and seen countries come and go regarding taking it on the chin for the US consumer byproduct/waste. First it was indeed our own backyard landfills, then we got 'smart' and taxed heavy or disallowed it in the mid to late 90s. Then it went off to Mexico, in the form of used crap being sold to uneducated folks in Mexico for top dollar when the markets began to collapse in the 99-01 timeframe. Then it started to head off (monitors in particular) to China. Then they got wise, and also stopped allowing big electronic trash ships to dock at all and unload, basically causing a huge bottleneck at their ports and off the coasts. Now it is Africa, doesn't suprise me at all if next it is Antartica when folks realize what this stuff does to the ground waters. Its hilarious that folks are so shocked at this capitalism at its worst with monitors and heavy metals from electronic consumerism. Steve Jobs, you should be ashamed of yourself.:)
have way too much time, money on their hands. BTW, the synthetic voice generation of the mac still sucks pretty hard. When will they get something that is actually recognizable? I'm an eMac owner, and such have to say that the hardware I own is already a mac-o-pumpkin.
Slash dot has really slid into uselessness for the most part, and this kind of article is a great example of the crap I have been seeing of late here. Slashdot, clean up your moderation, your quality of articles.
actually google front end has at least two other very good uses than just simple text search...
"starting address to ending address" (interface to maps)
and of course
3 + 4 (interface to calulator)
and again
3.25 inches to millimeters (interface to converter)
I know there are more, but google is actually a really cool simple interface that does more than one thing if you consider its output more than just 'answers to your questions'... It does multiple specific things.
but without sounding tooooo much of the type, I must say this is great news for the fledgling industry I call home. I'm still surprised how young this is, and how little the world seems to know about it. Get in now, spend the years mastering it, and you will retire very rich, trust me:)
And monkeys are going to fly out of my butt before M$haft gets
purchased by any private equity leverage firms. I find it sad
that/. has become so desperate for articles they will even let
a topic like this make believe hit on a Dry News Friday (tm).
Have a nice weekend, with or without/.
However I wouldn't purchase anything Apple again unless OSX runs on generic Intel hardware out of package without tricks or scams to get me to purchase overpriced Mac hardware. I purchased the eMac 2 years ago, and with over 1700 USD in repairs (paid for under warranty), it tells me a LOT about quality control at Apple. The basic premise for me is that 'features' or not Apple quality is bad at best and they don't deserve my money again unless they include 3-5 year warranty standard on all devices and hardware, and at least 1 major upgrade for free on an OS that is basically 18 years old in the making. Then and only then will I purchase 'features' in a commodity market place saturated with also-rans.
Oh how I had a chance in 1992 to purchase Virtspace for 3000 USD from its authors. To those that don't know, Virtspace was a virtual space app for OSX's grandaddy, NeXTstep 2.x and 3.x. The concept isn't new, and integrating into the OS is LONG LONG over due. But no reason for me to purchase OSNeXT 10.4+ Give me integrated dev tools that do something more than simply allow RAD, and I'm into buying the new release.
I'm a big Apple fan since before NeXT purchased Apple for -430 million dollars... And the only marketshare gain since 1980 when I first began to track such things against IBM (and M$ later) has been effectively negatively positive, meaning damage control. I simply have a hard time believing that Apple's 'new' OS release (another mod version of Panther, Tiger) is going to put a significant marketshare dent in Microsoft's Windows sales, or even the vaporware Vista... Droids will always migrate to M$ for the same reasons they did for IBM in the hardwareland, 'nobody loses a job for buying IBM/M$'... However I have seen many people sadly disposed when purchasing Apple products.
Ok, I'm about blown away by the implementation of Parallels, not having a thing to do with this threat apart from your mention. Question I have is for 49.99 is Parallel's worth the price, does it really work well, and does the virtual rooted window of each OS get in the way as it has in the past like X11 in the rooted solutions of years gone bye? I'm very interested in the product, and may just move me from my PPC eMac (which is still a great machine 1.5 years old and going strong, albeit some service work that cost Apple 'retail' about 1700 USD on a 700 USD machine:) to a dual core mini... The life-time-bomb on this eMac is ticking now, mwhahahaha.
A few things come to mind...
