Trademarks are tied to type of service. That is why you can have Delta Airlines and Delta Faucets both just use Delta.
The Trademark:
Goods and Services IC 039. US 100 105. G & S: Computerized data storage and retrieval services for digital music, photographs, and audio-visual and text works; information and consultation in connection therewith in International Class 39.
IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Retail store services and retail store services provided via communications networks featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals and consumer electronics, and pre-recorded music, audio-visual and music-related products; product demonstrations provided in-store and via communications networks; information and consultation in connection with all of the foregoing in International Class 35
As a long time Mac user who endured having to walk through the 90% of the local computer store dedicated to Windows crap to get to the few shelves of Mac stuff buried in the back, I have to ask, "How does it feel, fuckers?":-)
As a fellow Mac user... I nominate this post for "Post of the Year". Yes, Slashdot should create a voting system and we should have a post of the year.... just a simple CSS position vote link on the right of the "Reply to This" line. Give it an AJAX IFRAME load so I don't have to reload my page and it would be great. At the end of the year... we could get a most popular post. Until that happens on Slashdot... I say this is it.
btw... I am drunk... so I take no responsiblility for this post.
They discussed why your comment is completely baseless while at DefCon.
So discuss it at DefCon but not on Slashdot?
This was a kernel-level (as it was driver-based)
This is a microkernel which places lots of drivers in the user-space. I still believe it is valid to ask for a demonstration of touching something of real value on a system.
There is absolutely no root v user shell debate in this exploit.
Show me a demo of them doing root activities... until then I give you nothing.
Oh... I had forgotten that/etc/passwd is mostly useless on a Mac due to NetInfo, but it still has its root editable permissions on it. I left my real IP above... so feel free to try an hack me:-P
From the presentation... it seems that he didn't have a root shell, but only a user shell on Apple. Why just play on the user's Desktop? He should of edited some serious files like/etc/shadow,/etc/password or/usr/local/etc/sudoers. He could of at least used the "say" command in the demo to have the Mac say that it had been owned by Johnny Cache. That would of been a nice touch.
My main reason for believing that he had the logged in user's access is due to the fact that wireless is not system wide on Apple, but is started when a user logs in. If you change users(fast user switching etc...) then all your network connections drop as the wireless is restarted with the new user.
Slashdot moderators obviously don't know what on-topic is. Please read
Let me write a paper to explain why this is on-topic(*sigh*).
While the summary of the Article states what Apple is adding, it specifically points fun at Virtual Desktops. The link for Virtual Desktops goes off to the Wikipedia page which shows us tons of applications and even information that Apple just announced this(go Wikipedia). So, the parent is saying... why the heck are we giving Apple a hardtime for implementing Virtual Desktops when "our" open-sourced version of OSX(GNUStep) have not been updated nearly as aggresively with the new functionality.
This is a very relevant post because this is insightful in regards to the Article Summary. How can we say, "thats a great idea... point to existing example", without saying... "man... i wish the community would implement some of these other things in OSX such as Spotlight, Dashboard, Expose, etc etc etc". I wish that GNUStep could at least compile my Cocoa applications.
It could be great. We could use frogs to fill in the gaps in the DNA and then just use cloning to make dinosaur attractions. I say we make them all women to make sure that we can control the population. Oh and strict export control so nothing crazy happens like a T-Rex lose in San Diego or something like that.
the describe works on MySql and Oracle, is to standard, but doesn't work on SQL Server(at least the last version) and is aliased with \d on Postgres. But.. sp_help works on SQL Sever for getting the same information which doesn't work on MySql, Postgres, and Oracle so... give some counter examples of how SQL Server is closer to Oracle and Postgres.
Or... are you talking of some other Database behavior?
GrandParent is correct. Where is the OSX killer that they promised? You're counter argument just made a bunch of assumptions including that nobody cares about OSX. Microsoft cares about OSX because right now it is better than Windows. This is not debatable, it is a fact. All the beautiful things that Apple is able to do like Expose and Dashboard is due to a next generation gui design. Having the entire interface implemented via OpenGL gives a lot of flexibility and it is the exact reason that Vista is going to use DirectX 9.
