My condolences to his wife and kids, as well as those closest to him. This is a sad day for nature lovers everywhere, and his fans will miss him greatly.
Exceedingly pre-alpha. This is being provided solely for the purposes of debugging, and for porting important applications early. the main KDE libraries have been ported to Qt 4, and have been partially rewritten. To give developers a headstart (and for them to help work out bugs), they released this. It is in no way meant for the public to ooh and aah over, and frankly i'm irritated its on slashdot.
About the categorization, I couldn't come up with something better. Can you? If so, tell me. I'd gladly change it. I agree, FUD doesn't quite apply. Selective quoting? I copy/pasted his entire arguments. Didn't you read his article? And here you are, selectively quoting my blog and not pasting my entire argument. You're taking many of my remarks out of context.
Ok, here are a few things that show he's just blowing smoke up our collective skirts.
Microsoft has improved Windows by a far greater degree. In the same time frame, it has shipped Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (and 2005 UR2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2, absolutely a big Windows upgrade), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and Windows XP Starter Edition in various languages. Heck, I might be missing some versions. No, they're not all major releases (The N Editions? Eh.) But XP x64, like Tiger on Intel, was a major engineering effort.
Ok, all of these are simply the same OS with different feature sets. Ok, so fine, the x86_64 was a "major engineering effort" (ya right). So lets count that as two major releases since 2001. Isn't that about on par with Apple's MacOS X? The initial releases (MacOS X.0, Windows XP), and then the major platform changes (MaxOS X86, Windows XP 64).
Time Machine is a truly good idea: It helps you automatically back up everything on your system and restore earlier versions of files at any time. But this was a great idea over three years ago when Microsoft first added it to Windows Server 2003 as Volume Shadow Copy (VSC, or "Previous Versions" to end users). In fact, VSC is such a good idea, Microsoft is adding it as a purely client-side service in Windows Vista as well.
You're right. It's a great idea. In fact, the innovative way they've implemented it makes it even better. Oh, whats that? Windows' interface to the same "feature" sucks? Thats right. Frankly the version in Windows 2003 Server is absolute crap.
Apple is integrating applications like Boot Camp, Photo Booth, and Front Row into Leopard. Previously, these applications were only available with new Macs, or in the case of Boot Camp, as a free public beta download. Sorry, but this is hardly impressive.
Its not the integration thats cool here, but instead the enhancements. Boot Camp is coming out of beta, Photo Booth has some awesome new effects/features, and Front Row has a lot of bugfixes and enhancements as well. Nobody once said "Hey look its being integrated," but instead said "Hey look, shiny (new features)!"
Apple's version of Windows Search will now search other Mac clients and workgroup servers, functionality that Microsoft will add to Windows Vista with the release of Vista SP1 and Longhorn Server in late 2007. It will also support advanced search features, like better search syntax, just like Windows Search. And, as with Windows Vista, you'll be able to launch applications and find recent items with Spotlight. Gee, Spotlight still seems an awful lot like Windows Search.
Thats right, a feature thats coming sooner, is being copied from software that will have it later. MacOS X had this tech before Microsoft even announced it in Vista, and really the new features are just a natural evolution of the technology.
Ok, well since you know nothing about Linux (even though you claim to have worked with it), I'll let you in on a few secrets.
Ext2 is ancient. Don't use it. Instead use a journalled filesystem such as Ext3 and ReiserFS, the latter being my favorite for production environment. Both ext2 and ext3 filesystems can be easily defragged with e2defrag. Although, Ext3 and ReiserFS both have technologies to prevent major defragmentation.
Token ring? Please. Nobody really makes good tokenring equipment anymore (if they ever did in the first place), and nobody cares to. Use ethernet, its cheaper, faster, more reliable, and has far more products available. But in any case, Linux has supported tokenring for a very long time. Don't believe me? Google it.
As far as your lawyers' analysis of the GPL, they are completely wrong. You don't have to release any sourcecode that's compiled with GCC just because GCC is GPL'd. Neither do you have to release any modifications you make to the linux kernel. This is the wonder of the GPL version 2. If you want to sell your modifications, fine. Do so. Sell it, distribute it for free, whatever. Just cite the source. But, only the modifications. If you are going to release the modifications already builtin, you have to provide the original source prior to modification. Simple.
You totally made up most of your argument, you've probably never worked in the IT field a day in your life, at least not with Linux. Stop acting like you're an engineer/lawyer/whatever. You are not.
He's probably thinking of criminal negligence, not accessory. Should someone be allowed to enter the building without authorization due to a change in security measures by the head of security, and that person steal confidential information, that person can, in some states, be found criminally negligent.
I suppose this just reinforces that one man's trash is another man's treasure. You just have to be in the right place (website) at the right time with the right trash.
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WINE them. On either Linux or MacOS X (Intel). WINE works on them both.
and CodeWeavers recently released a beta of Crossover Office for MacOS.
Dreamweaver and PhoSho run fine on it.
But really, The Gimp kicks the pants off of PhoSho if you know how to use it.
Its called a braille display.
My condolences to his wife and kids, as well as those closest to him. This is a sad day for nature lovers everywhere, and his fans will miss him greatly.
Sounds perfectly nonobfuscationalized to me.
;-)
The phrase may be nonobfuscated, however your new-fangled word isn't
First it says Indiana, then it says Arkansas. I AM SO CONFUSED!
I'll take it if you don't want it.
Ok, to clerify why I said "Why 3?", why the 3 after Go? Shouldn't it be GoE3? Or something?
and seriously, why Go?!
Why the name Go3? Why Go? Why 3?
