I was actually rooting for this tech. However, current pricing is definitely the greatest barrier.
But what I was hoping to see was a DVD vending machine offering DVD's for $2.00 or $3.00 a piece. If they could deliver the tech for a low price, it would definitely be a netflix killer. Why wait 1 day for the dvd to arrive via snail-mail when you could get a movie at your works breakroom, cornerstore etc and no worries about late fees or scratched discs?
Really, this is a superior solution but is being killed by it's very non-competitive cost... can we say Beta-Max anyone?
Just this week I patented an invention for a "systematic lettering system for user input" that should allow me to effectively sue every keyboard manufacturer on the planet!!!
But I don't really care about the money... I'm a blood thirsty Luddite looking to cure you all of your dependency on technology... getting rich will be just a happy side effect. You may hate me now, but you'll be thanking me later.
So, dish it to me if I'm wrong, but all this is a bead bargain: Novel offering indemnity to those who *upgrade* for their supported SuSE package.
While on the face, I can say this snubs the homebrew community, it does make practical business sense... to a very narrow degree... assuming that Marketing accounts for the Enterprise to heed their offer first while the homebrew crowd trickles in over the next 12 months.
I suggest the/. community just accept this without crying foul. If only for support of a kindred spirit as Novell who is no new comer to the *nix sector. Granted, they should indemnify all SuSE users, in a pefect world... but this is not the SIMS, this is the dark scary world of legalese and double talk. A battered and insecure corp such as Novell could do far worse here.
And though the OP was stating 35mm, the Canon Digital Rebel is an excellent SLR Digital Camera. For under US $1000.00, it delivers a very high end package, with gads of features, 6.3megapixel res and 18mm-55mm zoom lens. I picked mine up 2 months ago, and have yet to be dissapointed. Plus, it takes any Canon EF Lens.
So if the poster went out today and bought a brand new EOS series Camera, he could go out later and get the Digital Rebel and use the same lenses for both cameras, if that doesn't kick ass, I don't know what does.
Canon has definitely made a brilliant move with it's EOS line of cameras.
Peter Mayhew, actor best known for his role as Chewbacca in Star Wars, the Empire Strikes back and Return of the Jedi has stated that he has been asked to reprise his famous role by a Utah Based Software Company. Details at this time are scetchy but Mayhew did comment that "I'm delighted to return as Chewbacca, Chewbacca lived with with Ewoks on Endor, I know it doesn't make any sense".
The jokes are so thin now, that they get a -2 redundant instead of +5 funny and McBride's stupidity seems to quanitify an order of magnitude each week.
Reading the letter made one thing perfectly clear though. McBride like many executives these days seems only interested in the constitutionality of the copyright and patent rather than freedom of speech. ergo, the citizen should have no right to dictate how their creative works can be copied, modified and reused and that only the copyright office can do as such.
Such a perversion of the terms of the constitution I have never seen, well until 1998... but this line of thinking keeps getting more pronounced each and every year.
Maybe it's time we stopped pointing and laughing at SCO and looked at the bigger picture. McBride is but one of thousands of execs who wish to lay the smack down upon personal freedoms in order to kill competition and lockout the individual from the marketplace.
The recent move by the RIAA to secure anti-trust law exemption is based upon the very views expressed today by McBride: That the indivuals rights should be trampled by the government in the name of corporate self interest.
Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains
Ermmm..... NO. The problem with natural language processing is mainly understanding the human voice, dialect, vocabulary and context. The only possible use I see is that these sounds have less overall tonal and frequency variance, so compression should be much more efficient than normal speech.
But still, it would not replace the need for speech recognition/processing unless you expect everyone to learn this language of whistles, which I can safely say will never happen.
At best this could be used either as a computer generated hash of the original processed speech or as a user created "secret code" to replace mouse gestures and the like... but both ideas seem very impracticle.
President Bush made a national address today regarding the freedom hating countries who are in alliance against the US and hate us because of our freedoms and democracy.
excerpt: "Freedom loving citizens of the United States, I would like to thank you for your sacrifices since September 11th. Today I bring you news of an even greater peril to our safety and our freedom. We have become aware that terrorist evil doers have infiltrated the Governments of countries such as China, Germany and now even Brazil. Our intelligence has found deep ties to Al Qaeda, Iraq and the Axis of Evil in these countries who have turned against us.
