I love the idea of them using more Linux and other open source products. BUT... I'm thinking having the government mandate that every thing must be open source is a bad thing. Basically, it should be up to the people actually using and implementing the systems to figure out the best solution. Sometimes it's open source, sometimes the open source options don't suit the needs as well as a piece of paid software. This is going to limit options and make some people's jobs a lot harder than necessary.
So IE8 will use bug mode on intranets, and standards mode on the internet. Can someone explain to me how the hell IE will know the difference between www.example.com and myIntranet.example.com ???
I don't recall seeing an intranet meta tag in my html books... so I don't get how IE will know if something is an intranet site or an internet site.
Which makes me wonder if it will simply think everything is an intranet.
So there was a heated debate weather the wiretapping was legal or not... it was regularly claimed to be illegal... now congress passed a bill clairfying that it's legal... when they pass a law saying you can do it, it's legal, no matter how much you may dislike it. So my real question is can we stop calling it the "illegal domestic wiretapping program"?
"DailyKos, Crooks and Liars, and Think Progress" -- could you get a more liberal list of blogs?
They are soo far left it's hard to imagine them supporting any republican, no mater how liberal he is. Now McCain is about as left leaning as you'll find in the republican party, but... these are blogs who will take people who are way out in left field and consider them on the right (not left enough). And somehow they are going to speak positively of McCain, when Obama has about as liberal a voting record as you'll find... fat chance.
If someone is a avid reader of DailyKos they are so far left McCain would seem like he's on the right... they will never vote for him when there is a more liberal alternative.
However if McCain starts pushing a heavy liberal agenda... to swoon the DailyKos readers... voter turnout of those on the right will be at historic lows, and a large majority of those voting left will vote Obama... so it's the wrong path for McCain to pursue those on the hard left, he needs to focus on those a bit closer to the center.
Another Reason... I suspect the timing on this is no accident... we finally got a democrat candidate and the election is right around the corner. There is going to be tons of press about how evil Bush is, and will likely cause people to think "I don't want another criminal republican in office". I suspect those behind this are more interested in casting republicans as evil and therefore sealing the deal for Obama than actually impeaching Bush.
Please bare with me on this for a moment, and put aside your feelings about if the Clintion or Bush impeachments are warranted...
I have a bad feeling we are witnessing a new trend in politics... that from here on out damn near every president will be impeached by the other side of the isle.
If I'm right on this it's going to hurt us as a nation in the long run, and make the act of impeachment have little meaning.
Think about it, if every president is officially pronounced a criminal.. what message does that send to the rest of the world about our nation? How strongly will our citizens back a president in times of crisis?
I agree... it seems the headlines and articles have been getting things wrong more often lately... it seemed like the reviewer who posted the story would at least add to the post if they thought part of it was incorrect or misleading... but that doesn't seem to happen as often anymore... I hope/. editors start correcting this, because if the stories become more and more inaccurate... we won't be able to trust/. as a reliable source of tech news. And once ppl don't trust the source, well it's game over.
The title of this article is a bit dramatic and incorrect. There is nothing in the story about the core MySQL engine being moved from open source to a closed source mentioned in the story. Rather a fancy new backup add-on is being released to Enterprise edition, and possibly added to the community version later.
MySQL is one of the most popular open source products out there, but they get lambasted if they create an add-on and want to actually get paid for it. Too many ppl react as if they are defecating on a holy shrine in the land of FOSS.
The title of this article and some of the reactions here strikes me a chicken little "the sky is falling" BS. I love open source software and the general movement, but I hate it when people jump to conclusions like this... and jumping to conclusions like this seems to happen all to often by ppl on/. and the open source community in general. I'd like to see more people showing respect for a company that has done so much for open source and respect the fact that they deserve to actually make a little money along the way.
I can't help but wonder how many of the people, who treat this story like the evil Sun is going ruin MySQL, run MySQL but haven't open sourced the programs that they've written that access the database... I'd bet a hell of a lot of closed source programs use MySQL as their database... should we scream at them for being evil too?
I can't help but wonder if understanding this won't lead to some powerful weapons... think about it a sonic cannon, that might make some interesting CNN coverage during war time.
I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before some creates a bot from this software and unleases it on HotOrNot.com... oh, or even more dastardly tracks the responses to the Hot or Not votes you make, builds a profile of the woman you are most attracted to... and use a virtual "your ideal woman" in all sorts of advertising... I can imagine the double click custom ads this would produce... "but she was sooo hot, i had to click"... hehe
Prince, The Village People & ABBA... being downloaded, really? And are they sure it wasn't a mistake, like the file wasn't listed as "Jessica Alba Nude" or something. The concept that no one would pay for their music is easy for me to grasp, but that people would knowingly download YMCA or what not is hard for me to grasp. I think the first big challenge for these guys is going to be finding evidence that both someone posted their music, and that someone else actually downloaded it... and that either wasn't a mistake... hehe.
