That's just silly. Obviously if *nix is bandied about so much, there needs to be some gradient of compliance. People seem to be "getting by" with the un-annointed leenux I hear so much about. Why is that?
But why call it UNIX, as there are so many derivatives? Why not call it something else? Like, say, "POSIX compliant" or "POSIX compliant Level 3" or something like that? Having UNIX as a standard based on a single name is idiotic. I'm trying to think of other specs that work from a base name to define compliance and I'm at a loss. UNIX is pretty complex, according to the Open Group. Look at telcordia. People need different things. Don't go with the single name.
If you drink motor oil, and call it a sundae, does Dairy Queen file suit?
Prima fasciae, UNIX-based means just that. And OS X is.
I think maybe the next killer app is something like HyperCard from Apple (or today's SuperCard), again. But made brain dead easy, even easier than HyperCard.
There are so many people out there that probably know enough about computers to be dangerous, but would love a cool tool to make their own tools. Take movabletype for blogging or phpBB or Invision PowerBoard for forums; now, everyone seems to have a blog or site with a forum. But it wasn't widespread before someone made the tools.
But those are specifically community-building tools. Now we need some sort of organization with previously disparate groups (like, W3C and the power companies/electronics companies) to for instance, make it easy to remotely control your home and appliances over the web. That may be a stupid example, but you know where I'm going.
Right now, I think we have too many gadgets with too many competing ways to do it. Start working together so I can do some of that Jetson's stuff already! It's like thousands of years ago, man had invented the wheel, and what did he do with it? He made little rolling toys.
We must have a wheel around here somewhere. Let's build a car.
If Apple can survive to the point when most new homes are going to be wired and have a server in the closet (and it will happen), Apple will be the one to bring ubiquitous computing to the home.
The iTMS has a search by genre, song, album, artist, or composer, with a 30 second preview.
After a search is completed, potential matches can be likewise sorted by genre, song, album, artist, composer, time, comments, track number, year, disc number, or a combination.
So you can find that wikkid banjo solo that you heard in 8th grade that was, like, in the middle of that album that was, like, spoon-something or other.
So simulating a nuclear explosion, does the computer just have to be bigger than the actual bomb, or bigger than the mushroom cloud, or bigger than the affected circumference?
OK. I guess we have to cover this territory once again. Here is SCO's legal argument:
"Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, SCO's detractors would certainly want you to believe my client was issuing confusing EULAs, confounding their critics and confusing the multitudes, and they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer representing a major software company and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must not acquit.
I know he seems innocent. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when billions of dollars of recurring license revenue are on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must not acquit. Here look at the monkey , look at the silly monkey.
Any traditional (orthodox) Christian would say "You can't reinterpret Christianity, and still call it Christianity", "You can't pick and choose, and still call it Christianity", "You can't break up the whole, and still call it Christianity".
No they wouldn't. Hopefully, any orthodox Christian (what does that mean, anyway? Catholic?) would say, in the spirit of the Church Fathers if nothing else, that Christianity is, and should always be reinterpreted. By whom, is the question. The pope? The bishops? Billy Graham? Or the girl's boyfriend who says wearing panties makes baby Jesus cry?
Besides, how do they sell new catechism books at Barnes and Noble if the religion is static?
So bottom line, if we can reinterpret Christ, I hope that's precedent for reinterpreting the term "UNIX."
The Open Source community has demonstrated that it can play catch-up and play it well, but when are we going to see Windows and Apple stealing important UI features from Linux?
On my computer, I organize my MP3s using the file system. E.g., if I want to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon", it's in "music/rock/Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon".
Holy crap! You complain they have too many features, and there you go, making your own navigation feature set! How many people have time to set up those directories if they just want to listen to music? Or are you saying you have a program that creates those directories from ripped CDs?
Well in this case, "you shouldn't have gotten rear-ended" is not a good analogy. A better analogy would be the front door on your house. If you leave it unlocked, well that's pretty stupid.
No, a better analogy would be, "you didn't lock your electrical conduit or septic system? Duuur! We released padlocks for those wide open exploits, like, 3 months ago! Helloooo!
