I wonder if they want to go after Apple... After years of self-confinement in irrelevant niches osX teleported the company to a leading position. After the recent slappings they've delivered to Redmond (safari, keynote, QuickTime against WinMedia, iLife) I wonder if some private fund investor (read M$ in disguise) of SCO called for such action. It's a shitstorm (for me @ least, I've just started enjoying my apple) and might be a threating suggestion to go back to the system9 caves. Unfortunately, by the time M$ is dragged back to court we could have yet another Netscape; and another GOP whoring administration.
Think Kerberos. The two parties don't really trust each other so they ask a key server they both trust to verify their identities. The whole point in encryption is secrecy of the channel key so you want to make shure this isn't snooped by anybody. The site uses certification to publish it's public key so you know where your random session key is being sent (no MITM poser) and keep trusting it.
No ??? here, whoever does it makes an instant win. The only thing I can think of that could get close is quantum entagnement. Deliver the entangled random signal pair to the parties and upon observation it will become a good one-time password. Shame MITM can still preemt a party, proxy the communication and snoop the data...
How many vitamin A integrators will your government buy for the price of a M$ license? How many abused safe-homes can be financed for the price of a department upgrade to the latest & greatest WinXP? How many extra rural computer terminals can be deployed for the same investment and at what usaqe rate can they hit if they come in all the possible languages (people, the less educated especially, don't get the feeling they're being 'colonized' but rather treat the novelty as an 'extension' of their own culture)?
This happens whe M$ gets the liberty to set hardware standards... like DirectX 9. After years of software bloat, here come meaty example of hardware bloat!
Ok, I'll bite the bullet here... What makes Apple os X slick & cool? After all it's a ppc port of a BSD kernel and apps... it's drivers, it's having the hardware you bought working at it's best without fiddling with it to desperation. So Mandrake, or any distro, could sign NDAs and get the source to those damn drivers (3d accel) and patens (freetype, legally) and release dual licensed boxes. That is, sell the box with GPL only components and access the FTPs with the license number to get the extra you pay for. Ok, you can do that already for free (beer) but having them work clean and out of the box is what the consumer target would want and pay for. I would certainly pay for encrypted XFree sessions, alphablended HW accelerated KDE/GNOME themes and not the current hacks that turn performance to ground (very clever... but still hacks). Infact Desktop Linux efforts are stifled by XFree and it's lack of focus on these key issues (to be fair, they don't have the resources to keep up with the pretending users). Get some X hackers, pay them, build a value-added X; don't embrace & extend a là M$ but place the option for high performance at a price. Afraid of breaking up the standards and the opennes? Ok, give back the code if you like, but at least lead the innovation and pretend the $$ to get it done!
Oh man, it's incredible! Over here (Italy) the US is revered as some kind of StarTrek Federation SciFi Techy society and you can't set SMS expiry to inf? Ah, greedy telco corps! All I can think in their defense is that the greedier (please check speling) software corps aren't willing to make interoperative network software in an effort to replay the browser wars within the cell infrastructure. Ugh, imagine what would happen if M$ got into this business: your cell would SMS your latest liaision to your wife's one!
How 'bout recalling why this mess came to be? 1. Osama was trained and funded by CIA. 2. Saddam was left in place in spite of his record to please the Saudi, so these could market their oil without Iraq's competition (after all, the latter does possess the largest reserves in the planet) 3. The saudi are now compromised with Osama, quite corrupt and aren't as trustable as 10 years ago so now the US wants another controllable source to keep feeding it's SUV economy. No matter how an administration could try to spin-doctor it, Saddam is perceived as a crook so he has to be replaced with some other straw man to get that Iraqi oil to NYSE.
BTW, have you noticed how Competition and Market economy are invoked when the time comes to Downsize (fire ranks upon ranks of workers) and Reform the System (cut social spending), but not when the matter involves something like MicroSoft (just an example, the first Corporation that came off my mind,-) or the oil market?
In all this I pity the miserable iraqis still scavenging to make the day out; the probably undereducated, drilled marine that will give up it's life for this. And of course the 11.9 victims that got smoked by Osama to further his miserable political plan to become Commander in Chief (sounds familiar eh?) of some islamist delirium.
I would do it as the Romans did once in it's fight for suplemacy against Alba Longa. They got 3 champions from one side to fight 3 from the other. Wouldn't you love to pit W. and Ash in a celebrity deathmatch against OBL and Saddam? We might even see some new "IBM Linux" and "Apple" commercial!
