*scratches his chin*...You misunderstand me, sir. First, however, let me say that while I object to being called naive, you make a good point.
In retrospect, perhaps I can phrase my argument better. What I was saying is that De Raadt seems combative and overly aggressive in his statements. Usually, people who are quick to argue and anger have a weak point. Were his OS superior de facto or de jure, he wouldn't need to act like he is. OpenBSD may or may not be better depending on your personal situation and needs, but De Raadt's "difficult" attutide doesn't help.
If I'm reading that right, you have it backwards - like a lot of people, I think. If, let's say, someone left their front door open and you saw some nice lookin shiny thing while walking down the street, and you went in and took it, then got caught...what would the police say? "Oh, it's not your fault. After all, they left their door open."
No, while they were idiots for leaving the door open, you were the only one who broke the law.
The same thing applies here. Because someone or something leaves doors open doesn't mean you can or should enter them. No one has to live with spam merchants - that's why we're taking measures to combat spam on many levels (from the national do not call registry to spam filters on the email system at the office). No one has to live with hackers, either. That's life, but not how you put it; this time, I applied your logic to both sides.
Um...parent should be modded troll, not insightful. What, Microsoft isn't allowed to develop their own shell based on what those who will use it (mostly/. types) think a shell should be?
I remember back in the dark ages of 1994 when my family and I picked up our first internet-ready computer and hopped on AOL with a 14.4 modem. It wasn't long after that there were published reports of a secret form of subterfuge in our midst (the one in particular I remember was on the Today show). Something called a "cookie" was being sent to our computer as we browsed web sites, and it could track where we went and what we did. Some people in the media were outraged. Mom was somewhat apprehensive at this new way for advertisements to reach us - more, I think, about me buying something than some type of ID theft or the like.
Eventually, however, we got over it. Let's face it, folks, advertising is a part of the world and we're not going to get rid of it. Do I like targeted advertising? No. Certainly not. In fact, I take steps to prevent it from happening such as deleting cookies from known tracking sites and using wonderful Firefox extensions *cough*Adblock*cough* but they still get through.
Fine. I'll deal with targeted ads. However, there's a very real difference between someone wanting, wishing, willing me to do something (an advertisement) and someone forcing me to do it (malware/spyware/trojans/hijackers). While we often lump the two together, they are indeed different.
I hate to say it, but this time those annoying popup ads are in the right.
Are you willing to hand-code your pages? I recommend you do - it's the only way to ensure that your site is absolutely standards-compliant (get the Web Developer extension for Firefox. It's a big help). I use Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus) because I feel it's a nice, simple, effective editor.
As for hosts, I highly, highly recommend Resiware (http://hosting.resiware.com/ Their prices can't be beat and their hosting is rock solid amazing. See the link in my sig for the lil site we have hosted with them now.
Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further.
Eloquent and refined as always. Apparently, De Raadt has chosen to be less so. If his OS were as superior as he claims, its merits would be apparent without him having to act like the -1 Flamebait posts that are to follow.
It's not really funny...but it is interesting. And it makes some good points. The one thing I have to recommend to the/. crowd is taking a flathead screwdriver and popping the keys off your keyboard instead of glancing up at a propped-up layout. For me, it made things much more straightforward.
It's just a matter of a little going a long, long, long way. Changes that seem to resolve an immediate problem can have drastic effects long term. Look at it from a gameplay mechanic instead of a balance mechanic. When the level cap is raised in World of Warcraft, it most likely will be five levels, to a maximum of 65. Perhaps it will be more, but that remains to be seen. Level 65 doesn't make much difference for one person in many situations; most NPCs at the current max level, 60, will just be soloable by most players without uber gear. Large encounters, however, will be completely changed. Players will be able to kill Onyxia and Ragnaros (a big bad nasty dragon and a big bad nasty lava giant, respectively) quickly and easily if they plan ahead and execute well. It's this kind of ripple effect - where one small change suddenly becomes very drastic when multiplied by larger numbers - that makes class balance so difficult. After all, it's easier to multiply by 1.
It's a gamble. When they bet on online play being more expensive than necessary, they lost. They're making the same bet again, only on HDTV. As the commentary article says: only time will tell.
...to give subscribers a new, Microsoft-formatted version of any song they've purchased from the iTunes store so those songs can be played on devices other than an iPod.
There's another semisentence at the end of that. "...Devices with draconian Microsoft-approved DRM."