Oh good... I hate it when I visit a website that doesn't have banner ads and popups. Maybe this ISP will fix that, after all it's what the customers what!
One of the things that keeps me from believing in "grays", "blues" or whatever type of alien you may or may not believe has visited earth is the relative closemess to the human form they take. For example the common "gray" alien compared to your average human is shorter, has a bigger head, almond shaped eyes, slim body... basicly what you'd think a human who evolved in the brains department but lacked a need for work over many generations of evolution might look like. So if you told me these were future time human travelers... well that would make WAY more sense to me than some race of beings that evolved on another planet.
THESE "ALIENS" ARE SIMPLY TOO MUCH LIKE US FOR ME TO BUY IT.
Millions of years of evolution on a planet with a similiar but slightly different enviroment (and certianly different history) than to ours would produce life forms that would be so strange to us we might not even be able to identify them as life... let alone look like humans with big heads. The basic components of a mamal would likely not be present at all in a true alien. You give me something with a head containing a mouth, two eyes, nose, ears... plus four lims, a spine... hell bones for that matter... it's crazy to think an alien would look or have body functions anything remotely like us.
Now to the whole "they seeded this planet to create us" crowd... well why the hell did they? They would have been just as likely to get a planet full of lizards and dogs to us... and oh new germs, bacteria & etc. compatabile with them but for which they have now defense... yeah right.
I'm just hoping no one responds to this with something from the Bible proving they are aliens...
Is it just me, or did they just maybe have something other than an alien craft land there?
In the brick-and-morder storea if you suddenly had a spike in sales... no one blamed you if you didn't get a new store constructed in a day or two to meet the demand. Plus if the demand spike only lasted a day or two did anyone expect you to construct an extra store and have it just sit dormant until that one or two days next year when you had the sales to support using it? No. So part of me doesn't wonder if some of these big online applications don't kinda expect to have there hardware taxed for a day or two, and consider the cost of doubling there hardware costs to only handle one or two days of traffic spikes not worth it?
Guess I'm wondering if Apple suspected this would happen but considered the cost of increasing there server capasity to handle it (maybe even doubling it) not worth it?
We use it to back up our web and database servers. The high end products might be over kill but the Express version might do you right. Retrospect will compress the data to save drive space, and it allows you to restore via a date of your choice. Lots of scheduling and etc options. Works like a champ.
Since Apple already likes khtml... this could be a perfict fit for the fabled Apple iPhone... think iPod + phone done Apple style... get some high speed internet, like that EV-DO (or whatever its called - brain fart) and this could be a sweet little handset.
Reading the other replies to this coment has me thinking...
Hello McFly... it's a joke
Clearly, Bush doesn't want jobs outsourced... but he's not going to force companies to only purchase from other American compainies, free market forces... yada yada yada... it's so funny that people actually believe Bush is out to ruin their lives... no seriously, there is a sizable group of people who think he wants to destroy the economic might of the US, because somehow that will sell more oil or otherwise make rich people richer.
The title pretty well sums it up. What if an underground effort to counter act the Google filters the Chinese gov places against democarcy, started using spamer techniques to inform the Chinese masses... After all news and information is at the heart of the internet. Could the power of spam become a force of good? Or at least enlightenment. I'm not takling about spyware, more like a seti style smtp engine which received email feeds form some central source. If milions of users world wide sent info-email to Chinese citizens how would there goverment stop it?
I'm a Mac user by default, but I've noticed a few funny things when friends (or girlfriends) who use Windows try to use my mac.
First off... remember just about anything your use to do using right click is avail under the menus at the top of the screen.
Drag and Drop is far more refined in the Mac OS... you can take any document, and drag it to the a application's icon (anywhere you see the icon including the dock) and if the program can understand the document it will open it. Also doing thing like draging the icon of a jpeg (photo) and placing it in a document (like an email) will work as expected. PC users seem to want to perfrom convoluted operations to move thing around, from application to application and etc, but Drag and Drop usually works and is generally easy.
When you want to use a feature you haven't tried before, look around. The people who design Mac applications are pretty good at trying to make things esay to figrue out.
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I love the idea of them using more Linux and other open source products. BUT... I'm thinking having the government mandate that every thing must be open source is a bad thing. Basically, it should be up to the people actually using and implementing the systems to figure out the best solution. Sometimes it's open source, sometimes the open source options don't suit the needs as well as a piece of paid software. This is going to limit options and make some people's jobs a lot harder than necessary.
