It also has some nice feature that Moz/Phoenix don't have:
1. Closing a tab takes you onto the previous tab you were viewing, not the physically next tab. (Logical tab stack)
2. You can drag and drop tabs to rearrange them.
I've read a lot of responses to this thread along the lines of "I backdoor because customers forget their passwords." So what!? It's their fault! If they complain to you, tell them some horror story about hackers and backdoors. I'm not saying they won't complain, but they *are* being unreasonable. Or offer them a backdoor when you sell them the software - lay out the consequences of what could happen with one, and without.
I think the customer should have the right to decide.
Couldn't that be an argument against open source? (In a John-Ashcroft-freedom-by-reducing-liberties sort of way)
Product X has a backdoor. Product X is released as open source. A few vigilant hackers start pouring over it ASAP and find the backdoor and exploit it until it's found by someone in the good community. (Maybe a full year later, as you said.)
I'm digging the new single from this Trapt band (single: Headstrong) so I thought I'd check out their website. You can buy their whole album for only for $7.99, and they will mail you liner notes and an autographed poster! 128 or 192 Kbit MP3, obviously no DRM, free to burn, etc. Intriguing eh? I am considering buying it just to support the concept.
OK, I have a humble request. Is it against the rules to put some examples in man pages? The language of man pages is sometimes so arcane. I think people learn best by example, why can't man pages have a couple?
I know what you mean man - I consider myself a competent computer user - my job is a software developer afterall. But I cannot seem to get KDE or GNOME into a 100% working configuiration. Right now my problem is fonts. They look soooo ugly, and ones that I had been using all along (mscorefonts) have now started dissapearing in all my GTK based apps. I also can no longer get Mosfet's liquid to work with KDE. It is a nightmare to get all these things up and operational. I find it amazing that anyone ever does.
IBM almost bought Apple way back in the day. It was very close - I think the Apple BoD or some Apple exec pissed all the IBMers off and the deal was over.
Agreed, but for a hi-tech product to gain mass market acceptance, it must "cross the chasm". The user base for hi-tech products looks somewhat like a bell curve. At the front there is about 2% of people who are innovators - people who like technology for it's own sake, and the maybe 5% of people who are Early Adopters - technological visionaries. I'd guess 90% of all Slashdot readers fit into one of these two categories. However for a product to truly be sucessful in the market, it has to cross the chasm from those early 7% techy people into the huge pragmaist area. (~80% of people who will use technology if it truly benefits them). The Newton, like so many other failed Hi Tech products, never crossed the chasm.
I'd recommend Geoffry Moore's Crossing the Chasm book to read more about marketing hi-tech products to mainstream customers. Here is a rough estimate of the bell curve I was referring to.
Without Newton, the technology and the marketplace for handhelds would not be what it is today.
I disagree. Maybe I'll agree for the technology, but not the marketplace. Apple unfortunately completed missed the boat with regards to what the public wanted in a PDA, even though their offering was very cool.
Now without Jeff Hawkins, the PDA market would not be what it is today. I'm sure everyone has heard the story about how he carried around a wood block in his pocket to get a feel for if it was usable. He'd actually pull it out and pretend scrawl on it at the appropriate time to get a feel for the proper weight and size. That is what the market wanted - a *small*, usable, electronic daytimer.
If it can't read the actual page and determine what it is about, doesn't that lead to widespread Google-bombing? For instance, what if everyone wrote: Hey! Look at the really sweet site!. Note: In reality I do not recommend clicking that link.
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In that case, I hope the next asteroid lands on your house! ;)
(And that you don't live near me.
Yikes!
Wow, you must refresh pretty often to never have the articles Slashdotted!
Hold the phone! Did I just read a post moderated as insightful basically promoting lightcore prostitution? OH WOW.
1. Closing a tab takes you onto the previous tab you were viewing, not the physically next tab. (Logical tab stack)
2. You can drag and drop tabs to rearrange them.
Yeah, until they look under your keyboard and see the sticky with your private key. The weakest link in security is often the human.
When that day comes, we can just use SSNv6.
I think the customer should have the right to decide.
(He got the idea from a movie.)
But was there a backdoor to the backdoor?
Product X has a backdoor. Product X is released as open source. A few vigilant hackers start pouring over it ASAP and find the backdoor and exploit it until it's found by someone in the good community. (Maybe a full year later, as you said.)
Just food for thought.
I'm digging the new single from this Trapt band (single: Headstrong) so I thought I'd check out their website. You can buy their whole album for only for $7.99, and they will mail you liner notes and an autographed poster! 128 or 192 Kbit MP3, obviously no DRM, free to burn, etc. Intriguing eh? I am considering buying it just to support the concept.
Steve
OK, I have a humble request. Is it against the rules to put some examples in man pages? The language of man pages is sometimes so arcane. I think people learn best by example, why can't man pages have a couple?
It really proves to me that Slashdot is all about professional, responsible journalism. ;)
Ahahah, I was gonna reply but you already said it best.
I know what you mean man - I consider myself a competent computer user - my job is a software developer afterall. But I cannot seem to get KDE or GNOME into a 100% working configuiration. Right now my problem is fonts. They look soooo ugly, and ones that I had been using all along (mscorefonts) have now started dissapearing in all my GTK based apps. I also can no longer get Mosfet's liquid to work with KDE. It is a nightmare to get all these things up and operational. I find it amazing that anyone ever does.
Yes. You can use emacs and GCC to write a closed source program.
Nah, those have displays. ;)
Yup, I heard it dissipates 19W.
IBM almost bought Apple way back in the day. It was very close - I think the Apple BoD or some Apple exec pissed all the IBMers off and the deal was over.
It appears that one man's humour is another man's flamebait.
I'd recommend Geoffry Moore's Crossing the Chasm book to read more about marketing hi-tech products to mainstream customers. Here is a rough estimate of the bell curve I was referring to.
I disagree. Maybe I'll agree for the technology, but not the marketplace. Apple unfortunately completed missed the boat with regards to what the public wanted in a PDA, even though their offering was very cool.
Now without Jeff Hawkins, the PDA market would not be what it is today. I'm sure everyone has heard the story about how he carried around a wood block in his pocket to get a feel for if it was usable. He'd actually pull it out and pretend scrawl on it at the appropriate time to get a feel for the proper weight and size. That is what the market wanted - a *small*, usable, electronic daytimer.
If it can't read the actual page and determine what it is about, doesn't that lead to widespread Google-bombing? For instance, what if everyone wrote: Hey! Look at the really sweet site!. Note: In reality I do not recommend clicking that link.
I'm looking forward to the insightful and unbiased discussion we will have about the relative merits of Windows and *nix.