The big thing about Crossover office is....Office. Apple already has office for OS X. Look at the supported apps page http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/suppo rted_apps/ 50 whole apps are supported. Many of them only work partially. You know what? Most of those already have versions for OS X that work 100%. Photoshop. itunes, Quicken, Notes, etc the list goes on. Maybe there is some special win32 only app that would really help if it was ported to OS X, but going by that list I just don't see it.
Here is the deal, codeweavers have been working their asses off to get win32 apps to run on linux. Thus far they have barely scratched the surface and can only run like.005% of Windows apps. In fact they are falling behind. How does that possibly help Apple? It doesn't.
The only thing Codeweavers brings to the table for Apple is possibly the ability to help devs port apps to OS X X86. My guess is that if most vendors are not making their apps available on OS X it sure as hell isn't due to difficulty in porting but rather has more to do with the limited ROI of making apps for OS X in the firstplace.
I've always been of fan of each OS borrowing from one another, but this is just sad. MS ripped everything out of Vista that was truly innovative and we are left with XP rethemed and few nice subsystem tweaks. Frankly Vista is a decent update if it had be released in 2003. WTF have they been doing for 6 years?
I don't approve of sleazy marketing. BUT, the Splinter Cell series is one of the most fun series I've ever played. I never tire of sneaking around in the dark and killing people. Just remember, if Ubisoft ever stops making these games it may end up affecting you personally. I may be your neighbor.;)
When you consider what comes built into Active Directory and XP I agree it seems a bit odd to pay for this. But on the other hand look at it this way, the unlimited Edition is only $499. Compare that to how much a few hundred Macs cost and this becomes a no brainer.
"Don't want your admin tasks to be seen? No problem, turn on the new Curtain Mode to block the local user's view of their desktop. This is perfect when you're updating a public display."
It would of course be fun to have a curtain drop on the user's screen. Fix what the user screwed up and then have the curtain and "house lights" go up with a ta-da! sound. The mystery of how IT performs its functions is safe.
First of all, I just wanted to say that considering what Red Hat has done for the community for over 10 years now I think people give them way too much shit. 99% of the comments knocking Red Hat are rants by idiots who have no idea how much Red Hat does. But in this case I have to ask what the hell they were thinking?
"Incorporating as a non-profit foundation creates immense accounting challenges, and a truly independent Fedora Foundation would be forced to track the cost of bandwidth for distributing Fedora and every single hour of Red Hat developer time used to improve Fedora as well as the legal and administrative expenses associated with perpetuating the project and running the Foundation."
They are just realizing this now?
"In order to maintain non-profit status, a third of the Fedora Foundation's money would have to come directly from public sources. At present, Spevack argues, this just isn't feasible."
They are just realizing this now?
"Giving up" control of Fedora and then taking it back for the reasons listed just smacks of poor planning. Many people have argued "why should I help out Fedora why Red Hat just "takes" those changes and sells them in RHEL". I've always thought that was a retarded baseless argument. But on the other hand plenty of people seem to make that complaint. I don't think Red Hat is going to make many friends in the community by pulling Fedora even closer. I hope they are prepared to deal with the fallout and possible defection of contributors.
That he uses the money to establish a foundation that is equipped to do things like fundraising and marketing. As I said before, being a non-profit is hard as heck, he needs to run it like a business and hire people who have real world non-profit experience. Raising just enough money to get by without committing to major organizational change is extremely shortsighted. Let's also hope that others follow the Mozilla foundation's example.
Sorry but WEP isn't "good enough" no matter how many people leave their WAPs wide open. We've been down this road already and nobody with an ounce of sense uses WEP. Face it, it was a mistake not being able to do WPA on the DS no much how much you think it's not a big deal. People will just have to decide if they are willing to live with that security risk.
Those rings are for suckers. The only thing that truly keeps bit loss at bay is a green magic marker. The Green marker when used on the edge of the cd keeps the red laser from bouncing off the disc and thus you get to enjoy the full 16-bits.
Viiv is just Intel's attempt to become the defacto HTPC by throwing Millions of dollars into marketing. Meanwhile as you pointed out there is absolutely nothing unique about it. But that won't stop Intel from flooding every magazine and website with Viiv marketing spam.
If what I've read here http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html is true then they would be opening a huge can of worms. Of course I'll feel better when OIN is fully explained and more out in the open. It would be sweet revenge to have the threat of business crippling lawsuits available to OSS projects.
