Even a quote taken out of context would be better than this flamebait. If he was talking about short-term technical merits versus long-term support and maintainence, what you say he said makes perfect sense. Maybe he is a Nikoli Tesla type of crazy, but he deserve some respect for laying himself on the line for his ideas.
For someone to start a movement against such well-funded interests, takes a militant attitude and at least a bit of arrogance. Google Stallman's personal experiences with Symbolics Inc.: Stallman gave up a lot of money to champion his "free software" ideals, and he takes his crusade very personally. Many people find him abrasive, but his pig-headedness is exactly what got "free" software to progress as far as it has.
"half of the ibook hardware won't work." I'll assume that's just a bit of hyperbole. It is very frustrating, however, for someone like me, who mostly uses my ibook to surf the web and do email (no I'm not an old Korean person!) I wish Open Darwin "www.opendarwin.org/en/about.html" would start with a nice window manager by default. The nice thing about OS X is that you din't need to spend a lot of time installing or setting it up. BTW for other Apple laptops, 3rd party wireless card will work, but not the ibook:-(
My God, what a masichist you are! First you did this project, and now you're watching the ugliness of a Slashdot discussion on your piece unfold! Please look for some constructive criticism instead of this madness!
ThinkC was taken off the market shortly after Symantec bought it, and I'm not sure that Symantec ever sold ThinkPascal, although they might have continued supporting the product for a while. I was a student looking to learn programming in the early 90's, and it was much cheaper and simpler to get PC coding tools as demos, included in books or even for free- Macs didn't have an equivilent to GW Basic. I beleive MPW was $800 or $900. by the time it was freely downloadable, I had given up on learning Mac programming.
Slashdot moderation sucks. Unfortunately, it puts out new stories more quickly and gets a critical mass of user comments more quickly than any other tech sites I've seen. It's like weather in New England- if you don't like it, wait a few minutes, it'll change (and eventually you'll get something interesting.)
Unfortunately, males with the same interests also often feel like outcasts. My ex-wife thought of electronic hobbies as a typical male weakness, and she was a physics major who I assumed would be more sympathetic. Also don't overestimate the "fellowship" of male geeks, because its often a fragile and a shallow comraderie. Just be clear that some of the messages from society are because you are a "geek" and not just because you happen to be a woman.
Symbolics ported their Lisp Machine Operating System, Genera, to Alphas running DEC Unix before discontinuing their Lisp Machine hardware. Some of my favorite software is now defunct twice over!:-(
In college I used an Apple IIe, which I added a memory card to double the memory from 64 kilobyte to 128 kbs. It had an 8-bit processor that might have run 1 Mhz. It did word processing and speadsheets just fine. Car engines don't follow Moore's law, desktops do. I wish I was hilarious, but its just that you're young and dumb.
"Office Development, Security, Randomness..." Obviously the post on Peter Torr's blog falls under randomness and not security. The fault of both browsers is that neither belongs to my McSecure program which either could get from me for only a few cents a day!
Apparently, Itaniums are good for sending email. A Beowulf clusters joke might be too pertinent, not absurdist enough here. All your Itanium belong to us!
Does this open up a vacuum in the 64bit chip market? Or have the present players already staked their claim? Is 64bit Windows desktops any closer or further away?
I don't think IBM is looking to bring an AOL linux client to the market. AOL isn't looking to support linux either. The OSS desktop needs something new, a new "killer app," maybe a variation of ITunes for linux. Unfortunately Apple has its own operating system. Frankly, I don't see much opportunity for desktop linux anywhere. Back to the drawing board.
I might be easier to build on OS X's momentum. Not that I'm a rabid Apple fan, but I think the linux desktop is going to languish for a while. Even another Java desktop attempt has a better shot at this point. The desktop market just isn't getting behind the penguin, though its a shame. Look elsewhere.
