This is bad news for the users, as Adobe price scheme is tagged a little bit over Macromedia. It is bad also because the main source of progress on this market was the competition between these two software giants. And it is bad 'cause Adobe was delivering in the last years not that shiny, revolutionining stuff anymore (see acrobat and the lates bundling of Yahoo! toolbar and PHS Album as AN UPDATE for Reader ). Hopefully Adobe won't push Flash aside even if this is not the most beloved tool on Slashdot.
The good news is we might see some really good products if they manage to have a good connection between the two programming and product teams.
Yes headline is wrong... in fact all headlines are today wrong.
Offtopic: it's already 4 hours ago I read the first news about the take over of Macromedia through Adobe and Slashdot published only weird news... Isn't Slashdot ONLINE (with capitals) anymore?
It contains also links from the main arab sources. I don't know if is really the TV station because actually I read also the http://english.aljazeera.net (this is down since the other one is up) and is really not keeping the same tone. They are more anti-american as the first version was... But it worths a look.
Anyway if you have the ability to mix up information you will be able to put up your own opinion based on all the news.
Also I have noted a very big difference between CNN, FOX and other stations. Just look at the NOTE from the end of CNN's pages on war pages. MSNBC, on the other hand, seems to balance the lack of accurate information with stronger opinion articles and editorials.
Have you ever thought what if the internet would be 24h/24h under surveillence? If there would be only Msoft, Sonies, Hewlets all over our screen... etc. etc.
What if then we would start make our own network, with our own rules. The slashdotters and those alike are not few in this world, and I suppose a lot of us, if not most, got enough from rules over rules, comercial stuff, comercail stuff...
A kind of OurNet...;-)//yeah... I know... nice dreaming
You know what's funnier? Everybody looks at the US university but no one looks also in Europe or Asia; there are also some, and soon many more, univeristy to get good bandwith, and if you take a look an IIPA website, there are other countries that are top of the piracy not USA.
No one can and no one will force people find ways to share whartever they want. It might sound either as a truism or just hope, but that's what's gonna happen. Wheather someone wants it or not, they are allways going to be people able to circumvent any control measure, it is the human nature. And if this is going to be free or at low cost that will mean popularity...
I don't know about you but any advertising can not cure the fact that a 450 G4 TiPB , 250 RAM barely can be used with MacOSX.
"...and running them faster" It really takes a SGI 10 minutes to boot, 2 minutes to open a dialer, and 1 minute to open a browser? 4 minutes for Photoshop?
I have seend some good performance only on G4 800, doesn't this really sounds bad enough. The system really looks nice and user-friendly but please do something about the performance.
I am still not giving my 1 Ghz Athlon for this. Sorry.
Isn't this also a way of restricting competition? If there is a company which has a bussiness model based on GPL/LGPL then is this not a method of throwing them out of the market by forbiddig them access to info otherwise accesible to other companies?
It is like showing the people how a disease can be cured and then forbid them use the cure because they give it for free and insist that their cure to be free.
I do agree GPL/LGPL makes about the same but shouldn't we apply here the general interest bias?
Good slashdot title
on
XP, Phone Home
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· Score: 3, Funny
When I first saw the title I thought
"Ok it will phone home, that means that soon we will get rid of it"
This means unfortunately that the European CeBit will be even smaller next year, as much of the companies will prefer to focus on one of them. And guess whose homes are most wired in the world, and is more likely to be a market target?
But on the other hand to US-only companies were this year in Cebit acocunting for around 2% of the space and this in a so called American stand, so they could be interested....
Ok , besides the fact that it is the biggest IT fair in the world, not Europe as stated, Cebit this year was pretty boring.
I don't think we need gadgets now, but software and applications for this gadgets. From this point of view it was really dissapointing.
And I am sorry to say but what really impressed me was Visual Studio.NET and their Web Services on.NET framework. I am really no Microsoft fan, but others still have a long way to develop such tehnologies.
"I think the legality is rather easy here, its their routers you use, so why can't they look at what you send through them. If someone uses your car, you tend to ask them where they went, don't you?"
If someone pays (this is the Internet user) for renting your car you would have no right to ask where they went to, but only how many miles...
So if you would use their Internet for free they would have the right to "sneak peak" into your data.
