It's actually not that they're using Word by choice, it's that Word is the default HTML editor used when composing email in Outlook. I haven't used enough Outlook to know if it's changable.
Actually, the fact that XBox360 has networked music/video playback stock intrigues me quite a lot.
The main reason I modded my xbox was just for that reason, and I think I'm accurate in saying that my xbox has spent more than 20 times as much time running XBMC (for streaming video from my PC for the most part) than it has spent running games.
If this is built in to the 360, then that cuts out a big reason for many people to mod it, which to me seems like good business sense. I'm just curious how comparable the two are.
The difference of course, is that if Sun pulls Java you still have access to your code:P
Anyway, Sun has a vested interest in keeping the Java runtime at least totally free for anyone who wants to grab it, and they know that as soon as the dev kit becomes pay for use that 3rd party apps will start dropping support like flies as people switch to other languages they don't need to pay to use.
There's a distinct difference between a programming language and a (glorified and extended) file manager.
Really, what the heck does the kernel development move have to do with this? Linus didn't move off of BK because it was non-free, it's because the no-charge use license was revoked by BM.
If someone could explain how this relates to OO.o's use of Java, I'd appreciate it:P Otherwise I'll just assume the submitter is trying to be a little more sensational about things.
Why not allow each release to have its own expiry?
If a work does not make money within twenty years, it never will.
Set it to five years, and let's use something big for an example - say Windows 95. It was released in Aug 1995, regular support ended after 5 years, 4 months, extended lasted another year (source). I'm pretty sure the sales revenue on windows 95 was zero by august 2000, and if it were to have open-sourced itself I can't see that enabling other companies to provide better support than MS even if they wanted.
Really, if you're serious about your software, even if it's not well-known or well-distributed, a new version every 2.5 years isn't much pressure, and ensures that the expired versions are two major versions behind you - at that point all they really do is act as a source of learning, and even perhaps a "free" enticement and/or demo.
I mean, paper is nice because you can use it even when your computer breaks. Any other reason you want paper?
Yes, yes there is. For library reference documents (ie programming libs) then yes a laptop or second screen makes sense - heck, if you have a browser open anyway on a second monitor like I do just open it in a tab.
If you're looking at something that doesn't have a natural hierarchy though, like generic documentation or specs or stuff, being able to flip several dozen pages in under a second is good. And deciding you're a dozen pages off at a glance without needing to wait for the pdf reader to render a nice postscript image is good too.
It's not losing 14 gigs to the filesystem, it's losing 14 gigs due to the difference between 200 billion bytes and 200 gigabytes. My point was that DVDs and hard drives get marketed at X gigabytes, but only contain X billion bytes, a ~7.5% difference.
The reason for this is that DVD manufacturers (and HD manufacturers too) are asses.
Computers count in Binary, which means that anything a power of 2 is easier to work with. So a kilobyte is 1024 (2^10) rather than 1000 bytes. Back in the days of CD-Rs, a 700mb cd actually was 700*1024*1024 bytes large, more of less. (I remember mine are usually 702 or 703mb)
When DVDs came along, they realized that they could get more marketing power and count a kilobyte as 1000 bytes, just like hard drive manufacturers do. So your "9.4gb" dual layer DVD has 9,400,000,000 bytes of data on it, which works out to 8964mb, or 8.75gb.
Of course, this can't compare to the 200 gig hard drive I bought many moons ago, that only formatted to 186 gigs:/
As long as the software lists the libraries it is expecting to find and it looks for them someplace reasonably standard, you should be fine
That's what LSB wants to do - codify the "resonably standard" locations for things into the "LSB standard" locations. Then you can be sure you're looking in the correct place for things, rather than having to have your make procedure guess at it.
Yes, Canada has this blank media surcharge as well. As well as applying to media such as CDs and DVDs, it also applies to some appliances, like standalone MP3 players (and it's a huge amount for iPods)
This isn't really an issue - the reason WAV has been around for so long is that it's just doing a direct read of the bits on the audio CD, and dumping them to a file.
FLAC is a free method to losslessly compress those WAV files, so should be as good as any, really. The point behind ripping lossless is so that you can just transcode when something new comes along - if someone comes up with a lossless encoder that makes 10% smaller files than FLAC, then it's a simple job to write up a script that traverses the drive array, re-encodes lossless to lossless, and deletes the old flac file.
