And get me some IPv6 addresses? Which, if any, ISPs/hosting companies support IPv6? Who do I talk to to reserve me a chunk of space so when my bacasswords ISP gets in line, I can get me some public IPs for my boxen at home?
Except that poker isnt gambling. Ones expected outcome of gambling is related to your relative skill vs the other players. Over the long term, skill will have a larger effect then chance.
Gambling is where the outcome is based on chance. A "skillfull" gambler may make more advantagous bets, and they may be able to last longer then someone who dosent know what they are doing, but over the long term, gambling is based on luck. With casino gambling, or lotteries, scratch tickets, etc, its even worse, as the chance is rigged in the favour of the house.
There are poker-ish games that are gambling, but they are not what this is talking about.
Concerning copyrights, if you independently create something, then it is yours, regardless if it exists already. eg the PC BIOS got into the wild because Compaq had a team of programmers independently invent it.
Pattents, OTOH are a different story. But unrelated to this topic,
I should be able to type in a filename, tab compleation.. If I have a directory, on enter, list the files in that directory. I mean, isnt that how load/save works everywhere else?
Perhaps. But the same bug exists/existed in the standard dialog. At least something similar... If you "Save As.." with a recommended filename, and double click on a link/shortcut, it changes the file name to the name of the shortcut. Doubleclick again, and it follows the shortcut STLL WITH THE SHORTCUTS NAME.
Back when mainframes were popular (the first time) workstations diddnt exist. And the way you connected to minis in the '70s was strikenly simmilar to how you connected to Mainfraims; with a relativly dumb terminal. Destkops/workstations/PCs diddnt become viable for business use until at least the early 1980s.
The places that QT exists, from what you say, Moz already can use something; native windows crap, native mac crap, GTK. RSN Gnome and KDE themes will be one in the same. Adding QT/KDE support is not going to give them an additional platform, but undoubtably more complexity.. But it can, or soon will be able to, get theme info from the enviroment anyway.
No win at all. QT is, basicly, a widget set. Other widget sets would be GTK, Motif, components of Windows, OS X, etc, etc. The widget set that Mozilla uses is itself, or more accuaratly, XPFE. Using a different widget set would, well, compleatly defeate the goal of cross platform compatability.
I think you are confusing who you are getting support from. If you buy "shrink wrap" (albeit expensive) software from IBM - or anyone else - there is a level of support that comes with it.
"Outsourcing" has a completely different connotation. If means, beyond the shrink wrap software, installing it, configuring it, and potentially a huge amount of customizations. Does the solution they provided conform to the spec that you gave them at the beginning? You seem to think "support" means "free work after the contract is done". It doesn't.
IBM is huge. Let me rephrase. Think of a huge company, and then think of something even bigger then that. Thats IBM.
It is entirely possible, even likely, that the IBM outsourcing team that worked on your project does not work within 1000km of the IBM application team. While the outsourcing team could probably could get the app developers on the phone, a software customer with a high level software support contract could very well do so just as easily.
If you want support for customizations you've done to a already custom solution (or rather, support for making customizations), Id suggest skipping the outsourcing team and go direct to the app group.
Do you happen to know off hand (or have a URL) of what RedHat doesnt release as OSS? I would suspect that most, if not all, of the RH stuff that isnt OSS was stuff they got through aquisitions, rather then stuff they built inhouse.
No, no just to survive. And that was an oversimplification, obviously. Walmart stores are large by themselvs, and there are lots of them. They sell a wide range of products in a wide range of markets. They make their money on volume. (that they invested early and heavily in, say distribution systems, IT, etc only means they have lower overhead, but I digress).
Those criticisims of WalMart may be true. I dont know. They have been around since before Sam Walton died, however. My point is that WalMart very much is interested in driving prices lower.
Except that Wallmart doesnt do anywhere near "standard retail markup". Im no expert, but Ive read Sam Waltons book. Paraphrased, Sam Waltons theory on setting prices is: everyone else charges the maxium possible; We charge the minimum possible to still survive. Mind you, some things have higher markups then others, those being (somewhat) defined by the manufacturer, DVDs, say.
...Which SPF provides, for free. If you have SPF set up on your domain, and only allow mail from your servers, others who receive mail claiming to be from your domain can verify that. Which is exactly the same thing as TLS provides, in this context.
What TLS (or x509) _should_ provide is "proof" that domain X owners are in fact who they claim to be. But: a) if you think they actually do any real checking, you're a fool. and b) domain registrars are supposed to verify their WHOIS information. In other words, SMTP+SPF+WHOIS should be as good as SMTP+TLS, as far as authentication goes. The difference is that TLS would bring in an extra entity, and require an extra cost to domain owners. Since the third party may very well be exactly the same party who sold the domain in the first place, you dont even get a "second opinion" on the validity of the ownership.
I do. My registrar chages $9.99/year for domains. They chage $24.95/year for SSL certs. They also have different certs for $99.99 - the difference being so far as I can tell, the number of browsers supported. (96% vs 99%) I wont say that compatability is less important for a (hypothetical) world where SMTP-TLS is common/necessary, but the total installed bass would be less, and managed by smarter people.. That is convincing 1,000,000 email server admins to add a CA to their cabundle is easier then convincing 1,000,000,000 of the unbathed masses to do the same to there browsers.
