Apparently, the majority of Apple's profits come from their mildly over-priced hardware. As of right now, Apple has a very limited foothold in the land of x86/PCs.
This foothold is limited to Quicktime and a few other proprietary formats that, while wonderful in their own right, have a limited lifetime (as everything in the computer industry does).
Were apple to suddenly decide that it were to be quite profitable on their part to sell OS X as x86 compiled code, they might get a larger install base of software. However, they would not do this because they may lose business on the hardware front.
Think about it: Apple's OS X is going to be a Big Thing. It is going to be hyped up the arse. The only way to use it will be to run on Apple hardware. Apple sells machines to the unwashed masses so that they can use the over-hyped software (conveniently also provided by Apple.) Apple makes a killing.
Where is the advantage of selling the software? Perhaps if they implemented a licensing scheme like Microsoft, or perhaps a help scheme like RedHat (which would be a terrible idea because Macs are so bloody easy to use).
I'm terribly sorry to say (I love apple, and I would love to see OS X running on my Intel box) but this is just another case of a bored engineer blowing off a little steam.
Actually, the Free BeOS ver 5 download is on Tuesday, March 28. I know that me and half the Geek World will be downloading the bastard OS. With my luck, we'll slashdot all the server and all the mirrors within a half an hour. Right about when I have 59 megs of the 60 meg download. ARGG!
if you guys like, you can see the future nesting site of the BeOS5 here.
There's nothing there yet.
Rami James Pixel Pusher Altec Lansing R&D, IL
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When you were little, didn't you wonder how they made all those incredibly accurate manuals? Those things were incredible.
I'm sure that with this program, you can make your own manuals with generic pieces. Then you distribute them over the internet.. VOILA! Instant new projects! You could have a whole catalog of new things that could be built with such and such set number.. with instructions!
This idea is public domain now, anyone wants to do it, can.. a Lego builder's wet dream. (Well, that and infinite pieces..)
Design a new, but not-Itanium-compatible 64-bit CPU. Technically, a far better choice. But they knew they haven't Intel's marketing strength to impose this new arch to the world.
It's not just that. The development cycle on a hacked x86 architecture is bound to be shorter than that of a new architecture.
Also, (and I may be wrong on this one, so don't holler murder just yet) but I was under the distinct impression that the EPIC instruction set was public and already published.. just like the x86 instuction set. So AMD could build a chip too, they just chose not to.
Rami James Altec Lansing R&D, IL (All comments are my own, and not necessarily those of my employers.) --
One of the biggest 'eww's that this brings up is the fact that they are growing pigs. Harvesting the guts that they need.. and then there is a carcass that needs to be disposed of.
Where do you think that the carcass will be going.
Can anyone say, "Oscar Meyer Weiner"?
Yum, genetically altered pigs. Now, I realise that I may be being a little naive here. I know that there are genetically altered foods already. I know that people have been selectively breeding crops and animals for tens of centuries.. but come on! THIS IS GROSS!
As a converted windows user, I was exposed for a long time to professional design packages such as Photoshop (raise you hand if you didn't know that one was coming), painter, etc.
After using the GIMP for a couple of days and trying to do all of the same things that I used to do with my other packages, I found that it was distinctly limiting. Now, I am not speaking functionality-wise, but rather in the sense that the GUI was terribly constraining. I could not do the things that I wanted to do as fast as I would like to have done them. I particularly *hated* that the menus were hidden from me (right-click to get to the filters?? what kind of nonsense is that?).
Until some larger companies (Adobe, Macromedia, et al) start to port their large design packages to Linux, I don't see me using it as my main OS for design purposes. Sorry.
Speaking of which, I've used Photoshop on SGI.. what's the big deal with porting from Irix to Linux? What's the hold-up?
I don't know what kind of interstate you have around your hometown, but *my* interstate doesn't let you drive at 141 miles an hour. In fact.. most cars around here don't even go that damn fast. (That's not to say that these nuts don't try..)
What really tickles my toenails about this article, is how the author of napster keeps harping on 'Prettying Up' the client.. even though he knows that there are major issues with how stable/efficient the infrastructure underneath is.
