Some of the problems with OpenMoko is the way they failed to fulfilled the development orders. I ordered the development models (Neo 1973) twice and I never got my order processed. Later orders from other people were fulfilled. The end result is that developers didn't get a chance to solve the big problems with the phone, and that is reflected in the second version (FreeRunner), and the problems with it were glaring. Even doing something simple like installing a new kernel is a process filled with errors and problems. Trying to do development in those conditions is futile. WIth the arrival of Android, we have moved all development to that platform, that holds a lot of promise for what we want to do.
I don't think they plan to make it bigger is big enough as it is. But I believe the iPhone will suffer a big backlash from all the hype it's getting. My advice? Don't buy the iPhone.
I am convinced what these people are doing is pressing "C" on the screen where XP asks them to chose a partition to install Windows on, instead of choosing "C:". They are creating a new partition, but the Mac OS X "partition info" (which XP doesn't understands) survives, but you can't boot from it. They can recuperate but they have lost their info and now they have to completely erase the hard drive (filling it with 1s and 0s). I have helped a couple of victims with this method. Both of them ended with a correct dual boot machine.
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And that is the main problem with Microsoft as a company. It is neither providing for its customers (Why use Vista?), nor for their shareholders.
Microsoft could have solved the legacy problem, the same way Apple and others have done it (even Microsoft did this!): Fork the damn thing. Create two OSes one with full backward compatibility one with limited backward compatibility. If you need to use a legacy app, you'll suffer the consequences (less feature, less stability), but those that can use only modern applications, get a modern, secure, stable OS.
The fact that this option isn't even discussed at Microsoft, show how unoriginal their thinking has become...
What the French law says is that the users have a right to circumvent DRM in order to move the music to different devices. This can already be done with iTunes... Just burn a CD. The real problem is for subscription services, how will they satisfy the law?
Thinking further about this dt/dt is a constant which is just the stupid phrase that time (in Newtonian physics) moves at a speed of "1 second per second". Fairly stupid. But it also ignores all the relativistic work. If you have a clock traveling close to the speed of light the time that clock marks moves slower than 1 second per second (relative to a stationary clock), hence we can make sense of dt1/dt2 and time travel (in the stupid sense of the article) is possible.
While I agree that time travel is impossible. The explanation given about dt/dt "being one" is bogus. Anyone that thinks that dt/dt is a fraction has flunked calculus. Even if you try to defend it by rates of change arguments it still doesn't hold. Distance only relates to speed in situations where distance is defined. Time is not measure in distance. Travelling in time just means going to the past and to the future and has nothing to do whatsoever with derivatives. His opinion on the scientist is also misguided and what he says about Gödel further proves that the author is an asshole.
There is no way to make a system secure in the sense of the article. The user can always delete its own files! A virus in Windows can do a lot of non destructive stuff that ends up eating away at the machine until a complete restore is needed. That's what never happens on Unix systems. The reality is that there is no security without backups. If your files disappear (for any reason) just restore from the last known good back up. Normal users do not bother, hence, they will always lose the information. The article claims that the system files are not important... But they are! In a Unix machine when trouble strikes you can always create a new user and use the browser to find a solution to the problem... Try that in a viri hosed Windows Box...
You are right, but it is important to point out that the reason it's not enough data is because is not random at all (is just the last 100-150 years). The problem is that we are not studying the problem seriously enough, we know something is happening (for example, the reduction of ice in the earth poles), but we really do not know the whole causes or consequences it will have. We don't even know if it is a new thing or something that happens or can happen every 500 years or more. Unless some powerful leader makes a call and puts the money to solve this, it may well be too late by the moment we start thinking about it. I agree with you we can't conclude anything, but the problem is interesting and will affect us all, we should be very seriously studying scientifically (of course, I have no idea how to get rid of the politics...)
They should be held to different standards! Microsoft is a monopoly. When they do tying is illegal, when a non-monopoly company does it is savvy business (if they pull it off). But every time someone else does it, the comparison with Microsoft surfaces even if the other company is not a monopoly (or not even a company, like Linux). You are right... The Hypocrisy IS Staggering... But is the ones doing the unfair comparison who are the hypocrites.
What Microsoft is trying to do is force us to use Wndows to hear music. There are protected CDs that requires Microsoft (though they can be defeated), imagine if all of them were like that. All other online stores are either open (and, hence, do not have the more main stream popular music) or the iTunes Music Store (which some clowns claim it is closed) or require Windows. This makes it even harder to use those stores with systems other than Windows. There was a commission set up to look into this kind of excesses when Microsoft was found guilty of illegally extending their monopoly. Well, they are doing it again. Can you imagine what they stand to gain if they become the arbiters of what music can be heard? Right now, they are failing (thanks to Apple!), but that may change in a minute. I hope governments understand this quickly before it's too late.
with the most beautiful interfaces no one can use as every normal person gets stuck in the installation screen... The consumer spending hundreds to pay the trained technician to kind fix it... Yeah, I wonder why they didn't merge...
