0 posts, and already slashdotted? the subscribers must've gotten to that one early!
And what's with the java comment, PHP is pretty much nothing like java. It has different uses, different strengths, and different semmantics. When are they going to properly fix PHP like making it stable? (*gasp*)
What a great troll. You admit that you have have not read the article in question, complain about how Slashdot sucks and then complain about the subject. Nice work, you know nothing but you cast dispersions on everything. Comments like this contribute nothing and get in the way of inteligent discusion, so piss off.
Of course a large portion of the "slashdot effect" comes from the trolls who post slashdotted posts. Nasty little bastards with their silly bots hammering away to prevent information exchange. What a waste of time because it's a game that can't be won. There are too many people who want to share for the few disruptive morons.
... this would never fly for the typical mgmt of servers that i've seen. and, i prefer non-gui tools because gui tools tend to slow and a pain in the ass to deal with.
The only useful thing in the article was that you can get a 5" screen from an auto parts dealer. Rigged to a normal VGA connector and put into a reasonable case with some batteries, this could replace the cart mounted CRT that is useful for diagnosing the box that won't respond remotely. Imagine one affixed to a light weight keyboard. When trouble comes, lug out this, a few other tools and a chair.
We have an IT department that probably codes more than some software companies. Some of our software is licensed out to other companies, with some of my co-workers providing consulting on it.
As you generally don't have control of where you park or of who breaks your windows out, you should make the screen removable.
The situation is similart for a PC. If you follow advice from Extreem Overclocking, you know the inside of your PC will surpass 104F and Windows might break it.
Our business is out to make money, and selling software and services is just another way to do so, though it may not be what the company is acually based on.
Given that you are being run by idiots that do things like this:
My boss hired this Network Admin who was a MS zealot, and the first thing she did when she came in the building was take down those Linux servers. She couldn't stand them, not because of their supposed "difficulty," but mostly because she took some MS classes, and had no clue what UNIX was.
I doubt your company will achieve it's first objective. I would imagine that such a stupid and rude change would have made it difficult to realize income from previous projects you boast about:
We have an IT department that probably codes more than some software companies. Some of our software is licensed out to other companies, with some of my co-workers providing consulting on it.
Yes, it's true though the author did not say it, once you realize the power and beauty of free software, you never ever go back to fooling with expensive, buggy, closed SDKs and tools. In fact, it's painful for me to even look at a Windoze crippled machine. The author, however stayed away from such statements because that was not what he was after. He most wanted to know is Linux was taking mindshare from Unix or Windows.
"Mainstream", what is that? A GUI interface for an NT domain? Insert sound of a foghorn. Did you miss this:
7) Linux announcements from big companies...
by L0stb0Y
Do you see announcements from heavy hitters (like Dell, IBM, etc) helping sway more 'desktop users' to switching to Linux?
Nick:
This is only my opinion, not something from the report, but yes, I believe those announcements do help a lot.
This should be obvious. If the American Medical Association started recomending Ginko Bill-o-bah tomorrow, there's a good chance most reasonable people would be conviced that Ginko works. When IBM, HP, Wall Street banks and others pick up Linux, it might be reasonable to say that Linux has arrived and can do useful things for you. Equally obvious is that some people are hard to reach. They spit BS like this:
So quit buzzwording, clustering, XMLifying everything, and create something someone NEEDS.
Free software meets ALL of my computing needs. As there is nothing that non-free software does that free software can not do, free software could meet anyone's needs. What is an NT domain going to do for me again? Whatever. Mamma says, "If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up."
I routinely hear of a teacher buying or borrowing a book and then copying that book in its entirety on a xerox machine
Personally, I think this is the way it *should* be, even if this practice falls well outside fair use
What you are feeling is an echo of the original copyright laws of the United States, which only lasted for 14 years with the possibility of extention if the author were alive. You feel as if though you should be able to copy older works, which compose the vast majority of printed material, and practially all of the material presented in an educational setting. The real world is a much grimmer place where laws and technology being used to restrict publishing rather than encourage it. Books are kept locked up in vast shelving complexes known as libraries where they can only be enjoyed by a few people at a time. Those books will be kept there until they rot, and a large proportion are already beyond revovery.
