I think that was one of the Opera 8 betas that had a BitTorrent client included, and now Firefox is getting a somewhat similar functionality.
Mixing the web with BT could have nice implications, could be interesting to have i.e. the bt:// protocol, embed into pages images or files that goes to the bt network (a la img src=bt://whatever.jpg, with good implications for people that want to publish things but dont have huge bandwidth. But for now, the mix is not going too far from just a protocol specific download manager.
Lets see... IE getting at last things that competitors have for years, and probably claim after that that they are invented? Mass renaming products? That after this years, still no clue on security? finally adopting RSS after everyone but them in internet adopted them? In general there are few if any "surprise" for me there.
I hope by end of 2006 the top 10 surprises are have something like MS releasing some of their biggest apps for Linux, or had no major security problem in the entire year or promoting one or several already stablished really open source projects (something like solaris, ibm or novell are doing from some years now) or things like that... There are a lot of space for Microsoft to give us good surprises, not needing to be in the "closing doors" sense.
But for now, and specially from the article, my feeling is just "more of the same", nothing very surprising (could be some things i didn't know, or matter, maybe, but not surprised exactly)
Encoding long concepts in very short words sometimes gives a lot of room for misinterpretations. For a world where the biggest program should have been Lotus 123 1.0 640k should had looked like plenty of ram. But the computer had far lot more potential than just running lotus or wordstar, so saying that certain amount of memory is just too much was looking at things in a very shortsighted way.
With internet and bandwith will happens the same. Thinking internet as mostly text-only html web pages or with small graphics, and then that broadband could not matter is making the same kind of mistake.
Incidentally, if someone says today that 640Kbps should be enough for anyone (that is another interpretation of the same short text) will make the same mistake. Internet radio/tv as very common things, combining existing features (i.e. im/voip/googlemaps/etc), etc, are things that potentially could need a lot of bandwidth to take full advantage of all that can do.
is something open source normally cant afford. And when common english words gets trademarks (Windows anyone?) even if they are pretty useful to describe what the program does, you are in disadvantage in that arena.
Giving descriptive names to programs also limits what they can do, or get non-intuitive results when do more than what the name says (like pressing the start button to end working, or running the kill command to revive a task)
Anyway, where is the hard to remember part in commands like fsck, gawk or grep? How can you forget things like unzip, strip and touch? Whats more descriptive to program function than name like apache, samba or gimp? Using linux implies more than just using a computer, but adopting a bit a whole culture. That is bad or good? As always, it depends on the case.
Other question you can make yourself is... for what kind of applications? Im pretty comfortable with perl for system administration, or php for small but very useful web apps. Going for desktop, embedded, web, mainly for one or another OS, etc apps could change what is the "best" language you should pick. If well languages are somewhat "converging" in features and semantics, still your pick could depend on your target.
Will be specially funny for me to see that, as i was a somewhat victim of that kind of experiment. Some christmas ago i was dinning with my family, in some moment out of nowhere something hit me in an arm over an elbow, and after trying to search what happened we found a bullet in the floor. Even if it had to go thru a zinc ceiling not sure what could had happen if it hitted me in the head or in a more fleshy part of the body.
At least now i can say that for the testings made so far, i'm bulletproof... the only one that hitted me so far bounced.
All long walks starts with a modest first step. If this open the door (or at least, gives the hint that is possible) to more/bigger/fundamental collaborations, then is something to be happy about.
Individual schools are not that isolated from the world. They probably teach or have needs common to the other schools of their area, state or country, so the development of what they need (that probably could be in good part open source) could be shared with other schools or even government.
But if there is one particular need for one particular school, there is always the possibility of developing over this, thing that could have hard or impossible on closed systems.
When choosing between KDE and Gnome i dont put too strong enphasis on apps, unless they are too much integrated (i.e. konqueror or nautilus) as most apps could be used in the "other" desktop environment.
And about apps, if well im sold to KDE since years ago, know about and use some apps that are very related to gnome, like gnumeric, gaim, gimp, evolution, abiword and probably a lot more good examples.
But what about what is the "desktop" itself? I still feel KDE more rounded up, more consistant, more like all work in the same way, than in gnome. And if well i undestand Torvalds critics, i feel that having that much power a group focused in improving the desktop usability is somewhat a very good point to gnome... just maybe them have to understand that power and easy to use are not 2 separate concepts, and could be a way to give both simplicity for the beginner and power for the one that want to do more.
Not just inside zip files... what i remember from the 1st days of gmail, it dont let in files with executable extensions (windows style, i.e. not only exe, com, or dll, but also others like chm), and the same was controlled for compressed files with those files attached. So i dont think i ever received a virus/worm/whatever in gmail, since im using it, as you could not receive that kind of files.
