When will people understand that there are cases of all the "bloat" used in Adobe PDF documents (e.g. company wide) so people may actually need the bloatware to open it?
I keep using Adobe Reader since version 8 which Adobe showed some signs of respect/enhancements to all kinds of usage. Now the version 9 works faster than OS X preview in many cases (don't ask), I just disabled javascript (??!?!) and keep using it. Somehow, OS X quartz pdf renderer doesn't fit my needs and it is really goodly written core. It is just the interface.
I mean it is not like Adobe Reader users or companies installed it doesn't know the alternatives. Let me tell you the best performing and excellently rendering alternative on OS X? kpdf installed via Fink.
Sun had no history of conspiring other peoples browsers, trying to kill them via bundling a browser and name it Internet, trying to force users of alternative browsers to use IE by rejecting to code NS Plugin for Windows Update etc.
It is karma. Sun has karma to waste a bit while other is below GNAA in regards of bundling extras.
Do you feel sorry about Real Networks getting flamed whatever they do including going completely open source? I do but... Their karma. Got it?
...and JRE finally, finally showed some kind of Desktop user touch by preloading frequently used classes (or their metadata, more like prebinding/prefetch) to memory in ages of 64bit running laptops with 4+ GB memory.
If I was still on windows and also using applets a lot, I would thank Sun via feedback especially if I had portable with traditionally fragmented NTFS disk.
They were doing harm to users and even Firefox by not implementing that long overdue optimisation which means browser was essentially freezing or choking when most basic java applet hits it.
They unimaginably trust to Apple for Java updates but if they manage to run it as normal (non admin) user, it would be a nice touch for Linux JRE.
As everyone seems to standardize on USB and USB is in fact intended for universal communication, the thing you say can be easily done over USB 1.1 with almost zero bandwidth (even for that standard).
It could be done with industry standard format such as XML (non MS bastardized) too. In fact that is what that EU commission should come up with.
Do you have clue about how many iPods exist on planet? Nearing what? Hundreds of millions? Why should they use plain USB when they have a device combining an ipod and some kind of smart phone? If they came up with plain USB connector or some kind of iPhone connector, that would be really evil considering amount of iPod connector enabled devices (even cars!) people already have.
Nokia always used 2 standards before totally moving to USB on new models. Why 2? Because the older one was too big for new fashion small phones so they used 1 smaller form factor. On the other hand, besides their greedy charger prices, Nokia always used a very standard charger compared to others. It is just 3.7 Volt which seems similar to battery voltage.
See Samsung and Sony older models about the real evil stuff especially Samsung. At least Sony had decency to keep one charger format.
I think they already stabilized on USB except Apple but Apple has a very nice excuse as iPod connector is open and really popular and USB based anyway.
Bluray requires a complete secure channel. It means from the hardware to driver, driver to kernel, display card/chip to monitor and OS should also be watching the entire chaos to make sure nobody decss it. Even SJobs himself said it is a complete mess and let me remind you, you can`t watch bluray on OS X too.
About the mobile phones? Nokia JUST started to make some effort to support OS X because they finally figured OS X users aren`t buying iPhone because they are complete fanboys, they buy because it supports their OS unlike other smart phones. If you kept using only Apple since 1984, iPhone is the first 100% desktop supported smart phone on the Mac market. You expect them to support Linux? Same guys who ships loads of.NET dependent software after purchasing Trolltech for millions? I don`t even bother to mention other companies, they are a joke and consumers joking back at them lately (Mot, Sony)
Adobe? Both political and technical problem along with a userbase not used to buying commercial software for money. Lack of interest from their core market (Pro design) and even no system central colour correction scheme adds to the issue. Just look at horrible feedback, childish flaming that Hamrick`s pro scan&raw software (Vuescan) got on Linux market before it got cancelled. They even claimed it is a damn SANE gui.
As you reply to that troll, you should tell why 10.1 was a free upgrade. Apple made such huge changes (MacOS--->OS X, nothing like that in history) and nobody was happy with 10.0.
Apple didn't start stupid things like Mojave project, they admitted it wasn't really ready for production release in real life and made it free. Vista may have looked nice on paper but in real life, it was horrible. MS didn't admit that fact to begin with. Mojave site is still up and running, claiming people (their customers) are hallucinating.
It is all about making inconvenient for international Joe Sixpack to watch them. It is not like they don't know about proxies, a very good team must be there for such a gigantic project.
