When I first started on the Internet, it consisted of academic nerds, computer scientists, a very small handful of professionals (doctors, lawyers, clergy, etc.) and system administrators. Pretty bland.
Nowadays with the great Mass on the 'net things are much more entertaining.
If we got a major manufacturer behind this, we could have a 400 MHz Pentium M on a 400 MHz bus (1:1), 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, and Linux on there for $99.
If we didn't have a major manufacturer behind it, we're talking old stuff which. Not quite as fast, not as efficient, and more liable to breakage.
Linus takes on approach, the BSDs take another. I think there's a place for both in thr world, and that the BSD's is the approach for saner, safer integration of technology. Linux, which takes a faster approach, is where the actual technology comes from but oftentimes in an untested manner.
Can you say bitter, angry, rejected, scorned?
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Jef Raskin On The Mac
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Jef Raskin has been at this for years. Every 18 months or so we see an interview with him in which he poo-poos the current Mac talking about how it diverged from its original tenets of usability. Well no shit, Apple has learned a lot since 1980. They're realizing that now is a time to experiment and change the interface even if it means chaos for a while.
If he's so damn pissed that he got fired and the Mac UI is in the toilet, maybe he should go and work on some Open Sores desktop project and get it right for Apple. Perhaps he'd like to modify the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (yeah, guidelines, not commandments) and then share his changes with the Mac community to point out what it is that Apple needs to change so desperately.
Having another button or a knob on the kayboard might be a good idea, but we're years off since no mainstream operating system supports multiple desktops at this time. Apple's close with Expose, but it's still a far cry from the real thing.
Is this the Apple Wavelet Encryption technology they debuted back in 1999 with Mac OS 9?
Has anyone considered Decnet?
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Replacing TCP?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Now that Digital is little more than IP spread across a few different companies, maybe the holder of Decnet's patents could release the protocol under an Open Source license. If I recall correctly it was quite the networking layer.
At my job we must wear an undershirt and a dress shirt or polo or sweater. We also have to wear socks and shoes, never sandals, and are disallowed shorts. 25 C would be unbearable and would make most of us doze off. 20 C is much more acceptable. However, the women there complain that it's cold unless it hirts 27 C. Go figure.
You have a point there, though you missed that I said both iBooks and PowerBooks should get the bus boost across the board. Processor speeds would be enough to differntiate the two lines. I would settle, however, for 166 MHz iBook busses and 200 MHz PowerBook busses.
These new G4 chips have support for 200 MHz busses. Why does Apple not let those of us still browsing back in the G4 section have that little bitmore performance? iBooks and PowerBooks should have 200 MHz busses all thw way across the board.
Faster, cooler chips about a decade from now when the whole chip paradigm has shifted. Nanotech will still have an application, but not as a replacement for current methods. Instead nanotech will be integrated into new manufacturing technology from the ground up.
I never thought we'd get to the point where people had to attach televisions to themselves. I can already hear the bickering over usage rights while driving. I'm beginning to think that John Titor wasn't so wrong.
Linus is right not to accept this patch into the main kernel tree. What this would amount to is shoehorning Linux into a shoe it's too large to fill, and there is absolutely no reason burden all other Linux distros with this mess. Come on, MontaVista, don't try to cock things up for the rest of Linux just because you're too lazy to patch the kernel yourself.
use the system to defeat the system. now that novell is going open, they look back and see how much non-free content they've accrued over the years and wonder how they can use it to fight for oss instead of against it.
the only thing novel has to worry about now is making sure this doesnt come back to haunt them... you can't play the devil's game without giving him his due at one point or anther, and patents are the devil.
Optimize compression algorithms for individual CPUs. Is Dirac running on a Pentium 4? HyperThread it. Is it running on a PowerPC G4/G5? Optimize for AltiVec. Same applies for Sun's VMX, MIPS' MME, etc.
Release the codec under an Open Source license but one that will disallow forking or total appropriation (re: Not BSD or GPL).
Start a web community/forum and accompanying mailing list for it.
It's somewhat of a bummer that they didn't get GNOME 2.8 or KDE 3.3, the two latest versions of said software, into this release and instead had to use older versions. Will we see them in a minor update, or will we have to wait til Mandrake 10.2?
