Freenode (note it is highly technical) lusers 251: There are 18380 listed and 16624 unlisted users on 27 servers 252: 36 flagged staff members 254: 18222 channels formed 255: I have 2295 clients and 0 servers 265: Current local users: 2295 Max: 4025 266: Current global users: 35004 Max: 43148 250: Highest connection count: 4027 (4025 clients) (983631 since server was (re)started)
I predict that 50% of the comments here will be thinly-veiled racial attacks on Russia. The other 50% will be "in soviet russia" jokes, of course... Welcome back... Cold war.
I was at HK/China just a week ago, I bought IHT Newspaper. It took 2 pages to figure the cold war trickery stories of 1980s are back and threw it to paper recycling bin. The "South China Post" was lot more informative and insightful than the IHT junk.
Alexander Mamut, one of SUP's main investors (or possibly its owner -- I've seen both descriptions in articles), apparently has some ties to Putin
Nowadays, there ane two kinds of Russian businessmen: those with ties to Putin, and those that are out of business. Basically, they're back to the state running the economy. Is there a single American business guy who is fundementally against George W. Bush and successful?
Don't give Soros example since it is clear that he is playing some "bad cop" game serving interests of USA and CIA with his "open society" (!) thing.
Is there a single high end business guy who will hang up the phone if president of USA calls? What would happen if he does?
I am not defending Putin, I am just saying it is how the entire planet in this economic/political system works.
Does this mean that any anti-Putin blogging will be noted and passed on to the "proper" authorities? Cold war is on again, now with Anti Putin junk.
There are other "proper" guys who will care about what you write there, I don't think CCCP (!) really cares about what Americans write about Putin or not.
If you are American you should be just careful about what you write about things happening in Iraq, Afghanistan since there are some guys who care about what you write about them living with your tax money.
I can't stand to this neo cold war junk on Slashdot, sorry if offended.
So, they insist on paying millions of dollars to hosting companies instead of using already established technology such as Bittorrent.
They could even make money if they licensed the Vuze (Azureus) engine and put couple of animated gifs/flash while downloading with virtually zero cost to them.
I am sure the hosts, even if they are Akamai will choke and people will end up hitting Pirate bay to download them. See that happened on Radiohead, people downloaded their paid content from P2P.
Since early 10.3 or 10.4, Apple OS X Safari will warn you if you (generally,accidentally) download a.EXE file or.COM file over the web saying it can be potentially harmful to your computer. I am on PPC/G5 and always thought it is sign of things to come.
They are illegally interfering with their customers' service
Since you've been modded up to "5, insightful"- would you care to tell us what is illegal about it? Extra credit for references to specific federal or state laws or regulations.
And, more specifically, if it is illegal, why this is (supposedly) pushing Congress towards net neutrality laws?
If there is ONE guaranteed way to get the boot from ANY ISP in ANY COUNTRY, spoof as you are someone else. That is it. Getting infected by Worm and spamming thousands of people won't get you kicked out that fast.
I am telling in case they are tricking the P2P apps masking as a client or something.
About the real issue? Stop whining to them or congress... Find another ISP, cancel your service stating the P2P as reason.
That is the only way to punish someone on liberal economy and it really,really hurts after certain numbers.
My guess is this guy still has the awful Unsanity Application Enhancer installed. This piece of s**tware has proven itself to be a cause of so many troubles over the year (including the 'blue screen' problem that oaccure after Leopard upgrades).. I can't understand why people still use it.
It's not that Apple is infallible, but comparing Leopard to Vista is a bit much. APE won't "cause" problems he describes since at worst case scenario (older version), it will make BSOD before booting or if user has latest version installed, it will NOT LOAD.
Stop apologizing for Apple. Every OS first major upgrade since beginning of IT history has problems. Vendor (in this case, Apple) gets notified instead of being apologized for and they eventually FIX the problems or... as in Vista case, people DECLINE to upgrade.
The third party Application (Non Hack) problems will keep happening until Apple gives a shit to 3rd party software (at least popular) while developing upgrades. Their "we code the kernel and frameworks, if your app fails, launch xcode and fix it" attitude costs them.
Solved all my Leopard problems. Why are we losing all our Application installations, user settings to install a $139 operating system while free OS people can update major versions over the net, INSIDE the operating system?
When you pay for an operating system, you expect hassle free upgrade. Even Windows 95 did a great job upgrading from a 16bit DOS creature like Windows 3.1.
