To save you reading the lengthy PDF, here are some of the major similarities noted:
'int main ()' appears repeatedly in both UNIX System V and Linux '#include ' is also obvious stealing of code, appearing in many Linux source files Furthermore, 'for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_LENGTH; i++)' style loops are obviously copied by IBM developers intimately familiar with the original implementations.
yahoo, excite and hotbot were called search engines?
And Amazon sold books, and did it well?
Then somebody said "Portals" and they became "portals".
Then somebody said "Auction" and they all followed e-bay.
Then somebody said "e-commerce" and they all started selling everything.
And books became Amazon's sideline to their patents on everything but the color of money. And their site became a Navigational Nightmare(TM) (patent pending).
Now everybody wants to be a search engine again.
The reason Google is succesful is because it does it gives people the information they want, and stays the hell out of their way.
It seems strange that Objective-C has failed to attract the popularity of C++, given that it seems (to me at least) by far the more elegant of the two. It implements object-oriented programming in a much cleaner way than C++, and still loses none of the power of C.
What Java should have been, really
A certain amount of pragmatism has to prevail here -- were binary modules disallowed, the phrase 'shoot yourself in the foot' jumps to mind.
Linux is probably better off with them, as it lowers the entry barrier to companys wishing to contribute. And that's rarely a bad thing.
Since this article is so popular, here's the text in case of slashdotting:
Thanks to GameInfoWire for the press release showing the Entertainment Software Rating Board's attempts to deflect recent criticism by publishing a new survey claiming that "...parents overwhelmingly approve of the ratings assigned to computer and video games." Following some notable critiques of the ESRB ratings, particularly in relation to the release of gory stealth action title Manhunt, an independent ESRB-commissioned study "...showed 400 randomly selected parents footage from popular computer and video games... an overwhelming majority of the time (84%), parents agreed with the ESRB ratings [for those games] or thought the ratings were too strict."
Sethb writes "It looks like Best Buy didn't learn from Wal-Mart last year, and has now invoked the DMCA in order to prevent FatWallet from posting information about what items they will have on sale the day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully FatWallet will stand up for themselves again, and Best Buy will be laughed out of court."
Article text in case of slashdotting:
I tried a computer-based setup and found that my wife and younger children had trouble figuring it all out. At that point I decided I needed to wait for a hardware-based solution that would work well without requiring a clunky computer near the TV.
Enter the Oritron
Having decided that nothing was available yet, you can imagine my excitement when I saw a networked DVD player in early October. This was the Oritron NPD3117 Networked DVD Player, also known as their On Media DVD player. This unit plays many audio and video formats -- even photo/JPEG discs. Where it really shines, though, is in its ability to play streaming content over the local network. It can switch between DVD and network content with the click of a button, and is very flexible in supported formats.
What does it do?
But what can this device actually play? Through the disc slot it plays DVD/+-R/+RW, audio CD/-R/-RW, VCD, SVCD, and CDs full of JPEG images or MP3/WMA music. Over the network, it plays MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, JPEG/TIFF/BMP, MP3/WMA, and most AVI files (DivX and XviD for starters). Yes, that's right, it plays DivX over the network! You may ask why it plays AVI-based files only over the network. This is due to the interesting way that the device handles video: any format that is not handled natively is transcoded on the fly on the PC-side. This is why there is a system requirement of 1.2GHz for the PC (though one of my On Media server boxes runs just fine with a 1GHz Athlon). When an AVI file is selected, it converts it to television resolution on-the-fly. No need to pre-convert your files. This means you can watch full-quality on your laptop and desktop (with the higher monitor resolutions), and TV-quality through the unit from the same file. It will not stream DVD's (encrypted or not). It also won't stream a VCD/SVCD per se, but will stream the actual MPEG streams that are encoded for VCD/SVCD when named properly. No proprietary video formats such as Real, QuickTime, or Windows Media Video will play. I do wonder though, if someone were to write appropriate AVI-style codecs for them, if it could be managed somehow...
The player's interface is mostly well done. I have some complaints that I'll get to in a moment, but overall it works well. Upon first turning on the unit, the player's LED display greets you with "Hello" while the TV shows the logo. It then checks for a DVD in the drive and if present immediately starts to load it. At that point (or if there is no DVD) you can press the On Media button on the remote to switch to network content. (Actually you must wait for this sequence to complete. You can't turn it on and right away press On Media.) The LED display switches to "Online," and lets you browse servers. The next time you switch to On Media mode it will go straight to the last server selected. Going back to the server list is quick and easy. Once a server is chosen it provides options for Pictures, Video, or Music. Selecting one (with the arrows and OK button on the remote) provides you with options for Folders, Playlist, or All. "Folders" shows you all folders on the shared PC. My complaint here is that it flattens them out. All folders appear at root level, which will affect how you name them. "Playlist," of course, lets you select pre-made playlists of files, and "All" shows a single flattened list of all files contained on the server for the chosen media type. Selecting a file starts the media playing.
