I'm not 100% sure he didn't do a rap for ID4, but I don't recall it...
Re:Is Will Smith going to rap in this movie too?
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Yeah, cos his rap in "The Legend of Bagger Vance" was great...
Oh wait, he didn't rap in that.
Did he rap in Ali?
Oh, he didn't?
Enemy of the State?
Nope there either...
I know, I know... he's made a few bad rap songs for a few questionable movies, but cut the guy some slack. He hasn't done a rap video for *EVERY* movie.
Sigh.
Last I checked you could run Netscape 4.x on those boxes... and that's just Windows 3.1.
Electricity? Do you really think it costs that much to keep a computer on and hooked up?
The ISP... you may have me there. Some schools do provide dialups for free, but not all. And, even if they don't, wouldn't it still be easier to throw a old copy of encarta or groliers in and do research on that?
And where did I talk about new software and the licensing that would require? They could use whatever is preinstalled. And I know you can grab those old encyclopedia CD-Roms in used CD bins for under a few bucks.
Just as an example, my mother still uses a Pentium 60 with 48MB of ram to get on AOL. Is it old and slower than dirt? Yeah. Has anything on it ever failed? No. Would I be happy using it? No. Is she happy using it? Yes.
Uh, no.
How many families with kids in high school would be pefectly served by a 486/33 running Windows 3.1/Win95. Almost all of them. As long as the kids could get on the computer and bang out papers; they'd be fine.
Can those systems get on the net? Yep. Can they do whatever limited research they need. Yep. Can they chat away. Yep.
Liberal bullshit? No, more like practical applications for old technology.
They could be installing Linux on those Windows PCs.
Not to mention that we shouldn't really be tossing PC's around for the sake of tossing PC's around just because they run windows until everyone has a computer. Lots of people can't afford even cheap 8 year old ebay systems. Assuming those systems being tossed worked.
I have a Zaurus now; and I'm considering ditching it and going back to my Psion Revo+. The Revo just *worked* and did what it had to well.
Don't get me wrong... MP3s and color is great, and the Zaurus has it all over the Revo in that respect. But EPOC/Symbian made a great OS for their handhelds, and it shows. Everything is well thought out, and everything works well. And I too could never get the thing to crash, despite doing some really dodgy things with it.
The criticism of BeOS not supporting enough hardware is actually a good way to point out the effect of the Microsoft monopoly on competitors like Be. By preventing OEMs from putting BeOS on their machines, Microsoft killed off the possibility of BeOS getting enough traction to get started.
This may indeed be true. But OS/2 and Linux had no trouble supporting them. And OS/2 was long since "dead" by this time, and the BeOS was still being actively developed.
Maybe it just wasn't clear to him because he thought a menu showing choices for only two different kinds of network cards/had/ to be a mistake, and fixable in some way.
Yeah, pretty much that. It's not like I had exotic hardware; in fact it was fairly common (Realtek card of some sort). I tried everything I could find on the web to get it working, and nothing did.
The system did *look* impressive; at least until I tried a better video driver. Then it wouldn't boot.
I tried the BeOS a few years back, when the company was around, and they had released some sort of "Preview Edition" which installed itself as one large file on your FAT partition, and you booted into that. The same as some Linuxes do..
Anyhow, I played around with it for a day or two, then nuked it. Why? Two simple reasons.
It did not detect or configure my network card. And it wasn't really clear how to do that. Linux installers do that, and have done it for years.
It didn't detect or configure my video card. And when I followed the instructions on doing so, the BeOS wouldn't boot.
So that was it for the BeOS. Maybe the full version would configure everything during it's installation; but why would I pay to find out?
So yeah, I do feel sad when people go on about the death of the BeOS. But I have much more compassion for the OS/2 users. That installed right (mostly), and I lived with that for 4 years.
How is this really any different from joe schmoe creating his own distro and passing it off to a few friends to test out before he announces it to the public.
Answer: It's on a larger scale, and it isn't.
Seriously... it's a freakin beta folks. They want to test it, and I'm sure they have a ton of beta testers with specific hardware and setups that they need. Sure, releasing it to the general computing public may be better, but they're probably not ready for that yet.
So I'd back off and wait.
And second... stop bashing SUSE folks. The source for their installer is available. You can use it. People like it. People use it. It isn't the largest distro in europe without reason.
So uh, there.
Well, they did have an easy install, and they did open source it.
It was called Lizard, and I'm pretty sure the redhat installer was based off it.
I think they also were instrumental in getting some of the first netscape ports done.
Well, I'm not sure if you ever tried OpenLinux, but the 2.2 and 2.3 distros were among the best I've ever tried.
Painless installation, and they included almost everything you'd ever want. They pretty much pioneered the easy installation, and if I'm not mistaken, the current redhat installation is based off Lizard (the caldera installation).
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I'll get flamed for this, but...
Microsoft would get a much better reception if they went to the expo with actual Linux products.
Think about it. They have (or have had) a copy of IE for linux kicking around internally. IE exists for other unixes (too lazy to go check which at the moment tho). They have a media player for unixes (or they did). Wouldn't it be nice if they went to the show and released those, or annouced something about them, rather than hawking Visual Studio.NET and XP Embedded.
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Sorry, forgot about the Ali rap...
