It's pathetic isn't it. How exactly is playing a game of chess hurting anyone or anything, no matter where in the world it takes place. You just know there is/was some power mad, ego inflated bureaucrat behind this, with a puffed up idea of his own importance.
This really is one of the most asinine things I've read about in a long time, and a total waste of taxpayers money.
Do you know how to disable the mousewheel 'accelerator'? And also how to limit one mousewheel click to just one line? I hate the default settings, the way it just takes off down the page at a rapid rate of knots. It's too quick and I need more control than I get at the moment.
This was the reason I initially ditched IE and moved to Safari (until I discovered all the other reasons I should be using Safari:-). IE jumped about 3 lines at a time, and my eyes were always trying to catch up.
I'm running 0.9.1 on Mac OS X, and 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' doesn't exist on this platform and this version. The others do, and so I set them as suggested. I also set 'network.http.request.max-start-delay' to 1 as well.
It really flies doesn't it. Much faster than Safari.
I have a couple of friends (Ely and Annette) who've been brought to their knees with security intrusions into their MS PC. They're both very ordinary people with ordinary jobs and neither of them are particularly computer literate, and treat their PC very much like any other home appliance. They don't read computer publications or news bulletins, so they mostly remain unaware of the latest security holes, only discovering they should have updated something when their PC starts misbehaving.
They're totally sick of the computing experience they've had so far. So when I popped in to see them one day I took my PowerBook with me and spent a few hours showing them what it could do. They were really impressed, but what totally got their attention was when I told them I didn't need to run any anti-virus software because a) there are no known viruses out the for Mac OS X, and b) the system is inherently more secure than MS Windows by design. Right away they wanted to know where they could get one and how much it would cost.
(NB: My domain/mail hosting company anti-virus scans all email for me, so I'm still being a good neighbor to my MS using friends)
I showed them the range, asked them some questions about their budget, and then advised them to get an eMac because that best suited what they could afford. But they didn't want a large CRT based system and were really taken with the iMac design.
That was 4 months ago. They've still not updated their PC and still haven't' brought a Mac. The reason why? They just can't afford it at the moment. Various other things keep cropping up in their lives and home that stop them from accumulating enough cash to buy the system they want.
Apple really needs to cut the prices. If they can't do it on existing systems, then they need to produce a bare bones design that can initially be pitched at those people with smaller budgets, and then later expanded and upgraded if people need the extra functionality.
I'm a Mac switcher of 2 years who has no intention of going back. And I've met SO many people in that time who've never seen a Mac up close before and have left, lusting after mine when they see up close and personal just how good it is. But they're always put off by the perceived high price. I know that you get so much more for your money with a Mac, but it seems difficult for people to relate to that (don't ask me why).
This is a bullet that Apple are just going to have to bite on if they want to grow their market share some more. Do they have the corporate courage and desire to make this happen? Time will tell, but I sure hope so.
The sad thing is this proves once again that closed source companies retain an edge at innovating.
I think you're missing the point. It's competition that drives innovation. Sun are having a hard time keeping up with performance of their rivals in no small part due to the fact their cpu architecture is falling behind. In order to remain competitive they need to take advantage of every opportunity to squeeze more performance from their systems and apps. If that urgency didn't exist, would they have felt the need to develop Dtrace? Probably not.
A big part of that competitive pressure these days comes from Open Source computing, because the advance of Open Source in areas of OS/kernel/app development has been so rapid and relentless. Closed source companies have to innovate, and hard, or they'll eventually get over run by the Open Source competition.
Many of them are doing just that. Sun seems to be one of the closed source kernel/OS leaders. Others like Apple are in a similar position on the desktop. Microsoft conversely feel the competition less than the others because of their monopoly status, and you can see how slow and sluggish they are to genuinely innovate. e.g. How many years has it been now since they released a version of IE with any innovative new features in it? All they seem to do is plug holes in the crumbling dam of an excuse for a security model.
Project Athena at MIT already did all of this, back in 1983. Digital Equipment Co Ltd (DEC) even took the technology, productized it and told it onto some Universities in the UK. And all with (at the time) state of the art MIPS Unix workstations.
Here's a link with some info about the MIT implementation:
It was really cool technology and way ahead of its time. The only reason it didn't take over the world was because of the prohibitive price of RISC workstations back then. Way too expensive for a corporate desktop. Shame really.
Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly!
Agreed. I don't feel the need for multiple desktops now I've got Expose either. But to make my window management experience complete, I'd like to see 2 (small) extra features added:
1) The ability to map the Yellow window button to Hide instead of Minimize. I never use it anymore, as it's much quicker to double-click on the title bar.
2) MOST importantly, once I've Hidden an app, I'd like to be able to unHide selected windows from that app. I'll give you an example. Open the Terminal app and start several instances that you then use to login to remote systems. I use a connection script that automatically sets the title to the connection name, and I can view/select the any one of them from the list presented by Ctrl-Click on the Terminal icon in the Dock. It would be VERY useful to Hide the Terminal windows and then just open up the ones I want to work on leaving the rest hidden. The advantage of this is that it doesn't clutter up the "iconized" portion of the Dock.
If you want all the Terminal windows back on the screen then (as now) you can just click the icon on the Dock to unHide them.
Another example where this would be useful is with Mail. Currently if I Hide Mail.app and then use Ctrl-Click to select "Compose New Message" from the Dock menu, then I get a new compose window, but it also unHides Mail.app in the process. I then have to iconsize Mail.app before I can continue because I didn't want to see it in the first place.
1) you might unwittingly actually increase that company's business & profits. Spam after all does actually work because of the number of idiots out the who buy into it.
2) the business you're targeting should have no problem proving to the authorities that they have never done business with you, or paid for this kind of 'service'. They can present their books for inspection.
3) As a casual (not professional) spammer, the chances are that you're way behind the curve of 'stealth spam technology' and the techniques that are being employed to track you down. You could expose yourself to being caught and punished; for what... just so you can vent some petty revenge thing on someone who's bruised your ego? You'd be better of spending your time in Counciling !
However, I've worked at places where the site's security system PIN is shared for all staff, and rarely ever changes (6 months or more).
That's not really a "security system" though is it. That's just paying lip service to the concept of Security so that someone can tick a box on a list somewhere. The weakest part of any security system is always the human element, especially when the people involved don't have a clue, or don't care, or both.
I think that's rubbish. If I want to steal your fingerprint then I don't have to actually take something from you at all. I could just follow you around and watch what you touch or pick up, and then go back a take my sample a long time after you're gone. Hell I could even visit your car or front house door late at night.
Stealing a PIN is way way harder and requires considerable more effort and resources than that.
Lots of people still do. There is one more clock increased Alpha chip to be released yet and people are still buying them. I should know, I'm a contractor and I specialize in integration of Tru64/TruCluster's on Alpha. All my business involves new systems and new projects, and this years Alpha business for me has been better than last year, so far.
My conclusion is the Ken Brown doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. I also have grave questions about his methodology. After he talked to me, he prowled the university halls buttonholing random students and asking them questions. Not exactly primary sources
I'm not arguing against DRM, I'm just saying that for some people, the iTMS DRM limits their fair use.
It doesn't limit their fair use because it doesn't actually stop them from doing anything. It just makes it more inconvenient because you have to have a CD burner to pull it off.
... PlayFair lets them do that, since they shouldn't need to buy/own a CD burner and transcode and lose quality in order to do that
Oh come on, lets have a reality check here. CD burners are dirt cheap now, and not hard to come by. I don't know anyone what doesn't own one.
Though it doesn't make much sense from a business point of view. iTMS is a driver for the iPod, which is targeted at the consumer market. Obviously Apple support their own platform, and obviously they need to support Windows because it gives them access to a massive consumer market for iPod sales.
But the bulk of Linux's installed base exists in the business/technical markets. Its penetration in the consumer market is so small, I doubt it's even worth their bother. Maybe in the future that will change, but there's no danger of that happening for the next few years at least.
But there are other examples of legal fair use. Like playing your purchased music on a Linux or OS/2 machine
If you want to play your purchased music on your Linux or OS/2 machine, then just insert the CD you just burned on your Mac into your PC drive and go. If you then decide you want to keep that music on your Linux hard drive then you can rip it from the CD! Apple's DRM doesn't stop you moving music from system to system, it just makes it a 2 step process. Where exactly is the infraction on my rights again?
