It looks like Hewlett Packard have been working hard on this change while the whole stockholder vote/battle was going on.
Even so, I was still taken aback when the familiar Flash-driven "Powered by Compaq" icon at the Yahoo Mail site was replaced by a "Powered by HP" icon today.
HP also will deliver on the previously announced Compaq OpenVMS(TM) roadmap, including the port to ItaniumHP also will deliver on the previously announced Compaq OpenVMS(TM) roadmap, including the port to Itanium
Imagine going back in time 15 years and telling someone that HP would be releasing OpenVMS.
I call it a piece of shit, assuming it's one of those optical mice that require a special mousepad with little lines drawn on it. They're incredibly annoying to use, particularly when the mousepad angle changes.
On the other hand, I admit that the idea of having a mousepad with the lines drawn logarithmically was pretty cool...
Heh, as an MCSE I can say that I'm in support of the idea - but I wouldn't trust Microsoft to do it.
But hell - I want a centralised repository for my personal information and email and address book and all that stuff. I already use Yahoo mail to collect my email (with my own domains forwarding to it). I really like being able to easily check my email and get access to info from any web browser and (at the moment) from behind petty well any corporate firewall.
I want what Hailstorm would have offered - but I don't want it from Microsoft.
That link you gave does talk about IBM making it easier to build Linux clusters. Unfortunately for your argument, it's making them out of many Intel-based boxes, not one of their bigger machines with virtual Linux servers.
Looks like it probably is a stupid idea to build a Beowulf cluster out of lots of virtual Linux servers.
Where were the doomsayers? They were writing the featured articles for websites and on the front covers of magazines. They were going on about "xx million lines of code" and "will it ever be out", in a way very similar to what they're saying about Mozilla. There were a lot of Windows 2000 doomsayers out there.
However, Microsoft actually managed to get a good product out there (for NT, anyway). We'd better hope that Mozilla 1.0 is relatively as good.
"...and they're coming into the home straight now, it's Amiga in front with Daikatana close behind, Daikatana is pulling ahead but Amiga fights back and..."
If the Jaguar had gone the way of the Kiwi, it would still be being manufactured. Kiwis are alive and well and breeding in the wild.
I suggest you use dodos or moas when you need to use an extinct flightless bird as a metaphor.
I had an Atari Lynx for a while. Nice little machine with some rather cute games. I remember trying so hard to get the maximum rotations (4 or 5? "Awesome!") on that surfing game.
The people doing useful work in the Linux community already know all those things, to a greater or lesser extent. Sure they argue about the details, but they are reasonable enough to understand that different users have different requirements, and that Linux does not currently fulfil all those requirements.
The people who the article is for, the linux weenies with their new found zealotry, are either not going to read it or they're not going to understand it. People that stupid and that fanatical are not going to change their worldview based on reasoned argument.
The Linux collective community doesn't need to understand the things listed in that article, it already does. What it does need is a way to shut the fanantics up. Unfortunately I can't see it happening.
PS. I like Linux but it's getting embarrassing to admit it.
Ok, who else noted the affiliate ID in the links this person gave? You don't suppose that the poster will get commission if you buy the books by clicking the links, do you?
It's an interesting idea, making money by providing useful links.
However, something tells me it should be discouraged on Slashdot, or else all we'll see will be people posting links to any product they think is vaguely connected to a post. I wonder how many affiliated links were posted to the Lego Mindstorm articles...
Don't be silly. The reason you get films late is much more to do with the distributors in your country than anything else. I live in New Zealand which is about as remote and tiny as you can get, and we often get films (like Toy Story 2) within days or a week of their US release.
It seems that we don't have to wait for three months, as least for the blockbuster product. It makes sense too, global television means we get to see the hype at the same time and there's no point wasting all that expensive promotion.
I normally like Katz's articles but when did he start working for Apple's marketing department? More seriously, why is claiming this is the dawn of Apple's second age? I see two major problems with this: Firstly - it's just a new processor, about as important as the 68030 was to those suffering with the venerable old 68000. Seondly - Apple has clearly already been through a *minimum* of two ages, and to my mind is not into their third. The first age was obviously the hacker age, centered around the Apple II and its successors. The second age would then have to be the advent of the Macintosh and the attempt to make computing easy for the drooling masses. I think their third age might have started with the release of the iMac (a renaissance in marketing if nothing else) but I think we'll need a little more historical perspective to determine that. Katz should learn some of the history of the industry he wants to pontificate about.
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Just like the HP150 touchscreen used, lo, those many years ago. (A wonderful 8088 with some OS (CP/M or MSDos?) and the wonderful PAM!
Unfortunately this solution wouldn't cater very well for the multi-touch aspects.
> Sssh! You'll make it angry!
^^^^^
That would be the Silent Secure Shell?
"The Clie PEG-T665C comes with a Memory Stick slot and Motorola's 66MHz Dragonball Super VZ."
Isn't that a video game?
It looks like Hewlett Packard have been working hard on this change while the whole stockholder vote/battle was going on.
Even so, I was still taken aback when the familiar Flash-driven "Powered by Compaq" icon at the Yahoo Mail site was replaced by a "Powered by HP" icon today.
What other changes have people seen?
Imagine going back in time 15 years and telling someone that HP would be releasing OpenVMS.
