Hmm... My OSX box runs Windows programs. My Ubuntu box runs Windows programs. Why could Microsoft WinLix 2010 run Windows programs?
I don't think OS' are like playdough, but they should be!
You are right about MS culture, but it is a product of a technological dictatorship. If MS opened up a bit more, their culture might expand and that would be good for business. Linux is a perfect tool for them to use to appear more open.
If you don't think MS is pissed about that 5% then you don't know MS. Also, I never said they should abandon anything. They should just offer an alternative.
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XENIX was just crappy old UNIX on a PC. I'm talking about a hybrid Windows/UNIX meld something like OSX, but better. That's what MS needs. A new direction. Every release of Windows just becomes a liability to them. Vista is a huge leap past XP, but people run from it in hysterical terror. They'll do the same with Windows 7. Are you going to wipe your Ubuntu, OSX, Solaris, or Slackware box and put Windows 7 on it? I doubt it. But if MS offered a shiny *new* UNIX, you might be tempted to give it a try and it might actually be solid.
I don't consider UNIX "legacy baggage" at all. It's evolving more than any other OS technology. Just look at OSX! All I'm saying is that MS could evolve with UNIX instead of against it. They cast a line in the sand decades ago and it's time for them to give up the fight. Some people prefer a UNIX-like OS so why not give it to them? It's working for Apple isn't it?
BTW, I'm all for moving on from traditional technologies. I'd like to see something like bumptop evolve into a full-fledged OS, but that sort of thing is probably still a decade away.
UNIX is bigger than US patents. It is a culture that became an OS that became a culture. Linux gave the poor man a way to run a UNIX-like OS without having to shell out big bucks to Sun, HP, AT&T, SCO, or another UNIX vendor. Linux has become a culture in its own right. If MS were smart, they'd drop the "we hate all things UNIX" attitude and develop their own OSX-style distro that could be run on cheap PC hardware which would put them in position to actually take back some of the market Apple has claimed, and Google is about to claim. Besides, copying Apple is what they do best.
Why, because we might make some rocks dirty? Seriously, I want you to explain why we "messy" humans should keep away from other worlds.
It's about responsibility. What if we discovered some new mineable energy resource in space? Who would own it? Who would govern it? Would we kill each other for it? Until we can honestly answer this question with an answer like "for the benefit of ALL humanity with no ramifications for other life forms", we aren't responsible enough as a species to explore new worlds. Look at what the settlers did to the Native Americans and the buffalo. I haven't seen ANY evidence that we have grown much since then. That's why.
You're going to be waiting a very, very long time. Odds are that humanity ending would be a precondition for that, but I have a suspicion that wouldn't be an undesirable outcome for you.
I'm human, I have a family, children, and lots of friends. I don't want to see any harm come to anyone at all. But, I don't think we are a permanent fixture in the universe or on earth. I believe the earth will be here long after we have become extinct. I don't desire this, but I do see the potential of it happening. Since there are no hospitable and sustainable environments nearby to colonize, I think our focus should be on taking care of what we have. If there was a suitable place for human life to go to, I'm convinced that in our current state we'd just fuck it up.
Being a Star Trek fan I find it interesting that the back story includes the near annihilation of humanity in the 21st century. It almost seems like we will have to go through some kind of upheaval as a species before we can reach the next step in evolution. Star Trek predicted so many technology-related things like the floppy disk (yellow wafers that contain data), the communicator (cell phone), and the PDA and tricorder (iPhone), I wonder if some of the social/political predictions asserted in those stories will come to pass as well. Only time will tell.
Look at the mess people create on earth. It's probably best that we keep our distance from other worlds. It makes me kind of happy to know there are vast expanses of uninhabited space. Our resources should be focused on fixing problems here first, then we can look to the stars. At this point, going to Mars seems like a pointless endeavor when crack-heads line the streets of the Capitol of the United States after dark. I'd like to see a thriving space program as much as the next nerd, but exploring the universe can wait until we've mastered being human without killing each other, the air, the seas, and the land upon which we walk.
