McNealy has been fighting Linux for far too long, calling it "just another tool". I got news for you, all OS's are tools. Only this tool here can save your ass a ton while doing everything that every other tool promises to do on the low and medium ends.
See thats the thing. Everything is just another tool to get the job done. Linux never has and never will be the best solution for everything. This is something Linux fanboys just don't get.
Here is news for you. In some occasions, Windows is the best tool for the job. Other times, a pocket calculator running Java might be.
Please understand that there are some things Linux just plain sucks at and it will be a long time before it doesn't.
Without wanting to take away from the coolness factor... Wouldn't it be easier to just go and grab your self one of these?
The Apple XServe RAID have almost as many drives, but they also have all the extra stuff that goes with it. I would like to know how he has got it all set up. What happens when one drive goes south?
At least with the XServe RAID, you can set it up with hardware RAID 5.
Actually, the collective buying power of us "open source nutjobs" is a mole on the ass of the buying public. Whether we boycott or not, it won't be noticed in the aggregate against the masses buying Britney Spears and N'Sync.
Don't forget though, that all of us NutJobs are usually the "Technical Person" in our respective companies.
When I found out about BMG, I distributed a company wide email saying to be careful of anything produced by BMG because of copy protection.
I then defined copy protection as
1) Won't play on your car CD player 2) Won't play on your computer 3) Won't play on your older CD player 4) Can't be put on your favourite MP3 player 5) Can't be played on your DVD player 6) May not even work at all.
Sure some of it is FUD on my part, but I now have about 50 people consciously not buying BMG stuff.
We may only be a small group of people, but we have the ear of many many more consumers. Don't forget that simple fact.
E-Crime Law Reform Working Party What, like a political party?
That would be closest to a Senate Sub-Committee
State Opposition Justice So.... he's, like, the justice minister in the opposition's shadow cabinet?
Pretty much. Same position only his party lost the election.
A police ministers meeting in Darwin WTF is a police minister? You have more than one? Is that like a District Attorney, like a chief of police, or something? It's a cabinet post?
It is a cabinet position on the state and federal level. Basically the pollitician that looks after the police.
Senator Ellison's decision to give the new Australian Crime Commission the power to investigate cyber crime. I thought you had a parliament? Why is a Senator handing out new police powers, anyway?
Short Answer: He's a wanker. Long Answer: He puts it to the rest of the corrupt wankers in Canberra and they agree with him over a beer at the local gay strip joint.
In terms of CD-R I would probably sway the stats a bit.
The company I work for makes a lot of surgical videos and we give them away on CD's. We would probably go through about 15 thousand CD-R's a year. Of those about 2 or 3 would be for someone copying an audio cd to put in their car so the original doesn't melt.
Yes, this is the case of a projectile weapon, but lasers keep going for quite a long way. (Shine a pen laser down a long street and follow it with a pair of Bino's.)
Now a weapon which can actually cause damage at say 5km? Thats going to be a damn powerful laser, and will probably be dangerous for a good many kilometres after that. Some satelites are only 10kms up. Not very far at all....
Not specifically related to the moon landing, but don't you think it is healthy the have a certain percentage of the population play devils advocate?
I think it is healthy to have a certain percentage of natural born sceptics because it helps to keep those in charge honest.
Just think about the consequences of the entire population totally believing every single word that came out of the government...
As for the moon, I can't really pass judgement because A) I havn't been to the moon and seen it myself and B) They have tried to fake big events before, and admittedly, got caught.
Someone has a sig here that pretty much sums it up. I can't remember the exact words but something along the line of..
Everyone thinks that government cover-ups fail because you never hear about the ones that succeed.
So as far as Joe SixPack is concerned, what does this give us, feature/functionality wise that QuickTime doesn't already.
(Note, I am not talking about morality, freedom, access to source code etc..etc... I want to know what will this let me do that I can't already do with QuickTime.)
If you think Microsoft created the X-Box (or any of their other products for that matter) entirely to make money, then you are sorely mistaken. When you have 43 Billion Dollars in the bank, making more money become less of a concern. Hell, short of buying a few countries, it would take Billy G and all his family several lifetimes to spend all his money. (Even though he give away a few billion every year to charity!)
Microsoft isn't in it only for the money now... they are in it for the control of information. When they control all the information you see and hear, they will be able to WHATEVER THEY WANT and no one will be able to stop them.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but from the look of the trailers, there is a basic flaw in the concept.
1. The legal system works on the principle that we have a choice in what we do. You choose to do bad things, you get punished.
