I am unsure that this is a good thing. I think you all should be a little skeptical too.
Why does anyone want to see Microsoft go down the tubes?
Sure, they have been overcharging us for their OS and office software for years, but it isn't like the money didn't go to good use. After all, most of the features that we see in OpenOffice and other useful apps for Linux came from ideas that were original or at least perfected (I use the term loosely here) in MS apps.
Sure, I love the GNU project, Linux, and OSS in general, but would we even have a target to hit with our free software if we didn't have a company like Microsoft to chase after?
I hate to see the mob mentality take over with this 'Linux vs. Windows' stuff rather than contemplate what a collapse of Microsoft would really mean to us (as developers, users, etc.)
Ah, yes...
Masterfully done. I didn't think of the expandability aspect:)
Why didn't you just say so, with a disclaimer or something: Disclaimer This code has been written with many many things in mind, more than you could ever think of. So don't make fun of it.
The Commodore One computer is a 2002 enhanced adaptation of the Commodore 64
-the most sold of any computer model (Guiness book of World Records) While
retaining almost all of the original's capabilities the Commodore One adds modern
features, interfacing and capabilities and fills a sorely needed gap in the hobbyist
computer market.
The estimated price will be only $200 USD.
(user will need to supply an ATX style case, ATX power supply, drive(s), PS/2
keyboard, mouse and SVGA capable monitor.)
Proof positive that hot chix love C64...
(and guys with mohawks and stuff)
U.S. may suffer.. Citizens will survive..
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Here is the scenario...
1) U.S. workers get paid more than than peers in other countries.
2) U.S. companies want to get more for their payroll dollar.
3) U.S. companies open up branch offices for Engineering in India (for example) to enhance profits.
4) U.S. engineers get laid-off because they are too expensive.
5) U.S. engineer goes to India to get a job.
Mathematics is universal, and English is (almost) the standard language of Engineering and Mathematics. So as long as U.S. engineers are willing to adapt to circumstances, who cares whether the U.S. itself changes. The U.S. is only as valuable as the people in it.
After all, did anyone really ever expect this glut of prosperity to last forever?
I can't wait for this technology to become sufficiently miniaturized that you can have it fitted internally...
Me too!
But forget the snow. I am tired of stopping my car to buy bottled water on the way home from work. Just open the Nalgene, kill two birds with one stone:)
Sun seems to be a company with an identity crisis. Are they a hardware company that dabbles in software? Are they a software company who dabbles in hardware?
Either way, they are looking at a bleak future considering the proliferation of Linux, and the availability of cheap, relatively high performance x686 hardware.
If Sun is a software company, they are probably not comfortable with the fact that Solaris, recently the 'standard' OS for low-end scientific/technical computing (at least in the semiconductor industry) is being passed over in favor of the cheaper (faster) alternative Linux.
If Sun is a hardware company, they should be worried. The semiconductor company I work for, which previously used Sun machines exclusively, has found that a dual XEON running Linux outperforms the new SunBlades it owns. The blades cost about 4-5 times more than the XEON systems, and have about half the speed for our applications.
I am not surprized if Sun is starting to feel that it has to protect itself.
How does this sort of thing happen?
Don't the projects use some type of revision control so they can tell who checked things in?
I hope no intruder is putting Trojan horses into my Verilog RTL at work!
No patches for silicon.
I have a friend that works for a radio station near where I live. She is a DJ. She has explained to me on several different occasions that the record companies have liasons which pay the station to put certain songs on the air (this was called payola in back when there was no liason). The idea is that the record companies get advertising for their albums, with the assumption that people will buy them.
Why is on-air broacasting payed to play songs when wired broadcasters are forced to pay to play?
It seems to me that the same advertisement idea works for both.
Sorry:)
I am consistent, however (consistently bad).
I just hope my spelling wasn't too distracting from the thought behind the post. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
From the Article: "I don't have a problem with commercial versions of Linux (Slackware is one, after all). My main concern is that everyone plays by the rules, and I've heard about things (like binary only releases and beta testers forced to sign non-disclosure agreements) that just don't seem compatible with the GNU General Public License. Hopefully the Free Software Foundation is keeping a close eye on the situation."
I hear many fl4mz0rs spouting off about how this distro 'blows' and this other one '0wnz0rz', etc. And many times their beef with the distrobutions is that they cater to the mainstream (Windows?) users, rather than to the old-school-bloatless-speedfreak user.
