Wozniac is a nutjob no doubt about it. He'd still be a legend, though, even if it weren't for Apple. He was an early phreaker, and a good friend of John Draper - Cap'n Crunch for gods sake! He was an important figure in the Silicon Valley hobbyist community, and even if he hadn't done either Apple or phreaking he'd still be a footnote in the big book of commodity PCs because of that. Certainly more than you or I can claim.
He and Jobs didn't start their relationship selling computers together - they originally sold blue boxes. Woz still works for Apple, mostly as a consultant, and he and Jobs still collaborate (though Woz has claimed that on many occasions Jobs credits him with ideas that he had minimal participation in).
Since leaving Apple he's been as much a humanitarian with his skills and money as Bill Gates (though in smaller absolute amounts). He personally provides free tech support for the local school system, and (at least when System 8 was still cutting edge) held computer classes for preschool and elementary school kids. He's sponsered charity concerts, and more.
Problem with Wozniak is he has a great technical mind, a wonderful sense of playfulness, and even a good sense of what users want in products, but his business sense is poor. That's why there hasn't been as much output from Woz since leaving Apple - their hasn't been a Steve Jobs. Wozniak was the Paul Allen to Job's Bill Gates, and much like Allen, Wozniak has dabbled here and their, with no truly successful financial venture yet. That doesn't mean he's worthless
Yes, Sharman is sleezy. But the ethics of the law are more complex than "sleezy". If there are legitimate users of a product, and the targeted customers are not themselves victims (like cigarette ads targetting children) then the law MUST protect the rights of the legitimate users.
There is plenty of legitimate content on Kazaa (like shitty porn, public domain e-texts in PDF format). There are plenty of places on the internet where many copyright laws don't apply.
If you want to get ethically philosophical, then, from most deontological points of view, your argument doesn't hold water, because it doesn't protect rights regardless of consequences. It doesn't make sense from a utility point of view, because the legal precedent is too dangerous, and a signifigant harm on the part of the music industry is difficult to demonstrate in the first place.
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Did anyone other than me not notice when this was "announced" here on Slashdot in the e17 story?
Fluxbox really isn't a desktop. It's just a window manager. A pretty featureful window manager (which starts to blur the distinction), but a window manager none the less.
Fluxbox has a menu, minimal taskbar like support, tabbed windows, and a place for windowmaker dockapps.
Xfce is a complete and highly modular desktop environment. Unlike Gnome, components are loosely coupled, so you can easily run part of the environment without much overhead.
Xfce includes: A window manager, a taskbar program, a panel with plugins (launchers, menus, workplace switchers), a file manager, a desktop menu with a backdrop system, a session manager, a plugin capable settings manager, and a small application development environment.
There are some other micellaneous toys - calendar, a gtk theme engine, a nice resolution switcher, an iconbox. And the third party apps are growing - a couple of terminal programs, a fine media player, a growing number of panel plugins.
Making fluxbox and it's kin usable winds up requireing I run half a dozen other apps. Xfce is those apps, bundled together. You can think of it as Gnome done right.
You are missing something. Being close to the decision makers means more power. as George W. Bush pointed out when he was still running a failing oil operation, people look up to you when you're the presidents son.
This means that the FSFE has the same power as the ISO, if that gives you any idea of what this means.
The real trick is to USE APPLICATIONS! Don't keep notes in temp files, or little files with peoples phone numbers. Use a sticky note app, use a contact app. You'll find that they not only keep your home directory clean, but these developers have thought of all the things you can do with that info, and made most of it pretty easy.
Really, I kept all my numbers in a file, yadda yadda yadda. "I don't need no stinking calendar app". But once I used it, I realized that, in fact, I did. Try it
Really, there is no reason to be panicky and down on this guy, any more than there is a reason to be excited about him. He's a no name up and comer, who made a crappy Keneath Branaugh movie a few years ago (not really in the same genre as Watchmen), is known mostly for making violent made for TV movies.
I haven't seen Bourne Supremecy, it seems to have been pretty much a wash. Greengrass's Bloody Sunday is pretty well regarded. He's got a thing for gritty realism, and his camerawork is adventurous, but not always successful.
David Hayter is the writer listed. Again, up and comer (at least as writer), and a mixed bag with previous efforts (both the X-men movies, but also the Scorpion King). Hayter has always been paired with other writers, not uncommon for someone starting out in script work.