Also, why is Apple going to be Obsolete? Microsoft has stripped everything that made Vista attractive.
Well I bought a Creative Zen 10 minutes ago and it never worked. Anyways, your troll is seriously off-topic here. Exactly what does the lawsuit have to do with the quality of an iPod and whether someone should have to use it or not?
Also, your impression of Apple is affected by this trivial news release... Your impression should be more affected from those reports of Apple sweatshops the other day in China. Also, tons of companies use each others patents without approval. It is all about if you get caught and if the person holding the patent has the financial backing to enforce it. Honestly, Creative is the company that blackmails others with patent litigation
Also, if you are going to say that the Zen is better than the iPod... tell us why. What did you do with the Zen that you couldn't do with the iPod... And my only complain about iTunes is that the video from the ITMS is not editable in the iLife suite apps. Music is editable... Video is not.
How do you make the start button bigger... icons(this may exist on Windows)... seriously... the entire UI is scaled, who wants a task bar that you have to squint to see. And, yes I know you can make it bigger, but it doesn't make the widgets inside of it bigger.
Also, who wants to have a special CSS file for their webbrowser to increase the fonts to 20pt because your OS renders those fonts in the webbrowser so small. What about applications that are not aware about your system preferences of normal font * 200%.
Don't lie to yourself... OSs do not support desktop scaling. OS X has a couple of features, but it is far from ideal.
My Apple 20" iMac is 1680 x 1050 and it is gorgeous. Same with the 1400 x 900 17" PB... while it is outdated now... is still gorgeous.
More pixels on most of our modern operating systems will make you go blind reading small fonts and probably most end users use a lower resolution on-top of those amazing native resolutions to be able to read stuff(I know my mom did). Hopefully, the next round of OSs will fix this... but until then... I just think you are compensating.
Yes, 1680 x 1050 could certainly be better... but the resolution is better than 1080i and TVs blow that up to 70"+
Adding easter eggs does not generate replayability. Unless the easter egg is apparent, most people probably careless about it. How many times do you re-watch Strongbad looking for easter eggs? How many times do you re-watch Strongbad because it is fun and entertaining to watch.
ummm... I am not a Windows users... but I am not sure how valid your complaints are
* DOS back slashes. Internet/C/UNIX slashes should be used. While windows internally understands '/' in filenames, many command utilities rely on '/' for flags.
Why are we worrying about DOS... This is Windows... the only people who still use DOS are the technical elite and I don't have a problem with the backslash. I do have a problem that "ls" isn't aliases to "dir" by default Also, since no real standard exists for the directory path delimiters... (Java uses ".", Unix uses "/" and Window uses "\") so beating Windows up for this... is kinda unfair.
* Two char dos new line. There is no real reason to keep using \r\n in text files to represent a new line. It wastes one byte for every line of every text file.
Again... not sure why you are complaining about this. 1 byte per 80 characters is not going to kill you. Not only that, but the same argument could be used against multibyte encodings such as UTF-8. Why use UTF-8 because it doubles your text files size.
* Drive Letters are an obsolete and limiting concept. a 'fstab', simple drive labling, or windows junction points can all replace these 24 single letter drive names.
Precedence. Everyone knows that C: is the root drive for windows... just like they know that A and B are floppy drives. Windows is meant to make things easy. I tried explaining the UNIX filesystem hierachy to someone... it wasn't easy.
* A real console/terminal window. Yes, an xterm or similar that has real scroll bars, real cut/pass, understands terminal protocols and has a 'curses' interface that lets you run console apps locally or remotely.
It is called cygwin, Putty or SecureCRT. I really don't think Microsoft cares about your terminal applications... they care about "windows".
Honestly, if you want to complain... talk about the crappy APIs, the slow release cycles(compared to say Linux or OS X), the abondoning of applications such as Internet Explorer, the poor window management.