"You mean that HP bought DEC?!?!"
"Ah, no, HP bought Compaq who had bought DEC."
"Compaq bought DEC!?!?!?!?!?"
There is one big compelling reason - people who want to develop Windows client apps will move to C# and .Net.
Then, one day, they'll want to write an app that runs on the server and spits out HTML pages. Guess what? They'll be writing it in C# and .Net ...
I call it a piece of shit, assuming it's one of those optical mice that require a special mousepad with little lines drawn on it. They're incredibly annoying to use, particularly when the mousepad angle changes.
On the other hand, I admit that the idea of having a mousepad with the lines drawn logarithmically was pretty cool...
Heh, as an MCSE I can say that I'm in support of the idea - but I wouldn't trust Microsoft to do it.
But hell - I want a centralised repository for my personal information and email and address book and all that stuff. I already use Yahoo mail to collect my email (with my own domains forwarding to it). I really like being able to easily check my email and get access to info from any web browser and (at the moment) from behind petty well any corporate firewall.
I want what Hailstorm would have offered - but I don't want it from Microsoft.
Well, NTFS already supports extensive file auditing so I guess that's not such a great reason.
Ummm, you've been able to do that (PHP and Photoshop) for ages with Windows 2000. :-)
That link you gave does talk about IBM making it easier to build Linux clusters. Unfortunately for your argument, it's making them out of many Intel-based boxes, not one of their bigger machines with virtual Linux servers.
Looks like it probably is a stupid idea to build a Beowulf cluster out of lots of virtual Linux servers.
So many error messages do make the user feel they've done something wrong. "Invalid operation!", "Syntax Error at line 14!" and all the rest of them.
My recent application had the following user error message: "Ooops, something went wrong. Don't worry, it's probably not your fault. Try it again."
You know, I don't think I can imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things...
Ok, due to weird Slashdot formatting shit, try this link : Wonderswan FAQ
"I've got this terrible pain in the diodes in the middle of my chest."
Damn it, where's the MP3 support?
The FAQ says it doesn't support MP3s, but does kindly point out WAV files as an alternative [snort]
Anyone know why this is missing? I assume lack of RAM or CPU.
Where were the doomsayers? They were writing the featured articles for websites and on the front covers of magazines. They were going on about "xx million lines of code" and "will it ever be out", in a way very similar to what they're saying about Mozilla. There were a lot of Windows 2000 doomsayers out there.
However, Microsoft actually managed to get a good product out there (for NT, anyway). We'd better hope that Mozilla 1.0 is relatively as good.
"...and they're coming into the home straight now, it's Amiga in front with Daikatana close behind, Daikatana is pulling ahead but Amiga fights back and..."
- Jan 21, 2003
If the Jaguar had gone the way of the Kiwi, it would still be being manufactured. Kiwis are alive and well and breeding in the wild.
I suggest you use dodos or moas when you need to use an extinct flightless bird as a metaphor.
I had an Atari Lynx for a while. Nice little machine with some rather cute games. I remember trying so hard to get the maximum rotations (4 or 5? "Awesome!") on that surfing game.
That article is just waste of the author's time.
The people doing useful work in the Linux community already know all those things, to a greater or lesser extent. Sure they argue about the details, but they are reasonable enough to understand that different users have different requirements, and that Linux does not currently fulfil all those requirements.
The people who the article is for, the linux weenies with their new found zealotry, are either not going to read it or they're not going to understand it. People that stupid and that fanatical are not going to change their worldview based on reasoned argument.
The Linux collective community doesn't need to understand the things listed in that article, it already does. What it does need is a way to shut the fanantics up. Unfortunately I can't see it happening.
PS. I like Linux but it's getting embarrassing to admit it.
Ok, who else noted the affiliate ID in the links this person gave? You don't suppose that the poster will get commission if you buy the books by clicking the links, do you?
It's an interesting idea, making money by providing useful links.
However, something tells me it should be discouraged on Slashdot, or else all we'll see will be people posting links to any product they think is vaguely connected to a post. I wonder how many affiliated links were posted to the Lego Mindstorm articles...
Don't be silly. The reason you get films late is much more to do with the distributors in your country than anything else. I live in New Zealand which is about as remote and tiny as you can get, and we often get films (like Toy Story 2) within days or a week of their US release.
It seems that we don't have to wait for three months, as least for the blockbuster product. It makes sense too, global television means we get to see the hype at the same time and there's no point wasting all that expensive promotion.
I thought the interview itself was boring and irrelevant.
However, what was interesting to me was that the TV station had the transcript freely available online. No login required, no charge.
A TV station that gets it? Will wonders never cease?
I normally like Katz's articles but when did he start working for Apple's marketing department? More seriously, why is claiming this is the dawn of Apple's second age? I see two major problems with this: Firstly - it's just a new processor, about as important as the 68030 was to those suffering with the venerable old 68000. Seondly - Apple has clearly already been through a *minimum* of two ages, and to my mind is not into their third. The first age was obviously the hacker age, centered around the Apple II and its successors. The second age would then have to be the advent of the Macintosh and the attempt to make computing easy for the drooling masses. I think their third age might have started with the release of the iMac (a renaissance in marketing if nothing else) but I think we'll need a little more historical perspective to determine that. Katz should learn some of the history of the industry he wants to pontificate about.