First of all, there are malware exploits for OSX as well as for Windows. Sure, there aren't as many, but that is because of Apple's much lower market share, not due to some inherent advantage of the system. There was certainly a time when Windows was much less secure than competing OSes, but that time ended some years ago.
Sorry, OSX is inherently more secure than Windows. There was a guy who provided a free anti-virus program for Mac until Microsoft introduced Macro Viruses for Office which immediately caused the number of Mac viruses to jump to over 1,000. Now that's not saying that Windows isn't trying to catch up on security. The reality today is that many viruses are targeting installed software like Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash and the various browsers."
If OSX is inherently so much more secure than Windows, why is it that in competitions such as Pwn2Own, in almost every case, OSX is the first to fall? On the first day of the event last March, a fully patched Mac OS X 10.6.6 was made to execute arbitrary code and write files to disk outside of the sandbox.
Mac OS X is just as insecure as Windows, no matter what the raw virus-count in the wild says.
In this economy, there is a 9% unemployment rate. That means that you simply need to be better than the bottom 9% of people and still be able to land a job. If you're worried that some people in that 9% might outperform you and get the job you won't get, which will make you end up unemployed, it might simply mean you're not qualified enough to work for money.
Obviously, the 9% target varies wildly depending on the sector, but especially in IT, it's not all that bad. Even skills "below average" can net you a job. You really need to be near the absolute worst in your field to not convince anyone to hire you.
When they say "that not the intent", then modify the bill so that it's words match the intent. Nobody is going to give a shit what you meant to write, they're going to look at what you actually wrote down on paper.
In a land of common law (as opposed to civil law), what the words say does not matter, it's how the judges interpret it that makes it law. Even if they change the wording of the law, if a judge interprets it as meaning it should also apply to people linking to YouTube, then you're screwed. The only thing that can save if is if a jury of your peers share your opinion on the matter.
The problem with your solution is if there is a massive boycott, the entertainment industry will see its profits decline, then it will blame it on piracy, and will use that to have even more draconian laws enacted. It's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
His company is now a significant owner. He has the right to ask for such things. Nothing wrong with it at all.
From TFA:
Greenlight currently holds about 9 million shares in Microsoft, or 0.11 percent of the company's outstanding shares, according to Thomson Reuters data.
I'd hardly call 0.11% being a significant owner. Doesn't mean he's not allowed to voice his opinion though.
iOS is significantly more successful than Android, and yet does not have this problem.
What the hell are you talking about? Since when is having a smaller marketshare being significantly more successful?
Symbian OS from the Symbian Foundation (41.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
RIM BlackBerry OS (18.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
Android from Google Inc. (17.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
iOS from Apple Inc. (14.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
I believe you massively overestimate the amount of people who would go out and buy game cartridges if they couldn't pirate, especially if piracy is so very much more convenient.
And I believe you vastly underestimate the number of people who would go out and buy game cartridges if they couldn't pirate, especially if piracy is so very inconvenient.
Fat chance. Monitor panel resolutions (except for pretty esoteric models) appear to have levelled out - I'd imagine they're just using panels for TVs.
So unfortunately true. We get fewer pixels now than we had 10 years ago. I've been using resolutions of 1600x1200 for years (CRT at first, then LCD), both for home usage and work. Nowadays, walk into a BestBuy and try to find a monitor that displays more than 1080 lines.
Computer monitors are all made to display 1080p video now, rather than actually be used for computing, like I don't do anything else than watch video on my computer.
I could get a 1600x1200 LCD monitor for under $500 more than 5 years ago. With today's tech, I would have expected to either get the same resolution for $100 today, or some big-ass 3000x2250 monitor for under $1000, but they won't make those since it doesn't fit HD-TV.
- Office software compatibility... we standardize on OpenOffice.org and have been pleasantly surprised that it is more compatible with MS Office than all of the various MS Office versions are with each other.
I've always been surprised by such a claim. While most Word documents can be used decently in OpenOffice.org Writer, I have very rarely seen a PowerPoint presentation display correctly in OOo Impress. Either the fonts are bad and text overlap, or images appear in front of text, or tables are screwed up.
Open any "professional" (whatever that means) PowerPoint presentation in OpenOffice.org, hit F5 to start a slideshow, and tell me you'd be comfortable presenting that to an audience.
In the US, parking tickets are issued to the car, not the person. So you might not be able to get your car registration renewed, or get it impounded, but you won't go to jail for not paying.
Just as the guy in TFA got fined for not securing his WiFi as the owner of the signal, and he didn't get sent to jail. The analogy still stands, and the overreactions are still overreactions.
In decent countries, they have to prove that you broke the law. You don't have to prove anything.
