Ex MacOSX guys won't fuel Vista - Dell, HP, et al will. People won't even know that there's any alternative, that's why Microsoft will be making their billions. Bullshit that OpenSolaris will overtake Linux anytime soon, let alone within the next year. The open source zealots will never go for it, and a lot of people have too much invested in Linux. And how will the Cell processor totally dominate the next top computing list when it's not even worth a mention in the current top computing list?
He then goes on to reiterate much of what's been said every year but never come true, that is the parts that actually made sense. I'm surprised that he didn't say "2007 is the year for the Open Solaris desktop".
Apologies - I misinterpreted obviously what you said (I thought that you meant for communicating between processes not someone who is using it actually inputting a password). Actually your idea will work against a cracker and I just made a fool of myself, damn no edit key. It's not the most practical solution since there would be only one password that every user must have and it also won't give automation like the summary wants but it will still work against someone without that password.
Nope, still won't work against a cracker. This is just another form of DRM and DRM is fundamentally flawed. (If you don't believe me show me a major game that hasn't yet been cracked.)
In short, if a cracker has full access of a program or system and the system has access to the passwords (even if it does some fiddling around before revealing the passwords) then the cracker has full access to the passwords. There's no way to protect against that except by not allowing any access to the passwords (by just not posting the files that the passwords are in) or by not having the passwords in the program at all and having it so the user must type them in. Anything more are delaying tactics and do not give a high level of security, just some level of obfuscation...
That's ridiculous. It's global warming, not parts of the globe warming. Global warming of 2 degrees obviously means that if it's 30 degrees outside it would have been 28 degrees if global warming hadn't happened. There being thicker ice in any part of the world (even my freezer) means that global warming is totally false. And they say that climatology is hard.
I'm amazed that no one has mentioned Tremulous yet. Apart from that I second Battle for Wesnoth and Vegastrike. Privateer Remake is awesome too, though it's not totally free so don't expect it in the debian repositories.
Add to this that the frameworks (the majority of the work) are getting towards being completed. I've been following KDE4's development and I can't really understand why so many people think that it's stalled. Mostly their argument involves KDE 4's technical preview being ugly or unusable. Obviously they've never done any software development - the interface is the last thing to come into fruition - like the top of an iceberg, how is the interface going to work if the code under it hasn't been written?
Actually, I believe the argument was something like "We apologise for ripping off the page and have fixed this, but to Yahoo, please don't be such a hypocritical holier than thou arsehole when you've been consistantly ripping off our pages." For the record, I believe that ripping off the ad look is a lot worse than what's really is a simple and definitely minor page that would have taken half an hour (being conservative) to build. The ads are something that Google pretty much bases their entire business on.
Uhuh. Let me make this clear - Microsoft's software patents are only enforceable in the US. So no, I probably won't be affected and my PHB won't care since we're not part of the US, and I don't think any businesses actually run Damn Small Linux, Mepis or Slackware. Those distros don't really have a need to be centred in the US so I don't think it matters if Microsoft tries to sue the users of those distros - all it would gain them is a pittance of money and a shitload of bad publicity.
So, as for American business linux users (which are the only ones that are able to be targetted if Microsoft have a patent that Linux clearly infringes) I don't think they'd be that vulnerable. IBM and their customers for instance would be impenetrable because of cross patenting and I doubt they would have no issue with Red Hat being targetted. Novell cannot be targetted as they have this patent deal. Who does that leave? Anyone?
I'm not really trying to criticise you I just think that you're not thinking of things realistically here and you're just embracing a doomsday scenario seeing how it's "flashy". Realistically using their software patents against the free software community would be a death knell for Microsoft - it would open pandora's box. Realistically people (and especially companies) don't react very well to blackmail or threats because they can't afford to react to it. "Use my software or else I'll sue you" is a very bad way to do business.
No it's not - the corporate mind isn't as stupid as either of you are.
Lets see the holes in the argument.
Firstly, a patent deal doesn't make patent infringements magically appear. Novell's deal with Microsoft has no legal bearing on Linux at all - NONE. If Microsoft can sue with the deal they can sue without the deal.
