That's so right. Usually by the time Loki releases the game it's in the bargain bin at the local big-box store. Very unfortunate for them, because ordering online for full price and waiting for delivery is much less attractive than picking it up for $15 on the way home and rebooting to play it.
It probably isn't the best distribution out there, but it has a lot of advantages. It's the most popular and best supported. It is easy to use and install, and has excellent support available. It comes with everything, but is still reasonably secure out of the box. Plus, it's the one that's easiest to convince management types to allow. I'm not sure how important that is to you, but it could be decisive.
Just be glad that Apple isn't the company doing it. It took them 16 years to get a 32-bit OS after their computers started using 32-bit chips, and they already had 23 years of OS writing experience. Contrast that to Microsoft, which took 6 years with only 14 years of OS experience.
Want innovation? Who do you think has it? Also, one company uses a UNIX based OS; the other at least tried to fix the mistakes of the past, although they did make more in the process of doing so.
All they are doing is trying to eliminate the two latest and nastiest network viruses, sircam and code red. Sircam starts sending stuff on port 25, and code red works by receiving stuff on port 80. I thought people WANTED those two worms squished!
And for anyone complaining, read your TOS first. As several other people have pointed out, it specifically prohibits running servers, and allows this in other ways as well. You're not guaranteed an unbreakable or complete Internet connection for your $35 a month.
So who cares about compression. Personally, I'd much prefer the open and obvious standards of XML to some obfuscated form. Data is confusing enough already; at least XML gives a clear description that I can use with a packet sniffer when trying to debug something.
I know what the GPL says. I'm interested in some clarifications. If I own patents on work that I've GPL'ed, it says that I can't enforce them on that work. I'm unsure how it applies to derivative works, though.
How about this scenario: I obtain a license to a patent with permission to distribute it freely under the GPL for any code that I own. The freedom to redistribute is unlimited, but derivative works would be illegal unless the copyright was assigned to me. How would the FSF interpret the GPL in this case?
The case of post-distribution discovery is also interesting. Since the GPL says no encumbrances are allowed, does the patent invalidate the GPL on that work?
What are the goals of the Free Software Foundation? I've read your published documents, but I wonder, what would be the ideal outcome of events for the FSF.
Would you like to eliminate all proprietary software? Could you live with free and proprietary software, and under what terms? What about protection of ideas, such as copyright and patents; what protections do you think are justified or necessary, and why? What would have to happen for the FSF to say, "We've successfully done our job," and disband and go home/ continue coding/ whatever?
If I had mod points I'd be all over this forum in a second. I don't, but I do have some questions that I've been wondering about for a long time.
What about patents and the GPL? Can I release code under the GPL, but limit distribution by encumbering it with patents? What about if I license patents from someone else; under what conditions can I use them in code that I write and release under the GPL? Finally, what happens to code that I release under the GPL, but later discover infringes on patents belonging to someone else?
I've been wondering about this for a long time, first with gif, then mp3, and now Lineo has apparently licensed a patent for their realtime embedded GNU/Linux OS.
Someone should tell all those idiots out there who pirate Windows 2000 that they should pirate "Windows 2000 Workstation" and not "Windows 2000 Server" because they're all going to get themselves own3d that way.
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Cringely says the other big threat, and the reason they didn't simply email the administrators of all the infected servers, is that most of them are simply run as services by people who don't even suspect they have a web server. I hope every one of you reading this knows whether Apache is running on your box!
Sometimes the cluelessness of people writing software at Microsoft astounds me, but then I look at the cluelessness of the users, and it's even worse. With a combination like that, we're lucky the Internet exists at all anymore.
Perl hasn't a chance. As much as we all love it, it is not up to the task of writing complex programs such as this. The winner will probably be written in LISP, because it is the most popular functional language. The only other possible winners are better functional languages such as Caml or Haskell.
I once had a Mac user pull that one out on me. He said that Macintoshes were better because they were more popular than Windows machines. I tried to defuse him with the "VHS vs. Beta" argument that VHS won the market even though Beta was superior, but he wouldn't budge. I couldn't convince him that PC's were more popular than Macs.
If you have one that works like it's supposed to, please tell me the brand. Mine doesn't adjust properly for being warmed up, and always toasts too lightly if it is hot from previous use. Also, my dryer (supposedly a companion for my washer) fits about 3/4 as much stuff and takes twice as long as my washer. Overall, I'd say Microsoft wins the "works properly" war on that front.
I played a lot of games when I was in school. I still do, actually. Anyway, I can testify (with the benefit of hindsight) that gamers such as myself were much more likely to be jerks than jocks.
Of course, most jocks were jerks also. The difference was they were more attractive to girls.
While this isn't quite as impressive as the combination Windows/ Linux binary viruses that will execute and spread on and across either platform, it is another interesting twist. This one takes over the embedded OS in the Cisco routers and uses them as a platform for invasions of Windows 2000 servers.
How do I become a contractor and get to redistribute these things? Microsoft.us is going to the trademark holder alright, but they're going to pay, and I'm going to include web hosting services on Linux in the deal.
Most of those sites are flashy, ugly and slow loading. The notable exceptions are, as michael says, the ones that don't exist any more. Instead of being flashy, ugly and slow loading, they were flashy, ugly and slow loading.
It gives me a bit of insight into why ecommerce is such a bust. To get exposure, a sight has to be almost unusable. Then it hurts in the pocketbook to maintain it, and customers won't touch it.
It says "Linux-like" and "Linux compatible", and it has a penguin on the top of the page. My guess is it is not Linux, and they are trying to pawn off their proprietary clone onto the people who like Linux.
