Rob said not to post questions to slashdot, but rather send them to an email address from where they will get `filtered' and the best ones passed to Bruce.
My point is that, who are Rob et al to say what constitutes a good question? I can see that a certain amount of filtering, for example `Hey Bruce, why are you such a wanker'[1] type of posts is useful, but Bruce can do this himself if messages are sent directly to him.
What I disagree with is the fact that only a dozen or so from possibly hundreds of useful, interesting, relevant questions which might otherwise have been posted in a more open forum, will eventually find themselves in Bruce's inbox. Simply because Rob or whomever didn't consider the question important enough, or didn't have time to read it.
I note that a link to Bruce's site is given in the article, so why is it necessary[2] to send questions through slashdot?
[1] Used in the spirit of example only. I have a great deal of respect for Mr Perens.
What makes slashdot `management' think they should be the sole arbiters of what constitutes a good question?
If Bruce is going to answer questions about Open Source the forum should be, um, OPEN.
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Boba Fett should have gone to Endor and had himself an ewok-roast.
I remember hearing somewhere that Lucas admitted after ROTJ that the ewoks were only in there to increase marketing and the sale of little furry toys. I wonder if^W^W^W the same thing is true of Jar Jar.
Someone (maybe me) should write a jar jar-izer along the lines of the Elmer Fudd-izer and the Redneck-izer.
"Meesa read slashdottem all de time fang you very mush. Meesa no like slashers dotters slagging off Lord Lucas of George, heesa creator of all good fings and much fun."
I initially read this as '...and fallover version of Windows' and thought that already exists.
So all the bullshit M$ have been touting in the past about Windows being enterprise-ready, are they going to now retract that, say `sorry, oops, we were wrong, it wasn't enterprise ready at all. Actually, the enterprise has changed, yeah that's the ticket'.
Somehow I doubt it. Just like I doubt this new nonsense will be a Unix-killer.
Actually, all that would have to happen is for the gubmint to (raise the) tax (on) parcel deliveries. Fed-EX, UPS etc would have to charge more for delivery; that cost would get passed to the vendor, who would of course pass it on to Joe Happy-Customer.
It's unlikely you'd be able to make an order by internet and then drive to potentially another state, or across country, to pick up the goods yourself. Any savings in tax would be more than offset in travel costs.
"This is exactly what people have been waiting for," said Rick Latman, Microworkz.com C.E.O., "...And because it's not a Windows environment, it's virtually crash proof."
That aside, sounds to me a lot like the marketroids are just saying it uses Linux because that is The Next Big Thing(tm) and hoping people won't call them on it.
I emailed BS about 3 months back, asking if they would simply install the h/w and let me get on with configuring my system. Still haven't heard from them, and BS are supposed to be quite tech-friendly here in Hotlan'a.
Also I can get the hardware from other sources so I objected to paying their something like $200 for a ADSL modem that I can get for $50, and $100 for an ethernet card which I can get for less than $30.
`We'll have something together in the next couple of months' - I won't hold my breath.
Last I heard, Linux was a multi-user OS. Ok, you might be running it as a desktop, but that doesn't mean other systems don't have more than one user, some of whom might want to use the CD for purposes other than playing a game.
I agree it should be optional, but at least there is a good reason for not running from the CD.
By resorting to the tactics employed by McDonaldsoft, you are letting them set the rules.
Linux will stand on its own merits. Linux enthusiasts and advocates do not need to resort to the sort of underhandedness used by Billy and his Bunions.
So, instead of the elephants upstairs simply pointing their speakers at the floor (no concept of bass, it seems), they can just stick these things on the wall and annoy the whole apartment block! Great!
But seriously folks, what are the chances of these gizmos tearing the plaster from the wall? I mean, that sound has to come from somewhere = walls vibrating at high frequency. Or am I missing the point?
Oh, nice web site too. From the "my kid can do better than that" school of design.
(if this posts 2+ times, it's cos I got a "doc has not data" error).
As far as I can tell, they are not stating or even implying that NT is ready for the task - just that Linux may not be. As others have stated, there's plenty of big iron out there running ATMs, ticket office stuff, etc.
Whether Linux is ready for mission-critical use is, IMO, unimportant[1]. It has a good home in servers and desktop use so even if it cannot handle mission crit. stuff, it will always be needed.
[1] I'm not saying it can't, y'unnerstan'. Just that it is not necessary.
It's called invasion of privacy. I spoke to my wife about this and she most definitely would not want people knowing whether she was using any form of birth control.
Certain extremists believe any form of birth control other than natural methods is abhorrent and people who use them deserve to die. I would not want my wife[1] becoming a target because of a choice she made regarding her own body.
Oh, and yes, people/have/ been raped because of what they were wearing. What makes you think knowledge of an IUD would be treated any differently? Even leering looks and remarks are degrading.
Yeah, ok, whatever. Where did you get the idea I don't like my kid being exposed to commercialism?
I was not `whining' about Micros~1 per se, although that is something I can find no fault with, I was angry that Micros~1 should have such access to my kid, and in such a crass manner.
