The Apple pricing model is similar to Saturn cars. Same price everywhere, you don't have to be worried about being gouged somewhere or worried that you should wait to buy it til the next sale comes up...
"Mere information should be public domain--if I want to find out, oh, what your telephone number is, there shouldn't be any penalty whatsoever if someone tells it to me."
My phone number is just information, but calling me every 10 minutes would be an invasion of my privacy. My home address and work address are just information, but stalking me (because you know how to find me...) is and invasion of my privacy.
We all have personal information, but it's the abuse of that information that is the issue here. And if the government makes it easier to collect that information, and it leads to abuse of that information, then the government is liable.
Before the era of cell phones, people went to the movies and were out of touch with the rest of the "real world". This worked for years.
Now that we have cell phones, that "what if...?" scenario doesn't work. There are places that should be "out of contact". If you agree to see the movie, you take your chances. Seems simple enough. Don't want to take the chance? Build yourself a home theater and wait til it comes out on DVD.
My question is: How does this impact single threaded apps? I do numerical simulations that are essentially single threaded, and don't care about the responsiveness of the GUI.
Now Microsoft has a monopoly and the inertia will eventually kill them. My only question is, can I pick the stock of the next contender to the throne? That my friend is the American way.
...and isn't NetBSD trying to get Apple's IOKit working well with their distribution? Then we all have more hackers working on drivers (which can only be a good thing for all involved...).
RedHat is hoping to build a community of developers, akin to what Debian has working for it. RedHat provides the infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, bugzilla, etc.) and the developers provide the sweat blood and tears.
From that work, RedHat will use the new packages and get them merged into their Enterprise Linux distro.
I think if I were a coder at RedHat, I would be asking how long til they fire me, sincethe next logical cost saving move is to keep labor expenditures low. They won't be outsourcing those jobs, just "open sourcing" them.
The likelihood that RedHat pulls the plug on Fedora is slim to none.
From the fedora-test list: "Fedora Core releases will only get errata for 2~3 months after the next release. The life span of any given FC release is about 8~10 months."
Good luck with installing your operating system every 8-10 months. That's not what I call productivity. Your only hope is that the Fedora-legacy group is successful and will keep the errata flowing for the older releases.
I am not hopeful that Fedora can replace RedHat as far as a stable work environment is concerned.
(There are a few apps that I need to use every day, tecplot, ifc, matlab, etc. They all "broke" when upgrading to RH9, sure there's a relatively simple work around once I found it, but still, that's time away from the research I get paid to do...)
"Security Update 2003-10-28 addresses a potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system."
So it seems that only Panther is vulnerable, and there is no need to release a patch for 10.2.x and 10.1.x.
Along time ago, when OS X was known as Rhapsody, there were various emulation layers that were going to be provided. For example, the Blue Box was going to give MacOS compatibility and became "Classic". There was also mentioned the Red Box, which would allow win32 compatibility, and it was to be based on emulation work started at NeXT (which is now of course part of Apple's IP).
Did it ever exist, and do you think Apple is polishing it up to be in OS X 10.???
If they are going to mod you down, they can't refute your arguments without losing mod powers on the discussion. Sorry, thought that was obvious.
And you never know who exactly modded you down, do you? Moderation generally shows the prevailing sentiment of the entire slashdot crowd. Sorry if you feel like a fringe element. It's not personal. Really.
Last I checked, it was ad free as well...Just thought you might be interested that there are other fish out there. (Or is Google vs. others the next vi vs. emacs holy war? I am so out of the loop these days...)
Think of the RAID card as a SCSI card, regardless of what it does from the board itself to the drives. You need a driver so that the kernel can talk to the board (just like for example any Adaptec SCSI card...).
I would think that once VPC finally goes under due to neglect, Apple will release their "Red Box" that they had under Rhapsody (which did the x86 emulation).
Heck, if they keep a copy of OS X running on x86, they probably have the "Red Box" ready to roll.
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It was probably a bunch of government employees doing the moderation...
Not to muddy the waters, but even if the root account is disabled, you can 'sudo su' which the prompt then tells you that you are indeed root.
The Apple pricing model is similar to Saturn cars. Same price everywhere, you don't have to be worried about being gouged somewhere or worried that you should wait to buy it til the next sale comes up...
"Mere information should be public domain--if I want to find out, oh, what your telephone number is, there shouldn't be any penalty whatsoever if someone tells it to me."
