Apple truly does make their machines and OS extremely easy to use for a beginner. An OSX user never has to see the console or a command line. The hardware is of generally very good quality (my old powertbook has been running for three years now without one problem ever.).
Why is it that every single post on some good idea that does not come from the USA ends up on/. getting trolled and flamebaited to all hell? One would think , or at least hope, that the kind of people who frequent/. would be a little bit more open minded than that.
Apart from that, I like the idea of this experiment that the Russians are doing. Apart from turning ICBM's into space launchers and having a good way of protecting packages that must return to earth, it seems like it is providing the basic research for Astronaut emergency reentry technology.
1.A common clipboard that works across KDE/Gnome etc. 2.The schism between KDE and GNOME is hurting acceptance of Linux on the desktop. INteroperability would be of tremendous value here. 3.Make it easier to connect to the internet i.e. set it up. I have seen many users stumped because the internet configuration didn't work.
I appreciate, even though it is probably coincidental, that Apple did NOT attack the press for reporting this hole before they had a chance to plug it. It has been a reasonably quick, mature response. Unlike another company that we all know that seems incapable of fixing holes without having a go at all "enemies" on the side.
This might of course just be one of those attempts to troll/., but that jog wheel in the lower portion of the device looks very much like Apple's iPod control wheel. Given that there have been many rumours of Apple/Palm cooperation and that Palm OS5 is supposed to have all sorts of new features, examples of which are improved QuickTime compatibility, and possibly inclusion of Apple's Ink handwriting technology, there could be some basis to these rumours. Apples' cracking down on rumour websites, as well as Palm offsetting risks to Apple entering the PDA market would be further grounds for interesting news next week at the MWNY.
IIRC there are about 200 000 objects ranging from milimeter size pieces to fat chunks of metal in orbit around our planet. Someday one is going to take out a spacecraft or satellite or damage one seriously. Obviously, it is going to be a lot of work to get rid of these pieces of scrap. So my carefully thought out proposition;)... 1.Catalogue them -- A database with all known objects and their orbits is the obvious first step 2.Build a sateliite with a relatively low power laser, charged by solar panels. An alternative would be a simple kind of large, thick metal "shield" that would simply get in the way of the space debris. 3.Place a ion engine on the craft. 4.Write software that would automatically select the nearest target from the db and move the satelite into position to evaporate or impact with the debris. 5.Very importantly, have an operator or command center that would be required by the software to OK each impact so that the satelite doesn't get misused or highjacked. 6.If using the satelite with a big metal "target shield", eventually the shield will become useless. It can be pushed into reentry by the ion engine and can then burn up on reentry, the ion engine then climbs back into normal orbit and is fitted out with a new shield by a drone rocket. 7.It will take many years but will start to show progress over time. Good that it will give the operators in the command center work and enable them to read books, playgames etc inbetween hits.
This frightens me badly. Judging from the success that the FBI have had at tracing certain people involved in last year's Anthrax spree (at least one of the suspects was involved in biowarfare trials against blacks in South Africa in the '80s), I shudder to think what one pissed off reseacher could do and how the inept security agencies would not be able to do anything about it.
Reminds me of mobiles here in Europe
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There is quite a large discrepancy between the US and Europe in terms of mobile coverage and use. In Europe the fact that I don't have a landline (Mobile and Cable) is not special or out of the ordinary. Mobile coverage is almost 100% across the continent. And it boils down to one thing really: Standards. I think in the US you have three competeing standards. Here in Europe it's just GSM(slowly GPRS as well). In Korea they don't have game consoles and everything is standardised on the PC (did they pay MS for all the licences?).
Not that I have anything against competition, but sometimes one does wonder if it wouldn't just be easier to skip the competition thing.
I ask myself if the customs officials sending 40 men over to arrest a 29 year old juvenile delinquent and getting the poor fool sentenced to 4 years while fucking bastards like Ebbers and lay get away with a little embarrassment isn't pornography? It seems that it always amounts to the haves whipping out their shlongs and urinating in the faces of the have-nots, and having a good laugh about it while the have-nots grovel about in the dirt, choking.
I wonder when normal people in this century will finally have had enough of being treated like fucking peasants in medieval Europe with agencies, big corporations and governments acting like feudal barons and start to say "Kill the RIAA, Kill the MPAA, Kill Microsoft, Kill the BSA"?
