I agree. SnipSnap also offers the Wiki/Blog combination in a 1 minute install. Its available under the GPL, is constantly being worked on, and has a huge number of features.
you can get something similar in java here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes4/
It's in Java, but it it looks astonishingly similar to iTunes.
Java's the way to go. That's what allowed me to buy a mac.
I do think supporting gnu step would be a good thing to do too.
That would bed true if the apps that appeared in the exposé alt-tab bar (in the center of the screen) were limited to the apps that appeared on that desktop. But sadly it does not. That is a major needed to make that pager tool useful. The pager app is most useful when it reduces the number of keystrokes you have to go through to get to related work (which is why you group related activities on a desktop). In fact you could define a related app as those apps that most often get switched between. Taking that definition one could even write a desktop clustering algorithm based on that.
If and when they get it, I will be the first to switch.
Good point. I think you overstate Sun's ownership of Java. They have a strong hand in it, and why not? They pushed it to where it is hardest.
But there are jvms by IBM, BEA, HP, and many others including a few gnu ones. The gnu ones are behind not surprisingly since they are not financed as well. Just as it took gnu/linux a lot longer to get to where some of the comercial unixes had been for a while, so the same will be true of Java.
What kind of computer are you using? Saying something is slow without specifying the hardware you are running it on, is like saying I have 500 units of cash in my pocket: what lire? euros? cents? dollars?
Yes. JEdit is slower than vi. But I am using at least 5 java apps continuously. I really like the fact that I KNOW I can switch computer and still use them. So the slowdown is not a big problem given that functionality. And since we are speaking of mono, are you suggesting that will be faster?
Not true. HP and other large PC distribution companies have agreements with SUN to pre-install the latest JVM on their machines. Apple comes with a very good Java Virtual Machine -- so good in fact that James Gosling is using it as his work machine... Furthermore SUN has many allies that will help distribute CDs of Java.
MS is *not* pledging to keep Java up-to-date on the Windows platform, which basically means that applets like mine (see sig) have to use Java 1.1 and nothing higher. Sure, people can
There are many films that get published in one region but not the other. For example the Polish film "The Saragossa Manuscripts" which was filmed in Spain is only available as a Region 1 (US) encoded DVD. I am in Europe and can not watch a European film because of the greed and stupidity of these $@!$ media oligopolies. Quite ironic really.
I bought it anyhow because it is really original: it was a favorite of the Greatful Dead lead singer. But I can't watch it on my PowerBook laptop or our home DVD player. Luckily we have an old Apple Cube around that did not have these restrictions.
I should have bought my laptop in Switzerland. Apparently they made region encoding illegal there.
This shows very clearly that the cost of a transaction for iTunes could be much lower than generally thought.
Everybody seems to have accepted without blinking the statements made by Apple on the cost of selling iTunes where they conclude that Apple only makes money by selling iPods. But if we think about the algorithms described in the article then it is clear that there is nothing to stop Apple charging customers for multiple transactions instead of just for one. In which case the cost per transaction would drop dramatically. And the profits to Apple of iTunes would be much higher than stated.
At the very least it is clear that Apple has a lot of room to maneuvre to either bring its prices down, or increase its profitability.
The problem in America is that once you have someone's social security number you can pretty much do anything. You are most of the way to owning their identity.
Most banks only require you to recite your SSN before you enter any transaction. This is allready a huge security hole, but is becoming larger as more and more services ask for the SSN to help identify someone. It was impossible for me to get a cell phone in California 6 years ago without using my SSN for example. The more people have this info, the easier it is for it to get into the wrong hands.
The banking system is really to blame. A SSN should NOT be used as a way to authenticate someone. A SSN is simply the same as someone's name. Everyone should have something like a cryptokey which we were given at DEC. When you contact your bank you could first give them your name, they would send you a challenge, which you could enter into your cryptokey, and would return its response.
Since the challenge would always be different, even the employee of the bank would not be able to do anything with that information.
The problem is glaring. The solution is obvious. Banks should really be held responsible for not coming up with a solution to this.
If there is enough money to be made without putting drms in microphones then it will not hapen. That is part of the reason why the success of iTunes and services like it are very important.
Well I would tend to agree that one should not add the QT api or gtk api into an X-Server. I must have missed the parent thread when I replied to the post.
But as I can see qt code is gpl for Linux. I suppose if someone really wants to port this code to Windows they could do so. After all it is gpled. I imagine that not many people are interested and that is why it has not been done. If you want your product to work on Windows you are probably out to sell it. So you probably don't care to spend the $$$ for it.
Are you suggesting that 1 million chinese should call up the open source developper whenever they have a problem? That sounds like a recipe for killing open source.
