What could possibly count as a cyber 9/11? Honestly, other then security holes that need to be patched and some government's website being hacked, there isn't much that can go wrong with the web that isn't already happening or has happened before.
I sorta wondered that too. But with C64 games appearing on the Virtual Console for the Wii, (in Europe, not in America), licensing issues may be a problem. In the case of the Apple II, Apple really doesn't care.
That was how it was with Dell and most of the other major computer makers. Vista is and was a failure, because no one wanted Vista, they weren't selling many computers, so it became worthwhile to investigate Linux, because they started selling Linux, Dell is probably one of the top computer makers someone using Linux will look at, because of that other computer makers did and will continue to. Salespeople usually don't have a clue what they are talking about. I asked one what the clock speed was on one CPU, he replied, "Eastern standard time".
That is partially because A) EEEs come with Linux by default and B) XP is a whole lot harder to install then Ubuntu. First, the average person who spent extra $$$ for XP usually needs XP for something, someone who bought an EEE with Linux could have just bought it for the price, and are shocked that there is an OS other than Windows.
Sure, for the people who can actually install an OS that would be great, but for the rest of the population who don't even know how to install Ubuntu, let alone XP, I think that they would pay $50 something to have it installed.
My guess is most stay Linux, however, I bet a lot of the ones pre-installed with Windows change to Linux.
Right now, an EEE is just about the only thing you can buy at like Best Buy and have it have Linux. But Dell has a lot, but honestly, EEEs aren't that popular, so far I'm the only one I know in real life that has one, though a friend of mine broke her laptop so she is getting one.
Here in the US, even with all the evils of Comcast and Time Warner, for every ISP other than dial-up ones, you just plug in a cheap Linksys router into the cable box and you are good to go.
With DRM/TPMs being legally protected now there's a big push in the copyright industry to move to protected digital forms. When content is surrounded by DRM/TPMs then they can remove fair use or anything that law makers provide.
With DRM/TPMs being legally protected, there now is a larger hacking movement then ever to sabotage DRM schemes before they are even released.
What Flash release? On some such as Flash 9 release 115 I got a major CPU leak (yes, it was 80% on a banner ad) on both my box running 32-Bit Xubuntu (1.8 Ghz Celeron with 512 MB of RAM) and my laptop running 32-Bit Ubuntu (1.5 Ghz Pentium M with 512 MB of RAM).
Yes there is, the difference is, it can't be written by MS. A small team of hackers could probably code a decent OS that is web based, but as MS has shown us, they are incapable of coding for the present generation of hardware, so the OS they make won't be usable until everyone has 50 MB/Second connections.
This isn't going to happen. By the time that Windows has lost most marketshare, MS will be regarded as dying if not dead. It is then that MS will release this, and assuming it is pay to use, with a subscription, a lot of people will wonder if MS will go bankrupt and not use it.
But imagine Flash if even though it displayed banner ads just fine, it couldn't play YouTube and some games. That's exactly what could happen with Moonlight, sure it is OSS but it is useless.
MS has made it clear that they want to kill OSS. So Miguel decides to make an OSS alternative to Silverlight with MS's help, unfortunately, MS will add in proprietary features once this halfway kills flash, and the reference implantation won't be the OSS Moonlight, it will instead be MS's proprietary Silverlight.
The only reason I usually turn off Flash on sites other then some game sites or YouTube, is because the Linux Flash player is just so crappy. I have a decent enough/etc/hosts file that blocks 98% of the ads, but if I leave Flash on, Firefox's CPU shoots to 80% just displaying a banner ad. Thankfully, I downgraded to an older version and it doesn't do it as much.
Yes, I would believe that, but there is absolutely *nothing* innovative in Vista. So what was the 9 billion spent on? Beer? MS can throw money around to make it seem like they are innovating, but honestly, nothing in Vista is innovative.
While I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, you really need to pay attention or educate yourself. They are not suing people for downloading music. They are suing people for uploading/distributing music
Yes, but just about every P2P application automatically uploads after finishing downloading. So in essence for the average computer person who uses BT/Limewire and don't know they are uploading, or even what uploading is, they are in essence, being sued for downloading.
Software patents are the problem. That and insane copyright laws. For example, if I was sued for downloading music, I should be sued at max for $5 per song, because you can usually find that song for $.99 somewhere online. The end of copyright wouldn't serve us any good, because even open source programs wouldn't have existed if not for some proprietary software, Linux was made to be like Unix which was proprietary, Firefox was born from Netscape which for many years wasn't free, etc.
But, either way, MS wins. MS can tolerate piracy enough that if everyone in the world just bought one MS product, and pirated the rest, they would still be rich. When you have a business that basically is 0% cost, and 100% profit (no, it doesn't cost even $1 to burn a CD). Lets see how MS makes money, they get lucky, and can write a simple emulator to write a BASIC interpreter for an early computer and manage to sell it to the company, then they lie to IBM, get lucky again, buy some badly-coded OS, change all instances of DOS to MS-DOS, and sell it to IBM, then, after seeing Mac, they reverse engineer a Mac-like GUI for DOS and sell it as Windows, they then use illegal business practices to kill off any competition, then with a monopoly they kill off the browser market, and then use patents and SCO to attempt to take down the newest competitor, (Linux), and even though Linux and OS X are much superior OSes, via the monopoly position they have, they lock everyone into proprietary formats that will only work on Windows, so everyone buys it. The end.
