Slightly different situation, but back in the mid 90's Netscape used to have a webpage where you could submit feature requests, and have it displayed to their developers using an electronic marquee. At one point, a significant number of the requests submitted were for an OS/2 port of Navigator, which prompted Netscape to modify their page with a message akin to the following:
There is no market for an OS/2 version of Navigator, so would everyone please stop asking!
It would seem to me that Microsoft is finding itself in a similar situation with Windows XP, and is following the spirit of Netscape's response. However, as good news for XP users, in the end Netscape relented and released OS/2 versions of Navigator and Communicator, and to this day Firefox is built for that now unsupported platform.
So don't give up, XP users! Let them know what you want and how you feel!
Actually, Windows was available for the PowerPC, and I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft has a version of it that's workable on the PowerPC to this day.
IBM did the port of Windows NT to the PowerPC architecture, and not Microsoft. While one of the original intents of NT was to maintain some form of platform neutrality by doing everything in C, in reality it wasn't true then and I seriously doubt if it's true now with Vista. MS is pretty much locked into Intel compatible processors.
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
Don't forget to mention Turkey, whose population is 99% Muslim. Can you believe that they not only have a Constitution, but that it has a strong tradition of secularism, the Government has previously banned the wearing of hijabs in government workplaces, and prohibits the operation of faith-based schools and political parties? And that their military has actually overthrown governments who have threatened the notion of secularism? Wow, what are those wacky Muslim Turks going to do next?
Oh, you mean to tell me that this flies directly in the face of your hate-mongering world view of Muslims?
Whatever it is, its compiler and low-level libraries will be written in C
If they do, it will only be the first in-the-lab only generation of that compiler and low-level library set (if any), after which they'll be able to code and compile the compiler and libraries in the new language itself for release to the rest of the world.
There is a lot of precedent for this, including many C compilers themselves. NetREXX is another example that immediately comes to mind (first version of the compiler was written in Java, the second version was written in NetREXX and then compiled with the first version, etc.). No doubt there are many, many more.
This a a new theory to me. How did the discovery the world was round lead to any attempted genocides?
Well, if you hold onto the Amero-centric view that nobody had posited the spheroid nature of the Earth before Columbus sailed to the Americas, I suppose one could point out to you the fact that the Aztec empire just isn't what it used to be.
In Canada, does it mean something different than in the US?
Yes, it does. In Canada, Universities are publicly funded institutions that are at the apex of the educational system, granting degrees in the usual selection of fields. Community Colleges are privately owned and operated concerns that are mostly analogous to the US concept of a "trade college", and typically don't offer degrees (just diplomas).
Another approach is to just block it in your HOSTS file:
127.0.0.1 uc8010.com
Just FYI, doing my own quick Google search, it appears that the hosts used by the bulk of these attacks is actually c.uc8010.com and n.uc8010.com. Indeed, it looks like all one-letter hostnames are used for this domain. So modification of your HOSTS should be made accordingly to ensure all hosts from this domain are indeed re-routed.
Sunday evening saw the final CES keynote delivered by Bill Gates in his current role with the Microsoft corporation.
I sure hope the door didn't hit him on the ass on the way out.
Yaz.
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I guess it's difficult to release a perfect Word since there are so many different types of users, yet Microsoft can't release five different versions simply for the sake of avoiding too much confusion.
Needless to say, in a digital world where web traffic equals money, such a user base attracts spammers, virus/spyware seeders, and other ethic-less online marketers like honey would attract flies.
It's a good thing that these "spammers, virus/spyware seeders, and other ethic-less online marketers" would ever take advantage of of the/. user base!
But isn't OS-X...under the Aqua interface basically a *nix platform? So in a way, can't we possibly...if we wanted to be REALLY anal about it and help shove it down the throat of M$.... claim that with the migration of the Apple OS to the OS X platform from the classic OS (os 9 and prior), that we have actually dramatically INCREASED the adoption of *nix on the Desktop??
I think this is an important detail. While OS X may compete in some peoples minds in the desktop realm, in actual fact they are complimentary. While some OSS advocates may decry OS X as "proprietary", the fact is that Apple releases a lot of the core of their OS as OSS, uses a lot of OSS software in OS X, and they embrace standards (as opposed to trying to co-opt them).
What this means in practical terms is that OS X and Linux integrate together quite easily. For example, stick netatalk and Avahi on a Linux system, and you have a really easy and Mac-friendly file-server.
I won't claim that Apple is always perfect, but at least it's fairly easy to use OS X with other OSs, especially when it comes to Linux.
(I've had the thought int he back of my mind for some time that if I had the time and resources, I'd love to fork a Linux distro to create a Mac-friendly-Linux distro. All the parts are there -- it just takes someone to put them all together).