We have appointed Steve Balmer as "Special Ambassador of Freedom" to meet with and talk to the leaders of the Brazilian Government and their IT infrastructure. However, they have shown little interest in making a return to freedom and may leave us with no choice but to call upon a coalition of the willing to help restore freedom to those noble people of Brazil so that they may once again enjoy Freedom and Democracy. The evil doers must be shown that we will not tolerate those who would stand against us and stand against freedom... Compulsatory Registration with the Department of Homeland Security Required"
As usual, my latest investment is now proven to be a total lost cause.
I had just finished completion of my under ground bunker located 100km beneath the surface with lead walls and a built-in optical-network uplinked to a well fortified satelite dish array (so I can get online, watch some Japanese hentai and shop at eBay till the end of the world) And am waiting for my shipment of rations to arrive (FedEx said they'd be here Monday, I was too cheap for the express overnight/weekends)
So hey Mr. Scientist, FUCK YOU!!! You insensitive clod!!! I guess we'll just call that 500mil down the shitter thanks to you. I bet you never even got near a project with that much funding, you little wage slave not worthy of flushing my feces!! So tell me, do they actually let you touch the telescope, or do you just stand there and make press releases to FUCK WITH MY LIFE!!?!?!?!?!
PS: Anyone caring to submit a business proposal on what they would do with a 10k sq ft bunker in central Nevada with state of the air air-filtration/recycling, fibre optic and satelite access with a 10 node Opteron244 beowulf cluster running RH9 AS, please get in touch.
Apple has recognized that all it's spiffy user apps are not complete without a distribution channel. Basically, they've recreated the homepage as an extension of your desktop, laptop or iPod. This also helps productivity. One of the projects I am a member of uses iCal synching between developers via a.mac account. Of all the features I've seen, this has to be the greatest and most usefull.
The direct integration between the OS and your.mac account makes file updating easy, you don't even need an FTP client, it's quite seamless as the.mac account management interface is built into the OS.
Ultimately, I would not be surprised to see.mac ripped off in MS's Longhorn, but that will be in 2006. Apple has 2 years to cram their service full of features to keep a leg up.
<wishful_thinking> Perhaps an extension of the music store is in order to beeef up.mac as well as iPod/iTMS. Allowing users to compile playlists that are actually streamed by iTMS rather than the user account.
Apple opened the door for industry wide licensing without getting sued, perhaps they can now convince them that streaming already purchased music as a form of fair use on the users behalf can work too. The major difference being that iTMS/Apple would act as the middle man, there by providing oversite to the system as a whole, something Kazaa/Morpheus et al fail to do. </wishful_thinking>
This is horrible, as a user I am doubtfull of what this means for the DRM I was so looking forward to and the universal acceptance of IE/WMP as the de facto standard for all streaming media!! </sarcasm>
...of course I run OS X and have stopped using all sites who use and support DRM enabled.wmv format and IE only access to account services.
And with iTunes getting hotter and hotter each week, this might actually do something to level the playing field. Unlike here in the states where they were punished with a fat Gov't education account. Damaging who else, but their competitor, Apple Computer Inc. who had until recently been a big player in Education.
So how hard is it to renounce my unwanted US citizenship and get a shiny new citizenship in say, any member nation of the EU, where the gov't seems less tolatarian and dare I say sane?
SEC execs and the concerned Investor may not read/. but, they are more than likely to read Forbes on the pot. Good to see that the FUD has reached levels intollerable even to the PHB perspective.
I consider this and the (hopefully) subsequent articles to be the harbinger of a lynch mob and land shark feeding frenzy as soon as IBM bitch-slaps SCO et al in court.
As mentioned in my post, the entirety of Darwin is open source. Granted, Darwin is the OS guts and without the Aqua UI you will only get a commandline. But why should Apple let loose the UI framework and user apps that sets it's OS apart? AFIK, Aqua and the user apps are all 100% homebrew by Apple, and not using OSS/Gnu software as a basis, so why should they be expected to give it to the OSS community to be cloned to death?
