Realistically, anyone who has the discerning nature of an iPod buyer is never going to buy a new Fiat anyway. Their cars are cheap junk, a Microsoft partnership seems almost a perfect match....
although given Fiat's history of electrical problems in all their modells, you'd never know for sure that it was a software fault that killed your audio feed.
This isn't something to be worried about, its just another idea we geeks should warn friends and family not to buy into. That's a geek tradition of very long standing. I dare say most readers of/. would warn against Fiat cars even without this additional extra...
If you check the Cygwin website you'll see that it is described by its creators thus:
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.
I trust that my using the words "Linux environment" to describe it are acceptable - given that the Cygwin project was founded by Red Hat Linux.
This is interesting.
For a while now I have used some OSS-community applications on my Windows 2000 Office desktop by running binaries compiled under the Cygwin Linux environment on Windows.
the concept of having a Linux application which could be compiled under Windows from the same codebase (subject to dependencies and X-server requirements being met) may be very appealing to the Opensource groups who have been issuing software tor Mac OSX by this method for some time.
I also wonder if this is intended to give Windows more access to certain Scientific/Media computing markets which are dominated by *nix systems (industrial renderfarms, for instance). Either way, I can only see this as a good thing.
Its pretty obvious really. Or sometimes I use the @real.com domain because they are a real nuisance when it comes to mailing lists if you are stupid enough to register their software
As I see it there are for principle rendering engines in use today:
MSIE - used in IE, obviously, and several Win32 browsers which use IE's engine.
Gecko - Mozilla, F/Fox, K-Meleon, Galeon
KHTML - Konqueror, Safari
Opera - Opera and several mobile implementations thereof
Opera tends to be pretty standards-compliant, historically it had some CSS bugs but they're getting attention since the later 6.x builds. Gecko and KHTML are open-source and can share code. I don't know if they do, but they can, and this essentially means their further development will probably be relatively similar in its addressing of the issues faced by broswer architects, namely the occasionaly clashes between specifications for web code.
Small jumps like this in the use of one of the more visible browsers - (Firefox has been publicly recommended by official US bodies, this helps a lot. It could as easily have stayed in the shadow of K-Meleon which is a lightweight Win32 MFC-interface implementation of Gecko) - aren't just an indication of the end of IE, they're a warning to webdesigners to think about it.
I'm fairly sure there's a critical mass after which is becomes significantly easier to migrate browsers due to an over public demand for support in web sites. That's what's really good about these stats.
Macintosh owners have no shortage of enthusiasm for showing off their computer....
Very true.. and I have to admit that within a few weeks of getting my old iBook, I started taking it with me places when fixing Windows machines as I could use it as a large file and document storage device as well as a machine that wouldnt be taken down when attached to an infected Windows box... and I started passing it to Windows users to give them something to play with while I debug their personal machines. (Always have a distraction prepared while fixing a machine, it discourages silly questions)
It's unintentional. Perhaps mac-ownerness is the only infectious virus on OSX platform. Either way, I bet Apple's user-base do more for Apple sales than its advertising does. Viral marketing is a powerful force to deply.
I resent the implication that I'm a troll, especially when made by an anonymous coward no doubt anxious to keep his own Karma from being further burnt. I post under my own UID, and as a simple click will show my karma is high despite occasionally getting modded down (as doubtless this will be, as being offtopic)
If you want to make points like this, misguided as they may be, at least have the courage of your convictions and post under your own UID.
Think how many coloured-case iMacs and iBooks, and Powerbook G3s are out there in the wild. All can run OSX 10.3 Panther perfectly given a RAM upgrade, why should they be excluded from 10.4?
However, I'm not jumping to conclusions ans I don't believe Apple wants to cut them off. I suspect the final edition will be available on CD. I'm just annoyed as my iBook (running Panther) doesn't have Firewire.... (which they also state is a requirement!)
This sounds suspiciously like the initial propaganda for Microsoft.Net - having both software and, eventually, storage hosted in secure online sites. Computing as a service not a product.
