Very true, but Apple is a hardware company first and foremost (and most people feel that it's their strongest area). You can't buy a Mac and expect to slap in the latest nVidia and have it work out of the box. Hopefully this changes as time goes on.
Fink fink and more fink. Check out the Fink Project if you haven't already. It will allow you almost all the flexibility you need from point #2. The only real setback is that you can't boot into KDE or Gnome, but you can run it in an X window.
I'm with you here - OS X security and a Unix core brought me to Apple, and their response to a real issue pissed me off. Again, as market share grows, let's hope this trend reverses.
Fink again, if you don't want to go the VM route. Also, Eclipse is most certainly available in OS X (use it daily).
You're right, this is a preference thing. I spent my entire life on Windows and Linux, hating Apple. Then 10.2 came out, and I couldn't imagine working as productively in another environment again. It's a mind shift away from Linux DMs, and if that flexibility is necessary, you'll find OS X a pain to work around.
They do not want that! It's the same as opening and releasing Mac OS X to the masses of beige-boxes You have to be kidding!
No, it's not at all the same. Opening up a smartphone to 3rd parties is the same as allowing 3rd party applications on OS X. By your logic, I shouldn't be able to do that because then I might ruin the great user experience. Oh wait, except I can. Additionally, since I can download apps for Palm and Windows Mobile freely, why shouldn't I be able to for the iPhone?
but they will control the install process, maybe through iTunes such as the games on the iPod WTH? An instant revenue stream for AAPL is a feature to you? If I told you that you were only able to download apps for Windows from Microsoft, would you buy it?
On another note, I think the open source community needs to take a page from this What, distribution through iTunes? Locked-down, vendor controlled development? Inability to develop independent 3rd party software? What part of this pertains at all to OSS? The fact that both are software?
I noticed that my computer had the wrong GMT time, and that's when I saw that my RAM memory was affected when my binary blob had an exploit! On top of that, the Department of Redundancy Department said my LCD display was fried! I had to use the ATM machine to get out $1000 USD to fix it, but I forgot my PIN number!!! If only I had done better on the SAT test...
It may hold no water on technical details, but it certainly holds water if the mere act of unencrypting DRM is illegal, which I think is the point the grandparent was trying to make...
Eh, except he was talking about Ireland regarding their 1801 Act of Union, not the US. Points, however, for knowing that the US constitution didn't actually take effect until 1789. Most people seem to only remember 1776 in their heads for all things constitutional.
Citizen-to-Citizen affords no legal recourse for First Amendment. I can block what you say all day long and as long as I don't break any other laws in the process (threat/intimidation, trespassing, etc), you can't do anything. The First Amendment exists as a right that the Government or other state-run agency cannot breach. This is the reason library content-filtering is highly contested whereas your employer content-filtering is annoying, but legal.
Additionally, these fears really are unfounded as these specialized services are almost assured to only be available to the new FiOS customers as they roll out. If I'm verizon, am I going to throttle a 1.5mbps dsl line to squeeze more bandwidth out of my giant 30mbps+ fiber pipe? doubtful.
I'm a huge supporter of Google News, but keep in mind that newspapers pay top dollar to syndicate UPI, AP, and Reuters - costs that Google doesn't incur. But, considering the aggregation side of what Google does, I think it's completely within fair use. If they started charging to view the aggregate feeds, or hosted the full text of the articles without permission, that would be a much different story.
You mean, the difference in R&D $ between Intel and IBM? IBM had to keep the PPC performance inline or better than Intel offerings or their server lines would die. That was then. Remember, PPC was designed by IBM, manufactured by Moto, and as one of the many products that used the chips, implemented in PowerMacs.
Not to argue semantics, but that *is* the definition of a worm. A worm requires no user interaction and it self-propagates, while a virus requires that the user do something (open attachment, click on shiny objects, run "awesome" screensavers, etc).
Keys and passwords can be obtained during discovery, and failure to provide them is the same in the eyes of the law as not providing keys to your premises; you can be found in contempt for such. Why on earth did the court rule that the mere existence on this criminal's systems constituted criminal action?* Why didn't they ask for keys as part of the trial and find out what he had encrypted? All this does is punish us in the tech world by alluding to the use of cryptography as a criminal action.
*And yes, this guy certainly deserves what he had coming, but don't punish me for his actions...
Why did this get modded down? The parent is 100% correct on this. When IT dev costs are at an all-time high and most projects go over in time and money, existing apps aren't going to be rewritten unless they really have to. If a company has already dumped $1M into their java, VB, COBOL, ActiveX, or whatever codebase, they aren't going to rewrite the same apps unless support is dropped or costs are too high. End of story.
SonicFoundry Acid's community site back around 2000-2001 had contests where artists like Beck would post samples from the studio for incorporation into the "best" community compositions. Granted, the name recognition of Trent and NiN is a bit greater than Beck. Also, you could do this for free (not Free) using the community version of Acid. Excellent that Trent is dishing out to the Garageband fans, though, and I hope to see more musicians doing the same.
