KDE may have many defects and it's settings/variety loghorrea is one of them, like google under some blogger coalition attack;-) OH, but there's one precious little thing... it's the file Open/Save dialog... bliss. Unfortunately programmers jargonise the UI but it's not their fault; how can they imagine that to the rest of the world RandR control panel setting means nothing? I feel that some GNOME-ification to good 'ol KDE wouldn't be that bad after all but overall I think both systems make a hell of a good show.
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No, the problem is that solid water has a larger volume that it's liquid form. Freeze an organism containing water and you'll rip cellular stuctures apart. There wouldn't be any problem if the extreme cold ground matabolism to a halt because given decent enough thermal conditions some reactions would occour naturally and provide enough heat to provide for the more delicate ones. Unfortunately you can't just shut down before anoxia because water crystals destroy those delicate biochemical reactors that keep you alive (that's the reason frozen fruit looses it's consistency and taste when frozen).
If Apple went out of business would that sond the death knell on PPC designs? Trouble is that the market is swamped with x86 mobos while PPC ones just don't benefit of the same scaling economics, so they cost more. But there are generic PCI/AGP PPC mobos: you can order one online complete with a nice little Moto chip. It's a shame you can't go to the beigebox assembly shop and lift one from there but that's because of the total world domination of the Wintel (this is a crucial point) platform. Only today that there's a high visibility alternative with Linux, it's feasible to start considering PPC based architectures in place of x86. So, you see... you complain that I'm less free than you because I use Apple. It's not true, your slavemaster is just stronger than mine that's it.
Proprietary Hardware? Well, AGP is intel patented to the guts, most x86 mobos are just some intel reference design with some extra PCI cards embedded on board rather than using a PCI white slot. Everyone thinks x86 intel designs are some kind of IEEE standard... not! It's just as proprieatary as your Sony PS2... just a bit more mass market ubiquitous.
shame you post AC... you'll never read this. Solaris payed roayalties to implement the optional crypto handshake in US versions... their NFS3 is as secure as NFS4 will be because they paid to do it. Linux hackers just wanted to mount remote points for their servers and implemented the least common denominator without getting in trouble and in any case that sufficed to scratch the itch. Of course that flies in the face of Cisco/IBM (insert fav corp) development strategy... why should they care. Now that corps want the stuff to push their linux solutions the stuff will come... don't you worry. Nobody on this earth ever claimed linux NFS is secure... hell... I'd like to get rid of root too...
I'll agree to all your GUI counterclaims: X11 was quite deadish in the old days when Windows NT4 was "the" corporate platform and linux hummed in new 486 running the initial http:// rollout. So it was and still is a bunch of sedimented un-coordinated APIs... right... true... remember, it was on the verge of abandonware... The rest? Hmm, when that stuff got developed in the first place MS was what? 3.11? DOS? Didn't even exist? Now to NFS3? Come on, when the standard was written the US called cryptoAPIs "ammunition"... you couldn't put "mandatory" tags on ammunition! Even MS had to break, cripple, unsecure, bug their domain stuff to make it exportable (I'm not shure that's the only reason but...) So NFS security became optional and developers wouldn't build anything that was patent laden would they? Sendmail... that's like firing at the Red Cross... why don't you mention Postfix;-) ? My point anyway is that the parent says MS has to regress the whole damn kaboodle for a couple of bugs so it's not their fault if it takes time. I challenge that: if they had done a half decent job there'd be no reason to check the whole OS for a couple of broken private methods in a web browser component class. that they should do that is a design failure... they might as well have written the whole thing in one big statically linked C executable.
Real programmers don't need to regression test the whole world for a simple bug: they fix the broken method, recompile and repackage. Real programmers design clean APIs and classes where the public methods don't need to change to fix a silly bug. On the other hand if the security fix requires breaking class compatibility then it's not a bug, it's a poor design failure...
Oh, the joys of forceful integration...;-) Now do you understand the importance of clean independent components with defined and carefully thought out APIs?
