Why are recycling legacy issues of Linux. Linux isn't hard to install, and use. We're past that.
What remains is getting the industry to support Linux as an OS with their software. Win32 API hacks like WINE can only go so far, they're not suitable for the average user.
We need the common software supported on Ubuntu, and an easy consistent way not to just install, but also uninstall or add/remove components of said software.
And that, fellas, is actually the hard part.
At least Linux is partly there: Firefox is now a legitimate browser supported by most sites, and Flash 9 is supported on Linux. With all the web apps popping up using those technologies (often replacing previously desktop app alternatives), the average user will have less and less reasons to want Windows for that one reason.
I personally don't want to see Windows go though. OSS is, I'm afraid, good at the technical stuff, and good at sorta so-so catching up with the commercial efforts in the other areas (GUI, design, usability, etc.). Granted Microsoft is in a weak spot right now with Vista, but I think we'll see what this OS will be like after SP1 and possibly 2 (i.e. when they actually finish it).
Having a solid commercial OS-es like Windows and OSX being used next to Linux means all three need to work hard and do their best to stay on the market. We will ultimately all benefit from this, never mind which OS we use...
And now dream time.. I think the perfect desktop OS market share spread would be Windows 50%, Linux 30%, Mac/OSX 20%. But why this is, is another long story entirely...
I honestly can't believe how people blur the edges of reality and sci-fi series. So now people deserve special honour because they played in Star Trek? I mean, the guy was probably a great actor, but what the heck.
Reminds me of the 20-th century museum in Futurama, where they have messed up the entire history and thought The Honeymooners were the first people to step on the moon ("Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon, Alice!"), and reimaging the astronauts as movie-style space cowboys complete with cowboy hats and attractive behavior.
It's just idiocracy happening slowly before our eyes.
This is a complex system. It's never so perfectly running so you can claim "everything is all right so I'm clean" today.
Why is my disk spinning all the time? May it be malware? Oh yes, the indexer is doing this... Why are my apps starting slow? May it be malware? No, after drfragmenting they start faster again... or is the malware now inactive? What are those connections in my netstats? Well just about 40 apps I have which all absolutely need to phone home for updates, latest news, patches, and god knows what else. Did I verify each single one of those? What if I missed a tiny little trojan mailing my passwords somewhere in China?
Same with rootkit revealers: they reveal suspected entries, and have false negatives, and false positives. you can never be quite sure. I've ran Mark russinovich's rootkit revealer (and still do from time to time) and there are always a bunch of entries that show up on my system.
However looking up on the Internet it turns out all of those are legitimate... But what if the rootkit author uses weaknesses in legitimate software to hide his OWN malicious activites in the same exact locations?
So, all in all, this is why I can't say 100% I'm virus free. I just do everything I'm supposed to do to stay virus free. Guarantees are impossible on either sufficiently complex system.
You know, "any sufficiently complex technology shall be regarded as magic"...
Sure you can, if you combine your malware with an elevation of privileges exploit.
Since 99% of Windows XP-s out there run in admin mode all the time, I'm pretty sure none of them is particularly well doing in the privileges exploit area.
Also this is the user level. Getting privileges higher than the current user isn't so trivial to exploit, since typically the entire browser will run at that level, including any add-ons and plugins. You do need to exploit an app running under admin, and if there's no such, you can't exploit anything.
Seriously, its become standard to retort to claims of malware free with Windows with "Nuh uh! You probably just don't know you have it!" which is stupid if only for the reason that such a claim isn't reasonably falsifiable.
It may be stupid but it's not wrong. I'm a developer and the kind of guy who sets his firewall as limited as possible, has anti-virus on, doesn't download "Free Smileys!!!" software, and in fact I'm very careful about doing things on my computer that may affect my security.
I thought I was clean, I looked clean, and the PC worked like clean. Until one day I the anti-virus detected a popular keylogger installed on my system (4 years ago). That was on top of that during a full-drive scan, not resident alert, who knows for how long was this thing running, and where it came from.
Bottom line is, the infection status isn't something easy to assess, especially if you're not very experienced in the area and especially if you consider that you're virus free by default.
