Anybody else notice that the date of Jackson's decision is the _same_ day as the release of FreeBe? Here's my list of theories:
Jackson will hand down a decision that forces MS to seperate DOS and Windows. Now millions of users are forced to see DOS on their computers, and they all go and look for a better operating system - Be! (To the response I know I'll get: You're not forced to see the shell in Be.)
Jackson forces MS to ship FreeBe with windows as an option, and to help Be become compatibile with Win2k.
Pure conicidence:)
Well, there you have it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
My question is this: Is there a shortage of IT weenies or of actual programmers? In other words, is the shortage of people who can administer NT and think they own the world because they can write SQL and ASP (or PHP, for that matter), or of people who can sit down and code a solution to a problem? What I see is a constant outflux (from the universities) of the system-engineer/software-engineer type person who can integrate but does not know the basis of these computer systems, either on a theoretical or practical level. The strange thing is, these people are given BS's in computer science, and job titles of programmer! Or am I all wrong?
K&R C Lives!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Doesn't support the latest games? What planet are you from? Most *decent* games will let me use DX3+Glide to play under NT (I have a Voodo3) and others let you use the DirectX 5 hack that was taken from early betas of Win2K. Anything else is not worth it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
First of all, I'd recommend that every go read their handy copy of the tannebaum/torvalds debate on c.o.minix. Done? Good. Now all the microkernel people realize that they were being totally stupid about this, right?
Unix won't die - it'll be absorbed into other OS's. Look at what we have today - Win2K with almost-POSIX compatibility, BeOS, MacOS X, Linux, etc. None of these are unix (MacOS X isn't - it's based on FreeBSD which no longer has any AT&T code in it) but they all integrate UNIX concepts. Does that not speak for the superiority of the system? Hmm. Ponder that for today.
Oh - and another reason that it won't die - I plan on using UNIX-like OS's for the rest of my life, so there will be at least one person using unix!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Ok - I didn't pay full price. But I found it to be a decent sci-fi movie. Some movies are just-plain-bad. But this, disregarding the pyhsics problems (jeez, give them a break already!) wasn't. (Did you get that split sentence? Ha.) And most of the time I just sat in awe of the computer-generated graphics - no attention to the actual plot.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Some psychologist (I forget the name, somebody please reply with the name and/or links to info) a couple of years ago came up with something he called the triangle of needs (or something like that). The gist of it is that it's impossible to address higher-order thinking until several needs are satisfied, and it's not just the material needs. He theorized that high-order thinking that we would like to say the Internet encourages can only happen after you've got physical and emotional security. My question is, can these people even address this intellectually? Many of these countries have seen horrible wars, and I would theorize that the people are not emotionally ready to address this. Or am I completely off base?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Thanks for the correction - what I meant was that in this case the govmnt is not protecting the rights of all equally. I included it as a base step for the idea of social contract - what I mean gets further fleshed out by Thoreau, particularly in Civil Disobedience.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
First of all - I think that this article simply repeats an overused sentiment - that big bad corporations are ruining it for us, the consumer. That's where Ralph Nader (he's running for prez on the Green Party ticket this year, I hear) comes from. But what are we to do about it? Whine, as I'm certain that the one-million-monkeys who post to slashdot will do? Or will we buckle down for a little civil disobedience and get the law reversed?
I agree that it makes sense to do some of the innovation ourselves, but we can't depend upon that for our consumer rights - we have to simply say that the Government has no right to regulate our private use of products we pay for. It doesn't derive that from anything - read up on political science theory and you'll see that our government is based upon the idea of natural rights, one of which is to do things with stuff that we pay for. That's not a libretarian-geek philosophy, which is where Katz would place it, but it's simply a standard idea in these thoughts. Read Locke or Thoreau sometime - it has to do with the core political theory upon which our government derives its power as a democracy. Esp. read Thoreau to understand what you're doing when you host your copy of DeCSS.
Partly, the DCMA applies to copying for profit of artistic works, which is where it should be applied. Not to private use - they have no right.
