Let's face it, the iPod is pretty much entrenched as the de-facto standard for mp3/DAPs.
It doesn't matter why, or how, or if it sucks, or if it's cool. The fact is, it's #1, and it's got a ridiculous amount of momentum. I mean, they're making car adapters for the freaking thing. They make stereos with iPod adapters that cost more than the iPod itself.
It's hard to beat that kind of momentum.
In general, you can go high or you can go low. With the iPod, you can't really go low, because of the shuffle. I mean, how can you beat the shuffle? It's cheap, it works, and it's got the iPod brand.
Go high? How? What kind of ridiculous stuff could you put on a DAP that would make it more expensive than an iPod? How could you sell enough of them to make any money?
The fact is, the iPod may be dominant enough that all the other players get killed off...except at the low end, where one-feature USB players might squeak out a living as giveaways. Nobody's making the kind of money that Apple is in the mp3 player market. That trend will likely continue.
From a business point of view, well, the other player manufacturers can see their trends, and they're trending downwards. Would you rather get out now while you're making money, or wait until you start losing money?
Where does that leave the midrange players? Niche verticals?
One thing is they have to change the game, or they'll get squished. Apple has successfully straddled every price point from $100 to $450. There's not a lot of room left for pricing. There's not a lot of room left for features, either.
Maybe the subscription stuff will work out. But one FairPlay subscription license from Apple would kill that whole market dead. Maybe that's what they're waiting for?
One interesting side-effect of on-line music stores is that it makes pricing transparent. For example, a FairPlay DRM'd song is worth $1. A subscription-DRM song costs, well, pennies or less, depending on your plan. A non-DRM'd song costs about $2 (buy the CD). A radio version is free. A Sirius/XM is free. Makes it hard to sue for damages, doesn't it?
Realistically speaking, it's unlikely that your accounts are going to get p0wn3d by anyone.
However, if you're using public machines that have keloggers on them, then someone put those keyloggers there for a reason. That reason probably isn't to monitor the effectiveness of internet filtering at that particular location.
The best advice would be to make sure their hotmail (or whatever webmail they're using) password isn't the same as the password on their other accounts. Delete all the mail after it's read, or else someone will read them.
Don't log into any secure websites, etc. Just read (and delete) your email.
It's amusing, but ORDBs are just too complicated for the market.
They should be simple, but they're not. Plus, the implementation tends to tie you to a given vendor. It's not a real problem since most people never move off of their database, but people don't like thinking about it too much.
The relational model is nice because it's easy to understand, and you can always flatten an object graph into tables if you need to. You can also poke around and visually see the structure, which is nice.
Lastly, there's no real benefit too ORDBs compared to RDBMSs. People can do everything they need/want to do today with RDBMS, so there's no reason to move. There hasn't been anything really compelling, I suppose.
Everything about the chips is different - exception handling, ISA, etc.
This statement is completely wrong.
The only reason that the transition was seamless to users is the excellent 68k emulator that Apple wrote that operated so well that people can make incorrect statements like the one above.
One problem with the boom days is that people were building out infrastructure without a lot of information as to (1) how much infrastructure was enough, and (2) without a real business driver.
This is probably due to the lack of experience in most corporations at the time. If you listened to vendors, you needed multiple redundant 64-way Sun boxes to keep your website up and running. Oh, and you'll need a couple of T-1s to feed all that, firewalls, multiple DMZs, and the management software for it.
These days people know that's BS. Why do we need GigE to the desktop? We don't. That's stupid. Why do we need more horsepower? We don't. It's not cost effective. Does this piece of software or hardware actually help our business make money? No? Don't buy it then.
Really, IT supports business. It's an enabling technology, but back in the day nobody really knew enough to figure out what parts really were worth it and what parts weren't. The vendors, obviously, oversold everything. The press were just as ignorant as the customers.
Even today, finding scalability/load/capacity information for most equipment is difficult to impossible. Luckily, now there's a body of knowledge (lore) that you can draw on. Before, there was nothing except vendor propaganda.
You're confusing Friedman the op-ed guy with Friedman the author.
Most of the columnists there aren't worth reading. Herbert, Dowd, Krugman, et al are washed up hacks who's only job is preaching to the choir.
How bad are they? They're so bad that their guest op-ed columnist last summer blew them all away by showing writing that was well-thought, intelligent, and cogent. He tried to convince you instead of falling back into beating-the-drum cliches.
