UML is based on old mainframe unix concepts that are decades old. It's not new.
It's not innovation, it's derivation.
And it's been so since the very core of the Free software movement (it's GNU's Not Unix, not GNU's Something Completely New and Original)
And generally when people start OS apps, they generally want to replicate some functionality from another OS that doesnt exist for free. (Samba, Apache, proFTPd, KDE, gnome, Mozilla, OpenOffice, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, OpenLDAP, OpenWhatever and so on).
It's a good thing that this stuff is being made free, but call a spade a spade.
But show me the innovation in the open source community. Show me a completely unique must-have product that has come out of open source. Everything is focused on cloning existing systems, there is no R&D.
Since 1992 I've seen windows evolve from Window for workgroups 3.11 to Windows 2003. I've seen linux and XFree86 stay pretty much the same functionally.
Userland apps like samba, apache etc are great, but the purpose they serve is to emulate/recreate/clone some existing behavior from another OS.
The good side of it is that linux isnt just cloning Windows, but other UNIXes and Mac OS/X, so (in theory) the best functionality is cloned from each. But it's not innovation, it's derivation.
Solid state devices ain't getting cheap enough fast enough, and as cheap as they get, HDDs will still be cheaper.
Sure they're more rugged, but I've seen some mighty rugged laptops as well.
It occurred to me that theres nothing preventing this camera, since its PMCIA based, from using HDD, tape, or solid state, or a direct broadcast to the station (since it's being targetted at ENG) by simply swapping out the card. Then everyone can be happy.
Going to shoot Mrs McGees 100th birthday? Take the HDD. Embedding yourself with the 101st airborne? Take the solid state. Doing a live man in the street segment? Take the wireless card, etc.. Or just use 'em in the station over gigabit lan or firewire or something.
What exactly would be wrong with a gigantiforous hard drive? This thing has 5 cards x 4 gigs each (max) for a max of 72 minutes.
Why not 60 gigs of HDD for 216 minutes? Or 120 for 432 minutes? For a consumer level camera, this seems more useful.
Imagine going on vacation and needing a bag of ($$$expensive$$$) PCMCIA cards to film with, or having to stop in the middle of a shoot to transfer 20 gigs of footage to a laptop.
A big enough HDD could just store all your footage, and you just point and shoot and dont think twice about it 'till you're back home.
I can see this being cool for professional cameras, as no doubt you can build a solid-state rig with better shockproofing, etc, etc..
But I doubt it can really become ubiquitous for home use - at least not until the spinning magnetic disc is replaced with solid state components.
The point of the grandparent is that industries are capable of regulating themselves without a bunch of government involvement, or some bill dancing around Congress getting all sorts of zany email restrictions tacked on to it (and I can't believe thats what slashbots want - more government involvement and monitoring in their communications).
Most commercial emails I've gotten were from companies I've done business with in the past. Some I've opted out of and never heard from again, some (like lik-sang.com) I let send me their biweekly product announcements because I want it.
Using email as a marketing tool is effective and non-intrusive when done with some ethics. If I say "dont call/email me again", they shouldnt.
There's only a handful of assholes out there responsible for the Nigeria scams and herbal viagra type crap. Most organizations are legitimate.
If they think they can effectively police themselves, I say we give them the chance. Whatever they do, you better believe it's better than the feds (directly or by proxy through your ISP) scanning all your outgoing data to see if you're spamming.
I think you should have to write out the candidates full name, and it has to be spelled correctly, and penmanship counts. That way all the moron votes get thrown out.
I mean look at the mess in florida. They couldnt figure out how to use the friggin ballot. I say if you cant figure out a ballot, your vote doesnt count.
I dont want to hear about no pregnant chads next election.
And your only reward for registering to vote is being called for jury duty. Which isnt fun.
It might sound neat, like a Law and Order episode, but basically you have to sit there for 3 days during selection, and if you make the jury, you get to sit for another week to hear how Clevon McDingleshit sold a bag of crack to some cop.
Boo to voting!
Now, there should be a massively multiplayer version of Postal 2, and they can base policies on who the players are taking out their frustrations on. (Sorry but I just got that game and it's friggin hilarious)
linux desktops have had "a lot of promise" for the last decade.
It's always been a case of "just wait, the next release will solve everything!". Zealots chant it as their mantra.
It's not going to happen. FOSS, by it's very nature, will never produce anything more than a patchwork clone of other desktops.
There's no technical reason that a desktop as slick as OS/X couldn't be built on top of linux the way OS/X is on top of BSD, but that kind of effort requires management and discipline. Only a corporate effort can pull that off.
In the OSS world, if you dont like the way a projects going, you go ahead in your own direction. And that's fine, after all, its unpaid hobbyists doing the work.
