Be is looking to create an operating system that is attractive to internet users. While their current model is very web-based, by opening their source, it would allow programmers to toy with BeOS, and give it the kind of functionality they want out of it. It would also give the OSS crowd a look at a non-UNIX OS.
For those people that wish to have a more multimedia based OS, but also want open sourced code for their OS, an open source BeOS would be very attractive.
In return, BeOS would enjoy the benefits that other open source projects have enjoyed. Namely, many people discovering bugs and reporting them to be fixed.
Be is already planning on releasing their OS free of charge for non-commercial use anyway. I see no reason they wouldn't want to enjoy the benefits of opening their source as well. Apple is toying with the idea as well with MacOS X.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
These four characters are pretty cool. There are many possibilities with a spin off series, and it doesn't have to be alien chasing all the time, either. I'd rather not see "The X-Files Part II" but something with a bit more originality.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
BeOS is a good alternative to someone who doesn't want to use Windows or MacOS, but needs an easy to use OS. I think it is the most viable option to non-programmers. I hope they get it together and release the source to it.
Of course, I'd still rather have my Linux box, but I think I could set up most people with BeOS, and they wouldn't miss anything.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
This is interesting. I suppose that something such as this is not unfeasable. I doubt that it will be very sophisticated at first, but after improvements it could be a valuable tool for the military (as I'm sure they are hoping).
I think that it will be several years before we see this kind of thing in our homes. The CAVE is only a 10x10 room, according to Popular Science. There are a lot of other possiblities for this type of technology, as you can guess. From holographic "batting cages" to holographic video games. This might be an interesting field to be a pioneer in.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
The more browsers the better. There is no way you're going to make every single user happy with just one or two major browsers. Right now, most Linux users probably use either Lynx or Netscape 4.x. Lynx is great for text only browsing, but if you want the graphics, you need something within X.
There are a good deal of browsers coming into the picture though. Opera, Konqueror, etc.
And let us not forget that Mozilla is shaping up nicely. M13 is actually useable in most cases, and it renders pages rather nicely (and in most cases doesn't actually crash as much as Netscape 4.x). If they can stamp out the expected development bugs, get rid of the debug code (which slows it down a bunch), and get the thing released, I don't think Linux users will have too much to complain about.
Even if Mozilla ends up ruling, I think we need as many browsers as possible on every platform. This will prevent any one browser from becoming too dominant, and also force web designers to actually write HTML according to W3C standards (something that is often ignored even by "major" web pages). I think the increase in browsers will be a good thing, overall.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Looks like it runs a distro called ARMLinux. Are they releasing this distro to the general public (as they should)?
I wonder how this ARMLinux measures up against Transmeta's distro. Oh well, it is good to see some competition in the Linux-PDA area heating up, hopefully it will keep the product quality high.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Well, this has given us all a lot of things for us to consider.
First off, the response to the ninth question is the most threatening to our rights. If one computer program is declared illegal, it will set precendent for large corporations with more legal power than software writers to be able to sue the software writers and make the software "illegal." This is a pretty clear violation of the 1st. amendment, possibly the 4th. amendment (which in this century has been interpreted to support a right to private use of certain things). Furthermore, it will enable large companies to smash software that is a possible source of competition. There is a lot more at stake here than just being able to watch DVDs in any format you want.
Also, what happened to Jon is very bad. Non-american law enforcement fell under pressure of the Movie Industry of America and arrested him. He's not even within our borders, and these guys can influence his arrest. The kind of influence they weild is pretty intimidating, and they can afford the kind of lawyers that can trick non-technical judges (read: most judges) into believing whatever they tell them.
This is a bad thing. The rights of consumers are being violated, and most consumers don't even know it. I actually think most people in the US have been duped to be on the Movie Industry's side.
Basically, it doesn't look good, but we still need to stand up for what we know the truth to be. Tell your families, tell all the NON-TECH people you know about how the Recording Industry is trying to screw over their rights by blocking software that could take them out of the loop of every movie/player ever made.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Well, on/. we tend to forget that a large majority of users out there don't really wish to take the time to learn their options, because they don't spend too much time on their computers.