That was Henry Louis Gates, Jr (no relation). Wow, what a writer he was. He really made them all look bad, which is probably why he wasn't invited back.
I mean, who the heck would pay for Bob "voter intimidation" Herbert?
One thing that everyone forgot about is that in the early days of PDAs there wasn't a really good way to move information between your PIM (Personal Information Manager) and your PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
For those lucky enough, you could get your secretary to do it. For everyone else, well, the process involved a lot of typing. And PDAs weren't really made for data entry, as you can imagine.
Enter IntelliSync, by IntelliLink. They were the first (I believe) data synchronization software independent of the manufacturer or OS. In fact, they were often rebranded by the manufacturer.
They made it less painful to synchronize with your PDA. As a bonus, it was possible to move between handhelds by synchronizing to your data from one source to another.
This, of course, was before the Palm Pilot, which probably had the best information synchronization feature of any PDA to date. Instead of being an add-on, it was "part of the package" and worked really well. That, coupled with the small form factor and massive (for the time) data capacity made the US Robotics Palm Pilot a must-have.
One problem that any search engine has is getting URLs.
How do you index URLs? Simple: you start someplace and spider out from there.
What if people are going directly to unlinked, or unindexable pages?
Well heck, you stick something in the way so you see everyplace they go.
Simple. GWA is just a way for Google to get a lead on the "dark web," just like the google toolbar. From your point of view, it speeds stuff up somewhat. That's it!
Bill Gates is just looking to cause trouble. Nothing Microsoft does will match Office and Windows. As everyone knows they earn Billions of dollars a year.
Everything else Microsoft does is a sideshow.
They wouldn't even be in the consumer market except for the fact that their product is required to use x86 PCs (mostly).
The only consumer Microsoft understands is...well, they don't understand any consumers, really. They are a monopoly. Businesses have to buy their products. Even Pitney Bowes competes with someone. Microsoft just competes with older versions of its software.
The media, though, haven't figured this out yet because reporters are stupid and lazy. Plus they're always trolling for drama. Computer reporters especially are drama junkies. They have to be - the industry is so freaking boring that they need something to keep their lame existence interesting.
Well, at first I thought he was an evangelist or a product manager. The problem is that he bridges divisions inside Apple, knows too much, and is not afraid.
That means he's Avie Tevannian (80% probability). I was thinking Phil Shiller, but a marketing guy would never say the word "dumb" when he could use another word that was more buzzword compliant. Plus, only a technical guy would whack the competition (couldn't resist, huh?).
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That said, let's get to a use case that shows what he's talking about.
The bad thing about TiVo (and TV) is simple: if you miss a show, you're hosed. Not if you miss an episode, if you miss the whole show. That happened to this season with Lost and Veronica Mars. By the time I heard about them, they were already up to episode 15. Tivo can't go back in time and record shows it didn't know you liked.
However, they all are available on bittorrent. And as it was, I downloaded all of them for viewing when the season ends, so I (and some friends) can do a blow-out marathon.
However, I need to get those episodes from the machine upstairs to the TV. Right now I have a firewire drive that I carry from upstairs to the laptop downstairs. This sucks. The laptop attached to the TV is too slow to stream over wireless, and it's just powerful enough to play the videos (it's an old Toshiba P3).
Enter AirView, or whatever the heck Apple's going to call it. I'll just stream the video downstairs, like StreamBox. Maybe the box features DivX and H.263 decoding, and has one of those hdmi connectors for a pure signal.
Then go back a little: in iTMS I can buy the season that's running while it's on, so I don't have to miss anything. Plus the show gets direct revenue from the customer - today.
This is one of the hidden benefit of TV shows on DVD - the syndication model of TV has been broken. You can sell the show -while it's on TV-! You can get revenue today, for shows that were watched yesterday. Unbelievable. Heck, with FireFly, they made money off the DVD and got a movie out of it. This is an interesting new model, and it's unclear if it's sustainable.
Anyhow, it's speculation, but not too far afield. A few more years and we'll see.
But it's interesting how Apple is moving stuff forwards. You don't see some MS person spouting anything interesting these days, do you?
One incredibly important tidbit is buried in the article: regions.
"One critical advance from the Lisa team came from an Apple engineer who was not a former PARC employee, but had seen the demonstration of Smalltalk. He thought he had witnessed the Alto's ability to redraw portions of obscured windows when a topmost window was moved: this was called "regions". In fact, the Alto did not have this ability, but merely redrew the entire window when the user selected it. Despite the difficulty of this task, regions were implemented in the Lisa architecture and remain in GUIs to this day."
