The bottom line here is not that OSX is a secure operating system (it is to a great extent). We should look at this article as an example of how closed source and protectionist behavior is detremental. Apple makes a good product and I own some of their hardware, but I prefer to have open systems based on open standards whenever possible. Or maybe I should say transparent. Most SEC rules for public companies are designed to allow investors to see the company's financial behavior. Many interested eyes means an honest market (despite occasional dishonest behavior we trust the market with our 401Ks, if we didn't we'd have gold bars under our mattress). Apple's secretive nature and marketing spin is in many ways a bad thing for consumers in the long run. Do you really trust Apple to always provide a solid OS, your music and video, and phone service without some checks and balances? I would prefer true freedom. That's not to say Apple hasn't earned some level of trust, but if we can't verify, how long will that last?
I agree. It is nearly impossible to get good broadband in rural locations. I'm not a big government type, but it's time to do a Tennessee Valley Authority for broadband. Without that kind of kickstart most of the US might not have electric service today.
At least politically. He won his senate seat running against a right of Jesse Helms pig farmer right after a hurricane dumped pig poop all over eastern NC. He ran for president because he had no chance of re-election in NC (not because he was Democrat, but because he was not representive of the majority of people in the state). The VP pickup by Gore saved his career. So you have someone with limited experience, trial lawyer, and pretty.
Obama beat Keyes (not the best canidate to understate the issue) after a likely winning Republican had a sex/beating scandel around a Star Trek babe.
Offtopic now, but I think it's sad when Hillary is the most stable canidate the Democrats can put on the ticket.
With x86 Solaris its more important which applications run with it. The propritary Sparc Solaris apps might not have been ported by the vendor to x86 Solaris because of lack of demand. Vendors are more likely to port to Linux because of the greater installed base.
$19.88 download of Windows only crippled move. Not a deal. No extras, worse quality. Sounds like the Amazon movie thing. They appear to be trying to protect DVD margins when they should be trying to do what Wal Mart does best. Revolutionize the distribution chain to gain advantage.
1. DVD's take up a lot of floor space in stores. $$$
2. Holding DVD inventory. $$$
3. Physical Security. $$$
Use online distribution to cut costs, allow real physical copies that can be used in standard DVD players, and create a way people can buy DVD's in store (burning and cover art printing kiosks). Give people more for less, otherwise it will fail.
I drove by the local Best Buy and Circuit City and didn't see any lines.
What happened in 2006?
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Did "THEY" forget how to cheat in 2006?
Or did "THEY" want Bush to win in 2000 and 2004 knowing he would destroy the Republican majority in Congress?
Or did "THEY" ?
As a nation (USA) we need to nip this type of behavior in the bud. While F500 companies have made Linux an important part of the data center (too important to be incumbered), startups have used Linux and open source to drive most of the innovation and change over the last 5-10 years. The first internet boom people used venture capital to buy tons of proprietary hardware and software. The sustained growth has come from white boxes, open standards and open source.
The economy is on the line when open source is threatened.
Sun does two things well. Rock solid hardware and excellent service. GPLing Solaris and Java allows them to limit resources spend on software development. In addition, GPL compatible Solaris and Linux will blur the lines between the OS as they adopt each other's best features. Linux and Solaris might become binary compatible. Sun can focus on selling hardware and services.
You can't have something people take away from the polling place that indicates the way they vote. If you can verify you vote after the fact, someone can pay you $20 bucks for your vote of John Doe. At that rate a million will buy 50K votes. Cheaper and more effective than advertising.
The Register read an article at the Miami Herald saying people were having trouble voting. The Miami Herald reported the experience of some (one or two users) and some hearsay about poll workers saying it happens all the time. How about the journalist at the Miami Herald trying to get more information. Both Democrat and Republican reps are at every polling station. Election officials are known people. Other people are voting early. Put some meat on the story.
Oracle wants to sell their application stack and figure that integrating an OS into that stack gives them vendor lock-in. I think the OS is a commodity part like the hardware and Oracle's strategy logically leads to them rolling in a big black box you just plug into the datacenter. Personally I just think this is petty revenge for Red Hat daring to reach up into their high margin software stack with JBoss. By effect squeezing RH's tight OS margin by scraping off the 10-15% of their businees that supports the Oracle stack. Hoping to put pressure on RH's cash flow and force them to circle the wagons to protect their core business.
