So what's the solution? Certainly there will be smart companies that invest nearly everything they get back into themselves, like Google or perhaps Apple for example. These can help oust the less profitable, less useful companies (read: the ones wasting away their money on shareholders and corporate jets) back out of the market until the bigger ones wise up.
This is why I've been progressively taking a more "hands off" political viewpoint.
This even involves less corporate tax. Idea being that if the corporation has more money left over, then what are they going to do? Whatever makes most economic sense to the company to keep it alive and fighting in the market. Many times this involves NOT giving huge bonuses (not to mention the shareholders would fuss to no end) to everyone in the company, it involves investing. If they have enough spare money leftover and no further immediate means of increasing revenue with that money, then they will start to do things like hire PhDs to do research work for them, but legitimate research, not stupid research like you can get away with when working for the [bureaucracy] government.
But if it does go wrong, things could be bad. Superconductors are laready prone to explosive failure if a superconductor suddenly ceasews to superconduct. If that is inside a very high pressure vessel, the available energy from a destructive malfunction is frightening : Mega-amps of electicity and giga-pascals of pressure suddenly being unleashed in the wrong place. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "you let the magic smoke out".
With this new technology, I imagine a lot fewer people will be alive to say this. Overclockers beware-- these chips will let YOUR smoke out too!
So, I have an 8800GT, and what I did in Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 was select "Restricted Drivers" from the menu, then "Turn On" for my Nvidia graphics card, and it downloaded the Nvidia drivers and installed them for me and then had me reboot, and then they worked.
So then I went to the Desktop Effects/Compositing menu item (can't remember the specific name for these sorry) and turned everything on. Then I downloaded the Compiz Configuration Manager from Synaptic and was able to add in cool stuff like Expose (aka "Slide" in Compiz), rain on my desktop (Why? Why not is more like it!). Also the cool desktop rotating cube, among other things.
It's all gotten so good, that after it worked without more than one hitch on my laptop (I have the dreaded software wireless broadcomm 4318 chipset, which I fixed by basically toggling the restricted drivers on and off again, and installing bcm43xx-fwcutter over and over again until it worked) from the partition I had set it up on, I wiped the whole harddrive of my Windows XP (after backing up the documents of course) and installed it again. Now Ubuntu is the only OS on my laptop. 3D Compiz works on it too with the integrated mobile ATI x200/200m/whatever.
This is quite the comment that wets my tongue but doesn't do a think to quench my thirst.
Definitely needs more substance to be credible, not to mention coming from an AC. For all we know somebody has a vendetta for Cogent blocking their favorite torrents, just like any other ISP.
No healthcare bills No DMCA No "war on drugs" No billtiontrillion dollar deficit No gun-toting citizens...and in Quebec the minimum drinking age (and rules of the road) are merely suggestions! Ah, but we enjoy things like Newegg.
I ordered from NCIXUS (the US version of NCIX, both operate in Canada) over Christmas, they are a competing computer parts provider.
In the US, when supply lines get overwhelmed we hire more folk for the season and get stuff out on time. Ever had a slow shipment from newegg? If I order one day, 99% of the time it's out in the mail the next. Not so in Canada apparently; minimum wage there is $11 and they can't just grab new hires and lay them off a month and a half later. Some workers rights bills at work here is my guess. Result was it took NCIXUS 6 of their business days when they were open, from the time I clicked "order" and charged it to my card, to the time it was picked up by Fedex.
However, Fedex got it from the far northeast to the Southeast in under 39 hours.
The US gets things right here and there too, you know.
But hordes of furious consumers rallying the entire internet against all DRM is a significant factor to consider. But I hardly see any hordes anywhere.
Plus, I don't know that I want people who don't know about DRM getting on the same torrents as me. That nice download speed I enjoyed with NIN's Ghosts 1 release? Now throw hundreds of uneducated torrent users on there that remove the torrent as soon as they have it downloaded, and never seed to 1.5 ratio, and I'll show you a slow torrent.
Things seem 'faster', copying files, something that use to take weeks now takes as long as it should.... Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:-1, Informative).. Somebody with first hand experience posts something that goes against public (but not first-hand) opinion gets modded down. Let's motivate those with personal experience to get passionate with their comments!
Nice use of mod points, gentlemen, that's how Microsoft 'shills' are born. Anonymous Coward is now penalized much more heavily. Helps basically instantly remove troll posts from any chance of being viewed.
If something is good enough it'll get modded up to 5, like that did. Who knows how many times it needs to be modded? Perhaps 7?
