I have to agree here. PARC is responsible for more innovative ideas, for the tech industry. than almost any other entity; they have been BLATANTLY ripped off.
I don't blame them for trying to defend their patent; now if they'll only accept a reasonable license fee that wont bankrupt the licensee then all should be well.
I was speaking of the *part* of AOL Time Warner that is "AOL". That part stands to wither quite rapidly if Microsoft wants them to.
I figure that the Netscape investment was a kind of "you screw me I'll screw you" type of thing against Microsoft. Microsoft originally jumped ahead of Netscape, in marketshare, because AOL jumped in bed with Microsoft - by adopting Internet Explorer as it's browser. Now AOL is holding a new card by slyly suggesting that they'll use Netscape as their browser if Microsoft trys anything. Such a move would shuffle the numbers of browser users nicely in Netscape's favor.
Microsoft is now playing footsie with the Broadband business in a play against AOL. If Microsoft gets their hands on the infrastructure then AOL is a dead plucked chicken and they know it.
Remember, there can be only one. What will happen to UNIX if Microsoft slowly takes over the internet? I hope to GOD I don't have to see it happen.
Well, I'm not a guy to go around rooting for a monopoly but, it would've been interesting to see a monopolist AT&T going up against a monopolist Microsoft - seeing as Microsoft's future seems to be.NET.
Maybe in an alternate universe... maybe IBM would've chosen CP/M, maybe IBM would've kept a tighter reign on their OS/2 contractor (Microsoft) and not let them release a home version - Windows, maybe AT&T would've offered a bit more for @HOME, maybe AL GORE would've been president (hic) and Microsoft would probably not have been slapped on the wrist and let off so easily.
AOL has been screwed since day one. They have painted themselves into a very colorful corner and can't get out. Think about this: They're whole business is based on software that is tied to their executioner - Microsoft.
They never learn! You sleep with Microsoft, you get burned. For example: Spyglass, Sybase, Novell, Citrix, Norton, and now probably AOL. Norton is still around but...
offered a little more for @HOME. If they had, they'd probably be solidly on top of the Broadband heap (as well as solidly in debt).
Refer to this article for more info.
Aren't human eyes limited to seeing color of no greater quality than 24bit color? 64bits seems to be quite a bit of overkill.
The site you referred to said that 64bit color helps out in rendering of shades and complex images in non-realtime for movies and such. I guess I can accept that - but for video cards on PC's, I feel it is just too much cost and complexity for the minimal gains in quality.
>But I think video card stop evolving when they
>reach realtime reallife quality.
Yeah, I agree with you. They (the card makers) need to work on optimising cards to remove inefficiencies. For example: The addition of hardware shaders and texturers like in the GF3 series is a major step ahead in card evolution. The optimisations in the Kyro II cards that don't draw or texture unseen triangles is another example.
Maybe after they have hit the wall on how much they can improve 3D graphics on a 2D surface, they will begin to put more research into a more 3D display mechanism. Comfortable, affordable, easy-to-use, reliable and functional 3D glasses or headsets - with spatial feedback and stereo sound. WOHOO!
* Microsoft's punishment devolves to giving away software that costs them little or nothing to produce... and is likely to build it's market share (not to mention killing any recourse the complaintants may have coming to them.)
* Microsoft essentially gets to pick the people who watchdog them. -- Ain't this a crock of...
* A public forum gathering information about and likely to have a strongly worded and televised position on the antitrust decision - has been effectively shutdown because one senator wanted to be somewhere else at the time?!
Jeezus Kkkkrist! What the heck is going on!? I'll tell you what *I* think... we're getting screwed royally!
Reminds me of the political cartoons I saw while studying U.S. History. The big trusts having powerful connections in government... closing out the voice of the people. I believe the solution was the Sherman Antitrust Act.
don't secure the wire to the studs in the wall. That way whenever fiber is more prevalent, you can use the Cat5 to pull the fiber down into the wall from the attic.
Pull the Cat 5 to a central place down inside your house - locate your router/hub there - maybe even your home server.
Think about providing excellent grounding and maybe even heatsink capability to your server closet. Run a separate breakered power to the server closet.
