My point was ONE front end/GUI, multiple repositories = the Linux distro way.
You just described one front end for EACH repository, which is a royal pain in the ass (as both Linux and Apple developers and users would agree).
Still, some successful, *open* competition to Apple's App Store on the Mac is probably the only thing that will keep them from controlling the vast majority of software that gets installed on the average Mac user's computer. Hopefully Launchpad is usable for any programs on the computer - limiting core OS features to Apple-purchased apps is where they start becoming more monopolistic than Microsoft...
The big difference is that the Linux distros all have a method for including other repositories as well - you don't have to "submit" an app to an official Ubuntu, Fedora, etc, repo. You can create your own repo, or distribute it through many other popular ones for apps that don't get into the official one.
For example, I have the Nvidia drivers and (GASP, HOLD YOUR EARS STEVE!) Flash plugin set up to auto-update from other repos. It's Fedora, so it still uses yum (or any GUI wrapper for yum) just like all other RPMs intalled on my system.
To be equivalent, Apple should allow users to configure 3rd party app repositories and allow them to use Launchpad and auto-update as well. Which they won't do, because there would be even less reason for them to collect 30% of any commercial application's revenues.
Well, in that case the summary wasn't correct, either. Google paid a 2.4% tax rate on foreign income. Their total tax rate was about 22%. That's an order of magnitude higher, probably would have been worth mentioning...
Cruel and unusual punishment? Come one - given the choice of probation while limiting your computer usage (NOT prohibiting it) or spending a year in prison, you think the *former* would be worse?
Yes, that's kind of the point. I don't have a Twitter account and hate the entire concept, but I can't go 20 minutes online without someone referencing, quoting, re-sending, etc a "tweet".
This story hit the mainstream long before it made it to slashdot (as usual). I'm sure with ~1M people hitting the linked video, at least 10-20% were curious enough to check out a few others.
I moderated him funny because I have to admit I laughed out loud. But then I decided not to give him even the satisfaction of sarcasm, so I am posting this to clear it:)
I think he's dismissing him because he's already proven himself several times to be a bald faced liar. Who cares if he knows the truth, if he doesn't speak it.
Not sure if you have read the copious logs of IMs, emails, and interviews published by his former "friends" regarding the early stages of Facebook, but even he hasn't disputed that he was contracted by others at Harvard to build a social networking site. And then somehow he magically came up with his own. If he just wanted to "build something" and it wasn't about the money, why not be happy with building the site he had promised?
Answer: because he WAS in it for the money (either that or he really *did* just want to F someone in the ear...)
Thanks, I was thinking the same thing, and hoping someone else had already pointed it out!
I also loved the fact that bacteria are now "bioengineering". As an engineer with a biology degree, I'm still clinging to the hope that bioengineering might involve a bit more conscious design than making me pay for that 3 bean chili...
ESPN produces content, and if they want to charge for that content they have a perfect right to do so. To suggest anything different makes no sense.
There are millions of sites already doing this. Just like TV channels, some use an ad-supported model, and some use a subscription model. Either way, they exist in order to and because they can make money off their business.
Also, to the GP: Hulu is *not* free to all, they also have a subscription model (Hulu+) to stream content more conveniently (ie to a TV) or from providers who offer "premium" content (ie. want to charge more than the ad model will support). And there is no guarantee Hulu will remain free... they have already been removing some free shows and making them subscription only; if their subscription model takes off, they will probably continue that, or even stop the free service...
There are other sites with half-decent systems and reasonably intelligent commenters (Gizmodo for example) but what sets Slashdot apart from most of them is that the editors don't regularly apply holier-than-thou moderation/banning/etc to posts/posters they don't approve of. If we want to complain about stupid stories or editors, we can do so freely, and only when other readers are more tired of the complaints than the editors do you get moderated down.
Slashdot leaves it up to the readers to moderate into oblivion, and though it's not always fair, it is fairly democratic...
