I wouldn't mind corporations having a lot of my information if it was passively used: I walk into a store and the things I would most likely buy are pointed out to me and put on sale (as proposed by National Cash Register/ JCPenny alliance)
You got it backward. Price is directly proportional to demand, not inversely. If I know you want something, I can charge you more for it. If I convince you to buy more of that object by lowering the price, I will loose money on the other things you would have bought instead.
No, I really don't want a store to know what I want, much less where I am.
There is a big difference between owning a made up word and common English. Xerox and Kleenex are valid trade marks because the words did not exist before the product. They are real, though modest, creative efforts. "for Dummies" well, Bull Shit, it's almost as good as "How to". Does anyone own a trademark on "The shit-head's guide to XXX"?
Don't confuse cheapness with patience or proffesionalism with manners. IDG knew that little page was not really harming IDG and that they would never recover the costs of a lawsuit from that group. This is basic self interest. I've never met a lawer who used rough phrases, the threats they make however are anything but polite. Trying to own a common English phrase is worse than rude, it's arrogant and corrupt.
Here's my break for them, I've never bought one of their books and I never will. Sure, I've read a few but I never got much out of them.
Yep, it looks like the status quo to me too. Just who constitues developers, and how will the API's be shared? I'm sure they will figure out a way to manipulate this to punish developers that got to compettitive.
Then again who cares? Windows is dead. I can't immagine how they will escape the "I Love You" worm dissaster, or the slow performance that is the legacy of their anti competitive past. There is just better software available. The trickle will soon be a mudslide.
Don't forget to make your script run as root and destroy system files! If you don't you have trivialized the problem. Lots of people who paid real money for their software in good faith have been really burnt by this thing.
What? That's harder to do?
This is not a battle, it's an attempt to educate the public. This thing was a predictable as the theft of a car that requires no keys to start. Hopefully, the public's hatred will be turned to the people who ripped them off, rather than those who warned them.
I agree with the coward. Nuclear Power costs an average of 3 cents per kilowatt hour to make. This is cheaper than anything but natural gas. It's also proved safer than anything but natural gas, if you judge safety by deaths per kilowatt hour produced. Alternate energy sources such as wind and solar have proved extreemly costly and I would argue that has much to do with your electric bill. You might consult a more reputable source and find out for sure.
There are some high cost nuclear plants, and they prove my original point. Most of the additional costs came from mandated redesign, drawn out liscensing and other forms of missguided govenment intrusion. In short, government policies can be shaped by hyserical and ignorant voices such as the SFBJ, and the nuclear industry is a good example of what that does.
Thanks for pointing out the source, Bowie. Your post is about the only sensible thing I've seen about this article. I doubt anyone at that paper has so much as a BS. As L.C. Tacitus said about two thousand years ago, "Outrage is the sensualists final pleasure." This article can be discounted at face value, as can other disreputable publications mentioned in other posts here, especially Mother Jones. GET AN EDUCATION, DO SOMETHING PRACTICAL, AND YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND!
OK, you want some specific refutation to such bull shit? Well, no. The article was supposed to provide proof. Instead it prattled on with hearsay, missuesd real statistics, and showed us how bad brain tumors are. Does the local PVC plant really disperse tons of clorine into the air every year, or does it make tons of pipe? Go look up deaths and cancer by proffesion. Last time I looked it was librarians and school teachers. Learn how to evaluate statistics, and find out if there are any real elevated death rates. I don't think cross dressers are up to it, and I'm glad someone called them on it.
The wierd thing is that government policy can be made to follow such hyseria. Look what happened to nuclear power. I hope that does not happen here.
Wow, check out all the hate surrounding this article. I suppose high heals makes some people bitchy. It's too bad people like that are free to vote, instead of being locked up in the nut house where they belong. Since when is a mental illness considered a Lifestyle? Phobia, I don't think so.
"Computer, play that song...uhh that one that goes 'road runner' by that band..uhh I wish I knew the words.... Computer are you lis-" Sound of 1970 VW van wrapping around a light post.
As others have pointed out, the interface depends on the desired use. For the average user, I propose the following universal interface:
1. Channel Selector. Allows the user to select content from different content providers.
2. Volume Control. This allows the user to turn up the content.
This simplified universal interface should allow everyone to get onto the internet super-spammway. Ammazing content from around the world awaits. Every home in America should have one:
It took some time to break all of NT's famous security, but I did it! This is what I found: screen shot.