Your post reads like you adhere to unreal idealism. How would Apple turn a profit if it made ALL UI and user apps free under Open Source??? How would they survive and what incentive would they have to spend the 10's of millions on R&D and Production?
I love OSS as much as the next developer. But too many OSS zealots expect everything to be made available for free and forget that courtesy and respect are perfectly admirable.
The fact that you can't accept that they give back and show courtesy and respect where it's due is behavior that I see more and more frequently in the OSS/Gnu crowd. Such idealism is comparable to one throwing a dinner party and spitting on the guests because the entrees they brought weren't enough for you, or hating your friend because the b-day present they brought you wasn't to your liking. Not only rude and crude, but the behavior of a true asshole.
In your recent statements over at zdnet you touted Windows as the Desktop OS best suited for the consumer.
Why the snub of OS X? Why proactively advertise a product distributed by a monopoly who continues to wage war against you and the OSS community in general? Apple's OS X's Darwin is Open Source Software, as I'm sure you're well aware and is based on BSD/Mach. And over all a more user friendly OS can not be found. The price points between a Mac and PC is much closer now as well, look at todays iMac pricing and compare to similar systems by Dell and Gateway.
Moreover, Apple has given back new and improved code to the OSS community. Especially in terms of its enhancements to Konquerer, which it used as the engine for Safari.
So wouldn't it make more sense for you to have pointed consumers to Apple's OS X as the desktop of choice? Thereby aiding Apple's current market growth and keeping OSS solutions on the home users desktop.
The way I read your statement was basically, "If you are a home user, Linux and OSS have no place for you, go back to Windows"... and personally, I was extremely miffed at such a seemingly harmfull message to the average user who would consider leaving Windows when you could have advocated your allies instead.
"If you do not occupy or otherwise improve your claimed property, you shall be considered derelect and in abandoment of said property and all entitlements therein"...or similar wording on the US lawbooks for over 100 years now. Or is this a case of what is old is new again?
It never fails, mention Flash here and you get a couple hundred posts bashing Flash as nothing more than an annoyance.
What gives?
Flash, believe it or not, provides a very good alternative to Java Applets for browser based GUI's. I've used it to create multi-user services and many a data-driven application. IMHO, it provides much better graphics support than Java and allows me to tie it into non-Java based services very handily.
I got into web development because of Flash. Having worked for companies such as Atari and then a smattering of CD-ROM game companies in the early/mid 90's Flash allowed me to produce my work and even develop games without having to worry about physical distribution channels and allowed for all the interactivity I required.
So for alll you who think flash is only used for annoying ads, well, why don't you switch to text based browsers instead? Because ads are still made as.gif and.jeg as well.
WTF!?!? RedHat advocating Windows? You'd think they would have advocated an OS whose underpinnings are some what related to their own and offer a bonafide "OS alternative" that provides ease of use, popular applications and has name brand recognition.
Sure, fine... turn away from the home-enthusiast and ma/pop sector. But at least support those who contribute to the OS community rather than the dark lord in Mordor^H^H^H^H...err Redmond.
At this rate, IBM's legal team wont have the day in court they are so looking forward to... Seems they will be taken down by a horde of Joe-Blo developers and rightfully so.
IANAL, but the ones I have talked to about sending nasty grams (cease and desist et al) have stated that the offending party can be billed for that "service". Consider the math, if even 1,000 contributors (remember, this isn't just the kernal, but all "bundled" services as well) send cease and desist and then have their lawyers invoice SCO: figure US $500.00 x 1,000 = 500,000.00 And that's just for cease and desist letters (cheap ones at that). Not too hard to imagine a picture of a slashdot effect in the courtroom as this does seem to qualify for a class action on behalf of all US developers, not sure about international developers abroad however. And if such a class action was granted, SCO would be killed prior IBM's legal skirmish as a class action could be argued to take precedence as they have harmed individual persons in a gross and egregarious manner.
