For some odd reason (no, really, I don't quite know why) BeOS is much more responsive to me The User, than any of the latest Linuxes or Windows2K. I can think of 1000 reasons why Linux should be better than BeOS, yet BeOS just feels like it's created for me, not for the network, the disk, the odd daemon to whom attention must be given. The pervasively multithreaded interface and the near-realtime kernel might have something to do with it, but maybe it's some magical force hidden in the meanders of the BeOS code.
The thing that still impresses people is how the hardware is supported, is supported magnificiently: graphic cards are recognized and configured, soundcards recognized and configured, etc. etc. and all without the user ever seeing one single "new hardware found... BZZ BZZ... do you think this might be the driver, yes?... BZZ.. now reboot till we find the next piece of hardware.. BZZZ.." or a single dinking on the command line, Linux-style. Take the hard drive with BeOS from one computer into another, boot and everything (that is supported) works!
Excellent post, MB! Now, if you don't mind, I would like to go a bit offtopic and address something that I feel is inherent and implied in your post: that the machines are perfect, harmonious and homogeneous. Well, that would be countrary to them having free will. And they do have free will, otherwise they wouldn't have turned against humans. This, of course, presupposes that there isn't just one single mind and mover and all the rest are terminals to that motion force. And the first episode of The Matrix already seems to show that this (i.e. that there are multiple separate non-human beings) is the case: remember how agent Smith disconnected from the loop in order to talk with Morpheous "off the record" while he was torturing him? And the Oracle and the french guy, they also seem to be pretty independent. I even think that it's not entirely pertinent to believe everything the Architect tells Neo, because he can chose to lie, and if that fits his interest, why wouldn't he?
Where am I going with this thought? Well, perhaps agent Smith is not completely in sync with the Architect. The Architect wants to perpetuate the matrix (apparently), but agent Smith seems to fed up with it - as he candidly tells this to Morpheus in the first episode......
..of the Matrix: it's not the lives of the people to be simulated by machines, it's just the world minus the humans (because they live their own life using their own brainpower) that is simulated. That should decrease the "computational requirements" quite a bit, I guess.
I'm stunned, too! I thought the NES wasn't being produced since a long time. I have several carts and a couple of working NES consoles (I fixed them myself), and was waiting for their prices to pick up, a little bit (as collectable items), but it never happened. Now I know why!
The pressure sensor will transmit the data to a computer chip, which will then accumulate and send the necessary information, regarding the proper hydrogen mixture, to the injection jet.
I think this needs to be clarified, because there have been at least 2 other posts suggesting this (btw., some of these posts are truly rendundant).
Basically, nobody can buy Novell in a hostile takeover, as Novel has had the famous "poison pill" option ready since a long time ago. "Poison pill" is a securities mechanism where a company can fight a hostile takeover by enormeously increasing the floated shares. A publicly traded company can prepare for such provision, and that's exactly what Novell did, years ago.
As for willingness: Novell's corporate culture is deeply uninclined to being taken over. Their top engineers and executives are rather proud of their technology (much less of their marketing, but not everybody can be Microsoft) and believe they can still pull it of on their own. I believe that, too, but that's beside the point.
And lastly: I am not so sure IBM is a better home for the UNIX IP than Novell. Novell has been quite gracious both in providing the Open Group with all possible goodies (including the UNIX trademark), as well as always sticking to published, open standards and interfaces in their products. IBM hasn't been like that always - which some folks around here might not remember.
Another interesting bit is a story a former Caldera employee posted in one of these previous SCO stories. Apparently after Caldera successfully settled with Microsoft over DR-DOS ($500M?), most of the money went back to Novell and not into DR-DOS/Linux development. This fact was not widely reported at the time, and makes one wonder exactly why Novell spun off DR-DOS if they still owned all the rights. Perhaps they wanted to keep their name clean in the press.