00. Will the project never get released if there is pre-release press about it never coming out?
01. Will the dozen or so users/developers bail out if there is bad press after release 1.0?
10. Is there actually anyone interested in using FreeDOS instead of a ripped/stolen copy of the real thing?
11. Is the FreeDOS project really cleanroom, or can we expect M$haft to come and stop this before it really starts.
There are more questions to be asked, but I'm not sure I really care all that much other than to post something
that makes me sound smarmy and cute. I'm still laughing at this post, and have to ask is the news day so
slow today that this kinda stuff makes it out of OSNews and into/.-land... To be discontinued.
with the promise of revenue to the user that posts interesting stuff. I find the stuff on Google/Yahoo/YouTube to be mostly garbage. Its like a video waste of time for me to spend any more time on those systems than is necessary. Granted, there is good content, lectures, hard to find archives (mostly on Google), and the value to me is with that functionality, but to find 20-30 or even 40% of the postings and high traffic videos really teasers for porno, I find it has a low S/N ratio and thus the utility is less. I would be interested even in paying for the ability to go to a site that has socially redeeming value videos. Someone, there is a market for quality sites that are not afraid of being pay-per-use/view... Just don't bend me over to do it.
I agree, I wouldn't use anything else but TRAC, and nobody is going to try and upsell me when I use it.
One thing that bothers me about posts like this one is I get the feeling it isn't just about what is
available, but also someone has a vested interest in seeing this stuff pushed on the/. community.
against a friend of mine, our little small 2 member group (started out as 5, had 3 of the folks drop out). I had some fun doing it, until I realized it was an obsession. I always had to have a computer running or I felt I was being out done. My friend felt the same way, and we continued to upgrade our systems progressively until we both kinda shook our heads and asked what was the real cost involved in running seti@home. In terms of environmental, real computer costs, cost of energy. I came to the conclusion that the immediate benefits were negligable to the immediate costs (coal burning, my income, my time so forth). Don't know how others feel, but projects like SETI@home mean nothing to me now, and I encourage folks to consider the big picture before they get involved in this type of project.
Anything with traction and new is better than the stale bending over one gets with Meg inserts her fist everytime one of my customer's or myself go to use PayPal. I'm glad to see a viable and momentus offering alternative.
With centralized network of a seed program, the sheer numbers of people that use it will provide folks that just let it seed and expire. Its a critical mass issue, and that mass will be large due to the nature of the beast.
and of course that works only if there is the opposite to contrast the person into this preferred behaviour. Eventually people will get fed up and revolt, and continued suppression thru violent means will result. Freedom is a perception, and when someone regardless of input feels that freedom is violated unjustly they will act in an undesirable and often dangerous way. I vote the cameras off the island.
actually all you need is 50-60 feeds out, the seeds mature and grow and the network supports the rest. 50-60 movies seeded by the studio (via BT) is plenty. Given 4-5 hours 10-20 seeds will take over where the orginal started. BT is just at the right place, right time, right contract, and eventually will become part of a studio. Now the question is how do they license the PPV torrent streaming, with encryption/passwords? I still smell captures and rebroadcasting of the actual viewing experience. Nobody is going to stop theft, the studios are trying hard now to make it easier to purchase than 'steal'. Whatever happened to sneaking into the theatre thru the exit doors?:)
I can't help but think that my buddy, best friend, closest pal since I was 6 months old (our parents played pairs bridge together) and now a long lost friend who is the lead compliance lawyer for Microsoft's anti trust cases in EU and America is crapping his pants now. Since he took the job 3 years ago, and has been unable to talk to me about work at all, I can patently blame his decision to work for the borg and M$ existance for my buddy becoming my long loved enemy. Just a note, likely off topic, but another very personal point as to why M$ should be fined regardless of their compliance efforts and failures. They destroy lives, loads of them.
TY, that was interesting reading (I won't mod your post though, sorry). I believe I had larva stage back in 1982 when I first wrote device drivers for Hayes on the Apple II for the summer and didn't eat or bath regularly because I was infactuated with the cycle counts on most of the 6052 instruction set control loops. I hardly remember what it was like, but I can appreciate the problem mentioned. I'm now endoctrined in the finer points of Slashlandness.