Now, if AOL, their ISP, wants to start blocking out certain domains, and doing other things an ISP should not do, what are all the non-tech people going to do about it?
Put yourself in a position of someone who has always used AOL, is comfortable with AOL's interface, etc. What are they going to do when AOL tries to control what they see? They aren't going to say "#@$% This!" then install Slackware and a get a T1. They're going to be stuck, because they don't know better.
Not everyone is obligated to become a computer geek. Just because they aren't doesn't mean they don't have online rights that need to be looked out for.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Wow. This all seems reminiscent of Microsoft's tactics before the government started to go after them. AOL will gain a lot of market share when it aquires all of the Time Warner customers. I'm wondering if AOL will begin to try to use Embrace and Extend-style tactics to dominate the internet. They already have their software overwriting the dialup setups.
One evil empire was bad enough. Not that I'm for any sort of governmental control, but it seems they have the only direct power right now to stop corporations from becoming big and evil. What is the greater of the two evils: Big Monopolistic Companies, or the Big Bad Brother Government? (Sigh)
I mean, lots of people use AOL, but hate it. They just don't know of any other way to connect, much like they don't know how to use an OS besides Windows. While we can try to educate people about the internet, it is a daunting task, is it not? These people are at the mercy of AOL ^_^; Who will stand up for their rights?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Sorry, I'm going to have to once again disagree with Katz.
Sure, companies have made an attempt to track us, but it is quite obvious that they haven't gotten things 100% correct, or else they'd know not to target me with ads about stuff I don't want. ^_^
Incidentally, that is why I always deny a cookie when I don't know what it is for, especially when it is obviously coming from the Add Banner Script.
There are steps a knowledgeble person can take to prevent too much information, besides what we wish to give, out. Also, Doubleclick looks like it might be about to face several lawsuits for invasion of privacy.
Our privacy is still protected, if we are willing to stand up and fight for it.
This "woe is us, we can't do jack about it" from Katz is exactly the wrong attitude to have. We need to actively fight it by doing everything in our power to shield ourselves. Not whining about it.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
The PC still probably has several years in it. It will likely never really die out. Portable gadgets will probably serve to complement available PCs, not replace them.
I think that within 5 years it will be commonplace for any average home in the US to have one computer for all the high-end needs, and that members of the household will have personal, small, PDAs that they can use for their daily purposes, then interface with the home PC.
So I think the market will change a bit, but I doubt the PC will "go away."
And of course, I'm sure that coders and the like will still want personal Linux boxes hanging around.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
It is no secret why big companies decide to shell out millions for 30 second TV spots during the Superbowl. The Superbowl, like it or not, is the biggest single-day sporting event in the United States. An insane amount of people tune in to watch it, even people who do not normally watch regular season football games.
Now, this is one of the few events where advertisers have to appeal to basically the entire breadth of population. Everything from a typical NFL fan, a housewife, a businessman, a famer, etc. must be taken into account when designing a broad base of ads.
I think a lot of new.com e-commerce sites launched their first ad campaigns today. Sponsors put their names on everything from the kickoff to the half-time show. I don't know who in their right mind would associate MICROSOFT with the NFL, but they did it.
Advertisers love the fact that they get to mass-sucker a lot of people all at once, so they're naturally going to shell out the maximum amount of cash to make sure enough people see their ads.
Incase you didn't notice, there was actually a football game behind all of this. It was actually a very good game to watch... if you didn't mind it getting dragged out by advertisement.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
On one hand I would say that he has a point, except for the fact that there are open source applications for Linux that seem rather easy to use once they are properly set up. I don't see anything awkward or difficult about X. Point and Click is Point and Click. In Red Hat you can set it up to start up on X, so they don't even need to remember to type the command to start it.
Another open source app, The GIMP is rather akin to photoshop. Not everything is there where you would expect it, nor is the product quite as good, but it seems rather easy to use.
If this guy is talking about software like Apache or something, it seems rediculous. What kind of end user is even going to install software like Apache? Hopefully not someone that demands a point and click interface for everything, and a paperclip buddy to tell him how to do it.
