No, "the point" has nothing to do with speed. If I've read something previously, then I don't need to read it again. If I haven't, then I appreciate it being brought to my attention.
I'm starting to think "the point" of digital journalism is to give pinheads the opportunity to miss "the point" and complain about nothing.
They have a hardware abstraction layer, which: "Makes MorphOS hardware independent"
So... Why are they designing their own hardware? Or do I not understand the business relationships involved? Maybe this is a hardware company, and morphos is the only thing that runs on it?
Then why not port something that already runs on PPC - one of the BSD's, Darwin or Linux?
Someone explain this, please. Because it seems pretty risky to gamble on both a new hardware platform and the acceptance of a new OS simultaneously. Isn't that what stunted and ultimately killed a young and promising Be?
The mysteries of life (as we know them) are all but solved - most of them are simply unexploited due to moral or political pressure. Most of biology is understood, at least when viewed from a safe distance.
This nice lady is working on the mysteries of the universe - specifically a unifying theory to merge quantum mechanics and relativity. Once someone does this, you'll find the mysteries of the universe might just start cracking themselves pretty quickly.
Now, you may not have taken the time to understand relativity nor quantum mechanics, but I assure you that with the proper teachers, and effort on your behalf, neither is beyond the grasp of "mere mortals."
It's a little silly of you to place a date (of a " few centuries") on a process you have yourself stated you don't understand. These nuts are crackable, with current technology and knowledge - no Vulcans required. Most of what's slowing us down is funding and interest, not mortality.
Although spam eradication is a good idea in general, I wonder if bulk training will only result in resistant strains of superspam developing, much like the v-cillin resistant staphs that are popping up lately.
If we deal with a little spam by hand today, will that keep us from having to deal with undetectable spam later? I can imagine spam systems that probe you (using actual system probes of you and your contacts, marketing history and social engineering) to target spam that you may actually believe is a recommendation for the Sony(tm) handicam from your Uncle Bowser, or really is your wife asking you to pick up some Clorox(tm) brand bleach and fabric softener on the way home...
Luckily, neither of them is likely to be sending information about my penis to me at work.
Much like modding the Xbox (and thus giving MS the practice they need to harden Palladium), giving the hard fight to the spammers might just backfire on us.
You might want to read the article. Or even the paragraph that was submitted with the story.
They're using them to identify pallets and shipping cases. Presumably, so they can be most efficient mofos that ever shipped anything anywhere. Imagine shipping inventory that tells *you* where it is, where it was last, what's on it, where it was seen last, tied directly into the ERP system, so you know where it was manufactured, the product numbers, what the TCO is involved...
Suddenly, FedEx becomes nothing more than a transport company (one of hundreds), and Gillete can manage thier own JIT inventory, track "spoilage" (theft), do on-the-spot inventory recounts without tying up personnel...
SVG actually is supported quite nicely in mozilla. It's not on in the default builds, though, due to licensing issues with the libart library. (It's LGPL only, Moz is MPL/GPL/LGPL)
I'm off Windows - have been for 8 months. I don't even support my business partner when he's using Windows any more. (He has both a rh8 box and a win2k box on his desk. The RH8 light is lit on the kvm more and more these days...)
Frankly, I'm done with it, I'm done with them, and I'm done supporting people who use it.
Also haven't paid to see a movie in 6 months, haven't bought a mainstream cd (or listened to any of that top-40 pop-rap-crap) for a year. I don't need any RIAA, MPAA, or MSFT crap anymore, and they can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned.
Am I angry? HELL, YES! Question is, why aren't you? We need to start voting with our wallets: The government isn't going to save us - they don't even seem to be on our side anymore!
Let's face it, if Windows and Windows apps didn't have all those security holes, there wouldn't necessarily be a need for Linux.
According to everything I've ever read, and my own personal experience, Windows' security holes have absolutely nothing to do with the creation or popularity of Linux.
I don't use Linux to avoid using Windows. I use it because it's the best thing available.
