Actually, yes I agree that Apple is a 'platform' company. I disagree that seperating the hardware from the software will hurt the Apple brand as a whole. The main reason why they would want to restrict what hardware it runs on, is the fact that they don't have the resources to test OSX out on Wintel hardware. Not to mention they will have to put up with crap drivers until they get stable. Imagine someone using OSX for the first time on their new computer using beta drivers... stuff would lock up, crash randomly, and they would blame it on OSX, not on the driver writers. So, yes the first one would probably be locked to their hardware, but you can bet that as soon as there are enough vendors with good drivers out, they will start releasing 'beta' editions of its OSX or OSXI to reviewers. Opening up the market to sales of their software will increase their revenue tremendously. Look what happened when they put iTunes on Windows. Suddenly they had over a million more users, and their iPod sales skyrocketed. They know what they are doing. Just give it time.
I'm getting so tired of all these "is X harmful?" the answer always is "yes if" or "no, but" come on, anything CAN be harmful, but its the probability, not the possibility that matters!
This is not newsworthy. I have read of the same study, and while it does show we work more than other countries, it doesn't show any change over the last 10 years. Hey, I'd be complaining if I WASNT working 40 hours a week! Point is, we've always been working long hours. Have been for the past 30 years now. You people really need to read the source article before posting comments on it.
both of those examples are not good. He uses a tool to get something accomplished, but just because its used, does not mean its "expressive". Think harder.
CCTV = Closed Circuit Television.
Please do not get confused. Closed Captioned is for the hearing impaired. Closed Circuit is for specific people on the circuit.
I don't see this as an ATA standard if the encryption work has to be done in user space. I mean, they can add this in to Linux without reworking the IDE / ATA standard. Looks like "they" want to make this look like its required. The guy said so himself that if your using open source software without the offending code, you bypass the encryption. Even if there is "hard drive copy protection" who's to say that you can't FTP a file from your hard drive to another hard drive?
I want what they're smoking!
What aboug Rogue (aka Moraff, Nethack)? and Zork? I mean come on, your making a list of the 15 most influential (computer) games of ALL TIME. Some of those games are listed as following a pattern, yet they are also in the top 15...
That might be an interesting idea to have sites such as slashdot charge say $5.00 for a year's subscription in exchange for no ads. It should be easy to setup. Just add in a field on everyones account "ads-enabled:0" who subscribed. Then it would pull up the page w/o ads. Of course, for $5.00 I would expect more than just "no ads" but I'm not sure yet what more I would want. Maybe an email alias at slashdot.org or something. What do you guys think?
I think the problem with the filesystem is that it contains information not used by the CDA (by the way, does this confuse anyone else?). You have Created date/time, file size, file name, extension, a directory naming which sectors are used... all of this is unnecessary for MP3 players which just need a song title and playlist. The current cd players have to load in the directory structures, and then access the disc according to the structure to play the file. Obviously by changing the filesystem to something that is more MP3-Friendly, you could have more efficient, smooth playback.
Whatever happened to the Bochs for Win32 port? It was available up until you were bought out by Mandrakesoft. There's no links, and the official Bochs page makes no mention of it anymore. It was being maintained by David Ross, but according to his website, his "Projects Pages" have been removed until further notice. So, again, What happened to the Bochs for Win32 port?
Those of you looking for a good rugged mouse/keyboard at a decent price can find one from Keytronic. Specifically the lifetime series mouse and keyboards. They are called "Lifetime" because they have a lifetime warranty. The Lifetime mouse uses wheels on the bottom instead of a ball, so it needs no cleaning and doesn't require a mouse pad. I've had mine for 2 years and it's good as new. Check it out here. No, it probably won't survive being dropped off a 5 story building, or being run over by a truck, but they are pretty tough. Their keyboards are good too. They are the OEM that build the Microsoft Natural Keyboards.
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We do have people working on it. Instead of Intel doing it though, we have some Linux hackers taking a stab at it. Check it out - Linux Bios project.
I've had success in contributing to open source. Just find a small project, and look at the source. Use the product. Figure out what would make it better, look over the source again, and add in that feature, or fix that bug. Pat yourself on the back. Move on to bigger things.
I concurr. They have stated that their focus now is slimming it down so it can fit on Set-Top boxes, and embedded devices. Obviously, PC's will benefit greatly from this effort.
I think the reason why most programs do this is because they are inoperable with other programs. If we had a program interoperability standard, you'd actually have programs that cooperate with each other, each only doing what it does best.
