I think WINE is a project that has an overall goal of moving towards non-existance. Companies like Corel are moving toward linux using WINE. If I were a developer, I'd use WINE to "port" my Window$ projects to linux, basically to get my company name/software recognized in the linux community. Corel is going full force into WINE just to beat other companies to linux and gain name recognition. Once you have that, you can start taking the time to port your code natively to linux. When it comes to running WIndow$ apps under linux, I personally prefer VMWare just to give my alternate OS's a clean environment to run at their best. I think the life span of WINE is short, but it's significance is tremendous for the time being.
In colder places (such as AK) wouldn't the hard drives freeze in the winter? I've debated building a car MP3 player but the winter temperatures around here made me decide otherwise.
I tried to read the article, but either it's Slashdotted or my TCP/IP is flipping out again. Either way, does anyone else find it odd that an article putting down Transmeta is littered with Doubleclick ads for Intel? Makes me kinda wonder....
Why not both the kitchen and bathroom? I have a netpliance in my kitchen and a laptop in my bathroom. I use my netpliance mainly for recipes and shopping lists, but it was well worth the ~$200 in parts for it. It does see a lot of use as an MP3 player also (I can't cook to dead silence). In the bathroom, self explanatory. Sometimes (depending on how well a cooking experiment went) I spend excess time in there. I like to watch radar, listen to music, read linux HOWTOs, just make the whole bathroom experience much more inviting. I think my guests like the idea of checking their e-mail when they need some "personal time". Let's face it... sometimes you just need a sleek, stylish terminal instead of a big honking monitor and tower case. For the price of this Intel thing, I'd much rather find a laptop on ebay though.
I heard a rumor that the Winelibs have some minor issues that kept WP2K from working correctly. Corel WANTS to compile with Winelib but they'd rather have a fully functioning Office Suite running on Wine instead.
I personally would love to see Corel go open source. If they open sourced Corel Office 2000, M$ would be flat out dead. Corel is setting themselves up in a good position though. They're the first major office/graphics company to dive head first into linux. When (ok, IF) M$ gets around to porting Office, Corel has already seized the Office market under linux. M$ has been avoiding linux but it's going to hurt them in the end. Just wait....
Where the heck is Adobe in all of this "let's port it to linux!" madness anyway? Corel is going to beat them up if they don't get something (preferably Photoshop) ported soon.
Actually, couldn't we hold Al Gore to patent infringement? Since he obviously knew at the time that he invented the internet that it was comprised of patented technology? Maybe that would get him to shut up.....
The article says that LunaTech is building the robot, Radio Shack is just posting the money for it. The robot will be fine.
Summary of the article: Radio Shack finds a good use for the cash they steal from people, the mission succeeds because Radio Shack's logo fell off on the way to the launchpad.
The Radio Shack bit aside, I think this sounds like a cool project.
That is an interesting question. Sems they have forgotten about The Intellimouse, the Natural Keyboard, The Force Feedback joystick (I LOVE MINE!!!!) and of course, Microsoft Barney. Yet there's no mention made in these articles about the few hardware items that Microsoft makes. I think they might even have a 900 Mhz cordless floating around out there with their name on it. IMHO, I think MS is doing better off in hardware than in software.
<signature> "No food or beverage in computer lab". Hmm. I think they mean to say "Don't Spill".
I'm doing this myself, and considering the bargain I got on my laptop, you really can't beat it. I picked up a bunch of 1.3 GB removable drives super cheap on e-bay, so for under $500 with the laptop, removable drives, and convertors I have an MP3 player/laptop built for my car. I still think cheap laptops, despite their size, make the best protable MP3 players.
<signature> "No food or beverage in computer lab". Hmm. I think they mean to say "Don't Spill".
"Their only response was (to say that) the songs aren't on their servers, and if (Young) will send a letter under penalty of perjury identifying specific songs and users that they would restrict those users," King said.