I love picking on budding trolls as you are. I'll put aside the personal attacks as those are points for me anyway. Let me pick on your first remark: lazy users! Oh, so now it's not MS's or any other SW provider's fault: it's the user's fault. Let's see... viruses? Oh, you should keep your AV updated, lazy one! Trojans? Oh, you should have installed and configured correctly your personal firewall? Explorer expolits? What, you haven't downloaded & installed MS's latest cumulative patch (15Mb@4,5kb/s)... uuh bad, bad! The software has a shite UI? Oh, but you haven't put enough effort in understanding the carefully thought control metaphor! Lazy! Again... the tickbox... is it hidden under layers of complex ticks, scrollviews, menus, oks (the whole dang UI API thrown at you)... or is it neatly handed over to a clean easy pattern down to your.NET Passport (TM) registration? Umph... that's MS stalinism. Apple is cool because iChat doesn't pop up like a stinkin' porn nag screen spamming my monitor estate to get attention. Is that a good enough reason? Lastly... Ichat doesn't kill Mail usability if you choose to ditch it for MSN od AOL (although I wouldn't do that... they stink!) As far as putting Quartz against Messenger... please troll, next time try and develop a sense for the ridiculous. So why is Messenger crap? Well... it often looses connection but doesn't really know when. It says I'm online when it actually has lost connection... so after some missed incoming IMs it spits out a bunch of notes warning me I've been talking to thin air. That's a feature right? It doesn't relogin on screensaver or suspend exit (did I say that macs wake in less than 5 sec?) Man, you suffer Stockholm Syndrome...
If he had cared more for style...
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... he should have bought a PS2. Oh, man I'm so sick of these modding shite... basta col coattismo!
So Mr. I Know it All... explain to me why where I live (Italy) the average iLliterate user started using en-masse Messenger with the coming of XP. I've tried for years to convince people that IM was cool and better thatn email for this kind of comms but NADA, ZILCH, NO! But now everybody uses MSN and the only ones I can iChat with are those I evangelized appropriately, for the rest... I'm stuck on that shiteware. Next point: you claim I'm crying foul because Messenger is easily shut up... by who? A geek I suppose. The avg user will (and does) follow the clickety route into MS's embrace: the least resistance wizard. Tell me how does a user behave with a new, unknow UI, in a new unknown OS. Does he/she jump into the mumble jumble preferences or follow the convenient route? Ha! Removing the binary won't help... I'm on a mac but I've read stories of OE not working properly and precise HOWTOs on how to delete the program without damaging the system... (just google for it... or follow the convenient link: uninstall messenger) Can you, in your infinite wisdom explain to me what's a bloody IM got to do with a MUA?! Oh, but now you'll object it's easy to remove on SP1... yeah, that'll make the lawyers happy but the marketshare gulp has been swallowed. Go watch some TV...
Well, everytime MS bundles hot software on their platforms I get annoyed for one reason: it's use becomes compulsory. On OS X if, for some weird reason, I chose to not use iChat at all, thought that the software was crap, hated the icon, whatever, all I have to do is drag the app to the trashcan and that's it... no more iChat, I'm free. On Windows XP on the other hand, you're dragged to passport account creation everytime you login and there's no damn easy way of getting rid of the sw... only because some MS marketoid decided to force the Passport account statistics. I hate these tricks...
I've had friends visiting Sweden and all they had to say was: "man, these are weird people!" Compared to us italians they look much more apt to adveturous flirts and easy relationships, yet almost all of them get independent form their families very early but don't enter a 'single' phase; they just marry very early or make unofficial yet stable couples. This is totally opposite to italian customs: we mostly five off our parents for as much as we can, engaging in the most lascivious affaires and mosly dribbling all kind of responsibility until some father/brother decides enough is enough and we are driven to the altar at gunpoint...
