What we should REALLY be trying to figure out is how to skip more massive stones. That's the next step.
This one time, me and some people were skipping stones *hardcore* style. We got the biggest flat rocks we could lift and tried to spin them. Usually they just glided, but sometimes they would skip fairly high.
Of course, once the government got hold of this technology, they would put it to use bombing Iraq.
What exactly defines the "power users" who need this new-and-improved-maybe-this-time-it-won't-suck version of Windows?
Let's look at the word...
Power and User come together. Obviously, this implies that the user has some kind of power. However, this user is using Windows, which gives no power to its users. Thus, this mysterious user must actually WORK at Microsoft. Now why would the staff of MS need a version of Windows with security that doesn't suck? the answer: to cover their asses for making crappy software.
as i see it, they have several options:
1) relabel the dead birds as a product and sell the meat
2) claim they are trying to advance the evolution of the bird population by eliminating the ones stupid enough to run into big spinning blades
3) shoot the birds before they hit the blades so that it's not recorded as a casualty of wind power
4) get everyone to decide that birds are bad and they deserve to be killed
5) put all birds through a 4 hour wind power safety training course
6) find out how many birds are killed each day by running into glass windows and begin an anti-window campaign to draw attention away from themselves
This isn't so very special. There are many screams and other sounds that get reused. Lots of action movies use the same screams you can hear in the N64 game "Goldeneye." There is a creaky door sound that I've heard used in video games ("Riven" is the one I remember best), TV shows, movies, and even commercials.
SCO, Novella- pretty much all the big players in this game... remind me of the seagulls from Finding Nemo. "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine!" "MINE!"
Everyone is always so enthusiastic about the Linux Desktop, Linux for the average user, Linux instead of Windows, etc. I understand the basic desire to share a good thing, but is it really necessary? IMHO, if Linux ever really replaced Windows as the standard desktop OS, it would just be a bigger target for greedy lawyers and corruption.
I believe that as long as the Linux community remains a sizable minority, the true spirit of the OS will remain intact. People are always talking about how to make Linux so incredibly user friendly that anyone can use it. But I've always thought of Linux as the operating system for those who care about the operating system. It seems to me that instead of trying to overthrow the big, evil corporations (though it sure would be nice from a legal perspective. IE: SCO), we should instead try to do nothing more than offer the choice of high-quality computing. I just happen to think that most Linux users use Linux BECAUSE it's not as user-friendly, BECAUSE you have to know the filesystem, and so on.
I think that the only real "Linux Revolution" will come about when the people who know what they're doing are able to choose Linux based on merrits besides "user-friendliness." It just seems to me that they're trying to dumb down the OS (take Lindows as an example, which by default only creates the root user in the installation) to accomplish a goal that is actually not necessary (market presence is good, but dominance?). I just think that some developers are lowering their standards to win more converts.
When a people have been oppressed, they usually take full advantage of what they are given when that oppression ends. Sometimes there is even a bit of an overcorrection. I predict that the next generation of ubergeeks will hail from Iraq. Watch out japanese game manufacturers. Look out Korean i-get-paid-to-play-online-soccer-games people.
Perhaps "feverishly" was a bit misleading, but it is also a matter of demand. Only now that the chip is on sale in your local CompUSA will there be an actual demand for systems that can run on it. While they may have all been working on it before, now they're going to be finishing it. Well, the closed source producers will be finishing it; the Open Source developers will always be updating it.
What I'm trying to say is that the jump from 32 to 64 is going to be a very important moment in the history of Open versus closes Source development. Stop focusing on the timing of it.
darn! I was going to make the obvious relation of the slashdot effect to the performance boosting.... but you beat me to it. You're right though- they may get optimal CPU performance, but not even that can withstand the
I think there is a general benefit to Open Source that we haven't been able to observe until now. It is a fact that Open Source is more easily ported and adapted, but the major systems haven't changed much for the past many years (Mac, X86, etc.). Now that an entirely new system is out, proprietary software developers will be stumbling over themselves as they try feverishly to make something from scratch, while Open Source developers will benefit from working as a group.
In a way, this has always been the way it worked, but now that there is a large jump in computing (32 to 64 bit processing is a pretty big jump, neh?) and the scale of development is made larger, the Open Source projects will show just how slow and inefficient proprietary software developing methods are.