The only way to not push your luck is know what you're doing, and turning your firewall off deliberately is equivalent to not knowing what you're doing.
If you ask me now, since I wiped my disk twice, and changed all my passwords and reinstalled everything since, am I virus free? I'll tell you yes.. but I'll NEVER be 100% sure in my answer, since I could easily be wrong.
It's not different on a Linux server by the way, so this is not a Windows vs Linux argument AT ALL.
However, now the kids are starting to use the PC.... I've switched to Ubuntu. I not convinced I can set up an XP machine that can't be infected by them.
You could've tried installing a good firewall (ZoneAlarm isn't exactly the most efficient one, but it's easy to use and free), and dropping to a non-admin account.
By definition, you can't infect system files in non-admin mode. Some software may not run, or not run properly, but I'd give that a shot, since you can't run any of your Windows software *at all* under Ubuntu anyway.
Also remember: Firefox doesn't make it always safe, can you open WMV in Firefox? Well guess what, WMP can open pages with suitable parameters. And those pages will open in an embedded IE inside the player, INSIDE Firefox. Same applies to many other media players, IM-s like ICQ and Skype, and so on.
Looking for free business, marketing and so on courses on YouTube (or the entire Internet) just turns up "work from home" scams and dubious paid courses by various "gurus". Not cool.
If you know any good courses in this range of study, please share links.
Awww, how cute. Another "useful idiot" who thinks that OpenOffice was aimed at reaching out to the OSS community rather than cutting off Microsoft's air supply.
Your response is cute too, but I never mentioned anything about reaching to the OSS community. In fact I said, abusing said community and gaining the PR advantage.
I've used GIMPShop, or rather, tried to. Unfortunately it's a very poor hack, you'll occasionally end up with modal windows hidden behind other windows, it still has few copies of the program menu across the palettes, and worst of all, it crashes too much for my taste.
Now I have GIMP installed, although I've probably not run this one for over 6 months now.
You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view.
That's what I've been telling all my designers, but they keep looking at design from the designer's point of view.
For example, there is no separate commands to draw geometric shapes. Instead you define a selection and then stroke or fill it. The upshot is that it's much easier to, for example, draw an intersection of two shapes.
It's just easier to merge vector shapes or selections in Photoshop. With the difference I can scale, rotate, and use the pen tool to adjust the shapes inside, and with selection, I can't.
Default settings in photoshop also leave much to be desired. For example, only several undo levels are enabled by default. In Gimp you can review a long undo history and snap your project back to any point.
That's the best example you have? You're 3 clicks away from changing the default once and for all.
FYI Photoshop defaults to *20* history states, and that doesn't include the unlimited state snapshots you can create and store within the document itself (you'll see those snaps the next time you open the document, how about that?).
The reason is that Photoshop is frequently used to edit gigantic images, so the default spares the memory in this case. Otherwise you can have up to 1000 history states. And again, unlimited manual history snapshots.
I am sure PS is a great tool for professional artists, but it's horrible for programmers who want to do a little icon drawing.
You know: I don't care if Linux programmers want to make little icons in GIMP. No one ever doubted GIMP's ability to do little icons. Hell, Paint.exe can do little icons.
The issue is people keep putting GIMP against Photoshop, and recommend it to designers and photographers (check the book review above), and that's just hilarious.
lack of Pen tool in Photoshop Elements make it unsuitable for most hobbyists and shareware authors.
O_O You said just few sentences above that selection is superior to vector tools. Now suddenly the lack of Pen in Elements is unbearable. Oook...
Maybe I'm biased - ok, definitely I'm biased - but this just doesnt feel like "open source" to me so much as "beta-testing with a peek at the code" or, to be blunt, "do our debugging for us."
Yup, open source is "do our coding for us". I'm talking about when a corporation opens their source and wait for the community to do their work for them (Mozilla, Sun etc.).
Microsoft isn't worse, at least they explicitly state in their license what is this about.
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No. It is hated because it's an inferior product.
What defines inferior. WiFi sync, WMV support and FM are useful features to me, and the fact i don't need to run the hideous iTunes Win port is yet another great feature.
