This is the same flawed logic that people try to apply to NASA on here a lot, that we shouldn't send people to the Moon/Mars until we fix all the problems on earth.
Halting scientific research to worry about all of our other problems is the wrong approach for many reasons. It is often scientific advances which lead to improved quality of life in many other areas of society.
By 2015 the codebase will be so unstable that all M$ developers will have to gasp in horror, hold their breath for 15 minutes, and pray for the gods of software development to have mercy every time they commit a patch to the repository, lest Bill's children take away their pension for life.
Camino has built in support for a lot of the system wide OS X features like Keychain, the spell checker, Address Book, most of the cocoa services, and probably a few others I'm forgetting.
Anyone who has been a Mac user for any length of time and has used Symantec products can testify to the horrid filthy mutilated piece of code that is a Symantec product on the Mac.
This is NOT A TROLL.
I have seen (and experienced myself) Symantec products CAUSE more problems than they fix (if they are even successful at fixing any) on the Mac platform.
I pity the poor soul who has no experience with Symantec on the Mac and falls for this pathetic ad piece.
what about things like LaTex, emacs, gcc... things I use on a daily basis?... are there ports? Can you merely run these from the terminal like you would on any ordinary BSD or linux box?
Yes you can. Darwin (the OS X kernel) is basically the same as FreeBSD. Therefore, porting software from Gnu Linux / BSD to OS X is usually a trivial task. A huge volume of unix software has already been ported. Check out the Fink project.
he Information Age required rethinking the policies and authorities that kept the National Security Agency in compliance with the Constitution's 4th Amendment prohibition on 'unreasonable searches and seizures' without warrant and 'probable cause
Yet more "we should be above the law to protect you" crap. I don't usually wear a tinfoil hat, but 1984 seems to be approaching faster than I would like.
Um... "Sound business decisions" in a business sense are all about making money. If this "decision" puts money in the fatcat's pockets then it sounds like a "sound business decision" for him.
In the larger market sense it may or may not be a good thing, but that certainly depends on your POV. However, I disagree with the prevailing sentiment here that all mergers are inherently evil and motivated by monopolistic greed. Sometimes the logistical considerations are such that a merger can benefit everyone.
I would read this document available on the Apple site. It has some good information on integrating AD and OD.
One section says this: "Users whose information can be managed most easily on a server should be defined in the shared LDAP directory of a Mac OS X Server that is an Open Directory master. Some of these users may instead be defined in directory domains on other servers, such as an Active Directory domain on a Windows server."
Is this the same "risk study" that they failed to do when they arbitrarily decided to destroy the Hubble telescope rather than repair their most successful scientific mission to date?
It sounds to me like your only source of news is/. and you are trying vainly to come up with some sort of continuity to the whole of NASA's efforts by piecing together only the bits reported on by stories here.
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Well considering that this is at the bottom of the ocean, the incoming pressure on the hole would be substantial.
Also I think the size of this hole compared to the total surface area of the earth would make such a concern relatively insignificant.
freeze any offshore bank accounts
US law enforcement officials can rarely touch offshore assets. That's the whole reason the illegal operations have them offshore in the first place.
I'm sure we can get some people to upload a torrent with the code in question...oh wait!
This is the same flawed logic that people try to apply to NASA on here a lot, that we shouldn't send people to the Moon/Mars until we fix all the problems on earth.
Halting scientific research to worry about all of our other problems is the wrong approach for many reasons. It is often scientific advances which lead to improved quality of life in many other areas of society.
Wow, it's never been this easy to get first post. Too bad it will be off the front page in about 13 minutes. My this is getting WAY too looney.
AAAAHAHAHAHA!! I agree it has sucked but that's the funniest thing I've read all day. ;)
Something tells me the submitter of this story is in violation of his NDA. Maybe he should start looking for a new employer.
By 2015 the codebase will be so unstable that all M$ developers will have to gasp in horror, hold their breath for 15 minutes, and pray for the gods of software development to have mercy every time they commit a patch to the repository, lest Bill's children take away their pension for life.
Someone is getting fired!
/. operates in the same journalistic mode as other online publications.
No, you are presuming that
In actuality, when editors fuck up here they get promoted.
Will anyone be able to top the venerable 12 days?
I believe you have to select "Check Spelling as I type" from a menu or something.
Camino has built in support for a lot of the system wide OS X features like Keychain, the spell checker, Address Book, most of the cocoa services, and probably a few others I'm forgetting.
The pages have been completely revamped with up-to-date information, useful and easy-to-read support pages, and, of course, pretty pictures.
Unfortunately they forgot to upgrade the bandwidth as well.
Anyone who has been a Mac user for any length of time and has used Symantec products can testify to the horrid filthy mutilated piece of code that is a Symantec product on the Mac.
This is NOT A TROLL.
I have seen (and experienced myself) Symantec products CAUSE more problems than they fix (if they are even successful at fixing any) on the Mac platform.
I pity the poor soul who has no experience with Symantec on the Mac and falls for this pathetic ad piece.
what about things like LaTex, emacs, gcc... things I use on a daily basis?... are there ports? Can you merely run these from the terminal like you would on any ordinary BSD or linux box?
Yes you can. Darwin (the OS X kernel) is basically the same as FreeBSD. Therefore, porting software from Gnu Linux / BSD to OS X is usually a trivial task. A huge volume of unix software has already been ported. Check out the Fink project.
Uh, No. The time to buy Apple stock was last year before it went up over 500%.
Verizon would suck as an ISP, as would AOL a network provider.
Are you implying by that statement that AOL does not suck as an ISP?
he Information Age required rethinking the policies and authorities that kept the National Security Agency in compliance with the Constitution's 4th Amendment prohibition on 'unreasonable searches and seizures' without warrant and 'probable cause
Yet more "we should be above the law to protect you" crap. I don't usually wear a tinfoil hat, but 1984 seems to be approaching faster than I would like.
But why the hell does anyone need that much pr0n?
Wow, I think that's the most insightful first post I have EVER read on /.
Um... "Sound business decisions" in a business sense are all about making money. If this "decision" puts money in the fatcat's pockets then it sounds like a "sound business decision" for him.
In the larger market sense it may or may not be a good thing, but that certainly depends on your POV. However, I disagree with the prevailing sentiment here that all mergers are inherently evil and motivated by monopolistic greed. Sometimes the logistical considerations are such that a merger can benefit everyone.
I would read this document available on the Apple site. It has some good information on integrating AD and OD.
One section says this: "Users whose information can be managed most easily on a server should be defined in the shared LDAP directory of a Mac OS X Server that is an Open Directory master. Some of these users may instead be defined in directory domains on other servers, such as an Active Directory domain on a Windows server."
Is this the same "risk study" that they failed to do when they arbitrarily decided to destroy the Hubble telescope rather than repair their most successful scientific mission to date?
/. and you are trying vainly to come up with some sort of continuity to the whole of NASA's efforts by piecing together only the bits reported on by stories here.
It sounds to me like your only source of news is
Yes but they always raise the shields when they enter/exit an atmosphere, so they also kind of double as the heat shield.
Why don't they just raise the shields?