If you think about it, the entire DRM, region code etc. junk is just for making user hassle and legally responsible. Nothing else. Not like I am supporting this thing, I am one of victims. It is just the reality and how things work in TV World.
The most amazing thing is Plan 9 (Bell). From day 1, people say "It is good, but it can't replace Unix as it would be fixing a non broken thing" and yet use/copy every single unique aspect of it even on Windows (Unicode for example). What if Bell guys have said "Forget it, they will never give up Unix/Linux."? We wouldn't have procfs, unicode,/net and various other concepts.
More importantly, ffmpeg and various multimedia stuff will build happily and run. That could be a great dedicated media encoding/decoding/transcoding box thanks to single user, state of art filesystem and realtime like abilities.
If people supported GNUStep and push Apple to help it, Linux would have a lot of OS X software ports now and even Apple software in the future. The number 1 issue is of course, would people want Apple closed binaries/frameworks on their Linux/*BSD?
It is more like "What would happen if..." thing now. Still, if one starts coding on OpenStep, it is really easy to port same application in native form to OS X or even Windows. I don't understand why you mention both BeOS and GNUstep in same context. GNUstep is there, working and even a real good mail client is coded using it. http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail/
Imagine you are an international TV station guy who just purchased airing rights of Star Trek and when you browse slashdot, you see this story, click and start watching the series you just purchased for $100K or even more. That is the issue.
I bet one of the Kaspersky rivals will hire them as security consultant. That will be his "award" for threatening thousands of users privacy. After years of Windows usage, I can even guess the company.
Kaspersky is always victimised by its own feature. Heavy heuristics. If they remove it, they would have no difference from so-called "Free" antiviruses. If they keep it, they get bad feedback for performance.
The unpatched Win2k? That is one thing only really overkill heavyweight stuff can save, e.g. the discontinued (for obvious reasons) eSafe desktop. When Win2k is unpatched, it is unsecure at kernel level, almost nothing can save it. We have Win2K boxes in TV business running some very expensive to upgrade software/hardware but we use them with zero connection policy. Yes, no connection, not even LAN or Modem. When Adaptec guys etc. ships a update to drivers for example, we use CD/DVD or floppy to update the machine.
I thought the new "white list" approach would fix the performance hit... Doesn't make difference? You should really convince that IT department to upgrade the RAM of the P4 boxes. 512MB and commercial AV software is no go.
ISPs never updated DNS servers with horrible management is a real big risk, an accident waiting to happen.
They setup a FreeBSD to the worst box, never update it, even ignore the massive security alert, there is zero privacy policy and ISPs and these "opendns is evil" guys expect us to keep the junk coming from DHCP (again, horribly managed) server.
Of course one can setup own DNS but how to do it for normal, non techie user who probably runs Windows? Even setting DNS servers by hand is big deal for them. OpenDNS fills that gap and makes couple of bucks from mistyped addresses. That is what they do, it is their documented business in a very strict privacy policy having state of USA.
Well, they are a documented company backed by big finance and based in USA and especially more important, California.
If you think they are spamming by showing couple of text ads and rough guesses instead of a "server not found" message, you should sue them. In fact, state of California should sue them.
That Google proxying is a real interesting one. Apparently nobody has problem that Google itself is hijacking their queries.
As you pointed an "undisclosed relationship" and thanks to the same tone of all "opendns is evil" comments, one would think for a leap of a second that there is organised attack to OpenDNS. I don't really care, it is them to investigate. I just keep using them instead of my ISPs mismanaged and unsecure servers and keep setting it up.
Someone figures to make money from a decades old protocol using web technologies and without breaking privacy.
Remember the feedback that non college educated guy got when he literally saved the planet from Internet breakdown? That DNS guy? It is the similar feedback. Jelousy.
I got an open wireless network and it has damn good censorship, P2P, porn, crack and even gambling sites are "censored" thanks to OpenDNS.
The other option would be watching people (via Squid for example), asking them their ID cards (already happens in Europe) and give them access.
If guy just wants to check his mail or browse ordinary web? It is fine but our service isn't a tool for others who doesn't respect the ones on network.
It is the "best of the worst". I don't want to watch people habits (via squid or other tools) or I don't really care what their ID or CC number is. It is a security risk anyway. If they aren't happy with the service? Well, they can run their own via EDGE, 3G etc. I don't care.