See a pattern? Nothing to freak about, nothing to get excited about. Wait and see
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And in case you need any proof, look at the function names. They all start with ns*.
The real rewrite was Gecko, which gave birth to XUL which did result in a pretty solid rewrite of the browser, but as I recall, the JavaScript engine never saw (nor needed) a complete overhaul.
I wouldn't call any of his behavior that of a hypochondriac, for two reasons.
One, they just plain aren't. Being a hypochondriac is a medical condition which this is insufficient to qualify for. As a psychology student, bandying about terms like "hypochodriac" are bandied about so loosely. Sure, he may (or may not) be excessively worried about disease, but he also seems to be clearly in pain. Paranoia or not, seeing a doctor is reasonable.
Second, his talk almost exactly matches that of everyone I know with parents in the medical field. It's like having a parent in any other field, you pick up a lot of stuff. Almost everyone I know who was raised by doctors talks like this, and for basic stuff, they are almost always spot on about over the counter drugs to take, possible allergins, degree of contagiousness, yadda yadda yadda.
Going NeXT saved Apple by getting Steve Jobs back and getting OS X based on Unix BSD
BeOS was a Unix like OS, much like NeXT. Really, BeOS and NeXT were very similar animals. Both had incredibly talented designers, programmers, and management. Really, if Apple had bought BeOS, I imagine that some very similar things would happen - the OS would still feel more BeOSish that MacOSish, at least initially, and the conversion would probably break the hearts of some members of both camps. Really, the reason that NeXT was a better pick (Steve Jobs' arguments aside) was Steve Jobs himself. That's what turned the company around.
Why do you need IMAP? Google doesn't use folders, and the label concept does not fit well.
IMAP is not that much faster in my experience, though I am given to understand that IMAP is by default more secure than POP3. Anyone know for definate?
properly implemented global meta-data store (that works at the filesystem level, not as an iterative service)
This is an iterative service, with some hooks into various libraries so that it can capture disk writes and update the db. Ergo, there are potential concurency issues.
I wonder if Dominic has been sold on seperating the indexing from the filesystem, or if this was the design that emerged after a need to keep HFS+ around for a while.
Short answer: Konfabulator is a product for writing little eyecandyful tools in JavaScript, like Weather monitors, calculators, yaddida, yaddida, yaddida. They are _very_ similar to the widgets being offered in the next version of OS X.
Long answer and editorial: Konfabulator is a resurrection of the old Apple Desk Accessories if you used those. This has been used to claim that really, Konfabulator isn't doing anything new, and that Apple isn't stealing Konfab. I find this argument to be malarky. Sure, Konfab is the spiritual decendent of Desk Accesories. And maybe even Tiger's widgets started as a coincidentally parrallel development within Apple. But writing them in JavaScript? The look and feel? The likely base package of Widgets? Come on. The most you can give Apple is that someone started working on a primitive version of a Desk Accesories successor, and someone came along and said "That's neat. Why don't you make it more like Konfabulator?"
Then you have a seperate issue, with a seperate OS, with a seperate developer, with a different kind of hardware.
PWC hooks in the Linux kernel were hooks that were removed as part of a standard kernel policy, after the driver had fallen under the radar for some time, and that hook was specifically designed to extend the capabilities of working hardware in a way which was legally fishy.
This is the issue of going to a vendor for the licence to redistribute firmware which already has a generic kernel hook for being loaded and will not initialize with said firmware.
It already does make telemarketing diffcult to trace. Those telemarketers who call you do not, I repeat, do not work for AT&T or whoever else they are selling products for. They work for a telemarketing firm (which, by the way, are dying out. They're being purchased by legit incoming call callcenters). If you get a call and it says that it is from BellSouth, and you get a telemarkter (for example, BLS has a strict no telemarketing policy), then you are seeing a falsified id.
What the hell are you talking about? I do not ask lightly.
Here is a story.
I photograph flowers for a living. Have a website devoted to it. Have photographed some exotic flowers over the years, and I charge to let botonists see my collection.
Someone takes those photos and pretends they made them. Makes them publically available. I take legal action, as this hurts my legitimate business.
A third party happens to mention on my site that a set of specific varieties of daisies prefer a specific fertilizer. Then I get a nasty letter from the fertilizer company for mentioning their product.