"You call that small bandwidth? Only five years ago I was controlling a 24-turbine power station over a 1200 baud UUCP link -- and liked it!"
If you do the math, 12 bits x 100 = 1200bps = 1200 baud. Same bandwidth as your "24 turbine power station". Obviously since he's talking samples per second, latency is a factor where your 24 turbine power station, it wasn't that big a deal.
Well, I don't know about Austrailia, but that wouldn't work for America (USA, Canada, or Mexico) I know in USA we use the format of ###.###.#### which would be 3 octets +1. Also, no numbers could start with 0, 1, 2, 911, 411, etc.. so, of course this is a bad idea! I didn't even get into the privacy issues!
The way I see it, Hype and Consoles go hand in hand. Every console manufacturer knows that there's always a better console coming out. So, they set an agressive schedule and stick to it. They ramp up the hype machine so all this hype will turn into sales. If they didn't hype it up, you'd have people perpetually waiting for the one that's coming out "Real Soon Now (tm)". So, they hype it, sell 1 million, and then their sales slow to a trickle (as always happens). Then they make their money... they sell games. Each person pays good money for a game, and since CD's are so cheap to produce, virually 65% of the sales goes to profit. Of course, around this time, they have to come out with the great games, so people will stick with their console instead of switching to the better system that just came out. So, they stick with what they know... "Pocket Pool 4" etc...lower prices on the console... you get my drift. That's just the nature of the beast.
This sounds like a great idea... from a network administrator's point of view. I can disable running "unsigned executables" thereby eliminating everything except excel virii. I would also eliminate proliferation of those crappy little "hey-look-at-this.exe" files, or even the little games that people like to bring in from home. If I could choose who to accept signatures from, I could sign all the software that I want ran on my network, and disallow anyone from running anything I haven't seen yet. I sure hope it turns out that way.
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Novell iFolder is the best, most secure I've ever seen. And, it's GPL. Here's the URL:
http://www.ifolder.com/
actually they archive big images too. check out www.cat-scan.com (from 1997 or 1998 and you'll see).
Actually, yes I agree that Apple is a 'platform' company. I disagree that seperating the hardware from the software will hurt the Apple brand as a whole. The main reason why they would want to restrict what hardware it runs on, is the fact that they don't have the resources to test OSX out on Wintel hardware. Not to mention they will have to put up with crap drivers until they get stable. Imagine someone using OSX for the first time on their new computer using beta drivers... stuff would lock up, crash randomly, and they would blame it on OSX, not on the driver writers. So, yes the first one would probably be locked to their hardware, but you can bet that as soon as there are enough vendors with good drivers out, they will start releasing 'beta' editions of its OSX or OSXI to reviewers. Opening up the market to sales of their software will increase their revenue tremendously. Look what happened when they put iTunes on Windows. Suddenly they had over a million more users, and their iPod sales skyrocketed. They know what they are doing. Just give it time.
I'm getting so tired of all these "is X harmful?" the answer always is "yes if" or "no, but" come on, anything CAN be harmful, but its the probability, not the possibility that matters!
This is not newsworthy. I have read of the same study, and while it does show we work more than other countries, it doesn't show any change over the last 10 years. Hey, I'd be complaining if I WASNT working 40 hours a week! Point is, we've always been working long hours. Have been for the past 30 years now. You people really need to read the source article before posting comments on it.
both of those examples are not good. He uses a tool to get something accomplished, but just because its used, does not mean its "expressive". Think harder.
Your first question should be "did you recompile from the latest sources??" Hey, it works for my helpdesk. "Did you reboot?".
CCTV = Closed Circuit Television.
Please do not get confused. Closed Captioned is for the hearing impaired. Closed Circuit is for specific people on the circuit.
I don't see this as an ATA standard if the encryption work has to be done in user space. I mean, they can add this in to Linux without reworking the IDE / ATA standard. Looks like "they" want to make this look like its required. The guy said so himself that if your using open source software without the offending code, you bypass the encryption. Even if there is "hard drive copy protection" who's to say that you can't FTP a file from your hard drive to another hard drive? I want what they're smoking!
What aboug Rogue (aka Moraff, Nethack)? and Zork? I mean come on, your making a list of the 15 most influential (computer) games of ALL TIME. Some of those games are listed as following a pattern, yet they are also in the top 15...