Slashdot Mirror
This is bad news for the users, as Adobe price scheme is tagged a little bit over Macromedia. It is bad also because the main source of progress on this market was the competition between these two software giants. And it is bad 'cause Adobe was delivering in the last years not that shiny, revolutionining stuff anymore (see acrobat and the lates bundling of Yahoo! toolbar and PHS Album as AN UPDATE for Reader ). Hopefully Adobe won't push Flash aside even if this is not the most beloved tool on Slashdot.
The good news is we might see some really good products if they manage to have a good connection between the two programming and product teams.
Yes headline is wrong... in fact all headlines are today wrong.
Offtopic: it's already 4 hours ago I read the first news about the take over of Macromedia through Adobe and Slashdot published only weird news... Isn't Slashdot ONLINE (with capitals) anymore?
According to Heise Security www.heise.de this patch actually builds up bigger security holes than it repairs
0 02/
c k/ demos/ie/e5_18.shtml
In german:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/dab-19.12.03-
Actually the have also a test for those who already patched their systems with this:
http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/browserche
So do not use this patch!
http://www.aljazeerah.info/
It contains also links from the main arab sources. I don't know if is really the TV station because actually I read also the http://english.aljazeera.net (this is down since the other one is up) and is really not keeping the same tone. They are more anti-american as the first version was... But it worths a look.
Anyway if you have the ability to mix up information you will be able to put up your own opinion based on all the news.
Also I have noted a very big difference between CNN, FOX and other stations. Just look at the NOTE from the end of CNN's pages on war pages. MSNBC, on the other hand, seems to balance the lack of accurate information with stronger opinion articles and editorials.
Have you ever thought what if the internet would be 24h/24h under surveillence? If there would be only Msoft, Sonies, Hewlets all over our screen ... etc. etc.
;-) //yeah ... I know ... nice dreaming
What if then we would start make our own network, with our own rules. The slashdotters and those alike are not few in this world, and I suppose a lot of us, if not most, got enough from rules over rules, comercial stuff, comercail stuff...
A kind of OurNet...
You know what's funnier? Everybody looks at the US university but no one looks also in Europe or Asia; there are also some, and soon many more, univeristy to get good bandwith, and if you take a look an IIPA website, there are other countries that are top of the piracy not USA.
No one can and no one will force people find ways to share whartever they want. It might sound either as a truism or just hope, but that's what's gonna happen. Wheather someone wants it or not, they are allways going to be people able to circumvent any control measure, it is the human nature. And if this is going to be free or at low cost that will mean popularity...
Whatever normal people are inventing cheaper, corporations will find a way to implement it not that cheap...
I don't know about you but any advertising can not cure the fact that a 450 G4 TiPB , 250 RAM barely can be used with MacOSX.
"...and running them faster" It really takes a SGI 10 minutes to boot, 2 minutes to open a dialer, and 1 minute to open a browser? 4 minutes for Photoshop?
I have seend some good performance only on G4 800, doesn't this really sounds bad enough. The system really looks nice and user-friendly but please do something about the performance.
I am still not giving my 1 Ghz Athlon for this. Sorry.
Isn't this also a way of restricting competition? If there is a company which has a bussiness model based on GPL/LGPL then is this not a method of throwing them out of the market by forbiddig them access to info otherwise accesible to other companies?
It is like showing the people how a disease can be cured and then forbid them use the cure because they give it for free and insist that their cure to be free.
I do agree GPL/LGPL makes about the same but shouldn't we apply here the general interest bias?
When I first saw the title I thought
"Ok it will phone home, that means that soon we will get rid of it"
This means unfortunately that the European CeBit will be even smaller next year, as much of the companies will prefer to focus on one of them. And guess whose homes are most wired in the world, and is more likely to be a market target?
....
But on the other hand to US-only companies were this year in Cebit acocunting for around 2% of the space and this in a so called American stand, so they could be interested
Ok , besides the fact that it is the biggest IT fair in the world, not Europe as stated, Cebit this year was pretty boring.
.NET and their Web Services on .NET framework. I am really no Microsoft fan, but others still have a long way to develop such tehnologies.
I don't think we need gadgets now, but software and applications for this gadgets. From this point of view it was really dissapointing.
And I am sorry to say but what really impressed me was Visual Studio
If someone pays (this is the Internet user) for renting your car you would have no right to ask where they went to, but only how many miles...
So if you would use their Internet for free they would have the right to "sneak peak" into your data.