Something within you knows that the world is not as it seems or should be. It's hard to imagine a world where you could simply purchase a press and make coppies of most books, yet that's the way it used to be. You could use the latest technology available or you could simply read them aloud to your friends. The lower costs of publishing should have pushed copyright shorter not longer as the publishers have fewer expenses to recoup. You know that things are not really like this and you are beginning to susupect the truth.
Please don't buy into the lie that everything will be OK if we create a special class of people with fewer restrictions. Everyone should have the right to share information that's how culture is promoted and improved. Educators can only provide a foundation. Real culture comes from all of us and does not end with school. Restricting publications will only dumb us all down and inevitably, our educators will need fewer privileges.
It's only a bruhaha to us. Regardless of what happens in court, the established publishers will not let this become an "issue" of public disscusion. The four or five broadcasters in the US, owned by Disney, M$, GE, Westinghouse etc are all heavily vested in information control. They are activly working on shutting down all other publishing sources and will charge heavily for real information. Any debate will be more like a tempest in a teapot, brought on by a few independently minded people who will be ridiculed as accademic, idealistic, out of touch and so forth.
What you see and hear is prolefeed designed to make you forget the first amendment, what it means and why copyright exists to begin with. That the debate has sunk to how much freedom a privelidged class, teachers, will have is a good indication of where things really stand. Teachers will be given a few vestiges of our free press and speech rights so that they will help indoctrinate the next generation of information slaves. "Fair use" is a fairy tale designed to make you feel at ease with 100 year and soon perpetual copyrights and an absolute prohibition on information sharing of any kind.
The only hope for not decending into this most unAmerican state is for you and I to continue pressing home the big picture and for our leaders to actually lead. Any elected official who dares to stand against the DMCA will be viciously attacked by the media.
It's hard to trust anything from someone who shows 85 seconds as more than two times as long as 54 seconds. Then again, you have to be stupid to equate Microsoft with PC and even dumber to trust your future to M$. Shame.
McDs is where my 1990 census field officer set up shop. It was nasty and it stunk, but it had air conditioning and coffee. I can only imagine what the poor woman must have smelled like when she got home. I've worked for fast food and deep fat fried seafood places but NEVER McDs. McDs is special and only a very tough or special person would stay there all day. The rest of us might think this is a nice way to get email on the road.
You say, " I'm all for Free Software." but you don't seem to understand the reason for the GPL and are confused about a few other things too. This is apparent when you say, "it was Apple's work, so Apple gets to dictate what people can do with it."
Apple is a leagal fiction not a person.
The whole motive for the GPL is to use the evils of copyright law to promote ethical behavior. The fact remains that it's immoral to force NDAs and other restrictions for software. You will find lots of good sound reasoning here. It's and interesting fact that free software invariably becomes excellent software.
Look at the harm that Apple's NDA has caused. You said that you wanted the person who released the browser flogged. That's exactly the kind of anti-social behavior that closed source promotes. The root of closed source is greed, pride and paranoia. It seeks to insure that only a select few can benifit fully from the software. Those who have been granted more prividges than others are resentful and angry when others share those privlidges. It's the anti social behavior of oppresion. It involves deception, punishment and force, ultimatly physical.
Quality expectations are different for Apple than from many other developers. I suspect this is at least part of the reason. Not to mention all the journalists that would descend upon such a thing to pick apart every release.
Apple's software quality have been admirable but that should not and does not keep Apple from sharing. Apple has adopted a BSD core, which maintians it's excellence though openness. That Apple has adopted this software over their own shows the superiority of the open way, regardless of what they might say. Mac [expect perfection]. They take it personally if there's a bug in a piece of software -- like Apple is after them specifically.
