I am not disabling anything until my security vendor tells something about this AND they say only way out is disabling it. I am using Intego products here and they never hesitated to tell if something is wrong even while zealots flamed them for doing so.
I am tired of some Unix grey beards pulling out these tricks trying to make Apple give up their own inventions. First Input Manager "trojan" and now this. Sad thing is, Apple seems to move like lemming sometimes, reportedly Input Managers (functionality) from latest Leopard WWDC beta are missing.
It is obvious but I better tell I am not saying these to you, I am saying to people who wants OS X to be some Cocoa creature running on FreeBSD.
I'd suggest one thing to Mac users. If you are on Mac specific popular channels with IRC servers not masking your IP, enable firewall and preferably enable logging. Remember MOAB idiots...
Amiga is still used in titling and there is no reason it should be abandoned for SD (non HD).
SGI were serious rendering farms and 3d design workhorses.
At the end, all went to AVID million dollar monster which was entirely built on Macintosh platform. In fact lots of AVIDs must still be running MacOS since you don't run and update OS on such systems.
AVID didn't even have non Mac product until they had some fight with Apple.
OS X is NeXT with inventions added from MacOS, having a layer of FreeBSD or having same scheme of doing things as original Unix doesn't matter.
I can tell you one thing, the newspaper you read back in 1990s is done on Mac, the TV show you watched is done on Mac. Apple didn't move to OS X because MacOS was sucked, it just didn't fit to future without complete rewrite from beginning. They had NeXT in hand, why bother?
The only OS which sucked to speak with disgust is Windows. Windows 3.1 until Windows 2000. That crap kept computer industry 10 years back for ages.
who could possibly believe there are more than 40,000 NoLife "players" out there?
even that is a exaggeration. I've preached this since its inception, Second Life is dumb.
It truly is an animated AOL chatroom. It's full of boring people who don't get to have sex.
As they are boring people, why is everyone paying so much attention to them?
It has no plot, no purpose, no rules, no point. They released a stream of updates on OS X last week, I thought I better check what is happening and if the genius coders managed to learn SMP coding (yes, single G5 used on my quad machine)...
I have never seen actual AOL chatroom but I don't think AOL chatrooms could get worse than that. Speaking with IRC experience, imagine a chatroom half occupied by screaming bots, 25% Pyramid scheme scammers and everyone pasting horrible graphics and DCC sending random advertising material.
That is what I have seen at SL. I wanted to go back to 1997 and get impressed by VRML in browser window.
If there is anyone thinking to bring back a working VRML virtual World and hesitates because second life is already there: Don't be stupid, don't miss that chance.
Probably was McAfee. Which was a fantastic scanner at the time. Oh how things have changed since then. Sad to see both McAfee and Norton/Symantec turn into useless piles of garbage considering what they once were... MCafee was never fantastic, it was Virex which was fantastic and they acquired it and raped it just like their Symantec buddies did to Peter Norton ages code of Norton Utilities.
About the rate of plain vandalism? I tried the latest Virex (Mcafee) trial on a system with 4 PPC970MP cores and 2,5 GB of RAM: System became barely usable. I remember my brothers PowerBook Duo 270c (68030 with 24mb ram) working happily with the original Virex running 24/7.
The point is: Both companies never did anything right. They purchased flawless working code and bastardised it to current level of nightmare.
Well some people admired of MacOS works and millions of hours multimedia, billions of mainstream newspapers, millions of scientific research done with it. The stuff you watch on your HDTV if produced back in 1990s is probably completely produced on that poor old OS which you claim to have sucked.
It could not cope with the modern times, it is true but it doesn't make it "suck". What sucks is the people switching to Mac OS X/Apple and trying to convert it to some nerd OS they were used to. Glad that Apple at least manages to/ignore them at least for now.
Some shareware applications on OS X are plain copying OS 9 way of things (UI behaviour) and they are hugely popular. I am not saying Apple shouldn't make a genius move as making NeXT "down to end user" and progressing it as new operating system. I am just saying MacOS is/was NOT Windows 3.1 or DOS. It really deserves some respect.
Also Mac OS X is not Unix Based, it is Mach+FreeBSD hybrid OS. It is the incarnation of NeXT. In fact, even at current level, a horribly broken FreeBSD layer OS X is still functional, got a badly cloned Mini upstairs, believe me I know.;)
NTSC isn't "owned" by anyone, it is a standard more like MPEG while Wmedia belongs to Microsoft. It doesn't work anywhere except Windows. It doesn't work fine on OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and anything handheld except WinCE devices.