Overall, I am not surprised by this latest tactic. DarlCo seems to crib it's notes off ShrubCo in it's motive of Preemptive strikes.
ShrubCo: No proof/discloser on Iraqi WMD's, state they want a war, start a war still without the proof/disclosure to justify it's actions. DarlCo: No proof/disclosure on Source Code infringements, states the GPL is moot/void state that all source code under the GPL within the last 3 years should be Public Domain, they preempt and relicense the "public domain" source code.
DarlCo unfortunately doesn't have the sway or the power to cover it's ass. They aren't the largest military unit in the world and do not enjoy certain protections. This act right now is THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN They just woke up a force more powerful than IBM, the open source community. Which if organized against a common menace is a force much larger than any corporate entity in the world. That's why MS is scared of Gnu/Linux, not the market share but mind share.
I'm a fairly advanced PHP developer and use things like Open Mosix to afford SMP to apache and my php-daemons. I have used PHP to create stand alone services utlizing TCP/IP over SSH tunnels to create distributed networks, multi-user environments, supply real-time XML data and provide database synching across networks as well.
It comes down to the coding I think. Out of the box, PHP is probably not as scalable as Java for several things beyond a simple web-store or blog.
But, if you go the route I did and spend several months creating a custom object architecture, you'll find many ways to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat and afford enterprise class solutions with a lowly scripting language.
Java is great, and I intend to use it more due to market demand. But, I get lots of interest in my library and have used it in production in 3 services so far in the year since it hit 1.0. Perhaps it's time I did a code review and posted to sourceforge, an object architecture that supported portals and daemons out of the box could be useful even in th face of PEAR and PHPNuke.
"Carlson faces a maximum sentence of 471 years imprisonment and $117,250,000 in fines."
Well damn, I'm heading out to the gun store, gonna rob me some banks, shoot me up some people up and still get out of prison faster than this guy.
Is it just me or has the US Guhvumment been totally hijacked by corporate interests to the point where the US Constitution is just a minor inconvenience?
What happened to no cruel nor unusual punishment, the punishment fitting the crime, our inaliable rights?
The only time I have heard of such a possible maximum has been in the case of multiple-murder and serial child molestation. And even if they give him say... 5 years, he will be financially ruined forever at even a fraction of the proposed monetary damages. So his life might as well be over.. quite lliterally made a slave to the corporations he will have to pay this "restitution" to... And wasn't slavery constitutionally abolished over 100 years ago? Well as long as he isn't black I guess it's all ok.
Reading the article reminded me of a 60 minutes piece about credit card scammers.
Remember those guys?
Yeah... thy're still around, most of them offshore now. But the piece had this middle aged guy who'd been in Prison for 30 years... I don't remember the story in full but I remember his surmising statement:
"All I did was steal some money and in my time here I've seen murderers and rapists come and go"
Different times, same story. If it's hip, hot, happening and lots of corporate fingers in the pot, you better expect Big Daddy Guvuhment to get it's panties in a knot and go tits out on the hysteria and hype.
Yeah, maybe in 10 years or so they'll repeal the laws, only because by then they'll be more worried about the hype of of Bio-crackers some other hot new tech sector with lots of money in it....or worse still, 20 years will become the minimum for a Felony of any kind and furtherence of the "Prison Industry" into an actual bona-fide and recognized institution where 1/3 of the population can count on spending the majority of their lives in, to the point where "Inmate Living 101" becomes an elective in middle schools and highschools nationwide... But that's my own FUD:)
I'm running 10.2.8 on a version 2.1 powerbook with no discernable adverse results.
I've been aware of the pull, but have not opted to fix what I can't see as broken. More importantly, there are no (so far) service exploits reported. For those who have similar systems and have not encountered the problems described, I would recommend against the "archive and Install" option in the article for the time being.
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I was actually rooting for this tech.
However, current pricing is definitely the greatest barrier.
But what I was hoping to see was a DVD vending machine offering DVD's for $2.00 or $3.00 a piece. If they could deliver the tech for a low price, it would definitely be a netflix killer. Why wait 1 day for the dvd to arrive via snail-mail when you could get a movie at your works breakroom, cornerstore etc and no worries about late fees or scratched discs?
