Sony is based in Tokyo while Apple is based in California. Care to take a guess if there are any differences in American and Japanese accounting rules?
You are confused. Hard to believe someone modded you up.
If it originally took 131 years to move 168 megs the rate was approx. 1.28 megs a year. If it is now 50 % faster, the rate would be approx. 1.92 megs a year. So it now takes approx. 88 years.
Second that but for a different reason. This so called insider is only able to provide the same speculation that has been available online for months now. There are absolutely no new details in the article!
It installs only from iTunes using the obligatory Apple private encryption key, which nobody has.
Well obviously somebody has the key for Apple to be able to create the update packages, deliver them through iTunes and install them on the client devices.
Nice joke and with a kernel of truth. This is why I have never understood the anti-id zealots: how does it make you happier about your society to know people can exploit the system and live their lives under false identities? Unless of course you are one of these people?
How does having better standardised methods of identification advance identity theft? On the contrary!
And if your government likes to spy their own people, how does stopping an id program prevent that? It is not like it is a prerequisite. Please refer to history books for more information on oppression.
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Damn right! It is the corporations trying to maximize their profits that know what is best for us customers and citizens. Like exclusive phone contracts for no less than two years. And DRM. And wasteful use of natural resources. And low minimum wage. That's what we want and no friggin' goverment should be able to control the corporations!
There are dozens of countries in Europe and the iPhone has been announced in three (including France). So I'm not sure what you mean by the French getting the phone last?
Too bad you are conveniently "forgetting" the corporate customers who are likely to skip the RH license because of the free alternative. Say you have 20 identical server hardware? Why waste money for 20 licenses when you can buy one and install the free alternative on the other systems? In practise you get the support for all the 20 systems since the probelems are likely the same anyway.
If you are in a position where you are trusted to be professional and unbiased, how do you expect to keep that trust after bursting out with personal opinions on matters discussed? From what I've understood he just did not understand the position he was in, and that has nothing to do whether he was right or wrong in what he expressed.
Anyway, don't apply for the open position. Sounds like you couldn't keep it either.
The issue is not what he said. The issue is that he should have stayed neutral as the chariman for that forum and a representative for the Finnish standards association. He was in a position of trust and acted very unprofessionally when it comes to voicing out any personal opinions in that meeting.
This is my interpretation and yes I can read Finnish.
"I have no idea why people think that one actually has to sign anything to form a contract."
Because in most western countries you do need to sign. For example the click-through EULAs in computer software are meaningless in many European countries. They do not bound you in any legal way.
Even more laughable are those EULAs printed on boxes or CD-ROM packaging that pretty much suggest you are legally bound if taking a breath in the general proximity to them. Meaningless waste of ink.
You make it sound like building software that is secure by nature is impossible. It isn't. SELinux is secure by nature. Qmail is secure by nature. Qmail is guaranteed by the programmer to not have security bugs, with a $500 bounty for the reporter of the first exploit.
Oracle released a database system a few years back that was Unbreakable. Guess how that turned out. What you are referring to is marketing and not proof of anything.
It is extremely hard to engineer complex software with few errors (bugs). There tend to be hundreds of errors in commercial software packages based on historical statistics. Any one of those errors can turn out to be a security vulnerability as well.
> With open software, you can look at the source code and see exactly what it does
I though even the OS community had realised by now how ridiculous this argument is. World economy would in effect come to a halt if every company and public office started to scan source codes for potential vulnerabilities. This is hardly a selling argument and being a wise-ass about it has never helped the OS movement.
Having a goal of zero vulnerabilities is such complex software as an office suite is strikes as feasible only to an ideologist nerd. In practise there will always be vulnerabilities as long as human beings will be responsible for the design and programming. And having gazillions of eyes searching through the source code presumably on the company dollar is not effective way to remove those faults.
If one assumes that a Vista products cost "virtually nothing" to make, must one then also assume that there is actually one single copy of Vista that costs 5 billion dollars to make? I wonder for how much they sell that one!
No, I noticed the same thing. The summary is repeating itself as you and I concluded. The unnecessary way of stating the alleged fact again ang again in the summary is therefore quite obvious to you and me.
1) Legal content can be easily found online. 2) DRM-protected content is cheap - cheaper than their physical equivalents. 3) Users who know what to expect will not be dissappointed. I know I am a happy iTunes + iPod user. Then again I do not spend my time inventing all sorts of scenarios how this model could be limiting my life when it is not.
You can of course continue to use your current copy of Windows XP and the software you currently have on that platform. And that solves the problem for the most switchers: What about the software I need now but does not exist on the Mac platform?
Do not expect those switchers to jump on the Vista wagon anytime soon. And why should anyone really while Windows XP still has years left of it's supported product lifecycle left? It might very well be that the XP is the last Windows you will need.
Ok, but how do you determine you are not infected with common malware is you are not using any detectors? Modern malware are using more and more rootkit techniques so you cannot trust Task Manager or "dir" that much anymore.
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Sony is based in Tokyo while Apple is based in California. Care to take a guess if there are any differences in American and Japanese accounting rules?
You are confused. Hard to believe someone modded you up.
If it originally took 131 years to move 168 megs the rate was approx. 1.28 megs a year. If it is now 50 % faster, the rate would be approx. 1.92 megs a year. So it now takes approx. 88 years.
Second that but for a different reason. This so called insider is only able to provide the same speculation that has been available online for months now. There are absolutely no new details in the article!
