I think a lot of people just like to complain about your articles because they think it's trendy. Personally, I thought it was good, a reflection of my views of traditional media.
Um, well, yeah. That's just it, though. Everyone treats animated movies like cartoons. Ghost in the Shell was never intended for children, it was targeted to pretty much the same audience as The Matrix. I've seen some of the actors talk about Titan AE, and they seemed to be intending this movie for an older crowd as well. And on that level, Ghost in the Shell would win hands-down. Yes, the artwork is better in Titan AE, but, c'mon, Ghost in the Shell was made in 1994!
The Linux kernel, miniature and neat though it is, would surely be overkill in such a context
Yes, it would. However, Indrema intends to do so much more than gaming with this. They are talking about playing DVDs, and mp3s with this. They are even planning to implement a Tivo-ish ability to pause and buffer live television. So, the Linux kernel will deffinately not just be overhead.
Well, maybe they plan to target their console at those who wish to do a little more with it than 'just play games'
I know that they are. Didn't you see the part about planned dvd and mp3 support, with Tivo-ish capabilities added later on? This will be a total set-top box, not just a gaming platform.
The best part is, if Indrema tanks, you can always use it as a not-so-thin client;) It was built with commodity hardware and was specifically designed for Linux, so loading Slackware or Debian or whatever on it would be no big deal.
I saw this coming. It looked cool, but I was pretty sure they were gonna screw it up. If you want a good scifi animated flick, get Ghost in the Shell. I just got that on dvd, and it rocks. There are even two scenes in it that the Matrix copied almost verbatim--you'll recognize them.
Perhaps the word I should have used was "versatile," not configurable... I agree that a well written app should allow configuration without source code changes. But let's be honest--well written sofwtare is nice, but poorly written software is a constant, regardless of the platform. And when a program doesn't work like it should, nothing beats having the source code on hand.
I dunno about Windows 2000, as I've never been able to keep it up long enough to do anything useful. Then again, I was running a beta. And a $400 pricetag for a fricking license is rediculous, so I won't be playing around with it anytime soon.
My point is, MS does not stress the command line very much. And Microsoft's command lines have always sucked. I'll never go back to dos after becoming acquainted with bash. Whatever merits Win2K may have... defending Microsoft's command lines is a lost cause.
That's nothing. On the weekends, my friends and I all set up our computers in one of my friends' spare rooms. We have about six computers running in there, and it would get so hot it was unbearable. The place has central air, and we had to get a window ac for it!
Coming from a Windows user to a Linux user, that was truly funny. Thanks for the chuckle:)
No other OS allows the level of flexibility with explorer - without having to go and change source (ick).
Maybe because no other OS has explorer? That's okay. We don't miss it. And while you may have an aversion to source code, it affords you about a million times more configurability than even the Windows registry. Unfortunately, that is an ability Microsoft doesn't allow you to have.
why does microsoft still sell a resource kit for windows 2000, and include an integrated telnet server with windows 2000? Get a clue next time.
So what? MacOS includes a rudimentary command line too. Is it useful? No. Can you effectively administer a machine using nothing but a command line? No, and that was my point. What command line NT 5 has is basically patched on. If integrating the GUI into the kernel isn't trying to phase out command lines, I don't know what is. And that is a big mistake, no GUI can fully replace a command line.
Microsoft has not 'done away' with the command line
Well, no, they havn't gotten rid of it completely, but come on. They've done everything they could to act like it doesn't exist. They've not only stopped developement on it as an interface, but they've also diked out many useful features. Not that Dos was ever all they great--I've come to think of it as a Bourne shell with Down's Syndrome. But Microsoft has pushed the "one size fits all" mentality for interface design--how configureable is the Windows UI? Not at all. And While Dos may still be around, they've pretty much made it next to useless.
In the commercial software world, succeeding by technical merit doesn't work, because the whole thing's based on marketing and business. But the open source world is a meritocracy--hyperbole and boasting mean nothing if you can't back it up with good code. That is why Microsoft's FUD attacks have been so useless--we only care about the quality of the code, not the hype that may surround it.
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Sure, but what about when they will get pissed about Gnutella and FreeNet? The whole money argument is invalid, since the people that wrote them aren't making a penny off their work. And even if they get sued, they have no power to remove it from the net:)
Your jumbling different ideas here. Copyright is "awarded at conception", but one doesn't copyright an "idea" or a "thought", one patents it. Your comment is irrelevant to the preceding debate.
One doesn't even patent a thought or idea, rather one patents an implementation of said thought or idea. Important distinction.
That's easy: Helixcode + Eazel. The average Gnome desktop is nothing in comparison to what they're doing. Helix will include all sorts of really neat programs, like Abiword, which is veyr much like Word; Gnumeric, which is much like Excel and even compatible with it; dia, a nice diagramer that could be used like Visio; and of course Evolution, the Outlook killer. check it out here.
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Driver's License = You don't own the vehicle.
Bullshit. You own the car, the license just means they give you permission to drive on public roads. They can't stop you from driving on your own property.
Forget LookOut, use Evolution. Same interface, smart design. Instead of Excel, use Gnumeric. Instead of Word use Abiword. For every Office app, there's a pretty decent clone. Not as feature-bloated, but then I consider that a good thing. And what's better, it's a different app but you don't even have to relearn. Overall, I've been pretty happy with open source clones of popular programs.
NT (aka Win2000) is built upon a completely different kernel than Win9x, so they would be considered seperate operating systems. The only real difference between Win98 full and Win98 upgrade is a little bit of code and about $90, so they couldn't be considered seperate.
You're on really, really strong drugs if you think Linux and BSD in their present form are ready for the wide market.