The second generation of Zunes looks quite promising (the first didn't quite) both as form factor, weight, battery life, features, capacity and price. And the 80 GB model has real earbuds, not the garbage shipped with iPod which you throw away and buy 3rd party ones.
I don't have too much love for Zune, but it's a nice product in its second generation. Don't forget Microsoft always hits a homerun on attempt 3;)
Last question: Do you always hate inferior equipment? Why on Earth *hate* it? Ignore it, dismiss it, not buy it, tell your friends it's not a good buy sure. But hate it? Someone has issues.
To qualify, users of illegitimate versions of Windows XP Pro must pledge to use only genuine Microsoft software going forward and agree to have their software infrastructure audited.
That's very subtle, they're signing to use only genuine Microsoft software, not signing to never use non-genuine Microsoft software. Could they come after me if I signed this and decided to go for BSD, or Linux or whatever?
You think I'm paranoid? Check the universities, schools, and OEM's and if it's easy for them to ship/use non-Windows machines after their "exclusive" MS agreement.
Then throw the audits in. Why would someone come out and say "ok I had 100 hacked XP machines. Audit me and lock me into agreement to buy your software", versus just silently buy the licenses they need?
There's something bigger here, could possibly start going after illegal users based on data phoned home (during Error Reports, Autoupdates, etc.). If they do, I can see audits + mandatory Windows could be suddenly heaven compared to having unleashed the entire legal team of MS on your ass.
She said the RIAA's litigation has caused the industry to lose millions of dollars.
That they demand the punitive damages according to law in those lawsuits, but they have no idea how much they lost in reality.
Other people have reminded her that we're talking about 20 000 lawsuits for mp3 sharing. Good chunk of them on innocent people, people without computers, even people who are *dead*.
She was forced to admit IP and screenshot can't identify a person behind the screen, as well as she has no direct evidence how much copies of the music were distributed to other parties.
In other news, people in the industry demanded law enforcement should stress on copyright crime more than bank burglary, robbery and other such crimes. Since all of those crimes "only" cost US 16 billion dollar a year, and the recording and movie industy has supposedly lost hundreds of billions of dollars.
They indirectly admitted for pulling this number out of their ass, as even studied RIAA has handpicked in the past show damages at *most* 6 billion dollars.
The GUI isn't very intuitive, it still is horribly bloated, and overall it doesn't integrate with the system and looks hideous.
Hmm it wasn't long ago I heard praises of OO since while Office 2007 changed its UI dramatically to deal with control bloat, OO kept the 2003-style interface. I mean you do realize: Open Office literally has the Office pre-2007 UI, in fact OO has less controls and toolbars than Office 2003 did.
I'm seeing more and more opinions in the other direction, which means the tide is turning. I guess the infamous Ribon wasn't that bad after all.
That really doesn't matter. People will use the program that suits them most. Forked or not.
Right, but if it wouldn't be forked, they'd be forced to use your own single version. And as businesses are involved in making money, that's certainly the better alternative vs forking.
There is just as much or more license squabbling in the OSS world as there is the other world. It's kind of sad. Blame the big corporations?
License squabbling happens when a project grows, and there are far more interests involved than you can imagine. It's got nothing to do with OSS vs. commercial software.
The alternative is Sun and Novell forming their private militia and sending hitmen to hit their competitors. In a country with a developed legal system, we rather slap each other with licenses.
Novell, please at least copy Lotus Symphony's GUI or MS Office 2004 (OS X) but implement in native controls making use of system settings (it should follow my icon theme and font settings at least
I always get a kick out of posts which start going into details of what they want company X to do, as if they're around and care what you say.
Remember the Novell Vice President: "If you care what I say, you have no girlfriend".
I suspect he believes this goes both ways, and wouldn't risk losing his girlfriend, so...
"Last month, his start-up, Anagran Inc., introduced a piece of gear called the flow router that he says can help modernize the Internet. The equipment analyzes Web traffic to discern whether it is an email, a movie or a phone call and then carves out the bandwidth needed for transmission."
No thanks.