I have a better idea, Apple should "Archive" the people they hired past 2 years and "Install" people who have clue about commercial operating system upgrades/installs. I hope that guy/gal who missed the 10.2.8 shadow password creating method doesn't still work there.
I own 3 Macs, 1 Powerbook, 1 Macbook,1 intel Mac Mini. I have not and definitely won't be installing OS-We-Gave-The-Graphic-Designers-Free-Reign-X on any of my machines. I own and make my money from, amongst other things, Adobe CS3 apps and Java. Both do not work completely or properly with OSX 10.5. Adobe will be bringing out an upgrade for Acrobat sometime in 2008 (yay), and Apple might honestly, never actually update Java to 1.6 on OS X. There is an open source JDK 1.6 available now, from scratch to RC1 faster than Apple took to withdraw their horribly broken 1.6 RC. And this is what is making me seriously think of moving to Linux and Windows.
I like OSX, since it's (was, at least in 10.4) very robust. But Apple has one big problem on their hands that goes hand in hand with Steve Jobs and his ego: Whatever SJ thinks is cool and perfect (and trendy for n00bs) goes in (Leopard comes with Ruby on Rails, yay), whatever he thinks is no longer cool (even though literally millions of coders make their money with Java on the server and especially on handies, Google mail, maps and calendar all run just fine in Java on my 2 year old Sony-Ericsson) goes out. This leaves many people frustrated as hell, since it makes work like sitting on a violently rocking boat which might overturn at any time.
On top of this, Apple, in a very Microsoft-like move, killed off a perfectly working Bootcamp on OSX 10.4, forcing all the thousands of poor morons who have Windows in dual boot on their machines upgrade to Vistard and make Apple some extra cash. In addition, installing Windows on Vistard 10.5 Bootcamp is tricky, because if you delete the Vistard created partition and create your own with the Windows installer, the 10.5 Bootcamp no longer sees it. This wasn't the case with the Bootcamp in 10.4, so it must be a Steve Jobs doing a Steve Ballmer like thing and fucking over users to try and lock them in.
I'm personally quite glad that Linux is finally getting good to go. I'm beginning to think that Adobe could port its software to Linux and that they might even make enogh sales from people who are just too pissed off with the Redmond and Cupertino robber barons and their fanciful whims. Java issue is beyond end user IMHO.
Sun and IBM (for PPC/JIT) should sit together, make a schedule and roadmap and takeover Java from Apple. After MS got punished, Sun took over Java for Win32/64, the only issue left with Desktop Java is Apple themselves.
Apple should not be bothered with Java which they clearly hate from the start, especially client focused Java. They have already showed their stance against Java by not including J2ME on iPhone, de-facto programming language for mobile phones. iPhone is the ONLY device which doesn't have Java on that price range.
As a side note, Limewire which is coded entirely on Java never left Top 10 versiontracker OS X/MacOS downloads list. Vuze/Azureus is the top torrent downloading app for OS X. I am sure Apple sees that list too.
As a final and tragicomic note: If I installed Linux/PPC to my Quad G5 instead of Leopard, I would be running IBM Java 6 for PPC which is the final version along with a very good JIT Compiler.
I have waited for a system update before installing Leopard and here is an example.
A game (small company,not naming) built on standard technologies like OpenGL/OpenAL which is natively OS X since the start. No Cider etc. crap.
Tiger 10.4.11: 60 fps Leopard 10.5.1: 10-20 fps
This is what I see. I reported "performance issue" to Apple using their bug reporter and I will _insist_ until it gets fixed. Apple's issue is their fans. People spare too much time forgetting they are customers and defending Apple. I am basically a customer, family license owner of a new operating system. It performs badly, bug reported.
To take a slightly more serious note on piracy/copyright infringement. As soon as I heard the Futurama dvd was coming out this November I asked for it to be bought as a christmas present, however a few days ago I discovered it was coming out in November in the USA. I'm in the UK here, and it actually comes out on dvd sometime in 2008.
It doesn't take many guesses for what I did and no, it wasn't flown over my magic carpet...
We'll see if in 2008 I still have the impetus to buy it when it comes out, considering the nature of the internet and how it's stupidly easy to get this kind of stuff nowadays I wish companies would wake up and start doing their releases simultaneous or near simultaneously worldwide. (especially when they're in the same damn language with the only difference of one being NTSC format and the other PAL) Someone wonders if the media companies are huge plastic company shareholders too.
