They will have to support only some standard distributions of Linux, with no modifications or modifications limited to their "supported" subset they will create.
Otherwise, it will be too big of a hassle figuring out where the problem lies with a custom distribution. This is not really that good of a thing for either Oracle or Linux... because either Oracle will have to have their own distribution, which you can not alter if you want to keep support, or you will have to go with a RedHat, Debian, Mandrake or some other flavor and keep it to their specs...
Further reading states that this technology can be used with the paralyzed or those with Lou Gehrig's Disease to allow them to use their computers
Come on... what about "the lazy"? I'm sick of pushing down keys and clicking the mouse, it's like doing thousands of tiny push-ups every day! I don't need this strain!!!
In their next wave of evil, AOL submits a story about their practices to Slashdot, slashdotting the Trillian webserver to hell, so no new users can download the software!!! (it is slashdotted right now anyway).
I am assuming, since this is coming from the Junkyard Wars standpoint and not necessarily Battlebots, are these vehicles manned?
And if so, there have to be some pretty strict regulations. Is this going to be a demolition derby or a large-scale battlebots war with pneumatic spikes and huge sawblades ripping cars apart? Obviously any humans in the ring would be in serious danger. So I have to imagine these things are unmanned.
This is probably then 1 of 3 possibilities:
Manned cars, but the safety regulations will turn this into a glorified demolition derby... *yawn*
Unmanned cars, so a huge-scale battlebots thing.... pretty cool, and very expensive... cool to watch I'm sure. But I doubt this is the format.
Unmanned, small remote control cars.... so, Battlebots. But why would they re-do Battlebots???
My thoughts are, that this will be a really cool, dangerous show, or a boring Battlebots ripoff... hard to tell from the website.
Basically, he calculated the approximate real-world worth of people's items, as sold on eBay, and this figure (GNP of Norrath 77th worldwide) would be correct if everyone sold everything they own on eBay, at these prices.
Quote from the article : However, he notes that not all the assets are converted into real-world cash.
Of course they aren't! If they were, the price for each item would be significantly lower, and the real GNP would be nowhere near what he is quoting. So in reality, if Norrath was a country, the GNP would not be as high as his estimate.
Only on Slashdot would so many people applaud this story.
If Microsoft employees sent out emails with headers that made them unviewable in Eudora or other email programs, people on here would be throwing a fit.
I use Eudora and hate Outlook (have to use Windows here...), and I have bundles of idiot coworkers that happily click on virus emails here and at home... but the hypocrisy here is ridiculous. Were the situation reversed we would be crying for another lawsuit against M$.... how is this different?
It is obvious what should and should not be sent via email right now. Just as it is obvious who wants and does not want your advertisement emails (solicited vs unsolicited).
The unwritten rules are being ignored now, why would spammers advertising get-rich-quick schemes, porn, and viagra start paying attention now that they are on paper? This is a big waste of time.
Job sites like Monster really encourage spamming prospective hirers as well.
You set up an online resume, and can 1-click send it to the employers of your choice. I was laid off in September, and I sent out 200 resumes in 1 day in this way.
How many callbacks from those, and from all the resumes I sent out over the next month? NOT ONE. And I am not surprised, I can only imagine the number of resumes they are recieving.
Although this isn't the same as all-out spamming, employer spam via job sites online is running rampant and is only going to get worse, which is bad for potentially good candidates as they are lost in the sea of Monster.com email notifications...
I hope you just mean they should start with new source instead of patching up the old (which I agree with).
Office 95 will still run on my Windows 2000 machine (yeah yeah I use Windows, sue me). This is a bad thing? If Windows XP was NOT backwards compatible with software, all we would hear about on Slashdot is how they are forcing users to buy new software.
One feature that would make this way more useful as well would be the number of a local cab company made available.
That way, you could get there for sure (if you don't have a car) and in a flash you have the number to call for a ride home, if you have one too many beers...
Granted though, this looks more or less like a test project, never to be released to the public.
And how much of a drunk would you have to be to know where the closest 4 bars are, anyway??? =)
I think it is cool that id supports Linux. And I know that everyone on/. loves Linux and the promise of Linux gaming. Not to mention that if Linux did develop into a major gaming platform, many more people would use it in the mainstream.
However... is this sort of release really going to be downloaded and used a lot (outside of Slashdot)?
ALL hardcore gamers use Windows for gaming. It is simply a fact. All the games are published for Windows, and even if they make it to other OSes, they make it to Windows first.
I can see people from/. and other geeks downloading it just to see how it works, but this is as a novelty, IMO. You download it, get it working, say "this is cool I am gaming on Linux" and get back to work never to touch it again.
