And what would these missals contain? A harshly worded message from the Pope? I will grant you, though, that a missal travelling at some fraction of the speed of light would still do quite a bit of damage.
The X-33 was not designed be an orbital vehicle, though perhaps it could have paved the way for orbital vehicles of a similar design. It was never designed to fly over 100km or above 50% orbital speed.
That's because "they" are making money hand over fist in those markets, and that fact partially depend on you being forced to buy things, in this case digital items that have no intrinsic value and can be copied for nothing. If the free market were allowed to be truly free, those digital items would fall in price to a level where they represent the convenience cost, i.e. you are not really paying for the item any more, just the convenience of getting it when you want it. There is obviously too much vested money for the powers-that-be to allow that to happen, however, so here we are.
Totally off-topic, but super interesting none-the-less. I noticed your signature, and in fact it has been scientifically proven that you *can* be addicted to placebos. And you have withdrawals when you come off it, the color of the placebo pill matters, the size of the placebo pill matters, etc. Placebos even work if you tell the recipient that it's a placebo! Watch this cool video about all the weirdness of the placebo:
http://www.wimp.com/placeboeffect/
The benefits of OSS that you mention are all true, but they are threated by factors out of the control of OSS users and developers, namely patent litigation. This is merely a function of US laws. If the patent threat were to go away, we would not be having this conversation.
Unfortunately, the US government acts in it's own interest, not in the interest of its citizen's freedom. I believe it will continue to unjustly crack down on free software indirectly via patent law and directly via the DMCA, because those laws (supposedly) protect profits for large US software and film companies, thus making the US stronger. Or so the theory goes. But ordinary citizens and their right be damned.
This post shows why Slashdot needs a "-1 Uninformed" moderation. (Sorry, couldn't resist) Actually, you can get gmail using your own domain for free if you have less than 50 users. I'm using it for my business' email and I don't pay anything.
It boggles my mind that no company can figure out how to make a good Android tablet. Even if you just copied the specs of the iPad line-by-line, including the price, you'd be ahead of every company so far. I'm not sure who the target market is for the Dell Streak -- that has massive failure written all over it. And now the Galaxy S, while better, still has major shortcomings such as cost, lack of a WiFi-only model, and did I mention cost? The only conclusion is that Apple is majorly subisidizing the cost of the iPad, or that the Android tablet makers are greedy and/or incompetent, or both.
Listen guys! We don't need 3g and it's associated costs with tablets. Just let us tether it to the smart phones we already have (on the go), or use the WiFI we already have at home! Secondly, 8 inches is near the minimum a tablet should be, not the maximum. These too-big-for-a-phone too-small-for-a-tablet devices are too compromised and expensive to be useful. Is this rocket science? What kind of market research are these people doing?
Apple offered to buy Be for $125 million then $200 million, but Gassee held out for $400 million. Apple is the one who walked away. Ironically, they then paid that exact amount, $400 million, to the next guy who came calling... Steve Jobs and NeXT.
It supports multiple users in the same way that the Model T came in multiple colors: "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black." With Be/Haiku you can have as many users as you like, as long as each one is root.
I would disagree that a Be-compatible Haiku will ever be multi-user, and I have a good bit of experience to back up that assertion. I am the author of Cosmoe, which was a port of Be/Haiku on top of Linux. It was a fun project, and it more or less worked. However, when I was doing optimization on the semaphore, shared memory (area), and port code, I realized that no provision had been made for ownership of these objects. In other words, there is no way to use these securely in a multi-user environment because there is no API support for determining who should have access to these objects and who shouldn't. And you'd have to break all existing Be/Haiku apps to fix the API. I pretty much lost interest in Cosmoe the day I discovered that. With open source, there's no such thing as an unfixable problem, but this one is pretty big.
Interesting... I'd say Cryptonomicon is probably the best fiction work that I've ever read. And this is not coming from a Stephenson fanboy either -- I gave up on Quicksilver about 1/4 of the way through.
I think you may have missed the point. The reason they are able to sidestep all of the process communications issues is precisely because it's fully managed code. Instead of a hardware memory manager making every process stay "in bounds", the compiler does the checking beforehand. Without managed code and a special compiler, this would not be possible.
This problem is that this system would never take off. "Any langauge you want, as long as it's.Net" is not going to attract the developers. Plus you have no existing base of apps to build on.
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This just offended or confused 90% of the MAC users
The fact that you wrote Mac as MAC offended or confused an even higher percentage of Mac users.
And what would these missals contain? A harshly worded message from the Pope? I will grant you, though, that a missal travelling at some fraction of the speed of light would still do quite a bit of damage.
Except in the US, you pay minutes for received calls too. Many people from Europe don't realize this.
No, just as a floor wax at this point.
Apple hasn't even tried to make the iOS and OSX interfaces look similar.
I have to assume that was a joke, or else you haven't used Lion yet.