When you buy a CD you are paying at least 2 times for the content, so BT and the studios should not bring you to your knees in new pain. CD manufactures make money, the labels, the packaging, the retail, the studios, you pay many times over for content now. What BT and studio is going to do is shift the distribution money to a new player like BT, and over time BT and others will be rolled into the studios, or even become them (however I would recommend the former, later by holding out just the right time and sell). I have no problem with BT becoming the media distribution arm (for a while) for the studios. The studios actually played their cards well, watching tech as it developed for the past 8 years, and now pouncing on what has become the consumer paid network they can leverage and make a killing. I'm for BT, it sounds convenient, it is fast, and if they can do it so I can pay with PayPal and have movie theatre experiences with sound and light, I'm guessing the theatre is just about ready to die.
That is plenty fast. I have 5/2Mbit and I can get the equivalent of 3 movies streamed with encryption in real time (not that I would, but it is doable). With lossless compression in the realm of say 50-60% compression, 1GB at my best guess would bring in about 50-60 movies live at a time. I'm not sure 100%, but that seems far more than I can watch at a given time without some specialized israeli training to handle the mental shock of the event.
ignorance? I'm not sure what frist psot means, but if I were to guess it means first post, and that implies that is a good thing to post first? Are we supposed to enter first post into our postings if we are first post, and how do we know if we are going to make it (by the time we write and submit) as first post. Anyway, I'll find out surely as someone other than encrypto-god is going to fill me in on what frist psot means.
german vokenvagons looking like desperate nail biting middle age out-of-work-for-a-year leftovers that were sold a bill of goods during the.com boom. What they do, not much but drive them VWs around and pick up machines, log them into their system, subcontract out to folks that are likely not more qualified but have a bench and diag tools. GeekSquad is front line support, basically the same as a service writer at a car dealership. They give a quick and easy diag, get the product out of the customers face and into some part swapping monkey in the back (or in some other part of the city/country) who will use 'years of experience' to fix the problem. 99% of the world doesn't even know what a device driver does, let alone how to install it or even care about the above. GeekSquad techs serve a purpose to the aging @home boomer set that doesn't want to spend retirement ratcheting a commodity to death.
Its hard, to go with the legal BT or the illegal T, somehow like iTunes success we will see the studios wise up and fight the legality battle on the convenience front. Folks are willing to pay, if convenient and easy. Torrents are super fast if you have pipe, and pipe is what BT is going to offer. I'm for one lining up to purchase pay per view streaming with BT when it comes, until then, NetFlix has my butt in a sling.
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and seen countries come and go regarding taking it on the chin for the US consumer byproduct/waste. First it was indeed our own backyard landfills, then we got 'smart' and taxed heavy or disallowed it in the mid to late 90s. Then it went off to Mexico, in the form of used crap being sold to uneducated folks in Mexico for top dollar when the markets began to collapse in the 99-01 timeframe. Then it started to head off (monitors in particular) to China. Then they got wise, and also stopped allowing big electronic trash ships to dock at all and unload, basically causing a huge bottleneck at their ports and off the coasts. Now it is Africa, doesn't suprise me at all if next it is Antartica when folks realize what this stuff does to the ground waters. Its hilarious that folks are so shocked at this capitalism at its worst with monitors and heavy metals from electronic consumerism. Steve Jobs, you should be ashamed of yourself. :)
have way too much time, money on their hands. BTW, the synthetic voice generation of the mac still sucks pretty hard. When will they get something that is actually recognizable? I'm an eMac owner, and such have to say that the hardware I own is already a mac-o-pumpkin.
Slash dot has really slid into uselessness for the most part, and this kind of article is a great example of the crap I have been seeing of late here. Slashdot, clean up your moderation, your quality of articles.
actually google front end has at least two other very good uses than just simple text search... "starting address to ending address" (interface to maps) and of course 3 + 4 (interface to calulator) and again 3.25 inches to millimeters (interface to converter) I know there are more, but google is actually a really cool simple interface that does more than one thing if you consider its output more than just 'answers to your questions'... It does multiple specific things.
but without sounding tooooo much of the type, I must say this is great news for the fledgling industry I call home. I'm still surprised how young this is, and how little the world seems to know about it. Get in now, spend the years mastering it, and you will retire very rich, trust me :)
And monkeys are going to fly out of my butt before M$haft gets purchased by any private equity leverage firms. I find it sad that /. has become so desperate for articles they will even let
a topic like this make believe hit on a Dry News Friday (tm).
Have a nice weekend, with or without /.
