Stop. Right. There. I don't have a US driver's license. I have a State of Texas driver's license. I used to have a California driver's license.
I see where this is going: National ID, financial account... next is it medical data stored on same card?
Heck, this card will be TOO important! What if it is lost! Why, I can't be identified, buy or sell, get health care... you'd better just tattoo the damn number on my arm and forehead.
There are other ways to detonate explosives remotely. Doesn't seem like the smartest thing to let potential enemies know of such plans in advance.
What makes you think this is the only countermeasures they are employing? Perhaps they just want to get the word out about why a helicopter is tailing the President and why people's cell phones seem to be losing signal in his powerful presence. That is, maybe they want to explain the obvious stuff in advance.
Every stupid, asinine, patent claim needs to be tagged "KSR" to refer to the LANDMARK US Supreme Court decision on obvious patents. The patent landscape has changed, fellow Slashdotters, and it favors the majority, not the infinitesimal minority. Rejoice!
I, for one, am beginning to sense the need for a revolt against the "grass is greener" bandwagon seeking to promote colonization of another planet in lieu of taking proper care of the planet that has always been here for us, Earth. Join me in this revolt by tagging stories inciting the thought of fleeing Earth like some kind of foreclosed duplex -- trashed and slashed -- for the chance at taking over a pristine ecosystem with the tag "theresnoplacelikehome".
Wow -- different experiences for different people, I guess.
I'm running a Dell Optiplex GX520, all standard corporate hardware, with 2GB of Ram and an Acer AL1912 monitor off the integrated video subsystem -- and running Beryl. Everything "just worked." No configuration needed to install from the 7.0.4 CD & update from the network.
Actually, I have one problem: a page refresh problem with FireFox. When I scroll "up" a page that has been scrolled "down" I get repeated horizontal lines as artifacts. Touching the top window bar clears the page. Minor annoyance that I'm not worried about enough to investigate.
The 'next generation of computing' is information appliances. Commodity hardware not dissimilar to an office telphone or photocopying machine.
The only people who are the 'next generation' maintainers of said equipment, aside for a tiny number of people developing it, are the 'information janitors': the people who pull the ethernet cable through the wire channels and hook it up. the people who put the new toner in the laser printer. the guy who presses the reset button if the 'functioning proper' light goes off on the server.
This may lead to a 'Microsoft is Dead' scenario: the twinks who in earlier times spent their time fiddling with their desktop PC will find themselves staring at well-designed locked-down desktops in the near future. Where they can't even move the 'Email' icon to another spot on the screen, though they'll be allowed to choose from five different colors for the screen background. The idea of consumer electronics and info appliances did arise in the back of my head when I posted the parent to your post, but I ignored it. Yes, the direction of computing is not set, on the one hand, but it is tending to "Tivoization". Good point.
However, I ignored this nagging sense because no matter how companies try to "lock down" hardware/OS there will be those who make the appropriate workarounds. Ever since the IOpener, WordPad NetBSD, CueCat and DVD-Jon, companies that "innovate" in DRM and hardware lockdowns look silly (including Apple; cf. Dell OS X).
Personal computing won't end. Nore will "hacking" (A.K.A., improving) devices.
"His circle is the über-geek entrepreneurial technical elite who set the direction of computing 10 years out."
This reminds me of an interview many years ago with Alan Kay when he became an Atari Fellow. He said he's working on ideas for Atari 10 years out. Unfortunately Atari went out of business before the 10 years were up. That's the danger of planning for a company's direction, for sure. But the ideas he was working on... did they die with Atari? Don't think so... That's the cool thing about ideas... they last longer than entities.
Thanks to OSX, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows.
Come on, 4% market share and you are surprised when a computer does not run OSX? His circle is the über-geek entrepreneurial technical elite who set the direction of computing 10 years out. Among these he rarely sees Windows. That's significant.