Really, this is a superior solution but is being killed by it's very non-competitive cost... can we say Beta-Max anyone?
Just this week I patented an invention for a "systematic lettering system for user input" that should allow me to effectively sue every keyboard manufacturer on the planet!!!
But I don't really care about the money... I'm a blood thirsty Luddite looking to cure you all of your dependency on technology... getting rich will be just a happy side effect.
You may hate me now, but you'll be thanking me later.
So, dish it to me if I'm wrong, but all this is a bead bargain: Novel offering indemnity to those who *upgrade* for their supported SuSE package.
/. community just accept this without crying foul. If only for support of a kindred spirit as Novell who is no new comer to the *nix sector. Granted, they should indemnify all SuSE users, in a pefect world... but this is not the SIMS, this is the dark scary world of legalese and double talk. A battered and insecure corp such as Novell could do far worse here.
While on the face, I can say this snubs the homebrew community, it does make practical business sense... to a very narrow degree... assuming that Marketing accounts for the Enterprise to heed their offer first while the homebrew crowd trickles in over the next 12 months.
I suggest the
And though the OP was stating 35mm, the Canon Digital Rebel is an excellent SLR Digital Camera. For under US $1000.00, it delivers a very high end package, with gads of features, 6.3megapixel res and 18mm-55mm zoom lens. I picked mine up 2 months ago, and have yet to be dissapointed. Plus, it takes any Canon EF Lens.
So if the poster went out today and bought a brand new EOS series Camera, he could go out later and get the Digital Rebel and use the same lenses for both cameras, if that doesn't kick ass, I don't know what does.
Canon has definitely made a brilliant move with it's EOS line of cameras.
Peter Mayhew, actor best known for his role as Chewbacca in Star Wars, the Empire Strikes back and Return of the Jedi has stated that he has been asked to reprise his famous role by a Utah Based Software Company. Details at this time are scetchy but Mayhew did comment that "I'm delighted to return as Chewbacca, Chewbacca lived with with Ewoks on Endor, I know it doesn't make any sense".
The jokes are so thin now, that they get a -2 redundant instead of +5 funny and McBride's stupidity seems to quanitify an order of magnitude each week.
Reading the letter made one thing perfectly clear though.
McBride like many executives these days seems only interested in the constitutionality of the copyright and patent rather than freedom of speech. ergo, the citizen should have no right to dictate how their creative works can be copied, modified and reused and that only the copyright office can do as such.
Such a perversion of the terms of the constitution I have never seen, well until 1998... but this line of thinking keeps getting more pronounced each and every year.
Maybe it's time we stopped pointing and laughing at SCO and looked at the bigger picture. McBride is but one of thousands of execs who wish to lay the smack down upon personal freedoms in order to kill competition and lockout the individual from the marketplace.
The recent move by the RIAA to secure anti-trust law exemption is based upon the very views expressed today by McBride: That the indivuals rights should be trampled by the government in the name of corporate self interest.
Just a jack handy moment...
Ermm, maybe the moderators need to RTFA!?!?
Last I checked 5 assed monkeys were a GM pet.
Till they come out with a 5 assed monkey thank you very much.
1 monkey.
5 asses.
is it so much to ask for?
Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains
Ermmm..... NO.
The problem with natural language processing is mainly understanding the human voice, dialect, vocabulary and context. The only possible use I see is that these sounds have less overall tonal and frequency variance, so compression should be much more efficient than normal speech.
But still, it would not replace the need for speech recognition/processing unless you expect everyone to learn this language of whistles, which I can safely say will never happen.
At best this could be used either as a computer generated hash of the original processed speech or as a user created "secret code" to replace mouse gestures and the like... but both ideas seem very impracticle.
President Bush made a national address today regarding the freedom hating countries who are in alliance against the US and hate us because of our freedoms and democracy.
excerpt:
"Freedom loving citizens of the United States, I would like to thank you for your sacrifices since September 11th. Today I bring you news of an even greater peril to our safety and our freedom. We have become aware that terrorist evil doers have infiltrated the Governments of countries such as China, Germany and now even Brazil. Our intelligence has found deep ties to Al Qaeda, Iraq and the Axis of Evil in these countries who have turned against us.
