IBM's G3s will soon be running @ up to 700mhz. That alone will provide incentive for them to stick to PPC. And of course no one who proposes that rubbish that Apple WILL port to x86 has been able to explain the following very important areas for apple:
-How will Apple maintain backward compatability with PPC Mac software? It would be far too slow on the average PC to use emulation software to run say..... Photoshop, MS Office, etc.
-How will Apple keep its diehard users loyal? Most of them consider x86 to be pure trash
-How will Apple benefit from licensing MacOS X? Its main business is hardware. It won't be able to sell Macs and license off MacOS X without one way or another hurting itself.
I'm on page 800 I believe and it is really good. Typical hollywood fuck up. It's no wonder why the movie was terrible, from what I heard only a few things are the same. I haven't seen it but I know of at least these monumental discrepancies:
-humans hijacked psychlo war vehicles such as psychlo battleplanes; only human assault rifles were used, and only on psychlo infantry because bullets could break through the psychlo's glass plating on their breath-gas masks. In the movie the humans used harriers and stuff like that.
-the movie conveniently did not tell the audience that breathgas makes a nice little pop when hit by even the tiniest traces of uranium
-Jonnie never went to DC. He got his idea about rebellion once he started learning about the weaknesses of psychlo technology. Also the scots who faught alongside him were NOT uneducated barbarians the way that katz's description suggests. They were as educated in psychlo technology as jonnie (ie very educated)
-Terl WAS NOT the leader. He was the security chief and he got power beyond that position through blackmail.
-There was no conclusive evidence after the nuke went off to suggest that Psychlo was destroyed, rather quite the opposite!
I haven't seen the movie but if they actually had bothered to use the REAL Battlefield Earth storyline it would have been really good. Also if they did that then Brackish by Kittie would be a very good theme song; it fits the Psychlos very well.
The best way to tell these guys we mean business is to give away free cds to anyone who might be interested. Hey, it works for AOL..... it's gotta work for us. However it would be best to not do that en mass until X4, Kernel 2.4, KDE 2 and GNOME 2 are bundled as standard features in at least RedHat, Mandrake, COL or Corel. Heh, let's face it, we won't be able to get the average joe whose thinking about jumping ship to use Debian or Slackware.
Make the person pay $.01 per message sent to each ISP whose users they spammed. Also if the spammer accidentally crashes the email/news server then treat it as a denial of service attack.
Seriously, what will the public do with all the power given to them by molecular, quantum and dna computers? I can just see it now, little kids breaking encryption algorithms in only a matter of seconds just for shits and giggles.
People must be accountable for what they say, whether we like it or not. Sadly we cannot allow people going around making damaging remarks about people that they know aren't true. How would you like Jon if someone posted online that they "found out" that you raped some hot chick in high school? Libel wouldn't be very funny then I can guarantee.
The libel laws most certainly need to be gone over to check for compatability with online speech. In fact it is my opinion that most critical area where we need to regulate is to license reporters the way we do doctors and lawyers. A reporter who slants their stories too much, too often, commits libel and other violations of the spirit of freedom of the press needs to be punished. However in that case of course you must make a distinction between professional reporters and guys who run hobby news sites like I guess betanews.com (can't think of a better example). The last thing we want is general speech licensing. However we need a licensing system that holds professional reporters accountable for their libel/slander.
With that part of online libel the last part we need to look at are of course flames. Few in their right mind would take flames seriously, but what do we do if flames step over the line into clearly illegal speech like threats of physical violence? Frankly I think all of those pundits that liken the net to the wild wild west got it wrong. It's not like the wild wild west, more like the colonization of the new world; we're having to build a new society from the ground up, not just transfering an old culture to a new one.
Bio Booster Armor Guyver (remade as just Guyver) is a REALLY good series. Macross II the movie is also a good buy. Record of Lodoss War, definitely worth it too
This issue I believe is symptomatic of the larger problem: packaged software is as much a manufactured good as a wrench or a hammer you buy a local hardware store. To allow companies to tell you how you can use it is as ridiculous as allowing Sears to force you to sign a contract saying you won't lend your power tools you just bought to your neighbor at the penalty of having Sears revoke your right to use them.
