Now M$ will be bound to index the contents of your hard drive (Google's already made steps in that direction.)
Given M$ product design uh, "acumen" and their renowned approach to sysetm security, your every embarassing e-mail or all those pr0n pics that you've forgot about since you forgot what sub directory they were in will resurface to haunt you on the internet.
Imagine the "Invasion of Privacy" charges and civil lawsuits.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. Thank [insert deity name here] I use a Mac.
I can't quite see being beaten up by a rampaging squad of baton wielding, pimply faced, pubescent males because some idiotic system deterted my glasses (well their lenses.)
No music (RIAA pissed me off once too often, and, for the most part, the music sucks.)
No TV, (puh-leez,I have a brain and my IQ is not in remission.)
Now No going to the movies to be surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs (its only a movie "Buford", put down the pistol, and stop talkin' at the screen; they can't hear ya,) and/or screaming kids ruining The Incredibles or Team America (specially Team America! which was DEFINITELY NOT a kiddie movie. GOD! If YOU brought 'em to Team America, just how cheap are you? Didn't want to spend the money on a sitter and now your wife [remember her? She's the one they'll investgate first when you have your 'huntin accident'] is going to have to explain why that man/puppey was being sick after drinking. Not to mention the two puppets going at it hammer and thongs with ever variation in the Kama Sutra.)
America is bricking itself off. Now every idea will have to be bought and paid for. The barriers to entry will be such that what created America will cease to exist.
Since any idea can be found to originate with the words used to express it, that will mean the slow strangulation of original thought; just because you'll have to pay God knows who, probably some lawyer who's acquired a bunch of patents, God know how much, every time the light bulb goes off in your head. (The imagery owes something to Edison.)
It won't take too long before you stop attempting to act and then to even think.
I worked on a machine that had 24k (that 24,576) bytes of wire-wrapped, core memory. At the time though I new where RAM was trending. I had an Apple][ with 32 K of semi-conductor memory.
I wrote a Pascal-like HLL compiler and a payroll system for the damn thing. In 24k bytes of memory.
What the [expletive deleted] do you DO with all those terabytes or high-speed RAM? Lets pretend something goes KABOOM!
Since Wal*Mart is starting to put the squeeze on the RIAA and the music pimps, they will see that it is in their own best interest to maintain an ITMS as a hedge against being pushed, like all Wal*Mart suppliers, into dependency, servitude and eventual oblivion as independent entities.
Wall*Mart is NOT good for America.
Wall*Mart causes price wars that they ultimately win on volume (buy cheap in China and sell cheap in the 'States [and let the volume take care of the shipping,]) and everyone they rub up against is doomed without some form of 'free trade' barrier like a tariff on imports.
Wall*Mart wins but/and the local producers who can't afford themselves of the retail volumes, and who were the market place before, loose.
The ultimate price of a Wall*Mart style of enterprize is your freedom because if a Wall*Mart doesn't carry something, there nobody left to produce it.
All they need to do is start squeezing the markets they have devastated and, like all monopolies they WILL. Not right now, but in a few years, look for Sexy M.F. by Prince and it won't even exist anymore.
"We don't know if or when our conversations and other communications are monitored."
You're best to assume that they are (and invent your own clear code,) and that your cel phone is also a GPS and can give your location away to a resolution less than the flying shrapnel of a missile.
That's why you don't hear dick from Osama any more.
Your statement of "don't shop there. Simple as that. " is fine as long as there's somewhere else left to shop.
But its goes against what's really happening when Wall*Mart moves into a geographic area with its thousands of truck loads of cheaper, foreign produced goods.
The local producers get wiped off the map, the same map that Wall*Mart now call its sales territory.
Also note that Wal*Mart would have NO competitive advantage in China, which is where most of their products originate.
That's why fresh food stuffs and drugs are only 'volume discount' cheaper, unlike other non-perishable items. They don't make it through the shipping process as well as a vacuum or CO2 packer container filled with preserved biscuits.
"communism's evil twin" indeed. At the end, monopolies of any kind pretty much have to start to resemble each other.
Political monopolies, like communism (well the closest the world ever got was socialism, Soviet style,) and economic monopolies, like any one industry towm, are both prone to the same sort of infections: Corruption, greed and abusive relationships with the free market factors/forces.
Wall*Mart would be NOT wiped out but the entire export/import price balance structure would be righted with the stroke of a pen if imported goods HAD to be sold, and enforced through tariffs, fines and other punitive restraints, at the SAME price as the lowest local (not foreign) production cost.
However, Wall*Mart would NOT be able to exploit its relative advantage in going to foreign markets and importing everything for sale in its stores at prices below what can be produced locally.
Apple's a hardware company. Mac OS X runs ONLY on Macs. That's the whole point of Mac OS X and its superiority over Windows (or even Linux as far as the GUI 'experience.')