Spybot doesn't really run on linux, and I doubt spyware runs on linux desktops, either. There are cookies you may want to be aware of, but most linux web-browsers make this easy. There are some linux viruses, but also cross-platform antivirus programs. Clam Anti-Virus is a free, open-source app which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
how much earlier was the Star Trek quote before Star Wars II? It also sounds like it may originally be from Confucious or Lao-Tzu. To get back on subject, It took a long while for the industry to adopt USB- although the technology is in place, consortiums have to negotiate standard for anything like this to be adopted widely-- unfortunately.
RTF...-- hey wait, you just quoted the F'nA!!!
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NT 4.0 is not a "moving target." The project has no plans to implement the features of 2k and XP. I've seen a lot of "RTFA" cases, but this post is the first I've seen where the writer has neglected to read the quote he's included in his own post.
Macsyma was actually started at MIT, written in lisp, part of Project MAC. At least two different versions came out, Maxima was from the Department of Energy's version, which has been open sourced. Another version was owned by Symbolics, then was spun off into its own company. I beleive there's still another version and MIT still retains the rights to it. Feel free to correct me on any of this- but for sure the software has a long and tangled history.
I suppose Maxima is reasonably close, but Macsyma used to be a nice math program. Unfortunately the company seems to have gone out of business. Probably neither is suitable for high school math, though. Pencil and paper is probably still best for high school and lower
A long time ago, software programming was done by people with some exposure to electrical engineering and specifically computer hardware. But from there programming became increasingly messy, less of a science. Lisp lost to C, then C++, then Java. Software Engineering has become an oxymoron; Cutler's latest Operating System has become WinXP and the situation you describe for hardware is the norm for operating systems. It would not surprise me if hardware industry becomes more infected by the "hack and check mentality." I think EDA tool venders are unlikely to do the "right thing"
It is specifically the use of landmines along the North/South Korean border that keeps the US from banning land-mines. If that situation is ever resolved, the land-mine issue can be revisited and negotiated. As things stand now, a plane flying along this border is not going to get very far.
Wouldn't a full strength "tablet" PC be a nice addition to the Palm lineup? Of course M$ would never let this happen, but it would be good to have more choices for full-sized touch-screen computers.
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Even a quote taken out of context would be better than this flamebait. If he was talking about short-term technical merits versus long-term support and maintainence, what you say he said makes perfect sense. Maybe he is a Nikoli Tesla type of crazy, but he deserve some respect for laying himself on the line for his ideas.
For someone to start a movement against such well-funded interests, takes a militant attitude and at least a bit of arrogance. Google Stallman's personal experiences with Symbolics Inc.: Stallman gave up a lot of money to champion his "free software" ideals, and he takes his crusade very personally. Many people find him abrasive, but his pig-headedness is exactly what got "free" software to progress as far as it has.
"half of the ibook hardware won't work." I'll assume that's just a bit of hyperbole. It is very frustrating, however, for someone like me, who mostly uses my ibook to surf the web and do email (no I'm not an old Korean person!) I wish Open Darwin "www.opendarwin.org/en/about.html" would start with a nice window manager by default. The nice thing about OS X is that you din't need to spend a lot of time installing or setting it up. BTW for other Apple laptops, 3rd party wireless card will work, but not the ibook :-(
My God, what a masichist you are! First you did this project, and now you're watching the ugliness of a Slashdot discussion on your piece unfold! Please look for some constructive criticism instead of this madness!
you just have to lack common sense and have lots of spare time.
ThinkC was taken off the market shortly after Symantec bought it, and I'm not sure that Symantec ever sold ThinkPascal, although they might have continued supporting the product for a while. I was a student looking to learn programming in the early 90's, and it was much cheaper and simpler to get PC coding tools as demos, included in books or even for free- Macs didn't have an equivilent to GW Basic. I beleive MPW was $800 or $900. by the time it was freely downloadable, I had given up on learning Mac programming.
Slashdot moderation sucks. Unfortunately, it puts out new stories more quickly and gets a critical mass of user comments more quickly than any other tech sites I've seen. It's like weather in New England- if you don't like it, wait a few minutes, it'll change (and eventually you'll get something interesting.)
