Apple has high markup on their hardware because they spend oodles on R&D. Contrast this with technology cherry picking Dell.
Which brings up an interesting question: are the margins the same or similar for hardware and software after factoring out the cost of R&D for each? If so, maybe the Intel move really is a way to boost software sales while trying to limit decrease in hardware sales and spread risk out a little.
It seems that if Apple "certifies" the quality/stability of OS X on its hardware but allows it to run on other hardware, they have (potentially) the best of both worlds. Those that require stability and/or cool hardware design will continue to go with Apple hardware, whereas the more adventurous / tech savvy will make it work with "unverified" hardware.
... that a page devoted to calendaring software would have the date Tuesday, February 4th, 2005 under its Latest News section? Today is Saturday, February 5th, 2005 by my calendar, so there seems to be a problem here.
Either the Sunbird team is not using its own creation, or it needs to go back to the drawing board...
This sounds a lot like the April Fools joke a couple of years ago that claimed the moon would be used as advertising space by projecting "recognizable brand symbols" onto its face at night during the full moon, and urged people to try to determine what symbol was currently being projected. After about 5 minutes of trying to figure out the symbol I realized what the date was.
I understand and appreciate your side of the story, and based on what you have said I would agree with most posters here that you're well within your rights to do exactly what you're doing. In fact, it would seem that you're going out of your way to do the right thing in giving credit and even in questioning whether such actions are ethical or rude.
That said, I'd like to hear the other side of this story from the leader of the spinoff before passing final judgment. Of course it could be that the guy is just a jerk and/or doesn't understand the GPL, but let's assume for a moment that the guy is somewhat reasonable (since we may never get to hear his side). If that's the case, another possibility springs to mind: The guy is upset because he didn't want to fork the code in the first place but found the original team too stubborn/inflexible/closed-minded to work with. I could understand the guy being irritated if a group had refused to consider a design direction and then took code from his group's forked version, especially if that code somehow "symbolized" the changes that he wanted in the first place.
Anyway, is there any way you can convince the guy to submit his side? Either he'll prove that he's a jerk or we'll find out that there's more to this story than what we've heard so far.
I'm using AFP to connect to our file server here from my main desktop, but other machines connect using Samba. The problem is that I constantly have to change permissions on files I create because they default to 755 or 644, whereas in Samba I can force this to 775 or 664. Anyone know how to configure AFP to force a different mask?
...with the authors of the five major RSS clients for OS X: NetNewsWire, NewsFire, NewsMac, PulpFiction and Shrook...
Not that I'm an RSS fanatic, but I've heard of exactly one of these (NetNewsWire), and everyone I know on OS X uses SlashDock, so this strikes me as uninformed. And not mentioning SlashDock on Slashdot, of all things...
I use the rsync available here because it includes support for HFS+ volumes, meaning it will preserve resource forks. It installs to/usr/local/bin so it doesn't overwrite the existing rsync at/usr/bin. You need to have it installed on all OS X machines that you are syncing between.
To rsync data that includes files with resource forks from a remote server to a local server via ssh, use something like this:
The Russians practically invented media spin, aka propaganda. Of course, on the flip side, most Russians don't blindly believe their media, so maybe they're better off than Americans in this regard.
You've managed to demonstrate that what's presented in the article is not a fluke. As you said, let's look at these:
1) For Muslims turning churches into Mosques, yeah, that's HORRIBLY unrealistic propaganda. I have two words for you: Hagia Sophia. Personally, I agree with you on this one, but blame our willingness to bend over backwards not to offend Saudi Arabia on Bush and his cronies and their active efforts to continually increase our already excessive dependence on oil.
2) the Korean flag in reverse: so what? You're right, no insensitivity here. Hey, if we want to display your flag upside down or in rainbow colors, just lighten up and accept it! I mean, really, it's just a (non-US) flag!
3) hembra: hardly an 'insensitivity' issue; it sounds like a genuine difference in dialect. Yeah, you might be right on this one. I don't know and won't act like I do.
4) China/Taiwan: boo hoo. If the Chinese want to dwell in their eternal house of reality-denial, that's fine... This is a more interesting quandary than you seem to realize. The US has managed to get caught between a friend we have promised to protect (Taiwan) and a country we don't want to piss off because they are world's next huge market (and maybe the world's next superpower?). I work for a localization company (translation and related tasks), and we have had to change the label "country" to "country/region" for our clients whenever presenting a list that includes Taiwan to keep them from losing business in China. Anyway, this will get even more interesting if China should ever decide to make good on their talk about bringing Taiwan "back into the fold." That's when we find out what our priorities are between money and principles. Hmm, I wonder which way that's gonna go...