Once again, software quality is not a negator of freedom. Mac users, like all users of closed source comercial software, expect all of the details to be taken care of for them and the things they buy to work. It's entirely possible for the user to make up their own mind about relative stability of software. Debian's stable, unstable, and testing sections are an excellent example of how quality and freedom can co-exist. The stable release of Debian has fewer bugs than most comercial software. Users can now chose to load up certian unstable or even testing programs into a stable set up. Surely Apple can match that feat in a modular way with a silly browser. Denying your users even that basic freedom is a bad sign from Apple.
This is sad. Apple does have a wonderful platform. Their developers and designers have made real contributions. Why should such a talented company be so afraid to open up?
I consider this to be a small ethical violation on the part of the individual who leaked the beta... I would still like to see that individual publically flogged.
Yeah, I understand that's a joke. Some people out there, unfortunately don't. Tha larger picture is not so funny at all.
You have the whole situation reversed. It's Apple's actions that are reprhensible not the developer. The developer did what comes naturally. Apple is working hard to limit our freedoms. It's not morally wrong to want to share useful things, it's morally wrong to make things that are useful and keep others from having them.
It's natural to want to share software. Software is as close a thing to ideas and speech as tangible object can come. Like an idea, it is easy to copy and costs the original owner nothing when others make use of it. Good software, like a catchy tune, is something people want to share.
Apple has not, "placed their trust in a group of developers." Apple extorted a promise from those developers in return for the chance to see and work on a beautiful thing. In return for that, these developers could not share their work or that of others. Because someone violated the master's will, Apple has cracked the whip. You don't need to use whips on people you trust, you need them for your slaves..
This is a minor incidence of something Apple has done before. All closed source software houses make this deal with their developers. Apple has gone out of it's way to shut down other people's independent work as well. Viewed from the free software perspective, this is nothing new or surprising, though it still stings to see it.
true and it's older than Reback knows.
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Reback says that patent abuse has only been a problem for 20 years or so:
For almost two centuries, the USPTO did a reasonable job balancing the need for incentive against the need for competition. But about 20 years ago the floodgates burst open, and the free-enterprise system has been thrashing in a tidal surge of patent claims ever since.
The glass bottle making industry shows that this problem is at least 100 years old. Patents were abused so that there were only two bottle making machine companies in the entire US for decades. They used many of the techniques we see in software today. They used their patent ownership to prevent others from making machines of any kind and tried to fence each other off by applying for patents needed to improve each other's machines. They used the non competitive market to demand that all of the equipment be leased, not owned, by actual bottle makers. "Price cutters" were denied the use of equipment and concesions to make bottles were handed out like gold mines to a selected few. The price of glass bottles remained artificially high until plastic and aluminum manufacture was available as a sustitute. The US government coluded with these companies. While they were tried and convicted of anti-trust violations, no real harm ever came to them and there were no gross problems of "over production", as if that were possible. While it's true that patents on busness methods and drawing squares electronically bring new lows to the method, the ends have been achievable for a century.
I'm afraid that any Coke machine that I come across using one of these will meet with a wee bit of the ultra-violence.
Easier to pull it's plug. Other rotten tricks I've seen are a coke poured into the place the cokes fall out and buble gum stuck into the coin slot. Ultra violence would be more satifying. Hunter S Thompson reports that a man who passed out on his horn in Samoa was catrated by outraged bystanders. Ultrasonic won't last long as a means of advertising.
It's possible for coke machines to carefully stay things to people who walk by. You use normal spearkers and the inverse square law to talk to one or two people at a time. That's anoying enough so that people don't use it.
This gadget would be worse as a barker. It will transmit that sound hundreds of feet down hallways anoying all the people there. Can you imagine dozens of these things all trying to get you to buy shit?
Currently we think of people who destroy public equipment and hear voices as crazy. We won't if anyone is dumb enough to use one of these things.
No one would use it once they got a look at the source.
Dude, what are you talking about? No one would want to mod the most popular software ever? If only windows were free you could give it all of thes modifications and more:
A restricted user security model respected by the kernel and embeded in the file system.
A kernel that treats everything like a file.
A flexible, network aware GUI that can use as many $15 graphics cards as you own for a true multiheaded experience, but also capable of running processes from other computers so that you might controll five computers with three monitors, one mouse and one keyboard.
Integrated encryption.