I mean, there are people who complain that Windows is too hard to use (even with it's wizards and paperclip buddies flying around), and I don't think it is appropriate to bloat our code to accomidate people who for some reason turn into idiots the minute they sit in front of a computer.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
This is somewhat offtopic, but it deals with racism.
I know of a few instances when so-called anti-racist crackers/script kiddies have actually taken down web pages which were supposedly racist in nature. Now, I don't know if many of these stories are just hyped up legends, or if most of them are legitimate. Probably the former, but it raises some interesting questions about the morality of cracking.
If the UN says racist sites are bad, does it mean that if you're a cracker/script kiddie who targets servers that host racist sites, that you are right? If you are able to remove useless and hateful filth from a server, is it your duty to do so?
I'm wondering, are world governments going to look the other way if crackers take down racist sites? Are they going to actually employ crackers to do just that? It seems that unless they do hire an army of script kiddies to go after these pages, this is a rather large task to accomplish.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
First off, what is the deal with this test claiming that Red Hat Is Linux?
Red Hat != Linux, and we all know this. Red Hat is definately not the best Linux distro, and it is unfair to peg Linux in general with Red Hat's faults.
Now despite this, Red Hat was given an unfair shake. First off, this article gives little detail on how Red Hat was set up. I seriously doubt they installed the latest Kernel or did much with any of the configurations.
Now, it seems from the article that in raw network performance, Novell and Red Hat did much better than Windows 2K.
But then they bring in all of this information about "interface" and suddenly Windows 2K is made the winner because the editors liked the way Windows 2K's administration was set up. Quite a subjective thing to base a claim that W2K is the best Network OS, if you ask me.
I don't even see from the editor's comments how Windows 2K was the clear winner. It seems to me that if there was any clear winner from this it was Novell. I wonder if Microsoft sponsored this little test in any way?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Well, Lucas is still hard at work writing Episode II: Jar Jar's revenge. When asked by a reporter, Lucas explained his approach to the movie.
"I've been working on making sure that there will be a lot of hype around the movie," said Lucas, "I'm expecting to do a lot with Mace Windu this time. He's a badass Mofo. Also, Sideous' new apprentice will be 10 times as cool as Darth Maul, not to mention Boba Fett and the entire army of Darth Maul clones!" Lucas smiled a bit and then continued, "That hype will get them into the theater, of course, but I'll be sure to piss them off when they realize that half of the movie is just more of Jar Jar Binks acting like an idiot! I can't wait to see the faces on all those people who payed for a ticket to see some action, and instead got Jar Jar!"
When asked about the Original Trilogy on DVD, George Lucas explained his actions to hold back. "Well, we're still waiting for the generation PI players to come out so we can implement some radical changes to the series. First and foremost, I plan on releasing the super-special edition of the first trilogy. This way I can add Jar Jar to those movies as well. Then I can implement my DIVX enhanced type PI features in those DVDs as well, and force people to shell out five bucks per viewing to eliminate Jar Jar entirely from those movies. This is where I wanted to go originally back in 1977, but the technology didn't allow me to do such a thing. Now, thanks to the technology that the generation PI DVD players will provide, I can suck even more money out of these geeks!"
(Due to recent instances of 1337 hax0rz doing evil things with DVD encryption, the status on the release of the PI generation of DVD players is currently in the air. Until then, Lucas will release at least three more different "versions" of the original trilogy and TPM on VHS, which he expects you all to buy.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I took a look at a few of the links below that people have posted about the meteor/satellite. According to the article, it is a "Trojan Satellite," which according to this link, which seems to imply that Trojan Satellites share the same orbit as the moon.
However, This link says this asteroid actually shares an orbit with the Earth around the sun.
Now, I know that this object has a rather unusual "orbit" of the Earth, but what exactly qualifies it as a bonafied Satellite rather than just a near Earth meteor?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
GNOME's progress is looking good. I still prefer KDE over GNOME for many reasons, but there is no reason to start a jihad over Window managers.
