This voting crap obviously means very little when really large corporate money weighs in. The debacle in Florida has really confirmed my worse fears about the state of "democracy" in this country. If you want to effect change in this country give money and do what you can to manipulate the media. Get off your own rear and read "The Prince" you naive pollyanna
Apple to offer a budget product? Ha!
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Yeah right. This seems highly unlikely, unless Apple is going to tie a subscription to Itunes to the product. The company has never been able to compete by discounting its products. A Ipod "Zire" for doesn't make business sense, unless extra income can be guarenteed by Itune purchases
I can't stand musicals and in particular, "Bollywood" movies. Also Bollywood has no nudity and rather strict guidelines about depicting sexuality. So now lots of unentertaining puritanical film will be available on the internet- Great:-
I personally started reading/. as an alternative to tunes.org I would read a site that debated Open Source vs closed, proprietary code perpetually. What better way to wallow in Nerdiness?
This is somewhat off-topic, but I think the honor of that particular title should be
"The World" http://www.TheWorld.com
operated by Software Tool & Die. Since 1989, the first public dialup Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the planet. And we're still proud to be the best.
These other guys may have set up the technology, but "the revolution" is another matter. Its like crediting K&R for starting Open Source. Not quite.
To boldly go where no one has gone before!
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Damn, bad enough I mispell boldly- I also call the mainstream media "the press!" hoe anachronistic! I just can't do nothun' right!
Virii forever, you self-important language nazis!
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20 Years of Virii
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I think the spelling "virii" is a great way to differentiate the organic molecules from the electronic menace. I would even say "virii," as a word is as viral as its namesake. This is also reminiscient of the argument about "hacker" and what being a true hacker is about. The fact is that the press won and the common usage now is exactly the one "real hackers" fought against for years. Of course, the self-appointed English mavens are still bitching about "to boldy go" Give it a rest! Its not the "King's English" anymore.
I think you might actually have better chance with OSX! Right now you would have to invest in a ibook and NTFS support is sketchy, but there's promising work in Darwin for both PPC and x86. Call me a dreamer, but at least the possibilities are there.
One reason for the anonymous poster's confusion may be Sun's business goals and marketing. You have provided good answers, And yet its still unclear if Sun will stop trying to be a one-size-fits all company, which it probably should. Many of us wish Sun would have given up on Sparc more decisively. I don't question the original intent on backing Sparc architechture, but it probably left too big a target for FUD. The original poster didn't even mention Sparc, but the message is familiar- its ghost seems to still be haunting Solaris
I suppose if Bill J wasn't asked his opinions about linux a zillion times already, you'd have a point. I think he was probably just trying to steer the interview away from the subject./.er's should take the comment for what it is, an offhand comment.
I think the poster was talking in more abstract terms than you credit him for. A. Tennenbaum's minix would have made Linux redundent, except for the free source code and its philosophy. *nix OS technology was far behind the Lisp Machines and even Vax! A. Tennenbaum, who published 'minix' criticized linux very early on because of its "backward" monolithic kernel. Beyond networking and user interface enhancements, Linux really isn't really much other than a reimplementation of pre-PC Unix. Its just that Unix+ free source was that good!
You have a strange code-centric take on the history here. There basically were NO people, outside the university environment, who were interested in the technologies! Computing was still very exotic, and home and hobbyist computers were an entirely different animal from *nix machines. The power and price of hardware available to the public was much more important than any licencing schemes, which a lot of the "hackers" of the time would ignore anyways.
iTunes does indeed come with OSX, which makes me suspect the poster doesn't really know what he's talking about. If he wants a nicer terminal, why not install X11? I'm also not clear about the real advantages of other terminals- If the look and feel is that important, you might as well give up the command line interface and use the gui. Seriously, I'm really curious what iTerm.app deficiencies are!
Its still experimental and buggy. Unless you want to spend serious amounts of time tweaking and toying with it, don't bother. Then again, its also a quintessential challenge for "hackers." If you're tired of working on monolithic linux, go for it.
This would be roughly equivilent of installing Windows 95 on a Windows 98 Box. Unless you had some exotic old application that just wouldn't run on Windows 98 properly, there would be no use for it. You're simply duplicating everything minus improvements. As a user, not a programmer or Sys admin, there's really no reason to use Darwin. Even then its kind of hard to justify. Don't get me wrong, the project has a lot of potential, but definately not for newbies!
you didn't seem to read the very short article- It can't continue growing if its Declining! This kind of doublespeak in the media is a worrying sign. There is no reason to think "people will find jobs." Feel free to panic!
I've read a lot of this kind of rhetoric in the news... Decline has slowed indeed! That's sorta like the guy who jumps out a tall building, and halfway down says... well, it hasn't been too bad so far!
For Jobs it is the other way around, he used his cult of personality to make money in the first place- although he's done some awful things, he could lose everything tommorrow and still bank on his charisma. I don't know if Larry's business saavy would work without money to back him up. Just another opinion
Some posts mention how Anime still hasn't gained mainstream acceptance. Although from my perspective, this is probably a good thing, there's a lot more to the issue than some assume. Hollywood is built on promoting "personalities." Americans have always been attracted to films by the Actors, which is why some get paid so much! The whole concept of Anime is foreign to this culture, being more "oriented" (ouch) towards visual art than performance. Mainstream acceptance is bound to be very slow.
$780,000 for AT&T? Isn't this just a slap on the wrist for such a big company? Maybe it will frighten the smaller companies into compliance, but I'd rather hear that a large number of smaller violators were being fined, instead of a big player being singled out.