At Vold Solutions seems like he was sort of asking for it in a way. His product "rotate" is dongle protected although a lot of people have known since the days of autocad that dongles offer next to no protection as a cracker will get past it very soon in any case. In fact, dongles only hinder the customer at using the product legally and add incentive to a cracker "just to show off a bit".
I know that while his company survives off this single product, and it has a limited niche target market, I can't imagine many people wanting to use a crack of this thing. A product like this lives and dies on the support offered by the vendor, not on the protection offered by the dongle. My guess is that old Havard Vold was just too pickled pink at the free publicity offered by the NYT article.
Good book, just read most of it. One can see the guy worked for Microsoft: Towards the end he couldn't stop using the word "Evangerlism" in every second sentence. If there was ever anything that shows how the company painsts itself onto it's employees, this book is it.
I liked his article because it makes so much sense in this FUD filled area of which OS to use. Linux needs to be able to accept criticism to grow. Without criticism, the OS stagnates. His points on framebuffers are also interesting. X is the one thing that to me makes Linux ungainly. A much smaller system that would be more modular (not confined to GTK) would be nice.
I would propose that if OSS companies or development groups need money or funds, they start their own Bank with very specific terms, interests, investments etc. If the bank is formed like a farmers cooperative, then instead of cash, transactions can done in a form of money that would be a binding form of IOU. Transactions would work a little like this: 1.You give me 100 IOU's for my work on a project of yours. 2.I give 50 IOU's of the 100 that I earned towards someone who will spend time helping me to get XFree86 to install and work easily on xxx laptop. 3.Some company, e.g. SuSE, gives me 20 IOU's so I'll write up some documentation on getting their distro to work on xxx laptop. etc etc. The point would be that this would be a). as legally binding as the GPL and b). would involve no cash.
I'm sure there would be a lot of legal wrangles to work out, but there is a sort of similar system in use here in Switzerland (indeed some of my salary is paid out in this way). It provides a good method of barter in lieu of traditional cash, which is always at the whim of the stock market and is much , much more restistant to fat, greedy corporate bosses trying to fuck you over.
As I'm in the market for a new laptop, I've been doing some research and have come to the conclusion that the Market is indeed getting narrower for Apple. Since I really would prefer a Powerbook to a x86 machine and since this is/. , here is my wishlist: 1.2 x G5 @ 1.5GHz and fat DDR in a Tower near you. 2.New iBook with a G4 in it @ 800MHz 3.New Powerbook with a G4 @ 1GHz 4.iMac with 17" screen and 1GHz inside(tm) 5.OSX 10.2 6.Lots of money.
I personally am not surprised. Microsoft, in the person of nerdboy Gates and sweatfactory Ballmer, must have been insenced recently in reading all the press reports about the desaster that the XBox has become. Microsoft will never just drop it completely. They will do as they have done with every single other product that they have: They will modify it into version 2.0 and 3.0 etc until it finally gets accepted through sheer weight of numbers. My idea is that this is simply Microsoft at it's best trying to deny market access for anyone else who doesn't want to get owned by them. They will obviously try to patent key areas of OpenGL, only in order to later deny anyone else the right to use it, all to the advantage of DirectX. This will all go into XBox2, with which MS will probably try to make it illegal to use OpenGL.
I am very glad that it looks like the EU is going to ban Software Patents. In the end Europe will be more inviting to competition in the Software field.
I sometimes think you Americans deserve a company like Microsoft: You complain long and loud how monopolistic, evil etc they are, but the minute someone outside the US actually does something about it, then that someone is immediately either communist (the EU in general), fascist (anything to do with Germany) or incompetent (usually some comment on France). This says more about stereotypes in American consciousness than anything else.
The EU is definitely not paradise, but they have a fairly good record of not blowing too much money on things which the tax payers have to foot, and OSS makes a lot of sense for me as a tax payer(cost), me as a citizen(the source code) and me as a programmer(the development stays here in Europe and not in Redmond).
The person who asked which country will pay for this: They will obviously have to work some agreement out on sharing of costs, but I see that being a lot easier to get through the various parliments than explaining that our tax money goes to a company in Washington State.
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Apple truly does make their machines and OS extremely easy to use for a beginner. An OSX user never has to see the console or a command line. The hardware is of generally very good quality (my old powertbook has been running for three years now without one problem ever.).
Why is it that every single post on some good idea that does not come from the USA ends up on /. getting trolled and flamebaited to all hell? One would think , or at least hope, that the kind of people who frequent /. would be a little bit more open minded than that.
