I think the media coverage alone of this story will do all the work Apple cannot control that I think what Apple actually does to comply with this will be largely irrelevant when it's being talked about on the news.
About 2 years ago, the Linux kernel devs threatened to kick the Hyper-V kernel driver out of mainline because of lack of maintenance The original guys from MS who submitted the code just disappeared, not responding to emails or requests for code clean-up
Not sure what MS's game is with Hyper-V, but they don't seem that interested in making a decent hypervisor....
The "Analogue Hole" is unaffected by digital restrictions It's the illegitimate* analogue re-capturing of a legitimately decoded digital stream Think TV-capture card
You can see it all the time on Slashdot when you see people whine about why a company won't just magically make everything secure or bug free
When you see reports of some company having their customer database stolen, and all the record fields (inc. account password and financial info) are stored in plain, readable text; you're saying this is acceptable, are you?
I can accept the fact it may be "hard" to do something properly Perhaps you've been doing it wrong for a long time, and many inter-connecting processes within the company depend on this "wrong" operation But seriously, when you're talking about the security of your customers, if you can't do it right because it's "hard" (oh boo-hoo), then shut the system down. You've proved yourself incompitent to do it properly, it's obviously hard for you to do, so don't do it Do something else you're actually good at
I agree. supporting all those different CPU architectures, allowing a single OS to run on devices from routers, phones and TVs up through laptops and desktops all the way to multi-node clusters and mainframes is stupid. It stops some silly developer from shipping a single closed-source binary
Seeing as this Ubuntu respin has never been officially endorsed by Canonical
I meant "Seeing as Mythbuntu has never been officially endorsed by Canonical"
Mythbuntu was a third party respin of Ubuntu, that integrated MythTV into the distribution and comes with custom front-end configuration software and other things to ease the setup of a MythTV system
Looking at the screenshots, it looks like it's running MythTV with a custom theme
I wonder how the Mythbuntu folks feel about this. Seeing as this Ubuntu respin has never been officially endorsed by Canonical (to my knowledge), may be seen as a bit of a hijacking of the project...
We need to stop this belief that people have, that computers are appliances. They're not, and it's this thinking that's putting the younger generations off of learning how machines work.
In today's world, a computer is seen as an appliance and I admit, I'm not too interested in how the programmable software portion of my washing machine or car's climate control system operates They/are/ single use appliances Lack of knowledge in these cases doesn't hinder me
But a computer is highly versatile and can be put to pretty much any task Lack of knowledge here is hugely detrimental to what one is capable of achieving
Knowledge of computing needs to be seen as a core life-skill akin to basic maths or language skills Lack of knowledge of either of those will put you at a disadvantage in almost any conceivable situation
Don't put the entire blame on schools and education The hobbyist element is what's suffering most here, the desire to know not the formal education side
Most people will not go into jobs where formal academic knowledge of computers is paramount but the life-skill of knowing/how/ to find out a solution to a common problem is essential to everybody
It's Apple, and other companies trying to follow suit, that are largely responsible for the erosion of such curious tinkering
"The battery's non-replaceable. Don't worry, if it dies return it to us and we'll send you another device"
"You can only install programs we endorse. Don't worry, this is for your safety"
"That's the wrong way to do something. This is the way we do it, and it should be the way you do too"
"Don't ask questions. Just do what we tell you and it'll/just work/"
The cost of infringing the GPL is the lose of redistribution rights This is far more costly than any monetary fine that could be imposed Means the infringer has to write their own code, and not mooch off of FOSS
What a load of tosh.... Apple designer gets an award, you go off on an anti-linux rant anyway...
As much as geeks don't like to admit it, design and user interfaces matter. It matters to them too. Just look at the backlash new Gnome UI and Firefox have got recently.
