I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. Every PB machine I ever worked on was the biggest piece of schlock around. One friend had to go through seven mice before she got one that didn't die on her after a month of use (the rollers kept falling out). Good riddance, Packard Bell, and I hope your eternity in Hell is a hot one!
I agree. The main reason for making the Amiga OS open-source is not to sink energy updating it (which would be silly) but to take those rare (but priceless nuggets) and implement them in Linux, *BSD, or any other OS du jour. Surely the Amiga OS has things Linux's developers can simply lift (guilt-free since it's OSS) rather than wasting time reinventing the wheel.
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Well, the problem wouldn't be so bad if computing devices were made 90-100% recyclable to begin with. *That* is where research should be headed. Making computers that are easy with which to melt down, centrifuge, and separate their componenents (plastics, metals, ceramics). Of course, all of this bespeaks a growing need to instil in everyone a necessity to recycle more. *Not* just computing devices, but *everything*. For what it's worth, as long as these ubiquitous displays are used for purposes other than high-tech adverts, I laud the possibilities of cheap display technology.
I think that in theory what the people are doing with Berlin is great. However, after at least a year, they don't have anything workable. The problem with all of this fragmentation (Berlin vs. KDE vs. GNOME vs. Fubar) is that it is counter-productive and leads to much duplicated effort. People need to get over the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome and learn to work together more. At the end of the day, if a project remains nothing more than pie-in-the-sky speculation and committee discussion, it's worthless. X is too much entrenched for hundreds of thousands of developers to suddenly abandon it and go to a 'might be' GUI platform.
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I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. Every PB machine I ever worked on was the biggest piece of schlock around. One friend had to go through seven mice before she got one that didn't die on her after a month of use (the rollers kept falling out). Good riddance, Packard Bell, and I hope your eternity in Hell is a hot one!
I agree. The main reason for making the Amiga OS open-source is not to sink energy updating it (which would be silly) but to take those rare (but priceless nuggets) and implement them in Linux, *BSD, or any other OS du jour. Surely the Amiga OS has things Linux's developers can simply lift (guilt-free since it's OSS) rather than wasting time reinventing the wheel.
Well, the problem wouldn't be so bad if computing devices were made 90-100% recyclable to begin with. *That* is where research should be headed. Making computers that are easy with which to melt down, centrifuge, and separate their componenents (plastics, metals, ceramics). Of course, all of this bespeaks a growing need to instil in everyone a necessity to recycle more. *Not* just computing devices, but *everything*. For what it's worth, as long as these ubiquitous displays are used for purposes other than high-tech adverts, I laud the possibilities of cheap display technology.
I think that in theory what the people are doing with Berlin is great. However, after at least a year, they don't have anything workable. The problem with all of this fragmentation (Berlin vs. KDE vs. GNOME vs. Fubar) is that it is counter-productive and leads to much duplicated effort. People need to get over the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome and learn to work together more. At the end of the day, if a project remains nothing more than pie-in-the-sky speculation and committee discussion, it's worthless. X is too much entrenched for hundreds of thousands of developers to suddenly abandon it and go to a 'might be' GUI platform.