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Or until Apple can come up with something competitive with MS Office, whichever comes first. I don't know how it is in other parts of the world, but here in the US, as I'm sure anyone who works in a medium+ sized corporation will agree, companies are absolute slaves to the Office suite. Specifically, Outlook, Excel and Word. Completely beholden. Yes, Office for Mac exists, but it's totally different and rumor has it it's going to be discontinued after 2K8 seeing as VBA support has been canned. I'm not saying it's impossible, but companies have literally billions of dollars in human capital locked up in MS Office. The thought of transitioning any large organization over to a new Office suite is probably sufficient to send its CIO running through the nearest window. Any Mac clone would have to a) have a very similar UI and b) be extremely compatible with existing versions of Office.

Interestingly, I think it's actually Google that might have the best shot at this. A free office suite that requires zero install and can be accessed from anywhere seems to me to be the only shot at gradually chipping away at Microsoft's overarching dominance.

This is old news.. I posted it on digg 9 days ago http://digg.com/security/MSIE7_Focus_bug_demo

to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine.

Meanwhile, a drunk driver who kills someone can get off scott free, with no jail time at all. Sweet.

Here, have an audio recording of tennassee cops torturing some guy for hours. They break his fingers and attach electrodes to his body. Apparently, they had been doing similar things for 20 years before they were caught.

http://digg.com/tech_news/Police_beat_and_torture_ Tennessee_man_for_hours,_Caught_on_tape

Someone must police the police. Like any organization, they are populated by people, and people are imperfect. Stop making excuses for corrupt institutions and instead use this as an opportunity to improve.

But that will never happen, will it? You will, instead, react with indignation and a claim that I'll never understand. No, I suppose its easier to attempt to arrest the people who are critical of your work.

Dick.

This is one of those great times where I wish I could vote on the story.

You can. This story was first posted to Digg a few days ago:

http://digg.com/apple/Translation_of_Macrovision_s _Response_to_Steve_Jobs_s_Open_Letter

You can vote for it there.

http://www.clubskill.com/News/3423/Wii_set_to_caus e_Havok_in_the_gaming_world http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/Nintendo_Wii_@_1.1 Ghz_NOT_750Mhz You must be using a broken internet or something, this is from page 1 of my google search. Or maybe it's because you misspelled HAVOK. Either way. Your "Stats" for the Xbox, Ps2, and GC are laughable as well. The Ps2 was the underdog in terms of power in the last generation. Deal with it; it's what happens when there's a delay of a year between competeing consoles. Obviously it didn't hurt as the PS2 easily kicked everyone elses ass in sales.

The next release of OS X will have resolution independence. It's been just beneath the surface for a few releases now. Resolution independence allows text, icons, and everything else to be scaled to look "right" on high-resolution, small scale screens, or on normal resolution, ultra-large screens.

Some links about this.

X.org has released X11R7.2. X is, of course, the windowing system used on the vast majority of desktop and server systems running Linux, Solaris, BSD, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and other UNICES.

Digg has already covered this major story several times today:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_Org_community_release s_X11R7_2
http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_org_X11R7_2_Released
http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_Org_7_2_Finally_Ships

When will Slashdot follow suit?

X.org has released X11R7.2. X is, of course, the windowing system used on the vast majority of desktop and server systems running Linux, Solaris, BSD, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and other UNICES.

Digg has already covered this major story several times today:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_Org_community_release s_X11R7_2
http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_org_X11R7_2_Released
http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_Org_7_2_Finally_Ships

When will Slashdot follow suit?

X.org has released X11R7.2. X is, of course, the windowing system used on the vast majority of desktop and server systems running Linux, Solaris, BSD, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and other UNICES.

Digg has already covered this major story several times today:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_Org_community_release s_X11R7_2
http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_org_X11R7_2_Released
http://digg.com/linux_unix/X_Org_7_2_Finally_Ships

When will Slashdot follow suit?

I am sure Mr. Obama would have something to say about that...