They are going back in that policy, accepting all kind of extensions, or is just another level of protection scanning the files they are letting in (i.e. scanning a dangerous.renametoexe attached file) ?
Ok, dont tell me, that dont even enter into the "Vaporware" category, is just thin air.
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Thats remember me of the story of eskimos having a hundred names for snow. More than that being truth or not, the idea is that having just one language you miss a lot of the expresiveness of current languages, all of them. Also, if you born language in a way or another influence how you think, probably you will missing a lot more than just meaningful words unifying that. And probably all of this can be applied very closely to desktop environments.
Im updating right now my SuSE 10 with apt to the new KDE. But check this list of additional yast repositories for more things to install, including updated KDE.
And even between the ones that "require" purchasing, probably they are counting the "Enterprise" versions of packaged linux, i.e. not just redhat but redhat advanced server, not just suse but the enterprise version.
From that point of view, Microsoft could claim that "the number of company supported server OSs market share is bigger for Windows". I can take that were sold or even used around the world more Windows Servers than Enterprise versions of Linux distributions... but from there, to say that Windows server is more used than linux is a big shot
Where you draw the line between deciding when a myth worths be tested or not? Some (i.e. the elevator) the real busting of the myth was more out-of-testing math (in that case, substracting to the speed you should be falling at the speed you can jump up) than doing the (noisy/expensive/destructive) test. When you decide than is better show graphically something than using simple er... "common sense"? (yes, i know the show have nothing to do with common sense).
In the same topic, have you found a myth that can't be graphically dispelled, that must be done with math/common sense, and worths putting it in the show because is a common misconcept?
And what about myths that can be acted, but in a way or another can't be showed on tv? Don't have to go to i.e. sex myths, maybe even the "all cats land on their feet" myth could be dangerous to show if some potential damage is showed on camera (i know, is a weak example, but shows the idea)
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Related to the McGyver, several "magic" things from Bond movies were disspelled, what about McGyver show ones? I think i remember one about soldering with a coin and a battery (not have clear memory on that), but could be more dramatic examples.
.. by Dan Simmons. As with Dune, Enders Game (also missing), etc, the rest of the serie could not be as good as the 1st book, but still, is one of the best sci-fi books i had read so far.
For some adults, getting one will seem to be as easy as stealing candy (er, laptop) from a baby. What kind of security/legal/whatever measures will be taken to avoid this?
The alternative question is not if Linux is ready, but if people is. A lot of people that wanted to experiment, or had no fear to try something different is using Linux or at least considered it. But in the other hand, you have users that complain/yell/cry if buttons with the same, exact text, shape and meaning are not in the same screen area that is used to be. There is a wide range of users, but while you still have people that want things as used to be to do a companywide change is hard.
The program policies seems to be targetted for a particular use of Google Base, in an eBay clone or something similar, while the potential so far looks far beyond that. Is like google invented the brick, and the policies are like "you must have a door" as if houses are the only thing that can be built with bricks.
Maybe those policies are somewhat standard for ebay-like sites, but as non american didnt liked the items or landing pages targetting US must be in English, as there could be some for the i.e. spanish (or any other language) community in US.
Also as living in a country not covered by Google Maps (Uruguay, at least in the non-satellital view mode) the location part is actually doing some discrimination (i.e. i can have a map pointing to my whatever resource and you cant). I know should be matter of time, i know that not even the US are fully covered, but when you start to integrate features, and some of them are partial, holes in ones affects the whole thing.
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Mixing the web with BT could have nice implications, could be interesting to have i.e. the bt:// protocol, embed into pages images or files that goes to the bt network (a la img src=bt://whatever.jpg, with good implications for people that want to publish things but dont have huge bandwidth. But for now, the mix is not going too far from just a protocol specific download manager.
I hope by end of 2006 the top 10 surprises are have something like MS releasing some of their biggest apps for Linux, or had no major security problem in the entire year or promoting one or several already stablished really open source projects (something like solaris, ibm or novell are doing from some years now) or things like that... There are a lot of space for Microsoft to give us good surprises, not needing to be in the "closing doors" sense.
But for now, and specially from the article, my feeling is just "more of the same", nothing very surprising (could be some things i didn't know, or matter, maybe, but not surprised exactly)
With internet and bandwith will happens the same. Thinking internet as mostly text-only html web pages or with small graphics, and then that broadband could not matter is making the same kind of mistake.
