Great, until you get to some cuts from a CD that was mastered at lower-than-average levels. Then you can't even "crank it up" to a good, listenable level.
Results from my home box: 98 cd 96 ls 57 pico 40 curl 17 sudo 15 locate 14 cat 13 mkdir 12 ps 11 du
The only reason 'ssh' isn't on there is because I have short scripts for each server I ssh to (like '~/bin/sshweb') that save time in general and, as a bonus, they color-code the Terminal window. So 'sshweb' connects me to my production web server and makes the window red so I know to be extra-careful.
Whether you think he's shilling or not, he's got a point. Read through that features page you linked to. Quick Search looks a whole lot like Spotlight (other than it's in the bottom left, not the top right); it has a Spotlight-like text box in the control panel (practically the first thing Jobs showed off @ the 2004 WWDC keynote) that looks just like OS X's;* and Flip 3D looks pretty but in practice is probably *less* easy-to-use than Expose. He may be a shill, but facts are facts. Like a man once said, if Hitler says 2+2=4, you can't argue with him.
But they are using their 10% - and they will keep on using their 10% no matter what Microsoft puts in.
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong... people can learn, and they use 10% of each release. Once MS makes Office 900% bigger than Office 97, that's 1,000%, so 10% of that = users working at 100%! Go MS!:-)
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Cool things that could have been done with this free service (Sun suggests making blogs into podcasts)...
Speaking of which if anyone is interested in doing this, you can use OS X's (so-so) voices: $ say -f blogfile.txt -o podcast.aiff Then use iTunes to convert to MP3 or AAC. `man say` for more options. Introduced in 10.3.
I'm not saying this is better than what Sun offered, or that those hackers weren't assholes... just mentioning something that people might be interested in.
As for Oracle vs. free databases, the world is mostly like, and will continue to become even more like, the trucking industry. There are zillions of people with pickup trucks and zillions of companies with big rigs. There is very little overlap in their use. Both segments continue to do quote well. I doubt Naked Lady Mudflap Weekly runs articles every month asking if the new F150 spells the end of the trucking industry. Databases will be like that. For big groups with lots of money--Fortune 500 companies, banks, medical, government, etc.--Oracle and big boxes will continue to be popular. Pretty much everything else will be pushed to small boxes running web apps with free or cheap databases. Web-based database-backed apps are just too damn useful for all but the hardest of hardcore needs.
When you add all that up, I don't know if it equals double-digit growth. One thing to consider is that even if the market size remains the same--if Oracle doesn't get one single new customer--the amount of data in databases is continually growing somewhere between linearly and exponentially, and people want to do more and more with that data. That alone is enough for a good, steady business. ORCL had a typical post-bubble drop but they've been doing OK since then. Everyone here like Apple, right? Compare.
Actually, a lot of the time a browser hole isn't required at all. Users are actually still downloading applications that are just applications that function in a malicious way, with full rights actively given by the user to use the system resources for ill.
Yup. I really want to write a virus named "This is a virus - don't click on me.exe" and see how many people run it. Then compare those numbers to its variants, "This is a virus LOL.exe" and "This is a virus.mpg.doc.jpg.pif.scr.exe"
At this point, browsers warn people, operating systems warn people, firewalls warn people and virus scanners worm people, and they still just have to run that trojan software for whatever pointless whizz-bang effect it adds to their mouse cursor or emails.
On a related note, too many warnings just train users to ignore them. MS OWA (web client for Outlook) adds this message next to each and every attachment: "Attachments may contain viruses that are harmful to your computer." Gee, thanks. Why don't you just have some guy following me around saying "Be careful!" every ten seconds. That would be great 'cause then I'd never get hurt. >:-|
"The term 'fully destructible environment' is not just marketing; The AI never seems to fully grasp that hiding behind stuff isn't that helpful. When you can break up a downed tree into lumber with a few well-aimed bursts, it's easy to get to take out cowering bad guys. It's even easier when the terrorists shoot out their own cover..."
Same thing used to happen to me playing Space Invaders.