That man was Bill Atkinson, and he came up with region drawing code that Apple patented. It's the reason that Apple's GUI was brutally faster than any other GUI out there. What was great about it was that it not only did rectangular regions, it was able to handle arbitrarily complex regions.
It's worth it to go over the patent, if you get the chance. It just goes to show that a misunderstanding can have incredibly positive repurcussions.
True, but the problem (at least in China) is they need to keep the appearance that they're "business-friendly."
That means not blocking VPN access, or at least it does now. The Global 500 guys that go back & forth aren't going to not tap into their corporate networks from China.
That said, there may be a time where this sort of access is disallowed. But that time is probably far in the future. If they're suspicious of you, they'll just confiscate your laptop.
One problem with cron is you can't run something on a specific date if that date is too far out.
For example, let's say you need to run a job in 3 weeks. Easy, right? How about run it in 12 months and 1 day from today. Well hmm, looks like there's no way to specify that, because if you specify it the way you think, it'll run tomorrow. Doh!
That's an irritating limitation that you can get around by using "at". The problem with 'at' is you have no idea what queue number your file is, so if you want to cancel a job you have to run through the at queue, look for a telltale, then use that to figure out the queue number.
Gee, what a PITA.
Why not have the ability to schedule a job at a specific time (returning a token), then be able to manipulate that job using that particular token?
I have no idea if launchd does that, but pratically every other scheduler on earth does. -That's- why it's better to replace all those annoying and limited utils with one that's built-in and supported.
The parent may seem like a Troll, but I've worked on Darin Adler's code before, and it's "messy."
That said, the problem for KHTML is that they're working with Rolling Thunder. I mean come on, these dudes are cranking the stuff out. They're not going to take the time to go through Radar and pull their changelists.
If you can't keep up, stay home.
Doing stuff like this isn't going to win you any friends either.
Here are two prime locations where you can get bootleg DVDs:
* near Century 21 downtown (behind Trinity Church) * near South Streeet Seaport. Specifically, Fulton street
That wasn't so hard, was it?
Instead of giving them "gratuities" they should have classified it as "walking around money." That way Democrats wouldn't be able to criticize them, because they'd be criticizing their own party's methods.
The common fallacy that people have about Microsoft is that there can be competition with Microsoft.
While Microsoft and the public believes that it has competitors, it really doens't have competitors in the segments that bring in the revenue: Applications and OS.
Will MS Office really be unseated? It's installed base is so massive that people still use Office 97. Will Windows be unseated? It's installed base is so massive that people still use Windows 95.
Most MS products installed today are perfectly adequate for their task: business computing. If Microsoft stopped developing new releases of Windows and Office, they'd still be pulling in billions of dollars a year in licensing.
The reason they pretend to compete is because it's the only way to keep their employees motivated. It's the only way to keep Wall Street satisfied. It's the only way to keep the press satisfied.
But from a customer point of view, w2k was a perfectly good OS. Office 97 was perfectly fine.
That's the disconnect that everyone has between Microsoft and the market. Google, Linux, and MacOS X don't really compete with Microsoft in any meaningful way. If Microsoft shut down for 3 years it would still have an overwhelming share of the largest markets.
These political spats are fun, but realistically speaking, this is degenerating into an episode of "The Simple Life."
Next thing you know, Torvalis will be breaking up with Perens because "well, he knows what he did."
Person 1 liked a tool. Person 2's actions caused the first person to lose rights to his tool. Person 1 vents. Person 3 vents on Person 1. BFD.
Soon, there will be a group hug and an exchange of hair care products. End of story. Welcome to "life in the big leagues of software." Tune in next week, when Person 5 attempts to purchase a voltage regulator.
Yeah, except they "forgot" to tell everyone what that switch is.
I dumped defaults and sysctl, and there wasn't anything. So now I'll plow through all my plists looking for the "I'm a retard" switch so I can turn it off.
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Let's face it, the iPod is pretty much entrenched as the de-facto standard for mp3/DAPs.
It doesn't matter why, or how, or if it sucks, or if it's cool. The fact is, it's #1, and it's got a ridiculous amount of momentum. I mean, they're making car adapters for the freaking thing. They make stereos with iPod adapters that cost more than the iPod itself.
It's hard to beat that kind of momentum.
In general, you can go high or you can go low. With the iPod, you can't really go low, because of the shuffle. I mean, how can you beat the shuffle? It's cheap, it works, and it's got the iPod brand.
