Does anyone have any doubt that this is going to happen? Instead of being able to purchase a copy and run it on my computer I'll end up downloading a cracked pirate copy and running that.
I can't help but wonder if Apple is throwing away potential customers by not allowing everyone to run OS X. Sure, they're primarily a hardware company, but I don't think it would be difficult for them to transition to a software company... they've certainly got the software to compete with anybody. And software has higher profit margins.
At the risk of turning this into a CMS flamefest, you should check out Drupal (http://drupal.org/). Not only is it a top-of-the-line Open Source CMS, but customizing it and creating your own modules is more straight-forward and more powerful than with Mambo. Mambo gives you a better package out of the box, though, as long as you're trying to build a site that it comes pre-configured to handle.
Drupal is the base for spreadfirefox.com as well as many other sites. It's a great base from which to build many things.
And while we're on the subject, no discussion about OSS CMS is complete without mentioning Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com/). It's extremely powerful and entirely too complex for most people. If you want ultimate flexibility and are willing to work, Typo3 is probably the best solution around. Just be prepared to spend a couple months learning how to make it do what you want.
Yeah but that was Core's big Linux push. A lot of stores near me were selling Corel Linux and related software, but as soon as it became obvious that Corel wasn't going to make them money, they dropped those products.
I took my wife and kid to see Madagascar last weekend. Tickets for the three of us was $28 and one medium popcorn and one medium pop was $10.
While I think $28 for two adults and one kid is too high, I'm willing to pay it every once and a while. It's when I'm paying $10 for a popcorn and a drink that cost the theatre less than 20 cents that I get really ticked off.
"They're making copying their CD a matter of circumventing an encryption device which is a felony under the DMCA."
If you use the workaround they email you, that's not circumventing copy protection. If the workaround is, as I suspect, removing the automatically-installed software then even if you figure that out on your own it's not circumventing the copy protection.
Microsoft sees itself running out of runway. It's hard to grow when your market penetration is as high as theirs is. They basically rely on new computer users to help them grow as convincing old customers to upgrade only maintains their last financial position.
They have the ability to enter many other markets all at once, so that's what they're doing hoping they'll stick in a few places. Music is an easy one. This P2P app is also easy because they can include it with Longhorn, release their own patches with it and force partners to use it. Image editing is less likely. They've already been reasonably successful with their Media PC.
You'll likely see them enter a few other new markets this year and next, but they will fail in all but a couple.
Unless I'm mistaken, PAR doesn't reconstruct files out of thin air or some crazy algorithm. Bits from all files being sent are passed around in other files, so with enough other files you can reconstruct a missing file. This is valuable on Usenet binary groups where files are often missing, but is not so valuable for BT where files are authenticated.
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OpenOffice 2.0 is such a killer. 1.0 was good enough for basic needs, but 2.0 really delivers an exceptional product, including a database app to replace Access.
It's funny because everyone's had it happen to them and he's put it into a funny context. It even happens occasionally on Windows XP. It's also funny because automatically rebooting is the default behaviour since Windows 2000 and I can't count the number of times I've been asked to troubleshoot a friend's or family's system that is mysteriously rebooting by itself.
Really, running a server on Fedora Core is probably a mistake to begin with. Not just because of stability (which is usually ok), but because of update end of life and lack of an upgrade path.
Fedora won't get official security updates for long after the next version comes out and you're reliant on the Fedora Legacy project to do that for you.
IMO, this is why distros such as Debian shine on the server. With a long release cycle (no jokes, please) and official updates and upgrade paths, it allows you to run a server from now until eternity without requiring a re-install of the OS for anything.
My four year old son has seen Sith and liked it, but it's not his favourite (Empire... is his fav).
Children of that age aren't really aware of the outcome of violence. To him, Obi-Wan beat Anakin and Anakin got really hurt and had to be put in a special suit. He has no concept of being burned alive, so it wasn't traumatic for him.
I think the movie is much worse for slightly older children, especially those who understand the implied violence such as when Anakin killed the younglings. That flew right over my son's head.
"What? Users like fast systems? What a breakthrough study!"
