Re:This first time I heard about Be was in Forbes
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Ten Years of BeOS
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presumably that was when you were still young and impressionable...Forbes has about as much technical knowledge as the Wall Street Journal--that is to say, very little--they are one of the major cheerleaders for SCO, btw, which should speak for itself...
good post--you made me think! but i did come up with one major exception--Macromedia Flash, Actionscript and the.swf format--it's the widest deployed plugin on the net, and currently has no competition (don't even think svg!)
my first reaction to this attack was, 'who the f### is Ken Brown? as they taught me back in school, 'always consider the source' --if this guy's attacking Linux, he'd better have some solid credentials in the computer industry, right? well, all it took was a Google search, and the first link I hit told me all i need to know:
Anti-Open Source lobbyists need love, too
Friday October 25, 2002 - [ 03:00 PM GMT ]
Topics: Migration
- By Robin "Roblimo" Miller -
I felt bad for Ken Brown of the Alexis De Toqueville Institution (AdTI) last week...
http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/10/25/056218. shtml?tid=19
thanks to Roblimo, we have a first-hand account of Ken Brown's shameless FUD-ing, back in 2002--read this link for a cuttingly funny look at Mr. Browns earlier efforts;>
you gotta love the 'thousands of eyeballs' that are working on our side--it more than offsets what M$ gets from spreading it's dirty money around...
-DWitt
ps. methinks Brown's IP has just gone down the tubes--thank you very much Andy Tanenbaum!
your post starts out good, but then you ramble into FUD territory at the end...frontpage has never had ANY impact on the professional market (it's hobbyist software at best)
second, you've got Flash mixed up with Javascript--Flash runs the same on ALL browsers--it's js that has problems with cross-browser issues...
it was announced earlier this week that the AG of NY has charged the major record labels of shortchanging artist's royalties by $50 million dollars:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/arts/music/05ROY A.html
maybe they need to raise ITMS rates to come up with the money...
while I applaud your (ahem) youthful idealism, you must be new here--M$ 'innovation' doesn't come from their awesome R&D Lab, it comes from their Borg-like appetite to consume smaller companies' technologies, and borrow and steal whatever they can get their hands on, before renaming it and trademarking it...
exhibit y is their ClearType 'technology' introduced to much great fanfare a few years ago, which was actually pinched from the Apple II (http://www.winnetmag.net/Article/ArticleID/18392/ 18392.html), and is now part of their patent portfolio, and available for licensing, along with the FAT filesystem (http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/03/HNmicro softip_1.html)
While I used to love Ayn Rand as much as anybody, don't kid yourself, Bill Gates ain't Howard Rourke...
here's one good example for you--the ancient 'computer' of
Antikythera, which was found by divers in the Aegean sea in the 60s, and has been dated to be from arout 70-100 BC, which blew away earlier hypotheses about the technological capabilities of this early civilization--it was actually a astronomical/navigational device, based on an intricate gearing mechanism--modern scientists have been able to scan its internals, and recreate a working version--here's one link:http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/triton2.htm and there's a bunch more if you do a Google search....
a huge part of the problem with the current system is that the patent examiners are all generalists--therefore, what i'd like to see is more patent examiners with an IT background--then, these bs patent applications would have a much harder time sneaking into legitimacy...
another good idea would be to 'open source' the prior art aspect of patent review, for a 'million eyeballs' Groklaw-type community...
for the common good, i will attempt to patent neither of these ideas, or the new word 'groklawing';>
it's too bad the poster had to link to Forbes' article on Gmail--they've been consistently pro-SCO, and anti-FOSS, applying lots of FUD in favor of the 'party line' of commercial software--these guys have very little insight into the technology world, unless you belong to their core audience of gray-haired Masters of the Universe, who are trying to grok this new-fangled 'Information Superhighway' thing...
back in the (command line) BBS days, our BBS shell had a toggled user var called (appropriately enough) I'm Smart | I'm Stupid--the 'stupid' user got less options, and more verbose help onscreen--i've always thought this was a great solution to the dilemma of how to have a workable system for both experts and newbs--why not create a modern version of this setup that will show/hide information and options, based on the user's S/S preference?
they will be giving away the hardware, in order to keep people using their products;>
Bill Gate$ is seriously overrated as a futurist (remember 'The Road Ahead?')--every year, he's got the same message, but with a different twist--suuuuure, they're spending 6.8B or whatever on research (how much did Bob cost?)--unfortunately, it's being spent on their new 'PRbot' which will be the next generation of AI, and will take FUD and PRspew to new heights (or depths)...
