This build has lead to a degree of fragmentation of the Java standard, has caused Java application developers to code their applications to support the lowest common denominator, the JRE bundled with Windows.
not necessairly. the english only JRE from sun is only 8 megs. and i'd rather tell everyone downloading my app they need to install a real JRE if they want to run it.
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The pentium 4 architecture (heck the x86) is getting long in the tooth. I foresee intel's next market move:)
Intel Employee #1: We can't make our design any better!
Intel Employee #2: Surely you jest.
Intel Employee #1: No, but I have an idea.
Intel Employee #2: What? I'm clueless!
Intel Employee #1: Lets up the clock speed!
Intel Employee #2: Touche!
(note this is not meant to be a flame, just a little humor)
VMWare Workstation. Great program. It can virtually boot up windows inside windows, linux inside windows, windows inside linux, linux inside linux, etc. It supports Windows XP -> 95. It supports FreeBSD, Linux, and several other opearting systems to my knowledge as well.
just take a look at RMS's point of view: even if the linux desktop choices aren't as robust as windows yet, he still believes that linux is the better choice because in the FUTURE it may very well be the best, and the GPL license guarantees that his transition from now till then won't be littered with EULAs and licensing contracts that put him in a locked in position.
it's a pretty compelling argument: just because it's the best tool now doesn't mean that it won't beocme a proprietary single vendor monopoly due to being the best tool. whereas with GPL'ed software you're never locked in to one file format or piece of software because you would always have the source code to patch up those incompatabilities.
it only supports AIM (And Mac.com according to the protocol list, whatever that is..)
I for one will be happy as a pig in shit if it means i can stop using the OS X version of ICQ, because nothing else supports all the standard features (file transfer, chat, history logging) as well as the official client. i used to be an avid ICQ supporter, and then i went to college and found everyone under the sun uses AIM (probably because it's easier to use so the average non-computer user can figure out how message people with little effort).
<semi-rant>
Not to mention the OS X port of icq is obviously done by a group who doesn't now how to properly write a Mac app
</semi-rant>
And as long as browsers don't handle PNG's properly it's also chicken & egg problem.
If it doesn't seem obvious yet, one of the major reasons PNGs adoption has been slow for many is the simple fact that it still, after 4 years, hasn't been able to render properly in IE -- the majority browser at this point.
you missed the whole point of my question. i'm well aware of the fact that it's invited labels only, but in the future what chance will a completely independent, label-less artist have to put his music in mass distribution without the entanglement that is the recording industry.
the infrastructure is there to create a pay-for-play napster where the artists win (mass distribution without the fees, licensing problems, and sea of red-tape and contracts) and the listener wins too (songs available for a cheaper cost, and more songs are available due to the larger music selection)
So lets get the theories out in the open. How long until I can post a song I've made and sell it on apple's service at $0.99 a piece (with apple of cource getting a portion of the proceedes)?
Why the hell is it taking PDA/Cell Phone/MP3 Player/Keyboard/Mouse manufacturers so DAMN long to get bluetooth implemented as a standard across the board for syncing devices, which is what it's particulary good at - close distance, high bandwidth traffic. It's beginning to really piss me off since it has the implications to be so useful.
I urge for the day i can use my iPod as a clicker device to go to the next slide in a presentation, or when i can set my iPod next to my laptop and automatically sync it. I urge for the day i can walk into a room with a bluetooth keychain and have my pre-programmed computer automatically turn the lights on and start playing music ala Minority report. We *HAVE* the technology to do all this, why the hell are hardware manufacturers kicking their damn heals so much?
I think it goes without saying that this guy has changed the way a lot of people look at computers today.
They aren't just mindless machines that perform a task, thanks to him and apple they are elegant pieces of art and form met with function.
I mean come on, take a look at the iPod for example. It uses a radial menu -- the most efficient menu design, combined with the scroll wheel and a large LCD. It's completely intuitive, and so simple to use that it justifies the extra $100 compared with other mp3 players of it's class.
check out the grsecurity patch for the linux kernel. bundle that with some restrictive iptable rules and i guarantee you'll have a more secure machine than a locked windows box.