The solution according to Bosack:
"Last month, his company, XKL LLC, unveiled a system that allows businesses to connect to underground cables that have nearly 100 times the capacity of current telecommunications pipes."
That would be really nice, how about making use of all the dark fiber first.
All in all, we see the people who were involved in the creation of the Internet now got into the private business and use all possible means of pushing said business forward. It's almost sad they did so good job the first time, that now they have created solutions in search of a problem...
But is anyone else very disturbed by the idea of using a Wiimote to stab/strangle/maim people?
Not more disturbed than giving my kid a "lightgun" to "shoot" other kids.
You see existing technology didn't cause the apocalypse the media, certain lawyers and worried parents promised.
But as you age, you actually become one of said parents raising worried voice against newer technologies, repeating the mistakes of the previous generation once more.
Remember, in the past, Germany outlawed River Raid in fears it may make kids go out and kill people.
Blu-ray format, which currently uses discs several times more expensive than standard DVD media
It's important to clarify: The article talks about dual layer DVD-s, that's not standard DVD media. I can find single layer recordable DVD over here for less than a dollar. But dual layer recordables are ten times more expensive (for whatever reason).
Now something else: if I got my math right (can't guarantee I did), this means around ~950kbit/s for HD content on a dual layer DVD. They'll definitely need to use MPEG4 (remember: plenty of the current BR and HDDVD titles use MPEG2) to achieve acceptable quality for 18 hours of content. And I don't know if it'll look good still.
Can someone comment how ~950kbit/s fares for HD content. For standard DVD-quality video I use at least 500-600kbps on MPEG4 derivative, so I'm doubtful.
They wanted to be the first to own the new phone with flashy interface and Internet abilities, right?
They got what they bought. They have nothing to complain. If they paid the price, then they clearly thought it was worth it. There's no point now in releasing sad, sad statements in the public that they feel cheated or were wrong.
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By offering 1 million to hoaxers to prove their claims true, he has debunked more scams than anyone else with effectively a budget of $0.
Why are recycling legacy issues of Linux. Linux isn't hard to install, and use. We're past that.
What remains is getting the industry to support Linux as an OS with their software. Win32 API hacks like WINE can only go so far, they're not suitable for the average user.
We need the common software supported on Ubuntu, and an easy consistent way not to just install, but also uninstall or add/remove components of said software.
And that, fellas, is actually the hard part.
At least Linux is partly there: Firefox is now a legitimate browser supported by most sites, and Flash 9 is supported on Linux. With all the web apps popping up using those technologies (often replacing previously desktop app alternatives), the average user will have less and less reasons to want Windows for that one reason.
I personally don't want to see Windows go though. OSS is, I'm afraid, good at the technical stuff, and good at sorta so-so catching up with the commercial efforts in the other areas (GUI, design, usability, etc.). Granted Microsoft is in a weak spot right now with Vista, but I think we'll see what this OS will be like after SP1 and possibly 2 (i.e. when they actually finish it).
Having a solid commercial OS-es like Windows and OSX being used next to Linux means all three need to work hard and do their best to stay on the market. We will ultimately all benefit from this, never mind which OS we use...
And now dream time.. I think the perfect desktop OS market share spread would be Windows 50%, Linux 30%, Mac/OSX 20%. But why this is, is another long story entirely...
I honestly can't believe how people blur the edges of reality and sci-fi series. So now people deserve special honour because they played in Star Trek? I mean, the guy was probably a great actor, but what the heck.
Reminds me of the 20-th century museum in Futurama, where they have messed up the entire history and thought The Honeymooners were the first people to step on the moon ("Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon, Alice!"), and reimaging the astronauts as movie-style space cowboys complete with cowboy hats and attractive behavior.
It's just idiocracy happening slowly before our eyes.
This is a complex system. It's never so perfectly running so you can claim "everything is all right so I'm clean" today.
Why is my disk spinning all the time? May it be malware? Oh yes, the indexer is doing this...
Why are my apps starting slow? May it be malware? No, after drfragmenting they start faster again... or is the malware now inactive?
What are those connections in my netstats? Well just about 40 apps I have which all absolutely need to phone home for updates, latest news, patches, and god knows what else. Did I verify each single one of those? What if I missed a tiny little trojan mailing my passwords somewhere in China?
