They're still going to deploy it as the default document format for the new Offices. Lots of small and large companies are still going to upgrade their software at some point. OOXML is still very likely to become the new de facto standard due to common usage. For it to happen, they should do some guerilla coding. MS refuses to ship viewers for competing systems? Code a Cocoa (OS X), native Windows 95/98 (yes, old) and a JRE 5 application and make sure it is the easiest thing ever to install and use.
What they do instead? They completely misunderstand Mac business scene, announce Aqua version will be stable in Q4 2008 and lag the 2.3.x OS X/X11 release a week or more while "Windows" version is released on time.
I can't understand why OS X version is lagged? First there is a complete FreeBSD running inside, Vendor supplied and supported X11 which is even opengl accelerated and colour corrected, the OS itself uses the frameworks they code on.
OOXML could be in lot better shape, a company which has no clue about Desktop is the main supporter, that is the problem. Poor Java, their own invention suffered from them too. They couldn't figure why they shouldn't create massive HD activity chaos just to show couple of animations in pages. See Adobe Flash took over the entire embedded video market while there were JVM 1.1 applets doing same thing and even better.
I have gave up on them and purchased iWork 08 family edition. I launched iWork's advanced word processor, "Pages", it took exactly 0.5 seconds to launch and become usable. Now imagine if OpenOffice was something like that? MS could have shaken very bad.
Not true. There is a plugin for Office 2003 to use the new formats, as well as a viewer. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925180 Where is at least OS X viewer? They are the largest software company in Mac scene you know? Macs are the king on DTP and they already code for Mac, happily sell $400 Office and doesn't code a damn viewer.
You know, they could fire XCode, would click couple of "Office Frameworks" to be included, start some Cocoa viewer project and release it just tomorrow if they wanted to.
Novell's patched version of OpenOffice supports DOCX and runs on linux... With MS patents which may hit those naive companies the time when they least expected.
I don't see why an IT department choose Suse after recent happenings and MS puppet guy being manager there. Want a competing product which is supported very well? Go with IBM stuff. Hard to manage? No it needs real admins only.
What is left from Suse Linux except a MS puppet in charge and shadowy agreements with a company which still have chap 11 rumours on various finance boards?
It is the standard suggesting companies job to sit and code a damned converter, not their puppets BTW. I bet that "patched" version does lack some critical feature or will lack. I know how MS works, it works as a spoiled kid, not a real serious company.
However, they lock out Linux users... as well as anybody not living in the US. Yes, we foreigners must either pay same price of CD to DHL/UPS or steal unless we listen to Top 40 junk.
You know what? It really started to sound like "No coloured people" sign to me.
"this is marriage for convenience and unfortunately business are like this."
Microsoft's track record of "working with other companies" isn't very good. Imagine that company screwed up the mighty Big Blue, IBM on OS/2...
Novell is a joke compared to IBM but some people are way too naive or getting paid well to be naive. Or caring about their future contract opportunities.
"I don't know of any other download service that could top the Amazon MP3 store."
Bittorrent? I know you are joking but checking some replies to the story, I am sure those DRM lobby guys are archiving them.
World's largest online retailer ships complete plain MP3'es without any kind of DRM or Windows Media and people argue which method of piracy is better for their needs.
DRM excuse after "top 100" catalogue available (which eMusic couldn't offer) is OVER.
Do you have any evidence to back that up or are you just rumor mongering? There is 650 MB plain text evidence which should send anyone to jail unless they are backed up by RIAA and MPAA members.
Just tried it. XP & VISTA or MAC OSX ONLY for Albums!!!
------------------- You have selected to purchase:
GREATEST HITS by Elton John (Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.)