I don't have a low opinion of Linux at all, but your comment about networks admins just cracks me up. Most admins are like the Gomer Pyles of IT and the smart ones use macs. The best admin I know runs his servers from an iPhone! Anyway, I see your point and I agree that Linux is great, but I paid a lot of money for my mac and I feel compelled to be a snob about it.
It's arguably the best UNIX workstation available and she'll look hip to boot. Seriously, Macs and college are like bread and butter these days. They just go together. Linux is cool, but it's too cheap and free to complement five figure tuition costs.:-) Sending her to school with some dusty old pc running linux is just going to cause her more headaches than she needs while trying to learn. A new Mac provides a solid UNIX environment along with a world-class window manager and it'll work with everything your daughter encounters in school. Why handicap her just to make a "I use free stuff" statement, or because it is what she's used to at home? College is about learning new things. Learn OSX!
I knew about shills, but I didn't know they were this organized. What's funny is my apps sell well even with an average of 3 stars on most of them. I'm not sure the typical app store shopper pays much attention to the reviews if they are feeling compelled to buy an app, or they understand that a 99c app is just an impulse buy and completely disposable in the first place.
The problem I have with compulsory education is that it forces families to participate in something that may not be good for the child. In the USA, we have a lot of leftist educators who have abandoned academics and are using their classrooms as a platform for spreading political beliefs. We also have a lot of private Christian schools that push religion on the kids. I want my kids to be educated in academics, art, sports, and social skills - without the brainwashing. I also want them to be safe and to not be exposed to nymph teachers and drugged out kids. Leave sex, politics, and religion to the family. BTW, I know an "unschooled" kid who just got her pilot's license so maybe the numbers are growing.
Did ebay list Skype in an auction? I mean, why wasn't I allowed to bid? Do these deals occur in smoky back rooms across a table filled with brandy glasses and cigar ashes? How does a company like ebay let someone like Andreessen know they have something up for sale? Does Satan have a billion dollar deal brokerage in hell that only the most elite rich get invited to? Somebody, *who knows*, please educate me on this! I took some business courses in school, but I must have been asleep the day deals like this were covered.
I get the feeling that the script wizards who come up with this crap were never exposed to the old post war science fiction movies or books. We're going to code our own prison around us, and in many ways we already have. Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should do it. We need to exercise some common sense. This is a bunch of expensive lawsuits and criminal investigations waiting to happen. "No Judge, I couldn't have been at the scene of the crime. I have twitter proof that I was at home watching Star Trek!"
Scorn for Slashdot? Why? It's just a classic forum for nerds. Twitter is a stupid fad service based on a stupid idea for stupid people who think they're important enough to track. It's another whateverScript "technology" like MySpace which was all the rage five years ago and is now all but abandoned. It amazes me that people flock to it. But, then again, people flock to a lot of really stupid things. There are sites and services for everybody I guess and that's a good thing I suppose so tweet your hearts out (I'll be reading slashdot thank you and ignoring what you're doing in 140 chars or less).
Osama Bin Laden will tweet his Jihad message to all the sleeper cells, but forget to turn off the locator and then the military sends missiles to the exact spot he is standing only to find he was in New Jersey the whole time but left an hour before the missile strike. If that happened, Twitter would finally have a purpose.
Help produce some excellent code at 3:00 am. If programmers are so freaking smart, why do they consume so much caffeine and fat? I think it is so they can dumb themselves down enough to fit into mainstream society.
His contribution to music is unprecedented. The products of his creativity have brought great joy and enlightenment to millions, if not billions, of people and have become iconic in humanity's body of work. I play a Les Paul. Thank you Les Paul.
only allows trusted identities to gain access to sensitive information. Problem is almost no networks are properly administrated, and current OS's and apps are woefully insecure. For every layer of security added, another layer of risk is also added. Security is largely an illusion and trust is pointless in a fully corrupt society. I think the best way to handle intellectual property is to make it available to everybody. If your information is top secret/classified, then follow the protocols for handling the information, but understand that secrets are made to be revealed. If you don't trust the outsourced firm, then fire them. It sounds like the responsibility is yours and you don't feel like you are in control or comfortable with the situation.
