What is Apple thinking? They've got fans so dedicated that they're hacking OS-X to run on Intel boxes a full year before any mainstream applications are likely to arrive, and all Apple can think about is how to stop and discourage them.
You put too much faith in Slashdot's write-ups. This has nothing to do with piracy. All Apple can think about* is, in fact, how to make Mac OS X for Intel the best OS it can be, and since they don't have to worry about backwards compatibility yet, they're freely breaking things.
I know that updating for bugfixes is the right things to do... But there's not much incentive to upgrade if your 'universal' binaries won't work on the previous developer system.
You're insane.
These are developer systems that cost $1000 each, you can't buy one without signing an NDA, and next year you'll have to give them back to Apple. If your shiny new universal binary doesn't run on a developer system that hasn't been upgraded to the latest OS from Apple... who the hell cares? The binary you compile when Apple is ready to sell x86-based Macs will run just fine on the x86-based Macs that your customers can actually buy. If some developer hasn't bothered to upgrade to Apple's latest version yet, who cares if your app won't work for him?
Does anyone else think that the whole universal binaries idea is a waste of time?
No, I'm pretty sure it's just you. Do you even know what a universal binary is?
Sure its handy where writing two versions is next to impossible, but realistically, thats not very often.
Yeah, I didn't think so. Go learn something about what's going on here before babbling incoherently about it.
Sorry, but you have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
Taking a static tag-soup HTML page and rewriting it to use compliant code and CSS is a major chore, and that's what was done in those two examples. But to convert a completely dynamic site like Slashdot is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. CmdrTaco has been saying for YEARS that they'd like Slashdot to be redone with valid HTML and CSS, but it's just been too massive a task, and nobody else has stepped up to the plate for the same reason.
So no, this hasn't been done before, and it really is a big deal.
No, but a few years ago they were (sort of like Beanie Babies used to be valuable and now go on eBay for below retail). Low-UID high-karma accounts are valuable to trolls, because it lets them post crap with a +1 bonus and trick people into reading it.
Yer kidding me, they actually have a mechanism for subscribers to point out a dupe and they don't use it? Are they insane?
That's correct. When a new story is posted, it is first available only to subscribers, with a red title bar so you can see it's a preview, posting is disabled, and there's an e-mail link for subscribers to report problems. I've never received a reply to anything I've sent there, and although they do sometimes withdraw a story after posting it for subscribers but before making it available to the rest of you, I haven't seen any evidence that anyone actually monitors that e-mail address, and certainly not on any sort of regular basis.
That doesn't make any sense. Why would you only do it for 3 days and then "evaluate" whether you'll charge or not. Why in the world wouldn't you offer it for at least a week or two before evaluating?
Why don't you think it makes sense to evaluate it after 3 days? That doesn't mean they'll turn it off or start charging money, it means they'll look at it to see what's going on - are people actually using the free service? If not, why not? If so, are they using it to communicate with loved ones, or downloading porn?
Hopefully their review in 3 days will show that people are using the service the way it was intended, and they'll decide to continue the program.
As others have pointed out, people need food and water... but T-Mobile doesn't have food and water on hand. They have this, so they're giving this.
Some apps do set a custom icon for the file, but for files without a custom icon, hit Cmd-J for Show View Options and check the box for "Show icon preview".
I'll wager that a move to x86 was on Apple's mind a long long time before the announcement,
Well, that sounds like a pretty safe bet, since Jobs has explicitly stated that Apple has been building everything on both architectures for the past five years....
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in reality you lock out a good 1-2% of people for arbitrary and probably illegal reasons.
Unless you're a government agency, you can lock people out of your web site for any reason at all.
While it is an interesting project from a hobbyist and academic standpoint, I'm not really sure what practical value it holds
If a hobbyist can do it, so can a spammer with financial motivation. Showing weaknesses in Captcha will help sites to develop better systems so the spammers don't have such an easy time with it.
Actually the first Mac OS with PowerPC support was System 7.1.2, which shipped on the original 6100/60, 7100/66 and 8100/80 in 1994. It was basically System 7.1 with a "PowerPC Enabler" file which, I assume, contained the m68040 emulator.
Remote DSLAMs are certainly nothing new, but usually the connection from the remote DSLAM to the CO is fiber, not copper.
Newer housing developments sometimes have a fiber line that runs into the neighborhood, then copper lines from there to each house, so the phone company doesn't have to run a big bundle of copper all the way back to the CO; a remote DSLAM is the only way to offer DSL to these houses.
What I want to know is, how did they get a reliable 2.3Mbps link to work over 20km of copper?
