iPhone patches will be delivered automatically through iTunes, the same way iPod ones are. So while you won't get them OTA, it is still better than most cellphones which require you to go out and find patch installers, and in some cases these can only be obtained from official servicing agents, not over the web.
Some key contributors are grumbling over this change and have privately discussed a fork to stay as GPL v2.
References? The only grumblings I can see in the GCC mailing lists are about the version number change that accompanies the GPLv3 upgrade. A few developers feel that a license change is not a new feature so the first GPL version should be 4.2.2, not 4.3. And one developer who complains that not allowing backported patches to stay under GPLv2 will be a burdon to companies offering support for older versions (eg Novell, Xandros and Linspire).
My guess is that they don't intend to sue anyone, they are just using FUD to try to limit the damage Linux is doing to Windows sales to the least profitable area of business - the home desktop. Developers, business users and server usage are all excluded from their patent promises, as is Free distribution via the GPL, something that threatens their business model at its core.
Not that it makes a difference to your point, but the whole autism/MMR scare was not about individual parents noticing their children were autistic after the vaccination, it was about the fact that the recorded rates of autism started increasing about the same time that the MMR vaccine started being given to children. It was also disproven by the same method; Japan stopped giving MMR a couple of years after they had started, due to a problem with the mumps vaccine they were using (Europe and North America were using a different vaccine). But their recorded autism rate continued to grow in line with other industrialised countries.
There was another alarmist report recently (in the last month), but the report itself stated that the recent sudden rise in autism rates was due to reinterpretation of the statistics, which seemed to invalidate the report's conclusion that MMR was somehow involved. It turned out the report's authors were involved in the original discredited research.
especially when most of the improvement is just user eye-candy.
If you think the changes in Vista are just eye-candy, you are sadly mistaken. There are a huge number of new incompatibilities in the new version, hidden by compatibility mode hacks, which get triggered by filename matching, thus ensuring that third party programs will be forever crippled by compatibility mode.
I just bought a laptop with decent specs...plus I have three USB ports and one PCMCIA slot
Before going out and expanding your laptop with cheap and plentiful PCMCIA cards, check if it isn't actually an ExpressCard slot, a non-backwards compatible slot with almost no cards available for it that most manufacturers have been fitting for the last couple of years.
Note they aren't mandating 2nd-generation broadband that is a DEFINITION. And it's good they did that, because oftentimes I see advertisements for "broadband" internet that is just a few touches better than a 56k.
It's not necessarily a good thing having a Government committee specify these things rather than leaving it to the public's common understanding of that term (which can evolve over time) and having BBB or advertising watchdogs consider each complaint on a case by case basis.
In New Zealand, the government mandated that broadband "must be at least 256kbps download and 128kbps upload". The local phone monopoly then interpreted it so that the "at least" only applied to the download speeds, and for a long time refused to offer upload speeds greater than 128kbps on the basis that the government had banned them from doing so. And because they own the lines, other ISPs can't offer anything different than what they're selling wholesale. Even now that their interpretation has been corrected, 128kbps uploads has become so entrenched that only the expensive high end options have anything better.
I'd bet it's smaller than the percentage of users who bitch about OpenOffice not being as capable.
I bet the users are not even bitching about it not being as capable. They're probably bitching about how their employer doesn't value them enough to spend money on an office suite. Such is office politics.
And probably that is why they can't measure the costs.
Another possible reason why they can't measure the costs is that the CIO is an ex-MS salesman, and thus incapable of measuring the cost of anything non-Microsoft.
I am not sure why neither one of these formats approaches the consistency of Publisher files or Pagemaker files when it comes to retaining formatting across platforms and versions.
I don't think consistency across versions is something that.pub files are known for. From what I've heard, you're lucky if your previous documents will even load when you upgrade MS Publisher. As for platforms, is there more than one choice? But desktop publishing is a different application than general word processing.
With Nokia already backing Maemo based on GTK, and Trolltech's Qtopia based on Qt, what perceived need did Intel have for starting a new project to develop a mobile UI rather than joining an existing effort? Vendor specific fragmentation is just going to result in duplicated effort.