I work outside Silicon Valley but in a service/technology company that "hangs" with Google, Yahoo, Redhat, MySQL (and Microsoft) on a regular basis. Our standard desktop is a Windows-based Dell. However, with a perfunctory sign-off from a manager any OS can be installed by the user. We have Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, and Vista (also requires a sign-off; very few of these, though) desktops. However the biggest buzz among the technical gurus is OS X on the Dell desktops. Once a reference installation was perfected many of us switched to OS X on our Dells. For years private laptops and home machines have been OS X among all classes of employees. Now there are efforts to get OS X regardless of the roadblocks. Why? Because it is intriguing.
What is intriguing to an early adopter gets noticed by people looking to invest in the the next generation of an industry. Nothing Microsoft is doing is intriguing today. Vista's selling point is its attempts to fix the security issues through Nannifying the UI. Yawn. The graphics? Yawn.
Before we started pirating OS X to our Dells we would gather and gawk at Beryl desktops... No one gathers and gawks at anything MS has done (besides the.ANI holes... it's fun to exploit that on the sales people's desktops...).
No one, except Miguel care about what MS does anymore. No one that matters to the next generation of computing, I mean.
I just started working for a large managed hosting company in the Southwest US. If I sign a waiver freeing the internal IT from supporting my machine I can run whatever software I choose. I chose Nexenta (Solaris kernel with GNU userland tools) for a while and then switched to Ubuntu. Several people at the office use Slackware, Fedora, Debian, etc. Some of the brightest tech use Windows XP as a platform for PuTTY. I also bring my 15" PowerBook G4 and my Dell 5150 so I don't have to be tethered to my cube.
Of course, my views are my own and are not representative of any employer.
My 7 year old is a certifiable genius. He loves to make GameMaker games to the sounds of European techno music. Heavy Metal specifically? Nah. These kids like busy noise. He likes classical, too. Doesn't mean he's a music snob, just that classical music is more involved and complex than pop/rock.
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I see where this is going: National ID, financial account ... next is it medical data stored on same card?
Heck, this card will be TOO important! What if it is lost! Why, I can't be identified, buy or sell, get health care... you'd better just tattoo the damn number on my arm and forehead.
No, thanks.
Can someone decipher that sentence for me? 1MB = 220 bytes? Eh? Is Westmoreland in charge of OS byte definitions?
(sorry for tagging along on your post... it was reasonably close to the top...
Every stupid, asinine, patent claim needs to be tagged "KSR" to refer to the LANDMARK US Supreme Court decision on obvious patents. The patent landscape has changed, fellow Slashdotters, and it favors the majority, not the infinitesimal minority. Rejoice!
Huh? Your comment made no sense.
I was meaning that he was able to view a superior implementation without emotional attachment for his own work.
Not sure what you meant. Perhaps you'd like to rephrase it in understandable communication.
Or, maybe I'm drunk.
Probably the latter.
That story of the Flood-fill rewrite makes Billg sound like a great manager. So does being the richest guy in the world...
tag: spyme
Thomas Covenant the White Gold Wielder declared prophetic of this discovery; loan of the Land declared sacred.
I, for one, am beginning to sense the need for a revolt against the "grass is greener" bandwagon seeking to promote colonization of another planet in lieu of taking proper care of the planet that has always been here for us, Earth. Join me in this revolt by tagging stories inciting the thought of fleeing Earth like some kind of foreclosed duplex -- trashed and slashed -- for the chance at taking over a pristine ecosystem with the tag "theresnoplacelikehome".
Thank you for your support.
Wow -- different experiences for different people, I guess.
I'm running a Dell Optiplex GX520, all standard corporate hardware, with 2GB of Ram and an Acer AL1912 monitor off the integrated video subsystem -- and running Beryl. Everything "just worked." No configuration needed to install from the 7.0.4 CD & update from the network.
Actually, I have one problem: a page refresh problem with FireFox. When I scroll "up" a page that has been scrolled "down" I get repeated horizontal lines as artifacts. Touching the top window bar clears the page. Minor annoyance that I'm not worried about enough to investigate.