What Sun is offering is a simple front end. You go to them, they have the contacts to the experts. So in the end it will still go to the experts. But it will be filtered a little. Furthermore Sun can pay the Open source developers for their work.
Nobody seems to notice that a copyright owner can multiply licence their code.
Universities, and government institutions should therefore GPL their code. They can then get extra funding by dual licencing the code under say the BSD licence to large companies that believe they can make a profit from selling it.
The GPL could in fact help the government make money!
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I agree. SnipSnap also offers the Wiki/Blog combination in a 1 minute install. Its available under the GPL, is constantly being worked on, and has a huge number of features.
They are missing SnipSnap, an fantastically easy to install java GPLd blog/wiki server. Try it out at snipsnap.org.
you can get something similar in java here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes4/ It's in Java, but it it looks astonishingly similar to iTunes. Java's the way to go. That's what allowed me to buy a mac. I do think supporting gnu step would be a good thing to do too.
If and when they get it, I will be the first to switch.
Good point. I think you overstate Sun's ownership of Java. They have a strong hand in it, and why not? They pushed it to where it is hardest.
But there are jvms by IBM, BEA, HP, and many others including a few gnu ones. The gnu ones are behind not surprisingly since they are not financed as well. Just as it took gnu/linux a lot longer to get to where some of the comercial unixes had been for a while, so the same will be true of Java.
What kind of computer are you using? Saying something is slow without specifying the hardware you are running it on, is like saying I have 500 units of cash in my pocket: what lire? euros? cents? dollars? Yes. JEdit is slower than vi. But I am using at least 5 java apps continuously. I really like the fact that I KNOW I can switch computer and still use them. So the slowdown is not a big problem given that functionality. And since we are speaking of mono, are you suggesting that will be faster?
Steve Ballmer comes to mind, no? This picture should help jog your memory: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/defa ult.asp
but not for my PowerBook yet (17" 1.33GHz), sadly.
I bought it anyhow because it is really original: it was a favorite of the Greatful Dead lead singer. But I can't watch it on my PowerBook laptop or our home DVD player. Luckily we have an old Apple Cube around that did not have these restrictions.
I should have bought my laptop in Switzerland. Apparently they made region encoding illegal there.
Everybody seems to have accepted without blinking the statements made by Apple on the cost of selling iTunes where they conclude that Apple only makes money by selling iPods. But if we think about the algorithms described in the article then it is clear that there is nothing to stop Apple charging customers for multiple transactions instead of just for one. In which case the cost per transaction would drop dramatically. And the profits to Apple of iTunes would be much higher than stated.
At the very least it is clear that Apple has a lot of room to maneuvre to either bring its prices down, or increase its profitability.
The problem in America is that once you have someone's social security number you can pretty much do anything. You are most of the way to owning their identity. Most banks only require you to recite your SSN before you enter any transaction. This is allready a huge security hole, but is becoming larger as more and more services ask for the SSN to help identify someone. It was impossible for me to get a cell phone in California 6 years ago without using my SSN for example. The more people have this info, the easier it is for it to get into the wrong hands. The banking system is really to blame. A SSN should NOT be used as a way to authenticate someone. A SSN is simply the same as someone's name. Everyone should have something like a cryptokey which we were given at DEC. When you contact your bank you could first give them your name, they would send you a challenge, which you could enter into your cryptokey, and would return its response. Since the challenge would always be different, even the employee of the bank would not be able to do anything with that information. The problem is glaring. The solution is obvious. Banks should really be held responsible for not coming up with a solution to this.
If there is enough money to be made without putting drms in microphones then it will not hapen. That is part of the reason why the success of iTunes and services like it are very important.
Well I would tend to agree that one should not add the QT api or gtk api into an X-Server. I must have missed the parent thread when I replied to the post. But as I can see qt code is gpl for Linux. I suppose if someone really wants to port this code to Windows they could do so. After all it is gpled. I imagine that not many people are interested and that is why it has not been done. If you want your product to work on Windows you are probably out to sell it. So you probably don't care to spend the $$$ for it.
Check your facts before blurting out. QT is available under the Gnu Public Licence!
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http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/freelicens
Are you suggesting that 1 million chinese should call up the open source developper whenever they have a problem? That sounds like a recipe for killing open source.
What Sun is offering is a simple front end. You go to them, they have the contacts to the experts. So in the end it will still go to the experts. But it will be filtered a little. Furthermore Sun can pay the Open source developers for their work.
Universities, and government institutions should therefore GPL their code. They can then get extra funding by dual licencing the code under say the BSD licence to large companies that believe they can make a profit from selling it.
The GPL could in fact help the government make money!