The word from Loki is that the actual game will roll off the presses sometime last week, and start shipping around then.
By that account I should already be able to buy it. Wow! Once again, development on an Open Source OS blows away development times on Windows systems. Now the final releases of software come out *before* the demoes!!!:)
Wait, didn't the great innovators at Microsoft create the first OS? Surely there was nothing filling the great void until they came along. Not only did they create the first true OS (DOS), but they created the first user-friendly GUI'd OS (windows). I thought everyone knew this. Don't you read they're press releases?
Why do I get the feeling that PB 5300's and 190's are going to start going for more on Ebay? The article says that the units don't even need to function. SO if you were planning on buying a new PB anyway, it's a nice way to save yourself a bonus.
Actually, from what I recall from a friend, this was actually one of the "features" discussed for Win2K. It would automatically "fix" the MBR when you booted into 2K.
The folks at Burger King observatory in Oklahoma report that the McDonald observatory in Texas has misidentified the new planet. They claim it is simply an spaceborne Whopper which they launched several years ago.
Not if it's not integrated into the other code they don't If it's a free standing sort of monitoring program, they don't have to release a damn thing. It's only if they integrated or used existing gpl'd code that they'd have to release it.
The thing I like about this product is that it doesn't install any of the extraneous crap that often comes with Redhat. Yes, I know you could always tailor an installation to not include the junk. But this version comes with no extras as default. And that's a good thing. I don't really need all that stuff when I'm trying to run a high uptime, highly secure server.
I'm thinking that in this case patent law is somewhat like copyright law. It's okay to use it and garner the protection for the work you've done, but not to use the protection of the law in anti-competitive ways.
What's really nice about standards like these is that they greatly simplify life for working with the products which support them. Think of how you'd be able to write drivers for your Palm, Cassiopeia, Windows Laptop, Linux Desktop, and C-64 all fairly easily because you're writing for the same basic interface/
Here's the situation I'm afraid of. Say one of these detection systems is set up in an area that is not *too* highly traveled. Such that someone "detectable" walks through, sets off the alarm, and is caught. But lets say that some of the dna they sucked off of him gets stuck in the system, whether it be just hanging in the pipes or whatever. What happens when I walk through 5 minutes later and some of that suspect DNA gets whipped in along with my own?
Suddenly I'm being thrown in jail, practically already convicted because suspect DNA was "detected" on me.
I feel stupid. I even noticed the icon when I was reading this story and wondered, "Why is this a humor story." And then it took me until the 3rd or 4th picture to figure out that the "weapon" was a generic 2 liter diet cola bottle. Ah, the wonderful power of suggestion.
this new Walking Honda should be the new must have plaything (sorry, not available for sale!).
How does something that is more than three years old get classified as "new?"
I can understand if there had been some recent development in this thing, but I don't see anything there that I don't remember from before. This may have been a great link to have as a quickie, as something cool to look at, but it is definitely not "new" nor exciting.
This does nothing for the chances of seeing Office on other *nixes because the chances are they will simply be using the Carbon API's for MacOS X, basically the same old Mac API. So unless somebody comes up with the WINE equivalent of the Mac API, we won't see Office for *nix.
This is the goal of such services as zKey and Microsoft Passport. You register with them, they verify that you are a good and valid customer. Then any ecommerce sites which use their services instantly know you are a valid customer and also have all your existing information, thus eliminating hassle for you.
This is part of the same reason that, when I graduated from college, I decided to stay in the Pittsburgh area. All of my friends were like, "Why? You could have a great job in the valley which pays twice as much!" But the cost of living in Pittsburgh is microscopic in comparison. At $60k a year, I'm sitting pretty. And the tech environment out here is much more astounding then you would expect, with the entire breadth of the industry represented.
I really, really hate projects which are "open source" but who refuse to release the source until it's "done." Too many projects these days seem to be following that path, and it's a dangerous one to take. Because what if the code is never truly "finished", as no project ever really is. Its sad.
This has been an ongoing discussion on the developers list. Some people are for it, others against. The ones who seem to be against it are the ones who want to maintain the simplicity of gnutella. Others are suffering from kitchen-sink syndrome. You have to admit that the general technology behind gnutella could be adapted to a really great real-time web search engine. That is, if they ever get around to releasing the source to it.
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The word from Loki is that the actual game will roll off the presses sometime last week, and start shipping around then.
:)
By that account I should already be able to buy it. Wow! Once again, development on an Open Source OS blows away development times on Windows systems. Now the final releases of software come out *before* the demoes!!!
CNet is also carrying a version of this story here. Unliks some of the others, this isn't just a copy of the Reuters story.