As a professional GUI designer, this type of problem runs across my desk a lot. Marketing maniacs push and push a product to market as fast as (in)humanly possible. They don't really care if the program actually functions, they just want it to look fancy and have a lot of useless features. (HOT LINKS!! WTF?!?)
This is a common trend in the software business today.. and it REALLY has to stop.
Less features; better programs. Everybody (well, everybody but the management) is happy.
Don't mind me, I just had a GUI change thrust into my lap by a certain clueless manager. IT'S ART DAMN YOU!
1. Water will be coming out of the tailpipe and will be extensively present in the engine. Won't this cause a LOT of problems in places where it is very cold? Not just freezing, but also the expanding and contracting that happens in a typical ice -> water -> ice cycle.
2. Los Angeles. Summer. Three hour traffic jam with a bazillion cars all dripping water. Hehe, exactly *how much* water drips out of these things? Is flooding an issue? I know that here in Israel, they don't even bother to place gutter because it rains for only a few weeks during the winter.
3. Hydrogen fueling stations. I mean, come on! Can we say major hazard!?! Would they be keeping the hydrogen in liquid form? How would they store all that fuel??
Just some nice, uninformed questions off the top of my head.
I realise that at this particular point in time, Be isn't anywhere to be seen.. but neither is Transmeta.
I think that Be and Stinger have a lot of potential in the WebPad arena and they should, by all means, not be counted down and out for the count before the real fight even begins.
As for WinCE, I don't really have much nice to say about them. The windows interface barely works for desktops.. which is was DESIGNED for. I really feel that, as an interface for a WebPad/Palmtop it will fail.
I'm just curious, but isn't it the procedure everywhere to have loads of meetings whenever you come across a problem? I know this probably sounds like a gasoline-covered rag flame-fest, but seriously.
I work at a high-tech company, and it actually helps to have a meeting whenever we
I absolutely *love* it when people start talking about TRILLIONS of dollars.
Face it: When we are talking about that much money, it's just talk. Nothing more, nothing less. (Just like the US is Billions (or is it Trillions now?) in the hole. Who cares? It's not like it actually changes anything.)
This is about resources. The way you should think about a trip to the moon.mars (expense-wise anyways) is in Resources.
Example:
It take so and so many percent of stockpiled fuel-cells to reach mars and then come back. If we don't have enough, we need to manufacture more.
It will take so and so million people to get this show on the road. Find them.
I know it's kind of a crude way of looking at things, but you have to understand that Money is a very abstract idea, and ultimately, one that is not applicable to this situation.
And yes, I do understand that Money is a system set up to distribute resources fairly. I don't think that it works very well on a very large scale. No proof (other than governments, but I really don't want to go into that), just my opinion.
[I know that I had posted this in reply to someone already, but that particular someone was moderated (let us not judge, for in the future we too shall be judged) down into the fiery depths of hell. So I am re-posting this in the main thread. Please forgive my sorry butt.;)
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We need more napsters and less RIAA
I hate to sound raw and bitter (i'm both, but we really shouldn't go into that here), but while your at it, why don't we all ask for unlimited bandwidth, world peace, and the end to all diseases. (None of which will happen. Ever.)
The RIAA or some form of it, whether it be in idea or literal form, will always be around.
The problem does not stem from the fact that some big, nasty association is on the prowl all the time, it comes from the fact that the values that our societies are built on are fundamentally flawed. Values such as greed, lack of honesty, and good, old-fashioned foulplay.
While Napster is a great program, and I fully intend to continue to use it, I am not going to wish for anything like not having the RIAA around. Why?
1) It won't happen. 2) On some levels, we actually need associations like the RIAA to keep the really bad people (not us poor intellectuals (hehe)) from harming the industry. Large pirating firms.. etc.
Just like I won't be wishing that people will start using the privelage of voting and booting the conservative nitwits from their high horses.
To when Pigs fly, Cheers, Rami James http://w3.to/rjames/
I hate to sound raw and bitter (i'm both, but we really shouldn't go into that here), but while your at it, why don't we all ask for unlimited bandwidth, world peace, and the end to all diseases. (None of which will happen. Ever.)