Obama's Social Network

If the idea catches on, Sites like digg.com will have a lot less traffic. ;-)

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/UK_fake_bloggers_soon _to_be_named_and_shamed

• PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
  Photographic evidence of AlexaW and RoughlyDrafted gaming Digg just to get moron Daniel Eran's articles to the front page. (Where they promptly get buried for being inaccurate.) Several users who ONLY digg AlexaW's submissions, all of whom signed up in the last 3 weeks. Coincidence? Not a chance. This needs to be stopped immediately.
• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• RDMBusted2
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

That's a pretty stiff penalty to stick Mac users with

Stiff penalty??? why can't I buy OSX in a box to run in a VM on my Linux box then??? why the f do I have to purchase an entire Apple machine???

I have a perfectly capable machine already... and it runs Linux and Windows very well using VirtualBox (virtualbox's own server is currently unreachable for me), so it should have no problems at all with OSX in a VM.

I already know it would run OSX on the bare metal itself as I've got a second hard disk available with a dodgy install of the OSX x86 version... so it's not a real technical issue preventing me from running OSX on this box, it's a jumped up marketing decision that's stopping me.

Not a bad guess. One of the latest areas where Embedded Opera is actually getting used is on the Nintendo Wii and DS. It's mostly been used for accessing Flash games like those at Wiicade, but some Javascript applications that take advantage of the Wiimote have already started showing up.

It's an odd thought, but some people seem to like being able to access the Internet on their TV while sitting on the couch. It seems to be a convenience thing.

That being said, if Google supported Opera, they could advertise the Wii as a portable viewer for their Powerpoint-ish presentations. No need for a laptop TV card, just hook up the Wii and go. Hmm. My boss with a Wii. Scary thought.

If you had read digg about 10 months ago you would already have your poster hanging on the wall.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/%C2%BB_Why_Windows_is_l ess_secure_than_Linux_

Well I want to see boobs, lots of them. Can I have my Slashdot story now please?

Try digg.

They have stolen parts of their software rampantly for years now. Can you blame those wanting to steal theirs?

Digg Story

a search engine?

http://www.digg.com/about

"Let my guess :-) - This happen in USA?"

No, it happen in DIGG.

http://digg.com/health/Know_that_sponge_you_clean_ dishes_with_Here_s_how_to_sanitize_it

Same for Digg and other popular sites with links.

Here are some links posted from the digg page:

Original Digg link: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_t heater/
Digg story: http://digg.com/mods/Really_Cool_Homemade_Star_Tre k_Theater_(slideshow)

From comments:
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digg

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Flash_9_final_out_f or_linux

...the studios have turned to DRM (and the law) to create the scarcity.

In addition, Tempest even has a couple posts on Digg to help one spot the copying.

Read: http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4713693 and http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4718195

(Also food for discussion, a post from a Timbaland web intern http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4724084 asking for contact info. Time to get the hush money flowing!)

In addition, Tempest even has a couple posts on Digg to help one spot the copying.

Read: http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4713693 and http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4718195

(Also food for discussion, a post from a Timbaland web intern http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4724084 asking for contact info. Time to get the hush money flowing!)

In addition, Tempest even has a couple posts on Digg to help one spot the copying.

Read: http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4713693 and http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4718195

(Also food for discussion, a post from a Timbaland web intern http://digg.com/music/Timbaland_ripped_off_a_track _from_my_buddy#c4724084 asking for contact info. Time to get the hush money flowing!)

Feel free to digg it up to the front page http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_Not_Running_OS_X/

Feel free to digg it up to the front page: http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Mail_Forcing_Ads_T hrough_Firefox_s_Adblock

>There's absolutely no reason in the world why we shouldn't have a complete set of open content textbooks covering all of a basic liberal education
Agreed, tho the $100M you mention seems more than should be needed; Wikipedia just raised nearly $1M all from small donations. I can't believe that textbooks for the basic 4 subjects, math, reading, science, history, for 1-8th grade, couldn't be written by a small group of writers in a year for $1M. I bet if you offered a bounty, like 'RentACoder' on two smaller projects, one that created the 'table of contents' for the books, then another to actually write all the chapters, you'd end up with free-to-use e-books that could be used by any district that wished.

Maybe some of these 'free textbook' sites are a good place to start:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Business%20 Books.htm
http://digg.com/tech_news/Hundreds_of_Free_Textboo ks_on_one_website
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/

Here's a once-top story on Digg.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/How_much_was_this_che ck_written_for
Google image search will give you tons more examples... not just of checks but people block all kinds of things. Scanned bills, paystubs, etc. and mosaic parts of images.

