The article is about how some of the APIs (UIKit, mainly) in iOS are probably going to be included in future versions of MacOSX, and suddenly the summary is about MacOSX becoming a big iPhone full of DRM! Slashdot: where not even the editors bother to read the articles! (Either that, or someone hates Apple too much...)
Although it's Firefox are Safari are supported in the latest version of SharePoint, you can't edit documents directly from the portal (and probably Excel Services won't work either, but I haven't tried it). Taking into account that document libraries are the most useful part of SharePoint, and they only work in IE, well, yeah, it works, but you wouldn't use any other browser unless in an emergency.
Moreover, I pity the poor programmers currently involved in SharePoint. Have you seen the HTML that it generates? It was written for IE6, in quirks-mode, and it continues that way. That means that everything having to do with HTML and CSS has to be written at least twice, because padding,:hover events (on non-A elements) and many other things we now take for granted are either not available in quirks-mode, or work differently across browsers.
And if you develop anything on top of SharePoint, well, you don't have the option to use valid HTML, so welcome back to the year 2000! In the end, the overhead cost of developing for multiple browsers in this mode means that most customers are quite fine if their custom apps (that work on top of SharePoint) only work on IE. In fact, many useful third-party addons (ej. Nintex) only work in IE.
Hopefully, SharePoint 2010 will fix this, and I'm quite sure that SharePoint is going to be a great product some day. But just right now, it sucks in too many areas, and it has a major handicap to overcome: shared folders are easier and faster to use.
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It hides from the developer that you are actually doing something that could be costly.
For example, that innocent "item.price" could actually be calling an stored procedure that makes all kind of querys to get the right price for the current session customer.
In Java, item.getPrice() would be a hint to this fact. In C#, someone could abuse the property, in different instances of the same item, unaware that he should cache the value to avoid performance hit.
Of course, there are ways to prevent this, but are mostly related to procedures the developers must follow.
Actually, while I really like C#, LINQ, and Visual Studio on the whole (I'm quite happy developing with it), I'm starting to understand why Java had some things that forced the programmer to be explicit about what his/her code did. Not forcing you to catch or throw exceptions means, for example, that methods that couldn't throw an exception (according to it's definition) actually throw them. And you didn't put a try catch because it was a simple call and there were no methods that could throw...
I agree that they would do it for money, but I doubt those $4 are the real motivator here, and I bet they would be quite happy if you could rip DVDs for free... and put them in that nice iPod Touch that they would sell you to watch them.
Years ago, when I discovered that payola was ilegal in USA, I couldn't believe it. In Spain if you want your song in the radio, you have to pay. Except for a state-owned radio station (Radio 3), listening to any other radio stations is like listening to the same CD again, and again, and again. In "Los 40" (one of the worst offenders, and a very popular radio station) It's not unusual to listen to the same song *every hour* for a week, when a Record company is promoting a group.
The funny thing: as far as I know, it wasn't the record companies who started this. When "Los 40" became the most popular music radio station, decades ago, it was them who started asking record companies for money, if they wanted their groups in the hit list.
I certainly hope that web radio is here to stay, or I'm back to listening to just one radio station. And because it's the only non-payola non-classical radio station, their programmes are *very* diverse, from african music to indie music, flamenco, hip-hop. Great for diversity, but I don't always like what they are playing.
> Are gnome and KDE -really- the only choices? XFCE? ICEwm? Hell, CDE even?!... or dare I suggest... Bash ?
I'm not quite sure whether you were being funny, or you misunderstood the fact that this article was about replacing Windows Desktops with Linux ones. Nevertheless, the thought of offering my boss to migrate our desktops from Windows to Bash (+emacs) made me smile:).
I'd rather live. I might die for an ideal, and I would certainly defend my family and friends with my life. But I would not die trying to stop someone from stealing my TV. Of course, it depends on the level of criminality in your country (I don't know how much of a problem robbers and burglars are in the US). Here in Spain it's low, and a gun wouldn't make much of a difference.
P.S. I do think that petty crime is an argument. At least, it's the argument of those in favour of gun control (or that's what I thought). The 2nd amendment is not relevant in this time and age, and gun control would lower the number of deaths in the US.
But hey, it's your country. As long as you don't invade Spain, and don't shoot turists, you can keep your guns;).
Do you realize that UK is not the only country where guns are forbiden? (And the US is not the only country where they are allowed).
I haven't lived in the US, so I can't tell how would I feel in a country where guns are allowed. I can tell you, though, how it is living in a country (Spain) where guns are forbidden. Basically, it is very, very, unusual to hear in the news that someone has been shot in a robbery, burglary... To put it in perspective: if someone gets shot, it usually makes the national news.
