To be honest, I'd much rather read stories in the line of
"The magnificent fireworks display in <insert city here> was actually controlled and detonated from a laptop running <insert favorite distro here> with a soon-to-be foss-application written in <insert programming language of choice here>. <online mag of choice> had a talk with the man responsible, <insert name here>."
Have you considered the fact that perhaps not alot of people at MS would have known about it in the first place if it hadn't come to light?
Considering the obviousness of it, I doubt forcing votes like that is a global policy. Asking all their partners to do everything they can? Most definitely.
Even though alot of people have issues with the ethical behaviour doesn't mean the company is in the habit of making stupid decisions like this. They've lasted way too long for that.
This sort of implies that either guns have no use at all except breaking the law (and a fair amount of people hold that opinion) or that modchips have a wide range of use besides breaking the law.
/me waits for the mod-chip addendum to the castle doctrine
I gave the facts. That's what happened here. There's absolutely no need to play at cheap rhetorics like the last statement there. That wasn't throwing rocks, that was hitting a home run in the glass house.
I do admit the iBooks get treated roughly. They're in the hands of journalists who're often out in the field.
And what are we talking about here? Consumer macs for the enterprise? I'm just saying the article is rather dumb. And if we'd bought all powerbooks, we'd probably had a lower failure rate while spending $100k more.
Well I do. And the rate of failure is just terrible. Without exact numbers at hand, I can definitely say we've sent over 30 iBooks to the local Apple service partner.
Being an enterprise customer you definitely dont have to wait in line for consumer service, we just send the computers directly for service. Otoh, you definitely won't get 4hr onsite like all the major pc vendors offer.
As for group policy and manageability, Apple got in the game late and will definitely catch up. The question is when (and what decade).
Now we'll see the One True Wheel (tm) which will fit on all cars. Screw different tires for different conditions, screw differing performance. The One Wheel will rule us all.
Except that the above creates an alias, using the same connection.
The above allows you to associate to more than one wireless network using just one wireless card. Try plugging your regular nic into two switches at once and see how it goes...
The comparison is definitely valid if we're just talking about a high quality 120min movie.
Guess it's just the nerd in me that automagically connotates dvd with 4.7gb of space.:)
You can control single characters. Or more specifically, you can tell the rest of the crowd to stay put. Insanely enough, this is a setting without a key assigned to it. So off to options you are...
As always, quality is undefined. What kind of quality are we looking at here?
Some apps are rock solid while looking like hell being insanely difficult to install. That's not quality for me, even though you don't mind the looks and find the install easy (perhaps cause you've done it 15 times, getting the hang of it at your fifth time?).
Most if not all FOSS software are rock solid but are sadly lacking at 2 and 3. And that's what this is all about.
Neither Firefox nor OO or even Thunderbird have these problems. They're easy to install, run well and look decent. I'd guess all three factors came into play when your college kids decided to get and keep them.
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Have you considered the fact that perhaps not alot of people at MS would have known about it in the first place if it hadn't come to light?
Considering the obviousness of it, I doubt forcing votes like that is a global policy. Asking all their partners to do everything they can? Most definitely.
Even though alot of people have issues with the ethical behaviour doesn't mean the company is in the habit of making stupid decisions like this. They've lasted way too long for that.
This sort of implies that either guns have no use at all except breaking the law (and a fair amount of people hold that opinion) or that modchips have a wide range of use besides breaking the law.
/me waits for the mod-chip addendum to the castle doctrine
I gave the facts. That's what happened here. There's absolutely no need to play at cheap rhetorics like the last statement there. That wasn't throwing rocks, that was hitting a home run in the glass house.
I do admit the iBooks get treated roughly. They're in the hands of journalists who're often out in the field.
And what are we talking about here? Consumer macs for the enterprise? I'm just saying the article is rather dumb. And if we'd bought all powerbooks, we'd probably had a lower failure rate while spending $100k more.
Well I do. And the rate of failure is just terrible. Without exact numbers at hand, I can definitely say we've sent over 30 iBooks to the local Apple service partner.
Being an enterprise customer you definitely dont have to wait in line for consumer service, we just send the computers directly for service. Otoh, you definitely won't get 4hr onsite like all the major pc vendors offer.
As for group policy and manageability, Apple got in the game late and will definitely catch up. The question is when (and what decade).
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
Please excuse the sweaty shirt.
How about an optimizied, Dtraced and -l"-froot" free telnetd?
Yet another one whose descendants will hail RAW and Shea as the true prophets...
Now we'll see the One True Wheel (tm) which will fit on all cars.
Screw different tires for different conditions, screw differing performance.
The One Wheel will rule us all.
Cause we all know OpenBSD will stop people from using their username as a password on a middleware system.
Oh, wait, just another case of keyboard before brain.
Except that the above creates an alias, using the same connection.
The above allows you to associate to more than one wireless network using just one wireless card. Try plugging your regular nic into two switches at once and see how it goes...
The comparison is definitely valid if we're just talking about a high quality 120min movie. :)
Guess it's just the nerd in me that automagically connotates dvd with 4.7gb of space.
if your device has enough memory to hold it and is fast enough cpu-wise to sustain a decent gbit pipe.
:)
Regular consumer pc having drives fast enough to get a dvd in a minute? Good thing we nerds get to the good stuff before anyone else.
While you are correct in that Nikon made the first wlan addon to a camera, that was years ago. All the major brands have them now.
What may be new is actually shooting from a distant location using wlan.
You can control single characters. Or more specifically, you can tell the rest of the crowd to stay put. Insanely enough, this is a setting without a key assigned to it. So off to options you are...
When a windows guy finally gets his say and he ends up being more bigoted and zealotry than the worst foss fundamentalists.
All things have their strengths and weaknesses.
One size does not fit all.
[insert dissing comment from zealous mac fanboy here]
In soviet russia, RMS buries you!
This means the next version of Flash MX will get a sleep(20) inserted in the startup code to match the startup time of Adobes products.
And even though I'm not really interest in what patents Macromedia holds or who made Flash MX, the next version will probably teach me that as well.
Writing that article in the first place is sure to feed the flame before the average /. crowd even reads it.
/., now thats pouring gallons of kerosine on it.
But posting it on
As always, quality is undefined. What kind of quality are we looking at here?
Some apps are rock solid while looking like hell being insanely difficult to install. That's not quality for me, even though you don't mind the looks and find the install easy (perhaps cause you've done it 15 times, getting the hang of it at your fifth time?).
Most if not all FOSS software are rock solid but are sadly lacking at 2 and 3. And that's what this is all about.
Neither Firefox nor OO or even Thunderbird have these problems. They're easy to install, run well and look decent. I'd guess all three factors came into play when your college kids decided to get and keep them.
Just like Apple. :)