I'd think so too. Especially if the access speed is faster than disks today. Everybody will want one.
Remember, they said that the production cost will be around $50. Put patent royalties, and profit margins on top of that and you would be looking at major bucks.
If they price it anything like chipmakers have done, the price will start at two grand and eventually fall to the $50 production cost within a few years....
From the books that they read, I would assume that they spend a lot of time maintaining a web site mostly in perl on some kind of unix servers. It also appears that they like noodles. (Wet and hot? I'm not asking.)
They don't seem to be too two faced about it. Seeing as how they order books from themselves, I'll bet they get discounts. Anybody want to hack into some book discounts?
While better literature on linux is needed, why books? Large, clunky, expensive, environmentally unfriendly, wouldn't it be better to write some good online materials about linux? As linux seems to be changing so fast, wouldn't online materials, be easier to keep up to date as well?
The HOWTOs are a good first step but aimed at the user that is a bit more familiar with linux already than someone who might buy a book about unix. I'd suggest something along the lines of what Sun has done with Java. They have the Java API index of everything which is much like the linux HOWTOs: Lots of info, but you have to have some idea what you are looking for/at before it makes any sense. Then they have the Java Tutorial that starts with the basics and dumbs stuff down enough that anybody capable of programming in Java should be able to start there. Its worked for me in Java. I don't feel that I need more references.
How about a linux tutorial that tells the user what they can do, and links to HOWTOs and new material to help somebody accomplish what they want?
I still think Weird Al is great. My favorite will always be "The Good Old Days" though.
Weird Al's official web page has several pictures of him with very different looking haircuts. I think he really likes to change it to look like the people that he is making fun of... official site
Slashdot Mirror
For those of you who are worried about forgetting to login, just use a bookmark like this one:
& returnto=index.pl&upasswd=Passwo rd&op=userlogin
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?unickname=UserName
Every http server that I've ever know accepts GET and POST operations as equivelant....
Notice that, unlike hotmail, you actually have to supply your password....
Can sombody do a reverse name lookup on 207.82.250.251 and tell us where it points? I'd do it myself if I weren't behind a nasty firewall.....
I'd think so too. Especially if the access speed is faster than disks today. Everybody will want one.
Remember, they said that the production cost will be around $50. Put patent royalties, and profit margins on top of that and you would be looking at major bucks.
If they price it anything like chipmakers have done, the price will start at two grand and eventually fall to the $50 production cost within a few years....
From the books that they read, I would assume that they spend a lot of time maintaining a web site mostly in perl on some kind of unix servers. It also appears that they like noodles. (Wet and hot? I'm not asking.)
They don't seem to be too two faced about it. Seeing as how they order books from themselves, I'll bet they get discounts. Anybody want to hack into some book discounts?
While better literature on linux is needed, why books? Large, clunky, expensive, environmentally unfriendly, wouldn't it be better to write some good online materials about linux? As linux seems to be changing so fast, wouldn't online materials, be easier to keep up to date as well?
The HOWTOs are a good first step but aimed at the user that is a bit more familiar with linux already than someone who might buy a book about unix. I'd suggest something along the lines of what Sun has done with Java. They have the Java API index of everything which is much like the linux HOWTOs: Lots of info, but you have to have some idea what you are looking for/at before it makes any sense. Then they have the Java Tutorial that starts with the basics and dumbs stuff down enough that anybody capable of programming in Java should be able to start there. Its worked for me in Java. I don't feel that I need more references.
How about a linux tutorial that tells the user what they can do, and links to HOWTOs and new material to help somebody accomplish what they want?
I'm an INTJ and I think that you are all wrong to have that P there....
I still think Weird Al is great. My favorite will always be "The Good Old Days" though.
Weird Al's official web page has several pictures of him with very different looking haircuts. I think he really likes to change it to look like the people that he is making fun of...
official site
How long will it be until somebody gets Linux running on their electronic pet? Good boy....