It doesn't work for me: the preinst script looks for some of the standard macworld Xservers and bails out for not finding them. To get the thing working I did "ln -s X XDarwin". Stinky eh? (I don't want to plow thru the docs, not now @ least;-)
Man take it easy. Nature isn't a pretty godess to worship and adore, not only. Pretty bad things can happen to humans living at her whim unshielded by air conditioners and grocery stores down the block. Shall I enumerate the shit many africans have to endure because of the damn weather patterns of their continent? I'm not an extremist so I will take notice if novartis wants to fuck with biodiversity for it's nyse rating but I think that messing with nature keeps us from dying like fruit-flies.
Next, all animals have survival tools evolved in thousands of generations: gazzelles have speed and trajectory variation, lions play in group like wolves and hyenas, while leopards bet on speed. Anyone of these species best us on their specialty except for one, that's ours: intelligence. Why should we give it up?
Back on topic: messing with weather sounds a bit far fetched; great improvements could be achieved if we got rid of the logistical obstacles that keep africa hungry: principally war, from that follows the social stability that makes transport, economic exchange and material condition improvement possible. Easier that playing StarTrek science.
Buddy, think about your statement next time you take an antibiotic. Afterall why should you interfere with a bunch of bacteria wasting your bowels, if that's god's will;-)
Hey man, do you still chase your colleagues with a ruler in your hand like you did in high school?;-) I mean, intel's last promo read: "render a raytraced scene while divx ripping" (the only good thing 'bout it is the anti riaa plug). Huh ok, the kid down the block claims he can have sex 10 times per day; does anybody care (or beleive)?
Sorry folks as someone cleverly put it... I'm on crack (or should I say christmas food overdose;-) I'm quite ashamed of myself, apparently Macs induce an automatic mental regression in whoever uses them. So, here's how it goes: this morning the updater boasts a new download for iTunes (3.0.1) and having done the 10.2.3 just yesterday I expected it to be a new one (it isn't, after two shots it's still there the darn thing... a bug) Then I proceeded to my heap of *.ogg files taken from my linux box hoping for some way to batch process them back to mp3 and the thing worked! Ha, bitten by the old temporal sequentialityvs. caulaity brain hack, I've made a glorious fool of myself before the/. hordes! Actually I did post an email begging to trash the post but nobody did anything about it (after all it's cristmas... peaople do have a family;-)...
Yeah, but the law can be interpreted by the judge in a way that can heavily influence the finall decision. It's power becomes such that it can manipulate the conclusions of the jury rather than act as an informed party. It depends on who's supposed to originate the sentence: the people or the judge.
Both conspiracy parties have good points to score. In one case the jury could be misled by a biased judge while another POW would suggest that the learned judge should have the power to correct prejudice in the jury. In the end it depends on the balance of power between the two deciding bodies
That would pitch the ipod against the hordes of cheap muvo et similia crapware, thus tarnishing the "premium" hardware message apple has built around the product. Customers willing to pay for the expensive model would think twice because of the bad press made by the cheaper ones.
N.B. Don't polemize that linux proves the contrary; it doesn't, these are two different markets altogether. I had a linux server out of a stinky desktop grade PC working for a full year; now that the system disk died causing 24h downtime we're going for an ibm server but linux stays because it has PROVEN reliability and low TCO (even on such poor hardware)
-- quote Overall, Eiffel is a great language for philosophers. In practice, Java is more convenient and even though it's not as consistent and pure it has a more useful library (I don't mean the collections but the other things it comes with). Another aspect is that Sun's Java licensing is nicer than ISE's (Bertrand Meyer's Company) [ise.com]. Be careful with them, they are cooperating with the evildoers [microsoft.com] and integrating Eiffel into.NET. -- quote
And are the authors of ISE TCAD... a nasty, evil & wild beast for semiconductor device simulation. We couldn't figure out why out little Term Project simulation on a stinkin' InP device kept behaving as if made of GaAs. Some of the older guys think they just slapped in the same model and relabeled it.
> With Japan, there are no huge wide open > spaces. No worries about long highways to > provide expensive and infrequently used (but > critical to getting customers) service to.Just > slam home a cell tower every five blocks and > bob's yer uncle.