That's not to say that the number of crimes commited in Spain is any lower than in the US (although it probably is, but I doubt it has anything to do with gun control), it's just that:
Most robbers or burglars use knives. Yes, they are nearly as dangerous as guns, but the chances of you running away/hidding in a room (if things get ugly), are higher.
Criminals know that you won't have a gun. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, they are in control and you don't like it. But let's admit it, they want the money. If they know that they are in control, there's a much lower chance that they'll get nervous and shot at you if you make a suspicios movement. Moreover, you don't have a gun, so the chances of you suddenly wanting to be a hero are also lower.
Do I think that banning guns in the US will reduce the criminality? No Do I think that banning guns in the US would reduce the number of deaths? Yes
And going back to the UK. I don't really know what's wrong with them, but I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with gun control (for good or for worse). And I don't want to think what some teenagers would do if they could get guns easily (I have family in the UK, BTW).
The what? I vaguely recall that being a problem in Win98, but I run Win2k here, and when an inactive application demands input, it stays right down in the taskbar where it belongs - all that happens is that the taskbar icon flashes to notify me. Surely this is the case in WinXP too? It would seem strange for Microsoft to introduce the correct behaviour in one version of Windows, only to take it out again in the next.
Mmm... that's a good question. I can assure you that, in XP, it happens. The only time I got spyware in my computer was when a a pop-up appeared while I was chatting with MS Messenger and browsing the Internet at the same time (and I was using XP). A window appeared asking me if I wanted to install whatever (I didn't have the chance to read it), and stealing the focus, just as I pressed Enter to send a message in Messenger.
Anyway, from what I've read, this doesn't have as much to do with the OS as with what the programmer decided to do. In Windows, when a program asks the user for confirmation (or shows a warning/alert) it's the norm to show a modal window stealing the keyboard focus. On the Mac, it's the norm to make the app jump in the doc. However, I've seen Windows programs not stealing the focus (IE, if I recall correctly, at least in Windows 2000), and I've seen Mac programs being nasty and doing it.
1. One of the founders of United Linux decided to sue IBM. Anyone remembers Caldera/SCO? 2. SuSE, who provided the base of United Linux got bought by Novell.
And no, RPM had nothing to do with it.
It's a shame it disappeared, because thanks to United Linux, distros like Conectiva and Turbolinux had a chance to compete in the same market as SuSE and RedHat (the only companies that IBM, Oracle, etc. usualy support).
Yes. But those clever hackers have something that most people who work for technology companies don't have. Lots of motivation. They don't do it for money, they do it because it's a challenge.
And you can be thankful that most hackers don't even think of using social engineering.
That's not to say that cracking something as the XBOX 360 is going to be easy or fast, nor that I disagree with part of your post. But we are still far away (if it ever happens) from the point that it is too expensive/complicated to crack this kind of security.
Actually, I'm quite surprised that nobody has thought of implementing that. I'm Spanish and, for good or bad, I know many people who couldn't speak English even if their lifes depended on it. Yet, they receive tons of spam written in English. If there was a way to say "I only speak languages X and Y, mark messages in a different language as spam", they would certainly benefit from it. Of course, you could argue that some anti-spam programs already allow you to do this (if you mark every message you receive in language X as spam), but it would be nice if it was an option from the beginning.
If someone steals the phone from you, not only have you lost the mobile, the thief could use it to make as many calls as he/she wanted until you contact your phone company. This idea will help to avoid the money loss related to that last situation.
The idea is not to make authentication better, but to have one! (as, once the mobile is on, you never have to enter the password again).
I don't know if in the USA it's such a big deal, but in Europe it's not uncommon for mobile thieves to use them to call to foreign countries, which means a very expensive phone bill.
you mean that, when you buy a graphic card for games, they are giving you buggy drivers on purpose? (as much more stable drivers are in fact available). How nice of them...:-)
The sad part is that it's partly true, as can be seen here (note: it was just the first link I found after a quick search on google).
> This is happening to anyone using Spain's Telefonica ADSL. This covers almost everyone in Spain.
No offence, but there are much more options that Telefonica ADSL in Spain. There are at least other two big ADSL providers I can think of (Retevision, Wanadoo), and that's without counting all the cable companies that offer broaband. I know more people (with ADSL/Cable) that don't use Telefonica's services that people who do.