Ask any gray hat or black hat how much it matters that single IP, in this NAT crazy planet resolved Facebook.com or not or even what site they visit after that.
What matters is the URLs (not just domains), cookies and how long one stays on that URL, which part of site they visit after it. Do you know the service offering it for free? Google Analytics. That is your issue, not OpenDNS instead of using some ISPs worst security breached, censored DNS server.
Run Wireshark in a free time, that is what your ISP probably has access to.
Not just that, DNS queries have "hostname" only so it is near worthless if they were a evil spyware operation. What matters to advertisers and behaviour watchers is the address after "/".
Funnily, people have no problem with Google Analytics which is almost like a viral type threat, pyramid scheme. I said "almost".
They are "Open" in sense of DNS terminology. Open DNS is one of the significant misconfiguration of an ordinary DNS server can have but their business works by opening it to planet and add extra features to decades old service without breaking standards.
Why are all files named 8.3 under Vista or Windows 7? Expecting a huge move from that same company is meaningless, that was all I was saying. About Apple zealotry? MS could make use of years of virtual machine expertise they purchased while buying Connectix and make them code a WIN16/MSDOS virtual machine subsystem which will provide pseudo 8.3 filenames to older programs. It is exactly what Apple did and that is why goodly written Carbon programs no matter what age they have can run under HFS+/OS X.
OS X is a very forgiving OS but in case of a broken kernel extension update, I am not that sure about what will happen. Also I can imagine companies starting banning Google products because of their security policies. Add Military and Government too.
It seems they have too much money and manpower to spend and they have become spoiled.
If they are coding on OS X, they should have run "softwareupdate -l" from Terminal, notice that it runs as NORMAL USER , ring Apple and ask why Apple chooses to run it as normal user. I can guess why, those geniuses they hire from Stanford can't?
Users even suggest Apple to acquire it but IMHO it is good this way, as independent software/framework.
If they are insist on re-inventing the wheel and add a launch daemon running as "root" to everyone's macs while Sparkle runs basically as user, people has right to go paranoid. That "We are not evil" isn't really credible anymore, it is only Google and their fans believing it.
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When will people understand that there are cases of all the "bloat" used in Adobe PDF documents (e.g. company wide) so people may actually need the bloatware to open it?
I keep using Adobe Reader since version 8 which Adobe showed some signs of respect/enhancements to all kinds of usage. Now the version 9 works faster than OS X preview in many cases (don't ask), I just disabled javascript (??!?!) and keep using it. Somehow, OS X quartz pdf renderer doesn't fit my needs and it is really goodly written core. It is just the interface.
I mean it is not like Adobe Reader users or companies installed it doesn't know the alternatives. Let me tell you the best performing and excellently rendering alternative on OS X? kpdf installed via Fink.
Sun had no history of conspiring other peoples browsers, trying to kill them via bundling a browser and name it Internet, trying to force users of alternative browsers to use IE by rejecting to code NS Plugin for Windows Update etc.
It is karma. Sun has karma to waste a bit while other is below GNAA in regards of bundling extras.
Do you feel sorry about Real Networks getting flamed whatever they do including going completely open source? I do but... Their karma. Got it?
...and JRE finally, finally showed some kind of Desktop user touch by preloading frequently used classes (or their metadata, more like prebinding/prefetch) to memory in ages of 64bit running laptops with 4+ GB memory.
If I was still on windows and also using applets a lot, I would thank Sun via feedback especially if I had portable with traditionally fragmented NTFS disk.
They were doing harm to users and even Firefox by not implementing that long overdue optimisation which means browser was essentially freezing or choking when most basic java applet hits it.
They unimaginably trust to Apple for Java updates but if they manage to run it as normal (non admin) user, it would be a nice touch for Linux JRE.
As everyone seems to standardize on USB and USB is in fact intended for universal communication, the thing you say can be easily done over USB 1.1 with almost zero bandwidth (even for that standard).
It could be done with industry standard format such as XML (non MS bastardized) too. In fact that is what that EU commission should come up with.
Do you have clue about how many iPods exist on planet? Nearing what? Hundreds of millions? Why should they use plain USB when they have a device combining an ipod and some kind of smart phone? If they came up with plain USB connector or some kind of iPhone connector, that would be really evil considering amount of iPod connector enabled devices (even cars!) people already have.
I think the spec is open anyway.