Releasing binaries is good so that you can have more users. Releasing source is good so you can have more programmers. Where's the issue?
That might be an interesting idea to have sites such as slashdot charge say $5.00 for a year's subscription in exchange for no ads. It should be easy to setup. Just add in a field on everyones account "ads-enabled:0" who subscribed. Then it would pull up the page w/o ads. Of course, for $5.00 I would expect more than just "no ads" but I'm not sure yet what more I would want. Maybe an email alias at slashdot.org or something.
What do you guys think?
I think the problem with the filesystem is that it contains information not used by the CDA (by the way, does this confuse anyone else?). You have Created date/time, file size, file name, extension, a directory naming which sectors are used... all of this is unnecessary for MP3 players which just need a song title and playlist. The current cd players have to load in the directory structures, and then access the disc according to the structure to play the file. Obviously by changing the filesystem to something that is more MP3-Friendly, you could have more efficient, smooth playback.
Whatever happened to the Bochs for Win32 port? It was available up until you were bought out by Mandrakesoft. There's no links, and the official Bochs page makes no mention of it anymore. It was being maintained by David Ross, but according to his website, his "Projects Pages" have been removed until further notice. So, again, What happened to the Bochs for Win32 port?
Those of you looking for a good rugged mouse/keyboard at a decent price can find one from Keytronic. Specifically the lifetime series mouse and keyboards. They are called "Lifetime" because they have a lifetime warranty. The Lifetime mouse uses wheels on the bottom instead of a ball, so it needs no cleaning and doesn't require a mouse pad. I've had mine for 2 years and it's good as new. Check it out here. No, it probably won't survive being dropped off a 5 story building, or being run over by a truck, but they are pretty tough. Their keyboards are good too. They are the OEM that build the Microsoft Natural Keyboards.
We do have people working on it. Instead of Intel doing it though, we have some Linux hackers taking a stab at it. Check it out - Linux Bios project.
I've had success in contributing to open source. Just find a small project, and look at the source. Use the product. Figure out what would make it better, look over the source again, and add in that feature, or fix that bug. Pat yourself on the back. Move on to bigger things.
I concurr. They have stated that their focus now is slimming it down so it can fit on Set-Top boxes, and embedded devices. Obviously, PC's will benefit greatly from this effort.
I think the reason why most programs do this is because they are inoperable with other programs. If we had a program interoperability standard, you'd actually have programs that cooperate with each other, each only doing what it does best.
heh - that's *IF* you believe everything you read. and what happened to the other 1/6th??
he said "most users avoid 10% of the features" he didn't say most users only use 10% of the features. Don't get the two confused.
"You call that small bandwidth? Only five years ago I was controlling a 24-turbine power station over a 1200 baud UUCP link -- and liked it!"
If you do the math, 12 bits x 100 = 1200bps = 1200 baud. Same bandwidth as your "24 turbine power station". Obviously since he's talking samples per second, latency is a factor where your 24 turbine power station, it wasn't that big a deal.
Well, I don't know about Austrailia, but that wouldn't work for America (USA, Canada, or Mexico) I know in USA we use the format of ###.###.#### which would be 3 octets +1. Also, no numbers could start with 0, 1, 2, 911, 411, etc.. so, of course this is a bad idea! I didn't even get into the privacy issues!
The way I see it, Hype and Consoles go hand in hand. Every console manufacturer knows that there's always a better console coming out. So, they set an agressive schedule and stick to it. They ramp up the hype machine so all this hype will turn into sales. If they didn't hype it up, you'd have people perpetually waiting for the one that's coming out "Real Soon Now (tm)". So, they hype it, sell 1 million, and then their sales slow to a trickle (as always happens). Then they make their money... they sell games. Each person pays good money for a game, and since CD's are so cheap to produce, virually 65% of the sales goes to profit. Of course, around this time, they have to come out with the great games, so people will stick with their console instead of switching to the better system that just came out. So, they stick with what they know... "Pocket Pool 4" etc...lower prices on the console... you get my drift. That's just the nature of the beast.
This sounds like a great idea... from a network administrator's point of view. I can disable running "unsigned executables" thereby eliminating everything except excel virii. I would also eliminate proliferation of those crappy little "hey-look-at-this.exe" files, or even the little games that people like to bring in from home. If I could choose who to accept signatures from, I could sign all the software that I want ran on my network, and disallow anyone from running anything I haven't seen yet. I sure hope it turns out that way.