Yeah, 'cause that $1B total fine to a bald, goateed, tatooed, BROKE spammer in Canada is really going to send that extra message: "all you bald, goateed, tatooed, broke spammers in Canada, don't spam or we will fine you almost a tenth of a percent of your country's GDP, payable immediately!"
In theory, that's true, but you usually have to tune your TCP settings to get full B/W over a single connection. In many cases (depending on latency, window size, packet loss/retransmission settings, etc) several TCP/IP connections downloading pieces of data will perform better than a single one.
Still, I have to agree that they are basically trading cost for performance with P2P downloads - ie. they could get almost the same performance by spending enough on servers and bandwidth, CDNs, etc, but they decided to spend the money on NRE development costs to integrate P2P instead. In Blizzard's case, they have millions of customers conencted all the time, so that was probably a good idea. Plus, they tend to release patches to the entire population at the same time, which MASSIVELY favors the distributed P2P model...
I tried it out by clicking on a few "memes", and apparently they are just collecting twitter posts with the same tags in them, and trying to correlate them in some way.
But in practice - wow, who knew that the most common tags would be 3-4 letters long, and mean something completely different to every person who uses them? That along with so many people indiscriminately using tags to try to get their posts noticed. Useless! (or truthy?)
We also have 3 strikes laws for when it becomes a pattern...
And to be a bit on topic, when someone says things like "our goal is to wipe Israel off the map" and "the United States government planned the 9/11 attacks" he deserves to lose credibility in what he says in the future.
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My point was ONE front end/GUI, multiple repositories = the Linux distro way.
You just described one front end for EACH repository, which is a royal pain in the ass (as both Linux and Apple developers and users would agree).
Still, some successful, *open* competition to Apple's App Store on the Mac is probably the only thing that will keep them from controlling the vast majority of software that gets installed on the average Mac user's computer. Hopefully Launchpad is usable for any programs on the computer - limiting core OS features to Apple-purchased apps is where they start becoming more monopolistic than Microsoft...
The big difference is that the Linux distros all have a method for including other repositories as well - you don't have to "submit" an app to an official Ubuntu, Fedora, etc, repo. You can create your own repo, or distribute it through many other popular ones for apps that don't get into the official one.
For example, I have the Nvidia drivers and (GASP, HOLD YOUR EARS STEVE!) Flash plugin set up to auto-update from other repos. It's Fedora, so it still uses yum (or any GUI wrapper for yum) just like all other RPMs intalled on my system.
To be equivalent, Apple should allow users to configure 3rd party app repositories and allow them to use Launchpad and auto-update as well. Which they won't do, because there would be even less reason for them to collect 30% of any commercial application's revenues.
Well, in that case the summary wasn't correct, either. Google paid a 2.4% tax rate on foreign income. Their total tax rate was about 22%. That's an order of magnitude higher, probably would have been worth mentioning...
Cruel and unusual punishment? Come one - given the choice of probation while limiting your computer usage (NOT prohibiting it) or spending a year in prison, you think the *former* would be worse?
Yes, that's kind of the point. I don't have a Twitter account and hate the entire concept, but I can't go 20 minutes online without someone referencing, quoting, re-sending, etc a "tweet".
Slashdotters??
This story hit the mainstream long before it made it to slashdot (as usual). I'm sure with ~1M people hitting the linked video, at least 10-20% were curious enough to check out a few others.
Nah, the number of non-pirated DVDs sold in China is so low it won't be a problem.
Really?
A YouTube video of a cross-dressing Japanese man playing the guitar now has over 950,000 views.
I think people have been reading this one.
Just replace the FBI warning at the beginning with the message, "this movie brought to you by the Dalai Lama".
Then sit back and watch the Chinese government crack down on pirated DVDs with a vengeance...
...recent murders committed, houses burgled, cars stolen, heiresses kidnapped, parking tickets ignored, and Australian ministers ridiculed.
I moderated him funny because I have to admit I laughed out loud. But then I decided not to give him even the satisfaction of sarcasm, so I am posting this to clear it :)
...was to cover up the HORRIBLE taste in clothing of all of the record execs in 1980. Just wow.
