Ted Nelson, inventor of the word hypertext, warned against the "Balkanization" of information systems as early as the 70s.
Hypertext schmypertext! This guy apparently foresaw the post-communistic instability and sociopolitical division of the Balkan peninsula as early as the '70s, pre-emptively coined the term "Balkanization" and applied it on information systems!
I assumed it was to do with copyright, but I asked, and apparently their major concern is people dragging scanners across the surfaces of their books.
I add to my poor student's economy by working some evenings at a university library, and part of the job is to make copies ordered by researchers. The library does not get the books and journals for free, and the stuff is still copyrighted. Imagine that!
Part of the copying fees goes to the copied journals and their publishers. The library keeps track of what and how much is copied "in-house", and I suppose some of the money from the patrons' copiers (which for natural reasons can't be directly connected to any particular publishers) is pooled to finance literature acquisitions.
It's not surprising that digital cameras, scanners and whatnot are frowned upon, and the patrons aren't really that more careful with the journals just because they'd use the library's copiers than their own scanners. I think the main issue is money.
YMMV, this is at a Swedish university's biomedical library.
While the bacteria are not eucaryote cells sharing one common genome, we wouldn't survive without the normal bacterial flora, so functionally it IS part of the organism we call "the human body". They constitute a vital part of our immune system and our digestive/metabolical system.
"You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the.NET Framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval."
Using Windows Update in Swedish, I saw nothing like that in the EULA. Just the expected "default" stuff (don't w4r3z this, we 0wn j00, we're not responsible for anything, yadayada...).
So, if you want to publish.NET benchmarks, set IE to request pages in another language than English and happily accept the displayed EULA.;)
Poor Pioneer 10. I don't know what it did 30 years ago, but I'm sure the period for prosecution must have expired by now. Let bygones be bygones and stop chasing the poor thing.
FOAD, troll. Go back to amiga.org or something. Got your precious $50 T-shirt/membership yet?
> OS4 will be sold seperately and the coupon can be > redeemed on just OS4 aswell.
OS4 will only be sold separately in a version for ancient CyberstormPPC accelerators in old 68k Amigas and to those people who bought one of the few "developer version AmigaOnes" from Eyetech (i.e. the normal hardware without any license verification modifications).
I thought the zealots in the Church of Amiga Inc. at least knew what they were zealous about... Apparently not. Are you having difficulties comprehending the text in the documents you're referring to?
> Yet again, to be able to run AmigaOS4 it will need > the modified Bios Dongle. The sort of thing I've > come to call a "pissmark" like a dog marking it > territory (Dog Released Marking).
True. For more info on the AmigaOS distribution policies and locking of third party hardware vendors' products by Amiga Inc, check out this site (with links, FAQs, users' and developers' comments and more). Please read this petition to Amiga Inc. and consider signing it! It's for the good of competition, pricing and development in the non-Apple PPC hardware market as well as of the future of AmigaOS.
> I thought that the new Amiga hardware had been > made CHRP compliant and that the development team > had been looking to the Mac for inspiration.
First of all there is and will be no new Amiga hardware (the article headline is totally misleading), AmigaOS will as you say run on POP/CHRP hardware from third parties. This particular motherboard has nothing to do with AmigaOS or Amiga Inc. other than that its UK distributor has licensed the "AmigaOne" trademark from Amiga Inc. Its designers and manufacturers have most likely never heard of Amigas, Amiga Inc. or AmigaOS (the old Amiga market was never that big in south-east Asia).
> If I'm right then this story is no more than > "Man runs an application of Yellow Dog Linux" - > it's really no more exciting than me getting > YDL running on my iBook.
You're right.
> Also the 600Mhz G3 Amiga One board from a > European vendor is 600(euros) with processor, > no case, memory, video, sound, monitor, mouse, > keyboard.
The essentially identical TeronCX is "less than $300" without CPU.