"In their present form" would be the keyword here. Just because Linux/BSD isn't ready for average desktop users now (and I agree with you on that point) doesn't make a difference later on. Linux/BSD is in the same place PCs were in the mid-eighties and the Internet was in the early nineties; pretty much the only people using them were the ones who knew what they were doing. But that all changed, didn't it?
An unfortunate disadvantage of a smaller supported hardware list:( however, if you use nothing very very well support stuff, you're life will be much easier. Tulips aren't too easy, try a 3Com or Via-Rhine, those work good for me. As for sound, the soundblasters are all good, especially the SoundBlaster Live!, which has open source drivers from Creative themselves. 3DFX is your best bet for videos cards... my point is, your life would be much simpler if you had made sure you had well-supported hardware.
Actually, I can't think of a single successful 'innovation' of theirs that they came up with on their own... DOS was bought for $50K; Windows was more or less copied from a Macintosh; Internet Explorer was bought from Spyglass; the NT kernel was a Vax/VMS varient. And as for the smaller features in Windows 2000, Active Directory is a complete ripoff of NDS; it does mount points, which was all but stolen from UNIX; it uses Kerberos as an authentication protocol, which was an open standard they hijacked; it does symlinks, which was another UNIX feature... the list goes on and on.
If someone could point out a major innovation they actually engineered themselves, I'd be glad to hear it.
If you want to have a problem with something, have a problem with the shitty.ASF format, where they have sacrificed every semblence of quality video for a small file format.
It doesn't even have that. Typically I've noticed ASF's to be a little more than twice the size of a comparable rm file, with suckier quality. ASF just blows in general.
Because it doesn't matter whether you're using it legally or not; these people aren't considering for a second that some people might be using it legitamately. I don't have a problem with going after poeple who post the songs, but the people searching for them may very well have the CD. I use it all the time to save myself the trouble of ripping the tracks, and to find uber-scarce or unavailable songs.
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Um, well, yeah. That's just it, though. Everyone treats animated movies like cartoons. Ghost in the Shell was never intended for children, it was targeted to pretty much the same audience as The Matrix. I've seen some of the actors talk about Titan AE, and they seemed to be intending this movie for an older crowd as well. And on that level, Ghost in the Shell would win hands-down. Yes, the artwork is better in Titan AE, but, c'mon, Ghost in the Shell was made in 1994!
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Yes, it would. However, Indrema intends to do so much more than gaming with this. They are talking about playing DVDs, and mp3s with this. They are even planning to implement a Tivo-ish ability to pause and buffer live television. So, the Linux kernel will deffinately not just be overhead.
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I know that they are. Didn't you see the part about planned dvd and mp3 support, with Tivo-ish capabilities added later on? This will be a total set-top box, not just a gaming platform.
The best part is, if Indrema tanks, you can always use it as a not-so-thin client ;) It was built with commodity hardware and was specifically designed for Linux, so loading Slackware or Debian or whatever on it would be no big deal.
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I dunno about Windows 2000, as I've never been able to keep it up long enough to do anything useful. Then again, I was running a beta. And a $400 pricetag for a fricking license is rediculous, so I won't be playing around with it anytime soon.
My point is, MS does not stress the command line very much. And Microsoft's command lines have always sucked. I'll never go back to dos after becoming acquainted with bash. Whatever merits Win2K may have... defending Microsoft's command lines is a lost cause.
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Coming from a Windows user to a Linux user, that was truly funny. Thanks for the chuckle :)
No other OS allows the level of flexibility with explorer - without having to go and change source (ick).
Maybe because no other OS has explorer? That's okay. We don't miss it. And while you may have an aversion to source code, it affords you about a million times more configurability than even the Windows registry. Unfortunately, that is an ability Microsoft doesn't allow you to have.
why does microsoft still sell a resource kit for windows 2000, and include an integrated telnet server with windows 2000? Get a clue next time.
So what? MacOS includes a rudimentary command line too. Is it useful? No. Can you effectively administer a machine using nothing but a command line? No, and that was my point. What command line NT 5 has is basically patched on. If integrating the GUI into the kernel isn't trying to phase out command lines, I don't know what is. And that is a big mistake, no GUI can fully replace a command line.
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Well, no, they havn't gotten rid of it completely, but come on. They've done everything they could to act like it doesn't exist. They've not only stopped developement on it as an interface, but they've also diked out many useful features. Not that Dos was ever all they great--I've come to think of it as a Bourne shell with Down's Syndrome. But Microsoft has pushed the "one size fits all" mentality for interface design--how configureable is the Windows UI? Not at all. And While Dos may still be around, they've pretty much made it next to useless.
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One doesn't even patent a thought or idea, rather one patents an implementation of said thought or idea. Important distinction.
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Bullshit. You own the car, the license just means they give you permission to drive on public roads. They can't stop you from driving on your own property.
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Oh, and you forget the most important non-innovations:
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"In their present form" would be the keyword here. Just because Linux/BSD isn't ready for average desktop users now (and I agree with you on that point) doesn't make a difference later on. Linux/BSD is in the same place PCs were in the mid-eighties and the Internet was in the early nineties; pretty much the only people using them were the ones who knew what they were doing. But that all changed, didn't it?
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Mozilla is open source. It's free and always will be.
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If someone could point out a major innovation they actually engineered themselves, I'd be glad to hear it.
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Of course, I go with Mpeg if I have the choice--but you can't beat rm's for their size/quality ratio.
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It doesn't even have that. Typically I've noticed ASF's to be a little more than twice the size of a comparable rm file, with suckier quality. ASF just blows in general.
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