What's so comical about that? It's Napster explaining how their program works. I'm sorry you find it so funny Dr. Dre that you were completely off base on how you thought Napster works, but the truth is you can't go after Napster for something they're not responsible for. They even provided a solution to ban the users who are pirating his MP3's.
<signature> "No food or beverage in computer lab". Hmm. I think they mean to say "Don't Spill".
A quick FAQ on Napster: (I'm no expert either, really)
The MP3's are stored on client's hard drives. All the servers are doing is announcing that you're connected and here's the MP3's this person has to offer. The actual trading of MP3 is client to client. The server hands the requesting client the IP address of the serving client, and the requesting client downloads from the serving client. Napster couldn't really filter that in any way, since the servers don't really know what's being traded.
I was pretty sure that's how the law reads. If I'm not mistaken, you're allowed to make infinite copies of your music and software as long as you're storing them for backup/archival purposes and don't give them to anyone else.
You'll have to pardon my ignorance, but why is Napster under fire from the RIAA? Truthfully, Napster itself has done nothing illegal. How is Napster any different than, say, freshmeat.net? Freshmeat is giving away free software, shouldn't the SPA be all over them too? Of course not, because all the software on Freshmeat is open source.
Legally, MP3's are ok. I can chock my hard drive full of MP3's as long as I a) legally purchased that music or b) have consent from the authors/publishers to store it. I have a lot of cool MP3's on my hard drive that I put up on Napster that are 100% legal for anyone to download, possess, and redristribute. That's what Napster was supposed to do. The fact that yahoos trade illegal MP3's isn't the fault of Napster. Period. That's like saying if I store a pirated copy of Photoshop on my ftp site that my ISP is to blame, not me.
Maybe I'm way off on this, since I haven't been following this issue very closely. That's just how I feel.
I use Corel products at home and at work, and I am constantly impressed by their quality. Within the last year or so, they've been putting out their own linux port and aggresively picking up other software packages. It brings one question to my mind: is Corel becoming the new Microsoft? I don't know if it'd be good or bad, but it really seems this way to me. As long as they're using their power simply to bring linux to a new level of acceptance that's great, but after seeing what Microsoft has done to abuse its power it makes me wonder what Corel really has up their sleeve in all of this.
Is it really a bad thing that Micros~1 is acknowledging that their product should be run with VMWare? I run Windows in VMWare for one reason.. I can run linux ALL THE TIME and just boot up Windows when and if I need it (about once a month in my case) without rebooting my system. I think this is a victory for the people who want to migrate off Windows onto linux (like myself). It allows us to run all our linux stuff and occasionally run those few Windows apps that we can't live without until they're ported.
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You are 100% correct and I have no idea why people are surprised that the mozilla project is being used for Netscape 6. Netscape has always used the mozilla engine. Where do you think the mozilla project came from in the first place? The whole point was to redesign the engine so Netscape could put a snazzier interface on a (near) perfect browsing engine.
This may have been mentioned already, but wouldn't you, as a professor, want to be publicized as a mean professor? Sounds kind of like he's doing his job.. pushing the students to expand their limits and in the process learn something. I was intrigued to find this comment on page 9 (away from all the Slashdot posts) by a student who received an A in his class.
"Curzon is a tough teacher, but if you are willing to do the work your skills will improve. Most of the negative reviews in this section seem to come from people who were afraid. Curzon has no problem lettiing you know you are wrong, which seems to offend a lot of students. Take Curzon's class if you want to improve your writing skills."
Interesting how all the students who got D's and F's can only complain how he can't teach and that he's gay and so forth.