Companies don't make decisions. A "company" is nothing more than a ficticious entity with a a Tax ID. People make the decisions in them, people run them, and people are personally and morally (If not legally or financially) reponsible for the behavior of the whole.
Companies don't exist to make money - they don't actually "exist" at all. They are groups of people who have chosen to work together for a specific set of goals, under specific governemnt guidelines. Some unscrupulous people believe that a corporate charter is permission to play the "I didn't do it" game. And it sounds like thier brainwashing is working on some of us.
Hopefully, citizens begin to remember this (we certainly USED to understand it) and we stop giving the executives of corporations excuses to stop acting like members of society.
It's not a matter of smart or not smart. Its a matter of ignorance.
MS has spent decades numbing and dumbing the user. Now, they see a "dos window" and they get all panicky. It takes me days to make them understand that often, typing is so much easier than all that gui crap...
The only thing MS "wants" is to increase revenue. Secure systems are typically less friendly. Therefore, until now, MS has not wanted thier systems to be secure.
Now, the flak from Nimda, melissa, et. al. have begun to impact thier market share (or thier internal analysts believe the market will follow that trend), and they have started to give lip-service to security.
But they still can't alienate that customer base they spent 20 years numbing into ignorance. Will we see real security? Not for long time. Will we see secure "wrappers" around the inherently insecure MS offerings? Yes, but I guarantee there will be ways to disable them immediately if it impacts revenue.
BTW, there's nothing wrong with a company's management considering market growth and revenue when making decisions. Decent people do, and temper it with service to the greater community, morality, and improving the lives of thier employees and customers. MS operates as though all of those issues are served by the marketing department.
A loyal, educated, trusting customer base wouldn't need a shotgun forced to thier heads to make them apply patches.
People don't apply MS patches because a) They were told the OS was perfect when they bought it, or b) they remember the last patch, the one that made the office unbearable for two weeks, or c) They've been burned by the MS upgrade licensing cycle enough times that they'd rather hope for the best than volunteer for the worst.
Why do people running older versions of windows need to upgrade, other than planned (or just enforced) obsolesence?
I've got a box still running a 2.0 linux kernel, and two running 2.2 - and my vendors still support me. When they stop, I can support myself, because I have all of the tools necessary.
Why doesn't MS support it's customers? Even if that means they have to fix the damned problems with Windows 3.1.
They're sitting on 40 billion in cash. They can afford and should support the customers who stupidly gave them that money.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has a different take on this - they've digested the ruling, and it looks like judge Kollar-Kotelly may not have sold out as completely as some may think.
Here's the link - look at the quote from Machiavelli's The Prince, the reference to sua sponte discretion, and holding the directors that spoke at the trial personally responsible for upholding the intent of the agreement.
In fact, MS may reject the agreement themselves, now. And that may be what Judge K-K was after.
What would the effect of a computer professional / geek strike be?
Does anyone think a massive nationwide geek strike could even be organized?
Would you actually do this?
NO new hardware purchased.
NO new software purchased.
NO new code written.
Until MS takes palladium off the shelf, and Intel and AMD cancel DRM-on-CPU plans...
It would have to be cross-border, OSS, MS, BSD... Who is even in the right place, politically to organize a strike? Would international support matter, or is this strictly a US problem?
How big would it need to be to make a difference - 5% or 10%? Are thier margins tight enough that a 1% strike could freeze them? Could it infect non-geeks, grassroots style?
If nothing else, it could raise public awareness when the president came in to make us all go back to work.:)
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No, "the point" has nothing to do with speed. If I've read something previously, then I don't need to read it again. If I haven't, then I appreciate it being brought to my attention.
I'm starting to think "the point" of digital journalism is to give pinheads the opportunity to miss "the point" and complain about nothing.
They have a hardware abstraction layer, which: "Makes MorphOS hardware independent"
So... Why are they designing their own hardware? Or do I not understand the business relationships involved? Maybe this is a hardware company, and morphos is the only thing that runs on it?