Unixware proves that sometimes, (an increasingly small number of) people buy things based on price alone. There is no reason to use such an expensive, restrictive OS when the makers of that OS have to use ideas from their biggest competitor to improve it, when that competitor is a free (in all meanings) OS.
Let's not get into the specific advantages, because nobody has that large an attention span.
This makes me think of a movie. In the movie Minority Report, biometrics are used to identify criminals (as well as future criminals) walking down the street in public. That's kind of scary to think about, but realistically, the government would never spend the insane amount of money to install cameras all over the public area of America, especially not high-tech eye-scanning ones.
Now imagine walking into a store, like in the movie, and the computer hologram instantly recognizes you and greets you and talks to you about your last purchases. Wouldn't that be extremely annoying? Anonymity is actually quite nice when dealing with strangers, especially the kind who don't trust you enough not to scan your eyes. Don't we all hate that spam that calls us by name?
As long as this technology doesn't go beyond use in criminal records and other instances where fingerprints are used now (driver's licenses for example), it should be acceptable.
Linus, as awesome as I thought he was before, has definitely risen from "personal hero" to "demigod."
Any company that attempts to hijack an entire open operating system as its own deserves whatever punishments and/or mockery Linus and legislation can dole out.
Now we have CD burners and rewritable CDs that can store over 650 megabytes of data. We have writable DVDs that are able to store entire movies in very high quality video. There are countless other data storage formats such as memory sticks, smart cards, and others that can store wide ranges of amounts of data from 8 megabytes to 128 megabytes and up. So which do I use most often? My 1.44 megabyte floppy drive.
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What we should REALLY be trying to figure out is how to skip more massive stones. That's the next step.
This one time, me and some people were skipping stones *hardcore* style. We got the biggest flat rocks we could lift and tried to spin them. Usually they just glided, but sometimes they would skip fairly high.
Of course, once the government got hold of this technology, they would put it to use bombing Iraq.
There is a word for one who takes the law into his/her own hands: vigilante.
they have duct tape, right? If they don't they'll REALLY be in trouble.
What exactly defines the "power users" who need this new-and-improved-maybe-this-time-it-won't-suck version of Windows?
Let's look at the word...
Power and User come together. Obviously, this implies that the user has some kind of power. However, this user is using Windows, which gives no power to its users. Thus, this mysterious user must actually WORK at Microsoft. Now why would the staff of MS need a version of Windows with security that doesn't suck?
the answer: to cover their asses for making crappy software.
as i see it, they have several options: 1) relabel the dead birds as a product and sell the meat 2) claim they are trying to advance the evolution of the bird population by eliminating the ones stupid enough to run into big spinning blades 3) shoot the birds before they hit the blades so that it's not recorded as a casualty of wind power 4) get everyone to decide that birds are bad and they deserve to be killed 5) put all birds through a 4 hour wind power safety training course 6) find out how many birds are killed each day by running into glass windows and begin an anti-window campaign to draw attention away from themselves
This isn't so very special. There are many screams and other sounds that get reused. Lots of action movies use the same screams you can hear in the N64 game "Goldeneye." There is a creaky door sound that I've heard used in video games ("Riven" is the one I remember best), TV shows, movies, and even commercials.
SCO, Novella- pretty much all the big players in this game... remind me of the seagulls from Finding Nemo. "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine?" "mine!" "MINE!"
Everyone is always so enthusiastic about the Linux Desktop, Linux for the average user, Linux instead of Windows, etc. I understand the basic desire to share a good thing, but is it really necessary? IMHO, if Linux ever really replaced Windows as the standard desktop OS, it would just be a bigger target for greedy lawyers and corruption.
I believe that as long as the Linux community remains a sizable minority, the true spirit of the OS will remain intact. People are always talking about how to make Linux so incredibly user friendly that anyone can use it. But I've always thought of Linux as the operating system for those who care about the operating system. It seems to me that instead of trying to overthrow the big, evil corporations (though it sure would be nice from a legal perspective. IE: SCO), we should instead try to do nothing more than offer the choice of high-quality computing. I just happen to think that most Linux users use Linux BECAUSE it's not as user-friendly, BECAUSE you have to know the filesystem, and so on.
