According to Swedish law, the responsibility of the prosecutor is not to get the most severe punishment, but the most appropriate and lawful one. The prosecutor may not even prosecute if he/she is not reasonably sure it will result in a conviction.
Probably not. OS/2 would have probably evolved into the (proprietary?) OS of choice for x86 computers. Or perhaps Linux would be the dominant desktop OS for them.
But if the patent-holder would not have been willing to license the GUI patents, an open desktop wouldn't have been an option, nor would a desktop-oriented OS/2 have been.
Of course I don't know how complex this web mail system is, but 200,000 lines _suggests_ a poor design with a lot of redundancy. I mainly object to the use of "200KLOC" in the heading to imply that this is an important project. Sheer code size doesn't mean anything -- design does, as you pointed out.
That might sound impressive to a non-technical person. And sure, it is _a_lot_ of code! Only, a lot of code is not an asset, it's a liability.
A web mail system at 200 KLOC sounds like a nightmare to maintain, both as a developer and as an administrator. I bet this was a corporate project that went horribly wrong somewhere and this is an attempt to cut some losses.
I thought this was a well-known attack -- using Unicode characters that look like latin but aren't. As more and more web sites start accepting unicode in user names without policing, I think we'll find more interesting applications for this type of attack.
This is not that different from "spoofing" using this address:
http://www.paypaI.com I.e. replacing the lower-case L with an upper-case i. (except that paypai.com appens to be taken already, by an annoying site that maximizes the browser window no less.)
The new component is the RSS feed that describes the locations of the files in a machine-readable syndicated way. And the applications that make the downloading of feeds that you subscribe to automatic, ensuring that the iPod or other music player is always loaded with up-to-date shows.
Most if not all peer to peer networks require a certain level of interest in an item for it to be retained. Popular items are always easy to find while obscure / old items gradually disappear from the network.
Try finding a movie that's a few years old. You'll have more trouble finding the original Jurassic Park than Jurassic Park III.
Peer to peer is not a great way to reliably and systematically preserve cultural heritage.
The compiler Apple ships with its IDE (Xcode) is gcc and it naturally supports C++. A lot of Mac software is written in C++ (most Carbon applications). You can also mix C++ with Objective-C and Cocoa (ObjC++).
Oracle does have products for the Mac (though I doubt you'll run them on the Mac mini). I don't know what D2K is.
Read the review from AnandTech. It is very comprehensive (18 pages!) and doesn't fail to point out the design features Apple put in to enhance the user experience. Nor does it fail to hilight the weak points of the design.
In my experience, it is very rarely "form over function" with Apple, it's function intersecting form.
What is your point? Mac OS X _is_ the next NeXT operating system, even GNUstep realizes this and aims to keep up with Apple's development of Cocoa (former OpenStep). Anyhow, I don't see how this relates to the article about a ~14 yr old product demo.
Because the possible mis-spelling was picked up by several major technology news-sites as an indication that the PowerBook G5 is just around the corner. Apple reiterated the statement that the PBG5 is still way off at MacWorld (the quarterly report). It is obviously not in their interest that the public is expecting a PBG5 any day now, since the PBG4 sales will suffer. With the damage already done, the best they could do was to remove the error/hint from their page.
For each local call you let someone place through your phone, you get a long-distance / international call in return. So it still sounds like a pretty good deal.
OK, so Winamp isn't installed by default, but is is becoming the player of choice for the IT cogniscenti in place of WMP, whereas other Mac players are still the curiosity compared to iTunes.
Last I heard, WinAmp was a discontinued product. That's irony for you.
The article mentions that VLC can play AAC+. I bet VLC is installed on most desktop Macs used by the "IT cogniscenti", alongside iTunes. Furthermore, iTunes supports audio format plug-ins (I don't know whether there exists an AAC+ plug-in.)
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Not if you're using a Dvorak layout where they're next to each other (occupying the same keys as "s" and "d" on a QWERTY).
I remember reading that Keynote was an update of an old NeXT software package, even though it has never been marketed as such. I don't think Apple would concede to it if asked.
Parts of Sweden are very sparsely populated, and yet broadband access is widely available. The government decided a few years ago that Internet access was important and that appropriate funding should be provided to remote municipalities with low population densities. Since private companies did not find it attractive to build high-speed connections to remote places, the government and municipalities agreed to cover part of the cost.
Access to communications _should_ be a human right, just like the right to education (article 26, Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Private enterprise cannot be trusted or expected to cover human rights -- infrastructure in particular should be provided by public organisations.
Yep, and the lack of virus/trojans was because of the open sourcedness. At least that was the reason the clients were not cluttered with adware and spyware, which I believe contributed to its success.
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According to Swedish law, the responsibility of the prosecutor is not to get the most severe punishment, but the most appropriate and lawful one. The prosecutor may not even prosecute if he/she is not reasonably sure it will result in a conviction.
Apple ships only its own media player (QuickTime Player) with Mac OS X.
But it isn't Apple hardware! It's all IBM. It's not even PPC, it's POWER, which Apple doesn't use.