Somewhat off-topic perhaps, but I have an experience similar to this. I'm a Christian white male and I had an English class with a teacher who was a feminist, a lesbian, and an atheist. Needless to say she didn't like me. I managed to pull off a D in her class (a higher score than most white males, who sat and complained about her blatant feminism) but mostly because I got frustrated and half way through the class I stopped trying. I would consider her a good professor just because if you didn't have the attitude that she could teach you something you didn't know, you weren't going to do well. I started off with a strong attitude towards learning, and no matter how hard she tried to push me down I busted my butt in that class. After awhile, I felt like all the work I was doing wasn't paying off, and I slacked.
IMHO, Professor Curzon should be proud of himself for getting such criticism. What does he do? Sues a webmaster because somebody said something bad about him. I probably would have had respect for the guy until he started trying to sue everybody who said something bad about him. Now he's just whining and I'd never even want to talk to the guy. I think by sueing the webmaster he's brought more negative publicity on himself than his students ever gave him.
Yes, I agree entirely that distro wars are basically dumb. Everyone likes different things on their system, and there's no way you can really say that one distro is superior to another. I like Mandrake, but for standalone servers I like debian. Why? Because linux says I can. That's my 2 cents.
After installing Mandrake 6.5 for the first time, I was quickly a Mandrake addict. My body speaks Red Hat, so Mandrake was a welcome addition to my linux CD collection. I find Mandrake to be everything that Red Hat is, plus all the utilities that I would have downloaded anyway. I was a bit thrown off at first by the 7.02 installer, namely the "security level" setting. After a couple re-installs I got my Mandrake system running perfectly. 7.02 is everything that RH 6.1 should have been. No complaints from me.
If they follow suit, Corel will be releasing SP1 in about 4 weeks after inital release. I've worked with a lot of Corel products (superior to any any office clone, including M$ Office itself IMHO) and found that although well designed, bugs exist. Corel seems to be more concerned about getting a product out, and fixing the bugs later. This makes a shodier product out of the box, but if you wait a month or so after the initial release SP1 will be available, which will fix the major bugs and make a great Office clone. I still prefer it over M$ Office any day. Corel actually attempts to fix the current bugs, not just "fix them in the next release". All things considered, I'll be proud to run this fine office suite on my system.
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I think WINE is a project that has an overall goal of moving towards non-existance. Companies like Corel are moving toward linux using WINE. If I were a developer, I'd use WINE to "port" my Window$ projects to linux, basically to get my company name/software recognized in the linux community. Corel is going full force into WINE just to beat other companies to linux and gain name recognition. Once you have that, you can start taking the time to port your code natively to linux. When it comes to running WIndow$ apps under linux, I personally prefer VMWare just to give my alternate OS's a clean environment to run at their best. I think the life span of WINE is short, but it's significance is tremendous for the time being.
In colder places (such as AK) wouldn't the hard drives freeze in the winter? I've debated building a car MP3 player but the winter temperatures around here made me decide otherwise.
I tried to read the article, but either it's Slashdotted or my TCP/IP is flipping out again. Either way, does anyone else find it odd that an article putting down Transmeta is littered with Doubleclick ads for Intel? Makes me kinda wonder....
Why not both the kitchen and bathroom? I have a netpliance in my kitchen and a laptop in my bathroom. I use my netpliance mainly for recipes and shopping lists, but it was well worth the ~$200 in parts for it. It does see a lot of use as an MP3 player also (I can't cook to dead silence). In the bathroom, self explanatory. Sometimes (depending on how well a cooking experiment went) I spend excess time in there. I like to watch radar, listen to music, read linux HOWTOs, just make the whole bathroom experience much more inviting. I think my guests like the idea of checking their e-mail when they need some "personal time". Let's face it... sometimes you just need a sleek, stylish terminal instead of a big honking monitor and tower case. For the price of this Intel thing, I'd much rather find a laptop on ebay though.
I heard a rumor that the Winelibs have some minor issues that kept WP2K from working correctly. Corel WANTS to compile with Winelib but they'd rather have a fully functioning Office Suite running on Wine instead.