Lowering bitrates is more than annoying, it makes the station unlistenable, and I'll find another one that plays the same type of music. Playing jingles over the song is annoying if its in the middle of the song, but if its over the fadeout, I don't mind, nor do I mind crossfading. At least these measures are compatible with the growing number of hardware devices that can be used to listen to internet radio, unlike some of the other copy-protection or banner-ad-enforcement schemes that internet radio stations are starting to use.
But it is usually just easier to use one of these.
Actually, I use one of these. Same form factor and user interface, but with the global choice of stations that internet radio has over standard AM/FM broadcast. There are some very good Jazz stations with good bitrates in Switzerland and France that I listen to a lot, AFAIK there is nothing of the sort locally since Jazz FM became Smooth FM.
96k? There seems to be a huge gulf between commercial stations broadcasting at 32kbps (mostly WMA) and non-commercial ones at 128kbps (MP3) among the one's I've listened to.
Even the bad programmers in India are getting expensive now, once you take into account the management structure on both sides of the pond that is required for managing outsourcing effectively, staff turnover and other hidden costs.
I imagine that cases will be taken on contingency that wouldn't be touched before.
This is just costs. No damages. I can't see any lawyer being prepared to take a case on contingency if the expected outcomes are either winning and being paid what they should be due, or losing and being paid nothing. They are only going to take cases on contingency where there is a chance of making much more than their costs.
This is why companies usually have a vetting process for any updates that are released and why no person should download an update for a week or more for these issues to be brought up and found/fixed.
The problem in this case is that those companies with good vetting processes won't be touching Vista with a bargepole until SP1 is out, so finding problems is left to Joe Sixpack who bought a new PC from Walmart without any clue of what was preloaded.
His pronunciation is, of course, with a strong Australian accent which (no offense to Aussies out there), will make them difficult to understand for other English speakers.
Are you suggesting that only Estuary English speakers are qualified to teach ESL? Or do you have a different "standard" in mind?
A secondary concern is servers that accept image uploads.
I think you need to qualify that a bit more. The vast majority of server applications that accept image uploads treat the image as a stream of bytes that they save to a file or database. To be vulnerable, they have to actually decode the image using the vulnerable parser, which is not a trivial thing to do unknowingly on a headless server.
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iPhone patches will be delivered automatically through iTunes, the same way iPod ones are. So while you won't get them OTA, it is still better than most cellphones which require you to go out and find patch installers, and in some cases these can only be obtained from official servicing agents, not over the web.
References? The only grumblings I can see in the GCC mailing lists are about the version number change that accompanies the GPLv3 upgrade. A few developers feel that a license change is not a new feature so the first GPL version should be 4.2.2, not 4.3. And one developer who complains that not allowing backported patches to stay under GPLv2 will be a burdon to companies offering support for older versions (eg Novell, Xandros and Linspire).
My guess is that they don't intend to sue anyone, they are just using FUD to try to limit the damage Linux is doing to Windows sales to the least profitable area of business - the home desktop. Developers, business users and server usage are all excluded from their patent promises, as is Free distribution via the GPL, something that threatens their business model at its core.
You don't have 11R7.2 yet?
Not that it makes a difference to your point, but the whole autism/MMR scare was not about individual parents noticing their children were autistic after the vaccination, it was about the fact that the recorded rates of autism started increasing about the same time that the MMR vaccine started being given to children. It was also disproven by the same method; Japan stopped giving MMR a couple of years after they had started, due to a problem with the mumps vaccine they were using (Europe and North America were using a different vaccine). But their recorded autism rate continued to grow in line with other industrialised countries.
There was another alarmist report recently (in the last month), but the report itself stated that the recent sudden rise in autism rates was due to reinterpretation of the statistics, which seemed to invalidate the report's conclusion that MMR was somehow involved. It turned out the report's authors were involved in the original discredited research.
