What's this about a OS4 Pegasos kit?

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Hi!  We will be here for a while doing a few things for tomorrow.  It will not be PegPong, but we will take a few questions and make some observations about what we can read on this thread...

Hi Unchartered...:-)  We did sell out. Perhaps, Gunne overestimated the opportunity in his market.  OK, no problem.  Now, we are going to help him out.  What is the big deal?  Do you understand?

You need to look at this from a larger perspective!

:-D

R&B :-)

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hummmm...

...reading some more here.  :-?

There are many misconceptions, but we understand how they came about. :-)

Let's start at square one. (!)  

Picture a campfire with a bunch of cavemen sitting around....

1, We need wood.  
2. We need fire.
3. We need something to eat.

Put into the vernacular...:-o

1. hardware
2. software
3. applications (marshmellows, yes/turds,no)

We are making *wood* at Genesi and so is Apple (BTW!).  It is our main business.  We hope to sell it to lots of cavepeople.  Want to buy some?!  :-)

Anyway, some folks come and then some more and they all want to do something different...GREAT!   Everyone should be free to choose what they want to do!  Seven or eight different groups take their wood and go off and build their own fires...

Now!

What's for dinner!?!?  We are hungry!!!

(or if we take our favorite PegPong ping from yesterday: WATTS HAPPENING!  :lol:  This of course relates to a Don Cox comment about processing power verses processing speed and the difference between POWER (Power equals the ratio of work to time) and SPEED (which is just that ...pretty mindless, huh?!).

What's cooking!!!

That is the question!   8-)

You guys with us?!

END OF PART ONE   :-D

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(stretch a little SlimJim!  :-)  )

BEGINNING OF PART II

Ho Hum...

It is starting to grow dark.  Lots of funny noises about, it is getting cold and where is dinner!

Oh yes, applications.

Wait!

Back to fire...we sell wood remember!  :-)  Build your fire -- however you want!  You can build a Linux fire, a BeBeQ fire, or even a fire for just Amigas! Us, *wood* guys, do not care!!!

OK, have we got that fire going yet?  (KennyR is really getting hungry now! And, many others too! )

You know, it is sort of hard in the beginning.  You have to start with small sticks and stuff, have some patience and keep a close eye on things until the fire begins to work all by itself...;-)  It sure can be hard if the wood is wet or the wind blows in the wrong direction, but well, those things happen.  It is *life* !  :-)

GeeWhiz, still no food!

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HeyHey!  Yeah Baby! Cowabunga!  (sound cavemanish?)

...and you Unchartered -- get with the program here!!!  This is a thread about fire and wood now!!!

Things are starting to heat up around here.  Whew!  :-)  

Back to the story...

Lots of cavefolks are afraid of the dark.  Good thing there is a little light now.  Cool!  (whoops!) Hot stuff! (that is! :-D)

Anyway, WATTS HAPPENING!!!! (power vs. JUST speed remember!  We are civilized and cook our food, no raw stuff for us.  There IS *work* involved...;-)  )

Errr....what is for dinner?!  

Well tonight we are cooking a mastodon! (it is a caveman thing)

That is right -- a big, enormous, furry thing! (you know, a hairy elephant with BIG teeth).

It is certainly more than all of us can eat in a year or two! How the heck are we going to do it on this puny fire?!?!?!

More FIRE!!!  More Wood!! More Fire!!  

We have a few mastodonbergers to cook and lots of aspirations!!!  :-D

Editors note:  The way to eat a mastodon is one bite at a time.

---POPCORN BREAK NOW---

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...and now a commercial break from our sponsor!

PegPower!  The Pegasos is for Me!  The Pegasos is Cool Computing!!!  PegPerfect!  PegProvidential!  PegPegPeg!

Could it be like the FIRST commercial?

Think about it...

Cavemen sitting around a fire at the end of a long day of mastodon hunting.  They are tired. They are lonely (otherwise why are they sitting around the campfire talking to other sweaty, tired, smelly guys?!) and...

WHAMO!

Cavegirl!  (or said another way...Hola Guapa! Boing! Boing! Boing!  :-D )

"We have fresh fruit and vegetables at our fire over there..."

Sound like the first TV and something else right in the middle of everything -- a commercial?!

Very well, in the search for fruits and vegetables (and maybe something else), we just lost the attention of a few cavemen!  Hey, come back here!  :-)

BIBLICAL NOTE: It was a fruit that Eve had, wasn't it?!  