This dude knew exactly what Windoze is good for. My commendations for a shrewd hire, MI5! I almost feel bad about embarasing him.
Leave 1 million pounds sterling (in silver!) in the LSU quad fountian at 2AM, April 1st or I will disable this critical piece of software and erase it's entire history. No tricks!
What a load of interesting questions such a borring, hack kneed, desperate for print article has inspired. 21 month precictions are useless, and predictions of widespread panic are just as empty.
First off, 21 months is an eternity. Companies that can't compete tomorow will be gone by then. Everything is always changing, those who adopt correctly survive. That's what this is all about. Long term precictions are just about impossible to make.
There's nothing like taking advantage of someone's misfortune.
You seem to already know something about supply and demand, in your own petty and mean spirited way.
Let's look at the demand supply of this equation and try to make a few foolish predictions. Where's all the money coming from? Supposedly, 48% of all US households own some form of stock. 401k's, massive advertising campains by investment firms, and get rich quick media coverage has contributied to this astonishing figure. Essentially, anyone who's not eligible for some form of govenment assistace has plowed some money into the stock market. We can expect this cash stream to continue to flow untill the boomers and other high slary earners start to retire and then get sick and die. The crash comes when people try to get their money out.
How painful that crash is will depend on how "aggresively" people have bought overpriced stocks. The federal govenment strips 28% of my worth away from me each year, but it does not ruin me. Hopefully, there are very few people out there willing to risk their entire savings on the stock market, let alone a single economic sector.
Contrary to communist thought, the world always recovers from economic downturns with or without wars. People are constructive. Crashes can cause great suffering, but they are never permanent.
These sites only touch on the truth. The true horrors of serious coke use were best documented by Charles Dickens.
I have to admit to recreational coke use. My wife enjoys it also, but she thinks that everyday is just too much. We've had some really great times that way, and she does not think it could ever be a problem. I've heard some horror stories, mostly involving gasoline, but I don't know anyone who has actually died this way.
Serious coke use is very different. It does indeed kill many people in all phases of its exploitation. Production and transportation is supposed to be the most dangerous activity.
Mail several coppies of it to yourself. The postmark will serve as a date, so you have a sealed dated document. A public notarty might also help, but INAL.
Multimedia stuff is not my field, but I'd wager you are better off where you are. The Linux desktops have really come up in the world, but it looks like you have a special set of tasks. If what you've got works and works well, you might leave good enough alone. I've never heard of using Solais for sound stuff. Where I work, the Suns are used for number crunching. Outside of Microsoft, Linux has the most software drivers, and I've heard that Solaris x86, like BSD's have some problems in that department. But then again, I wouldn't know aboout sound to begin with, I just don't do it.
A quick look at Google pulled up about 6,000 articles, mostly old. Have a look around, you're bound to find someone who knows something at these sites:
Here's an old slashdot article about Solaris8. From this article, I don't see Solaris8 on x86 becoming a hot development platform, but judge for yourself.
Here's an older looking page about sound on x86 hardware with Solaris.
Here's one from Gnome. This is one of the slickest desktops around. If it don't do sound yet, try KDE.
Look for atricles with your specific hardware and linux. I found out that MediaGX had some Linux sound support that way. It's just some hardware that I had. That sound was supported was luck of the draw. I'll bet you want better assurances than that. Sun has a forum for questions like this, here.
Hopefully, someone who knows something will answer your post. I'd like to know what you find, please post back if you learn anything useful.
Talking to your teachers like they are clueless morons easily impressed by catch phrases and hip jargon is going to get you knowhere. People who don't care might act like they are fooled, but don't bet on it. There is more to teaching than reading out of a text. Remember that even the lowly English teacher has done more in their accademic career than you might ever.
Reviving your physics teacher's interest in computing can get your further. That dude, who might have been lugging boxes of punch cards before your parents met, could really be interested in this great OS called Linux. If you know something, share it. The old card puncher will appreciate it.
I hope you can find someone to respect near you. If not, I suggest you get your grades up and prepare for college where you will surely be humbled and might just learn something.