Also, I understand in Japan there are no city squares. Anyone ever been to Rome, say Campo de' Fiori? All those people chatting face to face and hanging around before the pubs. Over here the real leisure use for cells is to coordinate friends to meeting points; no italian would survive a week without this kind of human interaction. Over there I think there's no urban infrastructure for people to easily meet face to face so they use 3G to make it up.
Insightful... I still have to see a Linux/M$/OsX mp3 player that can do like a BeOS one I once saw. Someone please help me recalling it's name as this app really blew my mind away: Can play mp3 @ varispeed, even in reverse. Can play multiple mp3 at once, mixing relative volume and speed (+/-) Stock pile of DSP plugins (some worked, other crapped out...)
All this in an incredibly simple (stock BeOS widgets, no GFX crap) and manageable UI. I never tried with multiple sound cards & multiple mouses but this measly app would mix alà double deck turntable... (someone should try running a couple of club nights with this thing) try doing that with WinXP!
Shame they can't hide the DOM tree of a page... try looking @ it with konq... Oh no now I'm a hacker... next morning I'll have a swat swarm barging in while I have my morning coffee and a cigarette (oh my GoY!!! that'll deliver you to the e_chair no doubt:)
Heh, lately I'm having this eiree feeling that OSDN has contracted some of it's newsfeed to corporate interest. Lots of not so stealthy info-mercials and ask-slashdots that sound like consumer surveys... Bah, maybe I'm paranoid...
Here in Europe they never had much success because cells completely took the scene and most people need nothing more than a phone number repository which already comes in most cells anyway. Business people could make good use of one but usually carry a laptop so that's it; PDA's are just the poor man's laptop. I would have it run some super-sexy calculus program, something like a light mathematica, but I guess they lack the horsepower; where I see a market is in warehousing, portable billing, and the like
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> Sorry, I don't have a problem with them doing this.
Here goes the M$ groupie... man you'd better check software update, there might be a service-pack (oh, but a hotfix will do too) for your brain...
I wonder if they want to go after Apple... After years of self-confinement in irrelevant niches osX teleported the company to a leading position. After the recent slappings they've delivered to Redmond (safari, keynote, QuickTime against WinMedia, iLife) I wonder if some private fund investor (read M$ in disguise) of SCO called for such action. It's a shitstorm (for me @ least, I've just started enjoying my apple) and might be a threating suggestion to go back to the system9 caves.
Unfortunately, by the time M$ is dragged back to court we could have yet another Netscape; and another GOP whoring administration.
Think Kerberos. The two parties don't really trust each other so they ask a key server they both trust to verify their identities. The whole point in encryption is secrecy of the channel key so you want to make shure this isn't snooped by anybody. The site uses certification to publish it's public key so you know where your random session key is being sent (no MITM poser) and keep trusting it.
Go ahead and invent one...
1. Invent unthought-of revolutionary encryprion scheme
2. Patent it
3. Profit!
No ??? here, whoever does it makes an instant win. The only thing I can think of that could get close is quantum entagnement. Deliver the entangled random signal pair to the parties and upon observation it will become a good one-time password. Shame MITM can still preemt a party, proxy the communication and snoop the data...
How many vitamin A integrators will your government buy for the price of a M$ license? How many abused safe-homes can be financed for the price of a department upgrade to the latest & greatest WinXP? How many extra rural computer terminals can be deployed for the same investment and at what usaqe rate can they hit if they come in all the possible languages (people, the less educated especially, don't get the feeling they're being 'colonized' but rather treat the novelty as an 'extension' of their own culture)?
This happens whe M$ gets the liberty to set hardware standards... like DirectX 9. After years of software bloat, here come meaty example of hardware bloat!
Yuhoo...
Ok, I'll bite the bullet here...
What makes Apple os X slick & cool? After all it's a ppc port of a BSD kernel and apps... it's drivers, it's having the hardware you bought working at it's best without fiddling with it to desperation. So Mandrake, or any distro, could sign NDAs and get the source to those damn drivers (3d accel) and patens (freetype, legally) and release dual licensed boxes. That is, sell the box with GPL only components and access the FTPs with the license number to get the extra you pay for.
Ok, you can do that already for free (beer) but having them work clean and out of the box is what the consumer target would want and pay for.
I would certainly pay for encrypted XFree sessions, alphablended HW accelerated KDE/GNOME themes and not the current hacks that turn performance to ground (very clever... but still hacks).