Put it on a private torrent tracker with a fixed price, license a multi platform torrent engine such as Azureus and make a dedicated "Futurama downloader" which will offer the same thing in Mpeg 4 or a plain DVD ISO file. I would pay the exact same price which I would pay to that DVD.
I wonder if these sounds really "futuristic" to media companies that they insist on selling mpeg 2 packaged in plastic.
I actually know (non technical) people downloading pirated copies of their own original DVDs so they can watch it on their media players.
They're probably afraid the hideous fugliness of the thing will make potential ad-clickers run Some (alledged) pics here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/ They need to hire Apple iPod team immediately. Why include keyboard? Why whitish colour close to beige? Why not a very very simple thing which shows the content only with back forward at edges? Why audio? Who wants a book making sound while there is iPod for it with all established book store?
It is sad the industry never learns from failure of hi-tech multimedia devices to some "no wireless, lame" iPod.
Yes, there is no guaranteed bandwidth so those companies still buy "real" T1, T3 lines.
I wonder one thing. How come those ISPs aren't hurt by millions of people actually streaming/downloading flv files over HTTP, the protocol every "real" media player falls back as last resort?
ISPs have something deeper against P2P technology and its becoming household item via legal distributors such as Vuze, Bittorrent(.com) etc.
In fact, lets say one day a hit movie ships legally online exact same time as cinemas. It is released as, Apple iTunes store (non P2P) and Vuze/Bittorrent. Guess which will choke down the ISP bandwidth? Apple one! As the content is really popular, more than 1 person at same time will download it and will keep it sharing in same IP block. ISPs even setup Tucows/Open source mirrors to get rid of outside traffic. Vuze/Azureus guys ship everything down to 100kb plugins over Bittorrent protocol and guess what? Nobody hits their servers at all. Most of the time, you end up downloading from your own IP block.
This has something to do with ties with large media companies, loss of major bandwidth/hosting contracts and even political control.
I think if enough (99%) turns them off, CmdrTaco would remove that junk "Web 2.0" feature. There are some serious offensive tags I saw especially personal attacks to not-so-loved authors. Now marking every Anti Apple story as "FUD" is something, personal attacks are much more serious things which would degrade image of Slashdot and may even create legal trouble.
that this company thinks that this company thinks that removing P2P throttling will help streaming video?
And yes, I did RTFA and saw that they're delivering streaming media via the bittorent protocol. I say it's they're own damn fault for using a protocol which is well known for huge bandwidth use and no latency requirements to deliver media with critical latency requirements. If you don't want the ISPs messing with your video stream try not making your video stream look like a file download. Actually some numbers of companies managed to do such P2P sharing for streaming audiow/video years ago and they are still doing it. It didn't break down anything and in fact actualy helped ISPs since a truely popular live Radio would have to hit 3-4 very high bandwidth IPs and distributed locally.
I consider it is more popular than Azureus. Limewire, while I never agreed with their purpose and policies is always in top 5 downloads of Apple OS X app downloads. This is going on for years now.
Neooffice is what you should launch if anyone claims Java is slow with outdated information. Or run imagej and show them some filters are actually faster and more accurate than $1000 photoshop CS3.
I have not found any really compelling Java apps on my desktops (Linux and Mac OS), are there really any reasons for needing them on my phone?
Especially given the fact that getting a java port relies on having an open SDK for the iPhone -- meaning native apps can be produced. So, if there are native apps, why would we want Java?
Also, is my impression of Java outdated? Is it not slow, bloated (JRE + app), and have an ugly UI? My bank and their millions of consumers who all got a highly secure password generator (J2ME) in age of phishing can't care less about how ugly Java is. They all got the password generator free which does work on any J2ME phone except iPhone and that generator saves them from $90+ private data watching firewall and fixed password.
iPhone market share is still a joke while I hope it will become the Symbian rival. Win CE is the real danger to standards and market. If I call my bank and tell them I got a $400 iPhone which doesn't have J2ME which exists on $60 phones and tell them to code a iPhone.application just for 1% of market, they will laugh at my face.
That is only a bank example. There are lots of examples about iPhone and stupid choices Apple made such as no SIM contacts support (backup!), no MMS support.
