This is going to be very good for Japanese IT workers. 15000 new computers means a _lot_ of new jobs for people, to maintain them. Especially good for those who have had Linux exposure =)
"Is anyone gonna make another text editor" you say. The very existence of the opensource movement has given us choices.. a means to choose what I need, over what I am given to accept. A zillion text editors, all won't have the same features, efficiency and robustness. emacs may be good for some tasks, and vi may be good for others. I find a utility for Apache and I find a utility for other static-page web servers like khttpd. And with so many available, I can pick exactly what I need. This is an end-user point of view.
Digital signatures introduce a HUGE problem, they will lead the Sheeple (those that follow the "herd") to
beleive a level of safety has been added to the WWW that isn't really there. It also seems that there is almost
NO way to verify the identity of the person who is signing the digital signature. This would also lead on-line
merchants to possibly relax a little bit about credit card fraud, when in reality they now have a new form of
fraud to look out for.
This is why you have certification authorities on the Internet, such as Thawte, Verisign, etc. They cross sign your keys and guarantee that anything cross signed by them is authentic. So naturally, before they cross sign, they verify that the person is authentic and the key belongs to him. They take responsibility in the case of any bad identity mis-haps.
everybody is so busy with everything else, they forgot an important thing! where can i get that l33t hax00ring tool called "Common Sense"?? you think i'd forget to ask? huh??
Borland already has the JBuilder development enviroment out for Linux. Although this is Java based, the environment brings the familiar Borland's power IDE interface. It works like a dream with proper hardware under Linux. The Foundation release is free for use. You need to download a license key from the site though.
I wonder if people working at Microsoft are borkies.. How do they always manage to create something proprietary _all the time_?? This is so crap.. I wonder how some of this world is still putting up with them. Why invent another content type when they already have HTML? See, experimenting is not a bad thing. But why experiment on the whole world? If it's such an amazing standard (whatever it is they create), why not publish the standard and make it open so that everyone can benefit and adapt to it? Living in the open community, I simply cannot understand what people gain by keeping standards proprietary.. especially large companies like Microsoft. Some small company may try this to pull some money, but such a large corporation??
More specifically, in this case, Microsoft wants the _receiving_ server to handle the hassles of delivering this TNEF as text. This is so dumb. How does an e-mail server know what content types the receiving e-mail client can handle? And besides, how in the world do they expect us to handle this fucking standard when they haven't published it, nor have made available some kind of filtering software to work with various e-mail servers/clients??
I just hope they stop their mad dog bitching theory of taking over the earth using proprietary shit. It makes no sense.
Yes, we have such a player which does play most AVI formats. It's called Avifile and works as a plugin for the XMPS player. It can do Intel Indeo? 5.0 & DivX formats, and GSM 6.1, MPEG-1 all layers, PCM, etc. as it's homepage claims.
actually, i wonder what aol gains by this. yes, although it has tried to hinder this project, the idea's given.
after napster, we had gnapster.
what's going to stop people from copying gnutella's idea and writing more software like it? anyway, gnutella was set to be opensource... now if any gnullsoft developer was to post the sources (beta or whatever) someplace, some team is going to take it up and continue it's development.
who's going to stop it?
i don't criticize aol for it's decision. it is right in protecting it's interests. but like they say, nip it in the bud if you have to... not like this.
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This is going to be very good for Japanese IT workers. 15000 new computers means a _lot_ of new jobs for people, to maintain them. Especially good for those who have had Linux exposure =)
"Is anyone gonna make another text editor" you say. The very existence of the opensource movement has given us choices.. a means to choose what I need, over what I am given to accept. A zillion text editors, all won't have the same features, efficiency and robustness. emacs may be good for some tasks, and vi may be good for others. I find a utility for Apache and I find a utility for other static-page web servers like khttpd. And with so many available, I can pick exactly what I need. This is an end-user point of view.
Today's Friday the 13th. You're doomed?
This is why you have certification authorities on the Internet, such as Thawte, Verisign, etc. They cross sign your keys and guarantee that anything cross signed by them is authentic. So naturally, before they cross sign, they verify that the person is authentic and the key belongs to him. They take responsibility in the case of any bad identity mis-haps.
everybody is so busy with everything else, they forgot an important thing! where can i get that l33t hax00ring tool called "Common Sense"?? you think i'd forget to ask? huh??
Borland already has the JBuilder development enviroment out for Linux. Although this is Java based, the environment brings the familiar Borland's power IDE interface. It works like a dream with proper hardware under Linux. The Foundation release is free for use. You need to download a license key from the site though.
I wonder if people working at Microsoft are borkies.. How do they always manage to create something proprietary _all the time_?? This is so crap.. I wonder how some of this world is still putting up with them. Why invent another content type when they already have HTML? See, experimenting is not a bad thing. But why experiment on the whole world? If it's such an amazing standard (whatever it is they create), why not publish the standard and make it open so that everyone can benefit and adapt to it? Living in the open community, I simply cannot understand what people gain by keeping standards proprietary.. especially large companies like Microsoft. Some small company may try this to pull some money, but such a large corporation??
More specifically, in this case, Microsoft wants the _receiving_ server to handle the hassles of delivering this TNEF as text. This is so dumb. How does an e-mail server know what content types the receiving e-mail client can handle? And besides, how in the world do they expect us to handle this fucking standard when they haven't published it, nor have made available some kind of filtering software to work with various e-mail servers/clients??
I just hope they stop their mad dog bitching theory of taking over the earth using proprietary shit. It makes no sense.
Yes, we have such a player which does play most AVI formats. It's called Avifile and works as a plugin for the XMPS player. It can do Intel Indeo? 5.0 & DivX formats, and GSM 6.1, MPEG-1 all layers, PCM, etc. as it's homepage claims.
actually, i wonder what aol gains by this.
yes, although it has tried to hinder this project,
the idea's given.
after napster, we had gnapster.
what's going to stop people from copying gnutella's
idea and writing more software like it? anyway, gnutella
was set to be opensource... now if any gnullsoft developer
was to post the sources (beta or whatever) someplace,
some team is going to take it up and continue it's development.
who's going to stop it?
i don't criticize aol for it's decision. it is right in
protecting it's interests. but like they say,
nip it in the bud if you have to... not like this.