Run coaxial cable for TV - double shielded - to each room and have it go either to the attic for split or better yet have them terminate at the power mast outside the house - leave plenty of extra cable.
Wire your house for security prior to putting in the insulation - insulation and sheetrock guys just love to cut wires that are in their way.:/
Re:Purely defensive??????? I dont think so....
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Who says you gotta penetrate the armor to take out a tank? All you gotta do is render it immobile (take out the tracks) and it's effectively dead.
From a purely intrinsic point of view, I agree with you StaticEngine. From a purely practical point of view, I couldn't disagree more.
Let me explain myself. I have been the type of programmer you speak of. I have written copiously commented code. I have properly formatted my code and used standardized function names and such. After all, I was taught in college to write and comment my code so that any programmer could walk in off the street and understand it easily; that made it easy to replace me and I was.
It seems that when you follow good programming practice, you end up destroying your job security; and as silly as it sounds... it appears to be sooth.
Jaded in a realistic world.
I disagree. Most stories, myths, legends have at least SOME basis in fact.
Take for instance the Minotaur. People in Athens were conquered by the Minoans and forced to surrender young people for sacrifice. They were to fight the Minotaur - if they survived then they might return home.
The reality as we have ascertained it is... these young people were used as performers in a bull fighting ceremony where they leapt over the bull by placing hands on the bull's head and flipping over. Also, the maze of passages which we think is the labyrinth has been found.
The Homeric epics - The Troad and the Troadians. Troy has been found. We believe we have found Charybdis (sp?). We have found a civilization that follows closely on the culture that launched a thousand ships - Mycenae, Sparta, Athens, Achaia.
As for Atlantis, the legend was said to be ancient in the time of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. No doubt the story has been embellished and altered in the retelling. You can bet there is some truth in there somewhere.
I've wondered that m'self. Seems Microsoft and Apple are both trying to identify themselves with the letter X. I can understand Apple beings as it is their 10'th iteration of OS but Microsoft X-Box? Hmm...
And another thing, I've noticed alot of references and appearances of penguins lately. Many of them have nothing to do with Linux but... there sure are alot of penguins in the media these days.
I agree with this post. If you assert that the poster's own their comments then let it be your policy theme. You own the website so you have authority on what SITS on your website. Their rights end where yours begin.
If users say they wish to remove their comments from your website then remove them... if they want their comments delivered to them then charge them.
Quotes of the user's comments should be considered as being the property of the of the person incorporating the quote into their post; the original poster having given the person quoting the original poster the rights to quote by virtue of the fact that they posted in your forum.
Make sure you post the Terms and Conditions (or whatever you want to call them) for all to see prior to making decisions based on those T&C's. Make sure the users know that the Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice. etc... etc... etc...
I hate RedTape(tm) but in a litigious (sp?) world, how can you get around it?
I agree with most of what you're saying... you don't see to many xmkmf situations anymore AND autoconf seems to only test to see if there *IS* a library and not what version - at least in the failied autoconf builds I've tried. I'm going to eventually need to study the ins-and-outs of autoconf for my own projects.
Also, I have manually upgraded many librarys; except when I'm told I must do gcc I balk. At that point, I download the newest version of RedHat and it's associated errata and go to work heh.
I have to say this about configure/autoconf, 99 times out of 100 everything works perfectly. I feel a tremendous weight lifted from my shoulders when I see the configure script in the output of my tar -zxvf command.
I'll even go for xmkmf before resorting to editing Makefiles by hand ala xanim. I've done editing of Makefiles but... a trip to the dentist is easy as pie in comparison.
While the idea is workable in a small subset of data, what about other sensitive data that is found in the public domain? Will Google and other search engines be responsible for hiding that too? Where does it end?
The burden of hiding information, that should *NOT* be there in the first place, should rest on the entity that posted the information publicly - the web-site.
Once information is *Published* can it be *UnPublished*?
Sentry21 wrote:
> It's odd, you know. I'm used to software being
> released AFTER it's been tested, not before. In
> fact, in my experience, that's been the case.
