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no, the whole point is the microsoft is STOPPING it's support for windows, including bugfixes, patches and all updates. it is killing off win98 entirely. AV companies, as best they can, will have to continue the support for win98, but a series of bandaids for each individual scratch will not equate to fixing the wound, it just stops it from bleeding.
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indeed, Boeing screwed up badly.
When i htink of the Challenger accident, i can't help but think that the sad face of things is that accidents(as catastrophic as what happened, sadly) do and will happen. I try to take comfort in the fact that all those brave astronauts did signup for their groundbreaking job, and were more than willing to take the risks.
Sadly, accidents happen, wether they be huge, unforeseeable bugs just waiting to bite, or mundane human error bugs that are just unavoidable with the human element.
for your rendering needs in omniweb. Omniweb uses webcore, the rendering engine for Safari, which is based on KHTML, the HTML redering engine in KDE.
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but what about getting a patch for the latest virus that happens to infect a win98 box? that is the kind of support that is needed, not technical 'how do i...' support.
When more users use these 2 version (98 and 98SE)of windows than the combined amount of mac and linux/bsd users then the microsoft should consider extending even further the support...
Millions upon millions of people use windows 98/SE happily, it is good enough for them. My school uses it, many companies use it. It doesn't make business sense to piss off a 10-20% of your users by dropping support for the product they use, regardless of age. Move to critical patches only, and offer a payed support program, that would be acceptable...
IBM has supported code written in the 60's and 70's and 80's up through today. Microsoft, with a marget MUCH larger than the IBM mainframe's I mentioned(and potentially more lucrative), will not support a product that is 6 years old.
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schoolboy errors? You're refering to the metric vs US futsup, i assume. Just so you know, that was Boeing's screw up, they did the math wrong, not NASA.
I agree though. We need to start taking the hundreds of billions we spend on our 'defense' budget, (that budget DWARFES any other nation like a pumkin does a pea) and turn it to space, science, education, and the general evolution of our society.
my girlfriend's parents fell for this when they got me a present last may. They talked with the guy at Costco, who convinced them that they get better sound quality if they buy an audio CD-R rather than a 'plain old' CD-R... I call bullshit on the salesman, but i was polite and thanked them for a stack of burnable cd's.
OT: i didn't use 1 of those CD-Rs for music.. mostly document backups and linux tastetests of a couple distros.
can we say 'battery life'? Come on, how long do you expect to be able to play this iMovie? I mean, 2 hours? that doesn't give you much room to play solitaire on the thing... Just charge it up, turn it on once to play the movie, nonstop, and during the credits(hopefully not earlier), the battery dies. O doubt the battery would be long enough for a full movie, let alone a longy like LoTR or Braveheart.
re: 1. ya, it could be the new basis, i just don't think they would be gaining enough to justify 'throwing out' the old appleworks code... ofcourse, there is the possibility of some sort of merger, a half KOffice/Appleworks hybrid. Possible, but i am still leaning toward the inhouse, closed source solution as being most likely, though either would make me happy:)
re 2. Very good point. I agree totally. I just haven't used KOffice (minimal use of it) to know how fast it compares and if the core design is 'cleaner' enough to warrant going to a less featureful OSS solution... remember, Mozzila had more features, but they chose KHTML because it was SO much faster, that it was worth having to add certain features afterward.
I doubt this will happen. Appleworks, formerly Clarisworks goes back to System 7(6?) days... that is a lot of code that Apple has tried and invested in, why would they throw it out? I expect a major updating of Appleworks, splitting it to 3(Document, Spreadsheet, Keynote) applications that all use a similar XML(keynote started this way) file format.
I just don't see Jobs throwing out Appleworks, and moving to KOffice(or OpenOffice.org, which is just as possible an alternative). It wouldn't make a lot of sense.
1. they have AppleWorks, if any office suite gets its backing, it will be this first... i honestly expect the next major app will be an uberupgrade to this... seperating it to a word processor and a spreadsheet program, to work well with Keynote. This would be the best move for apple, and would be a great addition to their iApps.
HINT: there were rumors the WP would be called(of all things) 'Document'.