Perhaps if instead of emailing these cannibalistic lawyers who just want to eat people, we could email their clients and let them know how unhappy we are that they have chosen such a tyrannical firm. I'm sure if it came to dropping their demands or losing one of their real clients, they would make a more sensible choice.
I wonder if this will finally be a fair test of OpenOffice against MS Office? They are both available for Windows platforms also, but there Microsoft has the big advantage of hidden API's and the like.
For OS X, they will both be running natively using only Apple's public API's, and we will get to see how much better OpenOffice is when not running on a crippled MS Windows platform.
He just doesn't get it. The story is complicated, contrived and disjoint. So what? The games are like that. Other anime is like that. That's the way it is supposed to be.
I am sure that I will love this movie, and that 99% of the other people on Slashdot will also. Jon Katz just doesn't understand us.
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That's so right. Usually by the time Loki releases the game it's in the bargain bin at the local big-box store. Very unfortunate for them, because ordering online for full price and waiting for delivery is much less attractive than picking it up for $15 on the way home and rebooting to play it.
It probably isn't the best distribution out there, but it has a lot of advantages. It's the most popular and best supported. It is easy to use and install, and has excellent support available. It comes with everything, but is still reasonably secure out of the box. Plus, it's the one that's easiest to convince management types to allow. I'm not sure how important that is to you, but it could be decisive.
Looks like they're doing all their backend development in Java, and Linux is just a common and low cost platform to run it on.
Want innovation? Who do you think has it? Also, one company uses a UNIX based OS; the other at least tried to fix the mistakes of the past, although they did make more in the process of doing so.
And for anyone complaining, read your TOS first. As several other people have pointed out, it specifically prohibits running servers, and allows this in other ways as well. You're not guaranteed an unbreakable or complete Internet connection for your $35 a month.
So who cares about compression. Personally, I'd much prefer the open and obvious standards of XML to some obfuscated form. Data is confusing enough already; at least XML gives a clear description that I can use with a packet sniffer when trying to debug something.
How about this scenario: I obtain a license to a patent with permission to distribute it freely under the GPL for any code that I own. The freedom to redistribute is unlimited, but derivative works would be illegal unless the copyright was assigned to me. How would the FSF interpret the GPL in this case?
The case of post-distribution discovery is also interesting. Since the GPL says no encumbrances are allowed, does the patent invalidate the GPL on that work?
Would you like to eliminate all proprietary software? Could you live with free and proprietary software, and under what terms? What about protection of ideas, such as copyright and patents; what protections do you think are justified or necessary, and why? What would have to happen for the FSF to say, "We've successfully done our job," and disband and go home/ continue coding/ whatever?
What about patents and the GPL? Can I release code under the GPL, but limit distribution by encumbering it with patents? What about if I license patents from someone else; under what conditions can I use them in code that I write and release under the GPL? Finally, what happens to code that I release under the GPL, but later discover infringes on patents belonging to someone else?
I've been wondering about this for a long time, first with gif, then mp3, and now Lineo has apparently licensed a patent for their realtime embedded GNU/Linux OS.
Someone should tell all those idiots out there who pirate Windows 2000 that they should pirate "Windows 2000 Workstation" and not "Windows 2000 Server" because they're all going to get themselves own3d that way.
I'm one of those Mac lovers!
Sometimes the cluelessness of people writing software at Microsoft astounds me, but then I look at the cluelessness of the users, and it's even worse. With a combination like that, we're lucky the Internet exists at all anymore.
The quintessential tome for computer beginners, and a historical reference, too boot.
Perl hasn't a chance. As much as we all love it, it is not up to the task of writing complex programs such as this. The winner will probably be written in LISP, because it is the most popular functional language. The only other possible winners are better functional languages such as Caml or Haskell.
I once had a Mac user pull that one out on me. He said that Macintoshes were better because they were more popular than Windows machines. I tried to defuse him with the "VHS vs. Beta" argument that VHS won the market even though Beta was superior, but he wouldn't budge. I couldn't convince him that PC's were more popular than Macs.
If you have one that works like it's supposed to, please tell me the brand. Mine doesn't adjust properly for being warmed up, and always toasts too lightly if it is hot from previous use. Also, my dryer (supposedly a companion for my washer) fits about 3/4 as much stuff and takes twice as long as my washer. Overall, I'd say Microsoft wins the "works properly" war on that front.
Of course, most jocks were jerks also. The difference was they were more attractive to girls.
While this isn't quite as impressive as the combination Windows/ Linux binary viruses that will execute and spread on and across either platform, it is another interesting twist. This one takes over the embedded OS in the Cisco routers and uses them as a platform for invasions of Windows 2000 servers.
How do I become a contractor and get to redistribute these things? Microsoft.us is going to the trademark holder alright, but they're going to pay, and I'm going to include web hosting services on Linux in the deal.
It gives me a bit of insight into why ecommerce is such a bust. To get exposure, a sight has to be almost unusable. Then it hurts in the pocketbook to maintain it, and customers won't touch it.
It says "Linux-like" and "Linux compatible", and it has a penguin on the top of the page. My guess is it is not Linux, and they are trying to pawn off their proprietary clone onto the people who like Linux.
Linux is cheap and works so well that I often try to buy inexepensive hardware to go with it. Usually works, sometimes doesn't. Them's the breaks.
Perhaps if instead of emailing these cannibalistic lawyers who just want to eat people, we could email their clients and let them know how unhappy we are that they have chosen such a tyrannical firm. I'm sure if it came to dropping their demands or losing one of their real clients, they would make a more sensible choice.
For OS X, they will both be running natively using only Apple's public API's, and we will get to see how much better OpenOffice is when not running on a crippled MS Windows platform.
I am sure that I will love this movie, and that 99% of the other people on Slashdot will also. Jon Katz just doesn't understand us.