In the Pixar version, Gates would be Hook and Ballmer would be Smedes.
Hmm... can't decide if Jobs would be Pan or the crocodile. No, check that. Jobs is definitely Pan (for reasons that get into his psyche). The part of the croc would be played by GNU/Linux.
It's truly a common thing for dilettantes and the sophmoric to flounder whilst dismissing the work of those they can't hope to compete with.
Can't wait to read you own masterwork and biography. Must be pretty damned sensational to dwarf that of a noted mathematician you've condemned to senility and drool at the advanced age of 44. And whilst we await the publishing of your great tome ("Grand Unifying Dismissal of the Great and Near-Great"), perhaps you would favor us with how you disproved Einstein's work on his "Generalized Theory of Gravitation"?
Tarantella (and the more widely used Citrix and Windows Terminal Server) is a different beast from the other items in your list. They don't install a full-up application on the user's desktop. Instead they run the application on remote servers and provide the user a client (browser, thin client, thick client) to present that application on the user's desktop. This method does provide a quick way of allowing users to access applications because all they need is the access client rather than waiting for a full-up install.
The object on the right in their picture looks a lot like a Linksys WRV54G Wireless G VPN Broadband Router. Linksys has a similar product for 802.11b (WMA11B). I can't imagine that they would mod the router so that leaves the other two objects as the candidates.
Paraphrasing from the Linksys site:
- 802.11g Wireless Access Point
- 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch
- Router
- DHCP Server
- SPI firewall
- VPN Support
I would submit to you that there are at least two other options:
3) Change the rules. Don't like the hand your dealt in the game? Change the rules so you have a winning hand. (See one James T Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru Scenario)
4) Don't play. Some games don't have a winning solution. (See Global Thermonuclear War: "This is a strange game. The only way to win is not to play.")
SCO's attitude about litigation, copyright and GPL seems to be some evidence that they've also chosen option 3.
... I'd simply write a script to introduce spelling errors every so many words - maybe even rewriting some words using "l33+ spek". I expect that I'd lose points as a result, but that's better than the alternatives: getting thrown out as a cheater, or taking an incomplete for not turning in anything.
At the school I attended for my Bachelor's degree, three grammar or spelling errors would result in an F on the paper. It did not matter what the content was.
However, when I was in grad school there it appeared that grammar and spelling were less of a concern for the professors. I suspect that, because there were a significant number of foreign students for whom English was not their primary language, teachers overlooked technical issues as a way of leveling the playing field.
Turnitin has found a niche service that they can provide at a profit. Sounds like a classic MBA project. In any other endeavour, the denizens of slashdot would laud such accumen. The only real objection then stems from the possibility of discovery while violating standard ethical practice in school. Plagarism is not altogether different from violating copyright.
Were the faculty profiting from the students work by publishing it as there own (a not uncommon practice in graduate school unfortunately) I would have a problem with that. That does not appear to be the case here.
"I claim this land in the name of myself. I now own Mars."
So now Earth sends a human to Mars. They're the FIRST to land on the planet. IANAL, but what's to prevent them from saying "All your bases are belong to ME!". Sure seems like that would hold up in court. What would be the result of that person putting a big no trespassing sign on the whole freaking planet?
I'm not keen on the idea of sending someone on a one-way trip culminating in death by:
asphyxiation
starvation
radiation poisoning
[insert other hideous demise]
But having sent someone on a one-way ticket, where is the real control on what they do once they're there?
You're a bit confused. There's de jure standards and there are de facto standards. Ethernet would be an example of the former. MS Windows and Apple's iPod are examples of the latter.
At your next job interview, tell them that MS Windows is not a standard. They'll laugh you right out of the building.
Except that you aren't REQUIRED to use AAC. There's this other format that iPod will use. Maybe you've heard of it.
It's called MP3.
So much for vendor lock-in. 'Course, if you really want to use AAC, you could use iPod or this from Nokia and while we're talking about Nokia, what about that cool new N-Gage . Then again there's this new model from O2. And of course, it won't be long before you can buy HP's iPod clone.
Does anyone here remember the crap that US Navy went through with animal rights activists over training Dolphins to look for mines attached to ships (or, potentially to put them there)? So now you want to know why they are investigating mechanical dogs, mules, elephants, lobsters, etc rather than putting real animals in harm's way?