If you think the changes in Vista are just eye-candy, you are sadly mistaken. There are a huge number of new incompatibilities in the new version, hidden by compatibility mode hacks, which get triggered by filename matching, thus ensuring that third party programs will be forever crippled by compatibility mode.
Before going out and expanding your laptop with cheap and plentiful PCMCIA cards, check if it isn't actually an ExpressCard slot, a non-backwards compatible slot with almost no cards available for it that most manufacturers have been fitting for the last couple of years.
It's not necessarily a good thing having a Government committee specify these things rather than leaving it to the public's common understanding of that term (which can evolve over time) and having BBB or advertising watchdogs consider each complaint on a case by case basis.
In New Zealand, the government mandated that broadband "must be at least 256kbps download and 128kbps upload". The local phone monopoly then interpreted it so that the "at least" only applied to the download speeds, and for a long time refused to offer upload speeds greater than 128kbps on the basis that the government had banned them from doing so. And because they own the lines, other ISPs can't offer anything different than what they're selling wholesale. Even now that their interpretation has been corrected, 128kbps uploads has become so entrenched that only the expensive high end options have anything better.
I bet the users are not even bitching about it not being as capable. They're probably bitching about how their employer doesn't value them enough to spend money on an office suite. Such is office politics.
Another possible reason why they can't measure the costs is that the CIO is an ex-MS salesman, and thus incapable of measuring the cost of anything non-Microsoft.
I don't think consistency across versions is something that .pub files are known for. From what I've heard, you're lucky if your previous documents will even load when you upgrade MS Publisher. As for platforms, is there more than one choice? But desktop publishing is a different application than general word processing.
With Nokia already backing Maemo based on GTK, and Trolltech's Qtopia based on Qt, what perceived need did Intel have for starting a new project to develop a mobile UI rather than joining an existing effort? Vendor specific fragmentation is just going to result in duplicated effort.
Lowering bitrates is more than annoying, it makes the station unlistenable, and I'll find another one that plays the same type of music. Playing jingles over the song is annoying if its in the middle of the song, but if its over the fadeout, I don't mind, nor do I mind crossfading. At least these measures are compatible with the growing number of hardware devices that can be used to listen to internet radio, unlike some of the other copy-protection or banner-ad-enforcement schemes that internet radio stations are starting to use.
Actually, I use one of these. Same form factor and user interface, but with the global choice of stations that internet radio has over standard AM/FM broadcast. There are some very good Jazz stations with good bitrates in Switzerland and France that I listen to a lot, AFAIK there is nothing of the sort locally since Jazz FM became Smooth FM.
96k? There seems to be a huge gulf between commercial stations broadcasting at 32kbps (mostly WMA) and non-commercial ones at 128kbps (MP3) among the one's I've listened to.
Even the bad programmers in India are getting expensive now, once you take into account the management structure on both sides of the pond that is required for managing outsourcing effectively, staff turnover and other hidden costs.
This is just costs. No damages. I can't see any lawyer being prepared to take a case on contingency if the expected outcomes are either winning and being paid what they should be due, or losing and being paid nothing. They are only going to take cases on contingency where there is a chance of making much more than their costs.
I wouldn't call Linus a hack, but I would call him a hacker.
Only distributors can trigger those clauses, since whole point is that the DRM prevents the end user from installing software of their own choice.
The problem in this case is that those companies with good vetting processes won't be touching Vista with a bargepole until SP1 is out, so finding problems is left to Joe Sixpack who bought a new PC from Walmart without any clue of what was preloaded.
Who gets to define what a neutral accent is? How strong an accent is, is relative to the viewpoint of the listener.
Are you suggesting that only Estuary English speakers are qualified to teach ESL? Or do you have a different "standard" in mind?
Why they had to go and introduce new non-POSIX functions when strncpy already did the job, I don't know.
I think you need to qualify that a bit more. The vast majority of server applications that accept image uploads treat the image as a stream of bytes that they save to a file or database. To be vulnerable, they have to actually decode the image using the vulnerable parser, which is not a trivial thing to do unknowingly on a headless server.