Also you can transcode/convert anything from PAL to NTSC. There is nothing stopping you. There is no such thing as "PAL will only work in xxxxx brand and you will be pirating if you convert/transcode to NTSC to view on your set".
Lets say you are a foreigner interested in BBC content and you hate piracy. You download the stuff on Windows Machine you own (and paid to MS) and for example you transcode it to a standard format like H264 or pure mpeg 4 to view on Apple TV or machine. You _will_ be breaching the license very seriously. First you would be hacking the DRM and secondly you would be transcoding.
One (if British) should ask: If BBC needs to make such weird sounding, suspicious agreements with a company condemned by EU for monopoly practices (MS Wmedia), why do they need to take money from TV licensing? If they need more money, there is always cash in Adult business but even Adult sites lets people to choose their media format.:)
I guess they finally found a common point to agree on. The tools are also much more advanced now.
The "common point" comes from this: Apple users love colour corrected stuff for example and for some of them (e.g. DTP, Pro Photography) it is part of their job to see colour right. Linux users (of course) cares about correct colour but there is no common standard for colour correction or huge demand. For example my browser , Omniweb has a seperate setting for colorsync.
When Apple puts colorsync enabled code to browser it means the KDE one which even works on AIX gets stuck.
I think they have found a way/method to fix such issues/dependencies.
I think now Apple in control, they may make it same way on Linux that only actual system admins would care about the CUPS interface and end users may have a similar feeling on Linux/FreeBSD.
I think now Apple is in control, they'll drop all non-OSX support. Why would they do it? Their stuff already uses CUPS right? Did they _have to use_ CUPS? Think again, we are speaking about best buddy of the printing giant, Adobe.
Not only they made CUPS usable, they also forced every printer manufacturer to write CUPS compliant printing drivers. I bet some of that work ended up being in Linux/FreeBSD already.
I am speaking about network shaping, auto falling back speed and going up. All covered by Real patents and they said they are completely free to open source projects.
You are speaking about their codecs. No, they aren't opening codecs since there are lots of companies waiting for a working 3G/2.5G codec. Their higher bandwidth stuff are mpeg4/aac standard already.
Helix player is a complete multimedia package for Linux. You better download that thing and reply that time.
Real Networks warned open source community about future potential problem with DRM, it got covered on Slashdot and they got flamed instead.
Yes, they have a working DRM solution for almost everything you can imagine. Millions of Verizon etc. phones are using their software already to play purchased music. Of course, this happens because the WOKE UP and saw the power of open source, created Helix community offering their millions dollars worth patents for free to GPL projects.
I also heard BBC other Windows Media DRM vendor is not so happy with feedback they get from the users. Azureus'es "Media center" like version (Vuze, 3.x) already sells BBC content in Wmedia DRM. Imagine a Java 5/6 application which works exactly same on 3-4 completely different operating systems is "prisoned" to Windows DRM solution to make money. Would you be happy?:)
Vuze runs on anything with modern Java but can't "sell"/"rent" legal content because of the format (Wmedia DRM) is hostile to any OS other than Windows. Now they are attempting to create same thing.
There is a waiting scandal there for Professional IT media. If any left...
Why would Apple break a working thing? CUPS is always outdated on OS X and yet it works almost perfect supporting dozens of propetioary printer languages. Printer companies are happy with it and all of these happen on 2005 version of CUPS which is open source.
I hope the Slashdot community one day figures the real hostile "takeovers" such as Mono and Silverlight. Making Novell developer to implement a plugin which has only Windows OS for creative purposes is hostile, hiring a developer and brand name to keep it open and neutral (What if he was hired by MSFT full time?) can't be that bad.
Also those AIX/Mainframe/Solaris/RHEL etc. monsters are using CUPS too. There is IBM, Sun and HP factor, nobody should forget it.
Pasting from the "professional CD" system requirements page. "AIX 5.0 or higher (PowerPC only) HP-UX 11.00 or higher (PA-RISC only) IRIX 6.5 or higher Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or higher (Intel only) Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (PowerPC or Intel) Solaris 8 or higher (SPARC or Intel) "
" For example, integrating colorsync or letting the gui die from benign neglect as Apple adds code that breaks the gui."
Apple will correct colours whatever opportunity they will have. Even their Windows Safari comes with colour correction. Colorsync is all XML based format and Apple is not Pantone, never said they can't use/implement Colorsync. In fact in early days of Mozilla while nobody cares about it except few remaining Netscape fans, they offered Colorsync free to it. It took 5-6 years for the current Firefox finally implement it. Dozens of DTP professionals, credible graphics artists and even companies like IBM feedback didn't help to take it serious.