Sentry21... you ARE the tester. This is Open-Software remember? The users report back to the maintainer their problems - those problems then receive attention in the form of patches or new versions etc... etc... etc...
If you don't want to be part of the testing process then hang back a few kernel revisions and choose one that didn't have an major issues. Such is what the Distribution maintainers do.
Point #1: We have had a "bloody problem" with something that was declared stable. If it's declared stable then it should not have a bunch of new bells and whistles put in it to fail. New bells and whistles should be put in the next point release.
Point #2: If you rush out and get the "latest thing" and "roll-your-own" then you need to expect running into instability even in software declared stable.
I understand that Linus is used to working on development kernels. As such, he is used to working on stuff that isn't necessarily stable yet. Linus has been updating the "stable" tree up to and including 2.4.15 - I consider such kernels to be post 2.3.x kernels - with a foot still in the development tree. After all, he (Linus) hadn't yet turned the tree over to official maintainers so some addition tweaking should've been expected. Maybe the 2.4.x kernel went a little too far into the stable kernel revision with major development still going on... should he have waited in releasing 2.4 and kept it as 2.3? It's open to debate. All I know is that I'm using 2.4.14 and I'm damn happy with it.
I'll also put in my vote on the debate of should a stable kernel get new major changes in systems. My vote is NO - it should only get tested bug-fixes for existing functionality - no matter who does the patching and maintaining. It only good engineering practice... isn't that what we're all about?
I know that DJGPP is a mighty fine way of getting GNU stuff onto Windows systems and back for portability. Just avoid using any of the MS API's and the MSFC code.
I *think* that most of the programs developed for GNU environments will compile correctly with DJGPP.
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I'll back this one up! Wolfenstein rox majorly. Wasted alot of time with Wolf.
I have to agree here. PARC is responsible for more innovative ideas, for the tech industry. than almost any other entity; they have been BLATANTLY ripped off.
I don't blame them for trying to defend their patent; now if they'll only accept a reasonable license fee that wont bankrupt the licensee then all should be well.
Ouch! Watch that zapper buddy.
I was speaking of the *part* of AOL Time Warner that is "AOL". That part stands to wither quite rapidly if Microsoft wants them to.
I figure that the Netscape investment was a kind of "you screw me I'll screw you" type of thing against Microsoft. Microsoft originally jumped ahead of Netscape, in marketshare, because AOL jumped in bed with Microsoft - by adopting Internet Explorer as it's browser. Now AOL is holding a new card by slyly suggesting that they'll use Netscape as their browser if Microsoft trys anything. Such a move would shuffle the numbers of browser users nicely in Netscape's favor.
Microsoft is now playing footsie with the Broadband business in a play against AOL. If Microsoft gets their hands on the infrastructure then AOL is a dead plucked chicken and they know it.
Remember, there can be only one. What will happen to UNIX if Microsoft slowly takes over the internet? I hope to GOD I don't have to see it happen.
Well, I'm not a guy to go around rooting for a monopoly but, it would've been interesting to see a monopolist AT&T going up against a monopolist Microsoft - seeing as Microsoft's future seems to be .NET.
Maybe in an alternate universe... maybe IBM would've chosen CP/M, maybe IBM would've kept a tighter reign on their OS/2 contractor (Microsoft) and not let them release a home version - Windows, maybe AT&T would've offered a bit more for @HOME, maybe AL GORE would've been president (hic) and Microsoft would probably not have been slapped on the wrist and let off so easily.
I dunno... maybe.
AOL has been screwed since day one. They have painted themselves into a very colorful corner and can't get out. Think about this: They're whole business is based on software that is tied to their executioner - Microsoft.
They never learn! You sleep with Microsoft, you get burned. For example: Spyglass, Sybase, Novell, Citrix, Norton, and now probably AOL. Norton is still around but...
How many of you remember these days?
offered a little more for @HOME. If they had, they'd probably be solidly on top of the Broadband heap (as well as solidly in debt). Refer to this article for more info.
Aren't human eyes limited to seeing color of no greater quality than 24bit color? 64bits seems to be quite a bit of overkill.