You must install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to purchase albums. (learn more)
* It automatically adds your music downloads to iTunes or Windows Media Player
* It takes just a few clicks and less than 30 seconds to install
DOWNLOAD NOW -- WINDOWS XP & VISTA
I agree to the terms of use | Download Mac OS X version Some Mac users may kill me but if they used Trolltech Qt framework like Skype does, they could release for all modern operating systems. Imagine the PR value if they did.
eMusic.com guys use Mozilla based stuff for example, that is an alternative too. Also good for evil corporate guys, the poor user is inside a complete site suite, he can't check other stores very practically.;) http://www.emusic.com/remote/download.html (Linux available)
Also... As usual , even if you have OS X, "(Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.)" , yes, "damn you foreigner, don't buy albums, steal them" scheme in action. Got used to it, I don't even bother anymore. Let eMusic, magnatunes guys/artists get my money.
I almost forgot, Slashdot has meta-moderation. For example, the idiots "dugg down" my comment to -1 on Slashdot which had a point about the story as:
"Digg could be lot more popular but for example, if this story pops up in EWeek.com or ZDNet which are popular for enterprise Windows people , it will be lot more serious issue for Microsoft. Imagine you are a decision maker thinking whether to use IBM solutions, Sun or MS and you read this story on your favourite mags website."
Will be meta-moderated to hell and will never ever have "moderator" powers to abuse again. It seems there is a reason for "karma bonus" thing.
Well, I gave up on them on Mozilla 0.x something ages and moved to smaller open source/commercial browser projects which can't be "great" as their products but a real tight and responsive/friendly developer community.
I don't know your OS but perhaps you should look to other alternatives if they really insist not fixing a properly documented bug which has something to do with memory or hardware.
I was speaking in general, e.g. Mac OS X users flaming them on Versiontracker but can't be bothered to report issues to where it belongs.
I'll grant that I'm pretty sure there is a Java Runtime on my current cell phone (I vaguely remember seeing that irritating logo on the box when I bought it) but I'd be quite surprised if I've ever used it. And I'm still trying to figure out what the part about banks writing a password generator has to do with anything at all. My bank offers their millions of customers a small J2ME secure program to generate pseudo-random passwords written in Java.
So, lets say I will throw away my J2ME phone and buy an iPhone and tell them to code a "Web 2.0" "Safari style" password generator?
Opera Mini is Java too and you wouldn't know when you will need a small 90 kb program to access a webpage properly formatted to fit screen.
Lets not forget (!) a billion dollar small screen gaming industry relies on Java too.
I don't know what kind of Stone age devices/standards World's largest economy relies on but in Europe or Asia, you are really eccentric if your mobile device doesn't include java support.
I don't know anything except those $30 (or free with preloaded card) phones which doesn't support Java. As far as I understand you "hate" Java, could you give an alternative instead of Java to run small programs on mission critical devices such as cell phones?
So, what's the plan here, is Open office calc going to be implementing this feature too?
Well, at least it is proven that closed source programs with big companies behind it have their problems too, who knows how many really serious calculation errors have been made without people knowing about them. No but someone better call Novell and Icaza compatibility labs.
I don't like Firefox or their very close relations with Google but I must say as it is an open source, no charge software, they expect users to report memory leakage issues to bugzilla so they can fix them.
You can't sit there with your rare AMD64 and certain HD and expect a magical fix. Trying to describe how it goes.
Same on Apple Safari and even Opera too. Opera found the issue with Slashdot Beta and fixed in 9.5. What if everyone stayed silent and flamed them on Slashdot instead?
No "karma" or anything, completely open to abuse by PR companies and real companies.
For example MS can hire 100 monkeys do "digg down" any reasonable comment or story.
As Apple user I must add, it doesn't have to be a professional company. Some people losing their minds and becoming cult members instead of consumers may "digg down" anything they don't like to hear. It may even include some security news. That is why I tell those Apple Digg guys to post Apple related security/critical things to "Security" section instead of "Apple".
Digg could be lot more popular but for example, if this story pops up in EWeek.com or ZDNet which are popular for enterprise Windows people , it will be lot more serious issue for Microsoft. Imagine you are a decision maker thinking whether to use IBM solutions, Sun or MS and you read this story on your favourite mags website.