Uh oh - are those the UN Black Helicopters? gotta go
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
What are these going to cost on the street, huh? $1000? What's the point? If you want realpower and you don't care about price, why don't you go out and buy a Cray or something? This is rediculous. I think that Intel just decided to announce when they got five or so coppermine 800mhz's that rolled off and could do 1ghz - not because the chip is actually there.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I'm unable to view the trailer, but is this animated or live-action? It seems to me that this movie should be done in a completely-3d animated way, considering the game's recent reputation for glitzy graphics. Or shouldn't it? Anyway, they're going to need a considerable amount of animation in it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Motorola also just announced that they got licensed the specs from the Symbian consortium (that's the guys who make the EPOC OS used in the Psion) for their new embedded processor, AND they're producing a new PPC chip for WinCE. That must be sweet - making processors for all 3 major PDA OS's, huh?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I'm going to throw my two bits into the whole mess. It seems that what microsoft is doing is roughly download caching on a filesystem level. What I mean is, when you download a file in your web browser, it saves it to your cache as well as to the specified spot on the disk. When you do it again, it simply checks the website for modifications to the file (usually by datestamp) and, if none, downloads it from cache. Very simple, very efficent.
This is applied to the file system in the following way: When you make a copy of a file, it simply points the copy to the original file. When _either_ of these is written to (or perhaps even upon first read), the file system breaks the link and actually does the copy before the modification.
I'm not sure about the hashing discussion - it seems that by the pigeonhole principle (summarized: if there are more pigeons than pigeonholes, some pigeonholes hold more than one pigeon.), that there will be some collisions between hash values, but because of the way the hash function is constructed (think of turning the file into a sequence of 8-bit integers, and looking at the sum modulo some number) order is unimportant, and so permutations of the same file have the same hash. These permutations can be found quickly - in fact, 1/2 have the first 8-bit sequence off, 3/4 the first two, etc.
The idea in principle does not seem to lend itself to security holes - when any file is modified, it gets broken from the original file. Thus I couldn't replace explore.exe with a trojan horse by copying explore.exe elsewhere, and using a dissasembler to add the code - when the dissasembler writes, it breaks the link. However - how many exact duplicate files exist on the system? And what about the system making links between files of normal users and administrator-reserved areas - if the users see that their mail file is a link to one in the administrator's home directory, they're sure to know that the administrator is reading their mail!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I apologise if this question has already been answered - if it has, please point me to the link. Much of the talk relating GNUStep and OSX has been about porting - with a finished GNUStep, it would be easy to port apps to Linux. But what about binary emulation, like iBCS2 does for many SVR4 binaries for Linux? This could result in a perfect opportunity to instantly gain many commercial applications for the PPC versions of linux. Is this possible?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Who moderated this down? Obviously someone who hasn't been keeping up with the article and the changes to the linked page. I thought this was funny. Somebody with points please correct.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
...that Mainsoft is porting WinMain (or at least is rumored to) to linux (can anybody confirm/deny this?). This is the _same_ strategy they used with IE for Solaris/HP-UX, and resulted in a bloated, but working product. If/when this port is done, it will be the same story - bloated, slow, but working. And people will use it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I'm sure there are a lot of us who want to know - what is the current karma of the Anonymous Coward? We need to have an Anonymous Coward Karma Graph on the site that tracks the AC, and whether it is going up or down.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
There's a difference between being forced to not speak freely to others, and choosing to not listen. I don't want to read anything from Katz so I just filtered him out...and made a statement indicating my displeasure with his lame non-nerd, non-news articles. Aha, but you forget that the SP guys can choose not to accept the award, and not play it (and therefore not censor it). This is not a matter of force, it's a matter of choice on either side. And while you speak out about some people not wishing to be offended at an awards ceremony they otherwise wish to watch, you yourself wish not to be offended (perhaps that word is wrong in your case) by articles on a forum you otherwise wish to read. I find that ironic.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
"What Apple had and still has is a hardware addiction. And they can't pull the needle." Jean-Louis Gassée -- Salon, March 1998 Perhaps they're ready to pull the needle?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
They're going to censor themselves? How stupid - perhaps they should come up with an 'acceptable' version and sabatoge the event to play the uncencored version!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Damn - and I just bought an upgrade to my Intel box:) - I can't wait to see this in person. My take on this is it's gonna be like using the BeOS - incredibly stable, flashy, but deep inside there's a UNIX waiting to get out. My question - Where is $HOME, and will I see a.bashrc, a.exrc, etc. lying around there? How will it handle dotfiles, anyway?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
When you miniaturize a window, a snapshot of the window is taken and placed in the dock. This is where the magnification feature is really handy. You can actually see which document the icon represents before you expand it.