We want iPhone to be a true Symbian competitor and nothing else. I am an Apple user myself. If Java isn't there just because it is "ugly", Apple should stay making iPods since 2 billion devices and their users doesn't agree to their Java opinion.
"Sun estimates the total Java Economy to be more than (USD)$100 billion in sales annually driving an additional $110 billion in related IT spending The Java economy includes 2.5 billion smart cards, 800 million PCs shipped with Java, 1.85 billion Java Powered phones (source: Ovum), and over 180 telecom providers who deploy Java technology based content/services." http://www.sun.com/java/everywhere/#facts
> The mozilla foundation didn't want firefox in the first place. But I guess since firefox has gotten bigger, slower, and more bloated over time...
I didn't want, initially, to use shitty non-standards compliant (ie Netscape) software, but it's got more compliant over time. Presumably Google are in favour of standards as Google users won't only be using Firefox, so frankly Mozilla can either 1) do what Google want, or 2) risk Google going alone with their own browser based on Firefox code. Netscape 4 was being coded while there were no official standards around and everyone was proposing their own standards to become de facto standard. The "standards" you seem to care are result of power fight between the browsers and their propositions. MS didn't get into W3C board because they are in love with standards.
For Google, standards are either IE or Firefox. Try going to docs.google.com with a non Firefox browser such as Opera which is known for their strict conformance of standards since the start.
Until every single page, CSS passes W3C validators, nobody can claim Google is standards compliant. I would be using and supporting Firefox if they weren't that close to Google and they actually cared about my platform of choice (OS X). With their version 3, they seem to care a bit but Google and shadowy agreements still remain.
I don't want a Fortune 500 giant to watch every single URL I go with excuse of "Phishing protection" for my favor.
anti-phishing, anti-malware, incorrect URL resolution are all either sending private data to Google which they normally wouldn't have (Anti phishing,malware) or creates a huge opportunity of search and further brand recognition when you type incorrect url.
In fact, nobody from Firefox could explain why people are sent to "news search" (Google by default) when they type plain "news" to URL field and they require special key to fill.com and send to cnet news.com for example.
Google should play openly and say the facts, I can't care less for their search engine or Firefox but I hate being treated as stupid.
I also have couple of words to Apple: Putting Google as default search engine to Safari along with referrer to default browser of a $130 Operating system and preventing users to change it without hacks is plain lame.
I had nothing against Google until they started playing these games. Lots of people who became against Google shares same feelings too. They already have the search monopoly, everyone memorized Google.com as search engine, their search fits well to people using it and there is no reason to act like some evil dictator of Internet even involving Thunderbird end of official support.
Remember once everyone ignored Microsoft if it doesn't fit to their needs but not necessarily "hate" them until they started pure evilness with IE. Even Fortune 500 giants should learn from history.
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When using the Democracy Player, I could not find any content worth watching. Just garbage. That is how NBC, CBS, CNN still makes billions over regular TV broadcast in broadband Internet age.
You can air YOUR OWN content if you don't like the content offered. If you were looking for reality shows, organized/censored news and sitcoms, you should have turned on your TV or hit a pirate torrent site.
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252: 36 flagged staff members
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JWZ will have to write blog in Russian now?
http://jwz.livejournal.com/
The other 50% will be "in soviet russia" jokes, of course... Welcome back... Cold war.
I was at HK/China just a week ago, I bought IHT Newspaper. It took 2 pages to figure the cold war trickery stories of 1980s are back and threw it to paper recycling bin. The "South China Post" was lot more informative and insightful than the IHT junk.
(IHT:International Herald Tribune, NY Times pub.)
Don't give Soros example since it is clear that he is playing some "bad cop" game serving interests of USA and CIA with his "open society" (!) thing.
Is there a single high end business guy who will hang up the phone if president of USA calls? What would happen if he does?
I am not defending Putin, I am just saying it is how the entire planet in this economic/political system works.
There are other "proper" guys who will care about what you write there, I don't think CCCP (!) really cares about what Americans write about Putin or not.
If you are American you should be just careful about what you write about things happening in Iraq, Afghanistan since there are some guys who care about what you write about them living with your tax money.
I can't stand to this neo cold war junk on Slashdot, sorry if offended.
Gee, you say that as if it were possible! Here's a hint: it's not!
Well they can enjoy their monopoly for now until Satellite solutions which already exist at North Europe come there.As I am a foreigner, for us, USA is a free economy so we assume people have more choices. I think I assumed wrong. Thank you.