Back to the car analogy, how do they, in decent countries, issue parking tickets? How do they figure out who parked the car illegaly rather than simply assuming the owner of the car is responsible, no matter who's driving?
Dual-head support can be configured thru the RandR1.2 and interface and should hopefully work
3D support is worked on using Gallium3D and can be quite usable, butAt the moment, the nv50 (GeForce 8 and up) gallium driver can actually run compiz to some extent already.
(emphasis mine) That kind of wording doesn't lead me to believe they have any idea what they're doing, or that I should expect any kind of usability of reliability out of it.
The main roadblock, at least for newspapers, is that there is no longer be a trusted or verifiable source. That might mean that leaked documents aren't taken as seriously as they would have been otherwise.
That is why there would be an embargo period, to give the journalist time to verify the claims, and do his own little inquiry into the matter to check the facts. I know it's kinda weird asking journalists to actually check facts, but hey, it's worth a try.
If the account has lots of titles and no applications or lots of tiny do nothing, similar sized programs, purge and ban.
Whoa there. A solution like that would remove over 90% of the App Store.
I don't see why that's a problem.
It would be a huge problem for Apple, as they would no longer be able to claim that there are several tens of thousands of apps available on the app store. It's pretty much like the PS2 vs. other consoles marketing bullcrap. Sure, you've got sooooo many apps (or games) available on your platform, but 95% of them is pure crap.
Just to add to your point, FYI, according the MPAA you haven't bought anything.
According to their marketing material though, I did buy the disc and the movie. Ever see a big "Own it now on DVD" when watching an ad? That implies that by buying the DVD, I actually own it. If that isn't the case, then it's blatant false advertising.
No. They make money by taking advantage of public information and trading BEFORE other people act on that public information.
There is a short time window between the time of disclosure of public information and when people start to act on that disclosed information.
No, it actually all happens before the information is public. Here's some info from the article you didn't read:
While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, a loophole in regulations allows marketplaces like Nasdaq to show traders some orders ahead of everyone else in exchange for a fee.
(Emphasis mine). So they act upon the information they got before every one else.
Ultra fast trading is an interesting idea and done right it can lead to successful short term returns
Ultra fast trading might be an interesting idea, but making a whole lot of profit trading stock because you have access to some information before it is made public (even if just 30 milliseconds before it is made public), isn't that a form of insider trading?
The only reason those ultra-fast traders make that much money is because they have access to information before every one else, before it is made public. I don't see how that can be legal.
Would there be any danger of using this in a confined space? Any clue on how much oxygen this thing is churning through?
I'm guessing that using this thing in a confined space is not any more dangerous than using a traditional gas engine in a confined space. In other words, don't do it.
If I was in the business of writing and selling software I wouldn't waste my time on Linux as it just doesn't seem to offer a lot of return for the investment in regards to profit, where Windows users are typically used to buying software for everything.
A lot of people respect the fact that some software is too specialised to be made by the community and agree to pay for it. I write proprietary, closed-source, paid-for software that runs on Linux for a living. Yes, I did have a hard time convincing the higher-ups to let me port the app on Linux, but they see the Linux destkop getting bigger and bigger, and they think there will be a decent ROI in the long run.
I'm also betting that if a vendor did release a pay for play product on Linux that within months there would be some free open source version of it that would appear to compete. A no-win for the pay to play guys.
It also depends on what you develop. If you make what I call "commodity software" that basically anyone can write in his mom's basement, and simply charge money for the heck of it, then of course, you will be out-performed by an open-source community version. However, if you write specialised software, that won't happen. Our Linux app is based on 15 years and tens of millions of dollars of R&D. The result of that R&D is proprietary and closed-source. I don't see how a free and open-source version of the same quality could appear within months.
Same goes for games. Game companies could release all the games they want on Linux, there won't be anything comparable that is free and open-source to compete with them. Heck, Unreal Tournament has been available on Linux for quite a while, and I've never seen anything compete with it.
Counting me as a "Linux user" simply because I tried it last month would be a mistake, but I suspect it's a common one made by many estimators.
And counting me as a "Windows user" simply because the computer I bought came with Windows preinstalled is also a common mistake made by many estimators.
gtkpod and others using libgpod. Like Amarok and Rythmbox, though support is only preliminary for touch/phone.
You proved my point right there. Support is only preliminary. And, according the the docs, the iPod needs to be jailbroken, and I don't think I can jailbreak my iPod without iTunes.
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First of all, there are malware exploits for OSX as well as for Windows. Sure, there aren't as many, but that is because of Apple's much lower market share, not due to some inherent advantage of the system. There was certainly a time when Windows was much less secure than competing OSes, but that time ended some years ago.
