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With other systems, porting the software to ix86 was not NEARLY as easy, and the developers didn't give themselves time.
Now, you have a zillion apps ported to OS-X/PPC under a compiler system that makes it as easy to report as changing the arch flag and running it through the compiler again.
I mean, the developer guidelines even made a point to write software for OS-X without assuming you're always going to be on a big-endian machine. I'm sure some developers ignored that at times, but the number of missed htonl and ntohl calls are at least minimized.
I theorize that Jobs has a plan. He's attempting to move OS-X to the general mainstream OS market without letting his users know. In fact, I think that he's going to try and blame the hacker community for the move.
What I'm saying is that the man is putting up a target, and doing the hacker community version of saying "Come and get it, boys!" by claiming that OS-X won't run on arbitrary hardware. In a week, it'll be running on any old junker PC, and Jobs will wait for the ports of NetBSD's hardware support to generate a template. one or two months later, arbitrary OS-X hits the markets, Jobs makes a fat profit, and Microsoft stops getting hit with monopoly suits.
Is it just me, or are the "I'm not a script" confirmation images getting harder and harder to read?
Don't know if you'd noticed, but the GPL is about liberating copyright from the whole "copying" restriction, while maintining the credits associated with being the author of a GPL'd program.
Of course that doesn't seem to matter. Check your signature; you've already made up your mind about IP.
WiFi generally means 802.11 of one nature or another. Maybe community-funded transmission towers that peek far enough over the horizon?
Naw. I think satellites are cool, as are the fibre-optics running along the atlantic.
A hundered hops at light speed isn't bad, man. Add to that the increasing proliferation of wired/wireless routers in homes (such as the linksys 4-port / 802.11g DSL router), and the number of hops decreases (and global bandwidth increases).
I mean, sure it's home-grown, but that doesn't necessarily mean crappy. Say you have even half-concentration of WiFi enabled laptops per unit population. You end up with full 2.4GHz saturation and an entrie planet's worth of air bandwidth being utilized, with the hardwires providing shuttles to the rest of the world - and if the wires are still saturated, I'm still connected. Perhaps not via the guy sitting next to me; maybe it's the cute girl at the bar. Maybe its the business student doing spreadsheets on his laptop outside. One would hope it's through the proprietor's WAP on his cable line, or the OC3-connected signal coming from the college down the street.
Don't want to rely on the "crappy" home grown solution? Fine. Buy DSL or cable. I don't even care if you add public WiFi on your router - mine's open. Sure, I have to have software firewalls on all my computers, but that's just safety anyway.
Security will become an issue, but there will come a time when javascript-side md5-challenge-response becomes the standard for even the least significant of login screens (over ssh channels, preferably. I don't care if a site is "trusted" by verisign or not unless I'm using a credit card; I just care that the server's got a public key and that my data stays mine).
Meanwhile, I'm fine with my linux/mini-itx-based secure-tunneled proxy on the wired computer in my house. Hell, it only cost me $300 to build. Coulda been cheaper, but I got the 1.2GHz VIA board.
Point is, it's not a method of delivering Big Pipes to everyone who walks around with a PDA, it's about having an always-on connection wherever you go. And while it's definately not about security, the holes that arise from full wireless saturation are still a new and ripe horizon for the hack/fix cycle (yes, I know it's a money issue to Big Business, but for security-minded folks like you find here on slashdot, it's mostly a fun puzzle game).
As for the Big Business' powering the internet, I don't much give a damn how they feel about eventually becoming nigh obsolete (unless someone figures out a way to send a WiFi signal across an ocean, they'll be needed to maintain the hardwires and satellites). To be honest, they're - well - big. They can take care of themselves. Even when they look like they're curling up in pain like some sort of deeply wounded animal, they're thinking of ways to make or save money off the sympathy, rather than working on new technologies that they can then exploit for further profit at the benefit of citizens (the investment is often higher than the percieved benefit. Corporate entrepreneurs are so few and far between these days).
Meanwhile, with the proliferation of wireless networking and VoIP, how long do you think it will be untill the Bells start screaming bloody murder?
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There's a big difference in here: Software.