So, they insist on paying millions of dollars to hosting companies instead of using already established technology such as Bittorrent.
They could even make money if they licensed the Vuze (Azureus) engine and put couple of animated gifs/flash while downloading with virtually zero cost to them.
I am sure the hosts, even if they are Akamai will choke and people will end up hitting Pirate bay to download them. See that happened on Radiohead, people downloaded their paid content from P2P.
Since early 10.3 or 10.4, Apple OS X Safari will warn you if you (generally,accidentally) download a .EXE file or .COM file over the web saying it can be potentially harmful to your computer. I am on PPC/G5 and always thought it is sign of things to come.
They are illegally interfering with their customers' service
Since you've been modded up to "5, insightful"- would you care to tell us what is illegal about it? Extra credit for references to specific federal or state laws or regulations.
And, more specifically, if it is illegal, why this is (supposedly) pushing Congress towards net neutrality laws?
If there is ONE guaranteed way to get the boot from ANY ISP in ANY COUNTRY, spoof as you are someone else. That is it. Getting infected by Worm and spamming thousands of people won't get you kicked out that fast.I am telling in case they are tricking the P2P apps masking as a client or something.
About the real issue? Stop whining to them or congress... Find another ISP, cancel your service stating the P2P as reason.
That is the only way to punish someone on liberal economy and it really,really hurts after certain numbers.
It's not that Apple is infallible, but comparing Leopard to Vista is a bit much. APE won't "cause" problems he describes since at worst case scenario (older version), it will make BSOD before booting or if user has latest version installed, it will NOT LOAD.
Stop apologizing for Apple. Every OS first major upgrade since beginning of IT history has problems. Vendor (in this case, Apple) gets notified instead of being apologized for and they eventually FIX the problems or... as in Vista case, people DECLINE to upgrade.
The third party Application (Non Hack) problems will keep happening until Apple gives a shit to 3rd party software (at least popular) while developing upgrades. Their "we code the kernel and frameworks, if your app fails, launch xcode and fix it" attitude costs them.
Solved all my Leopard problems. Why are we losing all our Application installations, user settings to install a $139 operating system while free OS people can update major versions over the net, INSIDE the operating system?
When you pay for an operating system, you expect hassle free upgrade. Even Windows 95 did a great job upgrading from a 16bit DOS creature like Windows 3.1.
I have a better idea, Apple should "Archive" the people they hired past 2 years and "Install" people who have clue about commercial operating system upgrades/installs. I hope that guy/gal who missed the 10.2.8 shadow password creating method doesn't still work there.
I like OSX, since it's (was, at least in 10.4) very robust. But Apple has one big problem on their hands that goes hand in hand with Steve Jobs and his ego: Whatever SJ thinks is cool and perfect (and trendy for n00bs) goes in (Leopard comes with Ruby on Rails, yay), whatever he thinks is no longer cool (even though literally millions of coders make their money with Java on the server and especially on handies, Google mail, maps and calendar all run just fine in Java on my 2 year old Sony-Ericsson) goes out. This leaves many people frustrated as hell, since it makes work like sitting on a violently rocking boat which might overturn at any time.
On top of this, Apple, in a very Microsoft-like move, killed off a perfectly working Bootcamp on OSX 10.4, forcing all the thousands of poor morons who have Windows in dual boot on their machines upgrade to Vistard and make Apple some extra cash. In addition, installing Windows on Vistard 10.5 Bootcamp is tricky, because if you delete the Vistard created partition and create your own with the Windows installer, the 10.5 Bootcamp no longer sees it. This wasn't the case with the Bootcamp in 10.4, so it must be a Steve Jobs doing a Steve Ballmer like thing and fucking over users to try and lock them in.
I'm personally quite glad that Linux is finally getting good to go. I'm beginning to think that Adobe could port its software to Linux and that they might even make enogh sales from people who are just too pissed off with the Redmond and Cupertino robber barons and their fanciful whims. Java issue is beyond end user IMHO.
Sun and IBM (for PPC/JIT) should sit together, make a schedule and roadmap and takeover Java from Apple. After MS got punished, Sun took over Java for Win32/64, the only issue left with Desktop Java is Apple themselves.
Apple should not be bothered with Java which they clearly hate from the start, especially client focused Java. They have already showed their stance against Java by not including J2ME on iPhone, de-facto programming language for mobile phones. iPhone is the ONLY device which doesn't have Java on that price range.
