10. new quick install almost as good as all the other planned features that don't actually exist yet
Though the '15 minute' feature is not installed yet, the setup process for the Vista beta requires the user's attention much less than XP and prior releases. Basically they put all of the input at the beginning of the process, so you don't have to be "bugged" by it. This (sadly) is my favorite new feature of Vista.
If you actually read Dvorak's article, he makes some good points why this would be good for Apple's business.
1. No more hardware headaches. Apple users will no longer have to worry about their peripherals not working with their machines. Just about every accessory has Windows drivers. Hardware compatibility problems are one reason why people are afraid to make "the switch."
2. No more software worries. Have you bought a bunch of expensive PC-only software? That makes the switch to Apple's new hardware even more expensive since you have to buy new software. This will make it so that users do not have to worry about Apple inhibiting their work (or play!).
3. Cutting the Mac OS X development budget will save a bunch of money and cause an increase in Apple's profit margin. Since the software is bundled with hardware, and they only sell updates for the OS, not clean installs, OS X drains a lot of money from the company without much in the way of tangible revenue.
4. Apple can now compete directly. Dell, HP, Gateway, and Toshiba will have to watch out now. Apple's cooler designs would surely get people lined up to buy their machines (even including Apple tax). The iPod is a perfect example of this. In a field of functional equals (MP3 players), the coolest, most stylish, most hyped product has a giant market share. Apple needs to make their computer product a functional equal with the rest, and that means changing operating system. This could lead to a significant increase in Apple's market share.
The bottom line is that Apple stands to make some great leaps forward by changning to Windows OS. They can remove the hardware/software incompatibility stigma from their brand, and they can launch into the mainstream computing market and see if they cannot repeat the iPod's success. I am not saying that Dvorak's analysis is correct, but it is worth seriously considering, especially for Apple shareholders.
Of course, since I am an avid Apple fanboy and a rabid Windows hater, I will be forced to kill myself or move to Tibet.
Sharepoint definately has a long way to go. Running an entire MS domain, I still have trouble getting around the security problems when forms opened from Sharepoint are sent via email. Hopefully this new distro will fix that but still, Sharepoint is completely un needed software.
It is good and sensible that Christians should care about the environment. After all, it is God's creation.
However, the motivations, methods, and consequences of the environmental movement in the US as it is today are not compatible with Christian teaching, in my opinion. Environmentalists often lobby for tough restrictions not only on the US and other developed nations, but also to be placed on developing nations. The USA and its friends completely disregarded the environment during the industrial revolution, which resulted in a great mass of wealth and development. Now that we stand in a position of power, we will not allow other nations to do the same (i.e. burn unlimited coal and oil, stip-mine the earth bare, pollute the water, etc). Consequently, third world nations are stuck in a state of arrested development which has extremely negative effects (disease, malnutrition, crime) on the people of those nations. Read Eco-Imperialism if you would like to know more.
The bottom line is that Christians ought to protect the environment, but it should not come at the expense of harming other humans.
Your argument about the nature of open source software is true, but there is a major benefit in keeping some standards for the bittorrent protocol. As Cohen warned in his blog, including end-to-end encryption may cause client incompatibilities. In other words, if you are using a build of Bit Torrent which uses this encryption, on any given torrent, you may only be able to share with a fraction of the total seeds and peers. Hopefully those who are working on this encryption scheme will strive for compatibility with all BT clients, but other clients which choose not the adopt this feature (namely Cohehn's own BitTorrent client) are not likely to strive for that same level of compatibility.
Client incompatibility would break the torrent community, so I suppose the "non-standard" version would be rejected and die off, as a consequence of internet natural selection.
As long as I have ftp access to linux distro mirrors, irc, bittorrent, and Slashdot, don't expect me to pony up any extra dough for "premium" internet content.
From the Google blog post, concerning the issue of press-releases:
We've certainly gotten a lot of feedback from both readers and editors. For example, readers told us they loved the news clusters but they didn't want press releases on the home page (although they are still useful to have in the search results).
So hopefully there will not be any BNP press releases on the front page anymore. As for China, I know nothing! I swear!