All in all, I would suggest that the longevity of the codec is a pointless metric to use - it's useful until something else comes along, but that New Thing will probably invalidate any other contender as well. The big question is how well supported FLAC is as an input source for transcoding from, which from what I understand is pretty good as far as linux commandline tools go.
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On the other hand, it can't be that hard (and possibly would be another income source) selling little boxes that plug into the wall and provide 1 or 2 USB ports just for power transfer...
If you do a full power to no power in one run drain cycle, the new batteries perform worse.
If you do a bunch of power on, power offs to drain the batteries, the new ones are much better.
Don't know the fine sciency details myself, but I do know that when batteries die, they're sometimes not quite dead - I've played my GBA into the ground, left it for a day, and then still got another half hour off of the "dead" batteries.
Essentially it means you want to use these in your digital camera, not your cell phone:P
Smaller cycles of being in-use could just extend that for measurement - I'd be interested in seeing how well they perform in a single full cycling, then re-use a few days later.
As someone running Gentoo currently, but planning on moving to Ubuntu once Hoary releases next week, I can tell you the big secret problem with Gentoo:
It's way too easy to accidentally screw the system up. I'm running a mostly "x86" box, with a few select packages using "~x86" for newer versions. Somewhere along the lines, something went wrong to the tune of I can't successfully emerge -u world without it breaking. The current biggie is gtk+ 2.6.2, which won't compile and spits out an imlib error. imlib is installed, and imlib2 (which appears to be what it really wants) also errors during emerge.
So yeah. My gentoo server box at home is fine, running a very strict "x86" package set, but once you start tweaking a little bit, who knows...
Now, now. That's a perfectly valid sentence. Taking out the text surrounded in commas as an aside, the main thrust of the sentence is:
If there is an application I run more often than my Web browser, then I don't know what it might be.
The "then" might be debatable, but otherwise it makes perfect sense to me. And taking the aside on its own is fine as well, so I dunno what your gripe is.
Yeah, it sucks that they've hidden it (Foobar 2000->Preferences -> Playback, at the bottom of the window) but you can double-click the dB value in the lower right of the main window to go there quick, and I just have it set to a sane amount anyway and tweak the volume knob on my speakers. Not so much an option for headphone wearers though. And doesn't look like anyone's written a plugin for it either:/
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It's actually not that they're using Word by choice, it's that Word is the default HTML editor used when composing email in Outlook. I haven't used enough Outlook to know if it's changable.
The main reason I modded my xbox was just for that reason, and I think I'm accurate in saying that my xbox has spent more than 20 times as much time running XBMC (for streaming video from my PC for the most part) than it has spent running games.
If this is built in to the 360, then that cuts out a big reason for many people to mod it, which to me seems like good business sense. I'm just curious how comparable the two are.
Anyway, Sun has a vested interest in keeping the Java runtime at least totally free for anyone who wants to grab it, and they know that as soon as the dev kit becomes pay for use that 3rd party apps will start dropping support like flies as people switch to other languages they don't need to pay to use.
There's a distinct difference between a programming language and a (glorified and extended) file manager.
If someone could explain how this relates to OO.o's use of Java, I'd appreciate it :P Otherwise I'll just assume the submitter is trying to be a little more sensational about things.
45 gigs / 700mb = 64 cds worth of data. Which works out to about 10 regular dvds too.
If a work does not make money within twenty years, it never will.
Set it to five years, and let's use something big for an example - say Windows 95. It was released in Aug 1995, regular support ended after 5 years, 4 months, extended lasted another year (source). I'm pretty sure the sales revenue on windows 95 was zero by august 2000, and if it were to have open-sourced itself I can't see that enabling other companies to provide better support than MS even if they wanted.
Really, if you're serious about your software, even if it's not well-known or well-distributed, a new version every 2.5 years isn't much pressure, and ensures that the expired versions are two major versions behind you - at that point all they really do is act as a source of learning, and even perhaps a "free" enticement and/or demo.
Yes, yes there is. For library reference documents (ie programming libs) then yes a laptop or second screen makes sense - heck, if you have a browser open anyway on a second monitor like I do just open it in a tab.
If you're looking at something that doesn't have a natural hierarchy though, like generic documentation or specs or stuff, being able to flip several dozen pages in under a second is good. And deciding you're a dozen pages off at a glance without needing to wait for the pdf reader to render a nice postscript image is good too.
Totally, completely, utterly useless. Keep up the same old, same old, CNet.
Well, it was almost 20 years since he'd seen the droids or something?