When they use animals they're cruel, thoughtless and exploitative. When they use machines they are mindless wasters of taxpayer money.
I detect a public that can't make up their mind what they want. Either way, the military must be pilloried because it's the politically correct thing to do.
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[1] I believe it was John F Kennedy.
And I believe you're missing out on the subtle use of Josef (though I would think the spelling might be a clue). That would be an allusion to Josef Stalin (late of the Soviet Union). In effect labelling Kennedy as a communist.
Existing law prohibits any person from driving a motor vehicle that is equipped with a television receiver, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast, if the device is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle. This prohibition does not apply to a mobile digital terminal installed in a law enforcement vehicle.
This bill would recast this prohibition and, additionally, would prohibit any person from driving a motor vehicle if a video monitor, or a video screen, or any other, similar means of visually displaying a video signal that produces entertainment or business applications, is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or is operating and visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle. This prohibition would not apply to specified equipment or to a motor vehicle providing emergency road service or roadside assistance. Because a violation of this prohibition would be a crime, the bill would establish a state-mandated local program.
So to answer some of the existing questions, law enforcement vehicles do not apply. However, if your co-working is wardriving while in the passenger seat, that's a vi-o-lation.
"Still, its mainly a diligence measure for getting into Govt purchasing schedules, and has little to do with a practical or useful evaluation of the actual security of an OS."
Sure, doesn't have a thing to do with the actual security of an OS. Next time, why not take the time to read about the spec for Common Criteria certification before making such an idiotic suggestion.
We haven't even reached petyabytes, for $DEITY's sake!
Correction. Perhaps you haven't reached petabytes yet. There are however core Sun customers who do have that much data.
Your remark reminds me of certain visionaries who thought there would never be more than six or seven computers... in the world. Or that 640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone.
Before you label the former MD as just a stodgy defense contractor, please enlighten me with a list of modern fighter aircraft developed by Boeing prior to their merger with MD.
... still waiting...
Okay, time's up. The answer is NONE! Nada. Rien. Zilch.
Don't even try to claim that the Raptor would have been such a success if it weren't for those folks from McDonnell-Douglas. Boeing had been building nothing but transport a/c and ISR platforms. Talk about stodgy!
Whitespace is parsed out, yes, but maybe it is the only way to render the proper two spaces after a period in these browsers.
Two spaces after a period is a holdover from the days of the venerable Underwood manual typewriter. I still do it when typing a Word doc (I know, blasphemy for using the handiwork of the devil in my daily life). It's an artifact that really has no raison d'etre in *html-based display systems. Most of the time, no one knows it's there because they can't see the difference.
I think we've seen before with MS that just because you or I consider it a clear violation of the Act doesn't mean that MS will actually face any penalty for it. At least in the US, no one has leveled any judicial penalty of note yet. I don't expect that to change any time soon. To clarify, I don't consider it a penalty when Microsoft can buy their way out by giving schools MORE of their software and compounding the issue by allowing them to count it as full retail value rather than actual cost.
So what should I listen to? Hmm, gotta think ahead on this one and choose wisely... 'cause I've only got 128MB to work with on this thing instead of the 10 - 20GB on an iPod!!
It's called a tradeoff. I'm willing to bet this is not a big issue for most folks. Like most of the items (except maybe $) he had to scratch himself raw to come up with "reasons".
If you own an iPod and use it with MusicMatch on a Windows machine and then install iTunes, strange things happen: after the installation, MusicMatch is unable to communicate or even find the iPod anymore.
Big deal. I installed iTunes for Windows 1.0 on a Win2K box. After some 30 minutes, iTunes crashed... hard. When I rebooted, the computer couldn't talk to my CD-RW/DVD unit or my sound card. Registry is corrupt. Multiple efforts to fix go nowhere.
Now that's a problem. And you folks are griping about mere software!
Where the heck are points when you need them? Others have answered, but they can't be seen for lack of points. Guess I'll have to go Karma Whore instead.
It's unclear right at this hour if you can play Ogg Vobis on the Windows version of iTunes. You certainly can get the Mac version to do it. The fine folks at Mac OS X Hints have an article with links to everything you need.