As a side note, Limewire which is coded entirely on Java never left Top 10 versiontracker OS X/MacOS downloads list. Vuze/Azureus is the top torrent downloading app for OS X. I am sure Apple sees that list too.
As a final and tragicomic note: If I installed Linux/PPC to my Quad G5 instead of Leopard, I would be running IBM Java 6 for PPC which is the final version along with a very good JIT Compiler.
I have waited for a system update before installing Leopard and here is an example.
A game (small company,not naming) built on standard technologies like OpenGL/OpenAL which is natively OS X since the start. No Cider etc. crap.
Tiger 10.4.11: 60 fps
Leopard 10.5.1: 10-20 fps
This is what I see. I reported "performance issue" to Apple using their bug reporter and I will _insist_ until it gets fixed. Apple's issue is their fans. People spare too much time forgetting they are customers and defending Apple. I am basically a customer, family license owner of a new operating system. It performs badly, bug reported.
It doesn't take many guesses for what I did and no, it wasn't flown over my magic carpet...
We'll see if in 2008 I still have the impetus to buy it when it comes out, considering the nature of the internet and how it's stupidly easy to get this kind of stuff nowadays I wish companies would wake up and start doing their releases simultaneous or near simultaneously worldwide. (especially when they're in the same damn language with the only difference of one being NTSC format and the other PAL) Someone wonders if the media companies are huge plastic company shareholders too.
Put it on a private torrent tracker with a fixed price, license a multi platform torrent engine such as Azureus and make a dedicated "Futurama downloader" which will offer the same thing in Mpeg 4 or a plain DVD ISO file. I would pay the exact same price which I would pay to that DVD.
I wonder if these sounds really "futuristic" to media companies that they insist on selling mpeg 2 packaged in plastic.
I actually know (non technical) people downloading pirated copies of their own original DVDs so they can watch it on their media players.
No I am not calling for touch screen. I am saying a lot simpler thing must be done. Back, forward "real" buttons if touch to edges can't be done.
I am following e-ink since its start but it seems companies don't get what makes a real book attractive. Its simplicity.
Some (alledged) pics here:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/ They need to hire Apple iPod team immediately. Why include keyboard? Why whitish colour close to beige? Why not a very very simple thing which shows the content only with back forward at edges? Why audio? Who wants a book making sound while there is iPod for it with all established book store?
It is sad the industry never learns from failure of hi-tech multimedia devices to some "no wireless, lame" iPod.
Hope they are fake shots.
Yes, there is no guaranteed bandwidth so those companies still buy "real" T1, T3 lines.
I wonder one thing. How come those ISPs aren't hurt by millions of people actually streaming/downloading flv files over HTTP, the protocol every "real" media player falls back as last resort?
ISPs have something deeper against P2P technology and its becoming household item via legal distributors such as Vuze, Bittorrent(.com) etc.
In fact, lets say one day a hit movie ships legally online exact same time as cinemas. It is released as, Apple iTunes store (non P2P) and Vuze/Bittorrent. Guess which will choke down the ISP bandwidth? Apple one! As the content is really popular, more than 1 person at same time will download it and will keep it sharing in same IP block. ISPs even setup Tucows/Open source mirrors to get rid of outside traffic. Vuze/Azureus guys ship everything down to 100kb plugins over Bittorrent protocol and guess what? Nobody hits their servers at all. Most of the time, you end up downloading from your own IP block.
This has something to do with ties with large media companies, loss of major bandwidth/hosting contracts and even political control.
I think I did the neccesary feedback via turning them off. It is turned off at
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edittags (must be logged in of course).
I think if enough (99%) turns them off, CmdrTaco would remove that junk "Web 2.0" feature. There are some serious offensive tags I saw especially personal attacks to not-so-loved authors. Now marking every Anti Apple story as "FUD" is something, personal attacks are much more serious things which would degrade image of Slashdot and may even create legal trouble.
And yes, I did RTFA and saw that they're delivering streaming media via the bittorent protocol. I say it's they're own damn fault for using a protocol which is well known for huge bandwidth use and no latency requirements to deliver media with critical latency requirements. If you don't want the ISPs messing with your video stream try not making your video stream look like a file download. Actually some numbers of companies managed to do such P2P sharing for streaming audiow/video years ago and they are still doing it. It didn't break down anything and in fact actualy helped ISPs since a truely popular live Radio would have to hit 3-4 very high bandwidth IPs and distributed locally.