Riviera from Aldec is a commercial application that uses Qt 3. Try and download the demo package for linux, install it and have a look in the install directory: there's a libqt.3.x.x hanging around. It's an expensive, specialized developer tool for FPGA design; ok, it's not Photoshop but it's quite cool... now, if only they compiled it for OS X...
in case your craven iPod croaks on it's battery (yeah, Apple should get an RTC on the thing rather than running the damn processor just to keep counting seconds!) you're still allowed to BURN a DAMN CDR and rip it do you understand? Listen, if you're an audiophile there's no way you'll ever go for a damn mp3/aac/wma player. Hell, if I really cared I wouldn't even trouble myself with expensive HiFi etc... I'd just subscribe to an auditoruim and get the real thing (and man it DOES make a difference!). If you care for the SNR ratio of your expensive audio data (ha!) you wouldn't play it on cheap flash rubbish or tinny plastic Dell look-alikes. Yet you claim your right to do this murky crap to get the stuff on players that wouldn't sound any different: get a CD-RW and stop complaining. I think you're just whoring; it's very/.ish would-be cultural elite to act RMS on this tripe rather than do real OS dev. Quit barking at the moon, iTMS is not about Civil Rights, it's a damn (and quite dull at the moment) musical supermarket; unless it further evolves into MS digital totalitarianism, from cable tv codecs to id cards xml formats. Get a life...
Oh spreading reace & democracy at gunpoint, isn't that paradoxical? All you can do with violence is breed more of it and hold it at bay; true freedom comes with progress, self sustainment and some level of affluency. It's abstract research projects that bring enough discoveries and technology to create enough wealth for a society to relax social tensions; when the plate is empty men behave like wolves, the strogest gets to live and the weaker perishes. Science's mission, other than the pure advancement of human knowledge is to feed the masses and keep their ferinity in check; it's a wonderfully effective survival strategy, shame though that it's constantly broken by gluttons...
... it's just sad... I mean, Billy G & Ballmer doing Kung Fu... the IBM blue pill innuendo (uh... that's one heck of a joda doll!) those two old chickens posing as cool leather clad avatars... it's trash folks... just trash... like those cheap 256 GB USB pens (whoa so much for just 25$!) that die after two syncs...
Don't worry pal, I understand your point. Actually I think Microsoft's designers had daydreams of small usecases of their application integration and rushed to have a working hack for it (say some kind of business system a la SAP living within Outlook). The fools never thought the security fallout and packed it up for some marketplace conference/fair. So in a sense their integration is sparse and limp and also suffers from security black holes (at the very least because of the integrated software).
Funny, my Mac never gets any worms or viruses. Hmm, maybe its because the OS is better designed, contrary to what he says above. Hardware is not the correct approach to stopping these things. The operating system has to be designed in a security concious way. This includes not enabling programs to have full access to OS resources. Microsofts largest problem is the interconnnectivity between every piece of MS software, including the OS. Crippling progam interoperation isn't Apple's way of building security. It's superiority is vastly built upon turning the brain on when designing an application. As far as I know there's a neat little scripting language called unsurprisingly "Applescript" that can instruct an application to execute just about anything it can. So why don't we see Mail.app applescript malwares raping Mac users? Is it just because Apple has so little marketshare (we would at least see some proof of concept) or is it because software designers weren't such fools to automatically run code embedded in an incoming Mail? Or perhaps because AS was designed a long long time ago, thought out and not rushed to feed fools like the one cited in the main story.
... did you ever install an XP box anywhere? Did you have the warm fuzzy feeling of a cow forced into a slaughter house when you finally gave in and for the sake of getting the darn MSN messenger NAG POPUP away you just subscribed to MSN network? Like you many other did, the account stats drove thru the roof and MS powerpointed the industry to the incredible marketing opportunities this new userbase has. Being an iChat user I'm forced to evangelize against MSN Messenger in a country (Italy) insightfully described as populated by "anarchist sheep" and MS Messenger users; what's the point in having an IM when none of your buddies has a handle on your protocol? So I'm forced to also use MSNMessenger for Mac, in case I need to chat with one of the overwhelming majority of my friends using MSN. This stinks because before XP, it was a matter of competing products, now it's about fighting an endemic disease.
As ar as I've seen cyrus is the most complete (and yet simple to tame) IMAP server I've seen. ACAP is another protocol that supports app config and general data. Imagine Mozilla storing Sent messages in INBOX.Sent or Drafts in INBOX.Drafts, INBOX.Templates, INBOX.Stationery... then comes another client (say Evolution) and opens the same box: if it's braindead it'll at most read a preference file and use it's own folders. Say you have your INBOX.Calendars namespace acap advertises as the place to put iCal, Evolution (Express?... nah!) cals for your roaming pleasure and sharable since appropriate acls can make them available as users..calendars.folder; the shared..calendars.* path for your free/busy list... Oh it's endless... custom namespaces for facilities, groups... and it's all in IMAP and the config paths can be distributed by the ACAP support daemon (and there's an rfc for it... no PHP/MySQL/Apache ayeee!)