So much desinformation in such a short amount of text! 1) I have been a smalltime Novell shareholder for the last 3 years. I have noticed every cent on their balance sheet and cash reserves. If only a dollar from the Caldera vs. Microsoft lawsuit was to drop into Novell's pockets, I (and undoubtably, thousands of other shareholders and analysts) would have taken notice of it. Novell is a publicly traded company, and while "creative accounting" has happened in many US companies, their source of revenue has to be known, in every instance and at all times.
2) It's true that most of the money from the settlement did not go back to Caldera. In fact, it went to Lineo which wasfounded at the time as a spinoff from Caldera that specialized in embedded Linux solutions, and for a while DR DOS was part of their portfolio (for embedded applications).
3) makes one wonder exactly why Novell spun off DR-DOS if they still owned all the rights Why do companies sell a product line, IP, brand, franchise - anything? Because they realize that they better focus on something else, that makes them more money.
4) Perhaps they wanted to keep their name clean in the press. Caldera started selling DR DOS (formerly known as Novell DOS) at the beginning of the 90' or even the end of the 80' - don't remember 'cos it was so fucking long ago. The Caldera lawsuit started in August 1996. If Novell wanted to attack Microsoft using DR DOS and Caldera as a proxy, they sure took their fine time to prepare. But the motivation is not very clear: why would Novell do this (5 or 6 years after they relinquished the product itself) want to start a lawsuit against MS, from which they wouldn't get one single penny?
But even if this ludicrious idea of yours was true, it still has no bearing or support to the statement that you make: that this whole mess was orchestrated so that Novell would be the "good cop". There's just nothing for SCO to gain from. If it was a scam planned right from the begining, it would mean that SCO was knowingly taking actions that would eventually harm it financially - something that a publicly trading company may never ever do - executives end up jailed for that kind of shit.
But I must admit that I am amazed at the level of paranoia displayed by a few posters on these boards.
Thanks GGardner. I know I am inexperienced with their interface, but I would like to learn because there seems a lot of interesting (and even amusing) bits of information to be found.
Software patents aren't legal in Europe. I think you are wrong: at least here in Finland (which just happens to be Torvald's home) they seem to be legal, and in fact, I know of a huge mobile phone company based in Finland, that is registering a lot of software patents here.
I could be wrong in the unlikely case that they are patenting these as "ideas" and "technological advances" instead of just software.
India's nuclear arsenal came to be as a deterrent against China and Pakistan, both very agressive neighbors which probably wouldn't have hesitated to expand their borders. Expecially China. Now imagine what would have looked like a (conventional) war between such huge countries.
Who cares why they did it? Yes, I know: you do. And the French, the Russians and the Chinese - incidently, all those who had lucrative contracts with the Saddam regime, conttracts that enriched and strengthened the brutal arm of the regime. If it wasn't for those, maybe a few tens of thousands would now be alive, with their families.
So, the americans did it for the oil. And the French did against it, for the oil. I don't see the anti-war stance more morally solid.
(regarding the brutality of Saddam's regime: the tens of thousands of shiite muslims killed after the failed uprisings of the early 90' dwarf in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of marshland arabs killed by Saddam's regime in the two decades while he was on power.)
Oh yeah, I forgot: the tacit support for Milosevic. And who had to sort our shit out? The US. I was in Serbia during Milosevic's rule, and remember how those opressed by the regime openly said that their only hope is the US, because Europe will never get their act together. Sadly, they were right.
What is it with us europeans that we are so enamoured with bloodthirsty dictators? All this support for Saddam, all the support Chirac gave to Mugabe, and all the indifference we have shown towards Hitler's aggression of neighboring countries - I don't know, sometimes I feel ashamed to be considered a European.
No wonder that the first places to be looted in Baghdad were the German embassy and the French cultural center. And some of the Iraquis even openly said what they think about the demonstrations of "support for Iraq": sentences "I am disgusted by these demonstrations" show their attitude well.
But, we feel that we have to defend every fucking bastard dictator, just to stick it to the U.S. Who cares about the people, about the victims themselves? Not us, that's for sure.