For example Octoshape is endorsed/used by Deutsche Welle TV, EBU
http://www.octoshape.com/about/octoshape.asp
I am all for actual, pure UDP streaming with auto fallback such as Quicktime, Real but... People choose to download/stream(!) over HTTP.
Neooffice is what you should launch if anyone claims Java is slow with outdated information. Or run imagej and show them some filters are actually faster and more accurate than $1000 photoshop CS3.
Especially given the fact that getting a java port relies on having an open SDK for the iPhone -- meaning native apps can be produced. So, if there are native apps, why would we want Java?
Also, is my impression of Java outdated? Is it not slow, bloated (JRE + app), and have an ugly UI? My bank and their millions of consumers who all got a highly secure password generator (J2ME) in age of phishing can't care less about how ugly Java is. They all got the password generator free which does work on any J2ME phone except iPhone and that generator saves them from $90+ private data watching firewall and fixed password.
iPhone market share is still a joke while I hope it will become the Symbian rival. Win CE is the real danger to standards and market. If I call my bank and tell them I got a $400 iPhone which doesn't have J2ME which exists on $60 phones and tell them to code a iPhone
That is only a bank example. There are lots of examples about iPhone and stupid choices Apple made such as no SIM contacts support (backup!), no MMS support.
We want iPhone to be a true Symbian competitor and nothing else. I am an Apple user myself. If Java isn't there just because it is "ugly", Apple should stay making iPods since 2 billion devices and their users doesn't agree to their Java opinion.
"Sun estimates the total Java Economy to be more than (USD)$100 billion in sales annually driving an additional $110 billion in related IT spending
The Java economy includes 2.5 billion smart cards, 800 million PCs shipped with Java, 1.85 billion Java Powered phones (source: Ovum), and over 180 telecom providers who deploy Java technology based content/services."
http://www.sun.com/java/everywhere/#facts
Will it work perfectly, bit to bit perfectly with ANY browser on ANY OS which was coded/maintained in 2007?
I think everyone knows the answer to this question and that answer is exactly why it will become another joke.
I didn't want, initially, to use shitty non-standards compliant (ie Netscape) software, but it's got more compliant over time. Presumably Google are in favour of standards as Google users won't only be using Firefox, so frankly Mozilla can either 1) do what Google want, or 2) risk Google going alone with their own browser based on Firefox code. Netscape 4 was being coded while there were no official standards around and everyone was proposing their own standards to become de facto standard. The "standards" you seem to care are result of power fight between the browsers and their propositions. MS didn't get into W3C board because they are in love with standards.
For Google, standards are either IE or Firefox. Try going to docs.google.com with a non Firefox browser such as Opera which is known for their strict conformance of standards since the start.
Until every single page, CSS passes W3C validators, nobody can claim Google is standards compliant. I would be using and supporting Firefox if they weren't that close to Google and they actually cared about my platform of choice (OS X). With their version 3, they seem to care a bit but Google and shadowy agreements still remain.
I don't want a Fortune 500 giant to watch every single URL I go with excuse of "Phishing protection" for my favor.
anti-phishing, anti-malware, incorrect URL resolution are all either sending private data to Google which they normally wouldn't have (Anti phishing,malware) or creates a huge opportunity of search and further brand recognition when you type incorrect url.
.com and send to cnet news.com for example.
In fact, nobody from Firefox could explain why people are sent to "news search" (Google by default) when they type plain "news" to URL field and they require special key to fill
Google should play openly and say the facts, I can't care less for their search engine or Firefox but I hate being treated as stupid.
I also have couple of words to Apple: Putting Google as default search engine to Safari along with referrer to default browser of a $130 Operating system and preventing users to change it without hacks is plain lame.
I had nothing against Google until they started playing these games. Lots of people who became against Google shares same feelings too. They already have the search monopoly, everyone memorized Google.com as search engine, their search fits well to people using it and there is no reason to act like some evil dictator of Internet even involving Thunderbird end of official support.
Remember once everyone ignored Microsoft if it doesn't fit to their needs but not necessarily "hate" them until they started pure evilness with IE. Even Fortune 500 giants should learn from history.
You can air YOUR OWN content if you don't like the content offered. If you were looking for reality shows, organized/censored news and sitcoms, you should have turned on your TV or hit a pirate torrent site.