The site you referred to said that 64bit color helps out in rendering of shades and complex images in non-realtime for movies and such. I guess I can accept that - but for video cards on PC's, I feel it is just too much cost and complexity for the minimal gains in quality.
>But I think video card stop evolving when they
>reach realtime reallife quality.
Yeah, I agree with you. They (the card makers) need to work on optimising cards to remove inefficiencies. For example: The addition of hardware shaders and texturers like in the GF3 series is a major step ahead in card evolution. The optimisations in the Kyro II cards that don't draw or texture unseen triangles is another example.
Maybe after they have hit the wall on how much they can improve 3D graphics on a 2D surface, they will begin to put more research into a more 3D display mechanism. Comfortable, affordable, easy-to-use, reliable and functional 3D glasses or headsets - with spatial feedback and stereo sound. WOHOO!
* Microsoft's punishment devolves to giving away software that costs them little or nothing to produce... and is likely to build it's market share (not to mention killing any recourse the complaintants may have coming to them.)
* Microsoft essentially gets to pick the people who watchdog them. -- Ain't this a crock of...
* A public forum gathering information about and likely to have a strongly worded and televised position on the antitrust decision - has been effectively shutdown because one senator wanted to be somewhere else at the time?!
Jeezus Kkkkrist! What the heck is going on!? I'll tell you what *I* think... we're getting screwed royally!
Reminds me of the political cartoons I saw while studying U.S. History. The big trusts having powerful connections in government... closing out the voice of the people. I believe the solution was the Sherman Antitrust Act.
don't secure the wire to the studs in the wall. That way whenever fiber is more prevalent, you can use the Cat5 to pull the fiber down into the wall from the attic.
:/
Pull the Cat 5 to a central place down inside your house - locate your router/hub there - maybe even your home server.
Think about providing excellent grounding and maybe even heatsink capability to your server closet. Run a separate breakered power to the server closet.
Run coaxial cable for TV - double shielded - to each room and have it go either to the attic for split or better yet have them terminate at the power mast outside the house - leave plenty of extra cable.
Wire your house for security prior to putting in the insulation - insulation and sheetrock guys just love to cut wires that are in their way.
Who says you gotta penetrate the armor to take out a tank? All you gotta do is render it immobile (take out the tracks) and it's effectively dead.
From a purely intrinsic point of view, I agree with you StaticEngine. From a purely practical point of view, I couldn't disagree more.
Let me explain myself. I have been the type of programmer you speak of. I have written copiously commented code. I have properly formatted my code and used standardized function names and such. After all, I was taught in college to write and comment my code so that any programmer could walk in off the street and understand it easily; that made it easy to replace me and I was.
It seems that when you follow good programming practice, you end up destroying your job security; and as silly as it sounds... it appears to be sooth.
Jaded in a realistic world.
Maybe now, we'll get some accurate data for games like Age of Empires, Empire Earth and others.
I disagree. Most stories, myths, legends have at least SOME basis in fact.
Take for instance the Minotaur. People in Athens were conquered by the Minoans and forced to surrender young people for sacrifice. They were to fight the Minotaur - if they survived then they might return home.
The reality as we have ascertained it is... these young people were used as performers in a bull fighting ceremony where they leapt over the bull by placing hands on the bull's head and flipping over. Also, the maze of passages which we think is the labyrinth has been found.
The Homeric epics - The Troad and the Troadians. Troy has been found. We believe we have found Charybdis (sp?). We have found a civilization that follows closely on the culture that launched a thousand ships - Mycenae, Sparta, Athens, Achaia.
As for Atlantis, the legend was said to be ancient in the time of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. No doubt the story has been embellished and altered in the retelling. You can bet there is some truth in there somewhere.
>Has everyone jumped on the 'X' bandwagon now
I've wondered that m'self. Seems Microsoft and Apple are both trying to identify themselves with the letter X. I can understand Apple beings as it is their 10'th iteration of OS but Microsoft X-Box? Hmm...
And another thing, I've noticed alot of references and appearances of penguins lately. Many of them have nothing to do with Linux but... there sure are alot of penguins in the media these days.