Whose fault is this? I am hesitant to point the finger of blame to ATI only. I strongly believe that the way Linux, Xfree and related software are developed, is guilty as well: way too fast development cycle. I am sorry to say, but this seems to be more motivated by ego than to provide benefit to the community. "Let's include this cool new gadget that I just dreamed up, and let's fuck up backwards compatibility, that's just for sissies anyway"-mentality is at the root of your problems, James.
I am sure there is a fundamental flaw in this concept. See, this circuitry which is protected and activatable with the iButton, will simply turn on or off the electronics of the segway. If you simply bypass the whole junk and replace it with a wire, the segway will run without the need for the key.
Two things: a) the segway is bad for your health in the more worrying aspect, that it keeps your knees in one position for longer periods of time, and the consequences may be as bad as not being able to walk AT ALL. b) Postal workers apparently rejected it, 'cause they were freezing on the Segway during winter - walking warms you up, moving in the Segway definitely doesn't.
And why the fuck is it that the postal workers don't just get bicicles? That's exactly what they use in Helsinki, and it's not like Finland is an underdeveloped 3rd world country? They're fast, practical, can carry quite a lot of weight (I'm not sure about the segway) and consume nothing, except the excessive fat.
Where the fuck did you come from? Pupil of chemical Ali? The time of the dictators is over, mate, the "brothers, we'll die for the cause"-speak is over.
As for going back to my hole, I was born in an ex-communist country. Back then, it was "obvious" we all "agreed", we were "all brothers", there was no need for democracy when everybody "agrees". If that's what you want, then you should back to holes like that. There are still a few around, "brother".
good luck brothers! i fear this battle will be the biggest linux has ever faced, and i know we will stand together and not let corporate greed foil our plans for an open world of computing.
gah! Spare me the political indoctrination, please.
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For some odd reason (no, really, I don't quite know why) BeOS is much more responsive to me The User, than any of the latest Linuxes or Windows2K. I can think of 1000 reasons why Linux should be better than BeOS, yet BeOS just feels like it's created for me, not for the network, the disk, the odd daemon to whom attention must be given. The pervasively multithreaded interface and the near-realtime kernel might have something to do with it, but maybe it's some magical force hidden in the meanders of the BeOS code.
... BZZ BZZ ... do you think this might be the driver, yes?... BZZ .. now reboot till we find the next piece of hardware .. BZZZ.." or a single dinking on the command line, Linux-style. Take the hard drive with BeOS from one computer into another, boot and everything (that is supported) works!
The thing that still impresses people is how the hardware is supported, is supported magnificiently: graphic cards are recognized and configured, soundcards recognized and configured, etc. etc. and all without the user ever seeing one single "new hardware found
Excellent post, MB! Now, if you don't mind, I would like to go a bit offtopic and address something that I feel is inherent and implied in your post: that the machines are perfect, harmonious and homogeneous. Well, that would be countrary to them having free will. And they do have free will, otherwise they wouldn't have turned against humans.
.....
This, of course, presupposes that there isn't just one single mind and mover and all the rest are terminals to that motion force. And the first episode of The Matrix already seems to show that this (i.e. that there are multiple separate non-human beings) is the case: remember how agent Smith disconnected from the loop in order to talk with Morpheous "off the record" while he was torturing him? And the Oracle and the french guy, they also seem to be pretty independent. I even think that it's not entirely pertinent to believe everything the Architect tells Neo, because he can chose to lie, and if that fits his interest, why wouldn't he?
Where am I going with this thought? Well, perhaps agent Smith is not completely in sync with the Architect. The Architect wants to perpetuate the matrix (apparently), but agent Smith seems to fed up with it - as he candidly tells this to Morpheus in the first episode.
..of the Matrix: it's not the lives of the people to be simulated by machines, it's just the world minus the humans (because they live their own life using their own brainpower) that is simulated. That should decrease the "computational requirements" quite a bit, I guess.
I'm stunned, too! I thought the NES wasn't being produced since a long time. I have several carts and a couple of working NES consoles (I fixed them myself), and was waiting for their prices to pick up, a little bit (as collectable items), but it never happened. Now I know why!