Go high? How? What kind of ridiculous stuff could you put on a DAP that would make it more expensive than an iPod? How could you sell enough of them to make any money?
The fact is, the iPod may be dominant enough that all the other players get killed off...except at the low end, where one-feature USB players might squeak out a living as giveaways. Nobody's making the kind of money that Apple is in the mp3 player market. That trend will likely continue.
From a business point of view, well, the other player manufacturers can see their trends, and they're trending downwards. Would you rather get out now while you're making money, or wait until you start losing money?
Where does that leave the midrange players? Niche verticals?
One thing is they have to change the game, or they'll get squished. Apple has successfully straddled every price point from $100 to $450. There's not a lot of room left for pricing. There's not a lot of room left for features, either.
Maybe the subscription stuff will work out. But one FairPlay subscription license from Apple would kill that whole market dead. Maybe that's what they're waiting for?
One interesting side-effect of on-line music stores is that it makes pricing transparent. For example, a FairPlay DRM'd song is worth $1. A subscription-DRM song costs, well, pennies or less, depending on your plan. A non-DRM'd song costs about $2 (buy the CD). A radio version is free. A Sirius/XM is free. Makes it hard to sue for damages, doesn't it?
I'll take my anecdote and raise you another anecdote!
Realistically speaking, it's unlikely that your accounts are going to get p0wn3d by anyone.
However, if you're using public machines that have keloggers on them, then someone put those keyloggers there for a reason. That reason probably isn't to monitor the effectiveness of internet filtering at that particular location.
The best advice would be to make sure their hotmail (or whatever webmail they're using) password isn't the same as the password on their other accounts. Delete all the mail after it's read, or else someone will read them.
Don't log into any secure websites, etc. Just read (and delete) your email.
Besides that, there's not a lot you can do.
Don't forget to hook up with a VPN if you're using in-flight wi-fi.
www.publicvpn.com works, and it's cheap!
It's amusing, but ORDBs are just too complicated for the market.
They should be simple, but they're not. Plus, the implementation tends to tie you to a given vendor. It's not a real problem since most people never move off of their database, but people don't like thinking about it too much.
The relational model is nice because it's easy to understand, and you can always flatten an object graph into tables if you need to. You can also poke around and visually see the structure, which is nice.
Lastly, there's no real benefit too ORDBs compared to RDBMSs. People can do everything they need/want to do today with RDBMS, so there's no reason to move. There hasn't been anything really compelling, I suppose.
Everything about the chips is different - exception handling, ISA, etc.
This statement is completely wrong.
The only reason that the transition was seamless to users is the excellent 68k emulator that Apple wrote that operated so well that people can make incorrect statements like the one above.
One problem with the boom days is that people were building out infrastructure without a lot of information as to (1) how much infrastructure was enough, and (2) without a real business driver.
This is probably due to the lack of experience in most corporations at the time. If you listened to vendors, you needed multiple redundant 64-way Sun boxes to keep your website up and running. Oh, and you'll need a couple of T-1s to feed all that, firewalls, multiple DMZs, and the management software for it.
These days people know that's BS. Why do we need GigE to the desktop? We don't. That's stupid. Why do we need more horsepower? We don't. It's not cost effective. Does this piece of software or hardware actually help our business make money? No? Don't buy it then.
Really, IT supports business. It's an enabling technology, but back in the day nobody really knew enough to figure out what parts really were worth it and what parts weren't. The vendors, obviously, oversold everything. The press were just as ignorant as the customers.
Even today, finding scalability/load/capacity information for most equipment is difficult to impossible. Luckily, now there's a body of knowledge (lore) that you can draw on. Before, there was nothing except vendor propaganda.
You're confusing Friedman the op-ed guy with Friedman the author.
Most of the columnists there aren't worth reading. Herbert, Dowd, Krugman, et al are washed up hacks who's only job is preaching to the choir.
How bad are they? They're so bad that their guest op-ed columnist last summer blew them all away by showing writing that was well-thought, intelligent, and cogent. He tried to convince you instead of falling back into beating-the-drum cliches.
That was Henry Louis Gates, Jr (no relation). Wow, what a writer he was. He really made them all look bad, which is probably why he wasn't invited back.
I mean, who the heck would pay for Bob "voter intimidation" Herbert?