Free compilers.
Office Suites from many different companies all using open file formats so that your work can be read anywhere.
Multiple teminal emulators, and real shells.
CUPS
Many Window managers that alow many virtual screens.
Oh yeah, when I'm finished porting all that free software goodness to Windows, I'll modify the human genome to eliminate war, famine, pestilence and death. My little brother will colonize Mercury in his spare time and there will be free drinks for everyone. Yeah, baby, yeah.
The jig is up for M$. Other software does what they do better. XP and w2k will soon be on the same legacy junk pile Windoze 98, NT are on now. The damb broke a few years back, what you see now is the rush to free software that will soon fill everything. Microsoft's code is so hindered by it's years of seclusion, it's not worth modernizing.
If Office is your $496.99 product, what prevents me from just building and selling a non-supported version for $5? Answer: nothing. You would have to bring your price way down
Ah, how close you are to realizing the true value of a word processor. If $50/hour phone calls is your idea of support, I've got all the hours you can need. Just remember the EULA, help is provided AS IS, just like all software. So close, yet so far.
Giving out software like that is a privage, not your God given right
No, sharing stuff based on KDE is bad, very bad. Three smacks with a wet noodle for defying your NDA and you are fired. Be greatful, oh so greatful for people who ask you to purchase what others give freely out of a sense of real comunity. Everything is ruined now, Apple will have to stick to IE. This is too wierd, I must have misunderstood something.
Shouldn't the 5600 software just install on the 5500? I mean, the 5500 has more RAM, and it's trivial to put in lots of flash. Does that mean Sharp is not going to provide an upgrade?
There might be differences between ARM and Xscale. I wish I knew.
In anycase, the white paper looks like it's simply describing the difference between the software out of the box. There's a wealth of "upgrades" out there to use, even whole distros for the ambitious:
OpenZaurus
Debian Zaurus
Ordinary software packages availiable include useful things like a terminal.
I've seen the Open Zaurus working and it's very neat with working GUI, productivity suit and CF wifi. It is essentially a full replacement for the sotware that comes with the 5500, but you can keep and reinstall that software too.
The Debian project looks less developed but is working on cool stuff like an X interface. They have a kernel and root system set up, and a working X. It would be fun to work on.
Ironically, my Zaurus has a better processor than my much bigger laptop. It would be borg the two together, X to export aps to the laptop and disk storage in return. I expect to be able to do this latter than sooner.
I'll settle for standard sized batteries. AA, AAA, D, C. Why can't they do something like that for lithium? Oh yeah, so they can charge suckers like me $50 for THE batery that I must have to make my $300 gadget work. I hate to death every stupid gadget I buy like that because I know that one day the "right" battery won't be available and my slick little gadget will require some awful battery pack rig. An inductance pad will do nothing for me that standard sized batteries would not do better.
Do you really think that this particular update will solve Window's security problems any more than any other? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Instead of the ad showing the greasy hacker it should show the hacker with huge muscles and maybe like laser beams shooting from its eyes as it thrives in the microsoft environment.
Well, it does look like Bill Gates, but I'm afraid the Borg Bill Gates is Trademarked. They had to settle for an undergraduate picture of him fresh from fishig basic source code out of the dumpster. It all kind of shows how much Microsoft values personal initiative and inovation in programers.
"Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information in, and unauthorised people and viruses out." This statement has a factual basis.
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And what's with the java comment, PHP is pretty much nothing like java. It has different uses, different strengths, and different semmantics. When are they going to properly fix PHP like making it stable? (*gasp*)
What a great troll. You admit that you have have not read the article in question, complain about how Slashdot sucks and then complain about the subject. Nice work, you know nothing but you cast dispersions on everything. Comments like this contribute nothing and get in the way of inteligent discusion, so piss off.
Of course a large portion of the "slashdot effect" comes from the trolls who post slashdotted posts. Nasty little bastards with their silly bots hammering away to prevent information exchange. What a waste of time because it's a game that can't be won. There are too many people who want to share for the few disruptive morons.