That also applies to movies and music. Once you buy the disk or whatever media it came on, it should be yours. Anything else is a violation of the consumers' property rights!
I haven't bought anything through ebay, but now they've sealed their fate with me, I won't buy anything through their network now!
I predict that within 10 years we will have as much corporate control of the internet as the russians had government control of their lives during the soviet years.
I also predict that the real violations of rights will come from corporations, not the government as the government is often too clueless to be able to effectively handle technology. It will ultimately come down to libertarians (restrain the gov AND corps) vs the pseudo-libertarians (just restrain the gov).
My final prediction is that libertarians around the nation will begin seeing the publically traded megacorporation for what it is: a barrier to free market enterprise and an institution whose power must be limited just as the government's power must be limited. If we don't limit it then other companies cannot rise up and challenge it. God knows if teddy roosevelt hadn't done his famous trust busting we might have an industrial-aristocracy equivelent to the old European aristocracies.
It would seem like the internet should have been hailed as the greatest BLESSING ever by the recording industry. It gives the big labels the opportunity to cut prices almost in half and split the revenues 50/50 with the artist by cutting out the store from the equation. Add in ownership of the means of producing the cds by the lables and you get a golden opportunity for the recording industry. But then again I guess they are run by old foggies with the money to pay $17 for a popular cd.
It seems to me that Microsoft is operating in an all-or-nothing manner with their authentification stuff. Doesn't their modified Kerberos only work in Win2k? It would seem to me that if that is the case they would appreciate people wanting to add Linux/BSD support for their modifed kerberos so that Win2k desktops could work on a network with Linux/BSD servers. Flexibility like that would sell more Win2k. The last thing they should want is people to go to another company because Win2k can't work with a non-Win2k server
But would you want a bunch of useless 3-5mb text files on your hard disk..... and more importantly. How would you fool the napster client when it checks to see what bitrate the file is. I could be wrong, but doesn't napster not show files that it can't find a bitrate for?
Before you judge him, why don't you find out what kind of agreements he has with the publisher(s). Perhaps he wants to, but cannot legally do so because of contracts he signed.
English I predict will always dominate programming languages but beyond that I predict that we will see the creation of some rather powerful translation engines (server side perhaps). That would allow everyone from English speakers to Tadjikistanian speakers to view the same page in their native language without there having to be a dominant language.
CNet which is threatened by AOL (like all other non-AOL commercial sites) promotes AOL by linking to the downloads of their apps. If anything the CNet crew should have linked to the earthlink software and stuff like that. It would be like the US talking about how bad China is then pointing the way to the closest PLA recruiting office.
I'm going to save up my money so that I can buy a color palm this summer or fall for my senior year in school. I would much rather have a color palm than anything from Microsoft or their cronies.
Considering the fact that Be actively maintains GPL'ed software for BeOS and releases the mods on their FTP server I am truly doubting Perens's claims. As far as I know all code is released on their FTP server because I've seen it numerous times listed on BeWare. He might be right, but to me this just sounds like another example of an open source zealot trying to bash a closed source vendor. Open source is flat out unprofitable for most software product types. Here's just a few such examples: MP3/Movie tools Game engines. Can anyone honestly say that if Q3's engine was GPL'ed right now that anyone other than the Unreal team would make a new, innovative engine for the time being (as in until the release of ID's next engine). Utilities like cd burning software. Most software can't be supported through tech support and such. That to me is the biggest flaw in the GPL. It doesn't allow small time developers to open up and make code. A better license would: Allow the developer to sell binary only cds and such Keep others from being able to sell versions of the software for a profit that haven't been heavily modified. You wouldn't want someone changing the corporate logo and selling their own rip off of your product Allow closed source vendors to use the code in their products so long as they release the modifications. In other words don't make them release all of their new product's code, just the modifications they made to the open source code they borrowed.
I like the concept of an eBook. If Microsoft and co can make the fonts look good and so on then I'm hooked. I would love to be able to take dozens of books with me on a single disk when I go on vacation or travel.