Yahoo has an article about it as well. You can find it here.
There's also a NYTimes article about this here.
blah blah free registration required blah blah
Wait, didn't the great innovators at Microsoft create the first OS? Surely there was nothing filling the great void until they came along. Not only did they create the first true OS (DOS), but they created the first user-friendly GUI'd OS (windows). I thought everyone knew this. Don't you read they're press releases?
Okay. So the RIAA sues MP3board.com, which sues AOL, which owns Time Warner, which owns Warner Music, which is a member of the RIAA.
Around and round we go...
Why do I get the feeling that PB 5300's and 190's are going to start going for more on Ebay? The article says that the units don't even need to function. SO if you were planning on buying a new PB anyway, it's a nice way to save yourself a bonus.
Actually, from what I recall from a friend, this was actually one of the "features" discussed for Win2K. It would automatically "fix" the MBR when you booted into 2K.
The folks at Burger King observatory in Oklahoma report that the McDonald observatory in Texas has misidentified the new planet. They claim it is simply an spaceborne Whopper which they launched several years ago.
Not if it's not integrated into the other code they don't If it's a free standing sort of monitoring program, they don't have to release a damn thing. It's only if they integrated or used existing gpl'd code that they'd have to release it.
The thing I like about this product is that it doesn't install any of the extraneous crap that often comes with Redhat. Yes, I know you could always tailor an installation to not include the junk. But this version comes with no extras as default. And that's a good thing. I don't really need all that stuff when I'm trying to run a high uptime, highly secure server.
I'm thinking that in this case patent law is somewhat like copyright law. It's okay to use it and garner the protection for the work you've done, but not to use the protection of the law in anti-competitive ways.
What's really nice about standards like these is that they greatly simplify life for working with the products which support them. Think of how you'd be able to write drivers for your Palm, Cassiopeia, Windows Laptop, Linux Desktop, and C-64 all fairly easily because you're writing for the same basic interface/
Here's the situation I'm afraid of. Say one of these detection systems is set up in an area that is not *too* highly traveled. Such that someone "detectable" walks through, sets off the alarm, and is caught. But lets say that some of the dna they sucked off of him gets stuck in the system, whether it be just hanging in the pipes or whatever. What happens when I walk through 5 minutes later and some of that suspect DNA gets whipped in along with my own?
Suddenly I'm being thrown in jail, practically already convicted because suspect DNA was "detected" on me.
That's a future I'm scared to face.
At least this guy wasn't drunk enough to take picture of himself urinating as one of the "enhanced" weapons.
I feel stupid. I even noticed the icon when I was reading this story and wondered, "Why is this a humor story." And then it took me until the 3rd or 4th picture to figure out that the "weapon" was a generic 2 liter diet cola bottle. Ah, the wonderful power of suggestion.
So how long until someone writes mod_human for apache?
Although the benefits of embedding a human in your web server are dubious.
Now all we need is for it to take voice commands.
"Destroy him, my robots!"
this new Walking Honda should be the new must have plaything (sorry, not available for sale!).
How does something that is more than three years old get classified as "new?"
I can understand if there had been some recent development in this thing, but I don't see anything there that I don't remember from before. This may have been a great link to have as a quickie, as something cool to look at, but it is definitely not "new" nor exciting.
This does nothing for the chances of seeing Office on other *nixes because the chances are they will simply be using the Carbon API's for MacOS X, basically the same old Mac API. So unless somebody comes up with the WINE equivalent of the Mac API, we won't see Office for *nix.
This is the goal of such services as zKey and Microsoft Passport. You register with them, they verify that you are a good and valid customer. Then any ecommerce sites which use their services instantly know you are a valid customer and also have all your existing information, thus eliminating hassle for you.
This is part of the same reason that, when I graduated from college, I decided to stay in the Pittsburgh area. All of my friends were like, "Why? You could have a great job in the valley which pays twice as much!" But the cost of living in Pittsburgh is microscopic in comparison. At $60k a year, I'm sitting pretty. And the tech environment out here is much more astounding then you would expect, with the entire breadth of the industry represented.
I really, really hate projects which are "open source" but who refuse to release the source until it's "done." Too many projects these days seem to be following that path, and it's a dangerous one to take. Because what if the code is never truly "finished", as no project ever really is. Its sad.
This has been an ongoing discussion on the developers list. Some people are for it, others against. The ones who seem to be against it are the ones who want to maintain the simplicity of gnutella. Others are suffering from kitchen-sink syndrome. You have to admit that the general technology behind gnutella could be adapted to a really great real-time web search engine. That is, if they ever get around to releasing the source to it.
This should at least be a little faster than sneakernet.