Nokia always used 2 standards before totally moving to USB on new models. Why 2? Because the older one was too big for new fashion small phones so they used 1 smaller form factor. On the other hand, besides their greedy charger prices, Nokia always used a very standard charger compared to others. It is just 3.7 Volt which seems similar to battery voltage.
See Samsung and Sony older models about the real evil stuff especially Samsung. At least Sony had decency to keep one charger format.
I think they already stabilized on USB except Apple but Apple has a very nice excuse as iPod connector is open and really popular and USB based anyway.
Bluray requires a complete secure channel. It means from the hardware to driver, driver to kernel, display card/chip to monitor and OS should also be watching the entire chaos to make sure nobody decss it. Even SJobs himself said it is a complete mess and let me remind you, you can`t watch bluray on OS X too.
About the mobile phones? Nokia JUST started to make some effort to support OS X because they finally figured OS X users aren`t buying iPhone because they are complete fanboys, they buy because it supports their OS unlike other smart phones. If you kept using only Apple since 1984, iPhone is the first 100% desktop supported smart phone on the Mac market. You expect them to support Linux? Same guys who ships loads of .NET dependent software after purchasing Trolltech for millions? I don`t even bother to mention other companies, they are a joke and consumers joking back at them lately (Mot, Sony)
Adobe? Both political and technical problem along with a userbase not used to buying commercial software for money. Lack of interest from their core market (Pro design) and even no system central colour correction scheme adds to the issue. Just look at horrible feedback, childish flaming that Hamrick`s pro scan&raw software (Vuescan) got on Linux market before it got cancelled. They even claimed it is a damn SANE gui.
As you reply to that troll, you should tell why 10.1 was a free upgrade. Apple made such huge changes (MacOS--->OS X, nothing like that in history) and nobody was happy with 10.0.
Apple didn't start stupid things like Mojave project, they admitted it wasn't really ready for production release in real life and made it free. Vista may have looked nice on paper but in real life, it was horrible. MS didn't admit that fact to begin with. Mojave site is still up and running, claiming people (their customers) are hallucinating.
It is all about making inconvenient for international Joe Sixpack to watch them. It is not like they don't know about proxies, a very good team must be there for such a gigantic project.
If you think about it, the entire DRM, region code etc. junk is just for making user hassle and legally responsible. Nothing else. Not like I am supporting this thing, I am one of victims. It is just the reality and how things work in TV World.
The most amazing thing is Plan 9 (Bell). From day 1, people say "It is good, but it can't replace Unix as it would be fixing a non broken thing" and yet use/copy every single unique aspect of it even on Windows (Unicode for example). What if Bell guys have said "Forget it, they will never give up Unix/Linux."? We wouldn't have procfs, unicode, /net and various other concepts.
Well at least IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer runs it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene
More importantly, ffmpeg and various multimedia stuff will build happily and run. That could be a great dedicated media encoding/decoding/transcoding box thanks to single user, state of art filesystem and realtime like abilities.
If people supported GNUStep and push Apple to help it, Linux would have a lot of OS X software ports now and even Apple software in the future. The number 1 issue is of course, would people want Apple closed binaries/frameworks on their Linux/*BSD?
It is more like "What would happen if..." thing now. Still, if one starts coding on OpenStep, it is really easy to port same application in native form to OS X or even Windows. I don't understand why you mention both BeOS and GNUstep in same context. GNUstep is there, working and even a real good mail client is coded using it. http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail/
Imagine you are an international TV station guy who just purchased airing rights of Star Trek and when you browse slashdot, you see this story, click and start watching the series you just purchased for $100K or even more. That is the issue.
I bet one of the Kaspersky rivals will hire them as security consultant. That will be his "award" for threatening thousands of users privacy. After years of Windows usage, I can even guess the company.
Kaspersky is always victimised by its own feature. Heavy heuristics. If they remove it, they would have no difference from so-called "Free" antiviruses. If they keep it, they get bad feedback for performance.
The unpatched Win2k? That is one thing only really overkill heavyweight stuff can save, e.g. the discontinued (for obvious reasons) eSafe desktop. When Win2k is unpatched, it is unsecure at kernel level, almost nothing can save it. We have Win2K boxes in TV business running some very expensive to upgrade software/hardware but we use them with zero connection policy. Yes, no connection, not even LAN or Modem. When Adaptec guys etc. ships a update to drivers for example, we use CD/DVD or floppy to update the machine.