I couldn't be happier.
- really too good
- not to have any side-effects
- on fairness
- to all tasks
No idea what that is trying to say.Putin is putin' the USSR back together again. Bastard.
Everytime. Every single time.
so that Linux/OS X/etc operators cannot use
*snicker*
[Queue "developers, developers, developers" and "pawns" videos]
Actually, they did. Sucks
The only people who are the 'next generation' maintainers of said equipment, aside for a tiny number of people developing it, are the 'information janitors': the people who pull the ethernet cable through the wire channels and hook it up. the people who put the new toner in the laser printer. the guy who presses the reset button if the 'functioning proper' light goes off on the server.
This may lead to a 'Microsoft is Dead' scenario: the twinks who in earlier times spent their time fiddling with their desktop PC will find themselves staring at well-designed locked-down desktops in the near future. Where they can't even move the 'Email' icon to another spot on the screen, though they'll be allowed to choose from five different colors for the screen background.
The idea of consumer electronics and info appliances did arise in the back of my head when I posted the parent to your post, but I ignored it. Yes, the direction of computing is not set, on the one hand, but it is tending to "Tivoization". Good point.
However, I ignored this nagging sense because no matter how companies try to "lock down" hardware/OS there will be those who make the appropriate workarounds. Ever since the IOpener, WordPad NetBSD, CueCat and DVD-Jon, companies that "innovate" in DRM and hardware lockdowns look silly (including Apple; cf. Dell OS X).
Personal computing won't end. Nore will "hacking" (A.K.A., improving) devices.
This reminds me of an interview many years ago with Alan Kay when he became an Atari Fellow. He said he's working on ideas for Atari 10 years out. Unfortunately Atari went out of business before the 10 years were up. That's the danger of planning for a company's direction, for sure. But the ideas he was working on... did they die with Atari? Don't think so... That's the cool thing about ideas... they last longer than entities.
I work outside Silicon Valley but in a service/technology company that "hangs" with Google, Yahoo, Redhat, MySQL (and Microsoft) on a regular basis. Our standard desktop is a Windows-based Dell. However, with a perfunctory sign-off from a manager any OS can be installed by the user. We have Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, and Vista (also requires a sign-off; very few of these, though) desktops. However the biggest buzz among the technical gurus is OS X on the Dell desktops. Once a reference installation was perfected many of us switched to OS X on our Dells. For years private laptops and home machines have been OS X among all classes of employees. Now there are efforts to get OS X regardless of the roadblocks. Why? Because it is intriguing.
What is intriguing to an early adopter gets noticed by people looking to invest in the the next generation of an industry. Nothing Microsoft is doing is intriguing today. Vista's selling point is its attempts to fix the security issues through Nannifying the UI. Yawn. The graphics? Yawn.
Before we started pirating OS X to our Dells we would gather and gawk at Beryl desktops... No one gathers and gawks at anything MS has done (besides the .ANI holes... it's fun to exploit that on the sales people's desktops...).
No one, except Miguel care about what MS does anymore. No one that matters to the next generation of computing, I mean.
Are there other sites? Didn't know that.
O_ó
"If the US Constitution supposedly protects the rights of non-citizens then I don't see why our laws don't apply in other countries as well." Wha?
BTW, protecting the rights of non-citizens is as old as the Torah.
Where I work CISCO VPN is a critical part of our infrastructure. Without a decent CISCO VPN client no one will be adopting Vista where I work.
Then there's the problems of IE7 in "managed desktop" mode and Intranet applications. D'OH.
Good thing my Non-Apple Intel Desktop runs JaS OS X so freakin' well...
Of course, my views are my own and are not representative of any employer.
My 7 year old is a certifiable genius. He loves to make GameMaker games to the sounds of European techno music. Heavy Metal specifically? Nah. These kids like busy noise. He likes classical, too. Doesn't mean he's a music snob, just that classical music is more involved and complex than pop/rock.