2. Openoffice.org is much wider used and more featureful. It is more likely they would turn here, with its features and name recognition, if they wanted an opensource office app.
Sorry about the first post. This is more readable.
"is this really noteworthy? all download stores use mp3. "
Simply not true. iTMS, for one, is.aac (i believe is the entension). And all the others use Windows Media files for DRMness
"can anyone imagine normal users doing that? "
I could imagine Windows user profiles being saved on a stick drive, and once plugged, it logins you in with your user, settings, documents). That could very well happen.
"I don't use the Mac, but I can't imagine that to be true: document and email macro viruses?"
Talk to me in 12 months.. virus or worm that infects macs, i have my money on the author, but i suppose you could be right.
"is this really noteworthy? all download stores use mp3. "
Simply not true. iTMS, for one, is.aac (i believe is the entension). And all the others use Windows Media files for DRMness
"can anyone imagine normal users doing that? "
I could imagine Windows user profiles being saved on a stick drive, and once plugged, it logins you in with your user, settings, documents). That could very well happen.
"I don't use the Mac, but I can't imagine that to be true: document and email macro viruses?"
Talk to me in 12 months.. virus or worm that infects macs, i have my money on the author, but i suppose you could be right.
"RS-232 serial port (25 pins, of which 4 are used)"
Do you know how many cables of the 8 are used in 10Mbit Ethernet over cat 5? 2, i believe... in 100Mbit, it was 4(2send, 2recieve). Gigabit is the first technology to use all 8 wires in your cat5e/6 cable. RS-232 is likely the same, they add a bunch of extra pins in there for expandability, and customability... so that you can write custom apps to take advantage of nonstandard wires for security purposes.
"WORM drives for PCs"
Like CD-Rs? Write once, read many time... burn once, read many times. Ya, CD-Rs were a HUGE flop. *cough*
"Graphics cards that allow you to watch television on your monitor, by plugging a coax cable into the card."
They are a flop? To the people i know that have them, they love them, and i plan to get one myself.
yes, it is ambiguous to those who don't know what they are talking about. Which in the case of apple history 101, is quite a large group.
However, there were Apple computer's made before the "Macintosh" line of computers were released(nearly 20 years ago to the day). There were both Lisa computers(with a gui) and simply Apple computers(not apple macintosh computers).
they might all speak english, but try and have a west coaster talk to someone from the deep south who has a strong accent... you might honestly need a translator just for that given the accents change the way words and sentences sound and feel.
it would be ubercool to have your own voice, but just the idea of that makes me nervous(talk about identity theft)... to have it speak any voice at all would be amazing.
Dell sells the Macs to the NYC schools because of the contract they hold. The deal is that all computers will be bought through Dell, however, if Dell cannot provide a computer the Schools want to buy(a Mac, for instance) then the contract is off. SO, Dell takes it's lumps, sells a few emacs and powermacs to the schools (+ a small % for profit) and happily sells the other 99% of the computers as Dell black box workstations like anything else...
so should we look for this in the 3.0 linux kernel? I mean seriously, want to out innovate Microsoft?(i do!) Then lets start work on it. GNU/Speech Recognition, GNU/Translator, GNU/Synthesizer or something like that.
in the 4 years since your work, we have gone through nearly 2 1/2 "Moore Generations" so processors are far beefier than they have ever been. another generation, they will be in the 5+ Ghz range, which should be able to cut that 10 hours of processing down a lot.
Even better, why process it at all? just have RMS GPL his own voice and have in built into the kernel, so it could have common words/sounds already predone, so only a smoother would be needed to make it sound natural... Right?
ever use a mac? Honestly, i have been looking to get one, and their builtin speech recognition is fairly decent... much better(without any training, this was just a show model i walked up to and played with) than i would have expected, even after used popular speech programs and training them.
It is command based.... "Minimize all windows" "Close this application" and whatnot, but it is quite accurate(not perfect).
Maybe Jobs will have OS XI allow for plain-english input, rather than command based only:)
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no, the whole point is the microsoft is STOPPING it's support for windows, including bugfixes, patches and all updates. it is killing off win98 entirely. AV companies, as best they can, will have to continue the support for win98, but a series of bandaids for each individual scratch will not equate to fixing the wound, it just stops it from bleeding.
indeed, Boeing screwed up badly.