Secondly, even if there are patent infringements in Linux that probably would only minorly affect Linux - the patents would be only valid and enforceable in the US while the major centre of development is outside of the US in Europe and others. It would only affect people trying to use Linux in the US and, quite simply, there's now more money invested with Linux as a base than there is in Microsoft's whole market cap, so the economic impact of the patents for America would outweigh the impact on the Linux developers. Besides this, the PR for Microsoft would be, let's put it mildly, horrific.
Thirdly, Linux code is GPL - it can't disappear and even if it infringes on Microsoft patents that doesn't mean Microsoft owns the code. They can't incorporate Linux code into Windows without making the Windows kernel GPL - patents != copyright.
Forthly and finally (and pretty much refuting every single word that the grandparent said) there's no reason for Microsoft to want to run Linux apps. There's simply no incentive for them to make a reverse wine - if there was they don't need any patent infringements to do it now...
That is arguable. Faith and facts, however, are mutually exclusive, unless substantiated with reproducible, empirical, scientific evidence.
I just thought I might point out that faith and fact do not intersect at all. You obviously are misinterpreting the definition of "faith". Something in which you have faith in is something that by it's nature cannot be disproved. You cannot disprove that there is a god since whatever evidence put forth could have been put there by god to test man's faith. Your purple dragon example is faulty since you can disprove that there is purple dragons by looking at every place in the world at once and saying "no there's no purple dragon here". Sure a long winded disproof but still valid. A better example would be, say, ghosts or angels which could be invisible.
honest typo. I know how to spell pray (having done so enough at school and read it a half dozen times in that article) but unfortunately I'm a very phonetic person and often when typing quickly misspell words to put in phonetic spellings.
I have read the article and still can't tell whether the game makers are actually serious or not. I laughed with the it's ok to kill as long as you prey really hard - satire worthy of Stephen Colbert. Either way, I think, the game designers are worthy of our greatest of laughter.
Aside from that I never said anything about firefox and that the number of patches in no way corresponds to the number of bugs, firefox hasn't had any patches in the last two months since their last major release. This isn't special news.
It's official, IE7 is clean. This shows that Microsoft have gotten all of the bugs and there will be no more patches, ever. Uninstall your virus and spyware scanners - they're not needed anymore.
Seriously, has the situation come to a place for Microsoft where a month with no patches for IE is actually news?
I love it how there's a thread of maybe 100 posts plenty of them modded up to 5 then there's one post that simply and logically destroys the premise that the entire thread was working on.
Evolution is a process. It doesn't happen in an instinct, but even minor genetic changes can take thousands of years to permeate through a population. I think that sentence means that the processes began 6800 years ago and completed 2700 years ago.
By using Google Docs you give Google a world-wide nonexclusive license to your work. Now IANAL, but I take this to mean that they could publish it on google.com, give it to your competitors or the authorities without telling you and you couldn't do anything about it. They can also refuse to give the document back to you if they don't feel like it. I'm not saying anything against Google's record or what they have to gain since Google's current intentions are really only peripheral to my argument, but I most certainly do not trust them since, after all, trusting Google as a whole means trusting every single person who works for Google, and I haven't even met any of them.
That said, I most definitely wouldn't put even a shopping list on Microsoft's servers. (Only slight exaggeration)
I'm not sure about the specifics or legalities in Gmail's modification clause but it's not significant in this discussion anyway, and if it's true only gives further support to my argument. I don't use Gmail for anything that's even remotely personal (or even identifiable) so you don't have to say I shouldn't use Gmail!
Their current intentions don't really matter. What they could do in the future does. Give them the privilege of distributing and displaying it however and where ever they want then they can do just that. People who use Google Docs give Google control over who sees the document - even if Google are showing it to someone who the user doesn't want to see the document.
On Gmail - I just looked at the terms and conditions and they're not as bad as the Google Docs terms and conditions. I don't see any statements that give Google the right to distribute and display your email how they wish. I might not be looking hard enough though.
Considering that Trolltech (the owner of the QT source) has an agreement that QT goes under a BSD license if anything major happens - it's pretty unlikely that KDE will fall anytime soon.
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Ex MacOSX guys won't fuel Vista - Dell, HP, et al will. People won't even know that there's any alternative, that's why Microsoft will be making their billions. Bullshit that OpenSolaris will overtake Linux anytime soon, let alone within the next year. The open source zealots will never go for it, and a lot of people have too much invested in Linux. And how will the Cell processor totally dominate the next top computing list when it's not even worth a mention in the current top computing list?