2. MR shows Tom seeing things before they happen and subsequently arresting people for a "crime they are yet to commit."
3. This means that Fate no longer exists and that we live in a determinist world. Thus, someone who committed a crime had no say in the matter. It was going to happen no matter what the "criminal" did. To convict someone of murder, you have to prove intent.
So unless there is some explaining in the movie on why Tom arrests people for doing something they had no say in, I can't see how the movie can be plausible.
I know we don't get to play with it, but simply the fact that we _KNOW_ about it, means that the various security organizations out there have something bigger and better.
It's like the Stealth Bomber. The public only found out about it because it was obsoleted by a couple of guys in Perth, Western Australia who invented a type of radar that would pick it up.
As a general rule, the public only find out about this stuff when there is something better.
ES seems all very interesting and all, but I would like to see how it compares to what the NSA has parked under Washington for Echelon and its successors.
You can get your butt that if information about the "Worlds Fastest Supercomputer" is available to the general public, the NSA has got something bigger and better.
By the same argument, we should just get rid of presidents and congress and replace them with a simgle highly-competent individual. That will save the taxpayers a lot of money.
Hey... He couldn't do a worse job than the fruit-loops you have at the moment.
(Disclaimer, I browse at +4 so I may have missed it, if this was mentioned earlier.)
Everyone here seems to be focusing on Apple buying the software. Apple didn't buy the companies just for the software, they bought it for the talent.
Have a poke around the Apple developer site (apple.com/developer) in the Quartz section. Quartz is the software in MacOS X that gives you all the pretty features like drop shadows, double-buffered windows, anti-aliasing etc...
There is also a dirty great big chunk of code called Quartz Compositor which handels the screen rendering. This is a pretty amazing piece of code and is VERY important to MacOS X.
Now what software did the two companies Apple just bought make? Compositing software. Specifically, _REAL-TIME_ compositing software.
Apple wanted the people, just as much as they wanted the software.
Something I have been thinking about for quite some time is the fact that Australia is one of the few countries on Earth that has never seen a huge war or conflict on our soil. (WW2 Darwin doesn't count). Yes, I am an Australian.
I wonder where you Americans are going to come when you finally screw up/blow up your environment. Lets see, which country has a butt-load of space, but not may people. Wow! Australia does!
As for the Australian government trying to get more spying powers... Well, the Australian government is just a front for the US. John Howard is a wanker (As are most politicians).
I can tell you exactly why MS has dropped the price of the XBox here in OZ.
They are shit-scared of the Nintendo GameCube. Nintendo has been running a HUGE marketing campaign here in OZ. There about about 4 or 5 commercials for the GameCube every night on all three major TV stations. Not to mention Print and Radio. I have seen a total of ONE TV commercial for the XBox. The GC isn't even due til May 17th!.
Guess how much the GC is going to be when it is released. Yep... AUS$399. Funny that.
(This is also completely ignoring the fact that the XBox is so damn big, and the controller is just wrong.)
To be perfectly honest, I would love to see Sony and Nintendo drop their prices to AUS$199. This would basically wipe the XBox off the face of the planet.
Could it be possible that the planet this guy is talking about, is actually the much famed 12th Planet?
Don't know what I am talking about?
There has been many books written about this planet. A planet which rotates the sun in oval pattern. It comes within range of earth every few thousand years and is due here again in 2012.
The general theory behind this planet is that it is the home of our creators. (Humans are the missing link Monkey - Human - Aliens/Our Creators). The Catholic Church has recent spent about 17 million building a telescope to look in the direction that the planet it supposedly coming from.
Could you imagine the catastrophic impact on the entire notion of religion if the planet came round and the people on it popped in and said "Hey, you guys are an experiment". No Jesus, No Mahammud etc etc...
Anyway, another point about this planet is that one of their "years" is equivalent to about 2 or 3 thousand of ours.
Anyway... There a many people much smarter than I on this subject. Do your own research and make up your own mind.
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McNealy has been fighting Linux for far too long, calling it "just another tool". I got news for you, all OS's are tools. Only this tool here can save your ass a ton while doing everything that every other tool promises to do on the low and medium ends.
See thats the thing. Everything is just another tool to get the job done. Linux never has and never will be the best solution for everything. This is something Linux fanboys just don't get.
Here is news for you. In some occasions, Windows is the best tool for the job. Other times, a pocket calculator running Java might be.
Please understand that there are some things Linux just plain sucks at and it will be a long time before it doesn't.