Exceedingly pre-alpha. This is being provided solely for the purposes of debugging, and for porting important applications early. the main KDE libraries have been ported to Qt 4, and have been partially rewritten. To give developers a headstart (and for them to help work out bugs), they released this. It is in no way meant for the public to ooh and aah over, and frankly i'm irritated its on slashdot.
Those are/were not screenshots. They are mockups of ideas. Nothing there is final, nor is anything there real (yet).
That should read "non-Gecko", not "non-Mozilla". Not all browsers that use the gecko rendering engine are mozilla products.
Nah. The screen will end up in a rock, inside the owners' snake's habitat under the rear seat in an old nazimobile.
About the categorization, I couldn't come up with something better. Can you? If so, tell me. I'd gladly change it. I agree, FUD doesn't quite apply.
Selective quoting? I copy/pasted his entire arguments. Didn't you read his article? And here you are, selectively quoting my blog and not pasting my entire argument. You're taking many of my remarks out of context.
Troll? How is that a troll! I even just updated it to include stuff about the Techblog response! Alright, who modded that.
Who haven't had a chance to read it, you can see my lengthy response Thurrott at http://apple.krillrblog.com./ Its the main article there.
Whoever posted this to slashdot is a dick. He says he's running it off a home server.
Um.... well thats an extrapolation from him calling us communists, and the common thought (still) that communists are terrorists.
Ok, here are a few things that show he's just blowing smoke up our collective skirts.
Microsoft has improved Windows by a far greater degree. In the same time frame, it has shipped Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (and 2005 UR2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2, absolutely a big Windows upgrade), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and Windows XP Starter Edition in various languages. Heck, I might be missing some versions. No, they're not all major releases (The N Editions? Eh.) But XP x64, like Tiger on Intel, was a major engineering effort.
Ok, all of these are simply the same OS with different feature sets. Ok, so fine, the x86_64 was a "major engineering effort" (ya right). So lets count that as two major releases since 2001. Isn't that about on par with Apple's MacOS X? The initial releases (MacOS X.0, Windows XP), and then the major platform changes (MaxOS X86, Windows XP 64).
Time Machine is a truly good idea: It helps you automatically back up everything on your system and restore earlier versions of files at any time. But this was a great idea over three years ago when Microsoft first added it to Windows Server 2003 as Volume Shadow Copy (VSC, or "Previous Versions" to end users). In fact, VSC is such a good idea, Microsoft is adding it as a purely client-side service in Windows Vista as well.
You're right. It's a great idea. In fact, the innovative way they've implemented it makes it even better. Oh, whats that? Windows' interface to the same "feature" sucks? Thats right. Frankly the version in Windows 2003 Server is absolute crap.
Apple is integrating applications like Boot Camp, Photo Booth, and Front Row into Leopard. Previously, these applications were only available with new Macs, or in the case of Boot Camp, as a free public beta download. Sorry, but this is hardly impressive.
Its not the integration thats cool here, but instead the enhancements. Boot Camp is coming out of beta, Photo Booth has some awesome new effects/features, and Front Row has a lot of bugfixes and enhancements as well. Nobody once said "Hey look its being integrated," but instead said "Hey look, shiny (new features)!"
Apple's version of Windows Search will now search other Mac clients and workgroup servers, functionality that Microsoft will add to Windows Vista with the release of Vista SP1 and Longhorn Server in late 2007. It will also support advanced search features, like better search syntax, just like Windows Search. And, as with Windows Vista, you'll be able to launch applications and find recent items with Spotlight. Gee, Spotlight still seems an awful lot like Windows Search.
Thats right, a feature thats coming sooner, is being copied from software that will have it later. MacOS X had this tech before Microsoft even announced it in Vista, and really the new features are just a natural evolution of the technology.
You can find more of my response in my blog @ http://apple.krillrblog.com/ at about 1PM PDT (20h00 UTC).
Careful, Gates calls people with ideas like yours "Terrorists."
But I agree.
My name is Aaron Krill, and I use Linux.
Ok, well since you know nothing about Linux (even though you claim to have worked with it), I'll let you in on a few secrets.
Ext2 is ancient. Don't use it. Instead use a journalled filesystem such as Ext3 and ReiserFS, the latter being my favorite for production environment. Both ext2 and ext3 filesystems can be easily defragged with e2defrag. Although, Ext3 and ReiserFS both have technologies to prevent major defragmentation.
Token ring? Please. Nobody really makes good tokenring equipment anymore (if they ever did in the first place), and nobody cares to. Use ethernet, its cheaper, faster, more reliable, and has far more products available. But in any case, Linux has supported tokenring for a very long time. Don't believe me? Google it.
As far as your lawyers' analysis of the GPL, they are completely wrong. You don't have to release any sourcecode that's compiled with GCC just because GCC is GPL'd. Neither do you have to release any modifications you make to the linux kernel. This is the wonder of the GPL version 2. If you want to sell your modifications, fine. Do so. Sell it, distribute it for free, whatever. Just cite the source. But, only the modifications. If you are going to release the modifications already builtin, you have to provide the original source prior to modification. Simple.
You totally made up most of your argument, you've probably never worked in the IT field a day in your life, at least not with Linux. Stop acting like you're an engineer/lawyer/whatever. You are not.
He's probably thinking of criminal negligence, not accessory. Should someone be allowed to enter the building without authorization due to a change in security measures by the head of security, and that person steal confidential information, that person can, in some states, be found criminally negligent.
I suppose this just reinforces that one man's trash is another man's treasure. You just have to be in the right place (website) at the right time with the right trash.
Superman falls, and simply misses the ground.
Well, if you swap the S and the K...
Hamachi is really nice and requires no "Mothership" network. It all operates off of Hamachi's (Ham's) server.