I think he's dismissing him because he's already proven himself several times to be a bald faced liar. Who cares if he knows the truth, if he doesn't speak it.
Not sure if you have read the copious logs of IMs, emails, and interviews published by his former "friends" regarding the early stages of Facebook, but even he hasn't disputed that he was contracted by others at Harvard to build a social networking site. And then somehow he magically came up with his own. If he just wanted to "build something" and it wasn't about the money, why not be happy with building the site he had promised?
Answer: because he WAS in it for the money (either that or he really *did* just want to F someone in the ear...)
Thanks, I was thinking the same thing, and hoping someone else had already pointed it out!
I also loved the fact that bacteria are now "bioengineering". As an engineer with a biology degree, I'm still clinging to the hope that bioengineering might involve a bit more conscious design than making me pay for that 3 bean chili...
Clearly you must be new to the Internet because you could probably count to a million and not even be through the porn sites.
ESPN produces content, and if they want to charge for that content they have a perfect right to do so. To suggest anything different makes no sense.
There are millions of sites already doing this. Just like TV channels, some use an ad-supported model, and some use a subscription model. Either way, they exist in order to and because they can make money off their business.
Also, to the GP: Hulu is *not* free to all, they also have a subscription model (Hulu+) to stream content more conveniently (ie to a TV) or from providers who offer "premium" content (ie. want to charge more than the ad model will support). And there is no guarantee Hulu will remain free... they have already been removing some free shows and making them subscription only; if their subscription model takes off, they will probably continue that, or even stop the free service...
Yeah, I agree.
There are other sites with half-decent systems and reasonably intelligent commenters (Gizmodo for example) but what sets Slashdot apart from most of them is that the editors don't regularly apply holier-than-thou moderation/banning/etc to posts/posters they don't approve of. If we want to complain about stupid stories or editors, we can do so freely, and only when other readers are more tired of the complaints than the editors do you get moderated down.
Slashdot leaves it up to the readers to moderate into oblivion, and though it's not always fair, it is fairly democratic...
Hah, notice the submitter - kdawson! When he isn't posting complete crap, he's submitting it :)
I've always wondered what the real world would look like in 3D, just never had the nerve to wear those goofy glasses outside.
I wear my 3D glasses around everywhere. It's weird, it really accentuates people's faces, makes them all look like they are laughing at me.
That dance wasn't as safe as they said it was...
Yeah, 'cause that $1B total fine to a bald, goateed, tatooed, BROKE spammer in Canada is really going to send that extra message: "all you bald, goateed, tatooed, broke spammers in Canada, don't spam or we will fine you almost a tenth of a percent of your country's GDP, payable immediately!"
That'll learn 'em.
In theory, that's true, but you usually have to tune your TCP settings to get full B/W over a single connection. In many cases (depending on latency, window size, packet loss/retransmission settings, etc) several TCP/IP connections downloading pieces of data will perform better than a single one.
Still, I have to agree that they are basically trading cost for performance with P2P downloads - ie. they could get almost the same performance by spending enough on servers and bandwidth, CDNs, etc, but they decided to spend the money on NRE development costs to integrate P2P instead. In Blizzard's case, they have millions of customers conencted all the time, so that was probably a good idea. Plus, they tend to release patches to the entire population at the same time, which MASSIVELY favors the distributed P2P model...
For trying to even pretend it's remotely useful.
I tried it out by clicking on a few "memes", and apparently they are just collecting twitter posts with the same tags in them, and trying to correlate them in some way.
But in practice - wow, who knew that the most common tags would be 3-4 letters long, and mean something completely different to every person who uses them? That along with so many people indiscriminately using tags to try to get their posts noticed. Useless! (or truthy?)
We also have 3 strikes laws for when it becomes a pattern...
And to be a bit on topic, when someone says things like "our goal is to wipe Israel off the map" and "the United States government planned the 9/11 attacks" he deserves to lose credibility in what he says in the future.
Well, it's not really a knee jerk reaction as much as "it was true the last 10 times they did it, so it's probably a pretty good bet this time, too".