Remember how hard it was getting people to switch from a CLI to a new GUI back when the first Macs were coming out? Getting people to migrate to Windows from DOS? It was hard. Now change the interface of someone's most used program, it is the same thing over again. Plus, OOo looks nothing like Office 2007, and that is part of the reason it is being adopted.
Sharp Develop is a bad replica of Visual Studio.
Again, people use familiar things.
Firefox 3 search bar and navigation button interface is derived from that of IE.
There are only a certain number of ways to improve something. For once IE got something somewhat right, so the Firefox developers took that and changed it. Guess what? The tabs in IE 7 are similar to Firefox's, which are similar to Opera's. And as for the UI, it mostly has stayed the same from Netscape onwards, and just about every browser has adopted it.
Linux desktop are inharently trying to copy Windows day by day.
Ummm... Yah. Wrong. First, take a default install of Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distros, you get, 2 taskbars, not like Windows, you get a package management tool, not like Windows, you get pre-installed programs for advanced image editing, word processing, etc. not like Windows. Ok, sure, you have a button on your window manager to close, minimize or maximize your window, but that is about where the similarities end.
And that isn't even dealing with the technical differences.
I'm willing to bet there are a couple dozen ideas in this book that invalidate Microsoft patents.
Just about every software patent has an idea that invalidates it. The thing though is, with MS stocking up on patents, we never know which ones they really don't care about and which ones they will sue for. It is expensive and time consuming to strike down every patent, and when someone sues Linux or another F/OSS project in a major suit (like SCO) even though anyone with half a brain knows that it should have been thrown out ages ago, it still leaves CEOs (usually missing half a brain) not using Linux because they are scared they will be sued or the support will end.
Until politicians start to realize that things that apply with the physical world make no sense in the digital world, MS has a legal advantage, and with some judges having the mental capacity of a 4 year old MS might win a few minor suits.
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What could possibly count as a cyber 9/11? Honestly, other then security holes that need to be patched and some government's website being hacked, there isn't much that can go wrong with the web that isn't already happening or has happened before.
I sorta wondered that too. But with C64 games appearing on the Virtual Console for the Wii, (in Europe, not in America), licensing issues may be a problem. In the case of the Apple II, Apple really doesn't care.
The difference here though, an Apple II clone will be more reliable and will last you longer then an old Pentium.
All TFA says that it is loosly based on the Apple II. So what does that mean? Have the same CPU? Same OS? Same amount of RAM? Looks like the Apple II?
That was how it was with Dell and most of the other major computer makers. Vista is and was a failure, because no one wanted Vista, they weren't selling many computers, so it became worthwhile to investigate Linux, because they started selling Linux, Dell is probably one of the top computer makers someone using Linux will look at, because of that other computer makers did and will continue to. Salespeople usually don't have a clue what they are talking about. I asked one what the clock speed was on one CPU, he replied, "Eastern standard time".
Yes, the microcode is running Linux, and your BIOS is also running Linux
And a pirated version costs nothing ;) And neither does the disk that you got with your old computer that the motherboard fried.
That is partially because A) EEEs come with Linux by default and B) XP is a whole lot harder to install then Ubuntu. First, the average person who spent extra $$$ for XP usually needs XP for something, someone who bought an EEE with Linux could have just bought it for the price, and are shocked that there is an OS other than Windows.
Sure, for the people who can actually install an OS that would be great, but for the rest of the population who don't even know how to install Ubuntu, let alone XP, I think that they would pay $50 something to have it installed.
My guess is most stay Linux, however, I bet a lot of the ones pre-installed with Windows change to Linux.
Right now, an EEE is just about the only thing you can buy at like Best Buy and have it have Linux. But Dell has a lot, but honestly, EEEs aren't that popular, so far I'm the only one I know in real life that has one, though a friend of mine broke her laptop so she is getting one.
Here in the US, even with all the evils of Comcast and Time Warner, for every ISP other than dial-up ones, you just plug in a cheap Linksys router into the cable box and you are good to go.
With DRM/TPMs being legally protected now there's a big push in the copyright industry to move to protected digital forms. When content is surrounded by DRM/TPMs then they can remove fair use or anything that law makers provide.
With DRM/TPMs being legally protected, there now is a larger hacking movement then ever to sabotage DRM schemes before they are even released.
Yep, I thought about saying that, but at least GNASH is improving.
What Flash release? On some such as Flash 9 release 115 I got a major CPU leak (yes, it was 80% on a banner ad) on both my box running 32-Bit Xubuntu (1.8 Ghz Celeron with 512 MB of RAM) and my laptop running 32-Bit Ubuntu (1.5 Ghz Pentium M with 512 MB of RAM).