Sorry, OSX is inherently more secure than Windows. There was a guy who provided a free anti-virus program for Mac until Microsoft introduced Macro Viruses for Office which immediately caused the number of Mac viruses to jump to over 1,000. Now that's not saying that Windows isn't trying to catch up on security. The reality today is that many viruses are targeting installed software like Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash and the various browsers."
If OSX is inherently so much more secure than Windows, why is it that in competitions such as Pwn2Own, in almost every case, OSX is the first to fall? On the first day of the event last March, a fully patched Mac OS X 10.6.6 was made to execute arbitrary code and write files to disk outside of the sandbox.
Mac OS X is just as insecure as Windows, no matter what the raw virus-count in the wild says.
LOOK FOR A NEW JOB! In this economy? Screw that.
In this economy, there is a 9% unemployment rate. That means that you simply need to be better than the bottom 9% of people and still be able to land a job. If you're worried that some people in that 9% might outperform you and get the job you won't get, which will make you end up unemployed, it might simply mean you're not qualified enough to work for money.
Obviously, the 9% target varies wildly depending on the sector, but especially in IT, it's not all that bad. Even skills "below average" can net you a job. You really need to be near the absolute worst in your field to not convince anyone to hire you.
When they say "that not the intent", then modify the bill so that it's words match the intent. Nobody is going to give a shit what you meant to write, they're going to look at what you actually wrote down on paper.
In a land of common law (as opposed to civil law), what the words say does not matter, it's how the judges interpret it that makes it law. Even if they change the wording of the law, if a judge interprets it as meaning it should also apply to people linking to YouTube, then you're screwed. The only thing that can save if is if a jury of your peers share your opinion on the matter.
The problem with your solution is if there is a massive boycott, the entertainment industry will see its profits decline, then it will blame it on piracy, and will use that to have even more draconian laws enacted. It's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
His company is now a significant owner. He has the right to ask for such things. Nothing wrong with it at all.
From TFA :
Greenlight currently holds about 9 million shares in Microsoft, or 0.11 percent of the company's outstanding shares, according to Thomson Reuters data.
I'd hardly call 0.11% being a significant owner. Doesn't mean he's not allowed to voice his opinion though.
What the hell are you talking about? Since when is having a smaller marketshare being significantly more successful?
There are far more iOS devices out there than Android devices.
And what numbers did you pull from your ass to make that claim?
iOS is significantly more successful than Android, and yet does not have this problem.
What the hell are you talking about? Since when is having a smaller marketshare being significantly more successful?
Symbian OS from the Symbian Foundation (41.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
RIM BlackBerry OS (18.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
Android from Google Inc. (17.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
iOS from Apple Inc. (14.2% Market Share Sales Q2 2010)
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system
I figured on slashdot odds favored the programmer.
And that's why you never make assumptions... because you make an ass out of you and... mumptions...
And I believe you vastly underestimate the number of people who would go out and buy game cartridges if they couldn't pirate, especially if piracy is so very inconvenient.
I believe that's exactly what they have. That's why you can "see" the screen.
In that case, that's hardly anything new. Even my keyboard has "retina display" technology, I mean, that's why I can "see" it, right?
Fat chance. Monitor panel resolutions (except for pretty esoteric models) appear to have levelled out - I'd imagine they're just using panels for TVs.
So unfortunately true. We get fewer pixels now than we had 10 years ago. I've been using resolutions of 1600x1200 for years (CRT at first, then LCD), both for home usage and work. Nowadays, walk into a BestBuy and try to find a monitor that displays more than 1080 lines.
Computer monitors are all made to display 1080p video now, rather than actually be used for computing, like I don't do anything else than watch video on my computer.
I could get a 1600x1200 LCD monitor for under $500 more than 5 years ago. With today's tech, I would have expected to either get the same resolution for $100 today, or some big-ass 3000x2250 monitor for under $1000, but they won't make those since it doesn't fit HD-TV.
- Office software compatibility... we standardize on OpenOffice.org and have been pleasantly surprised that it is more compatible with MS Office than all of the various MS Office versions are with each other.
I've always been surprised by such a claim. While most Word documents can be used decently in OpenOffice.org Writer, I have very rarely seen a PowerPoint presentation display correctly in OOo Impress. Either the fonts are bad and text overlap, or images appear in front of text, or tables are screwed up.
Open any "professional" (whatever that means) PowerPoint presentation in OpenOffice.org, hit F5 to start a slideshow, and tell me you'd be comfortable presenting that to an audience.
In the US, parking tickets are issued to the car, not the person. So you might not be able to get your car registration renewed, or get it impounded, but you won't go to jail for not paying.