We have appointed Steve Balmer as "Special Ambassador of Freedom" to meet with and talk to the leaders of the Brazilian Government and their IT infrastructure. However, they have shown little interest in making a return to freedom and may leave us with no choice but to call upon a coalition of the willing to help restore freedom to those noble people of Brazil so that they may once again enjoy Freedom and Democracy. The evil doers must be shown that we will not tolerate those who would stand against us and stand against freedom... Compulsatory Registration with the Department of Homeland Security Required"
As usual, my latest investment is now proven to be a total lost cause.
I had just finished completion of my under ground bunker located 100km beneath the surface with lead walls and a built-in optical-network uplinked to a well fortified satelite dish array (so I can get online, watch some Japanese hentai and shop at eBay till the end of the world)
And am waiting for my shipment of rations to arrive (FedEx said they'd be here Monday, I was too cheap for the express overnight/weekends)
So hey Mr. Scientist, FUCK YOU!!! You insensitive clod!!!
I guess we'll just call that 500mil down the shitter thanks to you. I bet you never even got near a project with that much funding, you little wage slave not worthy of flushing my feces!! So tell me, do they actually let you touch the telescope, or do you just stand there and make press releases to FUCK WITH MY LIFE!!?!?!?!?!
PS: Anyone caring to submit a business proposal on what they would do with a 10k sq ft bunker in central Nevada with state of the air air-filtration/recycling, fibre optic and satelite access with a 10 node Opteron244 beowulf cluster running RH9 AS, please get in touch.
Apple has recognized that all it's spiffy user apps are not complete without a distribution channel. .mac account. Of all the features I've seen, this has to be the greatest and most usefull.
.mac account makes file updating easy, you don't even need an FTP client, it's quite seamless as the .mac account management interface is built into the OS.
.mac ripped off in MS's Longhorn, but that will be in 2006. Apple has 2 years to cram their service full of features to keep a leg up.
.mac as well as iPod/iTMS. Allowing users to compile playlists that are actually streamed by iTMS rather than the user account.
Basically, they've recreated the homepage as an extension of your desktop, laptop or iPod.
This also helps productivity. One of the projects I am a member of uses iCal synching between developers via a
The direct integration between the OS and your
Ultimately, I would not be surprised to see
<wishful_thinking>
Perhaps an extension of the music store is in order to beeef up
Apple opened the door for industry wide licensing without getting sued, perhaps they can now convince them that streaming already purchased music as a form of fair use on the users behalf can work too.
The major difference being that iTMS/Apple would act as the middle man, there by providing oversite to the system as a whole, something Kazaa/Morpheus et al fail to do.
</wishful_thinking>
This is horrible, as a user I am doubtfull of what this means for the DRM I was so looking forward to and the universal acceptance of IE/WMP as the de facto standard for all streaming media!!
</sarcasm>
And with iTunes getting hotter and hotter each week, this might actually do something to level the playing field. Unlike here in the states where they were punished with a fat Gov't education account. Damaging who else, but their competitor, Apple Computer Inc. who had until recently been a big player in Education.
So how hard is it to renounce my unwanted US citizenship and get a shiny new citizenship in say, any member nation of the EU, where the gov't seems less tolatarian and dare I say sane?
SEC execs and the concerned Investor may not read /. but, they are more than likely to read Forbes on the pot.
Good to see that the FUD has reached levels intollerable even to the PHB perspective.
I consider this and the (hopefully) subsequent articles to be the harbinger of a lynch mob and land shark feeding frenzy as soon as IBM bitch-slaps SCO et al in court.
As mentioned in my post, the entirety of Darwin is open source. Granted, Darwin is the OS guts and without the Aqua UI you will only get a commandline. But why should Apple let loose the UI framework and user apps that sets it's OS apart? AFIK, Aqua and the user apps are all 100% homebrew by Apple, and not using OSS/Gnu software as a basis, so why should they be expected to give it to the OSS community to be cloned to death?
