or Kumo or whatever R&D into how or whoever is going to change our lives. I'll settled for just decent help documentation and semi-usable help search, from any software vendor. Please.
Think Google already does that with their Chrome, Desktop, and Updater apps on your machine. Problem I have is how the author dismiss MOST of the issues and purpose off hand with an over-simplified sentence: "Aside from storing and distributing the data the most expensive part of any job is the CPU time..." (my emphasis). The LHC project would've given us a chance to test the capability of one of the world's biggest Grid infrastructure - if it ever run in production. P2P does not a Super-Computer/Search Engine make.
Most popular mature application has a scripting interface. Like it or not, if MSFT cannot kill JavaScript, it is here to stay. But to condamn JS straight away is like saying no language - C/C++/C#/Java/etc. - can and ever should evolve. Might as well belittle Ruby/Perl too since they cannot even render a web page without HTML/CSS. So is proprietary plug-in like Adobe Flash/Flex your preference? Just get rid of browsers altogether and implemnet custom HTTP interface in each app?
... or idealists vs. realists... all these simple categories are already out-dated. The old scams are failing us left and right, whether they are from the Left or Right. Nobody has figured out the right FOSS business model yet. We need some fresh ideas or at least the Next Bubble.
One thing's for sure, when all the cyber attacks are coming from countries shielded behind custom Unix/Linux variants, the Feds will have no choice but to recruit similar skills to protect the government and consumer systems in the West.
This is just business as usual. Red Hat probably figured that at least some Windows interop would give IT reason to virtualize on top of RH. Windows just want a presences on servers, by any means. Today virtualization is about hosting multiple OSs, but the real need behind virtualization is the incompatibility of software applications. If virtualization is really going to push computing forward, they should make it OS-free - just run Windows software without Windows. Anything else means you are still supporting Windows.
I just thought Marissa Mayer gets to decide what flies or not.
At Microsoft, you would need another 20% time for project management to decide what resources to recruit, how to recruit them, schedule the recruitment, and create a matrix to determine whether their 20% time was paying off.
Hardware vendors don't care about OS or software quality. The only reason for this fight is GREED. They see Apple fans are loyal customers and they want a piece of the pie. They don't like the fact that MSFT through its 90% desktop OS MONOPOLY has them by the balls. If you love Mac OS so much Hackintosh it. If Psystar/Dell or whoever wants to prove a point they can put up all their resource to promote and sell a Linux OS Desktop FRONT AND CENTER - but they won't, will they? And for those who say Apple doesn't give back to open source - WebKit will rule the Mobile, and who put in the most effort to make it the most standard compliant browser? - also keeping shit like Flash or Silverlight from making common web standards obsolete. Not to mention contributions to other fundamental development like OpenCL and LLVM that will benefit computing overall. When Chrome finally becomes practically the browser OS, people will give credit to Google but not Apple. If open source authors don't want to port their code to Mac OS they don't have to. Why do they do it for Windows but never ask MSFT for *contribution back*? Contribution goes both ways - Has Psystar posted all their engineering techniques openly on the web for everyone to openly try to install OS X? Would Google post their source code for their search engine? Why is Apple always the only one mentioned as taking from open source and not give enough back? I wouldn't trade my MacBook Pro for savings on cheaper HP or Dell crap even if they come with OS X. Pay enough price for shitware workmanship already. Race to the bottom only means everybody gets shit. Apple is not Google and is not Linux. You cannot apply the same business model.
Lack of originality never stopped Hollywood (i.e. any corporation) from doing a project. I suspect this derivative will be as good as the financial package type.
This is a true story: 6 mo. ago I got a new xp pro box at work. After I installed IE8 beta I started getting BSOD in the mornings when I came in, like Windows was doing something in the middle of the night and just froze. IT support took the box away and could not find anything wrong so they brought it back but mentioned that they noticed there was a new IE 8 "update" so they installed it. I booted it up and lo and behold IE6 is now the default browser, and no matter what I do I cannot get it to upgrade to IE7. The installer would just quit before it's finished. Finally had to re-image the machine.
What I'm saying is - if there is ANYTHING that will convince most IT shops to move away from IE 6 finally would be a relief for me as a web developer and for most PC users in general. (kinda like saying Windows 7 HAS to be better than Vista, right?)
If you are made to WAIT or WORK just to PAY somebody for something, I'd say that somebody does not deserve your business. Move on. It will be better for Capitalism and free market competition in the end. The big business and corporations of this country have trained people to believe they actually have to suffer to give their hard earned money to a buy crap. In a real competitive market, if you walk in a restaurant and there is a line, you just go next door or down the street and the second place would be just as good and have a table ready. If that is not the case the so-called free market you think we have is really just an illusion put in place by poeple who benefit from less competition. If conditioning and mass delusion were not powerful forces, 90% desktop PC's would not be running Windows, and the so-called credit crisis would be recognized the fraud that it is. If I spend 1 minute on Best Buy or Amazon and cannot find what I want at the price I want, I just go somewhere else. Your time is worth more $$$ than messing around with 3rd party APIs for free unless they are giving you a cut.