I just want to clear this up for any fl4mz0rz listening. GNU/Linux will not ever be ruined by any company who releases a distrobution. Anyone can make a linux distrobution, and because of this, if you ever see that all the distrobutions of linux are heading down the road to Redmond, you can learn (now thats a novel idea) how to make your own (if it's important enough to you). The atrocities mentioned abover are not good practice for companies, but do not hurt the GNU/Linux community very much because educated users will not support companies who do them.
This is just one way to try to circumvent 'authorities' from interfering with piracy. There are undoubtedly many, many more, most have probably not been thought of yet, due to the lack of necessity.
But, doesn't it seem that the the groups that are making such a big deal about piracy are spreading themselves too thin? The fact that they are chasing down individual users (see RAII v. Verizon) along with the big-time pirates just means that they cannot really concentrate on either. It seems to me that trying to stop the individual user and the pirate only means they will fail (in general) at doing either.
(Of course, going after the individual user is most likely a scare tactic to stop the faint of heart users from copying.)
"There are myriad competing, mutually incompatible yet separately inadequate office suites (Star Office, KOffice, Applix,...), desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, CDE, UDE, ROX,...), and X servers (XFree86, MetroX, XiG). We can't even decide on a printing system!"
I am not so sure that a standard is what 'we' need. One of the great things about the free software movement is that anyone can 'steal' others' good ideas and ditch the bad ones. If there were really an undisputed BEST (much like XFree86) then most people would use it. Also, who would feel the need to start a 'competing' project if there were already a perfect program out there.
I won't complain that we don't have an MS Office yet. At least someone hasn't decided that we need a stupid paper clip to take over the lower right hand corner of our word processor.
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I am unsure that this is a good thing. I think you all should be a little skeptical too.
Why does anyone want to see Microsoft go down the tubes?
Sure, they have been overcharging us for their OS and office software for years, but it isn't like the money didn't go to good use. After all, most of the features that we see in OpenOffice and other useful apps for Linux came from ideas that were original or at least perfected (I use the term loosely here) in MS apps.
Sure, I love the GNU project, Linux, and OSS in general, but would we even have a target to hit with our free software if we didn't have a company like Microsoft to chase after?
I hate to see the mob mentality take over with this 'Linux vs. Windows' stuff rather than contemplate what a collapse of Microsoft would really mean to us (as developers, users, etc.)
Ah, yes... Masterfully done. I didn't think of the expandability aspect :)
Why didn't you just say so, with a disclaimer or something:
Disclaimer
This code has been written with many many things in mind, more than you could ever think of. So don't make fun of it.
At least they were good sources.. up to about 4:40pm today.
I know I'm nit-picking... but if you are going to post your code all over the Internet, you should give it a twice-over.
:(
You hate me now don't you?
Sigh that's what I thought
Don't take part in a tainting of a perfectly illegal p2p network. :)
FROM WEBSITE
What it is:
The Commodore One computer is a 2002 enhanced adaptation of the Commodore 64 -the most sold of any computer model (Guiness book of World Records)
While retaining almost all of the original's capabilities the Commodore One adds modern features, interfacing and capabilities and fills a sorely needed gap in the hobbyist computer market.
The estimated price will be only $200 USD.
(user will need to supply an ATX style case, ATX power supply, drive(s), PS/2 keyboard, mouse and SVGA capable monitor.)
Look at the pictures section !!
Proof positive that hot chix love C64... (and guys with mohawks and stuff)
Here is the scenario...
1) U.S. workers get paid more than than peers in other countries.
2) U.S. companies want to get more for their payroll dollar.
3) U.S. companies open up branch offices for Engineering in India (for example) to enhance profits.
4) U.S. engineers get laid-off because they are too expensive.
5) U.S. engineer goes to India to get a job.
Mathematics is universal, and English is (almost) the standard language of Engineering and Mathematics. So as long as U.S. engineers are willing to adapt to circumstances, who cares whether the U.S. itself changes. The U.S. is only as valuable as the people in it.
After all, did anyone really ever expect this glut of prosperity to last forever?
Why would anyone name it NEWater?
sounds too much like SEW(at)ER
(pronounced soo-otter)
Also, wouldn't OLDwater be more appropriate?
Just wonderin' ; )
I can't wait for this technology to become sufficiently miniaturized that you can have it fitted internally...