When i htink of the Challenger accident, i can't help but think that the sad face of things is that accidents(as catastrophic as what happened, sadly) do and will happen. I try to take comfort in the fact that all those brave astronauts did signup for their groundbreaking job, and were more than willing to take the risks.
Sadly, accidents happen, wether they be huge, unforeseeable bugs just waiting to bite, or mundane human error bugs that are just unavoidable with the human element.
for your rendering needs in omniweb. Omniweb uses webcore, the rendering engine for Safari, which is based on KHTML, the HTML redering engine in KDE.
but what about getting a patch for the latest virus that happens to infect a win98 box? that is the kind of support that is needed, not technical 'how do i...' support.
When more users use these 2 version (98 and 98SE)of windows than the combined amount of mac and linux/bsd users then the microsoft should consider extending even further the support...
Millions upon millions of people use windows 98/SE happily, it is good enough for them. My school uses it, many companies use it. It doesn't make business sense to piss off a 10-20% of your users by dropping support for the product they use, regardless of age. Move to critical patches only, and offer a payed support program, that would be acceptable...
IBM has supported code written in the 60's and 70's and 80's up through today. Microsoft, with a marget MUCH larger than the IBM mainframe's I mentioned(and potentially more lucrative), will not support a product that is 6 years old.
schoolboy errors? You're refering to the metric vs US futsup, i assume. Just so you know, that was Boeing's screw up, they did the math wrong, not NASA.
I agree though. We need to start taking the hundreds of billions we spend on our 'defense' budget, (that budget DWARFES any other nation like a pumkin does a pea) and turn it to space, science, education, and the general evolution of our society.
But there is still Windows ME.
my girlfriend's parents fell for this when they got me a present last may. They talked with the guy at Costco, who convinced them that they get better sound quality if they buy an audio CD-R rather than a 'plain old' CD-R... I call bullshit on the salesman, but i was polite and thanked them for a stack of burnable cd's.
OT: i didn't use 1 of those CD-Rs for music.. mostly document backups and linux tastetests of a couple distros.
can we say 'battery life'? Come on, how long do you expect to be able to play this iMovie? I mean, 2 hours? that doesn't give you much room to play solitaire on the thing... Just charge it up, turn it on once to play the movie, nonstop, and during the credits(hopefully not earlier), the battery dies. O doubt the battery would be long enough for a full movie, let alone a longy like LoTR or Braveheart.
point well made.
re: 1. ya, it could be the new basis, i just don't think they would be gaining enough to justify 'throwing out' the old appleworks code... ofcourse, there is the possibility of some sort of merger, a half KOffice/Appleworks hybrid. Possible, but i am still leaning toward the inhouse, closed source solution as being most likely, though either would make me happy:)
re 2. Very good point. I agree totally. I just haven't used KOffice (minimal use of it) to know how fast it compares and if the core design is 'cleaner' enough to warrant going to a less featureful OSS solution... remember, Mozzila had more features, but they chose KHTML because it was SO much faster, that it was worth having to add certain features afterward.
I doubt this will happen. Appleworks, formerly Clarisworks goes back to System 7(6?) days... that is a lot of code that Apple has tried and invested in, why would they throw it out? I expect a major updating of Appleworks, splitting it to 3(Document, Spreadsheet, Keynote) applications that all use a similar XML(keynote started this way) file format.
I just don't see Jobs throwing out Appleworks, and moving to KOffice(or OpenOffice.org, which is just as possible an alternative). It wouldn't make a lot of sense.
Not gonna happen. Two reasons really:
1. they have AppleWorks, if any office suite gets its backing, it will be this first... i honestly expect the next major app will be an uberupgrade to this... seperating it to a word processor and a spreadsheet program, to work well with Keynote. This would be the best move for apple, and would be a great addition to their iApps.
HINT: there were rumors the WP would be called(of all things) 'Document'.
