That's great and all, but OSes had permissions since, oh at least 40+ years ago, and abandoning other essential features to substitute new and different features isn't unambiguously a step forward. Even more so in this day and age when permissions and protections are the defence against malware.
So people are going to let strangers delete files on their computers. And this is supposed to *improve* security? Ummm, is it only me who sees the extreme irony in this plan?
SQL does NOT scale for many kinds of problems. To take an extreme example, let's say you had a network design for the United States telephone system, with all its connections and hubs and exchanges etc and how they all connect together. Then you want to store it all in a database. These kinds of problems will crush an SQL database. Sure, a really good SQL database can handle remarkable numbers of transactions per second, where those transactions are relatively simple: some manageable number of records involved per transaction. But the more complex the problems become, the more the theory bogs down. With more and more complex web sites and problems being modelled, the less and less can SQL databases cope.
I guess I can see how somebody could be naive enough to think that he could do what he did and think it might be unquestionably legal. What I find hard to grasp is how he could do it and not think people would be very upset about it - upset enough to at least TRY and get the law involved to make his life a misery. Seriously, if I was going to do this, I'd have the program directly upload it to a public web site, and I'd download it from a public terminal to give plausible deny-ability.
As laudable as your father's need for patent protection might be, the reality of the 21st century is that only a very tiny proportion of patents, and only a very tiny proportion of new and interesting products are developed by guys tinkering in their garage. Jobs and Wozniak created a new industry in their garage. That happens less and less. And even when it does happen, its rarely because of some new patented idea. I'd hazard to say that 95% of patent cases in court are mega corporations battling each other. This is where the problems need to be discussed.
I'm almost certain this is not true. Apple service centres are quite capable of prying the batteries off the chassis. It isn't THAT hard. Yes, there's a bit more work involved to strip the parts out, prise the battery off, and put it back together. But there is more upside than just manufacturing cheapness and compactness. The whole deal is more rigid and resistent to damage with bending and external forces. There is no way Apple will do all that work AND replace the upper chassis, keyboard, trackpad etc for $199.
It's impossible to monitor depending how you define that. Once something is inserted into freenet, it isn't "owned" by anyone in particular, and who you download something from isn't even aware they are the host. Kinda hard perhaps to prosecute someone for hosting copyright material when it isn't feasible for them to know what they are hosting.
Freenet has countermeasures against corruption by mpaa etc. how well it would hold up we would have to see if and when it is attacked.
Non-merging copies are basically a feature. The idea that two folders merged into one will still be a cohesive result is the exception, it shouldn't be the rule.
I haven't noticed these problems with Finder, but one program is not a reason to impugn the whole OS anyway. There are a number of replacement finders available like PathFinder, which has very powerful features for that sort of thing.
You have a point, but then again, if windows 8 annoys you, you switch to osx. When gnome annoyed you, you were still "dead" in the sense that you had to give up on gnome, because you don't want to personally take on the job of maintaining an entire old distribution, and you weren't willing to stay with it either.
I find it hard to believe everything is now rosy in kernel driver land. I mean, I even have troubles some times with osx, and that is the gold standard for hardware compatibility. And drivers go well beyond the kernel. In the last week we've seen a furore about NVidia linux support, then there is the mess that is printer land.
I can tell you why I gave up on Linux. I used it for a really long time, starting from kernel 1.0.
1. Breakage. I got sick of every software update from Redhat or Debian or whatever arbitrarily breaking a bunch of stuff. You might have spent a whole day figuring out how to get printing to work with your printer etc, then they'd swap to a new version of lpd or something and you'd have to start again. Even for a tinkerer, this eventually gets old. The big vendors do better in smoothing things over with upgrade paths.
2. Hardware support. Shopping for hardware is exhausting when you've got to spend days of research trying to figure out what hardware works, and even then you make mistakes, and/or are disappointed when it doesn't really work right. This problem is even more acute with the general trend towards laptops.
3. Speed of change. Often free software just evolves too quickly in directions that are questionable. I haven't followed KDE for a long time, but I'm hearing voices that this happened with KDE. Just when you learn some software and come to deal with it, the whole thing changes completely from under you. Yes of course, the big vendors do this too, but nowhere near as often, and not as arbitrarily.
4. KDE vs Gnome. I've never bought the "choice is good" mantra. Linux is too small to support 2 different environments. Any enthusiasm I had for developing for Linux was squashed by the continual doubt in my mind about which environment I should develop for, or which one would survive. I'm surprised one or the other hasn't died by now. Having an overlord to make tough decisions in this area would be good IMHO.
I think free software ws always at its strongest when it is copying an already existing design, like the kernel itself. When it goes its own way, with hundreds of developers, it can lose its cohesiveness. I think without a corporate benefactor to pay for a lot of development, it would be better off copying OSX. Not because OSX is the last word in OS but because at least it is well thought out, and lots of people know how to use it.
I can't comment on whether Mac VNC is fast or lacking in options, but I can say one thing, it's damned easy to use and it works. My previous attempts to use VNC often led me to tear my hair out in frustration and give up. Yet again Apple has demonstrated that less is more.
