Without a domain to check the SPF record of, the mail would never be delivered. Easy.
On the other hand, it could result in far, far more DNS lookups for an organization, but in theory they would never need more DNS capability then they have mail capability.
If you simply play a nubers game, then "economicaly" you're better off by killing people for being retarded, old, or simply lazy. Basicaly anyone who's a drain on society.
Also, if we whent by pure economics, there would be no reason to prosecute date rape, or even things like Child Molestation and kiddy porn. After all, while those things might affect someone's mental health, they probably won't be too damaging. And hey, with kiddy porn there's a demand for it right...
His only problem right now is that he doesn't have enough hardware to meet customer demand. EV1 has sold out of every dedicated host package they offer.
I admit, I've been looking for hosting packages lately and I checked them out because I'd heard of them. They have pretty good rates, $90 for 700gb/mo. and I'd be tempted if was looking for something in that price range.
B) You have less programs on your machine so less (I did not say none) chance somebody who DOES break into your machine will be able to do any actual damage
If they break into his machine, they'll be able to upload any programs they need. Generaly a hacked machine gives you direct access to memory and CPU first, and a shell from that.
A binary distribution needs to provide a different binary for every possible combination of those, if it's going to allow fine-grained choice around what the Linux system has installed. Either that, or you have to turn off a lot of functionality which could be turned on, in case the dependencies aren't installed.
There are thousands of apache modules out there, but I can get pretty much any combination of them without recompiling. What you're talking about is a design flaw in vim, not a fundemental fact of computing. Look at Emacs with it's LISP based adons. No recompling needed.
My 600mhz Duron pc works fine for the vast majority of things I do with it.
But a faster machine would be nice for some of the programs I do write. One, using Java's JPG decompression for a 'pr0n viewer' I use to help with Autopr0n is pretty slow, and a faster machine would help with that.
And for some of my AI classes, wow. I was craving a massive cluster to do these genetic algorithms.
Granted, most of them are probably not nearly as good. The great thing about VB (or C# these days, why would anyone still use VB?) is the IDE. The ide does most of the real work. What OSS needs is a kickass, easy to use IDE to compete with Visual Studio.
Honestly, VB is dead. Microsoft dosn't even want it anymore (VB.net is a diffrent language, (and far, far superior, btw)).
The question is about easy to use, fun IDEs. And there are a lot of OSS ones out there. Relax.
Licenses could easily make a deal to include the JVM cheap or free I'm sure. If they're charging $50 for a disk, they might as well send a couple dollars Sun's way for including some quality closed source software. Suns philosophy with java is "if you're making money off it, we should be too." Which I think is perfectly reasonable, given the amount of work Sun has put into this product.
It's all the work they did typing out the code that's not. You are free to reimplement Java to spec or not unencumbered with the kinds of patents that protect.NET. Giving away countless hours of work to appease cranks like ESR is not the correct way to 'increase shareholder value'.
I tried using Eclipse and I couldn't stand it. It felt powerful, but the damn autocomplete system didn't work quite right, and it didn't work nearly as well as the system in Jbuilder, so I ended up going back to the old-ass version of Jbuilder I've been working with. I mean, an IDE can have all the features in the world, but if typing code is a pain then forget about it...
They make money selling J2ME licenses for embedded devices like cellphones. If they opened java completely, they would make as much money off that as Linus does on all the embedded linux out there. None.
God what an idiotic article. Lets just look at a few issues, OK?
The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have recently said of Sun Microsystem's strategy "The open-source model is our friend". We're glad to hear that, and Sun's support of OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind the claim. But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy.
Oh, I see. So if you want to be our "Friend" that means you have to move lock-step with us and everything you do must benefit us.
Open Office is a huge boost to the Open Source community. It's one of the most powerful weapons in the "war" against Microsoft that a lot of us seem to be emotionally invested in. It provides a real alternative to MS office and a way for business to move away from windows.
But ESR seems to think that to be a "friend" of the open source movement, everything you do must benefit it. And of course, if you don't, you must be "confused." Apparently ESR views the Open Source community as a sort of single-minded Totalitarian regime lead by him, in which any decent is labeled "confusion."
