I'm impressed by what they've done so far, but not the seven years it took them to do it
Your kidding right? How many OS's have you developed yourself? None? I thought so. MS spent millions and took _many_ years to develop the NT OS, and _many_ more years to get it stable (NT 4 sucked for stability, 2k and 2003 still crash, though not as much as NT 4)
Here is a group of OSS developers working in their _spare_ time and you say your not impressed? Dude, your an idiot. This small group has done what MS did in _half_ the time. I am _very_ impressed.
I guess your expecting a small group of developers to duplicate what a bunch of developers and tons of cash did over _years_ funded by the _largest_ software company in the world?
Its not like Wine which is so darn close to being an emulator it might as well be.
Hey, dummy, Wine stands for Wine is not an emulator!
Wine does not try to emulate hardware. Wine is trying to _duplicate_ the Win32 API under Linux. What is _so_ hard to understand about that? Exactly what is differnt about Wine trying to _duplicate_ the Win32 API under Linux vs. ReactOS trying to _duplicate_ the Win32 API under ReactOS?
Ummmm.., do you have 2 brain cells or 3? Did you even _read_ my post? I was talking about a FIREFOX toolbar that was _NOT_ made by MS. What the _hell_ does that have to do with MS or MSN? Damn, please tell me people are not this stupid. Please tell me you are just joking. Please tell me people have better reading comprehension that what you have shown.
But what features does it have over regular Firefox 1.0? I didn't see _one_ feature over Firefox 1.0. When you add in the 175+ Firefox 1.0 extensions, this "plugin/toolbar" doessn't even come close.
Informative? Exactly what is the point of this toolbar? Firefox 1.0 has had built-in Google search for ages and you can add _tons_ of other searches to the toolbar at the click of a button. Searches like Dictionary.com, Amazon, Bible searches, recipe searches, tech searches, shopping, you name it, it is there, hundreds of search engince.
Popup blocking? Uh, Firefox has had that for _ages_. There are currently 175 extension to Firefox 1.0 covering everything from web development to bookmark sync, games, you name it. Who would install _any_ Firefox toolbar from some.com site? It is just probably some tracking code.
If your a crook, just _don't_ run MS Windows and this plan is shot. Run Mac OS, Linux, *BSD and your good to go. They say they are going to "monitor email, online chats, word processor and spreadsheets", which any knuckle-head crook can do very easily on Linux or Mac OS.
Is the govt. in Australia really this stupid? There going to waste tons of tax payer money, and any smart crook (the ones that are hard to catch), can work around this by switching OS!
Also, what about privacy issues? Or are they not important in Australia?
I don't know if this will happen, or at least hope not. I am a senior programmer for fortune 500 and we recently did a HUGE PeopleSoft HR system and PeopleSoft Portal. It took a _very_ long time, thousands of man-hours and cost tens of millions.
We already use Oracle for all our critical corporate systems on the DB side, including HR and Portal. So Oracle changing PeopleSoft to require an Oracle DB is not a big deal to us.
However, we did evaluate Oracles offerings for HR and Portal. Their HR system didn't support what we needed so we went with PS HR. And since we went with PS HR, we went with PS Portal since the two integrate.
The only way I see customers that are not using an Oracle DB for their PS systems switching would be if Oracle sent consultants to do the conversions at not cost. Of course Oracle will still get paid the big license fees and support contracts!
San Jose State (my university) has the Peoplesoft system as well, but it outright doesn't work in Firefox
They must be running an old version of PS. We finished a HUGE PS HR system and a HUGE PS Portal system for 140,000 users. I only user Firefox and work and have no problems with the PS Portal. There are a few display problems with only about 3 or 4 pages from broken HTML that the PS Portal churns out, but other then that, no issues at all.
Migrating birds tend to like strong winds, which often place them in the same geography as wind farms. As a reference, see this interesting article on the Altamont Pass wind farm and its effect on raptors.
Stop hugging trees. Less birds are killed each year by wind turbines the smash into high-rise buildings. There are plenty of reports that show different then what you suggest.
Millions of birds die every year from smashing into high-rise buildings, cars etc. Have we stopped building high-rise buildings ore cars because of that? No. Wind Turbines will have no significant effect on bird populations.
Birds avoid colliding with wind turbines in most instances. Certain behaviors may increase birds' risk of collision.
Night migrating birds rarely collide with wind turbines, contrary to some beliefs.
Low bird mortality has been found at European wind power sites
So are you saying you were not able to be a "professional photographer" with phtoshop 7? It wasn't until the great upgrades of Photoshop 8/CS that you were able to achieve being a "professional photographer"? Or are you just someone easily fooled by marketing that you _think_ you need to upgrade to Photoshop 8/CS to be a "professional"?