It only has to get out there once and you're (my)doomed! I started my own consulting business 4 years ago. I got a new domain so I had a virgin email address. For 2 years I was very careful about who I gave it to, and whenever i had to give out email addresses online (like for cinema or flight bookings) I'd create an alias and give that out instead. If I started to get spam on that address, I could roast the culprit and then delete the alias. However, one day I went online and posted into an internet newsgroup. I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but I forgot to change my address before submitting the post. I remembered after but it was too late. It was the one and only time I ever did this, but within one week I started getting spam and viruses in my email account for the first time. And slowly but surely it got worse.
Another thing you can't control is e-cards. Some dim witted but well meaning friend decides to send you a card and has to give them your carefully protected email address in order to do so. Not only do the e-card vendors know that it's a valid address, but they also know it's active. I had a run of these about a year ago, and noticed an almost instant increase in the volume of spam I got.
Actually the percentage of spam I used to get with destructive payloads was quite low until recently. Over the last couple of months that shot up to about 30%. There has definitely been an increase in the number of virus authors/hackers out there.
That would be a big plus, as it would automatically give GM clients access to tens of millions of future AIM and iChatAV users (when they all upgrade and get webcams). If GM stays niche then it will never gain acceptance, either at home or in a corporate setting.
I agree whole heartedly. The goal here is to break Microsofts monopoly status. Forcing them to sell a stripped down anything isn't going to affect that, because they will still ship 'something' on 99% of PC's sold. All this will do is irritate the users.
The only way to really shake their grip is to force them to open up file formats and protocols, so that competitors can interoperate will competing products without forcing customers to suffer reduced access to their existing data. When individuals and companies can migrate off Windows seamlessly and easily, taking their data with them, will we see the beginnings of the end of Microsofts monopoly.
Speak for yourself. I found it a very interesting read having only used OS X Client so far. It answered some questions I had about the differences between Client and Server. And that was part of what this guy was trying to get across.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I enjoyed Voyager far more than the original Enterprise series, or TNG for that matter. So did my (now) ex-girlfriend. We used to watch it together every Monday night and never missed an episode. The new Enterprise has just started its second season in the UK and already I'm loving it. Unfortunately my current girlfriend has never been a Trek fan, but that doesn't get in the way of my enjoyment.
Should he stop because its "wrong"? Maybe some one could tell me where this is ethically wrong becuase I don't see it
It's wrong if it negatively impacts those of us who are waiting for iTMS to become available in countries where we can't get it yet. That's my worry. Apple has to make new licensing agreements for each country they want to offer the service in. How will this impact future negotiations? We don't know yet. But it sure as hell isn't going to have a positive effect. If because of this kids meddling the hundreds of thousands of iTunes users and iPod owners (like me) in the UK who desperately want iTMS don't get it, then DVD-Jon is going to make himself a lot of enemies over here.
Because in the end its his life
It's not just his life.. his actions affect others too !!
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It's pathetic isn't it. How exactly is playing a game of chess hurting anyone or anything, no matter where in the world it takes place. You just know there is/was some power mad, ego inflated bureaucrat behind this, with a puffed up idea of his own importance.
This really is one of the most asinine things I've read about in a long time, and a total waste of taxpayers money.
Already done that. It makes no difference.
Do you know how to disable the mousewheel 'accelerator'? And also how to limit one mousewheel click to just one line? I hate the default settings, the way it just takes off down the page at a rapid rate of knots. It's too quick and I need more control than I get at the moment.
This was the reason I initially ditched IE and moved to Safari (until I discovered all the other reasons I should be using Safari
I'm running 0.9.1 on Mac OS X, and 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' doesn't exist on this platform and this version. The others do, and so I set them as suggested. I also set 'network.http.request.max-start-delay' to 1 as well.
It really flies doesn't it. Much faster than Safari.
I have a couple of friends (Ely and Annette) who've been brought to their knees with security intrusions into their MS PC. They're both very ordinary people with ordinary jobs and neither of them are particularly computer literate, and treat their PC very much like any other home appliance. They don't read computer publications or news bulletins, so they mostly remain unaware of the latest security holes, only discovering they should have updated something when their PC starts misbehaving.
They're totally sick of the computing experience they've had so far. So when I popped in to see them one day I took my PowerBook with me and spent a few hours showing them what it could do. They were really impressed, but what totally got their attention was when I told them I didn't need to run any anti-virus software because a) there are no known viruses out the for Mac OS X, and b) the system is inherently more secure than MS Windows by design. Right away they wanted to know where they could get one and how much it would cost.