"I'd like to hear from some people who work on Konqueror how much Apple is contributing. "
I was on webkit channel for a while, all I saw is Apple Inc. coders giving up everything they have in hand and helping free/opensource OS developers to implement/manage webkit compile process on other operating systems. Forget that, the Konqueror 4 in KDE 4 will have very very similar rendering engine with Safari.
"Lars Knoll - Lars is the original creator of KHTML, and has been doing a lot of work in the WebKit tree to port it back to Qt, and has also submitted some general refactoring patches and bug fixes. "
"Nikolas Zimmermann - Niko is the co-creator of KSVG2, with Rob Buis. In addition to all his original work on KSVG2 (and KDOM), Niko has been working in the WebKit tree for a while now, mostly on SVG fixes and improvements but also in other areas."
"George Staikos - New port reviewer for Qt port. George started the effort to port WebKit back to Qt, in the form of the Unity project."
As ordinary user, not a developer, I see Apple offers the core of Tiger operating system, launchd open source (really open) completely free and nobody implementing it to their distros.
I begun to suspect that "Apple never gives back to open source" is something similar to "one button mouse" never ending story.
In fact the CUPS on OS X is so flawlessly working that nobody has clue they have "CUPS" or ever visited the famous 127.0.0.1:631 on their browser. I bet most would be surprised to see that page.
I think now Apple in control, they may make it same way on Linux that only actual system admins would care about the CUPS interface and end users may have a similar feeling on Linux/FreeBSD.
CUPS must be also used at large corporate Windows based hosts or anywhere that actually have a real postscript printer. I mean of course there must be a actual printing server running its Professional edition.
This may really prove good for Linux and FreeBSD. Look how they made a Mach/NeXT/FreeBSD hybrid (OS X) usable.
The power of OS X is to be able to run open source stuff directly just like any FreeBSD additionally via Mach kernel.
What made me amazed recently is figuring the fact that X11 on Apple is also colorsync corrected thanks to my recent "Pantone Huey" colour corrector. So if you run X11 on OS X, you also get colour correction too. That could be a nice example of "mix of both worlds" on OS X.
I mean OS X also provides free competition for Open Source people. E.g. someone could code a better than photoshop gimp today and ship it as a native OS X Application or something using X11. They could crush Adobe on download numbers. There is nothing stopping them. When you install "Xcode", theoretically your can start your own X11 application from strach and you can ship for all free/open source operating systems.
There were no guy claiming "3rd party Application may crash Internet" compared to iPhone Java/SDK case:)
The "iPhone" and Quicktime departments of them are different of course. I am glad that kind of people aren't running OS X/PC department.
About move to Linux? I decided to experiment a bit sparing my hours. I tried the famous "Ubuntu" , 9 fans full speed and their page says "PPC is not shipped by Apple so it is dead, we aren't supporting it" (yea right!), another famous (and super geek) distro, 9 fans full speed remembered and I went to their powerpc channel not to waste my and their 4 gb of bandwidth, I was happily ignored etc. Is there anything to do with Apple Inc. on these kinds of "no support" or "ignore" situations? No.
I better wait until Apple drops PPC support from OS X.
Bi-Directional Synching,.pdf,.xls, &.doc reading and browsing is needed and you don't have to lug the Mac Book around all the time anymore.
Then the iPhone "pays" for itself.
I've had mine for just over a week, and I don't regret the money to get these features in a phone I can read in the bright sunlight. Any Symbian phone can read/EDIT/WRITE.doc and.xls files. In fact, my Nokia 9300 does openoffice stuff via freeware (for series 80) "Mobile Office" http://my-symbian.com/s80/software/applications.ph p?fldAuto=863&faq=20 . PDF support is there with Acrobat from Adobe too.
iSync does syncing of course.
I couldn't resist when I saw expression "it pays for itself". No, it is a very expensive phone/pim/photo features enabled iPod and nothing else. As there is no 3rd party SDK, nobody will be able to sit and write a real C application too. As the owners/fans of phone/iPod apologises for Apple instead of demanding those features on a $600 device, there could be NO SDK at all.
I am not forgetting to say how IDIOT Nokia was not to code a freaking "PC Suite for OS X" for over the years of course. Windows people were drag/drop installing their applications to Symbian stuff for years while OS X people (like myself) were stuck with bluetooth support.
While hitting both sides, a laptop replacement is a Symbian or even WinCE device, not iPhone. Especially for companies/government.