The X-33 was not designed be an orbital vehicle, though perhaps it could have paved the way for orbital vehicles of a similar design. It was never designed to fly over 100km or above 50% orbital speed.
That's because "they" are making money hand over fist in those markets, and that fact partially depend on you being forced to buy things, in this case digital items that have no intrinsic value and can be copied for nothing. If the free market were allowed to be truly free, those digital items would fall in price to a level where they represent the convenience cost, i.e. you are not really paying for the item any more, just the convenience of getting it when you want it. There is obviously too much vested money for the powers-that-be to allow that to happen, however, so here we are.
like pushing a string...
I already know Wayland is a graphics server, like an X server "but without important features used by people who do actual work with Linux".)
FTFY.
Apple is a very safe platform, but the safest software in the world can't protect against Stupid.
Totally off-topic, but super interesting none-the-less. I noticed your signature, and in fact it has been scientifically proven that you *can* be addicted to placebos. And you have withdrawals when you come off it, the color of the placebo pill matters, the size of the placebo pill matters, etc. Placebos even work if you tell the recipient that it's a placebo! Watch this cool video about all the weirdness of the placebo: http://www.wimp.com/placeboeffect/
Android 2.2 for my Captivate.
The benefits of OSS that you mention are all true, but they are threated by factors out of the control of OSS users and developers, namely patent litigation. This is merely a function of US laws. If the patent threat were to go away, we would not be having this conversation. Unfortunately, the US government acts in it's own interest, not in the interest of its citizen's freedom. I believe it will continue to unjustly crack down on free software indirectly via patent law and directly via the DMCA, because those laws (supposedly) protect profits for large US software and film companies, thus making the US stronger. Or so the theory goes. But ordinary citizens and their right be damned.
This post shows why Slashdot needs a "-1 Uninformed" moderation. (Sorry, couldn't resist) Actually, you can get gmail using your own domain for free if you have less than 50 users. I'm using it for my business' email and I don't pay anything.
Don't knock Emacs! It's a great operating system – it just lacks a good editor.
It boggles my mind that no company can figure out how to make a good Android tablet. Even if you just copied the specs of the iPad line-by-line, including the price, you'd be ahead of every company so far. I'm not sure who the target market is for the Dell Streak -- that has massive failure written all over it. And now the Galaxy S, while better, still has major shortcomings such as cost, lack of a WiFi-only model, and did I mention cost? The only conclusion is that Apple is majorly subisidizing the cost of the iPad, or that the Android tablet makers are greedy and/or incompetent, or both. Listen guys! We don't need 3g and it's associated costs with tablets. Just let us tether it to the smart phones we already have (on the go), or use the WiFI we already have at home! Secondly, 8 inches is near the minimum a tablet should be, not the maximum. These too-big-for-a-phone too-small-for-a-tablet devices are too compromised and expensive to be useful. Is this rocket science? What kind of market research are these people doing?
Users are harder to patch though.
You seem to have lost a decimal point somewhere. The Droid is currently selling for $19.99 from Amazon: http://www.amazonwireless.com/?ref=wbh-20
My only hope is that by "in time for the holidays", they meant St. Patrick's Day.
Apple offered to buy Be for $125 million then $200 million, but Gassee held out for $400 million. Apple is the one who walked away. Ironically, they then paid that exact amount, $400 million, to the next guy who came calling... Steve Jobs and NeXT.
It supports multiple users in the same way that the Model T came in multiple colors: "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black." With Be/Haiku you can have as many users as you like, as long as each one is root.
I would disagree that a Be-compatible Haiku will ever be multi-user, and I have a good bit of experience to back up that assertion. I am the author of Cosmoe, which was a port of Be/Haiku on top of Linux. It was a fun project, and it more or less worked. However, when I was doing optimization on the semaphore, shared memory (area), and port code, I realized that no provision had been made for ownership of these objects. In other words, there is no way to use these securely in a multi-user environment because there is no API support for determining who should have access to these objects and who shouldn't. And you'd have to break all existing Be/Haiku apps to fix the API. I pretty much lost interest in Cosmoe the day I discovered that. With open source, there's no such thing as an unfixable problem, but this one is pretty big.
He said he doesn't want to see duplicates... why are you sending him to Slashdot's main page?
Interesting... I'd say Cryptonomicon is probably the best fiction work that I've ever read. And this is not coming from a Stephenson fanboy either -- I gave up on Quicksilver about 1/4 of the way through.
I think you may have missed the point. The reason they are able to sidestep all of the process communications issues is precisely because it's fully managed code. Instead of a hardware memory manager making every process stay "in bounds", the compiler does the checking beforehand. Without managed code and a special compiler, this would not be possible.
.Net" is not going to attract the developers. Plus you have no existing base of apps to build on.
This problem is that this system would never take off. "Any langauge you want, as long as it's