5) The Queen of Uruguay: that's just funny... See, that's funny to you and me as Americans, but it's easy for us to shrug off the idea of America being referred to by another country as a monarchy because it is of no consequence. When the de facto worldwide standard software refers to Uruguay as a monarchy, I think I would be at least a little disappointed or annoyed as an Uruguayan.
I'd also argue that the US has a long tradition of arguing but ultimately tolerating such things - crucifixes in urine, routine desecrations of our symbols like the flag, etc. Intentional desecration of the flag is quite different than displaying it incorrectly as though it were correct. Would you like it if the US flag were reversed on the Olympics web site, even if it were an oversight?
Main points:
Oversensitivity might be silly, but complete lack of sensitivity is pathetic.
Recognize that as an American you have the luxury of ignoring the rest of the world (or at least the perceived luxury). The rest of the world does not have that luxury, so what appears to you to be oversenstivity might be perfectly reasonable from most of the world's perspective.
I wonder if the next level in security/prevention is for the system to inform the user what the application to be installed will do, and ask for verification to continue, although I'm not sure if this would even be possible.
"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. - H. L. Mencken
I'm an internationalization (abbreviation is i18n, because of the 18 letters between i and n) consultant and I positively love it. It's not for everyone but it's definitely for me. I get to combine my tech and foreign language skills (I was a Russian->English translator and interpreter for a number of years but have also studied many other languages as a hobby).
You don't deal with languages directly in i18n as you would if you were on the localization side of things, but having a good understanding of grammatical constructs across various target languages can be very helpful in pinpointing potential issues in the way that translatable content is handled and displayed. It always surprises people how English-centric their designs turn out to be.
I also enjoy writing custom code analyzers and content exporters/importers in Python, the best text language there is for text processing IMHO. (I was a big Perl fan for a long time but converted over a year ago.) I had a lot of fun writing my pseudotranslator, which modifies the English content (extends the length, adds extended chars, etc.) to test some of the international capabilities of an application.
Of course, I might have a bit of an advantage in that as a consultant I get to work with different clients on numerous projects, which forces me to stay up on new technologies and exposes me to new techniques, database design, etc. Keeps me fresh.
If you want some help with this work, please let me know. I'll be more than happy!:-)
You're confusing Slashdot the community and Slashdot the business. Regardless of whether the employees of Slashdot are fans of Microsoft or not, it is in the business' best interest to accept Microsoft's advertising dollars both for economic reasons and because disallowing Microsoft to advertise on the site would be entirely the wrong message for Slashdot to send. They'd have to change their tagline to News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Don't Buy Microsoft.
Plus, Slashdot wouldn't be doing their readers any favors, since they would also be sending the message on behalf of the community: "Non-Microsoft software can't compete with Microsoft products on merit/TCO/etc., so we just won't let them have a chance to advertise."
CBS, for example, does not accept ads for ABC, and not for adult oriented services.
Slashdot does not compete with Microsoft. They're not shooting themselves in the foot by allowing them to advertise on the site the way CBS would be if they let ABC advertise on their network.
As for not allowing advertising of adult oriented services, this is a much a business decision as anything else. Look at the uproar after the Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction", and how quick the network execs were to apologize profusely and say anything to try to convince advertisers and viewers not to shun them.
Don't confuse politics with business, or donations with payments for services provided. Microsoft is paying for a service: slashdot displaying their ad. The price of the ad placement should be more-or-less equal to its value (Economics 101), thus Microsoft owes no more to slashdot, nor does slashdot owe Microsoft anything besides display of their ad.
I think it's fairly safe to say that Microsoft would not advertise on a "hostile" site such as slashdot if they did not perceive some benefit from that greater than or equal to what they paid for the ad placement.
The MIME type is coming across as an empty string for the QuickTime viewer, and the browser wants to direct me to a Apple's QuickTime page to download the QuickTime plugin. Sure, I could do that, but I shouldn't have to -- I'm on a Mac.
