There's quite a semantic difference between being a senior editor at Forbes and being the senior editor at Forbes. I bet there's a difference in salary too.
Nah, the kernel is not called OS X, it's not called Mach/BSD, and it's not called Darwin. The kernel is called Xnu.
Xnu -- The Apple Open Source kernel, a combination of BSD, Mach, and IOKit. Darwin -- the Xnu kernel and BSD userland binaries and libraries. Basically the Open Source parts of OS X. Darwin is bundled as a full Unix OS. OS X -- Darwin + Aqua, Finder, Quartz, Quicktime, Cocoa, and the bundled graphical tools and apps.
The article would more rightly state that the iPods have always run the Xnu kernel.
To those that don't know what TPM or GSM are (isn't GSM for cell phones?), this article appears completely ridiculous. I thought it was a joke at first.
He is talking about the GSM for cell phones. That threw me off at first too -- I asumed he was talking about some DRM system I was unaware of.
I believe my friend said his treatment costs him about $2500 a month. Fortunately he's employed and his medical insurance can cover most of the costs. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have medical insurance.
The difference is that Office already writes.doc files by default so they don't have to go around reconfiguring each user's account. The thing he's trying to avoid (unless I misread it) is configuring each OpenOffice to create.doc files by default.
First, trademarks and patents have nothing to do with each other.
Second, many people can trademark the same name without any conflict as long as they refer to completely different things. Many companies hold the a trademark on 'Tiger' for example. As long as nobody else names their Spreadsheet "Numbers", there shouldn't be a problem. Much like Microsoft trademarked "Word" for their Word Processor. They don't keep people from using the word "word" in other places.
The only thing annoying about naming a product a common word like "Numbers" is that it makes it very diffcult to google when looking for solutions.
Have you tried the AIM and iChat voice chat? the official windows AIM client is supposed to be able to make audio and video calls to iChat.
Of course, he'd have to use the official AIM client, which is a scary in itself. But I'd be curious to know whether you'd have the same sort of sound problems.
You may be wondering why the Elf Only Inn comics are there. On Valentine's Day of this year, PA and EOI did cross-over comics.. The EOI version was a blind date between the Fruit Fucker and one of the characters.
There is also a more recent Fruit Fucker comic but the site is too slow now to search for it. Enjoy.
I always thought that Apple bought Next because Steve was CEO of both at the time. But the article says that the Apple board chose Next and then brought on Steve as a consultant. Steve then convinced the board to give him more power. The board made him interim CEO and gave him the task of hiring the real CEO.
His acceptance speach probably went like this: "It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love Apple... I love MacOS 9. But I am mild by nature, and I do not desire to see the destruction of Apple. The power you give me I will lay down when this crisis has abated, I promise you! And as my first act with this new authority, I will create a grand new OS to counter the increasing threats of the Redmonds."
Actually Gmail *does* have a file size limit to incoming e-mails. As one person on the GMAIL Drive Forums states:
It appears that Google has put a file size limit on "attachments". I've installed GMail Drive and tried a couple quick uploads. One was a tar.bz2 file that weighs in at 23MB. After dragging the file over to the GMail Drive window, it worked for a while then returned an error message stating that "File is too big. GMail does currently not support files larger than 10 Mb."
The response confirms:
Great point Steve. GMail does have an attachment size limit which does limit the usefulness of these file system extensions. One solution would be to handle file splitting in the tool.
I don't have a gmail account, but anyone who does should be able to easily confirm this.
Spammers will render that system useless by sending out spam for innocent companies. You could attack your competitor by anonymously sending spam for them.
Both guilty and innocent merchants will claim they aren't sending out any spam. Who do you believe?
I like how the sans.org GDIscan (http://isc.sans.org/gdiscan.php) has the following warranty in all caps:
HIS APPLICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,....
His letter might as well read:
Dear Microsoft, How dare you take no responsibility for the code you write? I am handing out a much better version. P.S. I take no responsibility for the code I write.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like Forbes is capitalizing on the fact that it's one of their own. They are going to officially sponsor the blog on Forbes.com now.
Fake Steve Jobs comes clean
Forbes' phone interview with Daniel Lyons (has annoying commercials)
There's quite a semantic difference between being a senior editor at Forbes and being the senior editor at Forbes. I bet there's a difference in salary too.
Nah, the kernel is not called OS X, it's not called Mach/BSD, and it's not called Darwin. The kernel is called Xnu.
Xnu -- The Apple Open Source kernel, a combination of BSD, Mach, and IOKit.