Professional just means you are paid for doing something. That doesn't condone any level of quality about the work. My brother-in-law is in his last year at RIT for photography, which happens to be a pretty darn good school for photography. He has been paid many times for his work, yet he somehow manages to "scrape by on Photoshop 7". I really don't know _how_ he does it.
It just hasn't been tested. PS 7 works great and there have been no real reasons for me to pay the big bucks to upgrade to CS and not enough features to warrant the upgrade. CS support wil be out soon from Codeweavers, since Photoshop is a big ticket item for Codeweavers.
I love my digital camera as well. One question for you since from judging from your site, you are more advanced and an amatuer photographer then me. Do you use a lot of the cameras "auto" features or play with the settings? Also, do you use the LCD display to frame a shot or the little view finder? I am really in need of an upgrade to my 3.2M camera and I am looking at some new models. However, I was wondering how effective the controls on a digitial can be vs. more advanced SLR's.
Um.... I have one for you:
1. You are an idiot
2. You are stupid ...Choose one.
The choose one thingy doesn't always work very well does it.
For item #1, how do you know this? Has Bill G told you this? No. MS has patented _plenty_ of software and where is all the Open stuff from them? Item #2 is just stupid and unfounded. Copyright and/or a license/NDA agreement is _plenty_ to protect a company. How many competitors would get away with copyright violation against MS once they let loose their lawyers?
As was pointed out in the rebuttal (which you probably didn't read), just don't release _any_ source until you get your product with new features X, Y and Z out to market. Once your product is out, then release the code. You already have the head start and it will take a while for competitors to play catch up. Also as the rebuttal pointed out and that I can personally attest to as a senior programmer of 8 years is that is is _far_ easier to implement a feature for scratch then pick up someone else code. The worst projects I get are where I have to pick up someone else code and fix it or add new features.
I don't know of any other product that works with MS Exchange under MS windows. MS keeps that stuff locked up and most companies probably didn't think there is chance with that monopoly market. I too looked for an alternative to MS Outlook on MS Windows and found none. If you find one, reply to this post.
I see the point your trying to make. However, I personally see a _very_ big difference between someone who want to get a copy of my work for free and someone who want to create a derivitive from my work for profit. The fist is wrong though the second causes the most real damage.
In my utopia, all _digital_ _copies_ of works of art are free for personal use but require payment for commercial use or using to make derivitive works.
Let us put this in a real context. Say I am a musician. To download a digital copy of my songs and listen to for personal use is free. To use these songs in _any_ commercial way will require my permission and possibly a fee. For example in a commercial, as the theme to your radio program, etc. Also I charge a fee for live performances. I see that as a very good business model.
I agree 100%. MS Outlook sucks for just mail. I meant in the sense of groupware such as a corp has. Most of the mail just stays in a corp. For just email, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express are the worst. Very non-standard. I always hate when I am on a mailing list and you get a bunch of ID10T's using MS Outlook or MS Outlook Express as their client, it kills all the threading.
As for corporate groupware, MS had the best and easiest to use suite for a long time. However, I think Novell with their Groupwise that supports MS Outlook and Evolution can be a good challenge and IMO is better. I just whish that Evolution was written in Mono and ran on more platforms then just Linux. Then it _could_ be an MS Outlook replacement.
Yes, it is called Novell Evolution. It is a groupware client for Linux that does e-mail, calendaring, tasks and contact management. And can work with IMAP, POP, SMTP and Authenticated SMTP, Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 and Novell GroupWise. I use it at work on Linux to work with our MS Exchange 2003 server.
Novell has Evolution (which was previously Ximian Evolution). It is excellent and very similar to MS Outlook. It can work with an MS Exchange server, Novell Groupwise and others. You can do your scheduling, contacts and most of the things MS Outlook can. Granted, MS Outlook is an older product and more mature with a few more "power" fetures that some corps may need.
Outlook has so many more features then thunderbird. Since I dont use outlook I will give my mom's answer when she looked at thunderbird for her office. Can I use it to schedule the presentation rooms?
Why would you compare MS Outlook, a groupware application, to an email application? A better comparison would be MS Outlook Express to Thunderbird. MS Outlook Express cannot schedule the presentation rooms either. Thunderbird is far better then OE and has far better default security.
For office type groupware, MS Outlook is currently the best product out there. But for a typical _home_ user email program, Thunderbird is very good and much better then MS Outlook Express IMO.
This is a poor analogy. A more correct one would be you walk into a store, take a gallon of milk, and a new _exact_ copy of that gallon appears. If you could copy milk at no costs, then the analogy would be correct.
If someone comes along and takes a copy of a digital work from me, they have not deprived me of a physical object and I can still sell that work. Yes, I do agree it is wrong for someone to take a work from me without permission. I am just making a point how it is _very_ different then taking a physical work from me which will be in limited numbers. That _would_ be depriving me of a potential sale.