But in a corporate environment all the coders have to be thickskinned when their nifty super-duper new subsystem proposal gets nixed, and buckle down and get the job done. If linux desktop was a corporate project, there would be no KDE vs Gnome vs Enlightenment vs blah vs blah discussions. There would be one project.
Short of some for-profit coming in and getting it done (which I think may eventually be the case), I just cant see it happening.
Some movies just suck on IMAX. I've seen a bunch of films on IMAX screens, Top Gun was cool because all the flight scenes made you feel like you were up in the air. Days of Thunder was good. Apocolypse Now comes to mind as one that looked like crap, as you describe it, it feels like your just sitting too close to the screen.
IMAX is good for big panoramic shots. It's bad for dialogue and close action. Something tells me that the Matrix isn't stylistically the type of thing you'd want to see on IMAX.
I hope that every last kludgy ancient thread of SysV-style crap is pulled out, and the whole thing is forced into a rewrite from the ground up, perhaps adopting some more BSD style semantics, perhaps something new. Ultimately that would be good for the OS in the long run.
Much better than striving to be state-of-the-art for 1975.
It isnt about letting the child order anything. The child cant order anything.
It's about sites setting up a "fill out this form and win a free pony" to get little kids who dont know any better to supply them with all their personal data so they can do all the evil things people do with your personal data once they get it.
No, not any shape with a rounded sides. Picture an oval, it has a long and short cross section. The short crossection can fit in through longways, obviously.
There is a whole class of shapes by which the distance from one point, perpendicular to the tangent at that point to the other side is the same all around.
I cant remember the name of them, but I first learned all about them on Mr Wizard way back when. They look like bowed out triangles, squares, octagons, etc etc.. They all "roll" like wheels, but have no "center", ie, they cant roll around an axis. All would make fine manhole covers (so far as not slipping through).
Thing is, circles are the easiest to machine and transport, so I doubt they'd ever catch on just because of some neat geometry.
Hunt 'n peck typers are much less likely to suffer repetitive stress or CTS, since they dont hold their hands in the same position moving only their fingertips. All that hovering over the keyboard gives the wrists time to relax.
If those investors step in and assume all legal liabilities of the tobacco company, sure.
Try to read the articles. I know the expected reaction is Music companies are GAY! Winbolows! I hate music! I only like one song why pay for the whole CD! blah blah blah.
Hummer Winblad are the people who are legally responsible for Napster. They're the ones to sue.
Take a dozen non-technical, average users. Format their harddrives and put linux on in its place - you choose the distro you think is the best, easiest.
Come back in 6 months, I guarantee 11 of the PCs will have Windows back on the desktop. The other one hasnt been used at all.
People do indeed choose Windows, people are aware of linux, you'd be surprised how aware people are of linux. They watch screensavers on TechTV. They know what's out there. They dont participate in kernel hacker forums, but they know and understand a whole lot more than you and the other zealots give them credit for. You're preaching to the choir - but the choir doesn't give a shit.
As a matter of fact, you'd be surprised how many office workers have been exposed to various shades of UNIX running on mainframes all over the place. I was pretty taken back when my sister in law (as non-techie as you get) knew what cat, tar, and ps were - not only that, she knows how to use vi.
But, they dont want it at home. Really. It's too much work for too little return. People enjoy using their computers, but they dont enjoy computing.
Excuse me, I meant to spell it "linsucks". I figure that's pretty clever and hi-larious.
Basically, because the users of Firebird object. Our users develop applications based on Firebird and other open source components. That's their bread and butter. When they say that something will damage them, I have an obligation to respond.
It's not the Firebird(DB) users, they have a legitimate problem with something which is going to confuse their potential clients, and possibly damage their projects/businesses. All because noone on the mozilla team could think up anything more clever than "Firebird".
I mean, jeez, cant they just say "Oh, Firebird is taken... Lets call it Miata or Boxter or Webmangler".
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UML is based on old mainframe unix concepts that are decades old. It's not new.
It's not innovation, it's derivation.
And it's been so since the very core of the Free software movement (it's GNU's Not Unix, not GNU's Something Completely New and Original)
And generally when people start OS apps, they generally want to replicate some functionality from another OS that doesnt exist for free. (Samba, Apache, proFTPd, KDE, gnome, Mozilla, OpenOffice, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, OpenLDAP, OpenWhatever and so on).
It's a good thing that this stuff is being made free, but call a spade a spade.
But show me the innovation in the open source community. Show me a completely unique must-have product that has come out of open source. Everything is focused on cloning existing systems, there is no R&D.
Since 1992 I've seen windows evolve from Window for workgroups 3.11 to Windows 2003. I've seen linux and XFree86 stay pretty much the same functionally.
Userland apps like samba, apache etc are great, but the purpose they serve is to emulate/recreate/clone some existing behavior from another OS.