finally, no one's talking about his voice recognition prognostications...what's the Blue Screen of Death going to sound like?
lately (well at least before last week), many analyi$t$ have been recommending SCO as a 'Buy,' so this should tell you something...
i find it hard to believe that these Wall $treet analy$tS have any shred of credibility left anymore--not counting the last few years scandals (Enron and MCI were analyst darlings, the disgrace of Jack Grubman and Mary Meeker, among others)...
oh, wait, Martha Stewart was indicted, so that means they've cleaned up Wall Street!;>
it's great that Lessig has formulated a positive approach to altering the balance of power in the copyright arena, but i'd also like to see somebody who is willing to demolish the straw man who is holding up the ideology of the current system, i.e. the idea that copyright is for protecting the artist
the straw man in this case is the artist him/herself--if you look back through history, you'll find a large percentage of artists who failed to profit off their ideas, and many who died broke--the people who have made the money are the 'support system' (dealers, brokers, attorneys,estates, etc) and, of course, the family and descendents, many who don't actually give a s#!t about the artwork itself, but the revenue stream that it has created...
the recent contretemps of the Joyce estate prohibiting readings in Ireland is but the latest example--look at any successful artist and you'll see them at the center of a cottage industry, often to the point where the surrounding industry becomes so large that the artist him/herself becomes secondary--think of the RIAA and all of their talk about paying the artist, when all they are really after is preserving their own money flow...
i'm not begrudging anybody a job, but i am taking aim at those people who use other people's creative work from years past as a perpetual annuity--original copyright laws were designed to balance individual creativity and common access, not a gravytrain for family members and lawyers!
I get the feeling that anyone who grew up playing early video games gets a real sense of disgust at seeing the level of depravity present in today's titles. Compared to games like Adventure or Pitfall today's electronic entertainment is a veritable pornography of violence, where vile acts are rendered in detail to a young audience.
or else they go on to make ultraviolent movies like 'The Passion of the Christ';>
Slashdot Mirror
presumably that was when you were still young and impressionable...Forbes has about as much technical knowledge as the Wall Street Journal--that is to say, very little--they are one of the major cheerleaders for SCO, btw, which should speak for itself...
i wonder when MM is going to open source AS?
i had originally posted this on Groklaw, which accepts posts in plaintext format, and i hit submit without previewing...
you're welcome, you insensitive clods!;>
my first reaction to this attack was, 'who the f### is Ken Brown? as they taught me back in school, 'always consider the source' --if this guy's attacking Linux, he'd better have some solid credentials in the computer industry, right? well, all it took was a Google search, and the first link I hit told me all i need to know: Anti-Open Source lobbyists need love, too Friday October 25, 2002 - [ 03:00 PM GMT ] Topics: Migration - By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - I felt bad for Ken Brown of the Alexis De Toqueville Institution (AdTI) last week... http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/10/25/056218. shtml?tid=19
thanks to Roblimo, we have a first-hand account of Ken Brown's shameless FUD-ing, back in 2002--read this link for a cuttingly funny look at Mr. Browns earlier efforts;>
you gotta love the 'thousands of eyeballs' that are working on our side--it more than offsets what M$ gets from spreading it's dirty money around...
-DWitt
ps. methinks Brown's IP has just gone down the tubes--thank you very much Andy Tanenbaum!
second, you've got Flash mixed up with Javascript--Flash runs the same on ALL browsers--it's js that has problems with cross-browser issues...
not to nitpick, but FUD is FUD...
maybe they need to raise ITMS rates to come up with the money...
geez...that'll teach me to post on a 12" ibook after having a few beers;>
Laura DiDio
exhibit y is their ClearType 'technology' introduced to much great fanfare a few years ago, which was actually pinched from the Apple II (http://www.winnetmag.net/Article/ArticleID/18392/ 18392.html), and is now part of their patent portfolio, and available for licensing, along with the FAT filesystem (http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/03/HNmicro softip_1.html)
While I used to love Ayn Rand as much as anybody, don't kid yourself, Bill Gates ain't Howard Rourke...