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When I first started on the Internet, it consisted of academic nerds, computer scientists, a very small handful of professionals (doctors, lawyers, clergy, etc.) and system administrators. Pretty bland.
Nowadays with the great Mass on the 'net things are much more entertaining.
If we got a major manufacturer behind this, we could have a 400 MHz Pentium M on a 400 MHz bus (1:1), 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, and Linux on there for $99.
If we didn't have a major manufacturer behind it, we're talking old stuff which. Not quite as fast, not as efficient, and more liable to breakage.
Linus takes on approach, the BSDs take another. I think there's a place for both in thr world, and that the BSD's is the approach for saner, safer integration of technology. Linux, which takes a faster approach, is where the actual technology comes from but oftentimes in an untested manner.
Jef Raskin has been at this for years. Every 18 months or so we see an interview with him in which he poo-poos the current Mac talking about how it diverged from its original tenets of usability. Well no shit, Apple has learned a lot since 1980. They're realizing that now is a time to experiment and change the interface even if it means chaos for a while.
If he's so damn pissed that he got fired and the Mac UI is in the toilet, maybe he should go and work on some Open Sores desktop project and get it right for Apple. Perhaps he'd like to modify the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (yeah, guidelines, not commandments) and then share his changes with the Mac community to point out what it is that Apple needs to change so desperately.
Otherwise, Raskin is just being a whiny bitch.
PayPal should do that if they'd like to pick up some more customers. Yahoo should so that since they're nigging out on people.
Having another button or a knob on the kayboard might be a good idea, but we're years off since no mainstream operating system supports multiple desktops at this time. Apple's close with Expose, but it's still a far cry from the real thing.
I'm calling it here and now.
You heard it here first.
Is this the Apple Wavelet Encryption technology they debuted back in 1999 with Mac OS 9?
Now that Digital is little more than IP spread across a few different companies, maybe the holder of Decnet's patents could release the protocol under an Open Source license. If I recall correctly it was quite the networking layer.
At my job we must wear an undershirt and a dress shirt or polo or sweater. We also have to wear socks and shoes, never sandals, and are disallowed shorts. 25 C would be unbearable and would make most of us doze off. 20 C is much more acceptable. However, the women there complain that it's cold unless it hirts 27 C. Go figure.
For a fiction-writing class.
No one ever got fired for buying Intel. That's a shame since AMD seem to have better products and more innovative ideas.
You have a point there, though you missed that I said both iBooks and PowerBooks should get the bus boost across the board. Processor speeds would be enough to differntiate the two lines. I would settle, however, for 166 MHz iBook busses and 200 MHz PowerBook busses.
These new G4 chips have support for 200 MHz busses. Why does Apple not let those of us still browsing back in the G4 section have that little bitmore performance? iBooks and PowerBooks should have 200 MHz busses all thw way across the board.
Faster, cooler chips about a decade from now when the whole chip paradigm has shifted. Nanotech will still have an application, but not as a replacement for current methods. Instead nanotech will be integrated into new manufacturing technology from the ground up.
I never thought we'd get to the point where people had to attach televisions to themselves. I can already hear the bickering over usage rights while driving. I'm beginning to think that John Titor wasn't so wrong.
Come on Google, PowerPC users are a significant share of your audience.
Linus is right not to accept this patch into the main kernel tree. What this would amount to is shoehorning Linux into a shoe it's too large to fill, and there is absolutely no reason burden all other Linux distros with this mess. Come on, MontaVista, don't try to cock things up for the rest of Linux just because you're too lazy to patch the kernel yourself.
use the system to defeat the system. now that novell is going open, they look back and see how much non-free content they've accrued over the years and wonder how they can use it to fight for oss instead of against it.
the only thing novel has to worry about now is making sure this doesnt come back to haunt them... you can't play the devil's game without giving him his due at one point or anther, and patents are the devil.
Since when is India a Third World country? What's next, Russia?
I have to agree with Hayes' decision (though not his commentary).
Wasting cycles looking for ET = wasting tax dollars.
Poor writing style (about as unlively as Grisham) and corporate shenanigans... Cliche, trite, and boring. Next please.
It's somewhat of a bummer that they didn't get GNOME 2.8 or KDE 3.3, the two latest versions of said software, into this release and instead had to use older versions. Will we see them in a minor update, or will we have to wait til Mandrake 10.2?