Access owned PalmOS, and in fact PalmOS was killed in late 2005 when Access ceased development and moved to the Linux-based ALP (Access Linux Platform).
This announcement is actually just Palm admitting that they can't afford to release any more hardware that uses an OS that's been dead for nearly 4 years.
The purpose of Wikipedia isn't to satisfy someone's vanity by calling them what they wish to be called. Millions of people might read an article about person X, but person X is at most just one of those people. What matters is picking a name that allows those millions of people to find the article they want. So the fact that there is a law in the UK allowing people to call themselves whatever they want is completely irrelevant (except if the article wishes to talk about the person's preferred name).
This doesn't seem to be the way Wikipedia actually works. For example, the article on CmdrTaco lists his name as Rob Malda, even though I bet more people know him as CmdrTaco. Similarly, the article on the Unabomber lists him as Theodore Kaczynski.
And conversely, the article on Elton John lists him by that name, rather than his legal name. Ditto the articles on Paul Merton and David Walliams.
What you say is true in general; however, in the specific case of a person's name, it is often the case that that person *is* the definitive source.
For example, under UK common law, your name is what you say it is, not what anyone else thinks it ought to be. You can literally go by any name you like, so long as you don't do so for deceptive purposes.
Zeroconf (a) assigns DNS names, not just IP addresses; (b) doesn't require a central server; (c) works across wide area networks, not just locally; (d) doesn't require any machine to have configured knowledge of any other; (e) supports service discovery, not just IP address discovery; (f) supports multicast.
With IPv6 and zeroconf, DHCP is pretty much obsolete.
ZeroConf is absolutely research. It involved Stuart Cheshire coming up with a bunch of totally new ways to leverage DNS to provide dynamically self-configuring networks.
SmartSuite will not be open-sourced because (a) IBM doesn't own all the code in it, (b) there's zero market demand for it, (c) IBM's push is towards open standards and ODF via OpenOffice and Symphony, and (d) there's no money in it.
It wouldn't take much more than a unified package format. (Linux has several, and they all work well, so there are working models). Providers would package their updates, sign them and upload them to the distribution channel.
Hahaha! Yeah, right.
Linux has a standard package distribution channel. I've never seen a commercial Linux product that actually uses it.
What can the RIAA do to reduce illegal downloading? Simple, reduce prices.
I went CD shopping this weekend. Everything I was interested in was $16.99 or more, except for one independent label release that was 'only' $12. Guess what I came home with?
$9.99 for downloads is somewhat expensive too, especially when they're not FLAC or 320kbps MP3, or even lame --preset standard. I've bought several albums at $5 or so, though.
When you drag a folder from the file manager to the desktop you get a little menu asking if you want an icon or a FolderView.
With no explanation of what the difference is, or why you should care.
The fact that you can have two objects on the desktop which look exactly the same, have the same properties (as per properties dialog), but are two different kinds of object, is a UI disaster. But not one the KDE developers care about.
Not the developers; the users of GCC benefit (are "fed") by the availability of plugins, proprietary or no.
That's your opinion. Speaking as a user of GCC (and Linux, I don't want to see either project make it easy for proprietary blobs of code to become a critical part of using them.
It's probably because of the pain of maintaining proprietary drivers that we ended up with open video hardware drivers from VIA and ATI. That has benefited me more than the minor pain of dealing with proprietary driver installation for a few years.
Furthermore, my observation--again, as a user--is that open source drivers are less buggy and less likely to crash your system.
The market is clearly choosing Linux over OpenSolaris. One way to combat that would be to make OpenSolaris GPL3. It would then attract open source developers, and have the bonus of ZFS support which Linux will continue to lack.
Yeah, the lack of SVG support mystifies me. It's particularly annoying that I can't draw diagrams in a decent program (Inkscape) and import them, but instead have to try and use the retarded drawing tools in OpenOffice.
But the thing I really hope they'll fix is the inability to change the date format. (Or to express it another way, the inability to use the same damn date format that's set in the OS settings.) Apparently way back in the mists of time some crack-smoking monkey decided that OpenOffice should have its own locale system, totally disconnected from any OS internationalization settings.
When the Obama canvassers visited us, I mentioned that we lost our enthusiasm after the wiretapping vote. They sighed, and said they were hearing that a lot. I hope that the message got through to Obama, and I think that the Biden pick was part of his response, as Biden was one of the few to oppose the immunity, as well as opposing a lot of other stuff the telecoms companies wanted over the years.
The problem is, you'd have to cut your prices dramatically, because you'd be eliminating the second hand resale market. Most game manufacturers aren't willing to do that.
It doesn't matter where you do business and earn money; if you're a US taxpayer, you are legally required to report the income, including all money earned overseas, and pay tax on it. I know this for a fact because I had overseas income for several years. So there's no benefit to tax havens if you obey the law and pay your taxes.
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First off, Palm don't own PalmOS. It's owned by Access, who bought PalmSource.
Secondly, PalmOS's plug was pulled back in 2005, when Access announced no further development work would be done on it.
Thirdly, Palm didn't *decide* to pull the plug; their license from Access to ship new PalmOS devices expired, so they have no choice.
