Apple makes easy for Developers to code things that can run under non-admin account while MS somehow doesn't. It even includes games. You can run any game without Admin permissions on OS X (I don't know the recent WINE junk from EA).
It is all about the core architecture of OS and the Developer tools.
People thinking it is accidental or modding you flamebait also thinks MS really wants to give.NET functionality to Linux via Mono project and Novell deal. Yes, everyone on earth tried how their page looks with Firefox 3 but MS didn't. Lets believe that.
Yahoo lets Safari 3, Opera 9.5, Firefox 2 (3 has documented issue) users to use their (New) Yahoo Mail and (Beta) My Yahoo. They are way complex and beyond anything those MSCE monkeys could code BTW. My Yahoo beta is essentially a full feature RSS reader masked as a webpage.
I don't see any comparison between Yahoo and Hotmail really. It could only serve to get idea about what would happen if MS really acquired Yahoo.
If you ever manage to login (hint: get rid of those hotmail, passport, live cookies), it will suggest you to use "Internet Explorer" for full site. On OS X! At least in Turkish version, it happens to a friend.
I agree with you, I just say this issue should be used to debunk the junk which claims to do heuristics wasting user CPU. If something does heuristics on an OS without any known viruses, it should really do it. I am speaking about pro active security like "what launches what, what did user do". All serious antivirus on Windows does it and Mac antivirus doesn't while it is more expensive than Windows one.
I heard how easy to use ActiveDirectory with this version of SUSE. So, nobody needs to use industry standard LDAP etc. with their Linux desktops and they can keep their Windows Servers running non standard protocols.
What a big FUD monger I am, really... Perhaps not just being a big FUD troll, I am so old fashioned still remembering Halloween documents and how frightened Microsoft was by Java (.NET!), Linux having industry standard and open protocols (ActiveDirectory!) and the weak points of Linux which they abuse via Novell.
I have picked Nokia Maps downloader on purpose since it as a 22 MB download results in 70-80 MB.NET 3.0 download which (forget Linux!) doesn't even exist on Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 which you can happily run Java 6 even faster thanks to the less bulk of XP/Vista.
Nobody sees that scheme of Microsoft? If someone at Nokia finally figures their high end customers who owns $400+ smartphones (that can run Maps) doesn't give a shit to how cheap Windows PC is and near 30% of them runs Mac OS X, what is needed? rm -rf NokiaMaps and start from strach since there is no way to run.NET 3 on OS X.
Open Office? Not just that, does Sun, Adobe (Flash) need couple of cents from Google to put "Google Toolbar" which can make any serious company with a security policy lose their minds?
Adobe Flash, Java (!!!!) comes with Google Toolbar if user doesn't unclick that selection box selected by default. Google Toolbar could be security nightmare if user does select some options.
I know a company who has thousands of clients and their admin. You know the result of the cheap trick of adding Safari to Software Update on their machines and policy? They mass uninstalled Quicktime, the core of Apple technologies on Windows and banned everyone from installing anything related to Apple Inc. coming with software update.
Now they may have fixed it but that company (or several others) will keep that policy thanks to Carpet Bombing type things coming with the updated (!) Safari browser. Sadly, we will keep putting "Flash" videos to our sites since people frustrated by such tricks won't have Quicktime installed.
Apple should be proud (!) of that 3% or something Safari popularity added by that trick. Safari for Windows is not a bad browser (if they respect to OS they run on), it didn't need such tricks.
I can bet easily that genius idea (!) came from PR team or some suits, not engineers. You know those shadowy brotherhood is also responsible for asking $30 for "fullscreen" in Quicktime for years.
I am subscribed to Apple security mailing list, I recommend it to everyone. It is less BS, plain text alert about anything related to security update released from Apple. They mail immediately too even beating software update. It is both for OS X and Windows.
"Impact: Saving untrusted files to the Windows desktop may lead to the execution of arbitrary code Description: An issue exists in how the Windows desktop handles executables. Saving an untrusted file to the Windows desktop may trigger the issue, and lead to the execution of arbitrary code."
No, Windows Desktop always running something based on its extension is not an issue, it is how Windows works. Is it backwards? Well, it is but it is THEIR OS. Should MS add "This is executable" to some OS X file (via Unix perm or Resource and extension) and blame Apple like "An issue exists how OS X handles files" for their fault?