OOs is usable. I appreciate it at home on non-Windows machines. As a programmer I don't do Office much. I made up my mind to stop using MS Office more than 2 years ago unless I absolutely have to (like my timesheet or open an Access db file). Nobody knows I'm getting away with using OOo or Google Docs most of the time. It's amazing how much you can do without (like other aspects in life).
The thing that really concerns me is this Quixotic quest to match MS Office. By the time OOo v.X is "as good as Office", Office would already be living and moving most of its paid users to the cloud (or whatever web+mobile platform MSFT is moving to). Sun used to have a motto: "we are the 'dot' in 'dot-com'". For all the money and time it could have thrown at the problem, the Dot was stuck on the desktop. Good for Ubuntu I guess. Let's hope it survives on netbooks. (Doubt Negroponte will ever use it.)
The question still remains - why would anyone need to upgrade even when Vista SP2/Win7 comes out? In this tech maturity and economic times, companies and individuals need a compelling reason to shell out the money and pain to upgrade an OS. I cannot think of any. Fancy GUI and pseudo-security improvements are not compelling reasons. I think MSFT faces the same problem Sony has with PS3 vs. PS2.
If it were truly serious, Apple Board would not be doing their fiduciary duty to keep it a secret. What I'm amazed at is the interesting timing, which has been one of Jobs' key strengths since his return to Apple. With the economy in a lull and no serious threat from rival companies, and major products for the year already planned and in works - if there is a good time to step aside to take a break and also evaluate his succession team's performance while alive - this is it. Don't count out Apple's penchant for drama and marketing, using Jobs return mid-year to boost other product announcements and take the wind out of the sail of every other tech company again. What does Arnie say as the Terminator...?
Emails are outdated. So much IT energy is spent administering it is a joke. Yet still at my work the email quotas are limiting, the backup/archiving a pain, and project/task messages have no business staying in a email database format. We need a smarter messaging system more like a blog/RSS or forum like this. It's not up to you to spam everyone if you want everyone to read a message. Right now our email system is as wasteful as snail mail - you seem to have no right to refuse junk mail. It just creates more garbage and wasted trees, and fighting it will take up all your time.
Somehow I think some criminal rings are just waiting for the authorities to hack into their booby-trapped PCs to upload some specially designed packages to infect the intruder.
Like pro sports and communism, positive change only happens after the people at the top changes first. Average software use is 1 or 2 versions behind, so most software a company relies on for daily production business still run perfectly on XP and average users do not want change. IT policies and governance are not decided by the cost of software and equipment. If it was that simple FOSS would've dominated already. Top execs look at what system their peers and industry run and conform to the average standard. All the money spent on more recent Windows Server and MS SQL upgrades in the last couple of years means most Windows shops will just bear down and keep the same HW/SW running for the next couple of years. The most promising avenue for Linux growth is where IT shops look years down the road and decided the ever growing TCO for running your own systems is simply unsustainable, and opt for EC2 or similar future solutions.
Linux and FOSS should have formed the foundation of 90% of cloud computing for the next decade. Imagine where Open Office could have been if Sun+IBM had invested in building it as online app instead of trying to (still) catch up to MS Office. Now MS has woken up and started to focus away from the desktop, OOo and the like are too late, when it could have been years ahead of the game. I hate to say it, but seems the only company with FOSS savvy that knows how to target where users will be tomorrow instead of where we've already been is Google.
for "Anonymous/password1". Time for all the breast-feeding pics posting moms on Facebook to give up their dirty accounts.
Seriously, soon the catch-all term will be "moral offenders" and half of you foul-mouth slashdotters will have to give up your late-night pissing passion. What do you think our "legislators" do all day while their aids and lobbyist write and broker all the laws? How about "hmmm how can I appear tough on crime, create jobs (busywork), and squeeze more contribution from various groups?" Somebody's got to create a new system to track and maintain this secret info. Like the billion dollar data mining projects that has kept us safe and the wrong people from boarding planes (riiight). I'm sure a few db vendors and contractors are happy to hear the news. Surely none of those people ever abuse their security privileges to surf porn with company equipment.
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or Kumo or whatever R&D into how or whoever is going to change our lives. I'll settled for just decent help documentation and semi-usable help search, from any software vendor. Please.