Don't forget, Iran is a DEMOCRACY; they just had an election yesterday! And SURPRISE! The religious radicals who have been running the country for the last 28 years won again! Hooray for democracy! The Iranian people have spoken!
After reading the posts in this thread I can conclude that the world really is full of idiots. If you think that's bad, you should read the stuff on Reddit, and Digg, and Youtube. Gets worse, in that order.
And, the more expensive it becomes, the less of a problem it is, because there is more incentive to use other means to transport yourself.
If we hit $10/gallon for gas I guarantee you Toyota will be dumping millions into supercapacitor research. We've got enough coal for 200 years. Or we can go nuclear if you're the green type.
Not to mention, have you heard of Suncor? It's as estimated there is as much oil as there ever was in the middle east in Canadian beaches, from the sand; and this company developed the means to refine it.
Situation is only bleak to those who don't have the full picture.
a) The US political system is heavily biased towards those who claim to be Christians./quote>
I hear this one so much and it's really getting old. If the US political system were heavily biased towards those who claim to be Christians, then Huckabee would have beaten McCain hands down. He's a great politician with a lot of great ideas, just some that are too religious for many people.
Twinkle? It handles encryption using ZRTP/SRTP and can do point-to-point (IP2IP) calls like good'ole Speak Freely. If I can't even convince my friends who use Pidgin already, to install PidginEncryption, how am I supposed to get them to use VOIP encryption?
"Well, it won't happen to me..." Part of me wants to support further government wiretaps so that more abuses come to light and we can hopefully then convince people that privacy is important. But the other part hates it when innocent people are tortured for things they did not do.
So what's the right course of action? I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of the few people that sees these things as problems, and if they are indeed problems, because surely if they were, more people would care about them. Are we just paranoid freaks?
I was under the impression that the ACLU stayed away from 2nd Amendment issues because there are many other organization that will step in should the situation arise. The NRA being one of them. No that's because I, personally, will step in with my shotgun, should the situation arise.;)
I liked the comment, but
Especially when you get into telekinesis, which requires WAY more energy than the human body can produce! [citation needed]
A mother can produce enough force to lift the back end of a car off her kid Oh dear, what happens if the whining children get some of this technology. Now not only are they screaming at mommy for that box of cereal, everyone else at the grocery store will be able to hear it too!
Why was this modded down? It looks like a highly informative and relevant comment..
That worries me, especially in light of the article. I don't have mod points ATM, so I can't bring it back up. I think all anonymous coward posts now start at -1.
What? Vuze is great. It's like High Definition youtube integrated with bittorrent. How do you browse? Well, go see for yourself: http://www.vuze.com/app
In all seriousness, I think this year may be the year. Anyone checked out Ubuntu 8 Alpha? From what I've seen so far, 8 is shaping up quite...perfectly. For the first time everything on my desktop and laptop works. The new "restricted drivers" option in the menu makes this quite easy. Just had to select "use" for the graphics drivers on my ATI mobile chipset, and "use" for the broadcomm43xx wireless I've got that has been ever such a pain forever. Ok, I had to tinker with the broadcomm, but basically it involved installing bcm43xx-fwcutter over bcm43-fwcutter and back and forth a couple of times and rebooting; but now it's finally working (never had this before, stumped even my linux guru friend).
Compiz is integrated right off the bat, and on my laptop at least, is stable as a rock (this may be Nvidia's fault on the desktop; they've been working with AIGLX for less time than ATI). Looks great, and takes zero understanding to set up beyond "turn on". Want more effects? Download the CompizConfig Settings Manager and turn on lots of neat extra stuff like Expose.
I've never done this before, but Sunday after seeing how great 8-alpha was working, I completely wiped XP off my laptop and installed 8. Runs faster, even with the Compiz.
Hibernate Just Works too (suspend is still broken), which is the first ever for me. Maybe my hardware is simply getting older to the point that the OSS drivers have matured for it, but I'd like to think it's a bit more than this judging by near flawless performance on my brand new top of the line desktop that I built.
Definitely check it out come April when it's released. Debian (and Linux) is making great strides.
Take issue with whoever is representing you in parliament/government. If you can't do that (get in touch with elected authority), and if a large number of people can't do that either, democracy has failed.
The internet is a good (or perhaps a bad) way to bring together "large numbers" of unsatisfied people. Market niche: web portal that simplifies concerted efforts to reach government officials in both free and not-so-free nations, divided by locale. You heard it here first. This is precisely why they want everybody's fingerprints and photos. Do they have yours? If not, they sure want it. "What is this democracy you speak of? People need to be aware that this is a different time we're living in...we are required to make sacrifices to live in safety." --We hear this so much I might as well be modded redundant.