It's nothing to do with PR, that's for sure. It's never good PR. It's about competitors trying to get one over on the opposition. Sometimes by stopping them shipping, and sometimes by making them pay through the nose for it. Trying to make it more complicated than that is a waste of time.
Wait, this Trekky claims to have a girlfriend? Is it just me, because I don't buy this story at all.
My suggestion samzenpus: get some spock ears, take your supposed girlfriend to a restaurant, and verbally explain to her all the back stories in deep space nine. That will REALLY get her involved.
Every macbook I've ever owned has had battery problems. Admittedly they are usually after I passed them down to my teenage kids, but try making a teenage girl follow the rules of maximum battery health. Can't be done.
I can live with most of the compromises of the new Macbook Retina, but the glued in battery seems a bit of a deal killer to me. Unless Apple has a trick up its sleeve to get it out in their service centres, it will cost an absolute fortune to replace them. Think like $1000 plus for a new top case and labour to completely disassemble.
Industry convention, by which I mean what companies like IBM and their ilk do to customers, is they deliver crap to their customers then charge them an arm and a leg to fix it. I don't know that industry convention is particularly helpful when you're a small time guy trying to earn a living.
Like others have said, you should agree to a sign off period, but if you want to make your customers happy, you might consider fixing the worst most serious cases of bugs for free for a lot longer. But you would restrict it to really blatant bugs.
Of course, now that Oracle owns Sun, and their server line, they have a vested interest in killing the few remaining dedicated UNIX vendors. Once HP is gone, the market is owned by Oracle and IBM.
I remember when WebOS was a darling of the internet chatter. But even at the time it all looked very shaky. The product was rushed to market. They company didn't quite have the resources to push it out firmly enough, even in the US, let alone the rest of the world. Apple was biting at their heals. Palm finances were very dodgy. If a bigger company had the product at the time with enough resources to really push it, it might have survived and thrived. But the whole thing just didn't have enough momentum in the face of bigger players.
I'm always immediately sceptical of any game that tries to trade off a successful movie. If the game can't trade on its own merits, why should I bother? I wish the game companies would give up trying to franchise from Hollywood. I don't support it.
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Patents on Win32 (if there are any) are surely soon to expire. Copyright of APIs is a fail, as we've seen.
That's great and all, but OSes had permissions since, oh at least 40+ years ago, and abandoning other essential features to substitute new and different features isn't unambiguously a step forward. Even more so in this day and age when permissions and protections are the defence against malware.
Call me old fashioned, but I think being born with a penis, as opposed to ovaries ought to be the test.
There was a whole episode of Yes Minister on this arms export topic. I'm sure what happened in that (hilarious) episode, is spot on.
So people are going to let strangers delete files on their computers. And this is supposed to *improve* security? Ummm, is it only me who sees the extreme irony in this plan?
SQL does NOT scale for many kinds of problems. To take an extreme example, let's say you had a network design for the United States telephone system, with all its connections and hubs and exchanges etc and how they all connect together. Then you want to store it all in a database. These kinds of problems will crush an SQL database. Sure, a really good SQL database can handle remarkable numbers of transactions per second, where those transactions are relatively simple: some manageable number of records involved per transaction. But the more complex the problems become, the more the theory bogs down. With more and more complex web sites and problems being modelled, the less and less can SQL databases cope.
I guess I can see how somebody could be naive enough to think that he could do what he did and think it might be unquestionably legal. What I find hard to grasp is how he could do it and not think people would be very upset about it - upset enough to at least TRY and get the law involved to make his life a misery. Seriously, if I was going to do this, I'd have the program directly upload it to a public web site, and I'd download it from a public terminal to give plausible deny-ability.
As laudable as your father's need for patent protection might be, the reality of the 21st century is that only a very tiny proportion of patents, and only a very tiny proportion of new and interesting products are developed by guys tinkering in their garage. Jobs and Wozniak created a new industry in their garage. That happens less and less. And even when it does happen, its rarely because of some new patented idea. I'd hazard to say that 95% of patent cases in court are mega corporations battling each other. This is where the problems need to be discussed.
I'm almost certain this is not true. Apple service centres are quite capable of prying the batteries off the chassis. It isn't THAT hard. Yes, there's a bit more work involved to strip the parts out, prise the battery off, and put it back together. But there is more upside than just manufacturing cheapness and compactness. The whole deal is more rigid and resistent to damage with bending and external forces. There is no way Apple will do all that work AND replace the upper chassis, keyboard, trackpad etc for $199.
It's impossible to monitor depending how you define that. Once something is inserted into freenet, it isn't "owned" by anyone in particular, and who you download something from isn't even aware they are the host. Kinda hard perhaps to prosecute someone for hosting copyright material when it isn't feasible for them to know what they are hosting.
Freenet has countermeasures against corruption by mpaa etc. how well it would hold up we would have to see if and when it is attacked.
Non-merging copies are basically a feature. The idea that two folders merged into one will still be a cohesive result is the exception, it shouldn't be the rule.