But the casual equation between "open source" and "zero revenue" suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about. Open source is hardly a zero-revenue model; ask Red Hat, which had a share price over triple Sun's when I just checked. Or ask IBM, which is using Linux as a lever to build a huge systems-integration business in markets like financial services that Sun has historically owned.
Okay, share price. Great. As if that isn't a totally meaningless indicator. Why didn't ESR look at market cap, or revenues? Oh yeah, because then RH wouldn't be "bigger". Ever heard of a stock split? How are shares of the company who's board you're on, VA Software, doing? I see you provided them a lot of good advice.
If Sun were prepared to go all the way with open source it could seize back its position of industry leadership. Sun is one of a small handful of companies that would both have the smarts and the street cred to do even better than IBM has from a full-fledged alliance with the open-source community.
Of course, as we all know, street cred == money. Please. And how does IBM have a "full commitment to open-source."? They still sell proprietary software, along with contributing to OSS last I checked.
when Bill Joy came to a Linux conference to push Jini as a universal network-service protocol, we in the open-source community told him straight up "You can have ubiquity or you can have control. Pick one." He picked control, and Jini failed in its promise. The contrast with NFS could hardly be more stark.
This is the best part. So the OSS community's huge sway with OEMs prevented Jini from being implemented in lots of imbedded hardware. Right. It also prevented OSS's great nemesis from flourishing. Oh wait.
There are a lot of reasons why Jini failed, and anyone claming to know exactly what "went wrong" is out of their mind. It may not have succeeded even if it were an open standard.
Today, the big issue is Java. Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl.
Uh yeah. The vast majority of programmers pick the tool they like, and most people in the OSS community use Python because it's a fun programming language that's easy to write (same with Perl, although I kind of think most people it because 'that's what they know') . Most large OSS projects still use C++, and lots of projects are written in Java. I think the percentage of OSS projects that chose a language based on political issues is pretty damn small. Hell, there are probably
How often do you see new Car companies crop up? Not to often. Other then specialized ultra-luxury, or ultra-performance everything is made by a few companies with several brands.
Tell that to toilet paper makers.
First of all, most toilet paper are part of huge corporations that make lots of different items for use around the house. And if you make too much toilet paper, you can keep it stocked up for years, or decades even, untill you sell it. If you make too many computers, in a few months they'll be worth less then what you paid to make them.
Tell that to punk rockers.
Maybe punk-rock sound all the same to you, but in fact each CD is generally different from the other ones. And people have a pretty easy way of directly measuring the quality of the music before they buy the disk. Unlike PCs who's quality is much more difficult to measure.
The point is that you're doing something *better* than is being done.
Yeah, right. And how is anyone supposed to know that? The only company (eMachines) that actually managed to break into this feild did so by making all their products worse then the rest.
You sell one PC a week. How much profit do you make on each one? How many actual hours do you spend doing "excellent customer support", huh? I doubt you're making much money.
Can you even get a mac with OS 9 on it anymore? If you could, why would yow want to? People who run Mac OSX use their computers as general purpose machines. Do you think they keep an extra windows box around for surfing the web or something? Whatevs.
If you've followed my posts, you'd know that I'm a regular apple basher. But the fact is, Microsoft's security sucks ass. And it needs to be a lot better then Apple's security in practice because so many attacks are targeted towards windows.
Think about it this way. If P(A) is the probability of an attack, and P(S | A) is the probability of an attach succeeding, then P(S|A)/P(A) is the probability of your machine being Ownx0rd. If you are likely to be attacked because of who you are (say yahoo, some bank, etc) then P(A) goes up, but for a regular using, running windows massively increases their chance of being attacked. According to this report, you're 10 times more likely to have a 'security related problem' if you're a collage student running windows. then a collage student running Mac OSX.
In order to be considered equivalent, P(S|A,mac)/P(A|mac) == P(S|A,win)/P(A|win). In other words, the probability of a Mac being attacked and that attack succeding times the probability of a windows box being attacked P(S & A)*P(A|Win).