Hey - I do that with enlightenment! It seems that Mac OS X has a whole bunch of cool ideas from other GUI's combined into one gigantically cool one.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Slashdot Mirror
Wild Wild West got the worst movie (and rightly so.)
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Well, there you have it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
K&R C Lives!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Doesn't support the latest games? What planet are you from? Most *decent* games will let me use DX3+Glide to play under NT (I have a Voodo3) and others let you use the DirectX 5 hack that was taken from early betas of Win2K. Anything else is not worth it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Unix won't die - it'll be absorbed into other OS's. Look at what we have today - Win2K with almost-POSIX compatibility, BeOS, MacOS X, Linux, etc. None of these are unix (MacOS X isn't - it's based on FreeBSD which no longer has any AT&T code in it) but they all integrate UNIX concepts. Does that not speak for the superiority of the system? Hmm. Ponder that for today.
Oh - and another reason that it won't die - I plan on using UNIX-like OS's for the rest of my life, so there will be at least one person using unix!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Ok - I didn't pay full price. But I found it to be a decent sci-fi movie. Some movies are just-plain-bad. But this, disregarding the pyhsics problems (jeez, give them a break already!) wasn't. (Did you get that split sentence? Ha.) And most of the time I just sat in awe of the computer-generated graphics - no attention to the actual plot.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Some psychologist (I forget the name, somebody please reply with the name and/or links to info) a couple of years ago came up with something he called the triangle of needs (or something like that). The gist of it is that it's impossible to address higher-order thinking until several needs are satisfied, and it's not just the material needs. He theorized that high-order thinking that we would like to say the Internet encourages can only happen after you've got physical and emotional security. My question is, can these people even address this intellectually? Many of these countries have seen horrible wars, and I would theorize that the people are not emotionally ready to address this. Or am I completely off base?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Thanks for the correction - what I meant was that in this case the govmnt is not protecting the rights of all equally. I included it as a base step for the idea of social contract - what I mean gets further fleshed out by Thoreau, particularly in Civil Disobedience.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I agree that it makes sense to do some of the innovation ourselves, but we can't depend upon that for our consumer rights - we have to simply say that the Government has no right to regulate our private use of products we pay for. It doesn't derive that from anything - read up on political science theory and you'll see that our government is based upon the idea of natural rights, one of which is to do things with stuff that we pay for. That's not a libretarian-geek philosophy, which is where Katz would place it, but it's simply a standard idea in these thoughts. Read Locke or Thoreau sometime - it has to do with the core political theory upon which our government derives its power as a democracy. Esp. read Thoreau to understand what you're doing when you host your copy of DeCSS.
Partly, the DCMA applies to copying for profit of artistic works, which is where it should be applied. Not to private use - they have no right.
Uh oh - are those the UN Black Helicopters? gotta go
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
What are these going to cost on the street, huh? $1000? What's the point? If you want realpower and you don't care about price, why don't you go out and buy a Cray or something? This is rediculous. I think that Intel just decided to announce when they got five or so coppermine 800mhz's that rolled off and could do 1ghz - not because the chip is actually there.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I'm unable to view the trailer, but is this animated or live-action? It seems to me that this movie should be done in a completely-3d animated way, considering the game's recent reputation for glitzy graphics. Or shouldn't it? Anyway, they're going to need a considerable amount of animation in it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Motorola also just announced that they got licensed the specs from the Symbian consortium (that's the guys who make the EPOC OS used in the Psion) for their new embedded processor, AND they're producing a new PPC chip for WinCE. That must be sweet - making processors for all 3 major PDA OS's, huh?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
This is applied to the file system in the following way: When you make a copy of a file, it simply points the copy to the original file. When _either_ of these is written to (or perhaps even upon first read), the file system breaks the link and actually does the copy before the modification.