Or if you remember to do so before visiting.Mac's iDisk page:
Safari -> Private Browsing
Problem solved.
So yes, there are ways for the average user to log-out of their iDisk from a public terminal. They just simply have to use the existing facilities at their disposal.
What about "outing" alleged criminals? Long before a person is convicted of cleared of robbery/rape/murder/etc. charges, their name and picture (from which the rest of their personal information can be easily found) are in the public eye for all to see and judge, whether they are in any way guilty or not. A public record is as good as a criminal one.
IMO all arrest records should be sealed until a conviction is reached, and should be erased and destroyed upon acquittal.
What a brilliant idea -- let's give the police the power to arrest people, throw them into jail pending trial, and not tell anybody.
The justice system needs transparency in a free and democratic society. What you're proposing has been done by all of the most oppressive regeimes in history as a way of making people "disappear". And while publishing an innocent persons arrest in a public manner may damage their public image, it's also a way to ensure that said person gets the best possible opportunity to defend themselves within the community. People who are secretly jailed never do.
Perian also supports a number of audio formats. And anything that uses Quicktime for audio playback (such as iTunes) also autmatically gets the ability to play back the added file types supported by Perian. I know I've used it to playback Ogg Vorbis files in iTunes (with the only limitation being that I can't stream them to an Airport Express via AirTunes).
I'd like to add an item to your otherwise fine list:
Learn and be very proficient in one (or more) esoteric skill(s), even if the demand for it is very low.
Having such an esoteric skill can mean making even more money because people having such a skill are very difficult to find, and can improve your overall retention as you can be difficult to replace (so long as an organization needs that skill, so don't get pigeonholed by it). Being irreplaceable gives you some advantage in dictating your work-life balance with your employer.
I've got a zillion "application" invites on Facebook to prove it. No practical use, every one.
I finally gave in a few months ago, and put up a basic (and highly restricted) profile.
The good news is that I was able to connect with a number of old friends whom I've long lost track of -- people I haven't spoke to in 10 - 15 years, many of whom were good friends, but with whom I lost touch when a) I moved somewhere else, or b) they started new families (and more often than not, moved somewhere else).
But don't let that one slight advantage fool you -- you don't stop the flow of invitations by giving in. No, now the big thing is "Facebook Apps", and you'll start getting a gazillion invitations for these "apps" where you can pretend to become a zombie, or a vampire, or have a crappy looking virtual fish tank, or permit people to throw sheep at you, or participate in yet another quiz/trivia game.
And each and every one of these "apps" will only work if they can get access to your personal information. No thanks. I keep rejecting them, but the same people keep sending me invitations to join them in whatever new idiotic personal-information stealing app they find cute that week. It's enough to make me regret giving in and putting up a profile in the first place, finding old friends notwithstanding.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Facebook keeps prompting me to send invitations to everyone I know. Sorry, but I doubt there are many people out there beyond my Grandmother (who doesn't even own a computer, and has never used the Internet directly) who don't already know about it, and if they wanted to join, they would of their own volition.
Because the hypervisor runs above the OS running it, and not benieth it. This was dealt with here on/. a month or so ago IIRC. The idea is that basically you run the FOSS software portion under a hypervisor, parallel to any code you don't want users to screw around with (also running under the hypervisor), and have the two communicate via a socket in a client-server model. In this way you could conceptually allow the user to replace the software within the hypervisor, without giving them any access to any of the "secret code" running parallel to it, and indeed the parallel closed source code could (conceptually) stop processing commands if it's detected a change in the hypervisor. In this theoretical situation, the hypervisor is assumed to be closed source software, and not licensed under the GPL v3.
That's the idea at least. IANAL, and don't play one on the Internet, so I don't know if this sort of technical work-around would be seen to be violating the spirit of the license in a court of law or not.
Yaz, you wrote an essay and ignored the part where I said that ECMA was going to document that for the next batch of issues to resolve in the spec.
I didn't ignore it at all. I'm glad this is something that the EMCA is eventually going to resolve. My comment is solely as to why it's important that it is documented, and why your statement that "it's optional" is hardly a solution. It may be optional, but it's important to implement to give users the expected level of interoperability, and this is why many people have expressed concerns about the standard as Microsoft has originally submitted it.
So they know about the issue, they will write the docs for it, and integrate it into the doc.
So basically "Your bug is being going to be fixed". Next issue.
I think you and I can agree that the standardization organizations are doing a good job of ensuring that the standard is itself up-to-standard. But I can't subscribe to your opinion that nobody has any right to complain about the standard as it was submitted by Microsoft, just because it will (hopefully) eventually be fixed. I can appreciate that these faults will be fixed, but that doesn't mean that I (or anyone else) have no right to comment on its current state.
