There should be a choice for the desktop office software on the Mac. Without office software, Apple loses another niche market (corporate marketroids). Even if there is choice, there won't be any *competition*. It's a money sinkhole for Sun, and Microsoft would rather write for its own OS. They will quickly try to find ways of getting their respective users onto different platforms they have already ported to. Don't expect either company to bend over backwards making the Mac version much better.
................................................ .............. I'm surprised Sun didn't do this before -- they always like to try stepping on Microsoft toes (then whine when they get beaten up).
Lousy 33.6 modem -- methinks I need to find a burner at work. I don't care much for Red Hat or GNOME anyway, so the combo of KDE and Debian might work out just on its own merits...
Any other *distros* that work? I'm *not* interested in roll-my-own Slackware type stuff (though I'd fix a few things if I did).
Yes, because Intel hardware is relatively fast, mature, and inexpensive. I haven't been able to make any variation of Red Hat work on my Athlon 500 system, and I still like AMD.
The Gateway/Intel deal seems to be dead. Once again today, I must point out this article at The Register to illustrate my point.
And to be redundant, yes this is probably less than a complete coincidence. Consider that SuSE is German, and the Germans are also turning some screws with the EU on getting an embargo of PIII's.
I maintain that Intel is a bigger 'enemy' than Microsoft...
Of course, Germany has a stake in AMD's Fab 30, so they are looking for ways to assist them, but there are other reasons other than this "privacy" bullsh^H^H^H^H^Husiness.
Let's start with false advertising. The claim of "making the Internet more fun" is highly subjective, and I haven't been able to have any more fun with a PIII than any other Intel chip I've had in the past two years. In fact, my Athlon 500 (are there any distros that *do* work with Athlon/FIC SD-11 mobo?) is indirectly making the Internet much more fun -- I can apply the cost savings over a P3-550 towards DSL!
Anticompetitiveness. We've been hearing about Gateway using Athlons (after backing out just before the release) for about a week, and this article at The Register is the most telling so far. Sounds like the kids from Santa Clara are going yet another step farther than the gang in Redmond.
People complain about Microsoft's "monopoly power", but Intel doesn't have a foot to stand on compared to them...
Every successful software company has a good marketing department behind it -- Microsoft, for example, and the (undisclosed) place I work for.
We have extensive art and development departments, but they are all required to use Windoze 9X, not even NT in development (we are a Win32 shop). They have cubicles and fairly wimpy systems, but everyone in the *marketing* department gets a shiny new Mac placed on the desktop of their window office every year...
I still question whether the product would sell better if the time and money taken were spent in making it actually work well, instead of marketing a crummy product to new customers.
OTOH, the marketing approach seems to work pretty well. I'm unsurprised at the lengths those people will go to make a sale or win mindshare.
It never seemed like Silicon Graphics had a solid financial or technological interest in Cray when they bought the company. The two products don't pair well together, the supercomputing and workstation technologies are totally different, and Cray had been floundering around for years. The computing trend of the time was toward the desktop, and Cray was the opposite.
Now that they're simply SGI, it hasn't taken quite as long to figure that out. We need Cray, but we need one that can turn a profit in the private sector.
How many times does Wolfenstein need to be rewritten with less plot, more gore, and a pinch of new features?
I recall reading an old PC Gamer a couple months ago, where they unwrapped the upcoming Quake. Its system demands were pretty high (DX2/66 minimum), but they insisted this was necessary, because they didn't want to 'do a Doom 3'. Here they are, doing *Quake* 3 that does little more than add support for the 3D hardware buzzword of the week.
I'd like to see some genuinely new features in Quake. Number 1, get rid of that awful engine that gives people headaches and nausea. Number 2, evolve beyond the first person shoot 'em up genre and do something groudbreaking like Wolfenstein again.
My $40.02 (reflects approximate savings from NOT buying Q3A)
Why not tell us it was a something like a weather balloon, aurora borealis, or Venus?
You know, many people have mistaken an object in the sky for a meteor or a UFO, when it was really just the planet Venus. I can assure you that what you saw the other night was *just* the planet Venus.
I know you retracted your comment, but I just got this Jesse Ventura twitch from The X-Files...
Yes, but if we've learned anything from the overclocked 247MHz 486SX (which we haven't), it's that hard liquor makes computers run much faster than beer.
No, bad idea -- harmonics problems start creeping up when you have recursive backups. Get a halfway decent UPS to keep things up, and keep a generator handy. Even if a nuke knocks out the power grid, gasoline can keep you powered for a long time.
Then again, if you have to run the generator for more than a few hours because of some catastrophic event, you've got bigger problems...
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Why does this page have such a strange color scheme? Anyone else see it? Can explain it?
You're in a different section of Slashdot -- "Your Rights Online", seen as "yro". Normal/. stores come with the green color scheme, but this crossed over from a specialty area into the main page. For an example, follow the "Sections" links on the left for Apache, BSD, etc.
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An AC moderated as Offtopic would have a score of -1... Then again, who cares? I'll probably get moderated down just for replying to a thread with a score of less than 1 -- happens all the time.