:)
Me too!
But forget the snow. I am tired of stopping my car to buy bottled water on the way home from work.
Just open the Nalgene, kill two birds with one stone
Sun seems to be a company with an identity crisis. Are they a hardware company that dabbles in software? Are they a software company who dabbles in hardware?
Either way, they are looking at a bleak future considering the proliferation of Linux, and the availability of cheap, relatively high performance x686 hardware.
If Sun is a software company, they are probably not comfortable with the fact that Solaris, recently the 'standard' OS for low-end scientific/technical computing (at least in the semiconductor industry) is being passed over in favor of the cheaper (faster) alternative Linux.
If Sun is a hardware company, they should be worried. The semiconductor company I work for, which previously used Sun machines exclusively, has found that a dual XEON running Linux outperforms the new SunBlades it owns. The blades cost about 4-5 times more than the XEON systems, and have about half the speed for our applications.
I am not surprized if Sun is starting to feel that it has to protect itself.
Linux wouldn't become any less of what it is if everyone decided suddenly that it was crap.
Of course, you wouldn't be able to swap OpenOffice docs with all of your friends, but that wouldn't be much different than today.
I like the recursive joke :)
You must work for the GNU project.
How long does it take for all the trojan infested code to propagate out of use?
I wonder how many admins download/install packages, go on vacation (missing all the warnings), and simply never hear of the problem.
I think it would be interesting to see some statistics on this topic.
How does this sort of thing happen? Don't the projects use some type of revision control so they can tell who checked things in? I hope no intruder is putting Trojan horses into my Verilog RTL at work! No patches for silicon.
I have a friend that works for a radio station near where I live. She is a DJ. She has explained to me on several different occasions that the record companies have liasons which pay the station to put certain songs on the air (this was called payola in back when there was no liason). The idea is that the record companies get advertising for their albums, with the assumption that people will buy them.
Why is on-air broacasting payed to play songs when wired broadcasters are forced to pay to play?
It seems to me that the same advertisement idea works for both.
Sorry :)
I am consistent, however (consistently bad).
I just hope my spelling wasn't too distracting from the thought behind the post. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
From the Article: "I don't have a problem with commercial versions of Linux (Slackware is one, after all). My main concern is that everyone plays by the rules, and I've heard about things (like binary only releases and beta testers forced to sign non-disclosure agreements) that just don't seem compatible with the GNU General Public License. Hopefully the Free Software Foundation is keeping a close eye on the situation."
I hear many fl4mz0rs spouting off about how this distro 'blows' and this other one '0wnz0rz', etc. And many times their beef with the distrobutions is that they cater to the mainstream (Windows?) users, rather than to the old-school-bloatless-speedfreak user.
I just want to clear this up for any fl4mz0rz listening. GNU/Linux will not ever be ruined by any company who releases a distrobution.
Anyone can make a linux distrobution, and because of this, if you ever see that all the distrobutions of linux are heading down the road to Redmond, you can learn (now thats a novel idea) how to make your own (if it's important enough to you). The atrocities mentioned abover are not good practice for companies, but do not hurt the GNU/Linux community very much because educated users will not support companies who do them.
This is just one way to try to circumvent 'authorities' from interfering with piracy. There are undoubtedly many, many more, most have probably not been thought of yet, due to the lack of necessity. But, doesn't it seem that the the groups that are making such a big deal about piracy are spreading themselves too thin? The fact that they are chasing down individual users (see RAII v. Verizon) along with the big-time pirates just means that they cannot really concentrate on either. It seems to me that trying to stop the individual user and the pirate only means they will fail (in general) at doing either. (Of course, going after the individual user is most likely a scare tactic to stop the faint of heart users from copying.)
"There are myriad competing, mutually incompatible yet separately inadequate office suites (Star Office, KOffice, Applix,...), desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, CDE, UDE, ROX,...), and X servers (XFree86, MetroX, XiG). We can't even decide on a printing system!" I am not so sure that a standard is what 'we' need. One of the great things about the free software movement is that anyone can 'steal' others' good ideas and ditch the bad ones. If there were really an undisputed BEST (much like XFree86) then most people would use it. Also, who would feel the need to start a 'competing' project if there were already a perfect program out there. I won't complain that we don't have an MS Office yet. At least someone hasn't decided that we need a stupid paper clip to take over the lower right hand corner of our word processor.