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I beleive it involves display of 2d clowds, white over a blue background... And if you stare at the clowds long enough you can see a horse.
And get me some IPv6 addresses? Which, if any, ISPs/hosting companies support IPv6? Who do I talk to to reserve me a chunk of space so when my bacasswords ISP gets in line, I can get me some public IPs for my boxen at home?
Except that poker isnt gambling. Ones expected outcome of gambling is related to your relative skill vs the other players. Over the long term, skill will have a larger effect then chance.
Gambling is where the outcome is based on chance. A "skillfull" gambler may make more advantagous bets, and they may be able to last longer then someone who dosent know what they are doing, but over the long term, gambling is based on luck. With casino gambling, or lotteries, scratch tickets, etc, its even worse, as the chance is rigged in the favour of the house.
There are poker-ish games that are gambling, but they are not what this is talking about.
Pattents, OTOH are a different story. But unrelated to this topic,
Its not like they are going to let homeless psycotics work if they bid low.
Because the press release was written by a marketdroid, not a hacker?
Im living proof that imortality is possible.
Is it fair that a mechanic who brings $5,000 of his own tools to work gets paid more?
I should be able to type in a filename, tab compleation.. If I have a directory, on enter, list the files in that directory. I mean, isnt that how load/save works everywhere else?
Jeez man. I know you dont like him, Bill, but are you going out of your way to piss off Jobs?
Perhaps. But the same bug exists/existed in the standard dialog. At least something similar... If you "Save As.." with a recommended filename, and double click on a link/shortcut, it changes the file name to the name of the shortcut. Doubleclick again, and it follows the shortcut STLL WITH THE SHORTCUTS NAME.
Back into Gates`s office.
I admit it, I was once a Microsoft beta tester, Windows 98. I found and reported this bug, and they refused to fix it.
Back when mainframes were popular (the first time) workstations diddnt exist. And the way you connected to minis in the '70s was strikenly simmilar to how you connected to Mainfraims; with a relativly dumb terminal. Destkops/workstations/PCs diddnt become viable for business use until at least the early 1980s.
Ill get back to you.
It should be legal to kill anyone who uses Comic Sans.
The places that QT exists, from what you say, Moz already can use something; native windows crap, native mac crap, GTK. RSN Gnome and KDE themes will be one in the same. Adding QT/KDE support is not going to give them an additional platform, but undoubtably more complexity.. But it can, or soon will be able to, get theme info from the enviroment anyway.
No win at all. QT is, basicly, a widget set. Other widget sets would be GTK, Motif, components of Windows, OS X, etc, etc. The widget set that Mozilla uses is itself, or more accuaratly, XPFE. Using a different widget set would, well, compleatly defeate the goal of cross platform compatability.
I think you are confusing who you are getting support from. If you buy "shrink wrap" (albeit expensive) software from IBM - or anyone else - there is a level of support that comes with it.
"Outsourcing" has a completely different connotation. If means, beyond the shrink wrap software, installing it, configuring it, and potentially a huge amount of customizations. Does the solution they provided conform to the spec that you gave them at the beginning? You seem to think "support" means "free work after the contract is done". It doesn't.
IBM is huge. Let me rephrase. Think of a huge company, and then think of something even bigger then that. Thats IBM.
It is entirely possible, even likely, that the IBM outsourcing team that worked on your project does not work within 1000km of the IBM application team. While the outsourcing team could probably could get the app developers on the phone, a software customer with a high level software support contract could very well do so just as easily.
If you want support for customizations you've done to a already custom solution (or rather, support for making customizations), Id suggest skipping the outsourcing team and go direct to the app group.
Do you happen to know off hand (or have a URL) of what RedHat doesnt release as OSS? I would suspect that most, if not all, of the RH stuff that isnt OSS was stuff they got through aquisitions, rather then stuff they built inhouse.
Those criticisims of WalMart may be true. I dont know. They have been around since before Sam Walton died, however. My point is that WalMart very much is interested in driving prices lower.
I cant beleive that people still use Sendmail after all these years. Man, what a horrificly crappy piece of software.
What TLS (or x509) _should_ provide is "proof" that domain X owners are in fact who they claim to be. But: a) if you think they actually do any real checking, you're a fool. and b) domain registrars are supposed to verify their WHOIS information. In other words, SMTP+SPF+WHOIS should be as good as SMTP+TLS, as far as authentication goes. The difference is that TLS would bring in an extra entity, and require an extra cost to domain owners. Since the third party may very well be exactly the same party who sold the domain in the first place, you dont even get a "second opinion" on the validity of the ownership.
Again: What would TLS add?
I do. My registrar chages $9.99/year for domains. They chage $24.95/year for SSL certs. They also have different certs for $99.99 - the difference being so far as I can tell, the number of browsers supported. (96% vs 99%) I wont say that compatability is less important for a (hypothetical) world where SMTP-TLS is common/necessary, but the total installed bass would be less, and managed by smarter people.. That is convincing 1,000,000 email server admins to add a CA to their cabundle is easier then convincing 1,000,000,000 of the unbathed masses to do the same to there browsers.