Even though it's 1024x768 that drawer was a serious waste of horizontal real estate. Enough people bitched about it that it got fixed in a few months. The feedback cycle is working, us Mac users should use it to our advantage to make the products that much better.
Actually the quote says "...without first clearing the license terms with the legal department."
So for example, don't let your employees use GPL software until you understand what the GPL is. Fair enough. After you approve the GPL license terms, people are free to use GPL software.
Did you interpret this to mean that you would need approval for each piece of open source software? Because yes, that would be a huge pain! I don't think that is what the guideline meant. Getting an open source license approved once isn't a big deal.
Yeah, not quite. It says that he used his own account. So it's not like the FBI is looking for a specific AOL account to be used and then tracking it.
More likely is that there was a seperate piece of software "phoning home" over TCP/IP, giving the FBI the IP address. They know it's AOL at time yadda yadda and AOL gives them the number that was used to connect to the service, which gives the address.
Still a lot of help from AOL's needed. We can only assume they had a court order or something. What happened to ISPs protecting user's identities?
Here's another brainstorm: How about employers stop acting like jackbooted thugs before someone whose livelihood has been taken away for some unimportant slight to some executive's pride or royal prerogative comes in with a bomb strapped to his chest and blows their front office to kingdom come someday?
Yes that's it -- we'll sacrifice corporate security so we don't hurt someone's feelings. Whatever. Microsoft was not a thug in this case, the guy did something stupid and then admitted it. Don't blog about work!!
Since then, I've had 2 other friends (A teacher and a programmer) go through almost the same thing, and they've all put passwords on their sites. I would recommend ALL bloggers to do that if they decide to post anything about work, co-workers, etc if they value their jobs.
Here's a brainstorm: How about you just don't say anything about work in your blog?
So to summarize/correct: Stallman wanted the *whole operating system packages* called GNU/Linux because it consists of the Linux kernel and GNU software.
The kernel can be called whatever it wants.
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Java... isn't ready to be used for anything with a GUI or where startup time matters.
This is a myth and it's been debunked so many times I stopped counting. Look at the Eclipse project -- the Win32 UI is native (written using SWT) and just as responsive as apps written in C++.
Labor for everything else. The computer isn't going to be the entire labor cost of this project. Someone has to build the rooms to spec, install the air conditioning, blahblahblah...
...such as other people authorized to view the document and expiration dates for any permissions.
Pardon me, but it is utterly stupid to rely on a single server/service to remain running just so I can read something. A DDOS attack can literally shut down a company at this point.
You quoted the very solution to that problem. People probably get permissions in large intervals -- a week or month -- after which they expire and have to be reauthenticated. They would then be free to view that document during that interval without being connected to the Internet. So you could probably go a few days with minor incoveniences without a license server. That's one heck of a DDOS attack.
What are you talking about? Firebird has had NTLM support for months.
My firewall at work disagrees with you. I can get past it just fine with Mozilla but not with Firebird 0.6.1 or the latest nightly build. There is nothing in Firebird preferences for NTLM either.
Fire/Thunderbird might be where the action is... but I don't want action. I want a stable application that's fully featured.
Actually, Mozilla tends to be where new development goes... at least up until now. For example, I've been waiting for NTLM authentication in Firebird for about 4 months now... Firebird still hasn't completely caught up to the 1.5 Mozilla branch yet.
Presumably Firebird will be the main development trunk, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe by the Firebird 0.7 release.
That $29.95 gets you a lot more than just full-screen. You might want to actually look into it instead of bitching.
Full screen is the only thing I need out of all of the other features, thanks. A lot of people want just full-screen playback and $29.95 seems a little excessive for one feature. Nice try, Apple.
I second that... mod the parent up. I use the VLC client on my Mac because Apple wants $29.95 for full-screen Quicktime... forget about it. VLC is cross-platform and it's all I need.
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has a good article about Windows 2003 testing in heteroegenous environments. Here's a quote from it:
"We've got just about every kind of server imaginable in here," Santino says, laughing. "If it's in their environment, it needs to work. Another thing that amazes customers is that they assume we won't test that [non-Microsoft] stuff. But that's not true. If you're using [IBM] DB/2, fine. We will test what they are using in their business."
"The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy."
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I second that. I have a 12" iBook screen. :P heh
Even though it's 1024x768 that drawer was a serious waste of horizontal real estate. Enough people bitched about it that it got fixed in a few months. The feedback cycle is working, us Mac users should use it to our advantage to make the products that much better.
Actually the quote says "...without first clearing the license terms with the legal department."
So for example, don't let your employees use GPL software until you understand what the GPL is. Fair enough. After you approve the GPL license terms, people are free to use GPL software.
Did you interpret this to mean that you would need approval for each piece of open source software? Because yes, that would be a huge pain! I don't think that is what the guideline meant. Getting an open source license approved once isn't a big deal.