Music plays, without any fancy visualizations, right on the menu screen. The bottom shows the title information, but you can still continue navigating to other media while it plays. MP3 music can play during a photo slideshow (this is not true of WMA however). Video plays full-screen with media information during the first few seconds along the bottom, or when needed using the Display button. Forward/Reverse works in ten-second intervals (which is also true of music), and no DVD-style slow-mo or zoom options are available. The quality is great, though. Transcoded DivX files
Personal websites are a good idea, in theory -- but, in practice, there are far too many useless, egotistical homepages. That was maybe acceptable in the infancy of the internet, but people are getting smarter now. Blogs are better because they give what people care about -- your opinions and knowledge -- without the self-advertising.
If you look at a comparison of SCO and LNUX (ie Va Software) stock on the Nasdaq, you'll see their trends have been very similar. Sure you'd expect the opposite?
It's a pity that more people don't get to view these phenomena, because of modern light pollution. How many people are losing awe-inspiring sights, such as this and the milky-way?
Well duh. It's obviously President Bush's fault. Our increased reliance on fossil-fuels has always been a major problem. And then he goes and abandons Kyoto. Not to mention his lack of activity on curbing SUV growth. *sigh*. I'm just not surprised that this didn't happen sooner...
How is this remarkable? The NSA picks a proprietary solution where there is not even an Open-Source competitor. Surprise, surprise. I don't mean to troll -- but can somebody explain how this is interesting?
It seems that the tech industry is highly cyclical, and, once the current batch of geeks have innovated sufficiently to create marketable products, slowly business people will come to replace them
Once these products have run their course, and a recession kicks in, the shift happens the other way.
It's a fairly symbiotic relationship, I think, playing to each group's strengths. It's certainly worked for the past 40 years. Long may it continue
FreeBSD is going to die not because it's inherently worse than Linux, or anything like that, but because it is less popular than linux. Popularity is self-propagating, nowhere moreso than with computer software. It's a pity, but BSD is probably condemned to a slow death by stagnation.
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To save you reading the lengthy PDF, here are some of the major similarities noted:
'int main ()' appears repeatedly in both UNIX System V and Linux
'#include ' is also obvious stealing of code, appearing in many Linux source files
Furthermore, 'for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_LENGTH; i++)' style loops are obviously copied by IBM developers intimately familiar with the original implementations.
SCO's case is strong.
Counter Strike? Oh My God, people -- these people really are involved in terrorism!
Nice to know this war is now justified. I can just picture Colin Powell in the UN with another glitzy PowerPoint presentation showing these pictures.
yahoo, excite and hotbot were called search engines? And Amazon sold books, and did it well? Then somebody said "Portals" and they became "portals". Then somebody said "Auction" and they all followed e-bay. Then somebody said "e-commerce" and they all started selling everything. And books became Amazon's sideline to their patents on everything but the color of money. And their site became a Navigational Nightmare(TM) (patent pending). Now everybody wants to be a search engine again. The reason Google is succesful is because it does it gives people the information they want, and stays the hell out of their way.
There's this thing called "two-point-six" or something that Bill keeps ranting about... I dunno... maybe that's it
Never as good as TeX -- version numbers approach Pi. 3, 3.1, 3.14, and so on.
Would somebody care to explain who Henlein is, and why his book is on the front-page of slashdot.org?
It seems strange that Objective-C has failed to attract the popularity of C++, given that it seems (to me at least) by far the more elegant of the two. It implements object-oriented programming in a much cleaner way than C++, and still loses none of the power of C. What Java should have been, really
This post is a troll. Mod me down!
A certain amount of pragmatism has to prevail here -- were binary modules disallowed, the phrase 'shoot yourself in the foot' jumps to mind. Linux is probably better off with them, as it lowers the entry barrier to companys wishing to contribute. And that's rarely a bad thing.
Since this article is so popular, here's the text in case of slashdotting:
Thanks to GameInfoWire for the press release showing the Entertainment Software Rating Board's attempts to deflect recent criticism by publishing a new survey claiming that "...parents overwhelmingly approve of the ratings assigned to computer and video games." Following some notable critiques of the ESRB ratings, particularly in relation to the release of gory stealth action title Manhunt, an independent ESRB-commissioned study "...showed 400 randomly selected parents footage from popular computer and video games... an overwhelming majority of the time (84%), parents agreed with the ESRB ratings [for those games] or thought the ratings were too strict."
Linux is desitned to fail because it's created by a team of chinese hac... oh wait. Wrong thread.
*ahem*
BSD is dying!
Before to the KDE-Gnome era, any windowing manager would suit that spec. So it shouldn't be all that difficult to find something
Article in case of slashdotting:
Sethb writes "It looks like Best Buy didn't learn from Wal-Mart last year, and has now invoked the DMCA in order to prevent FatWallet from posting information about what items they will have on sale the day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully FatWallet will stand up for themselves again, and Best Buy will be laughed out of court."