Even if they did release for Linux, how many more units would they ship? Is the demand really there? I don't like Windows any more than the next guy but games are developed for Windows, played on Windows, and the AOL using rubes that buy the games all use Windows...
It's a shame, as XHTML and CSS allows for very clean separation of content from presentation...
Not to be picky, but XHTML and CSS do not separate content from presentation exactly. All XHTML is, is well-formed HTML. Which basically means, if you open a paragraph tag (<P>) you have to close it (</P>), and you can't have overlapping tags.
This allows browsers to more easily interpret the HTML because the structure is not ambiguous as it is in a lot of HTML code...
It also allows for better scripting with things like DHTML and so forth, because the structure is solid.
However HTML still uses tags that are all about the presentation: <P> (paragraph) <H1> (header 1) etc.
Now what you may have been thinking of would be using XML and CSS. This would clearly separate the content (XML) from the presentation (CSS). And oh how the web would benefit from having all of its content in XML, with standard DTDs, formatted using CSS or XSL. Warms my heart to think about it! =) The added search capabilities would be astounding... anyway...
If online shopping services convert over to.NET or god forbid my bill payment services, it's going to be very difficult to avoid having to make that Passport account and start using.NET.
So, taking the hypothetical stance that one would need to eventually get registered to use.NET services they can't avoid using, what can be done to protect yourself and your data?
The whole world isn't online.
Don't pay your bills online. Mail them like many people do.
Don't shop online. Sometimes it is very convenient to do this, so in those cases look up the item online, and then call in the order over the phone using your credit card, or mail the vendor a check. If the online vendor you are looking at doesn't support this, choose another.
As far as being a developer, there isn't much you can do, but you can minimize the risks to yourself by not using.NET (or computers in general) to handle your money transactions.
So what is the big benefit of using Lindows? (Assuming it is not vaporware.)
- Not having to dual-boot?
- Price?
- Just to screw over Micro$oft?
You can get Windows cheap at several places. At the previous link Windows 2000 and Windows XP (both full version, OEM) are under $150.
As much as you may hate Windows, chances are good that Windows-based software is going to run better on Windows than Lindows. Why spend $100 on Lindows when you can get the real deal for a few bucks more?
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They will have to support only some standard distributions of Linux, with no modifications or modifications limited to their "supported" subset they will create.
Otherwise, it will be too big of a hassle figuring out where the problem lies with a custom distribution. This is not really that good of a thing for either Oracle or Linux... because either Oracle will have to have their own distribution, which you can not alter if you want to keep support, or you will have to go with a RedHat, Debian, Mandrake or some other flavor and keep it to their specs...
Interesting to see how this turns out....
Further reading states that this technology can be used with the paralyzed or those with Lou Gehrig's Disease to allow them to use their computers
Come on... what about "the lazy"? I'm sick of pushing down keys and clicking the mouse, it's like doing thousands of tiny push-ups every day! I don't need this strain!!!
In their next wave of evil, AOL submits a story about their practices to Slashdot, slashdotting the Trillian webserver to hell, so no new users can download the software!!! (it is slashdotted right now anyway).
Damn you AOL!!!!
Mark
And if so, there have to be some pretty strict regulations. Is this going to be a demolition derby or a large-scale battlebots war with pneumatic spikes and huge sawblades ripping cars apart? Obviously any humans in the ring would be in serious danger. So I have to imagine these things are unmanned.
This is probably then 1 of 3 possibilities:
- Manned cars, but the safety regulations will turn this into a glorified demolition derby... *yawn*
- Unmanned cars, so a huge-scale battlebots thing.... pretty cool, and very expensive... cool to watch I'm sure. But I doubt this is the format.
- Unmanned, small remote control cars.... so, Battlebots. But why would they re-do Battlebots???
My thoughts are, that this will be a really cool, dangerous show, or a boring Battlebots ripoff... hard to tell from the website.Mark
This article is quite misleading.
Basically, he calculated the approximate real-world worth of people's items, as sold on eBay, and this figure (GNP of Norrath 77th worldwide) would be correct if everyone sold everything they own on eBay, at these prices.
Quote from the article : However, he notes that not all the assets are converted into real-world cash.
Of course they aren't! If they were, the price for each item would be significantly lower, and the real GNP would be nowhere near what he is quoting. So in reality, if Norrath was a country, the GNP would not be as high as his estimate.
Still an interesting thought though.
Only on Slashdot would so many people applaud this story.
If Microsoft employees sent out emails with headers that made them unviewable in Eudora or other email programs, people on here would be throwing a fit.
