This isn't an answer to your question (re: OS X), but I think we should publish IP addresses from logs where the request came from. Most likely, it'll make people aware of yet another infected machine, but if we're lucky (or the author is careless) enough, we might even get the author's (or at least close to it) IP addresses.
The MA senators have a point, though. People with disabilities SHOULD be considered. The thing is, Sun along with the Gnome project have spent copious amounts of time researching and developing accessibility technology. If there are hardware (like braille readers) which can't be accessed for lack of drivers or documentation, this only makes it another case for 1) opening up specifications for using these technologies on other operating systems and 2) government allocating money to opensource software developers so that the people whom they serve would benefit the most.
I can't stress that last point enough. The government should spend its money on people who develop software that would help them be free of the lock-in they've found themselves in. It's like giving money to Alcoholics Anonymous. Why would you give more money to cocaine or crack producers, for instance, just because people are hooked on it and they make it easy for people to buy and use their stuff?
Now we just have to figure out have MS intends to "embrace, extend, extinguish" or otherwise make it unattractive and derail any of their attempts to do so.
While I would laud Microsoft for including virus protection in its Windows OS products, I don't think that's the issue in this case. The issue again falls back to the question "How can third party (antivirus) software developers compete with Microsoft when MS has an innate knowledge of the OS?" Even if MS did share the source, they would always be one step ahead of the competition since they decide what direction OS development would take. Not to mention the fact that MS can put in hooks directly into the kernel of the OS and "integrate" their solution so well that, though other software may be better or just as good, people wouldn't care to because defaults matter.
Had the same thoughts myself. Don't like anything that will help fund MS's plans to lock in people, and I liked the greater capacity Blu-Ray had. Not to mention the PS3 coming out with a BD drive. But this info could very well sway me from Blu-Ray (as a consumer).
I agree that competition is good and is necessary in order for companies and their products to improve as best they can (not to mention more choices for consumers and lesser chances of price-fixing), both Wind River and Montavista should always be aware that they both have a responsibility to the developers who are their customers. The danger here is that bickering and fragmentations might paint a bleak landscape to developers and drive them towards Windows. It would be the Unix Wars all over again.
I believe that these two companies should develop and improve their products as best they can but always collude on making things easier for developers to share the same codebase. Since they're now working in an opensource environment, technical prowess in their engineers as well as great customer service are where they will be competing in. With equal access to source (assuming they release them), it would be in service satisfaction that would differentiate them most. If I were device manufacturer, I would more likely choose the company with the better team of engineers as well as customer service reps.
Odd that they'd go proprietary. After all, the BBC was one of the first to Internet-broadcast their radio programs using OGG Vorbis (and continue to do so).
In the spirit of openness, I hope that Novell releases information about the crack. How it happened, what was compromised, what information can lead to the perpetrators.
Now that they've already been "hacked", as much information as can be gleaned should be disseminated so we would know how to avoid this. If we're using OpenSUSE products, we'd like to know how to protect ourselves and provide a test that would hack into our systems to make sure any solutions are really working.
A solution which is free and satisfies all your requirements would be a no-brainer. OSS is definitely free, so i'm guessing it lacks something. Could you outline what the OSS solution needs or is missing?
If Pentax (or Nikon or any camera manufacturer) integrates a GPS receiver or, at the very least, allows one to connect a GPS receiver to the camera, then I'll be happy as a clam in sand.
At least with wifi, cameras can now send pics directly to computers or PDAs. Now if their protocols are open (like PictBridge), one can write opensource software that would stamp the camera's location onto EXIF.
That's true. Even if my own experience in the past company I worked for showed that TCO was much lower using Linux as opposed to Windows, the IBM-funded research should be taken with a grain of NaCl.
There is one slight difference with IBM, though, and that's that IBM sells BOTH Linux and Windows-based solutions.
I've heard it sometimes said that game platform manufacturers sell their device at a loss (or at an extremely low profit margin, at least) and intend to make their profits from a percentage of games sold by game devs.