Then why not port something that already runs on PPC - one of the BSD's, Darwin or Linux?
Someone explain this, please. Because it seems pretty risky to gamble on both a new hardware platform and the acceptance of a new OS simultaneously. Isn't that what stunted and ultimately killed a young and promising Be?
Here, let me help:
Google
The mysteries of life (as we know them) are all but solved - most of them are simply unexploited due to moral or political pressure. Most of biology is understood, at least when viewed from a safe distance.
This nice lady is working on the mysteries of the universe - specifically a unifying theory to merge quantum mechanics and relativity. Once someone does this, you'll find the mysteries of the universe might just start cracking themselves pretty quickly.
Now, you may not have taken the time to understand relativity nor quantum mechanics, but I assure you that with the proper teachers, and effort on your behalf, neither is beyond the grasp of "mere mortals."
It's a little silly of you to place a date (of a " few centuries") on a process you have yourself stated you don't understand. These nuts are crackable, with current technology and knowledge - no Vulcans required. Most of what's slowing us down is funding and interest, not mortality.
Although spam eradication is a good idea in general, I wonder if bulk training will only result in resistant strains of superspam developing, much like the v-cillin resistant staphs that are popping up lately.
If we deal with a little spam by hand today, will that keep us from having to deal with undetectable spam later? I can imagine spam systems that probe you (using actual system probes of you and your contacts, marketing history and social engineering) to target spam that you may actually believe is a recommendation for the Sony(tm) handicam from your Uncle Bowser, or really is your wife asking you to pick up some Clorox(tm) brand bleach and fabric softener on the way home...
Luckily, neither of them is likely to be sending information about my penis to me at work.
Much like modding the Xbox (and thus giving MS the practice they need to harden Palladium), giving the hard fight to the spammers might just backfire on us.
I'm not sure why people would start out with such a simple algorithm when there may be better things available
You're a people, right? Start coding.
You might want to read the article. Or even the paragraph that was submitted with the story.
They're using them to identify pallets and shipping cases. Presumably, so they can be most efficient mofos that ever shipped anything anywhere. Imagine shipping inventory that tells *you* where it is, where it was last, what's on it, where it was seen last, tied directly into the ERP system, so you know where it was manufactured, the product numbers, what the TCO is involved...
Suddenly, FedEx becomes nothing more than a transport company (one of hundreds), and Gillete can manage thier own JIT inventory, track "spoilage" (theft), do on-the-spot inventory recounts without tying up personnel...
Browsers already know how to handle audio tags...
See here for an SVG pong game that uses audio.
SVG actually is supported quite nicely in mozilla. It's not on in the default builds, though, due to licensing issues with the libart library. (It's LGPL only, Moz is MPL/GPL/LGPL)
I'm off Windows - have been for 8 months. I don't even support my business partner when he's using Windows any more. (He has both a rh8 box and a win2k box on his desk. The RH8 light is lit on the kvm more and more these days...)
Frankly, I'm done with it, I'm done with them, and I'm done supporting people who use it.
Also haven't paid to see a movie in 6 months, haven't bought a mainstream cd (or listened to any of that top-40 pop-rap-crap) for a year. I don't need any RIAA, MPAA, or MSFT crap anymore, and they can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned.
Am I angry? HELL, YES! Question is, why aren't you? We need to start voting with our wallets: The government isn't going to save us - they don't even seem to be on our side anymore!
Let's face it, if Windows and Windows apps didn't have all those security holes, there wouldn't necessarily be a need for Linux.
According to everything I've ever read, and my own personal experience, Windows' security holes have absolutely nothing to do with the creation or popularity of Linux.
I don't use Linux to avoid using Windows. I use it because it's the best thing available.
Perhaps you missed the line about "educated users".
Maybe you misread a line and thought I was painting a consipracy.
Or maybe you just have an unhappy home life.
Regardless, I hope it all works out for you.