In addition to the above I predict it does not matter, because its a legacy setting and they are themselves trying to not drag documents that contain that.
So they say, and for now, but I've been a Microsoft watcher for more than long enough to say that I'll believe it when I see it. And "trying not to" doesn't mean "won't" -- I'd be significantly happier if Microsoft were to say "we won't use these legacy tags ever", and then kept their word (forever -- in which case they would be unnecessary to have in the standard, as I imagine nobody else is going to need to use them if MS itself isn't going to use them).
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Slightly different situation, but back in the mid 90's Netscape used to have a webpage where you could submit feature requests, and have it displayed to their developers using an electronic marquee. At one point, a significant number of the requests submitted were for an OS/2 port of Navigator, which prompted Netscape to modify their page with a message akin to the following:
It would seem to me that Microsoft is finding itself in a similar situation with Windows XP, and is following the spirit of Netscape's response. However, as good news for XP users, in the end Netscape relented and released OS/2 versions of Navigator and Communicator, and to this day Firefox is built for that now unsupported platform.
So don't give up, XP users! Let them know what you want and how you feel!
Yaz.
That's a bug that will eventually be fixed in SP1.
Yaz.
IBM did the port of Windows NT to the PowerPC architecture, and not Microsoft. While one of the original intents of NT was to maintain some form of platform neutrality by doing everything in C, in reality it wasn't true then and I seriously doubt if it's true now with Vista. MS is pretty much locked into Intel compatible processors.
Yaz.
Don't forget to mention Turkey, whose population is 99% Muslim. Can you believe that they not only have a Constitution, but that it has a strong tradition of secularism, the Government has previously banned the wearing of hijabs in government workplaces, and prohibits the operation of faith-based schools and political parties? And that their military has actually overthrown governments who have threatened the notion of secularism? Wow, what are those wacky Muslim Turks going to do next?
Oh, you mean to tell me that this flies directly in the face of your hate-mongering world view of Muslims?
Ass.
Yaz.
Sorry, but that isn't a SPOT watch in the link, but a Fossil watch running PalmOS. Similar idea, but most certainly not from Microsoft.
Yaz.
If they do, it will only be the first in-the-lab only generation of that compiler and low-level library set (if any), after which they'll be able to code and compile the compiler and libraries in the new language itself for release to the rest of the world.
There is a lot of precedent for this, including many C compilers themselves. NetREXX is another example that immediately comes to mind (first version of the compiler was written in Java, the second version was written in NetREXX and then compiled with the first version, etc.). No doubt there are many, many more.
Yaz.
In that case, you should go with a detonation suit.
(Sorry, couldn't help myself).
Yaz.
Command-LeftArrow, Command-RightArrow has always worked fine for me.
Yaz.
Didn't we discuss this only six weeks ago?
Well what do you know -- we did! :)
Yaz.
(Tagged appropriately).
Well, if you hold onto the Amero-centric view that nobody had posited the spheroid nature of the Earth before Columbus sailed to the Americas, I suppose one could point out to you the fact that the Aztec empire just isn't what it used to be.
Yaz.
Yes, it does. In Canada, Universities are publicly funded institutions that are at the apex of the educational system, granting degrees in the usual selection of fields. Community Colleges are privately owned and operated concerns that are mostly analogous to the US concept of a "trade college", and typically don't offer degrees (just diplomas).
Yaz.
Just FYI, doing my own quick Google search, it appears that the hosts used by the bulk of these attacks is actually c.uc8010.com and n.uc8010.com. Indeed, it looks like all one-letter hostnames are used for this domain. So modification of your HOSTS should be made accordingly to ensure all hosts from this domain are indeed re-routed.
Yaz.
Add this simple rule:
Yaz.
I sure hope the door didn't hit him on the ass on the way out.
Yaz.
Why not? They did it with Vista.
Yaz.
It's a good thing that these "spammers, virus/spyware seeders, and other ethic-less online marketers" would ever take advantage of of the /. user base!
Oh wait...
Yaz.
I think this is an important detail. While OS X may compete in some peoples minds in the desktop realm, in actual fact they are complimentary. While some OSS advocates may decry OS X as "proprietary", the fact is that Apple releases a lot of the core of their OS as OSS, uses a lot of OSS software in OS X, and they embrace standards (as opposed to trying to co-opt them).
What this means in practical terms is that OS X and Linux integrate together quite easily. For example, stick netatalk and Avahi on a Linux system, and you have a really easy and Mac-friendly file-server.
I won't claim that Apple is always perfect, but at least it's fairly easy to use OS X with other OSs, especially when it comes to Linux.
(I've had the thought int he back of my mind for some time that if I had the time and resources, I'd love to fork a Linux distro to create a Mac-friendly-Linux distro. All the parts are there -- it just takes someone to put them all together).