Why is it that the Macintosh is always the exception to the rule? It has to be the most internationally-capable OS (without kludging) -- Be, Linux, and Windows sure aren't. But anyway... ---------------------------------------------- What would the official distribution be?
Red Hat would kind of make sense by name alone. .
TurboLinux could fit in well because of its Asian focus. .
Austere government policies make Slackware a good candidate. .
The sheer size of China makes SuSE's six volumes kind of appropriate.
And as I sort of said in a previous post, Debian and Red Hat's "RMS Linux" would probably have the least chance, since they're actually interested in freedom, not just free beer.
FrontPage is a bigger problem, but if you know what you're doing with it, it isn't so bad. I use WYSIWYG for design, and a text editor for coding -- WYSIWYG gets everything laid out quickly, and can be tweaked in scripting code (static content sux). A web page is just a document, and I see no sense in making a web page manually coded, but a report for school/work being done entirely in an editor.
Don't fight FUD with FUD, get the facts straight. IIS does nothing in favoritism to Internet Explorer, and neither does Netscape.
"... Microsoft owns 99% of the web browser market share, and they control the HTTP protocol. They start adding a huge variety of features to their "Internet Information Server", their competitor to Apache, to offer advanced features to Internet Explorer clients. At this point, sites being served by Apache become useless."
I know IIS pretty much inside and out, as well as the capabilities of Internet Explorer/deficiencies of Netscape, but cannot think of a singe feature that makes IIS friendlier to Internet Explorer than any other browser.
That wouldn't really solve the problem -- obviously, someone has a cronjob that runs a script to scan for new/. stories.
Naturally, there are people and things we'd rather not deal with, but just like IRL, it's unavoidable. If that thought is too traumatic to deal with, you have two options:
Set your threshold to > 1
Keep your threshold to < 2, and just wait for the article to collect ~30 comments.
Any kind of censorship (including an IP ban) is bad, bad, bad -- but what do I know? I'm just as much a part of the problem as anyone else.
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Are there any rumors about who Red Hat isn't buying?
There should be a choice for the desktop office software on the Mac. Without office software, Apple loses another niche market (corporate marketroids). Even if there is choice, there won't be any *competition*. It's a money sinkhole for Sun, and Microsoft would rather write for its own OS. They will quickly try to find ways of getting their respective users onto different platforms they have already ported to. Don't expect either company to bend over backwards making the Mac version much better.
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I'm surprised Sun didn't do this before -- they always like to try stepping on Microsoft toes (then whine when they get beaten up).
Lousy 33.6 modem -- methinks I need to find a burner at work. I don't care much for Red Hat or GNOME anyway, so the combo of KDE and Debian might work out just on its own merits...
Any other *distros* that work? I'm *not* interested in roll-my-own Slackware type stuff (though I'd fix a few things if I did).
Yes, because Intel hardware is relatively fast, mature, and inexpensive. I haven't been able to make any variation of Red Hat work on my Athlon 500 system, and I still like AMD.
The Gateway/Intel deal seems to be dead. Once again today, I must point out this article at The Register to illustrate my point.
And to be redundant, yes this is probably less than a complete coincidence. Consider that SuSE is German, and the Germans are also turning some screws with the EU on getting an embargo of PIII's.
I maintain that Intel is a bigger 'enemy' than Microsoft...
Of course, Germany has a stake in AMD's Fab 30, so they are looking for ways to assist them, but there are other reasons other than this "privacy" bullsh^H^H^H^H^Husiness.
Let's start with false advertising. The claim of "making the Internet more fun" is highly subjective, and I haven't been able to have any more fun with a PIII than any other Intel chip I've had in the past two years. In fact, my Athlon 500 (are there any distros that *do* work with Athlon/FIC SD-11 mobo?) is indirectly making the Internet much more fun -- I can apply the cost savings over a P3-550 towards DSL!
Anticompetitiveness. We've been hearing about Gateway using Athlons (after backing out just before the release) for about a week, and this article at The Register is the most telling so far. Sounds like the kids from Santa Clara are going yet another step farther than the gang in Redmond.
People complain about Microsoft's "monopoly power", but Intel doesn't have a foot to stand on compared to them...
Every successful software company has a good marketing department behind it -- Microsoft, for example, and the (undisclosed) place I work for.
We have extensive art and development departments, but they are all required to use Windoze 9X, not even NT in development (we are a Win32 shop). They have cubicles and fairly wimpy systems, but everyone in the *marketing* department gets a shiny new Mac placed on the desktop of their window office every year...
I still question whether the product would sell better if the time and money taken were spent in making it actually work well, instead of marketing a crummy product to new customers.
OTOH, the marketing approach seems to work pretty well. I'm unsurprised at the lengths those people will go to make a sale or win mindshare.
It never seemed like Silicon Graphics had a solid financial or technological interest in Cray when they bought the company. The two products don't pair well together, the supercomputing and workstation technologies are totally different, and Cray had been floundering around for years. The computing trend of the time was toward the desktop, and Cray was the opposite.
