You're right! We could ask someone like Alan Cox except for the fact that he works for the company that just figured out how to make money off free stuff. Actually, we could ask anybody and see where a large group of people thinks Linux should go. Some of 'em are bound to be right, and it'll be readily apparent that they're right. If it's not, it's probably not a good direction to take. The people to ask about the future would include a kernel developer, one person from KDE developement, one from Gnome developement, a person from Corel, a person from SGI, a person from VA, a person from Linuxcare, a person with IBM, and a person from at least two of the following hardware vendors: Creative, ATI, Diamond, AMD, Intel, 3COM, Sun (involved in hardware), and Compaq (involved in Alpha). That's a panel I'd like to see.
Just let me know if you need bus fare or anything, alright, Miguel? I don't want you walking home in the rain because you can't afford to take the bus. We all know how nobody can make money from writing free software, so you just do this until you're completely broke and then get a real job with a real company. We don't want you to end up watching Baywatch like all the other open source guys. </sarcasm>
Intel is once again muscling to the top of the processor market using its fabrication capabilities. It's too bad not every company can afford to have as many fabs running at the same time. The problem is that only the dominant processor company can afford that kind of manufacturing power, but nobody likes a monopoly (except for monopolists) so there will always be a good chance for the underdog to succeed except for the fact that they don't have enough manufacturing prowess. Kind of a vicous cycle, huh?
Rob, patent "One Click Posting". Then patent "One click Meta-Moderating". You'd make a fortune. Here's another one (a freebie). Patent Pending: First post. A method of annoying both posters and readers by posting to Slashdot with first post in the subject line. Post must have very little content and not mention Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified (no gifs because of patent problems).
I'm voting for satire. You do realize that this is a joke. Right? Weekly World News is the magazine that has the five foot grasshopper on the cover. This article is just a joke! It's not all that funny, but it's still a joke. So go back to beating your girlfriend at Nintendo. You know that's the only part of the article that was accurate.
Actually, Noah had three sons. Ham, Shem, and Japheth. One was black, one white, and the other in between. Biblically speaking, this is when the human species was subdevided into three races.
There isn't exactly a cult of personality built up around Cowpland, is there? Before all this I'd never heard of the guy, and I read a few of the trade rags. You'd expect to hear about him somewhere! Isn't it about time for a new CEO at Corel? Compaq got rid of their top guy and weren't doing nearly as badly as Corel. If Corel took their current business plan, got rid of Cowpland, hired a competent CEO, and followed through, there's a chance they could do very well, and I don't think it would hurt their image at all.
This is a much better distribution method than the old Encyclopedia. The web encyclopedia never has an excuse for the information being outdated like the print edition, and a library could more easily afford a few computers than purchasing a new set of encyclopedias every year. Besides that, the computers could be put to multiple uses. Unlike the encyclopedias.
WindowMaker with very few appicons on the side. Have an X(or W) term button handy so when he calls you can get him to type the commands in. It's much less abstract. Also, load his favorite progs automatically on startup. Treat it like a kiosk. If you set it up properly, this could work out very well.
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Actually, I gotta disagree with you, Mark. The mythological queen/Goddess (Inana) doesn't free the knowledge of self-hacking. She makes self-hacking more difficult by freeing society from the me that control them. Basically, she frees them from the rote tasks and allows them to think and act freely. Juanita (actually, Hiro) does this in the end by having the librarian read the tablet. The mythological king/God doesn't try to keep it hidden, but controls his subjects by the use of me. The analogy of Inana==Juanita is a good one, but the Enki==L. Bob Rife isn't a good one. The evil of Sumer wasn't a person, but was the way society operated. Both Inana and Enki were hackers and heros who freed the people to think for themselves and become self-aware. Even with as many times as I've read Snow Crash I still come away amazed at the wonderful developement of the story and characters and can only fault Stephenson for ending the story so soon. I'd at least like 20,000 more pages or so.
