Most of you don't get the difference between cost of purchase and cost of ownership. NT costs more to purchase (if you're not Microsoft) than FreeBSD/Linux, yes. But NT costs less to maintain for most companies. Argue that all you like, but I can hire a $30,000 MSCE and have a secure and stable network if I lean on him to keep an eye on security announcements.
Similarly, one can get an army of monkeys capable of banging out code in Visual Studio, and upgrade one's hardware to absorb the poorer performance of the resulting apps; this for less than the cost of a few good UNIX software engineers. If Hotmail's going to change to keep up with the Internet's changes, NT2000 is the logical way for it to go.
BSD/Linux are great if the apps you need already exist and/or you can afford the higher cost of doing things "right."
So what I'd like to know is - What's the value-add from Amiga? The name? A higher level API...couldn't just the tao-group do that?
Basically, it's a means of distributing closed-source software. But your one build runs on any platform to which the Amiga layer has been ported, now and in the future, and it still gets decent performance.
...I found his booth. Not nearly as busy as in the old days. And there in the back was Phil. Looking a little tired. But he always looks a little tired. I waved. He has no idea who I am of course. I tried to tell the young kids handing out his stuff how important he had been to all of us. But we live in Netscape time and version 1.10 was light years ago to them, I guess. The same product. The same trinkets. Not pens but one of the most useful gifts at the whole show. A little round plastic container containing a sponge and a shoe polisher. It was strange. But he has given those away for years. Just like he gave away PKZip. Did any of us ever register it? The show was almost over.. The kids gave me a handful.
You can put the bookmarks in subfolders if you like, and you can collapse sections you don't want. This has the benefit of portability.
I always have my.yahoo.com loaded in my first browser window, and I click open new windows any time I visit a bookmarked site. Setting up your browser to keep highlighted 'recently visited' sites highlighted for a month makes anything which you haven't been to (and likely worth a visit or a cull as a result) stand out in the list. Clicking a bookmark section header open in a new window lets you insert and remove bookmarks fairly quickly.
The collaboration with Tao is interesting. Taos is a nifty little OS which supports automatic process distribution across multiple dissimilar processors. You can have a 68040, a Pentium III and a PowerPC in one box, for example, and tasks will automatically migrate back and forth, dynamically recompiling while the system attempts to realize its most efficient CPU utilization.
Taos was created by a former Amiga game programmer; I think I first saw the OS written up in Byte magazine nearly seven years ago.
I'm curious as to whether this will ultimately become the kernel of the full OS, and whether Linux isn't just a temporary move to get developers up and running until the real foundation is ready. I'm also curious why Taos was chosen. It doesn't seem to make sense at first glance, unless there's some interesting, new hardware coming down the pipe, or perhaps unless there's going to be a focus on automatic clustering.
Taos at the base could be a very brave, very challenging new step, entirely worthy of the Amiga name.
the "Current Eliminator" (336 volts) took the current top prize, pulling 141 mph in 8.861 seconds. Wow. I'd give good money to see how they pulled performance like that out of an electric motor assembly.
If you're designing a car specifically for this, it wouldn't be so tough; perhaps precharging a super heavy fly wheel.
SMC is already bundling TurboLinux with their cards. They simply give you a CD with the DE4x5 drivers for Windows as well as a full TurboLinux install. Since burning a full CD is cheaper than the floppy they used to include, this actually saves them money while giving a nice purchase incentive.
For what it's worth, the card cost $15, and there was a $29 TurboLinux about an aisle away at the CompUSA. I still like my Debian & FreeBSD, but it was a neat gimmick. And since the DE4x5 chipset wasn't listed on the box, it was a convincing cue that there'd be driver support for the card.
Hey! I started working on an Open Source game based on VidGrid's concept. It loads MPEGs and lets you slide them around... I need to finish working on it.
One of its other cool features will be a Virtual Light Machine mode so you can play MP3's and MOD's and slide around a visual representation of the sound.:)
That's pretty cool. Might as well make it timely and let ya VidGrid DVD.;)
I thought that was one of those "Jaguar Urban Legends" (a.k.a. marketing hype / vaporware) like MKII and Tiny Toons Adventures....
Sure enough, it existed. It was far from finished, however. You could fly about the arena and bop, lance and fireball things. There was some rather simple enemy AI, sound and a few keen special effects.
One of the nicer things was that it was RGB based, not CRY, and therefore rather pretty. Very careful manipulation of the shading let me still do some depth cues and use the green channel for some pretty wacky field effects.
