I really haven't seen anything compelling with 3D.
People don't go to the cinema to watch a movie. If they want to watch a movie, they'll get a DVD, stream it from Netflix, watch it on cable or satellite, or (unfortunately for filmmakers) download one from their favorite torrent site.
People go to the cinema because it's a night out. Watch a movie, hang out with family and friends (or their girlfriend, but this is/.), and pay exhorbitant prices for sweet and salty snacks. See and be seen. You know, go do something.
It doesn't always, but it certainly can. We have many desktop-class machines running linux that have been going just fine for years with no attention other than adding some RAM and hard drive space a few years back.
And when the hardware breaks? If you're not running something nodelocked on it, okay, replacing the PC outright is certainly cheap enough and cost-effective enough, since you'll get a few more years out of it.
It's not really a trojan, either. Gruber is as much a moron as Dvorak. This is simply doing something the user wants done.
Could it be a a virus vector? Anything that allows the user to install and run code is a virus vector, since any running code is a potential virus, especially if it can do so without the user's knowledge, but there are cases where even software that's installed with user's knowledge can become a virus or infection vector -- that's a hybrid trojan/virus.
And iPhones are a GREAT target for virus writers. Mobility, Bluetooth, WiFi, what's not to like?
FreeBSD jails are probably the closest thing to it. Virtualization technologies are eventually going to render both of those obselete
Right. FreeBSD jails, AIX LPARs, and Solaris Zones are all about the same thing, with perhaps AIX LPARs and Solaris Zones being the two most scalable.
And I don't think that full virtualization or even paravirtualization is going to replace these technologies anytime soon. They are far more scalable, far easier to setup, and have had high availability features for years that virtualization technologies only recently have begun adding. For example, an AIX LPAR can run on one machine, and if that machine goes down, another machine with an identical instance can pick it up and run with it -- all without the LPAR's users even knowing about it. I think Zones can do this too.
On the filesystem front, the Linux equivalent that will eventually be on-par feature-wise with ZFS is btrfs. Unfortunately, btrfs isn't ready for prime-time yet. In the meantime, high-end NAS/SAN devices like EMC's Celerra do what ZFS does, only better.
Any company in their right mind should be leasing PCs for the duration of their warranty period. If the PC is used as a license server or runs some nodelocked application, then real server-class hardware should be used anyway. Trying to save money by using a desktop instead of a server never results in net savings.
If you know what you're doing, you don't need a recovery CD or even the stupid HDD partition that they create to contain it. System Rescue CD can do things like take an image of the HDD, restore an image, fix messed-up partitions, recover the administrative passwords, allow you to edit boot.ini options on Windows, fix broken filesystems, etc.
The only way to accomplish your goals is with term limits, public funding, and no money allowed by any public interest to be funneled to a politician. It should not take money to get an idea into congress. That's why we have representatives.
Good luck with that. Especially the part about no money allowed by any public interest. The first amendment prohibits that.
How about giving the vendor time to issue a patch if said vendor has earned the goodwill of the community or at least not earned the ill will of the community? Abuse of monopoly as found in various courts of law? Immediately go public. Vendor lock-in practices? Immediately go public. Silly patent lawsuits over ideas that are not really original? Immediately go public. Public statements about how they now take security very seriously and it is a top priority for them and then no substantial improvement? Immediately go public. Using their power and influence to bribe standards committees? Immediately go public. Deceptive marketing practices? Immediately go public. Building strict DRM as an integral and non-removal component of the OS? Immediately go public. This list is not exhaustive and would apply to all vendors.
That list applies to Microsoft, obviously, but it also, in part, applies to Apple. Especially the parts abiyt "silly patent lawsuits" and "building strict DRM as an integral and non-removable component of the OS."
Overall, Apple plays nice, however, so I wouldn't be as quick to punish them as you, I guess.
There have been no known Mac OS X viruses in the wild. There have been, however, a few trojans (mostly proof-of-concept, a handful of actual "in-the-wild" ones). There's a big difference between the two.
If I were to write a Mac OS X virus and prove that it works, is there any chance you'll quit saying that? No? Didn't think so.
Google does a decent job at it in their YouTube and Voice products.
They also do a decent job on Android, which is open source. Zero training required. I wonder how easy it would be to rip the voice recognition out of Android source?
I just read a story about exactly why Apple would want to collect that data. Seems there's been a bit of a tug-of-war between Apple and AT&T on that very subject and it looks like iPhone customers are caught in the middle of it.
Hmmmm? Large amounts of prepaid phone minutes are bought with cash all the time. You can walk into a 7-11 and walk out with a prepaid cellphone along with a Gargantuan Grotesteque Gulp and some libbed lubbers.
Speaking of paying attention, has he actually been formally accused of anything beyond immigration violations?
The article says no. And I'm not surprised that there's no hard evidence linking him to anything. Wouldn't you expect that a Russian counterintelligence agent would necessarily be rather good at hiding his tracks?
