Re:What I think MS was up to...
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I think I'd be overjoyed if Linux were Squashed.
Because I'm pretty damn sure the people who are responsible for making Linux learned a helluva lot in the process of making a lot of mistakes.
Which means their next OS release would thoroughly kick ass. It would be an amazing OS, far beyond what any single OS has achieved yet.
And being really, really pissed with having been screwed the first time, they'd work overtime to get out a release that kicks Microsoft's ass right off this planet.
There'd be a whole lotta hurtin' in the Linux community... for about a year. And then all hell would break lose as their new OS takes over the world.
If I recall correctly there was a free web-released Wing Commander. To my memory, one downloaded the game and first mission; following weeks, further missions were released.
This would have been a few years back; perhaps two or three.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about and where I can get it again? This wasn't pirate-ware, it was a for-real, sanctioned release.
To the rest of the world, this is just one more triumph of the United States that nobody else has caught up to after 35 YEARS!
Not that anyone has been the least bit bothered to "catch up." All the first-world nations, except the USA, puts priority on funding healthcare and education for their citizens, not pissing away megabillions to land on a desolate lump of rock.
Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier, named after Rev. Thomas Bayes. Use the Reverend to quickly add Bayesian smarts to your app. To use it in your own application, you either subclass Bayes or pass it a tokenizing function. Bayesian fun has never been so quick and easy. Many thanks for Christophe Delord for his well written PopF. Orange also looks good.
Stuff you can do with the Reverend: - classify recipes by cuisine - who do you write like? Shakespear, Dickens, Austen, Aesop - detect the language of a document - is your code more like Guido's or Peter's"
I've got a bunch hanging on the wall with pushpins. A few in the bedroom, a few in the kitchen, a few near the computer... stacked three deep in some places.
I should put them shiny side out. Who needs wallpaper?
Playing it like the Raelians...
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...except the Raelians don't appear to be a doomsday death cult.
SCO is playing it much more like, say, Heaven's Gate or Jonestown. Drink the koolaid, take a trip on the passing comet.
Don't believe so. Corel started out as a systems integrator, and a few years later began offering custom software for Ventura, back when it was owned by Xerox.
Er... actually, it looks like they did develop CD in-house. I guess everything else was bought, then.:-)
But nothing that Corel sells is an original Corel product. They've all been purchased over the years.
If they could just pull their shit together, increase the interoperability, stomp the most annoying bugs, and actually market their way out of a wet paper bag, they'd be a formidable software company.
The difference between the Linux/Java fads and their XML fad is that the jackass Copeland is no longer involved in the company. The new CEO actually seems to have a brain and a plan. I think the bad old days of Corel mismanagement are over, and it'll start really kicking out great, integrated products.
There's Natural Painter. That's the leading natural-media art program. Used by, oh, just the usual little folk like LucasArts.
There's XMetaL. That's one of perhaps three leading XML products, and generally regarded as the best.
There's Ventura. It's one of exactly two long-document layout tools (the other is Framemaker). Its user interface and typographic control put Adobe to shame, while FM has better XML and autonumbering.
There's CorelDraw. Diff'rent strokes for different folks, but generally accepted as one of the leading vector graphic editors. Illustrator being the other obvious alternative.
And so on.
In short, all of Corel's products are top-tier products, either the best or second-best in their class.
Of course, those people who are too stupid to actually (a) check out features and (b) test-drive the software, wouldn't have a clue. They'll just go buy what their friends buy, because *that* is how you know what's best!
So what is Gecko doing that's innovative? Or, at least, more innovative than Opera? Seems to me they're both neck-for-neck for implementing the standards correctly and completely.
Seems to me the truly innovative browser is Opera. Gecko seems to be stealing all its good ideas from Opera. From mouse gestures to good cookie management, Opera's the one that's lead the way.
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I think I'd be overjoyed if Linux were Squashed.
Because I'm pretty damn sure the people who are responsible for making Linux learned a helluva lot in the process of making a lot of mistakes.
Which means their next OS release would thoroughly kick ass. It would be an amazing OS, far beyond what any single OS has achieved yet.
And being really, really pissed with having been screwed the first time, they'd work overtime to get out a release that kicks Microsoft's ass right off this planet.
There'd be a whole lotta hurtin' in the Linux community... for about a year. And then all hell would break lose as their new OS takes over the world.
If I recall correctly there was a free web-released Wing Commander. To my memory, one downloaded the game and first mission; following weeks, further missions were released.
This would have been a few years back; perhaps two or three.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about and where I can get it again? This wasn't pirate-ware, it was a for-real, sanctioned release.
To the rest of the world, this is just one more triumph of the United States that nobody else has caught up to after 35 YEARS!
Not that anyone has been the least bit bothered to "catch up." All the first-world nations, except the USA, puts priority on funding healthcare and education for their citizens, not pissing away megabillions to land on a desolate lump of rock.
PCKeyboard, who own the rights to the venerable IBM high-tactile keyboards (aka "the wing of death").