One thing that everyone forgot about is that in the early days of PDAs there wasn't a really good way to move information between your PIM (Personal Information Manager) and your PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
For those lucky enough, you could get your secretary to do it. For everyone else, well, the process involved a lot of typing. And PDAs weren't really made for data entry, as you can imagine.
Enter IntelliSync, by IntelliLink. They were the first (I believe) data synchronization software independent of the manufacturer or OS. In fact, they were often rebranded by the manufacturer.
They made it less painful to synchronize with your PDA. As a bonus, it was possible to move between handhelds by synchronizing to your data from one source to another.
This, of course, was before the Palm Pilot, which probably had the best information synchronization feature of any PDA to date. Instead of being an add-on, it was "part of the package" and worked really well. That, coupled with the small form factor and massive (for the time) data capacity made the US Robotics Palm Pilot a must-have.
One problem that any search engine has is getting URLs.
How do you index URLs? Simple: you start someplace and spider out from there.
What if people are going directly to unlinked, or unindexable pages?
Well heck, you stick something in the way so you see everyplace they go.
Simple. GWA is just a way for Google to get a lead on the "dark web," just like the google toolbar. From your point of view, it speeds stuff up somewhat. That's it!
Bill Gates is just looking to cause trouble. Nothing Microsoft does will match Office and Windows. As everyone knows they earn Billions of dollars a year.
Everything else Microsoft does is a sideshow.
They wouldn't even be in the consumer market except for the fact that their product is required to use x86 PCs (mostly).
The only consumer Microsoft understands is...well, they don't understand any consumers, really. They are a monopoly. Businesses have to buy their products. Even Pitney Bowes competes with someone. Microsoft just competes with older versions of its software.
The media, though, haven't figured this out yet because reporters are stupid and lazy. Plus they're always trolling for drama. Computer reporters especially are drama junkies. They have to be - the industry is so freaking boring that they need something to keep their lame existence interesting.
Microsoft? Peh.
Well, at first I thought he was an evangelist or a product manager. The problem is that he bridges divisions inside Apple, knows too much, and is not afraid.
That means he's Avie Tevannian (80% probability). I was thinking Phil Shiller, but a marketing guy would never say the word "dumb" when he could use another word that was more buzzword compliant. Plus, only a technical guy would whack the competition (couldn't resist, huh?).
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That said, let's get to a use case that shows what he's talking about.
The bad thing about TiVo (and TV) is simple: if you miss a show, you're hosed. Not if you miss an episode, if you miss the whole show. That happened to this season with Lost and Veronica Mars. By the time I heard about them, they were already up to episode 15. Tivo can't go back in time and record shows it didn't know you liked.
However, they all are available on bittorrent. And as it was, I downloaded all of them for viewing when the season ends, so I (and some friends) can do a blow-out marathon.
However, I need to get those episodes from the machine upstairs to the TV. Right now I have a firewire drive that I carry from upstairs to the laptop downstairs. This sucks. The laptop attached to the TV is too slow to stream over wireless, and it's just powerful enough to play the videos (it's an old Toshiba P3).
Enter AirView, or whatever the heck Apple's going to call it. I'll just stream the video downstairs, like StreamBox. Maybe the box features DivX and H.263 decoding, and has one of those hdmi connectors for a pure signal.
Then go back a little: in iTMS I can buy the season that's running while it's on, so I don't have to miss anything. Plus the show gets direct revenue from the customer - today.
This is one of the hidden benefit of TV shows on DVD - the syndication model of TV has been broken. You can sell the show -while it's on TV-! You can get revenue today, for shows that were watched yesterday. Unbelievable. Heck, with FireFly, they made money off the DVD and got a movie out of it. This is an interesting new model, and it's unclear if it's sustainable.
Anyhow, it's speculation, but not too far afield. A few more years and we'll see.
But it's interesting how Apple is moving stuff forwards. You don't see some MS person spouting anything interesting these days, do you?
One incredibly important tidbit is buried in the article: regions.
"One critical advance from the Lisa team came from an Apple engineer who was not a former PARC employee, but had seen the demonstration of Smalltalk. He thought he had witnessed the Alto's ability to redraw portions of obscured windows when a topmost window was moved: this was called "regions". In fact, the Alto did not have this ability, but merely redrew the entire window when the user selected it. Despite the difficulty of this task, regions were implemented in the Lisa architecture and remain in GUIs to this day."
That man was Bill Atkinson, and he came up with region drawing code that Apple patented. It's the reason that Apple's GUI was brutally faster than any other GUI out there. What was great about it was that it not only did rectangular regions, it was able to handle arbitrarily complex regions.