It is understandable for a company like Apple to let PR team do the final edit on security bulletins but they shouldn't use it like a childish way like that. At least on security list. Also putting Windows issues to first "page" and OS X issues to down below is a real cheap trick. Not on that message, it happened several times when multiple OS issues have arisen.
Badly configured Web Servers are also very well known in Apple developer and user community. There are still people ZIPPING bz2 compressed disk image (DMG) around. Why? Because if Webserver isn't configured to handle DMG mime type, user gets it in plain text inside browser. Look to all those *.dmg.zip things, no they aren't illiterate, they know what will hit them randomly.
Hear this. Their program installs on Windows XP SP3 in 1 straight hour. Guess why? I run Windows XP Sp3 inside Virtual PC 7 under PPC just to get 3-4 files to a memory card. Yes, that is what it does. Nothing more.
On Azureus. it never uses more than 70 mb of RAM even while I have higher than average cache etc. settings.
Nokia Maps signed Applet inside browser, gets those 3-4 files user selects and puts them into already mounted filesystem. It is all. If they tie it to Net 3.0 which doesn't exist on anything rather than windows, I would recommend Nokia to start an internal investigation of that developer team.
Take a guess about the high end smart phones and what OS/Device the owners of those devices run.
That Adobe you mention releases exact same version of Flash, AIR Framework, Professional tools to 2-3 OS having nothing to do with each other. At least they don't use puppets claiming to serve open source community.
Honestly I gave up on Apple regarding Java especially after they plain ignored J2ME on iPhone even claiming nobody asked for it. Someone at Apple, the Boss perhaps hates Java so they treat it like junk. Yes, amateurish and child like like that. People still wonder why enterprise stays away from Apple. The enterprise runs Java 6 on Windows 98!
After I saw JRE6 being 64bit Intel only without explanation and while poor G5 users just sitting there with enterprise class 64bit CPUs, I begun to question platform of my choice back in 2003.
Today the best platform to run Java especially for end user is Windows. Let Apple live with that shame if they ever look to something other than that locked and closed junk.
Check the release date of that rock solid and excellently performing IBM Java for PPC Linux 32/64. You will understand my frustration too. If you are in desperate need for Java 6 and you need to be final and supported, check Linux or even Windows,
Cocoa/Core Audio/Integration with OS X Desktop and the rumours of Carbon future make it hard for everyone. Only company besides Apple to ship such a huge thing is Sun and it could get real pricey for them. They absolutely need to start hiring Cocoa/OS X programmers and start talks with Apple on future of Java on OS X.
I won't be surprised if Apple says "Java 6 will be Intel only" for example. Won't be surprised at all.
You know any handset which has higher price than $70 and doesn't have J2ME? Take a guess:)
The real issue is, how to make that gigantic thing available to PPC G5 and G4/G3 (if they accept perf. penalty) processors under OS X. X11 could be OK too. The Java 6 release(!) from Apple is Intel 64bit _only_. We can't ask Apple as they even abandoned Intel 32bit users (on that release) so there should be some team, likely from IBM needs to step in. They shipped Java 6 for Linux PPC/PPC64 ages ago. They should step in and save/support their CPU customers, especially G5. While people buy G5 workstations/servers, they also bought IBM CPUs.
How could Intel PR attach themselves to the story which should be about first ever Petaflop (documented) supercomputer made possible by IBM low power/mhz PowerPC processors and AMD Processors?
Gotta respect to such PR and sold out tech journalists (!).
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Apple makes easy for Developers to code things that can run under non-admin account while MS somehow doesn't. It even includes games. You can run any game without Admin permissions on OS X (I don't know the recent WINE junk from EA).
It is all about the core architecture of OS and the Developer tools.
Well I bet there is a memo at Microsoft like "Don't mess with Opera" after the MSN scandal and rumored $millions loss after settlement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/06/msn_deliberately_breaks_operas_browser/
People thinking it is accidental or modding you flamebait also thinks MS really wants to give .NET functionality to Linux via Mono project and Novell deal.
Yes, everyone on earth tried how their page looks with Firefox 3 but MS didn't. Lets believe that.
Because they can't dare to mess with Microsoft giant like a little Norwegian company did?
Opera sued them big time for messing around with their application along with releasing a dedicated "Bork edition" release which is a legend already.
Yahoo lets Safari 3, Opera 9.5, Firefox 2 (3 has documented issue) users to use their (New) Yahoo Mail and (Beta) My Yahoo. They are way complex and beyond anything those MSCE monkeys could code BTW. My Yahoo beta is essentially a full feature RSS reader masked as a webpage.