The RIAA or some form of it, whether it be in idea or literal form, will always be around.
The problem does not stem from the fact that some big, nasty association is on the prowl all the time, it comes from the fact that the values that our societies are built on are fundamentally flawed.
While Napster is a great program, and I fully intend to continue to use it, I am not going to be wishing for anything like not having the RIAA around.
Just like I won't be wishing that people will start using the privelage of voting and booting the conservative nitwits from their high horses.
To when Pigs fly, Cheers, Rami James http://w3.to/rjames/
"There's something about a hand-written letter that just can't be duplicated, electronically. And, no, it's not the ability to scrunch it up and throw it in the fireplace."
I *just* printed out an email from my evil arch-nemesis and doused it in lighter fluid.. and then torched it! What a coinkidink.
In a recent flurry of hot exchanges between the two companies, it has just been confirmed that SmellU-SmellMe and FuckUFuckMe will be merging and creating a whole new era of mutual masturbation hardware/software solutions. Aimed at really lonely people, this package is set to go on sale early in Q4 2000.
I know that this is probably a silly question, but I REALLY have to know. Being as how this isn't terribly offtopic, I would be very appreciative if someone would answer me this:
There are Palm IIIs, Palm Vs, and Palm VIIs. Are there others (besides the slew of variants of these numbers), and why is Palm skipping numbers?
I just bought the Labyrinth DVD the other week. It has the movie on it (duh!) and all kinds of other goodies. A 'making of' documentary that is about 30 minutes long, and very cool, may I add. It also has the theatrical trailer for 'Labyrinth', 'The Dark Crystal', and another on thatI can't remember. It also has some information about the actors in the movie.
Anybody remember how hot the actress that played Sarah was? She's only *14* in that film! (God, I feel like a dirty old man. Hehe.
Here is a page with some links about the Labyrinth.
Did you guys know that George Lucas was tied to that movie?
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently, the majority of Apple's profits come from their mildly over-priced hardware. As of right now, Apple has a very limited foothold in the land of x86/PCs.
This foothold is limited to Quicktime and a few other proprietary formats that, while wonderful in their own right, have a limited lifetime (as everything in the computer industry does).
Were apple to suddenly decide that it were to be quite profitable on their part to sell OS X as x86 compiled code, they might get a larger install base of software. However, they would not do this because they may lose business on the hardware front.
Think about it: Apple's OS X is going to be a Big Thing. It is going to be hyped up the arse. The only way to use it will be to run on Apple hardware. Apple sells machines to the unwashed masses so that they can use the over-hyped software (conveniently also provided by Apple.) Apple makes a killing.
Where is the advantage of selling the software? Perhaps if they implemented a licensing scheme like Microsoft, or perhaps a help scheme like RedHat (which would be a terrible idea because Macs are so bloody easy to use).
I'm terribly sorry to say (I love apple, and I would love to see OS X running on my Intel box) but this is just another case of a bored engineer blowing off a little steam.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
Actually, the Free BeOS ver 5 download is on Tuesday, March 28. I know that me and half the Geek World will be downloading the bastard OS. With my luck, we'll slashdot all the server and all the mirrors within a half an hour. Right about when I have 59 megs of the 60 meg download. ARGG!
if you guys like, you can see the future nesting site of the BeOS5 here.
There's nothing there yet.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
When you were little, didn't you wonder how they made all those incredibly accurate manuals? Those things were incredible.
I'm sure that with this program, you can make your own manuals with generic pieces. Then you distribute them over the internet.. VOILA! Instant new projects! You could have a whole catalog of new things that could be built with such and such set number.. with instructions!
This idea is public domain now, anyone wants to do it, can.. a Lego builder's wet dream. (Well, that and infinite pieces..)
--
It's not just that. The development cycle on a hacked x86 architecture is bound to be shorter than that of a new architecture.
Also, (and I may be wrong on this one, so don't holler murder just yet) but I was under the distinct impression that the EPIC instruction set was public and already published.. just like the x86 instuction set. So AMD could build a chip too, they just chose not to.