The traditional way of selling computers through resellers is going to eventually go by the wayside. There are just too many advantages of the "Direct Model". Michael Dell really hit on the right idea and has made it the basis of Dell. Other "legacy" companies are having a hard time cutting out the middle man they so firmly entrenched, and are, I'm sure, regretting their dependency on the current infrastructure. Dell is exploding in Canada right now, and doing very well in the US. Why? Because we^H^Hthey are sticking with off the shelf parts, off the shelf software, direct sales, direct support, and outsourcing the services portion of the business to multiple companies. IBM can only hope to have that kind of approach. There's too much cruft in IBM's business model to make it lean enough to compete with the direct sales of Dell. They realize that, though, and that's where the 9 billion deal for parts came from. There's a lot of room for companies to make money from Dell's success, and it looks like IBM is realizing that. They have to, or course, keep a hand in the market if just to keep up appearances, though. Okay, end of commercial.
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Or at least the books I read. After reading Snow Crash I became a Neil Stephenson fan. I've picked up all his books I could get my hands on, and will buy Cryptonomicon as soon as I get some free time. Has Slashdot ever had an "Ask Neil Stephenson" interview? If not, we need one. If so, another one would be nice. Stephenson is knowledgable about Linux, a great Cyber(and Cypher)punk writer, and funny as shit. I'd love to ask him about whether YT is Mrs Matheson, what happened to Uncle Enzo, Gnome vs. KDE, whether Snow Crash changed any of his religious beliefs, and why every damn company wants to "do Snow Crash", but nobody's talking about "doing smartwheels" (there's gotta be a reason that that's the only technology that made the transition from Snow Crash to The Diamond Age. There's a lot more I could think of if it came to it.
With Mozilla's "Open JVM Integration" we should finally have a good java platform with Linux. I hope this tech is released soon (both Java and Mozilla).
I used to buy every computer magazine, and within the last year stopped buying the stupidest of them because they just weren't worth it. I get PCWeek for free, subscribe to Maximum PC, and usually buy Wired and PC Magazine at the newsstand. (Linux journal has been hard to find) Yesterday I noticed that the newest PC Week and Wired had just come out. I went over to the Magazine rack and picked 'em both up (mostly out of habit). Then I thought for a second and realized that PC Mag is put out by Ziff Davis. I reflected for a second about the many things they've done recently and put the damn thing right back where it was. Last month's issue is most likely the last one I'll ever buy, and I'm a pretty mainstream tech guy. I know I don't matter to them because most of their money is from MS advertising, but I hope that a number of people defect and their distribution numbers go down and hurt 'em just a little. Ziff Davis no longer deserves my hard earned money.
There'd be WAY more outrage if the game contained sexual content, rather than violent content Actually, violence is the current hot issue in the media. The Columbine incident made violence much more important for parents to watch out for than just a little nudity. So Jonny watching lesbian sex is not as bad as Jonny watching last action hero. Make sense to you?
If ZDNet cited an unnamed internal Microsoft... source as saying that the company had decided... to force users to pay an incredible fee for said Windows 2000 simply because they have a monopoly and can
This scenario isn't really news. They've already done this with Windows NT 4.0, and will most likely do this with NT 5.0 as well. So if ZD reported that MS was going to stick it to the little guys because they could I sure wouldn't be surprised.
We need to be very careful of Sun. They seem to be hanging around and paying attention, but not really agreeing with what we're doing. They know the buzzwords, and they seem to know the philosophy, but the people making decisions are staying close enough for the magic to hopefully rub off, but definitely staying out of the range of the "Holy Penguin Pee".
One thing about Carmack that impresses me most is how focussed he is. He doesn't seem (like many other companies) to be focussed on making his company the dominant company, but focussed on making his engine the best engine. If more top people at companies were focussed on that, the open source movement wouldn't be nearly as necessary as it is today. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Quake engine be the basis of the first successful virtual reality engine. I think Carmack's legacy will not be the games, but something altogether more impressive.
This article is in the webletter/microsoft/articlex directory. There are a couple of other like-minded articles in the same directory. Obviously this is Microsoft marketing drivel. The Gartner group has been paid my MS to spew this for them. The MS Anti-Linux group is hard at work!
Thanks for providing decent research to a hurrily thrown together post. I obviously didn't. I'm at work and the idea of venturing out to chupa.com didn't seem like a wise one to me.