I don't see any comparison between Yahoo and Hotmail really. It could only serve to get idea about what would happen if MS really acquired Yahoo.
If you ever manage to login (hint: get rid of those hotmail, passport, live cookies), it will suggest you to use "Internet Explorer" for full site. On OS X!
At least in Turkish version, it happens to a friend.
A cheap phone having a non buggy J2ME (Java) can do wonders these days. A good example is Opera Mini.
I heard electric chair exists thanks to Edison and his AC FUD campaign so it was more than Elephants got killed in a bad way.
I agree with you, I just say this issue should be used to debunk the junk which claims to do heuristics wasting user CPU. If something does heuristics on an OS without any known viruses, it should really do it. I am speaking about pro active security like "what launches what, what did user do". All serious antivirus on Windows does it and Mac antivirus doesn't while it is more expensive than Windows one.
Firefox 3 shouldn't be "naked" without plugins, extensions and even IRC client. Thunderbird should be running too.
You need
1) Gestures extension
2) Speed Dial Extension
3) IRC Extension
4) A Sync extension
5) Thunderbird setup and running
That will be Firefox 3 having features like Opera 9.5.
Opera is a complete internet suite compared to Firefox or Safari.
Opera 9.5, did you try it? The performance increase on Qt, the framework of Opera is huge compared to pre 4.x versions.
Of course, backup everything related to Opera before trying it.
Tape has guarantee (real guarantee) over 50 years and it will be there for decades thanks to the organisations using it like Banks, Govt., Military
http://www.answers.com/tape+drive?cat=technology
Everything is open, documented and it is designed for reliability.
Put the videos in their native format (Dv etc.), put it into a bank safe or a safe.
I heard how easy to use ActiveDirectory with this version of SUSE. So, nobody needs to use industry standard LDAP etc. with their Linux desktops and they can keep their Windows Servers running non standard protocols.
What a big FUD monger I am, really... Perhaps not just being a big FUD troll, I am so old fashioned still remembering Halloween documents and how frightened Microsoft was by Java (.NET!), Linux having industry standard and open protocols (ActiveDirectory!) and the weak points of Linux which they abuse via Novell.
http://www.opensource.ac.uk/mirrors/www.opensource.org/halloween/faq.html
I have picked Nokia Maps downloader on purpose since it as a 22 MB download results in 70-80 MB .NET 3.0 download which (forget Linux!) doesn't even exist on Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 which you can happily run Java 6 even faster thanks to the less bulk of XP/Vista.
Nobody sees that scheme of Microsoft? If someone at Nokia finally figures their high end customers who owns $400+ smartphones (that can run Maps) doesn't give a shit to how cheap Windows PC is and near 30% of them runs Mac OS X, what is needed? rm -rf NokiaMaps and start from strach since there is no way to run .NET 3 on OS X.
It is actually a pyramid scheme like thing.
Open Office? Not just that, does Sun, Adobe (Flash) need couple of cents from Google to put "Google Toolbar" which can make any serious company with a security policy lose their minds?
Adobe Flash, Java (!!!!) comes with Google Toolbar if user doesn't unclick that selection box selected by default. Google Toolbar could be security nightmare if user does select some options.
I know a company who has thousands of clients and their admin. You know the result of the cheap trick of adding Safari to Software Update on their machines and policy? They mass uninstalled Quicktime, the core of Apple technologies on Windows and banned everyone from installing anything related to Apple Inc. coming with software update.
Now they may have fixed it but that company (or several others) will keep that policy thanks to Carpet Bombing type things coming with the updated (!) Safari browser. Sadly, we will keep putting "Flash" videos to our sites since people frustrated by such tricks won't have Quicktime installed.
Apple should be proud (!) of that 3% or something Safari popularity added by that trick. Safari for Windows is not a bad browser (if they respect to OS they run on), it didn't need such tricks.
I can bet easily that genius idea (!) came from PR team or some suits, not engineers. You know those shadowy brotherhood is also responsible for asking $30 for "fullscreen" in Quicktime for years.
I am subscribed to Apple security mailing list, I recommend it to everyone. It is less BS, plain text alert about anything related to security update released from Apple. They mail immediately too even beating software update. It is both for OS X and Windows.