The game was probably half a year of solid work from completion. But at that point, everyone who could've paid for continuing development felt it was time to move on to Playstation, so both Dactyl Joust and TRF (Mortal Kombat style fighting game - I didn't know actual MK-II was in the works?) got shelved.
The little risc engined were decent processors. [...] the only thing truly wrong with them was that they had scratchpad memory instead of caches, and couldn't execute code from main memory. I had to chunk the DOOM renderer into nine sequentially loaded overlays to get it working (with hindsight, I would have done it differently in about three...).
Actually, you could execute code out of main memory. You merely had to be careful about crossing page boundaries because the instruction pointer wouldn't update properly. I'd say the biggest problem with the processors was Atari & Brainstorm's documentation. =)
We manually paged pieces in for NBA Jams, White Men Can't Jump and Ruiner Pinball. Vid Grid sat entirely in one chunk on either RISC with the 68000 just facilitating major modes. (And you thought 64k games were gone!)
For Dactyl Joust, we were using an automatic memory paging system which was started with Ruiner. This worked by augmenting function calls to load in each function in 256-byte chunks, as many as needed, and doing address fixups. Rarely called support routines remained in main store, specially tagged to avoid being loaded in. (See above re: running from main RAM and crossing page boundaries. The addresses had to be guaranteed by creating a million sections in the link file. Can you say link file nightmare?) In the end though, C and eventually C++ use became pretty invisible (read easy and efficient) even on the GPU RISC processor.
Going back and looking at Jaguar code again when I did Tempest/X3 for Playstation was a total trip. Even just a couple years later, I'd forgotten how fun/weird/ugly that beastie was. I honestly miss it though. I really do. For all its quirks (especially because of its quirks!) It was a great little box.
TPTB have done a pretty good job of limiting the release notes to software that's of interest to a majority of the SlashDot readers, and which will cause interesting and informative discussion.
Many of us don't have the time or inclination to read through all of FreshMeat every day to find the one package in 100 that affects us, and are very thankful for the ultra-important software getting announced here. Chill out, 'kay?
There's a product from The Ultimate Life Company called 'The Ultimate Meal.' It contains everything you need. Period. You blend it with soy milk or half an apple and a banana, and it's actually kind of tasty.
BSD isn't into the touchy-feely group hug thing that Linux babes are
Precisely that attitude is why it misses out on a lot of good things. You make it sound as though wanting to work as part of an inclusive group is a bad thing.
For my part, I work for a game company which has created products for Microsoft, Lego, Williams, Interplay and a few other notable players. Earlier this year I was soliciting people to create text content on updating FreeBSD's packaging to give it more shelf appeal and soliciting information and space to create a well-structured PR team.
My staff created a tasty looking box on their own time without asking for a dime (save the artist making a 3D daemon who was putting in a LOT of hours) as I was cheerleading, working with them and "giving group hugs" as the poster put it. They were working to be part of something and enjoying the appreciation from the onset.
While this was going on, I was met with a lot of fighting and resistance to most any kind of input, so I just told my team to "drop it. I don't want to work with these people." I care more and work better with positive group attitude. My people too. And it's hard for me to keep it exciting for my people here when people there are busy posturing and pissing on me.
I still think FreeBSD is one of the best things that's happened to the PC, and it's my undisputed OS of choice - I'm even using it for Linux targetted programming at work. But working on it simply hasn't got the social returns that make it worth my free time, so I'll stick to being a non-contributing user.
Assuming that the goal is to further the OS, the BSD crowd doesn't get it. Social Engineering is a foreign language to them. "Just do it. Someone might thank you later, now piss the fsck off and don't bother us until you've rewritten the SCSI subsystem."
Sorry guys. That doesn't usually work.
Your average developer wants to feel included and appreciated from the start. Some program for the sheer thrill. But the ones who don't at least secretly want a pat on the back are rare.
Most want to be part of a club of peers with a common goal at the onset. It's not hard to send them packing early on. BSD isn't going to grow to Linux proportions without change.
I suggest "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie and "Cultivating Successful Software Systems Development Projects: A Practitioners View" from Scott Donaldson.
Sun only released its modifications to the BSD system recently, 10 years late, and then under a license that would not allow their reincorporation into the BSD system as free software! Most other workstation manufacturers didn't bother to release source at all.
This is disgusting to read. It was nearly ten years ago that Scott McNealy, president/CEO of Sun Microsystems, spent a full half hour radio broadcast of the Commonwealth Club meeting beating on the government. The reason? He was insisting that it was ludicrous and short-sighted to spend money on closed systems. He further insisted that it shouldn't even be allowed, pushing a move such as the one the government of Brazil may enact.
