I know you'll say, "that's crazy," and maybe even mod me down because you think I'm off my rocker, but I think this actually will have a good effect on our favorite operating system, Linux.
Imagine: the buggy (and needless to say proprietary) flight control software is installed. Two months later, plane crashes are at an all time high. The FAA is in an uproar, the media is clamoring for a solution, America is in turmoil.
*ring ring*
What's that? It's the phone. Who is it? Someone named Linux Torvalds...says he has a solution to our problems.
Bing bang bong boing boom, Linux is running the major world airports. Due to the superior stability and dependibility of Open Source Software, Linux is now the poster boy for good production values. The few hundred lives lost in the meantime will be well worth the benefit to software that is Free as in Speech.
You are basically right, I think. Linux is making huge strides every day, and this is just another notch in the stick with which Linux will beat Microsoft about the face.
Linux has shown superiority over Windows in nearly every category. There are a few areas, such as compatability with mp3 players and other popular peripherals, compatability with the latest Office standards, and any serious desktop publishing, where Linux still lags a bit (though one need only check out SourceForge to see the attempted solutions slowly on the way), but with this release we can safely expect to see some big players "go Linux" Real Soon Now.
I think this is going to be a major boon for Linux. Far too long has Linux been considered a "marginal" OS with a handful of zealous believers. With Mozilla at 1.0, and KDE and Gnome almost ready for prime-time, and several Linux office suites in the final planning stages, Linux is poised for triumph.
There are a few other possible approaches that can be taken with this. One depressing one is a "grave to grave" methodology: you start with a filthy, used-up world and let it stagnate. A better one could be called "grave to cradle."
Basically, you have to accept that you are starting with something bad. Face it, our forefathers were not omniscient, nor were they smart. We have no ozone layer, few trees, no more horned owls, global warmth, the list goes on. Now, just do the opposite of what people would do in the "cradle to grave" approach. Instead of building factories, tear them down. Instead of cutting down trees, plant some new ones. Replace your car with a horse and buggy, your GAP clothes with furs and skins, your television with books and sex. Instead of a Cold War, have a Cold Peace! Live backwards.
After a few generations, we will have restored Earth to its glory days.
My old analog TV can never make up its mind, but it does have a whole continuum to choose from. At least digital TVs only have to choose from a finite set.
(please do not mod down if you don't get this joke)
It's sad to see powerful corporations sinking billions of dollars and trillions of man-hours into a project that is literally a wild goose chase.
It has been demonstrated by mathematicians at Princeton that this kind of copy protection or digital watermarking is mathematically impossible. While "where there's a will, there's a way" sounds flippant and trite, the mathematical principle of seperability essentially states that content can always be extracted from its protected form.
These guys are chasing the elusive pot o' gold that's over the rainbow. Best of luck to them, but oh, what a waste of effort.
This could really be a boon to IT and any business still shackled to Windows.
Once the Wine hackers have developed drop-in replacements for all of the Windows components, we will essentially have a Windows clone. Then we can start focussing on added functionality.
Has anyone considered merging the Linux and Wine codebases to create a Windows clone? It could be called Windux. The mascot could be Tux's cousin Dux (a duck).
Who cares about the.swf format? The key is in.fla files, which is still closed AFAIK.
Anyway, I don't care. I don't have a flash plugin on any of my boxen, and I couldn't be happier. Have yet to see a site I want to read that requires flash. Until Pokey is published as.swf files, I'm cool.
I can see why we'd spend money making sure we control strategic communications channels. Remember that that cable, like the US interstate system and the Internet's predecessor (ARPAnet), were designed at least partially for military applications in the even of thermonucular warfare. Granted, today it's all just part of the international pr0n industry, but you have to remember that there was a reason the military dished out all that money in the first place.
somehow I don't see e-books ever replacing books. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather pick up a physical book and read it in bed or on the couch. Sure, I could print it out, but rather than buy a high quality printer for e-book printing, I'd rather just go out to the store and buy a book
1000 years ago you might have said:
somehow I don't see printed books ever replacing scrolls. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather pick up a piece of parchment and read it in church or at the royal court. Sure, I could get two copies, but rather than buy another printed book, I'd rather just go to my desk and copy another scroll by hand
2000 years before that you might have said:
somehow I don't see parchment ever replacing stone tablets. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather pick up a stone tablet and read it in my mud house or on the acropolis. Sure, I could write it out, but rather than buy high quality sheepskin and a quill for parchment copying, I'd rather just go out to the quarry and mine another slab of limestone
8000 years before that you might have said:
somehow I don't see stone tablets ever replacing oral history. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather meet a talented bard and listen to a tale around the fire or on a journey. Sure, I could carve it out, but rather than learn to read and write and buy a high quality piece of stone and a sharp implement for carving it, I'd rather just go out to the bar and meet a strange traveller with strange stories of faraway lands
One need only look at the track record of digital technology to answer this question.