(NB: My domain/mail hosting company anti-virus scans all email for me, so I'm still being a good neighbor to my MS using friends)
I showed them the range, asked them some questions about their budget, and then advised them to get an eMac because that best suited what they could afford. But they didn't want a large CRT based system and were really taken with the iMac design.
That was 4 months ago. They've still not updated their PC and still haven't' brought a Mac. The reason why? They just can't afford it at the moment. Various other things keep cropping up in their lives and home that stop them from accumulating enough cash to buy the system they want.
Apple really needs to cut the prices. If they can't do it on existing systems, then they need to produce a bare bones design that can initially be pitched at those people with smaller budgets, and then later expanded and upgraded if people need the extra functionality.
I'm a Mac switcher of 2 years who has no intention of going back. And I've met SO many people in that time who've never seen a Mac up close before and have left, lusting after mine when they see up close and personal just how good it is. But they're always put off by the perceived high price. I know that you get so much more for your money with a Mac, but it seems difficult for people to relate to that (don't ask me why).
This is a bullet that Apple are just going to have to bite on if they want to grow their market share some more. Do they have the corporate courage and desire to make this happen? Time will tell, but I sure hope so.
A big part of that competitive pressure these days comes from Open Source computing, because the advance of Open Source in areas of OS/kernel/app development has been so rapid and relentless. Closed source companies have to innovate, and hard, or they'll eventually get over run by the Open Source competition.
Many of them are doing just that. Sun seems to be one of the closed source kernel/OS leaders. Others like Apple are in a similar position on the desktop. Microsoft conversely feel the competition less than the others because of their monopoly status, and you can see how slow and sluggish they are to genuinely innovate. e.g. How many years has it been now since they released a version of IE with any innovative new features in it? All they seem to do is plug holes in the crumbling dam of an excuse for a security model.
Project Athena at MIT already did all of this, back in 1983. Digital Equipment Co Ltd (DEC) even took the technology, productized it and told it onto some Universities in the UK. And all with (at the time) state of the art MIPS Unix workstations.
Here's a link with some info about the MIT implementation:
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N19/history_of_ath
It was really cool technology and way ahead of its time. The only reason it didn't take over the world was because of the prohibitive price of RISC workstations back then. Way too expensive for a corporate desktop. Shame really.
Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly!
Agreed. I don't feel the need for multiple desktops now I've got Expose either. But to make my window management experience complete, I'd like to see 2 (small) extra features added:
1) The ability to map the Yellow window button to Hide instead of Minimize. I never use it anymore, as it's much quicker to double-click on the title bar.
2) MOST importantly, once I've Hidden an app, I'd like to be able to unHide selected windows from that app. I'll give you an example. Open the Terminal app and start several instances that you then use to login to remote systems. I use a connection script that automatically sets the title to the connection name, and I can view/select the any one of them from the list presented by Ctrl-Click on the Terminal icon in the Dock. It would be VERY useful to Hide the Terminal windows and then just open up the ones I want to work on leaving the rest hidden. The advantage of this is that it doesn't clutter up the "iconized" portion of the Dock.
If you want all the Terminal windows back on the screen then (as now) you can just click the icon on the Dock to unHide them.
Another example where this would be useful is with Mail. Currently if I Hide Mail.app and then use Ctrl-Click to select "Compose New Message" from the Dock menu, then I get a new compose window, but it also unHides Mail.app in the process. I then have to iconsize Mail.app before I can continue because I didn't want to see it in the first place.
Is any of this making sense?
Great idea, except that
1) you might unwittingly actually increase that company's business & profits. Spam after all does actually work because of the number of idiots out the who buy into it.
2) the business you're targeting should have no problem proving to the authorities that they have never done business with you, or paid for this kind of 'service'. They can present their books for inspection.
3) As a casual (not professional) spammer, the chances are that you're way behind the curve of 'stealth spam technology' and the techniques that are being employed to track you down. You could expose yourself to being caught and punished; for what
That's not really a "security system" though is it. That's just paying lip service to the concept of Security so that someone can tick a box on a list somewhere. The weakest part of any security system is always the human element, especially when the people involved don't have a clue, or don't care, or both.
I think that's rubbish. If I want to steal your fingerprint then I don't have to actually take something from you at all. I could just follow you around and watch what you touch or pick up, and then go back a take my sample a long time after you're gone. Hell I could even visit your car or front house door late at night.
