A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer receives a start message from the central computer. Based on the start message, the remote computer processes raw data to generate processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, Bruce Perins sues Corel.
A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer receives a start message from the central computer. Based on the start message, the remote computer processes raw data to generate processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, the remote computer sends a complete message to the central computer.
My mother (bless her heart) would fall under the the "all kinds of frantic link-clicking through all kinds of weird-ass CSS2/HTML4/JavaScript" simply because she has no idea what the pages' content contains untill the link is done loading. Look around, "view source" on the top 20 sites around the net. View Source on some personal homepages . . this 'weird-ass frantic' content is pretty normal, and (thankfully) has been part of the smoke test in the Milestone builds.
The Cyberette sounds like a digital hallucinogen that leaves the user completely functional, except for certain parts of certain senses are replaced to the users specifications.
I know of one co-worker that I'de like to 'dial-out' of my day. It would make me a lot more productive.
Now only if we could teach 'Cheech and Chong' to hack a bit;)
And please, it's "horribly inadequate". Isn't it embarrassing to put glaring spelling mistakes in bold? Thank you for correcting my spilling:) and pointing out some very insightfull points.
I realize that my posted comparison (machine tools costing hundreds of thousands of dollars) is not a very valid comparison, but shirly:) there must be some middle ground on the MTBF issue.
I believe that if this number is moved up NOW,in the alpha phase, it will become even better in future releases. If that number is left where it is, I garantee you that the MS FUD machine will pound that point hard and often. Let's not give them that stick.
Stability (User:it just works) is a shining downfall of IE and and the micros~1 platform. We should aim to be better than that. It's this focus on stability that has gotten PERL, Linux and Apache to where they are today, and I think the Mozilla team should use the same idea.
I'm not asking for 'four nines' in an alpha version, but there must be some middle ground somewhere.
From the Mozillazine article: 1. Quality: Mean Time Between Failures should be at least 1 hour. The MTBF for the M11 release was 1.09 hours according to talkback reports (the "fullcircle" in (LINK) means that build reports crash events via a "talkback" component).
Wha?!?!?! an hour?! . .
Now please allow me to preface my comments with where my point of view comes from. I work in the machine tool industry, where MTBF is measured in thousands of hours.
Am I just off base? or is this criteria horibly inatiquit. Even for an Alpha.
It's nice to see Larry E. and the 'black tower boys' pushing people to avoid ms products. Oracle has been taking this approach for years, and it's good for Open Source, good for developers, and good for users.
What concerns me most, however, is view points like: "Linux support is getting to be big business."
When publicly traded companys (with a responsibility to there share holders) are forced to choose between a consulting/support 'revenue stream' (ack!) and lowering bariers to development, I'm afraid they'll choose the former.
Imagine, if you will, General Motors relasing a car with 'OpenDash 1.0.0'. Upon entering the car, you notice that the numbers on the speedometer are encrypted, the ignition key goes in the CD player, and the gear shifter is on the rear view mirror. This is an example of a design that is functional, but designed to foster factory support.
Imagine, if you will, a distro/support company releasing source code for a 'Must Have' app and finding no comments in the source code, data structures thought up by a chimp on acid, and a layout that only the bravest of coders could handle. This is an example of a design that is functional, but designed to foster factory support.
It's my hope that distro/support companies will balance support revenue streams with encouraging development and clean code.
from the interview:How will the Linux version compare to the Windows version when it comes to features?
DS We don't have mail and news but we should have everything else. In a lot of cases we will have more features to make Linux users happy.
Like what?
DS Control from outside programs so that it may be used with other programs such as KDE and Gnome.
Good news for Gnome users
What I found interesting is how short the interview was, and how little discussion there was about WC3 standards. In order to maintain control ov the client side of the net, it will be very important to be at least minimaly complient with the specs.
Regarding your comments: Start by electing more people like Jesse Ventura - someone who is not afriad to tell the little groups off, someone who doesn't believe that government is big brother - and shouldn't take a ton of taxes from you
I agree with you totaly up untill the Jesse part. You've got the right message, but the wrong messanger...the right sale, but the wrong salesman.. the right platform, but the wrong candidate.
I would like to thank/. for putting up a retraction after getting a story wrong. This is good to see. Thanks for being up front and honest about the situation. Sometimes fast moving news isn't always firm. I would rather see the fast moving news keep coming (with an ocasional oversite) than see the speed of/. slow down for editorial reasons.