That's where sandwiching EDGE with Wi-Fi really makes sense because Wi-Fi is much faster than any 3G network.
Nice spin. I wish I had Wi-Fi networks wherever I roamed. My HTC Wizard has EDGE+WiFi, but I've never heard anyone claim "Whadda you want 3G for, you have Wi-Fi!"
Blah.
You must be new to apple.slashdot.org:)
HTC is not Apple, they need to have 2007 specs to race with the real giant Nokia offering things like N95.
I am an Apple user btw, it seems people have hard time believing you can use Apple but don't like iPhone or iPod same time.
IBM Blue Gene/P update slated to run at 3 petaflops. I heard on some IBM mainframes, you buy extra CPU and while you wait for engineer coming with IBM CPU boxes, guy comes and enters couple of passwords, mainframe enables the CPU it already has but disabled!
But this is Slashdot, one of the World's most popular IT sites (and respected), not someones personal hand made blog or myspace page.
I am tired of defending them since 3.6. Check the page I referenced, I have even put my Opera bug ID there. Nobody returned. That is the second bug report ID, there is 1 more.
I don't say Firefox development team would give up everything at hand and start fixing it but at least you would see/hear something.
They forget that I am NOT a Opera shareholder, not a developer, not owner of Slashdot nor some advertiser. I am giving my time free to make full bug reports along with every kind of possible information. In fact, thanks to their ignore of OS X keychain, I rarely use Opera (400 passwords here). As ex Windows customer of them, I am sparing my time to make favor and I am sure there are others reported it.
1980s, I am saying 1980s, I really know what you talk about but I am speaking about computers by common peoples understanding. Calling that thing a computer is a disgrace to entire personal computing history and even Apple itself. I know first incarnations were so limited for 3rd party programs but there were third party programs and naturally development tools.
Apple doesn't call it handheld computer but the author is so blinded by company fanaticism and he calls it a handheld computer. I really know handheld computers, I remember a Casio from 1980s which had printer and actual basic programming language. At least you or others could code for it.
It breaks the idea of open source philosohpy but there should be really a way to punish those companies/governments for using open source wherever possible, saving millions/billions and turn their back to the users of OS they are doing all of these.
Some kind of evil additions to GPL:)
Of course, it is not possible...
BBC was tricking users for a while with some.ogg streams etc. The day came and they turned their back to all of non-windows users. Future Apple support is a LIE, we are really experienced in such promises.
You know, this thing is cute and it does lots of wiz-bang stuff. So do all of these "smart phones" out there.
But what I would pay money for (not this much) is a phone I could sit on, get soaking wet with sweat (it's 95 degrees with >70% humidity here), drop on concrete, etc... and still have the thing work.
I, and most folks I know, need a phone to do two things: Make phone calls and survive my day.
my $0.02
I saw a CNET TV review just 2 days ago exactly speaking about your kind of device. I hope cell companies will ship something like that in Europe too. I know a Ericsson R320 still used in military environment. Almost a decade old device I guess.
- e-mail looks more like you're working on a computer than a clunky phone"
My Nokia 9300 from 2004 supports more features than OS X Mail.app such as IMAP IDLE, much more responsive multiple mail deletion and expunge features and better charset detection. I can opt in for a commercial mail client and I would have true Exchange/Notes support, baesian spam filter.
Believe or not, there are J2ME Java 2 applications doing such things too.
What kind of junk is iPhone compared to and from what date it is? It wouldn't matter if that was a random blinded Apple fan, it is Newsweek article written by a professional author. At long term, Apple could lose entire industry/consumer respect because of these "authors" who doesn't have single clue what they are talking about. They are NOT helping at all. Actual Apple users started to get compared to plain morons on some popular "web 2" sites because of iPhone as bonus (!).
Is iPhone announcement is the day we lost last bits of professional media?
...and they will be $2.99, 30 seconds long, have terrible sound quality, and most of the money will go to AT&T. Cell phone ringtones are the biggest scam ever. If I have accidentally bought some 30 sec thing as ringtone from cell company, I would cancel my subscription no less.
But their plans on that device possibly having dedicated AAC decoder chip is not "saving" you from horrible joke as song-as-ringtone , it is basically adding it as "feature" to make $600 customers happy and/or adding to iTunes store.
My Nokia 9300 and all my devices plainly rings just like a phone but the "ring" is actually "Classic.aac" or "Office Phone.aac" which is sample of actual phone ringing. You won't be having that too.
Lets not forget the business side of this decision. Ringtone is a billions dollar market which feeds lots and lots of music industry workers, artists etc.