MOD THAT UP! Not just because he's quoting me;) , but because he's right. I can't believe the "Zico" garbage is still allowed to be thrown around and cause confusion like the post this AC replied to. Amiga Inc, clean up your act - and your website!
> If you would like to support the AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 then you should read Bill McEwen latest exec update [amiga.com].
Are you an Amiga Inc. employee? That ridiculous pre-order^W lottery^W T-shirt sale^W market research^W^W club membership scheme has nothing to do with supporting AmigaOS or any hardware. That money doesn't go to Hyperion who are developing AmigaOS and it doesn't go to Eyetech who are distributing these motherboards.
If you want to support those projects, send 50 bucks to Hyperion, Eyetech or Mai instead. Then you're at least funding a product.
"Amiga" (the hardware platform) is NOT coming back, contrary to what this very badly researched article says.
Amiga Inc. is a software-only company these days and AmigaOS4 will run on PPC hardware by third parties, like this TeronCX-based POP board, a.k.a. "AmigaOne G3SE". The "AmigaOne" name is merely a trademark which one distributor, Eyetech, has licensed from Amiga Inc.
No, "The Amiga" is not coming back. There will not be any more Amiga hardware, nobody is designing, making, selling or planning any Amiga hardware. Amiga-the-hardware-platform is dead. I don't blame you cbr372 though, this article is really whacked out.
This is not "New Amiga hardware", it's a "generic" POP board cloned from the Mai TeronCX, only its new distributor Eyetech has licensed the "AmigaOne" trademark from Amiga Inc.
Forthcoming versions of AmigaOS running on hardware from third parties like this would be fantastic news if only Amiga Inc. hadn't decided to f*ck things up as usual with some seriously demented distribution policies for new versions of AmigaOS: Any hardware, in order to be allowed to run AmigaOS, must be licensed by Amiga Inc. The hardware vendor must also get a license for himself and his support/financial organisation, he must equip his hardware with a hardware license verification mechanism (although Amiga Inc. affectionally calls it "anti-piracy measures") and he must sell AmigaOS bundled with his hardware. AmigaOS will not be available for sale separated from hardware to us users who wish to choose our hardware and hardware vendors ourselves.
Of course this is unacceptable for independent hardware vendors, especially those who design Open Hardware like POP which is what AmigaOS will run on, and thus Amiga Inc. are killing AmigaOS in a very effective way. If it's intentional it's probably to redirect resources to their "AmigaDE" project. Unfortunately they're at the same time splitting the "potentially AmigaOS compatible" hardware market into "hardware for AmigaOS" and "the exact same hardware but for everyone else".
Please consider signing this petition to Amiga Inc. if you wouldn't like this to happen. There's more info about all this available here.
WOW! This is one seriously misleading article! It must be pointed out that this is NOT any "New Amiga Hardware". It's a clone of the Mai TeronCX POP motherboard. Nobody is designing, making or selling any "new Amigas", least of all the software company Amiga Inc. The forthcoming AmigaOS4 will run on generic POP/PPC hardware from third party distributors and on old Amigas with PPC accelerators. Eyetech, the distributor of this motherboard has simply licensed the "Amiga" trademark.
Unfortunately AmigaOS4 is being killed by Amiga Inc. themselves before it has a chance to take off. They have come up with an insane distribution policy for all future versions of AmigaOS. In order to be allowed to run AmigaOS, any third party hardware vendor is supposed to buy a license from Amiga Inc for both himself and his hardware, he must modify his hardware with license verification measures (Amiga Inc. uses a nonsensical "anti-piracy" argument for this), and he must sell AmigaOS bundled with his hardware. AmigaOS will not be available for sale separately to users who wish to choose their own hardware and hardware vendors.
Please consider signing this petition to Amiga Inc. to make them at least give AmigaOS a fair chance and to wake them upo from their megalomanic dilusions of trying to control an independent hardware market! There's more info about this dirty business here.