If free games or even non-free games but don't earn the game manufacturer money in royalty proliferate, what's the point in lowering the hardware price? May as well sell it at a better profit. We'll just end up with the situation where competing manufacturers bleed themselves dry or when only the fittest survives... and then whoever's left would be free to jack up their price.
If some of those same advertising companies had not abused the system and started spamming site with ads, I wouldn't even have taken the time to install AdBlock.
Because I'm looking for one device to act as my cellphone and organizer. I don't intend to put the unit to my face. I'll have a bluetooth headset to do that for me. At the same time, I could jot things down on my device or look up information.
I'd rather have that one device and a bluetooth handset rather than a cellphone and a browsing unit.
But why OH WHY isn't it a cellphone as well?!?! Just when I thought my wait for my ideal devices was over. With these specs, I'd rather shell out for a Sharp SL-C3000... guess I need to wait a bit more.
That's just the point, John: it's about the readers. First, she did not generate readership. If anything, she annoyed the sites patrons and potential patrons. Second, why in heaven's name would a person write in a public newssite if they didn't care about their reader's opinion? If MOG's not getting the sympathy she was hoping for on this site, perhaps she should find some other medium.
By the way, I've read most, if not all, of Pamela Jones' articles that mention Ms. O'Gara and I can't recall coming across anything that indicated she was bitter. Defiant, perhaps, but not bitter. Plus, most of PJ's commentary are accompanied by court documents or follow-ups on other people's opinion on their firsthand viewing of court proceedings. MOG was doing the same thing albeit pro-SCO regardless of what actually transpired, then she all of a sudden attacks PJ's character instead of her opinions. Senseless.
I don't think we're generating more lunatics today compared to yesteryear. I just think that now it's easier to give crackpots a voice.
Personally, I can't imagine any sane reasons why MOG took up this crusade versus PJ, but given that people are free to say anything that doesn't harm other people or their rights, I was okay to just read let her articles be. That last one, however, was sickening as it was publishing private information, the very act of which could result in greater harm than it could any conceivable service. Newspapers don't print out what a person's race or religious belief is if it's not relevant to the issue. If it were relevant to the issue, MOG certainly left it hanging too much.
Going back to zealots, it's sad really that these same nuts (possibly society's misfits) are the same ones who pour their effort to being good at this technology that they're the ones who can be most vocal. Unfortunately, many of them are misfits for a reason: their sense of right has been seriously warped by their perceived castigation. Perhaps it started out because they were misunderstood and that quickly turned to contempt. The fact that they were misunderstood just goes to show that they're poor at communicating even now.
After reading the results, I'm wondering if AMD invested money and human resource in helping the GCC team in developing their compilers. If they are, then what is the reason behind the poorer performance as compared to an older version. If they're not, why? Don't they have a vested interest in seeing this compiler work better on their hardware platform?
Too bad it's XBox only. I really enjoy playing Neverwinter Nights (one of the few games to run natively on Linux). Jade Empire looks like a great game that I'd play if it ran on my gaming console (Sony PS2) or even on a Linux-based machine (don't have to buy the OS to run it on).
While I agree with the author that harrassing or forcing others to use OpenSource Software is a bad thing, I do feel strongly about convincing others to switch to OSS.
To summarize how I feel about things, let me draw attention to an analogy: one of the biggest problems of a nation is apathy in its citizenry to problems it faces. Whether it's out of hopelessness or the public has been brainwashed into thinking things are alright or because the nation itself has been effectively immobilized due to divisiveness (divide & conquer strategy).
I firmly believe that using Microsoft products is a problem. As any tool, their software isn't inherently "evil", but the corporation behind it certainly is.
If a nation's citizenry can't see past the mist that other more wiley and more powerful people paint in front of their eyes, then they deserve to lose whatever rights and freedoms they possess.
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This isn't an answer to your question (re: OS X), but I think we should publish IP addresses from logs where the request came from. Most likely, it'll make people aware of yet another infected machine, but if we're lucky (or the author is careless) enough, we might even get the author's (or at least close to it) IP addresses.
Well, if they extend it in such a way as to break conformity with the standard, then it isn't really standards-compliant and fails the requirement.