Read the piece. Social software != groupware. Read exactly what he wrote before you start bitching about what he's saying.
"Groupware" is all about things like "workflow", which means, "the chairman of the committee has emailed me this checklist, and I'm done with item 3, so I want to check off item 3, so this document must be sent back to my supervisor to approve the fact that item 3 is changing from `unchecked' to `checked', and once he does that, it can be directed back to committee for review."
Nobody cares about that shit. Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway... If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
When words like "groupware" and "enterprise" start getting tossed around, you're doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you're coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred "seats" of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won't make anyone happy....
Anyway, I babbled at Nat along these lines for a while, predicting that, while I was sure that anyone he talked to in a corporation would tell him, "free groupware, yes, awesome!", there was really no reason to even bother releasing something like that as open source, because there was going to be absolutely no buy-in from the "itch-scratching" crowd. With a product like that, there was going to be no teenager in his basement hacking on it just because it was cool, or because it doing so made his life easier. Maybe IBM would throw some bucks at a developer or two to help out with it, because it might be cheaper to pay someone to write software than to just buy it off the shelf. But with a groupware product, nobody would ever work on it unless they were getting paid to, because it's just fundamentally not interesting to individuals.
I'm not sure if that's the dynamicness (is that a word?)...
Yes, don't worry, it's a perfectly cromulent word. Here's an example sentence: "The dynamicness of the Live search engine embiggens its search ability."
(BTW, am I the only one who has added 'cromulent' to their spellcheck dictionary?)
Ack! Notes! When we used it at my work (up until last year; Notes v.6) the #1 reason I *didn't* keep my mailbox down to size was there was no way to see the size of sent messages! I'm a big believer in "low hanging fruit" and would always clean my mailbox in minutes by deleting a handful of multi-MB messages, rather than spending hours going through every 5-10k message to see if I should keep it or not. Worked wonders on my inbox, but not on my outobx. Has this been fixed yet? Or was there someplace else I should have looked?
BTW, in my company, Notes was used for *nothing* except email. There were only a tiny handful of databases built by the company or individuals and they all had very small audiences. Hardly anyone even used the calendar. If you're doing nothing but email, it isn't really the right tool for the job. Still, this limitation was a huge PITA.
Luckily, mailbox caps were never enforced until last year when we moved to Exchange--so it was never really *that* much of a problem for me.:-)
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As has been pointed out repeatedly, Sony's biggest enemy is themselves. The Entertainment half won't let the Consumer Electronics half do anything that they think might deprive them of a single penny--i.e., by making a device that you can play a movie or song on. "OH NOES!!!!11", they cry. "If someone wants to watch a Sony movie on $NEW_DEVICE, they have to buy it again!" Which consumers, obviously, don't want to do.
No offense, but just like every other geek on Slashdot who says "I won't buy it 'cause it won't play OGG," you are not the target market. Picky geeks are not what keeps a consumer electronics industry afloat. You only buy 17" gear? Great. Apple will get along without you.
I, on the other hand, greatly value your business and will happily sell you a Mac Mini in a 17" wide box for just $1399. Also, Monster Cables are 10% off with any WideBody Mini purchase.
Well, the reason that it was so easy to run OS X on x86 was because OS X was based on NeXT, which itself ran on four architectures, IIRC. So if Intel goes away, maybe they'll just move on to MIPS or Alpha or whatever.;-)
The OS can't predict for you what's good and bad...
Actually, yes, it can, quite often. Is the extension 'jpg'? Do the first few bytes look like the beginning of a JPEG? Then you're probably OK. Does the file end in '.scr.pif'? Then warn the user. If it's '.doc.exe', does it look like a self-extracting zip file with a word document inside?
There is a *huge* catalog of file types and many ways to identify them and a lot can be done to determine if they're likely to be safe or not. It won't be 100% effective but it's a lot better than being warned that "this attachment may be harmful" when it's just an ASCII text file that a 30-year-old computer would recognize.
Slashdot Mirror
1 less CNet writer = the world is a better place.