Microfiche gave in to digital archives, vinyl has been replaced by CDs for all but the nuttiest audiophiles, even books are more and more moving to an e-book format.
For the moment, however, we're stuck with analog. I saw a digital projection of ATOC in New York, and it was a disappointment. The colors were off, blurry pixels were visible in many of the scenes, fast action shots were marred by compression artifacts, and there were too few scenes with Jar-Jar Binks. The digital sound was great, which should come as no surprise, as it's been great for the last half decade.
Fortunately, we can always count on Moore's Law. Even as I type here at my dumb terminal, digital projection technology is being improved at a rate that analog tech can't touch. I'd hold out for the moment, but in a few years digital projection should be much better and more affordable than the "old school" systems currently in place.
Service Pack 2adds a feature that performs transparent LanManager <->/etc/passwd mapping for heterogenous networks. Due to protocol differences in MS's implementation, however, this is only compatible with SSH2, so depending on how many legacy machines need to be supported this might be an impractical solution.
I'd say Linux looks like the solid winner on this one. So what else is new?
I know this sounds terrible at first glance. This can only lead to corporate bias in the Internet.
But then I reconsidered. It occured to me that corporations have one thing that the Internet lacks: stability. Because the growth of the Internet relies upon widespread standards, there needs to be a central, solid body on which to base new technologies and policies.
If ICANN goes the "open" route, then we risk introducing the volatility of the Internet into its heretofore pristine foundation. And that, my friends, is not an action that will be easily undone.
Where is timothy from that he expects international treaties to even consider working towards a "peaceful utopia?" AFAIK, that has never been any nation's goal.
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Thank you, you are a Coward of integrity, a rare find in these troubled times.
I know you'll say, "that's crazy," and maybe even mod me down because you think I'm off my rocker, but I think this actually will have a good effect on our favorite operating system, Linux.
Imagine: the buggy (and needless to say proprietary) flight control software is installed. Two months later, plane crashes are at an all time high. The FAA is in an uproar, the media is clamoring for a solution, America is in turmoil.
*ring ring*
What's that? It's the phone. Who is it? Someone named Linux Torvalds...says he has a solution to our problems.
Bing bang bong boing boom, Linux is running the major world airports. Due to the superior stability and dependibility of Open Source Software, Linux is now the poster boy for good production values. The few hundred lives lost in the meantime will be well worth the benefit to software that is Free as in Speech.
I had a girlfriend. I knew there was a logical explanation.
...how I managed to get through that program without apparently meeting any other CS students or participating in any of these "fun" antics.
You are basically right, I think. Linux is making huge strides every day, and this is just another notch in the stick with which Linux will beat Microsoft about the face.
Linux has shown superiority over Windows in nearly every category. There are a few areas, such as compatability with mp3 players and other popular peripherals, compatability with the latest Office standards, and any serious desktop publishing, where Linux still lags a bit (though one need only check out SourceForge to see the attempted solutions slowly on the way), but with this release we can safely expect to see some big players "go Linux" Real Soon Now.
Go Mozilla!
I think this is going to be a major boon for Linux. Far too long has Linux been considered a "marginal" OS with a handful of zealous believers. With Mozilla at 1.0, and KDE and Gnome almost ready for prime-time, and several Linux office suites in the final planning stages, Linux is poised for triumph.
Watch the Windows users come running in droves!
They are dorks also.
The "cradle to grave" way of living reminds me of Windows, while "cradle to cradle" sounds more like open source. Any thoughts?
There are a few other possible approaches that can be taken with this. One depressing one is a "grave to grave" methodology: you start with a filthy, used-up world and let it stagnate. A better one could be called "grave to cradle."
Basically, you have to accept that you are starting with something bad. Face it, our forefathers were not omniscient, nor were they smart. We have no ozone layer, few trees, no more horned owls, global warmth, the list goes on. Now, just do the opposite of what people would do in the "cradle to grave" approach. Instead of building factories, tear them down. Instead of cutting down trees, plant some new ones. Replace your car with a horse and buggy, your GAP clothes with furs and skins, your television with books and sex. Instead of a Cold War, have a Cold Peace! Live backwards.
After a few generations, we will have restored Earth to its glory days.
...to "root" for Linux!
;)
My old analog TV can never make up its mind, but it does have a whole continuum to choose from. At least digital TVs only have to choose from a finite set.