Actually, the system in use is pretty straightforward and obvious. Effectively, that same algorithm is already in place wherever you search for a product and see "customers who liked (x) also liked (x)" on e-commerce websites.
It'd be a shame to give up Google just as I hated giving up Amazon.com after ten thousand dollars' worth of business.
Now's the time to implore Google to use their patent wisely, assuming they get it. It's cool to have a patent just to be sure you yourself can continue to use an idea. It's a Really Bad Thing(tm) to use it to stop others from using it with so simple a concept.
Write their press contact. You can be sure they're listening to that address.
Would it be feasible/legal to create a group which did nothing but collect patents, allowing free use in any application where other portions of the result aren't patented (or not patented with intent of open use) by that implementor?
I.e. Amazon couldn't use any patent in the patent pool without allowing free use of the one-click technology or, preferably, giving the patent to the group.
Whether it's a violation or not, color makes sense.
Web browsing is a logical direction for any PDA to take. Try shrinking your browser down to postage stamp size and finding your way around a web page. Tell me differentiating by color doesn't help you here...
Have we all blocked web ads from our browsers because Doubleclick has patented online advertising? Nope. You have the right to boycott Amazon, however it is rather silly. Yes Amazon should have sued Barnes and Noble instead of patenting, but they shouldn't necessarily be punished for their lawyers' recommendations. There are worse companies than Amazon out there.
Amazon patented one-click and sued Barnes and Nobles. Patents held just to be sure nobody else tries to stop them from using a technology - that I can deal with. That's why I love Xerox. If you're using a mouse, a GUI or a blinking cursor, you should too. But Amazon did the big no-no when they sued. This nearly $10,000 Amazon customer is now a B&N customer.
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Similarly, one can get an army of monkeys capable of banging out code in Visual Studio, and upgrade one's hardware to absorb the poorer performance of the resulting apps; this for less than the cost of a few good UNIX software engineers. If Hotmail's going to change to keep up with the Internet's changes, NT2000 is the logical way for it to go.
BSD/Linux are great if the apps you need already exist and/or you can afford the higher cost of doing things "right."
So does this mean that the Debian team has moved on to trying for a stable woody?
Basically, it's a means of distributing closed-source software. But your one build runs on any platform to which the Amiga layer has been ported, now and in the future, and it still gets decent performance.
http://www.mcs.net/~grossman/mjnk/mj nk0696.htm
The "this" of "This has the benefit of portability" being the use of Yahoo, not the collapsing system. Brain fart - missing <P>.
You can put the bookmarks in subfolders if you like, and you can collapse sections you don't want. This has the benefit of portability.
I always have my.yahoo.com loaded in my first browser window, and I click open new windows any time I visit a bookmarked site. Setting up your browser to keep highlighted 'recently visited' sites highlighted for a month makes anything which you haven't been to (and likely worth a visit or a cull as a result) stand out in the list. Clicking a bookmark section header open in a new window lets you insert and remove bookmarks fairly quickly.
Taos was created by a former Amiga game programmer; I think I first saw the OS written up in Byte magazine nearly seven years ago.
I'm curious as to whether this will ultimately become the kernel of the full OS, and whether Linux isn't just a temporary move to get developers up and running until the real foundation is ready. I'm also curious why Taos was chosen. It doesn't seem to make sense at first glance, unless there's some interesting, new hardware coming down the pipe, or perhaps unless there's going to be a focus on automatic clustering.
Taos at the base could be a very brave, very challenging new step, entirely worthy of the Amiga name.
If you're designing a car specifically for this, it wouldn't be so tough; perhaps precharging a super heavy fly wheel.
For what it's worth, the card cost $15, and there was a $29 TurboLinux about an aisle away at the CompUSA. I still like my Debian & FreeBSD, but it was a neat gimmick. And since the DE4x5 chipset wasn't listed on the box, it was a convincing cue that there'd be driver support for the card.
Whoo hoo! Hot swappable CPUs! Here goes!
# umount-eject /proc
That's pretty cool. Might as well make it timely and let ya VidGrid DVD. ;)
Sure enough, it existed. It was far from finished, however. You could fly about the arena and bop, lance and fireball things. There was some rather simple enemy AI, sound and a few keen special effects.