"MSY2K," a two-hour suspense thriller starring Bill Gates ("MS-Bob," "640K is enough") as a Y2K trouble-shooter trying to save the world from catastrophic disaster on the eve of the antitrust decision.
Joe Morton ("The Astronaut's Wife" with Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp), Kate Vernon ("John Woo's 'Blackjack'"), Lauren Tom ("Friends") and Ronny Cox ("Deep Blue Sea," "Forces of Nature") also star.
Dick Lowry ("Mr. Murder;" NBC's "In the Line of Duty" movie franchise) directs from a screenplay by Thomas Hines and Jonathan Fernandez ("Crisis in the Kremlin"). David Israel, executive producer of last season's critically acclaimed NBC movie, "Mutiny," and the four-hour NBC thriller, "Pandora's Clock," the third highest-rated miniseries (behind "Asteroid" and "The Odyssey") of the 1997-98 season, is executive producer of the presentation from NBC Studios.
Steve Balmer (Olin) is a complex systems failure expert, an independent consultant working on the government's "Z2" (think zero, zero) project to insure that the new OS (W2K) is DOJ compliant.
As the minutes tick down to the new anti-trust decision, a concerned Balmer counsels caution, persuading his boss, the evil Mr. Gates , who heads up the program, to ground all planes before midnight because they are not compatible with the comapnies new operation system.
As Mr. Balmer watches and waits, clocks around the world begin to strike 12 a.m., bringing the United States closer to learning what the Micros~1 evil empire is all about.
As the millenium dawns in North America, most of the Eastern Seaboard enjoys major relief from the formely opressive molopolist. But the worst is yet to come.
Mr. Balmer must stay ahead of the unpredictable MS2K bug as it spreads across the United States threatening everyone, including his own family on the West Coast. While simple computer error is at the heart of the potentially catastrophic problems, Mr Balmer must use old-fashioned monopoly tactics if he is to save the day in this race-against-time action adventure.
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It makes no difference how many places they could have obtained this technology. They got it here. Cheap
Very well put! This staging technology was bought and payed for in sweat by the many hard working americans in NASA, and the american tax payer flipping the bill.
pervident clinton chose to funnel the money through the DNC and look the other way while China obtained this technology.
It's wrong, and the people should blame pervident clinton.
What you fail to recognize is that the "Long March" rockets would blow up on a very precise and regular basis right up until U.S. aerospace companies helped them out with new technology.
This is precisly the point. And who authorised U.S. aerospace companys to do this?
We can blame Pervident er um president Clinton for exchanging rocket technology for campaign contributions. This is a direct result of that technology exchange.
One idea comes from a video I saw on MTV. The video shows a person walking on a moving floor. This was done my going into a warehouse with a big floor, building a room with no floor (4 walls and a roof) light enough to push around by hand. The camera was attached to the moving room, so that the camera perspective was locked with that of the room, and did not appear to move.
Ok, now change the room to a 1/2 sphere (dome) that the user is inside of. One small camera/sensor, above the user in the sphere, looks down at the user and sends signals to 4 wheels on the outside of the 1/2 sphere. When the user walks right, the dome moves with him. The user can now walk normaly all over the warhouse, and the sphere covers him at all times.
The dome (acually made of a rear-projection material) would be covered with DLP projectors (Like people use in buisness presentations). Each projector would be responsible for a small area of the total picture (1280x1027). The projected image would be proccessed digitaly before being projected, so that the final result aprears flat to the user inside the dome.
The noise made my the servo motors moving the dome would be cancled by the 3D sound system positioned around the outside of the dome and noise canceling technology.
I just want to tell you how much we all apreciate all your hard work and dedication to the extrasolar planet search. This changes man kinds view of the solar system, and this is indeed an historic day.
I hope that all of the people in your field continue there diligent, results producing, undertaking. Thanks !
Okay so AOL owns Netscape. I don't care if Netscape 5.0 has all kinds of dorky buttons hanging off of it. AOL bought the company, and they have the right to use the browser however they want.
What matters to me in most Internet users is how they implement standards. they can add tons of URLs back to it AOL's domain, all kinds of 'paper clip inspired' interface kludge, that all ok
Fast, Faster, Fastest, Stable and Standards compliant. These other things that will return Netscape back to prominence on the desktop.