I'm not against trying to improve the situation, but I'm concerned that the controlling powers are using the green issue as a selling tool to promote agendas that will be detrimental to humanity in the long run.
If cars start getting 230 mpg, then a gallon of gas will end up costing $50 per gallon between taxes and profits for the oil industry. But the potential cost to the consumer isn't the real problem. Anyone with high school physics knows it takes energy to do work such as move a person or stuff from one place to another. Energy by conversion is never environmentally friendly in any form. Hydro wrecks the landscape, burning fuels pollutes the air, nuclear creates radioactive waste, and even solar, wind, and wave have negative impacts on the environment. The only way to truly protect our environment it to produce the cleanest energy possible and use that energy responsibly, and sparingly. Since humanity can't even worship different gods without wanting to slay each other, I suspect true environmental responsibility is a long way in the future. The current "green" trend is currently being driven by corporate greed and strategic marketing to make consumers think they are "saving the environment" by owning a Prius or buying crap labelled "environmentally friendly". What's amazing is that hordes of supposedly "educated and enlightened" people fall for this nonsense. GM's car is a cool achievement for a company known for producing gas guzzlers. But, fooling people into buying a 40k car on the basis of environmental concerns, when they helped create the concerns through decades of producing pollution mobiles and ignoring the environment until it became a fascist trend to be green, is pretty lame indeed.
Instead of presenting 3D content in a 2D browser, build a freaking 3D browser that is capable of rendering 2D content. Content providers could create sites that are as rich as an MMORPG, or as simple as a single html page. People could surf with the a,w,s, and d keys (and use their control buttons to duck under crappy sites!). The technology to do this is here, but the standards people need to embrace 3D as an important information exchange medium. I have a funny feeling this type of thing is going to happen eventually and it's going to be part of a paradigm shift that truly changes the way we approach computing online.
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Hmm... My OSX box runs Windows programs. My Ubuntu box runs Windows programs. Why could Microsoft WinLix 2010 run Windows programs? I don't think OS' are like playdough, but they should be!
You are right about MS culture, but it is a product of a technological dictatorship. If MS opened up a bit more, their culture might expand and that would be good for business. Linux is a perfect tool for them to use to appear more open.
If you don't think MS is pissed about that 5% then you don't know MS. Also, I never said they should abandon anything. They should just offer an alternative.
Actually this looks like a nifty way to get people into Sketchup design and such. I hope it is a success.
No No No... XENIX was just crappy old UNIX on a PC. I'm talking about a hybrid Windows/UNIX meld something like OSX, but better. That's what MS needs. A new direction. Every release of Windows just becomes a liability to them. Vista is a huge leap past XP, but people run from it in hysterical terror. They'll do the same with Windows 7. Are you going to wipe your Ubuntu, OSX, Solaris, or Slackware box and put Windows 7 on it? I doubt it. But if MS offered a shiny *new* UNIX, you might be tempted to give it a try and it might actually be solid.
I don't consider UNIX "legacy baggage" at all. It's evolving more than any other OS technology. Just look at OSX! All I'm saying is that MS could evolve with UNIX instead of against it. They cast a line in the sand decades ago and it's time for them to give up the fight. Some people prefer a UNIX-like OS so why not give it to them? It's working for Apple isn't it? BTW, I'm all for moving on from traditional technologies. I'd like to see something like bumptop evolve into a full-fledged OS, but that sort of thing is probably still a decade away.
UNIX is bigger than US patents. It is a culture that became an OS that became a culture. Linux gave the poor man a way to run a UNIX-like OS without having to shell out big bucks to Sun, HP, AT&T, SCO, or another UNIX vendor. Linux has become a culture in its own right. If MS were smart, they'd drop the "we hate all things UNIX" attitude and develop their own OSX-style distro that could be run on cheap PC hardware which would put them in position to actually take back some of the market Apple has claimed, and Google is about to claim. Besides, copying Apple is what they do best.
