$ uname -a ; java -version Darwin mac.local 10.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 java version "1.6.0_24" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07-334-10M3326) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.1-b02-334, mixed mode)
Chrome has excellent built-in Developer Tools that provides similar functionality to Firebug; no extensions needed. (Safari has the same tool as well.) It supports editing CSS on the fly.
Each is heinous in its own special way, but the fact that you have three competing package managers, that don't talk to each other has convinced me that Mac users, in the typical hipster fashion, brutally raped the Unix culture, throwing away everything that made it unique because they did not understand it.
Huge binary repositories that try to include as much compatible open-source software as possible (as found in a distribution like Fedora or Debian) are unique to Linux distributions, and specifically those distributions that are openly developed (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise both include a much smaller set of packages than Fedora or OpenSUSE). Other UNIX operating systems usually have a smaller core set of fully supported software, and then often have a build system or binary repository of additional open-source software; sometimes this is provided by the vendor, sometimes it's not.
And it'll be curtains for the data center's infrastructure.
Very, very poor location for a high level center people.
According to the article, the datacenter handles mobile traffic for the region it's in. Assuming the region is Florida (or most of it), where else would you put such a center?
I don't recall ever seeing a non-SGI MIPS computer on the market
PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, many consumer network devices (including, but not limited to, many Linksys and Buffalo routers), networked video players and Blu-ray players (using Sigma chipsets)...
Yes, there is a charge on all telephone lines in the USA that was added as a way to subsidize access to rural areas of the nation so everyone could have affordable connectivity. Its the law already.
The Universal Service Fund pays for phone service for those who can't afford it, or pays for part of the cost for high-cost (rural/remote area) service. It also pays for Internet access for schools, libraries, and rural health care. It doesn't provide affordable Internet connectivity to rural areas and isn't supposed to.
Or are you referring to some other government program?
Because in the USA higher education is for the RICH only.
Bullshit. Expensive American education is accessible to the non-rich, primarily through easy-to-get, hard-to-discharge student loans and sometimes grants and subsidies that can result in the students effectively getting paid to attend school.. Whether the non-rich can afford the loans accessible to them is another question
If it ever seems that higher education was for the rich only, it's probably because those smart enough to go to the four year universities generally had smart parents who were able to afford it anyway.
It's always been that way, and it will stay that way.
Once again, bullshit. American higher education is more inclusive than ever, with continuously lowered standards, extensive remedial classes, easy and academically dubious programs, and (for many for-profit "schools" and even some private non-profit and state schools) aggressive advertising and sales.
What's more likely is that they were running a very old system, and have passwords from those times still in the database; these are usually upgraded when the user logs in again, but some people never logged in again.
If they have stored truncated case insensitive passwords or hashes, how do they know what users' correct passwords are? Should they reset users' passwords to the first password they type that matches the hash? No, because then a typo (accidental case mismatch or extra/missing/wrong characters after the eighth) would result in the user's password just being wrong.
This is why long-time and frequent Amazon users are still affected if they've not changed their password recently.
The real fact of thew matter is that the "Enterprise features" are not driven by the handset itself, but the backend management. And in this, Blackberry are going to have a world of pain as the backend is where ActiveSync phones are making IT staff lives much MUCH easier. You look at the average BES and then at now what Exchange 2010 can do and the featureset is very similar - Exchange wins because it's much easier to work with.
Lots of those nice ActiveSync features go away when using Windows Phone 7. You have to use an old device (Windows Mobile 6.5) to get all of them. At this point, I think even the iPhone supports more features than WP7...
Blackberry OS was always a piece of garbage, but it still is widely used because of the quantity of devices that run it. There is also the fact that many users are just used to it and swear by Blackberries.
Don't you think BlackBerry got so popular for a reason?
The amount of enterprise features available is simply not surpassed by any other device. Windows Mobile was getting closer and closer to BlackBerry with WM 6.1 and 6.5, but even Microsoft's own Windows Phone 7 is missing a lot of the enterprise features from WM 6.5.
Want to install OSX on non-Apple hardware? Lots of cracks needed. The OSX DRM is to check to make sure its Apple only hardware.)
Not really. It's not so much DRM as a specific set of supported hardware and a specific (different than BIOS) way of booting. The "lots of" modifications needed to get OS X running on non-Apple hardware tend to be drivers and patches for hardware support and a special bootloader or emulated boot environment.