The grsecurity patch has a slew of options on masking processes, and it can restrict process execution based on file permissions, stack execution, port creation based on user privledges on the kernel level, and file i/o on the kernel level. all in all, i think this kernel patch puts linux on par with some of the more anal distros like openbsd (although i can't say linux encrypts things as much as openbsd:)
because the piracy scene in US companies and governments isn't neary as bad as many overseas countries. not to mention US is a fairly rich country, so the average piracy even amongst citizens isn't as bad. other governments, particularly ones like germany where they have their own linux distro (suse).
I believe that too many people in power today in the US (managers, government officials, etc) think that if you don't have to pay for it, then it must be: a) too good to be true, b) there has to be a catch, or c) you get what you pay for and many of us on slashdot know that just isn't true.
I think the first step we'll see in Linux becoming big on the desktop (in a general work area) is overseas governments. Eventually it may spread to the schools of those overseas countries. After that has happened, other countries will follow because the infrastructure is already there to switch since another country has put in the time and effort to make an enmass switch. Eventually it might get some usage in the large scale due to students using it at home after trying it at school. This is a *BIG* deal if we can get just one government to start the dominos.
It'd make a good business/school machine, but I don't think you'd want it for gaming and the like
But you see, that's the whole point. A tablet PC isn't effective if you can't hold it in your hands and write on it, and that means it's got to be tiny. If you're going to get a laptop, you're either going to get a small laptop that's not so fast, or a bulky laptop that is blazin'.
It's not much fun sportin' a 7 pound tablet, I mean common we've been out of the stone ages for awhile:)
If you've learned anything by now, it's not important that Microsoft fix the majority of their security flaws, but that they imply they will.
The OSS model of peer review on a large scale is the sole reason for such reliable security.
Proprietary companies still have an edge. If people programmed according to a planned set of pre/post conditions, and tested their modules with black box testing, then a large portion of the controllable errors can be caught. Whether or not Microsoft does this is questionable since we can't see their code.
Oh, and BOUNDS CHECK EVERYTHING. Buffer overflow errors should have been non-existant for a half a decade by now.
same thing here.. I got my parents (whom don't know a damn thing about computers) to switch to mozilla/mozilla mail. cable/dsl techs are all the same, and i'm one of those people who would sooner kill the tech then let them install their cable software on the computer afterwards.
i don't think you need to continue paying the subscription just to *keep* the songs. granted you'd need the subscription if you wanted to get on the service, download the songs, then get off the next month. but still, that's just a one time $10 fee.
CRTs will be popular again? Why?
Newer LCDs are cheaper to manufactur, offer color ranges just as good (and in some cases, i.e. the apple 23" cinema displays, better color ranges), lower power consumption, brighter backlights, and smaller desk space consumption. About the only problem LCDs haven't tackled is latency but give it time.
Of course hopefully OLEDs will get far enough that LCDs will just drop off the planet.
I've always wondered why wireless security can be such a problem. Why hasn't someone devised a wireless system where encryption is hard to crack? Take a look at SSL: if you have someone listening to the wire, it's hard to get any good information from it based on the way the protocol works. Why can't the same thing be applied to wireless? The only real difference is you don't have to go through the trouble of intercepting the packets on a wire.
the irony of that is it probably would have to be run as a plugin, since java needs to be run under a separate JVM instance that restricts privledges (i.e. a special applet mode where it is isolated fro the user's computer filesystem).
simple: because the default HTML rendering toolkit for java sucks. The ability to have a mozilla like rendering engine built into java makes it easy to write apps in java that need web browsers built in.
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This build has lead to a degree of fragmentation of the Java standard, has caused Java application developers to code their applications to support the lowest common denominator, the JRE bundled with Windows.
not necessairly. the english only JRE from sun is only 8 megs. and i'd rather tell everyone downloading my app they need to install a real JRE if they want to run it.