He then goes on to reiterate much of what's been said every year but never come true, that is the parts that actually made sense. I'm surprised that he didn't say "2007 is the year for the Open Solaris desktop".
What a waste of time.
Apologies - I misinterpreted obviously what you said (I thought that you meant for communicating between processes not someone who is using it actually inputting a password). Actually your idea will work against a cracker and I just made a fool of myself, damn no edit key. It's not the most practical solution since there would be only one password that every user must have and it also won't give automation like the summary wants but it will still work against someone without that password.
Nope, still won't work against a cracker. This is just another form of DRM and DRM is fundamentally flawed. (If you don't believe me show me a major game that hasn't yet been cracked.)
In short, if a cracker has full access of a program or system and the system has access to the passwords (even if it does some fiddling around before revealing the passwords) then the cracker has full access to the passwords. There's no way to protect against that except by not allowing any access to the passwords (by just not posting the files that the passwords are in) or by not having the passwords in the program at all and having it so the user must type them in. Anything more are delaying tactics and do not give a high level of security, just some level of obfuscation...
That's ridiculous. It's global warming, not parts of the globe warming. Global warming of 2 degrees obviously means that if it's 30 degrees outside it would have been 28 degrees if global warming hadn't happened. There being thicker ice in any part of the world (even my freezer) means that global warming is totally false. And they say that climatology is hard.
I'm amazed that no one has mentioned Tremulous yet. Apart from that I second Battle for Wesnoth and Vegastrike. Privateer Remake is awesome too, though it's not totally free so don't expect it in the debian repositories.
Add to this that the frameworks (the majority of the work) are getting towards being completed. I've been following KDE4's development and I can't really understand why so many people think that it's stalled. Mostly their argument involves KDE 4's technical preview being ugly or unusable. Obviously they've never done any software development - the interface is the last thing to come into fruition - like the top of an iceberg, how is the interface going to work if the code under it hasn't been written?
I can't believe you just typed < and >.
What about sites that link to sites that link to copyrighted material?
Actually, I believe the argument was something like "We apologise for ripping off the page and have fixed this, but to Yahoo, please don't be such a hypocritical holier than thou arsehole when you've been consistantly ripping off our pages." For the record, I believe that ripping off the ad look is a lot worse than what's really is a simple and definitely minor page that would have taken half an hour (being conservative) to build. The ads are something that Google pretty much bases their entire business on.
Uhuh. Let me make this clear - Microsoft's software patents are only enforceable in the US. So no, I probably won't be affected and my PHB won't care since we're not part of the US, and I don't think any businesses actually run Damn Small Linux, Mepis or Slackware. Those distros don't really have a need to be centred in the US so I don't think it matters if Microsoft tries to sue the users of those distros - all it would gain them is a pittance of money and a shitload of bad publicity.
So, as for American business linux users (which are the only ones that are able to be targetted if Microsoft have a patent that Linux clearly infringes) I don't think they'd be that vulnerable. IBM and their customers for instance would be impenetrable because of cross patenting and I doubt they would have no issue with Red Hat being targetted. Novell cannot be targetted as they have this patent deal. Who does that leave? Anyone?
I'm not really trying to criticise you I just think that you're not thinking of things realistically here and you're just embracing a doomsday scenario seeing how it's "flashy". Realistically using their software patents against the free software community would be a death knell for Microsoft - it would open pandora's box. Realistically people (and especially companies) don't react very well to blackmail or threats because they can't afford to react to it. "Use my software or else I'll sue you" is a very bad way to do business.
No it's not - the corporate mind isn't as stupid as either of you are.
Lets see the holes in the argument.
Firstly, a patent deal doesn't make patent infringements magically appear. Novell's deal with Microsoft has no legal bearing on Linux at all - NONE. If Microsoft can sue with the deal they can sue without the deal.