At least the K makes sense. What does the "i" stand for? information? internet? integrated?
Yeah, not quite. It says that he used his own account. So it's not like the FBI is looking for a specific AOL account to be used and then tracking it.
More likely is that there was a seperate piece of software "phoning home" over TCP/IP, giving the FBI the IP address. They know it's AOL at time yadda yadda and AOL gives them the number that was used to connect to the service, which gives the address.
Still a lot of help from AOL's needed. We can only assume they had a court order or something. What happened to ISPs protecting user's identities?
Anybody point fingers at Microsoft yet? SCO?
... you have six more!
:P :D
Why stop there?
And two thumbs too!
Here's another brainstorm: How about employers stop acting like jackbooted thugs before someone whose livelihood has been taken away for some unimportant slight to some executive's pride or royal prerogative comes in with a bomb strapped to his chest and blows their front office to kingdom come someday?
Yes that's it -- we'll sacrifice corporate security so we don't hurt someone's feelings. Whatever. Microsoft was not a thug in this case, the guy did something stupid and then admitted it. Don't blog about work!!
Sounds like Microsoft was getting all the benefits of a full-time employee without having to worry about any of the associated costs.
Microsoft has been through the ringer already with respect to "permatemps" (permanent temporary employees). Do a quick Google search for more details.
Since then, I've had 2 other friends (A teacher and a programmer) go through almost the same thing, and they've all put passwords on their sites. I would recommend ALL bloggers to do that if they decide to post anything about work, co-workers, etc if they value their jobs.
Here's a brainstorm: How about you just don't say anything about work in your blog?
Ya for the humour impaired, that joke was a joke.
All of the math is in metric units. Enjoy! ;)
So to summarize/correct: Stallman wanted the *whole operating system packages* called GNU/Linux because it consists of the Linux kernel and GNU software.
The kernel can be called whatever it wants.
Thanks for tuning in, kids.
Java ... isn't ready to be used for anything with a GUI or where startup time matters.
This is a myth and it's been debunked so many times I stopped counting. Look at the Eclipse project -- the Win32 UI is native (written using SWT) and just as responsive as apps written in C++.
I hope they release their in-house documentation too.
;)
This is a game development company. What documentation?
Labor for everything else. The computer isn't going to be the entire labor cost of this project. Someone has to build the rooms to spec, install the air conditioning, blahblahblah ...
Note that 1100*$3000 = $3M. This doesn't include the 4GB RAM, but also doesn't include any volume discounts. Thus the interconnect may cost about $2M.
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There are, of course, other costs. The room(s) to house 1100 computers, air conditioning system, electricity, labor, maintainance and on and on
Pardon me, but it is utterly stupid to rely on a single server/service to remain running just so I can read something. A DDOS attack can literally shut down a company at this point.
You quoted the very solution to that problem. People probably get permissions in large intervals -- a week or month -- after which they expire and have to be reauthenticated. They would then be free to view that document during that interval without being connected to the Internet. So you could probably go a few days with minor incoveniences without a license server. That's one heck of a DDOS attack.
I get that dialog with Mozilla but not with Firebird.
What are you talking about? Firebird has had NTLM support for months.
My firewall at work disagrees with you. I can get past it just fine with Mozilla but not with Firebird 0.6.1 or the latest nightly build. There is nothing in Firebird preferences for NTLM either.
Fire/Thunderbird might be where the action is... but I don't want action. I want a stable application that's fully featured.
... at least up until now. For example, I've been waiting for NTLM authentication in Firebird for about 4 months now ... Firebird still hasn't completely caught up to the 1.5 Mozilla branch yet.
Actually, Mozilla tends to be where new development goes
Presumably Firebird will be the main development trunk, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe by the Firebird 0.7 release.
That $29.95 gets you a lot more than just full-screen. You might want to actually look into it instead of bitching.
Full screen is the only thing I need out of all of the other features, thanks. A lot of people want just full-screen playback and $29.95 seems a little excessive for one feature. Nice try, Apple.
Why not just use the VideoLAN Client?
... mod the parent up. I use the VLC client on my Mac because Apple wants $29.95 for full-screen Quicktime ... forget about it. VLC is cross-platform and it's all I need.
I second that
Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!
Soon meaning a few thousand years?
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has a good article about Windows 2003 testing in heteroegenous environments. Here's a quote from it:
"We've got just about every kind of server imaginable in here," Santino says, laughing. "If it's in their environment, it needs to work. Another thing that amazes customers is that they assume we won't test that [non-Microsoft] stuff. But that's not true. If you're using [IBM] DB/2, fine. We will test what they are using in their business."
Thank you, pkhuong for clearing that up. People hear socialism and they think communism.
Dictionary.com actually goes a bit further in the definition of socialism:
"The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy."
Why send astronauts? Monkeys aren't intelligent enough.
Not unlike humans, it depends on the monkey in question.