1. Kill yourself.
2. Kill someone else to release anger.
3. Start an anti-Apple website.
4. Sell your Apple and get a Dell.
5. Abandon all this computer stuff to become a Monk.
Or, just realize that Apple is a company and you are a consumer and that newer models will eventually match the specs of older models so that the new ones have added value. Be Thankful that Apple didn't drop the price to 600 dollars for this laptop. At least you can still sell your laptop and buy one of these newer models.
You can't be serious. Try "cin >> var_name" or use getline. Come on, you learn that in CS 100.
cin is part of the C++ STL... doesn't have anything to do with a C contest. Go back to CS 100 and study hard.
Ahh, allocate an array? Well, in C, arrays are statically sized, but you could create a new, larger one and copy a full one into it. Or you could use the vector data type from the C++ STL. Again, often learned in CS 100.
Allocate/deallocate memory using malloc/free. This allows your program to scale a lot better and is how the C++ STL that you keep mentioning does it . Again, the STL cannot be used in a C contest. Arrays are static memory determined at compile time... you can't magically create a bigger one at runtime and copy the data into it
Again, try getline. Really, none of this is hard, unless I miss your intentions.
Ok, the guy is an idiot, but you take me as a guy who has taken a couple of classes and has no room to speak. C is a very different beast from C++. While C++ is miles ahead of other languages speed wise... C absolutely destroys C++ due to the overhead of the STL.
Company I work for(before I came), developed this huge software application. Well, a developer had made some changes, deployed on the fly and today we can't make any software updates to it because... the code is gone(literally). Kinda sucks too because there are bugs and memory leaks. Oh well...
The grandfather is correct. Real-Companies use source control.
I don't get it... You have an opinion, mine is that 128 kbps is not crappy. At least 1 billion songs have been bought at 128 kbps AAC. It might not be adequate for your musical tastes, but it certainly is adequate for everyone else. Saying that something is crappy just because 224 > 128 is just asinine. My collection is encoded in a loseless format, so by your black and white view of technology, your music is all crappy and needs to be deleted.
128 kbps AAC is perfectly fine and will be for awhile. Is it going to be perfect? No. Is it going to be close? Yes. Which are the same answers I can give for your 224 kbps AAC files.
That line right there rendered your entire post as useless and uniformed. kbps per second... Not bits per second. Also, not all formats are created the same. A 128 kbps mp3 does not equal a 128 kbps AAC or a 128 kbps WMA file.
From the list(and I saw the other one as well), it has been implemented at largely small places similar to how linux was first deployed. The best I saw on the list was a Newspaper which my friend works at a Newspaper so I know that the person who did it was probably one of the only technical person there.
The point was that no serious company is going to give Ruby on Rails a chance right now because it hasn't been proven yet. When I say serious compay, I mean a company that has SLAs.
perceived ease of use (e.g. easy to learn, easy to adapt)
In the business world this is huge, because time is money. That is the reason that Developers use these tools instead of developing new code from scratch.
perceived usability (e.g. improving developer performances, reducing work, faster development),
This might be hard to measure unless someone has used it in the past. Reviews of Toolkits are also hard to find and many places are gonna be bias.
perceived sustainability (e.g. perceived long term support, supporting standards, clear project directions)
Huge, you have no idea how many times I have seen projects go with some new library that disappears from the world the next year pushing you to dead links in google. The project has to have a firm backing by something. Like, libraries coming from the Apache team is a great example of something you can rely on in the future, but libraries from some random person who made a gnome lib just doesn't make sense.
perceived fit to specific developer requirements (e.g. suited language, suited functions, suited architecture).
This is a given I would say. When I look for a toolkit, I usually start with this as my search parameter(example: "Python iTunes" or "C++ XML").
Now, I don't have much to add to the list since I believe it is a good list, but I would also say that being a rebel when selecting toolkits will set you up for failure. Selecting your friends toolkit or some open source toolkit to save $1,000 will often find the blame for outages coming down on you.
So, a criteria should be stability. What state is the code in. If the code has 700 bugs logged against it, then it might be a problem. Also, how many people are currently implementing the toolkit. While it is a falacy to think that the majority is right, I look at it as survival of the fittest. Toolkits that are useful, supported and implemented, tend to be re-implemented if they were successful as people move around from company to company.
