Re:Not so much that you need an iPod to listen
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Apple doesn't suggest you do that, they would be stupid to do so. They merely say you can burn your music to CD. If you take that CD and rip it and reencode it as AAC again thats something they don't take measures to prevent.
As a developer, sysadmin and creator of a few GPL-licensed bits of code, I have absolutely no understanding of why people are upset with Novell over this. In no way does it change the 'spirit' or way the GPL works - all it says is that Microsoft and Novell won't attempt to sue each-other's _users_ over patent problems. The companies themselves can still have their asses handed to them on a platter, which was the more productive route as well. Microsoft still has the ability to 'halt' distribution of GPL code by waiving a patent around, same as before. I don't understand how this changes anything at all other than users knowing that they have less likelihood of being sued by one of many companies for one of many stupid reasons the US legal system allows.
In practice, the object typedness of java enumerators does not make up for the them being harder to map into native code (C enumerators and C# enumerators are almost identical) and being unable to be used as flags.
Also in practice, a Set provides nothing that a Map with only keys and null values provides other than reduced memory utilization. Since the CLR already reduces memory utilization vs. Java, this isn't really a Java win.
Unfortunately, the Firefox.com folks didn't leave Debian a choice. The current terms under which they distribute Firefox make it not Open Source at all as long as you call it "Firefox". The Mozilla.com folks are using trademark law to enforce that no versions of Firefox can be modified and still called "Firefox".
By that logic, the GPL "makes things closed source as long as you refuse to publish your source code modifications".
Even without Trademark, I would expect Debian (which makes distinctions between official and nonofficial distributions and has guidelines for use of trademarked names and logos) to respect the wishes of the Mozilla Foundation from both the legal aspect and personal understanding.
The problem is that the name "IceWeasel" sounds like it was chosen out of spite for some subversive political agenda by the Mozilla folks, when really they have a policy which helps them ensure proper branding and quality control of things named 'FireFox'.
And don't forget that one of the updates he counts is the intel release, which you can't buy and which I don't believe runs on PPC systems. Who is going to upgrade to that?
Keep in mind that in many cases, Carbon and Cocoa are the same things. Carbon opaque structures (like CFArray) and Cocoa objects (like NSArray) are actually the same, with fun tricks made to add an objective C interface on top of C structures. The Objective C interface is more efficient to develop apps in, but you have much better control (and slightly better performance) at the Carbon level.
The problem is that people love controversy. Last year it was Apple the underdog making superior products to the Dells and Sonys of the world. It was OS X being virus free and fast and fun while everyone else had so many problems with XP that they would get spyware and just go throw the machine away.
Now that Apple has 80+% of the music player market, people want to see them fail. Stories spread about hot notebooks, broken speakers, odd sounds, swelling batteries and melting AC power adapters, even though a certain percentage of manufacturing defects are impossible to avoid, and nobody has attempted to estimate whether a few blogs amount to a lot of defects or a half dozen of loud macbook pro owners and perhaps a few dozen more mac haters lying for their cause.
You also get uncollaborated articles about apple building their devices using what amounts to basically slave labor.
Don't worry, soon another company will be big and the new target of our angst.:)
You've just hypothesized a scientific theory on the existance of god, but do you have any findings or statistical measurements to justify your hypothesis?
They already could publish torrents themselves of shows with advertising embedded in them. Scared of people skipping? there is a little thing called 'product placement'. And trackers were made so you could 'track' actual usage, allowing you to immediately show advertisers how many people are watching a show. Don't forget that selling shows is a recent activity - its been 100% advertising based on all but PBS for decades.
Instead they let other people post videos, who edit out all the commercials and provide no ability to track a show's success. In their effort to avoid a better delivery system, they are creating a need for others to do it, who in turn create a better product (same show, sans adverts)
Movies however have much bigger problems than piracy. Nobody in hollywood can figure out that catering to markets by statistics produces content with no soul. Whether or not their content is available for free does not change that in many people's eyes, it is no longer worth money.
Shared dependencies between the application server and app can still really break things - classloaders are the devil. There are also instances where you can register with a global factory that will cause your class to be used across webapps and across deployments. Tomcat sets a flag on the classloader to tell it to break (with ThreadDeath) rather than to continue. This is still a very common problem for apps deployed with log4j - later executions of the app will ask for a method in log4j that hasn't been compiled using some globally registered reference to a previous instance.
Java also supports compiling classes into native code, but AFAIK the VMs still don't support -removing- this code once you unload a web application. Your previous application instance will sit around in memory, unreachable (except perhaps by one of the previously mentioned classloader/sandboxing problems), until your app server restarts. My apps seem to generally add about 40-60 MB of required memory per deployment, so this limit is normally somewhere around 7-10 redeployments until restarting tomcat is required.
t doesn't matter what Apple considers them, they should be published copyrighted material and governed by the rules that apply to such materials.