Unfortunately, males with the same interests also often feel like outcasts. My ex-wife thought of electronic hobbies as a typical male weakness, and she was a physics major who I assumed would be more sympathetic. Also don't overestimate the "fellowship" of male geeks, because its often a fragile and a shallow comraderie. Just be clear that some of the messages from society are because you are a "geek" and not just because you happen to be a woman.
I'm not responding to the article moron, I'm responding to the post titled "Greatest Need of Linux: AOL Client" You dumb fart!
Symbolics ported their Lisp Machine Operating System, Genera, to Alphas running DEC Unix before discontinuing their Lisp Machine hardware. Some of my favorite software is now defunct twice over! :-(
In college I used an Apple IIe, which I added a memory card to double the memory from 64 kilobyte to 128 kbs. It had an 8-bit processor that might have run 1 Mhz. It did word processing and speadsheets just fine. Car engines don't follow Moore's law, desktops do. I wish I was hilarious, but its just that you're young and dumb.
"Office Development, Security, Randomness..." Obviously the post on Peter Torr's blog falls under randomness and not security. The fault of both browsers is that neither belongs to my McSecure program which either could get from me for only a few cents a day!
Apparently, Itaniums are good for sending email. A Beowulf clusters joke might be too pertinent, not absurdist enough here. All your Itanium belong to us!
Does this open up a vacuum in the 64bit chip market? Or have the present players already staked their claim? Is 64bit Windows desktops any closer or further away?
I don't think IBM is looking to bring an AOL linux client to the market. AOL isn't looking to support linux either. The OSS desktop needs something new, a new "killer app," maybe a variation of ITunes for linux. Unfortunately Apple has its own operating system. Frankly, I don't see much opportunity for desktop linux anywhere. Back to the drawing board.
I might be easier to build on OS X's momentum. Not that I'm a rabid Apple fan, but I think the linux desktop is going to languish for a while. Even another Java desktop attempt has a better shot at this point. The desktop market just isn't getting behind the penguin, though its a shame. Look elsewhere.
Spybot doesn't really run on linux, and I doubt spyware runs on linux desktops, either. There are cookies you may want to be aware of, but most linux web-browsers make this easy. There are some linux viruses, but also cross-platform antivirus programs. Clam Anti-Virus is a free, open-source app which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
how much earlier was the Star Trek quote before Star Wars II? It also sounds like it may originally be from Confucious or Lao-Tzu. To get back on subject, It took a long while for the industry to adopt USB- although the technology is in place, consortiums have to negotiate standard for anything like this to be adopted widely-- unfortunately.
NT 4.0 is not a "moving target." The project has no plans to implement the features of 2k and XP. I've seen a lot of "RTFA" cases, but this post is the first I've seen where the writer has neglected to read the quote he's included in his own post.
Macsyma was actually started at MIT, written in lisp, part of Project MAC. At least two different versions came out, Maxima was from the Department of Energy's version, which has been open sourced. Another version was owned by Symbolics, then was spun off into its own company. I beleive there's still another version and MIT still retains the rights to it. Feel free to correct me on any of this- but for sure the software has a long and tangled history.
I suppose Maxima is reasonably close, but Macsyma used to be a nice math program. Unfortunately the company seems to have gone out of business. Probably neither is suitable for high school math, though. Pencil and paper is probably still best for high school and lower
A long time ago, software programming was done by people with some exposure to electrical engineering and specifically computer hardware. But from there programming became increasingly messy, less of a science. Lisp lost to C, then C++, then Java. Software Engineering has become an oxymoron; Cutler's latest Operating System has become WinXP and the situation you describe for hardware is the norm for operating systems. It would not surprise me if hardware industry becomes more infected by the "hack and check mentality." I think EDA tool venders are unlikely to do the "right thing"
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It is specifically the use of landmines along the North/South Korean border that keeps the US from banning land-mines. If that situation is ever resolved, the land-mine issue can be revisited and negotiated. As things stand now, a plane flying along this border is not going to get very far.
Wouldn't a full strength "tablet" PC be a nice addition to the Palm lineup? Of course M$ would never let this happen, but it would be good to have more choices for full-sized touch-screen computers.