I agree with you about doing the ethical thing (in my case just not buying the copyrighted works). However I feel that copyright has gotten very bad and unbalanced. I think because of this, many people do not feel it is unethical to _copy_ digital content. Add to this the fact that producing an _exact_ copy requires no capital and results in no loss of goods, and you have the P2P vs. unbalanced copyright war we have now.
With the ??AA, BSA, etc all dumping millions every year into the pockets of our corrupted politicians to continue to swing copyright in their favor, you will just see more consumers fighting back. Maybe if these big corps get hit with the clue-stick, things would get better. However, I don't ever see that happing.
Yes, the *SECOND*. Strong crypto was a munition per ITAR at one point, hence it's an arm, and Second Amendment guarantees apply.
Even with the Second Amendment there have been laws passed to restrict what types of guns you can buy and what you need to do to legally own a gun. For example, you need a gun permit. I can see something along these lines being applied to encryption. To be allowed to encrypt data, you need a special license that of course will be very expensive. This could limit encryption to the government and larger corporations.
I wouldn't put it past our corrupted politicians to make "personal" encryption expensive or outlawed. They just need enough bribes from the **AA and BSA. Our "politicians" will just say that encryption is bad for "national security".
MythTV remains out of reach for me as I would have to build a machine specifically for it that is 100x more powerful than my current fastest machine.
Um..., where do you get that info from? The trick with MythTV or _any_ PVR, be it MS Windows based or Linux based, is to do _hardware_ encoding. Get a PVR250/350 for the hardware compression and you can run a very low end processor and low mem (256 MB or so). If you don't have a hardware card, then of course you will need a good proc, again be it MS Windows or Linux. The PVR 250 is pretty cheap and you can throw it in any ole` box and get a good MythTV setup. I have an AMD 1800+ (which is very cheap) and it performs great with a PVR 250, though next time I plan on getting a PVR 350.
According to Apple's FAQ, they only have Darwin listed as one of there open source resources. Where is this list of big contributions? KHTML doesn't count because Apple didn't have an option to not release it. Where is the list of _pure_ Apple technology that Apple has released as Open Source? Most of the stuff Apple "releases" are sources they have to release or only contribute to.
Where are the sources to iTunes, iDVD, iMovie, iFoo, iBar? How about any of their GUI code? For how much Open Source they use in their OS, they give back _very_ little of thier own technology.
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Here is a group of OSS developers working in their _spare_ time and you say your not impressed? Dude, your an idiot. This small group has done what MS did in _half_ the time. I am _very_ impressed.
I guess your expecting a small group of developers to duplicate what a bunch of developers and tons of cash did over _years_ funded by the _largest_ software company in the world?
Hey, dummy, Wine stands for Wine is not an emulator!
Wine does not try to emulate hardware. Wine is trying to _duplicate_ the Win32 API under Linux. What is _so_ hard to understand about that? Exactly what is differnt about Wine trying to _duplicate_ the Win32 API under Linux vs. ReactOS trying to _duplicate_ the Win32 API under ReactOS?
Ummmm.., do you have 2 brain cells or 3? Did you even _read_ my post? I was talking about a FIREFOX toolbar that was _NOT_ made by MS. What the _hell_ does that have to do with MS or MSN? Damn, please tell me people are not this stupid. Please tell me you are just joking. Please tell me people have better reading comprehension that what you have shown.
But what features does it have over regular Firefox 1.0? I didn't see _one_ feature over Firefox 1.0. When you add in the 175+ Firefox 1.0 extensions, this "plugin/toolbar" doessn't even come close.
Popup blocking? Uh, Firefox has had that for _ages_. There are currently 175 extension to Firefox 1.0 covering everything from web development to bookmark sync, games, you name it. Who would install _any_ Firefox toolbar from some .com site? It is just probably some tracking code.
Is the govt. in Australia really this stupid? There going to waste tons of tax payer money, and any smart crook (the ones that are hard to catch), can work around this by switching OS!
Also, what about privacy issues? Or are they not important in Australia?
We already use Oracle for all our critical corporate systems on the DB side, including HR and Portal. So Oracle changing PeopleSoft to require an Oracle DB is not a big deal to us.
However, we did evaluate Oracles offerings for HR and Portal. Their HR system didn't support what we needed so we went with PS HR. And since we went with PS HR, we went with PS Portal since the two integrate.
The only way I see customers that are not using an Oracle DB for their PS systems switching would be if Oracle sent consultants to do the conversions at not cost. Of course Oracle will still get paid the big license fees and support contracts!
Millions of birds die every year from smashing into high-rise buildings, cars etc. Have we stopped building high-rise buildings ore cars because of that? No. Wind Turbines will have no significant effect on bird populations.