I'm not 100% sure he didn't do a rap for ID4, but I don't recall it...
Yeah, cos his rap in "The Legend of Bagger Vance" was great...
Oh wait, he didn't rap in that.
Did he rap in Ali?
Oh, he didn't?
Enemy of the State?
Nope there either...
I know, I know... he's made a few bad rap songs for a few questionable movies, but cut the guy some slack. He hasn't done a rap video for *EVERY* movie.
That's only in Kabul.
In the smaller, less developed cities, they're stuck with Vic-20s, and the 22 column limit associated with that hardware.
Wouldn't that polar ice that melts have to go somewhere? Like maybe a few feet inland along the coasts of the world. That probably isn't good is it?
Is it just me, or does the tablet remind anyone of the Sharp Tripad which came out a few years ago.
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Don't let the pictures fool you, the keyboard and screen could be configured any which way, and you could use it as a tablet if you really wanted.
Seems like this was an idea ahead of it's time (like the newton) and far more useful than just a tablet.
Just my
Sigh. Last I checked you could run Netscape 4.x on those boxes... and that's just Windows 3.1. Electricity? Do you really think it costs that much to keep a computer on and hooked up? The ISP... you may have me there. Some schools do provide dialups for free, but not all. And, even if they don't, wouldn't it still be easier to throw a old copy of encarta or groliers in and do research on that? And where did I talk about new software and the licensing that would require? They could use whatever is preinstalled. And I know you can grab those old encyclopedia CD-Roms in used CD bins for under a few bucks. Just as an example, my mother still uses a Pentium 60 with 48MB of ram to get on AOL. Is it old and slower than dirt? Yeah. Has anything on it ever failed? No. Would I be happy using it? No. Is she happy using it? Yes.
Uh, no. How many families with kids in high school would be pefectly served by a 486/33 running Windows 3.1/Win95. Almost all of them. As long as the kids could get on the computer and bang out papers; they'd be fine. Can those systems get on the net? Yep. Can they do whatever limited research they need. Yep. Can they chat away. Yep. Liberal bullshit? No, more like practical applications for old technology.
They could be installing Linux on those Windows PCs.
Not to mention that we shouldn't really be tossing PC's around for the sake of tossing PC's around just because they run windows until everyone has a computer. Lots of people can't afford even cheap 8 year old ebay systems. Assuming those systems being tossed worked.
I'll second that...
I have a Zaurus now; and I'm considering ditching it and going back to my Psion Revo+. The Revo just *worked* and did what it had to well.
Don't get me wrong... MP3s and color is great, and the Zaurus has it all over the Revo in that respect. But EPOC/Symbian made a great OS for their handhelds, and it shows. Everything is well thought out, and everything works well. And I too could never get the thing to crash, despite doing some really dodgy things with it.
This may indeed be true. But OS/2 and Linux had no trouble supporting them. And OS/2 was long since "dead" by this time, and the BeOS was still being actively developed.
Yeah, pretty much that. It's not like I had exotic hardware; in fact it was fairly common (Realtek card of some sort). I tried everything I could find on the web to get it working, and nothing did.
The system did *look* impressive; at least until I tried a better video driver. Then it wouldn't boot.
And people say Linux is hard to use?
I tried the BeOS a few years back, when the company was around, and they had released some sort of "Preview Edition" which installed itself as one large file on your FAT partition, and you booted into that. The same as some Linuxes do..
Anyhow, I played around with it for a day or two, then nuked it. Why? Two simple reasons.
It did not detect or configure my network card. And it wasn't really clear how to do that. Linux installers do that, and have done it for years.
It didn't detect or configure my video card. And when I followed the instructions on doing so, the BeOS wouldn't boot.
So that was it for the BeOS. Maybe the full version would configure everything during it's installation; but why would I pay to find out?
So yeah, I do feel sad when people go on about the death of the BeOS. But I have much more compassion for the OS/2 users. That installed right (mostly), and I lived with that for 4 years.
How is this really any different from joe schmoe creating his own distro and passing it off to a few friends to test out before he announces it to the public. Answer: It's on a larger scale, and it isn't. Seriously... it's a freakin beta folks. They want to test it, and I'm sure they have a ton of beta testers with specific hardware and setups that they need. Sure, releasing it to the general computing public may be better, but they're probably not ready for that yet. So I'd back off and wait. And second... stop bashing SUSE folks. The source for their installer is available. You can use it. People like it. People use it. It isn't the largest distro in europe without reason. So uh, there.
Well, they did have an easy install, and they did open source it. It was called Lizard, and I'm pretty sure the redhat installer was based off it. I think they also were instrumental in getting some of the first netscape ports done.
Well, I'm not sure if you ever tried OpenLinux, but the 2.2 and 2.3 distros were among the best I've ever tried. Painless installation, and they included almost everything you'd ever want. They pretty much pioneered the easy installation, and if I'm not mistaken, the current redhat installation is based off Lizard (the caldera installation).
I'll get flamed for this, but...
Microsoft would get a much better reception if they went to the expo with actual Linux products.
Think about it. They have (or have had) a copy of IE for linux kicking around internally. IE exists for other unixes (too lazy to go check which at the moment tho). They have a media player for unixes (or they did). Wouldn't it be nice if they went to the show and released those, or annouced something about them, rather than hawking Visual Studio
Just my