I think that the only real "Linux Revolution" will come about when the people who know what they're doing are able to choose Linux based on merrits besides "user-friendliness." It just seems to me that they're trying to dumb down the OS (take Lindows as an example, which by default only creates the root user in the installation) to accomplish a goal that is actually not necessary (market presence is good, but dominance?). I just think that some developers are lowering their standards to win more converts.
I'm glad the new kernel is out in time for the holiday season... wait... that's sad isn't it?
When a people have been oppressed, they usually take full advantage of what they are given when that oppression ends. Sometimes there is even a bit of an overcorrection. I predict that the next generation of ubergeeks will hail from Iraq. Watch out japanese game manufacturers. Look out Korean i-get-paid-to-play-online-soccer-games people.
All your bandwidth are belong to us!
*in Neo voice:* I know Script-Fu!
Perhaps "feverishly" was a bit misleading, but it is also a matter of demand. Only now that the chip is on sale in your local CompUSA will there be an actual demand for systems that can run on it. While they may have all been working on it before, now they're going to be finishing it. Well, the closed source producers will be finishing it; the Open Source developers will always be updating it.
What I'm trying to say is that the jump from 32 to 64 is going to be a very important moment in the history of Open versus closes Source development. Stop focusing on the timing of it.
darn! I was going to make the obvious relation of the slashdot effect to the performance boosting.... but you beat me to it. You're right though- they may get optimal CPU performance, but not even that can withstand the
SlashDotEffect!
*cue the cool music!*
I think there is a general benefit to Open Source that we haven't been able to observe until now. It is a fact that Open Source is more easily ported and adapted, but the major systems haven't changed much for the past many years (Mac, X86, etc.). Now that an entirely new system is out, proprietary software developers will be stumbling over themselves as they try feverishly to make something from scratch, while Open Source developers will benefit from working as a group.
In a way, this has always been the way it worked, but now that there is a large jump in computing (32 to 64 bit processing is a pretty big jump, neh?) and the scale of development is made larger, the Open Source projects will show just how slow and inefficient proprietary software developing methods are.
Definitely Cube! It's like a basics version of half-life for free.
http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
very true...
but very flamebait.
Unixware proves that sometimes, (an increasingly small number of) people buy things based on price alone. There is no reason to use such an expensive, restrictive OS when the makers of that OS have to use ideas from their biggest competitor to improve it, when that competitor is a free (in all meanings) OS.
Let's not get into the specific advantages, because nobody has that large an attention span.
odd: I had a flying cars post before this one, and yet this post has been modded up for funny instead of down for redundant.
planes!? Where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars!
Why don't we invent Open Music, put it under a modified GPL, and remove the entire monetary component out of the industry?
Do you think SCO would then accuse the musicians of using some crappy old song they came up with a while ago as the basis of all the Open songs?
Well I'm willing to take that risk.
from the article:
i deas_online/ideas_online_whose.asp
"In short, HTAs pack all the power of Microsoft Internet Explorer"
That's right- because as we all know, Microsoft invented HTML and Internet Explorer is the only web browser in existence.
more info here:
http://www.ideasatthepowerhouse.com.au/05_
I for one have always equated the RIAA with alcohol, tobacco, and guns.
This makes me think of a movie. In the movie Minority Report, biometrics are used to identify criminals (as well as future criminals) walking down the street in public. That's kind of scary to think about, but realistically, the government would never spend the insane amount of money to install cameras all over the public area of America, especially not high-tech eye-scanning ones.
Now imagine walking into a store, like in the movie, and the computer hologram instantly recognizes you and greets you and talks to you about your last purchases. Wouldn't that be extremely annoying? Anonymity is actually quite nice when dealing with strangers, especially the kind who don't trust you enough not to scan your eyes. Don't we all hate that spam that calls us by name?
As long as this technology doesn't go beyond use in criminal records and other instances where fingerprints are used now (driver's licenses for example), it should be acceptable.
Linus, as awesome as I thought he was before, has definitely risen from "personal hero" to "demigod."
Any company that attempts to hijack an entire open operating system as its own deserves whatever punishments and/or mockery Linus and legislation can dole out.
Now we have CD burners and rewritable CDs that can store over 650 megabytes of data. We have writable DVDs that are able to store entire movies in very high quality video. There are countless other data storage formats such as memory sticks, smart cards, and others that can store wide ranges of amounts of data from 8 megabytes to 128 megabytes and up. So which do I use most often? My 1.44 megabyte floppy drive.