As far as I can tell, this is marked troll and the parent flamebait because it speaks of Apple in a bad light. I'm as big an Apple fanboy as anyone (five+ macs at home and have been using them for years) but that doesn't change the fact that Apple is in the wrong here. What's wrong with Cyberworm saying so?
(And here comes the mark-me-downs...) The iPhone users and fans are wrong since Steve Jobs never promised any SDK, guy ignored Java even which is a _must_ on any mobile device since no bank will sit and code a password generator because their 1000 customers are using a stylish widget.
When people said these, they got modded as "troll", "flamebait", "dugg down" and now, they say "We said so" and they get modded "troll" again.
If you want a real smart phone with complete 3rd party application support even including low level kernel calls, you buy Symbian, Qtopia, WinCE or a really perfect J2ME supporting handset like Sony Ericsson. Period. There is no other way.
Apple is wrong by not supporting any SDK because they are so afraid of being a true rival to Microsoft and change the entire mobile scene. They are wrong because they are afraid of possible iTunes store rivals selling music to iPhone owners via iPhone. The issue here is, people buying iPhone knowingly, even waiting on lines and expect to change Apple's mind by Digg and Slashdot comments.
It won't happen.
What you should do is, having entire home and business setup on Mac (including XServe hosting) and REJECT to buy iPhone because it doesn't have SDK announced.
My next "smart device" if this 9300 becomes awfully outfashioned will be another 9300 like "mini laptop" having a real OS, SDK and Java support. It is not the price, it is the date. It is freaking 2007 for God's sake.
If people are afraid of firmware updates which sure includes security updates, there will be thousands of communication devices with a very high CPU speed and fast (EDGE fast) Network connection around.
Those devices owners, unless they have stolen them has real good amount of money in bank too.
So, do you remember the 3rd party application lock was for? Security?:) I am not speaking about J2ME they ignored which a $50 phone can do and run Opera Mini for example.
I got a Nokia 9300 Symbian 80 series phone here, I am a very conservative user without any kind of "hacked" firmware since it came without Simlock and Symbian offers a huge SDK all free even including free application signing to open source developers.
Why should I hack it at all? I am happily running a $10 SMS Anti Spam tool which got installed by "opening" the.sis file without any hacks or something for example. I run whatever latest Nokia Firmware is, installed at service centre for $10 or something.
Also I must add that firmware update has fixed so many issues on my Nokia that I even started to purchase J2ME apps,services. A firmware on a device is more like a OS update.
I'm in New Zealand, and today I saw a local 'parallel importing' house advertise iphones modded to work with the local vodafone GSM network, for the princely sum of... wait for it... $NZ1199.. that, at todays conversion rate is $US892 !!!
These I would suggest come with no warranty or official support as they have been modified outside Apple specs.
You'd hafta be keen ! Can you blame the guy while those Apple fanatics are enough delusional to claim "Woz doesn't know shit" just because he said 2 words about a $200 price drop?
I would price it $1000 and still sell.
There is a guy on The Register (which cult members flamed) made a basic calculation. He can buy high end Nokia N95 (3.5 G!), an iPod and a low end PC as a bonus with TCO of UK iPhone. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/uk_iphone_at_last/
If I was a cell phone dealer doing grey-hat jobs, I wouldn't be that nice even.
Not/quite/ in the same league but Doug Neubauer wrote most of the seminal Atari 8bit game Star Raiders before the hardware existed. He worked from chip designs (one of which he helped design) and built a 3D game with sprites, multiple screens etc that fitted a single 8K cartridge back in 1979. Most impressively, he claims that the 80% done version pretty much compiled fine first time once he got real hardware to try it on. I better add that one Atari 800XL game developer couldn't get his money from game publishing house for his legendary game, he happily gave up game developing and went straight to code B2 Stealth Bomber all by himself. Yes, not a "game", the actual bomber itself.
That could give a clue about the developer/engineer qualities you need to release a working desktop machine those times and why people listen when a engineer like Woz speaks.
