Flash has always been somewhat unstable, hence Jobs nixing it for the iphone.
Lets face it, linux is a miniscule market share with users who don't want to pay for software. Adobe is a software company. What is their motivation to invest in something with 0% return?
>>it's not just because of "marketshare" that Macs are rarely affected
No its because there are about 8 million little @#^% heads out there looking for windows exploits. There are about 8 looking for mac exploits. You do the math.
The record companies may be, but the artist aren't. I spent a good chunk of my life being a professional musician and I can tell you for sure that at least 80% of the artists out there go in DEBT to make an album. Merchandise and touring is the only way to make money.
My website is now rendering multi tiered aggregate content to strategize user-centric metrics while orchestrating scalable synergies utilizing virtual timeshifted content.
Just to swing the conversation away from what he did, to what he endured, I think that with all the people ranting and raving that software should be free, some people think that it actually is. It takes time and money to develop software. For someone like me, a small independant software developer, I spend all day every day writing software and if someone doesn't pay for it, I will have to go find a real job. I would love to rely on donations but I think that it would be awefully hard to write software out of a tent in my parents backyard. Some software is free, some isn't. Just as with music, just because you think something should be free, it doesn't make it ok to steal it.
If people were only sharing documents in printed form, Word would be fairly easy to replace. Unfortunately people are generally sharing documents in the native file format of their word processor, which mostly happens to be Word, in which case most of the time you are better of simply using Word. Word is buggy and hard to use but I have to use it if I want to see the documents the way the author intended. PDF as a format is awesome and seems to be gaining ground, which gives me hope that it will become the defacto standard for document sharing. Then maybe we can finally put stake in the Word monster.
Come on.. homeboy needs a firewall BAD! A simple Linksys NAT box would do the trick. Network administration 101: know what ports you have open, what protocols they run and what their vulnerabilities are. This goes for any operating system. If your system gets a worm via a port you didn't know it had open then you should consider it a valuable lesson.
"Is this a case of bait-n-switch, or simply a company trying to capitalize on its dominant market share?".. or maybe, just maybe.. a company trying to make money? Could it be something even more sinister like a guy trying to pay his bills?
If you are developing software on your own time to benefit humanity, I say give it away, just don't punish those of us who run our own companies and try and pay our mortgage by charging money for the one thing we know how to do.
Bag groceries by day and code by night. Noble maybe, practical. Nah.
Sing it with me now.. "If I had a million dollars.."
What really concerns me is that MS may actually be waiting patiently and allowing mono to become stable and inturn, allowing developers to invest considerable time and effort into developing apps that use it. Once companies have an infrastructure and vested financial interest in the architecture and applications, it will be prime time to pull out the patents and do exactly what sco is trying to do, only for real. If someone isn't paying VERY close attention to those patents MS is filing, mono could do massive damage to the open source community.
"I wouldn't mind seeing Linux swap out programs that aren't touched in several days/weeks (like the 12 agetty processes on my monitor less machine -- yes I know I could disable them if I wanted) but I definitely don't want to see it swapping out that browser I used 5 minutes ago in favor of increasing the disk cache size. Now if I launch Quake that's a different story."
We are talking two different purposes here though, desktop and server and cacheing/swapping should be optimized for one or the other. I have three simple rules for servers.
Rule 1. Don't play quake on them. Rule 2. There is no rule 2. Rule 3. See rule 1.
Obviously, there should be an easier way to configure a swap mechanism for desktop or server specific activity. I would prefer that my server not sacrifice the performance of moving data across my network in order to accomodate someones desire to access a running application a little quicker. Of course, as linux gains more of the desktop market share, this will not be the norm.
Once Aeryn and John are reconstituted with the clever use of purified water and an egg whisk, maybe this will end the depression that started when I saw Ben Browder as an extra on CSI Miami.
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Flash has always been somewhat unstable, hence Jobs nixing it for the iphone.
Lets face it, linux is a miniscule market share with users who don't want to pay for software. Adobe is a software company. What is their motivation to invest in something with 0% return?
>>it's not just because of "marketshare" that Macs are rarely affected
No its because there are about 8 million little @#^% heads out there looking for windows exploits.
There are about 8 looking for mac exploits.
You do the math.
Real men 'echo y | format c:'
This poster will now be eviscerated by a small pack of rabid Chihuahua like slashdotters.
Pleas stand by..
What a perfect description of said tactic.
Stinky indeed!
Grossly overpaid!
