of course they do! but the idea of the license is to say "sure, you can lock other people out, but you're not going to do it with any of my GPL'd code!"
well if you remember the fiasco with Mepis (I think it was them) requiring to release the source under the GPL of everything they distribute, not just their changes, then wouldn't this mean that in the same idea, any open source tools I use to create a web service, I must then distribute the source code for, no matter whether it's changed or not?
you have to remember that this project was probably created by a small group of developers in their spare time. Since Google developers get 20% of their time available to make their own projects, many small, unfeatured projects are created (like GMail was I believe one of these projects) and then get improved over time.
This could go anywhere, but Google probably haven't invested much in it yet...
well... the RIAA have already said the money will go into offsetting the money they spend fighting pirates. So yes, it will go to their lawyers.
And where does the money come from? Well, the consumer of course. In the end it's no big deal, lawyers are to money as heat is to energy, given enough time all energy becomes heat and all money goes to lawyers.
1) they're talking about security vulnerabilities, not bugs. I'm sure the number of Office bugs are in the thousands... It's pretty difficult to write a large piece of software without them 2) The article was stating that 24 Vulnerabilities were found in the current crop of Office, not in the up and coming Office 2007, so your bit about "not available to public" is not applicable
Opera and Safari seem to fully support current standards.
don't mistake Acid2 compliance with standards support. These are two very different things and people seem to be mixing them up all the time. Let me give you an analogy:
Let's say I went to MS and Google and surveyed 10 random people from each company about their wage, and then printed my findings that MS pays its employees $10,000 more. Let's just say that Google hears about this and decides to give those 10 employees a $50,000 raise.
Does this mean suddenly the average wage at Google is $40,000 higher? Of course not. On the same token, Acid2 compliance simply means that the browsers have fixed the bugs which stopped the particular features Acid2 tests from working. It has no indication on overall browser compliance. You're more likely to see which browser has better standards support by seeing the Acid2 rendering of a browser released before Acid2, when the browser couldn't fix the holes.
Audits don't have to be done by the people who wrote the code..
no but they're generally done by people who can at least look at the code. Not to mention they usually don't use the knowledge gained from their audit to maliciously attack other systems.
you're calling the many hackers willing to "audit" MS Office for vulnerabilities a benifit now? I find it difficult to comprehend your argument here...
why are/. readers always so critical of review layouts? I find when a page is too long it gets harder to read, and it's better off when it's split into logical segments. The review was well spaced, not full of ads, and easily readable.
I suppose now that soviet russia jokes are getting old and there seem to be less dupes the new cool thing is to complain about having to click too much...
I imagine this technology would be selective, and only used on blockbuster games that will be popular no matter what. Small companies would simply choose not to use it in their game or risk not selling any
really? configurable? I seem to recall installing Opera a while ago and deciding I wanted to change the order of two of the toolbars. I believe the solution was "manually clone one of the toolbars as a custom toolbar and then hide the original"
[blockquote]Which you would need to do anyway to register it with the WGA.
[...]
Seems like a no brainer if you're a screenwriter.[/blockquote]
I don't know if I'd want to register my screenplay with Windows Genuine Advantage. It might decide that my screenplay is not my own and delete it from their records...
wait a minute... you switched from ubuntu... but you were complaining about how hard it was switching from kernel 2.4-2.6? having to recompile your kernel? Obviously this was your relationship with another distro.
sure if you have issues with other distros then switch, but you didn't say anything about what was bugging you with Ubuntu. I'm running it now, on a laptop, and everything is working perfectly, I haven't had to compile anything. I tried other distros and Ubuntu was where I ended up. I don't take my bad experiences with them to Ubuntu, so that's why I've found it to be easy to use and adequate for all my needs (yes, including multimedia)
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didn't you get the memo? That's the admission price for slashdot too
oh no, the hordes, they are coming!!
*runs and hides*
of course they do! but the idea of the license is to say "sure, you can lock other people out, but you're not going to do it with any of my GPL'd code!"
well if you remember the fiasco with Mepis (I think it was them) requiring to release the source under the GPL of everything they distribute, not just their changes, then wouldn't this mean that in the same idea, any open source tools I use to create a web service, I must then distribute the source code for, no matter whether it's changed or not?
...
so that's linux, apache, MySQL,
you have to remember that this project was probably created by a small group of developers in their spare time. Since Google developers get 20% of their time available to make their own projects, many small, unfeatured projects are created (like GMail was I believe one of these projects) and then get improved over time.