Then again, over at SourceForge one can find a QuickTime component to support Ogg. Hmm, iTunes runs on QT... SourcForge has a Ogg QT component for Win32... maybe this works after all? As I said, there may be some kinks in the Windows version right now but I'm willing to bet that we'll see them knocked out in short order (even if not by Apple).
That still doesn't mean you can directly play Ogg files on an iPod. You can play them to some degree if you install uCLinux on your iPod first. From there you could use an Ogg player for Linux. Sure it's a hack, but it's not impossible. And what kind of geek are you if you can't get worked up over a kluge like that? Sheesh.
Wow, an enlightened and impartial view in Slashdot! You realize that this puts into jeopardy your ability to be a moderator.
You also forgot to mention the myopia (or amnesia) that allows one party to publicly flog the other for the most "heinous" crimes. I can't figure out if it's meant to be political slight of hand to cover for similar "misdeeds" of their own, or steming from chagrin that they didn't think of it first. [Look! Over there, is that legal? Hrm, okay so it's legal, but is it politically correct? Of course not! Seize him at once!]
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There are more than enough opinions about "the right way" to model data from a semantic or centextual standpoint. Like most things there's the academic approach and there's one that a company can afford. Whether or not either is appropriate depends on your needs, point of view and the size of the coporate wallet.
Sure there are those who short change some approaches because they have temporal limitations. New data comes in and you need to categorize that too and determine it's context or supremacy to data you already have.
It's another variation on the religious argument of whether to tag data proactively as it comes into a system or continually model it on the fly. And should we retroactively tag material that existed in our warehouse before we bought this new data mining system?
One of the problems I have with semantic or ontological systems working on the fly is that they're guessing. What does a person's name look like? A city? How does the software differentiate these from the name of a road or organization. It's not straight forward. And the best semantic discovery system? The human brain. Which is a more cost effective solution for you, human categorization/tagging with high accuracy or machine-based that's relying on a less perfect recognition system but might run faster?
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In the Pixar version, Gates would be Hook and Ballmer would be Smedes.
Hmm... can't decide if Jobs would be Pan or the crocodile. No, check that. Jobs is definitely Pan (for reasons that get into his psyche). The part of the croc would be played by GNU/Linux.
It's truly a common thing for dilettantes and the sophmoric to flounder whilst dismissing the work of those they can't hope to compete with.
Can't wait to read you own masterwork and biography. Must be pretty damned sensational to dwarf that of a noted mathematician you've condemned to senility and drool at the advanced age of 44. And whilst we await the publishing of your great tome ("Grand Unifying Dismissal of the Great and Near-Great"), perhaps you would favor us with how you disproved Einstein's work on his "Generalized Theory of Gravitation"?
Tarantella (and the more widely used Citrix and Windows Terminal Server) is a different beast from the other items in your list. They don't install a full-up application on the user's desktop. Instead they run the application on remote servers and provide the user a client (browser, thin client, thick client) to present that application on the user's desktop. This method does provide a quick way of allowing users to access applications because all they need is the access client rather than waiting for a full-up install.
The object on the right in their picture looks a lot like a Linksys WRV54G Wireless G VPN Broadband Router. Linksys has a similar product for 802.11b (WMA11B). I can't imagine that they would mod the router so that leaves the other two objects as the candidates.
Paraphrasing from the Linksys site:
- 802.11g Wireless Access Point
- 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch
- Router
- DHCP Server
- SPI firewall
- VPN Support
I would submit to you that there are at least two other options:
3) Change the rules. Don't like the hand your dealt in the game? Change the rules so you have a winning hand. (See one James T Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru Scenario)
4) Don't play. Some games don't have a winning solution. (See Global Thermonuclear War: "This is a strange game. The only way to win is not to play.")
SCO's attitude about litigation, copyright and GPL seems to be some evidence that they've also chosen option 3.
At the school I attended for my Bachelor's degree, three grammar or spelling errors would result in an F on the paper. It did not matter what the content was.
However, when I was in grad school there it appeared that grammar and spelling were less of a concern for the professors. I suspect that, because there were a significant number of foreign students for whom English was not their primary language, teachers overlooked technical issues as a way of leveling the playing field.