Yes there is, the difference is, it can't be written by MS. A small team of hackers could probably code a decent OS that is web based, but as MS has shown us, they are incapable of coding for the present generation of hardware, so the OS they make won't be usable until everyone has 50 MB/Second connections.
This isn't going to happen. By the time that Windows has lost most marketshare, MS will be regarded as dying if not dead. It is then that MS will release this, and assuming it is pay to use, with a subscription, a lot of people will wonder if MS will go bankrupt and not use it.
But imagine Flash if even though it displayed banner ads just fine, it couldn't play YouTube and some games. That's exactly what could happen with Moonlight, sure it is OSS but it is useless.
MS has made it clear that they want to kill OSS. So Miguel decides to make an OSS alternative to Silverlight with MS's help, unfortunately, MS will add in proprietary features once this halfway kills flash, and the reference implantation won't be the OSS Moonlight, it will instead be MS's proprietary Silverlight.
The only reason I usually turn off Flash on sites other then some game sites or YouTube, is because the Linux Flash player is just so crappy. I have a decent enough /etc/hosts file that blocks 98% of the ads, but if I leave Flash on, Firefox's CPU shoots to 80% just displaying a banner ad. Thankfully, I downgraded to an older version and it doesn't do it as much.
Yes, I would believe that, but there is absolutely *nothing* innovative in Vista. So what was the 9 billion spent on? Beer? MS can throw money around to make it seem like they are innovating, but honestly, nothing in Vista is innovative.
While I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, you really need to pay attention or educate yourself. They are not suing people for downloading music. They are suing people for uploading/distributing music
Yes, but just about every P2P application automatically uploads after finishing downloading. So in essence for the average computer person who uses BT/Limewire and don't know they are uploading, or even what uploading is, they are in essence, being sued for downloading.
Software patents are the problem. That and insane copyright laws. For example, if I was sued for downloading music, I should be sued at max for $5 per song, because you can usually find that song for $.99 somewhere online. The end of copyright wouldn't serve us any good, because even open source programs wouldn't have existed if not for some proprietary software, Linux was made to be like Unix which was proprietary, Firefox was born from Netscape which for many years wasn't free, etc.
But, either way, MS wins. MS can tolerate piracy enough that if everyone in the world just bought one MS product, and pirated the rest, they would still be rich. When you have a business that basically is 0% cost, and 100% profit (no, it doesn't cost even $1 to burn a CD). Lets see how MS makes money, they get lucky, and can write a simple emulator to write a BASIC interpreter for an early computer and manage to sell it to the company, then they lie to IBM, get lucky again, buy some badly-coded OS, change all instances of DOS to MS-DOS, and sell it to IBM, then, after seeing Mac, they reverse engineer a Mac-like GUI for DOS and sell it as Windows, they then use illegal business practices to kill off any competition, then with a monopoly they kill off the browser market, and then use patents and SCO to attempt to take down the newest competitor, (Linux), and even though Linux and OS X are much superior OSes, via the monopoly position they have, they lock everyone into proprietary formats that will only work on Windows, so everyone buys it. The end.
Open office is a bad replica of Microsoft Office.
Remember how hard it was getting people to switch from a CLI to a new GUI back when the first Macs were coming out? Getting people to migrate to Windows from DOS? It was hard. Now change the interface of someone's most used program, it is the same thing over again. Plus, OOo looks nothing like Office 2007, and that is part of the reason it is being adopted.
Sharp Develop is a bad replica of Visual Studio.
Again, people use familiar things.
Firefox 3 search bar and navigation button interface is derived from that of IE.
There are only a certain number of ways to improve something. For once IE got something somewhat right, so the Firefox developers took that and changed it. Guess what? The tabs in IE 7 are similar to Firefox's, which are similar to Opera's. And as for the UI, it mostly has stayed the same from Netscape onwards, and just about every browser has adopted it.
Linux desktop are inharently trying to copy Windows day by day.
Ummm... Yah. Wrong. First, take a default install of Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distros, you get, 2 taskbars, not like Windows, you get a package management tool, not like Windows, you get pre-installed programs for advanced image editing, word processing, etc. not like Windows. Ok, sure, you have a button on your window manager to close, minimize or maximize your window, but that is about where the similarities end.
And that isn't even dealing with the technical differences.
I'm willing to bet there are a couple dozen ideas in this book that invalidate Microsoft patents.
Just about every software patent has an idea that invalidates it. The thing though is, with MS stocking up on patents, we never know which ones they really don't care about and which ones they will sue for. It is expensive and time consuming to strike down every patent, and when someone sues Linux or another F/OSS project in a major suit (like SCO) even though anyone with half a brain knows that it should have been thrown out ages ago, it still leaves CEOs (usually missing half a brain) not using Linux because they are scared they will be sued or the support will end.
Until politicians start to realize that things that apply with the physical world make no sense in the digital world, MS has a legal advantage, and with some judges having the mental capacity of a 4 year old MS might win a few minor suits.