Can you find a single highly successful person in IT, from Jimmy Wales to Jeff Bezos to BGates to Steve Jobs to the Google Guys, who believes in your paranoia against foreigners? ONE PERSON? A single one?
My visa was over USD1000, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, I am a professor in Brazil and my visa had expired. I could go to the embassy in Rio, where they would take something like 6 months to interview me. I had a conference I wanted to go, so I jump on a plane and fly across half of Brazil to get a visa in Brasilia, where it takes a day. Total cost, 120USD for tourist and business visa, 900USD for ticket, and 130USD for the hotel stay.
Seriously, there are few people who would bother. This thing has SERIOUS long term implications for America. (Oh, by America I mean only the US).
Apple really does have an incredible buisness model.
Lesser companies work out what people want then try to provide that to them at the lowest cost.
Apple tells it's fans what they should want and then sells it to them for a remarkably high price.
I never would have thought such a system would work.
New packaging, same product, poorly written software.
Look if they took vista, and put out a version that you could strip the DRM, indexing, firewall, and was backwards compatible all the way to DOS then I would buy it at a fair price.
Right now they want me to pay for services I don't like at a price thats too high. You can dress it up all you want, I still wont buy.
To say the name Microsoft today is equal to speak of the Devil.
The company whose name we may not mention should just break up under a totally different name. That would be a breath of fresh air. It could be something such as the "Dharma initiative" or maybe "Nova Prospekt" or even "the Gitmo Software Foundation".
...a 19 year old Finnish student has embarked on a project to learn more about his computer by writing a kernel.
No really though, I remember reading about this or something similar years ago.
it was a guy named linux, and he's from filipines. The system was named penguin, AFAIK.
They can't protect the code, but they can protect TRADEMARKS. Let's a company like NVIDIA or SONY brought their own desktop version of Linux, called something like "Protocol NVidia" or whatever. Anyone would be able to recompile and give it away, but they could not redistribute it with the trademark. So I think that there is, today, an open space for some hardware providers to come up with a cool distro under their trademark, and be able to make a buck with it. (Of course, nothing will ever be as huge as MS, but that's history in any case; licenses to print money are becoming more exclusive to governments nowadays).
That page shows something really clearly: They have absolutely no focus whatsoever. While others might be working on advancing the state of the art in an area, MS is doing all kinds of shit in all kinds of areas. Great way to spend money and find intriguing scientific results.
But contrast that to Apple's R&D, which is much more focused in products. Of course, the windows tax has enabled MS to pull that off, but these Billions of dollars are very likely to dry off in the coming years. They are simply not converting them into innovative products.
No luck here. Tried iAtkos, Kalyway, Jas, and other distros, but it won't even install under VirtualBox. There is a WMWare osX86 going around the cybertubes but it is the slowest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. even the amplifications of dock icons are slow motion, and full of freezes.
It would be really cool to have that, But I don't see it happening soon... And I have WASTED my time on the task, sir.
I have a macbook air and a hackintosh running a copy of xp that fell of a truck or something, and it is beautiful and smooth. Just install the thing, then install the guest OS tools, and you'll have fullscreen, mouse integration, etcetera. Beautiful.
Have you looked at what the open source version of virtualbox currently lacks?
VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and supports passing through USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices to virtual machines.
I could understand iSCSI and RDP, but c'mon, USB too!
To me they're just trying to get good PR from the Open Source community for an almost unusable piece of software, to push the closed source version. While certainly much better than Microsoft, Apple and others, that's still not open enough for me.
If you're thinking about external drives, you can easily bypass that, as I do. Just get your usb drive as a shared folder and it appears inside the VM. If the USB is for wifi, the host OS handles it, and the guest gets it free. I haven't seen any problem with that, though I agree it may be sort of stupid. Average Joes will become frustrated and move away, probably not to the paid version of VirtualBox, but to WM or to Parallels.
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Can you find a single highly successful person in IT, from Jimmy Wales to Jeff Bezos to BGates to Steve Jobs to the Google Guys, who believes in your paranoia against foreigners? ONE PERSON? A single one?
foreigners? BAH shouldn't DHS keep them all out?
Calm down, they are forwarding them to the Gitmo bay summer resort internships.