They don't WANT it running on ANY other hardware. Heck, they stay'd away from the X86 architecture and instead introduced the 601 architecture (G1 in this parlance, Now they're up to iMac G5) and they have stayed away from commoditized hardware, not standards but hardware, like it had ebola.
Maybe Sculley would have been happy fading in the sunset but Jobs is NOT gonna take this lying down.
Buy your copy NOW because, I smell fire, brinstone and some lawer's suit coming down the pike (or should I say some hacker's *ss coming down ON the pike.)
gives me some hope for the eventual acceptance of the language, though I realize that its like HP's RPN calculators. Most people never 'got it' and they bought calculators with an = sign.
When the facination with code objects is over ("the faster the better" erupts from the Microsoft quarter, "we can't make as much money from new code as we can from old code") the world will begin to realize the importance of object relationships, object states and state machines and its effect on used interfaces.
Data structure is fine but it needs to be married to the articulation (partly in the GAAP sense of the word) of inter object relationships through an intermediary of a state machine and projected onto a 3D GUI like Croquet.
The GovCorp can run into some things that it can't just run around or run over. There are some things, like safety belts and collapsable steering columns, that did happen to challenge and change the assumptions of the auto industry about how their customer base viewed things that could save their own lives.
Unfortunately, there are too few Ralph Naders out there.
We're going do all be "leveled off" below the neck.
I can't begin to calculate the damage this will do to the industry. Everything will eventually be found originate with Boole and Babagge and we'll have to pay THEM for the right to look at or use anything to do with logic.
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The article claims that New Vehicles Will Make own Decisions Based on Commands.
Well fuck me. Ohh Noooo. I didn't mean that.
What if its a lovely day with balmy breeze rocking the pams trees to and fro?
Since the paradigm shift by the USPO we can safely say that anything which can be expressed in technical terms can be patented.
Now M$ will be bound to index the contents of your hard drive (Google's already made steps in that direction.)
Given M$ product design uh, "acumen" and their renowned approach to sysetm security, your every embarassing e-mail or all those pr0n pics that you've forgot about since you forgot what sub directory they were in will resurface to haunt you on the internet.
Imagine the "Invasion of Privacy" charges and civil lawsuits.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. Thank [insert deity name here] I use a Mac.
I can't quite see being beaten up by a rampaging squad of baton wielding, pimply faced, pubescent males because some idiotic system deterted my glasses (well their lenses.)
No music (RIAA pissed me off once too often, and, for the most part, the music sucks.)
No TV, (puh-leez,I have a brain and my IQ is not in remission.)
Now No going to the movies to be surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs (its only a movie "Buford", put down the pistol, and stop talkin' at the screen; they can't hear ya,) and/or screaming kids ruining The Incredibles or Team America (specially Team America! which was DEFINITELY NOT a kiddie movie. GOD! If YOU brought 'em to Team America, just how cheap are you? Didn't want to spend the money on a sitter and now your wife [remember her? She's the one they'll investgate first when you have your 'huntin accident'] is going to have to explain why that man/puppey was being sick after drinking. Not to mention the two puppets going at it hammer and thongs with ever variation in the Kama Sutra.)
America is bricking itself off. Now every idea will have to be bought and paid for. The barriers to entry will be such that what created America will cease to exist.
Since any idea can be found to originate with the words used to express it, that will mean the slow strangulation of original thought; just because you'll have to pay God knows who, probably some lawyer who's acquired a bunch of patents, God know how much, every time the light bulb goes off in your head. (The imagery owes something to Edison.)
It won't take too long before you stop attempting to act and then to even think.
and guided by active tail fins is a weapon of *ss destruction.
You don't WANT explosives to interfere with such precision guided ordinance.
One minute you're there and the next you're there but you have a big glowing hot metal bar sticking out of your *ss.
THAT's what's at stake here.
Man this shit makes me feel old.
I worked on a machine that had 24k (that 24,576) bytes of wire-wrapped, core memory. At the time though I new where RAM was trending. I had an Apple][ with 32 K of semi-conductor memory.
I wrote a Pascal-like HLL compiler and a payroll system for the damn thing. In 24k bytes of memory.
What the [expletive deleted] do you DO with all those terabytes or high-speed RAM? Lets pretend something goes KABOOM!
I don't know wether to be wow-ed or depressed.
Since Wal*Mart is starting to put the squeeze on the RIAA and the music pimps, they will see that it is in their own best interest to maintain an ITMS as a hedge against being pushed, like all Wal*Mart suppliers, into dependency, servitude and eventual oblivion as independent entities.
Wall*Mart is NOT good for America.
Wall*Mart causes price wars that they ultimately win on volume (buy cheap in China and sell cheap in the 'States [and let the volume take care of the shipping,]) and everyone they rub up against is doomed without some form of 'free trade' barrier like a tariff on imports.