GNOME looks nice, and is getting (thankfully) more stable than it was when I first tried it out. While it may be hard to give up my beloved KDE, I'll definately give GNOME another chance when I feel it is on par with KDE for my needs. ^_^
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I have no plans to migrate to either Netware 5 or Win2K anyway, so it doesn't matter to me who wins this scuff. I know for a fact that we're not planning on installing Win2K on our current NT4 machines at work immediately. I think Novell is correct when they say industry will watch and wait. Plenty of companies screw over their systems each time a new version of Windows comes out, and I think they're frankly tired of it, and will infact wait to see how others fare with Win2K upgrades.
Anyway, I'm happy to stick with my Open Source stuff, thank you very much.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I really think this is all thanks to id software. John Carmack and his team worked hard to bring a Linux port of Quake 3 to us. Because Quake is the standard for all FPS and Geek Games, Linux is suddenly enjoying consideration as a platform that can play games.
And naturally, when a man who is considered by many to be the greatest game programmer ever ports his game to Linux, lots of people will follow suit. I doubt we would have seen UT for Linux had id not been working on Q3 for Linux, nor would we be seeing these games now.
Now if only we could get Half-Life and StarCraft, I'd be quite happy.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
She was a Techno-Talking Babe!. Someone should tell Nitrozac to put her ghost in an issue of After Y2k.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
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Despite the fact that this page is apparently over a year old, it's interesting to put into perspective. PSX2, Dolphin and Dreamcast are designed with the internet at least partially in mind.
If you could stick a small hard drive (~1GB) onto one of these things, Linux would be a GREAT operating system for internet functions independant of games. It would allow for a degree of user customization, but by default include common internet tools, and maybe a special version of X. Why not?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
This is the most unique story I've seen in a while. Does anyone know anything else more about this guy other than he's a big time Linux guy who just wanted to read his mail?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
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Be is looking to create an operating system that is attractive to internet users. While their current model is very web-based, by opening their source, it would allow programmers to toy with BeOS, and give it the kind of functionality they want out of it. It would also give the OSS crowd a look at a non-UNIX OS.
For those people that wish to have a more multimedia based OS, but also want open sourced code for their OS, an open source BeOS would be very attractive.
In return, BeOS would enjoy the benefits that other open source projects have enjoyed. Namely, many people discovering bugs and reporting them to be fixed.
Be is already planning on releasing their OS free of charge for non-commercial use anyway. I see no reason they wouldn't want to enjoy the benefits of opening their source as well. Apple is toying with the idea as well with MacOS X.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Of course, I'd still rather have my Linux box, but I think I could set up most people with BeOS, and they wouldn't miss anything.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I think that it will be several years before we see this kind of thing in our homes. The CAVE is only a 10x10 room, according to Popular Science. There are a lot of other possiblities for this type of technology, as you can guess. From holographic "batting cages" to holographic video games. This might be an interesting field to be a pioneer in.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
There are a good deal of browsers coming into the picture though. Opera, Konqueror, etc.
And let us not forget that Mozilla is shaping up nicely. M13 is actually useable in most cases, and it renders pages rather nicely (and in most cases doesn't actually crash as much as Netscape 4.x). If they can stamp out the expected development bugs, get rid of the debug code (which slows it down a bunch), and get the thing released, I don't think Linux users will have too much to complain about.
Even if Mozilla ends up ruling, I think we need as many browsers as possible on every platform. This will prevent any one browser from becoming too dominant, and also force web designers to actually write HTML according to W3C standards (something that is often ignored even by "major" web pages). I think the increase in browsers will be a good thing, overall.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I wonder how this ARMLinux measures up against Transmeta's distro. Oh well, it is good to see some competition in the Linux-PDA area heating up, hopefully it will keep the product quality high.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Seriously, it is interesting to see legos, a toy for building creativity, used as weaponry!
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
First off, the response to the ninth question is the most threatening to our rights. If one computer program is declared illegal, it will set precendent for large corporations with more legal power than software writers to be able to sue the software writers and make the software "illegal." This is a pretty clear violation of the 1st. amendment, possibly the 4th. amendment (which in this century has been interpreted to support a right to private use of certain things). Furthermore, it will enable large companies to smash software that is a possible source of competition. There is a lot more at stake here than just being able to watch DVDs in any format you want.
