I really think it is a great idea to limit the locations of PCs in a house. My wife and I will have one each in our offices... but when we have kids some day there will be a central location as well. Obviously it would be impossible for us to have all of our computers inthe same room (as seperate offices), but we will make te environment less of a double standard by always keeping our office doors open so that they can see that we follow our own rules.
I've known people that have allowed kids to have their own PCs in their bedrooms, and from what I have seen of that it has always resulted in additional problems. There are enough problems floating around on the internet as is without totally removing all barriers from it.
People that say they do not believe in forcing their children to do something aren't really doing them a favor... and certainly aren't acting responsibly as parents. It is a parents main purpose to raise a child, not just to birth them.
And isn't that always the way of things. Hardly anything great is done solo, and yet so much of the time the rest of the team remains hidden in the background.
I'm surprised that Jonathan Ive lets a guy run a web site in his name. Not that its such a bad thing, but the guy has done such a poor job of it.
Some people have jumped on the guy who posted this thread a bit... and some of that is understandable.
However, I think that as everything continues more "Average" users will gravitate towards power users position. Not so much asbe completely entralled by every last detail of a computer, but enough so that perhaps updating hardware without purchasing a whole new system will be a bit more common place.
So yeah, that design does work well for quite a few people right now. Later on in the future though when nearly everybody has grown up in a generation of computing being the de facto standard... then it might be a different story. Thats not so far away either.
You have to admit, the guy must have some creative genious in him. Looking at all those projects there isn't one that I didn't like. The only one that had me scratching my head a little bit about was the vertical fax. Of course, perhaps there was a reason to the madness of that. Regardless, the designs implemented by the groups he has worked with are great.
You know what, I was actually pretty thrilled by the Zune coming out originally. However, if this is really true that they tend to use DRM in such an underhanded manner, they can expect no such purchases from me. The funny thing is that it was about time to upgrade my wifes mp3 player (iPon Mini), and I was contemplating purchasing one for her for Christmas.
That is certainly not the kind of Christmas gift I would feel comfortable giving to her though. I guess I'd better go update the Zune post on my blog.
I have to admit, I am really disappointed hearing that they would attempt something like this.
I would say that it isn't just politicians that are using terrorism... look at the news and see just how much they are using it these days. If a plane is diverted to land somewhere because somebody got too drunk or whatever else the case, you can expect 50 news stations spouting about the latest "possible terrorist" on the plane.
The article has alot of good information and seems to use alot of fact to back up what it is saying. I've only read the first porton of it, off to read the rest, hopefully it won't fall apart into partisan trash talking.
Er, in regards to the article though, it is too bad that Canada didn't seem to push more than it did. The reason the US got more is because it seems they asked for more.
It was nice of them to throw that on their discs in some shabby attempt at DRM. I remember when I first found it installed on my computer. Needless to say, you're not going to find me purchasing anything else that contains a DRM anything akin to that.
Customers need to stand up and show media organizations that ther are limits to what we are willing to deal with.
They usually do a pretty good job with new science (and space) news. Plus, they have an interesting podcast, if you guys haven't listened to it before.
As to the link, for some reason the newscientistspace.com site isn't accessible to me at the moment. It is quite strange that there exist planets with such a low density. It would be very interesting to be able to send a mission to a planet like this some day and find out a little more about what factors possibly came together to create something with such a low density.
as it is going to do with the new Vista, then I think that it will be a huge boon to open source. The biggest thing is if hardware vendors adopt selling open source OSes with their products. So far its been relegated for the most part to servers and hasn't widely been adopted, so that is what will hold the keys to open source adaption by the general public in the long term.
I think I am going to go Open Office soon on my home computers, so that should remove me from having to pay the rediculous fees for the next generation of online MS Office applications.
I am really surprised that when they ship the scooter they don't also inlude a connection so that you can upgrade its software directly via USB or something along those lines.
Perhaps they are worried about proprietary software being stolen by anybody that can get their hands on one, but you'd think if you really wanted to you would be able to do that anyways.
So all in all, why wouldn't they make it so that you can update software from home?
Ahhh, well... on the other hand, I can see now where enthusiasts release a patch making the Segway capable of traveling at 25mph. Perhaps it is better just to ship the things in and be done with it.
It really wasn't so indepth, but it was interesting the statement by each of those companies. The one that impressed me the most was SAP, where the vendor and the researcher would agree on action to be taken at the time of the disclosure.
I do think that the ethical approach is certainly approach a vendor first. Inform them that they have a given time to apply a patch to it, and then hold them to it and release the information at the end of that time.
Great information. Alot of times "half truth" articles get posted on/. to try and whip the members into a frenzy. People would do well to read the actual documents pertaining to what is going on. Thanks for posting the link, it has alot of good information.
I really didn't think that all of those should be as highly ranked. Granted we all have those that we are most attached to... but there had to be better ones that several they posted.
