Globalisation and the wto aim to bring about economic harmony by breaking down trade barriers so, e.g. developing countries such as India get the chance to enter into lucrative markets.
In one sense this is helping to achieve some economic unity, but by and large as far as I can see the general trend is for things to "spiral down" into a competitive frenzy.
Ideally, standards in developing countries should rise to those in developed countries. Instead we are seeing some rise in developing countries at the expense of a fall in economy in the developed countries.
IMHO, protectionist import taxes should be avoided, but it is high time the wto encouraged countries such as India to impose taxes on these boom industries and feed the revenues back into thier own infrastructure so that health, education and other structures can be improved. Perhaps a start would be impose "export taxes" to limit thier growth to agreed limits.
Both! I did make a reference to MIPS per second but I also reffered to the IBM AiX workstations based on the MPIS processor, which where superceeded by the PPC based models.
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OTOH it would be difficult to write computer history pre late '60's **with** IBM. Apart from sponsoring the Harvard MK1 they were pretty oblivious to waht computers would do to thier market.
It was Lyons Tea Shop Company, of all unlikely contenders, who married "electronic programmible devices" to IT.
Of course when they realised thier mistake they went hell for leather to redress the balance. But...amazingly.....they were totally off the ball **again** with microcomputer technology.
Motorola did make a decent range of PPC based boxes. They could run NT (but the PPC version of NT never worked very well), they could run Unix (but legacy app varieties, and thiers was an incongruous multimedia box in that environment). It was supposed to run Apple, but I never saw that.
Yes, Motorola did build and promote thier hardware, but OS manufacturers did not even seem to be able to get decent device drivers working for it, let alon do an efficient port. In the end it was a box that could (almost) do many things, but at a higher price for less performance. They threw in the towel.
BTW, I did build a server using a Motorola motherboard and standard PC parts. It ran Aix 4 fine, but forget decent video drivers let alone sound. I did try getting the PPC port of Linux up on it, but never succeeded. It did run very stably as a server. It wasn't lightning fast but seemed to scale perfectly, it just kept chugging alone regardless of the workload you threw at it.
I say blame the OS manufacturers for Motorolas lack of success with the PPC.
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Not that it was necessarily a bad think, but with the PowerPC came a whole new generation of workstation.
Gone where the intelligent disk and network subsystems. No more die cast aluminimum chassis.
Whilst I can understand in some sectors the incessant drive for highest MIPS per $, is there not also a place for bullet proof proven technology?
"Openoffice is coming along fast, but I would still pick Smartsuite 9.5 for serious stuff "
Is it still around?! I seem to remember that IBM, after buying out Lotus and doing some tiddly POSIX ports, killed off all the "lotus office apps" and just pursued notes.
Just a little idea.....perhaps IBM could pitch competition against Sun with a Lotus/OpenLotus combination. Pipe dreams.
"HTML technology beneath Safari is KHTML, not Gecko."
I stand corrected! Mind you, Konquerer has always struck me as being a bit slow and clunky, and yet Safari is reputed to be fast. Is it my immagination or is there some reason behind this?
At the time nobody used it for anything but a spreadsheet, now they use thier spreadsheet for database and crude DTP.
Perhaps part of the problem has been for poor layup capability of Word. If Word had been like AmiPro (early windows word processor which had great layup capability from day one), perhaps things would be different.+
There have been some very nice "book" sized computers over the years. My favourite was the Olivetti M10 (try Google for lots of links, I don't want to pick one!).
I am talking computers with just enougth keyboard and display to be able to write or use a spreadsheet comfortably, and precious little else.
In the past many of these kept thier software in ROM, data in RAM, and had no aspirations to mimick a desktop or server OS. Better still, they did not bother with fancy graphics or WySIWIG.
Battery life was long and they ran a couple of seconds after turning them on (Much like, say, a Palm).
Frankly, 15 years after the M10, there is no comparable product on the market, nothing comes close.
A modern day M10 could have USB, including use of USB keys, software in flash, and of course internet conectivity, with a WAP browser and pine like reader.
Africa is a big country. National Geographic shows a lot of film of a few select nature reserves. CNN et al show us lot's of footage from a few troublespots.
