In the mean time, Mozilla has stated that they're unable to ship H.264 as part of Firefox [mozillazine.org]. H.264 has patent and licensing issues associated with it.
Isn't the codec the responsibility of a codec library? I played H.264 videos on Linux today. Mozilla could just use gstreamer or what ever else
I mean, in 10 years do we still playing the same old Civ XII and Settlers VII? Do they expect to monetize the same concept at infinitum? Were are the new ideas, new concepts. I mean, even Civilization was a new concept back then and now it's a really great game, so where are the new concepts of today?
That's really BS. The same will happen to Apple, if they have 90% of the market and forcing everyone to use Safari. There is nothing wrong with have a monopoly, but if you are abusing it like MS did and do than this browser choice windows is the least thing the government should MS force to do.
What the government really should do is to split MS apart, make the whole OEM deals transparent to the customers and force MS to use open standards (or force MS to open up theirs).
Yep. I do find it funny how many Linux types will advocate Linux more or less as a "security through obscurity" thing. "Oh use Linux because all these attacks target Windows!" Ok, well if everyone took your advice and switched to Linux, they'd target Linux instead.
Which Linux do you mean? Do you mean Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse, RedHat, CentOS, Arch, Gentoo, etc. Do you mean Linux 2.6.30, 2.6.18, 2.6.31, 2.6.32, 2.6.33, etc?
You see, Windows is not only an easy target because everybody using Windows but because everybody using the same Windows. If we assume that the users are all updating their OS, we over 70% are using WindowsXP SP3.
With Linux you have diversity and it is that diversity that makes Linux a very difficult target for Viruses and Trojans. (In addition to the usual advantages in a Linux environment, like package manager, better security policy, etc.)
How can you distinguish between illegally available copyrighted material and legally material before you downloaded it? How can I know that a publisher of a software, video or song is publishing it illegally and not have the permission of the copyright owner?
If I go, for example, to http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ (where I can buy older games and download it) or http://www.abandonia.com/ (where I can download abandoned games), how can I know if the publisher have the permissions to do so?
After this "three strikes law" I can be disconnected without doing anything wrong, except to believe that the mentioned sites have the permission to publish the games.
From the obviosly start a project or code there are a lot of things to learn from books that aren't java related but are more general for software development.
*learn Patterns, like composite, singleton, factory and so on.
*learn the tools available, like maven and ant, eclipse, netbeans
*learn project management and UML
*learn SCM tools, like git
Thank Christ the bank in question doesn't allow you to do anything without the use of a separate security device they ship you.
Or, just use a Linux Live CD for all your banking needs. Maybe the banks should require all users to use at least a Linux Live CD to access any of the bank's websites.
They could hand over VirtualBox with an installed and configured Linux distribution on a CD/Usb stick to it's customers (CD would be better, it's write protected).
It pretty much all happens on Windows currently only because its so popular (and the users are generally dumber than those geeks running for example Linux on desktop).
Apache is the most popular web server and it is open source. Shouldn't it have more security problems as IIS? Where is the Code Red for Apache, that infected over 250.000 servers?
Windows is targeted because of the poor security choices from Microsoft. To name a few, ()patch Tuesday, ()cannot delete opened file, ()No distinction between administrator and normal user, ()backward compatibility back to DOS, ()GUI in server and for administration tasks,()no distinction between executables and normal files,()whole hard drive is writable, ()complex database for configuration and the list goes on.
Wow 9 to 12 Million SLOC. Do anyone have a statistic of with module of OO.org have how many SLOC and how complex it is?
The Linux Kernel with all the drivers have 12.6 Million SLOC. How is it possible that an Office Suite have more that the whole kernel+drivers?
For the spend money and time I'm not very impressed with Office. My impression is, it's the same as the first Office Suite, a pretty dump text editor with some extra tags to get some format and buttons for the tags. I really don't know why they need to have so much SLOC. The same goes for Excel, Presentation and Database. Very simple applications.
Now with Latex I'm really impressed. A very intelligent piece of software, that really do the work for you, instead that you always fight for the right format.
Did IE really lock that many people into Windows? ActiveX was only really used in the wild for Intranet deployments, and in that case IE is used more as a distributed application client than a web browser, so the same lock-in could have been achieved by bundling an unlimited client license to IE with the BackOffice or NT Server.