... and if they fly United, they might even be able for things like this http://digg.com/offbeat_news/United_Airlines_extor ts_2860_from_elderly_couple

C'mon, mods. Follow the links and read before moderating.

C'mon, Altanar You're posting this now? It's not yet fixed.

(Yes, that's your own link. Read the discussion.)

C'mon, /. You're reporting this now? It's already been fixed.

http://www.digg.com/software/Windows_Vista_to_boot _in_2-3_seconds.
Wndows Vista to boot in 2-3 seconds, remember in 2005.
If they want to kill off the current gui let them. Then someone else can move in. Because that is the worst thing they can ever do.

Seems like at least half the stories I see on slashdot lately have already been on digg.

http://www.digg.com/television/Battlestar_Galactic a_Direct_To_Video_Movie_Set_To_Launch

Woops, there goes my karma.

I know the usually two camps of this argument is "Ban all the gold farmers!" or "Who cares?", but to me I don't care for the practice, but I don't blame the farmers.

I think it is a sign that the game is too tedious or that there are too many times sinks in order to actually play the game.

Collecting gold and loot should actually be the fun part of the game. Not the actually sitting around with your treasure or spending it on items that are required for you to have fun.

In games that require leveling, the disparity between players is quite large and a level 1 player can't see the same content as level 20 and the level 20 can't see the same content as players at 60. This is a discouragement for casual players who don't have the ability to spend 10+ hours per week in the game.

Personally, when it ceases to be fun I quit the game all together. It just isn't worth the effort or my money. While others (who have more money than they should) pay gold farmers to actually enjoy the game without effort.

Personally the last MMOG that I really enjoyed was Shadowbane because it was more about PvP rather than sitting around killing mobs to get to the next level and Shadowbane's leveling wasn't that grueling either and the power disparity between levels wasn't that huge.

But I still think Ultima Online has the best system of advancement with skills rather than levels and players were all pretty much equal in terms of time sinks. Sure there was gold farming, but to me killing monsters and raiding dungeons was just as fun as actually have property in the game.

Of course you could always craft items for a living which made things interesting too.

On a side note... There is a debate that the Taiwan earthquake has also caused a reduction in spam or botnets. I've notice an extreme drop in my levels on various email accounts and according to digg the number of tracked bots dropped from 500,000 to 400,000.

Of course it could be the influx of new computer or kids home for the holidays fixing their parents.

Especially since "Zune" in Hebrew means f**k.

I was planning on getting a ps3 for a long time, even after numerous negative reports. I expected the system to be more powerful then the 360 and to have a great deal more software. However almost every high profile developer is makign games for both systems and even those that stated exclusivity have changed their minds (like sega and virtua fighter). If the ps3 doesn't reach a certain amount of sales within 9 months I don't see them being able to have any exclusives anymore.

Maybe it's because Kutaragi has been sucking with developer relations as a month old next-gen article mentioend (companies interested in developing exclusives for the ps3 not being able to get a ahold of kutaragi back when he still was in charge).

The biggest reason the ps3 is a blunder is the cost and relatively weak technology. According to the latest reliable article from next-gen the premium ps3 is estimated to cost $840 to build (the blu-ray components are a measly $125) of that. They took a massive gamble on the cell chip and it doesn't deliver. It's an interesting design for a chip however from all reports it's not any better for GAMES then a triple core 3.2ghz power pc that the 360 has. The cell only has one powerpc core and 7 other spe's which are far from being able to do what a full power pc core can.

Programmers are more easibly able to implement things like AI withoutt taking a performance hit on the 360 according to Ubisoft montreal in this article:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Xbox_360_Version_of_As sassin_s_Creed_Will_Feature_Better_AI_Than_PS3
What's worse is that some state the graphics chip in the 360 is just as powerful or more so then Nvidia's RSX for the ps3.

The ps2 came about before the xbox and it was smaller had a massive reputation and by then was cheaper then the ps2. Their was a lot of momentum for the ps2 and consumers bought it up and developers delivered numerous exclusives for it. The ps3 is in the original xbox's position now as far as timeline goes and it's not any more powerful then the 360 which costs $330 to produce the premium version versus $840 for the ps3 (Sony is NOT in the best position to take that much of a hit in the long term). Consumers see a $200 dollar price difference which is a big deal.