And yet I know there is a lot more to Africa than that. Africa is were the human race was born, and today there are millions of people who lead a very straightforward lifestyle where the biggest problems have been caused by outside influences.
IMHO, Africa can make important contributions to OSS, not just use it as cheap software. And conversely I would hope that OSS will allow Africa to develop IT orientated to it's own requirements and objectives rather than being shoehorned into accepting what is there.
I wonder how many of the/. posters reffering to Dictators and AIDS actually went to look at the links. What I saw was frustrated talent, they can do things but they don't no how to deploy it, or how to talk to thier own authorities about what they have to offer.
It would be nice if/. er's could give them some positive encouragement and advice. Perhaps links to case studies of simple effective OSS deployment in areas that could be of use to developing countries were PC's are often community resources rather personal possessions.
Didn't skylab have some radioactive material in it when it came crashing down to earth?
The radioation given off by this thing is probably peanuts compared to the radiation the earth has had from nuclear tests, leaks etc, not to mention natrual radiation.
I think it is more prudent to ask what steps and controls have/are being taken to ensure that this problem gets eliminated rather than escalates.
Somebody would make a tiny little box where I plug the TV in one side and my joystick on the other. On the top there is a little socket where I plug in my USB key full of MAME Roms.
I reckon a MAME emulator like this would could cost something like $25 at the factory door.
I was reffering to Energia which was slightly more powerful than Saturn V but less payload (Russians have a bit of offset from the equator!), and it was succesfully launched.
I think strictly it is considered a booster, anyway, see the link for the details.
AFAIK, this was used to lift the Russian clone of the shuttle, but I think Glasnost put an end to that program.
I think the current state of the art is that the russians **do** have a mothballed but tested project that is up to manned lunar mission standards.
They are also able to shuttle people back and forth between the ISS.
NASA has managed to lose the plans to Saturn V, and has a space shuttle that is semi-retired long before a sccessor will be available.
Meanwhile, back in Europe, they can launch lots of little payloads but have never been anywhere near manned mission like payload, and don't appear to have any interest in developing for manned missions.
That's how I see it.....but I live in a country that has never made it's own spacerocket and has no national pride.
Oh....and another thing, we certinally cannot come to an agreement over "round objects in space exploration.". In fact an analysis of your patents has revealed that a) It does not include many features such as "the use of hydrocarbon based sunstances around the central axes", and B) it is obvious plagurism.
I have placed the matter in the hands of my legal advisors.....the "Sue, Grabbit & Rune" partnership.
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In one sense this is helping to achieve some economic unity, but by and large as far as I can see the general trend is for things to "spiral down" into a competitive frenzy.
Ideally, standards in developing countries should rise to those in developed countries. Instead we are seeing some rise in developing countries at the expense of a fall in economy in the developed countries.
IMHO, protectionist import taxes should be avoided, but it is high time the wto encouraged countries such as India to impose taxes on these boom industries and feed the revenues back into thier own infrastructure so that health, education and other structures can be improved. Perhaps a start would be impose "export taxes" to limit thier growth to agreed limits.
So, it would seem that it would satisfy both types of user. Am I wrong here?
I would like to see lint options for average values as well as RMS.....not to mention Peak Music Power.
OK, you locate the goods.....but to claim your reward there are some "unforseen expenses"........
Both! I did make a reference to MIPS per second but I also reffered to the IBM AiX workstations based on the MPIS processor, which where superceeded by the PPC based models.
It was Lyons Tea Shop Company, of all unlikely contenders, who married "electronic programmible devices" to IT.
Of course when they realised thier mistake they went hell for leather to redress the balance. But...amazingly.....they were totally off the ball **again** with microcomputer technology.
Yes, Motorola did build and promote thier hardware, but OS manufacturers did not even seem to be able to get decent device drivers working for it, let alon do an efficient port. In the end it was a box that could (almost) do many things, but at a higher price for less performance. They threw in the towel.
BTW, I did build a server using a Motorola motherboard and standard PC parts. It ran Aix 4 fine, but forget decent video drivers let alone sound. I did try getting the PPC port of Linux up on it, but never succeeded. It did run very stably as a server. It wasn't lightning fast but seemed to scale perfectly, it just kept chugging alone regardless of the workload you threw at it.