The pressure sensor will transmit the data to a computer chip, which will then accumulate and send the necessary information, regarding the proper hydrogen mixture, to the injection jet.
Surely that could never go wrong....
I think this needs to be clarified, because there have been at least 2 other posts suggesting this (btw., some of these posts are truly rendundant).
Basically, nobody can buy Novell in a hostile takeover, as Novel has had the famous "poison pill" option ready since a long time ago. "Poison pill" is a securities mechanism where a company can fight a hostile takeover by enormeously increasing the floated shares. A publicly traded company can prepare for such provision, and that's exactly what Novell did, years ago.
As for willingness: Novell's corporate culture is deeply uninclined to being taken over. Their top engineers and executives are rather proud of their technology (much less of their marketing, but not everybody can be Microsoft) and believe they can still pull it of on their own. I believe that, too, but that's beside the point.
And lastly: I am not so sure IBM is a better home for the UNIX IP than Novell. Novell has been quite gracious both in providing the Open Group with all possible goodies (including the UNIX trademark), as well as always sticking to published, open standards and interfaces in their products. IBM hasn't been like that always - which some folks around here might not remember.
Another interesting bit is a story a former Caldera employee posted in one of these previous SCO stories. Apparently after Caldera successfully settled with Microsoft over DR-DOS ($500M?), most of the money went back to Novell and not into DR-DOS/Linux development. This fact was not widely reported at the time, and makes one wonder exactly why Novell spun off DR-DOS if they still owned all the rights. Perhaps they wanted to keep their name clean in the press.
So much desinformation in such a short amount of text!
1) I have been a smalltime Novell shareholder for the last 3 years. I have noticed every cent on their balance sheet and cash reserves. If only a dollar from the Caldera vs. Microsoft lawsuit was to drop into Novell's pockets, I (and undoubtably, thousands of other shareholders and analysts) would have taken notice of it. Novell is a publicly traded company, and while "creative accounting" has happened in many US companies, their source of revenue has to be known, in every instance and at all times.
2) It's true that most of the money from the settlement did not go back to Caldera. In fact, it went to Lineo which wasfounded at the time as a spinoff from Caldera that specialized in embedded Linux solutions, and for a while DR DOS was part of their portfolio (for embedded applications).
3) makes one wonder exactly why Novell spun off DR-DOS if they still owned all the rights
Why do companies sell a product line, IP, brand, franchise - anything? Because they realize that they better focus on something else, that makes them more money.
4) Perhaps they wanted to keep their name clean in the press.
Caldera started selling DR DOS (formerly known as Novell DOS) at the beginning of the 90' or even the end of the 80' - don't remember 'cos it was so fucking long ago. The Caldera lawsuit started in August 1996. If Novell wanted to attack Microsoft using DR DOS and Caldera as a proxy, they sure took their fine time to prepare. But the motivation is not very clear: why would Novell do this (5 or 6 years after they relinquished the product itself) want to start a lawsuit against MS, from which they wouldn't get one single penny?
But even if this ludicrious idea of yours was true, it still has no bearing or support to the statement that you make: that this whole mess was orchestrated so that Novell would be the "good cop". There's just nothing for SCO to gain from. If it was a scam planned right from the begining, it would mean that SCO was knowingly taking actions that would eventually harm it financially - something that a publicly trading company may never ever do - executives end up jailed for that kind of shit.
But I must admit that I am amazed at the level of paranoia displayed by a few posters on these boards.
Thanks GGardner. I know I am inexperienced with their interface, but I would like to learn because there seems a lot of interesting (and even amusing) bits of information to be found.
Software patents aren't legal in Europe.
I think you are wrong: at least here in Finland (which just happens to be Torvald's home) they seem to be legal, and in fact, I know of a huge mobile phone company based in Finland, that is registering a lot of software patents here.
I could be wrong in the unlikely case that they are patenting these as "ideas" and "technological advances" instead of just software.
India's nuclear arsenal came to be as a deterrent against China and Pakistan, both very agressive neighbors which probably wouldn't have hesitated to expand their borders. Expecially China. Now imagine what would have looked like a (conventional) war between such huge countries.