Same with rootkit revealers: they reveal suspected entries, and have false negatives, and false positives. you can never be quite sure. I've ran Mark russinovich's rootkit revealer (and still do from time to time) and there are always a bunch of entries that show up on my system.
However looking up on the Internet it turns out all of those are legitimate... But what if the rootkit author uses weaknesses in legitimate software to hide his OWN malicious activites in the same exact locations?
So, all in all, this is why I can't say 100% I'm virus free. I just do everything I'm supposed to do to stay virus free. Guarantees are impossible on either sufficiently complex system.
You know, "any sufficiently complex technology shall be regarded as magic"...
Sure you can, if you combine your malware with an elevation of privileges exploit.
Since 99% of Windows XP-s out there run in admin mode all the time, I'm pretty sure none of them is particularly well doing in the privileges exploit area.
Also this is the user level. Getting privileges higher than the current user isn't so trivial to exploit, since typically the entire browser will run at that level, including any add-ons and plugins. You do need to exploit an app running under admin, and if there's no such, you can't exploit anything.
Seriously, its become standard to retort to claims of malware free with Windows with "Nuh uh! You probably just don't know you have it!" which is stupid if only for the reason that such a claim isn't reasonably falsifiable.
It may be stupid but it's not wrong. I'm a developer and the kind of guy who sets his firewall as limited as possible, has anti-virus on, doesn't download "Free Smileys!!!" software, and in fact I'm very careful about doing things on my computer that may affect my security.
I thought I was clean, I looked clean, and the PC worked like clean. Until one day I the anti-virus detected a popular keylogger installed on my system (4 years ago). That was on top of that during a full-drive scan, not resident alert, who knows for how long was this thing running, and where it came from.
Bottom line is, the infection status isn't something easy to assess, especially if you're not very experienced in the area and especially if you consider that you're virus free by default.
The only way to not push your luck is know what you're doing, and turning your firewall off deliberately is equivalent to not knowing what you're doing.
If you ask me now, since I wiped my disk twice, and changed all my passwords and reinstalled everything since, am I virus free? I'll tell you yes.. but I'll NEVER be 100% sure in my answer, since I could easily be wrong.
It's not different on a Linux server by the way, so this is not a Windows vs Linux argument AT ALL.
However, now the kids are starting to use the PC.... I've switched to Ubuntu. I not convinced I can set up an XP machine that can't be infected by them.
You could've tried installing a good firewall (ZoneAlarm isn't exactly the most efficient one, but it's easy to use and free), and dropping to a non-admin account.
By definition, you can't infect system files in non-admin mode. Some software may not run, or not run properly, but I'd give that a shot, since you can't run any of your Windows software *at all* under Ubuntu anyway.
Also remember: Firefox doesn't make it always safe, can you open WMV in Firefox? Well guess what, WMP can open pages with suitable parameters. And those pages will open in an embedded IE inside the player, INSIDE Firefox. Same applies to many other media players, IM-s like ICQ and Skype, and so on.
Looking for free business, marketing and so on courses on YouTube (or the entire Internet) just turns up "work from home" scams and dubious paid courses by various "gurus". Not cool.
If you know any good courses in this range of study, please share links.
Awww, how cute. Another "useful idiot" who thinks that OpenOffice was aimed at reaching out to the OSS community rather than cutting off Microsoft's air supply.
Your response is cute too, but I never mentioned anything about reaching to the OSS community. In fact I said, abusing said community and gaining the PR advantage.
Dude we're talking about Zunes. Who the HELL said anything about Windows? You have issues, bad issues, my man.
I've used GIMPShop, or rather, tried to. Unfortunately it's a very poor hack, you'll occasionally end up with modal windows hidden behind other windows, it still has few copies of the program menu across the palettes, and worst of all, it crashes too much for my taste.
Now I have GIMP installed, although I've probably not run this one for over 6 months now.
You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view.
That's what I've been telling all my designers, but they keep looking at design from the designer's point of view.
