"frees up as much as 80 to 90 percent of the space on a server, allowing users to store as much as five to 10 times the information as they could before"
First of all, hwo did they get from 80-90% to 5-10x? Secondly, who the hell has 80-90% of their server space taken up by duplicate files? That's one of the most bizarre claims I have ever read. Is anything approaching 80% of the data on your servers duplicated?
Here in Australia we have similar problems with such things. Well, not only that, we have laws to prevent people hosting or transmitting pictures of nekkiditty.... but I still don't think we are in as bad a boat as USians (don't know about Canada - surely they like nudity in Quebec at least?).
I get quite suprised when I read say, a B-movie review site, where they get really excited about 1.5 seconds of breasts on screen.... jeez man, is it really that cool? Don't ever go down to the beach in a Scandanavian country you'll have a fucking embolism. I guess the old adage is true - the bigger the taboo, the more attractive it is.
See the cat? See the cradle? It's just like the Book of Bokonon I guess.
One of Steve Jackson's employees was involved with LoD and got his fingers rapt by the Secret Service (not Jedger's boys, the original govt goons). The cops decided to checkout Mr LoD's office to see if any stolen AT&T files were present on the system. There weren't any, but while they were looking the cops found the entire text of Jackson's new "Cyberpunk GURPS" book and freaked out. They thought it was a manual for computer crime and confiscated the whole network!!
What a bunch of lamers! Can't tell the difference between a Role Playing Game and real life! And they say Geeks are out-of-touch with reality! Bah, I dereide their truth-handling abilities.
Somewhat of an oversimplification, don't you think? My dad used to own a gun, no-one ever labeled him a terrorist. I'd hazard a guess there are millions like him.
They are going to take the kernel and build the new AmigaOS (or OE if you prefer) on top of it. No bash, not csh, no X, not qt, no gtk, none of that stuff! It will not resemble a Linux distro as we know it.
If people want to know what ZD thinks they can go there and find out for themselves. As much as I love discussing Amigas, I don't think this article needed to be posted. Slashdot readers already know the score, Amiga users certainly do, and I don't care what ZDNet thinks about any of it.
As far as general news stories go, they are usually reported in 20-30 different sites on the web and you can often get good info straight from the source or other involved party. WE DON'T NEED ZD NEWS ON SLASHDOT.
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Oh that's got to be the funniest thing I've heard all week (OK, so it is only Tuesday). "...Looked suspiciously like an A2000 with the name plate removed"... BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HA
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This is good news indeed. It seemed as though the only person in the Old Regime (how many Old Regimes have there been so far?) who really gave a shit was Petro T. At last he is in good company. All the Amiga has ever really needed to succeed is dedicated and visionary leadership. It sounds like now we have a chance.
The new boss is an interesting move in light of all the recent rumours that Gateway management were getting very pissed off about delays and leaks from Amiga Inc (apparently we're not supposed to know who the OS developers are, but they had to reveal it because it was extensively leaked). Putting a new guy in charge with specific orders to "ship something - anything!" shows they aren't willing to drop the whole project at this stage. If they were really sick of it all they'd have disolved the company by now, I reckon.
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Hmmm, plot points are Off Topic? The moderation is more entertaining to me than the content sometimes.
"frees up as much as 80 to 90 percent of the space on a server, allowing users to store as much as five to 10 times the information as they could before"
First of all, hwo did they get from 80-90% to 5-10x? Secondly, who the hell has 80-90% of their server space taken up by duplicate files? That's one of the most bizarre claims I have ever read. Is anything approaching 80% of the data on your servers duplicated?
Good to see you've converted to Cthuluism - it's a much nicer, happier, more tolerant and more positive religion to Christian Fundamentalism.
(Hyperbole? Maybe, maybe not. YBTJ)
Here in Australia we have similar problems with such things. Well, not only that, we have laws to prevent people hosting or transmitting pictures of nekkiditty.... but I still don't think we are in as bad a boat as USians (don't know about Canada - surely they like nudity in Quebec at least?).
I get quite suprised when I read say, a B-movie review site, where they get really excited about 1.5 seconds of breasts on screen.... jeez man, is it really that cool? Don't ever go down to the beach in a Scandanavian country you'll have a fucking embolism. I guess the old adage is true - the bigger the taboo, the more attractive it is.
See the cat? See the cradle? It's just like the Book of Bokonon I guess.
G. Gordon Liddy? Is that the same guy who worked for Nixon et al and "the Dallas job"?
Echelon, by the NSA and international affliates. Your local search engine will have more information.
[grin] I had forgotten about that one.
The story I heard was....
One of Steve Jackson's employees was involved with LoD and got his fingers rapt by the Secret Service (not Jedger's boys, the original govt goons). The cops decided to checkout Mr LoD's office to see if any stolen AT&T files were present on the system. There weren't any, but while they were looking the cops found the entire text of Jackson's new "Cyberpunk GURPS" book and freaked out. They thought it was a manual for computer crime and confiscated the whole network!!
What a bunch of lamers! Can't tell the difference between a Role Playing Game and real life! And they say Geeks are out-of-touch with reality! Bah, I dereide their truth-handling abilities.
I thought "Nazi" meant "National Socialist Workers Party of Germany"?
...no worse than ECHELON. At least they aren't pretending SORM doesn't exist! Hmmm, maybe I should've used AC for that msg...
Not to mention encouraging vague inflamatory remarks from Anonymous Cowards.
Somewhat of an oversimplification, don't you think? My dad used to own a gun, no-one ever labeled him a terrorist. I'd hazard a guess there are millions like him.
Well, I'm glad somebody understands how this place works.
Wishful thinking or a genuine rumour?
MrT
His argument was sarcastic. Just thought I'd let you know that.
They are going to take the kernel and build the new AmigaOS (or OE if you prefer) on top of it. No bash, not csh, no X, not qt, no gtk, none of that stuff! It will not resemble a Linux distro as we know it.
MrT
"Hear hear" as they say in Parliament.
If people want to know what ZD thinks they can go there and find out for themselves. As much as I love discussing Amigas, I don't think this article needed to be posted. Slashdot readers already know the score, Amiga users certainly do, and I don't care what ZDNet thinks about any of it.
As far as general news stories go, they are usually reported in 20-30 different sites on the web and you can often get good info straight from the source or other involved party. WE DON'T NEED ZD NEWS ON SLASHDOT.
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Oh that's got to be the funniest thing I've heard all week (OK, so it is only Tuesday). "...Looked suspiciously like an A2000 with the name plate removed"
This is good news indeed. It seemed as though the only person in the Old Regime (how many Old Regimes have there been so far?) who really gave a shit was Petro T. At last he is in good company. All the Amiga has ever really needed to succeed is dedicated and visionary leadership. It sounds like now we have a chance.
I'm pretty sure that Amiga Inc have officially disclaimed any relationship with Transmeta. Of course, we can always assume they are lying...:P
The new boss is an interesting move in light of all the recent rumours that Gateway management were getting very pissed off about delays and leaks from Amiga Inc (apparently we're not supposed to know who the OS developers are, but they had to reveal it because it was extensively leaked). Putting a new guy in charge with specific orders to "ship something - anything!" shows they aren't willing to drop the whole project at this stage. If they were really sick of it all they'd have disolved the company by now, I reckon.
ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT POSSIBLE
Cool dude, nice work. Can you give us any details about the implementation?
Hmmm, a nice place to shop. I particularly recommend the books on Anti-Gravity by Capt Bruce Cathie (Ret) from NZ. Very very informative stuff.
Oh, well in that case it only took them 7 years, not "a decade". PC users can all breath a sigh of relief now.