Is anybody really interested in buying a Wii? When I was younger I had Nintendos.. but these days I'm just not as drawn to their products as I am to PC and X-Box (possibly PS3). So, is anybody really excited about this product release or is Nintendo going to grab minimal market share with this console too?
The point wasn't that this is going to affect the 1 Laptop per child initiative.
It was that building a computer for relatively cheap (that still functions) is quite possible. I'm not very surprised that china can build $150 laptops... and the government will still make a healthy profit on it probably.
I really can't complain about the sentiment of wanting to provide computers for all. Why do I get the feeling though that the only reason the government wants to give people there access is so that they can find more ways to pull mone into Chinas society. Regardess, $150 PCs isnt suh a great deal.
A 500Mhx chip, etc... It might be inadequate for most programs that arent specifically made to work with it, but for a little more you'd think they could add some of those basic features to it and still undercut a $150 pricetag.
Most aren't slobbering over the cell in particular though, but in the technology related to it.
I wouldn't purchase a processor that didn't respect my rights and made computing more difficult via its DRM. I'd wait for somebody else to take that technology and create a similar chip without the negatives.
The only people in the headlines dealing with cell processors will be Playstation owners and a supercomputer at a research lab. Hopefully they wont be hosting warez and illegal song downloads on the supercomputer...
Before I went to town on this guy though for charging $2.50 a lecture to students that cannot manage to make it to class I would go after the professors that write their own texts (or for others) and charge a rediculous amount for it.
I've never heard students complain about a professor charging too much for a lecture. On the other hand, I have heard an expletive or two when a student saw their $400+ bill for their text books for a single semester.
I think that any professor that records his/her material should receive some sort of additional incentive for it. Why? Professors are not required to produce that material, and indeed doing so (even if he/she doesn't tape it themself) puts additional requirements on the lecture.
I didn't have that much money in college to throw around... but if I needed a lecture and failed to make it to class I wouldn't have minded paying a small fee for the professor helping me out beyond what is required.
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I really think it is a great idea to limit the locations of PCs in a house. My wife and I will have one each in our offices... but when we have kids some day there will be a central location as well. Obviously it would be impossible for us to have all of our computers inthe same room (as seperate offices), but we will make te environment less of a double standard by always keeping our office doors open so that they can see that we follow our own rules.
I've known people that have allowed kids to have their own PCs in their bedrooms, and from what I have seen of that it has always resulted in additional problems. There are enough problems floating around on the internet as is without totally removing all barriers from it.
People that say they do not believe in forcing their children to do something aren't really doing them a favor... and certainly aren't acting responsibly as parents. It is a parents main purpose to raise a child, not just to birth them.
Anyways, I agree 100% with your statement.
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Good point!
And isn't that always the way of things. Hardly anything great is done solo, and yet so much of the time the rest of the team remains hidden in the background.
I'm surprised that Jonathan Ive lets a guy run a web site in his name. Not that its such a bad thing, but the guy has done such a poor job of it.
I'm not sure which to do...
either way, nerds around the world will unite and make this a succesful venture. Guys, there has got to be something better to waste time on.
Some people have jumped on the guy who posted this thread a bit... and some of that is understandable.
However, I think that as everything continues more "Average" users will gravitate towards power users position. Not so much asbe completely entralled by every last detail of a computer, but enough so that perhaps updating hardware without purchasing a whole new system will be a bit more common place.
So yeah, that design does work well for quite a few people right now. Later on in the future though when nearly everybody has grown up in a generation of computing being the de facto standard... then it might be a different story. Thats not so far away either.
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I guess the other tip would be to learn how to spell genius.
Er, thanks though... I'll stay well away from that search.
If I get a +5 informative for that post then some people are definitely a bit too bored at work.
btw, no such luck finding the pen so far.
Whats the deal with mentioning the amazing pen and not showing a pic of it?
C'mon guys, get it together. Now I have to go do a search on it...
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You have to admit, the guy must have some creative genious in him. Looking at all those projects there isn't one that I didn't like. The only one that had me scratching my head a little bit about was the vertical fax. Of course, perhaps there was a reason to the madness of that. Regardless, the designs implemented by the groups he has worked with are great.
You know what, I was actually pretty thrilled by the Zune coming out originally. However, if this is really true that they tend to use DRM in such an underhanded manner, they can expect no such purchases from me. The funny thing is that it was about time to upgrade my wifes mp3 player (iPon Mini), and I was contemplating purchasing one for her for Christmas.
That is certainly not the kind of Christmas gift I would feel comfortable giving to her though. I guess I'd better go update the Zune post on my blog.
I have to admit, I am really disappointed hearing that they would attempt something like this.
I would say that it isn't just politicians that are using terrorism... look at the news and see just how much they are using it these days. If a plane is diverted to land somewhere because somebody got too drunk or whatever else the case, you can expect 50 news stations spouting about the latest "possible terrorist" on the plane.