When you buy a Dell close to another OS release you can get the next version for almost Free from Dell. I also think that this is one case where consumers have nothing to blame but themselves. With even the most basic of research you know when the next version of Windows will be coming out.
Keeping in mind that I believe that his work and the OpenBSD project are important, a few words of advice. As someone who works at a very large non-profit let me say this, doing a good job isn't enough. You have to work just like any other business to stary afloat. And that means constantly dedicating time to fundraise and not acting as a "one-man-show". Perhaps he needs to hand off the reigns to someone else and let them manage the project and fundraising. He apparantly and not suprisingly is unable to handle both coding and fundraising. Most people can't so that isn't a knock on him.
Anyway I wish him luck and hope he gets organized. He really needs to establish a real non-profit and get someone with real fundraising experience working for him. Without that I'm surprised it lasted this long. IMHO giving him a few donations in order to keep the project running without him deciding to make major organizational chages is just delying the inevitable. I sincerely wish him the best of luck.
"the hack has not been released to the public (because it will be mainly used for piracy)"
Then why did they bother? Testing XP or linux to see if its security is working is one thing. That has real world consequences. Testing it is a noble cause IMHO. Hacking the firmware of a gaming system make get done to "boot linux" but we all know the real world implication here. I don't frown on this morally one bit but let's not kid ourselves here. Information may want to be free, but people want free games even more.
You left out the part about how Gnome would have died if it wasn't for Red Hat. Back in the day all of the major linux distros all used KDE. It was simply more advanced and stable and as a result it become the most widely used. Frankly for many many years Gnome was a total pile of crap. They stuck to that "GNOME must be WM independant" crap all the while decrying KDE for "taking away choice" for years. We all know how well that turned out:rollseyes:.
Anyway back to my point, there is a million other facets to the whole GNOME v KDE thing but most interesting and least thought about IMHO is that if Red Hat hadn't pushed out Gnome.002 and kept pushing Gnome all along,it would probably be about as popular as Afterstep these days. I don't know whether to thank or curse them.
The VHS to DVD transition was something everyone could benefit from, and I mean EVERY household in the USA who owned a TV and rented/bought movies. That is a pretty dam big market. Going DVD got rid of rewinding, provided a massive boost in video and audio quality even on old 19" TV sets, and was something that very affordable and easy to do.
Going DVD to HDDVD/Blueray only benefits a very small group of mostly wealthy people. It doesn't solve a problem for anyone but that same very small group of people, and the problem it solves is one most people aren't even clamoring for, aka video improvements. Finally you have to have a recent expensive device to even take advantage of it. $50 DVD players will still be appealing in 5 years. $1000+ TV sets and $300+ HDDVD sets won't.
HD video is a solution to a problem that most people have zero interest in solving. You know how most gamers laugh at Quad SLI solutions because they know that for 1/4 of the price you can still do everything you want? Same thing.
For the life of me I couldn't understand why the summary was saying that the French wanted to force Apple to make the Ipod WMA compatible.
Now about forcing Apple to license its DRM. Right or wrong aside I'm very much for that. Other companies have indicted that they are indeed interested in licesing Apple's DRM but Apple doesn't want to do that. If Itunes becomes the defacto distribution site for online TV and movies, which is actually very close to happening, then Apple should be forced to let other hardware makers participate. Again I could care less if this is "right", I just want consumers to benefit for once.
"This is a Bad Thing, and it's quite possibly unlawful. In most countries, parody sites are protected under the "fair use" clause in copyright laws"
Exactly. Here in the awesome USofA such things are protected. You are free to openly disagree with the President and his policies with NO WORRY of retribution. In other countries doing things like that would get you fired from your job, put on the nofly list, or even worse they dig up dirt on you and your family in an attempt to embarass or discredit you if you try to tell the truth.
Yesterday my wife was telling me that she was talking with a group of people recently and they were all talking about things they have thought about inventing when they were younger. And also they commented how some of those ideas were actually turned into products. I told her they should have all filed patents. She said "Well you can't do that because you have to actually make a product. You can't just patent an idea or an idea about a method of doing something." I just smiled.
The average person has no idea fucked up the patent situation is in this country.
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Enough with the Ubutu Dapper stories already.
The big thing about Crossover office is....Office. Apple already has office for OS X. Look at the supported apps page http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/suppo rted_apps/ 50 whole apps are supported. Many of them only work partially. You know what? Most of those already have versions for OS X that work 100%. Photoshop. itunes, Quicken, Notes, etc the list goes on. Maybe there is some special win32 only app that would really help if it was ported to OS X, but going by that list I just don't see it.