Uhm, IBM?
No, that's trademark infringement. Don't go there.
Dear Hawaiian Islands, Please cease and desist from using the word "Hula", a trademark of Novell corp. --Novell Legal.
But if the patent-holder would not have been willing to license the GUI patents, an open desktop wouldn't have been an option, nor would a desktop-oriented OS/2 have been.
Of course I don't know how complex this web mail system is, but 200,000 lines _suggests_ a poor design with a lot of redundancy. I mainly object to the use of "200KLOC" in the heading to imply that this is an important project. Sheer code size doesn't mean anything -- design does, as you pointed out.
That might sound impressive to a non-technical person. And sure, it is _a_lot_ of code! Only, a lot of code is not an asset, it's a liability.
A web mail system at 200 KLOC sounds like a nightmare to maintain, both as a developer and as an administrator. I bet this was a corporate project that went horribly wrong somewhere and this is an attempt to cut some losses.
I thought this was a well-known attack -- using Unicode characters that look like latin but aren't. As more and more web sites start accepting unicode in user names without policing, I think we'll find more interesting applications for this type of attack.
This is not that different from "spoofing" using this address:
http://www.paypaI.com I.e. replacing the lower-case L with an upper-case i. (except that paypai.com appens to be taken already, by an annoying site that maximizes the browser window no less.)
The new component is the RSS feed that describes the locations of the files in a machine-readable syndicated way. And the applications that make the downloading of feeds that you subscribe to automatic, ensuring that the iPod or other music player is always loaded with up-to-date shows.
Definitely not!
Most if not all peer to peer networks require a certain level of interest in an item for it to be retained. Popular items are always easy to find while obscure / old items gradually disappear from the network.
Try finding a movie that's a few years old. You'll have more trouble finding the original Jurassic Park than Jurassic Park III.
Peer to peer is not a great way to reliably and systematically preserve cultural heritage.
Of course you can run C++ on a Mac.
The compiler Apple ships with its IDE (Xcode) is gcc and it naturally supports C++. A lot of Mac software is written in C++ (most Carbon applications). You can also mix C++ with Objective-C and Cocoa (ObjC++).
Oracle does have products for the Mac (though I doubt you'll run them on the Mac mini). I don't know what D2K is.
Read the review from AnandTech. It is very comprehensive (18 pages!) and doesn't fail to point out the design features Apple put in to enhance the user experience. Nor does it fail to hilight the weak points of the design.
In my experience, it is very rarely "form over function" with Apple, it's function intersecting form.
What is your point? Mac OS X _is_ the next NeXT operating system, even GNUstep realizes this and aims to keep up with Apple's development of Cocoa (former OpenStep). Anyhow, I don't see how this relates to the article about a ~14 yr old product demo.
be he's obviously not stupid.
He's obviously stupid. His actions served nobody, and landed himself in jail. That is not intelligent behaviour by any measure.
Because the possible mis-spelling was picked up by several major technology news-sites as an indication that the PowerBook G5 is just around the corner. Apple reiterated the statement that the PBG5 is still way off at MacWorld (the quarterly report). It is obviously not in their interest that the public is expecting a PBG5 any day now, since the PBG4 sales will suffer. With the damage already done, the best they could do was to remove the error/hint from their page.
Though it's good to know that WINE will do what it's supposed to do--execute code written for Windows, it's kinda silly to think it wouldn't.
Most of the viruses did not work as expected.
For each local call you let someone place through your phone, you get a long-distance / international call in return. So it still sounds like a pretty good deal.
OK, so Winamp isn't installed by default, but is is becoming the player of choice for the IT cogniscenti in place of WMP, whereas other Mac players are still the curiosity compared to iTunes.
Last I heard, WinAmp was a discontinued product. That's irony for you.
The article mentions that VLC can play AAC+. I bet VLC is installed on most desktop Macs used by the "IT cogniscenti", alongside iTunes. Furthermore, iTunes supports audio format plug-ins (I don't know whether there exists an AAC+ plug-in.)
Not if you're using a Dvorak layout where they're next to each other (occupying the same keys as "s" and "d" on a QWERTY).
Are you sure?
I remember reading that Keynote was an update of an old NeXT software package, even though it has never been marketed as such. I don't think Apple would concede to it if asked.
If it isn't a right, then it at least should be.
Parts of Sweden are very sparsely populated, and yet broadband access is widely available. The government decided a few years ago that Internet access was important and that appropriate funding should be provided to remote municipalities with low population densities. Since private companies did not find it attractive to build high-speed connections to remote places, the government and municipalities agreed to cover part of the cost.
Access to communications _should_ be a human right, just like the right to education (article 26, Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Private enterprise cannot be trusted or expected to cover human rights -- infrastructure in particular should be provided by public organisations.
Do you intend to say that an article about politics is more likely to be written objectively if done by a single person with a single person's biases?
Yep, and the lack of virus/trojans was because of the open sourcedness. At least that was the reason the clients were not cluttered with adware and spyware, which I believe contributed to its success.