There has to be some policy regarding software which start out compliant with the standard then deviate later on.
If MS can improve the format and still maintain compliancy in one mode, then well and good.
The MA senators have a point, though. People with disabilities SHOULD be considered. The thing is, Sun along with the Gnome project have spent copious amounts of time researching and developing accessibility technology. If there are hardware (like braille readers) which can't be accessed for lack of drivers or documentation, this only makes it another case for 1) opening up specifications for using these technologies on other operating systems and 2) government allocating money to opensource software developers so that the people whom they serve would benefit the most.
I can't stress that last point enough. The government should spend its money on people who develop software that would help them be free of the lock-in they've found themselves in. It's like giving money to Alcoholics Anonymous. Why would you give more money to cocaine or crack producers, for instance, just because people are hooked on it and they make it easy for people to buy and use their stuff?
Now we just have to figure out have MS intends to "embrace, extend, extinguish" or otherwise make it unattractive and derail any of their attempts to do so.
While I would laud Microsoft for including virus protection in its Windows OS products, I don't think that's the issue in this case. The issue again falls back to the question "How can third party (antivirus) software developers compete with Microsoft when MS has an innate knowledge of the OS?" Even if MS did share the source, they would always be one step ahead of the competition since they decide what direction OS development would take. Not to mention the fact that MS can put in hooks directly into the kernel of the OS and "integrate" their solution so well that, though other software may be better or just as good, people wouldn't care to because defaults matter.
Had the same thoughts myself. Don't like anything that will help fund MS's plans to lock in people, and I liked the greater capacity Blu-Ray had. Not to mention the PS3 coming out with a BD drive. But this info could very well sway me from Blu-Ray (as a consumer).
I agree that competition is good and is necessary in order for companies and their products to improve as best they can (not to mention more choices for consumers and lesser chances of price-fixing), both Wind River and Montavista should always be aware that they both have a responsibility to the developers who are their customers. The danger here is that bickering and fragmentations might paint a bleak landscape to developers and drive them towards Windows. It would be the Unix Wars all over again.
I believe that these two companies should develop and improve their products as best they can but always collude on making things easier for developers to share the same codebase. Since they're now working in an opensource environment, technical prowess in their engineers as well as great customer service are where they will be competing in. With equal access to source (assuming they release them), it would be in service satisfaction that would differentiate them most. If I were device manufacturer, I would more likely choose the company with the better team of engineers as well as customer service reps.
Odd that they'd go proprietary. After all, the BBC was one of the first to Internet-broadcast their radio programs using OGG Vorbis (and continue to do so).
Holy Shi-ite! That's a damn fine idea! IR port! IR port!
In the spirit of openness, I hope that Novell releases information about the crack. How it happened, what was compromised, what information can lead to the perpetrators.
Now that they've already been "hacked", as much information as can be gleaned should be disseminated so we would know how to avoid this. If we're using OpenSUSE products, we'd like to know how to protect ourselves and provide a test that would hack into our systems to make sure any solutions are really working.
A solution which is free and satisfies all your requirements would be a no-brainer. OSS is definitely free, so i'm guessing it lacks something. Could you outline what the OSS solution needs or is missing?
If Pentax (or Nikon or any camera manufacturer) integrates a GPS receiver or, at the very least, allows one to connect a GPS receiver to the camera, then I'll be happy as a clam in sand.
At least with wifi, cameras can now send pics directly to computers or PDAs. Now if their protocols are open (like PictBridge), one can write opensource software that would stamp the camera's location onto EXIF.
That's true. Even if my own experience in the past company I worked for showed that TCO was much lower using Linux as opposed to Windows, the IBM-funded research should be taken with a grain of NaCl.
There is one slight difference with IBM, though, and that's that IBM sells BOTH Linux and Windows-based solutions.
How about "Gaggle"? ;)
I've heard it sometimes said that game platform manufacturers sell their device at a loss (or at an extremely low profit margin, at least) and intend to make their profits from a percentage of games sold by game devs.
... and then whoever's left would be free to jack up their price.