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As a long time Mac user who endured having to walk through the 90% of the local computer store dedicated to Windows crap to get to the few shelves of Mac stuff buried in the back, I have to ask, "How does it feel, fuckers?" :-)
As a fellow Mac user... I nominate this post for "Post of the Year". Yes, Slashdot should create a voting system and we should have a post of the year.... just a simple CSS position vote link on the right of the "Reply to This" line. Give it an AJAX IFRAME load so I don't have to reload my page and it would be great. At the end of the year... we could get a most popular post. Until that happens on Slashdot... I say this is it.
btw... I am drunk... so I take no responsiblility for this post.
and I'm not gonna use Bash:-P
They discussed why your comment is completely baseless while at DefCon.
So discuss it at DefCon but not on Slashdot?
This was a kernel-level (as it was driver-based)
This is a microkernel which places lots of drivers in the user-space. I still believe it is valid to ask for a demonstration of touching something of real value on a system.
There is absolutely no root v user shell debate in this exploit.
Show me a demo of them doing root activities... until then I give you nothing.
Oh... I had forgotten that
From the presentation... it seems that he didn't have a root shell, but only a user shell on Apple. Why just play on the user's Desktop? He should of edited some serious files like /etc/shadow, /etc/password or /usr/local/etc/sudoers. He could of at least used the "say" command in the demo to have the Mac say that it had been owned by Johnny Cache. That would of been a nice touch.
My main reason for believing that he had the logged in user's access is due to the fact that wireless is not system wide on Apple, but is started when a user logs in. If you change users(fast user switching etc...) then all your network connections drop as the wireless is restarted with the new user.
And lots of them were pioneered by either NeXTStep or Copland.
Slashdot moderators obviously don't know what on-topic is. Please read
Let me write a paper to explain why this is on-topic(*sigh*).
While the summary of the Article states what Apple is adding, it specifically points fun at Virtual Desktops. The link for Virtual Desktops goes off to the Wikipedia page which shows us tons of applications and even information that Apple just announced this(go Wikipedia). So, the parent is saying... why the heck are we giving Apple a hardtime for implementing Virtual Desktops when "our" open-sourced version of OSX(GNUStep) have not been updated nearly as aggresively with the new functionality.
This is a very relevant post because this is insightful in regards to the Article Summary. How can we say, "thats a great idea... point to existing example", without saying... "man... i wish the community would implement some of these other things in OSX such as Spotlight, Dashboard, Expose, etc etc etc". I wish that GNUStep could at least compile my Cocoa applications.
Someone invest some money in making a theme park!
It could be great. We could use frogs to fill in the gaps in the DNA and then just use cloning to make dinosaur attractions. I say we make them all women to make sure that we can control the population. Oh and strict export control so nothing crazy happens like a T-Rex lose in San Diego or something like that.
the describe works on MySql and Oracle, is to standard, but doesn't work on SQL Server(at least the last version) and is aliased with \d on Postgres. But.. sp_help works on SQL Sever for getting the same information which doesn't work on MySql, Postgres, and Oracle so... give some counter examples of how SQL Server is closer to Oracle and Postgres.
Or... are you talking of some other Database behavior?
you're an idiot.
GrandParent is correct. Where is the OSX killer that they promised? You're counter argument just made a bunch of assumptions including that nobody cares about OSX. Microsoft cares about OSX because right now it is better than Windows. This is not debatable, it is a fact. All the beautiful things that Apple is able to do like Expose and Dashboard is due to a next generation gui design. Having the entire interface implemented via OpenGL gives a lot of flexibility and it is the exact reason that Vista is going to use DirectX 9.
Also, why is Apple going to be Obsolete? Microsoft has stripped everything that made Vista attractive.
Man.. you are trolling hard-core
Well I bought a Creative Zen 10 minutes ago and it never worked. Anyways, your troll is seriously off-topic here. Exactly what does the lawsuit have to do with the quality of an iPod and whether someone should have to use it or not?