I thought the new "white list" approach would fix the performance hit... Doesn't make difference? You should really convince that IT department to upgrade the RAM of the P4 boxes. 512MB and commercial AV software is no go.
ISPs never updated DNS servers with horrible management is a real big risk, an accident waiting to happen.
They setup a FreeBSD to the worst box, never update it, even ignore the massive security alert, there is zero privacy policy and ISPs and these "opendns is evil" guys expect us to keep the junk coming from DHCP (again, horribly managed) server.
Of course one can setup own DNS but how to do it for normal, non techie user who probably runs Windows? Even setting DNS servers by hand is big deal for them. OpenDNS fills that gap and makes couple of bucks from mistyped addresses. That is what they do, it is their documented business in a very strict privacy policy having state of USA.
Well, they are a documented company backed by big finance and based in USA and especially more important, California.
If you think they are spamming by showing couple of text ads and rough guesses instead of a "server not found" message, you should sue them. In fact, state of California should sue them.
That Google proxying is a real interesting one. Apparently nobody has problem that Google itself is hijacking their queries.
As you pointed an "undisclosed relationship" and thanks to the same tone of all "opendns is evil" comments, one would think for a leap of a second that there is organised attack to OpenDNS. I don't really care, it is them to investigate. I just keep using them instead of my ISPs mismanaged and unsecure servers and keep setting it up.
Someone figures to make money from a decades old protocol using web technologies and without breaking privacy.
Remember the feedback that non college educated guy got when he literally saved the planet from Internet breakdown? That DNS guy? It is the similar feedback. Jelousy.
I got an open wireless network and it has damn good censorship, P2P, porn, crack and even gambling sites are "censored" thanks to OpenDNS.
The other option would be watching people (via Squid for example), asking them their ID cards (already happens in Europe) and give them access.
If guy just wants to check his mail or browse ordinary web? It is fine but our service isn't a tool for others who doesn't respect the ones on network.
It is the "best of the worst". I don't want to watch people habits (via squid or other tools) or I don't really care what their ID or CC number is. It is a security risk anyway. If they aren't happy with the service? Well, they can run their own via EDGE, 3G etc. I don't care.
Ask any gray hat or black hat how much it matters that single IP, in this NAT crazy planet resolved Facebook.com or not or even what site they visit after that.
What matters is the URLs (not just domains), cookies and how long one stays on that URL, which part of site they visit after it. Do you know the service offering it for free? Google Analytics. That is your issue, not OpenDNS instead of using some ISPs worst security breached, censored DNS server.
Run Wireshark in a free time, that is what your ISP probably has access to.
Not just that, DNS queries have "hostname" only so it is near worthless if they were a evil spyware operation. What matters to advertisers and behaviour watchers is the address after "/".
Funnily, people have no problem with Google Analytics which is almost like a viral type threat, pyramid scheme. I said "almost".
They are "Open" in sense of DNS terminology. Open DNS is one of the significant misconfiguration of an ordinary DNS server can have but their business works by opening it to planet and add extra features to decades old service without breaking standards.
Without wasting too much keyboard power...
cd %WINDIR%
dir
Why are all files named 8.3 under Vista or Windows 7? Expecting a huge move from that same company is meaningless, that was all I was saying. About Apple zealotry? MS could make use of years of virtual machine expertise they purchased while buying Connectix and make them code a WIN16/MSDOS virtual machine subsystem which will provide pseudo 8.3 filenames to older programs. It is exactly what Apple did and that is why goodly written Carbon programs no matter what age they have can run under HFS+/OS X.
OS X is a very forgiving OS but in case of a broken kernel extension update, I am not that sure about what will happen. Also I can imagine companies starting banning Google products because of their security policies. Add Military and Government too.
It seems they have too much money and manpower to spend and they have become spoiled.
If they are coding on OS X, they should have run "softwareupdate -l" from Terminal, notice that it runs as NORMAL USER , ring Apple and ask why Apple chooses to run it as normal user. I can guess why, those geniuses they hire from Stanford can't?
They are re-inventing the wheel. Everyone from GNU die-hard developers to big evil (!) commercial companies rely on a single framework, Sparkle.
http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/
Users even suggest Apple to acquire it but IMHO it is good this way, as independent software/framework.
If they are insist on re-inventing the wheel and add a launch daemon running as "root" to everyone's macs while Sparkle runs basically as user, people has right to go paranoid. That "We are not evil" isn't really credible anymore, it is only Google and their fans believing it.