Also, what happened to Jon is very bad. Non-american law enforcement fell under pressure of the Movie Industry of America and arrested him. He's not even within our borders, and these guys can influence his arrest. The kind of influence they weild is pretty intimidating, and they can afford the kind of lawyers that can trick non-technical judges (read: most judges) into believing whatever they tell them.
This is a bad thing. The rights of consumers are being violated, and most consumers don't even know it. I actually think most people in the US have been duped to be on the Movie Industry's side.
Basically, it doesn't look good, but we still need to stand up for what we know the truth to be. Tell your families, tell all the NON-TECH people you know about how the Recording Industry is trying to screw over their rights by blocking software that could take them out of the loop of every movie/player ever made.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Now, if AOL, their ISP, wants to start blocking out certain domains, and doing other things an ISP should not do, what are all the non-tech people going to do about it?
Put yourself in a position of someone who has always used AOL, is comfortable with AOL's interface, etc. What are they going to do when AOL tries to control what they see? They aren't going to say "#@$% This!" then install Slackware and a get a T1. They're going to be stuck, because they don't know better.
Not everyone is obligated to become a computer geek. Just because they aren't doesn't mean they don't have online rights that need to be looked out for.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
One evil empire was bad enough. Not that I'm for any sort of governmental control, but it seems they have the only direct power right now to stop corporations from becoming big and evil. What is the greater of the two evils: Big Monopolistic Companies, or the Big Bad Brother Government? (Sigh)
I mean, lots of people use AOL, but hate it. They just don't know of any other way to connect, much like they don't know how to use an OS besides Windows. While we can try to educate people about the internet, it is a daunting task, is it not? These people are at the mercy of AOL ^_^; Who will stand up for their rights?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Sure, companies have made an attempt to track us, but it is quite obvious that they haven't gotten things 100% correct, or else they'd know not to target me with ads about stuff I don't want. ^_^
Incidentally, that is why I always deny a cookie when I don't know what it is for, especially when it is obviously coming from the Add Banner Script.
There are steps a knowledgeble person can take to prevent too much information, besides what we wish to give, out. Also, Doubleclick looks like it might be about to face several lawsuits for invasion of privacy.
Our privacy is still protected, if we are willing to stand up and fight for it.
This "woe is us, we can't do jack about it" from Katz is exactly the wrong attitude to have. We need to actively fight it by doing everything in our power to shield ourselves. Not whining about it.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I think that within 5 years it will be commonplace for any average home in the US to have one computer for all the high-end needs, and that members of the household will have personal, small, PDAs that they can use for their daily purposes, then interface with the home PC.
So I think the market will change a bit, but I doubt the PC will "go away."
And of course, I'm sure that coders and the like will still want personal Linux boxes hanging around.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Now, this is one of the few events where advertisers have to appeal to basically the entire breadth of population. Everything from a typical NFL fan, a housewife, a businessman, a famer, etc. must be taken into account when designing a broad base of ads.
I think a lot of new .com e-commerce sites launched their first ad campaigns today. Sponsors put their names on everything from the kickoff to the half-time show. I don't know who in their right mind would associate MICROSOFT with the NFL, but they did it.
Advertisers love the fact that they get to mass-sucker a lot of people all at once, so they're naturally going to shell out the maximum amount of cash to make sure enough people see their ads.
Incase you didn't notice, there was actually a football game behind all of this. It was actually a very good game to watch... if you didn't mind it getting dragged out by advertisement.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
On one hand I would say that he has a point, except for the fact that there are open source applications for Linux that seem rather easy to use once they are properly set up. I don't see anything awkward or difficult about X. Point and Click is Point and Click. In Red Hat you can set it up to start up on X, so they don't even need to remember to type the command to start it.
Another open source app, The GIMP is rather akin to photoshop. Not everything is there where you would expect it, nor is the product quite as good, but it seems rather easy to use.
If this guy is talking about software like Apache or something, it seems rediculous. What kind of end user is even going to install software like Apache? Hopefully not someone that demands a point and click interface for everything, and a paperclip buddy to tell him how to do it.