The only useful thing in the article was that you can get a 5" screen from an auto parts dealer. Rigged to a normal VGA connector and put into a reasonable case with some batteries, this could replace the cart mounted CRT that is useful for diagnosing the box that won't respond remotely. Imagine one affixed to a light weight keyboard. When trouble comes, lug out this, a few other tools and a chair.
As you generally don't have control of where you park or of who breaks your windows out, you should make the screen removable.
The situation is similart for a PC. If you follow advice from Extreem Overclocking, you know the inside of your PC will surpass 104F and Windows might break it.
Our business is out to make money, and selling software and services is just another way to do so, though it may not be what the company is acually based on.
Given that you are being run by idiots that do things like this:
My boss hired this Network Admin who was a MS zealot, and the first thing she did when she came in the building was take down those Linux servers. She couldn't stand them, not because of their supposed "difficulty," but mostly because she took some MS classes, and had no clue what UNIX was.
I doubt your company will achieve it's first objective. I would imagine that such a stupid and rude change would have made it difficult to realize income from previous projects you boast about:
We have an IT department that probably codes more than some software companies. Some of our software is licensed out to other companies, with some of my co-workers providing consulting on it.
Yes, it's true though the author did not say it, once you realize the power and beauty of free software, you never ever go back to fooling with expensive, buggy, closed SDKs and tools. In fact, it's painful for me to even look at a Windoze crippled machine. The author, however stayed away from such statements because that was not what he was after. He most wanted to know is Linux was taking mindshare from Unix or Windows.
7) Linux announcements from big companies...
by L0stb0Y
Do you see announcements from heavy hitters (like Dell, IBM, etc) helping sway more 'desktop users' to switching to Linux?
Nick:
This is only my opinion, not something from the report, but yes, I believe those announcements do help a lot.
This should be obvious. If the American Medical Association started recomending Ginko Bill-o-bah tomorrow, there's a good chance most reasonable people would be conviced that Ginko works. When IBM, HP, Wall Street banks and others pick up Linux, it might be reasonable to say that Linux has arrived and can do useful things for you. Equally obvious is that some people are hard to reach. They spit BS like this:
So quit buzzwording, clustering, XMLifying everything, and create something someone NEEDS.
Free software meets ALL of my computing needs. As there is nothing that non-free software does that free software can not do, free software could meet anyone's needs. What is an NT domain going to do for me again? Whatever. Mamma says, "If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up."
Personally, I think this is the way it *should* be, even if this practice falls well outside fair use
What you are feeling is an echo of the original copyright laws of the United States, which only lasted for 14 years with the possibility of extention if the author were alive. You feel as if though you should be able to copy older works, which compose the vast majority of printed material, and practially all of the material presented in an educational setting. The real world is a much grimmer place where laws and technology being used to restrict publishing rather than encourage it. Books are kept locked up in vast shelving complexes known as libraries where they can only be enjoyed by a few people at a time. Those books will be kept there until they rot, and a large proportion are already beyond revovery.
Something within you knows that the world is not as it seems or should be. It's hard to imagine a world where you could simply purchase a press and make coppies of most books, yet that's the way it used to be. You could use the latest technology available or you could simply read them aloud to your friends. The lower costs of publishing should have pushed copyright shorter not longer as the publishers have fewer expenses to recoup. You know that things are not really like this and you are beginning to susupect the truth.
Please don't buy into the lie that everything will be OK if we create a special class of people with fewer restrictions. Everyone should have the right to share information that's how culture is promoted and improved. Educators can only provide a foundation. Real culture comes from all of us and does not end with school. Restricting publications will only dumb us all down and inevitably, our educators will need fewer privileges.
What you see and hear is prolefeed designed to make you forget the first amendment, what it means and why copyright exists to begin with. That the debate has sunk to how much freedom a privelidged class, teachers, will have is a good indication of where things really stand. Teachers will be given a few vestiges of our free press and speech rights so that they will help indoctrinate the next generation of information slaves. "Fair use" is a fairy tale designed to make you feel at ease with 100 year and soon perpetual copyrights and an absolute prohibition on information sharing of any kind.