I personally would love to see Corel go open source. If they open sourced Corel Office 2000, M$ would be flat out dead. Corel is setting themselves up in a good position though. They're the first major office/graphics company to dive head first into linux. When (ok, IF) M$ gets around to porting Office, Corel has already seized the Office market under linux. M$ has been avoiding linux but it's going to hurt them in the end. Just wait....
Where the heck is Adobe in all of this "let's port it to linux!" madness anyway? Corel is going to beat them up if they don't get something (preferably Photoshop) ported soon.
Actually, couldn't we hold Al Gore to patent infringement? Since he obviously knew at the time that he invented the internet that it was comprised of patented technology? Maybe that would get him to shut up.....
The article says that LunaTech is building the robot, Radio Shack is just posting the money for it. The robot will be fine.
Summary of the article: Radio Shack finds a good use for the cash they steal from people, the mission succeeds because Radio Shack's logo fell off on the way to the launchpad.
The Radio Shack bit aside, I think this sounds like a cool project.
That is an interesting question. Sems they have forgotten about The Intellimouse, the Natural Keyboard, The Force Feedback joystick (I LOVE MINE!!!!) and of course, Microsoft Barney. Yet there's no mention made in these articles about the few hardware items that Microsoft makes. I think they might even have a 900 Mhz cordless floating around out there with their name on it. IMHO, I think MS is doing better off in hardware than in software.
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"No food or beverage in computer lab". Hmm. I think they mean to say "Don't Spill".
I'm doing this myself, and considering the bargain I got on my laptop, you really can't beat it. I picked up a bunch of 1.3 GB removable drives super cheap on e-bay, so for under $500 with the laptop, removable drives, and convertors I have an MP3 player/laptop built for my car. I still think cheap laptops, despite their size, make the best protable MP3 players.
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"No food or beverage in computer lab". Hmm. I think they mean to say "Don't Spill".
"Their only response was (to say that) the songs aren't on their servers, and if (Young) will send a letter under penalty of perjury identifying specific songs and users that they would restrict those users," King said.
What's so comical about that? It's Napster explaining how their program works. I'm sorry you find it so funny Dr. Dre that you were completely off base on how you thought Napster works, but the truth is you can't go after Napster for something they're not responsible for. They even provided a solution to ban the users who are pirating his MP3's.
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"No food or beverage in computer lab". Hmm. I think they mean to say "Don't Spill".
A quick FAQ on Napster: (I'm no expert either, really)
The MP3's are stored on client's hard drives. All the servers are doing is announcing that you're connected and here's the MP3's this person has to offer. The actual trading of MP3 is client to client. The server hands the requesting client the IP address of the serving client, and the requesting client downloads from the serving client. Napster couldn't really filter that in any way, since the servers don't really know what's being traded.
I was pretty sure that's how the law reads. If I'm not mistaken, you're allowed to make infinite copies of your music and software as long as you're storing them for backup/archival purposes and don't give them to anyone else.
You'll have to pardon my ignorance, but why is Napster under fire from the RIAA? Truthfully, Napster itself has done nothing illegal. How is Napster any different than, say, freshmeat.net? Freshmeat is giving away free software, shouldn't the SPA be all over them too? Of course not, because all the software on Freshmeat is open source.
Legally, MP3's are ok. I can chock my hard drive full of MP3's as long as I a) legally purchased that music or b) have consent from the authors/publishers to store it. I have a lot of cool MP3's on my hard drive that I put up on Napster that are 100% legal for anyone to download, possess, and redristribute. That's what Napster was supposed to do. The fact that yahoos trade illegal MP3's isn't the fault of Napster. Period. That's like saying if I store a pirated copy of Photoshop on my ftp site that my ISP is to blame, not me.
Maybe I'm way off on this, since I haven't been following this issue very closely. That's just how I feel.