Infact Desktop Linux efforts are stifled by XFree and it's lack of focus on these key issues (to be fair, they don't have the resources to keep up with the pretending users). Get some X hackers, pay them, build a value-added X; don't embrace & extend a là M$ but place the option for high performance at a price.
Afraid of breaking up the standards and the opennes? Ok, give back the code if you like, but at least lead the innovation and pretend the $$ to get it done!
Oh man, it's incredible! Over here (Italy) the US is revered as some kind of StarTrek Federation SciFi Techy society and you can't set SMS expiry to inf? Ah, greedy telco corps! All I can think in their defense is that the greedier (please check speling) software corps aren't willing to make interoperative network software in an effort to replay the browser wars within the cell infrastructure. Ugh, imagine what would happen if M$ got into this business: your cell would SMS your latest liaision to your wife's one!
Something similar to what FOXnews-alikes make of the Enemy ®, Dissidents that don't Beleive in Truth © and don't have Faith in Justice ®. If the clip irritated you well, you just had a taste of your own dog-food applied to your very own idols.
,-) or the oil market?
How 'bout recalling why this mess came to be?
1. Osama was trained and funded by CIA.
2. Saddam was left in place in spite of his record to please the Saudi, so these could market their oil without Iraq's competition (after all, the latter does possess the largest reserves in the planet)
3. The saudi are now compromised with Osama, quite corrupt and aren't as trustable as 10 years ago so now the US wants another controllable source to keep feeding it's SUV economy. No matter how an administration could try to spin-doctor it, Saddam is perceived as a crook so he has to be replaced with some other straw man to get that Iraqi oil to NYSE.
BTW, have you noticed how Competition and Market economy are invoked when the time comes to Downsize (fire ranks upon ranks of workers) and Reform the System (cut social spending), but not when the matter involves something like MicroSoft (just an example, the first Corporation that came off my mind
In all this I pity the miserable iraqis still scavenging to make the day out; the probably undereducated, drilled marine that will give up it's life for this. And of course the 11.9 victims that got smoked by Osama to further his miserable political plan to become Commander in Chief (sounds familiar eh?) of some islamist delirium.
I would do it as the Romans did once in it's fight for suplemacy against Alba Longa. They got 3 champions from one side to fight 3 from the other. Wouldn't you love to pit W. and Ash in a celebrity deathmatch against OBL and Saddam? We might even see some new "IBM Linux" and "Apple" commercial!
Ciao
I mean, publishing a link to a multiple screenshot page (8)... You must hate their servers ;-)
It doesn't work for me: the preinst script looks for some of the standard macworld Xservers and bails out for not finding them. To get the thing working I did "ln -s X XDarwin". Stinky eh? (I don't want to plow thru the docs, not now @ least ;-)
Ciao,
Edo
Man take it easy. Nature isn't a pretty godess to worship and adore, not only. Pretty bad things can happen to humans living at her whim unshielded by air conditioners and grocery stores down the block. Shall I enumerate the shit many africans have to endure because of the damn weather patterns of their continent? I'm not an extremist so I will take notice if novartis wants to fuck with biodiversity for it's nyse rating but I think that messing with nature keeps us from dying like fruit-flies.
Next, all animals have survival tools evolved in thousands of generations: gazzelles have speed and trajectory variation, lions play in group like wolves and hyenas, while leopards bet on speed. Anyone of these species best us on their specialty except for one, that's ours: intelligence. Why should we give it up?
Back on topic: messing with weather sounds a bit far fetched; great improvements could be achieved if we got rid of the logistical obstacles that keep africa hungry: principally war, from that follows the social stability that makes transport, economic exchange and material condition improvement possible. Easier that playing StarTrek science.
Buddy, think about your statement next time you take an antibiotic. Afterall why should you interfere with a bunch of bacteria wasting your bowels, if that's god's will ;-)
Hey man, do you still chase your colleagues with a ruler in your hand like you did in high school? ;-)
I mean, intel's last promo read: "render a raytraced scene while divx ripping" (the only good thing 'bout it is the anti riaa plug). Huh ok, the kid down the block claims he can have sex 10 times per day; does anybody care (or beleive)?
Buon anno a tutti,
Edo
and I still keep typing like a drunk bear...
And you call this fame? I mean, even a nobel wouldn't clean this mess ;-)
About point 4... the updater is a core component of the osx desktop
Sorry folks as someone cleverly put it... I'm on crack (or should I say christmas food overdose ;-) /. hordes! ;-)...