This could go anywhere, but Google probably haven't invested much in it yet...
well... the RIAA have already said the money will go into offsetting the money they spend fighting pirates. So yes, it will go to their lawyers.
And where does the money come from? Well, the consumer of course. In the end it's no big deal, lawyers are to money as heat is to energy, given enough time all energy becomes heat and all money goes to lawyers.
that has to be one of the most nonsensical, illogical, and confusing analogies ever introduced to mankind
not to mention it's running an entire operating system...
ok, just to clear a few things up:
1) they're talking about security vulnerabilities, not bugs. I'm sure the number of Office bugs are in the thousands... It's pretty difficult to write a large piece of software without them
2) The article was stating that 24 Vulnerabilities were found in the current crop of Office, not in the up and coming Office 2007, so your bit about "not available to public" is not applicable
don't mistake Acid2 compliance with standards support. These are two very different things and people seem to be mixing them up all the time. Let me give you an analogy:
Let's say I went to MS and Google and surveyed 10 random people from each company about their wage, and then printed my findings that MS pays its employees $10,000 more. Let's just say that Google hears about this and decides to give those 10 employees a $50,000 raise.
Does this mean suddenly the average wage at Google is $40,000 higher? Of course not. On the same token, Acid2 compliance simply means that the browsers have fixed the bugs which stopped the particular features Acid2 tests from working. It has no indication on overall browser compliance. You're more likely to see which browser has better standards support by seeing the Acid2 rendering of a browser released before Acid2, when the browser couldn't fix the holes.
then you should be using open source software such as OpenOffice...
no but they're generally done by people who can at least look at the code. Not to mention they usually don't use the knowledge gained from their audit to maliciously attack other systems.
you're calling the many hackers willing to "audit" MS Office for vulnerabilities a benifit now? I find it difficult to comprehend your argument here...
well remember what they're distributing is a public key, so it doesn't need to be very secure (so long as it's not hijacked and changed along the way)
why are /. readers always so critical of review layouts? I find when a page is too long it gets harder to read, and it's better off when it's split into logical segments. The review was well spaced, not full of ads, and easily readable.
I suppose now that soviet russia jokes are getting old and there seem to be less dupes the new cool thing is to complain about having to click too much...
we shall have to begin coding LINE immediately! at least the API is properly documented
I imagine this technology would be selective, and only used on blockbuster games that will be popular no matter what. Small companies would simply choose not to use it in their game or risk not selling any
actually, they're probably referring to you running firefox 1.0.7 instead of 1.0.8 which is the current latest release of the 1.0 branch
really? configurable? I seem to recall installing Opera a while ago and deciding I wanted to change the order of two of the toolbars. I believe the solution was "manually clone one of the toolbars as a custom toolbar and then hide the original"
Not fantastic configurability there...
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[blockquote]Which you would need to do anyway to register it with the WGA.
[...]
Seems like a no brainer if you're a screenwriter.[/blockquote]
I don't know if I'd want to register my screenplay with Windows Genuine Advantage. It might decide that my screenplay is not my own and delete it from their records...
no.
;)
Australia has six states:
Victoria
New South Wales
Tasmania
Queensland
South Australia
Western Australia
and New Zealand makes seven.
if you need more security then you could always just go RAID6 which has two parity bits allowing for two drives to fail without destroying the system.
The odds of three drives failing at a time are pretty low.
wait a minute... you switched from ubuntu... but you were complaining about how hard it was switching from kernel 2.4-2.6? having to recompile your kernel? Obviously this was your relationship with another distro.
sure if you have issues with other distros then switch, but you didn't say anything about what was bugging you with Ubuntu. I'm running it now, on a laptop, and everything is working perfectly, I haven't had to compile anything. I tried other distros and Ubuntu was where I ended up. I don't take my bad experiences with them to Ubuntu, so that's why I've found it to be easy to use and adequate for all my needs (yes, including multimedia)
I always wondered how the Nigerian royal family ever managed to get any ruling done when they must spend their entire lives siring princes
actually all you need is RTFT(itle) since it clearly says "Ext4 Is Coming" not "Ext4 Is Here"
erm, I'm sorry. but he didn't get the terminology wrong, he got the entire issue completely wrong.
This is not a "small slip in terminology"