Very true, though you can always use the WiFi... It's also worth mentioning you can already do this with a Windows Mobile Phone, no hack required... Just install the app on your phone and awaaay you go, don't even need to worry about anyone deciding they hate the idea of you being able to do VoIP on your phone and shutting it down (such as apple has tried to do with previous hacks).
That's just it, the X-Box 360 does... That's why it's going to be a great little media device (honestly like the current config, built in HD-DVD would be nice though). I'm thinking this new x-box will be great for those who don't have/want a media center... Personally the config I've been contemplating is having a single media center PC, with x-boxs hooked up to the TVs in the house... Ya get a single centralized DVR with your content accessable anywhere in the house, with no configuration headaches and at a better price point (for HD-output) then you would get out of building your own HTPC and instally myth...
What platform would you use intead? X-Box isn't any different than any other consumer level media device (other than being a game console)... Most people don't have the time or patients to deal with MythTV... So frankly, I really don't see why you're making a big fuss about this some how being "locked down", I wouldn't expect any more from TIVO/Sony/Scientific Atlantic (particularly when paired with Time Warner)/et. al.
Not at all actually... First, the Wii appeals to casual gamers, so right there they're getting a major bost from people who would otherwise not consider buying any game console at all considering buying a Wii. Next, consider Wii's price, $250 since launch. It wasn't until microsoft dropped the price of the Core/Arcade system (which are hard to find sku's) that 360's started moving. The next thing to factor in is the incredible job Nintendo did hyping up Wii's BC capabilities (this was the earliest and most hyped feature). The fact that you could (potentially) be able to play every nintendo game back to the original NES was very appealing, combined with the price this serves to make the Wii look like one heck of a value... Then factor in parents who want to keep kids active, and with the Wii's control system kids will almost certainly be spending a good a amount of time jumping up and down and such all while plaing their fav. video game titles... Overall excellent stratege...
Now, if Nintendo would only get sane and start letting you download VC content to SD cards rather than crippling the SD card slot feature and making it "archive/mp3 only"... Nintendo really needs to take a page out of the MS strategy here... Download content to whatever storage unit you want, who cares? Just tie the VC games to the console and they'll be fine... So far I haven't heard of rampent piracy of x-box arcade games, I doubt Nintendo would have any bigger issues than MS.
But I seriously think the network admins should get off their Linux high horse and work for the greater good of the community to solve this problem... I would say they, more than Microsoft is to blame here. They found one specific case where Microsoft software failed, and are, based on what I'm reading, failing to help anyone fix the problem (including microsoft). Microsoft on the other hand has to try and to make sure Vista works properly on networks with every other platform that is still relivent, all while trying to implement some new networking protocols which may help end user networking experience one day. A much bigger job then emailing up microsoft with a note saying "our servers are configured xyz and it seems Vista doesn't work, here are some relivent details...", then perhaps, security etc allowing making some adjustments to let Vista work in the here and now so your users can browse the net...
To me this more sounds like some jerk admin using this as an oppertunity to try and make people hate microsoft and switch to the software they feel everyone should be using regardless if that is actually doing them any good service or not, more sort of a religous crusade that shouldn't be a part of the world of techology.
So even if HD-Photo is the clearly superior technology (I don't know that it is, but let's assume for a second it is) we should ignore it and go with something else that isn't Microsoft on general principal? Does that about sum up your position?
Which is why it's a good thing you're not on the panel... Seriously, you have to examine the offer in its entirety along with the technical details of the specification. It could be that the MS "standard" is the best thing out there, if this is the case, assuming there isn't a horrible amount of red tape why not go with HD-Photo?
I'd be the drivers have something to do with it... I've been using vista on my system since it was first available and have wantched the progression of nVidia drivers since release... Development is completely fragmented (to the extent nVidia no longer provides unified drivers for Vista as far as I can see). I guess the new driver model was a lot to deal with. Worst Windows rollout as far as 3rd party hardware support goes.
Do you like the idea of working for a company that insits you do something illegal? Personally I wouldn't, there's nothing wrong with a mix of MS office for those that need it and those who have Open Office for those who don't, we do that an my current company as a cost saver.