Because the shn format was created out of necessity in around 1998 to help transmit the files more efficiently. IIRC, flac is still rather new to the scene, circa 2001 or so. Basically, they already have terabytes of shows in shn and a network of people who trade shn, so there isn't a good reason to switch that.
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I noticed that my computer had the wrong GMT time, and that's when I saw that my RAM memory was affected when my binary blob had an exploit! On top of that, the Department of Redundancy Department said my LCD display was fried!
I had to use the ATM machine to get out $1000 USD to fix it, but I forgot my PIN number!!! If only I had done better on the SAT test...
Good god, what ISP do you have? That's awfully fast turn around from an ISP to pull access.
What a sad state of affairs when the only memory most kids have of Nibbles is from their cell phones rather than qbasic... Gorilla, however, owns all!
It may hold no water on technical details, but it certainly holds water if the mere act of unencrypting DRM is illegal, which I think is the point the grandparent was trying to make...
Eh, except he was talking about Ireland regarding their 1801 Act of Union, not the US. Points, however, for knowing that the US constitution didn't actually take effect until 1789. Most people seem to only remember 1776 in their heads for all things constitutional.
Citizen-to-Citizen affords no legal recourse for First Amendment. I can block what you say all day long and as long as I don't break any other laws in the process (threat/intimidation, trespassing, etc), you can't do anything. The First Amendment exists as a right that the Government or other state-run agency cannot breach.
This is the reason library content-filtering is highly contested whereas your employer content-filtering is annoying, but legal.
Additionally, these fears really are unfounded as these specialized services are almost assured to only be available to the new FiOS customers as they roll out. If I'm verizon, am I going to throttle a 1.5mbps dsl line to squeeze more bandwidth out of my giant 30mbps+ fiber pipe? doubtful.
which is exactly what I am stating. I am making the argument that syndication is much different from aggregation.
I'm a huge supporter of Google News, but keep in mind that newspapers pay top dollar to syndicate UPI, AP, and Reuters - costs that Google doesn't incur. But, considering the aggregation side of what Google does, I think it's completely within fair use. If they started charging to view the aggregate feeds, or hosted the full text of the articles without permission, that would be a much different story.
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You mean, the difference in R&D $ between Intel and IBM? IBM had to keep the PPC performance inline or better than Intel offerings or their server lines would die. That was then.
Remember, PPC was designed by IBM, manufactured by Moto, and as one of the many products that used the chips, implemented in PowerMacs.
Not to argue semantics, but that *is* the definition of a worm. A worm requires no user interaction and it self-propagates, while a virus requires that the user do something (open attachment, click on shiny objects, run "awesome" screensavers, etc).
"we're like the Microsoft of healthcare IT, basically" Ahh, the true quote of someone who works for Cerner.
Keys and passwords can be obtained during discovery, and failure to provide them is the same in the eyes of the law as not providing keys to your premises; you can be found in contempt for such.
Why on earth did the court rule that the mere existence on this criminal's systems constituted criminal action?* Why didn't they ask for keys as part of the trial and find out what he had encrypted? All this does is punish us in the tech world by alluding to the use of cryptography as a criminal action.
*And yes, this guy certainly deserves what he had coming, but don't punish me for his actions...
And, if you were to finish the sentence you quoted from, he said just that...
Name one general purpose device that actually has ever caught on, aside from the PC.
Add to this list Dell and HP/Compaq, and, depending on your definition of quality, Gateway.
Why did this get modded down?
The parent is 100% correct on this. When IT dev costs are at an all-time high and most projects go over in time and money, existing apps aren't going to be rewritten unless they really have to. If a company has already dumped $1M into their java, VB, COBOL, ActiveX, or whatever codebase, they aren't going to rewrite the same apps unless support is dropped or costs are too high. End of story.
SonicFoundry Acid's community site back around 2000-2001 had contests where artists like Beck would post samples from the studio for incorporation into the "best" community compositions. Granted, the name recognition of Trent and NiN is a bit greater than Beck. Also, you could do this for free (not Free) using the community version of Acid.
Excellent that Trent is dishing out to the Garageband fans, though, and I hope to see more musicians doing the same.
Radio Free Asia, Portugal Telecom and the Rand Corporation
Wow, that's about the craziest threesome I've ever heard of!
I stand corrected. Further answers the question as to why flac hasn't replaced it: it has a long history in the community.
Because the shn format was created out of necessity in around 1998 to help transmit the files more efficiently. IIRC, flac is still rather new to the scene, circa 2001 or so. Basically, they already have terabytes of shows in shn and a network of people who trade shn, so there isn't a good reason to switch that.
Haha, I was expecting someone to mis-mod as informative, but troll? I guess the sarcasm filter must be on...
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