Yeah, if you don't use OS X enough to be familiar with the annoyance, you would probably be confused. It's quite the pain when you're used enough to the way the other OSes handle it and happen to be using OS X.
I think the escape sequences mentioned are similar to what is described here.
Interesting on Firefox behavior. I normally don't use the keyboard for movement there, so I wasn't aware. Besides, the behavior is different depending on where the "focus" is. For example, textboxes in forms grab control of the movement keys. Scrolling with a touch pad or mouse is more consistent.
Concerning VI, "G" in command mode will get you to the last line of the file you are editing. Likewise, "1G" or ":0" (zero) will take you to the first line. Similarly, ^ and $ will take you to the beginning and end of the current line in command mode. If you're not familiar with all the text movement options, I highly suggest learning as it makes things like deleting 10 lines at once very easy.
Oh, thanks for the information. I don't work all that often in OS X, so I wasn't aware of that modifier. I'd personally like the behavior the other way around, but it is what it is.
The issue the parent had is that certain keys on the keyboard behave different from how UNIX and Windows traditionally handle them. For instance, PgUp and PgDown only scroll the viewport. They do not move the cursor. The fun is when you're very used to the cursor moving and then press one of the directional arrows to find you're back in the original position. You have to remember to click the mouse in the document to re-set the cursor position. Likewise, Home and End move the viewport to the very top and bottom of the viewport, not the expected beginning and ending of the line, if you're in a multi-line textbox.
So, while the keys do work, they are quite different from other OSes out there, leading to some very annoying behavior if you're keyboard-centric.
That e-mail was written in 2010, after Oracle started the whole litigation deal. The explanation is that the enginer had looked over things and just taking a license, if it had to be done, was going to be less painful than essentially rewriting the whole platform.
I wonder how the license for their software would work with the App Store.
I know that there are, or were, problems under the GPL, but potentially the binary they provide could be licensed solely under the MPL. Growl is BSD, so there isn't really a problem there.
Yeah, there was a lot of confusion when the change happened. I think the support issues with Snow Leopard were due to the whole sandboxing thing Apple announced with the App Store, but I'm not entirely sure on that since I don't touch OS X all that often.
I do agree with the basic argument and think it entirely disingenous when a company or group pulls that kind of thing. A good example, although old, is the case of Sveasoft and the GPL. That whole situation wound up getting pretty bad as the owner started attempting to wring money from the software by putting kill switches in the firmware and blocking customers who released the GPL source code. Even worse in that case was that the owner didn't actually own all the copyrights for the software they were controlling.
If you don't want to build from source, they do offer a pre-built binary for free, or maybe you can convince a developer friend to build it for you.
Either way, there is no bait-and-switch. The source has always been free. They just decided recently to start charging for the process of building and verifying binaries.
I respect your decision, but must ask you to think a bit about the larger picture of GoDaddy themselves.
Not only have they come out in favor of a law that allows any company to claim copyright infringement and get a whole domain blacklisted easily, but GoDaddy has also engaged in other negative customer-hostile acts such as selective DNS "blackouts", which at least in the past resulted in the entire country of China being cut off from all domains using GoDaddy DNS.
They've also been accused of not paying overtime for their employees.
Also, keep in mind that with SOPA, GoDaddy still hasn't made an attempt to have their name removed in Congress as a supporter of the bill, so their "reversal" is just a publicity stunt.
Do you really wish to reward a company that's engaged in some fairly unethical behavior and also some behavior that is targeted specifically toward getting their customers to pay them more by degrading their services unless one pays? The company has shown a pattern of making choices that favor itself at the expense of its customers. SOPA may not be in your circle of concern, but their unethical behavior certainly should be.
The "CPU" that is used in that device won't actually go much beyond 20mbit. It just simply can't handle faster streams, especially if you're using NAT on your internal network. NAT adds a bunch of overhead. Supposedly the GL can go up to 30mbit as it has a newer processor.
On modern Linux DEs, it would be similar to the Alt+F2 shortcut that pulls up the "run command" box. On KDE4, at least, you can do the very same thing by having documents and such show in the results as well. I actually like this change that Microsoft made as it really does improve starting an application or loading a document.
I have the Vibrant (the T-Mobile's variant of the Galaxy S) and have no problems with generic Micro-USB cables. Specifically, I have used the ones sold by Monoprice, and they have a huge block of plastic on them behind the plug instead of the thinness of the one that comes with the phone. Perhaps your cable is malformed in some way. Have you tried a different cable?
HTC uses a special Enhanced mini-USB port. It lets you connect headphones directly, for instance. I'm not sure why they include a special cable when a standard mini-USB would work just as well.
If you don't want to waste time fooling around with the various plugins and don't mind being a bit behind in versions, EasyEclipse is a great package set. Choose which "distribution" you want based on the tasks you'll do with it, and you get a well-tested set of plugins that do the functions you need.