Under your reasoning I'm supposed to be like 'Fuck, my fault for aggresively pursuing those who were ruining my business"?
Unless you are anti IP across the board (which I doubt) this position makes no sense.
Additionally I'd like to defend SG a bit by saying that aggresive protection of their photos is completely reasonable. Your average hard core porn site probably does not have a personal relationship with their models, nor is their much expectation of trust. Spreading their work is a legal issue only.
But Missy knows many of her models personally. They've posed under conditions where they have creative control over how they look and who sees them. Missy has every right to aggresively protect the spread of naked pictures of her friends for god's sake. SG has nothing but a good reputation in the indie adult community, and it is for exactly this kind of "aggresive protection" that they deserve it. I would expect nothing less from Missy, from Eolake Stobblehouse (of domai.com) or Alex Firestone (firegirls.com).
Honestly, I imagine that Nintendo doesn't want to be associated with, say, child porn, drugs, etc, and runs a webcrawler that matches the use of certain terms ("Mario") with other terms ("boobs") and then emails the admin when it matches This is pretty clear from the email that at best, SG was only looked at by a human eye for about 30 seconds.
I always liked Transmeta. But multiple looks at their processors always seemed to show that while they were outclassing the Eden chips from Via in terms of performance, the power/heat to perf ratio always seemed to be targeting a market that I wasn't sure existed.
ARM has the bottom end (watches) and in the x86 space Via controls the low and AMD and Intel battle it out for middle and high (laptops and desktops). Transmeta processoes only seem to win in the palmtop arena, and even then Via is a strong contender.
Anyone here considering using Transmeta in a hobby or production box? And why them and not someone else?
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Wozniac is a nutjob no doubt about it. He'd still be a legend, though, even if it weren't for Apple. He was an early phreaker, and a good friend of John Draper - Cap'n Crunch for gods sake! He was an important figure in the Silicon Valley hobbyist community, and even if he hadn't done either Apple or phreaking he'd still be a footnote in the big book of commodity PCs because of that. Certainly more than you or I can claim.
He and Jobs didn't start their relationship selling computers together - they originally sold blue boxes. Woz still works for Apple, mostly as a consultant, and he and Jobs still collaborate (though Woz has claimed that on many occasions Jobs credits him with ideas that he had minimal participation in).
Since leaving Apple he's been as much a humanitarian with his skills and money as Bill Gates (though in smaller absolute amounts). He personally provides free tech support for the local school system, and (at least when System 8 was still cutting edge) held computer classes for preschool and elementary school kids. He's sponsered charity concerts, and more.
Problem with Wozniak is he has a great technical mind, a wonderful sense of playfulness, and even a good sense of what users want in products, but his business sense is poor. That's why there hasn't been as much output from Woz since leaving Apple - their hasn't been a Steve Jobs. Wozniak was the Paul Allen to Job's Bill Gates, and much like Allen, Wozniak has dabbled here and their, with no truly successful financial venture yet. That doesn't mean he's worthless
Oh, please.
Yes, Sharman is sleezy. But the ethics of the law are more complex than "sleezy". If there are legitimate users of a product, and the targeted customers are not themselves victims (like cigarette ads targetting children) then the law MUST protect the rights of the legitimate users.
There is plenty of legitimate content on Kazaa (like shitty porn, public domain e-texts in PDF format). There are plenty of places on the internet where many copyright laws don't apply.
If you want to get ethically philosophical, then, from most deontological points of view, your argument doesn't hold water, because it doesn't protect rights regardless of consequences. It doesn't make sense from a utility point of view, because the legal precedent is too dangerous, and a signifigant harm on the part of the music industry is difficult to demonstrate in the first place.
Did anyone other than me not notice when this was "announced" here on Slashdot in the e17 story?
Here.
Seems not to have gotten much attention, but it show's that kiddies can't help but crow, even anonymously.
Fluxbox really isn't a desktop. It's just a window manager. A pretty featureful window manager (which starts to blur the distinction), but a window manager none the less.
Fluxbox has a menu, minimal taskbar like support, tabbed windows, and a place for windowmaker dockapps.
Xfce is a complete and highly modular desktop environment. Unlike Gnome, components are loosely coupled, so you can easily run part of the environment without much overhead.
Xfce includes: A window manager, a taskbar program, a panel with plugins (launchers, menus, workplace switchers), a file manager, a desktop menu with a backdrop system, a session manager, a plugin capable settings manager, and a small application development environment.