Great, until you get to some cuts from a CD that was mastered at lower-than-average levels. Then you can't even "crank it up" to a good, listenable level.
Suave!
Last time this topic came up, I put out the idea of making a one-line script to make your own top ten list, and some other slashdotters chimed in to perfect it.
.bash_history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
cat
Results from my home box:
98 cd
96 ls
57 pico
40 curl
17 sudo
15 locate
14 cat
13 mkdir
12 ps
11 du
The only reason 'ssh' isn't on there is because I have short scripts for each server I ssh to (like '~/bin/sshweb') that save time in general and, as a bonus, they color-code the Terminal window. So 'sshweb' connects me to my production web server and makes the window red so I know to be extra-careful.
Whether you think he's shilling or not, he's got a point. Read through that features page you linked to. Quick Search looks a whole lot like Spotlight (other than it's in the bottom left, not the top right); it has a Spotlight-like text box in the control panel (practically the first thing Jobs showed off @ the 2004 WWDC keynote) that looks just like OS X's;* and Flip 3D looks pretty but in practice is probably *less* easy-to-use than Expose. He may be a shill, but facts are facts. Like a man once said, if Hitler says 2+2=4, you can't argue with him.
w svista/images/features/feat_UX_03.jpg
* I mean, really: compare http://www.holycola.net/searchprefs.jpg and http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windo
But they are using their 10% - and they will keep on using their 10% no matter what Microsoft puts in.
:-)
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong... people can learn, and they use 10% of each release. Once MS makes Office 900% bigger than Office 97, that's 1,000%, so 10% of that = users working at 100%! Go MS!
Cool things that could have been done with this free service (Sun suggests making blogs into podcasts)...
Speaking of which if anyone is interested in doing this, you can use OS X's (so-so) voices:
$ say -f blogfile.txt -o podcast.aiff
Then use iTunes to convert to MP3 or AAC. `man say` for more options. Introduced in 10.3.
I'm not saying this is better than what Sun offered, or that those hackers weren't assholes... just mentioning something that people might be interested in.
I've got ten bucks that says we see Fett before season 1 is over.
Yup. That episode's plot summary is here.
(Enticed? Hear it here.)
You forgot one:
Hipster
8:20 AM - get hit by a car due to biking while listening to an iPod
I don't get around much, but what tiny businesses need Oracle? Are there some very common apps that require it? If so, they will probably try to do themselves a favor and start working with as many different databases as possible.
As for Oracle vs. free databases, the world is mostly like, and will continue to become even more like, the trucking industry. There are zillions of people with pickup trucks and zillions of companies with big rigs. There is very little overlap in their use. Both segments continue to do quote well. I doubt Naked Lady Mudflap Weekly runs articles every month asking if the new F150 spells the end of the trucking industry. Databases will be like that. For big groups with lots of money--Fortune 500 companies, banks, medical, government, etc.--Oracle and big boxes will continue to be popular. Pretty much everything else will be pushed to small boxes running web apps with free or cheap databases. Web-based database-backed apps are just too damn useful for all but the hardest of hardcore needs.
When you add all that up, I don't know if it equals double-digit growth. One thing to consider is that even if the market size remains the same--if Oracle doesn't get one single new customer--the amount of data in databases is continually growing somewhere between linearly and exponentially, and people want to do more and more with that data. That alone is enough for a good, steady business. ORCL had a typical post-bubble drop but they've been doing OK since then. Everyone here like Apple, right? Compare.
Actually, a lot of the time a browser hole isn't required at all. Users are actually still downloading applications that are just applications that function in a malicious way, with full rights actively given by the user to use the system resources for ill.
Yup. I really want to write a virus named "This is a virus - don't click on me.exe" and see how many people run it. Then compare those numbers to its variants, "This is a virus LOL.exe" and "This is a virus.mpg.doc.jpg.pif.scr.exe"
At this point, browsers warn people, operating systems warn people, firewalls warn people and virus scanners worm people, and they still just have to run that trojan software for whatever pointless whizz-bang effect it adds to their mouse cursor or emails.
