Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Jan 2013 10:33 UTC, submitted by Straylight
Ars 'reviews' Haiku, and concludes that "at the end of the day, Haiku may not be much more than an interesting diversion, something to play with on a spare bit of hardware on a rainy afternoon just for a bit of fun. But even if it amounts to no more than that, Haiku is still worth checking out." The article is a bit scant on content, but it does give me the opportunity to link to my review of Haiku alpha 1 from 3 years ago. I try Haiku every now and then to see if that review needs an update, but it always amounts to 'it got a bit more stable' - which is fantastic, but not a reason to redo it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.More Features »
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No, it was "announced" in October 1995, the first 100 developer boxes didn't ship till 1996.
Or 133MHz... the 133's are the ones still worth having. The 66's are horribly underpowered.
This implies to me it was just a magic drop in OS for the Mac, when clearly it wasn't. It was a hard slog. But, the Mac port was well established by the time hardware production was dropped. Mac's ran a version of DR8, after all. I had a copy of PR1 that would boot on Mac or BeBox.
That's very apologetic with regards to BeOS... truth was, at the time the OS didn't meet the specs and Openstep was far closer. BeOS was also hampered by some of the internal code - given it was either licensed from a third party or shady GPL usage.
You can also never underestimate Steve Job's power of sales, once he got wind of an opportunity.
Yes - personal version. With giant restrictions. Like not supposedly being able to be installed to a real partition (as that was actually a selling point of Pro.) The fact that droves of users used the partition install loophole was only a minor part of the reasons Be Inc failed. Because...
NO! Total fantasy. Thom and I are now screaming, "FOCUS SHIFT!!"
What really happened:
Web Appliances became a buzzword, everyone circa 1999 - 2001 was trying to launch some kind of net enabled appliance - be it a semi computer or tablet or toaster. Be saw this, decided to change focus and create BeIA, BeOS for Internet Appliances. Except, that failed dismally because no average consumers actually wanted the overpriced underpowered boxes and Sony bailed on BeIA almost before the eVilla was released. Compaq did the same thing with the Cliper. And the WebPads all later shipped with WinCE.
Secondly, BeIA is NOT BeOS. BeOS is NOT BeIA. BeIA shares a lot of the core OS with BeOS, but it is as like BeOS in reality as iOS is to MacOS X. There's a compatible API in the earlier builds (I've personally seen a lot of pre BeIA 1.0 builds running, and played with the dev kit.) BeIA did a lot different. It had a compressed file system (CFS), it had a special kernel that allowed ELF executables to be compressed (CEL format), which then used a master symbol table to uncompress the exe to run it. It was a bunch of extra drivers, such as touch screen and wireless. I personally owned a DT300 webpad and it ran BeIA from a 16MB CF card (yes MB, not GB.) The browser was the main app - Wagner (an Opera 4 based monstrosity) and there were COM like abilities and various cool comms features in the underlying OS (i.e. Binder.) Yes, one could trich the OS in to booting to a severely limited and very crippled Tracker, but it didn't really work very well and wasn't all that useful.
I'm not going to go on, but just that alone made me sceptical of the rest of the article.