.005% of Windows apps. In fact they are falling behind. How does that possibly help Apple? It doesn't.
Here is the deal, codeweavers have been working their asses off to get win32 apps to run on linux. Thus far they have barely scratched the surface and can only run like
The only thing Codeweavers brings to the table for Apple is possibly the ability to help devs port apps to OS X X86. My guess is that if most vendors are not making their apps available on OS X it sure as hell isn't due to difficulty in porting but rather has more to do with the limited ROI of making apps for OS X in the firstplace.
It's been a while since we had a huge linux vs BSD flame feast.
I'll start.
BSD user: Linux is a confusing mess of programs and is less stable than BSD.
Linux user: Your still here? I thought you were dead by now?
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I've always been of fan of each OS borrowing from one another, but this is just sad. MS ripped everything out of Vista that was truly innovative and we are left with XP rethemed and few nice subsystem tweaks. Frankly Vista is a decent update if it had be released in 2003. WTF have they been doing for 6 years?
I don't approve of sleazy marketing. BUT, the Splinter Cell series is one of the most fun series I've ever played. I never tire of sneaking around in the dark and killing people. Just remember, if Ubisoft ever stops making these games it may end up affecting you personally. I may be your neighbor. ;)
As others found out.
That was my first thought as well? WTF? VNC and RDP are Free!
But...Look deeper and you'll see if offers moree than just basic remote access. http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
When you consider what comes built into Active Directory and XP I agree it seems a bit odd to pay for this. But on the other hand look at it this way, the unlimited Edition is only $499. Compare that to how much a few hundred Macs cost and this becomes a no brainer.
"Don't want your admin tasks to be seen? No problem, turn on the new Curtain Mode to block the local user's view of their desktop. This is perfect when you're updating a public display."
It would of course be fun to have a curtain drop on the user's screen. Fix what the user screwed up and then have the curtain and "house lights" go up with a ta-da! sound. The mystery of how IT performs its functions is safe.
First of all, I just wanted to say that considering what Red Hat has done for the community for over 10 years now I think people give them way too much shit. 99% of the comments knocking Red Hat are rants by idiots who have no idea how much Red Hat does. But in this case I have to ask what the hell they were thinking?
"Incorporating as a non-profit foundation creates immense accounting challenges, and a truly independent Fedora Foundation would be forced to track the cost of bandwidth for distributing Fedora and every single hour of Red Hat developer time used to improve Fedora as well as the legal and administrative expenses associated with perpetuating the project and running the Foundation."
They are just realizing this now?
"In order to maintain non-profit status, a third of the Fedora Foundation's money would have to come directly from public sources. At present, Spevack argues, this just isn't feasible."
They are just realizing this now?
"Giving up" control of Fedora and then taking it back for the reasons listed just smacks of poor planning. Many people have argued "why should I help out Fedora why Red Hat just "takes" those changes and sells them in RHEL". I've always thought that was a retarded baseless argument. But on the other hand plenty of people seem to make that complaint. I don't think Red Hat is going to make many friends in the community by pulling Fedora even closer. I hope they are prepared to deal with the fallout and possible defection of contributors.
I bet most people don't think a big black foot is an improvement. The black foot IMHO takes the whole "lets make gnome monochromatic" thing too far.
That he uses the money to establish a foundation that is equipped to do things like fundraising and marketing. As I said before, being a non-profit is hard as heck, he needs to run it like a business and hire people who have real world non-profit experience. Raising just enough money to get by without committing to major organizational change is extremely shortsighted. Let's also hope that others follow the Mozilla foundation's example.
Sorry but WEP isn't "good enough" no matter how many people leave their WAPs wide open. We've been down this road already and nobody with an ounce of sense uses WEP. Face it, it was a mistake not being able to do WPA on the DS no much how much you think it's not a big deal. People will just have to decide if they are willing to live with that security risk.
Those rings are for suckers. The only thing that truly keeps bit loss at bay is a green magic marker. The Green marker when used on the edge of the cd keeps the red laser from bouncing off the disc and thus you get to enjoy the full 16-bits.
Boil a frog slowly...
My new sig seems even more appropriate than usual.
Viiv is just Intel's attempt to become the defacto HTPC by throwing Millions of dollars into marketing. Meanwhile as you pointed out there is absolutely nothing unique about it. But that won't stop Intel from flooding every magazine and website with Viiv marketing spam.
If what I've read here http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html is true then they would be opening a huge can of worms. Of course I'll feel better when OIN is fully explained and more out in the open. It would be sweet revenge to have the threat of business crippling lawsuits available to OSS projects.