On a related note, too many warnings just train users to ignore them. MS OWA (web client for Outlook) adds this message next to each and every attachment: "Attachments may contain viruses that are harmful to your computer." Gee, thanks. Why don't you just have some guy following me around saying "Be careful!" every ten seconds. That would be great 'cause then I'd never get hurt. >:-|
My other current favorite obsess^H^H^H^H^H game is World of Warcraft.
$1,695 for a computer and it doesn't even come with a proper backspace key?!?!?
5. Learn to use
tags.
You change channels? Huh. Interesting. The only delay I experience while watching TV is waiting for my TiVo's 'now playing' list to populate.
"The term 'fully destructible environment' is not just marketing; The AI never seems to fully grasp that hiding behind stuff isn't that helpful. When you can break up a downed tree into lumber with a few well-aimed bursts, it's easy to get to take out cowering bad guys. It's even easier when the terrorists shoot out their own cover..."
Same thing used to happen to me playing Space Invaders.
I'm not sure if that's the dynamicness (is that a word?)...
Yes, don't worry, it's a perfectly cromulent word. Here's an example sentence: "The dynamicness of the Live search engine embiggens its search ability."
(BTW, am I the only one who has added 'cromulent' to their spellcheck dictionary?)
His Wikipedia page says he's currently funded by SGI. I wonder how that's going?
"Its BGP daemon is BY FAR better than xorp and quagga..."
:-)
I think his is the strangest sentence I've ever read on Slashdot.
Ack! Notes! When we used it at my work (up until last year; Notes v.6) the #1 reason I *didn't* keep my mailbox down to size was there was no way to see the size of sent messages! I'm a big believer in "low hanging fruit" and would always clean my mailbox in minutes by deleting a handful of multi-MB messages, rather than spending hours going through every 5-10k message to see if I should keep it or not. Worked wonders on my inbox, but not on my outobx. Has this been fixed yet? Or was there someplace else I should have looked?
:-)
BTW, in my company, Notes was used for *nothing* except email. There were only a tiny handful of databases built by the company or individuals and they all had very small audiences. Hardly anyone even used the calendar. If you're doing nothing but email, it isn't really the right tool for the job. Still, this limitation was a huge PITA.
Luckily, mailbox caps were never enforced until last year when we moved to Exchange--so it was never really *that* much of a problem for me.
Or, you could just use the Master Password.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/
As has been pointed out repeatedly, Sony's biggest enemy is themselves. The Entertainment half won't let the Consumer Electronics half do anything that they think might deprive them of a single penny--i.e., by making a device that you can play a movie or song on. "OH NOES!!!!11", they cry. "If someone wants to watch a Sony movie on $NEW_DEVICE, they have to buy it again!" Which consumers, obviously, don't want to do.
Remember, more Americans died in our own civil war than any other war we've participated in, before or since. Civil wars tend to be like that. Same thing with Sony.
No offense, but just like every other geek on Slashdot who says "I won't buy it 'cause it won't play OGG," you are not the target market. Picky geeks are not what keeps a consumer electronics industry afloat. You only buy 17" gear? Great. Apple will get along without you.
I, on the other hand, greatly value your business and will happily sell you a Mac Mini in a 17" wide box for just $1399. Also, Monster Cables are 10% off with any WideBody Mini purchase.
Well, the reason that it was so easy to run OS X on x86 was because OS X was based on NeXT, which itself ran on four architectures, IIRC. So if Intel goes away, maybe they'll just move on to MIPS or Alpha or whatever. ;-)
The OS can't predict for you what's good and bad...
Actually, yes, it can, quite often. Is the extension 'jpg'? Do the first few bytes look like the beginning of a JPEG? Then you're probably OK. Does the file end in '.scr.pif'? Then warn the user. If it's '.doc.exe', does it look like a self-extracting zip file with a word document inside?
There is a *huge* catalog of file types and many ways to identify them and a lot can be done to determine if they're likely to be safe or not. It won't be 100% effective but it's a lot better than being warned that "this attachment may be harmful" when it's just an ASCII text file that a 30-year-old computer would recognize.