*gets napkin*
:(
too late
check out the Zaurus to see one of the best Pdas on the market. Granted it is linux based, and slashdot tends to have a lot of linux users :P
The pentium 4 architecture (heck the x86) is getting long in the tooth. I foresee intel's next market move :)
Intel Employee #1: We can't make our design any better! Intel Employee #2: Surely you jest. Intel Employee #1: No, but I have an idea. Intel Employee #2: What? I'm clueless! Intel Employee #1: Lets up the clock speed! Intel Employee #2: Touche!
(note this is not meant to be a flame, just a little humor)
VMWare Workstation. Great program. It can virtually boot up windows inside windows, linux inside windows, windows inside linux, linux inside linux, etc. It supports Windows XP -> 95. It supports FreeBSD, Linux, and several other opearting systems to my knowledge as well.
just take a look at RMS's point of view: even if the linux desktop choices aren't as robust as windows yet, he still believes that linux is the better choice because in the FUTURE it may very well be the best, and the GPL license guarantees that his transition from now till then won't be littered with EULAs and licensing contracts that put him in a locked in position.
it's a pretty compelling argument: just because it's the best tool now doesn't mean that it won't beocme a proprietary single vendor monopoly due to being the best tool. whereas with GPL'ed software you're never locked in to one file format or piece of software because you would always have the source code to patch up those incompatabilities.
it only supports AIM (And Mac.com according to the protocol list, whatever that is..)
I for one will be happy as a pig in shit if it means i can stop using the OS X version of ICQ, because nothing else supports all the standard features (file transfer, chat, history logging) as well as the official client. i used to be an avid ICQ supporter, and then i went to college and found everyone under the sun uses AIM (probably because it's easier to use so the average non-computer user can figure out how message people with little effort).
<semi-rant>
Not to mention the OS X port of icq is obviously done by a group who doesn't now how to properly write a Mac app
</semi-rant>
And as long as browsers don't handle PNG's properly it's also chicken & egg problem.
If it doesn't seem obvious yet, one of the major reasons PNGs adoption has been slow for many is the simple fact that it still, after 4 years, hasn't been able to render properly in IE -- the majority browser at this point.
Java is NOT THE SAME THING as JavaScript.
Come on slashdot editors, it's not hard to know the difference (this is in reference to the article title).
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you missed the whole point of my question. i'm well aware of the fact that it's invited labels only, but in the future what chance will a completely independent, label-less artist have to put his music in mass distribution without the entanglement that is the recording industry.
the infrastructure is there to create a pay-for-play napster where the artists win (mass distribution without the fees, licensing problems, and sea of red-tape and contracts) and the listener wins too (songs available for a cheaper cost, and more songs are available due to the larger music selection)
So lets get the theories out in the open. How long until I can post a song I've made and sell it on apple's service at $0.99 a piece (with apple of cource getting a portion of the proceedes)?
Why the hell is it taking PDA/Cell Phone/MP3 Player/Keyboard/Mouse manufacturers so DAMN long to get bluetooth implemented as a standard across the board for syncing devices, which is what it's particulary good at - close distance, high bandwidth traffic. It's beginning to really piss me off since it has the implications to be so useful.
I urge for the day i can use my iPod as a clicker device to go to the next slide in a presentation, or when i can set my iPod next to my laptop and automatically sync it. I urge for the day i can walk into a room with a bluetooth keychain and have my pre-programmed computer automatically turn the lights on and start playing music ala Minority report. We *HAVE* the technology to do all this, why the hell are hardware manufacturers kicking their damn heals so much?
ok i'm done ranting
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I think it goes without saying that this guy has changed the way a lot of people look at computers today.
They aren't just mindless machines that perform a task, thanks to him and apple they are elegant pieces of art and form met with function.