> I figure this will just make plastic/ceramic > guns that much more popular
Sorry, but ceramic guns would be detected quite easily by this thing - ceramics cast quite a dark X-ray shadow, and the profile of a gun is easy to spot.
The reason glocks and such don't set of airport metal detectors is, erm, well, they ain't metal.
Did anyone manage to work out what that metal thing is inside the gut of the (female?) x-ray at top-right of the web page? Looks like an IUD but it seems quite high up. Would you want a bunch of hairy big-assed airport thugs knowing if your wife/ gf/ s.o. had one of these fitted?
Micros~1 had a shill at my kid's school the other day, handing out frisbees with skull-n-crossbones on 'em and telling the kids `Now boys 'n' girls, don't do any naughty software piracy, and report your parents if they do.'.
Meks me mad, poisoning young minds like that[1].
My son scratched out the M$ logo on the frisbee right in front of the shill's face:) Yay! Go Josh!
[1] Not that piracy is necessarily a good thing, but I don't think Micros~1 should have any access to my son's mind.
Hey, this thing's pretty cool. I can even see one's hand getting used to certain `word-patterns' which would become semi-automatic over time. It kinda gets close to Kanji in that a certain set of strokes stands for a word or part of a word and can be repeated quickly, with a little practice.
Signing your name with a real pen is almost automatic, I can see it becoming that way with this system. After just a couple of minutes practice I was remembering where most of the letters where and `writing' almost as fast as I can with a pen.
I don't think it'll replace true keyboards, but for PDA's it's golden, at least as far as the Roman alphabet goes. Might be time to fork over the foldin' for a Palm:)
QuickCam drivers already exist - cqcam is probably the best around. However the movie functionality doesn't exist since The Powers That Be will not release the information needed for mpeg (I believe) encoding, at least not for free.
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Rob said not to post questions to slashdot, but rather send them to an email address from where they will get `filtered' and the best ones passed to Bruce.
My point is that, who are Rob et al to say what constitutes a good question? I can see that a certain amount of filtering, for example `Hey Bruce, why are you such a wanker'[1] type of posts is useful, but Bruce can do this himself if messages are sent directly to him.
What I disagree with is the fact that only a dozen or so from possibly hundreds of useful, interesting, relevant questions which might otherwise have been posted in a more open forum, will eventually find themselves in Bruce's inbox. Simply because Rob or whomever didn't consider the question important enough, or didn't have time to read it.
I note that a link to Bruce's site is given in the article, so why is it necessary[2] to send questions through slashdot?
[1] Used in the spirit of example only. I have a great deal of respect for Mr Perens.
[2] Or why does Rob feel it is?
What makes slashdot `management' think they should be the sole arbiters of what constitutes a good question?
If Bruce is going to answer questions about Open Source the forum should be, um, OPEN.
Boba Fett should have gone to Endor and had himself an ewok-roast.
I remember hearing somewhere that Lucas admitted after ROTJ that the ewoks were only in there to increase marketing and the sale of little furry toys. I wonder if^W^W^W the same thing is true of Jar Jar.
Someone (maybe me) should write a jar jar-izer along the lines of the Elmer Fudd-izer and the Redneck-izer.
"Meesa read slashdottem all de time fang you very mush. Meesa no like slashers dotters slagging off Lord Lucas of George, heesa creator of all good fings and much fun."
I initially read this as '...and fallover version of Windows' and thought that already exists.
So all the bullshit M$ have been touting in the past about Windows being enterprise-ready, are they going to now retract that, say `sorry, oops, we were wrong, it wasn't enterprise ready at all. Actually, the enterprise has changed, yeah that's the ticket'.
Somehow I doubt it. Just like I doubt this new nonsense will be a Unix-killer.
Actually, all that would have to happen is for the gubmint to (raise the) tax (on) parcel deliveries. Fed-EX, UPS etc would have to charge more for delivery; that cost would get passed to the vendor, who would of course pass it on to Joe Happy-Customer.
It's unlikely you'd be able to make an order by internet and then drive to potentially another state, or across country, to pick up the goods yourself. Any savings in tax would be more than offset in travel costs.
Hope I haven't given anyone an idea here.
"This is exactly what people have been waiting for," said Rick Latman, Microworkz.com C.E.O., "...And because it's not a Windows environment, it's virtually crash proof."
That aside, sounds to me a lot like the marketroids are just saying it uses Linux because that is The Next Big Thing(tm) and hoping people won't call them on it.
I emailed BS about 3 months back, asking if they would simply install the h/w and let me get on with configuring my system. Still haven't heard from them, and BS are supposed to be quite tech-friendly here in Hotlan'a.
Also I can get the hardware from other sources so I objected to paying their something like $200 for a ADSL modem that I can get for $50, and $100 for an ethernet card which I can get for less than $30.
`We'll have something together in the next couple of months' - I won't hold my breath.