Also, your impression of Apple is affected by this trivial news release... Your impression should be more affected from those reports of Apple sweatshops the other day in China. Also, tons of companies use each others patents without approval. It is all about if you get caught and if the person holding the patent has the financial backing to enforce it. Honestly, Creative is the company that blackmails others with patent litigation
Also, if you are going to say that the Zen is better than the iPod... tell us why. What did you do with the Zen that you couldn't do with the iPod... And my only complain about iTunes is that the video from the ITMS is not editable in the iLife suite apps. Music is editable... Video is not.
How do you make the start button bigger... icons(this may exist on Windows)... seriously... the entire UI is scaled, who wants a task bar that you have to squint to see. And, yes I know you can make it bigger, but it doesn't make the widgets inside of it bigger.
Also, who wants to have a special CSS file for their webbrowser to increase the fonts to 20pt because your OS renders those fonts in the webbrowser so small. What about applications that are not aware about your system preferences of normal font * 200%.
Don't lie to yourself... OSs do not support desktop scaling. OS X has a couple of features, but it is far from ideal.
My Apple 20" iMac is 1680 x 1050 and it is gorgeous. Same with the 1400 x 900 17" PB... while it is outdated now... is still gorgeous.
More pixels on most of our modern operating systems will make you go blind reading small fonts and probably most end users use a lower resolution on-top of those amazing native resolutions to be able to read stuff(I know my mom did). Hopefully, the next round of OSs will fix this... but until then... I just think you are compensating.
Yes, 1680 x 1050 could certainly be better... but the resolution is better than 1080i and TVs blow that up to 70"+
Adding easter eggs does not generate replayability. Unless the easter egg is apparent, most people probably careless about it. How many times do you re-watch Strongbad looking for easter eggs? How many times do you re-watch Strongbad because it is fun and entertaining to watch.
ummm... I am not a Windows users... but I am not sure how valid your complaints are
* DOS back slashes. Internet/C/UNIX slashes should be used. While windows internally understands '/' in filenames, many command utilities rely on '/' for flags.
Why are we worrying about DOS... This is Windows... the only people who still use DOS are the technical elite and I don't have a problem with the backslash. I do have a problem that "ls" isn't aliases to "dir" by default Also, since no real standard exists for the directory path delimiters... (Java uses ".", Unix uses "/" and Window uses "\") so beating Windows up for this... is kinda unfair.
* Two char dos new line. There is no real reason to keep using \r\n in text files to represent a new line. It wastes one byte for every line of every text file.
Again... not sure why you are complaining about this. 1 byte per 80 characters is not going to kill you. Not only that, but the same argument could be used against multibyte encodings such as UTF-8. Why use UTF-8 because it doubles your text files size.
* Drive Letters are an obsolete and limiting concept. a 'fstab', simple drive labling, or windows junction points can all replace these 24 single letter drive names.
Precedence. Everyone knows that C: is the root drive for windows... just like they know that A and B are floppy drives. Windows is meant to make things easy. I tried explaining the UNIX filesystem hierachy to someone... it wasn't easy.
* A real console/terminal window. Yes, an xterm or similar that has real scroll bars, real cut/pass, understands terminal protocols and has a 'curses' interface that lets you run console apps locally or remotely.
It is called cygwin, Putty or SecureCRT. I really don't think Microsoft cares about your terminal applications... they care about "windows".
Honestly, if you want to complain... talk about the crappy APIs, the slow release cycles(compared to say Linux or OS X), the abondoning of applications such as Internet Explorer, the poor window management.
WHAT DO I DOO??!!
Your Options:
1. Kill yourself.
2. Kill someone else to release anger.
3. Start an anti-Apple website.
4. Sell your Apple and get a Dell.
5. Abandon all this computer stuff to become a Monk.
Or, just realize that Apple is a company and you are a consumer and that newer models will eventually match the specs of older models so that the new ones have added value. Be Thankful that Apple didn't drop the price to 600 dollars for this laptop. At least you can still sell your laptop and buy one of these newer models.