I'm quite ashamed of myself, apparently Macs induce an automatic mental regression in whoever uses them. So, here's how it goes: this morning the updater boasts a new download for iTunes (3.0.1) and having done the 10.2.3 just yesterday I expected it to be a new one (it isn't, after two shots it's still there the darn thing... a bug) Then I proceeded to my heap of *.ogg files taken from my linux box hoping for some way to batch process them back to mp3 and the thing worked! Ha, bitten by the old temporal sequentialityvs. caulaity brain hack, I've made a glorious fool of myself before the
Actually I did post an email begging to trash the post but nobody did anything about it (after all it's cristmas... peaople do have a family
Bye, bye... karma
Yeah, but the law can be interpreted by the judge in a way that can heavily influence the finall decision. It's power becomes such that it can manipulate the conclusions of the jury rather than act as an informed party. It depends on who's supposed to originate the sentence:
the people or the judge.
Both conspiracy parties have good points to score. In one case the jury could be misled by a biased judge while another POW would suggest that the learned judge should have the power to correct prejudice in the jury.
In the end it depends on the balance of power between the two deciding bodies
That would pitch the ipod against the hordes of cheap muvo et similia crapware, thus tarnishing the "premium" hardware message apple has built around the product. Customers willing to pay for the expensive model would think twice because of the bad press made by the cheaper ones.
N.B. Don't polemize that linux proves the contrary; it doesn't, these are two different markets altogether. I had a linux server out of a stinky desktop grade PC working for a full year; now that the system disk died causing 24h downtime we're going for an ibm server but linux stays because it has PROVEN reliability and low TCO (even on such poor hardware)
-- quote .NET.
Overall, Eiffel is a great language for philosophers. In practice, Java is more convenient and even though it's not as consistent and pure it has a more useful library (I don't mean the collections but the other things it comes with). Another aspect is that Sun's Java licensing is nicer than ISE's (Bertrand Meyer's Company) [ise.com]. Be careful with them, they are cooperating with the evildoers [microsoft.com] and integrating Eiffel into
-- quote
And are the authors of ISE TCAD... a nasty, evil & wild beast for semiconductor device simulation. We couldn't figure out why out little Term Project simulation on a stinkin' InP device kept behaving as if made of GaAs. Some of the older guys think they just slapped in the same model and relabeled it.
> With Japan, there are no huge wide open
> spaces. No worries about long highways to
> provide expensive and infrequently used (but
> critical to getting customers) service to.Just
> slam home a cell tower every five blocks and
> bob's yer uncle.
Also, I understand in Japan there are no city squares. Anyone ever been to Rome, say Campo de' Fiori? All those people chatting face to face and hanging around before the pubs. Over here the real leisure use for cells is to coordinate friends to meeting points; no italian would survive a week without this kind of human interaction. Over there I think there's no urban infrastructure for people to easily meet face to face so they use 3G to make it up.
Insightful...
I still have to see a Linux/M$/OsX mp3 player that can do like a BeOS one I once saw. Someone please help me recalling it's name as this app really blew my mind away:
Can play mp3 @ varispeed, even in reverse.
Can play multiple mp3 at once, mixing relative volume and speed (+/-)
Stock pile of DSP plugins (some worked, other crapped out...)
All this in an incredibly simple (stock BeOS widgets, no GFX crap) and manageable UI.
I never tried with multiple sound cards & multiple mouses but this measly app would mix alà double deck turntable... (someone should try running a couple of club nights with this thing) try doing that with WinXP!
Shame they can't hide the DOM tree of a page... try looking @ it with konq... Oh no now I'm a hacker... next morning I'll have a swat swarm barging in while I have my morning coffee and a cigarette (oh my GoY!!! that'll deliver you to the e_chair no doubt :)
Heh, lately I'm having this eiree feeling that OSDN has contracted some of it's newsfeed to corporate interest. Lots of not so stealthy info-mercials and ask-slashdots that sound like consumer surveys... Bah, maybe I'm paranoid...
Here in Europe they never had much success because cells completely took the scene and most people need nothing more than a phone number repository which already comes in most cells anyway. Business people could make good use of one but usually carry a laptop so that's it; PDA's are just the poor man's laptop. I would have it run some super-sexy calculus program, something like a light mathematica, but I guess they lack the horsepower; where I see a market is in warehousing, portable billing, and the like