Without wanting to take away from the coolness factor... Wouldn't it be easier to just go and grab your self one of these?
The Apple XServe RAID have almost as many drives, but they also have all the extra stuff that goes with it. I would like to know how he has got it all set up. What happens when one drive goes south?
At least with the XServe RAID, you can set it up with hardware RAID 5.
CommuniGatePro is a drop in replacement for Exchange
Stalker Software
BTW... it rocks, is stable and the developers give a damn.
Actually, the collective buying power of us "open source nutjobs" is a mole on the ass of the buying public. Whether we boycott or not, it won't be noticed in the aggregate against the masses buying Britney Spears and N'Sync.
Don't forget though, that all of us NutJobs are usually the "Technical Person" in our respective companies.
When I found out about BMG, I distributed a company wide email saying to be careful of anything produced by BMG because of copy protection.
I then defined copy protection as
1) Won't play on your car CD player
2) Won't play on your computer
3) Won't play on your older CD player
4) Can't be put on your favourite MP3 player
5) Can't be played on your DVD player
6) May not even work at all.
Sure some of it is FUD on my part, but I now have about 50 people consciously not buying BMG stuff.
We may only be a small group of people, but we have the ear of many many more consumers. Don't forget that simple fact.
E-Crime Law Reform Working Party
What, like a political party?
That would be closest to a Senate Sub-Committee
State Opposition Justice
So.... he's, like, the justice minister in the opposition's shadow cabinet?
Pretty much. Same position only his party lost the election.
A police ministers meeting in Darwin
WTF is a police minister? You have more than one? Is that like a District Attorney, like a chief of police, or something? It's a cabinet post?
It is a cabinet position on the state and federal level. Basically the pollitician that looks after the police.
Senator Ellison's decision to give the new Australian Crime Commission the power to investigate cyber crime.
I thought you had a parliament? Why is a Senator handing out new police powers, anyway?
Short Answer: He's a wanker.
Long Answer: He puts it to the rest of the corrupt wankers in Canberra and they agree with him over a beer at the local gay strip joint.
In terms of CD-R I would probably sway the stats a bit.
The company I work for makes a lot of surgical videos and we give them away on CD's. We would probably go through about 15 thousand CD-R's a year. Of those about 2 or 3 would be for someone copying an audio cd to put in their car so the original doesn't melt.
Heheheh what are the chances...
I work for Haylie Ecker's Dad. I also set up her laptop. (Apple iBook)
This is really odd though because the version we got in Australia is not copy protected and I put the CD in my mac and iTunes ripped it no problems.
(Oh and yes, she is a georgous in real life as she is in the promo shots.)
Yes, this is the case of a projectile weapon, but lasers keep going for quite a long way. (Shine a pen laser down a long street and follow it with a pair of Bino's.)
Now a weapon which can actually cause damage at say 5km? Thats going to be a damn powerful laser, and will probably be dangerous for a good many kilometres after that. Some satelites are only 10kms up. Not very far at all....
So when this might laser fires, what happens to anything (a airliner or billion dollar satelite) that is in the path of the laser?
I don't think it will be to popular if they start shooting down their own stuff by accident because it was behind the actual target.
Show me one example of a situation where someone used his/her/their absolute power to benefit anyone other than themselves or their friends...
Power Currupts. Absolute Power Currupts Absolutly.
Not specifically related to the moon landing, but don't you think it is healthy the have a certain percentage of the population play devils advocate?
I think it is healthy to have a certain percentage of natural born sceptics because it helps to keep those in charge honest.
Just think about the consequences of the entire population totally believing every single word that came out of the government...
As for the moon, I can't really pass judgement because A) I havn't been to the moon and seen it myself and B) They have tried to fake big events before, and admittedly, got caught.
Someone has a sig here that pretty much sums it up. I can't remember the exact words but something along the line of..
Everyone thinks that government cover-ups fail because you never hear about the ones that succeed.
So as far as Joe SixPack is concerned, what does this give us, feature/functionality wise that QuickTime doesn't already.
(Note, I am not talking about morality, freedom, access to source code etc..etc... I want to know what will this let me do that I can't already do with QuickTime.)
If you think Microsoft created the X-Box (or any of their other products for that matter) entirely to make money, then you are sorely mistaken. When you have 43 Billion Dollars in the bank, making more money become less of a concern. Hell, short of buying a few countries, it would take Billy G and all his family several lifetimes to spend all his money. (Even though he give away a few billion every year to charity!)
