Who cares about adobe's pdf reader, people just need to be educated that better readers exist... It's like people who complain about the web because they're still using IE. OSX has a nice pdf reader by default (preview), solaris can run kpdf (nice reader, especially if you run pdf), xpdf, gpdf, gv and you can always use tools like pdf2png or pdf2ps to convert it to other formats for viewing. There's also a fair few pdf readers for windows, i've heard good things about foxit but never used it myself.
PDF supports both ascii and binary representations, just like postscript actually... Although even the ascii variant can have binary segments embedded for things like images, try loading a PDF in vi.
India has many different languages depending which part of the country you go to... Because of this, they virtually all learn english as a second language so they have a common way to communicate.
Microsoft have frequently used biased methods for "security comparisons"...
They have compared the published vulnerabilities between windows and various linux distributions, when the same applies as discussed in this article - issues found internally may or may not be fixed, but are not disclosed to the public.
Also many linux distributions typically include a massively larger set of packages than windows does, a distribution such as debian or gentoo supports more packages than microsoft do across their entire product line.
I wonder when they will remove the reference to nazi germany, anyone who could answer yes to that must be rather old or have already died by now, and you can't hold it against anyone who was a very young child at the time. I also wonder why they make no mention of imperial japan, who unlike germany actually managed to strike the us.
Exactly... Even if you closed the borders entirely, the terrorists would try to recruit people who were already in the country... Most likely young impressionable and possibly already troubled people, but if their propaganda is convincing enough it could be anyone.
So your no longer writing the kludges yourself, your merely using a set that someone else has already developed. You can also develop cross platform C code by using cross platform libs like SDL and OpenGL etc..
Thats not the point... 64bit is coming, sooner or later, and apple must have known this... The core2 wasnt around, but mobile p4s were (yes, they suck and consume lots of power) and the turion64 was available. The point was more about not having to support 2 architectures, and having another migration in the future. They chose an architecture that's heading out (32bit x86) and ran with it for 1 short lived line of machines. What they could have done, was done the migration all at once.. Direct from PPC32/64 to x86/64, removing the need to support (and continue being held back by) a very short lived 32bit x86 machine. I'm sure that's also the reason why the mac pro came later, since they were replacing the already 64bit G5 machines.
While it may be slightly useful in "help" channels like the ones you describe, some channels already had searchable logs online years ago. Being in a channel dedicated to help where you are fully aware a clearly identified bot is logging all your traffic to a website is one thing... Having a third party unconnected with the operators of the channel or the network it sits on covertly monitoring channels using intentionally hidden bots is quite different.
If you look at some of the more complex webapps, you'l find that most have kludges to support ie and firefox, some have extra kludges for opera and safari... It's very hard to write a webapp where the same code runs in all browsers, you quite often have to determine the browser being used and serve up slightly different code to different browsers. That's not write once run anywhere, that's write once then port to several target platforms - like C.
Is the version of.net that is iso certified the same version microsoft are currently pushing?
As i understand it, tho i could be wrong, it's.net 1.0 that is iso certified and implemented by mono, but microsoft are now pushing 2.0 and 3.0 which is incompatible.
Leopard-only? Are there really machines which can't run Tiger? They've not updated their hardware since Leopard came out, so what were these machines shipping with before the launch date of leopard?
My grievance with the first macbooks, is that they form a very short lived 32bit x86 mac...
Personally i think Apple should have used the architecture switch to move to a pure 64bit platform (64bit kernel at least, with capability to run 32bit apps)... Instead, they are retaining a 32bit kernel for "compatibility"... That is, compatibility with the very short lived first generation macbooks and minis, so now they effectively have 3 architectures to support.
Apple sell complete systems... A bundle of hardware and software designed to work properly together. That's a big selling point, no hassle with drivers, no hardware conflicts etc. Windows could never provide the same level of integration unless microsoft start producing hardware against (remember the jazz platform?) and linux could but would really need the hardware maker to roll their own distro.
The only other place you get good integration between hardware and software, is at the high end.. Think z/OS, Solaris/Sparc, AIX etc
If he has access to the good exe *before* it's signed, why not simply replace it with the malicious one so that the malicious one gets signed and distributed instead of the good one...