And of course it runs MOL/MacOS - it's a POP board with OpenFirmware and it's running Linux. Is this news?
I wonder if Google is responding to AllTheWeb's claim to have the largest nuber of indexed pages by refreshing/rebuilding their index? I'm wondering because the site in my.sig and all pages mentioning or linking to it are no longer to be found by Google. Gone. Vapourised. The cache is empty as well. This and this site used to be the first results listed when you searched for "amigaos petition distribution policies". Now see for yourselves what turns up (it's just 3 hits).
Now let's say you're drunk and tired at 3 AM and you want a taxi ride home from the nightclub. One quick glance in the American wallet says you've got a bunch of banknotes (if you're lucky...), they're all the same size and the same colour. One quick glance down the Swedish wallet immediately tells you if you can afford that taxi ride home or if you've got to stagger home on your feet/knees/hands/whatever. Not having to stand in the street flipping through your money to read their numbers will also make you a less attractive mugging victim on that walk home...
You can even keep your money in the pocket and feel how much money you're carrying, not to mention the blind who have to do this all the time.
This reminds me of an interview with Kraftwerk, where they envisioned that one day they would be able to send their robots on tour and themselves staying at home in the Kling-Klang studio, sending music and video to the venue in question. Seems like somebody else at least partially beat them to making the vision a reality.
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Date: 1919
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Aha, thanks.
I said I was tired, remember.
Ted Nelson, inventor of the word hypertext, warned against the "Balkanization" of information systems as early as the 70s.
;)
Hypertext schmypertext! This guy apparently foresaw the post-communistic instability and sociopolitical division of the Balkan peninsula as early as the '70s, pre-emptively coined the term "Balkanization" and applied it on information systems!
Or was he talking about Tito?
Crap, I'm tired.
I assumed it was to do with copyright, but I asked, and apparently their major concern is people dragging scanners across the surfaces of their books.
I add to my poor student's economy by working some evenings at a university library, and part of the job is to make copies ordered by researchers. The library does not get the books and journals for free, and the stuff is still copyrighted. Imagine that!
Part of the copying fees goes to the copied journals and their publishers. The library keeps track of what and how much is copied "in-house", and I suppose some of the money from the patrons' copiers (which for natural reasons can't be directly connected to any particular publishers) is pooled to finance literature acquisitions.
It's not surprising that digital cameras, scanners and whatnot are frowned upon, and the patrons aren't really that more careful with the journals just because they'd use the library's copiers than their own scanners. I think the main issue is money.
YMMV, this is at a Swedish university's biomedical library.
133t spelling for Nietzsche.
;)
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The Unicode/UTF thing was a nightmare. It seemingly broke everything that isn't included in Red Hat's GNOME2/KDE3.
/etc/sysconfig/i18n. It probably says LANG="your_LANGUAGE.UTF-8". Change that to just LANG="your_LANGUAGE".
To get rid of it altogether, edit
ÅÄÖ åäö Smörgåsbord! Français! Müll! Now it just works, like it always has.
And BTW FWIW, I had no problems building the NVidia driver.
While the bacteria are not eucaryote cells sharing one common genome, we wouldn't survive without the normal bacterial flora, so functionally it IS part of the organism we call "the human body". They constitute a vital part of our immune system and our digestive/metabolical system.
> uh, does anyone know what rich vegans eat?
:)
Meat.
"You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the .NET Framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval."
.NET benchmarks, set IE to request pages in another language than English and happily accept the displayed EULA. ;)
Using Windows Update in Swedish, I saw nothing like that in the EULA. Just the expected "default" stuff (don't w4r3z this, we 0wn j00, we're not responsible for anything, yadayada...).
So, if you want to publish
Poor Pioneer 10. I don't know what it did 30 years ago, but I'm sure the period for prosecution must have expired by now. Let bygones be bygones and stop chasing the poor thing.