There are some other micellaneous toys - calendar, a gtk theme engine, a nice resolution switcher, an iconbox. And the third party apps are growing - a couple of terminal programs, a fine media player, a growing number of panel plugins.
Making fluxbox and it's kin usable winds up requireing I run half a dozen other apps. Xfce is those apps, bundled together. You can think of it as Gnome done right.
You are missing something. Being close to the decision makers means more power. as George W. Bush pointed out when he was still running a failing oil operation, people look up to you when you're the presidents son.
This means that the FSFE has the same power as the ISO, if that gives you any idea of what this means.
I knew that nerds and porn mixed readily. But a nerd dedicated to porn?
My hat's off to you.
The real trick is to USE APPLICATIONS! Don't keep notes in temp files, or little files with peoples phone numbers. Use a sticky note app, use a contact app. You'll find that they not only keep your home directory clean, but these developers have thought of all the things you can do with that info, and made most of it pretty easy.
Really, I kept all my numbers in a file, yadda yadda yadda. "I don't need no stinking calendar app". But once I used it, I realized that, in fact, I did. Try it
Really, there is no reason to be panicky and down on this guy, any more than there is a reason to be excited about him. He's a no name up and comer, who made a crappy Keneath Branaugh movie a few years ago (not really in the same genre as Watchmen), is known mostly for making violent made for TV movies.
I haven't seen Bourne Supremecy, it seems to have been pretty much a wash. Greengrass's Bloody Sunday is pretty well regarded. He's got a thing for gritty realism, and his camerawork is adventurous, but not always successful.
David Hayter is the writer listed. Again, up and comer (at least as writer), and a mixed bag with previous efforts (both the X-men movies, but also the Scorpion King). Hayter has always been paired with other writers, not uncommon for someone starting out in script work.
See a pattern? Nothing to freak about, nothing to get excited about. Wait and see
And in case you need any proof, look at the function names. They all start with ns*.
The real rewrite was Gecko, which gave birth to XUL which did result in a pretty solid rewrite of the browser, but as I recall, the JavaScript engine never saw (nor needed) a complete overhaul.
I wouldn't call any of his behavior that of a hypochondriac, for two reasons.
One, they just plain aren't. Being a hypochondriac is a medical condition which this is insufficient to qualify for. As a psychology student, bandying about terms like "hypochodriac" are bandied about so loosely. Sure, he may (or may not) be excessively worried about disease, but he also seems to be clearly in pain. Paranoia or not, seeing a doctor is reasonable.
Second, his talk almost exactly matches that of everyone I know with parents in the medical field. It's like having a parent in any other field, you pick up a lot of stuff. Almost everyone I know who was raised by doctors talks like this, and for basic stuff, they are almost always spot on about over the counter drugs to take, possible allergins, degree of contagiousness, yadda yadda yadda.
Actually, it's different every time. Play with it. Refresh the page a couple of times.
That's a good 20 seconds of amusement, or an hour and a half on dialup.
I mean, maybe it's signifigantly larger, but I want one of these: http://www.io2technology.com/dojo/178/v.jsp
The difference being partially that the heliodisplay works, now, and is much more Star War-sy
BeOS was a Unix like OS, much like NeXT. Really, BeOS and NeXT were very similar animals. Both had incredibly talented designers, programmers, and management. Really, if Apple had bought BeOS, I imagine that some very similar things would happen - the OS would still feel more BeOSish that MacOSish, at least initially, and the conversion would probably break the hearts of some members of both camps. Really, the reason that NeXT was a better pick (Steve Jobs' arguments aside) was Steve Jobs himself. That's what turned the company around.
Why do you need IMAP? Google doesn't use folders, and the label concept does not fit well.
IMAP is not that much faster in my experience, though I am given to understand that IMAP is by default more secure than POP3. Anyone know for definate?
properly implemented global meta-data store (that works at the filesystem level, not as an iterative service)
This is an iterative service, with some hooks into various libraries so that it can capture disk writes and update the db. Ergo, there are potential concurency issues.
I wonder if Dominic has been sold on seperating the indexing from the filesystem, or if this was the design that emerged after a need to keep HFS+ around for a while.
Steven.
I am the only person I know to spell both Erik and Steven correctly
I am not, unfortunately, the same Erik Harrison. But I am very flattered.