However I wouldn't purchase anything Apple again unless OSX runs on generic Intel hardware out of package without tricks or scams to get me to purchase overpriced Mac hardware. I purchased the eMac 2 years ago, and with over 1700 USD in repairs (paid for under warranty), it tells me a LOT about quality control at Apple. The basic premise for me is that 'features' or not Apple quality is bad at best and they don't deserve my money again unless they include 3-5 year warranty standard on all devices and hardware, and at least 1 major upgrade for free on an OS that is basically 18 years old in the making. Then and only then will I purchase 'features' in a commodity market place saturated with also-rans.
Oh how I had a chance in 1992 to purchase Virtspace for 3000 USD from its authors. To those that don't know, Virtspace was a virtual space app for OSX's grandaddy, NeXTstep 2.x and 3.x. The concept isn't new, and integrating into the OS is LONG LONG over due. But no reason for me to purchase OSNeXT 10.4+ Give me integrated dev tools that do something more than simply allow RAD, and I'm into buying the new release.
I'm a big Apple fan since before NeXT purchased Apple for -430 million dollars... And the only marketshare gain since 1980 when I first began to track such things against IBM (and M$ later) has been effectively negatively positive, meaning damage control. I simply have a hard time believing that Apple's 'new' OS release (another mod version of Panther, Tiger) is going to put a significant marketshare dent in Microsoft's Windows sales, or even the vaporware Vista... Droids will always migrate to M$ for the same reasons they did for IBM in the hardwareland, 'nobody loses a job for buying IBM/M$'... However I have seen many people sadly disposed when purchasing Apple products.
Ok, I'm about blown away by the implementation of Parallels, not having a thing to do with this threat apart from your mention. Question I have is for 49.99 is Parallel's worth the price, does it really work well, and does the virtual rooted window of each OS get in the way as it has in the past like X11 in the rooted solutions of years gone bye? I'm very interested in the product, and may just move me from my PPC eMac (which is still a great machine 1.5 years old and going strong, albeit some service work that cost Apple 'retail' about 1700 USD on a 700 USD machine :) to a dual core mini... The life-time-bomb on this eMac is ticking now, mwhahahaha.
A few things come to mind... 00. Will the project never get released if there is pre-release press about it never coming out? 01. Will the dozen or so users/developers bail out if there is bad press after release 1.0? 10. Is there actually anyone interested in using FreeDOS instead of a ripped/stolen copy of the real thing? 11. Is the FreeDOS project really cleanroom, or can we expect M$haft to come and stop this before it really starts. There are more questions to be asked, but I'm not sure I really care all that much other than to post something that makes me sound smarmy and cute. I'm still laughing at this post, and have to ask is the news day so slow today that this kinda stuff makes it out of OSNews and into /.-land... To be discontinued.
with the promise of revenue to the user that posts interesting stuff. I find the stuff on Google/Yahoo/YouTube to be mostly garbage. Its like a video waste of time for me to spend any more time on those systems than is necessary. Granted, there is good content, lectures, hard to find archives (mostly on Google), and the value to me is with that functionality, but to find 20-30 or even 40% of the postings and high traffic videos really teasers for porno, I find it has a low S/N ratio and thus the utility is less. I would be interested even in paying for the ability to go to a site that has socially redeeming value videos. Someone, there is a market for quality sites that are not afraid of being pay-per-use/view... Just don't bend me over to do it.
I agree, I wouldn't use anything else but TRAC, and nobody is going to try and upsell me when I use it. One thing that bothers me about posts like this one is I get the feeling it isn't just about what is available, but also someone has a vested interest in seeing this stuff pushed on the /. community.
against a friend of mine, our little small 2 member group (started out as 5, had 3 of the folks drop out). I had some fun doing it, until I realized it was an obsession. I always had to have a computer running or I felt I was being out done. My friend felt the same way, and we continued to upgrade our systems progressively until we both kinda shook our heads and asked what was the real cost involved in running seti@home. In terms of environmental, real computer costs, cost of energy. I came to the conclusion that the immediate benefits were negligable to the immediate costs (coal burning, my income, my time so forth). Don't know how others feel, but projects like SETI@home mean nothing to me now, and I encourage folks to consider the big picture before they get involved in this type of project.
Anything with traction and new is better than the stale bending over one gets with Meg inserts her fist everytime one of my customer's or myself go to use PayPal. I'm glad to see a viable and momentus offering alternative.