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Apple has high markup on their hardware because they spend oodles on R&D. Contrast this with technology cherry picking Dell.
Which brings up an interesting question: are the margins the same or similar for hardware and software after factoring out the cost of R&D for each? If so, maybe the Intel move really is a way to boost software sales while trying to limit decrease in hardware sales and spread risk out a little.
It seems that if Apple "certifies" the quality/stability of OS X on its hardware but allows it to run on other hardware, they have (potentially) the best of both worlds. Those that require stability and/or cool hardware design will continue to go with Apple hardware, whereas the more adventurous / tech savvy will make it work with "unverified" hardware.
Either the Sunbird team is not using its own creation, or it needs to go back to the drawing board...
This sounds a lot like the April Fools joke a couple of years ago that claimed the moon would be used as advertising space by projecting "recognizable brand symbols" onto its face at night during the full moon, and urged people to try to determine what symbol was currently being projected. After about 5 minutes of trying to figure out the symbol I realized what the date was.
Great demonstration of the fact that machine translation has a long way to do before it's really usable in any real sense.
I understand and appreciate your side of the story, and based on what you have said I would agree with most posters here that you're well within your rights to do exactly what you're doing. In fact, it would seem that you're going out of your way to do the right thing in giving credit and even in questioning whether such actions are ethical or rude.
That said, I'd like to hear the other side of this story from the leader of the spinoff before passing final judgment. Of course it could be that the guy is just a jerk and/or doesn't understand the GPL, but let's assume for a moment that the guy is somewhat reasonable (since we may never get to hear his side). If that's the case, another possibility springs to mind: The guy is upset because he didn't want to fork the code in the first place but found the original team too stubborn/inflexible/closed-minded to work with. I could understand the guy being irritated if a group had refused to consider a design direction and then took code from his group's forked version, especially if that code somehow "symbolized" the changes that he wanted in the first place.
Anyway, is there any way you can convince the guy to submit his side? Either he'll prove that he's a jerk or we'll find out that there's more to this story than what we've heard so far.
I'm using AFP to connect to our file server here from my main desktop, but other machines connect using Samba. The problem is that I constantly have to change permissions on files I create because they default to 755 or 644, whereas in Samba I can force this to 775 or 664. Anyone know how to configure AFP to force a different mask?
... see the name Sinclair and think:
"Great, what did those bastards do now?"
Not that I'm an RSS fanatic, but I've heard of exactly one of these (NetNewsWire), and everyone I know on OS X uses SlashDock, so this strikes me as uninformed. And not mentioning SlashDock on Slashdot, of all things...
I use the rsync available here because it includes support for HFS+ volumes, meaning it will preserve resource forks. It installs to /usr/local/bin so it doesn't overwrite the existing rsync at /usr/bin. You need to have it installed on all OS X machines that you are syncing between.
To rsync data that includes files with resource forks from a remote server to a local server via ssh, use something like this:
<user>@<remoteserver>:<path> <localpath>
The --eahfs switch is what tells it to preserve resource forks.
The Russians practically invented media spin, aka propaganda. Of course, on the flip side, most Russians don't blindly believe their media, so maybe they're better off than Americans in this regard.
You've managed to demonstrate that what's presented in the article is not a fluke. As you said, let's look at these:
1) For Muslims turning churches into Mosques, yeah, that's HORRIBLY unrealistic propaganda. I have two words for you: Hagia Sophia. Personally, I agree with you on this one, but blame our willingness to bend over backwards not to offend Saudi Arabia on Bush and his cronies and their active efforts to continually increase our already excessive dependence on oil.
2) the Korean flag in reverse: so what? You're right, no insensitivity here. Hey, if we want to display your flag upside down or in rainbow colors, just lighten up and accept it! I mean, really, it's just a (non-US) flag!
3) hembra: hardly an 'insensitivity' issue; it sounds like a genuine difference in dialect. Yeah, you might be right on this one. I don't know and won't act like I do.
4) China/Taiwan: boo hoo. If the Chinese want to dwell in their eternal house of reality-denial, that's fine... This is a more interesting quandary than you seem to realize. The US has managed to get caught between a friend we have promised to protect (Taiwan) and a country we don't want to piss off because they are world's next huge market (and maybe the world's next superpower?). I work for a localization company (translation and related tasks), and we have had to change the label "country" to "country/region" for our clients whenever presenting a list that includes Taiwan to keep them from losing business in China. Anyway, this will get even more interesting if China should ever decide to make good on their talk about bringing Taiwan "back into the fold." That's when we find out what our priorities are between money and principles. Hmm, I wonder which way that's gonna go...