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sudo launchctl unload -w
mDNSResponder=Bonjour aka Zeroconf
I am not disabling anything until my security vendor tells something about this AND they say only way out is disabling it. I am using Intego products here and they never hesitated to tell if something is wrong even while zealots flamed them for doing so.
I am tired of some Unix grey beards pulling out these tricks trying to make Apple give up their own inventions. First Input Manager "trojan" and now this. Sad thing is, Apple seems to move like lemming sometimes, reportedly Input Managers (functionality) from latest Leopard WWDC beta are missing.
It is obvious but I better tell I am not saying these to you, I am saying to people who wants OS X to be some Cocoa creature running on FreeBSD.
I'd suggest one thing to Mac users. If you are on Mac specific popular channels with IRC servers not masking your IP, enable firewall and preferably enable logging. Remember MOAB idiots...
Amiga is still used in titling and there is no reason it should be abandoned for SD (non HD).
SGI were serious rendering farms and 3d design workhorses.
At the end, all went to AVID million dollar monster which was entirely built on Macintosh platform. In fact lots of AVIDs must still be running MacOS since you don't run and update OS on such systems.
AVID didn't even have non Mac product until they had some fight with Apple.
OS X is NeXT with inventions added from MacOS, having a layer of FreeBSD or having same scheme of doing things as original Unix doesn't matter.
I can tell you one thing, the newspaper you read back in 1990s is done on Mac, the TV show you watched is done on Mac. Apple didn't move to OS X because MacOS was sucked, it just didn't fit to future without complete rewrite from beginning. They had NeXT in hand, why bother?
The only OS which sucked to speak with disgust is Windows. Windows 3.1 until Windows 2000. That crap kept computer industry 10 years back for ages.
even that is a exaggeration. I've preached this since its inception, Second Life is dumb.
It truly is an animated AOL chatroom. It's full of boring people who don't get to have sex.
As they are boring people, why is everyone paying so much attention to them?
It has no plot, no purpose, no rules, no point. They released a stream of updates on OS X last week, I thought I better check what is happening and if the genius coders managed to learn SMP coding (yes, single G5 used on my quad machine)...
I have never seen actual AOL chatroom but I don't think AOL chatrooms could get worse than that. Speaking with IRC experience, imagine a chatroom half occupied by screaming bots, 25% Pyramid scheme scammers and everyone pasting horrible graphics and DCC sending random advertising material.
That is what I have seen at SL. I wanted to go back to 1997 and get impressed by VRML in browser window.
If there is anyone thinking to bring back a working VRML virtual World and hesitates because second life is already there: Don't be stupid, don't miss that chance.
About the rate of plain vandalism? I tried the latest Virex (Mcafee) trial on a system with 4 PPC970MP cores and 2,5 GB of RAM: System became barely usable. I remember my brothers PowerBook Duo 270c (68030 with 24mb ram) working happily with the original Virex running 24/7.
The point is: Both companies never did anything right. They purchased flawless working code and bastardised it to current level of nightmare.
Well some people admired of MacOS works and millions of hours multimedia, billions of mainstream newspapers, millions of scientific research done with it. The stuff you watch on your HDTV if produced back in 1990s is probably completely produced on that poor old OS which you claim to have sucked.
/ignore them at least for now.
;)
It could not cope with the modern times, it is true but it doesn't make it "suck". What sucks is the people switching to Mac OS X/Apple and trying to convert it to some nerd OS they were used to. Glad that Apple at least manages to
Some shareware applications on OS X are plain copying OS 9 way of things (UI behaviour) and they are hugely popular. I am not saying Apple shouldn't make a genius move as making NeXT "down to end user" and progressing it as new operating system. I am just saying MacOS is/was NOT Windows 3.1 or DOS. It really deserves some respect.
Also Mac OS X is not Unix Based, it is Mach+FreeBSD hybrid OS. It is the incarnation of NeXT. In fact, even at current level, a horribly broken FreeBSD layer OS X is still functional, got a badly cloned Mini upstairs, believe me I know.
NTSC isn't "owned" by anyone, it is a standard more like MPEG while Wmedia belongs to Microsoft. It doesn't work anywhere except Windows. It doesn't work fine on OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and anything handheld except WinCE devices.
:)
Also you can transcode/convert anything from PAL to NTSC. There is nothing stopping you. There is no such thing as "PAL will only work in xxxxx brand and you will be pirating if you convert/transcode to NTSC to view on your set".