Your chimney? Errrr, no. You should be safe there. Just give that flue a shake now and then."
Bear in mind that there's an asymptotal curve as online music services get closer to "perfect" (eg maintaining every sort of fair use you can come up with), the likelihood of it being offered with RIAA/major artist support is next to nil.
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Right. Zealots tend to get marginalized, burned at the stake, hung, nailed to a cross, etc.
Let's all look at the nirvana that India is now. Holy smoke, they had Ghandi, and Buddha before him!
Then let's take Jesus, for example. But Jesus didn't do squat to spread the "word" other than a couple of action item meetings with some apparently ineffectual "disciples" and those goofy halmark beatitudes. I don't remember reading that he wrote any pamphlets he distributed or anything.
Jesus needed a salesman: Paul. Now Paul was the Christianity, Inc. sales and marketing division. He got the word out. "Hey, d'ja hear about that water to wine thing? Oooh, and that loaves and fish deal? Man! Now this is a guy that can drive those Romans outta town! Oh, and maybe in addition, he can unify your empire after the Romans are gone, as a bonus sort of thing. You know, those pagans love those solstice celebrations. Umm, err, you know, Jesus was born on the winter solstice! Isn't that a coincidence! C'mon! Let's all have one big party!"
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Maybe Apple can say "*nix-based"?
That's just silly. Obviously if *nix is bandied about so much, there needs to be some gradient of compliance. People seem to be "getting by" with the un-annointed leenux I hear so much about. Why is that?
But why call it UNIX, as there are so many derivatives? Why not call it something else? Like, say, "POSIX compliant" or "POSIX compliant Level 3" or something like that? Having UNIX as a standard based on a single name is idiotic. I'm trying to think of other specs that work from a base name to define compliance and I'm at a loss. UNIX is pretty complex, according to the Open Group. Look at telcordia. People need different things. Don't go with the single name.
If you drink motor oil, and call it a sundae, does Dairy Queen file suit?
Prima fasciae, UNIX-based means just that. And OS X is.
AppleScript, then Perl? Why not slap them upside the head while you're at it?
Single color jigsaw puzzles come after AppleScript, and before Perl.
I think maybe the next killer app is something like HyperCard from Apple (or today's SuperCard), again. But made brain dead easy, even easier than HyperCard.
There are so many people out there that probably know enough about computers to be dangerous, but would love a cool tool to make their own tools. Take movabletype for blogging or phpBB or Invision PowerBoard for forums; now, everyone seems to have a blog or site with a forum. But it wasn't widespread before someone made the tools.
But those are specifically community-building tools. Now we need some sort of organization with previously disparate groups (like, W3C and the power companies/electronics companies) to for instance, make it easy to remotely control your home and appliances over the web. That may be a stupid example, but you know where I'm going.
Right now, I think we have too many gadgets with too many competing ways to do it. Start working together so I can do some of that Jetson's stuff already! It's like thousands of years ago, man had invented the wheel, and what did he do with it? He made little rolling toys.
We must have a wheel around here somewhere. Let's build a car.
If Apple can survive to the point when most new homes are going to be wired and have a server in the closet (and it will happen), Apple will be the one to bring ubiquitous computing to the home.
The iTMS has a search by genre, song, album, artist, or composer, with a 30 second preview.
After a search is completed, potential matches can be likewise sorted by genre, song, album, artist, composer, time, comments, track number, year, disc number, or a combination.
So you can find that wikkid banjo solo that you heard in 8th grade that was, like, in the middle of that album that was, like, spoon-something or other.
So simulating a nuclear explosion, does the computer just have to be bigger than the actual bomb, or bigger than the mushroom cloud, or bigger than the affected circumference?
And how would /. posters feel if Samuel Johnson hadn't begun the first dictionary? Pretty happy, I'd suppose.
OK. I guess we have to cover this territory once again. Here is SCO's legal argument:
"Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, SCO's detractors would certainly want you to believe my client was issuing confusing EULAs, confounding their critics and confusing the multitudes, and they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer representing a major software company and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must not acquit.
I know he seems innocent. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when billions of dollars of recurring license revenue are on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must not acquit. Here look at the monkey , look at the silly monkey.