Not only what you say, but this process agressively pushes out certain voices that speak to the non-wiki crowd. What you'll get is an opinionated troll film. This is off topic, but CC needs to expand it's horizons. The CC presentation at SF LinuxWorld could be argued to be leftist and anti Christian. If you want a political movement you have to mainstream. Electronic voting issues are now national news because it involved populist ideals with liberal geekdom. Net neutrality has gained steam in it's uphill battle, by incouraging the Christian Colilition and MoveOn.org to work together (think about that) against telecom companies. The creative commons needs to broaden it's net to be truely inclusive.
Its the Application and not the Operating System
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Oracle might be thinking of shifting their application stack to operate the equivilent of embedded. Integrate a custom stripped down, beefed up, optimized Linux or any other open source OS as part of the application install. PXE boot an Oracle app stack directly on open standard harware, or create virtualized guest servers. Takes the OS sysadmin away and moves management to the application level.
I've shown my bias. I prefer the terms pro- and anti-abortion to pro-choice and pro-life. I dislike it when people try to spin language to obsure issues. While there is some truth to the preferred titles, they broaden what should be a narrow issue and make it difficult to discuss issues like stem cell research without dropping into dogma.
The censorship comes from the culture of the users at YouTube. It works the same way in real life verifying the importance of the 1st amenendment.
Movies that draw full theaters in NY and LA bomb when released nation wide. Pro-Abortion activists have poor results speaking in southern towns. Bush avoids the NAACP convention, Clinton avoids predominately white churches.
While I don't use youtube, I suspect the audience is not friendly to content they don't agree with. I suspect Google and YouTube want everyone to participate, but like slashdot unpopular opinions get shouted down.
Personally I'd rather have my house wired with Cat 5 than setup an access point. Besides, if I want wireless, there are 5-6 of the free linksys ssid's near by.
Industrial countries have and can pay for nearly new textbooks to give to each child. Most parents in industialized countries have computers their children can use. OLPC replaces books and gives the entire family access to information.
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The bottom line here is not that OSX is a secure operating system (it is to a great extent). We should look at this article as an example of how closed source and protectionist behavior is detremental. Apple makes a good product and I own some of their hardware, but I prefer to have open systems based on open standards whenever possible. Or maybe I should say transparent. Most SEC rules for public companies are designed to allow investors to see the company's financial behavior. Many interested eyes means an honest market (despite occasional dishonest behavior we trust the market with our 401Ks, if we didn't we'd have gold bars under our mattress). Apple's secretive nature and marketing spin is in many ways a bad thing for consumers in the long run. Do you really trust Apple to always provide a solid OS, your music and video, and phone service without some checks and balances? I would prefer true freedom. That's not to say Apple hasn't earned some level of trust, but if we can't verify, how long will that last?
Doesn't matter. The only home software on my computers should have is my home.
My Atari 800 was way cooler than the C64
I agree. It is nearly impossible to get good broadband in rural locations. I'm not a big government type, but it's time to do a Tennessee Valley Authority for broadband. Without that kind of kickstart most of the US might not have electric service today.
At least politically. He won his senate seat running against a right of Jesse Helms pig farmer right after a hurricane dumped pig poop all over eastern NC. He ran for president because he had no chance of re-election in NC (not because he was Democrat, but because he was not representive of the majority of people in the state). The VP pickup by Gore saved his career. So you have someone with limited experience, trial lawyer, and pretty. Obama beat Keyes (not the best canidate to understate the issue) after a likely winning Republican had a sex/beating scandel around a Star Trek babe. Offtopic now, but I think it's sad when Hillary is the most stable canidate the Democrats can put on the ticket.
With x86 Solaris its more important which applications run with it. The propritary Sparc Solaris apps might not have been ported by the vendor to x86 Solaris because of lack of demand. Vendors are more likely to port to Linux because of the greater installed base.
$19.88 download of Windows only crippled move. Not a deal. No extras, worse quality. Sounds like the Amazon movie thing. They appear to be trying to protect DVD margins when they should be trying to do what Wal Mart does best. Revolutionize the distribution chain to gain advantage. 1. DVD's take up a lot of floor space in stores. $$$ 2. Holding DVD inventory. $$$ 3. Physical Security. $$$ Use online distribution to cut costs, allow real physical copies that can be used in standard DVD players, and create a way people can buy DVD's in store (burning and cover art printing kiosks). Give people more for less, otherwise it will fail.
