How would that stop spam exactly? Anyone could generate a PGP key and sign their email.
If you only accept email from people with they keys that you trust (which you can basically filter out now), then what have you accomplished except for proving that "FWD: THIS IS REALLY GOOD!!!" is not someone you actually care about.
Doesn't 'gone gold' mean that a game has reached it's final state of code (which I think the BBFC would require in order to classify the game correctly)?
We should really save all of our hype (which seems to be happening) until the game has been RTM.
It's an option well worth checking out. For those of us with a stable of boxes on a 4 way KVM switch, it's worth having a machine on hand that runs Solaris x86.
It's lack of support for NE2000-compliant network cards quickly dropped it from my list of choices when setting up one of my file servers a while ago.
1) Opening it like that would severely impact their profit for it, making it unfeasible to continue development, essentially killing it.
2) Opening it would cause a bunch of licensing issues with it. It's not pure 100% Apple/NeXT code in there, there's a lot of other licensed technologies.
Yes, *but* this still makes any earlier Mac OS X programs completely incompatible, such as Photoshop, Final Cut, etc, until the companies recompile them and offer fat binary editions.
Very true. Also Photoshop is a Carbon application, making it a lot harder for anyone to port anywhere.
do the BIOS right, meaning that it would require a custom BIOS
Do it right? How have they done it wrong? The PC BIOS is so old, outdated and inflexible, it's only holding onto it's ass for legacy support. OpenFirmware is a lot better than the PC BIOS - Biggest feature - hardware independence.
make use of the the hardware (video cards, sound cards, etc.) available in the x86 world
With the exception of graphics cards, they already do. And even on the graphics card front, they already have the latest chip-sets on their cards (and no BS from about 20 different manufacturers).
Well, no, that's not true. The actual OS X GUI, frameworks, and libraries are largely NeXTStep, and that stuff is quite portable and even ran on x86 at some point.
True, but that was many years ago now (and sort of died with WebObjects 4.5). But even Cocoa and the AppKit were an easy click of the fingers, what about the hardware frameworks?
Of course, OS X also has Carbon and the backwards compatibility stuff in it and that might be harder to port.
Maybe they could use the opportunity to finally kill Carbon!
1) The installer supports fat-binaries (binaries for more than one architecture inside one installer package), inherited from NeXT.
2) They could just dig up YellowBox again, brush of the dust and use that to handle most of the API's. Given, things like the Accelerate framework and most of the hardware frameworks would break, but still... it's a start.
You're not missing much... In terms of OWA, I would place it marginally better, but only because it doesn't look too nasty on non-IE browsers (the slow and fiddy remains). It's 'features' are nothing to be amazed at either (threading, oooo, there's an original idea) and are drastically lacking.
The idea is that it's a consistent interface, doesn't require any configuration to use, and the security can be improved via SSL.
Configuration and security is a plus, but there are definite problems with the power and functionality of them. The critical problem for me is consolidation - I have five regular-use email accounts, using five different webmail interfaces, all supporting different features, different options, different contacts (etc.) is not my idea of "benefits."
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Could be worse. Could be a message as a .doc attachment. Or a .ppt. With clip-art.
You obviously don't receive many emails from people using Outlook with the default setting of "Rich Text"
Technically, the spam will still be being sent, it's just that it won't be getting to your machine.
All of my email providers give server-side spam filtering (which works very will in all cases), which is essentially what these systems give us.
Is it just me, or is the length of email headers these days starting to eclipse the length of the body?
And what happens when worm smtp engines start building in self-signing engines as well?
How would that stop spam exactly? Anyone could generate a PGP key and sign their email.
If you only accept email from people with they keys that you trust (which you can basically filter out now), then what have you accomplished except for proving that "FWD: THIS IS REALLY GOOD!!!" is not someone you actually care about.
We obviously don't get the same spam.
Doesn't 'gone gold' mean that a game has reached it's final state of code (which I think the BBFC would require in order to classify the game correctly)?
We should really save all of our hype (which seems to be happening) until the game has been RTM.