No doubt a work around will be found to run XP or Vista. But Linux will certainly run sooner on the new MacBooks (ugly name! They choose the name and didn't change the looks so that people wouldn't think these were not Macs!), and then... You should be able to use Wine or vmware to run windows! Of course, we won't know until I have a machine in my hands...;-)
I think the author generalizes too much from a single particular case. OpenOffice started life as a closed source project and it still has a dependency on a source closed project (StarOffice). The only other project similar to it was the Netscape/Mozilla and look what happened to it. It took a hell of a long time, but finally it leveraged the benefits of Open Source with Firefox and Thunderbird. COmpare this with other Open source projects for the Dekstop like the Gimp. Has anyone been stomped by bugs in the Gimp? I think the bugs come from the initial closed source development and it takes longer to iron them out than in a Open Source project from the get go...
They are trying to get one cent for each iPod sold, thinking that Apple will prefer that, rather than taking the time to sue them out of existence. They are wrong. Big companies patent things in order to protect from patent suits. Can you imagine how many patents Apple has that Creative has violated one time or another? This will go away, quickly...
The fact that SatrOffice does not run for the Mac shows the weakness of the product. Mac zealots are easy picking for an Office competitor. That's why Microsoft makes a version of Office for the Mac, they know that's a possible leakage point. Sun seem to be clueless about this. Nobody seem to realize the combination of two things. How many things really take hold when they are release for Mac (USB ports, Mp3 players, Music downloads (legal ones), etc) and how much companies like Microsoft realizes this... If the competitors don't see it, Microsoft can (and does!) get away with a half-baked effort.
Anyone can start their own internet, and (most) countries have servers to manage DNS for local root domains (.us,.ve,.uk,.es, etc) and they could use those to create other roots domains, no need for ICANN, or Verisign or the UN. The problem is they would have to convince people of using those and there lies the trouble. The most important root domain is.com, it is really the only one that matters. Most countries have (wrongly, in my opinion) refuse to use their root domains alone, creating secondary level domains (like.co.uk) making the URLs longer for no reason. The US created.com,.net and the others. They don't even use.us too much. Let the other countries create significant important content for other root domains to bloom... Cuba and North Korea are on the Internet, not because the UN intervened, or because the US is very nice, but because of the open nature of the Internet... Compare email to IM to see why big entities should not control anything...
same thing, but better if you are willing to pay. I have a Pocket PC Phone and a Mac. I use Missing Sync for markspace.com it works great. Better than the Palm thing.
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Some of the problems with OpenMoko is the way they failed to fulfilled the development orders. I ordered the development models (Neo 1973) twice and I never got my order processed. Later orders from other people were fulfilled. The end result is that developers didn't get a chance to solve the big problems with the phone, and that is reflected in the second version (FreeRunner), and the problems with it were glaring. Even doing something simple like installing a new kernel is a process filled with errors and problems. Trying to do development in those conditions is futile. WIth the arrival of Android, we have moved all development to that platform, that holds a lot of promise for what we want to do.
I don't think they plan to make it bigger is big enough as it is. But I believe the iPhone will suffer a big backlash from all the hype it's getting. My advice? Don't buy the iPhone.
They should have foreseen this. I did! They are going to lose as hard as Apple wants them to. For now, Apple is being kind.
... everybody's days are numbered... It would be very cool to have them in alphabetical order...
I am convinced what these people are doing is pressing "C" on the screen where XP asks them to chose a partition to install Windows on, instead of choosing "C:". They are creating a new partition, but the Mac OS X "partition info" (which XP doesn't understands) survives, but you can't boot from it. They can recuperate but they have lost their info and now they have to completely erase the hard drive (filling it with 1s and 0s). I have helped a couple of victims with this method. Both of them ended with a correct dual boot machine.
waterfield designs... Enough said...
And that is the main problem with Microsoft as a company. It is neither providing for its customers (Why use Vista?), nor for their shareholders. Microsoft could have solved the legacy problem, the same way Apple and others have done it (even Microsoft did this!): Fork the damn thing. Create two OSes one with full backward compatibility one with limited backward compatibility. If you need to use a legacy app, you'll suffer the consequences (less feature, less stability), but those that can use only modern applications, get a modern, secure, stable OS. The fact that this option isn't even discussed at Microsoft, show how unoriginal their thinking has become...
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What the French law says is that the users have a right to circumvent DRM in order to move the music to different devices. This can already be done with iTunes... Just burn a CD. The real problem is for subscription services, how will they satisfy the law?
Thinking further about this dt/dt is a constant which is just the stupid phrase that time (in Newtonian physics) moves at a speed of "1 second per second". Fairly stupid. But it also ignores all the relativistic work. If you have a clock traveling close to the speed of light the time that clock marks moves slower than 1 second per second (relative to a stationary clock), hence we can make sense of dt1/dt2 and time travel (in the stupid sense of the article) is possible.
While I agree that time travel is impossible. The explanation given about dt/dt "being one" is bogus. Anyone that thinks that dt/dt is a fraction has flunked calculus. Even if you try to defend it by rates of change arguments it still doesn't hold. Distance only relates to speed in situations where distance is defined. Time is not measure in distance. Travelling in time just means going to the past and to the future and has nothing to do whatsoever with derivatives. His opinion on the scientist is also misguided and what he says about Gödel further proves that the author is an asshole.