Ah... now here's someone who has been paying attention
Obviously, the Russians were after something other than the Windows source code. Microsoft does a lot more than Windows; maybe this had to do with Office, Microsoft's online service offerings, Exchange Server, SQL Server etc. You know, stuff that wouldn't be in the WIndows 7 source code (bear in mind that Windows 7 is a client OS)
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People don't go to the cinema to watch a movie. If they want to watch a movie, they'll get a DVD, stream it from Netflix, watch it on cable or satellite, or (unfortunately for filmmakers) download one from their favorite torrent site.
People go to the cinema because it's a night out. Watch a movie, hang out with family and friends (or their girlfriend, but this is /.), and pay exhorbitant prices for sweet and salty snacks. See and be seen. You know, go do something.
And when the hardware breaks? If you're not running something nodelocked on it, okay, replacing the PC outright is certainly cheap enough and cost-effective enough, since you'll get a few more years out of it.
It's not really a trojan, either. Gruber is as much a moron as Dvorak. This is simply doing something the user wants done.
Could it be a a virus vector? Anything that allows the user to install and run code is a virus vector, since any running code is a potential virus, especially if it can do so without the user's knowledge, but there are cases where even software that's installed with user's knowledge can become a virus or infection vector -- that's a hybrid trojan/virus.
And iPhones are a GREAT target for virus writers. Mobility, Bluetooth, WiFi, what's not to like?
Right. FreeBSD jails, AIX LPARs, and Solaris Zones are all about the same thing, with perhaps AIX LPARs and Solaris Zones being the two most scalable.
And I don't think that full virtualization or even paravirtualization is going to replace these technologies anytime soon. They are far more scalable, far easier to setup, and have had high availability features for years that virtualization technologies only recently have begun adding. For example, an AIX LPAR can run on one machine, and if that machine goes down, another machine with an identical instance can pick it up and run with it -- all without the LPAR's users even knowing about it. I think Zones can do this too.
On the filesystem front, the Linux equivalent that will eventually be on-par feature-wise with ZFS is btrfs. Unfortunately, btrfs isn't ready for prime-time yet. In the meantime, high-end NAS/SAN devices like EMC's Celerra do what ZFS does, only better.
Any company in their right mind should be leasing PCs for the duration of their warranty period. If the PC is used as a license server or runs some nodelocked application, then real server-class hardware should be used anyway. Trying to save money by using a desktop instead of a server never results in net savings.
If you know what you're doing, you don't need a recovery CD or even the stupid HDD partition that they create to contain it. System Rescue CD can do things like take an image of the HDD, restore an image, fix messed-up partitions, recover the administrative passwords, allow you to edit boot.ini options on Windows, fix broken filesystems, etc.
Also as it happens, IE is no more losing market share, but increasing it at the cost of Firefox [mashable.com]
A <1% gain two months in a row doesn't rise above the level of statistical noise.
Wasn't that the guy who discovered LSD? Oh, I see you what you did here...
You mean like these?
Good luck with that. Especially the part about no money allowed by any public interest. The first amendment prohibits that.
That list applies to Microsoft, obviously, but it also, in part, applies to Apple. Especially the parts abiyt "silly patent lawsuits" and "building strict DRM as an integral and non-removable component of the OS."
Overall, Apple plays nice, however, so I wouldn't be as quick to punish them as you, I guess.
If I were to write a Mac OS X virus and prove that it works, is there any chance you'll quit saying that? No? Didn't think so.
Could be. If that's the case, I'll bet there's a Google App Engine API for that.
I was being diplomatic, but yes.
They also do a decent job on Android, which is open source. Zero training required. I wonder how easy it would be to rip the voice recognition out of Android source?
No. It transfers the data via WiFi. Don't tell me you didn't even read the summary?
I just read a story about exactly why Apple would want to collect that data. Seems there's been a bit of a tug-of-war between Apple and AT&T on that very subject and it looks like iPhone customers are caught in the middle of it.
So I take it the iPhone DSLR was actually hosting TFA? Because it's still down 1.5 hours later. It's in the Google Cache, though.
Pro-tip: before posting your iPhone-hosted website on Slashdot, take your finger off the antenna.
I predict that there will be pre-paid Android phones within 6 months if they don't already exist now.
All the more reason to buy an Android device rather than an iPhone.
Hmmmm? Large amounts of prepaid phone minutes are bought with cash all the time. You can walk into a 7-11 and walk out with a prepaid cellphone along with a Gargantuan Grotesteque Gulp and some libbed lubbers.
Ah, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I see you what you did there... ;)
Speaking of paying attention, has he actually been formally accused of anything beyond immigration violations?
The article says no. And I'm not surprised that there's no hard evidence linking him to anything. Wouldn't you expect that a Russian counterintelligence agent would necessarily be rather good at hiding his tracks?
Absolutely. But SQL Server, Exchange Server, ConnectPoint, IIS, etc., would all be considered not part of the Windows 7 source code, yes?
Ah... now here's someone who has been paying attention
Obviously, the Russians were after something other than the Windows source code. Microsoft does a lot more than Windows; maybe this had to do with Office, Microsoft's online service offerings, Exchange Server, SQL Server etc. You know, stuff that wouldn't be in the WIndows 7 source code (bear in mind that Windows 7 is a client OS)