Wall*Mart wins but/and the local producers who can't afford themselves of the retail volumes, and who were the market place before, loose.
The ultimate price of a Wall*Mart style of enterprize is your freedom because if a Wall*Mart doesn't carry something, there nobody left to produce it.
All they need to do is start squeezing the markets they have devastated and, like all monopolies they WILL. Not right now, but in a few years, look for Sexy M.F. by Prince and it won't even exist anymore.
Now THAT would be helpful technology.
I find it amazing that anybody puts bytes in a buffer without doing a boudary check.
There is more than enough CPU power to do it and it would dispose of entire classes of attacks.
"We don't know if or when our conversations and other communications are monitored."
You're best to assume that they are (and invent your own clear code,) and that your cel phone is also a GPS and can give your location away to a resolution less than the flying shrapnel of a missile.
That's why you don't hear dick from Osama any more.
Your statement of "don't shop there. Simple as that. " is fine as long as there's somewhere else left to shop.
But its goes against what's really happening when Wall*Mart moves into a geographic area with its thousands of truck loads of cheaper, foreign produced goods.
The local producers get wiped off the map, the same map that Wall*Mart now call its sales territory.
Also note that Wal*Mart would have NO competitive advantage in China, which is where most of their products originate.
That's why fresh food stuffs and drugs are only 'volume discount' cheaper, unlike other non-perishable items. They don't make it through the shipping process as well as a vacuum or CO2 packer container filled with preserved biscuits.
"communism's evil twin" indeed. At the end, monopolies of any kind pretty much have to start to resemble each other.
Political monopolies, like communism (well the closest the world ever got was socialism, Soviet style,) and economic monopolies, like any one industry towm, are both prone to the same sort of infections: Corruption, greed and abusive relationships with the free market factors/forces.
Wall*Mart would be NOT wiped out but the entire export/import price balance structure would be righted with the stroke of a pen if imported goods HAD to be sold, and enforced through tariffs, fines and other punitive restraints, at the SAME price as the lowest local (not foreign) production cost.
However, Wall*Mart would NOT be able to exploit its relative advantage in going to foreign markets and importing everything for sale in its stores at prices below what can be produced locally.
an old Arthur Brown reference.
If the price of an iMac G5 is too high, I'm sure you can pick up a perfectly workable one elsewhere.
Try it...
Apple's a hardware company. Mac OS X runs ONLY on Macs. That's the whole point of Mac OS X and its superiority over Windows (or even Linux as far as the GUI 'experience.')
They don't WANT it running on ANY other hardware. Heck, they stay'd away from the X86 architecture and instead introduced the 601 architecture (G1 in this parlance, Now they're up to iMac G5) and they have stayed away from commoditized hardware, not standards but hardware, like it had ebola.
Maybe Sculley would have been happy fading in the sunset but Jobs is NOT gonna take this lying down.
Buy your copy NOW because, I smell fire, brinstone and some lawer's suit coming down the pike (or should I say some hacker's *ss coming down ON the pike.)
gives me some hope for the eventual acceptance of the language, though I realize that its like HP's RPN calculators. Most people never 'got it' and they bought calculators with an = sign.
When the facination with code objects is over ("the faster the better" erupts from the Microsoft quarter, "we can't make as much money from new code as we can from old code") the world will begin to realize the importance of object relationships, object states and state machines and its effect on used interfaces.
Data structure is fine but it needs to be married to the articulation (partly in the GAAP sense of the word) of inter object relationships through an intermediary of a state machine and projected onto a 3D GUI like Croquet.
The first leads to complete anihilation while the other leads to utter destitution.
Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose well.
every time somebody wrote code that was flaky and because it DIDN'T have a lot of crap "entertainment" drivers for it.
If Microsoft hadn't EOL'ed NT we'd STIL be using it.
can emulate any other computer.
We have known this for over half a century.
It's been done and but I wonder if it was worthwhile distraction from doing real work.
being able to run SoftwareUpdate?
'Cause you're cheap?
Just bite the bullet, buy a friggin' Mac and get the more important parts (or the defective parts) kept up to date free from/by Apple.
That would require a 'one finger salute', shortly becore the crash.
ALL of my music has a CD to back it up (that's over 800 of 'em) and I'm ripping my vinyl because they're to fragile to play.
So Ballmer can kiss my fucking ass IN COURT.
The GovCorp can run into some things that it can't just run around or run over. There are some things, like safety belts and collapsable steering columns, that did happen to challenge and change the assumptions of the auto industry about how their customer base viewed things that could save their own lives.
Unfortunately, there are too few Ralph Naders out there.
We're going do all be "leveled off" below the neck.
I can't begin to calculate the damage this will do to the industry. Everything will eventually be found originate with Boole and Babagge and we'll have to pay THEM for the right to look at or use anything to do with logic.