Ahh, I see the misunderstanding. This material isn't published, all Apple service manuals are considered confidential trade secrets. Fair use does not apply to something which you can only legitimately gain under contract of non-disclosure. Note that the bottom of every page states such (that it is confidential, and reproduction is prohibited.
I hate to say it, but I don't think Apple is genuinely interested in mid and large businesses. It becomes much harder to compete on innovation then, you have to compete on tangible features and have a strong push to compete on price.
Right now nobody but Apple sells Macintosh computers, which makes companies nervous (being locked into a single vendor.)
Apple is a hardware company that uses four things to differentiate their product
Software
Quality
Style
Experience (ease of use, consistency)
Having differentiators like this enable Apple to stay away from the typical 'compete on price' behavior that cannibalizes the bottom line of companies like Dell. Dell is fighting to start a new line differentiated on Quality and Style to increase their bottom line; currently they cut so many corners in the name of competing on price that the customer suffers in terms of system instability and insufficient technical support.
So Apple, while being a minority in terms of market share, has the very enviable position of being different than all the other companies that make Intel boxes. So while being able to run OS X on homegrown/dell machines would be 'cool', it would be giving up the majority of their differentiator that allows them to charge more for hardware. A price war with Dell would be very hard for Apple (a smaller manufacturer with less clout for getting deals on parts).
So while there are technical (hardware support) reasons OS X might not run on all the different hardware out there, there are even stronger business reasons to keep it running on machines with fruit logos
I just ask my parents for their money and buy a mini for them. They can't believe how much nicer it is than windows. They are becoming born-again mac users, no longer able to understand how people can't make the leap of faith and accept steve jobs into their life.
I am waiting for Apple to release the Mac Mini 6-Pack, so I can upgrade the rest of my family.
SOooooooo, what I wonder is this: if the Original IP belonged to Caldera (and now, through aquisition, DR-DOS inc) aren't they free to do with it -and with derived products as they see fit?
Nope - an author of a derivative work may not be able to distribute because of copyright restrictions, but their work (the derivative portion) is still their own.
Based on the chances of transmitting aids via different mechanisms of intercourse, it is now believed that God's will is That Lesbians Shall Inherit the Earth.
Indeed LLVM is a fork of gcc - although while ecgs was a fork made because gcc was stalemated as far as forward progress was concerned, LLVM was made for political reasons and will never be merged. Both projects have suffered for this (IMHO of course).
Thats actually the beef a lot of the "Open Source" developers have with the GPL - promoting community around development is great, but the GPL takes a lot of steps to enforce your membership in said community.
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Apple doesn't suggest you do that, they would be stupid to do so. They merely say you can burn your music to CD. If you take that CD and rip it and reencode it as AAC again thats something they don't take measures to prevent.
As a developer, sysadmin and creator of a few GPL-licensed bits of code, I have absolutely no understanding of why people are upset with Novell over this. In no way does it change the 'spirit' or way the GPL works - all it says is that Microsoft and Novell won't attempt to sue each-other's _users_ over patent problems. The companies themselves can still have their asses handed to them on a platter, which was the more productive route as well. Microsoft still has the ability to 'halt' distribution of GPL code by waiving a patent around, same as before. I don't understand how this changes anything at all other than users knowing that they have less likelihood of being sued by one of many companies for one of many stupid reasons the US legal system allows.
So, enlighten me.
In practice, the object typedness of java enumerators does not make up for the them being harder to map into native code (C enumerators and C# enumerators are almost identical) and being unable to be used as flags.
Also in practice, a Set provides nothing that a Map with only keys and null values provides other than reduced memory utilization. Since the CLR already reduces memory utilization vs. Java, this isn't really a Java win.
By that logic, the GPL "makes things closed source as long as you refuse to publish your source code modifications".
Even without Trademark, I would expect Debian (which makes distinctions between official and nonofficial distributions and has guidelines for use of trademarked names and logos) to respect the wishes of the Mozilla Foundation from both the legal aspect and personal understanding.
The problem is that the name "IceWeasel" sounds like it was chosen out of spite for some subversive political agenda by the Mozilla folks, when really they have a policy which helps them ensure proper branding and quality control of things named 'FireFox'.
And Konfabulator got the idea from apple's original Desk Accessories ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Accessory ), no?
10.1 was also free.
And don't forget that one of the updates he counts is the intel release, which you can't buy and which I don't believe runs on PPC systems. Who is going to upgrade to that?
Keep in mind that in many cases, Carbon and Cocoa are the same things. Carbon opaque structures (like CFArray) and Cocoa objects (like NSArray) are actually the same, with fun tricks made to add an objective C interface on top of C structures. The Objective C interface is more efficient to develop apps in, but you have much better control (and slightly better performance) at the Carbon level.
The problem is that people love controversy. Last year it was Apple the underdog making superior products to the Dells and Sonys of the world. It was OS X being virus free and fast and fun while everyone else had so many problems with XP that they would get spyware and just go throw the machine away.