I haven't noticed these problems with Finder, but one program is not a reason to impugn the whole OS anyway. There are a number of replacement finders available like PathFinder, which has very powerful features for that sort of thing.
You have a point, but then again, if windows 8 annoys you, you switch to osx. When gnome annoyed you, you were still "dead" in the sense that you had to give up on gnome, because you don't want to personally take on the job of maintaining an entire old distribution, and you weren't willing to stay with it either.
I find it hard to believe everything is now rosy in kernel driver land. I mean, I even have troubles some times with osx, and that is the gold standard for hardware compatibility. And drivers go well beyond the kernel. In the last week we've seen a furore about NVidia linux support, then there is the mess that is printer land.
I can tell you why I gave up on Linux. I used it for a really long time, starting from kernel 1.0.
1. Breakage. I got sick of every software update from Redhat or Debian or whatever arbitrarily breaking a bunch of stuff. You might have spent a whole day figuring out how to get printing to work with your printer etc, then they'd swap to a new version of lpd or something and you'd have to start again. Even for a tinkerer, this eventually gets old. The big vendors do better in smoothing things over with upgrade paths.
2. Hardware support. Shopping for hardware is exhausting when you've got to spend days of research trying to figure out what hardware works, and even then you make mistakes, and/or are disappointed when it doesn't really work right. This problem is even more acute with the general trend towards laptops.
3. Speed of change. Often free software just evolves too quickly in directions that are questionable. I haven't followed KDE for a long time, but I'm hearing voices that this happened with KDE. Just when you learn some software and come to deal with it, the whole thing changes completely from under you. Yes of course, the big vendors do this too, but nowhere near as often, and not as arbitrarily.
4. KDE vs Gnome. I've never bought the "choice is good" mantra. Linux is too small to support 2 different environments. Any enthusiasm I had for developing for Linux was squashed by the continual doubt in my mind about which environment I should develop for, or which one would survive. I'm surprised one or the other hasn't died by now. Having an overlord to make tough decisions in this area would be good IMHO.
I think free software ws always at its strongest when it is copying an already existing design, like the kernel itself. When it goes its own way, with hundreds of developers, it can lose its cohesiveness. I think without a corporate benefactor to pay for a lot of development, it would be better off copying OSX. Not because OSX is the last word in OS but because at least it is well thought out, and lots of people know how to use it.
I can't comment on whether Mac VNC is fast or lacking in options, but I can say one thing, it's damned easy to use and it works. My previous attempts to use VNC often led me to tear my hair out in frustration and give up. Yet again Apple has demonstrated that less is more.
It's nothing to do with PR, that's for sure. It's never good PR. It's about competitors trying to get one over on the opposition. Sometimes by stopping them shipping, and sometimes by making them pay through the nose for it. Trying to make it more complicated than that is a waste of time.
Wait, this Trekky claims to have a girlfriend? Is it just me, because I don't buy this story at all.
My suggestion samzenpus: get some spock ears, take your supposed girlfriend to a restaurant, and verbally explain to her all the back stories in deep space nine. That will REALLY get her involved.
LOL.
Yeah but, WP7 and WP8 apps are supposedly compatible. So what part is supposedly so different they have to drop compatibility?
In any case, you can't call Cocoa "OS core", otherwise what is left to be non-core?
Every macbook I've ever owned has had battery problems. Admittedly they are usually after I passed them down to my teenage kids, but try making a teenage girl follow the rules of maximum battery health. Can't be done.
I can live with most of the compromises of the new Macbook Retina, but the glued in battery seems a bit of a deal killer to me. Unless Apple has a trick up its sleeve to get it out in their service centres, it will cost an absolute fortune to replace them. Think like $1000 plus for a new top case and labour to completely disassemble.
Industry convention, by which I mean what companies like IBM and their ilk do to customers, is they deliver crap to their customers then charge them an arm and a leg to fix it. I don't know that industry convention is particularly helpful when you're a small time guy trying to earn a living.
Like others have said, you should agree to a sign off period, but if you want to make your customers happy, you might consider fixing the worst most serious cases of bugs for free for a lot longer. But you would restrict it to really blatant bugs.
Of course, now that Oracle owns Sun, and their server line, they have a vested interest in killing the few remaining dedicated UNIX vendors. Once HP is gone, the market is owned by Oracle and IBM.
I remember when WebOS was a darling of the internet chatter. But even at the time it all looked very shaky. The product was rushed to market. They company didn't quite have the resources to push it out firmly enough, even in the US, let alone the rest of the world. Apple was biting at their heals. Palm finances were very dodgy. If a bigger company had the product at the time with enough resources to really push it, it might have survived and thrived. But the whole thing just didn't have enough momentum in the face of bigger players.
Erk. Creationists understand, they just don't agree.
I'm always immediately sceptical of any game that tries to trade off a successful movie. If the game can't trade on its own merits, why should I bother? I wish the game companies would give up trying to franchise from Hollywood. I don't support it.
What about the long time dream of this web site to have a .DOT domain? So that we can have:
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