No, it turns out that users actually prefer trading off calculation speed for a quicker GUI. So even if doing a major spreadsheet export takes a few seconds longer, it's the speed of the menu, resizing windows, etc that makes a difference to them.
I still don't understand why Apple users care so much about which processor is in their system. Maybe it's because they spent so long trying to trick the world into thinking PPCs were better and now they are forced to either admit Apple is making a big mistake or they were wrong all along.
News flash: Intel Apples will be faster than any G5. With dual core desktop chips they will also be able to multitask better than a dual G5 at a lower cost.
In that case this becomes nearly useless as an exploit. It's only good if the attacker can trick you into thinking you're at a site you want to input sensitive information on. If you're willing to type your bank login info in a popup window, you're going to get phished anyway.
There is no reason why this data needs to be shipped together. Citigroup should keep social security numbers serparate from names, separate from account history, separate from address, etc. All this can be assembled when needed and it would make it much harder to steal useful data or for a criminal to make use of any lost tapes.
" Was there any indication that Apple had a development team working on OS X for Intel?"
Yes, it's called Darwin and has been available for x86 for as long as OS X has been around. Nobody can seriously believe that the existance of Darwin for x86 was just Apple having a little fun with their OS, can they? The only plausible explanation for Darwin is that Apple has been playing around with x86 chips.
You forget that Ubuntu has converted a lot of former Debian users because they have a similar Free Software philosophy to Debian, employ a lot of old Debian programmers and the OS works the same way.
It's also worth noting that people use Ubuntu because it beats the pants off Fedora for ease of use. Gentoo or any other distro-of-the-month never did that, they only offered gimmicks. Simple Debian isn't a gimmick.
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Does anyone have any doubt that this is going to happen? Instead of being able to purchase a copy and run it on my computer I'll end up downloading a cracked pirate copy and running that.
I can't help but wonder if Apple is throwing away potential customers by not allowing everyone to run OS X. Sure, they're primarily a hardware company, but I don't think it would be difficult for them to transition to a software company... they've certainly got the software to compete with anybody. And software has higher profit margins.
That would have been funnier if you double posted it.
"solve the problem by soldering on an additional resistor to adjust the voltage of one of the supply lines to the CPU"
That's not a "kink", that's faulty engineering. A kink would be needing to press the delete key twice to get to the bios config.
And ECS are not great boards in any reasonable use of the phrase.
At the risk of turning this into a CMS flamefest, you should check out Drupal (http://drupal.org/). Not only is it a top-of-the-line Open Source CMS, but customizing it and creating your own modules is more straight-forward and more powerful than with Mambo. Mambo gives you a better package out of the box, though, as long as you're trying to build a site that it comes pre-configured to handle.
Drupal is the base for spreadfirefox.com as well as many other sites. It's a great base from which to build many things.
And while we're on the subject, no discussion about OSS CMS is complete without mentioning Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com/). It's extremely powerful and entirely too complex for most people. If you want ultimate flexibility and are willing to work, Typo3 is probably the best solution around. Just be prepared to spend a couple months learning how to make it do what you want.
Yeah but that was Core's big Linux push. A lot of stores near me were selling Corel Linux and related software, but as soon as it became obvious that Corel wasn't going to make them money, they dropped those products.
I took my wife and kid to see Madagascar last weekend. Tickets for the three of us was $28 and one medium popcorn and one medium pop was $10.
While I think $28 for two adults and one kid is too high, I'm willing to pay it every once and a while. It's when I'm paying $10 for a popcorn and a drink that cost the theatre less than 20 cents that I get really ticked off.
Nice analogy. I'm not sure whom I'm rooting for now.
"They're making copying their CD a matter of circumventing an encryption device which is a felony under the DMCA."
If you use the workaround they email you, that's not circumventing copy protection. If the workaround is, as I suspect, removing the automatically-installed software then even if you figure that out on your own it's not circumventing the copy protection.
Why is segment 499 so scarce? Segments aren't downloaded in order and a proper P2P algorithm will make sure that every piece is available uniformly.
Microsoft sees itself running out of runway. It's hard to grow when your market penetration is as high as theirs is. They basically rely on new computer users to help them grow as convincing old customers to upgrade only maintains their last financial position.