Yes, I was astonished when I discovered Evolution doesn't support IMAP namespaces! I had just installed cyrus-imapd just in case it wasn't a pain like courier; after poking around a little bit I got the clues right and had shared imap accounts and mailboxes all neatly displayed in Mozilla. Cool! I loaded Evo hoping it had snazzy ACL property dialogues, sigh! only the INBOX. namespace was there. Oh come on! Evo has a useful LDAP rw impl but miserably fails on IMAP while Moz does IMAP right (sort of... I'm still stuck to http based interfaces to do acl/quota admin) and craps out on the LDAP! Is it that dificult to get *both* the features in the same program? Anything short holds no chance to beat Exchange! Why on earth is noone even thinking about ACAP? I mean, Kolab is all nice etc... but sigh, why hack a LAMP-like conglomerate when there's a ready made rfc'd server already sitting there? The thing was thought to provide roaming config, personal namespace data (calendars & addressbooks), public configs (shared cals), all acl'd and neatly paired to a top IMAP server capable of supporting mailbox delegation, sharing etc... OpenSource Exchange killer is at a fingertip, but people insist in reinventing the wheel. Sigh.
Trinity isn't human when she says that dying was fine, but she should have been telling Neo how good it was instead of apologizing for dying, and thanks for the second chance to be real? I dunno, I thought that scene was a LOT more touching and a lot less fake than EITHER of the first two movies Trinity-saves-Neo or Neo-saves-Trinity scenes.
Agreed... I was a bit pissed at the audience when it started to whine for the length of the scene. Has anyone ever been overwhelemd by the circumstances and wished they could have another go at rephrasing it?
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KDE may have many defects and it's settings/variety loghorrea is one of them, like google under some blogger coalition attack ;-) OH, but there's one precious little thing... it's the file Open/Save dialog... bliss. Unfortunately programmers jargonise the UI but it's not their fault; how can they imagine that to the rest of the world RandR control panel setting means nothing? I feel that some GNOME-ification to good 'ol KDE wouldn't be that bad after all but overall I think both systems make a hell of a good show.
No, the problem is that solid water has a larger volume that it's liquid form. Freeze an organism containing water and you'll rip cellular stuctures apart. There wouldn't be any problem if the extreme cold ground matabolism to a halt because given decent enough thermal conditions some reactions would occour naturally and provide enough heat to provide for the more delicate ones. Unfortunately you can't just shut down before anoxia because water crystals destroy those delicate biochemical reactors that keep you alive (that's the reason frozen fruit looses it's consistency and taste when frozen).
If Apple went out of business would that sond the death knell on PPC designs? Trouble is that the market is swamped with x86 mobos while PPC ones just don't benefit of the same scaling economics, so they cost more. But there are generic PCI/AGP PPC mobos: you can order one online complete with a nice little Moto chip. It's a shame you can't go to the beigebox assembly shop and lift one from there but that's because of the total world domination of the Wintel (this is a crucial point) platform. Only today that there's a high visibility alternative with Linux, it's feasible to start considering PPC based architectures in place of x86. So, you see... you complain that I'm less free than you because I use Apple. It's not true, your slavemaster is just stronger than mine that's it.
Proprietary Hardware? Well, AGP is intel patented to the guts, most x86 mobos are just some intel reference design with some extra PCI cards embedded on board rather than using a PCI white slot. Everyone thinks x86 intel designs are some kind of IEEE standard... not! It's just as proprieatary as your Sony PS2... just a bit more mass market ubiquitous.
shame you post AC... you'll never read this. Solaris payed roayalties to implement the optional crypto handshake in US versions... their NFS3 is as secure as NFS4 will be because they paid to do it. Linux hackers just wanted to mount remote points for their servers and implemented the least common denominator without getting in trouble and in any case that sufficed to scratch the itch. Of course that flies in the face of Cisco/IBM (insert fav corp) development strategy... why should they care. Now that corps want the stuff to push their linux solutions the stuff will come... don't you worry. Nobody on this earth ever claimed linux NFS is secure... hell... I'd like to get rid of root too...