Wait.... Applekid lecturing me about the Future of Games?
Snark aside, I think that the true future is a combination of both methods, with ray-tracing being used for light effects over the top of rasterized 3d models.
After all, that's (pretty much) how it works in real life.... Perhaps they're denouncing it because they know the CPU+GPU integration AMD will have going on (and Intel soon too) will leave Nvidia out in the cold with no friends.
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So what's the solution? Certainly there will be smart companies that invest nearly everything they get back into themselves, like Google or perhaps Apple for example. These can help oust the less profitable, less useful companies (read: the ones wasting away their money on shareholders and corporate jets) back out of the market until the bigger ones wise up.
Maybe I'm just being idealistic.
This is why I've been progressively taking a more "hands off" political viewpoint.
This even involves less corporate tax. Idea being that if the corporation has more money left over, then what are they going to do? Whatever makes most economic sense to the company to keep it alive and fighting in the market. Many times this involves NOT giving huge bonuses (not to mention the shareholders would fuss to no end) to everyone in the company, it involves investing. If they have enough spare money leftover and no further immediate means of increasing revenue with that money, then they will start to do things like hire PhDs to do research work for them, but legitimate research, not stupid research like you can get away with when working for the [bureaucracy] government.
With this new technology, I imagine a lot fewer people will be alive to say this. Overclockers beware-- these chips will let YOUR smoke out too!
So, I have an 8800GT, and what I did in Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 was select "Restricted Drivers" from the menu, then "Turn On" for my Nvidia graphics card, and it downloaded the Nvidia drivers and installed them for me and then had me reboot, and then they worked.
So then I went to the Desktop Effects/Compositing menu item (can't remember the specific name for these sorry) and turned everything on. Then I downloaded the Compiz Configuration Manager from Synaptic and was able to add in cool stuff like Expose (aka "Slide" in Compiz), rain on my desktop (Why? Why not is more like it!). Also the cool desktop rotating cube, among other things.
It's all gotten so good, that after it worked without more than one hitch on my laptop (I have the dreaded software wireless broadcomm 4318 chipset, which I fixed by basically toggling the restricted drivers on and off again, and installing bcm43xx-fwcutter over and over again until it worked) from the partition I had set it up on, I wiped the whole harddrive of my Windows XP (after backing up the documents of course) and installed it again. Now Ubuntu is the only OS on my laptop. 3D Compiz works on it too with the integrated mobile ATI x200/200m/whatever.
This is quite the comment that wets my tongue but doesn't do a think to quench my thirst.
Definitely needs more substance to be credible, not to mention coming from an AC. For all we know somebody has a vendetta for Cogent blocking their favorite torrents, just like any other ISP.
I should mention it was the simple, cheap, Fedex Express Saver, not special 2 day delivery (even though that's what I got).
No DMCA
No "war on drugs"
No billtiontrillion dollar deficit
No gun-toting citizens
I ordered from NCIXUS (the US version of NCIX, both operate in Canada) over Christmas, they are a competing computer parts provider.
In the US, when supply lines get overwhelmed we hire more folk for the season and get stuff out on time. Ever had a slow shipment from newegg? If I order one day, 99% of the time it's out in the mail the next. Not so in Canada apparently; minimum wage there is $11 and they can't just grab new hires and lay them off a month and a half later. Some workers rights bills at work here is my guess. Result was it took NCIXUS 6 of their business days when they were open, from the time I clicked "order" and charged it to my card, to the time it was picked up by Fedex.
However, Fedex got it from the far northeast to the Southeast in under 39 hours.
The US gets things right here and there too, you know.
Plus, I don't know that I want people who don't know about DRM getting on the same torrents as me. That nice download speed I enjoyed with NIN's Ghosts 1 release? Now throw hundreds of uneducated torrent users on there that remove the torrent as soon as they have it downloaded, and never seed to 1.5 ratio, and I'll show you a slow torrent.
Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:-1, Informative)
Nice use of mod points, gentlemen, that's how Microsoft 'shills' are born. Anonymous Coward is now penalized much more heavily. Helps basically instantly remove troll posts from any chance of being viewed.
If something is good enough it'll get modded up to 5, like that did. Who knows how many times it needs to be modded? Perhaps 7?
After reading the posts in this thread I can conclude that the world really is full of idiots. If you think that's bad, you should read the stuff on Reddit, and Digg, and Youtube. Gets worse, in that order.