2. Openoffice.org is much wider used and more featureful. It is more likely they would turn here, with its features and name recognition, if they wanted an opensource office app.
Sorry about the first post. This is more readable.
.aac (i believe is the entension). And all the others use Windows Media files for DRMness
"is this really noteworthy? all download stores use mp3. "
Simply not true. iTMS, for one, is
"can anyone imagine normal users doing that? "
I could imagine Windows user profiles being saved on a stick drive, and once plugged, it logins you in with your user, settings, documents). That could very well happen.
"I don't use the Mac, but I can't imagine that to be true: document and email macro viruses?"
Talk to me in 12 months.. virus or worm that infects macs, i have my money on the author, but i suppose you could be right.
"is this really noteworthy? all download stores use mp3. " Simply not true. iTMS, for one, is .aac (i believe is the entension). And all the others use Windows Media files for DRMness
"can anyone imagine normal users doing that? "
I could imagine Windows user profiles being saved on a stick drive, and once plugged, it logins you in with your user, settings, documents). That could very well happen.
"I don't use the Mac, but I can't imagine that to be true: document and email macro viruses?"
Talk to me in 12 months.. virus or worm that infects macs, i have my money on the author, but i suppose you could be right.
Do you know how many cables of the 8 are used in 10Mbit Ethernet over cat 5? 2, i believe... in 100Mbit, it was 4(2send, 2recieve). Gigabit is the first technology to use all 8 wires in your cat5e/6 cable. RS-232 is likely the same, they add a bunch of extra pins in there for expandability, and customability... so that you can write custom apps to take advantage of nonstandard wires for security purposes.
"WORM drives for PCs"
Like CD-Rs? Write once, read many time... burn once, read many times. Ya, CD-Rs were a HUGE flop. *cough*
"Graphics cards that allow you to watch television on your monitor, by plugging a coax cable into the card."
They are a flop? To the people i know that have them, they love them, and i plan to get one myself.
yes, it is ambiguous to those who don't know what they are talking about. Which in the case of apple history 101, is quite a large group.
However, there were Apple computer's made before the "Macintosh" line of computers were released(nearly 20 years ago to the day). There were both Lisa computers(with a gui) and simply Apple computers(not apple macintosh computers).
you CAN put a bootable install of Panther on your ipod... just need to be able to ssh into the panther install from the iPod OS.
they might all speak english, but try and have a west coaster talk to someone from the deep south who has a strong accent... you might honestly need a translator just for that given the accents change the way words and sentences sound and feel.
it would be ubercool to have your own voice, but just the idea of that makes me nervous(talk about identity theft)... to have it speak any voice at all would be amazing.
They ported Panther to the Newton?!
at $120 or less, you can be damn sure i will have convinced the girlfriend to get me one on or before Feb 14th :)
Dell sells the Macs to the NYC schools because of the contract they hold. The deal is that all computers will be bought through Dell, however, if Dell cannot provide a computer the Schools want to buy(a Mac, for instance) then the contract is off. SO, Dell takes it's lumps, sells a few emacs and powermacs to the schools (+ a small % for profit) and happily sells the other 99% of the computers as Dell black box workstations like anything else...
so should we look for this in the 3.0 linux kernel? I mean seriously, want to out innovate Microsoft?(i do!) Then lets start work on it. GNU/Speech Recognition, GNU/Translator, GNU/Synthesizer or something like that.
in the 4 years since your work, we have gone through nearly 2 1/2 "Moore Generations" so processors are far beefier than they have ever been. another generation, they will be in the 5+ Ghz range, which should be able to cut that 10 hours of processing down a lot.
Even better, why process it at all? just have RMS GPL his own voice and have in built into the kernel, so it could have common words/sounds already predone, so only a smoother would be needed to make it sound natural... Right?
ever use a mac? Honestly, i have been looking to get one, and their builtin speech recognition is fairly decent... much better(without any training, this was just a show model i walked up to and played with) than i would have expected, even after used popular speech programs and training them.
:)
It is command based.... "Minimize all windows" "Close this application" and whatnot, but it is quite accurate(not perfect).
Maybe Jobs will have OS XI allow for plain-english input, rather than command based only