The record companies may be, but the artist aren't. I spent a good chunk of my life being a professional musician and I can tell you for sure that at least 80% of the artists out there go in DEBT to make an album. Merchandise and touring is the only way to make money.
Credit where credit is due, I used
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html to generate some of the description.
Another fricking buzzword. Gotta love 'em.
My website is now rendering multi tiered aggregate content to strategize user-centric metrics while orchestrating scalable synergies utilizing virtual timeshifted content.
Somebody buy me..
Please?
Just to swing the conversation away from what he did, to what he endured, I think that with all the people ranting and raving that software should be free, some people think that it actually is. It takes time and money to develop software. For someone like me, a small independant software developer, I spend all day every day writing software and if someone doesn't pay for it, I will have to go find a real job. I would love to rely on donations but I think that it would be awefully hard to write software out of a tent in my parents backyard. Some software is free, some isn't. Just as with music, just because you think something should be free, it doesn't make it ok to steal it.
If people were only sharing documents in printed form, Word would be fairly easy to replace. Unfortunately people are generally sharing documents in the native file format of their word processor, which mostly happens to be Word, in which case most of the time you are better of simply using Word. Word is buggy and hard to use but I have to use it if I want to see the documents the way the author intended.
PDF as a format is awesome and seems to be gaining ground, which gives me hope that it will become the defacto standard for document sharing. Then maybe we can finally put stake in the Word monster.
I was never that intimidated by the whole 'washing machine with a pea-shooter' thing anyway. Now k9 on the other hand, that was just creepy!
Could it be that Apple is trying to alleviate the need for the oh-so-evil microsoft network protocols?
The Jabbers!
No Apple?
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Write all of your notes in your notebook then when you get back, just throw away the notebook.
Come on.. homeboy needs a firewall BAD!
A simple Linksys NAT box would do the trick. Network administration 101: know what ports you have open, what protocols they run and what their vulnerabilities are. This goes for any operating system.
If your system gets a worm via a port you didn't know it had open then you should consider it a valuable lesson.
"Is this a case of bait-n-switch, or simply a company trying to capitalize on its dominant market share?" .. or maybe, just maybe.. a company trying to make money? Could it be something even more sinister like a guy trying to pay his bills?
If you are developing software on your own time to benefit humanity, I say give it away, just don't punish those of us who run our own companies and try and pay our mortgage by charging money for the one thing we know how to do.
Bag groceries by day and code by night. Noble maybe, practical. Nah.
Sing it with me now..
"If I had a million dollars.."
If I stole a watch from a jeweler, how happy do you think he would be if I took it back for repairs because it doesn't keep time accurately?
It matters because mono could be the trojan horse that gets patented MS technology inside core open source technology.
What really concerns me is that MS may actually be waiting patiently and allowing mono to become stable and inturn, allowing developers to invest considerable time and effort into developing apps that use it. Once companies have an infrastructure and vested financial interest in the architecture and applications, it will be prime time to pull out the patents and do exactly what sco is trying to do, only for real.
If someone isn't paying VERY close attention to those patents MS is filing, mono could do massive damage to the open source community.
"Just out of curiosity, do Uzis jam or would one be better off reloading a trusty ol' six-shooter 5 times?"
You had better be a great shot and hope for that old two birds and one stone thing or you're gonna let two get away.
"I wouldn't mind seeing Linux swap out programs that aren't touched in several days/weeks (like the 12 agetty processes on my monitor less machine -- yes I know I could disable them if I wanted) but I definitely don't want to see it swapping out that browser I used 5 minutes ago in favor of increasing the disk cache size. Now if I launch Quake that's a different story."
We are talking two different purposes here though, desktop and server and cacheing/swapping should be optimized for one or the other. I have three simple rules for servers.
Rule 1. Don't play quake on them.
Rule 2. There is no rule 2.
Rule 3. See rule 1.
Obviously, there should be an easier way to configure a swap mechanism for desktop or server specific activity. I would prefer that my server not sacrifice the performance of moving data across my network in order to accomodate someones desire to access a running application a little quicker. Of course, as linux gains more of the desktop market share, this will not be the norm.
Interesting. Apparently your teacher has never worked on an embedded project in his entire career.
Academics. Gotta love 'em.
Brings to mind windows 1.0-3.x's relationship with dos.
Nope. Didn't like them either.
Once Aeryn and John are reconstituted with the clever use of purified water and an egg whisk, maybe this will end the depression that started when I saw Ben Browder as an extra on CSI Miami.