I've moved on from it since I've gotten more used to which tools I actually need, but it's awesome for those just starting with Eclipse.
The thing is, as far as I know, you can't return a house in a few days/weeks and get a full refund. You're stuck with the property. This is a disincentive to do something like that.
Similarly, ICANN feels that they should provide a disincentive for front-running. The root cause is the domain tasting loophole. That provides an incentive for companies like Network Solutions to snatch up a domain and hold it for ransom. After all, if you don't register it in a few days, they get the fee back and don't lose anything.
By removing the fee refund from the picture, this kind of behavior now has a price. For every domain they do this for, they get stuck with a cost of $0.20. At volume, it's an expensive gamble. They'd need one registration in about every 150 domains they front-run (assuming $30 yearly fee) to break even with the costs.
The thing to look at is that the website probably isn't run by News Corporation, but by the company making the drink (assuming this isn't a hoax - however it seems official). Redux Beverages LLC's domain, drinkredux.com, is also registered through GoDaddy and has the same DNS provider.
In general, companies usually use outside services unless their business is Internet stuff.
Also, did anyone notice the "Omni Consumer Products" logo at the bottom left of the Brawndo site? It looks a lot like the OCP logo from the Robocop movies.
To expand on this (for those reading at this deep of a level), the whole monetization of browsers is what helped push IE to be the most popular browser (given, Netscape really messed up with 4.x).
Back in the old days, browsers were pretty much non-free. There was NCSA Mosaic for a while until it was discontinued, but progress moved very fast. Netscape was the most popular replacement, and often had cool innovations that Mosaic didn't. After all, Netscape had full-time developers working on the product. As a result, it cost to use if you weren't an educational institution.
Now, Netscape was making decent money from both their browser and their web server (Netscape Enterprise Server, now Sun Java System Web Server). Companies were buying licenses for their employees, and things were going well. Microsoft rightfully saw this as a threat to their desktop monopoly, and acted.
Microsoft didn't have much time to get a competitor browser out because of the lead Netscape had on them. Microsoft thus turned to Spyglass, a company that had licensed Mosaic for commercial purposes. Under an agreement, Microsoft would pay a certain percentage of sales of their new browser to Spyglass in return for having a commercial license for the code behind Spyglass Mosaic. Thus, Internet Explorer was born. Go look at the about screen in any version of IE, even 7.0. You'll still see the Spyglass reference.
Microsoft had some tricks up its sleeve, however. The first was that Spyglass wouldn't ever see much in the way of payment. As they had agreed to a percentage of sales, their license revenue depended on Microsoft selling the browser. I guess since Netscape was selling their product, Spyglass didn't have reason to doubt Microsoft wouldn't sell their product. However, Microsoft didn't sell IE. Instead, they gave it for free to anyone who wanted it (at least with 2.0, I think 1.0 shipped only with NT 4.0). Thus, Spyglass basically gave away a huge codebase for free. Also, with Microsoft giving away IE, Netscape couldn't really sell their browser anymore. To enhance the hurt, Microsoft made sure that all the popular platforms were covered. There was even an IE for UNIX (released in 1998). Once Netscape was dying, that port was discontinued (around 2001 with the 5.0 line).
Of course, price wasn't the only reason Netscape failed. As I mentioned above, Netscape 4 was awfully buggy with some really strange bugs, where IE was more polished and worked better overall. Part of that was likely the browser wars extending extensions to HTML (embed vs object as an example) at the very least. Also, Netscape did lose a lot of their lead because of the mess of code. It really wasn't until IE 4 where you could say that Internet Explorer was honestly a better browser.
Still, had Microsoft actually charged for their browser, things could be quite different today.
There is actually a really good video up on YouTube that F-Secure posted. It shows how this is actually dynamically generated on the fly and the HTML page is customized based on the browser you use. It is really sophisticated stuff, actually, and likely took some clever coders to develop it.
Some vendors did indeed have subscription licensing, Digital Equipment Corporation being one of them. I remember having to run through a large list of keys to update the license on the components of OpenVMS, only to have to do it again a year later when the pieces didn't want to run because they needed a newer key. I believe that is the case with OpenVMS still. I also recall Computer Associates operating with a similar license model.
Of course, there were also "perpetual" licenses that could be purchased, but they often cost quite a bit up front, and updates were rarely included. They were worth it if you knew you'd be using the software for a long time, when the subscription price grew to be more than the one-time perpetual fee.
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Yeah, if you don't use OS X enough to be familiar with the annoyance, you would probably be confused. It's quite the pain when you're used enough to the way the other OSes handle it and happen to be using OS X.
I think the escape sequences mentioned are similar to what is described here.
Interesting on Firefox behavior. I normally don't use the keyboard for movement there, so I wasn't aware. Besides, the behavior is different depending on where the "focus" is. For example, textboxes in forms grab control of the movement keys. Scrolling with a touch pad or mouse is more consistent.