Microsoft isn't in it only for the money now... they are in it for the control of information. When they control all the information you see and hear, they will be able to WHATEVER THEY WANT and no one will be able to stop them.
Just because a movie is Science Fiction doesn't mean there are no elements of truth in them. If anything, they are "public education" movies.
Thanks for the tip. I will go and see it when it comes out here in Australia.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but from the look of the trailers, there is a basic flaw in the concept.
1. The legal system works on the principle that we have a choice in what we do. You choose to do bad things, you get punished.
2. MR shows Tom seeing things before they happen and subsequently arresting people for a "crime they are yet to commit."
3. This means that Fate no longer exists and that we live in a determinist world. Thus, someone who committed a crime had no say in the matter. It was going to happen no matter what the "criminal" did. To convict someone of murder, you have to prove intent.
So unless there is some explaining in the movie on why Tom arrests people for doing something they had no say in, I can't see how the movie can be plausible.
I know we don't get to play with it, but simply the fact that we _KNOW_ about it, means that the various security organizations out there have something bigger and better.
It's like the Stealth Bomber. The public only found out about it because it was obsoleted by a couple of guys in Perth, Western Australia who invented a type of radar that would pick it up.
As a general rule, the public only find out about this stuff when there is something better.
ES seems all very interesting and all, but I would like to see how it compares to what the NSA has parked under Washington for Echelon and its successors.
You can get your butt that if information about the "Worlds Fastest Supercomputer" is available to the general public, the NSA has got something bigger and better.
By the same argument, we should just get rid of presidents and congress and replace them with a simgle highly-competent individual. That will save the taxpayers a lot of money.
Hey... He couldn't do a worse job than the fruit-loops you have at the moment.
You can take the monkeys out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkeys.
(Replace the word monkeys with the word gonverment.)
(Disclaimer, I browse at +4 so I may have missed it, if this was mentioned earlier.)
Everyone here seems to be focusing on Apple buying the software. Apple didn't buy the companies just for the software, they bought it for the talent.
Have a poke around the Apple developer site (apple.com/developer) in the Quartz section. Quartz is the software in MacOS X that gives you all the pretty features like drop shadows, double-buffered windows, anti-aliasing etc...
There is also a dirty great big chunk of code called Quartz Compositor which handels the screen rendering. This is a pretty amazing piece of code and is VERY important to MacOS X.
Now what software did the two companies Apple just bought make? Compositing software. Specifically, _REAL-TIME_ compositing software.
Apple wanted the people, just as much as they wanted the software.
Something I have been thinking about for quite some time is the fact that Australia is one of the few countries on Earth that has never seen a huge war or conflict on our soil. (WW2 Darwin doesn't count). Yes, I am an Australian.
I wonder where you Americans are going to come when you finally screw up/blow up your environment. Lets see, which country has a butt-load of space, but not may people. Wow! Australia does!
As for the Australian government trying to get more spying powers... Well, the Australian government is just a front for the US. John Howard is a wanker (As are most politicians).
I can tell you exactly why MS has dropped the price of the XBox here in OZ.
They are shit-scared of the Nintendo GameCube. Nintendo has been running a HUGE marketing campaign here in OZ. There about about 4 or 5 commercials for the GameCube every night on all three major TV stations. Not to mention Print and Radio. I have seen a total of ONE TV commercial for the XBox. The GC isn't even due til May 17th!.
Guess how much the GC is going to be when it is released. Yep... AUS$399. Funny that.
(This is also completely ignoring the fact that the XBox is so damn big, and the controller is just wrong.)
To be perfectly honest, I would love to see Sony and Nintendo drop their prices to AUS$199. This would basically wipe the XBox off the face of the planet.
Could it be possible that the planet this guy is talking about, is actually the much famed 12th Planet?
Don't know what I am talking about?
There has been many books written about this planet. A planet which rotates the sun in oval pattern. It comes within range of earth every few thousand years and is due here again in 2012.
The general theory behind this planet is that it is the home of our creators. (Humans are the missing link Monkey - Human - Aliens/Our Creators). The Catholic Church has recent spent about 17 million building a telescope to look in the direction that the planet it supposedly coming from.
Could you imagine the catastrophic impact on the entire notion of religion if the planet came round and the people on it popped in and said "Hey, you guys are an experiment". No Jesus, No Mahammud etc etc...
Anyway, another point about this planet is that one of their "years" is equivalent to about 2 or 3 thousand of ours.
Anyway... There a many people much smarter than I on this subject. Do your own research and make up your own mind.
>> You still can't beat the price of that OS!
I take it your time is worthless then?