I guess I can't speak authoritatively since I don't know what all UAC involves... But I think the *INX approach of prompting for root (or appropriate) password when required works just fine. There's other stuff in the Vista kernel that probably should be incorporated into other OS kernel's though (assuming there is no equivalent). User mode drivers would be nice across the board... Why should anyone's webcam require direct access to kernel space at any level other than making protected system calls. Patch protection is a good thing too. As far as I'm conserned in the world of OS study UAC looks like a big question mark to me.
Just out of curiosity, what is the overall performance impact of generics in Java? I'm a.Net developer, when Microsoft introduced Generics for.Net 2.0 there was a big too do about generics solving performance issues where programmers were relying on data structures such as the System.Collections.Hashtable (which stored data in a collection of objects, indexed by objects). Apparently with Microsofts implementation there is never any boxing, there for no performace loss. I've never seen any figures that show how this all adds up though.
"With fewer Linux laptops on Wi-Fi networks, security experts -- and presumably hackers -- have taken longer to get round to Linux drivers, but issue of handling remote data at the kernel level can cause trouble on the open source OS just as easily as any other."
What that says to me is that the bugs may well have been present for quite some time, and only recently discovered. However the response time on a patch seems to be pretty good, unfortunetly forcing end users to manually patch their systems is less than desirable. At any rate, from what I remember Microsoft & Apple's collective response times weren't bad either when similar bugs were found in those systems either. I'm not sure your comment about Microsoft hiding zero day exploits is 100% fair.
Sorry, personally I don't buy this... Even if they documents were published in Word format there are free readers available (even for Open XML) which may be used to view content. However these documents are not published in ODF or OXML, they're published in PDF which again, there are free readers for..
I'm against any law designed to force out any specific competitor from any market unless their product is dangerous to human life (as in someone could die). It really seems to me that any movement to specifically promote any technology (FOSS in this case) at the expense of other choices (whether they are perceived as better or worse) is just plain stupid.
Just out of curiosity... Why? I've been doing quite a bit of research into OOXML as a solution to one of my companies biggest problems right now, and it makes a lot of sense to me. It's well engineered, and and extreamly easy to work with. I doubt any one would have trouble integrating OOXML into their products. Once microsoft has this ISO ratified and releases the standards openly they're pretty much giving up any sort of solid ground to turn around and start sueing people (like Rambus tried).
As far as I'm conserned, whatever. May the best format win. In the case of my company it will be OOXML for us not just because of the ease of working with this (as clearing ODF isn't any harder), but because of the ease of adding custom functionality (i.e. custom ribbons) to MS Office 2007, particularly using.Net on which my company bases it's products.
Yeah, I agree that probably most people who are jumping all over Paledium have never used windows for more than a couple of hours. However I don't beleive there is any need for end users to replace Windows, or for microsoft to go bankrupt.
To be perfectly honest I think the OSS community needs the likes of Microsoft and Apple more than they know. Case in point, was talking to one of my former co-workers about Vista the other day (this particular developer contiunes to live fully in the OSS world developing PHP/MySql). After a while he made the comment "Ooo, windows has symlinks now, big deal"... He, like the majority of the OSS community fails to realize that no one cares.
Some times I get the feeling that if the OSS community was in the leadership role that MS and Apple are the big hype with the next OS release would be Symlinks 3.0... And they wouldn't realize that no one cared. And we'd probably be sitting here with out Plug and Play (or pray if you like though it seems to work exceptionally well these days) since it took Microsoft to implement the idea in Windows before it was added to Linux and other such things. There would def. not be any cool functional 3D UI's with out Apple implementing this for OSX... Basically our computing experince right now would more than likely be extreamly spartan and not particularly intuitive.
It is nice to see though that now that the OSS community has been inspired by both MS and Apple they've created some rather interesting and unique implementations of all of these cool new features into Linux and seem to be doing a rather impressive job. It's be nice to see a VSC (Volume Shadow Copy) feature in linux next.
