He may be a great person, a great kernel programmer, a great executive, but influencial??? He influences what gets into the Linux Kernel and what doesn't. He doesn't set trends. He doesn't guide where the industry is going.
Applications do that, not the kernel. Firefox has an influence. Sure Firefox is Open Source, but Linux has nothing to do with that. Features in desktop environments such as KDE and Gnome can be influencial, an Operating System as a whole can be influencial - but Linux - who deals only with the Kernel. I just don't see it.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is Linus Torvalds influencing the industry? What executive decisions has he made that made that changed everything?
The article states, on the first page, that EA is a huge company, bigger than Apple and Pixar combined. Then procceeds to give numbers, anual revenues of $3 Billion and Market Cap of 15 Billion. Uh-uh. Apple has an annual revenue of over 10 Billion, and market cap of 21 Billion.
See: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
Considering the blatant lack of facts in such easy to check information, I'd take what the rest of the article says with a big grain of salt.
One solution that I see with this, to prevent this to be installed unaware of the User, is to have an addition to the root password to be required to install in/Library/StartupItems/
Whenever a program tries to install an item there, even if it has root access (which btw _is_ needed to write to that directory, _even_ if you're running as Admin), the Operating System should give a dialog box to the user, prompting him or her to permit or deny this addition, so the User will always be aware when something like this is happening.
This would be a similar solution to how Apple dealt with File Associations in a recent security update - ie when an application is opened for the first time as a result of File Associations, OS X will prompt you "Are you sure you want to open foofoofoo for the first time which is associated with file barbarbar?" (the actual wording is different, but that's basically the idea).
Here's some statistics from a different source (which actually presents stats from 5 sources), where Gecko (mozilla) ranges from 4% to 27% - it's clear that the stats greatly vary from site to site:
iTunes is able to import WMA songs and convert them to your format of choice (one that iTunes supports of course, ie MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC, etc). You can then, further, transfer the converted song and play it on your iPod with out any problems.
This is just installing cameras in PUBLIC places. Places where there are already plenty of witnesses, this just makes the process automated. There are no privacy concerns here, the cameras are in public places. If they start installing stuff like that in our homes and other private places, we should worry. The only people that this should worry now are real criminals, who will get caught by this system. For everyone else, this provides a perfectly objective witness, which is always good.
The Surfin Safari webpage shows David Hyatt's public weblog discussion on the matter of the Safari HTML extensions, it is a very interested read. (David Hyatt is the lead engineer at Apple on WebCore, Safari's rendering engine.)
Hey, its all good! As long as no other pop-up blocking browsers implement this functionality to return null, then these full page ads will only be presented to the IE users, as the website code would think that their pop-ups weren't blocked when they are with Mozilla, Safari, Opera, etc.
So as always, better surfing for the rest of us. I love Microsoft.:P
Actually, Apple planned to have this feature (called "Home on an iPod") in Mac OS X Panther but it was cancelled and removed from their features page at the last minute. The idea was that any iPod or other firewire drive could be used to store your home directory, and then this device could be connected to any Mac OS X mac to enable you to access your desktop on it, even if you never used that machine before.
It seems that although the original code for the tool released by MumboJumbo was Open Source, FlyingFlip specifically state in their FAQ that they are not going to open the source to their changes to the code, which is quite unfortunate.
Ack, it's people like you who give WMP its monopoly. People like you on whom Microsoft depends to use all the bundled software, since you are unwilling to download any alternatives!
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Obviously, because Darl's comments are the IP of SCO. If they were to quote them, Darl would make them pay a $699 fee for the use of SCO's IP. Therefore, they were paraphrased.
They are probably using the same scale as for the rest of their product line. So 40GB is 10,000 songs, that means 4mb a song, so 800 would be 3.2GB, or more probable a round 3GB.
Just to note, Contraband Entertainment now owns the rights to the Myth series as of about a week ago, we shall see what shall happen next with it. Rumors indicate that Contraband has some interesting plans for the series.
Wouldn't it be very advantageous for a potential undertaker of this task, to wait a bit, since the pot of gold seems to be growing.. I mean, why port it today for $8000, when you can wait a year, and do it for $20000!
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He may be a great person, a great kernel programmer, a great executive, but influencial??? He influences what gets into the Linux Kernel and what doesn't. He doesn't set trends. He doesn't guide where the industry is going.
Applications do that, not the kernel. Firefox has an influence. Sure Firefox is Open Source, but Linux has nothing to do with that. Features in desktop environments such as KDE and Gnome can be influencial, an Operating System as a whole can be influencial - but Linux - who deals only with the Kernel. I just don't see it.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is Linus Torvalds influencing the industry? What executive decisions has he made that made that changed everything?