When you buy a Dell close to another OS release you can get the next version for almost Free from Dell. I also think that this is one case where consumers have nothing to blame but themselves. With even the most basic of research you know when the next version of Windows will be coming out.
Keeping in mind that I believe that his work and the OpenBSD project are important, a few words of advice. As someone who works at a very large non-profit let me say this, doing a good job isn't enough. You have to work just like any other business to stary afloat. And that means constantly dedicating time to fundraise and not acting as a "one-man-show". Perhaps he needs to hand off the reigns to someone else and let them manage the project and fundraising. He apparantly and not suprisingly is unable to handle both coding and fundraising. Most people can't so that isn't a knock on him.
Anyway I wish him luck and hope he gets organized. He really needs to establish a real non-profit and get someone with real fundraising experience working for him. Without that I'm surprised it lasted this long. IMHO giving him a few donations in order to keep the project running without him deciding to make major organizational chages is just delying the inevitable. I sincerely wish him the best of luck.
"the hack has not been released to the public (because it will be mainly used for piracy)"
Then why did they bother? Testing XP or linux to see if its security is working is one thing. That has real world consequences. Testing it is a noble cause IMHO. Hacking the firmware of a gaming system make get done to "boot linux" but we all know the real world implication here. I don't frown on this morally one bit but let's not kid ourselves here. Information may want to be free, but people want free games even more.
You left out the part about how Gnome would have died if it wasn't for Red Hat. Back in the day all of the major linux distros all used KDE. It was simply more advanced and stable and as a result it become the most widely used. Frankly for many many years Gnome was a total pile of crap. They stuck to that "GNOME must be WM independant" crap all the while decrying KDE for "taking away choice" for years. We all know how well that turned out :rollseyes:.
.002 and kept pushing Gnome all along,it would probably be about as popular as Afterstep these days. I don't know whether to thank or curse them.
Anyway back to my point, there is a million other facets to the whole GNOME v KDE thing but most interesting and least thought about IMHO is that if Red Hat hadn't pushed out Gnome
The VHS to DVD transition was something everyone could benefit from, and I mean EVERY household in the USA who owned a TV and rented/bought movies. That is a pretty dam big market. Going DVD got rid of rewinding, provided a massive boost in video and audio quality even on old 19" TV sets, and was something that very affordable and easy to do.
Going DVD to HDDVD/Blueray only benefits a very small group of mostly wealthy people. It doesn't solve a problem for anyone but that same very small group of people, and the problem it solves is one most people aren't even clamoring for, aka video improvements. Finally you have to have a recent expensive device to even take advantage of it. $50 DVD players will still be appealing in 5 years. $1000+ TV sets and $300+ HDDVD sets won't.
HD video is a solution to a problem that most people have zero interest in solving. You know how most gamers laugh at Quad SLI solutions because they know that for 1/4 of the price you can still do everything you want? Same thing.
For the life of me I couldn't understand why the summary was saying that the French wanted to force Apple to make the Ipod WMA compatible.
Now about forcing Apple to license its DRM. Right or wrong aside I'm very much for that. Other companies have indicted that they are indeed interested in licesing Apple's DRM but Apple doesn't want to do that. If Itunes becomes the defacto distribution site for online TV and movies, which is actually very close to happening, then Apple should be forced to let other hardware makers participate. Again I could care less if this is "right", I just want consumers to benefit for once.
"This is a Bad Thing, and it's quite possibly unlawful. In most countries, parody sites are protected under the "fair use" clause in copyright laws"
Exactly. Here in the awesome USofA such things are protected. You are free to openly disagree with the President and his policies with NO WORRY of retribution. In other countries doing things like that would get you fired from your job, put on the nofly list, or even worse they dig up dirt on you and your family in an attempt to embarass or discredit you if you try to tell the truth.
At least they left pref("security.classID.allowByDefault", false); in the activex Extension that FF users will have to use.
Security issues aside I guess its nice that they made the effort so that Firefox users can use it.
Too bad it won't work without the UI nightmare that is WMP10. Someone post a WMP9 workaround...
Yesterday my wife was telling me that she was talking with a group of people recently and they were all talking about things they have thought about inventing when they were younger. And also they commented how some of those ideas were actually turned into products. I told her they should have all filed patents. She said "Well you can't do that because you have to actually make a product. You can't just patent an idea or an idea about a method of doing something." I just smiled.
The average person has no idea fucked up the patent situation is in this country.