Your post reads like you adhere to unreal idealism.
How would Apple turn a profit if it made ALL UI and user apps free under Open Source???
How would they survive and what incentive would they have to spend the 10's of millions on R&D and Production?
I love OSS as much as the next developer.
But too many OSS zealots expect everything to be made available for free and forget that courtesy and respect are perfectly admirable.
The fact that you can't accept that they give back and show courtesy and respect where it's due is behavior that I see more and more frequently in the OSS/Gnu crowd.
Such idealism is comparable to one throwing a dinner party and spitting on the guests because the entrees they brought weren't enough for you, or hating your friend because the b-day present they brought you wasn't to your liking. Not only rude and crude, but the behavior of a true asshole.
In your recent statements over at zdnet you touted Windows as the Desktop OS best suited for the consumer.
Why the snub of OS X?
Why proactively advertise a product distributed by a monopoly who continues to wage war against you and the OSS community in general? Apple's OS X's Darwin is Open Source Software, as I'm sure you're well aware and is based on BSD/Mach. And over all a more user friendly OS can not be found. The price points between a Mac and PC is much closer now as well, look at todays iMac pricing and compare to similar systems by Dell and Gateway.
Moreover, Apple has given back new and improved code to the OSS community. Especially in terms of its enhancements to Konquerer, which it used as the engine for Safari.
So wouldn't it make more sense for you to have pointed consumers to Apple's OS X as the desktop of choice?
Thereby aiding Apple's current market growth and keeping OSS solutions on the home users desktop.
The way I read your statement was basically, "If you are a home user, Linux and OSS have no place for you, go back to Windows"... and personally, I was extremely miffed at such a seemingly harmfull message to the average user who would consider leaving Windows when you could have advocated your allies instead.
"If you do not occupy or otherwise improve your claimed property, you shall be considered derelect and in abandoment of said property and all entitlements therein" ...or similar wording on the US lawbooks for over 100 years now. Or is this a case of what is old is new again?
With the recent FUD campaign, it would seem MS may be referencing Fedora when it says it is prepared to lay the smack down Linux security issues
Remember, this article is a User Review only.
An extensive security audit should be made immediately to help bolster the distro.
I'd bet MS has downloaded the sources and is completing it's own security audit of Fedora with the intent to hoist it on a petard.
It never fails, mention Flash here and you get a couple hundred posts bashing Flash as nothing more than an annoyance.
.gif and .jeg as well.
What gives?
Flash, believe it or not, provides a very good alternative to Java Applets for browser based GUI's. I've used it to create multi-user services and many a data-driven application.
IMHO, it provides much better graphics support than Java and allows me to tie it into non-Java based services very handily.
I got into web development because of Flash.
Having worked for companies such as Atari and then a smattering of CD-ROM game companies in the early/mid 90's Flash allowed me to produce my work and even develop games without having to worry about physical distribution channels and allowed for all the interactivity I required.
So for alll you who think flash is only used for annoying ads, well, why don't you switch to text based browsers instead? Because ads are still made as
WTF!?!?
...err Redmond.
RedHat advocating Windows?
You'd think they would have advocated an OS whose underpinnings are some what related to their own and offer a bonafide "OS alternative" that provides ease of use, popular applications and has name brand recognition.
Sure, fine... turn away from the home-enthusiast and ma/pop sector. But at least support those who contribute to the OS community rather than the dark lord in Mordor^H^H^H^H
At this rate, IBM's legal team wont have the day in court they are so looking forward to...
Seems they will be taken down by a horde of Joe-Blo developers and rightfully so.
IANAL, but the ones I have talked to about sending nasty grams (cease and desist et al) have stated that the offending party can be billed for that "service".
Consider the math, if even 1,000 contributors (remember, this isn't just the kernal, but all "bundled" services as well) send cease and desist and then have their lawyers invoice SCO: figure US $500.00 x 1,000 = 500,000.00
And that's just for cease and desist letters (cheap ones at that).