And yet, a decade without innovation seems to have cost Microsoft nothing in terms of their core markets, and their experimental markets seem to be flat. Almost as if they are trying to push the market in a direction the market knows better than to follow.
What a surprise. If you want to sell an Office or Operation System the first thing your customers will ask you, how good does it support Microsoft Office file format or how good will my Windows only applications running.
It's good to have an almost monopoly, you just need to polish your old applications, make the binary formats slightly incompatible, so if some important person buys the new one, everyone else must upgrade, too.
I mean, what choice do customers have? It's either Windows 7 Starter or Windows 7 Home Basic or an Mac in the Apple Store.
Every school in the western world is teaching only Windows and Office. Microsoft is not a company, it's an institution. Every Computer vendor in this world have to support Windows and all the big ones are promoting Windows with everything they have. Just try to get a new Computer, everyone will have a "Xxx recommends Windows 7" and if Microsoft will have a new Windows 8, every big vendor will put a "Xxx recommends Windows 8", regardless of any quality.
For MS and the vendors it's a win/win situation. Microsoft have ads and it sells Windows, as well as other products that are build on top of Windows. The vendors get the Windows copy for free (or almost for free).
Just try and implement and sell a new system or office suite. The entry line to this market is like enter in the tourist space market or to colonize a new planet. But a system or an office suite are very simple applications. You need some know-how, but it's not rocket science.
Oh yes, that's really easier that to type ls -l, ps -ef or ps -ef|grep firefox
Sorry, but the real advantages in the *nix shells is that every output is just plain simple text. That means, I can grep it, parse it, format it what ever I like and won't be restricted to the PowerShell to do anything use full.
The only assertion you've made that *may* be right is the one about fast user switching in Linux, but since I've never seen that feature enabled on any of the Linux distros I've used, and your poor track record, I'm inclined to call BS on that as well.
It's enabled on every Linux distribution. For example Kubuntu Karmic, go to the menu, leave, and there is switch user. Same thing with Ubuntu, but I can't recall the Gnome layout. That was easy with KDE3 and it's easy with KDE4.
Virtual terminals were always enabled, too, with the Ctrl+Alt+F1 to Fx keys.
Nobody is saying that copyright is bad (well, not me at least). But copyright, thanks to you in the USA*, is now basically indefinitely.
Copyright is a balance act, benefiting the creator and ripping of the public culture
* because of you exporting the idea of an indefinitely copyright to all Europe and rest of the world. In addition to the ridiculous flight safety laws. Thank you very much America.
The DRM in Games is cracked in Weeks, because someone will find the key (or what else hack) in the Xx MB binary blob.
For the BBC is the same situation, either there are some interested in finding the key or not. I think there are not so many who are interested so it will take a while w/ or w/o the source.
Obscurity is no security. Neither for games nor for the BBC.
Why is the Windows's state of support third party file systems so bad anyway? Why does the Linux kernel supports so many file systems and Windows basically only fat32 and ntfs?
I thought because the ABI of the Windows kernel is stable it is so easy to develop drivers for it.
Oh and while am at it, when Windows will have LVM2 support? I can resize every partition on my Laptop as I wish, only the Windows partition is a static block (a too large block, btw, unable to be resized and used where the space is needed).
Really? Do those files have the same config file format? How readable are they? Have you worked with SendMail? Are those config files in the same location across all flavors of Linux, let alone all flavors of UNIX?
At least the distributions using the LSB and using the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard all system wide configuration is in/etc. Most of the time the config files are in a text format and the meaning of the configuration is in the manual.
Oh, and that config that is a soft link to a samba share better be loaded AFTER samba, right? You won't be soft linking all of/etc, right?
I don't get your point. So what is the problem? At least you can solve this problem without any help, just with a simple link.
At least you don't need any special program to read/modify the configuration. At least the system doesn't need to read the whole config in order to boot. In addition, you don't need to download any shareware to clean the registration every one and than.
The *NIX way is no better and no worse than the Windows way. It is just different. And, you took the bait. I was making fun of fanboys like you who even the GPP thought would say "Do it like Linux!"
The *NIX way is, make it simple, modular and use the tools already at place. The Windows way is, invent something different, make it monolith and use specialized tools.
So I don't find your post insightful at all. You don't understand economics, and your assessment of value seems very contrived to me... based on ideology rather than reality.
My reality is that I can get a docents systems that perform as well or much better than any of Microsoft's systems. And all those alternatives are free.