They also have myriad options and some extremely programmable/configurable keyboards.
What has me curious is the stock run up that occured the past month. Why one earth did its value suddenly octuple?
I'm hoping it was a bunch of insider trading based on the litigation idea, and that the arseholes lose their shirts...
Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier, named after Rev. Thomas Bayes.
Use the Reverend to quickly add Bayesian smarts to your app. To use it in your
own application, you either subclass Bayes or pass it a tokenizing function. Bayesian fun
has never been so quick and easy. Many thanks for Christophe Delord for his well written
PopF. Orange also looks good.
Stuff you can do with the Reverend:
- classify recipes by cuisine
- who do you write like? Shakespear, Dickens, Austen, Aesop
- detect the language of a document
- is your code more like Guido's or Peter's"
http://www.divmod.org/Reverend/index.html
http://www.divmod.org/Reverend/index.html
Here, have a humour organ. You seem to have born without one.
I've got a bunch hanging on the wall with pushpins. A few in the bedroom, a few in the kitchen, a few near the computer... stacked three deep in some places.
I should put them shiny side out. Who needs wallpaper?
...except the Raelians don't appear to be a doomsday death cult.
SCO is playing it much more like, say, Heaven's Gate or Jonestown. Drink the koolaid, take a trip on the passing comet.
Since I am proud of my religion, I find it somewhat offensive when these guys come up and offer theirs.
:-) )
I'm proud of the drawings my kid has hanging on the fridge. Are you offended by those, simply because you're proud of the drawings your kid has done?
Or are you jealous that the Mormons have the balls to proselytize their religion, and you do not?
(Me -- I'm offended by religion, period, so I think both you and the Mormons such. Booya!
Perhaps the American dream is to be as smart and as sophisticated as Europeans...
The plastic used in CDs/DVDs is water-permeable. Submersing your DVDs -- or even just keeping them near your shower -- will degrade them.
Start by disbarring the lawyer for abuse of his position as an officer of the court.
Fuck that. Start by hunting down that assmunch and busting his kneecaps.
The commercial spammers have no morals. They will never listen to reason. They will always lie and cheat.
The only way we're ever going to eliminate the big-time spammers is to physically hurt them.
I'm thinking a 50mph blast of even plain ol' water would probably terminate teh weed. Rip its leaves to shreds, at any rate...
The problem is that there are far too many tools in the music industry, from record executives to sales people to a lot of the wannabe pop kids...
and option 5: Tell SBC to fuck right off.
Then please answer a question: what's so "hack" about this?
Is there something special about this facility? Did it require Mission Impossible stunts, hanging from wires and redirecting the laser detectors?
Or did some doofus just walk in through an unlocked door, scatter a bunch of gnomes around, and walk out?
On the face of it, it doesn't seem as impressive as putting Beetles on flagpoles.
Maybe because what the jerk is doing is just plain *wrong*. No, it's not a big wrong like killing someone or raping children, but it's still wrong.
And because we're trying to have a civilization here, ignoring the problem isn't a solution of any quality at all.
Damn you. Damn you to hell.
My life is now on the path to ruin.
Don't believe so. Corel started out as a systems integrator, and a few years later began offering custom software for Ventura, back when it was owned by Xerox.
:-)
Er... actually, it looks like they did develop CD in-house. I guess everything else was bought, then.
But nothing that Corel sells is an original Corel product. They've all been purchased over the years.
If they could just pull their shit together, increase the interoperability, stomp the most annoying bugs, and actually market their way out of a wet paper bag, they'd be a formidable software company.
I'm not holding my breath.
The difference between the Linux/Java fads and their XML fad is that the jackass Copeland is no longer involved in the company. The new CEO actually seems to have a brain and a plan. I think the bad old days of Corel mismanagement are over, and it'll start really kicking out great, integrated products.
Arise, pheonix, from the ashes of that ass!
Care to list that inferior software?
There's Natural Painter. That's the leading natural-media art program. Used by, oh, just the usual little folk like LucasArts.
There's XMetaL. That's one of perhaps three leading XML products, and generally regarded as the best.
There's Ventura. It's one of exactly two long-document layout tools (the other is Framemaker). Its user interface and typographic control put Adobe to shame, while FM has better XML and autonumbering.
There's CorelDraw. Diff'rent strokes for different folks, but generally accepted as one of the leading vector graphic editors. Illustrator being the other obvious alternative.
And so on.
In short, all of Corel's products are top-tier products, either the best or second-best in their class.
Of course, those people who are too stupid to actually (a) check out features and (b) test-drive the software, wouldn't have a clue. They'll just go buy what their friends buy, because *that* is how you know what's best!
Ah. Gotcha.
So what is Gecko doing that's innovative? Or, at least, more innovative than Opera? Seems to me they're both neck-for-neck for implementing the standards correctly and completely.
Seems to me the truly innovative browser is Opera. Gecko seems to be stealing all its good ideas from Opera. From mouse gestures to good cookie management, Opera's the one that's lead the way.