I drove by the local Best Buy and Circuit City and didn't see any lines.
Did "THEY" forget how to cheat in 2006? Or did "THEY" want Bush to win in 2000 and 2004 knowing he would destroy the Republican majority in Congress? Or did "THEY" ?
The N800 is functionally very close without the Cingular connection.
Price point looks very familiar. Why is the PS3 dumped on for $599 price point while this is praised as a second coming? Where did Sony mess up?
Pay for it by dumping BBC reruns.
As a nation (USA) we need to nip this type of behavior in the bud. While F500 companies have made Linux an important part of the data center (too important to be incumbered), startups have used Linux and open source to drive most of the innovation and change over the last 5-10 years. The first internet boom people used venture capital to buy tons of proprietary hardware and software. The sustained growth has come from white boxes, open standards and open source.
The economy is on the line when open source is threatened.
Sun does two things well. Rock solid hardware and excellent service. GPLing Solaris and Java allows them to limit resources spend on software development. In addition, GPL compatible Solaris and Linux will blur the lines between the OS as they adopt each other's best features. Linux and Solaris might become binary compatible. Sun can focus on selling hardware and services.
You can't have something people take away from the polling place that indicates the way they vote. If you can verify you vote after the fact, someone can pay you $20 bucks for your vote of John Doe. At that rate a million will buy 50K votes. Cheaper and more effective than advertising.
The Register read an article at the Miami Herald saying people were having trouble voting. The Miami Herald reported the experience of some (one or two users) and some hearsay about poll workers saying it happens all the time. How about the journalist at the Miami Herald trying to get more information. Both Democrat and Republican reps are at every polling station. Election officials are known people. Other people are voting early. Put some meat on the story.
Oracle wants to sell their application stack and figure that integrating an OS into that stack gives them vendor lock-in. I think the OS is a commodity part like the hardware and Oracle's strategy logically leads to them rolling in a big black box you just plug into the datacenter. Personally I just think this is petty revenge for Red Hat daring to reach up into their high margin software stack with JBoss. By effect squeezing RH's tight OS margin by scraping off the 10-15% of their businees that supports the Oracle stack. Hoping to put pressure on RH's cash flow and force them to circle the wagons to protect their core business.
Not only what you say, but this process agressively pushes out certain voices that speak to the non-wiki crowd. What you'll get is an opinionated troll film. This is off topic, but CC needs to expand it's horizons. The CC presentation at SF LinuxWorld could be argued to be leftist and anti Christian. If you want a political movement you have to mainstream. Electronic voting issues are now national news because it involved populist ideals with liberal geekdom. Net neutrality has gained steam in it's uphill battle, by incouraging the Christian Colilition and MoveOn.org to work together (think about that) against telecom companies. The creative commons needs to broaden it's net to be truely inclusive.
Oracle might be thinking of shifting their application stack to operate the equivilent of embedded. Integrate a custom stripped down, beefed up, optimized Linux or any other open source OS as part of the application install. PXE boot an Oracle app stack directly on open standard harware, or create virtualized guest servers. Takes the OS sysadmin away and moves management to the application level.
I've shown my bias. I prefer the terms pro- and anti-abortion to pro-choice and pro-life. I dislike it when people try to spin language to obsure issues. While there is some truth to the preferred titles, they broaden what should be a narrow issue and make it difficult to discuss issues like stem cell research without dropping into dogma.
The censorship comes from the culture of the users at YouTube. It works the same way in real life verifying the importance of the 1st amenendment. Movies that draw full theaters in NY and LA bomb when released nation wide. Pro-Abortion activists have poor results speaking in southern towns. Bush avoids the NAACP convention, Clinton avoids predominately white churches. While I don't use youtube, I suspect the audience is not friendly to content they don't agree with. I suspect Google and YouTube want everyone to participate, but like slashdot unpopular opinions get shouted down.
Run each application in it's own virtual machine. Xen has a low enough overhead and is clean code. Browser compromised - reload from know good source.
Doesn't anyone that remotely cares already have the DVD?
Personally I'd rather have my house wired with Cat 5 than setup an access point. Besides, if I want wireless, there are 5-6 of the free linksys ssid's near by.
Industrial countries have and can pay for nearly new textbooks to give to each child. Most parents in industialized countries have computers their children can use. OLPC replaces books and gives the entire family access to information.