I say blame the OS manufacturers for Motorolas lack of success with the PPC.
Gone where the intelligent disk and network subsystems. No more die cast aluminimum chassis.
Whilst I can understand in some sectors the incessant drive for highest MIPS per $, is there not also a place for bullet proof proven technology?
Is it still around?! I seem to remember that IBM, after buying out Lotus and doing some tiddly POSIX ports, killed off all the "lotus office apps" and just pursued notes.
Just a little idea.....perhaps IBM could pitch competition against Sun with a Lotus/OpenLotus combination. Pipe dreams.
Unfortunatly I have never had the chance to even see, let alone get my hands on, OSX
I stand corrected! Mind you, Konquerer has always struck me as being a bit slow and clunky, and yet Safari is reputed to be fast. Is it my immagination or is there some reason behind this?
It would be nice if this technology could retrofit itself to Mozzilla/Firebird using XUL.
Add
All this script did was make a new script file called "key" which echoed the value.
So if you just typed the key at the command prompt the value came straight back (of course the *nix cmd line offers many variations for retrieval!).
Dread to think about inode usage if you did this on large scale thougth!
Spreadsheet
Text Editor
Database
At the time nobody used it for anything but a spreadsheet, now they use thier spreadsheet for database and crude DTP.
Perhaps part of the problem has been for poor layup capability of Word. If Word had been like AmiPro (early windows word processor which had great layup capability from day one), perhaps things would be different.+
I am talking computers with just enougth keyboard and display to be able to write or use a spreadsheet comfortably, and precious little else.
In the past many of these kept thier software in ROM, data in RAM, and had no aspirations to mimick a desktop or server OS. Better still, they did not bother with fancy graphics or WySIWIG.
Battery life was long and they ran a couple of seconds after turning them on (Much like, say, a Palm).
Frankly, 15 years after the M10, there is no comparable product on the market, nothing comes close.
A modern day M10 could have USB, including use of USB keys, software in flash, and of course internet conectivity, with a WAP browser and pine like reader.
Cost.....$100
BTW, rumor has it that the GPS system auto-navigates to hot young sticky.......
Right. I stand corrected........for what it's worth.
So Europe should not be reffered to as "The old country" by americans?
And yet I know there is a lot more to Africa than that. Africa is were the human race was born, and today there are millions of people who lead a very straightforward lifestyle where the biggest problems have been caused by outside influences.
IMHO, Africa can make important contributions to OSS, not just use it as cheap software. And conversely I would hope that OSS will allow Africa to develop IT orientated to it's own requirements and objectives rather than being shoehorned into accepting what is there.
I wonder how many of the /. posters reffering to Dictators and AIDS actually went to look at the links. What I saw was frustrated talent, they can do things but they don't no how to deploy it, or how to talk to thier own authorities about what they have to offer.
It would be nice if /. er's could give them some positive encouragement and advice. Perhaps links to case studies of simple effective OSS deployment in areas that could be of use to developing countries were PC's are often community resources rather personal possessions.
The radioation given off by this thing is probably peanuts compared to the radiation the earth has had from nuclear tests, leaks etc, not to mention natrual radiation.
I think it is more prudent to ask what steps and controls have/are being taken to ensure that this problem gets eliminated rather than escalates.
I reckon a MAME emulator like this would could cost something like $25 at the factory door.
It would appear to fill a void that IMHO exists between Debian and Slakware.
I think strictly it is considered a booster, anyway, see the link for the details.
AFAIK, this was used to lift the Russian clone of the shuttle, but I think Glasnost put an end to that program.
They are also able to shuttle people back and forth between the ISS.
NASA has managed to lose the plans to Saturn V, and has a space shuttle that is semi-retired long before a sccessor will be available.
Meanwhile, back in Europe, they can launch lots of little payloads but have never been anywhere near manned mission like payload, and don't appear to have any interest in developing for manned missions.
That's how I see it.....but I live in a country that has never made it's own spacerocket and has no national pride.
I have placed the matter in the hands of my legal advisors.....the "Sue, Grabbit & Rune" partnership.