OTTAWA, June 9 - Final talks in a patent infringement lawsuit involving the popular BlackBerry e-mail messaging device have reached an impasse, the two companies involved said Thursday, raising the possibility that the BlackBerry service could be banned from the United States market.
The two companies, Research in Motion of Waterloo, Ontario, which makes the BlackBerry, and NTP, a small patent-holding company in Arlington, Va., reached a settlement in March to end an infringement suit that is three and a half years old. R.I.M. agreed at the time to pay NTP the unusually large sum of $450 million to end the suit.
On Thursday, however, it was apparent that negotiations to reach a final settlement had failed.
Late Wednesday night, R.I.M. asked a United States federal court to enforce the settlement reached in March. Meanwhile, in court papers filed Thursday, NTP denied that the settlement was ever clear-cut, and urged the court to reject R.I.M.'s request.
In a conference call Thursday with analysts, James L. Balsillie, the chairman and co-chief executive of R.I.M., said he could not comment on the specifics of why the talks had foundered, citing a confidentiality agreement between the companies. He emphasized, though, that R.I.M. had not tried to alter the settlement's terms, and blamed NTP for the impasse.
"This is an enormous amount of money, one of the largest settlements in the history of any patent system," Mr. Balsillie said. "I'm at a loss to understand what in the world one would want beyond that."
In its filing, however, NTP said that it had pressed R.I.M. for a complete set of documents detailing the terms of the agreement during three days of negotiations in March.
"Nevertheless, because of R.I.M.'s pressing need to leave town, the signed agreement was limited to a vague, ambiguously worded term sheet," the court papers said.
NTP had won the right to ban Blackberry e-mail in the United States in an earlier court decision, but that ruling was suspended when R.I.M. appealed. In its filing Thursday, though, NTP said that if no settlement was reached, it would again ask for an injunction on the sale of BlackBerry pagers and e-mail service in the United States. Research in Motion is dependent on Blackberry sales in the United States for about 75 percent of its revenues.
Gregory E. Upchurch, an intellectual property lawyer in St. Louis, said that about 80 percent of the time, courts enforced previously announced settlements. "Courts are in the business of resolving disputes," he said.
Sometimes skepticism is based on a "working" model of the Phantom with a poorly welded modified ATX case, hotglued wires, cardboard patches, and nonfunctioning plugs that aren't connected to anything.
In this era of DCMA (see the/. post about Canada above) and Patriot Act provisions (/. post about the FBI below) and all the other incoming restrictions on our rights, good for Sony for supporting something that might be looked at as a "gray-market" item. More things like this should be released as fully-on-the-market, licensed software.
We've all experienced Microsoft doing bad (patents) and doing good (giving millions to buy underprivileged families computers). While this situation isn't as extreme as either of those examples, I believe that Microsoft has a real chance to do good here by stepping up to the plate and simply eschewing ActiveX. Then all the websites that rely on it instead of better choices would be forced to get rid of it. Maybe Joe 6er's sites wouldn't work right away, but the big ActiveX offenders (Yahoo) would fix themselves up.
I wish it would happen. I don't know if Microsoft has the motivation to do so (ie, money or image)...but it sure would be nice to see spyware take that kind of hit.
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Been using an MX900 since it came out...new monitor, new hard drive, new mobo since then but this mouse is still going strong. Logitech input devices are where it's at.
Another analogy I heard: That's like blaming GM for a bank robbery because the getaway car was a Saturn.
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I picked up a Treo 650 last week, and it seems to be the solution to this problem while retaining the bells, whistles, and camera that I simply cannot live without.
The PDA software (Palm OS 5) drives the interface. As a standalone piece of software developed for a separate device, it is in fact quite quick in accessing items and databases. Some careful modification for the dialers and communications features already present in Palm OS make it a hell of a cell phone in many respects, including interface speed - because it's not really a cell phone. It's mostly a PDA.
Microsoft is arguably a corporate behemoth (the "arguably" inserted to make it clear that I'm not trolling here). They didn't get to be #1 by being poor at marketing things. Ballmer knows how to do his job and he knows how to do it well, and you won't catch him making the same mistake twice.
End point: if Microsoft finds something that can work to their advantage without it getting old, bet on them using it.:)
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*scratches his chin* ...You misunderstand me, sir. First, however, let me say that while I object to being called naive, you make a good point.