The UK iphone plans are quite expensive compared to comparable plans even from the same operator... The average consumer doesnt understand the concept of unlocking.
AT&T is just one carrier of many... And remember the iphone is also on sale in europe with carriers other than at&t... They could even just sell the phones in the same way every other manufacturer does - unlocked units, or cheaper units subsidised by contracts.
But canonical are free to continue distributing older versions of packages if the new ones aren't up to scratch. There's no reason for people to be switching back to a previous version.
Can't say that i've seen any performance hits from going 64bit, if anything performance has improved (more registers etc).. Tho admittedly the memory usage has increased. Perhaps there could be some issues related to compiler optimizations tho, 64bit being newer has not had so much work done on it. It's not the same on other architectures, where the 32bit mode had enough registers to start with... There is however no reason you can't run a 64bit kernel and 32bit usermode apps. You gain the ability to use more memory, and you save memory on the majority of your userland apps which don't need more than 2gb. You can still run 64bit apps if you need a large dataset, and if a 32bit app goes haywire and tries to eat all your memory it can't.
What exactly are the privacy concerns? Companies can host the servers themselves, and have their employees access them from thin clients. Home users often don't deal with much that's very private. A lot of people simply write things to email them out straight away, so your already entrusting that data to someone else's server. And as the previous post said, a p3 1ghz is more than sufficient to satisfy most users' needs with local apps anyway.
What we need are really small, low powered and quiet systems, more than sufficient to act as a dumb terminal, and easily capable of editing typical documents locally as well for those concerned about privacy. An ARM based system would be more than sufficient. You could also make small laptops with really good battery life.
And as i said in an earlier post, this is more than sufficient for the average user. Sure there will always be exceptions, as you said some applications which are far more power hungry, but most people never run such applications.
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Yes, OSX has decent tools by default both for reading and creating PDFs, it's a genuinely useful format by default.
Who cares about adobe's pdf reader, people just need to be educated that better readers exist...
It's like people who complain about the web because they're still using IE.
OSX has a nice pdf reader by default (preview), solaris can run kpdf (nice reader, especially if you run pdf), xpdf, gpdf, gv and you can always use tools like pdf2png or pdf2ps to convert it to other formats for viewing. There's also a fair few pdf readers for windows, i've heard good things about foxit but never used it myself.
PDF supports both ascii and binary representations, just like postscript actually... Although even the ascii variant can have binary segments embedded for things like images, try loading a PDF in vi.
India has many different languages depending which part of the country you go to...
Because of this, they virtually all learn english as a second language so they have a common way to communicate.
Microsoft have frequently used biased methods for "security comparisons"...
They have compared the published vulnerabilities between windows and various linux distributions, when the same applies as discussed in this article - issues found internally may or may not be fixed, but are not disclosed to the public.
Also many linux distributions typically include a massively larger set of packages than windows does, a distribution such as debian or gentoo supports more packages than microsoft do across their entire product line.
Maybe they'l start using australia as a prison colony again once guantanamo bay fills up...
They overstayed their visa? All the more reason for them to be getting on a plane to leave...
I wonder when they will remove the reference to nazi germany, anyone who could answer yes to that must be rather old or have already died by now, and you can't hold it against anyone who was a very young child at the time. I also wonder why they make no mention of imperial japan, who unlike germany actually managed to strike the us.
Exactly...
Even if you closed the borders entirely, the terrorists would try to recruit people who were already in the country... Most likely young impressionable and possibly already troubled people, but if their propaganda is convincing enough it could be anyone.
And they probably can't run leopard either...
I'm talking about machines which can only run leopard or newer.
So your no longer writing the kludges yourself, your merely using a set that someone else has already developed.
You can also develop cross platform C code by using cross platform libs like SDL and OpenGL etc..
Thats not the point...
64bit is coming, sooner or later, and apple must have known this...
The core2 wasnt around, but mobile p4s were (yes, they suck and consume lots of power) and the turion64 was available.
The point was more about not having to support 2 architectures, and having another migration in the future. They chose an architecture that's heading out (32bit x86) and ran with it for 1 short lived line of machines. What they could have done, was done the migration all at once.. Direct from PPC32/64 to x86/64, removing the need to support (and continue being held back by) a very short lived 32bit x86 machine.