UT2004 was a native port... Try Half-Life:-)
You can't be serious. Try "cin >> var_name" or use getline. Come on, you learn that in CS 100.
cin is part of the C++ STL... doesn't have anything to do with a C contest. Go back to CS 100 and study hard.
Ahh, allocate an array? Well, in C, arrays are statically sized, but you could create a new, larger one and copy a full one into it. Or you could use the vector data type from the C++ STL. Again, often learned in CS 100.
Allocate/deallocate memory using malloc/free. This allows your program to scale a lot better and is how the C++ STL that you keep mentioning does it . Again, the STL cannot be used in a C contest. Arrays are static memory determined at compile time... you can't magically create a bigger one at runtime and copy the data into it
Again, try getline. Really, none of this is hard, unless I miss your intentions.
Ok, the guy is an idiot, but you take me as a guy who has taken a couple of classes and has no room to speak. C is a very different beast from C++. While C++ is miles ahead of other languages speed wise... C absolutely destroys C++ due to the overhead of the STL.
Company I work for(before I came), developed this huge software application. Well, a developer had made some changes, deployed on the fly and today we can't make any software updates to it because... the code is gone(literally). Kinda sucks too because there are bugs and memory leaks. Oh well...
The grandfather is correct. Real-Companies use source control.
128 is crappy
I don't get it... You have an opinion, mine is that 128 kbps is not crappy. At least 1 billion songs have been bought at 128 kbps AAC. It might not be adequate for your musical tastes, but it certainly is adequate for everyone else. Saying that something is crappy just because 224 > 128 is just asinine. My collection is encoded in a loseless format, so by your black and white view of technology, your music is all crappy and needs to be deleted.
128 kbps AAC is perfectly fine and will be for awhile. Is it going to be perfect? No. Is it going to be close? Yes. Which are the same answers I can give for your 224 kbps AAC files.
"hi-fi" as the crappy 128 bps
That line right there rendered your entire post as useless and uniformed. kbps per second... Not bits per second. Also, not all formats are created the same. A 128 kbps mp3 does not equal a 128 kbps AAC or a 128 kbps WMA file.
From the list(and I saw the other one as well), it has been implemented at largely small places similar to how linux was first deployed. The best I saw on the list was a Newspaper which my friend works at a Newspaper so I know that the person who did it was probably one of the only technical person there.
The point was that no serious company is going to give Ruby on Rails a chance right now because it hasn't been proven yet. When I say serious compay, I mean a company that has SLAs.
I stand corrected:-) but... it is a friend
perceived ease of use (e.g. easy to learn, easy to adapt)
In the business world this is huge, because time is money. That is the reason that Developers use these tools instead of developing new code from scratch.
perceived usability (e.g. improving developer performances, reducing work, faster development),
This might be hard to measure unless someone has used it in the past. Reviews of Toolkits are also hard to find and many places are gonna be bias.
perceived sustainability (e.g. perceived long term support, supporting standards, clear project directions)
Huge, you have no idea how many times I have seen projects go with some new library that disappears from the world the next year pushing you to dead links in google. The project has to have a firm backing by something. Like, libraries coming from the Apache team is a great example of something you can rely on in the future, but libraries from some random person who made a gnome lib just doesn't make sense.
perceived fit to specific developer requirements (e.g. suited language, suited functions, suited architecture).
This is a given I would say. When I look for a toolkit, I usually start with this as my search parameter(example: "Python iTunes" or "C++ XML").
Now, I don't have much to add to the list since I believe it is a good list, but I would also say that being a rebel when selecting toolkits will set you up for failure. Selecting your friends toolkit or some open source toolkit to save $1,000 will often find the blame for outages coming down on you.
So, a criteria should be stability. What state is the code in. If the code has 700 bugs logged against it, then it might be a problem. Also, how many people are currently implementing the toolkit. While it is a falacy to think that the majority is right, I look at it as survival of the fittest. Toolkits that are useful, supported and implemented, tend to be re-implemented if they were successful as people move around from company to company.