Just as the guy in TFA got fined for not securing his WiFi as the owner of the signal, and he didn't get sent to jail. The analogy still stands, and the overreactions are still overreactions.
In decent countries, they have to prove that you broke the law. You don't have to prove anything.
Back to the car analogy, how do they, in decent countries, issue parking tickets? How do they figure out who parked the car illegaly rather than simply assuming the owner of the car is responsible, no matter who's driving?
No, it is not. At least not necessarily so. It may simply mean that the cartoon was crap.
Right... crap. That's probably why he won the Pulitzer.
Use nouveau instead of nvidia, and do Xorg -configure, and you should be golden. The big thing is that nvidia won't do multicard with non-nV hardware.
Taken from the nouveau Wiki
(emphasis mine) That kind of wording doesn't lead me to believe they have any idea what they're doing, or that I should expect any kind of usability of reliability out of it.
The main roadblock, at least for newspapers, is that there is no longer be a trusted or verifiable source. That might mean that leaked documents aren't taken as seriously as they would have been otherwise.
That is why there would be an embargo period, to give the journalist time to verify the claims, and do his own little inquiry into the matter to check the facts. I know it's kinda weird asking journalists to actually check facts, but hey, it's worth a try.
If the account has lots of titles and no applications or lots of tiny do nothing, similar sized programs, purge and ban.
Whoa there. A solution like that would remove over 90% of the App Store.
I don't see why that's a problem.
It would be a huge problem for Apple, as they would no longer be able to claim that there are several tens of thousands of apps available on the app store. It's pretty much like the PS2 vs. other consoles marketing bullcrap. Sure, you've got sooooo many apps (or games) available on your platform, but 95% of them is pure crap.
Just to add to your point, FYI, according the MPAA you haven't bought anything.
According to their marketing material though, I did buy the disc and the movie. Ever see a big "Own it now on DVD" when watching an ad? That implies that by buying the DVD, I actually own it. If that isn't the case, then it's blatant false advertising.
No. They make money by taking advantage of public information and trading BEFORE other people act on that public information.
There is a short time window between the time of disclosure of public information and when people start to act on that disclosed information.
No, it actually all happens before the information is public. Here's some info from the article you didn't read :
While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, a loophole in regulations
allows marketplaces like Nasdaq to show traders some orders ahead of everyone else in exchange for a fee.
(Emphasis mine). So they act upon the information they got before every one else.
Ultra fast trading is an interesting idea and done right it can lead to successful short term returns
Ultra fast trading might be an interesting idea, but making a whole lot of profit trading stock because you have access to some information before it is made public (even if just 30 milliseconds before it is made public), isn't that a form of insider trading?
The only reason those ultra-fast traders make that much money is because they have access to information before every one else, before it is made public. I don't see how that can be legal.
Would there be any danger of using this in a confined space? Any clue on how much oxygen this thing is churning through?
I'm guessing that using this thing in a confined space is not any more dangerous than using a traditional gas engine in a confined space. In other words, don't do it.
If I was in the business of writing and selling software I wouldn't waste my time on Linux as it just doesn't seem to offer a lot of return for the investment in regards to profit, where Windows users are typically used to buying software for everything.
A lot of people respect the fact that some software is too specialised to be made by the community and agree to pay for it. I write proprietary, closed-source, paid-for software that runs on Linux for a living. Yes, I did have a hard time convincing the higher-ups to let me port the app on Linux, but they see the Linux destkop getting bigger and bigger, and they think there will be a decent ROI in the long run.
I'm also betting that if a vendor did release a pay for play product on Linux that within months there would be some free open source version of it that would appear to compete. A no-win for the pay to play guys.
It also depends on what you develop. If you make what I call "commodity software" that basically anyone can write in his mom's basement, and simply charge money for the heck of it, then of course, you will be out-performed by an open-source community version. However, if you write specialised software, that won't happen. Our Linux app is based on 15 years and tens of millions of dollars of R&D. The result of that R&D is proprietary and closed-source. I don't see how a free and open-source version of the same quality could appear within months.
Same goes for games. Game companies could release all the games they want on Linux, there won't be anything comparable that is free and open-source to compete with them. Heck, Unreal Tournament has been available on Linux for quite a while, and I've never seen anything compete with it.
Counting me as a "Linux user" simply because I tried it last month would be a mistake, but I suspect it's a common one made by many estimators.
And counting me as a "Windows user" simply because the computer I bought came with Windows preinstalled is also a common mistake made by many estimators.
gtkpod and others using libgpod. Like Amarok and Rythmbox, though support is only preliminary for touch/phone.
You proved my point right there. Support is only preliminary. And, according the the docs, the iPod needs to be jailbroken, and I don't think I can jailbreak my iPod without iTunes.