I mean come on, take a look at the iPod for example. It uses a radial menu -- the most efficient menu design, combined with the scroll wheel and a large LCD. It's completely intuitive, and so simple to use that it justifies the extra $100 compared with other mp3 players of it's class.
check out the grsecurity patch for the linux kernel. bundle that with some restrictive iptable rules and i guarantee you'll have a more secure machine than a locked windows box.
:)
The grsecurity patch has a slew of options on masking processes, and it can restrict process execution based on file permissions, stack execution, port creation based on user privledges on the kernel level, and file i/o on the kernel level. all in all, i think this kernel patch puts linux on par with some of the more anal distros like openbsd (although i can't say linux encrypts things as much as openbsd
because the piracy scene in US companies and governments isn't neary as bad as many overseas countries. not to mention US is a fairly rich country, so the average piracy even amongst citizens isn't as bad. other governments, particularly ones like germany where they have their own linux distro (suse).
I believe that too many people in power today in the US (managers, government officials, etc) think that if you don't have to pay for it, then it must be: a) too good to be true, b) there has to be a catch, or c) you get what you pay for and many of us on slashdot know that just isn't true.
I think the first step we'll see in Linux becoming big on the desktop (in a general work area) is overseas governments. Eventually it may spread to the schools of those overseas countries. After that has happened, other countries will follow because the infrastructure is already there to switch since another country has put in the time and effort to make an enmass switch. Eventually it might get some usage in the large scale due to students using it at home after trying it at school. This is a *BIG* deal if we can get just one government to start the dominos.
It'd make a good business/school machine, but I don't think you'd want it for gaming and the like
:)
But you see, that's the whole point. A tablet PC isn't effective if you can't hold it in your hands and write on it, and that means it's got to be tiny. If you're going to get a laptop, you're either going to get a small laptop that's not so fast, or a bulky laptop that is blazin'.
It's not much fun sportin' a 7 pound tablet, I mean common we've been out of the stone ages for awhile
If you've learned anything by now, it's not important that Microsoft fix the majority of their security flaws, but that they imply they will.
The OSS model of peer review on a large scale is the sole reason for such reliable security.
Proprietary companies still have an edge. If people programmed according to a planned set of pre/post conditions, and tested their modules with black box testing, then a large portion of the controllable errors can be caught. Whether or not Microsoft does this is questionable since we can't see their code.
Oh, and BOUNDS CHECK EVERYTHING. Buffer overflow errors should have been non-existant for a half a decade by now.
Amazingly enough, it's possible to play chess using these strange "pieces" and a "board." Although the idea is novel i suppose.
same thing here.. I got my parents (whom don't know a damn thing about computers) to switch to mozilla/mozilla mail. cable/dsl techs are all the same, and i'm one of those people who would sooner kill the tech then let them install their cable software on the computer afterwards.
i don't think you need to continue paying the subscription just to *keep* the songs. granted you'd need the subscription if you wanted to get on the service, download the songs, then get off the next month. but still, that's just a one time $10 fee.
CRTs will be popular again? Why?
Newer LCDs are cheaper to manufactur, offer color ranges just as good (and in some cases, i.e. the apple 23" cinema displays, better color ranges), lower power consumption, brighter backlights, and smaller desk space consumption. About the only problem LCDs haven't tackled is latency but give it time.
Of course hopefully OLEDs will get far enough that LCDs will just drop off the planet.
I've always wondered why wireless security can be such a problem. Why hasn't someone devised a wireless system where encryption is hard to crack? Take a look at SSL: if you have someone listening to the wire, it's hard to get any good information from it based on the way the protocol works. Why can't the same thing be applied to wireless? The only real difference is you don't have to go through the trouble of intercepting the packets on a wire.
the irony of that is it probably would have to be run as a plugin, since java needs to be run under a separate JVM instance that restricts privledges (i.e. a special applet mode where it is isolated fro the user's computer filesystem).
simple: because the default HTML rendering toolkit for java sucks. The ability to have a mozilla like rendering engine built into java makes it easy to write apps in java that need web browsers built in.