And I really wonder how it's a threat to freedom in any way shape or form... Thus far my Mp3 collection (which dates back to college) has not suddenly stopped working (nor my iTunes dispite Apples dire predictions). And as far as I know if anyone wants to create a new way to encode or distribute media there's nothing in the OS to prevent it. DRM will funciton with content for which it is enabled. Any unprotected content will work just like it did before... I think the OSS community needs to take a deep breath and relax.
I certainly don't have any... I got caught in a bit of a mess with paypal my self a while back (not at all similar to this but just as fustrating to me). I've found exactly what the authors of the article found, that PayPal sucks bad when it comes to working with their customers to solve problems. The only reason why they are still around it because they don't have decent competition yet. Here's hoping someone with a brain decides to start competing in this space.
It'd probably be easier for MS to dump SFU than for linux to live with out GCC. That being said, it doesn't look like MS plans to attack linux like sco is, rather just use this as some leverage to make some deals with major distriutors. Who knows, all this could work out for the best for enterprise linux.
Personally I think the point of the blog/artical/whatever was more so to express general fustration regarding apple and the apple communities smugness. Apple has some great products out there, but seriously... Tone it down a notch.
after reading your blog, v. Pauls blog nearly side by side, I'd say it's pretty obvious you quoted selectivly. You certianly did miss key remarks which dramatically alter the original intention of the remarks. You may wish to try comparing what you wrote, specifically quoted material v. Pauls origial statments.
The service pack paul referred to specifically was Windows XP Service Pack 2, which by any standards *was* a huge improvement to how windows works, which included several new apps and features all of which were intended to combat the issue of malware which Windows was (and is) under seige from. You really can't be little that, something like SP2 would be a major effort for any tech company, including apple. Personally I think it'd be nice for the apple community if Apple started taking security that seriously and put a hold on shiny new features.
Honestly I think this is a bit like telling people to switch from say... Honda to Toyota because there are more Honda's on the road there for there are more auto accidents (thus more fatal accidents) involving Honda automobiles v. Toyota's.
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Very true, though you can always use the WiFi... It's also worth mentioning you can already do this with a Windows Mobile Phone, no hack required... Just install the app on your phone and awaaay you go, don't even need to worry about anyone deciding they hate the idea of you being able to do VoIP on your phone and shutting it down (such as apple has tried to do with previous hacks).
That's just it, the X-Box 360 does... That's why it's going to be a great little media device (honestly like the current config, built in HD-DVD would be nice though). I'm thinking this new x-box will be great for those who don't have/want a media center... Personally the config I've been contemplating is having a single media center PC, with x-boxs hooked up to the TVs in the house... Ya get a single centralized DVR with your content accessable anywhere in the house, with no configuration headaches and at a better price point (for HD-output) then you would get out of building your own HTPC and instally myth...
What platform would you use intead? X-Box isn't any different than any other consumer level media device (other than being a game console)... Most people don't have the time or patients to deal with MythTV... So frankly, I really don't see why you're making a big fuss about this some how being "locked down", I wouldn't expect any more from TIVO/Sony/Scientific Atlantic (particularly when paired with Time Warner)/et. al.
Not at all actually... First, the Wii appeals to casual gamers, so right there they're getting a major bost from people who would otherwise not consider buying any game console at all considering buying a Wii. Next, consider Wii's price, $250 since launch. It wasn't until microsoft dropped the price of the Core/Arcade system (which are hard to find sku's) that 360's started moving. The next thing to factor in is the incredible job Nintendo did hyping up Wii's BC capabilities (this was the earliest and most hyped feature). The fact that you could (potentially) be able to play every nintendo game back to the original NES was very appealing, combined with the price this serves to make the Wii look like one heck of a value... Then factor in parents who want to keep kids active, and with the Wii's control system kids will almost certainly be spending a good a amount of time jumping up and down and such all while plaing their fav. video game titles... Overall excellent stratege... Now, if Nintendo would only get sane and start letting you download VC content to SD cards rather than crippling the SD card slot feature and making it "archive/mp3 only"... Nintendo really needs to take a page out of the MS strategy here... Download content to whatever storage unit you want, who cares? Just tie the VC games to the console and they'll be fine... So far I haven't heard of rampent piracy of x-box arcade games, I doubt Nintendo would have any bigger issues than MS.