But how is he now? Does his words still mean as much? Do you consider Woz-of-now equal with Woz-in-the-heady-beginnings-of-the-computer-revolution?
That is why I ask the question: why is he still relevant?
I guess blind idol worship exists in the geek world too.... All of this because he said a couple of words about iPhone price drop yes?
I like Macs, I pay for my software and even purchased iWork '08 right after it is available but the "Mac community" is really beyond fixing. I would trade some cult member group that believes in aliens rather than Apple cult.
Answer to your question: He is one of the 2 (two) guys behind that "fruit logo" you see. Should he code some C++ cool,tricky code to become relevant to you or prove himself being relevant?
He is Woz, one of founders of Apple Inc. generous and engineer enough to donate most of his money for educating children. Who the hell are you and why are _you_ relevant?
On phone stuff, don't trust Apple. I think your 3G phone/device must be high end so it has 3rd party application support yes? Based on Apple, you will soon get Virused because of 3rd party apps and take down entire USA network!:)
Stuff like these... They even rejected J2ME (Java) while it is in use on billion devices or so.
You know what "risk" 3G and 3rd party official Application support have? Someone could start a better iTunes like store and sell tunes through own Application to iPhone owners.
If you ask electronics people, 3G in fact uses less power to communicate. The "video call" etc. stuff is the battery eater,not the protocol when used for talking or basic Internet access.
Except I just read there is a security flaw in VMware could allow a process running within the VM machine to exploit the host OS. So even virtualization as a sandbox is not fully effective. In fact it happened (or theoretically possible) with MS Virtual PC (don't laugh) 7 running on OS X.
"What's new in this version": "This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code."
Yes, the "Virtual PC" running there may overwrite memory from "there". I hate to pick on MS and VPC is some real cool code but... It is sounding damn funny.
If any Mac people reading this: Get it updated and also install a free antivirus. Viruses _run_ under emulation, slowly but they run.
"No media codecs" Well, yes, this is a pain, but what is Dell supposed to do? Ship it with all the "bad" and "ugly" codecs? If I were a PC manufacturer in the US, I sure wouldn't want to do that. You're just asking for the mafiaa to come after you.
Actually, with feisty, I just opened up RhythmBox and it prompted me to install the other codecs. IIRC, I didn't have to anything in the CLI. What about accelerated drivers? Will Nvidia "sue" them?
If a branded PC manufacturer offers Linux as official choice and doesn't put accelerated drivers, I would suspect their old timer friendship with Microsoft and nothing else.
Does Dell offer Linux to help people hate Linux and see Windows as the one and only choice to have good experience? It happens to a IT Media Professional reviewer, can imagine a non techie end users experience?
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They're still going to deploy it as the default document format for the new Offices. Lots of small and large companies are still going to upgrade their software at some point. OOXML is still very likely to become the new de facto standard due to common usage. For it to happen, they should do some guerilla coding. MS refuses to ship viewers for competing systems? Code a Cocoa (OS X), native Windows 95/98 (yes, old) and a JRE 5 application and make sure it is the easiest thing ever to install and use.
What they do instead? They completely misunderstand Mac business scene, announce Aqua version will be stable in Q4 2008 and lag the 2.3.x OS X/X11 release a week or more while "Windows" version is released on time.
I can't understand why OS X version is lagged? First there is a complete FreeBSD running inside, Vendor supplied and supported X11 which is even opengl accelerated and colour corrected, the OS itself uses the frameworks they code on.
OOXML could be in lot better shape, a company which has no clue about Desktop is the main supporter, that is the problem. Poor Java, their own invention suffered from them too. They couldn't figure why they shouldn't create massive HD activity chaos just to show couple of animations in pages. See Adobe Flash took over the entire embedded video market while there were JVM 1.1 applets doing same thing and even better.