I use windows, out of laziness. But I know how to keep my box secure. Given the amount of Spy ware on people's machines these days I honestly don't think the average person should be using windows at all
They are using the number of support calls to determine the security of an OS? Maybe the fact that they are using OSX immediately indicates that in many cases they are a more technical user and so are less likely to need support.
What, mac users are more technical now? Dispite OSX's unix core, Apple still appeals to non-techies, and is marketed twards them.
Even if you excluded viruses, there are a lot more 'scripts' for the script kiddies to use against windows. Even if their theoretical security is equal, their practical security is much, much worse.
You need a better lock on your door if you live in the Brox then you do if you live in Ames, IA.
What can the BSD kernal do that the NT kernal can't? AFAIK, the NT kernel is actualy POSIX compliant, or close to it. MacOS 9, on the other hand had a long way to go before it caught up with 'modern' operating systems. It was a good idea for Apple to scrap it. The NT kernel is already competitive with unix, there would be no reason for them to switch over.
You can already run Unix on windows, just get cygwin.
If this tech has already made it to the laptop market, it'll probably be in plenty of much more reasonably priced laptops in a couple years. (as well as stand-alone LCDs for desktops). I wouldn't be surprised if they took the same course as 3d cards... first only for enthusiasts, then high end systems, then ubiquitous.
Maybe we'll finaly be done with CRTs... or maybe someone will figure out how to do this with CRTs as well:P
If you are blind in one eye, then everything seems flat anyway. So there won't be an advantage for you, but for you a monoscopic images is already as good as it gets. You just won't be able to tell the diffrence, that's all. It won't be like a stare-o-gram, which requires sterioscopic vision. But more like those green holograms like you see on a credit card.
This wouldn't be any diffrent then looking at a hologram. And you can also run it in flat mode. Anyway, I've never experianced eye strain looking at a 3d display.
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Without a domain to check the SPF record of, the mail would never be delivered. Easy.
On the other hand, it could result in far, far more DNS lookups for an organization, but in theory they would never need more DNS capability then they have mail capability.
What did you use as a fitness function?
If you simply play a nubers game, then "economicaly" you're better off by killing people for being retarded, old, or simply lazy. Basicaly anyone who's a drain on society.
Also, if we whent by pure economics, there would be no reason to prosecute date rape, or even things like Child Molestation and kiddy porn. After all, while those things might affect someone's mental health, they probably won't be too damaging. And hey, with kiddy porn there's a demand for it right...
His only problem right now is that he doesn't have enough hardware to meet customer demand. EV1 has sold out of every dedicated host package they offer.
I admit, I've been looking for hosting packages lately and I checked them out because I'd heard of them. They have pretty good rates, $90 for 700gb/mo. and I'd be tempted if was looking for something in that price range.
B) You have less programs on your machine so less (I did not say none) chance somebody who DOES break into your machine will be able to do any actual damage
If they break into his machine, they'll be able to upload any programs they need. Generaly a hacked machine gives you direct access to memory and CPU first, and a shell from that.
A binary distribution needs to provide a different binary for every possible combination of those, if it's going to allow fine-grained choice around what the Linux system has installed. Either that, or you have to turn off a lot of functionality which could be turned on, in case the dependencies aren't installed.
There are thousands of apache modules out there, but I can get pretty much any combination of them without recompiling. What you're talking about is a design flaw in vim, not a fundemental fact of computing. Look at Emacs with it's LISP based adons. No recompling needed.
My 600mhz Duron pc works fine for the vast majority of things I do with it.
But a faster machine would be nice for some of the programs I do write. One, using Java's JPG decompression for a 'pr0n viewer' I use to help with Autopr0n is pretty slow, and a faster machine would help with that.
And for some of my AI classes, wow. I was craving a massive cluster to do these genetic algorithms.
He obviously (hic) got drunk after (hic) getting dissed by some chick on Valentines day. Why else would he be posting here today. Ahem. (hic)
I don't think I can fully appreciate this article without the associated mp3 files.
It dosn't matter if it's productive or not, the fact of the matter is, Microsoft is the #1 enemy of the "Open source movment" such that it is.
Why the *hell* is he comparing Red Hat and Sun by *share price*?