The good side of it is that linux isnt just cloning Windows, but other UNIXes and Mac OS/X, so (in theory) the best functionality is cloned from each. But it's not innovation, it's derivation.
Poor example.
DeCSS was reverse engineered.
This kid simply stole documents from DTV.
Solid state devices ain't getting cheap enough fast enough, and as cheap as they get, HDDs will still be cheaper.
Sure they're more rugged, but I've seen some mighty rugged laptops as well.
It occurred to me that theres nothing preventing this camera, since its PMCIA based, from using HDD, tape, or solid state, or a direct broadcast to the station (since it's being targetted at ENG) by simply swapping out the card. Then everyone can be happy.
Going to shoot Mrs McGees 100th birthday? Take the HDD. Embedding yourself with the 101st airborne? Take the solid state. Doing a live man in the street segment? Take the wireless card, etc.. Or just use 'em in the station over gigabit lan or firewire or something.
This idiot uses the term "wow product" like two dozen times in this cheezy PR piece.
... That along makes this a wow product."
"...saw my second wow product of the day"
"... the Tough-book (retailing at $4000) also has a touch panel screen
"...the Encore DVD software. It is a wow product"
"...that about wraps up my Super Wow day at NAB"
WOW!
NEATO WALLY!
That wraps up my super WOW post at slashdot.
What exactly would be wrong with a gigantiforous hard drive? This thing has 5 cards x 4 gigs each (max) for a max of 72 minutes.
Why not 60 gigs of HDD for 216 minutes? Or 120 for 432 minutes? For a consumer level camera, this seems more useful.
Imagine going on vacation and needing a bag of ($$$expensive$$$) PCMCIA cards to film with, or having to stop in the middle of a shoot to transfer 20 gigs of footage to a laptop.
A big enough HDD could just store all your footage, and you just point and shoot and dont think twice about it 'till you're back home.
I can see this being cool for professional cameras, as no doubt you can build a solid-state rig with better shockproofing, etc, etc..
But I doubt it can really become ubiquitous for home use - at least not until the spinning magnetic disc is replaced with solid state components.
The point of the grandparent is that industries are capable of regulating themselves without a bunch of government involvement, or some bill dancing around Congress getting all sorts of zany email restrictions tacked on to it (and I can't believe thats what slashbots want - more government involvement and monitoring in their communications).
Most commercial emails I've gotten were from companies I've done business with in the past. Some I've opted out of and never heard from again, some (like lik-sang.com) I let send me their biweekly product announcements because I want it.
Using email as a marketing tool is effective and non-intrusive when done with some ethics. If I say "dont call/email me again", they shouldnt.
There's only a handful of assholes out there responsible for the Nigeria scams and herbal viagra type crap. Most organizations are legitimate.
If they think they can effectively police themselves, I say we give them the chance. Whatever they do, you better believe it's better than the feds (directly or by proxy through your ISP) scanning all your outgoing data to see if you're spamming.
I think you should have to write out the candidates full name, and it has to be spelled correctly, and penmanship counts. That way all the moron votes get thrown out.
I mean look at the mess in florida. They couldnt figure out how to use the friggin ballot. I say if you cant figure out a ballot, your vote doesnt count.
I dont want to hear about no pregnant chads next election.
What happens if "none of the above" gets the majority vote? That particular seat sits empty?
It already exists. When you watch the results and hear "33% for A, 25% for B, and 1 spoiled ballot" - that's me, I blow my nose with mine.
And your only reward for registering to vote is being called for jury duty. Which isnt fun.
It might sound neat, like a Law and Order episode, but basically you have to sit there for 3 days during selection, and if you make the jury, you get to sit for another week to hear how Clevon McDingleshit sold a bag of crack to some cop.
Boo to voting!
Now, there should be a massively multiplayer version of Postal 2, and they can base policies on who the players are taking out their frustrations on. (Sorry but I just got that game and it's friggin hilarious)
More like:
"Beam me up Scotty"
"I kinna do it cap'en. You be only 4 yards away you lazy yank!"
Either that or Kirk's down on some planet pointing his pringles can around aimlessly hoping to find the enterprise.
linux desktops have had "a lot of promise" for the last decade.
It's always been a case of "just wait, the next release will solve everything!". Zealots chant it as their mantra.
It's not going to happen. FOSS, by it's very nature, will never produce anything more than a patchwork clone of other desktops.
There's no technical reason that a desktop as slick as OS/X couldn't be built on top of linux the way OS/X is on top of BSD, but that kind of effort requires management and discipline. Only a corporate effort can pull that off.
In the OSS world, if you dont like the way a projects going, you go ahead in your own direction. And that's fine, after all, its unpaid hobbyists doing the work.