If you had ready the XP deployment tools, you could have created a winnt.sif file (plain text, manually edited) which placed on a floppy disk in the drive, or in/i386 on the windows install disk (need WinISO and nero do to this) automates the install and allows you to specify classic theme, classic start menu, not installing msn messenger or explorer or wordpad or games or other crap..
Oh and you can slipstream the disk with SP1 to save a LOT of time downloading too. I'm typing this from a clean install which took just 35 mins from reboot with CD to getting online fully patched to SP1 state.
I'm sure Son'y brilliant engineers can come up with an iPod-a-like which will work well and sell well, but I din't think thye'll beat the iPod.
Early to the market is a big gain, as is having developed a highly usable product, both of these are on Apple's side. Furthermore, the kind of buyers who buy iPods probably understand the benefits of open standards - Mp3 and AAC against Sony's proprietary ATRAC system, even if they don't already have Mp3 collections. Sony stands for lock-in. Customers rarely take well to that
If it has a video-out port, it can be used to copy the disk. Unless they plan on shipping integrated DVD players with a built-in screen it's not going to work.
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To anyone with an interest in the birth of the web, one of the CERN NeXT Cubes used by Lee can be viewed in the Science Museum in London.
Anyone familiar with the NeXT machine and its current Mac descendents will doubtless find it quite an interesting exhibit.
Wow, and I thought that admitting to being an alcoholic was the hardest thing a person could do. You have my sympathy.
Realistically, anyone who has the discerning nature of an iPod buyer is never going to buy a new Fiat anyway. Their cars are cheap junk, a Microsoft partnership seems almost a perfect match....
/. would warn against Fiat cars even without this additional extra...
although given Fiat's history of electrical problems in all their modells, you'd never know for sure that it was a software fault that killed your audio feed.
This isn't something to be worried about, its just another idea we geeks should warn friends and family not to buy into. That's a geek tradition of very long standing. I dare say most readers of
not.. Enoch Root?
Record his transponder signal, and throw a copy of his chip over the border fence into the USA...
First real Funnay in the thread and you missed the chance for an "All your Games-machines in the Soviet Union are belong to US!"
FOOL!
Bang goes MY karma.....
At risk of redundancy, I suspect that'll be its official release in October now
If you check the Cygwin website you'll see that it is described by its creators thus:
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.
I trust that my using the words "Linux environment" to describe it are acceptable - given that the Cygwin project was founded by Red Hat Linux.
"So, how did you compile KDE on Windows?"
"SFU, noob!"
This is interesting.
For a while now I have used some OSS-community applications on my Windows 2000 Office desktop by running binaries compiled under the Cygwin Linux environment on Windows.
the concept of having a Linux application which could be compiled under Windows from the same codebase (subject to dependencies and X-server requirements being met) may be very appealing to the Opensource groups who have been issuing software tor Mac OSX by this method for some time.
I also wonder if this is intended to give Windows more access to certain Scientific/Media computing markets which are dominated by *nix systems (industrial renderfarms, for instance). Either way, I can only see this as a good thing.
or sometimes moc.liamtoh@hotmail.com - as it reads the same backwards. moc.liamg@gmail.com is already taken if anyone was wondering.
Its pretty obvious really. Or sometimes I use the @real.com domain because they are a real nuisance when it comes to mailing lists if you are stupid enough to register their software
As I see it there are for principle rendering engines in use today:
MSIE - used in IE, obviously, and several Win32 browsers which use IE's engine.
Gecko - Mozilla, F/Fox, K-Meleon, Galeon
KHTML - Konqueror, Safari
Opera - Opera and several mobile implementations thereof
Opera tends to be pretty standards-compliant, historically it had some CSS bugs but they're getting attention since the later 6.x builds. Gecko and KHTML are open-source and can share code. I don't know if they do, but they can, and this essentially means their further development will probably be relatively similar in its addressing of the issues faced by broswer architects, namely the occasionaly clashes between specifications for web code.