Because he's an idiot.
Granted, most of them are probably not nearly as good. The great thing about VB (or C# these days, why would anyone still use VB?) is the IDE. The ide does most of the real work. What OSS needs is a kickass, easy to use IDE to compete with Visual Studio.
Honestly, VB is dead. Microsoft dosn't even want it anymore (VB.net is a diffrent language, (and far, far superior, btw)).
The question is about easy to use, fun IDEs. And there are a lot of OSS ones out there. Relax.
Licenses could easily make a deal to include the JVM cheap or free I'm sure. If they're charging $50 for a disk, they might as well send a couple dollars Sun's way for including some quality closed source software. Suns philosophy with java is "if you're making money off it, we should be too." Which I think is perfectly reasonable, given the amount of work Sun has put into this product.
It's all the work they did typing out the code that's not. You are free to reimplement Java to spec or not unencumbered with the kinds of patents that protect .NET. Giving away countless hours of work to appease cranks like ESR is not the correct way to 'increase shareholder value'.
I tried using Eclipse and I couldn't stand it. It felt powerful, but the damn autocomplete system didn't work quite right, and it didn't work nearly as well as the system in Jbuilder, so I ended up going back to the old-ass version of Jbuilder I've been working with. I mean, an IDE can have all the features in the world, but if typing code is a pain then forget about it...
They make money selling J2ME licenses for embedded devices like cellphones. If they opened java completely, they would make as much money off that as Linus does on all the embedded linux out there. None.
God what an idiotic article. Lets just look at a few issues, OK?
The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have recently said of Sun Microsystem's strategy "The open-source model is our friend". We're glad to hear that, and Sun's support of OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind the claim. But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy.
Oh, I see. So if you want to be our "Friend" that means you have to move lock-step with us and everything you do must benefit us.
Open Office is a huge boost to the Open Source community. It's one of the most powerful weapons in the "war" against Microsoft that a lot of us seem to be emotionally invested in. It provides a real alternative to MS office and a way for business to move away from windows.
But ESR seems to think that to be a "friend" of the open source movement, everything you do must benefit it. And of course, if you don't, you must be "confused." Apparently ESR views the Open Source community as a sort of single-minded Totalitarian regime lead by him, in which any decent is labeled "confusion."
But the casual equation between "open source" and "zero revenue" suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about. Open source is hardly a zero-revenue model; ask Red Hat, which had a share price over triple Sun's when I just checked. Or ask IBM, which is using Linux as a lever to build a huge systems-integration business in markets like financial services that Sun has historically owned.
Okay, share price. Great. As if that isn't a totally meaningless indicator. Why didn't ESR look at market cap, or revenues? Oh yeah, because then RH wouldn't be "bigger". Ever heard of a stock split? How are shares of the company who's board you're on, VA Software, doing? I see you provided them a lot of good advice.
If Sun were prepared to go all the way with open source it could seize back its position of industry leadership. Sun is one of a small handful of companies that would both have the smarts and the street cred to do even better than IBM has from a full-fledged alliance with the open-source community.
Of course, as we all know, street cred == money. Please. And how does IBM have a "full commitment to open-source."? They still sell proprietary software, along with contributing to OSS last I checked.
when Bill Joy came to a Linux conference to push Jini as a universal network-service protocol, we in the open-source community told him straight up "You can have ubiquity or you can have control. Pick one." He picked control, and Jini failed in its promise. The contrast with NFS could hardly be more stark.
This is the best part. So the OSS community's huge sway with OEMs prevented Jini from being implemented in lots of imbedded hardware. Right. It also prevented OSS's great nemesis from flourishing. Oh wait.
There are a lot of reasons why Jini failed, and anyone claming to know exactly what "went wrong" is out of their mind. It may not have succeeded even if it were an open standard.
Today, the big issue is Java. Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl.
Uh yeah. The vast majority of programmers pick the tool they like, and most people in the OSS community use Python because it's a fun programming language that's easy to write (same with Perl, although I kind of think most people it because 'that's what they know') . Most large OSS projects still use C++, and lots of projects are written in Java. I think the percentage of OSS projects that chose a language based on political issues is pretty damn small. Hell, there are probably
Tell that to the car manufacturers.