Yes, an Apple no less!  Now, think about that and get back here!

-----End of POPCORN BREAK!-----

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Hey Andy, levers and pulleys?!  You are farther along in the evolution!  We are still in the stone age with this story and you are studying along with your Physics book (errhm...maybe not enough!)...

Make a choice, we go back to the campfire and finish the story or you go back to Newton's Laws!

Well?! :-)

...and odin, you just stay over there!  We are about to cook something!  Happy trails!

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Andy (same name as my younger brother, God bless him he lives in Florida!  Just kidding Damien, Nate, Jim and Randy!  :-) ),

Here are the key points:

1. Until something else comes along things keep going as they are.  

2. When things do collide the subsequent direction is a summation of the mass and velocity of the objects in question.

3. What goes up must come down!  
(Editor's note: gravity is a cool thing too!)
Or, better, for ever action there is a equal and opposite reaction!
(sound like a flame war?  :-)  )

You catching all this?

OK, that wraps it up for Newton's Laws...want to come back to the campfire?

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"Even wheels were at first frivolities; the most ancient known to us are parts of toys"
   
  Cyril Stanley Smith
  Emeritus Professor
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 :-D

OK, cool, glad you are here Matt.  We are just getting to the food part!!!

How is that AROS fire doing?!  What are you cooking over there?  How is that wood burning?!  We hope very well?!  :-)

-----Back to the Campfire!!!-----

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OK, GadgetMaster, do not get too far ahead of us!

Come on, gather round, time to finish the story, at least the end of the beginning!

Cavemen have wood.
Start fire.
Need to eat.  
What to cook?  Hungry.  
Urgh!  (sounds better than Cowabunga!)

OK, this is where the Ants show up!  See that!!  Ants!  Sheesh!!! (He posted that!)

Happy now? No?

Then start your own fire!  We will provide the wood!  

Just remember, when you want to eat a mastodon take it one bite at a time...;-)

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That will be the next episode (see Subject above)...heard Apple started that already sort of....

Exhibit A: When the Apple issued a press release on May 5 announcing that 1 million songs had been downloaded in one week, the stock shot up 11 percent in a single day, on trading levels five times what they were the day before!

Now that is something to sing about!

:-)

Good night!

R&B

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...get that OS4 fire going somewhere!  There are alot of starving cavemen out there.  They are tired, hungry, cold and need a warm amiga to snuggle up with...boing! boing!

Remember, AmiPegorNot is an easy question to answer!  The OS4U2Peg!  (title of next campfire story...;-)  )

More tomorrow!

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P.S. Hi Stew, before Job, where did the Apple come from?  Was it from the Tree of Knowledge or from the Tree of Life?

:-)

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Hey SlimJim...that is an avatarasorous right?!  We have not seen too many of them lately.  Are you are just lurking around here looking for a few cavemen to munch up?!  Or have you been on a extended steller exploration mission again?  BTW, while you are gazing up into the stars would you keep an eye out for...

Pegsin Space!

errm...this was about cavemen wrong thread Bill...

Actually, it was about OS4 for the Pegasos Raquel!  

Oh yes!  About that...

Last week/weekend we received a few emails from people that said Fleecy had been mentioning and OS4 Kit for Peg II owners and that Ben had discussed bring OS4 to an OpenFirmware standard.  We thought was a great  idea, so we started a little discussion about *fire*.  Anyway, the flames managed to work themselves in, but they were kept to a minimum, thank goodness.  No one got burnt and we all had fun around the fire!

Anyway, DaveP, your little Japanese I -love-you-bunny avatar looks like the perfect meal for SlimJim!  Let get that fire buring guys otherwise the OS4 campfire is going to be pretty loney with that old wood the guys chopped up a long time ago....;-)  There just is not enough of it to get a decent meal cooked!!!  :-P

Tonight!

Sing around the Campfire!!! Or, also titled:

Can things like Kanzaa become legitimate businesses?  Apple's charging too much.  Do they want to become an MP3 "label" for start up bands/groups?

We are going to get something going like this with our own POP-IDOL!  Details SOON!!!

:-D

R&B :-)

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Hi SlimJim, thanks for the interesting reading!  But, just to keep things on topic does that particular order of dragons have any genes or more precisely species that are *fire* breathers?

And, what is the thesis about?

Sorry, Kees just been to busy doing other things to really think!  :-)

R&B