Turnitin has found a niche service that they can provide at a profit. Sounds like a classic MBA project. In any other endeavour, the denizens of slashdot would laud such accumen. The only real objection then stems from the possibility of discovery while violating standard ethical practice in school. Plagarism is not altogether different from violating copyright.
Were the faculty profiting from the students work by publishing it as there own (a not uncommon practice in graduate school unfortunately) I would have a problem with that. That does not appear to be the case here.
So now Earth sends a human to Mars. They're the FIRST to land on the planet. IANAL, but what's to prevent them from saying "All your bases are belong to ME!". Sure seems like that would hold up in court. What would be the result of that person putting a big no trespassing sign on the whole freaking planet?
I'm not keen on the idea of sending someone on a one-way trip culminating in death by:
- asphyxiation
- starvation
- radiation poisoning
- [insert other hideous demise]
But having sent someone on a one-way ticket, where is the real control on what they do once they're there?I like the idea, but I wouldn't lump Dennehy in there. He does have a following. I'm still trying to think what Caridi looks like.
You're a bit confused. There's de jure standards and there are de facto standards. Ethernet would be an example of the former. MS Windows and Apple's iPod are examples of the latter.
At your next job interview, tell them that MS Windows is not a standard. They'll laugh you right out of the building.
Except that you aren't REQUIRED to use AAC. There's this other format that iPod will use. Maybe you've heard of it.
It's called MP3.
So much for vendor lock-in. 'Course, if you really want to use AAC, you could use iPod or this from Nokia and while we're talking about Nokia, what about that cool new N-Gage . Then again there's this new model from O2. And of course, it won't be long before you can buy HP's iPod clone.
Does anyone here remember the crap that US Navy went through with animal rights activists over training Dolphins to look for mines attached to ships (or, potentially to put them there)? So now you want to know why they are investigating mechanical dogs, mules, elephants, lobsters, etc rather than putting real animals in harm's way?
When they use animals they're cruel, thoughtless and exploitative. When they use machines they are mindless wasters of taxpayer money.
I detect a public that can't make up their mind what they want. Either way, the military must be pilloried because it's the politically correct thing to do.
[1] I believe it was John F Kennedy.
And I believe you're missing out on the subtle use of Josef (though I would think the spelling might be a clue). That would be an allusion to Josef Stalin (late of the Soviet Union). In effect labelling Kennedy as a communist.
For those who might not make it to the link...
Existing law prohibits any person from driving a motor vehicle that is equipped with a television receiver, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast, if the device is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle. This prohibition does not apply to a mobile digital terminal installed in a law enforcement vehicle.
This bill would recast this prohibition and, additionally, would prohibit any person from driving a motor vehicle if a video monitor, or
a video screen, or any other, similar means of visually displaying a video signal that produces entertainment or business applications, is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or is operating and visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle. This prohibition would not apply to specified equipment or to a motor vehicle providing emergency road service or roadside assistance. Because a violation of this prohibition would be a crime, the bill would establish a state-mandated local program.
So to answer some of the existing questions, law enforcement vehicles do not apply. However, if your co-working is wardriving while in the passenger seat, that's a vi-o-lation.
"Still, its mainly a diligence measure for getting into Govt purchasing schedules, and has little to do with a practical or useful evaluation of the actual security of an OS."
Sure, doesn't have a thing to do with the actual security of an OS. Next time, why not take the time to read about the spec for Common Criteria certification before making such an idiotic suggestion.
Doesn't run Linux
Gee, really? How hard is that to check?
1) google "ipod linux"
2) first link is "Linux on iPod" (took a whopping 0.17 seconds)
Damn that was a dilly to figure out.
Next!
We haven't even reached petyabytes, for $DEITY's sake!
... in the world. Or that 640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone.
Correction. Perhaps you haven't reached petabytes yet. There are however core Sun customers who do have that much data.
Your remark reminds me of certain visionaries who thought there would never be more than six or seven computers
Okay, time's up. The answer is NONE! Nada. Rien. Zilch.
Don't even try to claim that the Raptor would have been such a success if it weren't for those folks from McDonnell-Douglas. Boeing had been building nothing but transport a/c and ISR platforms. Talk about stodgy!