If only I'd know about that page 2-3 years ago...
(or it'd existed)
It's an option well worth checking out. For those of us with a stable of boxes on a 4 way KVM switch, it's worth having a machine on hand that runs Solaris x86.
It's lack of support for NE2000-compliant network cards quickly dropped it from my list of choices when setting up one of my file servers a while ago.
I can see that causing two more problems -
1) Opening it like that would severely impact their profit for it, making it unfeasible to continue development, essentially killing it.
2) Opening it would cause a bunch of licensing issues with it. It's not pure 100% Apple/NeXT code in there, there's a lot of other licensed technologies.
So essentially, Apple is maintaining -
-Carbon
-Cocoa
-Core Foundation
-Cocoa for Java
Yes, *but* this still makes any earlier Mac OS X programs completely incompatible, such as Photoshop, Final Cut, etc, until the companies recompile them and offer fat binary editions.
Very true. Also Photoshop is a Carbon application, making it a lot harder for anyone to port anywhere.
do the BIOS right, meaning that it would require a custom BIOS
Do it right? How have they done it wrong? The PC BIOS is so old, outdated and inflexible, it's only holding onto it's ass for legacy support. OpenFirmware is a lot better than the PC BIOS - Biggest feature - hardware independence.
make use of the the hardware (video cards, sound cards, etc.) available in the x86 world
With the exception of graphics cards, they already do.
And even on the graphics card front, they already have the latest chip-sets on their cards (and no BS from about 20 different manufacturers).
Because you're already as low as you can go?
now imagine this GUI on top of Linux... Why hasn't this already happened?
Because that would entail Apple re-writing their Window Server & Manager and APIs, from scratch, for you.
Apple can still sell thier premium hardware while developing open-source software
They already do - http://www.opensource.apple.com/
Well, no, that's not true. The actual OS X GUI, frameworks, and libraries are largely NeXTStep, and that stuff is quite portable and even ran on x86 at some point.
True, but that was many years ago now (and sort of died with WebObjects 4.5). But even Cocoa and the AppKit were an easy click of the fingers, what about the hardware frameworks?
Of course, OS X also has Carbon and the backwards compatibility stuff in it and that might be harder to port.
Maybe they could use the opportunity to finally kill Carbon!
I already did - paranoid got the best of me.
There are two pseudo-solutions to this -
1) The installer supports fat-binaries (binaries for more than one architecture inside one installer package), inherited from NeXT.
2) They could just dig up YellowBox again, brush of the dust and use that to handle most of the API's. Given, things like the Accelerate framework and most of the hardware frameworks would break, but still... it's a start.
Or did they solve the problem of fragile libraries and dependency hell.
Graphics card ROM is different and the CD/DVD drives have a different ROM as well (but I'm pretty sure this changed a while ago).
The HUGE GAPING difference is that Solaris is a server operating system, with much less flexibility on hardware.
Solaris x86 is nothing more than a hobbyists operating system (proved when they tried to kill it) and is extremely limited in its hardware support.
Besides, Sun's hardware market power is shrinking so fast anyway.
A subsidiary of a company is not the actual company itself, it's just a peon with which to attribute blame.
I've sent stuff to my Hotmail box expecting it to show up in seconds (because it's e-mail!) and it didn't show up until after its use expired.
I've sent emails from my hotmail account TO my hotmail account and never seen them again.
haven't used gmail yet, though
You're not missing much...
In terms of OWA, I would place it marginally better, but only because it doesn't look too nasty on non-IE browsers (the slow and fiddy remains).
It's 'features' are nothing to be amazed at either (threading, oooo, there's an original idea) and are drastically lacking.
The idea is that it's a consistent interface, doesn't require any configuration to use, and the security can be improved via SSL.
Configuration and security is a plus, but there are definite problems with the power and functionality of them. The critical problem for me is consolidation - I have five regular-use email accounts, using five different webmail interfaces, all supporting different features, different options, different contacts (etc.) is not my idea of "benefits."