It's worth it to go over the patent, if you get the chance. It just goes to show that a misunderstanding can have incredibly positive repurcussions.
Note to IBM and SCO: remember to wipe that drive before selling the box on eBay!
That would be an amusing end to the case, wouldn't it?
True, but the problem (at least in China) is they need to keep the appearance that they're "business-friendly."
That means not blocking VPN access, or at least it does now. The Global 500 guys that go back & forth aren't going to not tap into their corporate networks from China.
That said, there may be a time where this sort of access is disallowed. But that time is probably far in the future. If they're suspicious of you, they'll just confiscate your laptop.
One problem with cron is you can't run something on a specific date if that date is too far out.
For example, let's say you need to run a job in 3 weeks. Easy, right? How about run it in 12 months and 1 day from today. Well hmm, looks like there's no way to specify that, because if you specify it the way you think, it'll run tomorrow. Doh!
That's an irritating limitation that you can get around by using "at". The problem with 'at' is you have no idea what queue number your file is, so if you want to cancel a job you have to run through the at queue, look for a telltale, then use that to figure out the queue number.
Gee, what a PITA.
Why not have the ability to schedule a job at a specific time (returning a token), then be able to manipulate that job using that particular token?
I have no idea if launchd does that, but pratically every other scheduler on earth does. -That's- why it's better to replace all those annoying and limited utils with one that's built-in and supported.
The parent may seem like a Troll, but I've worked on Darin Adler's code before, and it's "messy."
That said, the problem for KHTML is that they're working with Rolling Thunder. I mean come on, these dudes are cranking the stuff out. They're not going to take the time to go through Radar and pull their changelists.
If you can't keep up, stay home.
Doing stuff like this isn't going to win you any friends either.
Geez, NYC cops are incredibly lazy.
Here are two prime locations where you can get bootleg DVDs:
* near Century 21 downtown (behind Trinity Church)
* near South Streeet Seaport. Specifically, Fulton street
That wasn't so hard, was it?
Instead of giving them "gratuities" they should have classified it as "walking around money." That way Democrats wouldn't be able to criticize them, because they'd be criticizing their own party's methods.
The common fallacy that people have about Microsoft is that there can be competition with Microsoft.
While Microsoft and the public believes that it has competitors, it really doens't have competitors in the segments that bring in the revenue: Applications and OS.
Will MS Office really be unseated? It's installed base is so massive that people still use Office 97. Will Windows be unseated? It's installed base is so massive that people still use Windows 95.
Most MS products installed today are perfectly adequate for their task: business computing. If Microsoft stopped developing new releases of Windows and Office, they'd still be pulling in billions of dollars a year in licensing.
The reason they pretend to compete is because it's the only way to keep their employees motivated. It's the only way to keep Wall Street satisfied. It's the only way to keep the press satisfied.
But from a customer point of view, w2k was a perfectly good OS. Office 97 was perfectly fine.
That's the disconnect that everyone has between Microsoft and the market. Google, Linux, and MacOS X don't really compete with Microsoft in any meaningful way. If Microsoft shut down for 3 years it would still have an overwhelming share of the largest markets.
But there's no story in that, really.
These political spats are fun, but realistically speaking, this is degenerating into an episode of "The Simple Life."
Next thing you know, Torvalis will be breaking up with Perens because "well, he knows what he did."
Person 1 liked a tool. Person 2's actions caused the first person to lose rights to his tool. Person 1 vents. Person 3 vents on Person 1. BFD.
Soon, there will be a group hug and an exchange of hair care products. End of story. Welcome to "life in the big leagues of software." Tune in next week, when Person 5 attempts to purchase a voltage regulator.
It used to, back in the NeXT days. It's unclear what happened to it. I never heard that it was removed, but nobody uses it.
Theoretically you could shim the ObjC runtime to send UI stuff over the wire. That would be a great hack, if anyone had a lot of free time.
Sigh...missed it grepping for suid and guid. Doh!
AIX supports it, up through at least 5L (last release I used).
You might have been using a system that used the "suppress suid/guid" mount option.
Yeah, except they "forgot" to tell everyone what that switch is.
I dumped defaults and sysctl, and there wasn't anything. So now I'll plow through all my plists looking for the "I'm a retard" switch so I can turn it off.
Thanks, Apple.
When have you ever seen a shell script without an invocation line?
Never.
If it was such a problem, why not make the shell disallow execution of scripts without an explicit invocation line?