For this reason and the lack of supply i think we'll see a lot of support for their direct competitor, the 360. Microsoft is throwing money developers, giving them solid and cheap dev tools, and is innovating on the online front.

I'm a cheap broke ass who will wait another 9 months before i buy anything but It's no longer going to be the ps3. If final fantasy or metal gear stop being exclusive I won't even bat an eye to the system. It's just a big mess architechuraly.

Some apps I had to install on a fresh Ubuntu

1. Flash
2. Skype
3. Google Earth
4. Nvidia Linux (Quadro 1400)
5. VLC

1) install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz required me to use "from the command line type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer (Note: this can only be run from the command line). The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s)"
2)Installed easily thanks to its Debian installer. Skype has different installers for different distros. Which is nice ***

3) Had to change permissions on GoogleEarthLinux.bin to make it executable before I could ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

4)Failed to install on Ubuntu. Red Hat or Suse support only. Unfortunately, this makes Google Earth and many graphics accelerated applications slow. There are forums with long instructions of getting this to work. Don't have time to spend getting Ubuntu to work.

5) sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package vlc

The GUI instructions for VLC didn't work either. I chose Ubuntu because it is supposed to be Linux ready for the desktop and the latest, most trendy Linux distro of choice these days. Yet, it would seem that support for Red Hat/Fedora with rpm packages would be easier. Ubuntu is quite easy to install and I'll give it credit for that, but I don't buy that...

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Yo_Momma_Loves_Ubuntu

....yet as long as the apps require rolling up your sleeves to get it to work.

Saw this on digg a few minutes ago. 0-Day Apple iSight Hack - Fix it for $0.01 http://digg.com/apple/0_Day_Apple_iSight_Hack_Fix_ it_for_0_01 Tired of hackers looking at you in your underwear with Apples built in iSight? This can fix it for good.

Here are the real links that refer to today's media briefing:

ZDnet blog posting by Garett Rogers.
NASA's media advisory about today's media briefing (link via Gregg's blog post).
Article in New Scientist about Google and NASA's iEarth software (link via Gregg's blog post).

Start rant

The press release submitted by eldavojohn was issued on September 28, 2005! The media briefing hadn't even started when this posting was approved!

Attention slashdot "editors" -- the reason why you're losing mindshare to digg and other sites is for editing like this -- only a novice or clueless "editor" would get taken in by a bogus submission about a real event ocurring because they didn't trivally check its contents.

It's far too easy to slip things past slashdot's "editors", since a single "editor" can have the wool pulled over his eyes. Thus the surge in popularity of sites like digg, since (to build on esr's quote) Given enough eyeballs, all scams are transparent.

-- An unhappy long-time reader.

End rant

I've always been interested in ways of tapping into the crowd as a resource.

Slashdot and Digg got a lot of attention as news filters, but these things are now being used everywhere. Trusted Places for restaurant reviews, Crowdstorm for shopping recommendations, wine sites, health sites, etc., etc. I can't wait to see where this is all headed. What's the next logical step?

Whether you call it a module, or an application, both are a gob of bits loaded into RAM, dynamically linked to GPL code, then utilize said GPL code to provide services. This logic is contrary to the GPL which states that a non-GPL program may call services of a GPL program through a public interface, so long as it does not rely on "intimate knowledge" of how the GPL code operates. Last time I checked, Linux device driver interfaces and KPIs were pretty well documented in public, and though I could see the case to exclude certain modules that access kernel tables that are hidden behind the KPIs, I have to say I see no reason stated by the GPL that suggests a non-GPL program can't be loaded on a GPL operating system and use the services provided by that operating system, kernelspace, userspace, or otherwise.

As for your straw man argument (i.e., XGL), GPL absolutely guarantees that you can use your GPL code without having to also use non-GPL code. Your argument is a non-starter.

You might want to try actually reading the GPL and the FAQ of the GPL before representing yourself as an authority on this topic. There is also a website which you may be unfamiliar with, where I am sure you will be welcomed here

The funny thing about this whole thing is the dunderheads who stirred up this shit have unwittingly violated the GPL themselves by trying to modify the license without obtaining permission from all the authors involved. Why Linus held back on that point in his posting kind of escapes me.