My phone number is just information, but calling me every 10 minutes would be an invasion of my privacy. My home address and work address are just information, but stalking me (because you know how to find me...) is and invasion of my privacy.
We all have personal information, but it's the abuse of that information that is the issue here. And if the government makes it easier to collect that information, and it leads to abuse of that information, then the government is liable.
Before the era of cell phones, people went to the movies and were out of touch with the rest of the "real world". This worked for years.
Now that we have cell phones, that "what if...?" scenario doesn't work. There are places that should be "out of contact". If you agree to see the movie, you take your chances. Seems simple enough. Don't want to take the chance? Build yourself a home theater and wait til it comes out on DVD.
I thought one of the advantages of OSS was that it didn't have to ship on a schedule?
And if it did, when the fix for a possible root exploit was available, why wasn't it shipped out as 2.4.23 as soon as possible?
Sheesh. That sounds pretty lax to me.
My question is: How does this impact single threaded apps? I do numerical simulations that are essentially single threaded, and don't care about the responsiveness of the GUI.
IBM once held a monopoly. Then Microsoft got 'em.
Now Microsoft has a monopoly and the inertia will eventually kill them. My only question is, can I pick the stock of the next contender to the throne? That my friend is the American way.
No, Fujitsu is the future of the SPARC line.
...and isn't NetBSD trying to get Apple's IOKit working well with their distribution? Then we all have more hackers working on drivers (which can only be a good thing for all involved...).
RedHat is hoping to build a community of developers, akin to what Debian has working for it. RedHat provides the infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, bugzilla, etc.) and the developers provide the sweat blood and tears.
From that work, RedHat will use the new packages and get them merged into their Enterprise Linux distro.
I think if I were a coder at RedHat, I would be asking how long til they fire me, sincethe next logical cost saving move is to keep labor expenditures low. They won't be outsourcing those jobs, just "open sourcing" them.
The likelihood that RedHat pulls the plug on Fedora is slim to none.
From the fedora-test list:
"Fedora Core releases will only get errata for 2~3 months after the next release. The life span of any given FC release is about 8~10 months."
Good luck with installing your operating system every 8-10 months. That's not what I call productivity. Your only hope is that the Fedora-legacy group is successful and will keep the errata flowing for the older releases.
I am not hopeful that Fedora can replace RedHat as far as a stable work environment is concerned.
(There are a few apps that I need to use every day, tecplot, ifc, matlab, etc. They all "broke" when upgrading to RH9, sure there's a relatively simple work around once I found it, but still, that's time away from the research I get paid to do...)
...which they bought from another company nobody thought would go away: DejaNews.
And AltaVista used to be king, now they are hasta la vista (sorry, couldn't resist).
"Security Update 2003-10-28 addresses a potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system."
So it seems that only Panther is vulnerable, and there is no need to release a patch for 10.2.x and 10.1.x.
No_USE
( dons flame retardant suit )
Along time ago, when OS X was known as Rhapsody, there were various emulation layers that were going to be provided. For example, the Blue Box was going to give MacOS compatibility and became "Classic". There was also mentioned the Red Box, which would allow win32 compatibility, and it was to be based on emulation work started at NeXT (which is now of course part of Apple's IP).
Did it ever exist, and do you think Apple is polishing it up to be in OS X 10.???
Yeah, with a P/E ratio of 430, RHAT is definitely something I want to add to my portfolio.
If they are going to mod you down, they can't refute your arguments without losing mod powers on the discussion. Sorry, thought that was obvious.
And you never know who exactly modded you down, do you? Moderation generally shows the prevailing sentiment of the entire slashdot crowd. Sorry if you feel like a fringe element. It's not personal. Really.
SVG == scalar vector graphics
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Last I checked, it was ad free as well...Just thought you might be interested that there are other fish out there. (Or is Google vs. others the next vi vs. emacs holy war? I am so out of the loop these days...)
It is different because they (the OpenSSH team) announce bugs when they find them, not once a week.
And you definitely won't get a spoofed email purporting to be from the OpenSSH guys to apply a "patch" that infects your machine!
Think of the RAID card as a SCSI card, regardless of what it does from the board itself to the drives. You need a driver so that the kernel can talk to the board (just like for example any Adaptec SCSI card...).
Hope that helps.
I would think that once VPC finally goes under due to neglect, Apple will release their "Red Box" that they had under Rhapsody (which did the x86 emulation).
Heck, if they keep a copy of OS X running on x86, they probably have the "Red Box" ready to roll.
Nice pun!