Incidentally, if someone says today that 640Kbps should be enough for anyone (that is another interpretation of the same short text) will make the same mistake. Internet radio/tv as very common things, combining existing features (i.e. im/voip/googlemaps/etc), etc, are things that potentially could need a lot of bandwidth to take full advantage of all that can do.
Giving descriptive names to programs also limits what they can do, or get non-intuitive results when do more than what the name says (like pressing the start button to end working, or running the kill command to revive a task)
Anyway, where is the hard to remember part in commands like fsck, gawk or grep? How can you forget things like unzip, strip and touch? Whats more descriptive to program function than name like apache, samba or gimp? Using linux implies more than just using a computer, but adopting a bit a whole culture. That is bad or good? As always, it depends on the case.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody", and is true, no? oh, wait
Other question you can make yourself is... for what kind of applications? Im pretty comfortable with perl for system administration, or php for small but very useful web apps. Going for desktop, embedded, web, mainly for one or another OS, etc apps could change what is the "best" language you should pick. If well languages are somewhat "converging" in features and semantics, still your pick could depend on your target.
At least now i can say that for the testings made so far, i'm bulletproof... the only one that hitted me so far bounced.
All long walks starts with a modest first step. If this open the door (or at least, gives the hint that is possible) to more/bigger/fundamental collaborations, then is something to be happy about.
But if there is one particular need for one particular school, there is always the possibility of developing over this, thing that could have hard or impossible on closed systems.
And about apps, if well im sold to KDE since years ago, know about and use some apps that are very related to gnome, like gnumeric, gaim, gimp, evolution, abiword and probably a lot more good examples.
But what about what is the "desktop" itself? I still feel KDE more rounded up, more consistant, more like all work in the same way, than in gnome. And if well i undestand Torvalds critics, i feel that having that much power a group focused in improving the desktop usability is somewhat a very good point to gnome... just maybe them have to understand that power and easy to use are not 2 separate concepts, and could be a way to give both simplicity for the beginner and power for the one that want to do more.
But now del!.icio!.us! will not a safe password anymore
And speaking of archivillains, er... well, Gates is non fictional, sorry.
They are going back in that policy, accepting all kind of extensions, or is just another level of protection scanning the files they are letting in (i.e. scanning a dangerous.renametoexe attached file) ?
Ok, dont tell me, that dont even enter into the "Vaporware" category, is just thin air.
Thats remember me of the story of eskimos having a hundred names for snow. More than that being truth or not, the idea is that having just one language you miss a lot of the expresiveness of current languages, all of them. Also, if you born language in a way or another influence how you think, probably you will missing a lot more than just meaningful words unifying that. And probably all of this can be applied very closely to desktop environments.
Im updating right now my SuSE 10 with apt to the new KDE. But check this list of additional yast repositories for more things to install, including updated KDE.
From that point of view, Microsoft could claim that "the number of company supported server OSs market share is bigger for Windows". I can take that were sold or even used around the world more Windows Servers than Enterprise versions of Linux distributions... but from there, to say that Windows server is more used than linux is a big shot
In the same topic, have you found a myth that can't be graphically dispelled, that must be done with math/common sense, and worths putting it in the show because is a common misconcept?
And what about myths that can be acted, but in a way or another can't be showed on tv? Don't have to go to i.e. sex myths, maybe even the "all cats land on their feet" myth could be dangerous to show if some potential damage is showed on camera (i know, is a weak example, but shows the idea)
Related to the McGyver, several "magic" things from Bond movies were disspelled, what about McGyver show ones? I think i remember one about soldering with a coin and a battery (not have clear memory on that), but could be more dramatic examples.
.. by Dan Simmons. As with Dune, Enders Game (also missing), etc, the rest of the serie could not be as good as the 1st book, but still, is one of the best sci-fi books i had read so far.
For some adults, getting one will seem to be as easy as stealing candy (er, laptop) from a baby. What kind of security/legal/whatever measures will be taken to avoid this?
The alternative question is not if Linux is ready, but if people is. A lot of people that wanted to experiment, or had no fear to try something different is using Linux or at least considered it. But in the other hand, you have users that complain/yell/cry if buttons with the same, exact text, shape and meaning are not in the same screen area that is used to be. There is a wide range of users, but while you still have people that want things as used to be to do a companywide change is hard.
... an independent study commisioned by the Vatican demostrates that God exist.
Also as living in a country not covered by Google Maps (Uruguay, at least in the non-satellital view mode) the location part is actually doing some discrimination (i.e. i can have a map pointing to my whatever resource and you cant). I know should be matter of time, i know that not even the US are fully covered, but when you start to integrate features, and some of them are partial, holes in ones affects the whole thing.