The article states, on the first page, that EA is a huge company, bigger than Apple and Pixar combined. Then procceeds to give numbers, anual revenues of $3 Billion and Market Cap of 15 Billion. Uh-uh. Apple has an annual revenue of over 10 Billion, and market cap of 21 Billion.
See: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
Considering the blatant lack of facts in such easy to check information, I'd take what the rest of the article says with a big grain of salt.
Link to ClicheQuest! The best in MMORPG satire!
One solution that I see with this, to prevent this to be installed unaware of the User, is to have an addition to the root password to be required to install in /Library/StartupItems/
Whenever a program tries to install an item there, even if it has root access (which btw _is_ needed to write to that directory, _even_ if you're running as Admin), the Operating System should give a dialog box to the user, prompting him or her to permit or deny this addition, so the User will always be aware when something like this is happening.
This would be a similar solution to how Apple dealt with File Associations in a recent security update - ie when an application is opened for the first time as a result of File Associations, OS X will prompt you "Are you sure you want to open foofoofoo for the first time which is associated with file barbarbar?" (the actual wording is different, but that's basically the idea).
There's such a thing as Objective-C++, which solves just that problem. Go Google for it, Apple uses it for Safari.
Here's some statistics from a different source (which actually presents stats from 5 sources), where Gecko (mozilla) ranges from 4% to 27% - it's clear that the stats greatly vary from site to site:
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
iTunes is able to import WMA songs and convert them to your format of choice (one that iTunes supports of course, ie MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC, etc). You can then, further, transfer the converted song and play it on your iPod with out any problems.
This is just installing cameras in PUBLIC places. Places where there are already plenty of witnesses, this just makes the process automated. There are no privacy concerns here, the cameras are in public places. If they start installing stuff like that in our homes and other private places, we should worry. The only people that this should worry now are real criminals, who will get caught by this system. For everyone else, this provides a perfectly objective witness, which is always good.
Just make the feet of the robot really, really heavy. Heavier than the rest of its body, then it will always land on its feet!
My bad, didn't realise it was linked to in the Slashdot story.
The Surfin Safari webpage shows David Hyatt's public weblog discussion on the matter of the Safari HTML extensions, it is a very interested read. (David Hyatt is the lead engineer at Apple on WebCore, Safari's rendering engine.)
Yeah. I hear Apple is going out of business too.
Hey, its all good! As long as no other pop-up blocking browsers implement this functionality to return null, then these full page ads will only be presented to the IE users, as the website code would think that their pop-ups weren't blocked when they are with Mozilla, Safari, Opera, etc. So as always, better surfing for the rest of us. I love Microsoft. :P
Actually, Apple planned to have this feature (called "Home on an iPod") in Mac OS X Panther but it was cancelled and removed from their features page at the last minute. The idea was that any iPod or other firewire drive could be used to store your home directory, and then this device could be connected to any Mac OS X mac to enable you to access your desktop on it, even if you never used that machine before.
It ran like a champ on my 33mhz PowerBook 190.
Now, someone remind me what the system requirements are for the current versions of Office and Open Office?
It seems that although the original code for the tool released by MumboJumbo was Open Source, FlyingFlip specifically state in their FAQ that they are not going to open the source to their changes to the code, which is quite unfortunate.
Or maybe it will download to a cellphone, or in a Flash game on the web.
A cellphone with a CPU of ~1.4Ghz, 512MB RAM and a DirectX8 GPU?
Probably less money than a soda machine.
Interestingly, if you search for "best OS" on MSN right now, the first result is Apple's Mac OS X webpage.
Ack, it's people like you who give WMP its monopoly. People like you on whom Microsoft depends to use all the bundled software, since you are unwilling to download any alternatives!
Obviously, because Darl's comments are the IP of SCO. If they were to quote them, Darl would make them pay a $699 fee for the use of SCO's IP. Therefore, they were paraphrased.
They are probably using the same scale as for the rest of their product line. So 40GB is 10,000 songs, that means 4mb a song, so 800 would be 3.2GB, or more probable a round 3GB.
Just to note, Contraband Entertainment now owns the rights to the Myth series as of about a week ago, we shall see what shall happen next with it. Rumors indicate that Contraband has some interesting plans for the series.
Wouldn't it be very advantageous for a potential undertaker of this task, to wait a bit, since the pot of gold seems to be growing.. I mean, why port it today for $8000, when you can wait a year, and do it for $20000!
You mean the same people who decided to put IE in the kernel?