Why, because we might make some rocks dirty? Seriously, I want you to explain why we "messy" humans should keep away from other worlds.
It's about responsibility. What if we discovered some new mineable energy resource in space? Who would own it? Who would govern it? Would we kill each other for it? Until we can honestly answer this question with an answer like "for the benefit of ALL humanity with no ramifications for other life forms", we aren't responsible enough as a species to explore new worlds. Look at what the settlers did to the Native Americans and the buffalo. I haven't seen ANY evidence that we have grown much since then. That's why.
You're going to be waiting a very, very long time. Odds are that humanity ending would be a precondition for that, but I have a suspicion that wouldn't be an undesirable outcome for you.
I'm human, I have a family, children, and lots of friends. I don't want to see any harm come to anyone at all. But, I don't think we are a permanent fixture in the universe or on earth. I believe the earth will be here long after we have become extinct. I don't desire this, but I do see the potential of it happening. Since there are no hospitable and sustainable environments nearby to colonize, I think our focus should be on taking care of what we have. If there was a suitable place for human life to go to, I'm convinced that in our current state we'd just fuck it up.
Being a Star Trek fan I find it interesting that the back story includes the near annihilation of humanity in the 21st century. It almost seems like we will have to go through some kind of upheaval as a species before we can reach the next step in evolution. Star Trek predicted so many technology-related things like the floppy disk (yellow wafers that contain data), the communicator (cell phone), and the PDA and tricorder (iPhone), I wonder if some of the social/political predictions asserted in those stories will come to pass as well. Only time will tell.
Look at the mess people create on earth. It's probably best that we keep our distance from other worlds. It makes me kind of happy to know there are vast expanses of uninhabited space. Our resources should be focused on fixing problems here first, then we can look to the stars. At this point, going to Mars seems like a pointless endeavor when crack-heads line the streets of the Capitol of the United States after dark. I'd like to see a thriving space program as much as the next nerd, but exploring the universe can wait until we've mastered being human without killing each other, the air, the seas, and the land upon which we walk.
I don't have a low opinion of Linux at all, but your comment about networks admins just cracks me up. Most admins are like the Gomer Pyles of IT and the smart ones use macs. The best admin I know runs his servers from an iPhone! Anyway, I see your point and I agree that Linux is great, but I paid a lot of money for my mac and I feel compelled to be a snob about it.
It's arguably the best UNIX workstation available and she'll look hip to boot. Seriously, Macs and college are like bread and butter these days. They just go together. Linux is cool, but it's too cheap and free to complement five figure tuition costs. :-) Sending her to school with some dusty old pc running linux is just going to cause her more headaches than she needs while trying to learn. A new Mac provides a solid UNIX environment along with a world-class window manager and it'll work with everything your daughter encounters in school. Why handicap her just to make a "I use free stuff" statement, or because it is what she's used to at home? College is about learning new things. Learn OSX!
I knew about shills, but I didn't know they were this organized. What's funny is my apps sell well even with an average of 3 stars on most of them. I'm not sure the typical app store shopper pays much attention to the reviews if they are feeling compelled to buy an app, or they understand that a 99c app is just an impulse buy and completely disposable in the first place.
The problem I have with compulsory education is that it forces families to participate in something that may not be good for the child. In the USA, we have a lot of leftist educators who have abandoned academics and are using their classrooms as a platform for spreading political beliefs. We also have a lot of private Christian schools that push religion on the kids. I want my kids to be educated in academics, art, sports, and social skills - without the brainwashing. I also want them to be safe and to not be exposed to nymph teachers and drugged out kids. Leave sex, politics, and religion to the family. BTW, I know an "unschooled" kid who just got her pilot's license so maybe the numbers are growing.
Did ebay list Skype in an auction? I mean, why wasn't I allowed to bid? Do these deals occur in smoky back rooms across a table filled with brandy glasses and cigar ashes? How does a company like ebay let someone like Andreessen know they have something up for sale? Does Satan have a billion dollar deal brokerage in hell that only the most elite rich get invited to? Somebody, *who knows*, please educate me on this! I took some business courses in school, but I must have been asleep the day deals like this were covered.