here's one good example for you--the ancient 'computer' of Antikythera, which was found by divers in the Aegean sea in the 60s, and has been dated to be from arout 70-100 BC, which blew away earlier hypotheses about the technological capabilities of this early civilization--it was actually a astronomical/navigational device, based on an intricate gearing mechanism--modern scientists have been able to scan its internals, and recreate a working version--here's one link:http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/triton2.htm and there's a bunch more if you do a Google search....
what i'd like to know is what all you two-button mouse people are doing with your other hand;>
another good idea would be to 'open source' the prior art aspect of patent review, for a 'million eyeballs' Groklaw-type community...
for the common good, i will attempt to patent neither of these ideas, or the new word 'groklawing' ;>
websites suffer from poor interface design? wow, who knew?
flash can be annoying when overused on the web? you're a genius!
people are annoyed at listening to cell phone coversations in public? what an incredible insight!
i'd say the name of his site should be 'luseIt'
it's too bad the poster had to link to Forbes' article on Gmail--they've been consistently pro-SCO, and anti-FOSS, applying lots of FUD in favor of the 'party line' of commercial software--these guys have very little insight into the technology world, unless you belong to their core audience of gray-haired Masters of the Universe, who are trying to grok this new-fangled 'Information Superhighway' thing...
back in the (command line) BBS days, our BBS shell had a toggled user var called (appropriately enough) I'm Smart | I'm Stupid--the 'stupid' user got less options, and more verbose help onscreen--i've always thought this was a great solution to the dilemma of how to have a workable system for both experts and newbs--why not create a modern version of this setup that will show/hide information and options, based on the user's S/S preference?
A software evangelist, my oh my,
you ain't nuthin' but a waitress in the sky!
-(unauthorized riff on) the Replacements
9.) They remember a time when Microsoft was on the cutting-edge
8.) They like the convenience of 'one-stop shopping'
7.) Managers get paid to know more than their staff (hence they know more than you do)
6.) Their bosses know even less than they do about this stuff!
5.) Theres' no open source PR movement
4.) 'Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft'
3.) Free software is bad, but free swag is good
2.) Microsoft is the biggest, so they must be the best!
and the top reason why they don't 'get' Linux:
1.) Because they're just not as smart as YOU!
ps, i loved you on Saturday Night Live, IT guy;>
they will be giving away the hardware, in order to keep people using their products;>
Bill Gate$ is seriously overrated as a futurist (remember 'The Road Ahead?')--every year, he's got the same message, but with a different twist--suuuuure, they're spending 6.8B or whatever on research (how much did Bob cost?)--unfortunately, it's being spent on their new 'PRbot' which will be the next generation of AI, and will take FUD and PRspew to new heights (or depths)...
finally, no one's talking about his voice recognition prognostications...what's the Blue Screen of Death going to sound like?
i smell another point for Andreeesen's list...
i find it hard to believe that these Wall $treet analy$tS have any shred of credibility left anymore--not counting the last few years scandals (Enron and MCI were analyst darlings, the disgrace of Jack Grubman and Mary Meeker, among others)...
oh, wait, Martha Stewart was indicted, so that means they've cleaned up Wall Street!;>
the straw man in this case is the artist him/herself--if you look back through history, you'll find a large percentage of artists who failed to profit off their ideas, and many who died broke--the people who have made the money are the 'support system' (dealers, brokers, attorneys,estates, etc) and, of course, the family and descendents, many who don't actually give a s#!t about the artwork itself, but the revenue stream that it has created...
the recent contretemps of the Joyce estate prohibiting readings in Ireland is but the latest example--look at any successful artist and you'll see them at the center of a cottage industry, often to the point where the surrounding industry becomes so large that the artist him/herself becomes secondary--think of the RIAA and all of their talk about paying the artist, when all they are really after is preserving their own money flow...
i'm not begrudging anybody a job, but i am taking aim at those people who use other people's creative work from years past as a perpetual annuity--original copyright laws were designed to balance individual creativity and common access, not a gravytrain for family members and lawyers!
this sentence reveals the author's bias:
Nobody wants to be the ultimate guarantor for software that was free (or close to it).
that's free as in beer, not speech--why is this so hard for $uit$ to understand?
although, given the state of the union, we may be coming to this:
Nobody wants to be the ultimate guarantor for speech that was free (or close to it).;>
ps. you think the two joysticks are hard? try playing the MAME versions using the keyboard;>
or else they go on to make ultraviolent movies like 'The Passion of the Christ' ;>