I use Corel products at home and at work, and I am constantly impressed by their quality. Within the last year or so, they've been putting out their own linux port and aggresively picking up other software packages. It brings one question to my mind: is Corel becoming the new Microsoft? I don't know if it'd be good or bad, but it really seems this way to me. As long as they're using their power simply to bring linux to a new level of acceptance that's great, but after seeing what Microsoft has done to abuse its power it makes me wonder what Corel really has up their sleeve in all of this.
You're using your Palm and suddenly somebody yells from across the room "C-D slash enter R-M space dash F-R enter"? Hope you're not root :-)
Is it really a bad thing that Micros~1 is acknowledging that their product should be run with VMWare? I run Windows in VMWare for one reason.. I can run linux ALL THE TIME and just boot up Windows when and if I need it (about once a month in my case) without rebooting my system. I think this is a victory for the people who want to migrate off Windows onto linux (like myself). It allows us to run all our linux stuff and occasionally run those few Windows apps that we can't live without until they're ported.
You are 100% correct and I have no idea why people are surprised that the mozilla project is being used for Netscape 6. Netscape has always used the mozilla engine. Where do you think the mozilla project came from in the first place? The whole point was to redesign the engine so Netscape could put a snazzier interface on a (near) perfect browsing engine.
Just wait.. it's still in beta you know. Plenty of time to change that. :-)
The mozilla raptor ate Netscape 5 and deposited it to /dev/null :-)
- "Curzon is a tough teacher, but if you are willing to do the work your skills will improve. Most of the negative reviews in this section seem to come from people who were afraid. Curzon has no problem lettiing you know you are wrong, which seems to offend a lot of students. Take Curzon's class if you want to improve your writing skills."
Interesting how all the students who got D's and F's can only complain how he can't teach and that he's gay and so forth.Somewhat off-topic perhaps, but I have an experience similar to this. I'm a Christian white male and I had an English class with a teacher who was a feminist, a lesbian, and an atheist. Needless to say she didn't like me. I managed to pull off a D in her class (a higher score than most white males, who sat and complained about her blatant feminism) but mostly because I got frustrated and half way through the class I stopped trying. I would consider her a good professor just because if you didn't have the attitude that she could teach you something you didn't know, you weren't going to do well. I started off with a strong attitude towards learning, and no matter how hard she tried to push me down I busted my butt in that class. After awhile, I felt like all the work I was doing wasn't paying off, and I slacked.
IMHO, Professor Curzon should be proud of himself for getting such criticism. What does he do? Sues a webmaster because somebody said something bad about him. I probably would have had respect for the guy until he started trying to sue everybody who said something bad about him. Now he's just whining and I'd never even want to talk to the guy. I think by sueing the webmaster he's brought more negative publicity on himself than his students ever gave him.
Yes, I agree entirely that distro wars are basically dumb. Everyone likes different things on their system, and there's no way you can really say that one distro is superior to another. I like Mandrake, but for standalone servers I like debian. Why? Because linux says I can. That's my 2 cents.
After installing Mandrake 6.5 for the first time, I was quickly a Mandrake addict. My body speaks Red Hat, so Mandrake was a welcome addition to my linux CD collection. I find Mandrake to be everything that Red Hat is, plus all the utilities that I would have downloaded anyway. I was a bit thrown off at first by the 7.02 installer, namely the "security level" setting. After a couple re-installs I got my Mandrake system running perfectly. 7.02 is everything that RH 6.1 should have been. No complaints from me.
If they follow suit, Corel will be releasing SP1 in about 4 weeks after inital release. I've worked with a lot of Corel products (superior to any any office clone, including M$ Office itself IMHO) and found that although well designed, bugs exist. Corel seems to be more concerned about getting a product out, and fixing the bugs later. This makes a shodier product out of the box, but if you wait a month or so after the initial release SP1 will be available, which will fix the major bugs and make a great Office clone. I still prefer it over M$ Office any day. Corel actually attempts to fix the current bugs, not just "fix them in the next release". All things considered, I'll be proud to run this fine office suite on my system.