I get the feeling that the script wizards who come up with this crap were never exposed to the old post war science fiction movies or books. We're going to code our own prison around us, and in many ways we already have. Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should do it. We need to exercise some common sense. This is a bunch of expensive lawsuits and criminal investigations waiting to happen. "No Judge, I couldn't have been at the scene of the crime. I have twitter proof that I was at home watching Star Trek!"
Scorn for Slashdot? Why? It's just a classic forum for nerds. Twitter is a stupid fad service based on a stupid idea for stupid people who think they're important enough to track. It's another whateverScript "technology" like MySpace which was all the rage five years ago and is now all but abandoned. It amazes me that people flock to it. But, then again, people flock to a lot of really stupid things. There are sites and services for everybody I guess and that's a good thing I suppose so tweet your hearts out (I'll be reading slashdot thank you and ignoring what you're doing in 140 chars or less).
Osama Bin Laden will tweet his Jihad message to all the sleeper cells, but forget to turn off the locator and then the military sends missiles to the exact spot he is standing only to find he was in New Jersey the whole time but left an hour before the missile strike. If that happened, Twitter would finally have a purpose.
Probably the most robust JVM compatible language to date. Even the creater of Groovy digs Scala: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html
Help produce some excellent code at 3:00 am. If programmers are so freaking smart, why do they consume so much caffeine and fat? I think it is so they can dumb themselves down enough to fit into mainstream society.
His contribution to music is unprecedented. The products of his creativity have brought great joy and enlightenment to millions, if not billions, of people and have become iconic in humanity's body of work. I play a Les Paul. Thank you Les Paul.
only allows trusted identities to gain access to sensitive information. Problem is almost no networks are properly administrated, and current OS's and apps are woefully insecure. For every layer of security added, another layer of risk is also added. Security is largely an illusion and trust is pointless in a fully corrupt society. I think the best way to handle intellectual property is to make it available to everybody. If your information is top secret/classified, then follow the protocols for handling the information, but understand that secrets are made to be revealed. If you don't trust the outsourced firm, then fire them. It sounds like the responsibility is yours and you don't feel like you are in control or comfortable with the situation.
I'm not against trying to improve the situation, but I'm concerned that the controlling powers are using the green issue as a selling tool to promote agendas that will be detrimental to humanity in the long run.
If cars start getting 230 mpg, then a gallon of gas will end up costing $50 per gallon between taxes and profits for the oil industry. But the potential cost to the consumer isn't the real problem. Anyone with high school physics knows it takes energy to do work such as move a person or stuff from one place to another. Energy by conversion is never environmentally friendly in any form. Hydro wrecks the landscape, burning fuels pollutes the air, nuclear creates radioactive waste, and even solar, wind, and wave have negative impacts on the environment. The only way to truly protect our environment it to produce the cleanest energy possible and use that energy responsibly, and sparingly. Since humanity can't even worship different gods without wanting to slay each other, I suspect true environmental responsibility is a long way in the future. The current "green" trend is currently being driven by corporate greed and strategic marketing to make consumers think they are "saving the environment" by owning a Prius or buying crap labelled "environmentally friendly". What's amazing is that hordes of supposedly "educated and enlightened" people fall for this nonsense. GM's car is a cool achievement for a company known for producing gas guzzlers. But, fooling people into buying a 40k car on the basis of environmental concerns, when they helped create the concerns through decades of producing pollution mobiles and ignoring the environment until it became a fascist trend to be green, is pretty lame indeed.
Instead of presenting 3D content in a 2D browser, build a freaking 3D browser that is capable of rendering 2D content. Content providers could create sites that are as rich as an MMORPG, or as simple as a single html page. People could surf with the a,w,s, and d keys (and use their control buttons to duck under crappy sites!). The technology to do this is here, but the standards people need to embrace 3D as an important information exchange medium. I have a funny feeling this type of thing is going to happen eventually and it's going to be part of a paradigm shift that truly changes the way we approach computing online.