Linus T.:" Suddenly I could understand what Scott was all about... There's a teaching there and I'll call it "the Sun disease" but it's true of others too. You start really hating your competition to the point that instead of doing the right thing for your customers, you try to screw over your competitors any which way you can... and then you come up with bad licenses for your new programming languages... Completely hypothetical example [laughter and clapping]. I was almost in a situation where I was thinking, "Okay, how can I screw Microsoft?" You start not thinking clearly.
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A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer receives a start message from the central computer. Based on the start message, the remote computer processes raw data to generate processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, the remote computer sends a complete message to the central computer.
patented? pfffft yea right and Bruce Perens is gonna sue Corel. ;)
If you burp, it'll make the news.
So be carefull where you burb.
It's a small net, and your words get around fast.
Kudos to /. for informing the public.
and Bruce, let's be carefull out there.
My mother (bless her heart) would fall under the the "all kinds of frantic link-clicking through all kinds of weird-ass CSS2/HTML4/JavaScript" simply because she has no idea what the pages' content contains untill the link is done loading. Look around, "view source" on the top 20 sites around the net. View Source on some personal homepages . . this 'weird-ass frantic' content is pretty normal, and (thankfully) has been part of the smoke test in the Milestone builds.
The Cyberette sounds like a digital hallucinogen that leaves the user completely functional, except for certain parts of certain senses are replaced to the users specifications.
I know of one co-worker that I'de like to 'dial-out' of my day. It would make me a lot more productive.
Now only if we could teach 'Cheech and Chong' to hack a bit ;)
And please, it's "horribly inadequate". Isn't it embarrassing to put glaring spelling mistakes in bold? Thank you for correcting my spilling:) and pointing out some very insightfull points.
I believe that if this number is moved up NOW,in the alpha phase, it will become even better in future releases. If that number is left where it is, I garantee you that the MS FUD machine will pound that point hard and often. Let's not give them that stick.
Stability (User:it just works) is a shining downfall of IE and and the micros~1 platform. We should aim to be better than that. It's this focus on stability that has gotten PERL, Linux and Apache to where they are today, and I think the Mozilla team should use the same idea.
I'm not asking for 'four nines' in an alpha version, but there must be some middle ground somewhere.
On the issue of punk-ass posers trying to act like Alpha males ,I thought ya'll might like to see this photo I made for AlBore2000.com
Wha?!?!?! an hour?! . .
Now please allow me to preface my comments with where my point of view comes from. I work in the machine tool industry, where MTBF is measured in thousands of hours.
Am I just off base? or is this criteria horibly inatiquit. Even for an Alpha.
What concerns me most, however, is view points like: "Linux support is getting to be big business."
When publicly traded companys (with a responsibility to there share holders) are forced to choose between a consulting/support 'revenue stream' (ack!) and lowering bariers to development, I'm afraid they'll choose the former.
Imagine, if you will, General Motors relasing a car with 'OpenDash 1.0.0'. Upon entering the car, you notice that the numbers on the speedometer are encrypted, the ignition key goes in the CD player, and the gear shifter is on the rear view mirror. This is an example of a design that is functional, but designed to foster factory support.
Imagine, if you will, a distro/support company releasing source code for a 'Must Have' app and finding no comments in the source code, data structures thought up by a chimp on acid, and a layout that only the bravest of coders could handle. This is an example of a design that is functional, but designed to foster factory support.
It's my hope that distro/support companies will balance support revenue streams with encouraging development and clean code.
DS We don't have mail and news but we should have everything else. In a lot of cases we will have more features to make Linux users happy.
Like what?
DS Control from outside programs so that it may be used with other programs such as KDE and Gnome.
Good news for Gnome users
What I found interesting is how short the interview was, and how little discussion there was about WC3 standards. In order to maintain control ov the client side of the net, it will be very important to be at least minimaly complient with the specs.
I agree with you totaly up untill the Jesse part. You've got the right message, but the wrong messanger...the right sale, but the wrong salesman.. the right platform, but the wrong candidate.
Joe Morton ("The Astronaut's Wife" with Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp), Kate Vernon ("John Woo's 'Blackjack'"), Lauren Tom ("Friends") and Ronny Cox ("Deep Blue Sea," "Forces of Nature") also star.