Concerning VI, "G" in command mode will get you to the last line of the file you are editing. Likewise, "1G" or ":0" (zero) will take you to the first line. Similarly, ^ and $ will take you to the beginning and end of the current line in command mode. If you're not familiar with all the text movement options, I highly suggest learning as it makes things like deleting 10 lines at once very easy.
Oh, thanks for the information. I don't work all that often in OS X, so I wasn't aware of that modifier. I'd personally like the behavior the other way around, but it is what it is.
The issue the parent had is that certain keys on the keyboard behave different from how UNIX and Windows traditionally handle them. For instance, PgUp and PgDown only scroll the viewport. They do not move the cursor. The fun is when you're very used to the cursor moving and then press one of the directional arrows to find you're back in the original position. You have to remember to click the mouse in the document to re-set the cursor position. Likewise, Home and End move the viewport to the very top and bottom of the viewport, not the expected beginning and ending of the line, if you're in a multi-line textbox.
So, while the keys do work, they are quite different from other OSes out there, leading to some very annoying behavior if you're keyboard-centric.
That e-mail was written in 2010, after Oracle started the whole litigation deal. The explanation is that the enginer had looked over things and just taking a license, if it had to be done, was going to be less painful than essentially rewriting the whole platform.
I wonder how the license for their software would work with the App Store.
I know that there are, or were, problems under the GPL, but potentially the binary they provide could be licensed solely under the MPL. Growl is BSD, so there isn't really a problem there.
Yeah, there was a lot of confusion when the change happened. I think the support issues with Snow Leopard were due to the whole sandboxing thing Apple announced with the App Store, but I'm not entirely sure on that since I don't touch OS X all that often.
I do agree with the basic argument and think it entirely disingenous when a company or group pulls that kind of thing. A good example, although old, is the case of Sveasoft and the GPL. That whole situation wound up getting pretty bad as the owner started attempting to wring money from the software by putting kill switches in the firmware and blocking customers who released the GPL source code. Even worse in that case was that the owner didn't actually own all the copyrights for the software they were controlling.
Growl is still open source, you can find it over at https://code.google.com/p/growl/ and build the source code using the instructions at http://growl.info/documentation/developer/growl-source-install.php. The source tracks the official releases from the developers and is still BSD licensed.
If you don't want to build from source, they do offer a pre-built binary for free, or maybe you can convince a developer friend to build it for you.
Either way, there is no bait-and-switch. The source has always been free. They just decided recently to start charging for the process of building and verifying binaries.
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I respect your decision, but must ask you to think a bit about the larger picture of GoDaddy themselves.
Not only have they come out in favor of a law that allows any company to claim copyright infringement and get a whole domain blacklisted easily, but GoDaddy has also engaged in other negative customer-hostile acts such as selective DNS "blackouts", which at least in the past resulted in the entire country of China being cut off from all domains using GoDaddy DNS.
They've also been accused of not paying overtime for their employees.
Also, keep in mind that with SOPA, GoDaddy still hasn't made an attempt to have their name removed in Congress as a supporter of the bill, so their "reversal" is just a publicity stunt.
Do you really wish to reward a company that's engaged in some fairly unethical behavior and also some behavior that is targeted specifically toward getting their customers to pay them more by degrading their services unless one pays? The company has shown a pattern of making choices that favor itself at the expense of its customers. SOPA may not be in your circle of concern, but their unethical behavior certainly should be.
Still, at the end of the day it is your choice.
The "CPU" that is used in that device won't actually go much beyond 20mbit. It just simply can't handle faster streams, especially if you're using NAT on your internal network. NAT adds a bunch of overhead. Supposedly the GL can go up to 30mbit as it has a newer processor.
On modern Linux DEs, it would be similar to the Alt+F2 shortcut that pulls up the "run command" box. On KDE4, at least, you can do the very same thing by having documents and such show in the results as well. I actually like this change that Microsoft made as it really does improve starting an application or loading a document.
Odd. Maybe it's just the shape/size of the casing on the Captivate. I have the same little door but haven't had the issues you describe.
Comparisons:
Top of the Captivate
Top of the Vibrant
I have the Vibrant (the T-Mobile's variant of the Galaxy S) and have no problems with generic Micro-USB cables. Specifically, I have used the ones sold by Monoprice, and they have a huge block of plastic on them behind the plug instead of the thinness of the one that comes with the phone. Perhaps your cable is malformed in some way. Have you tried a different cable?
HTC uses a special Enhanced mini-USB port. It lets you connect headphones directly, for instance. I'm not sure why they include a special cable when a standard mini-USB would work just as well.
GarageBad? Does that happen to be the software StrongBad uses to compose music?
So, like Debian Unstable or Gentoo?
