There was a movie, filmed about 50 years ago called "The man in the white suit". The man invented an indestructable type of polymer string which was used to make cloth. The cloth also never got dirty. The people chased him because the invention promised the complete destruclion of the clothmaking industry. Well, this invention reminds me of that movie.
I hope he didn't get a...BUFFERING... screen during the operation. And that nobody cracked/DoSed the system. I wouldn't want to be operated in this way, especially if it's Windows-powered.
I think Solaris is closer to BSD than to Linux (if license details are ommited). A variation of UNIX, developed in a more cathedral-style when everything is included in the box. Solaris is still unpolished as a desktop (at least Solaris 10) but is quite good as a server, just like BSD. Linux's system-related utils are developed separately from the kernel while BSD/Solaris/UNIX supply the system as a whole. Personally, I like the Linux approach more. But Linux has one point others haven't got: it's dominating the desktop *NIX "market". It would be interesting to see how desktop BSD versions (PC-BSD etc.) compete with desktop Solaris.
I know, I have Ubuntu installed on my PC. I've had a thought of apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, but then had this stupid idea of trying Mandrake 10.1. I've already returned to Ubuntu.
Only yesterday I sat in front of my PC waiting for Kdevelop to be successfully compiled, and spent a whole day searching for a compiled kernel RPM which would suit my needs. When you do this for more than 10 hours, you get crazy. Like opening a filemanager and forgetting why you did that for. Horrible. However, most normal people aren't affected by games in such a serious way as described in the article because games get boring when you play them a lot. And I don't understand why people are so fond of WoW. Come on, Warcraft III had unnatural graphics because of the low-polygon models, and the game gets plain boring at times. Not to mention the really crappy Orc campaign included in WC3 Frozen Throne. I've seen WoW and that Orc campaign is exactly what WoW reminds me of.
I've seen this idea about three years ago on BBC World. The documentary was from a series named something like Future Fantastic. However the concept is cool and I really mean it.
They are able to get the signals from a human's brain in electric form. So if they get the signals from one man and transfer them to another, the second man will have the first man's thoughts transferred into his brain. Then the second may can be used as an intermediate interface for reading the first one's thoughts.
The whole Discovery story is as exciting as Star Wars! First, the long wait until the launch date. Then, it's shown in the news when some minor glitch happens or even no glitch happens. Come on, most spacecrafts get a 10-second report about their launch and landing, or don't get any news coverage at all. But these guys saying "it seems we don't have any problems so we can proceed" make me sick. If it was too risky, they would have cancelled the mission.
Because Netscape and Stacker are dead and forgotten and can't defend themselves. Sure, Microsoft has created the Internet Browser market: just look at the competition! I wonder how this guy can praise Windows for its ease-of use when you can't even connect a Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC to a Windows XP SP2 PC via bluetooth. If you ever make it work, Windows will automagically break everything apart. Or the need to reinstall the OS at least once a year just to ensure it's fresh and clean. Otherwise Windows with the help of third-party products will commit suicide, rendering the PC useless. I can write the list forever. When I get to use a Windows machine, I can't help the habit of opening another desktop. Or a proper file extension manager. Oh, and has this guy seen kernel modules like ATi's or nVidia's? Has he ever seen someone "apt-get install nvidia-glx"?
>Think if you execute a bash script in Linux and it >goes on and put itself in all your bash scripts, >would you call it a virus? I certainly would! The thing does something without my permission, and what it does is not patching the bash scripts but modifying them.
I think the CPU alone costs some $300 to $400. If it costs about $300 and will support Linux just like the original XBOX, it will be a hit. Just imagine: a sleek, stylish, small and ultra-powerful PC cheaper than Windows+Office with an free opensource OS. Mmmm, yummi! If it does support Linux, people will buy it and because it's so cheap for its power (and costs less to the customer than to Microsoft) this is going to completely ruin Microsoft's gaming department.
Because everything else is bloat already. I've played with Google's page for 5 minutes and then abandoned it. If I'm starting a browser, I probably know what I'm looking for, if it's news or search or whatever. And if something else loads in addition, this means lost bandwidth and traffic quota. And it grows if you start the browser more than 20 times a day.