I'll agree to all your GUI counterclaims: X11 was quite deadish in the old days when Windows NT4 was "the" corporate platform and linux hummed in new 486 running the initial http:// rollout. So it was and still is a bunch of sedimented un-coordinated APIs... right... true... remember, it was on the verge of abandonware... The rest? Hmm, when that stuff got developed in the first place MS was what? 3.11? DOS? Didn't even exist? Now to NFS3? Come on, when the standard was written the US called cryptoAPIs "ammunition"... you couldn't put "mandatory" tags on ammunition! Even MS had to break, cripple, unsecure, bug their domain stuff to make it exportable (I'm not shure that's the only reason but...) So NFS security became optional and developers wouldn't build anything that was patent laden would they? Sendmail... that's like firing at the Red Cross... why don't you mention Postfix ;-) ?
My point anyway is that the parent says MS has to regress the whole damn kaboodle for a couple of bugs so it's not their fault if it takes time. I challenge that: if they had done a half decent job there'd be no reason to check the whole OS for a couple of broken private methods in a web browser component class. that they should do that is a design failure... they might as well have written the whole thing in one big statically linked C executable.
Real programmers don't need to regression test the whole world for a simple bug: they fix the broken method, recompile and repackage. Real programmers design clean APIs and classes where the public methods don't need to change to fix a silly bug. On the other hand if the security fix requires breaking class compatibility then it's not a bug, it's a poor design failure...
Oh, the joys of forceful integration... ;-) Now do you understand the importance of clean independent components with defined and carefully thought out APIs?
I love picking on budding trolls as you are. I'll put aside the personal attacks as those are points for me anyway. Let me pick on your first remark: lazy users! Oh, so now it's not MS's or any other SW provider's fault: it's the user's fault. Let's see... viruses? Oh, you should keep your AV updated, lazy one! Trojans? Oh, you should have installed and configured correctly your personal firewall? Explorer expolits? What, you haven't downloaded & installed MS's latest cumulative patch (15Mb@4,5kb/s)... uuh bad, bad! The software has a shite UI? Oh, but you haven't put enough effort in understanding the carefully thought control metaphor! Lazy! Again... the tickbox... is it hidden under layers of complex ticks, scrollviews, menus, oks (the whole dang UI API thrown at you)... or is it neatly handed over to a clean easy pattern down to your .NET Passport (TM) registration? Umph... that's MS stalinism. Apple is cool because iChat doesn't pop up like a stinkin' porn nag screen spamming my monitor estate to get attention. Is that a good enough reason? Lastly... Ichat doesn't kill Mail usability if you choose to ditch it for MSN od AOL (although I wouldn't do that... they stink!) As far as putting Quartz against Messenger... please troll, next time try and develop a sense for the ridiculous. So why is Messenger crap? Well... it often looses connection but doesn't really know when. It says I'm online when it actually has lost connection... so after some missed incoming IMs it spits out a bunch of notes warning me I've been talking to thin air. That's a feature right? It doesn't relogin on screensaver or suspend exit (did I say that macs wake in less than 5 sec?) Man, you suffer Stockholm Syndrome...
... he should have bought a PS2. Oh, man I'm so sick of these modding shite... basta col coattismo!
So Mr. I Know it All... explain to me why where I live (Italy) the average iLliterate user started using en-masse Messenger with the coming of XP. I've tried for years to convince people that IM was cool and better thatn email for this kind of comms but NADA, ZILCH, NO! But now everybody uses MSN and the only ones I can iChat with are those I evangelized appropriately, for the rest... I'm stuck on that shiteware. Next point: you claim I'm crying foul because Messenger is easily shut up... by who? A geek I suppose. The avg user will (and does) follow the clickety route into MS's embrace: the least resistance wizard. Tell me how does a user behave with a new, unknow UI, in a new unknown OS. Does he/she jump into the mumble jumble preferences or follow the convenient route? Ha! Removing the binary won't help... I'm on a mac but I've read stories of OE not working properly and precise HOWTOs on how to delete the program without damaging the system... (just google for it... or follow the convenient link: uninstall messenger) Can you, in your infinite wisdom explain to me what's a bloody IM got to do with a MUA?! Oh, but now you'll object it's easy to remove on SP1... yeah, that'll make the lawyers happy but the marketshare gulp has been swallowed. Go watch some TV...