How often do you see new Car companies crop up? Not to often. Other then specialized ultra-luxury, or ultra-performance everything is made by a few companies with several brands.
Tell that to toilet paper makers.
First of all, most toilet paper are part of huge corporations that make lots of different items for use around the house. And if you make too much toilet paper, you can keep it stocked up for years, or decades even, untill you sell it. If you make too many computers, in a few months they'll be worth less then what you paid to make them.
Tell that to punk rockers.
Maybe punk-rock sound all the same to you, but in fact each CD is generally different from the other ones. And people have a pretty easy way of directly measuring the quality of the music before they buy the disk. Unlike PCs who's quality is much more difficult to measure.
The point is that you're doing something *better* than is being done.
Yeah, right. And how is anyone supposed to know that? The only company (eMachines) that actually managed to break into this feild did so by making all their products worse then the rest.
You sell one PC a week. How much profit do you make on each one? How many actual hours do you spend doing "excellent customer support", huh? I doubt you're making much money.
Can you even get a mac with OS 9 on it anymore? If you could, why would yow want to? People who run Mac OSX use their computers as general purpose machines. Do you think they keep an extra windows box around for surfing the web or something? Whatevs.
If you've followed my posts, you'd know that I'm a regular apple basher. But the fact is, Microsoft's security sucks ass. And it needs to be a lot better then Apple's security in practice because so many attacks are targeted towards windows.
Think about it this way. If P(A) is the probability of an attack, and P(S | A) is the probability of an attach succeeding, then P(S|A)/P(A) is the probability of your machine being Ownx0rd. If you are likely to be attacked because of who you are (say yahoo, some bank, etc) then P(A) goes up, but for a regular using, running windows massively increases their chance of being attacked. According to this report, you're 10 times more likely to have a 'security related problem' if you're a collage student running windows. then a collage student running Mac OSX.
In order to be considered equivalent, P(S|A,mac)/P(A|mac) == P(S|A,win)/P(A|win). In other words, the probability of a Mac being attacked and that attack succeding times the probability of a windows box being attacked P(S & A)*P(A|Win).
I use windows, out of laziness. But I know how to keep my box secure. Given the amount of Spy ware on people's machines these days I honestly don't think the average person should be using windows at all
They are using the number of support calls to determine the security of an OS? Maybe the fact that they are using OSX immediately indicates that in many cases they are a more technical user and so are less likely to need support.
What, mac users are more technical now? Dispite OSX's unix core, Apple still appeals to non-techies, and is marketed twards them.
Even if you excluded viruses, there are a lot more 'scripts' for the script kiddies to use against windows. Even if their theoretical security is equal, their practical security is much, much worse.
You need a better lock on your door if you live in the Brox then you do if you live in Ames, IA.
What can the BSD kernal do that the NT kernal can't? AFAIK, the NT kernel is actualy POSIX compliant, or close to it. MacOS 9, on the other hand had a long way to go before it caught up with 'modern' operating systems. It was a good idea for Apple to scrap it. The NT kernel is already competitive with unix, there would be no reason for them to switch over.
You can already run Unix on windows, just get cygwin.
If this tech has already made it to the laptop market, it'll probably be in plenty of much more reasonably priced laptops in a couple years. (as well as stand-alone LCDs for desktops). I wouldn't be surprised if they took the same course as 3d cards... first only for enthusiasts, then high end systems, then ubiquitous.
:P
Maybe we'll finaly be done with CRTs... or maybe someone will figure out how to do this with CRTs as well
This guy could just bob his left and right to get the true 3d image.
If you are blind in one eye, then everything seems flat anyway. So there won't be an advantage for you, but for you a monoscopic images is already as good as it gets. You just won't be able to tell the diffrence, that's all. It won't be like a stare-o-gram, which requires sterioscopic vision. But more like those green holograms like you see on a credit card.
This wouldn't be any diffrent then looking at a hologram. And you can also run it in flat mode. Anyway, I've never experianced eye strain looking at a 3d display.