Beause some people like opensource more. The ability to recompile the kernel or to look at the GTK source code is kinda cool. You may not notice it, but you'll see the limitations once you use proprietary software AFTER OSS. In addition, the fact that OSS is legal and piracy is not may also be importaint. I live in Russia and I can buy Windows for $2.5 (while a CD-R costs 30 cents if bought in a 10-pack). But the irony is that Linux needs more than one CD (usually 4) and a Linux distribution like Mandrake or Fedora costs $10 to $15. Yep, Windows is cheaper than Linux! But some people still choose Linux. I know that Microsoft won't raid my home for warezed Windows/Office, but still using legal products produces an extraordinary feeling. That I'm allowed to do nearly anything with my software and I won't run into any potential legal problems.
Window's file system Huh? What a great deal a single apostrophe can do! Insert it and you get a generic computing term. Remove it, and you get a registered trademark using which you can end up in court. What a small world we live in!
Hey, you've forgotten Ballmer: who's going to entertain Bill once he's reached the Moon? And when they land, there will be not just a small step for man, but a real monkeydance!
First of all, they don't have to give anything back. It's entirely their choice of doing whatever they want to as long as they don't violate the GPL of whatever license.
And second, they DO help the Linux community by making its userbase bigger. Imagine if some company buys software from Pixar and it says "works on Linux only". So using both Linux and Pixar's expertise in using it for film production makes Linux the obvious choice. And also, if some hobbyist/small TV company wants to do video editing, what will they see? Pixar uses Linux, Disney uses Linux, every cool film company uses Linux, so why don't we use Linux?
And this scheme works, because when I wanted to move from.NET to PHP I've read an article that GlaxoSmithKline uses.NET and well, I rethought the idea of switching and stayed wit.NET.
It's like Pepsi uses celebrities to advertise its products. So why can't Linux use its most popular users for gaining mindshare?
Even though Linux, OSX and Windows exist out there and are battling for market&mindshare, BE will have its audience. I know a guy who is absolutely fanatical about BE since he tried R5 in late-2004. He's used various Linux distros as well as Windows, but the only OS he doesn't wipe out is BE. What is great about BE is that it has the power and simplicity of UNIX while remaining easy to configure with an included GUI. Consistency is also great. No KDE vs. Gnome battles. However OSX now has nearly everything so valued in BE. And if it does get ported to ordinary x86, legally or not, the only virtue of Zeta will be its speed and the ability to run on old machines. Oh, and BE fans. I think however that the main problem of Zeta is inconsistency. Does anyone else feel that icons, window headers and buttons are all in different style? The window headers are shiny ala OSX and the buttons look like it's the year 2000 or even older.
It's the whole atmosphere which is frightening.
The music. The scenario. There's more blood than in most strategies released before. It's definetly not for 9-year-olds.
The marine was just too much.
Doom 3 got rated M (17+) and that's totally correct. I've played it when I was 17 and again when I was 18. I must say I've jumped when some monster appeared suddenly LOADS of times. I can't play the game for longer than an hour because I haven't got the nerve. If ESRB rated it T, I'm sure some kids would've plainly got scared to death. In fact, I knew people who were frightened of Starcraft's Infested Marine or whatever-it-was-called unit. What makes me wonder is that the gap between M and AO is just one year.
This is just another plan to kill Linux (and I don't think it will be Linux-targeted) which will fail. SWPAT failed in Europe, Microsoft FUD isn't trusted anymore, hardware vendors are supporting Linux more and more (take a look at nVidia or ATi for instance), even Thompson's MP3 patents or the ban of DECSS disn't kill Linux. Even RIAA didn't kill filesharing, and I even think they've stopped filing lawsuits. However the idea of 10 bucks a month for completely legal and unlimited music (first offered by Napster I think) sounds great to me. In fact even though I'm listening only to pirated music I consider it to be a good bargain. If it's supported in Linux then it means I can have CHEAP content along with a FREE OS.
Actually, I've seen a cool-looking flash tutorial saying "press I Agree on the dialog you'll see in 10 seconds" on a warez site. It had a screenshot and showed exactly which button the user had to press. Can you imagine how many people actually installed the malware just as the site suggested? Firefox is a bit better than IE because Firefox plugins are installed Firefox-wide (not system-wide) or even for each browsing profile individually. I think that you can't even install non-XUL extensions, and XUL isn't capable of doing Bad Things. That's why you can't install Flash under Firefox/Linux in an easy way.
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There was a movie, filmed about 50 years ago called "The man in the white suit".
The man invented an indestructable type of polymer string which was used to make cloth. The cloth also never got dirty. The people chased him because the invention promised the complete destruclion of the clothmaking industry.