Well, everytime MS bundles hot software on their platforms I get annoyed for one reason: it's use becomes compulsory. On OS X if, for some weird reason, I chose to not use iChat at all, thought that the software was crap, hated the icon, whatever, all I have to do is drag the app to the trashcan and that's it... no more iChat, I'm free. On Windows XP on the other hand, you're dragged to passport account creation everytime you login and there's no damn easy way of getting rid of the sw... only because some MS marketoid decided to force the Passport account statistics. I hate these tricks...
I've had friends visiting Sweden and all they had to say was: "man, these are weird people!" Compared to us italians they look much more apt to adveturous flirts and easy relationships, yet almost all of them get independent form their families very early but don't enter a 'single' phase; they just marry very early or make unofficial yet stable couples. This is totally opposite to italian customs: we mostly five off our parents for as much as we can, engaging in the most lascivious affaires and mosly dribbling all kind of responsibility until some father/brother decides enough is enough and we are driven to the altar at gunpoint...
Riviera from Aldec is a commercial application that uses Qt 3. Try and download the demo package for linux, install it and have a look in the install directory: there's a libqt.3.x.x hanging around. It's an expensive, specialized developer tool for FPGA design; ok, it's not Photoshop but it's quite cool... now, if only they compiled it for OS X...
in case your craven iPod croaks on it's battery (yeah, Apple should get an RTC on the thing rather than running the damn processor just to keep counting seconds!) you're still allowed to BURN a DAMN CDR and rip it do you understand? Listen, if you're an audiophile there's no way you'll ever go for a damn mp3/aac/wma player. Hell, if I really cared I wouldn't even trouble myself with expensive HiFi etc... I'd just subscribe to an auditoruim and get the real thing (and man it DOES make a difference!). If you care for the SNR ratio of your expensive audio data (ha!) you wouldn't play it on cheap flash rubbish or tinny plastic Dell look-alikes. Yet you claim your right to do this murky crap to get the stuff on players that wouldn't sound any different: get a CD-RW and stop complaining. I think you're just whoring; it's very /.ish would-be cultural elite to act RMS on this tripe rather than do real OS dev. Quit barking at the moon, iTMS is not about Civil Rights, it's a damn (and quite dull at the moment) musical supermarket; unless it further evolves into MS digital totalitarianism, from cable tv codecs to id cards xml formats. Get a life...
Oh spreading reace & democracy at gunpoint, isn't that paradoxical? All you can do with violence is breed more of it and hold it at bay; true freedom comes with progress, self sustainment and some level of affluency. It's abstract research projects that bring enough discoveries and technology to create enough wealth for a society to relax social tensions; when the plate is empty men behave like wolves, the strogest gets to live and the weaker perishes. Science's mission, other than the pure advancement of human knowledge is to feed the masses and keep their ferinity in check; it's a wonderfully effective survival strategy, shame though that it's constantly broken by gluttons...
Not funniest at all MS fanboy, although I'd find it much less pathetic...
... it's just sad... I mean, Billy G & Ballmer doing Kung Fu... the IBM blue pill innuendo (uh... that's one heck of a joda doll!) those two old chickens posing as cool leather clad avatars... it's trash folks... just trash... like those cheap 256 GB USB pens (whoa so much for just 25$!) that die after two syncs...
Don't worry pal, I understand your point. Actually I think Microsoft's designers had daydreams of small usecases of their application integration and rushed to have a working hack for it (say some kind of business system a la SAP living within Outlook). The fools never thought the security fallout and packed it up for some marketplace conference/fair. So in a sense their integration is sparse and limp and also suffers from security black holes (at the very least because of the integrated software).