While they may have written drivers for their hardware for Linux, they have refused to help Be write drivers for BeOS. All Be asked for was the specs to write the drivers, but nVidia wouldn't do even that! Because of nVidia's current stance many BeOS users are considering alternatives like the Voodoo4 or Matrox G400. I won't be buying a GeForce since I can't get a driver for BeOS, but 3dfx has already pledged support for Voodoo4 under BeOS so that's where I'm going when I start building my next PC.
As much as I abhor their patents, I can't criticize them too much because they have the best prices and have good service. I won't buy from barnes and nobles or borders online so that leaves me with fatbrain and amazon.com. Guess which one charges a few bucks less than the other? Amazon.com. I am thinking about buying about 7-2x manga graphic novels and they are all around $2.5 cheaper at Amazon.com. All I can say here is continue to buy from amazon.com, but write your congressman. I already have written mine. The patent office has already begun the process of reform, we need to make sure that the PTO is able to see that reform through.
Allow judges to not only sieze the patent, but also remove the right to appeal the siezure of the patent. What's next? Someone's going to patent the concept of converting ascii text into executable binary code? These stupid corporationss seem to want to make some casualties in their rise to total power, so let's give the courts the power to make a bunch of corporations like amazon.com and intouch the only casualties of the patent system.
Pinkerton agents played a big role in the civil war as spies for the union. They were partially responsible for prolonging it because they gave the union commanders false info on the strength of the confederates. Also if I remember correctly they were used as strike breakers for a while by the big corps.
So this is starting up in the south, eh? I'm from/in the south (Virginia more specifically) so besides taking the laborous task of writing snail mail to my "representative" in state government how can help? Perhaps we should just bypass our state legislators and governments and ask congress to ban this. It all reminds me of something I read posted on another site by a libertarian: When they came for the 4th amendment I didn't say anything because I wasn't a drug dealer When they came for the 5th amendment I said nothing because I was innocent when they came for the 2nd amendment I said nothing because I didn't own a gun Now they've come for the 1st amendment and I can't say or do anything about it.
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IBM's G3s will soon be running @ up to 700mhz. That alone will provide incentive for them to stick to PPC. And of course no one who proposes that rubbish that Apple WILL port to x86 has been able to explain the following very important areas for apple:
-How will Apple maintain backward compatability with PPC Mac software? It would be far too slow on the average PC to use emulation software to run say..... Photoshop, MS Office, etc.
-How will Apple keep its diehard users loyal? Most of them consider x86 to be pure trash
-How will Apple benefit from licensing MacOS X? Its main business is hardware. It won't be able to sell Macs and license off MacOS X without one way or another hurting itself.
I'm on page 800 I believe and it is really good. Typical hollywood fuck up. It's no wonder why the movie was terrible, from what I heard only a few things are the same. I haven't seen it but I know of at least these monumental discrepancies:
-humans hijacked psychlo war vehicles such as psychlo battleplanes; only human assault rifles were used, and only on psychlo infantry because bullets could break through the psychlo's glass plating on their breath-gas masks. In the movie the humans used harriers and stuff like that.
-the movie conveniently did not tell the audience that breathgas makes a nice little pop when hit by even the tiniest traces of uranium
-Jonnie never went to DC. He got his idea about rebellion once he started learning about the weaknesses of psychlo technology. Also the scots who faught alongside him were NOT uneducated barbarians the way that katz's description suggests. They were as educated in psychlo technology as jonnie (ie very educated)
-Terl WAS NOT the leader. He was the security chief and he got power beyond that position through blackmail.
-There was no conclusive evidence after the nuke went off to suggest that Psychlo was destroyed, rather quite the opposite!
I haven't seen the movie but if they actually had bothered to use the REAL Battlefield Earth storyline it would have been really good. Also if they did that then Brackish by Kittie would be a very good theme song; it fits the Psychlos very well.
It would seem to me that comparing the two is stupid in and of itself. They were made for different purposes.
The best way to tell these guys we mean business is to give away free cds to anyone who might be interested. Hey, it works for AOL..... it's gotta work for us. However it would be best to not do that en mass until X4, Kernel 2.4, KDE 2 and GNOME 2 are bundled as standard features in at least RedHat, Mandrake, COL or Corel. Heh, let's face it, we won't be able to get the average joe whose thinking about jumping ship to use Debian or Slackware.