P.S. It's true that Telefonica is the biggest ADSL provider, though. I've never understood why people keep using Telefonica ADSL when it's usually more expensive and quite worse (because it's the biggest provider, their lines get saturated faster).
As posted on pclinuxonline, Mandrake 9.1 is available for download. You can use any of the available mirrors, although if you have mldonkey/emule/edonkey, I would go for the the following links (also taken from here):
Slashdot Mirror
The article is about how some of the APIs (UIKit, mainly) in iOS are probably going to be included in future versions of MacOSX, and suddenly the summary is about MacOSX becoming a big iPhone full of DRM! Slashdot: where not even the editors bother to read the articles! (Either that, or someone hates Apple too much...)
Although it's Firefox are Safari are supported in the latest version of SharePoint, you can't edit documents directly from the portal (and probably Excel Services won't work either, but I haven't tried it). Taking into account that document libraries are the most useful part of SharePoint, and they only work in IE, well, yeah, it works, but you wouldn't use any other browser unless in an emergency.
Moreover, I pity the poor programmers currently involved in SharePoint. Have you seen the HTML that it generates? It was written for IE6, in quirks-mode, and it continues that way. That means that everything having to do with HTML and CSS has to be written at least twice, because padding, :hover events (on non-A elements) and many other things we now take for granted are either not available in quirks-mode, or work differently across browsers.
And if you develop anything on top of SharePoint, well, you don't have the option to use valid HTML, so welcome back to the year 2000! In the end, the overhead cost of developing for multiple browsers in this mode means that most customers are quite fine if their custom apps (that work on top of SharePoint) only work on IE. In fact, many useful third-party addons (ej. Nintex) only work in IE.
Hopefully, SharePoint 2010 will fix this, and I'm quite sure that SharePoint is going to be a great product some day. But just right now, it sucks in too many areas, and it has a major handicap to overcome: shared folders are easier and faster to use.
It hides from the developer that you are actually doing something that could be costly.
For example, that innocent "item.price" could actually be calling an stored procedure that makes all kind of querys to get the right price for the current session customer.
In Java, item.getPrice() would be a hint to this fact. In C#, someone could abuse the property, in different instances of the same item, unaware that he should cache the value to avoid performance hit.
Of course, there are ways to prevent this, but are mostly related to procedures the developers must follow.
Actually, while I really like C#, LINQ, and Visual Studio on the whole (I'm quite happy developing with it), I'm starting to understand why Java had some things that forced the programmer to be explicit about what his/her code did. Not forcing you to catch or throw exceptions means, for example, that methods that couldn't throw an exception (according to it's definition) actually throw them. And you didn't put a try catch because it was a simple call and there were no methods that could throw...
I agree that they would do it for money, but I doubt those $4 are the real motivator here, and I bet they would be quite happy if you could rip DVDs for free... and put them in that nice iPod Touch that they would sell you to watch them.
Years ago, when I discovered that payola was ilegal in USA, I couldn't believe it. In Spain if you want your song in the radio, you have to pay. Except for a state-owned radio station (Radio 3), listening to any other radio stations is like listening to the same CD again, and again, and again.
In "Los 40" (one of the worst offenders, and a very popular radio station) It's not unusual to listen to the same song *every hour* for a week, when a Record company is promoting a group.
The funny thing: as far as I know, it wasn't the record companies who started this. When "Los 40" became the most popular music radio station, decades ago, it was them who started asking record companies for money, if they wanted their groups in the hit list.
I certainly hope that web radio is here to stay, or I'm back to listening to just one radio station. And because it's the only non-payola non-classical radio station, their programmes are *very* diverse, from african music to indie music, flamenco, hip-hop. Great for diversity, but I don't always like what they are playing.
> Are gnome and KDE -really- the only choices? XFCE? ICEwm? Hell, CDE even?! ... or dare I suggest ... Bash ?
:).
I'm not quite sure whether you were being funny, or you misunderstood the fact that this article was about replacing Windows Desktops with Linux ones. Nevertheless, the thought of offering my boss to migrate our desktops from Windows to Bash (+emacs) made me smile
I'd rather live. I might die for an ideal, and I would certainly defend my family and friends with my life. But I would not die trying to stop someone from stealing my TV. Of course, it depends on the level of criminality in your country (I don't know how much of a problem robbers and burglars are in the US). Here in Spain it's low, and a gun wouldn't make much of a difference.
;).
P.S. I do think that petty crime is an argument. At least, it's the argument of those in favour of gun control (or that's what I thought). The 2nd amendment is not relevant in this time and age, and gun control would lower the number of deaths in the US.