By the way, there is at least one school here in Baton Rouge where a pretty cool teacher is putting out students who know more than how to trash a hard drive.
Yep! Depending on who you talk to, that's what you will hear. To the vast majority of people in the world, Microboft is the workplace and game playing reality. I'll bet the science teacher knows a different world.
The fact that this school has a software development program indicates some interest in scintific computing and there is where a LINUX cluster could fit in. Real "business" users of Microboft products would never think of programing much more than Excell. His physics, and chemistry teachers should know the overwealming importance of FORTRAN, C, and UNIX. In fact, one of them might be interested in teaching numerical methods alongside calculus. This may not be the kind of software development that our friend wants, but it's one that can engender support from some serious faculty members. Just ask for the older computers, and stick them on a LAN. No need for internet, equates to low threat to suspicious administrators who won't have to worry about you hacking into their crapy NT machines! Low or no dollar investment would make an easier sell.
Even if you're not interested in this kind of work, think of it as a wedge. Those supposedly unstable old computers will be remarcablly easy to administer...superiority shows, regardless of where you thought you were going yesterday!
Dude, rails are more expensive than roads. They have a far more substantial foundation. Think about it the next time you drive over the tracks. Rails also demand a precision lay out. They must be parallel and level. Out of tollerance means derailment. Roads are poured, rails built peice wise. Maintanence is also a concern. Defoiliation costs plenty, but vines and treel can not be alowed to grow on the right of way. For all the care and cost that goes into construction, rails wear out. The sleepers fail and replacing them costs a great deal.
In the end, you still need to fill the train for it to work. This does not happen unless you have lots of people all going to the same location and this requires a high population density. Most US cities don't qualify. What works for Paris, Tokyo and New York is not a universal solution. Smaller and more spread out cities are better served by a well planned road grid.
Public transportation depends on high population densities for economy. A bus designed to move sixty people that only carries three or four is obviouslly inefficient and wastefull. The only thing more wastefull would be an electric rail that runs the same route. Rails cost more than roads! The price structures of rails built in US cities reflects this underlying economic reality.
Unfortunately, people here in the US don't want to live in high popluation areas. That's their choice, good luck convincing them to do otherwise.
Though young Einstine may have diffused the first atomic beer carbonator, others can still use this technology! Just think of what could happen if a rouge corporation, like Budwiser, decided to use this dangerous process in an effort to save more money.
The extra money could be put into MORE advertisement, so that no one could resist their product. Other beers would be purchased and turned into water that everyone would want to drink. The whole world would be turned into beer sloths incapable of performing their jobs or even of reproducing. That's what radio active beer does to you! Society would colapse, humanity would dissapear. Oh, the horror!
Beer has become death, the destroyer of worlds. Beware!
If they can do it for Mac OS, they can do it for Linux. It's not supposed to work well, so users feel like they need M$ only computers. Someone above posted a really insiteful prediction of how M$ would do this. It tracks pretty well with how MS bombed out Mac users who tried to use office.
There is no way anyone could get me to install office on a nice linux box. I'm sure it would wreck things and there are plenty of alternatives. It's been a while since I've had to write a paper that demanded anything more than a text editor, but Word Perfect 8 has been good on Linux. I'm trying to learn how to use Gnumeric and plot to make up the spreadsheet. As for presentations, I've seen people set up good ones as pure HTML's. These can be printed as slides or transparacies if the place where you present does not have a projector hooked to a browser. In general, I've heard good things about Star Office, but I'm too lazy to look into it.
Hopefully, the bussiness world will get a clue and stop asking for things in MS format. Resume in Word format? Dude, send me ASCII!
It really is imposible to violate someone's rights, and attempting to do so is wasteful. There is a big difference between this and crime prevention and punishment.
This will no more stop undesired activities than phone traces or postal violations. Why? There are plenty of open terminals at the library that any creep could use or corrupt. People with knowhow will always be able to wiretap, listen, immitate and abuse. This ability will only grow as computer size shrinks.
Nope, this looks like another power grab for the Federal govenment. For an interesting view of motives visit CATO.
At the risk of souring public opinion, we should be advocating nuclear propulsion. Chemical propulsion has it's limits in terms of specific impulse and those limits will tell on the missions. More is better. The NERVA project proved the viability of a simple and direct application. The Scientific American article "How to go to Mars" had a nice write up on interesting electric propulsion engines, but they would of course require a power source.