Yaz.
After accessing your iDisk in Firefox:
In Safari:
Or if you remember to do so before visiting .Mac's iDisk page:
Problem solved.
So yes, there are ways for the average user to log-out of their iDisk from a public terminal. They just simply have to use the existing facilities at their disposal.
Yaz.
What a brilliant idea -- let's give the police the power to arrest people, throw them into jail pending trial, and not tell anybody.
The justice system needs transparency in a free and democratic society. What you're proposing has been done by all of the most oppressive regeimes in history as a way of making people "disappear". And while publishing an innocent persons arrest in a public manner may damage their public image, it's also a way to ensure that said person gets the best possible opportunity to defend themselves within the community. People who are secretly jailed never do.
Yaz.
Perian also supports a number of audio formats. And anything that uses Quicktime for audio playback (such as iTunes) also autmatically gets the ability to play back the added file types supported by Perian. I know I've used it to playback Ogg Vorbis files in iTunes (with the only limitation being that I can't stream them to an Airport Express via AirTunes).
Yaz.
I'd like to add an item to your otherwise fine list:
Having such an esoteric skill can mean making even more money because people having such a skill are very difficult to find, and can improve your overall retention as you can be difficult to replace (so long as an organization needs that skill, so don't get pigeonholed by it). Being irreplaceable gives you some advantage in dictating your work-life balance with your employer.
Yaz
What, you've never heard of lossless compression?
Burn lossy file to CD. Re-rip and encode it in a lossless format. The resulting file will sound identical to the original.
Yaz.
I finally gave in a few months ago, and put up a basic (and highly restricted) profile.
The good news is that I was able to connect with a number of old friends whom I've long lost track of -- people I haven't spoke to in 10 - 15 years, many of whom were good friends, but with whom I lost touch when a) I moved somewhere else, or b) they started new families (and more often than not, moved somewhere else).
But don't let that one slight advantage fool you -- you don't stop the flow of invitations by giving in. No, now the big thing is "Facebook Apps", and you'll start getting a gazillion invitations for these "apps" where you can pretend to become a zombie, or a vampire, or have a crappy looking virtual fish tank, or permit people to throw sheep at you, or participate in yet another quiz/trivia game.
And each and every one of these "apps" will only work if they can get access to your personal information. No thanks. I keep rejecting them, but the same people keep sending me invitations to join them in whatever new idiotic personal-information stealing app they find cute that week. It's enough to make me regret giving in and putting up a profile in the first place, finding old friends notwithstanding.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Facebook keeps prompting me to send invitations to everyone I know. Sorry, but I doubt there are many people out there beyond my Grandmother (who doesn't even own a computer, and has never used the Internet directly) who don't already know about it, and if they wanted to join, they would of their own volition.
Stay away. Stay far away.
Yaz.
Because the hypervisor runs above the OS running it, and not benieth it. This was dealt with here on /. a month or so ago IIRC. The idea is that basically you run the FOSS software portion under a hypervisor, parallel to any code you don't want users to screw around with (also running under the hypervisor), and have the two communicate via a socket in a client-server model. In this way you could conceptually allow the user to replace the software within the hypervisor, without giving them any access to any of the "secret code" running parallel to it, and indeed the parallel closed source code could (conceptually) stop processing commands if it's detected a change in the hypervisor. In this theoretical situation, the hypervisor is assumed to be closed source software, and not licensed under the GPL v3.
That's the idea at least. IANAL, and don't play one on the Internet, so I don't know if this sort of technical work-around would be seen to be violating the spirit of the license in a court of law or not.
Yaz.
I didn't ignore it at all. I'm glad this is something that the EMCA is eventually going to resolve. My comment is solely as to why it's important that it is documented, and why your statement that "it's optional" is hardly a solution. It may be optional, but it's important to implement to give users the expected level of interoperability, and this is why many people have expressed concerns about the standard as Microsoft has originally submitted it.
I think you and I can agree that the standardization organizations are doing a good job of ensuring that the standard is itself up-to-standard. But I can't subscribe to your opinion that nobody has any right to complain about the standard as it was submitted by Microsoft, just because it will (hopefully) eventually be fixed. I can appreciate that these faults will be fixed, but that doesn't mean that I (or anyone else) have no right to comment on its current state.
So they say, and for now, but I've been a Microsoft watcher for more than long enough to say that I'll believe it when I see it. And "trying not to" doesn't mean "won't" -- I'd be significantly happier if Microsoft were to say "we won't use these legacy tags ever", and then kept their word (forever -- in which case they would be unnecessary to have in the standard, as I imagine nobody else is going to need to use them if MS itself isn't going to use them).
Yaz.