Think Google already does that with their Chrome, Desktop, and Updater apps on your machine. Problem I have is how the author dismiss MOST of the issues and purpose off hand with an over-simplified sentence: "Aside from storing and distributing the data the most expensive part of any job is the CPU time..." (my emphasis). The LHC project would've given us a chance to test the capability of one of the world's biggest Grid infrastructure - if it ever run in production. P2P does not a Super-Computer/Search Engine make.
Most popular mature application has a scripting interface. Like it or not, if MSFT cannot kill JavaScript, it is here to stay. But to condamn JS straight away is like saying no language - C/C++/C#/Java/etc. - can and ever should evolve. Might as well belittle Ruby/Perl too since they cannot even render a web page without HTML/CSS. So is proprietary plug-in like Adobe Flash/Flex your preference? Just get rid of browsers altogether and implemnet custom HTTP interface in each app?
... or idealists vs. realists... all these simple categories are already out-dated. The old scams are failing us left and right, whether they are from the Left or Right. Nobody has figured out the right FOSS business model yet. We need some fresh ideas or at least the Next Bubble.
One thing's for sure, when all the cyber attacks are coming from countries shielded behind custom Unix/Linux variants, the Feds will have no choice but to recruit similar skills to protect the government and consumer systems in the West.
This is just business as usual. Red Hat probably figured that at least some Windows interop would give IT reason to virtualize on top of RH. Windows just want a presences on servers, by any means. Today virtualization is about hosting multiple OSs, but the real need behind virtualization is the incompatibility of software applications. If virtualization is really going to push computing forward, they should make it OS-free - just run Windows software without Windows. Anything else means you are still supporting Windows.
I just thought Marissa Mayer gets to decide what flies or not.
At Microsoft, you would need another 20% time for project management to decide what resources to recruit, how to recruit them, schedule the recruitment, and create a matrix to determine whether their 20% time was paying off.
More members to join the losing RIAA team in digital rights restriction syndrome.
Hardware vendors don't care about OS or software quality. The only reason for this fight is GREED. They see Apple fans are loyal customers and they want a piece of the pie. They don't like the fact that MSFT through its 90% desktop OS MONOPOLY has them by the balls. If you love Mac OS so much Hackintosh it. If Psystar/Dell or whoever wants to prove a point they can put up all their resource to promote and sell a Linux OS Desktop FRONT AND CENTER - but they won't, will they? And for those who say Apple doesn't give back to open source - WebKit will rule the Mobile, and who put in the most effort to make it the most standard compliant browser? - also keeping shit like Flash or Silverlight from making common web standards obsolete. Not to mention contributions to other fundamental development like OpenCL and LLVM that will benefit computing overall. When Chrome finally becomes practically the browser OS, people will give credit to Google but not Apple. If open source authors don't want to port their code to Mac OS they don't have to. Why do they do it for Windows but never ask MSFT for *contribution back*? Contribution goes both ways - Has Psystar posted all their engineering techniques openly on the web for everyone to openly try to install OS X? Would Google post their source code for their search engine? Why is Apple always the only one mentioned as taking from open source and not give enough back? I wouldn't trade my MacBook Pro for savings on cheaper HP or Dell crap even if they come with OS X. Pay enough price for shitware workmanship already. Race to the bottom only means everybody gets shit. Apple is not Google and is not Linux. You cannot apply the same business model.
It's called the financial market.
Lack of originality never stopped Hollywood (i.e. any corporation) from doing a project. I suspect this derivative will be as good as the financial package type.
This is a true story: 6 mo. ago I got a new xp pro box at work. After I installed IE8 beta I started getting BSOD in the mornings when I came in, like Windows was doing something in the middle of the night and just froze. IT support took the box away and could not find anything wrong so they brought it back but mentioned that they noticed there was a new IE 8 "update" so they installed it. I booted it up and lo and behold IE6 is now the default browser, and no matter what I do I cannot get it to upgrade to IE7. The installer would just quit before it's finished. Finally had to re-image the machine.
What I'm saying is - if there is ANYTHING that will convince most IT shops to move away from IE 6 finally would be a relief for me as a web developer and for most PC users in general. (kinda like saying Windows 7 HAS to be better than Vista, right?)
If you are made to WAIT or WORK just to PAY somebody for something, I'd say that somebody does not deserve your business. Move on. It will be better for Capitalism and free market competition in the end. The big business and corporations of this country have trained people to believe they actually have to suffer to give their hard earned money to a buy crap. In a real competitive market, if you walk in a restaurant and there is a line, you just go next door or down the street and the second place would be just as good and have a table ready. If that is not the case the so-called free market you think we have is really just an illusion put in place by poeple who benefit from less competition. If conditioning and mass delusion were not powerful forces, 90% desktop PC's would not be running Windows, and the so-called credit crisis would be recognized the fraud that it is. If I spend 1 minute on Best Buy or Amazon and cannot find what I want at the price I want, I just go somewhere else. Your time is worth more $$$ than messing around with 3rd party APIs for free unless they are giving you a cut.