So IE8 will use bug mode on intranets, and standards mode on the internet. Can someone explain to me how the hell IE will know the difference between www.example.com and myIntranet.example.com ???
I don't recall seeing an intranet meta tag in my html books... so I don't get how IE will know if something is an intranet site or an internet site.
Which makes me wonder if it will simply think everything is an intranet.
So there was a heated debate weather the wiretapping was legal or not... it was regularly claimed to be illegal... now congress passed a bill clairfying that it's legal... when they pass a law saying you can do it, it's legal, no matter how much you may dislike it. So my real question is can we stop calling it the "illegal domestic wiretapping program"?
"DailyKos, Crooks and Liars, and Think Progress" -- could you get a more liberal list of blogs?
They are soo far left it's hard to imagine them supporting any republican, no mater how liberal he is. Now McCain is about as left leaning as you'll find in the republican party, but... these are blogs who will take people who are way out in left field and consider them on the right (not left enough). And somehow they are going to speak positively of McCain, when Obama has about as liberal a voting record as you'll find... fat chance.
If someone is a avid reader of DailyKos they are so far left McCain would seem like he's on the right... they will never vote for him when there is a more liberal alternative.
However if McCain starts pushing a heavy liberal agenda... to swoon the DailyKos readers... voter turnout of those on the right will be at historic lows, and a large majority of those voting left will vote Obama... so it's the wrong path for McCain to pursue those on the hard left, he needs to focus on those a bit closer to the center.
Another Reason... I suspect the timing on this is no accident... we finally got a democrat candidate and the election is right around the corner. There is going to be tons of press about how evil Bush is, and will likely cause people to think "I don't want another criminal republican in office". I suspect those behind this are more interested in casting republicans as evil and therefore sealing the deal for Obama than actually impeaching Bush.
Please bare with me on this for a moment, and put aside your feelings about if the Clintion or Bush impeachments are warranted...
I have a bad feeling we are witnessing a new trend in politics... that from here on out damn near every president will be impeached by the other side of the isle.
If I'm right on this it's going to hurt us as a nation in the long run, and make the act of impeachment have little meaning.
Think about it, if every president is officially pronounced a criminal.. what message does that send to the rest of the world about our nation? How strongly will our citizens back a president in times of crisis?
I agree... it seems the headlines and articles have been getting things wrong more often lately... it seemed like the reviewer who posted the story would at least add to the post if they thought part of it was incorrect or misleading... but that doesn't seem to happen as often anymore... I hope /. editors start correcting this, because if the stories become more and more inaccurate... we won't be able to trust /. as a reliable source of tech news. And once ppl don't trust the source, well it's game over.
The title of this article is a bit dramatic and incorrect. There is nothing in the story about the core MySQL engine being moved from open source to a closed source mentioned in the story. Rather a fancy new backup add-on is being released to Enterprise edition, and possibly added to the community version later.
/. and the open source community in general. I'd like to see more people showing respect for a company that has done so much for open source and respect the fact that they deserve to actually make a little money along the way.
MySQL is one of the most popular open source products out there, but they get lambasted if they create an add-on and want to actually get paid for it. Too many ppl react as if they are defecating on a holy shrine in the land of FOSS.
The title of this article and some of the reactions here strikes me a chicken little "the sky is falling" BS. I love open source software and the general movement, but I hate it when people jump to conclusions like this... and jumping to conclusions like this seems to happen all to often by ppl on
I can't help but wonder how many of the people, who treat this story like the evil Sun is going ruin MySQL, run MySQL but haven't open sourced the programs that they've written that access the database... I'd bet a hell of a lot of closed source programs use MySQL as their database... should we scream at them for being evil too?
I can't help but wonder if understanding this won't lead to some powerful weapons... think about it a sonic cannon, that might make some interesting CNN coverage during war time.
I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before some creates a bot from this software and unleases it on HotOrNot.com... oh, or even more dastardly tracks the responses to the Hot or Not votes you make, builds a profile of the woman you are most attracted to... and use a virtual "your ideal woman" in all sorts of advertising... I can imagine the double click custom ads this would produce... "but she was sooo hot, i had to click"... hehe
Prince, The Village People & ABBA... being downloaded, really? And are they sure it wasn't a mistake, like the file wasn't listed as "Jessica Alba Nude" or something. The concept that no one would pay for their music is easy for me to grasp, but that people would knowingly download YMCA or what not is hard for me to grasp. I think the first big challenge for these guys is going to be finding evidence that both someone posted their music, and that someone else actually downloaded it... and that either wasn't a mistake... hehe.
My first thought is, why didn't the crossbow at least knock the monitor off the table??