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You're right! We could ask someone like Alan Cox except for the fact that he works for the company that just figured out how to make money off free stuff. Actually, we could ask anybody and see where a large group of people thinks Linux should go. Some of 'em are bound to be right, and it'll be readily apparent that they're right. If it's not, it's probably not a good direction to take.
The people to ask about the future would include a kernel developer, one person from KDE developement, one from Gnome developement, a person from Corel, a person from SGI, a person from VA, a person from Linuxcare, a person with IBM, and a person from at least two of the following hardware vendors: Creative, ATI, Diamond, AMD, Intel, 3COM, Sun (involved in hardware), and Compaq (involved in Alpha).
That's a panel I'd like to see.
Just let me know if you need bus fare or anything, alright, Miguel? I don't want you walking home in the rain because you can't afford to take the bus. We all know how nobody can make money from writing free software, so you just do this until you're completely broke and then get a real job with a real company. We don't want you to end up watching Baywatch like all the other open source guys.
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Intel is once again muscling to the top of the processor market using its fabrication capabilities. It's too bad not every company can afford to have as many fabs running at the same time. The problem is that only the dominant processor company can afford that kind of manufacturing power, but nobody likes a monopoly (except for monopolists) so there will always be a good chance for the underdog to succeed except for the fact that they don't have enough manufacturing prowess. Kind of a vicous cycle, huh?
I think you meant to say "Granted, Microsoft's lies are *behind* all of these entry points".
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FIRST PATENT!
Rob, patent "One Click Posting". Then patent "One click Meta-Moderating". You'd make a fortune.
Here's another one (a freebie).
Patent Pending:
First post.
A method of annoying both posters and readers by posting to Slashdot with first post in the subject line. Post must have very little content and not mention Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified (no gifs because of patent problems).
I'm voting for satire. You do realize that this is a joke. Right? Weekly World News is the magazine that has the five foot grasshopper on the cover. This article is just a joke! It's not all that funny, but it's still a joke. So go back to beating your girlfriend at Nintendo. You know that's the only part of the article that was accurate.
Actually, Noah had three sons. Ham, Shem, and Japheth. One was black, one white, and the other in between. Biblically speaking, this is when the human species was subdevided into three races.
There isn't exactly a cult of personality built up around Cowpland, is there? Before all this I'd never heard of the guy, and I read a few of the trade rags. You'd expect to hear about him somewhere! Isn't it about time for a new CEO at Corel? Compaq got rid of their top guy and weren't doing nearly as badly as Corel. If Corel took their current business plan, got rid of Cowpland, hired a competent CEO, and followed through, there's a chance they could do very well, and I don't think it would hurt their image at all.
I think we all agree that you need to get rid of this one.
Or at least tell her you'll be making her part of a Beowulf cluster of girlfriends.
This is a much better distribution method than the old Encyclopedia. The web encyclopedia never has an excuse for the information being outdated like the print edition, and a library could more easily afford a few computers than purchasing a new set of encyclopedias every year. Besides that, the computers could be put to multiple uses. Unlike the encyclopedias.
WindowMaker with very few appicons on the side. Have an X(or W) term button handy so when he calls you can get him to type the commands in. It's much less abstract. Also, load his favorite progs automatically on startup. Treat it like a kiosk. If you set it up properly, this could work out very well.
Yeah, I heard Ru Paul posts here sometimes too.
Actually, I gotta disagree with you, Mark. The mythological queen/Goddess (Inana) doesn't free the knowledge of self-hacking. She makes self-hacking more difficult by freeing society from the me that control them. Basically, she frees them from the rote tasks and allows them to think and act freely. Juanita (actually, Hiro) does this in the end by having the librarian read the tablet. The mythological king/God doesn't try to keep it hidden, but controls his subjects by the use of me. The analogy of Inana==Juanita is a good one, but the Enki==L. Bob Rife isn't a good one. The evil of Sumer wasn't a person, but was the way society operated. Both Inana and Enki were hackers and heros who freed the people to think for themselves and become self-aware.
Even with as many times as I've read Snow Crash I still come away amazed at the wonderful developement of the story and characters and can only fault Stephenson for ending the story so soon. I'd at least like 20,000 more pages or so.