I'm sure that's also the reason why the mac pro came later, since they were replacing the already 64bit G5 machines.
While it may be slightly useful in "help" channels like the ones you describe, some channels already had searchable logs online years ago.
Being in a channel dedicated to help where you are fully aware a clearly identified bot is logging all your traffic to a website is one thing...
Having a third party unconnected with the operators of the channel or the network it sits on covertly monitoring channels using intentionally hidden bots is quite different.
If you look at some of the more complex webapps, you'l find that most have kludges to support ie and firefox, some have extra kludges for opera and safari...
It's very hard to write a webapp where the same code runs in all browsers, you quite often have to determine the browser being used and serve up slightly different code to different browsers. That's not write once run anywhere, that's write once then port to several target platforms - like C.
Is the version of .net that is iso certified the same version microsoft are currently pushing?
.net 1.0 that is iso certified and implemented by mono, but microsoft are now pushing 2.0 and 3.0 which is incompatible.
As i understand it, tho i could be wrong, it's
Leopard-only?
Are there really machines which can't run Tiger? They've not updated their hardware since Leopard came out, so what were these machines shipping with before the launch date of leopard?
My grievance with the first macbooks, is that they form a very short lived 32bit x86 mac...
Personally i think Apple should have used the architecture switch to move to a pure 64bit platform (64bit kernel at least, with capability to run 32bit apps)... Instead, they are retaining a 32bit kernel for "compatibility"... That is, compatibility with the very short lived first generation macbooks and minis, so now they effectively have 3 architectures to support.
They are not the only one, perhaps the only company remaining in consumer space since the end of atari and commodore...
Sun make systems to run Solaris..
IBM make systems to run AIX and z/OS etc
HP make systems to run HP-UX
And with the exception of Solaris, these systems only run on their respective vendors' hardware.
Apple sell complete systems...
A bundle of hardware and software designed to work properly together. That's a big selling point, no hassle with drivers, no hardware conflicts etc.
Windows could never provide the same level of integration unless microsoft start producing hardware against (remember the jazz platform?) and linux could but would really need the hardware maker to roll their own distro.
The only other place you get good integration between hardware and software, is at the high end.. Think z/OS, Solaris/Sparc, AIX etc
If he has access to the good exe *before* it's signed, why not simply replace it with the malicious one so that the malicious one gets signed and distributed instead of the good one...
The UK iphone plans are quite expensive compared to comparable plans even from the same operator... The average consumer doesnt understand the concept of unlocking.
AT&T is just one carrier of many... And remember the iphone is also on sale in europe with carriers other than at&t...
They could even just sell the phones in the same way every other manufacturer does - unlocked units, or cheaper units subsidised by contracts.
But canonical are free to continue distributing older versions of packages if the new ones aren't up to scratch. There's no reason for people to be switching back to a previous version.
Can't say that i've seen any performance hits from going 64bit, if anything performance has improved (more registers etc).. Tho admittedly the memory usage has increased. Perhaps there could be some issues related to compiler optimizations tho, 64bit being newer has not had so much work done on it.
It's not the same on other architectures, where the 32bit mode had enough registers to start with...
There is however no reason you can't run a 64bit kernel and 32bit usermode apps. You gain the ability to use more memory, and you save memory on the majority of your userland apps which don't need more than 2gb. You can still run 64bit apps if you need a large dataset, and if a 32bit app goes haywire and tries to eat all your memory it can't.
What exactly are the privacy concerns?
Companies can host the servers themselves, and have their employees access them from thin clients.
Home users often don't deal with much that's very private. A lot of people simply write things to email them out straight away, so your already entrusting that data to someone else's server. And as the previous post said, a p3 1ghz is more than sufficient to satisfy most users' needs with local apps anyway.
What we need are really small, low powered and quiet systems, more than sufficient to act as a dumb terminal, and easily capable of editing typical documents locally as well for those concerned about privacy. An ARM based system would be more than sufficient. You could also make small laptops with really good battery life.
And as i said in an earlier post, this is more than sufficient for the average user. Sure there will always be exceptions, as you said some applications which are far more power hungry, but most people never run such applications.