Article text in case of slashdotting: I tried a computer-based setup and found that my wife and younger children had trouble figuring it all out. At that point I decided I needed to wait for a hardware-based solution that would work well without requiring a clunky computer near the TV. Enter the Oritron Having decided that nothing was available yet, you can imagine my excitement when I saw a networked DVD player in early October. This was the Oritron NPD3117 Networked DVD Player, also known as their On Media DVD player. This unit plays many audio and video formats -- even photo/JPEG discs. Where it really shines, though, is in its ability to play streaming content over the local network. It can switch between DVD and network content with the click of a button, and is very flexible in supported formats. What does it do? But what can this device actually play? Through the disc slot it plays DVD/+-R/+RW, audio CD/-R/-RW, VCD, SVCD, and CDs full of JPEG images or MP3/WMA music. Over the network, it plays MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, JPEG/TIFF/BMP, MP3/WMA, and most AVI files (DivX and XviD for starters). Yes, that's right, it plays DivX over the network! You may ask why it plays AVI-based files only over the network. This is due to the interesting way that the device handles video: any format that is not handled natively is transcoded on the fly on the PC-side. This is why there is a system requirement of 1.2GHz for the PC (though one of my On Media server boxes runs just fine with a 1GHz Athlon). When an AVI file is selected, it converts it to television resolution on-the-fly. No need to pre-convert your files. This means you can watch full-quality on your laptop and desktop (with the higher monitor resolutions), and TV-quality through the unit from the same file. It will not stream DVD's (encrypted or not). It also won't stream a VCD/SVCD per se, but will stream the actual MPEG streams that are encoded for VCD/SVCD when named properly. No proprietary video formats such as Real, QuickTime, or Windows Media Video will play. I do wonder though, if someone were to write appropriate AVI-style codecs for them, if it could be managed somehow ...
The player's interface is mostly well done. I have some complaints that I'll get to in a moment, but overall it works well. Upon first turning on the unit, the player's LED display greets you with "Hello" while the TV shows the logo. It then checks for a DVD in the drive and if present immediately starts to load it. At that point (or if there is no DVD) you can press the On Media button on the remote to switch to network content. (Actually you must wait for this sequence to complete. You can't turn it on and right away press On Media.) The LED display switches to "Online," and lets you browse servers. The next time you switch to On Media mode it will go straight to the last server selected. Going back to the server list is quick and easy. Once a server is chosen it provides options for Pictures, Video, or Music. Selecting one (with the arrows and OK button on the remote) provides you with options for Folders, Playlist, or All. "Folders" shows you all folders on the shared PC. My complaint here is that it flattens them out. All folders appear at root level, which will affect how you name them. "Playlist," of course, lets you select pre-made playlists of files, and "All" shows a single flattened list of all files contained on the server for the chosen media type. Selecting a file starts the media playing.
Music plays, without any fancy visualizations, right on the menu screen. The bottom shows the title information, but you can still continue navigating to other media while it plays. MP3 music can play during a photo slideshow (this is not true of WMA however). Video plays full-screen with media information during the first few seconds along the bottom, or when needed using the Display button. Forward/Reverse works in ten-second intervals (which is also true of music), and no DVD-style slow-mo or zoom options are available. The quality is great, though. Transcoded DivX files
Personal websites are a good idea, in theory -- but, in practice, there are far too many useless, egotistical homepages. That was maybe acceptable in the infancy of the internet, but people are getting smarter now. Blogs are better because they give what people care about -- your opinions and knowledge -- without the self-advertising.
If you look at a comparison of SCO and LNUX (ie Va Software) stock on the Nasdaq, you'll see their trends have been very similar. Sure you'd expect the opposite?
What is the best consumer Linux distribution?
What do you think are the implications of the Novell purchase of SuSe (and Ximian, for that matter)?
Trinity dies at the start! Then Neo against Smith. Then Morpheus at the very end. The Oracle is totally wrong, it turns out.
It's a pity that more people don't get to view these phenomena, because of modern light pollution. How many people are losing awe-inspiring sights, such as this and the milky-way?
AHTNOEN EUOEUC EO DOEDNO EU
Well duh. It's obviously President Bush's fault. Our increased reliance on fossil-fuels has always been a major problem. And then he goes and abandons Kyoto. Not to mention his lack of activity on curbing SUV growth. *sigh*. I'm just not surprised that this didn't happen sooner...
How is this remarkable? The NSA picks a proprietary solution where there is not even an Open-Source competitor. Surprise, surprise. I don't mean to troll -- but can somebody explain how this is interesting?
It's interesting to see a shift this way.
It seems that the tech industry is highly cyclical, and, once the current batch of geeks have innovated sufficiently to create marketable products, slowly business people will come to replace them
Once these products have run their course, and a recession kicks in, the shift happens the other way.
It's a fairly symbiotic relationship, I think, playing to each group's strengths. It's certainly worked for the past 40 years. Long may it continue
FreeBSD is going to die not because it's inherently worse than Linux, or anything like that, but because it is less popular than linux. Popularity is self-propagating, nowhere moreso than with computer software. It's a pity, but BSD is probably condemned to a slow death by stagnation.