I'm from Canada, and my visa cost $56
My visa was over USD1000, you insensitive clod! Seriously, I am a professor in Brazil and my visa had expired. I could go to the embassy in Rio, where they would take something like 6 months to interview me. I had a conference I wanted to go, so I jump on a plane and fly across half of Brazil to get a visa in Brasilia, where it takes a day. Total cost, 120USD for tourist and business visa, 900USD for ticket, and 130USD for the hotel stay. Seriously, there are few people who would bother. This thing has SERIOUS long term implications for America. (Oh, by America I mean only the US).
Yes, and why the hell would I want either of those?
perhaps because of, hmm, this?
It works very well, it has a pleasing form factor and yes it is expensive, but not outrageously so.
Seriously?
500 gets you this
Meanwhile, 1799 gets you this (and I have one).
All your apps are belong to us!
Apple really does have an incredible buisness model. Lesser companies work out what people want then try to provide that to them at the lowest cost. Apple tells it's fans what they should want and then sells it to them for a remarkably high price. I never would have thought such a system would work.
That business model is called religion.
I bought one, you insensitive clod!
Don't mod funny; it's a serious post.
New packaging, same product, poorly written software. Look if they took vista, and put out a version that you could strip the DRM, indexing, firewall, and was backwards compatible all the way to DOS then I would buy it at a fair price. Right now they want me to pay for services I don't like at a price thats too high. You can dress it up all you want, I still wont buy.
I'll sell you that blank cd, brother.
To say the name Microsoft today is equal to speak of the Devil.
The company whose name we may not mention should just break up under a totally different name. That would be a breath of fresh air. It could be something such as the "Dharma initiative" or maybe "Nova Prospekt" or even "the Gitmo Software Foundation".
...a 19 year old Finnish student has embarked on a project to learn more about his computer by writing a kernel. No really though, I remember reading about this or something similar years ago.
it was a guy named linux, and he's from filipines. The system was named penguin, AFAIK.
you must be new here
Look at his UID then look at yours... too bad you can't undo a post, eh Junior?
Pentium bug.
Do you do this when traveling into Europe? Most countries in Europe already had laws similar to this already in place.
No they do not.
Here's the white house plan.
You must be new here
Hillary knows what you mean.
They can't protect the code, but they can protect TRADEMARKS. Let's a company like NVIDIA or SONY brought their own desktop version of Linux, called something like "Protocol NVidia" or whatever. Anyone would be able to recompile and give it away, but they could not redistribute it with the trademark. So I think that there is, today, an open space for some hardware providers to come up with a cool distro under their trademark, and be able to make a buck with it. (Of course, nothing will ever be as huge as MS, but that's history in any case; licenses to print money are becoming more exclusive to governments nowadays).
That page shows something really clearly: They have absolutely no focus whatsoever. While others might be working on advancing the state of the art in an area, MS is doing all kinds of shit in all kinds of areas. Great way to spend money and find intriguing scientific results.
But contrast that to Apple's R&D, which is much more focused in products. Of course, the windows tax has enabled MS to pull that off, but these Billions of dollars are very likely to dry off in the coming years. They are simply not converting them into innovative products.
Just take a look at this video, in which he practically destroys arguments against microsoft's open-source positions.
No luck here. Tried iAtkos, Kalyway, Jas, and other distros, but it won't even install under VirtualBox. There is a WMWare osX86 going around the cybertubes but it is the slowest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. even the amplifications of dock icons are slow motion, and full of freezes.
It would be really cool to have that, But I don't see it happening soon... And I have WASTED my time on the task, sir.
I have a macbook air and a hackintosh running a copy of xp that fell of a truck or something, and it is beautiful and smooth. Just install the thing, then install the guest OS tools, and you'll have fullscreen, mouse integration, etcetera. Beautiful.
MOD PARENT UP!
Have you looked at what the open source version of virtualbox currently lacks?
VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and supports passing through USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices to virtual machines.
I could understand iSCSI and RDP, but c'mon, USB too! To me they're just trying to get good PR from the Open Source community for an almost unusable piece of software, to push the closed source version. While certainly much better than Microsoft, Apple and others, that's still not open enough for me.
If you're thinking about external drives, you can easily bypass that, as I do. Just get your usb drive as a shared folder and it appears inside the VM. If the USB is for wifi, the host OS handles it, and the guest gets it free. I haven't seen any problem with that, though I agree it may be sort of stupid. Average Joes will become frustrated and move away, probably not to the paid version of VirtualBox, but to WM or to Parallels.