I have gave up on them and purchased iWork 08 family edition. I launched iWork's advanced word processor, "Pages", it took exactly 0.5 seconds to launch and become usable. Now imagine if OpenOffice was something like that? MS could have shaken very bad.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925180 Where is at least OS X viewer? They are the largest software company in Mac scene you know? Macs are the king on DTP and they already code for Mac, happily sell $400 Office and doesn't code a damn viewer.
You know, they could fire XCode, would click couple of "Office Frameworks" to be included, start some Cocoa viewer project and release it just tomorrow if they wanted to.
I don't see why an IT department choose Suse after recent happenings and MS puppet guy being manager there. Want a competing product which is supported very well? Go with IBM stuff. Hard to manage? No it needs real admins only.
What is left from Suse Linux except a MS puppet in charge and shadowy agreements with a company which still have chap 11 rumours on various finance boards?
It is the standard suggesting companies job to sit and code a damned converter, not their puppets BTW. I bet that "patched" version does lack some critical feature or will lack. I know how MS works, it works as a spoiled kid, not a real serious company.
You know what? It really started to sound like "No coloured people" sign to me.
I don't buy RIAA excuse either.
Microsoft's track record of "working with other companies" isn't very good. Imagine that company screwed up the mighty Big Blue, IBM on OS
Novell is a joke compared to IBM but some people are way too naive or getting paid well to be naive. Or caring about their future contract opportunities.
Moonlight, lol.
Bittorrent? I know you are joking but checking some replies to the story, I am sure those DRM lobby guys are archiving them.
World's largest online retailer ships complete plain MP3'es without any kind of DRM or Windows Media and people argue which method of piracy is better for their needs.
DRM excuse after "top 100" catalogue available (which eMusic couldn't offer) is OVER.
alt.binaries.sounds.lossless
Plus the related groups. Nice selection. No worries about mp3s, legal or otherwise.
Or an audio CD store, online or offline and import them to FLAC, Apple loss-less, whatever.-------------------
You have selected to purchase:
GREATEST HITS by Elton John
(Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.)
You must install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to purchase albums. (learn more)
* It automatically adds your music downloads to iTunes or Windows Media Player
* It takes just a few clicks and less than 30 seconds to install
DOWNLOAD NOW -- WINDOWS XP & VISTA
I agree to the terms of use | Download Mac OS X version Some Mac users may kill me but if they used Trolltech Qt framework like Skype does, they could release for all modern operating systems. Imagine the PR value if they did.
eMusic.com guys use Mozilla based stuff for example, that is an alternative too. Also good for evil corporate guys, the poor user is inside a complete site suite, he can't check other stores very practically.
http://www.emusic.com/remote/download.html (Linux available)
Also... As usual , even if you have OS X, "(Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.)" , yes, "damn you foreigner, don't buy albums, steal them" scheme in action. Got used to it, I don't even bother anymore. Let eMusic, magnatunes guys/artists get my money.
I almost forgot, Slashdot has meta-moderation. For example, the idiots "dugg down" my comment to -1 on Slashdot which had a point about the story as:
"Digg could be lot more popular but for example, if this story pops up in EWeek.com or ZDNet which are popular for enterprise Windows people , it will be lot more serious issue for Microsoft. Imagine you are a decision maker thinking whether to use IBM solutions, Sun or MS and you read this story on your favourite mags website."
Will be meta-moderated to hell and will never ever have "moderator" powers to abuse again. It seems there is a reason for "karma bonus" thing.
Well, I gave up on them on Mozilla 0.x something ages and moved to smaller open source/commercial browser projects which can't be "great" as their products but a real tight and responsive/friendly developer community.
I don't know your OS but perhaps you should look to other alternatives if they really insist not fixing a properly documented bug which has something to do with memory or hardware.
I was speaking in general, e.g. Mac OS X users flaming them on Versiontracker but can't be bothered to report issues to where it belongs.