FYI, Broadcom's bcm43xx is the chipset used in Airport Extreme cards in Apple notebooks. So now if you have the 2.6.15 kernel and an iBook/Powerbook, you can get your AE card working natively. Here is some linkage: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html & http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=561220#po st561220. Gentoo has initial portage support for the bcm43xx set, but it does not work 100% of the time. I would suspect that the bcm43xx drivers will be a part of the Ubuntu Dapper release later this year. If you are patient, you can save yourself a pain in the neck.
If you want wireless now and can't get your AE card to work, there are few options. The Linksys WUSB11 USB 802.11b card works "out of the box" under Ubuntu PPC. You can get that for $10 or so at CompUSA. That is the only USB wireless adapter that I have gotten to work natively in Linux on PPC so far.
BTW, ndiswrapper is x86-only at the moment, so that is why it is such a pain in the neck.
I have run into this problem at my college as well. Virtually every port is closed except those needed fot http, https, ftp, and smtp. I cannot use RDP, SSH, or VNC to check on my servers at home or at work. Frankly, with better security implementation they could allow these services to students without compromising themselves too much. I think it is mostly just the higher-ups in the college who are all concerned about "piracy" and hackers.
Yes this is a common straw man argument used against ID. Perhaps we should look at this way: ID != Supernaturalism. The point of design is that God is so great that he could cause a bee to fly (or any other astounding example from nature) within the natural order, without relying on his supernatural powers. ID proponents are not looking outside of science to explain how the natural world works. What they are doing is questioning how the natural order came to be.
I really appreciate that Taco would devote an entire story to this topic. Having this kind of feedback is encouraging because it confirms to us that the editors care for the system.
I never suspected that ScuttleMonkey or anyone else were submitting their own stories (with fake UIDs) or accepting bribes. I was just concerned about the perceived lack of professionalism. When you have three straight stories posted by Beatles-Beatles (December 11th), it is disconcerting. Also, when each story begins with the formulaic "* * Beatles-Beatles tells us . ..", I get confused. When you combine that with the fact that **BB's linked site is, uh, shday, I was discouraged about Slashdot.
I have to admit that for a time I was an instigator of the anger over Beatles Beatles. I am mostly over my paranoia now, but I still have some concerns. Now I need to get back to obsessively following MacWorld.
Slashdot Mirror
Though the '15 minute' feature is not installed yet, the setup process for the Vista beta requires the user's attention much less than XP and prior releases. Basically they put all of the input at the beginning of the process, so you don't have to be "bugged" by it. This (sadly) is my favorite new feature of Vista.
1. No more hardware headaches. Apple users will no longer have to worry about their peripherals not working with their machines. Just about every accessory has Windows drivers. Hardware compatibility problems are one reason why people are afraid to make "the switch."
2. No more software worries. Have you bought a bunch of expensive PC-only software? That makes the switch to Apple's new hardware even more expensive since you have to buy new software. This will make it so that users do not have to worry about Apple inhibiting their work (or play!).
3. Cutting the Mac OS X development budget will save a bunch of money and cause an increase in Apple's profit margin. Since the software is bundled with hardware, and they only sell updates for the OS, not clean installs, OS X drains a lot of money from the company without much in the way of tangible revenue.
4. Apple can now compete directly. Dell, HP, Gateway, and Toshiba will have to watch out now. Apple's cooler designs would surely get people lined up to buy their machines (even including Apple tax). The iPod is a perfect example of this. In a field of functional equals (MP3 players), the coolest, most stylish, most hyped product has a giant market share. Apple needs to make their computer product a functional equal with the rest, and that means changing operating system. This could lead to a significant increase in Apple's market share.
The bottom line is that Apple stands to make some great leaps forward by changning to Windows OS. They can remove the hardware/software incompatibility stigma from their brand, and they can launch into the mainstream computing market and see if they cannot repeat the iPod's success. I am not saying that Dvorak's analysis is correct, but it is worth seriously considering, especially for Apple shareholders.
Of course, since I am an avid Apple fanboy and a rabid Windows hater, I will be forced to kill myself or move to Tibet.