It's not losing 14 gigs to the filesystem, it's losing 14 gigs due to the difference between 200 billion bytes and 200 gigabytes. My point was that DVDs and hard drives get marketed at X gigabytes, but only contain X billion bytes, a ~7.5% difference.
Computers count in Binary, which means that anything a power of 2 is easier to work with. So a kilobyte is 1024 (2^10) rather than 1000 bytes. Back in the days of CD-Rs, a 700mb cd actually was 700*1024*1024 bytes large, more of less. (I remember mine are usually 702 or 703mb)
When DVDs came along, they realized that they could get more marketing power and count a kilobyte as 1000 bytes, just like hard drive manufacturers do. So your "9.4gb" dual layer DVD has 9,400,000,000 bytes of data on it, which works out to 8964mb, or 8.75gb.
Of course, this can't compare to the 200 gig hard drive I bought many moons ago, that only formatted to 186 gigs :/
That's what LSB wants to do - codify the "resonably standard" locations for things into the "LSB standard" locations. Then you can be sure you're looking in the correct place for things, rather than having to have your make procedure guess at it.
Yes, Canada has this blank media surcharge as well. As well as applying to media such as CDs and DVDs, it also applies to some appliances, like standalone MP3 players (and it's a huge amount for iPods)
FLAC is a free method to losslessly compress those WAV files, so should be as good as any, really. The point behind ripping lossless is so that you can just transcode when something new comes along - if someone comes up with a lossless encoder that makes 10% smaller files than FLAC, then it's a simple job to write up a script that traverses the drive array, re-encodes lossless to lossless, and deletes the old flac file.
All in all, I would suggest that the longevity of the codec is a pointless metric to use - it's useful until something else comes along, but that New Thing will probably invalidate any other contender as well. The big question is how well supported FLAC is as an input source for transcoding from, which from what I understand is pretty good as far as linux commandline tools go.
To quote comment #2 from the list:
2. Posted Apr 12, 2005, 9:24 AM ET by SenorWeird
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This is pretty much what the default install of Ubuntu does too. Expert install makes a separate root account though.
On the other hand, it can't be that hard (and possibly would be another income source) selling little boxes that plug into the wall and provide 1 or 2 USB ports just for power transfer...
If you do a bunch of power on, power offs to drain the batteries, the new ones are much better.
Don't know the fine sciency details myself, but I do know that when batteries die, they're sometimes not quite dead - I've played my GBA into the ground, left it for a day, and then still got another half hour off of the "dead" batteries.
Essentially it means you want to use these in your digital camera, not your cell phone :P
Smaller cycles of being in-use could just extend that for measurement - I'd be interested in seeing how well they perform in a single full cycling, then re-use a few days later.
Whoops. There's no right way about that. I was saying "yes they did" to the second part of the OP:
"did this site publish the vulnerability without giving them a chance to patch?"
But that's wrong too. I meant to say that yes they did inform the Moz devs of this before going public.
From the bugzilla bug report (copy it, they disallow /. links):
Opened: 2005-04-01 13:40 PDT
Last modified: 2005-04-01 22:39 PDT
Resolution: FIXED
So yes they did, it was fixed in under 10 hours, and published 3 days later.
It's available to javascript, which is fully capable of doing a browser redirect and sending the mem dump along as GET data.
Personally, I wouldn't consider the original to be a lengthy aside, at least compared to your most verbose example, but to each their own I guess.
It's way too easy to accidentally screw the system up. I'm running a mostly "x86" box, with a few select packages using "~x86" for newer versions. Somewhere along the lines, something went wrong to the tune of I can't successfully emerge -u world without it breaking. The current biggie is gtk+ 2.6.2, which won't compile and spits out an imlib error. imlib is installed, and imlib2 (which appears to be what it really wants) also errors during emerge.
So yeah. My gentoo server box at home is fine, running a very strict "x86" package set, but once you start tweaking a little bit, who knows...
If there is an application I run more often than my Web browser, then I don't know what it might be.
The "then" might be debatable, but otherwise it makes perfect sense to me. And taking the aside on its own is fine as well, so I dunno what your gripe is.
Yeah, it sucks that they've hidden it (Foobar 2000->Preferences -> Playback, at the bottom of the window) but you can double-click the dB value in the lower right of the main window to go there quick, and I just have it set to a sane amount anyway and tweak the volume knob on my speakers. Not so much an option for headphone wearers though. And doesn't look like anyone's written a plugin for it either :/