But hey, it's your country. As long as you don't invade Spain, and don't shoot turists, you can keep your guns
Do you realize that UK is not the only country where guns are forbiden? (And the US is not the only country where they are allowed).
I haven't lived in the US, so I can't tell how would I feel in a country where guns are allowed. I can tell you, though, how it is living in a country (Spain) where guns are forbidden.
Basically, it is very, very, unusual to hear in the news that someone has been shot in a robbery, burglary... To put it in perspective: if someone gets shot, it usually makes the national news.
That's not to say that the number of crimes commited in Spain is any lower than in the US (although it probably is, but I doubt it has anything to do with gun control), it's just that:
Most robbers or burglars use knives. Yes, they are nearly as dangerous as guns, but the chances of you running away/hidding in a room (if things get ugly), are higher.
Criminals know that you won't have a gun. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, they are in control and you don't like it. But let's admit it, they want the money. If they know that they are in control, there's a much lower chance that they'll get nervous and shot at you if you make a suspicios movement. Moreover, you don't have a gun, so the chances of you suddenly wanting to be a hero are also lower.
Do I think that banning guns in the US will reduce the criminality? No
Do I think that banning guns in the US would reduce the number of deaths? Yes
And going back to the UK. I don't really know what's wrong with them, but I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with gun control (for good or for worse). And I don't want to think what some teenagers would do if they could get guns easily (I have family in the UK, BTW).
Mmm... that's a good question. I can assure you that, in XP, it happens. The only time I got spyware in my computer was when a a pop-up appeared while I was chatting with MS Messenger and browsing the Internet at the same time (and I was using XP). A window appeared asking me if I wanted to install whatever (I didn't have the chance to read it), and stealing the focus, just as I pressed Enter to send a message in Messenger.
Anyway, from what I've read, this doesn't have as much to do with the OS as with what the programmer decided to do. In Windows, when a program asks the user for confirmation (or shows a warning/alert) it's the norm to show a modal window stealing the keyboard focus. On the Mac, it's the norm to make the app jump in the doc. However, I've seen Windows programs not stealing the focus (IE, if I recall correctly, at least in Windows 2000), and I've seen Mac programs being nasty and doing it.
United Linux died because of two reasons:
1. One of the founders of United Linux decided to sue IBM. Anyone remembers Caldera/SCO?
2. SuSE, who provided the base of United Linux got bought by Novell.
And no, RPM had nothing to do with it.
It's a shame it disappeared, because thanks to United Linux, distros like Conectiva and Turbolinux had a chance to compete in the same market as SuSE and RedHat (the only companies that IBM, Oracle, etc. usualy support).
And you can be thankful that most hackers don't even think of using social engineering.
That's not to say that cracking something as the XBOX 360 is going to be easy or fast, nor that I disagree with part of your post. But we are still far away (if it ever happens) from the point that it is too expensive/complicated to crack this kind of security.
Actually, I'm quite surprised that nobody has thought of implementing that. I'm Spanish and, for good or bad, I know many people who couldn't speak English even if their lifes depended on it. Yet, they receive tons of spam written in English. If there was a way to say "I only speak languages X and Y, mark messages in a different language as spam", they would certainly benefit from it.
Of course, you could argue that some anti-spam programs already allow you to do this (if you mark every message you receive in language X as spam), but it would be nice if it was an option from the beginning.
If someone steals the phone from you, not only have you lost the mobile, the thief could use it to make as many calls as he/she wanted until you contact your phone company. This idea will help to avoid the money loss related to that last situation.
The idea is not to make authentication better, but to have one! (as, once the mobile is on, you never have to enter the password again).
I don't know if in the USA it's such a big deal, but in Europe it's not uncommon for mobile thieves to use them to call to foreign countries, which means a very expensive phone bill.
you mean that, when you buy a graphic card for games, they are giving you buggy drivers on purpose? (as much more stable drivers are in fact available). How nice of them... :-)
The sad part is that it's partly true, as can be seen here (note: it was just the first link I found after a quick search on google).
> This is happening to anyone using Spain's Telefonica ADSL. This covers almost everyone in Spain.
No offence, but there are much more options that Telefonica ADSL in Spain. There are at least other two big ADSL providers I can think of (Retevision, Wanadoo), and that's without counting all the cable companies that offer broaband. I know more people (with ADSL/Cable) that don't use Telefonica's services that people who do.
P.S. It's true that Telefonica is the biggest ADSL provider, though. I've never understood why people keep using Telefonica ADSL when it's usually more expensive and quite worse (because it's the biggest provider, their lines get saturated faster).
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