The "backlash" to Gnome3, Unity and a few other projects that have rev'd their UI designs has not come from "casual people" It's come from geeks / power users They're complaining that design and overt snazzyness is detracting from the core usability Casual users love it, though - stick an average user in front of Gnome3 or Unity and the first thing they comment on is how they really like the visual look and feel
It's also why Linux will always fail
On the desktop, I presume you mean
the whole principle of Linux is that there's no unified look and team that discusses, chooses and implements good UI and terms. In Linux world everyone just does whatever they want, often ignoring what or how others do it.
Same for any system that gives developers choice over the look and feel of their programs UI When I was a windows user, I remember a music program called "Winamp" (quick google says the project's still going) It's main selling point was it discarded the cluttered UI and overly large buttons and borders of the "standard winows UI", and used it's own custom design This cut down the screen wastage, and made the program non-intrusive
You really want a system that's so rigid and inflexible that you/have/ to conform to a set way of doing things?
Good example of this is the linux shell.
No, that's a terrible example
It still acts like it's from the 90's because people don't work together to bring it together. It's still based on text output because everyone does things differently.
A shell is supposed to provide direct access, text-only, to the OS and it's core programs for easy scripting and administration
Compare this to PowerShell which passes objects between programs. This allows different pieces of programs to work much better together, without need to define rules on how to parse some other programs output (which also usually fails in less used cases).
Funnily enough, the whole tongue-in-cheek thing was started by a frenchman I forget the exact details, but he was sarcastically complimenting an englishman on his "invention", that the french had actually done years before pressing your tongue lightly against your cheek prevented you from accidentally smiling after making a sarcastic comment
Wow, he couldn't have pushed the "Linux succeeded because BSD had legal troubles" thing any harder What was that? Three mentions of it? I don't personally agree, I think Linux succeeded on it's own merit, but anyhow
Slashdot Mirror
This is all over the front pages of the major UK news outlets
People know about this, regardless of what Apple put on their website
I think the media coverage alone of this story will do all the work
Apple cannot control that
I think what Apple actually does to comply with this will be largely irrelevant when it's being talked about on the news.
if(linux) { exec 'su - root' || die 'shit, I had to try something...'; }
Seat-based projectiles
Hyperhidrosis enhanced clothing
But somehow, still not as absurd as Apples slide-to-unlock "innovation"
FTFY
From TFS:
The fire was the 20th this year in Utah sparked by target shooting
and it's only half way through the year!
That's one fire a week
does the right to pointlessly shoot random shit trump a home-owners right not to have his house burned to a cinder
christ....
Ooh, just off the top of my head
The Linux kernel
Build process?
# make
# make modules
# make modules_install
# make install
Sounds like you got duped by some devious vendor who wanted to ensure years of future support needs from you
What kind of hideous shit are you doing that requires "man-years" of documentation for someone to just _build_ the software...
Perhaps you should look internally for the problem instead of blaming others for your horrible code / build processes
It's not hard to believe Hyper-V is broken
About 2 years ago, the Linux kernel devs threatened to kick the Hyper-V kernel driver out of mainline because of lack of maintenance
The original guys from MS who submitted the code just disappeared, not responding to emails or requests for code clean-up
Not sure what MS's game is with Hyper-V, but they don't seem that interested in making a decent hypervisor....
FTFY
The "Analogue Hole" is unaffected by digital restrictions
It's the illegitimate* analogue re-capturing of a legitimately decoded digital stream
Think TV-capture card
* From "their" POV
When you see reports of some company having their customer database stolen, and all the record fields (inc. account password and financial info) are stored in plain, readable text; you're saying this is acceptable, are you?
I can accept the fact it may be "hard" to do something properly
Perhaps you've been doing it wrong for a long time, and many inter-connecting processes within the company depend on this "wrong" operation
But seriously, when you're talking about the security of your customers, if you can't do it right because it's "hard" (oh boo-hoo), then shut the system down.