There are three kinds of survey answers: Lies, Damn Lies, and CowboyNeal.
FOAD, troll. Go back to amiga.org or something. Got your precious $50 T-shirt/membership yet?
> OS4 will be sold seperately and the coupon can be
> redeemed on just OS4 aswell.
OS4 will only be sold separately in a version for ancient CyberstormPPC accelerators in old 68k Amigas and to those people who bought one of the few "developer version AmigaOnes" from Eyetech (i.e. the normal hardware without any license verification modifications).
I thought the zealots in the Church of Amiga Inc. at least knew what they were zealous about... Apparently not. Are you having difficulties comprehending the text in the documents you're referring to?
> Yet again, to be able to run AmigaOS4 it will need
> the modified Bios Dongle. The sort of thing I've
> come to call a "pissmark" like a dog marking it
> territory (Dog Released Marking).
True. For more info on the AmigaOS distribution policies and locking of third party hardware vendors' products by Amiga Inc, check out this site (with links, FAQs, users' and developers' comments and more). Please read this petition to Amiga Inc. and consider signing it! It's for the good of competition, pricing and development in the non-Apple PPC hardware market as well as of the future of AmigaOS.
> I thought that the new Amiga hardware had been
> made CHRP compliant and that the development team
> had been looking to the Mac for inspiration.
First of all there is and will be no new Amiga hardware (the article headline is totally misleading), AmigaOS will as you say run on POP/CHRP hardware from third parties. This particular motherboard has nothing to do with AmigaOS or Amiga Inc. other than that its UK distributor has licensed the "AmigaOne" trademark from Amiga Inc. Its designers and manufacturers have most likely never heard of Amigas, Amiga Inc. or AmigaOS (the old Amiga market was never that big in south-east Asia).
> If I'm right then this story is no more than
> "Man runs an application of Yellow Dog Linux" -
> it's really no more exciting than me getting
> YDL running on my iBook.
You're right.
> Also the 600Mhz G3 Amiga One board from a
> European vendor is 600(euros) with processor,
> no case, memory, video, sound, monitor, mouse,
> keyboard.
The essentially identical TeronCX is "less than $300" without CPU.
MOD THAT UP! Not just because he's quoting me ;) , but because he's right. I can't believe the "Zico" garbage is still allowed to be thrown around and cause confusion like the post this AC replied to. Amiga Inc, clean up your act - and your website!
> If you would like to support the AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 then you should read Bill McEwen latest exec update [amiga.com].
Are you an Amiga Inc. employee? That ridiculous pre-order^W lottery^W T-shirt sale^W market research^W^W club membership scheme has nothing to do with supporting AmigaOS or any hardware. That money doesn't go to Hyperion who are developing AmigaOS and it doesn't go to Eyetech who are distributing these motherboards.
If you want to support those projects, send 50 bucks to Hyperion, Eyetech or Mai instead. Then you're at least funding a product.
"Amiga" (the hardware platform) is NOT coming back, contrary to what this very badly researched article says.
Amiga Inc. is a software-only company these days and AmigaOS4 will run on PPC hardware by third parties, like this TeronCX-based POP board, a.k.a. "AmigaOne G3SE". The "AmigaOne" name is merely a trademark which one distributor, Eyetech, has licensed from Amiga Inc.
Read more here.
No, "The Amiga" is not coming back. There will not be any more Amiga hardware, nobody is designing, making, selling or planning any Amiga hardware. Amiga-the-hardware-platform is dead. I don't blame you cbr372 though, this article is really whacked out.
This is not "New Amiga hardware", it's a "generic" POP board cloned from the Mai TeronCX, only its new distributor Eyetech has licensed the "AmigaOne" trademark from Amiga Inc.