Funny, my Mac never gets any worms or viruses. Hmm, maybe its because the OS is better designed, contrary to what he says above. Hardware is not the correct approach to stopping these things. The operating system has to be designed in a security concious way. This includes not enabling programs to have full access to OS resources. Microsofts largest problem is the interconnnectivity between every piece of MS software, including the OS.
Crippling progam interoperation isn't Apple's way of building security. It's superiority is vastly built upon turning the brain on when designing an application. As far as I know there's a neat little scripting language called unsurprisingly "Applescript" that can instruct an application to execute just about anything it can. So why don't we see Mail.app applescript malwares raping Mac users? Is it just because Apple has so little marketshare (we would at least see some proof of concept) or is it because software designers weren't such fools to automatically run code embedded in an incoming Mail? Or perhaps because AS was designed a long long time ago, thought out and not rushed to feed fools like the one cited in the main story.
... did you ever install an XP box anywhere? Did you have the warm fuzzy feeling of a cow forced into a slaughter house when you finally gave in and for the sake of getting the darn MSN messenger NAG POPUP away you just subscribed to MSN network? Like you many other did, the account stats drove thru the roof and MS powerpointed the industry to the incredible marketing opportunities this new userbase has. Being an iChat user I'm forced to evangelize against MSN Messenger in a country (Italy) insightfully described as populated by "anarchist sheep" and MS Messenger users; what's the point in having an IM when none of your buddies has a handle on your protocol? So I'm forced to also use MSNMessenger for Mac, in case I need to chat with one of the overwhelming majority of my friends using MSN. This stinks because before XP, it was a matter of competing products, now it's about fighting an endemic disease.
oh! slashdot ate all the "paths" where I put the variable "user" in angle brakets. oh whell, eg
shared..calendars.* is shared.$uname.calendars.*
As ar as I've seen cyrus is the most complete (and yet simple to tame) IMAP server I've seen. ACAP is another protocol that supports app config and general data. Imagine Mozilla storing Sent messages in INBOX.Sent or Drafts in INBOX.Drafts, INBOX.Templates, INBOX.Stationery... then comes another client (say Evolution) and opens the same box: if it's braindead it'll at most read a preference file and use it's own folders. Say you have your INBOX.Calendars namespace acap advertises as the place to put iCal, Evolution (Express? ... nah!) cals for your roaming pleasure and sharable since appropriate acls can make them available as users..calendars.folder; the shared..calendars.* path for your free/busy list...
Oh it's endless... custom namespaces for facilities, groups... and it's all in IMAP and the config paths can be distributed by the ACAP support daemon (and there's an rfc for it... no PHP/MySQL/Apache ayeee!)
Yes, I was astonished when I discovered Evolution doesn't support IMAP namespaces! I had just installed cyrus-imapd just in case it wasn't a pain like courier; after poking around a little bit I got the clues right and had shared imap accounts and mailboxes all neatly displayed in Mozilla. Cool! I loaded Evo hoping it had snazzy ACL property dialogues, sigh! only the INBOX. namespace was there. Oh come on! Evo has a useful LDAP rw impl but miserably fails on IMAP while Moz does IMAP right (sort of... I'm still stuck to http based interfaces to do acl/quota admin) and craps out on the LDAP! Is it that dificult to get *both* the features in the same program? Anything short holds no chance to beat Exchange! Why on earth is noone even thinking about ACAP? I mean, Kolab is all nice etc... but sigh, why hack a LAMP-like conglomerate when there's a ready made rfc'd server already sitting there? The thing was thought to provide roaming config, personal namespace data (calendars & addressbooks), public configs (shared cals), all acl'd and neatly paired to a top IMAP server capable of supporting mailbox delegation, sharing etc... OpenSource Exchange killer is at a fingertip, but people insist in reinventing the wheel. Sigh.
Trinity isn't human when she says that dying was fine, but she should have been telling Neo how good it was instead of apologizing for dying, and thanks for the second chance to be real? I dunno, I thought that scene was a LOT more touching and a lot less fake than EITHER of the first two movies Trinity-saves-Neo or Neo-saves-Trinity scenes.
Agreed... I was a bit pissed at the audience when it started to whine for the length of the scene. Has anyone ever been overwhelemd by the circumstances and wished they could have another go at rephrasing it?