Based on this, an operation system from Microsoft needs to be less than free to compete.
Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft manages to implement the feature that is in all other systems for at least 40 years: That you can delete/read/write an open file.
But I think Windows users need to wait until Windows 11 for that
How is that Insightful? On Linux I can just open up a text editor to edit a config; I can just copy one file to clone the config; The system doesn't need to read all configuration in order to function; All the config files are checked by the normal file system check; I can even set a soft link from a samba-share to a config file, so the config will be read from the share.
What are the advantages of one big fat file with all the configuration in it again?
I'm not a US citizen, I'm German. So can anyone please explain to me how this can be legal?
Microsoft has a monopoly in one market and is already convicted multiple times of illegal practices. So now Microsoft is saying that they will pay somebody to not go to the competition. Isn't it using a monopoly in one market to hinder competition in an another market?
I'm using Kate all the time and I have mostly 10 to 20 or more documents open. A tab panel on the side is really good with the 16:9 screens that now everybody has anyway. But if you think it's wasted space, why you don't click on "Documents" to hide it?
Kate is one of the very best text editors. Big thanks to the KDE4 developers.
The vertical text is very space save, too (which is good). In Kile there is like 4 panels to open with the vertical text, very use full. But what I don't understand is, why can't I move the panels to a different location, like to the sides. In Kile is the output panel on the bottom side, but I wish I could move it to the right side.
In KDE4 I so exactly the same. Hit the KDE icon, I menu pops up. I enter 'fire' and hit enter. I enter 'wo' and hit enter for OpenOffice.org Word.
Linux have this for about 1 year now, since KDE4 came up. What's more convenient, I can setup any hot key I want for any application. For example, Win+W is Firefox, Win+F is file manager, Win+C is calculator and so on.
There is more. Hit Alt+F2 and you get the KRunner, which you can use the same way as the menu I described before. And you can use it as a calculator, to open a location and more.
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In the mean time, Mozilla has stated that they're unable to ship H.264 as part of Firefox [mozillazine.org]. H.264 has patent and licensing issues associated with it.
Isn't the codec the responsibility of a codec library? I played H.264 videos on Linux today. Mozilla could just use gstreamer or what ever else
I mean, in 10 years do we still playing the same old Civ XII and Settlers VII? Do they expect to monetize the same concept at infinitum? Were are the new ideas, new concepts. I mean, even Civilization was a new concept back then and now it's a really great game, so where are the new concepts of today?
That's really BS. The same will happen to Apple, if they have 90% of the market and forcing everyone to use Safari. There is nothing wrong with have a monopoly, but if you are abusing it like MS did and do than this browser choice windows is the least thing the government should MS force to do.
What the government really should do is to split MS apart, make the whole OEM deals transparent to the customers and force MS to use open standards (or force MS to open up theirs).
"We're going to change and reinvent our company around leading in the cloud."
Good, I hope they will stay in the cloud, far far away from my PCs.
Yep. I do find it funny how many Linux types will advocate Linux more or less as a "security through obscurity" thing. "Oh use Linux because all these attacks target Windows!" Ok, well if everyone took your advice and switched to Linux, they'd target Linux instead.
Which Linux do you mean? Do you mean Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse, RedHat, CentOS, Arch, Gentoo, etc. Do you mean Linux 2.6.30, 2.6.18, 2.6.31, 2.6.32, 2.6.33, etc?
You see, Windows is not only an easy target because everybody using Windows but because everybody using the same Windows. If we assume that the users are all updating their OS, we over 70% are using WindowsXP SP3.
With Linux you have diversity and it is that diversity that makes Linux a very difficult target for Viruses and Trojans. (In addition to the usual advantages in a Linux environment, like package manager, better security policy, etc.)
How can you distinguish between illegally available copyrighted material and legally material before you downloaded it? How can I know that a publisher of a software, video or song is publishing it illegally and not have the permission of the copyright owner?
If I go, for example, to http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ (where I can buy older games and download it) or http://www.abandonia.com/ (where I can download abandoned games), how can I know if the publisher have the permissions to do so?
After this "three strikes law" I can be disconnected without doing anything wrong, except to believe that the mentioned sites have the permission to publish the games.
From the obviosly start a project or code there are a lot of things to learn from books that aren't java related but are more general for software development.
*learn Patterns, like composite, singleton, factory and so on. *learn the tools available, like maven and ant, eclipse, netbeans *learn project management and UML *learn SCM tools, like git
Thank Christ the bank in question doesn't allow you to do anything without the use of a separate security device they ship you.