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce
I noticed something really bothers me as OS X only user:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2008/Jun/msg00001.html
"Impact: Saving untrusted files to the Windows desktop may lead to
the execution of arbitrary code
Description: An issue exists in how the Windows desktop handles
executables. Saving an untrusted file to the Windows desktop may
trigger the issue, and lead to the execution of arbitrary code."
No, Windows Desktop always running something based on its extension is not an issue, it is how Windows works. Is it backwards? Well, it is but it is THEIR OS. Should MS add "This is executable" to some OS X file (via Unix perm or Resource and extension) and blame Apple like "An issue exists how OS X handles files" for their fault?
It is understandable for a company like Apple to let PR team do the final edit on security bulletins but they shouldn't use it like a childish way like that. At least on security list. Also putting Windows issues to first "page" and OS X issues to down below is a real cheap trick. Not on that message, it happened several times when multiple OS issues have arisen.
Badly configured Web Servers are also very well known in Apple developer and user community. There are still people ZIPPING bz2 compressed disk image (DMG) around. Why? Because if Webserver isn't configured to handle DMG mime type, user gets it in plain text inside browser. Look to all those *.dmg.zip things, no they aren't illiterate, they know what will hit them randomly.
Hear this. Their program installs on Windows XP SP3 in 1 straight hour. Guess why? I run Windows XP Sp3 inside Virtual PC 7 under PPC just to get 3-4 files to a memory card. Yes, that is what it does. Nothing more.
On Azureus. it never uses more than 70 mb of RAM even while I have higher than average cache etc. settings.
Nokia Maps signed Applet inside browser, gets those 3-4 files user selects and puts them into already mounted filesystem. It is all. If they tie it to Net 3.0 which doesn't exist on anything rather than windows, I would recommend Nokia to start an internal investigation of that developer team.
Take a guess about the high end smart phones and what OS/Device the owners of those devices run.
That Adobe you mention releases exact same version of Flash, AIR Framework, Professional tools to 2-3 OS having nothing to do with each other. At least they don't use puppets claiming to serve open source community.
Honestly I gave up on Apple regarding Java especially after they plain ignored J2ME on iPhone even claiming nobody asked for it. Someone at Apple, the Boss perhaps hates Java so they treat it like junk. Yes, amateurish and child like like that. People still wonder why enterprise stays away from Apple. The enterprise runs Java 6 on Windows 98!
After I saw JRE6 being 64bit Intel only without explanation and while poor G5 users just sitting there with enterprise class 64bit CPUs, I begun to question platform of my choice back in 2003.
Today the best platform to run Java especially for end user is Windows. Let Apple live with that shame if they ever look to something other than that locked and closed junk.
Check the release date of that rock solid and excellently performing IBM Java for PPC Linux 32/64. You will understand my frustration too. If you are in desperate need for Java 6 and you need to be final and supported, check Linux or even Windows,
Java is not only a language, it is a virtual machine which should run anywhere with amazing levels of backwards compatibility.
Cocoa/Core Audio/Integration with OS X Desktop and the rumours of Carbon future make it hard for everyone. Only company besides Apple to ship such a huge thing is Sun and it could get real pricey for them. They absolutely need to start hiring Cocoa/OS X programmers and start talks with Apple on future of Java on OS X.
:)
I won't be surprised if Apple says "Java 6 will be Intel only" for example. Won't be surprised at all.
You know any handset which has higher price than $70 and doesn't have J2ME? Take a guess
Where were you past 3-4 months? :)
Landon Fuller and a team made Java 6 running under OS X X11 (and command line of course)
http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/
It is said to have great performance too.
The real issue is, how to make that gigantic thing available to PPC G5 and G4/G3 (if they accept perf. penalty) processors under OS X. X11 could be OK too. The Java 6 release(!) from Apple is Intel 64bit _only_. We can't ask Apple as they even abandoned Intel 32bit users (on that release) so there should be some team, likely from IBM needs to step in. They shipped Java 6 for Linux PPC/PPC64 ages ago. They should step in and save/support their CPU customers, especially G5. While people buy G5 workstations/servers, they also bought IBM CPUs.
MS started to get very active in supercomputing lately and their buddies started writing about how non existent they are in that field.
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=Microsoft+supercomputing&c=
Of course, as long as they don't re-invent Unix, planet is safe. I can't picture people cleaning registry of a atomic explosion simulator.
How could Intel PR attach themselves to the story which should be about first ever Petaflop (documented) supercomputer made possible by IBM low power/mhz PowerPC processors and AMD Processors?
Gotta respect to such PR and sold out tech journalists (!).