I wrote about all this back in 2005 when the news went around. I guess everyone's forgotten.
You're half there.
Access owned PalmOS, and in fact PalmOS was killed in late 2005 when Access ceased development and moved to the Linux-based ALP (Access Linux Platform).
This announcement is actually just Palm admitting that they can't afford to release any more hardware that uses an OS that's been dead for nearly 4 years.
You mean it corrupts floppy disks at random and disables mouse acceleration curves?
And of course, this was the same Gassée who told Jobs that there was no need to license MacOS to Sony and Philips.
Also the same Gassée who designed the original hysterically bad Macintosh Portable.
He's got quite a history of EPIC FAIL.
This doesn't seem to be the way Wikipedia actually works. For example, the article on CmdrTaco lists his name as Rob Malda, even though I bet more people know him as CmdrTaco. Similarly, the article on the Unabomber lists him as Theodore Kaczynski.
And conversely, the article on Elton John lists him by that name, rather than his legal name. Ditto the articles on Paul Merton and David Walliams.
What you say is true in general; however, in the specific case of a person's name, it is often the case that that person *is* the definitive source.
For example, under UK common law, your name is what you say it is, not what anyone else thinks it ought to be. You can literally go by any name you like, so long as you don't do so for deceptive purposes.
Zeroconf (a) assigns DNS names, not just IP addresses; (b) doesn't require a central server; (c) works across wide area networks, not just locally; (d) doesn't require any machine to have configured knowledge of any other; (e) supports service discovery, not just IP address discovery; (f) supports multicast.
With IPv6 and zeroconf, DHCP is pretty much obsolete.
ZeroConf is absolutely research. It involved Stuart Cheshire coming up with a bunch of totally new ways to leverage DNS to provide dynamically self-configuring networks.
Just like today, you mean?
Maybe with an automatic memory management system. In fact, maybe one would use a language that doesn't have pointers that can dangle.
SmartSuite will not be open-sourced because (a) IBM doesn't own all the code in it, (b) there's zero market demand for it, (c) IBM's push is towards open standards and ODF via OpenOffice and Symphony, and (d) there's no money in it.
It's dead, Jim. Switch to OpenOffice or Symphony.
[Opinions mine, not IBM's.]
Same here.
Hahaha! Yeah, right. Linux has a standard package distribution channel. I've never seen a commercial Linux product that actually uses it.
I don't have any kind of .NET installed, and didn't get this update.
So I guess the moral of the story is to avoid .NET like the cancer that it is, even on Windows.
What can the RIAA do to reduce illegal downloading? Simple, reduce prices.
I went CD shopping this weekend. Everything I was interested in was $16.99 or more, except for one independent label release that was 'only' $12. Guess what I came home with?
$9.99 for downloads is somewhat expensive too, especially when they're not FLAC or 320kbps MP3, or even lame --preset standard. I've bought several albums at $5 or so, though.
With no explanation of what the difference is, or why you should care.
The fact that you can have two objects on the desktop which look exactly the same, have the same properties (as per properties dialog), but are two different kinds of object, is a UI disaster. But not one the KDE developers care about.
That's your opinion. Speaking as a user of GCC (and Linux, I don't want to see either project make it easy for proprietary blobs of code to become a critical part of using them.
It's probably because of the pain of maintaining proprietary drivers that we ended up with open video hardware drivers from VIA and ATI. That has benefited me more than the minor pain of dealing with proprietary driver installation for a few years.
Furthermore, my observation--again, as a user--is that open source drivers are less buggy and less likely to crash your system.
The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL, which means that lots of free software code can't be used to improve OpenSolaris.
The market is clearly choosing Linux over OpenSolaris. One way to combat that would be to make OpenSolaris GPL3. It would then attract open source developers, and have the bonus of ZFS support which Linux will continue to lack.
Yeah, the lack of SVG support mystifies me. It's particularly annoying that I can't draw diagrams in a decent program (Inkscape) and import them, but instead have to try and use the retarded drawing tools in OpenOffice.
But the thing I really hope they'll fix is the inability to change the date format. (Or to express it another way, the inability to use the same damn date format that's set in the OS settings.) Apparently way back in the mists of time some crack-smoking monkey decided that OpenOffice should have its own locale system, totally disconnected from any OS internationalization settings.
When the Obama canvassers visited us, I mentioned that we lost our enthusiasm after the wiretapping vote. They sighed, and said they were hearing that a lot. I hope that the message got through to Obama, and I think that the Biden pick was part of his response, as Biden was one of the few to oppose the immunity, as well as opposing a lot of other stuff the telecoms companies wanted over the years.
Clearly you don't use Azureus.
My VIA M10000 system has been solid as a rock. Uptimes in months, even when pushed to the limit with 20+ BitTorrent sessions.
The problem is, you'd have to cut your prices dramatically, because you'd be eliminating the second hand resale market. Most game manufacturers aren't willing to do that.
It doesn't matter where you do business and earn money; if you're a US taxpayer, you are legally required to report the income, including all money earned overseas, and pay tax on it. I know this for a fact because I had overseas income for several years. So there's no benefit to tax havens if you obey the law and pay your taxes.