In retrospect, perhaps I can phrase my argument better. What I was saying is that De Raadt seems combative and overly aggressive in his statements. Usually, people who are quick to argue and anger have a weak point. Were his OS superior de facto or de jure, he wouldn't need to act like he is. OpenBSD may or may not be better depending on your personal situation and needs, but De Raadt's "difficult" attutide doesn't help.
If I'm reading that right, you have it backwards - like a lot of people, I think. If, let's say, someone left their front door open and you saw some nice lookin shiny thing while walking down the street, and you went in and took it, then got caught...what would the police say? "Oh, it's not your fault. After all, they left their door open."
No, while they were idiots for leaving the door open, you were the only one who broke the law.
The same thing applies here. Because someone or something leaves doors open doesn't mean you can or should enter them. No one has to live with spam merchants - that's why we're taking measures to combat spam on many levels (from the national do not call registry to spam filters on the email system at the office). No one has to live with hackers, either. That's life, but not how you put it; this time, I applied your logic to both sides.
Can you live with that?
Um...parent should be modded troll, not insightful. What, Microsoft isn't allowed to develop their own shell based on what those who will use it (mostly /. types) think a shell should be?
Ow. My childhood.
I remember back in the dark ages of 1994 when my family and I picked up our first internet-ready computer and hopped on AOL with a 14.4 modem. It wasn't long after that there were published reports of a secret form of subterfuge in our midst (the one in particular I remember was on the Today show). Something called a "cookie" was being sent to our computer as we browsed web sites, and it could track where we went and what we did. Some people in the media were outraged. Mom was somewhat apprehensive at this new way for advertisements to reach us - more, I think, about me buying something than some type of ID theft or the like.
Eventually, however, we got over it. Let's face it, folks, advertising is a part of the world and we're not going to get rid of it. Do I like targeted advertising? No. Certainly not. In fact, I take steps to prevent it from happening such as deleting cookies from known tracking sites and using wonderful Firefox extensions *cough*Adblock*cough* but they still get through.
Fine. I'll deal with targeted ads. However, there's a very real difference between someone wanting, wishing, willing me to do something (an advertisement) and someone forcing me to do it (malware/spyware/trojans/hijackers). While we often lump the two together, they are indeed different.
I hate to say it, but this time those annoying popup ads are in the right.
Errr...the link in my header. The videogamemaps.net thingy. :)
Are you willing to hand-code your pages? I recommend you do - it's the only way to ensure that your site is absolutely standards-compliant (get the Web Developer extension for Firefox. It's a big help). I use Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus) because I feel it's a nice, simple, effective editor.
As for hosts, I highly, highly recommend Resiware (http://hosting.resiware.com/ Their prices can't be beat and their hosting is rock solid amazing. See the link in my sig for the lil site we have hosted with them now.
Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further.
Eloquent and refined as always. Apparently, De Raadt has chosen to be less so. If his OS were as superior as he claims, its merits would be apparent without him having to act like the -1 Flamebait posts that are to follow.
It's not really funny...but it is interesting. And it makes some good points. The one thing I have to recommend to the /. crowd is taking a flathead screwdriver and popping the keys off your keyboard instead of glancing up at a propped-up layout. For me, it made things much more straightforward.
It's just a matter of a little going a long, long, long way. Changes that seem to resolve an immediate problem can have drastic effects long term. Look at it from a gameplay mechanic instead of a balance mechanic. When the level cap is raised in World of Warcraft, it most likely will be five levels, to a maximum of 65. Perhaps it will be more, but that remains to be seen. Level 65 doesn't make much difference for one person in many situations; most NPCs at the current max level, 60, will just be soloable by most players without uber gear. Large encounters, however, will be completely changed. Players will be able to kill Onyxia and Ragnaros (a big bad nasty dragon and a big bad nasty lava giant, respectively) quickly and easily if they plan ahead and execute well.
It's this kind of ripple effect - where one small change suddenly becomes very drastic when multiplied by larger numbers - that makes class balance so difficult. After all, it's easier to multiply by 1.
Damn. The trolls are out in force today.
It's a gamble. When they bet on online play being more expensive than necessary, they lost. They're making the same bet again, only on HDTV. As the commentary article says: only time will tell.
...to give subscribers a new, Microsoft-formatted version of any song they've purchased from the iTunes store so those songs can be played on devices other than an iPod.
There's another semisentence at the end of that. "...Devices with draconian Microsoft-approved DRM."
OTTAWA, June 9 - Final talks in a patent infringement lawsuit involving the popular BlackBerry e-mail messaging device have reached an impasse, the two companies involved said Thursday, raising the possibility that the BlackBerry service could be banned from the United States market.