They have the ability to enter many other markets all at once, so that's what they're doing hoping they'll stick in a few places. Music is an easy one. This P2P app is also easy because they can include it with Longhorn, release their own patches with it and force partners to use it. Image editing is less likely. They've already been reasonably successful with their Media PC.
You'll likely see them enter a few other new markets this year and next, but they will fail in all but a couple.
Unless I'm mistaken, PAR doesn't reconstruct files out of thin air or some crazy algorithm. Bits from all files being sent are passed around in other files, so with enough other files you can reconstruct a missing file. This is valuable on Usenet binary groups where files are often missing, but is not so valuable for BT where files are authenticated.
OpenOffice 2.0 is such a killer. 1.0 was good enough for basic needs, but 2.0 really delivers an exceptional product, including a database app to replace Access.
It's funny because everyone's had it happen to them and he's put it into a funny context. It even happens occasionally on Windows XP. It's also funny because automatically rebooting is the default behaviour since Windows 2000 and I can't count the number of times I've been asked to troubleshoot a friend's or family's system that is mysteriously rebooting by itself.
Of course, now that apple flavour will come in oranges, they're both good. A lot of apple eaters are upset about this.
Really, running a server on Fedora Core is probably a mistake to begin with. Not just because of stability (which is usually ok), but because of update end of life and lack of an upgrade path.
Fedora won't get official security updates for long after the next version comes out and you're reliant on the Fedora Legacy project to do that for you.
IMO, this is why distros such as Debian shine on the server. With a long release cycle (no jokes, please) and official updates and upgrade paths, it allows you to run a server from now until eternity without requiring a re-install of the OS for anything.
My four year old son has seen Sith and liked it, but it's not his favourite (Empire... is his fav).
Children of that age aren't really aware of the outcome of violence. To him, Obi-Wan beat Anakin and Anakin got really hurt and had to be put in a special suit. He has no concept of being burned alive, so it wasn't traumatic for him.
I think the movie is much worse for slightly older children, especially those who understand the implied violence such as when Anakin killed the younglings. That flew right over my son's head.
"What? Users like fast systems? What a breakthrough study!"
No, it turns out that users actually prefer trading off calculation speed for a quicker GUI. So even if doing a major spreadsheet export takes a few seconds longer, it's the speed of the menu, resizing windows, etc that makes a difference to them.
I know, just like how GNU/Linux is correct because Linux distros are based on GNU tools. I'm just saying that almost nobody really cares.
The same kind of people care about calling a Mac a 'Mac' as care about calling Linux 'GNU/Linux'.
Either deal with it or become a disreputed asshole about it.
I still don't understand why Apple users care so much about which processor is in their system. Maybe it's because they spent so long trying to trick the world into thinking PPCs were better and now they are forced to either admit Apple is making a big mistake or they were wrong all along.
News flash: Intel Apples will be faster than any G5. With dual core desktop chips they will also be able to multitask better than a dual G5 at a lower cost.
"that Intel plans to launch sometime in the future"
This just in: AMD has plans to launch their dual core desktop chip sometime in the past, thus beating Intel to the punch yet again.
In that case this becomes nearly useless as an exploit. It's only good if the attacker can trick you into thinking you're at a site you want to input sensitive information on. If you're willing to type your bank login info in a popup window, you're going to get phished anyway.
There is no reason why this data needs to be shipped together. Citigroup should keep social security numbers serparate from names, separate from account history, separate from address, etc. All this can be assembled when needed and it would make it much harder to steal useful data or for a criminal to make use of any lost tapes.
" Was there any indication that Apple had a development team working on OS X for Intel?"
Yes, it's called Darwin and has been available for x86 for as long as OS X has been around. Nobody can seriously believe that the existance of Darwin for x86 was just Apple having a little fun with their OS, can they? The only plausible explanation for Darwin is that Apple has been playing around with x86 chips.
You forget that Ubuntu has converted a lot of former Debian users because they have a similar Free Software philosophy to Debian, employ a lot of old Debian programmers and the OS works the same way.
It's also worth noting that people use Ubuntu because it beats the pants off Fedora for ease of use. Gentoo or any other distro-of-the-month never did that, they only offered gimmicks. Simple Debian isn't a gimmick.