Lets say you are a foreigner interested in BBC content and you hate piracy. You download the stuff on Windows Machine you own (and paid to MS) and for example you transcode it to a standard format like H264 or pure mpeg 4 to view on Apple TV or machine. You _will_ be breaching the license very seriously. First you would be hacking the DRM and secondly you would be transcoding.
One (if British) should ask: If BBC needs to make such weird sounding, suspicious agreements with a company condemned by EU for monopoly practices (MS Wmedia), why do they need to take money from TV licensing? If they need more money, there is always cash in Adult business but even Adult sites lets people to choose their media format.
I had a good clue about why Apple wants CUPS and its author in OPEN WAY.
/ 32100 )
:)
This just appeared at Versiontracker.com ( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
"What's new in this version:
CUPS 1.3 adds Kerberos and mDNS (Bonjour) support along with over 30 new features. Full release notes can be found at http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L479 "
I think their "evil plan" started to work! How an evil thing to add Zeroconf (yes, it is open) and Kerberos to poor CUPS
I wanted to add this reply before story gets archived.
I guess they finally found a common point to agree on. The tools are also much more advanced now.
The "common point" comes from this: Apple users love colour corrected stuff for example and for some of them (e.g. DTP, Pro Photography) it is part of their job to see colour right. Linux users (of course) cares about correct colour but there is no common standard for colour correction or huge demand. For example my browser , Omniweb has a seperate setting for colorsync.
When Apple puts colorsync enabled code to browser it means the KDE one which even works on AIX gets stuck.
I think they have found a way/method to fix such issues/dependencies.
I think now Apple is in control, they'll drop all non-OSX support. Why would they do it? Their stuff already uses CUPS right? Did they _have to use_ CUPS? Think again, we are speaking about best buddy of the printing giant, Adobe.
Not only they made CUPS usable, they also forced every printer manufacturer to write CUPS compliant printing drivers. I bet some of that work ended up being in Linux/FreeBSD already.
I am speaking about network shaping, auto falling back speed and going up. All covered by Real patents and they said they are completely free to open source projects.
You are speaking about their codecs. No, they aren't opening codecs since there are lots of companies waiting for a working 3G/2.5G codec. Their higher bandwidth stuff are mpeg4/aac standard already.
Helix player is a complete multimedia package for Linux. You better download that thing and reply that time.
Real Networks warned open source community about future potential problem with DRM, it got covered on Slashdot and they got flamed instead.
:)
Yes, they have a working DRM solution for almost everything you can imagine. Millions of Verizon etc. phones are using their software already to play purchased music. Of course, this happens because the WOKE UP and saw the power of open source, created Helix community offering their millions dollars worth patents for free to GPL projects.
I also heard BBC other Windows Media DRM vendor is not so happy with feedback they get from the users. Azureus'es "Media center" like version (Vuze, 3.x) already sells BBC content in Wmedia DRM. Imagine a Java 5/6 application which works exactly same on 3-4 completely different operating systems is "prisoned" to Windows DRM solution to make money. Would you be happy?
There the BBC Content: http://www.vuze.com/channel/bbc
Vuze runs on anything with modern Java but can't "sell"/"rent" legal content because of the format (Wmedia DRM) is hostile to any OS other than Windows. Now they are attempting to create same thing.
There is a waiting scandal there for Professional IT media. If any left...
Why would Apple break a working thing? CUPS is always outdated on OS X and yet it works almost perfect supporting dozens of propetioary printer languages. Printer companies are happy with it and all of these happen on 2005 version of CUPS which is open source.
I hope the Slashdot community one day figures the real hostile "takeovers" such as Mono and Silverlight. Making Novell developer to implement a plugin which has only Windows OS for creative purposes is hostile, hiring a developer and brand name to keep it open and neutral (What if he was hired by MSFT full time?) can't be that bad.
Also those AIX/Mainframe/Solaris/RHEL etc. monsters are using CUPS too. There is IBM, Sun and HP factor, nobody should forget it.
Pasting from the "professional CD" system requirements page.
"AIX 5.0 or higher (PowerPC only)
HP-UX 11.00 or higher (PA-RISC only)
IRIX 6.5 or higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or higher (Intel only)
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (PowerPC or Intel)
Solaris 8 or higher (SPARC or Intel) "
" For example, integrating colorsync or letting the gui die from benign neglect as Apple adds code that breaks the gui."
/opensource OS developers to implement/manage webkit compile process on other operating systems. Forget that, the Konqueror 4 in KDE 4 will have very very similar rendering engine with Safari.