Rami James
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
(All comments are my own, and not necessarily those of my employers.)
--
BSD 3.1
When was the first version of BSD launched at Berkeley?
So wait, that means that we get to listen to 18 movies?
Uhm, am i the only one that finds the idea of listening to ~36 hours of movies kind of silly?
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One of the biggest 'eww's that this brings up is the fact that they are growing pigs. Harvesting the guts that they need.. and then there is a carcass that needs to be disposed of.
Where do you think that the carcass will be going.
Can anyone say, "Oscar Meyer Weiner"?
Yum, genetically altered pigs. Now, I realise that I may be being a little naive here. I know that there are genetically altered foods already. I know that people have been selectively breeding crops and animals for tens of centuries.. but come on! THIS IS GROSS!
Hehe. Almost time to go home.. YIPPEE!
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As a converted windows user, I was exposed for a long time to professional design packages such as Photoshop (raise you hand if you didn't know that one was coming), painter, etc.
After using the GIMP for a couple of days and trying to do all of the same things that I used to do with my other packages, I found that it was distinctly limiting. Now, I am not speaking functionality-wise, but rather in the sense that the GUI was terribly constraining. I could not do the things that I wanted to do as fast as I would like to have done them. I particularly *hated* that the menus were hidden from me (right-click to get to the filters?? what kind of nonsense is that?).
Until some larger companies (Adobe, Macromedia, et al) start to port their large design packages to Linux, I don't see me using it as my main OS for design purposes. Sorry.
Speaking of which, I've used Photoshop on SGI.. what's the big deal with porting from Irix to Linux? What's the hold-up?
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I don't know what kind of interstate you have around your hometown, but *my* interstate doesn't let you drive at 141 miles an hour. In fact.. most cars around here don't even go that damn fast. (That's not to say that these nuts don't try..)
Always keeping it in perspective,
Rami
--
What really tickles my toenails about this article, is how the author of napster keeps harping on 'Prettying Up' the client.. even though he knows that there are major issues with how stable/efficient the infrastructure underneath is.
As a professional GUI designer, this type of problem runs across my desk a lot. Marketing maniacs push and push a product to market as fast as (in)humanly possible. They don't really care if the program actually functions, they just want it to look fancy and have a lot of useless features. (HOT LINKS!! WTF?!?)
This is a common trend in the software business today.. and it REALLY has to stop.
Less features; better programs. Everybody (well, everybody but the management) is happy.
Don't mind me, I just had a GUI change thrust into my lap by a certain clueless manager. IT'S ART DAMN YOU!
--
A few *minor* thing just occured to me:
1. Water will be coming out of the tailpipe and will be extensively present in the engine. Won't this cause a LOT of problems in places where it is very cold? Not just freezing, but also the expanding and contracting that happens in a typical ice -> water -> ice cycle.
2. Los Angeles. Summer. Three hour traffic jam with a bazillion cars all dripping water. Hehe, exactly *how much* water drips out of these things? Is flooding an issue? I know that here in Israel, they don't even bother to place gutter because it rains for only a few weeks during the winter.
3. Hydrogen fueling stations. I mean, come on! Can we say major hazard!?! Would they be keeping the hydrogen in liquid form? How would they store all that fuel??
Just some nice, uninformed questions off the top of my head.
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That's funny, I kind of always thought that it was LinuS Torvalds.
I guess I must have been asleep under that rock for too long.
Regards,
Rami James
--
I realise that at this particular point in time, Be isn't anywhere to be seen.. but neither is Transmeta.
I think that Be and Stinger have a lot of potential in the WebPad arena and they should, by all means, not be counted down and out for the count before the real fight even begins.
As for WinCE, I don't really have much nice to say about them. The windows interface barely works for desktops.. which is was DESIGNED for. I really feel that, as an interface for a WebPad/Palmtop it will fail.
--
I'm just curious, but isn't it the procedure everywhere to have loads of meetings whenever you come across a problem? I know this probably sounds like a gasoline-covered rag flame-fest, but seriously.
