After I submitted the comment, I realized it was pretty harsh.
I come from an Engineering background in Telecom. I happen to believe that not having redundancy is a death sentence. People/Companies will pay a premium for a fully a redundant circuit even though it may not be used for years. That said, the internet as originally designed is supposed to be able to route around such failures so I guess I do see your point. Fat pipes for all would be really nice, but you will have bottlenecks regardless.
Slashdot seems to have picked up on this, and in typical style, has completely misunderstood the post. To be clear, I do not think that Apple is in any way trying to purposely "cripple" non-Apple software. I also do not think that undocumented APIs give Safari any kind of "significant performance advantage" (as Firefox 3 should show!). However, as I said, the undocumented functionality could be useful for Firefox and other apps to implement things in an simpler (and potentially more efficient) manner. I don't think this is malicious, it's just an unfortunate cutting of corners that is way too easy for a company that's not fully open to do.
Name one other company that has pledged 1 Billion dollars solely for the advancement and development of linux. IBM has done more for open source and Linux than most other companies. Granted it wasn't completely selfless on the part of IBM but they did put their money where their mouth was.
I've never used OS/2 but does IBM own all of it where they can even consider opening it up?
The problem is Microsoft's insistence at putting the interests of vendors first and the interests of their customers a distant second. If they'd only let the damn hardware do all it could do, the thing would be selling like hotcakes. The Zune's wi-fi capability COULD let you share whole playlists, and COULD let you be a DJ and stream to several Zunes simultaneously, and COULD let you share music without wrapping it in arbitrary DRM and COULD let you sync it with a PC without a cable.
I hear all of this blather about "Microsoft's DRM" destroying a potentially useful feature and I can't believe people can be that short-sighted on why the DRM is there in the first place. By no means am I Microsoft apologist, but do you seriously think that Microsoft could even think of launching a portable music player without some sort of "leash" on the music to keep the record labels happy? If you're going to bash the product, put the blame where it should be; appeasing the record labels so Microsoft can offer a library somewhat comparable to what iTunes offers.
A lesser known fact* is that Microsoft almost had to launch the product without the music library from Universal Music Group (U2 for one example) because Universal also wanted a cut of each Zune sold ($1 for every $250 Zune sold). Don't you think that will affect any future negotiations that Apple will have Universal?
for $499. Seem to be starting at $599 w/ 512MB RAM, 1.6GHz Intel core solo and 80 Gig Hard drive. I'll still grag the Power mac mini for the lower price point.
My in-laws are weird like that. They have this incredible urge to have the latest tech gadgets none of which they know how to use. They own this incredible 36 DLP TV, HDTV ready, Kenwood 7.1 surround system with 3 disc DVD changer, 3 Dell Computers (~$1400 each when originally purchased) and the icing on the cake.... $2200 HP laptop so they have something to watch DVDs on when they travel.
They still don't know how to operate any of the devices and call me to explain how everything works.
Oh yeah, for Christmas, I'll probably get a $25 gift card to The Home Depot.
It popped up on me also using Kopete on PCBSD. Deleted the groups and it doesn't seem to be an issue any longer. Although I can see this "feature" being abused.
If I parsed the story correctly, would the GPL3 require Google to release any modifications it's made to linux kernel for their data mining applications? It doesn't distribute GNU/Linux, but uses it to offer a product/service.
If that's the case, then rms has lost his marbles. Any sort of good standing that gnu/linux kernel usage had in corporate server rooms will be lost as well.
I hope I'm just not understanding this correctly, but if I do, then the GPL will become just as viral as the regular FUDsters make it out to be. That's not a flame, just my observation
(yes I still don't know how to uninstall a generic packages..like when I download something, untar; make; make install : where can I find out where it put all it's stuff?)
But when it comes to the stuff that gets used, I have a hard time remembering anything that came out of AT&T that I use.
Just because you don't hear about it (AT&T UNIX), doesn't mean it's not being used. AT&T UNIX ---> (Lucent) is still powering every Lucent 5ESS uses it to process your telephone calls. It is still being constantly developed to add more features to their switching products
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After I submitted the comment, I realized it was pretty harsh.
I come from an Engineering background in Telecom. I happen to believe that not having redundancy is a death sentence. People/Companies will pay a premium for a fully a redundant circuit even though it may not be used for years. That said, the internet as originally designed is supposed to be able to route around such failures so I guess I do see your point. Fat pipes for all would be really nice, but you will have bottlenecks regardless.
Again, my apologies for being a weenie. dan
Yeah, that "redundancy" thing really is pointless.
Asshat.
Hey. I downloaded the program, tried it....I give it two thumbs up!
Name one other company that has pledged 1 Billion dollars solely for the advancement and development of linux. IBM has done more for open source and Linux than most other companies. Granted it wasn't completely selfless on the part of IBM but they did put their money where their mouth was.
I've never used OS/2 but does IBM own all of it where they can even consider opening it up?
I hear all of this blather about "Microsoft's DRM" destroying a potentially useful feature and I can't believe people can be that short-sighted on why the DRM is there in the first place. By no means am I Microsoft apologist, but do you seriously think that Microsoft could even think of launching a portable music player without some sort of "leash" on the music to keep the record labels happy? If you're going to bash the product, put the blame where it should be; appeasing the record labels so Microsoft can offer a library somewhat comparable to what iTunes offers.
A lesser known fact* is that Microsoft almost had to launch the product without the music library from Universal Music Group (U2 for one example) because Universal also wanted a cut of each Zune sold ($1 for every $250 Zune sold). Don't you think that will affect any future negotiations that Apple will have Universal?
*Rolling Stone Magazine November 30, 2006 page 20
for $499. Seem to be starting at $599 w/ 512MB RAM, 1.6GHz Intel core solo and 80 Gig Hard drive. I'll still grag the Power mac mini for the lower price point.
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He just made my foe's list. What a lamer.
They still don't know how to operate any of the devices and call me to explain how everything works.
Oh yeah, for Christmas, I'll probably get a $25 gift card to The Home Depot.
Nice pictures. Congrats to whomever got married.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/06/eff_needs_ to_die/
That's the best definition of a corporation that I've ever heard. You've just gained a new friend :)
It popped up on me also using Kopete on PCBSD. Deleted the groups and it doesn't seem to be an issue any longer. Although I can see this "feature" being abused.
At first I laughed when he told me, but now I fully understand the value of that philosophy.
(Sorry, I should've just modded you up, but that was too funny to pass up)
If that's the case, then rms has lost his marbles. Any sort of good standing that gnu/linux kernel usage had in corporate server rooms will be lost as well.
I hope I'm just not understanding this correctly, but if I do, then the GPL will become just as viral as the regular FUDsters make it out to be. That's not a flame, just my observation
or as root:
Hope that helps. Slackware subscriber since 7.0
This was the original draft of their plan
oh shit
Just because you don't hear about it (AT&T UNIX), doesn't mean it's not being used. AT&T UNIX ---> (Lucent) is still powering every Lucent 5ESS uses it to process your telephone calls. It is still being constantly developed to add more features to their switching products
Your choice to point that out marks you as a prick.
GOD BLESS THE USA