Actually, when I saw "The Incredibles" in the theatre on the 5th I saw no Star Wars trailer.
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Now I'm kinda disappointed . .
ps - Thanks for the compliment.
Short answer: Konfabulator is a product for writing little eyecandyful tools in JavaScript, like Weather monitors, calculators, yaddida, yaddida, yaddida. They are _very_ similar to the widgets being offered in the next version of OS X.
Long answer and editorial: Konfabulator is a resurrection of the old Apple Desk Accessories if you used those. This has been used to claim that really, Konfabulator isn't doing anything new, and that Apple isn't stealing Konfab. I find this argument to be malarky. Sure, Konfab is the spiritual decendent of Desk Accesories. And maybe even Tiger's widgets started as a coincidentally parrallel development within Apple. But writing them in JavaScript? The look and feel? The likely base package of Widgets? Come on. The most you can give Apple is that someone started working on a primitive version of a Desk Accesories successor, and someone came along and said "That's neat. Why don't you make it more like Konfabulator?"
Then you have a seperate issue, with a seperate OS, with a seperate developer, with a different kind of hardware.
PWC hooks in the Linux kernel were hooks that were removed as part of a standard kernel policy, after the driver had fallen under the radar for some time, and that hook was specifically designed to extend the capabilities of working hardware in a way which was legally fishy.
This is the issue of going to a vendor for the licence to redistribute firmware which already has a generic kernel hook for being loaded and will not initialize with said firmware.
Or are you just being crabby?
It already does make telemarketing diffcult to trace. Those telemarketers who call you do not, I repeat, do not work for AT&T or whoever else they are selling products for. They work for a telemarketing firm (which, by the way, are dying out. They're being purchased by legit incoming call callcenters). If you get a call and it says that it is from BellSouth, and you get a telemarkter (for example, BLS has a strict no telemarketing policy), then you are seeing a falsified id.
The average shots of girls with legitimate smiles on their faces puts this otherwise amusing piece of sarcasm down.
But check out my RACK!Don't mind if I do
What the hell are you talking about? I do not ask lightly.
Here is a story.
I photograph flowers for a living. Have a website devoted to it. Have photographed some exotic flowers over the years, and I charge to let botonists see my collection.
Someone takes those photos and pretends they made them. Makes them publically available. I take legal action, as this hurts my legitimate business.
A third party happens to mention on my site that a set of specific varieties of daisies prefer a specific fertilizer. Then I get a nasty letter from the fertilizer company for mentioning their product.
Under your reasoning I'm supposed to be like 'Fuck, my fault for aggresively pursuing those who were ruining my business"?
Unless you are anti IP across the board (which I doubt) this position makes no sense.
Additionally I'd like to defend SG a bit by saying that aggresive protection of their photos is completely reasonable. Your average hard core porn site probably does not have a personal relationship with their models, nor is their much expectation of trust. Spreading their work is a legal issue only.
But Missy knows many of her models personally. They've posed under conditions where they have creative control over how they look and who sees them. Missy has every right to aggresively protect the spread of naked pictures of her friends for god's sake. SG has nothing but a good reputation in the indie adult community, and it is for exactly this kind of "aggresive protection" that they deserve it. I would expect nothing less from Missy, from Eolake Stobblehouse (of domai.com) or Alex Firestone (firegirls.com).
Honestly, I imagine that Nintendo doesn't want to be associated with, say, child porn, drugs, etc, and runs a webcrawler that matches the use of certain terms ("Mario") with other terms ("boobs") and then emails the admin when it matches This is pretty clear from the email that at best, SG was only looked at by a human eye for about 30 seconds.
I always liked Transmeta. But multiple looks at their processors always seemed to show that while they were outclassing the Eden chips from Via in terms of performance, the power/heat to perf ratio always seemed to be targeting a market that I wasn't sure existed.
ARM has the bottom end (watches) and in the x86 space Via controls the low and AMD and Intel battle it out for middle and high (laptops and desktops). Transmeta processoes only seem to win in the palmtop arena, and even then Via is a strong contender.
Anyone here considering using Transmeta in a hobby or production box? And why them and not someone else?
It's really DC cashing in on the success of the various Marvel superhero flicks of late.
Not that I mind. Bryan Singer is set to direct (Of X-Men, X2, and Usual Suspects) and thus far it appears that he can do no wrong