The article has alot of good information and seems to use alot of fact to back up what it is saying. I've only read the first porton of it, off to read the rest, hopefully it won't fall apart into partisan trash talking.
Sounds good to me... I'm pretty impressed by its performance and features overall.
It has a heck of a heat sink on it, and no whirring fans to add to the rest of the noise from your case. Which is just fine by me.
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Er, in regards to the article though, it is too bad that Canada didn't seem to push more than it did. The reason the US got more is because it seems they asked for more.
It was nice of them to throw that on their discs in some shabby attempt at DRM. I remember when I first found it installed on my computer. Needless to say, you're not going to find me purchasing anything else that contains a DRM anything akin to that.
Customers need to stand up and show media organizations that ther are limits to what we are willing to deal with.
They usually do a pretty good job with new science (and space) news. Plus, they have an interesting podcast, if you guys haven't listened to it before.
As to the link, for some reason the newscientistspace.com site isn't accessible to me at the moment. It is quite strange that there exist planets with such a low density. It would be very interesting to be able to send a mission to a planet like this some day and find out a little more about what factors possibly came together to create something with such a low density.
as it is going to do with the new Vista, then I think that it will be a huge boon to open source. The biggest thing is if hardware vendors adopt selling open source OSes with their products. So far its been relegated for the most part to servers and hasn't widely been adopted, so that is what will hold the keys to open source adaption by the general public in the long term.
I think I am going to go Open Office soon on my home computers, so that should remove me from having to pay the rediculous fees for the next generation of online MS Office applications.
I am really surprised that when they ship the scooter they don't also inlude a connection so that you can upgrade its software directly via USB or something along those lines.
Perhaps they are worried about proprietary software being stolen by anybody that can get their hands on one, but you'd think if you really wanted to you would be able to do that anyways.
So all in all, why wouldn't they make it so that you can update software from home?
Ahhh, well... on the other hand, I can see now where enthusiasts release a patch making the Segway capable of traveling at 25mph. Perhaps it is better just to ship the things in and be done with it.
It really wasn't so indepth, but it was interesting the statement by each of those companies. The one that impressed me the most was SAP, where the vendor and the researcher would agree on action to be taken at the time of the disclosure.
I do think that the ethical approach is certainly approach a vendor first. Inform them that they have a given time to apply a patch to it, and then hold them to it and release the information at the end of that time.
Great information. Alot of times "half truth" articles get posted on /. to try and whip the members into a frenzy. People would do well to read the actual documents pertaining to what is going on. Thanks for posting the link, it has alot of good information.
I really didn't think that all of those should be as highly ranked. Granted we all have those that we are most attached to... but there had to be better ones that several they posted.
Nah, I've been around a bit.
I'm glad there are so many fanboys, but I really wasn't all that impressed with it. Well, besides the WiFi and what not.
Ah well, I guess we'll have to wait and see what kind of sales it has.
Is anybody really interested in buying a Wii? When I was younger I had Nintendos.. but these days I'm just not as drawn to their products as I am to PC and X-Box (possibly PS3). So, is anybody really excited about this product release or is Nintendo going to grab minimal market share with this console too?
The point wasn't that this is going to affect the 1 Laptop per child initiative.
It was that building a computer for relatively cheap (that still functions) is quite possible. I'm not very surprised that china can build $150 laptops... and the government will still make a healthy profit on it probably.
I really can't complain about the sentiment of wanting to provide computers for all. Why do I get the feeling though that the only reason the government wants to give people there access is so that they can find more ways to pull mone into Chinas society. Regardess, $150 PCs isnt suh a great deal.
We've all known MIT has been working on the $100 laptop project for some time. http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
A 500Mhx chip, etc... It might be inadequate for most programs that arent specifically made to work with it, but for a little more you'd think they could add some of those basic features to it and still undercut a $150 pricetag.
Most aren't slobbering over the cell in particular though, but in the technology related to it.
I wouldn't purchase a processor that didn't respect my rights and made computing more difficult via its DRM. I'd wait for somebody else to take that technology and create a similar chip without the negatives.
The only people in the headlines dealing with cell processors will be Playstation owners and a supercomputer at a research lab. Hopefully they wont be hosting warez and illegal song downloads on the supercomputer...
Before I went to town on this guy though for charging $2.50 a lecture to students that cannot manage to make it to class I would go after the professors that write their own texts (or for others) and charge a rediculous amount for it.
I've never heard students complain about a professor charging too much for a lecture. On the other hand, I have heard an expletive or two when a student saw their $400+ bill for their text books for a single semester.
I think that any professor that records his/her material should receive some sort of additional incentive for it. Why? Professors are not required to produce that material, and indeed doing so (even if he/she doesn't tape it themself) puts additional requirements on the lecture.
I didn't have that much money in college to throw around... but if I needed a lecture and failed to make it to class I wouldn't have minded paying a small fee for the professor helping me out beyond what is required.