Apart from that, I like the idea of this experiment that the Russians are doing. Apart from turning ICBM's into space launchers and having a good way of protecting packages that must return to earth, it seems like it is providing the basic research for Astronaut emergency reentry technology.
1.A common clipboard that works across KDE/Gnome etc.
2.The schism between KDE and GNOME is hurting acceptance of Linux on the desktop. INteroperability would be of tremendous value here.
3.Make it easier to connect to the internet i.e. set it up. I have seen many users stumped because the internet configuration didn't work.
I appreciate, even though it is probably coincidental, that Apple did NOT attack the press for reporting this hole before they had a chance to plug it. It has been a reasonably quick, mature response. Unlike another company that we all know that seems incapable of fixing holes without having a go at all "enemies" on the side.
If Apple wants their computer and OS to pass the testing I think they should get the upgrade vulnerability patched pretty soon.
You mean like one of those things on a game console controler? In place of a mouse? Wouldn't that be a bit of overkill with a PDA having a stylus?
Strange, the way the modding goes on /. sometimes. I genuinely was just speculating, but I suppose if someone's in a bad mood...
This might of course just be one of those attempts to troll /., but that jog wheel in the lower portion of the device looks very much like Apple's iPod control wheel. Given that there have been many rumours of Apple/Palm cooperation and that Palm OS5 is supposed to have all sorts of new features, examples of which are improved QuickTime compatibility, and possibly inclusion of Apple's Ink handwriting technology, there could be some basis to these rumours. Apples' cracking down on rumour websites, as well as Palm offsetting risks to Apple entering the PDA market would be further grounds for interesting news next week at the MWNY.
IIRC there are about 200 000 objects ranging from milimeter size pieces to fat chunks of metal in orbit around our planet. Someday one is going to take out a spacecraft or satellite or damage one seriously. Obviously, it is going to be a lot of work to get rid of these pieces of scrap. So my carefully thought out proposition ;)...
1.Catalogue them -- A database with all known objects and their orbits is the obvious first step
2.Build a sateliite with a relatively low power laser, charged by solar panels. An alternative would be a simple kind of large, thick metal "shield" that would simply get in the way of the space debris.
3.Place a ion engine on the craft.
4.Write software that would automatically select the nearest target from the db and move the satelite into position to evaporate or impact with the debris.
5.Very importantly, have an operator or command center that would be required by the software to OK each impact so that the satelite doesn't get misused or highjacked.
6.If using the satelite with a big metal "target shield", eventually the shield will become useless. It can be pushed into reentry by the ion engine and can then burn up on reentry, the ion engine then climbs back into normal orbit and is fitted out with a new shield by a drone rocket.
7.It will take many years but will start to show progress over time. Good that it will give the operators in the command center work and enable them to read books, playgames etc inbetween hits.
This frightens me badly. Judging from the success that the FBI have had at tracing certain people involved in last year's Anthrax spree (at least one of the suspects was involved in biowarfare trials against blacks in South Africa in the '80s), I shudder to think what one pissed off reseacher could do and how the inept security agencies would not be able to do anything about it.
There is quite a large discrepancy between the US and Europe in terms of mobile coverage and use. In Europe the fact that I don't have a landline (Mobile and Cable) is not special or out of the ordinary. Mobile coverage is almost 100% across the continent. And it boils down to one thing really: Standards. I think in the US you have three competeing standards. Here in Europe it's just GSM(slowly GPRS as well). In Korea they don't have game consoles and everything is standardised on the PC (did they pay MS for all the licences?).
Not that I have anything against competition, but sometimes one does wonder if it wouldn't just be easier to skip the competition thing.
The developer tools are free on Mac OSX, just as is trolling on /.
Get your extra memory elsewhere. Apple charges a lot more for memory than 3rd party places.
I ask myself if the customs officials sending 40 men over to arrest a 29 year old juvenile delinquent and getting the poor fool sentenced to 4 years while fucking bastards like Ebbers and lay get away with a little embarrassment isn't pornography? It seems that it always amounts to the haves whipping out their shlongs and urinating in the faces of the have-nots, and having a good laugh about it while the have-nots grovel about in the dirt, choking.
I wonder when normal people in this century will finally have had enough of being treated like fucking peasants in medieval Europe with agencies, big corporations and governments acting like feudal barons and start to say "Kill the RIAA, Kill the MPAA, Kill Microsoft, Kill the BSA"?