The plaintiff rests."
Well, switch those OS tasks, and you'll see the opposite results. Or the same. Err. Or something. :)
Apparently, Trinity utters "God," Neo says "Jesus" and she says "what?"
So, since she's "Trinity," who invokes the holy ghost?
Any traditional (orthodox) Christian would say "You can't reinterpret Christianity, and still call it Christianity", "You can't pick and choose, and still call it Christianity", "You can't break up the whole, and still call it Christianity".
No they wouldn't. Hopefully, any orthodox Christian (what does that mean, anyway? Catholic?) would say, in the spirit of the Church Fathers if nothing else, that Christianity is, and should always be reinterpreted. By whom, is the question. The pope? The bishops? Billy Graham? Or the girl's boyfriend who says wearing panties makes baby Jesus cry?
Besides, how do they sell new catechism books at Barnes and Noble if the religion is static?
So bottom line, if we can reinterpret Christ, I hope that's precedent for reinterpreting the term "UNIX."
But maybe some people need more data points.
The Open Source community has demonstrated that it can play catch-up and play it well, but when are we going to see Windows and Apple stealing important UI features from Linux?
I'm sorry, milk came out my nose on that one.
I wonder if Apple could file suit based on this patent.
It describes "ornamental" light use, but I didn't check to read the whole thing if it covered functional feedback.
Not much matters in collage. Nor decoupage, nor basketweaving, nor watercolor. It's about the creativity, rather than technique, for the most part.
On my computer, I organize my MP3s using the file system. E.g., if I want to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon", it's in "music/rock/Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon".
Holy crap! You complain they have too many features, and there you go, making your own navigation feature set! How many people have time to set up those directories if they just want to listen to music? Or are you saying you have a program that creates those directories from ripped CDs?
"if we see this in a *absolut* way... make the /. cummunity... see MS loose"
Sounds like a party to me! Be sure to mirror the photos! wakkachikka wakkachikka wakkachikka bowwboww wakkachikka wakkachikka wakkachikka...
Well in this case, "you shouldn't have gotten rear-ended" is not a good analogy. A better analogy would be the front door on your house. If you leave it unlocked, well that's pretty stupid.
No, a better analogy would be, "you didn't lock your electrical conduit or septic system? Duuur! We released padlocks for those wide open exploits, like, 3 months ago! Helloooo!
Your chimney? Errrr, no. You should be safe there. Just give that flue a shake now and then."
But then you can't sync your playlists to an iPod as well, or get the iTunes 10 burn DRM, or machine specific DRM. Those are showstoppers.
Jobs made a statement along the lines of: "[Windows Music Store version] software is a little less... predictable" in his presentation.
No, Jobs said USB2 software is a little less predictable.
I'm sorry, did you say "consistency" and "Windows GUI guidelines" in the same sentence? I'm having trouble parsing that one.
Bear in mind that there's an asymptotal curve as online music services get closer to "perfect" (eg maintaining every sort of fair use you can come up with), the likelihood of it being offered with RIAA/major artist support is next to nil.
Here you go.
Right. Zealots tend to get marginalized, burned at the stake, hung, nailed to a cross, etc.
Let's all look at the nirvana that India is now. Holy smoke, they had Ghandi, and Buddha before him!
Then let's take Jesus, for example. But Jesus didn't do squat to spread the "word" other than a couple of action item meetings with some apparently ineffectual "disciples" and those goofy halmark beatitudes. I don't remember reading that he wrote any pamphlets he distributed or anything.
Jesus needed a salesman: Paul. Now Paul was the Christianity, Inc. sales and marketing division. He got the word out. "Hey, d'ja hear about that water to wine thing? Oooh, and that loaves and fish deal? Man! Now this is a guy that can drive those Romans outta town! Oh, and maybe in addition, he can unify your empire after the Romans are gone, as a bonus sort of thing. You know, those pagans love those solstice celebrations. Umm, err, you know, Jesus was born on the winter solstice! Isn't that a coincidence! C'mon! Let's all have one big party!"
RMS needs a Paul. Maybe he has one already?