If you don't want to waste time fooling around with the various plugins and don't mind being a bit behind in versions, EasyEclipse is a great package set. Choose which "distribution" you want based on the tasks you'll do with it, and you get a well-tested set of plugins that do the functions you need.
I've moved on from it since I've gotten more used to which tools I actually need, but it's awesome for those just starting with Eclipse.
The thing is, as far as I know, you can't return a house in a few days/weeks and get a full refund. You're stuck with the property. This is a disincentive to do something like that.
Similarly, ICANN feels that they should provide a disincentive for front-running. The root cause is the domain tasting loophole. That provides an incentive for companies like Network Solutions to snatch up a domain and hold it for ransom. After all, if you don't register it in a few days, they get the fee back and don't lose anything.
By removing the fee refund from the picture, this kind of behavior now has a price. For every domain they do this for, they get stuck with a cost of $0.20. At volume, it's an expensive gamble. They'd need one registration in about every 150 domains they front-run (assuming $30 yearly fee) to break even with the costs.
I'm guessing they either forced the mode (maybe via a setting) or tested before they implemented this method of switching engines.
It really depends.
The thing to look at is that the website probably isn't run by News Corporation, but by the company making the drink (assuming this isn't a hoax - however it seems official). Redux Beverages LLC's domain, drinkredux.com, is also registered through GoDaddy and has the same DNS provider.
In general, companies usually use outside services unless their business is Internet stuff.
Also, did anyone notice the "Omni Consumer Products" logo at the bottom left of the Brawndo site? It looks a lot like the OCP logo from the Robocop movies.
To expand on this (for those reading at this deep of a level), the whole monetization of browsers is what helped push IE to be the most popular browser (given, Netscape really messed up with 4.x).
Back in the old days, browsers were pretty much non-free. There was NCSA Mosaic for a while until it was discontinued, but progress moved very fast. Netscape was the most popular replacement, and often had cool innovations that Mosaic didn't. After all, Netscape had full-time developers working on the product. As a result, it cost to use if you weren't an educational institution.
Now, Netscape was making decent money from both their browser and their web server (Netscape Enterprise Server, now Sun Java System Web Server). Companies were buying licenses for their employees, and things were going well. Microsoft rightfully saw this as a threat to their desktop monopoly, and acted.
Microsoft didn't have much time to get a competitor browser out because of the lead Netscape had on them. Microsoft thus turned to Spyglass, a company that had licensed Mosaic for commercial purposes. Under an agreement, Microsoft would pay a certain percentage of sales of their new browser to Spyglass in return for having a commercial license for the code behind Spyglass Mosaic. Thus, Internet Explorer was born. Go look at the about screen in any version of IE, even 7.0. You'll still see the Spyglass reference.
Microsoft had some tricks up its sleeve, however. The first was that Spyglass wouldn't ever see much in the way of payment. As they had agreed to a percentage of sales, their license revenue depended on Microsoft selling the browser. I guess since Netscape was selling their product, Spyglass didn't have reason to doubt Microsoft wouldn't sell their product. However, Microsoft didn't sell IE. Instead, they gave it for free to anyone who wanted it (at least with 2.0, I think 1.0 shipped only with NT 4.0). Thus, Spyglass basically gave away a huge codebase for free. Also, with Microsoft giving away IE, Netscape couldn't really sell their browser anymore. To enhance the hurt, Microsoft made sure that all the popular platforms were covered. There was even an IE for UNIX (released in 1998). Once Netscape was dying, that port was discontinued (around 2001 with the 5.0 line).
Of course, price wasn't the only reason Netscape failed. As I mentioned above, Netscape 4 was awfully buggy with some really strange bugs, where IE was more polished and worked better overall. Part of that was likely the browser wars extending extensions to HTML (embed vs object as an example) at the very least. Also, Netscape did lose a lot of their lead because of the mess of code. It really wasn't until IE 4 where you could say that Internet Explorer was honestly a better browser.
Still, had Microsoft actually charged for their browser, things could be quite different today.
Sorry, I posted the wrong link. This is the correct link.
There is actually a really good video up on YouTube that F-Secure posted. It shows how this is actually dynamically generated on the fly and the HTML page is customized based on the browser you use. It is really sophisticated stuff, actually, and likely took some clever coders to develop it.
Not entirely correct.
Some vendors did indeed have subscription licensing, Digital Equipment Corporation being one of them. I remember having to run through a large list of keys to update the license on the components of OpenVMS, only to have to do it again a year later when the pieces didn't want to run because they needed a newer key. I believe that is the case with OpenVMS still. I also recall Computer Associates operating with a similar license model.
Of course, there were also "perpetual" licenses that could be purchased, but they often cost quite a bit up front, and updates were rarely included. They were worth it if you knew you'd be using the software for a long time, when the subscription price grew to be more than the one-time perpetual fee.