Normally I'd agree with you, but think about what IBM does. They sell solutions to businesses. IBM isn't contributing to Firefox out of the goodness of their hearts (although it does buy them a little goodwill from those of us who read Slashdot and care about the Mozilla project) - they're doing it because they want to make money. What does this probably mean for IBM? They want to deploy an internal webapp for a company that will pay IBM boatloads of cash, but it needs DHTML accessibility features, which no current browser supports. So, contributing to Firefox was the best way for IBM to make it happen.
So, follow this through. IBM will be deploying Firefox in a corporate setting, on a large scale, so they can use this custom webapp. Juggling browsers is a pain, so these companies will be standardizing on Firefox and not using IE. This means that any web sites the company needs to use cannot be IE-only; they must work in Firefox - so if you've got an IE-only web site, you can either fix it to make it work in Firefox, or they'll go to your competitors.
Percentages aren't everything.
Oh, and did I mention that standardizing on Firefox means one less reason they have to keep Windows on the desktop?
(OK, yeah, there are a dozen other reasons, but at least IE won't be one of them anymore!)
Presumably this could result in the first slice of toast being slightly lighter than subsequent slices, if the toaster has to warm up to toast the first time, but is already hot for subsequent toastings?
What I want to know is, if I finish toasting one slice of bread, and then immediately decide I want to toast another, will it reset and toast the second slice for the correct amount of time, instead of popping up way too early like most toasters do? Of course it would have to take into account that the toaster is already hot, and not toast it for quite as long as the first slice (since it would have taken a little time to warm up at first).
Re:CA doesn't get it re: GPL and "viral"
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There is always a third option: Don't take someone else's code without honoring its license terms in the first place. Write it yourself, if you want to release under a different license.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly what CA has done?
Slashdot Mirror
It's pretty annoying to paste perl code into an IM conversation and wind up with a big yellow smiley face in the middle of your regex, though.
Try not to let my sig scare you too much.
What is Apple thinking? They've got fans so dedicated that they're hacking OS-X to run on Intel boxes a full year before any mainstream applications are likely to arrive, and all Apple can think about is how to stop and discourage them.
You put too much faith in Slashdot's write-ups. This has nothing to do with piracy. All Apple can think about* is, in fact, how to make Mac OS X for Intel the best OS it can be, and since they don't have to worry about backwards compatibility yet, they're freely breaking things.
* OK, they think about iPods too.
I know that updating for bugfixes is the right things to do... But there's not much incentive to upgrade if your 'universal' binaries won't work on the previous developer system.
You're insane.
These are developer systems that cost $1000 each, you can't buy one without signing an NDA, and next year you'll have to give them back to Apple. If your shiny new universal binary doesn't run on a developer system that hasn't been upgraded to the latest OS from Apple... who the hell cares? The binary you compile when Apple is ready to sell x86-based Macs will run just fine on the x86-based Macs that your customers can actually buy. If some developer hasn't bothered to upgrade to Apple's latest version yet, who cares if your app won't work for him?
Does anyone else think that the whole universal binaries idea is a waste of time?
No, I'm pretty sure it's just you. Do you even know what a universal binary is?
Sure its handy where writing two versions is next to impossible, but realistically, thats not very often.
Yeah, I didn't think so. Go learn something about what's going on here before babbling incoherently about it.
ifwarwasforoil.whydoesgascostmorethanbefore.gwb
I'm not entirely sold on the idea that we invaded Iraq for oil, but if it's true, that doesn't mean the goal was making gas cheaper.
When gas prices go up, who pockets the extra money?
Who are GWB's friends?
Sorry, but you have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
Taking a static tag-soup HTML page and rewriting it to use compliant code and CSS is a major chore, and that's what was done in those two examples. But to convert a completely dynamic site like Slashdot is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. CmdrTaco has been saying for YEARS that they'd like Slashdot to be redone with valid HTML and CSS, but it's just been too massive a task, and nobody else has stepped up to the plate for the same reason.
So no, this hasn't been done before, and it really is a big deal.
Huh? They're worth money?
;-)
No, but a few years ago they were (sort of like Beanie Babies used to be valuable and now go on eBay for below retail). Low-UID high-karma accounts are valuable to trolls, because it lets them post crap with a +1 bonus and trick people into reading it.
No, I didn't buy mine either.
Don't tell me - we're about to go into the "swallows carrying coconuts" argument from Monty Python & The Holy Grail, aren't we?
Well, we weren't, but which type of swallow did you mean? Because, you know, African swallows don't migrate...
Yer kidding me, they actually have a mechanism for subscribers to point out a dupe and they don't use it? Are they insane?