I work at a high-tech company, and it actually helps to have a meeting whenever we
I found it quite humorous that the previous story today was about Microsoft touting NT as the replacement for Sun machines.
So I'd really like to know.. which is it? UNIX (yes, i know linux isn't exactly a unix.. but let's not split hairs here) or NT?
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Face it: When we are talking about that much money, it's just talk. Nothing more, nothing less. (Just like the US is Billions (or is it Trillions now?) in the hole. Who cares? It's not like it actually changes anything.)
This is about resources. The way you should think about a trip to the moon.mars (expense-wise anyways) is in Resources.
Example:
I know it's kind of a crude way of looking at things, but you have to understand that Money is a very abstract idea, and ultimately, one that is not applicable to this situation.
And yes, I do understand that Money is a system set up to distribute resources fairly. I don't think that it works very well on a very large scale. No proof (other than governments, but I really don't want to go into that), just my opinion.
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The only thing is that a ticket to the moon won't cost $6.75.
At least, not for a couple of centuries. (And I doubt even then. Inflation and all that good stuff. Let's just say the EQUIVALENT of $6.75 )
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Original text:
I hate to sound raw and bitter (i'm both, but we really shouldn't go into that here), but while your at it, why don't we all ask for unlimited bandwidth, world peace, and the end to all diseases. (None of which will happen. Ever.)
The RIAA or some form of it, whether it be in idea or literal form, will always be around.
The problem does not stem from the fact that some big, nasty association is on the prowl all the time, it comes from the fact that the values that our societies are built on are fundamentally flawed. Values such as greed, lack of honesty, and good, old-fashioned foulplay.
While Napster is a great program, and I fully intend to continue to use it, I am not going to wish for anything like not having the RIAA around. Why?
Just like I won't be wishing that people will start using the privelage of voting and booting the conservative nitwits from their high horses.
To when Pigs fly,
Cheers,
Rami James
http://w3.to/rjames/
--
I hate to sound raw and bitter (i'm both, but we really shouldn't go into that here), but while your at it, why don't we all ask for unlimited bandwidth, world peace, and the end to all diseases. (None of which will happen. Ever.)
The RIAA or some form of it, whether it be in idea or literal form, will always be around.
The problem does not stem from the fact that some big, nasty association is on the prowl all the time, it comes from the fact that the values that our societies are built on are fundamentally flawed.
While Napster is a great program, and I fully intend to continue to use it, I am not going to be wishing for anything like not having the RIAA around.
Just like I won't be wishing that people will start using the privelage of voting and booting the conservative nitwits from their high horses.
To when Pigs fly,
Cheers,
Rami James
http://w3.to/rjames/
--
I *just* printed out an email from my evil arch-nemesis and doused it in lighter fluid.. and then torched it! What a coinkidink.
--
Press Release:
In a recent flurry of hot exchanges between the two companies, it has just been confirmed that SmellU-SmellMe and FuckUFuckMe will be merging and creating a whole new era of mutual masturbation hardware/software solutions. Aimed at really lonely people, this package is set to go on sale early in Q4 2000.
I completely agree with the viewpoint that you have. The only question that really remains is: what will a workstation like this cost?
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Dammit! Yiddish is half-german/half-hebrew!
*disgruntled*
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I know that this is probably a silly question, but I REALLY have to know. Being as how this isn't terribly offtopic, I would be very appreciative if someone would answer me this:
There are Palm IIIs, Palm Vs, and Palm VIIs. Are there others (besides the slew of variants of these numbers), and why is Palm skipping numbers?
---
I just bought the Labyrinth DVD the other week. It has the movie on it (duh!) and all kinds of other goodies. A 'making of' documentary that is about 30 minutes long, and very cool, may I add. It also has the theatrical trailer for 'Labyrinth', 'The Dark Crystal', and another on thatI can't remember. It also has some information about the actors in the movie.
Anybody remember how hot the actress that played Sarah was? She's only *14* in that film! (God, I feel like a dirty old man. Hehe.
Here is a page with some links about the Labyrinth.
Did you guys know that George Lucas was tied to that movie?
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