I use Eudora and hate Outlook (have to use Windows here...), and I have bundles of idiot coworkers that happily click on virus emails here and at home... but the hypocrisy here is ridiculous. Were the situation reversed we would be crying for another lawsuit against M$.... how is this different?
Mark
It is obvious what should and should not be sent via email right now. Just as it is obvious who wants and does not want your advertisement emails (solicited vs unsolicited).
The unwritten rules are being ignored now, why would spammers advertising get-rich-quick schemes, porn, and viagra start paying attention now that they are on paper? This is a big waste of time.
Mark
Job sites like Monster really encourage spamming prospective hirers as well.
You set up an online resume, and can 1-click send it to the employers of your choice. I was laid off in September, and I sent out 200 resumes in 1 day in this way.
How many callbacks from those, and from all the resumes I sent out over the next month? NOT ONE. And I am not surprised, I can only imagine the number of resumes they are recieving.
Although this isn't the same as all-out spamming, employer spam via job sites online is running rampant and is only going to get worse, which is bad for potentially good candidates as they are lost in the sea of Monster.com email notifications...
Mark
Windows is too backwards compatible, IMO.
Backwards compatibility is bad.... why?
I hope you just mean they should start with new source instead of patching up the old (which I agree with).
Office 95 will still run on my Windows 2000 machine (yeah yeah I use Windows, sue me). This is a bad thing? If Windows XP was NOT backwards compatible with software, all we would hear about on Slashdot is how they are forcing users to buy new software.
Mark
One feature that would make this way more useful as well would be the number of a local cab company made available.
That way, you could get there for sure (if you don't have a car) and in a flash you have the number to call for a ride home, if you have one too many beers...
Granted though, this looks more or less like a test project, never to be released to the public.
And how much of a drunk would you have to be to know where the closest 4 bars are, anyway??? =)
Mark
Wired is picking up on this rumor/story a bit late....
Mark
I think it is cool that id supports Linux. And I know that everyone on /. loves Linux and the promise of Linux gaming. Not to mention that if Linux did develop into a major gaming platform, many more people would use it in the mainstream.
/. and other geeks downloading it just to see how it works, but this is as a novelty, IMO. You download it, get it working, say "this is cool I am gaming on Linux" and get back to work never to touch it again.
However... is this sort of release really going to be downloaded and used a lot (outside of Slashdot)?
ALL hardcore gamers use Windows for gaming. It is simply a fact. All the games are published for Windows, and even if they make it to other OSes, they make it to Windows first.
I can see people from
Even if they did release for Linux, how many more units would they ship? Is the demand really there? I don't like Windows any more than the next guy but games are developed for Windows, played on Windows, and the AOL using rubes that buy the games all use Windows...
Mark
Will the nanoprobes monitor the water supply for pollution by nanoprobes?
....5 minutes later....
Nope, but they are breeding strains of insects that eat the nanoprobes. But what about the insects? Well...
...and the beauty is, the giant gorillas all freeze to death in the winter!
Mark
It's a shame, as XHTML and CSS allows for very clean separation of content from presentation...
Not to be picky, but XHTML and CSS do not separate content from presentation exactly. All XHTML is, is well-formed HTML. Which basically means, if you open a paragraph tag (<P>) you have to close it (</P>), and you can't have overlapping tags.
This allows browsers to more easily interpret the HTML because the structure is not ambiguous as it is in a lot of HTML code...
It also allows for better scripting with things like DHTML and so forth, because the structure is solid.
However HTML still uses tags that are all about the presentation: <P> (paragraph) <H1> (header 1) etc.
Now what you may have been thinking of would be using XML and CSS. This would clearly separate the content (XML) from the presentation (CSS). And oh how the web would benefit from having all of its content in XML, with standard DTDs, formatted using CSS or XSL. Warms my heart to think about it! =) The added search capabilities would be astounding... anyway...
Mark
So, taking the hypothetical stance that one would need to eventually get registered to use
The whole world isn't online.
- Don't pay your bills online. Mail them like many people do.
- Don't shop online. Sometimes it is very convenient to do this, so in those cases look up the item online, and then call in the order over the phone using your credit card, or mail the vendor a check. If the online vendor you are looking at doesn't support this, choose another.
As far as being a developer, there isn't much you can do, but you can minimize the risks to yourself by not usingMark
So what is the big benefit of using Lindows? (Assuming it is not vaporware.)
- Not having to dual-boot?
- Price?
- Just to screw over Micro$oft?
You can get Windows cheap at several places. At the previous link Windows 2000 and Windows XP (both full version, OEM) are under $150.
As much as you may hate Windows, chances are good that Windows-based software is going to run better on Windows than Lindows. Why spend $100 on Lindows when you can get the real deal for a few bucks more?