Now that they're simply SGI, it hasn't taken quite as long to figure that out. We need Cray, but we need one that can turn a profit in the private sector.
How many times does Wolfenstein need to be rewritten with less plot, more gore, and a pinch of new features?
I recall reading an old PC Gamer a couple months ago, where they unwrapped the upcoming Quake. Its system demands were pretty high (DX2/66 minimum), but they insisted this was necessary, because they didn't want to 'do a Doom 3'. Here they are, doing *Quake* 3 that does little more than add support for the 3D hardware buzzword of the week.
I'd like to see some genuinely new features in Quake. Number 1, get rid of that awful engine that gives people headaches and nausea. Number 2, evolve beyond the first person shoot 'em up genre and do something groudbreaking like Wolfenstein again.
My $40.02 (reflects approximate savings from NOT buying Q3A)
Why not tell us it was a something like a weather balloon, aurora borealis, or Venus?
You know, many people have mistaken an object in the sky for a meteor or a UFO, when it was really just the planet Venus. I can assure you that what you saw the other night was *just* the planet Venus.
I know you retracted your comment, but I just got this Jesse Ventura twitch from The X-Files...
Yes, but if we've learned anything from the overclocked 247MHz 486SX (which we haven't), it's that hard liquor makes computers run much faster than beer.
I witnessed something very similar in Minneapolis on Sunday night...
'nuff said, huh?
No, bad idea -- harmonics problems start creeping up when you have recursive backups. Get a halfway decent UPS to keep things up, and keep a generator handy. Even if a nuke knocks out the power grid, gasoline can keep you powered for a long time.
Then again, if you have to run the generator for more than a few hours because of some catastrophic event, you've got bigger problems...
Why does this page have such a strange color scheme? Anyone else see it? Can explain it?
You're in a different section of Slashdot -- "Your Rights Online", seen as "yro". Normal /. stores come with the green color scheme, but this crossed over from a specialty area into the main page. For an example, follow the "Sections" links on the left for Apache, BSD, etc.
Recommended moderation: 0, Off-topic
An AC moderated as Offtopic would have a score of -1... Then again, who cares? I'll probably get moderated down just for replying to a thread with a score of less than 1 -- happens all the time.
You see how this comment was moderated down just for being a response to a -1 thread? Worse yet, it actually contained some info.
Expecting the same here, too...
The U.S. Government owns 11 of the top 100, 10 of which are SGI's (or Cray, if you prefer).
Could any of that processing power have anything to do with Echelon???
None of that will do you any good without SLI Voodoo2's overclocked by an extra 0.3%...
Communism and Marxism are based on the ideals of 'the people'. Theoretically, it would be possible to be communist without violating anyone's rights.
The only problem is that nobody has been able to do it yet...
Why is it that the Macintosh is always the exception to the rule? It has to be the most internationally-capable OS (without kludging) -- Be, Linux, and Windows sure aren't. But anyway...
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What would the official distribution be?
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And as I sort of said in a previous post, Debian and Red Hat's "RMS Linux" would probably have the least chance, since they're actually interested in freedom, not just free beer.
Linux is about free thought, not just free software. If this is for real, I would consider it to be a big slap in the face.
China has nothing to do with freedom. Need I cite examples of their complete disrespect of human rights? They jail and execute people who think freely, continue to occupy Tibet, and regularly threaten Taiwan. Is this a Good Thing©? I don't think so.
It's interesting how much more interested people seem to be now than when it was first available. Hmmm... this reminds me of a few other things that are considered a Bad Thing © by many governments:
It certainly gets my attention, but I wonder how much of a `problem' any of the above really are (or rather would be, if they were legal).
Anyway, I had a rhyme that goes:
Mirror, mirror on the wall
how many copies, let's count them all!
That's what I thought, too.
FrontPage is a bigger problem, but if you know what you're doing with it, it isn't so bad. I use WYSIWYG for design, and a text editor for coding -- WYSIWYG gets everything laid out quickly, and can be tweaked in scripting code (static content sux). A web page is just a document, and I see no sense in making a web page manually coded, but a report for school/work being done entirely in an editor.
Don't fight FUD with FUD, get the facts straight. IIS does nothing in favoritism to Internet Explorer, and neither does Netscape.
"... Microsoft owns 99% of the web browser market share, and they control the HTTP protocol. They start adding a huge variety of features to their "Internet Information Server", their competitor to Apache, to offer advanced features to Internet Explorer clients. At this point, sites being served by Apache become useless."
I know IIS pretty much inside and out, as well as the capabilities of Internet Explorer/deficiencies of Netscape, but cannot think of a singe feature that makes IIS friendlier to Internet Explorer than any other browser.
That wouldn't really solve the problem -- obviously, someone has a cronjob that runs a script to scan for new /. stories.
Naturally, there are people and things we'd rather not deal with, but just like IRL, it's unavoidable. If that thought is too traumatic to deal with, you have two options:
Any kind of censorship (including an IP ban) is bad, bad, bad -- but what do I know? I'm just as much a part of the problem as anyone else.
Crucify me for saying this, but I have identical results with NT as both a workstation and a server... Your mileage may vary.