Apple will correct colours whatever opportunity they will have. Even their Windows Safari comes with colour correction. Colorsync is all XML based format and Apple is not Pantone, never said they can't use/implement Colorsync. In fact in early days of Mozilla while nobody cares about it except few remaining Netscape fans, they offered Colorsync free to it. It took 5-6 years for the current Firefox finally implement it. Dozens of DTP professionals, credible graphics artists and even companies like IBM feedback didn't help to take it serious.
"I'd like to hear from some people who work on Konqueror how much Apple is contributing. "
I was on webkit channel for a while, all I saw is Apple Inc. coders giving up everything they have in hand and helping free
Another thing. Webkit reviewers http://webkit.org/blog/95/lots-of-new-reviewers/
"Lars Knoll - Lars is the original creator of KHTML, and has been doing a lot of work in the WebKit tree to port it back to Qt, and has also submitted some general refactoring patches and bug fixes. "
"Nikolas Zimmermann - Niko is the co-creator of KSVG2, with Rob Buis. In addition to all his original work on KSVG2 (and KDOM), Niko has been working in the WebKit tree for a while now, mostly on SVG fixes and improvements but also in other areas."
"George Staikos - New port reviewer for Qt port. George started the effort to port WebKit back to Qt, in the form of the Unity project."
As ordinary user, not a developer, I see Apple offers the core of Tiger operating system, launchd open source (really open) completely free and nobody implementing it to their distros.
I begun to suspect that "Apple never gives back to open source" is something similar to "one button mouse" never ending story.
In fact the CUPS on OS X is so flawlessly working that nobody has clue they have "CUPS" or ever visited the famous 127.0.0.1:631 on their browser. I bet most would be surprised to see that page.
I think now Apple in control, they may make it same way on Linux that only actual system admins would care about the CUPS interface and end users may have a similar feeling on Linux/FreeBSD.
CUPS must be also used at large corporate Windows based hosts or anywhere that actually have a real postscript printer. I mean of course there must be a actual printing server running its Professional edition.
This may really prove good for Linux and FreeBSD. Look how they made a Mach/NeXT/FreeBSD hybrid (OS X) usable.
I just installed Gimp2 to my quad G5 running OS X via Fink ( http://www.finkproject.org/ )
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The power of OS X is to be able to run open source stuff directly just like any FreeBSD additionally via Mach kernel.
What made me amazed recently is figuring the fact that X11 on Apple is also colorsync corrected thanks to my recent "Pantone Huey" colour corrector. So if you run X11 on OS X, you also get colour correction too. That could be a nice example of "mix of both worlds" on OS X.
I mean OS X also provides free competition for Open Source people. E.g. someone could code a better than photoshop gimp today and ship it as a native OS X Application or something using X11. They could crush Adobe on download numbers. There is nothing stopping them. When you install "Xcode", theoretically your can start your own X11 application from strach and you can ship for all free/open source operating systems.
There were no guy claiming "3rd party Application may crash Internet" compared to iPhone Java/SDK case
The "iPhone" and Quicktime departments of them are different of course. I am glad that kind of people aren't running OS X/PC department.
About move to Linux? I decided to experiment a bit sparing my hours. I tried the famous "Ubuntu" , 9 fans full speed and their page says "PPC is not shipped by Apple so it is dead, we aren't supporting it" (yea right!), another famous (and super geek) distro, 9 fans full speed remembered and I went to their powerpc channel not to waste my and their 4 gb of bandwidth, I was happily ignored etc. Is there anything to do with Apple Inc. on these kinds of "no support" or "ignore" situations? No.
I better wait until Apple drops PPC support from OS X.
Then the iPhone "pays" for itself.
I've had mine for just over a week, and I don't regret the money to get these features in a phone I can read in the bright sunlight. Any Symbian phone can read/EDIT/WRITE
iSync does syncing of course.
I couldn't resist when I saw expression "it pays for itself". No, it is a very expensive phone/pim/photo features enabled iPod and nothing else. As there is no 3rd party SDK, nobody will be able to sit and write a real C application too. As the owners/fans of phone/iPod apologises for Apple instead of demanding those features on a $600 device, there could be NO SDK at all.
I am not forgetting to say how IDIOT Nokia was not to code a freaking "PC Suite for OS X" for over the years of course. Windows people were drag/drop installing their applications to Symbian stuff for years while OS X people (like myself) were stuck with bluetooth support.
While hitting both sides, a laptop replacement is a Symbian or even WinCE device, not iPhone. Especially for companies/government.