Last I heard, Linux was a multi-user OS. Ok, you might be running it as a desktop, but that doesn't mean other systems don't have more than one user, some of whom might want to use the CD for purposes other than playing a game.
I agree it should be optional, but at least there is a good reason for not running from the CD.
That'd be Steven Tweedie.
By resorting to the tactics employed by McDonaldsoft, you are letting them set the rules.
Linux will stand on its own merits. Linux enthusiasts and advocates do not need to resort to the sort of underhandedness used by Billy and his Bunions.
> and are willing to buy the high end
> hardware that wont be obsolete in a year/two.
And why might it be obsolete? Because certain software vendors produce ever-more-complex (read: buggy) code that forces upgrades.
> I can see it now, robotic dogs chasing Furbys up binary trees!! Aaaargh!
Even out of context, this is great. Can I nick it for my sig?
So, instead of the elephants upstairs simply pointing their speakers at the floor (no concept of bass, it seems), they can just stick these things on the wall and annoy the whole apartment block! Great!
But seriously folks, what are the chances of these gizmos tearing the plaster from the wall? I mean, that sound has to come from somewhere = walls vibrating at high frequency. Or am I missing the point?
Oh, nice web site too. From the "my kid can do better than that" school of design.
(if this posts 2+ times, it's cos I got a "doc has not data" error).
Clarification: ATM transaction processing is handled by the big boys. The actual ATM itself may be as you described.
As far as I can tell, they are not stating or even implying that NT is ready for the task - just that Linux may not be. As others have stated, there's plenty of big iron out there running ATMs, ticket office stuff, etc.
Whether Linux is ready for mission-critical use is, IMO, unimportant[1]. It has a good home in servers and desktop use so even if it cannot handle mission crit. stuff, it will always be needed.
[1] I'm not saying it can't, y'unnerstan'. Just that it is not necessary.
Let's not forget the Necrotelicomicon, the telephone book of the dead. (Apologies to Terry Pratchett) :)
It's called invasion of privacy. I spoke to my wife about this and she most definitely would not want people knowing whether she was using any form of birth control.
/have/ been raped because of what they were wearing. What makes you think knowledge of an IUD would be treated any differently? Even leering looks and remarks are degrading.
Certain extremists believe any form of birth control other than natural methods is abhorrent and people who use them deserve to die. I would not want my wife[1] becoming a target because of a choice she made regarding her own body.
Oh, and yes, people
[1] or indeed anyone.
Yeah, ok, whatever. Where did you get the idea I don't like my kid being exposed to commercialism?
I was not `whining' about Micros~1 per se, although that is something I can find no fault with, I was angry that Micros~1 should have such access to my kid, and in such a crass manner.
> I figure this will just make plastic/ceramic
> guns that much more popular
Sorry, but ceramic guns would be detected quite easily by this thing - ceramics cast quite a dark X-ray shadow, and the profile of a gun is easy to spot.
The reason glocks and such don't set of airport metal detectors is, erm, well, they ain't metal.
Did anyone manage to work out what that metal thing is inside the gut of the (female?) x-ray at top-right of the web page? Looks like an IUD but it seems quite high up. Would you want a bunch of hairy big-assed airport thugs knowing if your wife/ gf/ s.o. had one of these fitted?
Micros~1 had a shill at my kid's school the other day, handing out frisbees with skull-n-crossbones on 'em and telling the kids `Now boys 'n' girls, don't do any naughty software piracy, and report your parents if they do.'.
:) Yay! Go Josh!
Meks me mad, poisoning young minds like that[1].
My son scratched out the M$ logo on the frisbee right in front of the shill's face
[1] Not that piracy is necessarily a good thing, but I don't think Micros~1 should have any access to my son's mind.
cypherpunk/cypherpunk works, as always.
Now quitcha bitchin'.
> A smaller square (without text) would help
> minimize path lengths and be quicker to use
> once you memorized the layout.
Yeah, but a smaller square would be more error-prone, and would therefore negate any speed gain from the shorter paths.
Hey, this thing's pretty cool. I can even see one's hand getting used to certain `word-patterns' which would become semi-automatic over time. It kinda gets close to Kanji in that a certain set of strokes stands for a word or part of a word and can be repeated quickly, with a little practice.
:)
Signing your name with a real pen is almost automatic, I can see it becoming that way with this system. After just a couple of minutes practice I was remembering where most of the letters where and `writing' almost as fast as I can with a pen.
I don't think it'll replace true keyboards, but for PDA's it's golden, at least as far as the Roman alphabet goes. Might be time to fork over the foldin' for a Palm
QuickCam drivers already exist - cqcam is probably the best around. However the movie functionality doesn't exist since The Powers That Be will not release the information needed for mpeg (I believe) encoding, at least not for free.
Actually I set up the Linux Knowledge Base a while back but took it down due to other commitments and lack of bandwidth.
The code / db is still around so if anyone has a server to spare with some decent bandwidth, let's go.
The database is still in its infancy but it's a starting point for a project.
Any takers? Email me at simond@foxlink.net.