Darwin -- the Xnu kernel and BSD userland binaries and libraries. Basically the Open Source parts of OS X. Darwin is bundled as a full Unix OS.
OS X -- Darwin + Aqua, Finder, Quartz, Quicktime, Cocoa, and the bundled graphical tools and apps.
The article would more rightly state that the iPods have always run the Xnu kernel.
To those that don't know what TPM or GSM are (isn't GSM for cell phones?), this article appears completely ridiculous. I thought it was a joke at first.
He is talking about the GSM for cell phones. That threw me off at first too -- I asumed he was talking about some DRM system I was unaware of.
Maybe Zonk is very weak, and the book is very heavy. Perhaps someone hit Zonk over the head with the book.
Given that Zonk said he read it in PDF form, that'd be most impressive.
Reminds me of a quote from Chicken Run:
Ginger: We die free or we die trying.
Babs: Are those the only choices?
How dare a company charge people for a service they provide? Ridiculous.
I believe my friend said his treatment costs him about $2500 a month. Fortunately he's employed and his medical insurance can cover most of the costs. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have medical insurance.
The difference is that Office already writes .doc files by default so they don't have to go around reconfiguring each user's account. The thing he's trying to avoid (unless I misread it) is configuring each OpenOffice to create .doc files by default.
Ning2 means tranquil, peaceful.
In the movie Serenity, it's used as the first part of the word 'Serenity' -- ning2jing4. It's painted on their ship and used in the movie logo.
I tried inserting the chinese characters in this post, but disappeared in preview mode. Oh well.
First, trademarks and patents have nothing to do with each other.
Second, many people can trademark the same name without any conflict as long as they refer to completely different things. Many companies hold the a trademark on 'Tiger' for example. As long as nobody else names their Spreadsheet "Numbers", there shouldn't be a problem. Much like Microsoft trademarked "Word" for their Word Processor. They don't keep people from using the word "word" in other places.
The only thing annoying about naming a product a common word like "Numbers" is that it makes it very diffcult to google when looking for solutions.
Have you tried the AIM and iChat voice chat? the official windows AIM client is supposed to be able to make audio and video calls to iChat.
Of course, he'd have to use the official AIM client, which is a scary in itself. But I'd be curious to know whether you'd have the same sort of sound problems.
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You may be wondering why the Elf Only Inn comics are there. On Valentine's Day of this year, PA and EOI did cross-over comics.. The EOI version was a blind date between the Fruit Fucker and one of the characters.
There is also a more recent Fruit Fucker comic but the site is too slow now to search for it. Enjoy.
I always thought that Apple bought Next because Steve was CEO of both at the time. But the article says that the Apple board chose Next and then brought on Steve as a consultant. Steve then convinced the board to give him more power. The board made him interim CEO and gave him the task of hiring the real CEO.
His acceptance speach probably went like this:
"It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love Apple... I love MacOS 9. But I am mild by nature, and I do not desire to see the destruction of Apple. The power you give me I will lay down when this crisis has abated, I promise you! And as my first act with this new authority, I will create a grand new OS to counter the increasing threats of the Redmonds."
Actually Gmail *does* have a file size limit to incoming e-mails. As one person on the GMAIL Drive Forums states:
It appears that Google has put a file size limit on "attachments". I've installed GMail Drive and tried a couple quick uploads. One was a tar.bz2 file that weighs in at 23MB. After dragging the file over to the GMail Drive window, it worked for a while then returned an error message stating that "File is too big. GMail does currently not support files larger than 10 Mb."
The response confirms:
Great point Steve. GMail does have an attachment size limit which does limit the usefulness of these file system extensions. One solution would be to handle file splitting in the tool.
I don't have a gmail account, but anyone who does should be able to easily confirm this.
Why did everyone think the parent was saying to vote for Kerry?
I assumed he meant to vote for Michael Badnarik, who really would 'put an end to this horseshit'.
Spammers will render that system useless by sending out spam for innocent companies. You could attack your competitor by anonymously sending spam for them.
Both guilty and innocent merchants will claim they aren't sending out any spam. Who do you believe?
--Sneeper
His letter might as well read:
Because its VOIP, we should be able to use software to fight it. How about blacklists of known telemarketers?
It seems to me that the move the VOIP should lessen spam rather than increase it since it puts more power into our hands to fight it.
And thousands of slashdotters pause to fantasize about the Borg Queen. Sexiest. Villain. Ever.
What will keep spammers from poisoning SURBL by including URLs to known valid companies like yahoo.com, google.com, amazon.com, etc?
This seems like it would be even more effective than bayesian poisoning.