... every developer gets a job, but each one will do it real half-assed.
OOs is usable. I appreciate it at home on non-Windows machines. As a programmer I don't do Office much. I made up my mind to stop using MS Office more than 2 years ago unless I absolutely have to (like my timesheet or open an Access db file). Nobody knows I'm getting away with using OOo or Google Docs most of the time. It's amazing how much you can do without (like other aspects in life).
The thing that really concerns me is this Quixotic quest to match MS Office. By the time OOo v.X is "as good as Office", Office would already be living and moving most of its paid users to the cloud (or whatever web+mobile platform MSFT is moving to). Sun used to have a motto: "we are the 'dot' in 'dot-com'". For all the money and time it could have thrown at the problem, the Dot was stuck on the desktop. Good for Ubuntu I guess. Let's hope it survives on netbooks. (Doubt Negroponte will ever use it.)
It's only beta; give MSFT and its vendors time.
The question still remains - why would anyone need to upgrade even when Vista SP2/Win7 comes out? In this tech maturity and economic times, companies and individuals need a compelling reason to shell out the money and pain to upgrade an OS. I cannot think of any. Fancy GUI and pseudo-security improvements are not compelling reasons. I think MSFT faces the same problem Sony has with PS3 vs. PS2.
If it were truly serious, Apple Board would not be doing their fiduciary duty to keep it a secret. What I'm amazed at is the interesting timing, which has been one of Jobs' key strengths since his return to Apple. With the economy in a lull and no serious threat from rival companies, and major products for the year already planned and in works - if there is a good time to step aside to take a break and also evaluate his succession team's performance while alive - this is it. Don't count out Apple's penchant for drama and marketing, using Jobs return mid-year to boost other product announcements and take the wind out of the sail of every other tech company again. What does Arnie say as the Terminator...?
is a tag that will create an infinite loop in the server farm. Didn't Jordi use that as an unsolvable puzzle to defeat the Borg?
Emails are outdated. So much IT energy is spent administering it is a joke. Yet still at my work the email quotas are limiting, the backup/archiving a pain, and project/task messages have no business staying in a email database format. We need a smarter messaging system more like a blog/RSS or forum like this. It's not up to you to spam everyone if you want everyone to read a message. Right now our email system is as wasteful as snail mail - you seem to have no right to refuse junk mail. It just creates more garbage and wasted trees, and fighting it will take up all your time.
Somehow I think some criminal rings are just waiting for the authorities to hack into their booby-trapped PCs to upload some specially designed packages to infect the intruder.
And who uses Windows CE?
Like pro sports and communism, positive change only happens after the people at the top changes first. Average software use is 1 or 2 versions behind, so most software a company relies on for daily production business still run perfectly on XP and average users do not want change. IT policies and governance are not decided by the cost of software and equipment. If it was that simple FOSS would've dominated already. Top execs look at what system their peers and industry run and conform to the average standard. All the money spent on more recent Windows Server and MS SQL upgrades in the last couple of years means most Windows shops will just bear down and keep the same HW/SW running for the next couple of years. The most promising avenue for Linux growth is where IT shops look years down the road and decided the ever growing TCO for running your own systems is simply unsustainable, and opt for EC2 or similar future solutions. Linux and FOSS should have formed the foundation of 90% of cloud computing for the next decade. Imagine where Open Office could have been if Sun+IBM had invested in building it as online app instead of trying to (still) catch up to MS Office. Now MS has woken up and started to focus away from the desktop, OOo and the like are too late, when it could have been years ahead of the game. I hate to say it, but seems the only company with FOSS savvy that knows how to target where users will be tomorrow instead of where we've already been is Google.
Anybody actually believes in others' test results or anecdotal evidence on any technology over his own experience?
for "Anonymous/password1". Time for all the breast-feeding pics posting moms on Facebook to give up their dirty accounts.
Seriously, soon the catch-all term will be "moral offenders" and half of you foul-mouth slashdotters will have to give up your late-night pissing passion. What do you think our "legislators" do all day while their aids and lobbyist write and broker all the laws? How about "hmmm how can I appear tough on crime, create jobs (busywork), and squeeze more contribution from various groups?" Somebody's got to create a new system to track and maintain this secret info. Like the billion dollar data mining projects that has kept us safe and the wrong people from boarding planes (riiight). I'm sure a few db vendors and contractors are happy to hear the news. Surely none of those people ever abuse their security privileges to surf porn with company equipment.
Another fine example of open source advocates putting a lot of effort and energy all in the wrong places.
If true this should be yet another slice off Sun's stocks.
Perhaps we can create games that's not only entertaining but challenge the gamers to create things or find solutions that can benefit the society.