That's correct. When a new story is posted, it is first available only to subscribers, with a red title bar so you can see it's a preview, posting is disabled, and there's an e-mail link for subscribers to report problems. I've never received a reply to anything I've sent there, and although they do sometimes withdraw a story after posting it for subscribers but before making it available to the rest of you, I haven't seen any evidence that anyone actually monitors that e-mail address, and certainly not on any sort of regular basis.
That doesn't make any sense. Why would you only do it for 3 days and then "evaluate" whether you'll charge or not. Why in the world wouldn't you offer it for at least a week or two before evaluating?
Why don't you think it makes sense to evaluate it after 3 days? That doesn't mean they'll turn it off or start charging money, it means they'll look at it to see what's going on - are people actually using the free service? If not, why not? If so, are they using it to communicate with loved ones, or downloading porn?
Hopefully their review in 3 days will show that people are using the service the way it was intended, and they'll decide to continue the program.
As others have pointed out, people need food and water... but T-Mobile doesn't have food and water on hand. They have this, so they're giving this.
Some apps do set a custom icon for the file, but for files without a custom icon, hit Cmd-J for Show View Options and check the box for "Show icon preview".
I'll wager that a move to x86 was on Apple's mind a long long time before the announcement,
Well, that sounds like a pretty safe bet, since Jobs has explicitly stated that Apple has been building everything on both architectures for the past five years....
in reality you lock out a good 1-2% of people for arbitrary and probably illegal reasons.
Unless you're a government agency, you can lock people out of your web site for any reason at all.
While it is an interesting project from a hobbyist and academic standpoint, I'm not really sure what practical value it holds
If a hobbyist can do it, so can a spammer with financial motivation. Showing weaknesses in Captcha will help sites to develop better systems so the spammers don't have such an easy time with it.
Actually the first Mac OS with PowerPC support was System 7.1.2, which shipped on the original 6100/60, 7100/66 and 8100/80 in 1994. It was basically System 7.1 with a "PowerPC Enabler" file which, I assume, contained the m68040 emulator.
Amelio stepped down from CEO in spring of 97 and Jobs stepped into the Interim CEO position
"Stepped down" isn't quite how I remember that going... The word usually used was "ousted".
Incidentally, many (perhaps half?) of Jesus's sayings may have been put in his mouth by later writers.
Do you have a reference for this?
Remote DSLAMs are certainly nothing new, but usually the connection from the remote DSLAM to the CO is fiber, not copper.
Newer housing developments sometimes have a fiber line that runs into the neighborhood, then copper lines from there to each house, so the phone company doesn't have to run a big bundle of copper all the way back to the CO; a remote DSLAM is the only way to offer DSL to these houses.
What I want to know is, how did they get a reliable 2.3Mbps link to work over 20km of copper?
Not that I'm aware of... it's one of the states we have in the states.
Somehow I don't think Tillamook should be too worried...
Surely you're not suggesting that Opera is a worse name for a web browser than Firefox?
Normally I'd agree with you, but think about what IBM does. They sell solutions to businesses. IBM isn't contributing to Firefox out of the goodness of their hearts (although it does buy them a little goodwill from those of us who read Slashdot and care about the Mozilla project) - they're doing it because they want to make money. What does this probably mean for IBM? They want to deploy an internal webapp for a company that will pay IBM boatloads of cash, but it needs DHTML accessibility features, which no current browser supports. So, contributing to Firefox was the best way for IBM to make it happen.
So, follow this through. IBM will be deploying Firefox in a corporate setting, on a large scale, so they can use this custom webapp. Juggling browsers is a pain, so these companies will be standardizing on Firefox and not using IE. This means that any web sites the company needs to use cannot be IE-only; they must work in Firefox - so if you've got an IE-only web site, you can either fix it to make it work in Firefox, or they'll go to your competitors.
Percentages aren't everything.
Oh, and did I mention that standardizing on Firefox means one less reason they have to keep Windows on the desktop?
(OK, yeah, there are a dozen other reasons, but at least IE won't be one of them anymore!)
Presumably this could result in the first slice of toast being slightly lighter than subsequent slices, if the toaster has to warm up to toast the first time, but is already hot for subsequent toastings?
What I want to know is, if I finish toasting one slice of bread, and then immediately decide I want to toast another, will it reset and toast the second slice for the correct amount of time, instead of popping up way too early like most toasters do? Of course it would have to take into account that the toaster is already hot, and not toast it for quite as long as the first slice (since it would have taken a little time to warm up at first).
There is always a third option: Don't take someone else's code without honoring its license terms in the first place. Write it yourself, if you want to release under a different license.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly what CA has done?
which if you used white paper didn't really do much to his ink or paper load
Why would you go to all that trouble, and not use black paper?