And, the more expensive it becomes, the less of a problem it is, because there is more incentive to use other means to transport yourself.
If we hit $10/gallon for gas I guarantee you Toyota will be dumping millions into supercapacitor research. We've got enough coal for 200 years. Or we can go nuclear if you're the green type.
Not to mention, have you heard of Suncor? It's as estimated there is as much oil as there ever was in the middle east in Canadian beaches, from the sand; and this company developed the means to refine it.
Situation is only bleak to those who don't have the full picture.
I hear this one so much and it's really getting old.
If the US political system were heavily biased towards those who claim to be Christians, then Huckabee would have beaten McCain hands down. He's a great politician with a lot of great ideas, just some that are too religious for many people.
What you say is not true. There is no heavy bias.
The second rule of fightclub is...
It handles encryption using ZRTP/SRTP and can do point-to-point (IP2IP) calls like good'ole Speak Freely. If I can't even convince my friends who use Pidgin already, to install PidginEncryption, how am I supposed to get them to use VOIP encryption?
"Well, it won't happen to me..."
Part of me wants to support further government wiretaps so that more abuses come to light and we can hopefully then convince people that privacy is important. But the other part hates it when innocent people are tortured for things they did not do.
So what's the right course of action? I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of the few people that sees these things as problems, and if they are indeed problems, because surely if they were, more people would care about them. Are we just paranoid freaks?
A mother can produce enough force to lift the back end of a car off her kid Oh dear, what happens if the whining children get some of this technology. Now not only are they screaming at mommy for that box of cereal, everyone else at the grocery store will be able to hear it too!
I've seen that with even with 50% Insightful and 50% informative.
Maybe the mod system is acting up.
That worries me, especially in light of the article. I don't have mod points ATM, so I can't bring it back up. I think all anonymous coward posts now start at -1.
Might take a look at Gentoo again with 80 cores. I'd be done compiling in just 2 days!
What? Vuze is great. It's like High Definition youtube integrated with bittorrent. How do you browse? Well, go see for yourself: http://www.vuze.com/app
I love it.
In all seriousness, I think this year may be the year. Anyone checked out Ubuntu 8 Alpha? From what I've seen so far, 8 is shaping up quite...perfectly. For the first time everything on my desktop and laptop works. The new "restricted drivers" option in the menu makes this quite easy. Just had to select "use" for the graphics drivers on my ATI mobile chipset, and "use" for the broadcomm43xx wireless I've got that has been ever such a pain forever. Ok, I had to tinker with the broadcomm, but basically it involved installing bcm43xx-fwcutter over bcm43-fwcutter and back and forth a couple of times and rebooting; but now it's finally working (never had this before, stumped even my linux guru friend).
Compiz is integrated right off the bat, and on my laptop at least, is stable as a rock (this may be Nvidia's fault on the desktop; they've been working with AIGLX for less time than ATI). Looks great, and takes zero understanding to set up beyond "turn on". Want more effects? Download the CompizConfig Settings Manager and turn on lots of neat extra stuff like Expose.
I've never done this before, but Sunday after seeing how great 8-alpha was working, I completely wiped XP off my laptop and installed 8. Runs faster, even with the Compiz.
Hibernate Just Works too (suspend is still broken), which is the first ever for me. Maybe my hardware is simply getting older to the point that the OSS drivers have matured for it, but I'd like to think it's a bit more than this judging by near flawless performance on my brand new top of the line desktop that I built.
Definitely check it out come April when it's released. Debian (and Linux) is making great strides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y
I think that video speaks for itself about the uses Steve Jobs has in mind for his products.
I'd say these TSA guys are definitely on to something...
The internet is a good (or perhaps a bad) way to bring together "large numbers" of unsatisfied people. Market niche: web portal that simplifies concerted efforts to reach government officials in both free and not-so-free nations, divided by locale. You heard it here first. This is precisely why they want everybody's fingerprints and photos. Do they have yours? If not, they sure want it. "What is this democracy you speak of? People need to be aware that this is a different time we're living in...we are required to make sacrifices to live in safety." --We hear this so much I might as well be modded redundant.
I was being facetious.
We hear this line so much, my original post might as well be MOD'd redundant...
Snark aside, I think that the true future is a combination of both methods, with ray-tracing being used for light effects over the top of rasterized 3d models.
After all, that's (pretty much) how it works in real life.... Perhaps they're denouncing it because they know the CPU+GPU integration AMD will have going on (and Intel soon too) will leave Nvidia out in the cold with no friends.