The two companies, Research in Motion of Waterloo, Ontario, which makes the BlackBerry, and NTP, a small patent-holding company in Arlington, Va., reached a settlement in March to end an infringement suit that is three and a half years old. R.I.M. agreed at the time to pay NTP the unusually large sum of $450 million to end the suit.
On Thursday, however, it was apparent that negotiations to reach a final settlement had failed.
Late Wednesday night, R.I.M. asked a United States federal court to enforce the settlement reached in March. Meanwhile, in court papers filed Thursday, NTP denied that the settlement was ever clear-cut, and urged the court to reject R.I.M.'s request.
In a conference call Thursday with analysts, James L. Balsillie, the chairman and co-chief executive of R.I.M., said he could not comment on the specifics of why the talks had foundered, citing a confidentiality agreement between the companies. He emphasized, though, that R.I.M. had not tried to alter the settlement's terms, and blamed NTP for the impasse.
"This is an enormous amount of money, one of the largest settlements in the history of any patent system," Mr. Balsillie said. "I'm at a loss to understand what in the world one would want beyond that."
In its filing, however, NTP said that it had pressed R.I.M. for a complete set of documents detailing the terms of the agreement during three days of negotiations in March.
"Nevertheless, because of R.I.M.'s pressing need to leave town, the signed agreement was limited to a vague, ambiguously worded term sheet," the court papers said.
NTP had won the right to ban Blackberry e-mail in the United States in an earlier court decision, but that ruling was suspended when R.I.M. appealed. In its filing Thursday, though, NTP said that if no settlement was reached, it would again ask for an injunction on the sale of BlackBerry pagers and e-mail service in the United States. Research in Motion is dependent on Blackberry sales in the United States for about 75 percent of its revenues.
Gregory E. Upchurch, an intellectual property lawyer in St. Louis, said that about 80 percent of the time, courts enforced previously announced settlements. "Courts are in the business of resolving disputes," he said.
...I had absolutely no idea that was the case. Uh...holy crap?
Sometimes skepticism is based on a "working" model of the Phantom with a poorly welded modified ATX case, hotglued wires, cardboard patches, and nonfunctioning plugs that aren't connected to anything.
In this era of DCMA (see the /. post about Canada above) and Patriot Act provisions (/. post about the FBI below) and all the other incoming restrictions on our rights, good for Sony for supporting something that might be looked at as a "gray-market" item. More things like this should be released as fully-on-the-market, licensed software.
We've all experienced Microsoft doing bad (patents) and doing good (giving millions to buy underprivileged families computers). While this situation isn't as extreme as either of those examples, I believe that Microsoft has a real chance to do good here by stepping up to the plate and simply eschewing ActiveX. Then all the websites that rely on it instead of better choices would be forced to get rid of it. Maybe Joe 6er's sites wouldn't work right away, but the big ActiveX offenders (Yahoo) would fix themselves up.
I wish it would happen. I don't know if Microsoft has the motivation to do so (ie, money or image)...but it sure would be nice to see spyware take that kind of hit.
Been using an MX900 since it came out...new monitor, new hard drive, new mobo since then but this mouse is still going strong. Logitech input devices are where it's at.
Another analogy I heard:
That's like blaming GM for a bank robbery because the getaway car was a Saturn.
I picked up a Treo 650 last week, and it seems to be the solution to this problem while retaining the bells, whistles, and camera that I simply cannot live without.
The PDA software (Palm OS 5) drives the interface. As a standalone piece of software developed for a separate device, it is in fact quite quick in accessing items and databases. Some careful modification for the dialers and communications features already present in Palm OS make it a hell of a cell phone in many respects, including interface speed - because it's not really a cell phone. It's mostly a PDA.
Microsoft is arguably a corporate behemoth (the "arguably" inserted to make it clear that I'm not trolling here). They didn't get to be #1 by being poor at marketing things. Ballmer knows how to do his job and he knows how to do it well, and you won't catch him making the same mistake twice.
:)
End point: if Microsoft finds something that can work to their advantage without it getting old, bet on them using it.
Newton Chicken: Can't cluck, can't fly, and can't lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket! Oh, god. The Newton. That old thing brings back some truly scary memories...
Tinfoil, Post!
What tinfoil? I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
-Stop saying OSS is Communist
-Full CSS2/XHTML 1.1 in IE7 with no proprietary extensions
-As stated, open the file formats.