One of the nicer things was that it was RGB based, not CRY, and therefore rather pretty. Very careful manipulation of the shading let me still do some depth cues and use the green channel for some pretty wacky field effects.
The game was probably half a year of solid work from completion. But at that point, everyone who could've paid for continuing development felt it was time to move on to Playstation, so both Dactyl Joust and TRF (Mortal Kombat style fighting game - I didn't know actual MK-II was in the works?) got shelved.
Actually, you could execute code out of main memory. You merely had to be careful about crossing page boundaries because the instruction pointer wouldn't update properly. I'd say the biggest problem with the processors was Atari & Brainstorm's documentation. =)
We manually paged pieces in for NBA Jams, White Men Can't Jump and Ruiner Pinball. Vid Grid sat entirely in one chunk on either RISC with the 68000 just facilitating major modes. (And you thought 64k games were gone!)
For Dactyl Joust, we were using an automatic memory paging system which was started with Ruiner. This worked by augmenting function calls to load in each function in 256-byte chunks, as many as needed, and doing address fixups. Rarely called support routines remained in main store, specially tagged to avoid being loaded in. (See above re: running from main RAM and crossing page boundaries. The addresses had to be guaranteed by creating a million sections in the link file. Can you say link file nightmare?) In the end though, C and eventually C++ use became pretty invisible (read easy and efficient) even on the GPU RISC processor.
Going back and looking at Jaguar code again when I did Tempest/X3 for Playstation was a total trip. Even just a couple years later, I'd forgotten how fun/weird/ugly that beastie was. I honestly miss it though. I really do. For all its quirks (especially because of its quirks!) It was a great little box.
Many of us don't have the time or inclination to read through all of FreshMeat every day to find the one package in 100 that affects us, and are very thankful for the ultra-important software getting announced here. Chill out, 'kay?
Also vegan.
For my part, I work for a game company which has created products for Microsoft, Lego, Williams, Interplay and a few other notable players. Earlier this year I was soliciting people to create text content on updating FreeBSD's packaging to give it more shelf appeal and soliciting information and space to create a well-structured PR team.
My staff created a tasty looking box on their own time without asking for a dime (save the artist making a 3D daemon who was putting in a LOT of hours) as I was cheerleading, working with them and "giving group hugs" as the poster put it. They were working to be part of something and enjoying the appreciation from the onset.
While this was going on, I was met with a lot of fighting and resistance to most any kind of input, so I just told my team to "drop it. I don't want to work with these people." I care more and work better with positive group attitude. My people too. And it's hard for me to keep it exciting for my people here when people there are busy posturing and pissing on me.
I still think FreeBSD is one of the best things that's happened to the PC, and it's my undisputed OS of choice - I'm even using it for Linux targetted programming at work. But working on it simply hasn't got the social returns that make it worth my free time, so I'll stick to being a non-contributing user.
Sorry guys. That doesn't usually work.
Your average developer wants to feel included and appreciated from the start. Some program for the sheer thrill. But the ones who don't at least secretly want a pat on the back are rare.
Most want to be part of a club of peers with a common goal at the onset. It's not hard to send them packing early on. BSD isn't going to grow to Linux proportions without change.
I suggest "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie and "Cultivating Successful Software Systems Development Projects: A Practitioners View" from Scott Donaldson.
This is disgusting to read. It was nearly ten years ago that Scott McNealy, president/CEO of Sun Microsystems, spent a full half hour radio broadcast of the Commonwealth Club meeting beating on the government. The reason? He was insisting that it was ludicrous and short-sighted to spend money on closed systems. He further insisted that it shouldn't even be allowed, pushing a move such as the one the government of Brazil may enact.
It'd be a shame to give up Google just as I hated giving up Amazon.com after ten thousand dollars' worth of business.
Now's the time to implore Google to use their patent wisely, assuming they get it. It's cool to have a patent just to be sure you yourself can continue to use an idea. It's a Really Bad Thing(tm) to use it to stop others from using it with so simple a concept.
Write their press contact. You can be sure they're listening to that address.
I.e. Amazon couldn't use any patent in the patent pool without allowing free use of the one-click technology or, preferably, giving the patent to the group.
This one from The Register (UK). No registration required.
Web browsing is a logical direction for any PDA to take. Try shrinking your browser down to postage stamp size and finding your way around a web page. Tell me differentiating by color doesn't help you here...
With a bit of black paint and some very minor modifications, that thing could REALLY look like a little penguin. :>
$250,000 for about 40,000 messages. Hey, if anyone's listening, I'll let you read my mail for sixty bucks a message too!