For example, there is no separate commands to draw geometric shapes. Instead you define a selection and then stroke or fill it. The upshot is that it's much easier to, for example, draw an intersection of two shapes.
It's just easier to merge vector shapes or selections in Photoshop. With the difference I can scale, rotate, and use the pen tool to adjust the shapes inside, and with selection, I can't.
Default settings in photoshop also leave much to be desired. For example, only several undo levels are enabled by default. In Gimp you can review a long undo history and snap your project back to any point.
That's the best example you have? You're 3 clicks away from changing the default once and for all.
FYI Photoshop defaults to *20* history states, and that doesn't include the unlimited state snapshots you can create and store within the document itself (you'll see those snaps the next time you open the document, how about that?).
The reason is that Photoshop is frequently used to edit gigantic images, so the default spares the memory in this case. Otherwise you can have up to 1000 history states. And again, unlimited manual history snapshots.
I am sure PS is a great tool for professional artists, but it's horrible for programmers who want to do a little icon drawing.
You know: I don't care if Linux programmers want to make little icons in GIMP. No one ever doubted GIMP's ability to do little icons. Hell, Paint.exe can do little icons.
The issue is people keep putting GIMP against Photoshop, and recommend it to designers and photographers (check the book review above), and that's just hilarious.
lack of Pen tool in Photoshop Elements make it unsuitable for most hobbyists and shareware authors.
O_O You said just few sentences above that selection is superior to vector tools. Now suddenly the lack of Pen in Elements is unbearable. Oook...
Maybe I'm biased - ok, definitely I'm biased - but this just doesnt feel like "open source" to me so much as "beta-testing with a peek at the code" or, to be blunt, "do our debugging for us."
Yup, open source is "do our coding for us". I'm talking about when a corporation opens their source and wait for the community to do their work for them (Mozilla, Sun etc.).
Microsoft isn't worse, at least they explicitly state in their license what is this about.
No. It is hated because it's an inferior product.
;)
What defines inferior. WiFi sync, WMV support and FM are useful features to me, and the fact i don't need to run the hideous iTunes Win port is yet another great feature.
The second generation of Zunes looks quite promising (the first didn't quite) both as form factor, weight, battery life, features, capacity and price. And the 80 GB model has real earbuds, not the garbage shipped with iPod which you throw away and buy 3rd party ones.
I don't have too much love for Zune, but it's a nice product in its second generation. Don't forget Microsoft always hits a homerun on attempt 3
Last question: Do you always hate inferior equipment? Why on Earth *hate* it? Ignore it, dismiss it, not buy it, tell your friends it's not a good buy sure. But hate it? Someone has issues.
To qualify, users of illegitimate versions of Windows XP Pro must pledge to use only genuine Microsoft software going forward and agree to have their software infrastructure audited.
That's very subtle, they're signing to use only genuine Microsoft software, not signing to never use non-genuine Microsoft software. Could they come after me if I signed this and decided to go for BSD, or Linux or whatever?
You think I'm paranoid? Check the universities, schools, and OEM's and if it's easy for them to ship/use non-Windows machines after their "exclusive" MS agreement.
Then throw the audits in. Why would someone come out and say "ok I had 100 hacked XP machines. Audit me and lock me into agreement to buy your software", versus just silently buy the licenses they need?
There's something bigger here, could possibly start going after illegal users based on data phoned home (during Error Reports, Autoupdates, etc.). If they do, I can see audits + mandatory Windows could be suddenly heaven compared to having unleashed the entire legal team of MS on your ass.
She said the RIAA's litigation has caused the industry to lose millions of dollars.
That they demand the punitive damages according to law in those lawsuits, but they have no idea how much they lost in reality.
Other people have reminded her that we're talking about 20 000 lawsuits for mp3 sharing. Good chunk of them on innocent people, people without computers, even people who are *dead*.
She was forced to admit IP and screenshot can't identify a person behind the screen, as well as she has no direct evidence how much copies of the music were distributed to other parties.
In other news, people in the industry demanded law enforcement should stress on copyright crime more than bank burglary, robbery and other such crimes. Since all of those crimes "only" cost US 16 billion dollar a year, and the recording and movie industy has supposedly lost hundreds of billions of dollars.