I did a search for Novell AND Unix, and got 832 entries. How did you do your search?
And if I'm not mistaken (which I might be, Altzheimer slowly setting in ;)) it was Novell who donated it to the Open Group.
Who cares why they did it? Yes, I know: you do. And the French, the Russians and the Chinese - incidently, all those who had lucrative contracts with the Saddam regime, conttracts that enriched and strengthened the brutal arm of the regime. If it wasn't for those, maybe a few tens of thousands would now be alive, with their families.
So, the americans did it for the oil. And the French did against it, for the oil. I don't see the anti-war stance more morally solid.
(regarding the brutality of Saddam's regime: the tens of thousands of shiite muslims killed after the failed uprisings of the early 90' dwarf in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of marshland arabs killed by Saddam's regime in the two decades while he was on power.)
Oh yeah, I forgot: the tacit support for Milosevic. And who had to sort our shit out? The US. I was in Serbia during Milosevic's rule, and remember how those opressed by the regime openly said that their only hope is the US, because Europe will never get their act together. Sadly, they were right.
What is it with us europeans that we are so enamoured with bloodthirsty dictators? All this support for Saddam, all the support Chirac gave to Mugabe, and all the indifference we have shown towards Hitler's aggression of neighboring countries - I don't know, sometimes I feel ashamed to be considered a European.
No wonder that the first places to be looted in Baghdad were the German embassy and the French cultural center. And some of the Iraquis even openly said what they think about the demonstrations of "support for Iraq": sentences "I am disgusted by these demonstrations" show their attitude well.
But, we feel that we have to defend every fucking bastard dictator, just to stick it to the U.S. Who cares about the people, about the victims themselves? Not us, that's for sure.
Is that so? That's truly surprising to me. Could you provide me with any link which would provide some more details?
Whose fault is this? I am hesitant to point the finger of blame to ATI only. I strongly believe that the way Linux, Xfree and related software are developed, is guilty as well: way too fast development cycle.
I am sorry to say, but this seems to be more motivated by ego than to provide benefit to the community. "Let's include this cool new gadget that I just dreamed up, and let's fuck up backwards compatibility, that's just for sissies anyway"-mentality is at the root of your problems, James.
Rick Beluzzo was pushing the NT workstation line - which majesticly bombed - and after contributing to SGI's demise, is now working for ...
Yeah, and there will be exactly one casualty.
I am sure there is a fundamental flaw in this concept. See, this circuitry which is protected and activatable with the iButton, will simply turn on or off the electronics of the segway. If you simply bypass the whole junk and replace it with a wire, the segway will run without the need for the key.
or that's how I imagine it, anyway.
Two things:
a) the segway is bad for your health in the more worrying aspect, that it keeps your knees in one position for longer periods of time, and the consequences may be as bad as not being able to walk AT ALL.
b) Postal workers apparently rejected it, 'cause they were freezing on the Segway during winter - walking warms you up, moving in the Segway definitely doesn't.
And why the fuck is it that the postal workers don't just get bicicles? That's exactly what they use in Helsinki, and it's not like Finland is an underdeveloped 3rd world country? They're fast, practical, can carry quite a lot of weight (I'm not sure about the segway) and consume nothing, except the excessive fat.
I learned a similar "story" to remember the names of the stripes in the hydrogene spectrum.
Problem is, I forgot it.
Why can't it be that the penis enlarger companies are the ones that are suing each other into bankruptcy over patent infringement?
'coz they're smart.
Where the fuck did you come from? Pupil of chemical Ali? The time of the dictators is over, mate, the "brothers, we'll die for the cause"-speak is over.
As for going back to my hole, I was born in an ex-communist country. Back then, it was "obvious" we all "agreed", we were "all brothers", there was no need for democracy when everybody "agrees". If that's what you want, then you should back to holes like that. There are still a few around, "brother".
good luck brothers! i fear this battle will be the biggest linux has ever faced, and i know we will stand together and not let corporate greed foil our plans for an open world of computing.
gah! Spare me the political indoctrination, please.