I'll grant that I'm pretty sure there is a Java Runtime on my current cell phone (I vaguely remember seeing that irritating logo on the box when I bought it) but I'd be quite surprised if I've ever used it. And I'm still trying to figure out what the part about banks writing a password generator has to do with anything at all. My bank offers their millions of customers a small J2ME secure program to generate pseudo-random passwords written in Java.
So, lets say I will throw away my J2ME phone and buy an iPhone and tell them to code a "Web 2.0" "Safari style" password generator?
Opera Mini is Java too and you wouldn't know when you will need a small 90 kb program to access a webpage properly formatted to fit screen.
Lets not forget (!) a billion dollar small screen gaming industry relies on Java too.
I don't know what kind of Stone age devices/standards World's largest economy relies on but in Europe or Asia, you are really eccentric if your mobile device doesn't include java support.
I don't know anything except those $30 (or free with preloaded card) phones which doesn't support Java. As far as I understand you "hate" Java, could you give an alternative instead of Java to run small programs on mission critical devices such as cell phones?
Well, at least it is proven that closed source programs with big companies behind it have their problems too,
who knows how many really serious calculation errors have been made without people knowing about them. No but someone better call Novell and Icaza compatibility labs.
Seriously, what can we expect from a bunch of code monkeys. Wow, so those mainframes used on banks running J2EE are doing all calculations wrong.
Man, hate Java or troll but really try to make a minimum sense OK?
I don't like Firefox or their very close relations with Google but I must say as it is an open source, no charge software, they expect users to report memory leakage issues to bugzilla so they can fix them.
You can't sit there with your rare AMD64 and certain HD and expect a magical fix. Trying to describe how it goes.
Same on Apple Safari and even Opera too. Opera found the issue with Slashdot Beta and fixed in 9.5. What if everyone stayed silent and flamed them on Slashdot instead?
No "karma" or anything, completely open to abuse by PR companies and real companies.
For example MS can hire 100 monkeys do "digg down" any reasonable comment or story.
As Apple user I must add, it doesn't have to be a professional company. Some people losing their minds and becoming cult members instead of consumers may "digg down" anything they don't like to hear. It may even include some security news. That is why I tell those Apple Digg guys to post Apple related security/critical things to "Security" section instead of "Apple".
Digg could be lot more popular but for example, if this story pops up in EWeek.com or ZDNet which are popular for enterprise Windows people , it will be lot more serious issue for Microsoft. Imagine you are a decision maker thinking whether to use IBM solutions, Sun or MS and you read this story on your favourite mags website.
(And here comes the mark-me-downs...) The iPhone users and fans are wrong since Steve Jobs never promised any SDK, guy ignored Java even which is a _must_ on any mobile device since no bank will sit and code a password generator because their 1000 customers are using a stylish widget.
When people said these, they got modded as "troll", "flamebait", "dugg down" and now, they say "We said so" and they get modded "troll" again.
If you want a real smart phone with complete 3rd party application support even including low level kernel calls, you buy Symbian, Qtopia, WinCE or a really perfect J2ME supporting handset like Sony Ericsson. Period. There is no other way.
Apple is wrong by not supporting any SDK because they are so afraid of being a true rival to Microsoft and change the entire mobile scene. They are wrong because they are afraid of possible iTunes store rivals selling music to iPhone owners via iPhone. The issue here is, people buying iPhone knowingly, even waiting on lines and expect to change Apple's mind by Digg and Slashdot comments.
It won't happen.
What you should do is, having entire home and business setup on Mac (including XServe hosting) and REJECT to buy iPhone because it doesn't have SDK announced.
My next "smart device" if this 9300 becomes awfully outfashioned will be another 9300 like "mini laptop" having a real OS, SDK and Java support. It is not the price, it is the date. It is freaking 2007 for God's sake.
If people are afraid of firmware updates which sure includes security updates, there will be thousands of communication devices with a very high CPU speed and fast (EDGE fast) Network connection around.
:) I am not speaking about J2ME they ignored which a $50 phone can do and run Opera Mini for example.