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This voting crap obviously means very little when really large corporate money weighs in. The debacle in Florida has really confirmed my worse fears about the state of "democracy" in this country. If you want to effect change in this country give money and do what you can to manipulate the media. Get off your own rear and read "The Prince" you naive pollyanna
Yeah right. This seems highly unlikely, unless Apple is going to tie a subscription to Itunes to the product. The company has never been able to compete by discounting its products. A Ipod "Zire" for doesn't make business sense, unless extra income can be guarenteed by Itune purchases
I can't stand musicals and in particular, "Bollywood" movies. Also Bollywood has no nudity and rather strict guidelines about depicting sexuality. So now lots of unentertaining puritanical film will be available on the internet- Great :-
I personally started reading /. as an alternative to tunes.org I would read a site that debated Open Source vs closed, proprietary code perpetually. What better way to wallow in Nerdiness?
This is somewhat off-topic, but I think the honor of that particular title should be "The World" http://www.TheWorld.com operated by Software Tool & Die. Since 1989, the first public dialup Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the planet. And we're still proud to be the best. These other guys may have set up the technology, but "the revolution" is another matter. Its like crediting K&R for starting Open Source. Not quite.
Damn, bad enough I mispell boldly- I also call the mainstream media "the press!" hoe anachronistic! I just can't do nothun' right!
I think the spelling "virii" is a great way to differentiate the organic molecules from the electronic menace. I would even say "virii," as a word is as viral as its namesake. This is also reminiscient of the argument about "hacker" and what being a true hacker is about. The fact is that the press won and the common usage now is exactly the one "real hackers" fought against for years. Of course, the self-appointed English mavens are still bitching about "to boldy go" Give it a rest! Its not the "King's English" anymore.
I think you might actually have better chance with OSX! Right now you would have to invest in a ibook and NTFS support is sketchy, but there's promising work in Darwin for both PPC and x86. Call me a dreamer, but at least the possibilities are there.
For a novel way to deliver the "pink slip"- or perhaps the employee who wants to say "I quit!" without showing up in person!
One reason for the anonymous poster's confusion may be Sun's business goals and marketing. You have provided good answers, And yet its still unclear if Sun will stop trying to be a one-size-fits all company, which it probably should. Many of us wish Sun would have given up on Sparc more decisively. I don't question the original intent on backing Sparc architechture, but it probably left too big a target for FUD. The original poster didn't even mention Sparc, but the message is familiar- its ghost seems to still be haunting Solaris
I suppose if Bill J wasn't asked his opinions about linux a zillion times already, you'd have a point. I think he was probably just trying to steer the interview away from the subject. /.er's should take the comment for what it is, an offhand comment.
I think the poster was talking in more abstract terms than you credit him for. A. Tennenbaum's minix would have made Linux redundent, except for the free source code and its philosophy. *nix OS technology was far behind the Lisp Machines and even Vax! A. Tennenbaum, who published 'minix' criticized linux very early on because of its "backward" monolithic kernel. Beyond networking and user interface enhancements, Linux really isn't really much other than a reimplementation of pre-PC Unix. Its just that Unix+ free source was that good!
You have a strange code-centric take on the history here. There basically were NO people, outside the university environment, who were interested in the technologies! Computing was still very exotic, and home and hobbyist computers were an entirely different animal from *nix machines. The power and price of hardware available to the public was much more important than any licencing schemes, which a lot of the "hackers" of the time would ignore anyways.
iTunes does indeed come with OSX, which makes me suspect the poster doesn't really know what he's talking about. If he wants a nicer terminal, why not install X11? I'm also not clear about the real advantages of other terminals- If the look and feel is that important, you might as well give up the command line interface and use the gui. Seriously, I'm really curious what iTerm.app deficiencies are!
Its still experimental and buggy. Unless you want to spend serious amounts of time tweaking and toying with it, don't bother. Then again, its also a quintessential challenge for "hackers." If you're tired of working on monolithic linux, go for it.
This would be roughly equivilent of installing Windows 95 on a Windows 98 Box. Unless you had some exotic old application that just wouldn't run on Windows 98 properly, there would be no use for it. You're simply duplicating everything minus improvements. As a user, not a programmer or Sys admin, there's really no reason to use Darwin. Even then its kind of hard to justify. Don't get me wrong, the project has a lot of potential, but definately not for newbies!
you didn't seem to read the very short article- It can't continue growing if its Declining! This kind of doublespeak in the media is a worrying sign. There is no reason to think "people will find jobs." Feel free to panic!
I've read a lot of this kind of rhetoric in the news... Decline has slowed indeed! That's sorta like the guy who jumps out a tall building, and halfway down says ... well, it hasn't been too bad so far!
Good Question: What would it take to send it translunar? Even with no intention of retreiving it in the future, why not send it Out There?
For Jobs it is the other way around, he used his cult of personality to make money in the first place- although he's done some awful things, he could lose everything tommorrow and still bank on his charisma. I don't know if Larry's business saavy would work without money to back him up. Just another opinion
don't RF Modulators do this? radio shack $20
I'm not going to worry about a Matrix scenario until Kneanu becomes governor of California, ... on the other hand...
Skynet is inevitable... restock your local fallout shelter!
Some posts mention how Anime still hasn't gained mainstream acceptance. Although from my perspective, this is probably a good thing, there's a lot more to the issue than some assume. Hollywood is built on promoting "personalities." Americans have always been attracted to films by the Actors, which is why some get paid so much! The whole concept of Anime is foreign to this culture, being more "oriented" (ouch) towards visual art than performance. Mainstream acceptance is bound to be very slow.
$780,000 for AT&T? Isn't this just a slap on the wrist for such a big company? Maybe it will frighten the smaller companies into compliance, but I'd rather hear that a large number of smaller violators were being fined, instead of a big player being singled out.