Well, this invention reminds me of that movie.
I hope he didn't get a ...BUFFERING... screen during the operation.
And that nobody cracked/DoSed the system.
I wouldn't want to be operated in this way, especially if it's Windows-powered.
Me too!
If I wouldn't have read "patents" in the header I wouldn't have bothered reading TFA.
I think Solaris is closer to BSD than to Linux (if license details are ommited). A variation of UNIX, developed in a more cathedral-style when everything is included in the box. Solaris is still unpolished as a desktop (at least Solaris 10) but is quite good as a server, just like BSD. Linux's system-related utils are developed separately from the kernel while BSD/Solaris/UNIX supply the system as a whole.
Personally, I like the Linux approach more.
But Linux has one point others haven't got: it's dominating the desktop *NIX "market".
It would be interesting to see how desktop BSD versions (PC-BSD etc.) compete with desktop Solaris.
Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global
Windows 2000 machines are infected. Linux and Unix aren't.
I clearly see what that woman means.
I know, I have Ubuntu installed on my PC. I've had a thought of apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, but then had this stupid idea of trying Mandrake 10.1.
I've already returned to Ubuntu.
Only yesterday I sat in front of my PC waiting for Kdevelop to be successfully compiled, and spent a whole day searching for a compiled kernel RPM which would suit my needs. When you do this for more than 10 hours, you get crazy. Like opening a filemanager and forgetting why you did that for. Horrible.
However, most normal people aren't affected by games in such a serious way as described in the article because games get boring when you play them a lot.
And I don't understand why people are so fond of WoW. Come on, Warcraft III had unnatural graphics because of the low-polygon models, and the game gets plain boring at times. Not to mention the really crappy Orc campaign included in WC3 Frozen Throne. I've seen WoW and that Orc campaign is exactly what WoW reminds me of.
I've seen this idea about three years ago on BBC World. The documentary was from a series named something like Future Fantastic.
However the concept is cool and I really mean it.
They are able to get the signals from a human's brain in electric form. So if they get the signals from one man and transfer them to another, the second man will have the first man's thoughts transferred into his brain. Then the second may can be used as an intermediate interface for reading the first one's thoughts.
...and the button is "Think different".
The whole Discovery story is as exciting as Star Wars!
First, the long wait until the launch date. Then, it's shown in the news when some minor glitch happens or even no glitch happens. Come on, most spacecrafts get a 10-second report about their launch and landing, or don't get any news coverage at all.
But these guys saying "it seems we don't have any problems so we can proceed" make me sick. If it was too risky, they would have cancelled the mission.
Because Netscape and Stacker are dead and forgotten and can't defend themselves. Sure, Microsoft has created the Internet Browser market: just look at the competition!
I wonder how this guy can praise Windows for its ease-of use when you can't even connect a Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC to a Windows XP SP2 PC via bluetooth. If you ever make it work, Windows will automagically break everything apart.
Or the need to reinstall the OS at least once a year just to ensure it's fresh and clean. Otherwise Windows with the help of third-party products will commit suicide, rendering the PC useless.
I can write the list forever. When I get to use a Windows machine, I can't help the habit of opening another desktop. Or a proper file extension manager.
Oh, and has this guy seen kernel modules like ATi's or nVidia's? Has he ever seen someone "apt-get install nvidia-glx"?
>Think if you execute a bash script in Linux and it
>goes on and put itself in all your bash scripts,
>would you call it a virus?
I certainly would! The thing does something without my permission, and what it does is not patching the bash scripts but modifying them.
I think the CPU alone costs some $300 to $400.
If it costs about $300 and will support Linux just like the original XBOX, it will be a hit.
Just imagine: a sleek, stylish, small and ultra-powerful PC cheaper than Windows+Office with an free opensource OS. Mmmm, yummi!
If it does support Linux, people will buy it and because it's so cheap for its power (and costs less to the customer than to Microsoft) this is going to completely ruin Microsoft's gaming department.
Because everything else is bloat already.
I've played with Google's page for 5 minutes and then abandoned it. If I'm starting a browser, I probably know what I'm looking for, if it's news or search or whatever. And if something else loads in addition, this means lost bandwidth and traffic quota. And it grows if you start the browser more than 20 times a day.
Beause some people like opensource more. The ability to recompile the kernel or to look at the GTK source code is kinda cool. You may not notice it, but you'll see the limitations once you use proprietary software AFTER OSS.