But I seriously think the network admins should get off their Linux high horse and work for the greater good of the community to solve this problem... I would say they, more than Microsoft is to blame here. They found one specific case where Microsoft software failed, and are, based on what I'm reading, failing to help anyone fix the problem (including microsoft). Microsoft on the other hand has to try and to make sure Vista works properly on networks with every other platform that is still relivent, all while trying to implement some new networking protocols which may help end user networking experience one day. A much bigger job then emailing up microsoft with a note saying "our servers are configured xyz and it seems Vista doesn't work, here are some relivent details...", then perhaps, security etc allowing making some adjustments to let Vista work in the here and now so your users can browse the net... To me this more sounds like some jerk admin using this as an oppertunity to try and make people hate microsoft and switch to the software they feel everyone should be using regardless if that is actually doing them any good service or not, more sort of a religous crusade that shouldn't be a part of the world of techology.
So even if HD-Photo is the clearly superior technology (I don't know that it is, but let's assume for a second it is) we should ignore it and go with something else that isn't Microsoft on general principal? Does that about sum up your position?
Which is why it's a good thing you're not on the panel... Seriously, you have to examine the offer in its entirety along with the technical details of the specification. It could be that the MS "standard" is the best thing out there, if this is the case, assuming there isn't a horrible amount of red tape why not go with HD-Photo?
I'd be the drivers have something to do with it... I've been using vista on my system since it was first available and have wantched the progression of nVidia drivers since release... Development is completely fragmented (to the extent nVidia no longer provides unified drivers for Vista as far as I can see). I guess the new driver model was a lot to deal with. Worst Windows rollout as far as 3rd party hardware support goes.
Do you like the idea of working for a company that insits you do something illegal? Personally I wouldn't, there's nothing wrong with a mix of MS office for those that need it and those who have Open Office for those who don't, we do that an my current company as a cost saver.
I guess I can't speak authoritatively since I don't know what all UAC involves... But I think the *INX approach of prompting for root (or appropriate) password when required works just fine. There's other stuff in the Vista kernel that probably should be incorporated into other OS kernel's though (assuming there is no equivalent). User mode drivers would be nice across the board... Why should anyone's webcam require direct access to kernel space at any level other than making protected system calls. Patch protection is a good thing too. As far as I'm conserned in the world of OS study UAC looks like a big question mark to me.
I thought CLR was already cross platform in the form of Mono... Linux/Mac/BSD(?)
Just out of curiosity, what is the overall performance impact of generics in Java? I'm a .Net developer, when Microsoft introduced Generics for .Net 2.0 there was a big too do about generics solving performance issues where programmers were relying on data structures such as the System.Collections.Hashtable (which stored data in a collection of objects, indexed by objects). Apparently with Microsofts implementation there is never any boxing, there for no performace loss. I've never seen any figures that show how this all adds up though.
"With fewer Linux laptops on Wi-Fi networks, security experts -- and presumably hackers -- have taken longer to get round to Linux drivers, but issue of handling remote data at the kernel level can cause trouble on the open source OS just as easily as any other."
What that says to me is that the bugs may well have been present for quite some time, and only recently discovered. However the response time on a patch seems to be pretty good, unfortunetly forcing end users to manually patch their systems is less than desirable. At any rate, from what I remember Microsoft & Apple's collective response times weren't bad either when similar bugs were found in those systems either. I'm not sure your comment about Microsoft hiding zero day exploits is 100% fair.
Sorry, personally I don't buy this... Even if they documents were published in Word format there are free readers available (even for Open XML) which may be used to view content. However these documents are not published in ODF or OXML, they're published in PDF which again, there are free readers for..
I'm against any law designed to force out any specific competitor from any market unless their product is dangerous to human life (as in someone could die). It really seems to me that any movement to specifically promote any technology (FOSS in this case) at the expense of other choices (whether they are perceived as better or worse) is just plain stupid.