Apple also does some sneaky things that aren't exactly DRM, but are basically locking people in -- for instance, funny implementations of h.264 for AppleTV that won't play well with much things, and anything that you want to use with AppleTV has to be encoded that way.
It's not really sneaky. Your pirated H264 content is simply beyond the supported specification of the device, and the device is marketed to play content from Apple's and other supported stores/streaming services, not Blu-ray/HD DVD quality HD video or 1080p pirated content.
A lot of pirated content is encoded to Blu-ray supported specifications (1080p24 L.4.1 H264), as this is what Blu-ray players, many network/USB video players, and PC video cards with H.264 decoding support, but the Apple device doesn't even support 1080p output.
Using Gmail (or MobileMe) is certainly different than running a mail server on a VM, even if that VM is hosted by a third party in a remote datacenter. Gmail runs on a large geographically distributed cluster, and the service is entirely managed by Google.
In addition to the hosting costs (local or remote), having your own private mail server costs time, money, or a mix of both, and it takes a lot of time and/or money to provide the level of service that approaches something like Gmail or MobileMe can provide.
That's your own personal experience. I know a few iPhone owners, ones who tinker with their phones (non-jailbraking) as much as I'm guessing an Android owner would, who restart their phones every few days, if not every day.
What are they doing wrong? My phone is jailbroken and does not need to be rebooted at all, and I know of no one who has to reboot their iPhone with any frequency.
it would be more accurate to compare it to an iPhone, which has restarts that happen far more often than "months apart." It also takes a similiar amount of time to start up.
I haven't restarted my iPhone since applying the last software update, over a month ago.
Yes, Oracle has done some stupid things. If you have forgotten, so had Sun. It's amazing how selective our memories have become - Sun is now seen as a candidate for canonization. Sheesh!
The comment you replied to criticized MySQL purely on technical grounds, not because they were owned by Oracle... Indeed, the technical complaints made against MySQL mostly do not apply to Oracle DB.
When's the last time you lost data with mysql that was directly attributable to the database, and not to a messed-up query or a hardware or network problem?
If I absolutely needed 100% data integrity, I'd write my own server. And I certainly wouldn't use SQL.
You think you're smarter than the people working on PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, and other databases (SQL relational or otherwise) known for their ACID properties?
You think writing your own server will provide 100% data integrity?
Until PostgreSQL gets ON DUPLICATE KEY support, it's off the table (pardon the pun). ON DUPLICATE KEY is just so handy, and solves so many problems, that it's amazing most people aren't using it. And no, creating a function to handle it as an exception is not a real solution.
Depending on an inferior database for a trivial feature creates more problems than it solves.
If insert or replace with a single SQL statement is such an important feature, you could make a stored procedure.
Tens of millions. Big deal. There are 4.6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide as of 2009 according to Wikipedia. Actually, that's pretty sad.
Those tens of millions of iPhone subscribers:
have a high credit rating or the extra cash to put down a deposit
have enough money to afford a $200+ (subsidized) mobile phone
have a stable enough income to pay at least $40/mo for voice service and $15/mo for data service, plus taxes
They are among perhaps the top 10% richest and most influential mobile subscribers worldwide. Not the kind of people who barely scrape together the money to top up a prepaid SIM in their Nokia.
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$ uname -a ; java -version
Darwin mac.local 10.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
java version "1.6.0_24"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07-334-10M3326)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.1-b02-334, mixed mode)
You were saying?
Chrome has excellent built-in Developer Tools that provides similar functionality to Firebug; no extensions needed. (Safari has the same tool as well.) It supports editing CSS on the fly.
Huge binary repositories that try to include as much compatible open-source software as possible (as found in a distribution like Fedora or Debian) are unique to Linux distributions, and specifically those distributions that are openly developed (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise both include a much smaller set of packages than Fedora or OpenSUSE). Other UNIX operating systems usually have a smaller core set of fully supported software, and then often have a build system or binary repository of additional open-source software; sometimes this is provided by the vendor, sometimes it's not.
According to the article, the datacenter handles mobile traffic for the region it's in. Assuming the region is Florida (or most of it), where else would you put such a center?
PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, many consumer network devices (including, but not limited to, many Linksys and Buffalo routers), networked video players and Blu-ray players (using Sigma chipsets)...
Fuel taxes pay for the roads. They are the largest source of highway funding...
The Universal Service Fund pays for phone service for those who can't afford it, or pays for part of the cost for high-cost (rural/remote area) service. It also pays for Internet access for schools, libraries, and rural health care. It doesn't provide affordable Internet connectivity to rural areas and isn't supposed to.
Or are you referring to some other government program?
Yes, this is annoying.
Bullshit. Expensive American education is accessible to the non-rich, primarily through easy-to-get, hard-to-discharge student loans and sometimes grants and subsidies that can result in the students effectively getting paid to attend school.. Whether the non-rich can afford the loans accessible to them is another question
If it ever seems that higher education was for the rich only, it's probably because those smart enough to go to the four year universities generally had smart parents who were able to afford it anyway.
Once again, bullshit. American higher education is more inclusive than ever, with continuously lowered standards, extensive remedial classes, easy and academically dubious programs, and (for many for-profit "schools" and even some private non-profit and state schools) aggressive advertising and sales.
If they have stored truncated case insensitive passwords or hashes, how do they know what users' correct passwords are? Should they reset users' passwords to the first password they type that matches the hash? No, because then a typo (accidental case mismatch or extra/missing/wrong characters after the eighth) would result in the user's password just being wrong.
This is why long-time and frequent Amazon users are still affected if they've not changed their password recently.
Lots of those nice ActiveSync features go away when using Windows Phone 7. You have to use an old device (Windows Mobile 6.5) to get all of them. At this point, I think even the iPhone supports more features than WP7...
Don't you think BlackBerry got so popular for a reason?
The amount of enterprise features available is simply not surpassed by any other device. Windows Mobile was getting closer and closer to BlackBerry with WM 6.1 and 6.5, but even Microsoft's own Windows Phone 7 is missing a lot of the enterprise features from WM 6.5.
Not really. It's not so much DRM as a specific set of supported hardware and a specific (different than BIOS) way of booting. The "lots of" modifications needed to get OS X running on non-Apple hardware tend to be drivers and patches for hardware support and a special bootloader or emulated boot environment.
It's not really sneaky. Your pirated H264 content is simply beyond the supported specification of the device, and the device is marketed to play content from Apple's and other supported stores/streaming services, not Blu-ray/HD DVD quality HD video or 1080p pirated content.
A lot of pirated content is encoded to Blu-ray supported specifications (1080p24 L.4.1 H264), as this is what Blu-ray players, many network/USB video players, and PC video cards with H.264 decoding support, but the Apple device doesn't even support 1080p output.
You may own the Kindle, but you certainly don't own the books or the software running on the Kindle that renders the books.
Using Gmail (or MobileMe) is certainly different than running a mail server on a VM, even if that VM is hosted by a third party in a remote datacenter. Gmail runs on a large geographically distributed cluster, and the service is entirely managed by Google.
In addition to the hosting costs (local or remote), having your own private mail server costs time, money, or a mix of both, and it takes a lot of time and/or money to provide the level of service that approaches something like Gmail or MobileMe can provide.
What are they doing wrong? My phone is jailbroken and does not need to be rebooted at all, and I know of no one who has to reboot their iPhone with any frequency.
I haven't restarted my iPhone since applying the last software update, over a month ago.
So everyone on Slashdot who doesn't run their own mail server (at significant expense either in time or buying pre-integrated software) is too lazy?
Get a life.
The comment you replied to criticized MySQL purely on technical grounds, not because they were owned by Oracle... Indeed, the technical complaints made against MySQL mostly do not apply to Oracle DB.
On 0000-00-00 00:00:00, of course.
You think you're smarter than the people working on PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, and other databases (SQL relational or otherwise) known for their ACID properties?
You think writing your own server will provide 100% data integrity?
So you don't want data integrity? ACID?
Depending on an inferior database for a trivial feature creates more problems than it solves.
If insert or replace with a single SQL statement is such an important feature, you could make a stored procedure.
Those tens of millions of iPhone subscribers:
They are among perhaps the top 10% richest and most influential mobile subscribers worldwide. Not the kind of people who barely scrape together the money to top up a prepaid SIM in their Nokia.