Here is an article on the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area. Some good quotes from the article:
Professional just means you are paid for doing something. That doesn't condone any level of quality about the work. My brother-in-law is in his last year at RIT for photography, which happens to be a pretty darn good school for photography. He has been paid many times for his work, yet he somehow manages to "scrape by on Photoshop 7". I really don't know _how_ he does it.
It just hasn't been tested. PS 7 works great and there have been no real reasons for me to pay the big bucks to upgrade to CS and not enough features to warrant the upgrade. CS support wil be out soon from Codeweavers, since Photoshop is a big ticket item for Codeweavers.
I love my digital camera as well. One question for you since from judging from your site, you are more advanced and an amatuer photographer then me. Do you use a lot of the cameras "auto" features or play with the settings? Also, do you use the LCD display to frame a shot or the little view finder? I am really in need of an upgrade to my 3.2M camera and I am looking at some new models. However, I was wondering how effective the controls on a digitial can be vs. more advanced SLR's.
1. You are an idiot
2. You are stupid
The choose one thingy doesn't always work very well does it.
For item #1, how do you know this? Has Bill G told you this? No. MS has patented _plenty_ of software and where is all the Open stuff from them? Item #2 is just stupid and unfounded. Copyright and/or a license/NDA agreement is _plenty_ to protect a company. How many competitors would get away with copyright violation against MS once they let loose their lawyers?
As was pointed out in the rebuttal (which you probably didn't read), just don't release _any_ source until you get your product with new features X, Y and Z out to market. Once your product is out, then release the code. You already have the head start and it will take a while for competitors to play catch up. Also as the rebuttal pointed out and that I can personally attest to as a senior programmer of 8 years is that is is _far_ easier to implement a feature for scratch then pick up someone else code. The worst projects I get are where I have to pick up someone else code and fix it or add new features.
I don't know of any other product that works with MS Exchange under MS windows. MS keeps that stuff locked up and most companies probably didn't think there is chance with that monopoly market. I too looked for an alternative to MS Outlook on MS Windows and found none. If you find one, reply to this post.
In my utopia, all _digital_ _copies_ of works of art are free for personal use but require payment for commercial use or using to make derivitive works.
Let us put this in a real context. Say I am a musician. To download a digital copy of my songs and listen to for personal use is free. To use these songs in _any_ commercial way will require my permission and possibly a fee. For example in a commercial, as the theme to your radio program, etc. Also I charge a fee for live performances. I see that as a very good business model.
As for corporate groupware, MS had the best and easiest to use suite for a long time. However, I think Novell with their Groupwise that supports MS Outlook and Evolution can be a good challenge and IMO is better. I just whish that Evolution was written in Mono and ran on more platforms then just Linux. Then it _could_ be an MS Outlook replacement.
Yes, it is called Novell Evolution. It is a groupware client for Linux that does e-mail, calendaring, tasks and contact management. And can work with IMAP, POP, SMTP and Authenticated SMTP, Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 and Novell GroupWise. I use it at work on Linux to work with our MS Exchange 2003 server.
Novell has Evolution (which was previously Ximian Evolution). It is excellent and very similar to MS Outlook. It can work with an MS Exchange server, Novell Groupwise and others. You can do your scheduling, contacts and most of the things MS Outlook can. Granted, MS Outlook is an older product and more mature with a few more "power" fetures that some corps may need.
For office type groupware, MS Outlook is currently the best product out there. But for a typical _home_ user email program, Thunderbird is very good and much better then MS Outlook Express IMO.
If someone comes along and takes a copy of a digital work from me, they have not deprived me of a physical object and I can still sell that work. Yes, I do agree it is wrong for someone to take a work from me without permission. I am just making a point how it is _very_ different then taking a physical work from me which will be in limited numbers. That _would_ be depriving me of a potential sale.
I agree with you about doing the ethical thing (in my case just not buying the copyrighted works). However I feel that copyright has gotten very bad and unbalanced. I think because of this, many people do not feel it is unethical to _copy_ digital content. Add to this the fact that producing an _exact_ copy requires no capital and results in no loss of goods, and you have the P2P vs. unbalanced copyright war we have now.
With the ??AA, BSA, etc all dumping millions every year into the pockets of our corrupted politicians to continue to swing copyright in their favor, you will just see more consumers fighting back. Maybe if these big corps get hit with the clue-stick, things would get better. However, I don't ever see that happing.
I wouldn't put it past our corrupted politicians to make "personal" encryption expensive or outlawed. They just need enough bribes from the **AA and BSA. Our "politicians" will just say that encryption is bad for "national security".
Where are the sources to iTunes, iDVD, iMovie, iFoo, iBar? How about any of their GUI code? For how much Open Source they use in their OS, they give back _very_ little of thier own technology.