Secondly, even if there are patent infringements in Linux that probably would only minorly affect Linux - the patents would be only valid and enforceable in the US while the major centre of development is outside of the US in Europe and others. It would only affect people trying to use Linux in the US and, quite simply, there's now more money invested with Linux as a base than there is in Microsoft's whole market cap, so the economic impact of the patents for America would outweigh the impact on the Linux developers. Besides this, the PR for Microsoft would be, let's put it mildly, horrific.
Thirdly, Linux code is GPL - it can't disappear and even if it infringes on Microsoft patents that doesn't mean Microsoft owns the code. They can't incorporate Linux code into Windows without making the Windows kernel GPL - patents != copyright.
Forthly and finally (and pretty much refuting every single word that the grandparent said) there's no reason for Microsoft to want to run Linux apps. There's simply no incentive for them to make a reverse wine - if there was they don't need any patent infringements to do it now...
That is arguable. Faith and facts, however, are mutually exclusive, unless substantiated with reproducible, empirical, scientific evidence.
I just thought I might point out that faith and fact do not intersect at all. You obviously are misinterpreting the definition of "faith". Something in which you have faith in is something that by it's nature cannot be disproved. You cannot disprove that there is a god since whatever evidence put forth could have been put there by god to test man's faith. Your purple dragon example is faulty since you can disprove that there is purple dragons by looking at every place in the world at once and saying "no there's no purple dragon here". Sure a long winded disproof but still valid. A better example would be, say, ghosts or angels which could be invisible.
I know who she it.
(I clicked the link anyway)
honest typo. I know how to spell pray (having done so enough at school and read it a half dozen times in that article) but unfortunately I'm a very phonetic person and often when typing quickly misspell words to put in phonetic spellings.
I have read the article and still can't tell whether the game makers are actually serious or not. I laughed with the it's ok to kill as long as you prey really hard - satire worthy of Stephen Colbert. Either way, I think, the game designers are worthy of our greatest of laughter.
Aside from that I never said anything about firefox and that the number of patches in no way corresponds to the number of bugs, firefox hasn't had any patches in the last two months since their last major release. This isn't special news.
It's official, IE7 is clean. This shows that Microsoft have gotten all of the bugs and there will be no more patches, ever. Uninstall your virus and spyware scanners - they're not needed anymore.
Seriously, has the situation come to a place for Microsoft where a month with no patches for IE is actually news?
He has plenty of good videos - another of his, Hyperactive uses the same technique to a similar effect.
Everyone in OSS can see what the other people are doing.
I love it how there's a thread of maybe 100 posts plenty of them modded up to 5 then there's one post that simply and logically destroys the premise that the entire thread was working on.
Uh, mod parent up?
It's not like he gets ad revenue. XKCD is the best computer comic I read and I don't really think he craves the attention so much.
Evolution is a process. It doesn't happen in an instinct, but even minor genetic changes can take thousands of years to permeate through a population. I think that sentence means that the processes began 6800 years ago and completed 2700 years ago.
By using Google Docs you give Google a world-wide nonexclusive license to your work. Now IANAL, but I take this to mean that they could publish it on google.com, give it to your competitors or the authorities without telling you and you couldn't do anything about it. They can also refuse to give the document back to you if they don't feel like it. I'm not saying anything against Google's record or what they have to gain since Google's current intentions are really only peripheral to my argument, but I most certainly do not trust them since, after all, trusting Google as a whole means trusting every single person who works for Google, and I haven't even met any of them.
That said, I most definitely wouldn't put even a shopping list on Microsoft's servers. (Only slight exaggeration)
I'm not sure about the specifics or legalities in Gmail's modification clause but it's not significant in this discussion anyway, and if it's true only gives further support to my argument. I don't use Gmail for anything that's even remotely personal (or even identifiable) so you don't have to say I shouldn't use Gmail!
Their current intentions don't really matter. What they could do in the future does. Give them the privilege of distributing and displaying it however and where ever they want then they can do just that. People who use Google Docs give Google control over who sees the document - even if Google are showing it to someone who the user doesn't want to see the document. On Gmail - I just looked at the terms and conditions and they're not as bad as the Google Docs terms and conditions. I don't see any statements that give Google the right to distribute and display your email how they wish. I might not be looking hard enough though.
Considering that Trolltech (the owner of the QT source) has an agreement that QT goes under a BSD license if anything major happens - it's pretty unlikely that KDE will fall anytime soon.