Dick Lowry ("Mr. Murder;" NBC's "In the Line of Duty" movie franchise) directs from a screenplay by Thomas Hines and Jonathan Fernandez ("Crisis in the Kremlin"). David Israel, executive producer of last season's critically acclaimed NBC movie, "Mutiny," and the four-hour NBC thriller, "Pandora's Clock," the third highest-rated miniseries (behind "Asteroid" and "The Odyssey") of the 1997-98 season, is executive producer of the presentation from NBC Studios.
Steve Balmer (Olin) is a complex systems failure expert, an independent consultant working on the government's "Z2" (think zero, zero) project to insure that the new OS (W2K) is DOJ compliant.
As the minutes tick down to the new anti-trust decision, a concerned Balmer counsels caution, persuading his boss, the evil Mr. Gates , who heads up the program, to ground all planes before midnight because they are not compatible with the comapnies new operation system.
As Mr. Balmer watches and waits, clocks around the world begin to strike 12 a.m., bringing the United States closer to learning what the Micros~1 evil empire is all about.
As the millenium dawns in North America, most of the Eastern Seaboard enjoys major relief from the formely opressive molopolist. But the worst is yet to come.
Mr. Balmer must stay ahead of the unpredictable MS2K bug as it spreads across the United States threatening everyone, including his own family on the West Coast. While simple computer error is at the heart of the potentially catastrophic problems, Mr Balmer must use old-fashioned monopoly tactics if he is to save the day in this race-against-time action adventure.
Very well put! This staging technology was bought and payed for in sweat by the many hard working americans in NASA, and the american tax payer flipping the bill.
pervident clinton chose to funnel the money through the DNC and look the other way while China obtained this technology.
It's wrong, and the people should blame pervident clinton.
The perv joke I made (We can blame Pervident er um president Clinton) has nothing to do with Ms. Lewinski.
It's refers to his perverted view of himself above the good of the country and the laws we all live by.
In the case of this story, it's his perverted view of ignoring the source of contributions to the DNC, and relaxing export resrictions.
Isn't it just like a liberal to assume that it's 'about the sex' when it's the policy, stupid.
The Gingrinch and Clintons now shared the same plight
Whatever they'd do, they could not do it right.
"Folks hate you," said Bill, "once you land in D.C.
But I've got a plan: Let us bond, you and me.
We'll work as a team, yes! That's my advice!
We'll listen and nod and make NICE NICE NICE!"
The Prez put his hand out, they hugged on the ledge...
And then that old Gingrinch pushed Bill off the edge LOL!
This is precisly the point. And who authorised U.S. aerospace companys to do this?
pervident clinton, that's who. ummm oh yea..and um..who's this Rush guy?
Ok, now change the room to a 1/2 sphere (dome) that the user is inside of. One small camera/sensor, above the user in the sphere, looks down at the user and sends signals to 4 wheels on the outside of the 1/2 sphere. When the user walks right, the dome moves with him. The user can now walk normaly all over the warhouse, and the sphere covers him at all times.
The dome (acually made of a rear-projection material) would be covered with DLP projectors (Like people use in buisness presentations). Each projector would be responsible for a small area of the total picture (1280x1027). The projected image would be proccessed digitaly before being projected, so that the final result aprears flat to the user inside the dome.
The noise made my the servo motors moving the dome would be cancled by the 3D sound system positioned around the outside of the dome and noise canceling technology.
I hope that all of the people in your field continue there diligent, results producing, undertaking. Thanks !
What matters to me in most Internet users is how they implement standards. they can add tons of URLs back to it AOL's domain, all kinds of 'paper clip inspired' interface kludge, that all ok
Fast, Faster, Fastest, Stable and Standards compliant. These other things that will return Netscape back to prominence on the desktop.
When ms made the decision to ignore the command line, they truncate all long file names, and ignore case sensitivity on all file names.
I think it only befiting to return the the favor. Thus the term micros~1.
Here it is (Linus talking about the state of Linux): and (like most good things in life it's free :)
a quote from the transcript reads:
Linus T.:" Suddenly I could understand what Scott was all about... There's a teaching there and I'll call it "the Sun disease" but it's true of others too. You start really hating your competition to the point that instead of doing the right thing for your customers, you try to screw over your competitors any which way you can... and then you come up with bad licenses for your new programming languages... Completely hypothetical example [laughter and clapping]. I was almost in a situation where I was thinking, "Okay, how can I screw Microsoft?" You start not thinking clearly.