Second, what about gun fire? It won't sell here in the US until it can withstand a drive by shooting... hehe
Oh good... I hate it when I visit a website that doesn't have banner ads and popups. Maybe this ISP will fix that, after all it's what the customers what!
Does anyone here have trouble telling the difference between paid ad placements and non-paid search results on Google?
Since when does a website legally have to tell you what is an isn't an ad?
oops... still scratching my head oh how that happened... maybe the aliens didn't want this known... hehehe
One of the things that keeps me from believing in "grays", "blues" or whatever type of alien you may or may not believe has visited earth is the relative closemess to the human form they take. For example the common "gray" alien compared to your average human is shorter, has a bigger head, almond shaped eyes, slim body... basicly what you'd think a human who evolved in the brains department but lacked a need for work over many generations of evolution might look like. So if you told me these were future time human travelers... well that would make WAY more sense to me than some race of beings that evolved on another planet.
THESE "ALIENS" ARE SIMPLY TOO MUCH LIKE US FOR ME TO BUY IT.
Millions of years of evolution on a planet with a similiar but slightly different enviroment (and certianly different history) than to ours would produce life forms that would be so strange to us we might not even be able to identify them as life... let alone look like humans with big heads. The basic components of a mamal would likely not be present at all in a true alien. You give me something with a head containing a mouth, two eyes, nose, ears... plus four lims, a spine... hell bones for that matter... it's crazy to think an alien would look or have body functions anything remotely like us.
Now to the whole "they seeded this planet to create us" crowd... well why the hell did they? They would have been just as likely to get a planet full of lizards and dogs to us... and oh new germs, bacteria & etc. compatabile with them but for which they have now defense... yeah right.
I'm just hoping no one responds to this with something from the Bible proving they are aliens...
Is it just me, or did they just maybe have something other than an alien craft land there?
In the brick-and-morder storea if you suddenly had a spike in sales... no one blamed you if you didn't get a new store constructed in a day or two to meet the demand. Plus if the demand spike only lasted a day or two did anyone expect you to construct an extra store and have it just sit dormant until that one or two days next year when you had the sales to support using it? No. So part of me doesn't wonder if some of these big online applications don't kinda expect to have there hardware taxed for a day or two, and consider the cost of doubling there hardware costs to only handle one or two days of traffic spikes not worth it?
Guess I'm wondering if Apple suspected this would happen but considered the cost of increasing there server capasity to handle it (maybe even doubling it) not worth it?
http://www.emcinsignia.com/
We use it to back up our web and database servers. The high end products might be over kill but the Express version might do you right. Retrospect will compress the data to save drive space, and it allows you to restore via a date of your choice. Lots of scheduling and etc options. Works like a champ.
Since Apple already likes khtml... this could be a perfict fit for the fabled Apple iPhone... think iPod + phone done Apple style... get some high speed internet, like that EV-DO (or whatever its called - brain fart) and this could be a sweet little handset.
why wouldn't they?
I'd like to use this technology on a few slashdot posts, x-girlfriends, spare tire around my waste... etc.
Your G5 is a "Personal Computer", it's just not a Wintel... after all I find min G5 to be very well, personal.
My favorite line from the article: "For Tiger, Apple created launchd: one launch daemon to rule them all."
whoa
Reading the other replies to this coment has me thinking...
Hello McFly... it's a joke
Clearly, Bush doesn't want jobs outsourced... but he's not going to force companies to only purchase from other American compainies, free market forces... yada yada yada... it's so funny that people actually believe Bush is out to ruin their lives... no seriously, there is a sizable group of people who think he wants to destroy the economic might of the US, because somehow that will sell more oil or otherwise make rich people richer.
The title pretty well sums it up. What if an underground effort to counter act the Google filters the Chinese gov places against democarcy, started using spamer techniques to inform the Chinese masses... After all news and information is at the heart of the internet. Could the power of spam become a force of good? Or at least enlightenment. I'm not takling about spyware, more like a seti style smtp engine which received email feeds form some central source. If milions of users world wide sent info-email to Chinese citizens how would there goverment stop it?
Food for thought
I'm a Mac user by default, but I've noticed a few funny things when friends (or girlfriends) who use Windows try to use my mac.
First off... remember just about anything your use to do using right click is avail under the menus at the top of the screen.
Drag and Drop is far more refined in the Mac OS... you can take any document, and drag it to the a application's icon (anywhere you see the icon including the dock) and if the program can understand the document it will open it. Also doing thing like draging the icon of a jpeg (photo) and placing it in a document (like an email) will work as expected. PC users seem to want to perfrom convoluted operations to move thing around, from application to application and etc, but Drag and Drop usually works and is generally easy.
When you want to use a feature you haven't tried before, look around. The people who design Mac applications are pretty good at trying to make things esay to figrue out.
Good luck!