5) The Queen of Uruguay: that's just funny... See, that's funny to you and me as Americans, but it's easy for us to shrug off the idea of America being referred to by another country as a monarchy because it is of no consequence. When the de facto worldwide standard software refers to Uruguay as a monarchy, I think I would be at least a little disappointed or annoyed as an Uruguayan.
I'd also argue that the US has a long tradition of arguing but ultimately tolerating such things - crucifixes in urine, routine desecrations of our symbols like the flag, etc. Intentional desecration of the flag is quite different than displaying it incorrectly as though it were correct. Would you like it if the US flag were reversed on the Olympics web site, even if it were an oversight?
Main points:
Okay, I guess it's not that strange...
I wonder if the next level in security/prevention is for the system to inform the user what the application to be installed will do, and ask for verification to continue, although I'm not sure if this would even be possible.
"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. - H. L. Mencken
but what happens if Microsoft decides to buy these guys? They certainly have the war chest to keep litigation going for years.
I have purchased more CDs this year than in all other years of my life combined. I attribute that to three things:
Actually, it's closer to
SOO-zuh
(emphasis on SOO)
I'm an internationalization (abbreviation is i18n, because of the 18 letters between i and n) consultant and I positively love it. It's not for everyone but it's definitely for me. I get to combine my tech and foreign language skills (I was a Russian->English translator and interpreter for a number of years but have also studied many other languages as a hobby).
You don't deal with languages directly in i18n as you would if you were on the localization side of things, but having a good understanding of grammatical constructs across various target languages can be very helpful in pinpointing potential issues in the way that translatable content is handled and displayed. It always surprises people how English-centric their designs turn out to be.
I also enjoy writing custom code analyzers and content exporters/importers in Python, the best text language there is for text processing IMHO. (I was a big Perl fan for a long time but converted over a year ago.) I had a lot of fun writing my pseudotranslator, which modifies the English content (extends the length, adds extended chars, etc.) to test some of the international capabilities of an application.
Of course, I might have a bit of an advantage in that as a consultant I get to work with different clients on numerous projects, which forces me to stay up on new technologies and exposes me to new techniques, database design, etc. Keeps me fresh.
If you want some help with this work, please let me know. I'll be more than happy! :-)
A SCO story! It's about time!
where are the SCO articles?!! I need my fix man!
You're confusing Slashdot the community and Slashdot the business. Regardless of whether the employees of Slashdot are fans of Microsoft or not, it is in the business' best interest to accept Microsoft's advertising dollars both for economic reasons and because disallowing Microsoft to advertise on the site would be entirely the wrong message for Slashdot to send. They'd have to change their tagline to News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Don't Buy Microsoft.
Plus, Slashdot wouldn't be doing their readers any favors, since they would also be sending the message on behalf of the community: "Non-Microsoft software can't compete with Microsoft products on merit/TCO/etc., so we just won't let them have a chance to advertise."
CBS, for example, does not accept ads for ABC, and not for adult oriented services.
Slashdot does not compete with Microsoft. They're not shooting themselves in the foot by allowing them to advertise on the site the way CBS would be if they let ABC advertise on their network.
As for not allowing advertising of adult oriented services, this is a much a business decision as anything else. Look at the uproar after the Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction", and how quick the network execs were to apologize profusely and say anything to try to convince advertisers and viewers not to shun them.
Don't confuse politics with business, or donations with payments for services provided. Microsoft is paying for a service: slashdot displaying their ad. The price of the ad placement should be more-or-less equal to its value (Economics 101), thus Microsoft owes no more to slashdot, nor does slashdot owe Microsoft anything besides display of their ad.
I think it's fairly safe to say that Microsoft would not advertise on a "hostile" site such as slashdot if they did not perceive some benefit from that greater than or equal to what they paid for the ad placement.
wooden computer cases: www.luddite.com. Fascinating company.
my experience exactly
The MIME type is coming across as an empty string for the QuickTime viewer, and the browser wants to direct me to a Apple's QuickTime page to download the QuickTime plugin. Sure, I could do that, but I shouldn't have to -- I'm on a Mac.