With other systems, porting the software to ix86 was not NEARLY as easy, and the developers didn't give themselves time.
Now, you have a zillion apps ported to OS-X/PPC under a compiler system that makes it as easy to report as changing the arch flag and running it through the compiler again.
I mean, the developer guidelines even made a point to write software for OS-X without assuming you're always going to be on a big-endian machine. I'm sure some developers ignored that at times, but the number of missed htonl and ntohl calls are at least minimized.
I theorize that Jobs has a plan. He's attempting to move OS-X to the general mainstream OS market without letting his users know. In fact, I think that he's going to try and blame the hacker community for the move.
What I'm saying is that the man is putting up a target, and doing the hacker community version of saying "Come and get it, boys!" by claiming that OS-X won't run on arbitrary hardware. In a week, it'll be running on any old junker PC, and Jobs will wait for the ports of NetBSD's hardware support to generate a template. one or two months later, arbitrary OS-X hits the markets, Jobs makes a fat profit, and Microsoft stops getting hit with monopoly suits.
Is it just me, or are the "I'm not a script" confirmation images getting harder and harder to read?
Don't know if you'd noticed, but the GPL is about liberating copyright from the whole "copying" restriction, while maintining the credits associated with being the author of a GPL'd program. Of course that doesn't seem to matter. Check your signature; you've already made up your mind about IP.
WiFi generally means 802.11 of one nature or another. Maybe community-funded transmission towers that peek far enough over the horizon? Naw. I think satellites are cool, as are the fibre-optics running along the atlantic.
A hundered hops at light speed isn't bad, man. Add to that the increasing proliferation of wired/wireless routers in homes (such as the linksys 4-port / 802.11g DSL router), and the number of hops decreases (and global bandwidth increases).
I mean, sure it's home-grown, but that doesn't necessarily mean crappy. Say you have even half-concentration of WiFi enabled laptops per unit population. You end up with full 2.4GHz saturation and an entrie planet's worth of air bandwidth being utilized, with the hardwires providing shuttles to the rest of the world - and if the wires are still saturated, I'm still connected. Perhaps not via the guy sitting next to me; maybe it's the cute girl at the bar. Maybe its the business student doing spreadsheets on his laptop outside. One would hope it's through the proprietor's WAP on his cable line, or the OC3-connected signal coming from the college down the street.
Don't want to rely on the "crappy" home grown solution? Fine. Buy DSL or cable. I don't even care if you add public WiFi on your router - mine's open. Sure, I have to have software firewalls on all my computers, but that's just safety anyway.
Security will become an issue, but there will come a time when javascript-side md5-challenge-response becomes the standard for even the least significant of login screens (over ssh channels, preferably. I don't care if a site is "trusted" by verisign or not unless I'm using a credit card; I just care that the server's got a public key and that my data stays mine).
Meanwhile, I'm fine with my linux/mini-itx-based secure-tunneled proxy on the wired computer in my house. Hell, it only cost me $300 to build. Coulda been cheaper, but I got the 1.2GHz VIA board.
Point is, it's not a method of delivering Big Pipes to everyone who walks around with a PDA, it's about having an always-on connection wherever you go. And while it's definately not about security, the holes that arise from full wireless saturation are still a new and ripe horizon for the hack/fix cycle (yes, I know it's a money issue to Big Business, but for security-minded folks like you find here on slashdot, it's mostly a fun puzzle game).
As for the Big Business' powering the internet, I don't much give a damn how they feel about eventually becoming nigh obsolete (unless someone figures out a way to send a WiFi signal across an ocean, they'll be needed to maintain the hardwires and satellites). To be honest, they're - well - big. They can take care of themselves. Even when they look like they're curling up in pain like some sort of deeply wounded animal, they're thinking of ways to make or save money off the sympathy, rather than working on new technologies that they can then exploit for further profit at the benefit of citizens (the investment is often higher than the percieved benefit. Corporate entrepreneurs are so few and far between these days).
Meanwhile, with the proliferation of wireless networking and VoIP, how long do you think it will be untill the Bells start screaming bloody murder?
Oh wait, they already are.