Or, just use a Linux Live CD for all your banking needs. Maybe the banks should require all users to use at least a Linux Live CD to access any of the bank's websites.
They could hand over VirtualBox with an installed and configured Linux distribution on a CD/Usb stick to it's customers (CD would be better, it's write protected).
It pretty much all happens on Windows currently only because its so popular (and the users are generally dumber than those geeks running for example Linux on desktop).
Apache is the most popular web server and it is open source. Shouldn't it have more security problems as IIS? Where is the Code Red for Apache, that infected over 250.000 servers?
Windows is targeted because of the poor security choices from Microsoft. To name a few, ()patch Tuesday, ()cannot delete opened file, ()No distinction between administrator and normal user, ()backward compatibility back to DOS, ()GUI in server and for administration tasks,()no distinction between executables and normal files,()whole hard drive is writable, ()complex database for configuration and the list goes on.
Wow 9 to 12 Million SLOC. Do anyone have a statistic of with module of OO.org have how many SLOC and how complex it is?
The Linux Kernel with all the drivers have 12.6 Million SLOC. How is it possible that an Office Suite have more that the whole kernel+drivers?
For the spend money and time I'm not very impressed with Office. My impression is, it's the same as the first Office Suite, a pretty dump text editor with some extra tags to get some format and buttons for the tags. I really don't know why they need to have so much SLOC. The same goes for Excel, Presentation and Database. Very simple applications.
Now with Latex I'm really impressed. A very intelligent piece of software, that really do the work for you, instead that you always fight for the right format.
What's wrong with "How good"? Is it "How well"? My first language is German not English.
Did IE really lock that many people into Windows? ActiveX was only really used in the wild for Intranet deployments, and in that case IE is used more as a distributed application client than a web browser, so the same lock-in could have been achieved by bundling an unlimited client license to IE with the BackOffice or NT Server.
Ask that the people in South Korea. It's basically impossible to do online banking without IE. http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/09/29/987-internet-explorer-in-south-korea/
And yet, a decade without innovation seems to have cost Microsoft nothing in terms of their core markets, and their experimental markets seem to be flat. Almost as if they are trying to push the market in a direction the market knows better than to follow.
What a surprise. If you want to sell an Office or Operation System the first thing your customers will ask you, how good does it support Microsoft Office file format or how good will my Windows only applications running.
It's good to have an almost monopoly, you just need to polish your old applications, make the binary formats slightly incompatible, so if some important person buys the new one, everyone else must upgrade, too.
I mean, what choice do customers have? It's either Windows 7 Starter or Windows 7 Home Basic or an Mac in the Apple Store.
Every school in the western world is teaching only Windows and Office. Microsoft is not a company, it's an institution. Every Computer vendor in this world have to support Windows and all the big ones are promoting Windows with everything they have. Just try to get a new Computer, everyone will have a "Xxx recommends Windows 7" and if Microsoft will have a new Windows 8, every big vendor will put a "Xxx recommends Windows 8", regardless of any quality.
For MS and the vendors it's a win/win situation. Microsoft have ads and it sells Windows, as well as other products that are build on top of Windows. The vendors get the Windows copy for free (or almost for free).
Just try and implement and sell a new system or office suite. The entry line to this market is like enter in the tourist space market or to colonize a new planet. But a system or an office suite are very simple applications. You need some know-how, but it's not rocket science.
Oh yes, that's really easier that to type ls -l, ps -ef or ps -ef|grep firefox
Sorry, but the real advantages in the *nix shells is that every output is just plain simple text. That means, I can grep it, parse it, format it what ever I like and won't be restricted to the PowerShell to do anything use full.
The only assertion you've made that *may* be right is the one about fast user switching in Linux, but since I've never seen that feature enabled on any of the Linux distros I've used, and your poor track record, I'm inclined to call BS on that as well.
It's enabled on every Linux distribution. For example Kubuntu Karmic, go to the menu, leave, and there is switch user. Same thing with Ubuntu, but I can't recall the Gnome layout. That was easy with KDE3 and it's easy with KDE4.
Virtual terminals were always enabled, too, with the Ctrl+Alt+F1 to Fx keys.
Nobody is saying that copyright is bad (well, not me at least). But copyright, thanks to you in the USA*, is now basically indefinitely.