Whitespace is parsed out, yes, but maybe it is the only way to render the proper two spaces after a period in these browsers.
Two spaces after a period is a holdover from the days of the venerable Underwood manual typewriter. I still do it when typing a Word doc (I know, blasphemy for using the handiwork of the devil in my daily life). It's an artifact that really has no raison d'etre in *html-based display systems. Most of the time, no one knows it's there because they can't see the difference.
I think we've seen before with MS that just because you or I consider it a clear violation of the Act doesn't mean that MS will actually face any penalty for it. At least in the US, no one has leveled any judicial penalty of note yet. I don't expect that to change any time soon. To clarify, I don't consider it a penalty when Microsoft can buy their way out by giving schools MORE of their software and compounding the issue by allowing them to count it as full retail value rather than actual cost.
So what should I listen to? Hmm, gotta think ahead on this one and choose wisely ... 'cause I've only got 128MB to work with on this thing instead of the 10 - 20GB on an iPod!!
It's called a tradeoff. I'm willing to bet this is not a big issue for most folks. Like most of the items (except maybe $) he had to scratch himself raw to come up with "reasons".
If you own an iPod and use it with MusicMatch on a Windows machine and then install iTunes, strange things happen: after the installation, MusicMatch is unable to communicate or even find the iPod anymore.
... hard. When I rebooted, the computer couldn't talk to my CD-RW/DVD unit or my sound card. Registry is corrupt. Multiple efforts to fix go nowhere.
Big deal. I installed iTunes for Windows 1.0 on a Win2K box. After some 30 minutes, iTunes crashed
Now that's a problem. And you folks are griping about mere software!
Except that the object was described as being the size of a car. That would make for a pretty damn big spy satellite for the 1960s.
Where the heck are points when you need them? Others have answered, but they can't be seen for lack of points. Guess I'll have to go Karma Whore instead.
It's unclear right at this hour if you can play Ogg Vobis on the Windows version of iTunes. You certainly can get the Mac version to do it. The fine folks at Mac OS X Hints have an article with links to everything you need.
Then again, over at SourceForge one can find a QuickTime component to support Ogg. Hmm, iTunes runs on QT... SourcForge has a Ogg QT component for Win32... maybe this works after all? As I said, there may be some kinks in the Windows version right now but I'm willing to bet that we'll see them knocked out in short order (even if not by Apple).
That still doesn't mean you can directly play Ogg files on an iPod. You can play them to some degree if you install uCLinux on your iPod first. From there you could use an Ogg player for Linux. Sure it's a hack, but it's not impossible. And what kind of geek are you if you can't get worked up over a kluge like that? Sheesh.
Wow, an enlightened and impartial view in Slashdot! You realize that this puts into jeopardy your ability to be a moderator.
You also forgot to mention the myopia (or amnesia) that allows one party to publicly flog the other for the most "heinous" crimes. I can't figure out if it's meant to be political slight of hand to cover for similar "misdeeds" of their own, or steming from chagrin that they didn't think of it first. [Look! Over there, is that legal? Hrm, okay so it's legal, but is it politically correct? Of course not! Seize him at once!]
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Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Louis: I'm shocked - shocked - to find gambling is going on in here!
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Louis: Oh, thank you very much.
There are more than enough opinions about "the right way" to model data from a semantic or centextual standpoint. Like most things there's the academic approach and there's one that a company can afford. Whether or not either is appropriate depends on your needs, point of view and the size of the coporate wallet.
Sure there are those who short change some approaches because they have temporal limitations. New data comes in and you need to categorize that too and determine it's context or supremacy to data you already have.
It's another variation on the religious argument of whether to tag data proactively as it comes into a system or continually model it on the fly. And should we retroactively tag material that existed in our warehouse before we bought this new data mining system?
One of the problems I have with semantic or ontological systems working on the fly is that they're guessing. What does a person's name look like? A city? How does the software differentiate these from the name of a road or organization. It's not straight forward. And the best semantic discovery system? The human brain. Which is a more cost effective solution for you, human categorization/tagging with high accuracy or machine-based that's relying on a less perfect recognition system but might run faster?
The answer is not so cut and dried.