In addition, the fact that OSS is legal and piracy is not may also be importaint. I live in Russia and I can buy Windows for $2.5 (while a CD-R costs 30 cents if bought in a 10-pack). But the irony is that Linux needs more than one CD (usually 4) and a Linux distribution like Mandrake or Fedora costs $10 to $15. Yep, Windows is cheaper than Linux!
But some people still choose Linux. I know that Microsoft won't raid my home for warezed Windows/Office, but still using legal products produces an extraordinary feeling. That I'm allowed to do nearly anything with my software and I won't run into any potential legal problems.
Window's file system
Huh? What a great deal a single apostrophe can do!
Insert it and you get a generic computing term. Remove it, and you get a registered trademark using which you can end up in court.
What a small world we live in!
I want to patent patents in general, this way everyone else who uses patents will be infringing mine!
Hey, you've forgotten Ballmer: who's going to entertain Bill once he's reached the Moon?
And when they land, there will be not just a small step for man, but a real monkeydance!
First of all, they don't have to give anything back. It's entirely their choice of doing whatever they want to as long as they don't violate the GPL of whatever license. And second, they DO help the Linux community by making its userbase bigger. Imagine if some company buys software from Pixar and it says "works on Linux only". So using both Linux and Pixar's expertise in using it for film production makes Linux the obvious choice. And also, if some hobbyist/small TV company wants to do video editing, what will they see? Pixar uses Linux, Disney uses Linux, every cool film company uses Linux, so why don't we use Linux? And this scheme works, because when I wanted to move from .NET to PHP I've read an article that GlaxoSmithKline uses .NET and well, I rethought the idea of switching and stayed wit .NET.
It's like Pepsi uses celebrities to advertise its products. So why can't Linux use its most popular users for gaining mindshare?
Even though Linux, OSX and Windows exist out there and are battling for market&mindshare, BE will have its audience.
I know a guy who is absolutely fanatical about BE since he tried R5 in late-2004. He's used various Linux distros as well as Windows, but the only OS he doesn't wipe out is BE.
What is great about BE is that it has the power and simplicity of UNIX while remaining easy to configure with an included GUI. Consistency is also great. No KDE vs. Gnome battles. However OSX now has nearly everything so valued in BE. And if it does get ported to ordinary x86, legally or not, the only virtue of Zeta will be its speed and the ability to run on old machines. Oh, and BE fans.
I think however that the main problem of Zeta is inconsistency. Does anyone else feel that icons, window headers and buttons are all in different style? The window headers are shiny ala OSX and the buttons look like it's the year 2000 or even older.
It's the whole atmosphere which is frightening. The music. The scenario. There's more blood than in most strategies released before. It's definetly not for 9-year-olds. The marine was just too much.
Doom 3 got rated M (17+) and that's totally correct. I've played it when I was 17 and again when I was 18.
I must say I've jumped when some monster appeared suddenly LOADS of times. I can't play the game for longer than an hour because I haven't got the nerve.
If ESRB rated it T, I'm sure some kids would've plainly got scared to death. In fact, I knew people who were frightened of Starcraft's Infested Marine or whatever-it-was-called unit.
What makes me wonder is that the gap between M and AO is just one year.
This is just another plan to kill Linux (and I don't think it will be Linux-targeted) which will fail.
SWPAT failed in Europe, Microsoft FUD isn't trusted anymore, hardware vendors are supporting Linux more and more (take a look at nVidia or ATi for instance), even Thompson's MP3 patents or the ban of DECSS disn't kill Linux.
Even RIAA didn't kill filesharing, and I even think they've stopped filing lawsuits.
However the idea of 10 bucks a month for completely legal and unlimited music (first offered by Napster I think) sounds great to me. In fact even though I'm listening only to pirated music I consider it to be a good bargain. If it's supported in Linux then it means I can have CHEAP content along with a FREE OS.
Actually, I've seen a cool-looking flash tutorial saying "press I Agree on the dialog you'll see in 10 seconds" on a warez site. It had a screenshot and showed exactly which button the user had to press.
Can you imagine how many people actually installed the malware just as the site suggested?
Firefox is a bit better than IE because Firefox plugins are installed Firefox-wide (not system-wide) or even for each browsing profile individually. I think that you can't even install non-XUL extensions, and XUL isn't capable of doing Bad Things.
That's why you can't install Flash under Firefox/Linux in an easy way.