Make the person pay $.01 per message sent to each ISP whose users they spammed. Also if the spammer accidentally crashes the email/news server then treat it as a denial of service attack.
Seriously, what will the public do with all the power given to them by molecular, quantum and dna computers? I can just see it now, little kids breaking encryption algorithms in only a matter of seconds just for shits and giggles.
People must be accountable for what they say, whether we like it or not. Sadly we cannot allow people going around making damaging remarks about people that they know aren't true. How would you like Jon if someone posted online that they "found out" that you raped some hot chick in high school? Libel wouldn't be very funny then I can guarantee.
The libel laws most certainly need to be gone over to check for compatability with online speech. In fact it is my opinion that most critical area where we need to regulate is to license reporters the way we do doctors and lawyers. A reporter who slants their stories too much, too often, commits libel and other violations of the spirit of freedom of the press needs to be punished. However in that case of course you must make a distinction between professional reporters and guys who run hobby news sites like I guess betanews.com (can't think of a better example). The last thing we want is general speech licensing. However we need a licensing system that holds professional reporters accountable for their libel/slander.
With that part of online libel the last part we need to look at are of course flames. Few in their right mind would take flames seriously, but what do we do if flames step over the line into clearly illegal speech like threats of physical violence? Frankly I think all of those pundits that liken the net to the wild wild west got it wrong. It's not like the wild wild west, more like the colonization of the new world; we're having to build a new society from the ground up, not just transfering an old culture to a new one.
Push congress to pass a law that bars a lawyer from practicing law if they take a frivolous lawsuit to court. That includes corporate cases....
Bio Booster Armor Guyver (remade as just Guyver) is a REALLY good series. Macross II the movie is also a good buy. Record of Lodoss War, definitely worth it too
This issue I believe is symptomatic of the larger problem: packaged software is as much a manufactured good as a wrench or a hammer you buy a local hardware store. To allow companies to tell you how you can use it is as ridiculous as allowing Sears to force you to sign a contract saying you won't lend your power tools you just bought to your neighbor at the penalty of having Sears revoke your right to use them.
That also applies to movies and music. Once you buy the disk or whatever media it came on, it should be yours. Anything else is a violation of the consumers' property rights!
I haven't bought anything through ebay, but now they've sealed their fate with me, I won't buy anything through their network now!
I predict that within 10 years we will have as much corporate control of the internet as the russians had government control of their lives during the soviet years.
I also predict that the real violations of rights will come from corporations, not the government as the government is often too clueless to be able to effectively handle technology. It will ultimately come down to libertarians (restrain the gov AND corps) vs the pseudo-libertarians (just restrain the gov).
My final prediction is that libertarians around the nation will begin seeing the publically traded megacorporation for what it is: a barrier to free market enterprise and an institution whose power must be limited just as the government's power must be limited. If we don't limit it then other companies cannot rise up and challenge it. God knows if teddy roosevelt hadn't done his famous trust busting we might have an industrial-aristocracy equivelent to the old European aristocracies.
It would seem like the internet should have been hailed as the greatest BLESSING ever by the recording industry. It gives the big labels the opportunity to cut prices almost in half and split the revenues 50/50 with the artist by cutting out the store from the equation. Add in ownership of the means of producing the cds by the lables and you get a golden opportunity for the recording industry. But then again I guess they are run by old foggies with the money to pay $17 for a popular cd.
It seems to me that Microsoft is operating in an all-or-nothing manner with their authentification stuff. Doesn't their modified Kerberos only work in Win2k? It would seem to me that if that is the case they would appreciate people wanting to add Linux/BSD support for their modifed kerberos so that Win2k desktops could work on a network with Linux/BSD servers. Flexibility like that would sell more Win2k. The last thing they should want is people to go to another company because Win2k can't work with a non-Win2k server
But would you want a bunch of useless 3-5mb text files on your hard disk..... and more importantly. How would you fool the napster client when it checks to see what bitrate the file is. I could be wrong, but doesn't napster not show files that it can't find a bitrate for?