(please do not mod down if you don't get this joke)
It's sad to see powerful corporations sinking billions of dollars and trillions of man-hours into a project that is literally a wild goose chase.
It has been demonstrated by mathematicians at Princeton that this kind of copy protection or digital watermarking is mathematically impossible. While "where there's a will, there's a way" sounds flippant and trite, the mathematical principle of seperability essentially states that content can always be extracted from its protected form.
These guys are chasing the elusive pot o' gold that's over the rainbow. Best of luck to them, but oh, what a waste of effort.
...we will unlock the secrets of the nuculus.
This could really be a boon to IT and any business still shackled to Windows.
Once the Wine hackers have developed drop-in replacements for all of the Windows components, we will essentially have a Windows clone. Then we can start focussing on added functionality.
Has anyone considered merging the Linux and Wine codebases to create a Windows clone? It could be called Windux. The mascot could be Tux's cousin Dux (a duck).
Deadly precision? What has space-time done to you lately?
Holy crap. That is awesome. Okay, where do I get flash?
The above was not a troll. .swf files are generated from .fla files. One format may be open, but the other (which has a lot more info) is not.
profit!!!!
Who cares about the .swf format? The key is in .fla files, which is still closed AFAIK.
.swf files, I'm cool.
Anyway, I don't care. I don't have a flash plugin on any of my boxen, and I couldn't be happier. Have yet to see a site I want to read that requires flash. Until Pokey is published as
I can see why we'd spend money making sure we control strategic communications channels. Remember that that cable, like the US interstate system and the Internet's predecessor (ARPAnet), were designed at least partially for military applications in the even of thermonucular warfare. Granted, today it's all just part of the international pr0n industry, but you have to remember that there was a reason the military dished out all that money in the first place.
somehow I don't see e-books ever replacing books. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather pick up a physical book and read it in bed or on the couch. Sure, I could print it out, but rather than buy a high quality printer for e-book printing, I'd rather just go out to the store and buy a book
1000 years ago you might have said:
somehow I don't see printed books ever replacing scrolls. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather pick up a piece of parchment and read it in church or at the royal court. Sure, I could get two copies, but rather than buy another printed book, I'd rather just go to my desk and copy another scroll by hand
2000 years before that you might have said:
somehow I don't see parchment ever replacing stone tablets. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather pick up a stone tablet and read it in my mud house or on the acropolis. Sure, I could write it out, but rather than buy high quality sheepskin and a quill for parchment copying, I'd rather just go out to the quarry and mine another slab of limestone
8000 years before that you might have said:
somehow I don't see stone tablets ever replacing oral history. Sure I could be wrong, but as a personal preference, I would much rather meet a talented bard and listen to a tale around the fire or on a journey. Sure, I could carve it out, but rather than learn to read and write and buy a high quality piece of stone and a sharp implement for carving it, I'd rather just go out to the bar and meet a strange traveller with strange stories of faraway lands
One need only look at the track record of digital technology to answer this question.
Microfiche gave in to digital archives, vinyl has been replaced by CDs for all but the nuttiest audiophiles, even books are more and more moving to an e-book format.
For the moment, however, we're stuck with analog. I saw a digital projection of ATOC in New York, and it was a disappointment. The colors were off, blurry pixels were visible in many of the scenes, fast action shots were marred by compression artifacts, and there were too few scenes with Jar-Jar Binks. The digital sound was great, which should come as no surprise, as it's been great for the last half decade.
Fortunately, we can always count on Moore's Law. Even as I type here at my dumb terminal, digital projection technology is being improved at a rate that analog tech can't touch. I'd hold out for the moment, but in a few years digital projection should be much better and more affordable than the "old school" systems currently in place.
Service Pack 2adds a feature that performs transparent LanManager <-> /etc/passwd mapping for heterogenous networks. Due to protocol differences in MS's implementation, however, this is only compatible with SSH2, so depending on how many legacy machines need to be supported this might be an impractical solution.
I'd say Linux looks like the solid winner on this one. So what else is new?
;)
I know this sounds terrible at first glance. This can only lead to corporate bias in the Internet.
But then I reconsidered. It occured to me that corporations have one thing that the Internet lacks: stability. Because the growth of the Internet relies upon widespread standards, there needs to be a central, solid body on which to base new technologies and policies.
If ICANN goes the "open" route, then we risk introducing the volatility of the Internet into its heretofore pristine foundation. And that, my friends, is not an action that will be easily undone.
I love the Internet. And I don't want to lose it.
Where is timothy from that he expects international treaties to even consider working towards a "peaceful utopia?" AFAIK, that has never been any nation's goal.