Not too hard to imagine a picture of a slashdot effect in the courtroom as this does seem to qualify for a class action on behalf of all US developers, not sure about international developers abroad however. And if such a class action was granted, SCO would be killed prior IBM's legal skirmish as a class action could be argued to take precedence as they have harmed individual persons in a gross and egregarious manner.
Overall, I am not surprised by this latest tactic. DarlCo seems to crib it's notes off ShrubCo in it's motive of Preemptive strikes.
ShrubCo: No proof/discloser on Iraqi WMD's, state they want a war, start a war still without the proof/disclosure to justify it's actions.
DarlCo: No proof/disclosure on Source Code infringements, states the GPL is moot/void state that all source code under the GPL within the last 3 years should be Public Domain, they preempt and relicense the "public domain" source code.
DarlCo unfortunately doesn't have the sway or the power to cover it's ass. They aren't the largest military unit in the world and do not enjoy certain protections. This act right now is THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN
They just woke up a force more powerful than IBM, the open source community. Which if organized against a common menace is a force much larger than any corporate entity in the world. That's why MS is scared of Gnu/Linux, not the market share but mind share.
Alas poor Darl, we hardly knew ye.
I'm a fairly advanced PHP developer and use things like Open Mosix to afford SMP to apache and my php-daemons.
I have used PHP to create stand alone services utlizing TCP/IP over SSH tunnels to create distributed networks, multi-user environments, supply real-time XML data and provide database synching across networks as well.
It comes down to the coding I think.
Out of the box, PHP is probably not as scalable as Java for several things beyond a simple web-store or blog.
But, if you go the route I did and spend several months creating a custom object architecture, you'll find many ways to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat and afford enterprise class solutions with a lowly scripting language.
Java is great, and I intend to use it more due to market demand. But, I get lots of interest in my library and have used it in production in 3 services so far in the year since it hit 1.0. Perhaps it's time I did a code review and posted to sourceforge, an object architecture that supported portals and daemons out of the box could be useful even in th face of PEAR and PHPNuke.
"Carlson faces a maximum sentence of 471 years imprisonment and $117,250,000 in fines."
Well damn, I'm heading out to the gun store, gonna rob me some banks, shoot me up some people up and still get out of prison faster than this guy.
Is it just me or has the US Guhvumment been totally hijacked by corporate interests to the point where the US Constitution is just a minor inconvenience?
What happened to no cruel nor unusual punishment, the punishment fitting the crime, our inaliable rights?
The only time I have heard of such a possible maximum has been in the case of multiple-murder and serial child molestation. And even if they give him say... 5 years, he will be financially ruined forever at even a fraction of the proposed monetary damages. So his life might as well be over.. quite lliterally made a slave to the corporations he will have to pay this "restitution" to...
And wasn't slavery constitutionally abolished over 100 years ago? Well as long as he isn't black I guess it's all ok.
Reading the article reminded me of a 60 minutes piece about credit card scammers.
...or worse still, 20 years will become the minimum for a Felony of any kind and furtherence of the "Prison Industry" into an actual bona-fide and recognized institution where 1/3 of the population can count on spending the majority of their lives in, to the point where "Inmate Living 101" becomes an elective in middle schools and highschools nationwide ... But that's my own FUD :)
Remember those guys?
Yeah... thy're still around, most of them offshore now.
But the piece had this middle aged guy who'd been in Prison for 30 years... I don't remember the story in full but I remember his surmising statement:
"All I did was steal some money and in my time here I've seen murderers and rapists come and go"
Different times, same story.
If it's hip, hot, happening and lots of corporate fingers in the pot, you better expect Big Daddy Guvuhment to get it's panties in a knot and go tits out on the hysteria and hype.
Yeah, maybe in 10 years or so they'll repeal the laws, only because by then they'll be more worried about the hype of of Bio-crackers some other hot new tech sector with lots of money in it.
I'm running 10.2.8 on a version 2.1 powerbook with no discernable adverse results.
I've been aware of the pull, but have not opted to fix what I can't see as broken. More importantly, there are no (so far) service exploits reported. For those who have similar systems and have not encountered the problems described, I would recommend against the "archive and Install" option in the article for the time being.