:)
Now that Apple has 80+% of the music player market, people want to see them fail. Stories spread about hot notebooks, broken speakers, odd sounds, swelling batteries and melting AC power adapters, even though a certain percentage of manufacturing defects are impossible to avoid, and nobody has attempted to estimate whether a few blogs amount to a lot of defects or a half dozen of loud macbook pro owners and perhaps a few dozen more mac haters lying for their cause.
You also get uncollaborated articles about apple building their devices using what amounts to basically slave labor.
Don't worry, soon another company will be big and the new target of our angst.
oooh, let me try it!
. . . iPod.
You've just hypothesized a scientific theory on the existance of god, but do you have any findings or statistical measurements to justify your hypothesis?
They already could publish torrents themselves of shows with advertising embedded in them. Scared of people skipping? there is a little thing called 'product placement'. And trackers were made so you could 'track' actual usage, allowing you to immediately show advertisers how many people are watching a show. Don't forget that selling shows is a recent activity - its been 100% advertising based on all but PBS for decades.
Instead they let other people post videos, who edit out all the commercials and provide no ability to track a show's success. In their effort to avoid a better delivery system, they are creating a need for others to do it, who in turn create a better product (same show, sans adverts)
Movies however have much bigger problems than piracy. Nobody in hollywood can figure out that catering to markets by statistics produces content with no soul. Whether or not their content is available for free does not change that in many people's eyes, it is no longer worth money.
Shared dependencies between the application server and app can still really break things - classloaders are the devil. There are also instances where you can register with a global factory that will cause your class to be used across webapps and across deployments. Tomcat sets a flag on the classloader to tell it to break (with ThreadDeath) rather than to continue. This is still a very common problem for apps deployed with log4j - later executions of the app will ask for a method in log4j that hasn't been compiled using some globally registered reference to a previous instance.
Java also supports compiling classes into native code, but AFAIK the VMs still don't support -removing- this code once you unload a web application. Your previous application instance will sit around in memory, unreachable (except perhaps by one of the previously mentioned classloader/sandboxing problems), until your app server restarts. My apps seem to generally add about 40-60 MB of required memory per deployment, so this limit is normally somewhere around 7-10 redeployments until restarting tomcat is required.
Ahh, I see the misunderstanding. This material isn't published, all Apple service manuals are considered confidential trade secrets. Fair use does not apply to something which you can only legitimately gain under contract of non-disclosure. Note that the bottom of every page states such (that it is confidential, and reproduction is prohibited.
I hate to say it, but I don't think Apple is genuinely interested in mid and large businesses. It becomes much harder to compete on innovation then, you have to compete on tangible features and have a strong push to compete on price.
Right now nobody but Apple sells Macintosh computers, which makes companies nervous (being locked into a single vendor.)
For smaller companies, ghosting isn't needed.
So for those who don't realize it:
Apple is a hardware company that uses four things to differentiate their product
Having differentiators like this enable Apple to stay away from the typical 'compete on price' behavior that cannibalizes the bottom line of companies like Dell. Dell is fighting to start a new line differentiated on Quality and Style to increase their bottom line; currently they cut so many corners in the name of competing on price that the customer suffers in terms of system instability and insufficient technical support.
So Apple, while being a minority in terms of market share, has the very enviable position of being different than all the other companies that make Intel boxes. So while being able to run OS X on homegrown/dell machines would be 'cool', it would be giving up the majority of their differentiator that allows them to charge more for hardware. A price war with Dell would be very hard for Apple (a smaller manufacturer with less clout for getting deals on parts).
So while there are technical (hardware support) reasons OS X might not run on all the different hardware out there, there are even stronger business reasons to keep it running on machines with fruit logos
It has a web-based GUI :P
I just ask my parents for their money and buy a mini for them. They can't believe how much nicer it is than windows. They are becoming born-again mac users, no longer able to understand how people can't make the leap of faith and accept steve jobs into their life.
I am waiting for Apple to release the Mac Mini 6-Pack, so I can upgrade the rest of my family.
Nope - an author of a derivative work may not be able to distribute because of copyright restrictions, but their work (the derivative portion) is still their own.
Based on the chances of transmitting aids via different mechanisms of intercourse, it is now believed that God's will is That Lesbians Shall Inherit the Earth.
I'm all for an antelope/basset hound hybrid.
Even if it got up to 50%, that would still be > 1%.
I just think they should aim higher
Indeed LLVM is a fork of gcc - although while ecgs was a fork made because gcc was stalemated as far as forward progress was concerned, LLVM was made for political reasons and will never be merged. Both projects have suffered for this (IMHO of course).
Thats actually the beef a lot of the "Open Source" developers have with the GPL - promoting community around development is great, but the GPL takes a lot of steps to enforce your membership in said community.
Actually, I also avoid fucking plagues like the fucking plague
Oh come on,
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