Real "not iPhone" thing could be Nokia E90. Full keyboard, all 3G and this time a good camera included.
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I could buy it instead of laptop but 9300 is really fine here.
http://europe.nokia.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_11896
Nice spin. I wish I had Wi-Fi networks wherever I roamed. My HTC Wizard has EDGE+WiFi, but I've never heard anyone claim "Whadda you want 3G for, you have Wi-Fi!"
You must be new to apple.slashdot.orgBlah.
HTC is not Apple, they need to have 2007 specs to race with the real giant Nokia offering things like N95.
I am an Apple user btw, it seems people have hard time believing you can use Apple but don't like iPhone or iPod same time.
Now imagine that on Blue Gene
But this is Slashdot, one of the World's most popular IT sites (and respected), not someones personal hand made blog or myspace page.
I am tired of defending them since 3.6. Check the page I referenced, I have even put my Opera bug ID there. Nobody returned. That is the second bug report ID, there is 1 more.
I don't say Firefox development team would give up everything at hand and start fixing it but at least you would see/hear something.
They forget that I am NOT a Opera shareholder, not a developer, not owner of Slashdot nor some advertiser. I am giving my time free to make full bug reports along with every kind of possible information. In fact, thanks to their ignore of OS X keychain, I rarely use Opera (400 passwords here). As ex Windows customer of them, I am sparing my time to make favor and I am sure there are others reported it.
"A computer, by common definition since 1980s "
1980s, I am saying 1980s, I really know what you talk about but I am speaking about computers by common peoples understanding. Calling that thing a computer is a disgrace to entire personal computing history and even Apple itself. I know first incarnations were so limited for 3rd party programs but there were third party programs and naturally development tools.
Apple doesn't call it handheld computer but the author is so blinded by company fanaticism and he calls it a handheld computer. I really know handheld computers, I remember a Casio from 1980s which had printer and actual basic programming language. At least you or others could code for it.
It breaks the idea of open source philosohpy but there should be really a way to punish those companies/governments for using open source wherever possible, saving millions/billions and turn their back to the users of OS they are doing all of these.
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.ogg streams etc. The day came and they turned their back to all of non-windows users. Future Apple support is a LIE, we are really experienced in such promises.
Some kind of evil additions to GPL
Of course, it is not possible...
BBC was tricking users for a while with some
You know, this thing is cute and it does lots of wiz-bang stuff. So do all of these "smart phones" out there.
But what I would pay money for (not this much) is a phone I could sit on, get soaking wet with sweat (it's 95 degrees with >70% humidity here), drop on concrete, etc... and still have the thing work.
I, and most folks I know, need a phone to do two things: Make phone calls and survive my day.
my $0.02
I saw a CNET TV review just 2 days ago exactly speaking about your kind of device. I hope cell companies will ship something like that in Europe too. I know a Ericsson R320 still used in military environment. Almost a decade old device I guess.Here is review (in Flash)
http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-28043.html
(has mp4 download link there too)
"Steven Levy, Newsweek
- e-mail looks more like you're working on a computer than a clunky phone"
My Nokia 9300 from 2004 supports more features than OS X Mail.app such as IMAP IDLE, much more responsive multiple mail deletion and expunge features and better charset detection. I can opt in for a commercial mail client and I would have true Exchange/Notes support, baesian spam filter.
Believe or not, there are J2ME Java 2 applications doing such things too.
What kind of junk is iPhone compared to and from what date it is? It wouldn't matter if that was a random blinded Apple fan, it is Newsweek article written by a professional author. At long term, Apple could lose entire industry/consumer respect because of these "authors" who doesn't have single clue what they are talking about. They are NOT helping at all. Actual Apple users started to get compared to plain morons on some popular "web 2" sites because of iPhone as bonus (!).
Is iPhone announcement is the day we lost last bits of professional media?
...and they will be $2.99, 30 seconds long, have terrible sound quality, and most of the money will go to AT&T. Cell phone ringtones are the biggest scam ever. If I have accidentally bought some 30 sec thing as ringtone from cell company, I would cancel my subscription no less.But their plans on that device possibly having dedicated AAC decoder chip is not "saving" you from horrible joke as song-as-ringtone , it is basically adding it as "feature" to make $600 customers happy and/or adding to iTunes store.
My Nokia 9300 and all my devices plainly rings just like a phone but the "ring" is actually "Classic.aac" or "Office Phone.aac" which is sample of actual phone ringing. You won't be having that too.
Lets not forget the business side of this decision. Ringtone is a billions dollar market which feeds lots and lots of music industry workers, artists etc.