The only hope for not decending into this most unAmerican state is for you and I to continue pressing home the big picture and for our leaders to actually lead. Any elected official who dares to stand against the DMCA will be viciously attacked by the media.
It's hard to trust anything from someone who shows 85 seconds as more than two times as long as 54 seconds. Then again, you have to be stupid to equate Microsoft with PC and even dumber to trust your future to M$. Shame.
McDs is where my 1990 census field officer set up shop. It was nasty and it stunk, but it had air conditioning and coffee. I can only imagine what the poor woman must have smelled like when she got home. I've worked for fast food and deep fat fried seafood places but NEVER McDs. McDs is special and only a very tough or special person would stay there all day. The rest of us might think this is a nice way to get email on the road.
Big greasy burger? Does the wifi come with a keybaord protector?
Apple is a leagal fiction not a person.
The whole motive for the GPL is to use the evils of copyright law to promote ethical behavior. The fact remains that it's immoral to force NDAs and other restrictions for software. You will find lots of good sound reasoning here. It's and interesting fact that free software invariably becomes excellent software.
Look at the harm that Apple's NDA has caused. You said that you wanted the person who released the browser flogged. That's exactly the kind of anti-social behavior that closed source promotes. The root of closed source is greed, pride and paranoia. It seeks to insure that only a select few can benifit fully from the software. Those who have been granted more prividges than others are resentful and angry when others share those privlidges. It's the anti social behavior of oppresion. It involves deception, punishment and force, ultimatly physical.
Apple's software quality have been admirable but that should not and does not keep Apple from sharing. Apple has adopted a BSD core, which maintians it's excellence though openness. That Apple has adopted this software over their own shows the superiority of the open way, regardless of what they might say.
Mac [expect perfection]. They take it personally if there's a bug in a piece of software -- like Apple is after them specifically.
Once again, software quality is not a negator of freedom. Mac users, like all users of closed source comercial software, expect all of the details to be taken care of for them and the things they buy to work. It's entirely possible for the user to make up their own mind about relative stability of software. Debian's stable, unstable, and testing sections are an excellent example of how quality and freedom can co-exist. The stable release of Debian has fewer bugs than most comercial software. Users can now chose to load up certian unstable or even testing programs into a stable set up. Surely Apple can match that feat in a modular way with a silly browser. Denying your users even that basic freedom is a bad sign from Apple.
This is sad. Apple does have a wonderful platform. Their developers and designers have made real contributions. Why should such a talented company be so afraid to open up?
Yeah, I understand that's a joke. Some people out there, unfortunately don't. Tha larger picture is not so funny at all.
You have the whole situation reversed. It's Apple's actions that are reprhensible not the developer. The developer did what comes naturally. Apple is working hard to limit our freedoms. It's not morally wrong to want to share useful things, it's morally wrong to make things that are useful and keep others from having them.
It's natural to want to share software. Software is as close a thing to ideas and speech as tangible object can come. Like an idea, it is easy to copy and costs the original owner nothing when others make use of it. Good software, like a catchy tune, is something people want to share.
Apple has not, "placed their trust in a group of developers." Apple extorted a promise from those developers in return for the chance to see and work on a beautiful thing. In return for that, these developers could not share their work or that of others. Because someone violated the master's will, Apple has cracked the whip. You don't need to use whips on people you trust, you need them for your slaves..
This is a minor incidence of something Apple has done before. All closed source software houses make this deal with their developers. Apple has gone out of it's way to shut down other people's independent work as well. Viewed from the free software perspective, this is nothing new or surprising, though it still stings to see it.
For almost two centuries, the USPTO did a reasonable job balancing the need for incentive against the need for competition. But about 20 years ago the floodgates burst open, and the free-enterprise system has been thrashing in a tidal surge of patent claims ever since.