Copyright is a balance act, benefiting the creator and ripping of the public culture
* because of you exporting the idea of an indefinitely copyright to all Europe and rest of the world. In addition to the ridiculous flight safety laws. Thank you very much America.
The DRM in Games is cracked in Weeks, because someone will find the key (or what else hack) in the Xx MB binary blob.
For the BBC is the same situation, either there are some interested in finding the key or not. I think there are not so many who are interested so it will take a while w/ or w/o the source.
Obscurity is no security. Neither for games nor for the BBC.
Why is the Windows's state of support third party file systems so bad anyway? Why does the Linux kernel supports so many file systems and Windows basically only fat32 and ntfs?
I thought because the ABI of the Windows kernel is stable it is so easy to develop drivers for it.
Oh and while am at it, when Windows will have LVM2 support? I can resize every partition on my Laptop as I wish, only the Windows partition is a static block (a too large block, btw, unable to be resized and used where the space is needed).
Really? Do those files have the same config file format? How readable are they? Have you worked with SendMail? Are those config files in the same location across all flavors of Linux, let alone all flavors of UNIX?
At least the distributions using the LSB and using the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard all system wide configuration is in /etc. Most of the time the config files are in a text format and the meaning of the configuration is in the manual.
Oh, and that config that is a soft link to a samba share better be loaded AFTER samba, right? You won't be soft linking all of /etc, right?
I don't get your point. So what is the problem? At least you can solve this problem without any help, just with a simple link.
At least you don't need any special program to read/modify the configuration. At least the system doesn't need to read the whole config in order to boot. In addition, you don't need to download any shareware to clean the registration every one and than.
The *NIX way is no better and no worse than the Windows way. It is just different. And, you took the bait. I was making fun of fanboys like you who even the GPP thought would say "Do it like Linux!"
The *NIX way is, make it simple, modular and use the tools already at place. The Windows way is, invent something different, make it monolith and use specialized tools.
So I don't find your post insightful at all. You don't understand economics, and your assessment of value seems very contrived to me... based on ideology rather than reality.
My reality is that I can get a docents systems that perform as well or much better than any of Microsoft's systems. And all those alternatives are free.
Based on this, an operation system from Microsoft needs to be less than free to compete.
Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft manages to implement the feature that is in all other systems for at least 40 years: That you can delete/read/write an open file.
But I think Windows users need to wait until Windows 11 for that
How is that Insightful? On Linux I can just open up a text editor to edit a config; I can just copy one file to clone the config; The system doesn't need to read all configuration in order to function; All the config files are checked by the normal file system check; I can even set a soft link from a samba-share to a config file, so the config will be read from the share.
What are the advantages of one big fat file with all the configuration in it again?
I'm not a US citizen, I'm German. So can anyone please explain to me how this can be legal?
Microsoft has a monopoly in one market and is already convicted multiple times of illegal practices. So now Microsoft is saying that they will pay somebody to not go to the competition. Isn't it using a monopoly in one market to hinder competition in an another market?
Google have a nice book to read: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oT07hNxzMwQC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=using+a+monopoly+in+one+market+to+hinder+competition+in+an+another+market&source=bl&ots=Z2oK-26Xqf&sig=sLQIoG-abfgthpHWeEAWiEGzag8&hl=en&ei=uLUSS_bULYSBkQWKz4mjBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
I'm using Kate all the time and I have mostly 10 to 20 or more documents open. A tab panel on the side is really good with the 16:9 screens that now everybody has anyway. But if you think it's wasted space, why you don't click on "Documents" to hide it?
Kate is one of the very best text editors. Big thanks to the KDE4 developers.
The vertical text is very space save, too (which is good). In Kile there is like 4 panels to open with the vertical text, very use full. But what I don't understand is, why can't I move the panels to a different location, like to the sides. In Kile is the output panel on the bottom side, but I wish I could move it to the right side.
In KDE4 I so exactly the same. Hit the KDE icon, I menu pops up. I enter 'fire' and hit enter. I enter 'wo' and hit enter for OpenOffice.org Word. Linux have this for about 1 year now, since KDE4 came up. What's more convenient, I can setup any hot key I want for any application. For example, Win+W is Firefox, Win+F is file manager, Win+C is calculator and so on. There is more. Hit Alt+F2 and you get the KRunner, which you can use the same way as the menu I described before. And you can use it as a calculator, to open a location and more.