.sis file without any hacks or something for example. I run whatever latest Nokia Firmware is, installed at service centre for $10 or something.
Those devices owners, unless they have stolen them has real good amount of money in bank too.
So, do you remember the 3rd party application lock was for? Security?
I got a Nokia 9300 Symbian 80 series phone here, I am a very conservative user without any kind of "hacked" firmware since it came without Simlock and Symbian offers a huge SDK all free even including free application signing to open source developers.
Why should I hack it at all? I am happily running a $10 SMS Anti Spam tool which got installed by "opening" the
Also I must add that firmware update has fixed so many issues on my Nokia that I even started to purchase J2ME apps,services. A firmware on a device is more like a OS update.
These I would suggest come with no warranty or official support as they have been modified outside Apple specs.
You'd hafta be keen ! Can you blame the guy while those Apple fanatics are enough delusional to claim "Woz doesn't know shit" just because he said 2 words about a $200 price drop?
I would price it $1000 and still sell.
There is a guy on The Register (which cult members flamed) made a basic calculation. He can buy high end Nokia N95 (3.5 G!), an iPod and a low end PC as a bonus with TCO of UK iPhone.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/uk_iphone_at_last/
If I was a cell phone dealer doing grey-hat jobs, I wouldn't be that nice even.
That could give a clue about the developer/engineer qualities you need to release a working desktop machine those times and why people listen when a engineer like Woz speaks.
But how is he now? Does his words still mean as much? Do you consider Woz-of-now equal with Woz-in-the-heady-beginnings-of-the-computer-revolution?
That is why I ask the question: why is he still relevant?
I guess blind idol worship exists in the geek world too.... All of this because he said a couple of words about iPhone price drop yes?
I like Macs, I pay for my software and even purchased iWork '08 right after it is available but the "Mac community" is really beyond fixing. I would trade some cult member group that believes in aliens rather than Apple cult.
Answer to your question: He is one of the 2 (two) guys behind that "fruit logo" you see. Should he code some C++ cool,tricky code to become relevant to you or prove himself being relevant?
He is Woz, one of founders of Apple Inc. generous and engineer enough to donate most of his money for educating children. Who the hell are you and why are _you_ relevant?
It is kind of excuse.
:)
On phone stuff, don't trust Apple. I think your 3G phone/device must be high end so it has 3rd party application support yes? Based on Apple, you will soon get Virused because of 3rd party apps and take down entire USA network!
Stuff like these... They even rejected J2ME (Java) while it is in use on billion devices or so.
You know what "risk" 3G and 3rd party official Application support have? Someone could start a better iTunes like store and sell tunes through own Application to iPhone owners.
If you ask electronics people, 3G in fact uses less power to communicate. The "video call" etc. stuff is the battery eater,not the protocol when used for talking or basic Internet access.
There is a referrer in link (while it points to IBM.com, safe), it is submitted by AC, comes from Firehose?
Perhaps we should "sherlock" a bit?
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1006
"What's new in this version":
"This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code."
Yes, the "Virtual PC" running there may overwrite memory from "there". I hate to pick on MS and VPC is some real cool code but... It is sounding damn funny.
If any Mac people reading this: Get it updated and also install a free antivirus. Viruses _run_ under emulation, slowly but they run.
Well, yes, this is a pain, but what is Dell supposed to do? Ship it with all the "bad" and "ugly" codecs? If I were a PC manufacturer in the US, I sure wouldn't want to do that. You're just asking for the mafiaa to come after you.
Actually, with feisty, I just opened up RhythmBox and it prompted me to install the other codecs. IIRC, I didn't have to anything in the CLI. What about accelerated drivers? Will Nvidia "sue" them?
If a branded PC manufacturer offers Linux as official choice and doesn't put accelerated drivers, I would suspect their old timer friendship with Microsoft and nothing else.
Does Dell offer Linux to help people hate Linux and see Windows as the one and only choice to have good experience? It happens to a IT Media Professional reviewer, can imagine a non techie end users experience?