There is no way to make a system secure in the sense of the article. The user can always delete its own files! A virus in Windows can do a lot of non destructive stuff that ends up eating away at the machine until a complete restore is needed. That's what never happens on Unix systems. The reality is that there is no security without backups. If your files disappear (for any reason) just restore from the last known good back up. Normal users do not bother, hence, they will always lose the information. The article claims that the system files are not important... But they are! In a Unix machine when trouble strikes you can always create a new user and use the browser to find a solution to the problem... Try that in a viri hosed Windows Box...
You are right, but it is important to point out that the reason it's not enough data is because is not random at all (is just the last 100-150 years). The problem is that we are not studying the problem seriously enough, we know something is happening (for example, the reduction of ice in the earth poles), but we really do not know the whole causes or consequences it will have. We don't even know if it is a new thing or something that happens or can happen every 500 years or more. Unless some powerful leader makes a call and puts the money to solve this, it may well be too late by the moment we start thinking about it. I agree with you we can't conclude anything, but the problem is interesting and will affect us all, we should be very seriously studying scientifically (of course, I have no idea how to get rid of the politics...)
They should be held to different standards! Microsoft is a monopoly. When they do tying is illegal, when a non-monopoly company does it is savvy business (if they pull it off). But every time someone else does it, the comparison with Microsoft surfaces even if the other company is not a monopoly (or not even a company, like Linux). You are right... The Hypocrisy IS Staggering... But is the ones doing the unfair comparison who are the hypocrites.
Thanks for the pointer, that could be an starting point to building something. I'll look into it.
What Microsoft is trying to do is force us to use Wndows to hear music. There are protected CDs that requires Microsoft (though they can be defeated), imagine if all of them were like that. All other online stores are either open (and, hence, do not have the more main stream popular music) or the iTunes Music Store (which some clowns claim it is closed) or require Windows. This makes it even harder to use those stores with systems other than Windows. There was a commission set up to look into this kind of excesses when Microsoft was found guilty of illegally extending their monopoly. Well, they are doing it again. Can you imagine what they stand to gain if they become the arbiters of what music can be heard? Right now, they are failing (thanks to Apple!), but that may change in a minute. I hope governments understand this quickly before it's too late.
with the most beautiful interfaces no one can use as every normal person gets stuck in the installation screen... The consumer spending hundreds to pay the trained technician to kind fix it... Yeah, I wonder why they didn't merge...
No doubt a work around will be found to run XP or Vista. But Linux will certainly run sooner on the new MacBooks (ugly name! They choose the name and didn't change the looks so that people wouldn't think these were not Macs!), and then... You should be able to use Wine or vmware to run windows! Of course, we won't know until I have a machine in my hands... ;-)
I think the author generalizes too much from a single particular case. OpenOffice started life as a closed source project and it still has a dependency on a source closed project (StarOffice). The only other project similar to it was the Netscape/Mozilla and look what happened to it. It took a hell of a long time, but finally it leveraged the benefits of Open Source with Firefox and Thunderbird. COmpare this with other Open source projects for the Dekstop like the Gimp. Has anyone been stomped by bugs in the Gimp? I think the bugs come from the initial closed source development and it takes longer to iron them out than in a Open Source project from the get go...
They are trying to get one cent for each iPod sold, thinking that Apple will prefer that, rather than taking the time to sue them out of existence. They are wrong. Big companies patent things in order to protect from patent suits. Can you imagine how many patents Apple has that Creative has violated one time or another? This will go away, quickly...
You forgot the Mac mini, tiny cube, and, perhaps, profitable...
The fact that SatrOffice does not run for the Mac shows the weakness of the product. Mac zealots are easy picking for an Office competitor. That's why Microsoft makes a version of Office for the Mac, they know that's a possible leakage point. Sun seem to be clueless about this. Nobody seem to realize the combination of two things. How many things really take hold when they are release for Mac (USB ports, Mp3 players, Music downloads (legal ones), etc) and how much companies like Microsoft realizes this... If the competitors don't see it, Microsoft can (and does!) get away with a half-baked effort.
Anyone can start their own internet, and (most) countries have servers to manage DNS for local root domains (.us, .ve, .uk, .es, etc) and they could use those to create other roots domains, no need for ICANN, or Verisign or the UN. The problem is they would have to convince people of using those and there lies the trouble. The most important root domain is .com, it is really the only one that matters. Most countries have (wrongly, in my opinion) refuse to use their root domains alone, creating secondary level domains (like .co.uk) making the URLs longer for no reason. The US created .com, .net and the others. They don't even use .us too much. Let the other countries create significant important content for other root domains to bloom... Cuba and North Korea are on the Internet, not because the UN intervened, or because the US is very nice, but because of the open nature of the Internet... Compare email to IM to see why big entities should not control anything...
This is a neo attempt to stop iPod sales through FUD. Ars did an extensive test on the Nano durability that does not square with this...
same thing, but better if you are willing to pay. I have a Pocket PC Phone and a Mac. I use Missing Sync for markspace.com it works great. Better than the Palm thing.