They indirectly admitted for pulling this number out of their ass, as even studied RIAA has handpicked in the past show damages at *most* 6 billion dollars.
The GUI isn't very intuitive, it still is horribly bloated, and overall it doesn't integrate with the system and looks hideous.
Hmm it wasn't long ago I heard praises of OO since while Office 2007 changed its UI dramatically to deal with control bloat, OO kept the 2003-style interface. I mean you do realize: Open Office literally has the Office pre-2007 UI, in fact OO has less controls and toolbars than Office 2003 did.
I'm seeing more and more opinions in the other direction, which means the tide is turning. I guess the infamous Ribon wasn't that bad after all.
That really doesn't matter. People will use the program that suits them most. Forked or not.
Right, but if it wouldn't be forked, they'd be forced to use your own single version.
And as businesses are involved in making money, that's certainly the better alternative vs forking.
There is just as much or more license squabbling in the OSS world as there is the other world.
It's kind of sad.
Blame the big corporations?
License squabbling happens when a project grows, and there are far more interests involved than you can imagine.
It's got nothing to do with OSS vs. commercial software.
The alternative is Sun and Novell forming their private militia and sending hitmen to hit their competitors. In a country with a developed legal system, we rather slap each other with licenses.
Nothing's perfect.
Novell, please at least copy Lotus Symphony's GUI or MS Office 2004 (OS X) but implement in native controls making use of system settings (it should follow my icon theme and font settings at least
I always get a kick out of posts which start going into details of what they want company X to do, as if they're around and care what you say.
Remember the Novell Vice President: "If you care what I say, you have no girlfriend".
I suspect he believes this goes both ways, and wouldn't risk losing his girlfriend, so...
For all of you who think releasing your proprietary software under open source means just free community work and good PR.
If you keep acting as if you never did it, you'll wake up one day with the entire project forked by a competing company.
The solution according to Roberts:
...
"Last month, his start-up, Anagran Inc., introduced a piece of gear called the flow router that he says can help modernize the Internet. The equipment analyzes Web traffic to discern whether it is an email, a movie or a phone call and then carves out the bandwidth needed for transmission."
No thanks.
The solution according to Bosack:
"Last month, his company, XKL LLC, unveiled a system that allows businesses to connect to underground cables that have nearly 100 times the capacity of current telecommunications pipes."
That would be really nice, how about making use of all the dark fiber first.
All in all, we see the people who were involved in the creation of the Internet now got into the private business and use all possible means of pushing said business forward. It's almost sad they did so good job the first time, that now they have created solutions in search of a problem
But is anyone else very disturbed by the idea of using a Wiimote to stab/strangle/maim people?
Not more disturbed than giving my kid a "lightgun" to "shoot" other kids.
You see existing technology didn't cause the apocalypse the media, certain lawyers and worried parents promised.
But as you age, you actually become one of said parents raising worried voice against newer technologies, repeating the mistakes of the previous generation once more.
Remember, in the past, Germany outlawed River Raid in fears it may make kids go out and kill people.
Blu-ray format, which currently uses discs several times more expensive than standard DVD media
It's important to clarify: The article talks about dual layer DVD-s, that's not standard DVD media. I can find single layer recordable DVD over here for less than a dollar. But dual layer recordables are ten times more expensive (for whatever reason).
Now something else: if I got my math right (can't guarantee I did), this means around ~950kbit/s for HD content on a dual layer DVD. They'll definitely need to use MPEG4 (remember: plenty of the current BR and HDDVD titles use MPEG2) to achieve acceptable quality for 18 hours of content. And I don't know if it'll look good still.
Can someone comment how ~950kbit/s fares for HD content. For standard DVD-quality video I use at least 500-600kbps on MPEG4 derivative, so I'm doubtful.
They wanted to be the first to own the new phone with flashy interface and Internet abilities, right?
They got what they bought. They have nothing to complain. If they paid the price, then they clearly thought it was worth it. There's no point now in releasing sad, sad statements in the public that they feel cheated or were wrong.
Wait, I forgot what we're talking about..