Nuclear power must be de deamonized if advancements are going to happen. The risks have to be clearly stated and put into persective. The current irrational fear of all things radioactive will prevent utilization of all these propulsion sources.
Using a dedicated windoze machine to surf sounds like a good idea, but what are the implications? I do this myself because it's easy. Like you, I'm hoping this reduces the chances of real data being erased, and it's easier for the wife to use the windoze box. It's also easier for me, and I don't have to worry about Nutscrape screwing up my file system. The wife just won't live without her hotmail, which is the only mail she can read at work. But what are we doing? Isn't this a wholsale surrender of the web to Micro$oft?
Sysadmis see that most of their visitors use Microboft and have fewer reasons to object to Microboft only enhancements. It's all some PHB needs to see in conjunction with some BS advert that promises seemles ecomerce with Win2k, blah blah blah.
Why fight it? Surfing is not really that important, I don't have anything to hide, I don't really need those crapy comercial sites that won't work with open standards, who cares if Microboft screws my trash 486, right?
Wrong! Sysadmins need to have direct evidence that Microboft only "enhancements" will keep people off their sites, if the web is to remain open and accesible. Language barriers are a bad enough fragementation, but one that can be overcome. Giving up the web to an insecure opperating system is even worse than fragmentation. Where I've been and how I get there are no one's business but my own. It is really agrivating to think that the sites I visit might be recorded with less effort than recording the books I take out from a public library or the physical places I visit. Sooner or later, someone will write an application that can mount my other hard drives and blow them up too. Even a 386 can be used to break my real machines.
But how to fight this? Your compiler itself can be a Trojan Horse. I don't have the time to chip into Mozilla yet, do you? Sure, I don't visit sites that break my browser, but my wife does.
Slashdot Mirror
You got it backward. Price is directly proportional to demand, not inversely. If I know you want something, I can charge you more for it. If I convince you to buy more of that object by lowering the price, I will loose money on the other things you would have bought instead.
No, I really don't want a store to know what I want, much less where I am.
Don't confuse cheapness with patience or proffesionalism with manners. IDG knew that little page was not really harming IDG and that they would never recover the costs of a lawsuit from that group. This is basic self interest. I've never met a lawer who used rough phrases, the threats they make however are anything but polite. Trying to own a common English phrase is worse than rude, it's arrogant and corrupt.
Here's my break for them, I've never bought one of their books and I never will. Sure, I've read a few but I never got much out of them.
Then again who cares? Windows is dead. I can't immagine how they will escape the "I Love You" worm dissaster, or the slow performance that is the legacy of their anti competitive past. There is just better software available. The trickle will soon be a mudslide.
What? That's harder to do?
This is not a battle, it's an attempt to educate the public. This thing was a predictable as the theft of a car that requires no keys to start. Hopefully, the public's hatred will be turned to the people who ripped them off, rather than those who warned them.
There are some high cost nuclear plants, and they prove my original point. Most of the additional costs came from mandated redesign, drawn out liscensing and other forms of missguided govenment intrusion. In short, government policies can be shaped by hyserical and ignorant voices such as the SFBJ, and the nuclear industry is a good example of what that does.
Thanks for pointing out the source, Bowie. Your post is about the only sensible thing I've seen about this article. I doubt anyone at that paper has so much as a BS. As L.C. Tacitus said about two thousand years ago, "Outrage is the sensualists final pleasure." This article can be discounted at face value, as can other disreputable publications mentioned in other posts here, especially Mother Jones. GET AN EDUCATION, DO SOMETHING PRACTICAL, AND YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND!
OK, you want some specific refutation to such bull shit? Well, no. The article was supposed to provide proof. Instead it prattled on with hearsay, missuesd real statistics, and showed us how bad brain tumors are. Does the local PVC plant really disperse tons of clorine into the air every year, or does it make tons of pipe? Go look up deaths and cancer by proffesion. Last time I looked it was librarians and school teachers. Learn how to evaluate statistics, and find out if there are any real elevated death rates. I don't think cross dressers are up to it, and I'm glad someone called them on it.
The wierd thing is that government policy can be made to follow such hyseria. Look what happened to nuclear power. I hope that does not happen here.