I agree with this post. If you assert that the poster's own their comments then let it be your policy theme. You own the website so you have authority on what SITS on your website. Their rights end where yours begin.
If users say they wish to remove their comments from your website then remove them... if they want their comments delivered to them then charge them.
Quotes of the user's comments should be considered as being the property of the of the person incorporating the quote into their post; the original poster having given the person quoting the original poster the rights to quote by virtue of the fact that they posted in your forum.
Make sure you post the Terms and Conditions (or whatever you want to call them) for all to see prior to making decisions based on those T&C's. Make sure the users know that the Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice. etc... etc... etc...
I hate RedTape(tm) but in a litigious (sp?) world, how can you get around it?
Does this mean that software is getting more tangible as in assets? Assets that are saleable?
By the way, I thought it funny that information on this decision against Adobe was available in PDF Format... heh.
I agree with most of what you're saying... you don't see to many xmkmf situations anymore AND autoconf seems to only test to see if there *IS* a library and not what version - at least in the failied autoconf builds I've tried. I'm going to eventually need to study the ins-and-outs of autoconf for my own projects.
Also, I have manually upgraded many librarys; except when I'm told I must do gcc I balk. At that point, I download the newest version of RedHat and it's associated errata and go to work heh.
I have to say this about configure/autoconf, 99 times out of 100 everything works perfectly. I feel a tremendous weight lifted from my shoulders when I see the configure script in the output of my tar -zxvf command.
I'll even go for xmkmf before resorting to editing Makefiles by hand ala xanim. I've done editing of Makefiles but... a trip to the dentist is easy as pie in comparison.
let them negotiate a separate license contract with you.
I'm sure that will clear up any questions, ambiguity or doubt.
While the idea is workable in a small subset of data, what about other sensitive data that is found in the public domain? Will Google and other search engines be responsible for hiding that too? Where does it end?
The burden of hiding information, that should *NOT* be there in the first place, should rest on the entity that posted the information publicly - the web-site.
Once information is *Published* can it be *UnPublished*?
Sentry21 wrote:
> It's odd, you know. I'm used to software being
> released AFTER it's been tested, not before. In
> fact, in my experience, that's been the case.
Sentry21... you ARE the tester. This is Open-Software remember? The users report back to the maintainer their problems - those problems then receive attention in the form of patches or new versions etc... etc... etc...
If you don't want to be part of the testing process then hang back a few kernel revisions and choose one that didn't have an major issues. Such is what the Distribution maintainers do.
I think you both have a point.
Point #1: We have had a "bloody problem" with something that was declared stable. If it's declared stable then it should not have a bunch of new bells and whistles put in it to fail. New bells and whistles should be put in the next point release.
Point #2: If you rush out and get the "latest thing" and "roll-your-own" then you need to expect running into instability even in software declared stable.
I understand that Linus is used to working on development kernels. As such, he is used to working on stuff that isn't necessarily stable yet. Linus has been updating the "stable" tree up to and including 2.4.15 - I consider such kernels to be post 2.3.x kernels - with a foot still in the development tree. After all, he (Linus) hadn't yet turned the tree over to official maintainers so some addition tweaking should've been expected. Maybe the 2.4.x kernel went a little too far into the stable kernel revision with major development still going on... should he have waited in releasing 2.4 and kept it as 2.3? It's open to debate. All I know is that I'm using 2.4.14 and I'm damn happy with it.
I'll also put in my vote on the debate of should a stable kernel get new major changes in systems. My vote is NO - it should only get tested bug-fixes for existing functionality - no matter who does the patching and maintaining. It only good engineering practice... isn't that what we're all about?
Yeah, I just looked at your Page Source... you did a fine job of cleaning it up.... Bravo! Your page is indeed very readable and well laid out.
Yeah, but problem with Word97 conversion to HTML is that the HTML is very dirty, broken and designed to make Netscape unhappy.
It's still a step up from Word format though...
I know that DJGPP is a mighty fine way of getting GNU stuff onto Windows systems and back for portability. Just avoid using any of the MS API's and the MSFC code.
I *think* that most of the programs developed for GNU environments will compile correctly with DJGPP.
They even include a Borland style IDE with DJGPP.