But in a corporate environment all the coders have to be thickskinned when their nifty super-duper new subsystem proposal gets nixed, and buckle down and get the job done. If linux desktop was a corporate project, there would be no KDE vs Gnome vs Enlightenment vs blah vs blah discussions. There would be one project.
Short of some for-profit coming in and getting it done (which I think may eventually be the case), I just cant see it happening.
Some movies just suck on IMAX. I've seen a bunch of films on IMAX screens, Top Gun was cool because all the flight scenes made you feel like you were up in the air. Days of Thunder was good. Apocolypse Now comes to mind as one that looked like crap, as you describe it, it feels like your just sitting too close to the screen.
IMAX is good for big panoramic shots. It's bad for dialogue and close action. Something tells me that the Matrix isn't stylistically the type of thing you'd want to see on IMAX.
And if I gave a shit, I'd probably spend some time thinking of it.
I hope that every last kludgy ancient thread of SysV-style crap is pulled out, and the whole thing is forced into a rewrite from the ground up, perhaps adopting some more BSD style semantics, perhaps something new. Ultimately that would be good for the OS in the long run.
Much better than striving to be state-of-the-art for 1975.
It isnt about letting the child order anything. The child cant order anything.
It's about sites setting up a "fill out this form and win a free pony" to get little kids who dont know any better to supply them with all their personal data so they can do all the evil things people do with your personal data once they get it.
here
Another poster on this thread found the link, I had no idea what to search google for.
No, not any shape with a rounded sides. Picture an oval, it has a long and short cross section. The short crossection can fit in through longways, obviously.
There is a whole class of shapes by which the distance from one point, perpendicular to the tangent at that point to the other side is the same all around.
I cant remember the name of them, but I first learned all about them on Mr Wizard way back when. They look like bowed out triangles, squares, octagons, etc etc.. They all "roll" like wheels, but have no "center", ie, they cant roll around an axis. All would make fine manhole covers (so far as not slipping through).
Thing is, circles are the easiest to machine and transport, so I doubt they'd ever catch on just because of some neat geometry.
I'm sure a handful of third rate bottom of the barrel unknown games will rocket linux to desktop superiority!
One thing you cant find in the gaming aisle of Best Buy: complete shit.
My karma burn for this fine tuesday. Enjoy it mods.
Natural for a hamster holding a seed while he gnaws on it, maybe.
If you just hold your hands out relaxed, they'll be on like a 30 degree incline. Perfectly vertical sounds less comfortable than perfectly flat.
Plus the keyboard tray on my desk would be useless, and if I put it on the desktop it would block the lower half of my monitor.
Seems like an expensive gizmo for idiots, and that it has as much medical value as magic power pyramids.
Hunt 'n peck typers are much less likely to suffer repetitive stress or CTS, since they dont hold their hands in the same position moving only their fingertips. All that hovering over the keyboard gives the wrists time to relax.
If those investors step in and assume all legal liabilities of the tobacco company, sure.
Try to read the articles. I know the expected reaction is Music companies are GAY! Winbolows! I hate music! I only like one song why pay for the whole CD! blah blah blah.
Hummer Winblad are the people who are legally responsible for Napster. They're the ones to sue.
Take a dozen non-technical, average users. Format their harddrives and put linux on in its place - you choose the distro you think is the best, easiest.
Come back in 6 months, I guarantee 11 of the PCs will have Windows back on the desktop. The other one hasnt been used at all.
People do indeed choose Windows, people are aware of linux, you'd be surprised how aware people are of linux. They watch screensavers on TechTV. They know what's out there. They dont participate in kernel hacker forums, but they know and understand a whole lot more than you and the other zealots give them credit for. You're preaching to the choir - but the choir doesn't give a shit.
As a matter of fact, you'd be surprised how many office workers have been exposed to various shades of UNIX running on mainframes all over the place. I was pretty taken back when my sister in law (as non-techie as you get) knew what cat, tar, and ps were - not only that, she knows how to use vi.
But, they dont want it at home. Really. It's too much work for too little return. People enjoy using their computers, but they dont enjoy computing.
Excuse me, I meant to spell it "linsucks". I figure that's pretty clever and hi-larious.
Consider you wrote some business app for linux and are trying to sell it as a "Firebird based inventory management system".
Oh its a web based system? Or it uses firebird-db on the back end?
This is the problem that those that CmdrTaco dismisses as "asshole users" have with this name change.
Basically, because the users of Firebird object. Our users develop applications based on Firebird and other open source components. That's their bread and butter. When they say that something will damage them, I have an obligation to respond.
It's not the Firebird(DB) users, they have a legitimate problem with something which is going to confuse their potential clients, and possibly damage their projects/businesses. All because noone on the mozilla team could think up anything more clever than "Firebird".
I mean, jeez, cant they just say "Oh, Firebird is taken... Lets call it Miata or Boxter or Webmangler".