The glass bottle making industry shows that this problem is at least 100 years old. Patents were abused so that there were only two bottle making machine companies in the entire US for decades. They used many of the techniques we see in software today. They used their patent ownership to prevent others from making machines of any kind and tried to fence each other off by applying for patents needed to improve each other's machines. They used the non competitive market to demand that all of the equipment be leased, not owned, by actual bottle makers. "Price cutters" were denied the use of equipment and concesions to make bottles were handed out like gold mines to a selected few. The price of glass bottles remained artificially high until plastic and aluminum manufacture was available as a sustitute. The US government coluded with these companies. While they were tried and convicted of anti-trust violations, no real harm ever came to them and there were no gross problems of "over production", as if that were possible. While it's true that patents on busness methods and drawing squares electronically bring new lows to the method, the ends have been achievable for a century.
Easier to pull it's plug. Other rotten tricks I've seen are a coke poured into the place the cokes fall out and buble gum stuck into the coin slot. Ultra violence would be more satifying. Hunter S Thompson reports that a man who passed out on his horn in Samoa was catrated by outraged bystanders. Ultrasonic won't last long as a means of advertising.
This gadget would be worse as a barker. It will transmit that sound hundreds of feet down hallways anoying all the people there. Can you imagine dozens of these things all trying to get you to buy shit?
Currently we think of people who destroy public equipment and hear voices as crazy. We won't if anyone is dumb enough to use one of these things.
as if closed source software had fewer bugs and exploits than free software. Experience proves just the oposite.
Dude, what are you talking about? No one would want to mod the most popular software ever? If only windows were free you could give it all of thes modifications and more:
Oh yeah, when I'm finished porting all that free software goodness to Windows, I'll modify the human genome to eliminate war, famine, pestilence and death. My little brother will colonize Mercury in his spare time and there will be free drinks for everyone. Yeah, baby, yeah.
The jig is up for M$. Other software does what they do better. XP and w2k will soon be on the same legacy junk pile Windoze 98, NT are on now. The damb broke a few years back, what you see now is the rush to free software that will soon fill everything. Microsoft's code is so hindered by it's years of seclusion, it's not worth modernizing.
Ah, how close you are to realizing the true value of a word processor. If $50/hour phone calls is your idea of support, I've got all the hours you can need. Just remember the EULA, help is provided AS IS, just like all software. So close, yet so far.
No, sharing stuff based on KDE is bad, very bad. Three smacks with a wet noodle for defying your NDA and you are fired. Be greatful, oh so greatful for people who ask you to purchase what others give freely out of a sense of real comunity. Everything is ruined now, Apple will have to stick to IE. This is too wierd, I must have misunderstood something.
There might be differences between ARM and Xscale. I wish I knew.
In anycase, the white paper looks like it's simply describing the difference between the software out of the box. There's a wealth of "upgrades" out there to use, even whole distros for the ambitious:
Ordinary software packages availiable include useful things like a terminal.
I've seen the Open Zaurus working and it's very neat with working GUI, productivity suit and CF wifi. It is essentially a full replacement for the sotware that comes with the 5500, but you can keep and reinstall that software too.
The Debian project looks less developed but is working on cool stuff like an X interface. They have a kernel and root system set up, and a working X. It would be fun to work on.
Ironically, my Zaurus has a better processor than my much bigger laptop. It would be borg the two together, X to export aps to the laptop and disk storage in return. I expect to be able to do this latter than sooner.
I'll settle for standard sized batteries. AA, AAA, D, C. Why can't they do something like that for lithium? Oh yeah, so they can charge suckers like me $50 for THE batery that I must have to make my $300 gadget work. I hate to death every stupid gadget I buy like that because I know that one day the "right" battery won't be available and my slick little gadget will require some awful battery pack rig. An inductance pad will do nothing for me that standard sized batteries would not do better.
Do you really think that this particular update will solve Window's security problems any more than any other? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Well, it does look like Bill Gates, but I'm afraid the Borg Bill Gates is Trademarked. They had to settle for an undergraduate picture of him fresh from fishig basic source code out of the dumpster. It all kind of shows how much Microsoft values personal initiative and inovation in programers.
"Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information in, and unauthorised people and viruses out." This statement has a factual basis.
But you are mistaken and Microsoft knows it. Silly fanboy, grow a memory.
What do you call a consultant who recomends M$ for security of private information? A baldfaced liar.