better served to refrain from posting anonymously - it tends to knock a few credibility points off by default.
It's a journal. And it's searchable. Am I missing something, or is this just not all that interesting? The way I see it, the real problems that need to be addressed for this type of application to be interesting are:
1) Security. No one in their right mind would place the sum of all of their thoughts into such a corruption-friendly repository without absolute knowledge of it's security.
2) Ease/Automation of data gathering. The article brushes past this issue a bit, but doesn't really cover it. Auto gathering of email and other net communications is easy - what would be interesting are items such as a tool that automatically adds your digital photos and video to this archive when you connect the camera to your USB/FireWire port, or better yet, wirelessly.
3) Ubiquitous input access. For this to really work, you have to be at the point where you have a seamless enough PDA/Cellphone that you are using it for *ALL* notetaking and communications. If instead you are still using (even part of the time) scraps of paper for notetaking, other peoples phones for making calls, etc than all of this generated data will not be included in the database, and the data set will be less useful. The more data functions that you can centralize in this one PDA type device (such as photography and digital video) , the better as you only have to worry about building integration hooks to one device instead of separate devices for each data type.
Looks to me that this will not be truly viable until some work is done in the surrounding technologies.
About 2weeks before Movielink files for Chapter 13.....
based on the fact that these Brits are using discarded J&B whiskey tins to make their 'Can-Tennas' their network roll-out parties are probably one hell of a lot more interesting than the ones we have in America with Pringles.....
One benefit that you might not be considering is that for a large organization such as a company, campus or government office having all traffic run over ONE network is much cheaper and easier to maintain. Especially for entities that will have a metropolitan area network linking satellite offices - your long distance costs are cut dramatically.
Plus think about how much easier it is to manage your voicemail and email all from the same tool on your desktop, or over the internet from a remote client.
WINE and WINEX are certainly interesting technologies, and are very useful to a lot of people. That being said, before you get too excited about this situation, open up your history books to the chapter on OS/2 and refresh your memory that the main reasons that this operating system lost out to Windows were:
1) Microsoft's better marketing, and...
2) OS/2's excellent Windows emulation.
IBM essentially made the decision on porting applications over very easy for 3rd party developers. Since the Windows binaries ran on OS/2, why the hell would they put any effort into making a native OS/2 app? Never mind that OS/2 was a FAR better operating system, we can support 2 platforms for the price of one! Case closed! Therefore, what happened was OS/2 ended up with no real 3rd party support, and it ended up just being a slower way to run Windows apps. Not very compelling.
I acknowledge that the situation for Linux is different, as the average user is more committed to Linux than people were with OS/2, but even still, I believe that emulators undermine the overall Linux software development effort. The more foresighted game developers are starting to come around finally - let's continue to give them reasons to build native Linux implementations of their work.Can you just imagine?
apt-get install heineken
To get you a beer, open it, and install it in your hand. My happiness is complete.
Anyone else still able to hear the crazy sound that the Pteradactyl made when he came after you?
RRRRWWWHAAAAA!!!! RRRRWWWHHAAAAAA!!!
Flying around on an ostrich with a lance kicking the crap out of knights and Pteradactyls, and gathering eggs for bonus points! I'd like a bit of whatever they were smoking when they developed that game idea please!!Yes as a matter of fact, it is wrong.
If for instance a cure for cancer is developed by a research team at WhiteHat Pharmaceuticals, don't they deserve to be compensated for their years of effort in R&D? Say that BlackHat Pharmaceuticals, a rival company that doesn't have the talent and knowledge to develop this on their own "just steals the formula" and releases their version of the drug for 20% of the price that WhiteHat charges (they can make money at this price point after all, since they don't have to pay for R&D) effectively destroying any possibility that WhiteHat will ever be able to make a profit, let alone recoup the money they spend on R&D. Do you think that WhiteHat is going to invest anymore of their time and talent in developing other drugs if this is allowed to happen? Absolutely not. This certainly does NOT advance our society! Now these "People that cannot afford it" that need other drugs are still up shit creek because the drugs that they need will never be developed. Even if the people that stole the formula gave their version of the drug away for free, the overall impact of this action would be extremely negative if it serves to discontinue the further development of new drugs.
Yes, sharing of intellectual property has many benefits to society. The key to this however is that everyone must decide for themselves what they are willing to share, who they are willing to share it with, and under what terms. The Open Source community is a stellar example of the wonderful things that can happen when the fruits of intellectual labor are shared. Just realize that this is not the perfect solution for all cases, and that it is ultimately up to the owner/creator of intellectual property to decide how it should best be used.
Respectfully submitted, The WoobmanAustralia
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/iso/
Austria
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Vienna)
Czech Republic
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/iso/
ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Brno)
France
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Lyon)
ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Nancy)
United States
ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake /iso/ (California)
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/iso (NY)
ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/iso/ (Illinois)
Hmmmmm... This is similar to the way that my system is configured, except I also have Win98 on a third partition. All three OS's work on my machine (at least the Windoze OS's worked last time I bothered booting them, which was several weeks ago).
Did you create the partitions under Windows and then format them as ext3 during the Mandrake install? If so, I wonder if you might have better luck whacking all partitions but the Windows one and then creating new partitions for Mandrake during the install process. It's just a guess, but I could see Windows getting it's little brain confused if it stored some info about the partition table, and then when you rebooted Windows after formatting it as ext3 it didn't know how to mount the ext3 filesystem. Again, this is just a guess.
Of course, the best option of all might just be to remove Windows entirely as I'm going to do when I install the released Mandrake 9, but I realize that this isn't an option for everyone.
Good luck Backov.
'Wearable Computers' are not about having a more powerful computer, just as portable phones are not about having a more powerful phone (web access, text messaging etc notwithstanding). The idea here is simply one of convenience, and access to computing resources wherever you may happen to need them. Consider the example of an online train schedule: When do you think you would get the most value out of accessing this site - when you're at home in front of the computer, or when you're out at the pub trying to figure out when you need to finish off that beer in order to make the last train home? I personally will be one of the first adopters of such technology when it becomes workable. getting driving directions while in the car, checking prices online while shopping in a real life mall, checking up on the kids and their babysitter via an X10 type camera in the house.... For me I think that this would eventually end up becoming the machine that I use the most.
Like it or not, I think you may have to get used to the idea of "wearables".