Wow, check out all the hate surrounding this article. I suppose high heals makes some people bitchy. It's too bad people like that are free to vote, instead of being locked up in the nut house where they belong. Since when is a mental illness considered a Lifestyle? Phobia, I don't think so.
"Computer, play that song...uhh that one that goes 'road runner' by that band..uhh I wish I knew the words.... Computer are you lis-" Sound of 1970 VW van wrapping around a light post.
"Computer, call the doctor."
Wuzz Dat? I never use it.
1. Channel Selector. Allows the user to select content from different content providers.
2. Volume Control. This allows the user to turn up the content.
This simplified universal interface should allow everyone to get onto the internet super-spammway. Ammazing content from around the world awaits. Every home in America should have one:
VIEW IN FIXED SPACEING FONT
This dude knew exactly what Windoze is good for. My commendations for a shrewd hire, MI5! I almost feel bad about embarasing him.
Leave 1 million pounds sterling (in silver!) in the LSU quad fountian at 2AM, April 1st or I will disable this critical piece of software and erase it's entire history. No tricks!
What a load of interesting questions such a borring, hack kneed, desperate for print article has inspired. 21 month precictions are useless, and predictions of widespread panic are just as empty.
First off, 21 months is an eternity. Companies that can't compete tomorow will be gone by then. Everything is always changing, those who adopt correctly survive. That's what this is all about. Long term precictions are just about impossible to make.
There's nothing like taking advantage of someone's misfortune.
You seem to already know something about supply and demand, in your own petty and mean spirited way.
Let's look at the demand supply of this equation and try to make a few foolish predictions. Where's all the money coming from? Supposedly, 48% of all US households own some form of stock. 401k's, massive advertising campains by investment firms, and get rich quick media coverage has contributied to this astonishing figure. Essentially, anyone who's not eligible for some form of govenment assistace has plowed some money into the stock market. We can expect this cash stream to continue to flow untill the boomers and other high slary earners start to retire and then get sick and die. The crash comes when people try to get their money out.
How painful that crash is will depend on how "aggresively" people have bought overpriced stocks. The federal govenment strips 28% of my worth away from me each year, but it does not ruin me. Hopefully, there are very few people out there willing to risk their entire savings on the stock market, let alone a single economic sector.
Contrary to communist thought, the world always recovers from economic downturns with or without wars. People are constructive. Crashes can cause great suffering, but they are never permanent.
Recreational coke use.
Serious coke use
Coke use rampant!
The international conspiracy money trail.
What coke did to beer.
These sites only touch on the truth. The true horrors of serious coke use were best documented by Charles Dickens.
I have to admit to recreational coke use. My wife enjoys it also, but she thinks that everyday is just too much. We've had some really great times that way, and she does not think it could ever be a problem. I've heard some horror stories, mostly involving gasoline, but I don't know anyone who has actually died this way.
Serious coke use is very different. It does indeed kill many people in all phases of its exploitation. Production and transportation is supposed to be the most dangerous activity.
Mail several coppies of it to yourself. The postmark will serve as a date, so you have a sealed dated document. A public notarty might also help, but INAL.
A quick look at Google pulled up about 6,000 articles, mostly old. Have a look around, you're bound to find someone who knows something at these sites:
Here's an old slashdot article about Solaris8. From this article, I don't see Solaris8 on x86 becoming a hot development platform, but judge for yourself.
Here's an older looking page about sound on x86 hardware with Solaris.
Here's one from Gnome. This is one of the slickest desktops around. If it don't do sound yet, try KDE.
Look for atricles with your specific hardware and linux. I found out that MediaGX had some Linux sound support that way. It's just some hardware that I had. That sound was supported was luck of the draw. I'll bet you want better assurances than that. Sun has a forum for questions like this, here.
Hopefully, someone who knows something will answer your post. I'd like to know what you find, please post back if you learn anything useful.
The boat would sink!
Somehow, I don't think they will make it that far.
Reviving your physics teacher's interest in computing can get your further. That dude, who might have been lugging boxes of punch cards before your parents met, could really be interested in this great OS called Linux. If you know something, share it. The old card puncher will appreciate it.
I hope you can find someone to respect near you. If not, I suggest you get your grades up and prepare for college where you will surely be humbled and might just learn something.