Small jumps like this in the use of one of the more visible browsers - (Firefox has been publicly recommended by official US bodies, this helps a lot. It could as easily have stayed in the shadow of K-Meleon which is a lightweight Win32 MFC-interface implementation of Gecko) - aren't just an indication of the end of IE, they're a warning to webdesigners to think about it.
I'm fairly sure there's a critical mass after which is becomes significantly easier to migrate browsers due to an over public demand for support in web sites. That's what's really good about these stats.
Macintosh owners have no shortage of enthusiasm for showing off their computer....
Very true.. and I have to admit that within a few weeks of getting my old iBook, I started taking it with me places when fixing Windows machines as I could use it as a large file and document storage device as well as a machine that wouldnt be taken down when attached to an infected Windows box... and I started passing it to Windows users to give them something to play with while I debug their personal machines. (Always have a distraction prepared while fixing a machine, it discourages silly questions)
It's unintentional. Perhaps mac-ownerness is the only infectious virus on OSX platform. Either way, I bet Apple's user-base do more for Apple sales than its advertising does. Viral marketing is a powerful force to deply.
Trust me to ruin my own joke by being too clever. Re my last reply, it should have been
"We need a new techy term for large monopolists who are victimised by the (smaller) opposition. I propose the use of "Uberdog" in such situations."
Slashdot doesn't like Umlauts on capital U's, it seems.
We need a new techy term for large monopolists who are victimised by the (smaller) opposition. I propose the use of "berdog" in such situations.
I resent the implication that I'm a troll, especially when made by an anonymous coward no doubt anxious to keep his own Karma from being further burnt. I post under my own UID, and as a simple click will show my karma is high despite occasionally getting modded down (as doubtless this will be, as being offtopic)
If you want to make points like this, misguided as they may be, at least have the courage of your convictions and post under your own UID.
Groups of demonstrators could use them en-masse to project messages onto prominent political persons or buildings.
Think how many coloured-case iMacs and iBooks, and Powerbook G3s are out there in the wild. All can run OSX 10.3 Panther perfectly given a RAM upgrade, why should they be excluded from 10.4?
However, I'm not jumping to conclusions ans I don't believe Apple wants to cut them off. I suspect the final edition will be available on CD. I'm just annoyed as my iBook (running Panther) doesn't have Firewire.... (which they also state is a requirement!)
This sounds suspiciously like the initial propaganda for Microsoft .Net - having both software and, eventually, storage hosted in secure online sites. Computing as a service not a product.
If you had ready the XP deployment tools, you could have created a winnt.sif file (plain text, manually edited) which placed on a floppy disk in the drive, or in /i386 on the windows install disk (need WinISO and nero do to this) automates the install and allows you to specify classic theme, classic start menu, not installing msn messenger or explorer or wordpad or games or other crap..
Oh and you can slipstream the disk with SP1 to save a LOT of time downloading too. I'm typing this from a clean install which took just 35 mins from reboot with CD to getting online fully patched to SP1 state.
+5 Insightful just isn't enough for this post.....
We demand Genius Modifier!
I'm sure Son'y brilliant engineers can come up with an iPod-a-like which will work well and sell well, but I din't think thye'll beat the iPod.
Early to the market is a big gain, as is having developed a highly usable product, both of these are on Apple's side. Furthermore, the kind of buyers who buy iPods probably understand the benefits of open standards - Mp3 and AAC against Sony's proprietary ATRAC system, even if they don't already have Mp3 collections. Sony stands for lock-in. Customers rarely take well to that
Changing the install location of a game that wanted to install to C:\Sierra\** to C:\Program Files\**
Yes, when I uninstalled it having found it somewhat underwhelming, it deleted my Program Files directory. Had to reinstall everything....
If it has a video-out port, it can be used to copy the disk. Unless they plan on shipping integrated DVD players with a built-in screen it's not going to work.