But is this news item, which is a dupe from a few weeks back, an authorized or unauthorized copy?
It installs only from iTunes using the obligatory Apple private encryption key, which nobody has.
Well obviously somebody has the key for Apple to be able to create the update packages, deliver them through iTunes and install them on the client devices.
Nice joke and with a kernel of truth. This is why I have never understood the anti-id zealots: how does it make you happier about your society to know people can exploit the system and live their lives under false identities? Unless of course you are one of these people?
How does having better standardised methods of identification advance identity theft? On the contrary!
And if your government likes to spy their own people, how does stopping an id program prevent that? It is not like it is a prerequisite. Please refer to history books for more information on oppression.
In news this week: Canadian government regulation on mobile telecom industry is welcomed by readers of Slashdot. "Truly wonderful example of succesful goverment regulation!" -Anonymous Slashdot commenter
In other news: FCC castigated by readers of Slashdot for trying to regulate cable TV industry. "Yeah, like more government regulation is what we need!" -Anonymous Slashdot commenter
Damn right! It is the corporations trying to maximize their profits that know what is best for us customers and citizens. Like exclusive phone contracts for no less than two years. And DRM. And wasteful use of natural resources. And low minimum wage. That's what we want and no friggin' goverment should be able to control the corporations!
Actually according to his biography many people have fucked him. Apparently that didn't help this case.
There are dozens of countries in Europe and the iPhone has been announced in three (including France). So I'm not sure what you mean by the French getting the phone last?
Wikipedia has some facts for you.
Too bad you are conveniently "forgetting" the corporate customers who are likely to skip the RH license because of the free alternative. Say you have 20 identical server hardware? Why waste money for 20 licenses when you can buy one and install the free alternative on the other systems? In practise you get the support for all the 20 systems since the probelems are likely the same anyway.
If you are in a position where you are trusted to be professional and unbiased, how do you expect to keep that trust after bursting out with personal opinions on matters discussed? From what I've understood he just did not understand the position he was in, and that has nothing to do whether he was right or wrong in what he expressed.
Anyway, don't apply for the open position. Sounds like you couldn't keep it either.
The issue is not what he said. The issue is that he should have stayed neutral as the chariman for that forum and a representative for the Finnish standards association. He was in a position of trust and acted very unprofessionally when it comes to voicing out any personal opinions in that meeting.
This is my interpretation and yes I can read Finnish.
My apologies to Alanis Morissette.
I am sure she appreciates but that is not her song but Joan Osbourne's.
The mid-air mouse is a horrible idea! It sounds great until you actually try to hold your hand steadily in mid-air for longer than just few seconds.
"not the result of a deliberate attempt to deceive"
Deceive who? Those people who specifically want their Vista DVD with no pictures of guys on the holograms?
"I have no idea why people think that one actually has to sign anything to form a contract."
Because in most western countries you do need to sign. For example the click-through EULAs in computer software are meaningless in many European countries. They do not bound you in any legal way.
Even more laughable are those EULAs printed on boxes or CD-ROM packaging that pretty much suggest you are legally bound if taking a breath in the general proximity to them. Meaningless waste of ink.
You make it sound like building software that is secure by nature is impossible. It isn't. SELinux is secure by nature. Qmail is secure by nature. Qmail is guaranteed by the programmer to not have security bugs, with a $500 bounty for the reporter of the first exploit.
Oracle released a database system a few years back that was Unbreakable. Guess how that turned out. What you are referring to is marketing and not proof of anything.
It is extremely hard to engineer complex software with few errors (bugs). There tend to be hundreds of errors in commercial software packages based on historical statistics. Any one of those errors can turn out to be a security vulnerability as well.
> With open software, you can look at the source code and see exactly what it does
I though even the OS community had realised by now how ridiculous this argument is. World economy would in effect come to a halt if every company and public office started to scan source codes for potential vulnerabilities. This is hardly a selling argument and being a wise-ass about it has never helped the OS movement.
Having a goal of zero vulnerabilities is such complex software as an office suite is strikes as feasible only to an ideologist nerd. In practise there will always be vulnerabilities as long as human beings will be responsible for the design and programming. And having gazillions of eyes searching through the source code presumably on the company dollar is not effective way to remove those faults.
If one assumes that a Vista products cost "virtually nothing" to make, must one then also assume that there is actually one single copy of Vista that costs 5 billion dollars to make? I wonder for how much they sell that one!
No, I noticed the same thing. The summary is repeating itself as you and I concluded. The unnecessary way of stating the alleged fact again ang again in the summary is therefore quite obvious to you and me.
You make well-founded arguments. Obviously no mod points for you to get here.
Does not make too much sense to me.
1) Legal content can be easily found online.
2) DRM-protected content is cheap - cheaper than their physical equivalents.
3) Users who know what to expect will not be dissappointed. I know I am a happy iTunes + iPod user. Then again I do not spend my time inventing all sorts of scenarios how this model could be limiting my life when it is not.
You can of course continue to use your current copy of Windows XP and the software you currently have on that platform. And that solves the problem for the most switchers: What about the software I need now but does not exist on the Mac platform?
Do not expect those switchers to jump on the Vista wagon anytime soon. And why should anyone really while Windows XP still has years left of it's supported product lifecycle left? It might very well be that the XP is the last Windows you will need.
Ok, but how do you determine you are not infected with common malware is you are not using any detectors? Modern malware are using more and more rootkit techniques so you cannot trust Task Manager or "dir" that much anymore.