By the way, there is at least one school here in Baton Rouge where a pretty cool teacher is putting out students who know more than how to trash a hard drive.
The fact that this school has a software development program indicates some interest in scintific computing and there is where a LINUX cluster could fit in. Real "business" users of Microboft products would never think of programing much more than Excell. His physics, and chemistry teachers should know the overwealming importance of FORTRAN, C, and UNIX. In fact, one of them might be interested in teaching numerical methods alongside calculus. This may not be the kind of software development that our friend wants, but it's one that can engender support from some serious faculty members. Just ask for the older computers, and stick them on a LAN. No need for internet, equates to low threat to suspicious administrators who won't have to worry about you hacking into their crapy NT machines! Low or no dollar investment would make an easier sell.
Even if you're not interested in this kind of work, think of it as a wedge. Those supposedly unstable old computers will be remarcablly easy to administer...superiority shows, regardless of where you thought you were going yesterday!
In the end, you still need to fill the train for it to work. This does not happen unless you have lots of people all going to the same location and this requires a high population density. Most US cities don't qualify. What works for Paris, Tokyo and New York is not a universal solution. Smaller and more spread out cities are better served by a well planned road grid.
Unfortunately, people here in the US don't want to live in high popluation areas. That's their choice, good luck convincing them to do otherwise.
Where do you live?
The extra money could be put into MORE advertisement, so that no one could resist their product. Other beers would be purchased and turned into water that everyone would want to drink. The whole world would be turned into beer sloths incapable of performing their jobs or even of reproducing. That's what radio active beer does to you! Society would colapse, humanity would dissapear. Oh, the horror!
Beer has become death, the destroyer of worlds. Beware!
There is no way anyone could get me to install office on a nice linux box. I'm sure it would wreck things and there are plenty of alternatives. It's been a while since I've had to write a paper that demanded anything more than a text editor, but Word Perfect 8 has been good on Linux. I'm trying to learn how to use Gnumeric and plot to make up the spreadsheet. As for presentations, I've seen people set up good ones as pure HTML's. These can be printed as slides or transparacies if the place where you present does not have a projector hooked to a browser. In general, I've heard good things about Star Office, but I'm too lazy to look into it.
Hopefully, the bussiness world will get a clue and stop asking for things in MS format. Resume in Word format? Dude, send me ASCII!
But Debian is much cooler, and really free.
This will no more stop undesired activities than phone traces or postal violations. Why? There are plenty of open terminals at the library that any creep could use or corrupt. People with knowhow will always be able to wiretap, listen, immitate and abuse. This ability will only grow as computer size shrinks.
Nope, this looks like another power grab for the Federal govenment. For an interesting view of motives visit CATO.
At the risk of souring public opinion, we should be advocating nuclear propulsion. Chemical propulsion has it's limits in terms of specific impulse and those limits will tell on the missions. More is better. The NERVA project proved the viability of a simple and direct application. The Scientific American article "How to go to Mars" had a nice write up on interesting electric propulsion engines, but they would of course require a power source.
Nuclear power must be de deamonized if advancements are going to happen. The risks have to be clearly stated and put into persective. The current irrational fear of all things radioactive will prevent utilization of all these propulsion sources.
Sysadmis see that most of their visitors use Microboft and have fewer reasons to object to Microboft only enhancements. It's all some PHB needs to see in conjunction with some BS advert that promises seemles ecomerce with Win2k, blah blah blah.
Why fight it? Surfing is not really that important, I don't have anything to hide, I don't really need those crapy comercial sites that won't work with open standards, who cares if Microboft screws my trash 486, right?
Wrong! Sysadmins need to have direct evidence that Microboft only "enhancements" will keep people off their sites, if the web is to remain open and accesible. Language barriers are a bad enough fragementation, but one that can be overcome. Giving up the web to an insecure opperating system is even worse than fragmentation. Where I've been and how I get there are no one's business but my own. It is really agrivating to think that the sites I visit might be recorded with less effort than recording the books I take out from a public library or the physical places I visit. Sooner or later, someone will write an application that can mount my other hard drives and blow them up too. Even a 386 can be used to break my real machines.
But how to fight this? Your compiler itself can be a Trojan Horse. I don't have the time to chip into Mozilla yet, do you? Sure, I don't visit sites that break my browser, but my wife does.