With centralized network of a seed program, the sheer numbers of people that use it will provide folks that just let it seed and expire. Its a critical mass issue, and that mass will be large due to the nature of the beast.
and of course that works only if there is the opposite to contrast the person into this preferred behaviour. Eventually people will get fed up and revolt, and continued suppression thru violent means will result. Freedom is a perception, and when someone regardless of input feels that freedom is violated unjustly they will act in an undesirable and often dangerous way. I vote the cameras off the island.
actually all you need is 50-60 feeds out, the seeds mature and grow and the network supports the rest. 50-60 movies seeded by the studio (via BT) is plenty. Given 4-5 hours 10-20 seeds will take over where the orginal started. BT is just at the right place, right time, right contract, and eventually will become part of a studio. Now the question is how do they license the PPV torrent streaming, with encryption/passwords? I still smell captures and rebroadcasting of the actual viewing experience. Nobody is going to stop theft, the studios are trying hard now to make it easier to purchase than 'steal'. Whatever happened to sneaking into the theatre thru the exit doors? :)
I can't help but think that my buddy, best friend, closest pal since I was 6 months old (our parents played pairs bridge together) and now a long lost friend who is the lead compliance lawyer for Microsoft's anti trust cases in EU and America is crapping his pants now. Since he took the job 3 years ago, and has been unable to talk to me about work at all, I can patently blame his decision to work for the borg and M$ existance for my buddy becoming my long loved enemy. Just a note, likely off topic, but another very personal point as to why M$ should be fined regardless of their compliance efforts and failures. They destroy lives, loads of them.
TY, that was interesting reading (I won't mod your post though, sorry). I believe I had larva stage back in 1982 when I first wrote device drivers for Hayes on the Apple II for the summer and didn't eat or bath regularly because I was infactuated with the cycle counts on most of the 6052 instruction set control loops. I hardly remember what it was like, but I can appreciate the problem mentioned. I'm now endoctrined in the finer points of Slashlandness.
When you buy a CD you are paying at least 2 times for the content, so BT and the studios should not bring you to your knees in new pain. CD manufactures make money, the labels, the packaging, the retail, the studios, you pay many times over for content now. What BT and studio is going to do is shift the distribution money to a new player like BT, and over time BT and others will be rolled into the studios, or even become them (however I would recommend the former, later by holding out just the right time and sell). I have no problem with BT becoming the media distribution arm (for a while) for the studios. The studios actually played their cards well, watching tech as it developed for the past 8 years, and now pouncing on what has become the consumer paid network they can leverage and make a killing. I'm for BT, it sounds convenient, it is fast, and if they can do it so I can pay with PayPal and have movie theatre experiences with sound and light, I'm guessing the theatre is just about ready to die.
That is plenty fast. I have 5/2Mbit and I can get the equivalent of 3 movies streamed with encryption in real time (not that I would, but it is doable). With lossless compression in the realm of say 50-60% compression, 1GB at my best guess would bring in about 50-60 movies live at a time. I'm not sure 100%, but that seems far more than I can watch at a given time without some specialized israeli training to handle the mental shock of the event.
ignorance? I'm not sure what frist psot means, but if I were to guess it means first post, and that implies that is a good thing to post first? Are we supposed to enter first post into our postings if we are first post, and how do we know if we are going to make it (by the time we write and submit) as first post. Anyway, I'll find out surely as someone other than encrypto-god is going to fill me in on what frist psot means.
german vokenvagons looking like desperate nail biting middle age out-of-work-for-a-year leftovers that were sold a bill of goods during the .com boom. What they do, not much but drive them VWs around and pick up machines, log them into their system, subcontract out to folks that are likely not more qualified but have a bench and diag tools. GeekSquad is front line support, basically the same as a service writer at a car dealership. They give a quick and easy diag, get the product out of the customers face and into some part swapping monkey in the back (or in some other part of the city/country) who will use 'years of experience' to fix the problem. 99% of the world doesn't even know what a device driver does, let alone how to install it or even care about the above. GeekSquad techs serve a purpose to the aging @home boomer set that doesn't want to spend retirement ratcheting a commodity to death.
Its hard, to go with the legal BT or the illegal T, somehow like iTunes success we will see the studios wise up and fight the legality battle on the convenience front. Folks are willing to pay, if convenient and easy. Torrents are super fast if you have pipe, and pipe is what BT is going to offer. I'm for one lining up to purchase pay per view streaming with BT when it comes, until then, NetFlix has my butt in a sling.