If free games or even non-free games but don't earn the game manufacturer money in royalty proliferate, what's the point in lowering the hardware price? May as well sell it at a better profit. We'll just end up with the situation where competing manufacturers bleed themselves dry or when only the fittest survives
If some of those same advertising companies had not abused the system and started spamming site with ads, I wouldn't even have taken the time to install AdBlock.
Because I'm looking for one device to act as my cellphone and organizer. I don't intend to put the unit to my face. I'll have a bluetooth headset to do that for me. At the same time, I could jot things down on my device or look up information.
I'd rather have that one device and a bluetooth handset rather than a cellphone and a browsing unit.
But why OH WHY isn't it a cellphone as well?!?! Just when I thought my wait for my ideal devices was over. With these specs, I'd rather shell out for a Sharp SL-C3000 ... guess I need to wait a bit more.
If Microsoft thinks Google's a one- hit wonder, why in heaven's name do they keep following them??
That's just the point, John: it's about the readers. First, she did not generate readership. If anything, she annoyed the sites patrons and potential patrons. Second, why in heaven's name would a person write in a public newssite if they didn't care about their reader's opinion? If MOG's not getting the sympathy she was hoping for on this site, perhaps she should find some other medium.
By the way, I've read most, if not all, of Pamela Jones' articles that mention Ms. O'Gara and I can't recall coming across anything that indicated she was bitter. Defiant, perhaps, but not bitter. Plus, most of PJ's commentary are accompanied by court documents or follow-ups on other people's opinion on their firsthand viewing of court proceedings. MOG was doing the same thing albeit pro-SCO regardless of what actually transpired, then she all of a sudden attacks PJ's character instead of her opinions. Senseless.
I don't think we're generating more lunatics today compared to yesteryear. I just think that now it's easier to give crackpots a voice.
Personally, I can't imagine any sane reasons why MOG took up this crusade versus PJ, but given that people are free to say anything that doesn't harm other people or their rights, I was okay to just read let her articles be. That last one, however, was sickening as it was publishing private information, the very act of which could result in greater harm than it could any conceivable service. Newspapers don't print out what a person's race or religious belief is if it's not relevant to the issue. If it were relevant to the issue, MOG certainly left it hanging too much.
Going back to zealots, it's sad really that these same nuts (possibly society's misfits) are the same ones who pour their effort to being good at this technology that they're the ones who can be most vocal. Unfortunately, many of them are misfits for a reason: their sense of right has been seriously warped by their perceived castigation. Perhaps it started out because they were misunderstood and that quickly turned to contempt. The fact that they were misunderstood just goes to show that they're poor at communicating even now.
Any word from the other OpenSource/Free Software office suites if they're planning on supporting (if not totally moving) to the new formats?
What are the criteria for approving standards by the OASIS group? Is there any guarantee on the quality of the standard itself?
After reading the results, I'm wondering if AMD invested money and human resource in helping the GCC team in developing their compilers. If they are, then what is the reason behind the poorer performance as compared to an older version. If they're not, why? Don't they have a vested interest in seeing this compiler work better on their hardware platform?
Too bad it's XBox only. I really enjoy playing Neverwinter Nights (one of the few games to run natively on Linux). Jade Empire looks like a great game that I'd play if it ran on my gaming console (Sony PS2) or even on a Linux-based machine (don't have to buy the OS to run it on).
While I agree with the author that harrassing or forcing others to use OpenSource Software is a bad thing, I do feel strongly about convincing others to switch to OSS.
To summarize how I feel about things, let me draw attention to an analogy: one of the biggest problems of a nation is apathy in its citizenry to problems it faces. Whether it's out of hopelessness or the public has been brainwashed into thinking things are alright or because the nation itself has been effectively immobilized due to divisiveness (divide & conquer strategy).
I firmly believe that using Microsoft products is a problem. As any tool, their software isn't inherently "evil", but the corporation behind it certainly is.
If a nation's citizenry can't see past the mist that other more wiley and more powerful people paint in front of their eyes, then they deserve to lose whatever rights and freedoms they possess.