The traditional way of selling computers through resellers is going to eventually go by the wayside. There are just too many advantages of the "Direct Model". Michael Dell really hit on the right idea and has made it the basis of Dell. Other "legacy" companies are having a hard time cutting out the middle man they so firmly entrenched, and are, I'm sure, regretting their dependency on the current infrastructure. Dell is exploding in Canada right now, and doing very well in the US. Why? Because we^H^Hthey are sticking with off the shelf parts, off the shelf software, direct sales, direct support, and outsourcing the services portion of the business to multiple companies. IBM can only hope to have that kind of approach. There's too much cruft in IBM's business model to make it lean enough to compete with the direct sales of Dell. They realize that, though, and that's where the 9 billion deal for parts came from. There's a lot of room for companies to make money from Dell's success, and it looks like IBM is realizing that. They have to, or course, keep a hand in the market if just to keep up appearances, though.
Okay, end of commercial.
Or at least the books I read. After reading Snow Crash I became a Neil Stephenson fan. I've picked up all his books I could get my hands on, and will buy Cryptonomicon as soon as I get some free time.
Has Slashdot ever had an "Ask Neil Stephenson" interview? If not, we need one. If so, another one would be nice. Stephenson is knowledgable about Linux, a great Cyber(and Cypher)punk writer, and funny as shit. I'd love to ask him about whether YT is Mrs Matheson, what happened to Uncle Enzo, Gnome vs. KDE, whether Snow Crash changed any of his religious beliefs, and why every damn company wants to "do Snow Crash", but nobody's talking about "doing smartwheels" (there's gotta be a reason that that's the only technology that made the transition from Snow Crash to The Diamond Age. There's a lot more I could think of if it came to it.
With Mozilla's "Open JVM Integration" we should finally have a good java platform with Linux. I hope this tech is released soon (both Java and Mozilla).
I used to buy every computer magazine, and within the last year stopped buying the stupidest of them because they just weren't worth it. I get PCWeek for free, subscribe to Maximum PC, and usually buy Wired and PC Magazine at the newsstand. (Linux journal has been hard to find)
Yesterday I noticed that the newest PC Week and Wired had just come out. I went over to the Magazine rack and picked 'em both up (mostly out of habit). Then I thought for a second and realized that PC Mag is put out by Ziff Davis. I reflected for a second about the many things they've done recently and put the damn thing right back where it was. Last month's issue is most likely the last one I'll ever buy, and I'm a pretty mainstream tech guy. I know I don't matter to them because most of their money is from MS advertising, but I hope that a number of people defect and their distribution numbers go down and hurt 'em just a little. Ziff Davis no longer deserves my hard earned money.
There'd be WAY more outrage if the game contained sexual content, rather than violent content
Actually, violence is the current hot issue in the media. The Columbine incident made violence much more important for parents to watch out for than just a little nudity.
So Jonny watching lesbian sex is not as bad as Jonny watching last action hero. Make sense to you?
This scenario isn't really news. They've already done this with Windows NT 4.0, and will most likely do this with NT 5.0 as well. So if ZD reported that MS was going to stick it to the little guys because they could I sure wouldn't be surprised.
Actually, most of the millionaires' money is in stock and stock options. If MS dropped off the face of the earth, their money would too.
We need to be very careful of Sun. They seem to be hanging around and paying attention, but not really agreeing with what we're doing. They know the buzzwords, and they seem to know the philosophy, but the people making decisions are staying close enough for the magic to hopefully rub off, but definitely staying out of the range of the "Holy Penguin Pee".
One thing about Carmack that impresses me most is how focussed he is. He doesn't seem (like many other companies) to be focussed on making his company the dominant company, but focussed on making his engine the best engine. If more top people at companies were focussed on that, the open source movement wouldn't be nearly as necessary as it is today.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Quake engine be the basis of the first successful virtual reality engine. I think Carmack's legacy will not be the games, but something altogether more impressive.
Here's the bottom line from that article:
This article is in the webletter/microsoft/articlex directory. There are a couple of other like-minded articles in the same directory.
Obviously this is Microsoft marketing drivel. The Gartner group has been paid my MS to spew this for them. The MS Anti-Linux group is hard at work!
Thanks for providing decent research to a hurrily thrown together post. I obviously didn't. I'm at work and the idea of venturing out to chupa.com didn't seem like a wise one to me.