Before you judge him, why don't you find out what kind of agreements he has with the publisher(s). Perhaps he wants to, but cannot legally do so because of contracts he signed.
English I predict will always dominate programming languages but beyond that I predict that we will see the creation of some rather powerful translation engines (server side perhaps). That would allow everyone from English speakers to Tadjikistanian speakers to view the same page in their native language without there having to be a dominant language.
CNet which is threatened by AOL (like all other non-AOL commercial sites) promotes AOL by linking to the downloads of their apps. If anything the CNet crew should have linked to the earthlink software and stuff like that. It would be like the US talking about how bad China is then pointing the way to the closest PLA recruiting office.
I'm going to save up my money so that I can buy a color palm this summer or fall for my senior year in school. I would much rather have a color palm than anything from Microsoft or their cronies.
Considering the fact that Be actively maintains GPL'ed software for BeOS and releases the mods on their FTP server I am truly doubting Perens's claims. As far as I know all code is released on their FTP server because I've seen it numerous times listed on BeWare. He might be right, but to me this just sounds like another example of an open source zealot trying to bash a closed source vendor. Open source is flat out unprofitable for most software product types. Here's just a few such examples:
MP3/Movie tools
Game engines. Can anyone honestly say that if Q3's engine was GPL'ed right now that anyone other than the Unreal team would make a new, innovative engine for the time being (as in until the release of ID's next engine).
Utilities like cd burning software. Most software can't be supported through tech support and such. That to me is the biggest flaw in the GPL. It doesn't allow small time developers to open up and make code. A better license would:
Allow the developer to sell binary only cds and such
Keep others from being able to sell versions of the software for a profit that haven't been heavily modified. You wouldn't want someone changing the corporate logo and selling their own rip off of your product
Allow closed source vendors to use the code in their products so long as they release the modifications. In other words don't make them release all of their new product's code, just the modifications they made to the open source code they borrowed.
I like the concept of an eBook. If Microsoft and co can make the fonts look good and so on then I'm hooked. I would love to be able to take dozens of books with me on a single disk when I go on vacation or travel.
While they may have written drivers for their hardware for Linux, they have refused to help Be write drivers for BeOS. All Be asked for was the specs to write the drivers, but nVidia wouldn't do even that! Because of nVidia's current stance many BeOS users are considering alternatives like the Voodoo4 or Matrox G400. I won't be buying a GeForce since I can't get a driver for BeOS, but 3dfx has already pledged support for Voodoo4 under BeOS so that's where I'm going when I start building my next PC.
As much as I abhor their patents, I can't criticize them too much because they have the best prices and have good service. I won't buy from barnes and nobles or borders online so that leaves me with fatbrain and amazon.com. Guess which one charges a few bucks less than the other? Amazon.com. I am thinking about buying about 7-2x manga graphic novels and they are all around $2.5 cheaper at Amazon.com. All I can say here is continue to buy from amazon.com, but write your congressman. I already have written mine. The patent office has already begun the process of reform, we need to make sure that the PTO is able to see that reform through.
Allow judges to not only sieze the patent, but also remove the right to appeal the siezure of the patent. What's next? Someone's going to patent the concept of converting ascii text into executable binary code? These stupid corporationss seem to want to make some casualties in their rise to total power, so let's give the courts the power to make a bunch of corporations like amazon.com and intouch the only casualties of the patent system.
Pinkerton agents played a big role in the civil war as spies for the union. They were partially responsible for prolonging it because they gave the union commanders false info on the strength of the confederates. Also if I remember correctly they were used as strike breakers for a while by the big corps.
So this is starting up in the south, eh? I'm from/in the south (Virginia more specifically) so besides taking the laborous task of writing snail mail to my "representative" in state government how can help? Perhaps we should just bypass our state legislators and governments and ask congress to ban this. It all reminds me of something I read posted on another site by a libertarian:
When they came for the 4th amendment I didn't say anything because I wasn't a drug dealer
When they came for the 5th amendment I said nothing because I was innocent
when they came for the 2nd amendment I said nothing because I didn't own a gun
Now they've come for the 1st amendment and I can't say or do anything about it.