Companies don't make decisions. A "company" is nothing more than a ficticious entity with a a Tax ID. People make the decisions in them, people run them, and people are personally and morally (If not legally or financially) reponsible for the behavior of the whole.
Companies don't exist to make money - they don't actually "exist" at all. They are groups of people who have chosen to work together for a specific set of goals, under specific governemnt guidelines. Some unscrupulous people believe that a corporate charter is permission to play the "I didn't do it" game. And it sounds like thier brainwashing is working on some of us.
Hopefully, citizens begin to remember this (we certainly USED to understand it) and we stop giving the executives of corporations excuses to stop acting like members of society.
It's not a matter of smart or not smart. Its a matter of ignorance.
MS has spent decades numbing and dumbing the user. Now, they see a "dos window" and they get all panicky. It takes me days to make them understand that often, typing is so much easier than all that gui crap...
The only thing MS "wants" is to increase revenue. Secure systems are typically less friendly. Therefore, until now, MS has not wanted thier systems to be secure.
Now, the flak from Nimda, melissa, et. al. have begun to impact thier market share (or thier internal analysts believe the market will follow that trend), and they have started to give lip-service to security.
But they still can't alienate that customer base they spent 20 years numbing into ignorance. Will we see real security? Not for long time. Will we see secure "wrappers" around the inherently insecure MS offerings? Yes, but I guarantee there will be ways to disable them immediately if it impacts revenue.
BTW, there's nothing wrong with a company's management considering market growth and revenue when making decisions. Decent people do, and temper it with service to the greater community, morality, and improving the lives of thier employees and customers. MS operates as though all of those issues are served by the marketing department.
A loyal, educated, trusting customer base wouldn't need a shotgun forced to thier heads to make them apply patches.
People don't apply MS patches because a) They were told the OS was perfect when they bought it, or b) they remember the last patch, the one that made the office unbearable for two weeks, or c) They've been burned by the MS upgrade licensing cycle enough times that they'd rather hope for the best than volunteer for the worst.
Why do people running older versions of windows need to upgrade, other than planned (or just enforced) obsolesence?
I've got a box still running a 2.0 linux kernel, and two running 2.2 - and my vendors still support me. When they stop, I can support myself, because I have all of the tools necessary.
Why doesn't MS support it's customers? Even if that means they have to fix the damned problems with Windows 3.1.
They're sitting on 40 billion in cash. They can afford and should support the customers who stupidly gave them that money.
Moshe said:
.net ads, by far! :)
Somebody should post this to Slashdot.org: How to assemble your own game server with openMosix
BTW, has anyone else seen the AppAssure soft-core porn ads here on slashdot? Better than the
Keep in mind that eolas' lawyers doesn't have dubbleya chopping at thier legs, though...
Read again - the bug submitter doesn't win. It's pool to guess when the bug will be submitted.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has a different take on this - they've digested the ruling, and it looks like judge Kollar-Kotelly may not have sold out as completely as some may think.
Here's the link - look at the quote from Machiavelli's The Prince, the reference to sua sponte discretion, and holding the directors that spoke at the trial personally responsible for upholding the intent of the agreement.
In fact, MS may reject the agreement themselves, now. And that may be what Judge K-K was after.
I presume we can expect "Extend" at Office 11's release, and then we can pencil in "Extinquish" sometime late next year?
Is that good for everybody?
What would the effect of a computer professional / geek strike be?
Does anyone think a massive nationwide geek strike could even be organized?Would you actually do this?
Until MS takes palladium off the shelf, and Intel and AMD cancel DRM-on-CPU plans...
It would have to be cross-border, OSS, MS, BSD... Who is even in the right place, politically to organize a strike? Would international support matter, or is this strictly a US problem?
How big would it need to be to make a difference - 5% or 10%? Are thier margins tight enough that a 1% strike could freeze them? Could it infect non-geeks, grassroots style?
If nothing else, it could raise public awareness when the president came in to make us all go back to work. :)
Would you do this?
And you don't think one bears a relationship to the other?