At Vold Solutions seems like he was sort of asking for it in a way. His product "rotate" is dongle protected although a lot of people have known since the days of autocad that dongles offer next to no protection as a cracker will get past it very soon in any case. In fact, dongles only hinder the customer at using the product legally and add incentive to a cracker "just to show off a bit".
I know that while his company survives off this single product, and it has a limited niche target market, I can't imagine many people wanting to use a crack of this thing. A product like this lives and dies on the support offered by the vendor, not on the protection offered by the dongle. My guess is that old Havard Vold was just too pickled pink at the free publicity offered by the NYT article.
It looks like Microsoft adapted well to the problem of source control and building.
Good book, just read most of it. One can see the guy worked for Microsoft: Towards the end he couldn't stop using the word "Evangerlism" in every second sentence. If there was ever anything that shows how the company painsts itself onto it's employees, this book is it.
Ah-fucking-men! OSX is golden and would have solved this guy's problems.
I liked his article because it makes so much sense in this FUD filled area of which OS to use. Linux needs to be able to accept criticism to grow. Without criticism, the OS stagnates. His points on framebuffers are also interesting. X is the one thing that to me makes Linux ungainly. A much smaller system that would be more modular (not confined to GTK) would be nice.
I would propose that if OSS companies or development groups need money or funds, they start their own Bank with very specific terms, interests, investments etc. If the bank is formed like a farmers cooperative, then instead of cash, transactions can done in a form of money that would be a binding form of IOU. Transactions would work a little like this:
1.You give me 100 IOU's for my work on a project of yours.
2.I give 50 IOU's of the 100 that I earned towards someone who will spend time helping me to get XFree86 to install and work easily on xxx laptop.
3.Some company, e.g. SuSE, gives me 20 IOU's so I'll write up some documentation on getting their distro to work on xxx laptop.
etc etc.
The point would be that this would be a). as legally binding as the GPL and b). would involve no cash.
I'm sure there would be a lot of legal wrangles to work out, but there is a sort of similar system in use here in Switzerland (indeed some of my salary is paid out in this way). It provides a good method of barter in lieu of traditional cash, which is always at the whim of the stock market and is much , much more restistant to fat, greedy corporate bosses trying to fuck you over.
As I'm in the market for a new laptop, I've been doing some research and have come to the conclusion that the Market is indeed getting narrower for Apple. Since I really would prefer a Powerbook to a x86 machine and since this is /. , here is my wishlist:
1.2 x G5 @ 1.5GHz and fat DDR in a Tower near you.
2.New iBook with a G4 in it @ 800MHz
3.New Powerbook with a G4 @ 1GHz
4.iMac with 17" screen and 1GHz inside(tm)
5.OSX 10.2
6.Lots of money.
Good thing no one mentioned the UK then, isn't it?
I personally am not surprised. Microsoft, in the person of nerdboy Gates and sweatfactory Ballmer, must have been insenced recently in reading all the press reports about the desaster that the XBox has become. Microsoft will never just drop it completely. They will do as they have done with every single other product that they have: They will modify it into version 2.0 and 3.0 etc until it finally gets accepted through sheer weight of numbers. My idea is that this is simply Microsoft at it's best trying to deny market access for anyone else who doesn't want to get owned by them. They will obviously try to patent key areas of OpenGL, only in order to later deny anyone else the right to use it, all to the advantage of DirectX. This will all go into XBox2, with which MS will probably try to make it illegal to use OpenGL.
I am very glad that it looks like the EU is going to ban Software Patents. In the end Europe will be more inviting to competition in the Software field.
I sometimes think you Americans deserve a company like Microsoft: You complain long and loud how monopolistic, evil etc they are, but the minute someone outside the US actually does something about it, then that someone is immediately either communist (the EU in general), fascist (anything to do with Germany) or incompetent (usually some comment on France). This says more about stereotypes in American consciousness than anything else.
The EU is definitely not paradise, but they have a fairly good record of not blowing too much money on things which the tax payers have to foot, and OSS makes a lot of sense for me as a tax payer(cost), me as a citizen(the source code) and me as a programmer(the development stays here in Europe and not in Redmond).
The person who asked which country will pay for this: They will obviously have to work some agreement out on sharing of costs, but I see that being a lot easier to get through the various parliments than explaining that our tax money goes to a company in Washington State.
This is the same company that owns Hotmail, that well known porn spamming, personal info relay service.
And you want to give them your CC number?