Stealing a PIN is way way harder and requires considerable more effort and resources than that.
Lots of people still do. There is one more clock increased Alpha chip to be released yet and people are still buying them. I should know, I'm a contractor and I specialize in integration of Tru64/TruCluster's on Alpha. All my business involves new systems and new projects, and this years Alpha business for me has been better than last year, so far.
What more needs to be said !
It doesn't limit their fair use because it doesn't actually stop them from doing anything. It just makes it more inconvenient because you have to have a CD burner to pull it off.
Oh come on, lets have a reality check here. CD burners are dirt cheap now, and not hard to come by. I don't know anyone what doesn't own one.
Though it doesn't make much sense from a business point of view. iTMS is a driver for the iPod, which is targeted at the consumer market. Obviously Apple support their own platform, and obviously they need to support Windows because it gives them access to a massive consumer market for iPod sales.
But the bulk of Linux's installed base exists in the business/technical markets. Its penetration in the consumer market is so small, I doubt it's even worth their bother. Maybe in the future that will change, but there's no danger of that happening for the next few years at least.
If you want to play your purchased music on your Linux or OS/2 machine, then just insert the CD you just burned on your Mac into your PC drive and go. If you then decide you want to keep that music on your Linux hard drive then you can rip it from the CD! Apple's DRM doesn't stop you moving music from system to system, it just makes it a 2 step process. Where exactly is the infraction on my rights again?
That, my friend, is an oxymoron
It only has to get out there once and you're (my)doomed! I started my own consulting business 4 years ago. I got a new domain so I had a virgin email address. For 2 years I was very careful about who I gave it to, and whenever i had to give out email addresses online (like for cinema or flight bookings) I'd create an alias and give that out instead. If I started to get spam on that address, I could roast the culprit and then delete the alias. However, one day I went online and posted into an internet newsgroup. I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but I forgot to change my address before submitting the post. I remembered after but it was too late. It was the one and only time I ever did this, but within one week I started getting spam and viruses in my email account for the first time. And slowly but surely it got worse.
Another thing you can't control is e-cards. Some dim witted but well meaning friend decides to send you a card and has to give them your carefully protected email address in order to do so. Not only do the e-card vendors know that it's a valid address, but they also know it's active. I had a run of these about a year ago, and noticed an almost instant increase in the volume of spam I got.
Actually the percentage of spam I used to get with destructive payloads was quite low until recently. Over the last couple of months that shot up to about 30%. There has definitely been an increase in the number of virus authors/hackers out there.
Macka
That would be a big plus, as it would automatically give GM clients access to tens of millions of future AIM and iChatAV users (when they all upgrade and get webcams). If GM stays niche then it will never gain acceptance, either at home or in a corporate setting.
I agree whole heartedly. The goal here is to break Microsofts monopoly status. Forcing them to sell a stripped down anything isn't going to affect that, because they will still ship 'something' on 99% of PC's sold. All this will do is irritate the users.
The only way to really shake their grip is to force them to open up file formats and protocols, so that competitors can interoperate will competing products without forcing customers to suffer reduced access to their existing data. When individuals and companies can migrate off Windows seamlessly and easily, taking their data with them, will we see the beginnings of the end of Microsofts monopoly.
Macka
Yeah yeah yeah
Go away troll.
Speak for yourself. I found it a very interesting read having only used OS X Client so far. It answered some questions I had about the differences between Client and Server. And that was part of what this guy was trying to get across.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I enjoyed Voyager far more than the original Enterprise series, or TNG for that matter. So did my (now) ex-girlfriend. We used to watch it together every Monday night and never missed an episode. The new Enterprise has just started its second season in the UK and already I'm loving it. Unfortunately my current girlfriend has never been a Trek fan, but that doesn't get in the way of my enjoyment.
I hope it keeps on going for a long time yet.
It's wrong if it negatively impacts those of us who are waiting for iTMS to become available in countries where we can't get it yet. That's my worry. Apple has to make new licensing agreements for each country they want to offer the service in. How will this impact future negotiations? We don't know yet. But it sure as hell isn't going to have a positive effect. If because of this kids meddling the hundreds of thousands of iTunes users and iPod owners (like me) in the UK who desperately want iTMS don't get it, then DVD-Jon is going to make himself a lot of enemies over here. It's not just his life
whoops, that should have read "can't