Sharepoint definately has a long way to go. Running an entire MS domain, I still have trouble getting around the security problems when forms opened from Sharepoint are sent via email. Hopefully this new distro will fix that but still, Sharepoint is completely un needed software.
No, not that stupid "news" site, the game.
I am still kicking myself for getting rid of it.
However, the motivations, methods, and consequences of the environmental movement in the US as it is today are not compatible with Christian teaching, in my opinion. Environmentalists often lobby for tough restrictions not only on the US and other developed nations, but also to be placed on developing nations. The USA and its friends completely disregarded the environment during the industrial revolution, which resulted in a great mass of wealth and development. Now that we stand in a position of power, we will not allow other nations to do the same (i.e. burn unlimited coal and oil, stip-mine the earth bare, pollute the water, etc). Consequently, third world nations are stuck in a state of arrested development which has extremely negative effects (disease, malnutrition, crime) on the people of those nations. Read Eco-Imperialism if you would like to know more.
The bottom line is that Christians ought to protect the environment, but it should not come at the expense of harming other humans.
Client incompatibility would break the torrent community, so I suppose the "non-standard" version would be rejected and die off, as a consequence of internet natural selection.
You should submit this article to eHow. I am sure many people would find it quite helpful.
As long as I have ftp access to linux distro mirrors, irc, bittorrent, and Slashdot, don't expect me to pony up any extra dough for "premium" internet content.
Who does this "submitter" thing he "is" with all these "quotes," "Bennett Brauer?"
Now where's my +1 Funny?
How do you type "pwn3d" in Cyrillic? I've always wondered.
We've certainly gotten a lot of feedback from both readers and editors. For example, readers told us they loved the news clusters but they didn't want press releases on the home page (although they are still useful to have in the search results).
So hopefully there will not be any BNP press releases on the front page anymore. As for China, I know nothing! I swear!
If you want wireless now and can't get your AE card to work, there are few options. The Linksys WUSB11 USB 802.11b card works "out of the box" under Ubuntu PPC. You can get that for $10 or so at CompUSA. That is the only USB wireless adapter that I have gotten to work natively in Linux on PPC so far.
BTW, ndiswrapper is x86-only at the moment, so that is why it is such a pain in the neck.
Population of US: 297,200,005
As the process of modernization continues in the EU, surpassing the US in computer sales is a forgone conclusion.
Kyrie Eleison! Christe Eleison!
I have run into this problem at my college as well. Virtually every port is closed except those needed fot http, https, ftp, and smtp. I cannot use RDP, SSH, or VNC to check on my servers at home or at work. Frankly, with better security implementation they could allow these services to students without compromising themselves too much. I think it is mostly just the higher-ups in the college who are all concerned about "piracy" and hackers.
We love you Taco!
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
"The hey is to know which editor is on duty when you submit. If it is . . .
Scuttle Monkey
-Make sure your user name starts with punctuation (i.e. * *) so that it is on the top of the list."
This guide is better than I thought...
The fact that innocent algae have to be subjugated to digest our waste will still irk some environmentalists.
Yes this is a common straw man argument used against ID. Perhaps we should look at this way: ID != Supernaturalism. The point of design is that God is so great that he could cause a bee to fly (or any other astounding example from nature) within the natural order, without relying on his supernatural powers. ID proponents are not looking outside of science to explain how the natural world works. What they are doing is questioning how the natural order came to be.
Hallelujah! Finally, NPR on iPod. I am going to buy a black sweater . . .
I never suspected that ScuttleMonkey or anyone else were submitting their own stories (with fake UIDs) or accepting bribes. I was just concerned about the perceived lack of professionalism. When you have three straight stories posted by Beatles-Beatles (December 11th), it is disconcerting. Also, when each story begins with the formulaic "* * Beatles-Beatles tells us . . .", I get confused. When you combine that with the fact that **BB's linked site is, uh, shday, I was discouraged about Slashdot.
I have to admit that for a time I was an instigator of the anger over Beatles Beatles. I am mostly over my paranoia now, but I still have some concerns. Now I need to get back to obsessively following MacWorld.