You've proved yourself incompitent to do it properly, it's obviously hard for you to do, so don't do it
Do something else you're actually good at
I agree.
supporting all those different CPU architectures, allowing a single OS to run on devices from routers, phones and TVs up through laptops and desktops all the way to multi-node clusters and mainframes is stupid. It stops some silly developer from shipping a single closed-source binary
Madness
By "this", in
I meant
"Seeing as Mythbuntu has never been officially endorsed by Canonical"
Mythbuntu was a third party respin of Ubuntu, that integrated MythTV into the distribution and comes with custom front-end configuration software and other things to ease the setup of a MythTV system
Looking at the screenshots, it looks like it's running MythTV with a custom theme
I wonder how the Mythbuntu folks feel about this.
Seeing as this Ubuntu respin has never been officially endorsed by Canonical (to my knowledge), may be seen as a bit of a hijacking of the project...
We need to stop this belief that people have, that computers are appliances. They're not, and it's this thinking that's putting the younger generations off of learning how machines work.
In today's world, a computer is seen as an appliance /are/ single use appliances
and I admit, I'm not too interested in how the programmable software portion of my washing machine or car's climate control system operates
They
Lack of knowledge in these cases doesn't hinder me
But a computer is highly versatile and can be put to pretty much any task
Lack of knowledge here is hugely detrimental to what one is capable of achieving
Knowledge of computing needs to be seen as a core life-skill akin to basic maths or language skills
Lack of knowledge of either of those will put you at a disadvantage in almost any conceivable situation
Don't put the entire blame on schools and education
The hobbyist element is what's suffering most here, the desire to know
not the formal education side
Most people will not go into jobs where formal academic knowledge of computers is paramount /how/ to find out a solution to a common problem is essential to everybody
but the life-skill of knowing
It's Apple, and other companies trying to follow suit, that are largely responsible for the erosion of such curious tinkering
"The battery's non-replaceable. Don't worry, if it dies return it to us and we'll send you another device"
"You can only install programs we endorse. Don't worry, this is for your safety"
"That's the wrong way to do something. This is the way we do it, and it should be the way you do too"
"Don't ask questions. Just do what we tell you and it'll /just work/"
...and not a single Simpson's overlords quote
Slashdot, what's happened to you?
How, exactly, will "more draconian DRM" prevent the leaking of games before their official release date?
If you're in a position to leak a pre-release build out, you're probably also in a position to strip out or disable any DRM
Was there even any DRM in the leaked game, seems like that's the last thing you'd add in
The cost of infringing the GPL is the lose of redistribution rights
This is far more costly than any monetary fine that could be imposed
Means the infringer has to write their own code, and not mooch off of FOSS
What a load of tosh....
Apple designer gets an award, you go off on an anti-linux rant
anyway...
The "backlash" to Gnome3, Unity and a few other projects that have rev'd their UI designs has not come from "casual people"
It's come from geeks / power users
They're complaining that design and overt snazzyness is detracting from the core usability
Casual users love it, though - stick an average user in front of Gnome3 or Unity and the first thing they comment on is how they really like the visual look and feel
On the desktop, I presume you mean
Same for any system that gives developers choice over the look and feel of their programs UI
When I was a windows user, I remember a music program called "Winamp" (quick google says the project's still going)
It's main selling point was it discarded the cluttered UI and overly large buttons and borders of the "standard winows UI", and used it's own custom design
This cut down the screen wastage, and made the program non-intrusive
You really want a system that's so rigid and inflexible that you /have/ to conform to a set way of doing things?
No, that's a terrible example
A shell is supposed to provide direct access, text-only, to the OS and it's core programs for easy scripting and administration
No idea what powershell is, so can't comment
Do you not see the irony in this statement, posted to this site....
Total immersion Video games
Particularly Zero-G Kickboxing and Wimbledon
Funnily enough, the whole tongue-in-cheek thing was started by a frenchman
I forget the exact details, but he was sarcastically complimenting an englishman on his "invention", that the french had actually done years before
pressing your tongue lightly against your cheek prevented you from accidentally smiling after making a sarcastic comment
Wow,
he couldn't have pushed the "Linux succeeded because BSD had legal troubles" thing any harder
What was that? Three mentions of it?
I don't personally agree, I think Linux succeeded on it's own merit, but anyhow