I mean, there are people who complain that Windows is too hard to use (even with it's wizards and paperclip buddies flying around), and I don't think it is appropriate to bloat our code to accomidate people who for some reason turn into idiots the minute they sit in front of a computer.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
I know of a few instances when so-called anti-racist crackers/script kiddies have actually taken down web pages which were supposedly racist in nature. Now, I don't know if many of these stories are just hyped up legends, or if most of them are legitimate. Probably the former, but it raises some interesting questions about the morality of cracking.
If the UN says racist sites are bad, does it mean that if you're a cracker/script kiddie who targets servers that host racist sites, that you are right? If you are able to remove useless and hateful filth from a server, is it your duty to do so?
I'm wondering, are world governments going to look the other way if crackers take down racist sites? Are they going to actually employ crackers to do just that? It seems that unless they do hire an army of script kiddies to go after these pages, this is a rather large task to accomplish.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Red Hat != Linux, and we all know this. Red Hat is definately not the best Linux distro, and it is unfair to peg Linux in general with Red Hat's faults.
Now despite this, Red Hat was given an unfair shake. First off, this article gives little detail on how Red Hat was set up. I seriously doubt they installed the latest Kernel or did much with any of the configurations.
Now, it seems from the article that in raw network performance, Novell and Red Hat did much better than Windows 2K.
But then they bring in all of this information about "interface" and suddenly Windows 2K is made the winner because the editors liked the way Windows 2K's administration was set up. Quite a subjective thing to base a claim that W2K is the best Network OS, if you ask me.
I don't even see from the editor's comments how Windows 2K was the clear winner. It seems to me that if there was any clear winner from this it was Novell. I wonder if Microsoft sponsored this little test in any way?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Well, Lucas is still hard at work writing Episode II: Jar Jar's revenge. When asked by a reporter, Lucas explained his approach to the movie.
"I've been working on making sure that there will be a lot of hype around the movie," said Lucas, "I'm expecting to do a lot with Mace Windu this time. He's a badass Mofo. Also, Sideous' new apprentice will be 10 times as cool as Darth Maul, not to mention Boba Fett and the entire army of Darth Maul clones!" Lucas smiled a bit and then continued, "That hype will get them into the theater, of course, but I'll be sure to piss them off when they realize that half of the movie is just more of Jar Jar Binks acting like an idiot! I can't wait to see the faces on all those people who payed for a ticket to see some action, and instead got Jar Jar!"
When asked about the Original Trilogy on DVD, George Lucas explained his actions to hold back. "Well, we're still waiting for the generation PI players to come out so we can implement some radical changes to the series. First and foremost, I plan on releasing the super-special edition of the first trilogy. This way I can add Jar Jar to those movies as well. Then I can implement my DIVX enhanced type PI features in those DVDs as well, and force people to shell out five bucks per viewing to eliminate Jar Jar entirely from those movies. This is where I wanted to go originally back in 1977, but the technology didn't allow me to do such a thing. Now, thanks to the technology that the generation PI DVD players will provide, I can suck even more money out of these geeks!"
(Due to recent instances of 1337 hax0rz doing evil things with DVD encryption, the status on the release of the PI generation of DVD players is currently in the air. Until then, Lucas will release at least three more different "versions" of the original trilogy and TPM on VHS, which he expects you all to buy.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
However, This link says this asteroid actually shares an orbit with the Earth around the sun.
Now, I know that this object has a rather unusual "orbit" of the Earth, but what exactly qualifies it as a bonafied Satellite rather than just a near Earth meteor?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
GNOME looks nice, and is getting (thankfully) more stable than it was when I first tried it out. While it may be hard to give up my beloved KDE, I'll definately give GNOME another chance when I feel it is on par with KDE for my needs. ^_^
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
Anyway, I'm happy to stick with my Open Source stuff, thank you very much.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
And naturally, when a man who is considered by many to be the greatest game programmer ever ports his game to Linux, lots of people will follow suit. I doubt we would have seen UT for Linux had id not been working on Q3 for Linux, nor would we be seeing these games now.
Now if only we could get Half-Life and StarCraft, I'd be quite happy.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
If you could stick a small hard drive (~1GB) onto one of these things, Linux would be a GREAT operating system for internet functions independant of games. It would allow for a degree of user customization, but by default include common internet tools, and maybe a special version of X. Why not?
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"