I'm not sure about the hashing discussion - it seems that by the pigeonhole principle (summarized: if there are more pigeons than pigeonholes, some pigeonholes hold more than one pigeon.), that there will be some collisions between hash values, but because of the way the hash function is constructed (think of turning the file into a sequence of 8-bit integers, and looking at the sum modulo some number) order is unimportant, and so permutations of the same file have the same hash. These permutations can be found quickly - in fact, 1/2 have the first 8-bit sequence off, 3/4 the first two, etc.
The idea in principle does not seem to lend itself to security holes - when any file is modified, it gets broken from the original file. Thus I couldn't replace explore.exe with a trojan horse by copying explore.exe elsewhere, and using a dissasembler to add the code - when the dissasembler writes, it breaks the link. However - how many exact duplicate files exist on the system? And what about the system making links between files of normal users and administrator-reserved areas - if the users see that their mail file is a link to one in the administrator's home directory, they're sure to know that the administrator is reading their mail!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I apologise if this question has already been answered - if it has, please point me to the link. Much of the talk relating GNUStep and OSX has been about porting - with a finished GNUStep, it would be easy to port apps to Linux. But what about binary emulation, like iBCS2 does for many SVR4 binaries for Linux? This could result in a perfect opportunity to instantly gain many commercial applications for the PPC versions of linux. Is this possible?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Thank god - an intellegent response to my honest question! Who woulda thunk? :)
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Who moderated this down? Obviously someone who hasn't been keeping up with the article and the changes to the linked page. I thought this was funny. Somebody with points please correct.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Cool - but when do the export restrictions end? I thought that they ended in October or something funny like that.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
...that Mainsoft is porting WinMain (or at least is rumored to) to linux (can anybody confirm/deny this?). This is the _same_ strategy they used with IE for Solaris/HP-UX, and resulted in a bloated, but working product. If/when this port is done, it will be the same story - bloated, slow, but working. And people will use it.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I'm sure there are a lot of us who want to know - what is the current karma of the Anonymous Coward? We need to have an Anonymous Coward Karma Graph on the site that tracks the AC, and whether it is going up or down.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
There's a difference between being forced to not speak freely to others, and choosing to not listen. I don't want to read anything from Katz so I just filtered him out...and made a statement indicating my displeasure with his lame non-nerd, non-news articles.
Aha, but you forget that the SP guys can choose not to accept the award, and not play it (and therefore not censor it). This is not a matter of force, it's a matter of choice on either side. And while you speak out about some people not wishing to be offended at an awards ceremony they otherwise wish to watch, you yourself wish not to be offended (perhaps that word is wrong in your case) by articles on a forum you otherwise wish to read. I find that ironic.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
"What Apple had and still has is a hardware addiction. And they can't pull the needle."
Jean-Louis Gassée -- Salon, March 1998
Perhaps they're ready to pull the needle?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
I find the combination of your comment and your .sig ironic.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
They're going to censor themselves? How stupid - perhaps they should come up with an 'acceptable' version and sabatoge the event to play the uncencored version!
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Damn - and I just bought an upgrade to my Intel box :) - I can't wait to see this in person. My take on this is it's gonna be like using the BeOS - incredibly stable, flashy, but deep inside there's a UNIX waiting to get out. My question - Where is $HOME, and will I see a .bashrc, a .exrc, etc. lying around there? How will it handle dotfiles, anyway?
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
When you miniaturize a window, a snapshot of the window is taken and placed in the dock. This is where the magnification feature is really handy. You can actually see which document the icon represents before you expand it.
Hey - I do that with enlightenment! It seems that Mac OS X has a whole bunch of cool ideas from other GUI's combined into one gigantically cool one.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."