Just out of curiosity... Why? I've been doing quite a bit of research into OOXML as a solution to one of my companies biggest problems right now, and it makes a lot of sense to me. It's well engineered, and and extreamly easy to work with. I doubt any one would have trouble integrating OOXML into their products. Once microsoft has this ISO ratified and releases the standards openly they're pretty much giving up any sort of solid ground to turn around and start sueing people (like Rambus tried).
.Net on which my company bases it's products.
As far as I'm conserned, whatever. May the best format win. In the case of my company it will be OOXML for us not just because of the ease of working with this (as clearing ODF isn't any harder), but because of the ease of adding custom functionality (i.e. custom ribbons) to MS Office 2007, particularly using
Yeah, I agree that probably most people who are jumping all over Paledium have never used windows for more than a couple of hours. However I don't beleive there is any need for end users to replace Windows, or for microsoft to go bankrupt. To be perfectly honest I think the OSS community needs the likes of Microsoft and Apple more than they know. Case in point, was talking to one of my former co-workers about Vista the other day (this particular developer contiunes to live fully in the OSS world developing PHP/MySql). After a while he made the comment "Ooo, windows has symlinks now, big deal"... He, like the majority of the OSS community fails to realize that no one cares. Some times I get the feeling that if the OSS community was in the leadership role that MS and Apple are the big hype with the next OS release would be Symlinks 3.0... And they wouldn't realize that no one cared. And we'd probably be sitting here with out Plug and Play (or pray if you like though it seems to work exceptionally well these days) since it took Microsoft to implement the idea in Windows before it was added to Linux and other such things. There would def. not be any cool functional 3D UI's with out Apple implementing this for OSX... Basically our computing experince right now would more than likely be extreamly spartan and not particularly intuitive. It is nice to see though that now that the OSS community has been inspired by both MS and Apple they've created some rather interesting and unique implementations of all of these cool new features into Linux and seem to be doing a rather impressive job. It's be nice to see a VSC (Volume Shadow Copy) feature in linux next.
And I really wonder how it's a threat to freedom in any way shape or form... Thus far my Mp3 collection (which dates back to college) has not suddenly stopped working (nor my iTunes dispite Apples dire predictions). And as far as I know if anyone wants to create a new way to encode or distribute media there's nothing in the OS to prevent it. DRM will funciton with content for which it is enabled. Any unprotected content will work just like it did before... I think the OSS community needs to take a deep breath and relax.
I certainly don't have any... I got caught in a bit of a mess with paypal my self a while back (not at all similar to this but just as fustrating to me). I've found exactly what the authors of the article found, that PayPal sucks bad when it comes to working with their customers to solve problems. The only reason why they are still around it because they don't have decent competition yet. Here's hoping someone with a brain decides to start competing in this space.
It'd probably be easier for MS to dump SFU than for linux to live with out GCC. That being said, it doesn't look like MS plans to attack linux like sco is, rather just use this as some leverage to make some deals with major distriutors. Who knows, all this could work out for the best for enterprise linux.
Personally I think the point of the blog/artical/whatever was more so to express general fustration regarding apple and the apple communities smugness. Apple has some great products out there, but seriously... Tone it down a notch.
after reading your blog, v. Pauls blog nearly side by side, I'd say it's pretty obvious you quoted selectivly. You certianly did miss key remarks which dramatically alter the original intention of the remarks. You may wish to try comparing what you wrote, specifically quoted material v. Pauls origial statments.
The service pack paul referred to specifically was Windows XP Service Pack 2, which by any standards *was* a huge improvement to how windows works, which included several new apps and features all of which were intended to combat the issue of malware which Windows was (and is) under seige from. You really can't be little that, something like SP2 would be a major effort for any tech company, including apple. Personally I think it'd be nice for the apple community if Apple started taking security that seriously and put a hold on shiny new features.
I'm confused... From what I understand this plugin ultimitly allows Office 2007 users to read/write ODF files... what's he bitching about?
Honestly I think this is a bit like telling people to switch from say... Honda to Toyota because there are more Honda's on the road there for there are more auto accidents (thus more fatal accidents) involving Honda automobiles v. Toyota's.