Forthcoming versions of AmigaOS running on hardware from third parties like this would be fantastic news if only Amiga Inc. hadn't decided to f*ck things up as usual with some seriously demented distribution policies for new versions of AmigaOS: Any hardware, in order to be allowed to run AmigaOS, must be licensed by Amiga Inc. The hardware vendor must also get a license for himself and his support/financial organisation, he must equip his hardware with a hardware license verification mechanism (although Amiga Inc. affectionally calls it "anti-piracy measures") and he must sell AmigaOS bundled with his hardware. AmigaOS will not be available for sale separated from hardware to us users who wish to choose our hardware and hardware vendors ourselves.
Of course this is unacceptable for independent hardware vendors, especially those who design Open Hardware like POP which is what AmigaOS will run on, and thus Amiga Inc. are killing AmigaOS in a very effective way. If it's intentional it's probably to redirect resources to their "AmigaDE" project. Unfortunately they're at the same time splitting the "potentially AmigaOS compatible" hardware market into "hardware for AmigaOS" and "the exact same hardware but for everyone else".
Please consider signing this petition to Amiga Inc. if you wouldn't like this to happen. There's more info about all this available here.
WOW! This is one seriously misleading article! It must be pointed out that this is NOT any "New Amiga Hardware". It's a clone of the Mai TeronCX POP motherboard. Nobody is designing, making or selling any "new Amigas", least of all the software company Amiga Inc. The forthcoming AmigaOS4 will run on generic POP/PPC hardware from third party distributors and on old Amigas with PPC accelerators. Eyetech, the distributor of this motherboard has simply licensed the "Amiga" trademark.
Unfortunately AmigaOS4 is being killed by Amiga Inc. themselves before it has a chance to take off. They have come up with an insane distribution policy for all future versions of AmigaOS. In order to be allowed to run AmigaOS, any third party hardware vendor is supposed to buy a license from Amiga Inc for both himself and his hardware, he must modify his hardware with license verification measures (Amiga Inc. uses a nonsensical "anti-piracy" argument for this), and he must sell AmigaOS bundled with his hardware. AmigaOS will not be available for sale separately to users who wish to choose their own hardware and hardware vendors.
Please consider signing this petition to Amiga Inc. to make them at least give AmigaOS a fair chance and to wake them upo from their megalomanic dilusions of trying to control an independent hardware market! There's more info about this dirty business here.
And of course it runs MOL/MacOS - it's a POP board with OpenFirmware and it's running Linux. Is this news?
:-D
Laptop quality "cooling" + >1GHz Athlon + all this in a 6kg package in your lap = Sperm death.
At least it's a Temporary Infertilisation Device.
For cinemas, concerts et c. I prefer a low-tech solution like this.
I wonder if Google is responding to AllTheWeb's claim to have the largest nuber of indexed pages by refreshing/rebuilding their index? .sig and all pages mentioning or linking to it are no longer to be found by Google. Gone. Vapourised. The cache is empty as well. This and this site used to be the first results listed when you searched for "amigaos petition distribution policies". Now see for yourselves what turns up (it's just 3 hits).
I'm wondering because the site in my
Yes, but you have to pick up the note and look at its markings.
Compare the US banknotes with for example the Swedish ones.
Now let's say you're drunk and tired at 3 AM and you want a taxi ride home from the nightclub. One quick glance in the American wallet says you've got a bunch of banknotes (if you're lucky...), they're all the same size and the same colour. One quick glance down the Swedish wallet immediately tells you if you can afford that taxi ride home or if you've got to stagger home on your feet/knees/hands/whatever. Not having to stand in the street flipping through your money to read their numbers will also make you a less attractive mugging victim on that walk home...
You can even keep your money in the pocket and feel how much money you're carrying, not to mention the blind who have to do this all the time.
This reminds me of an interview with Kraftwerk, where they envisioned that one day they would be able to send their robots on tour and themselves staying at home in the Kling-Klang studio, sending music and video to the venue in question.
Seems like somebody else at least partially beat them to making the vision a reality.
"The Swiss"? Is that Al Gore's Slashdot username?