OK, so Micro$oft starts using their DRM technology, and the RIAA starts selling music in M$'s format. Some people will go buy the music, but others won't, so to mkae money they will still continue to sell CDs to people, and the difference from right now will be minimal. If they don't get rid of every single device used to record sound, music will still be pirated. There's nothing they can do, and in the end, things will be hacked, music will be free, and Microsoft will just be another company trying to figure out why their closed format never worked out.
My parents weren't very involved in my life, and as a result I was left to learn many things on my own. I removed the training wheels from my own bike and set out to learn how to ride it with only 2 wheels. I fell countless times, and earned a number of scrapes from the sidewalk. However, I think the most amazing thing is that I actually learned how to ride it by myself, with no outside support. I learned in a day, many other children took much longer to learn. My teacher then was myself, with a little help from pain.
Academic life was dull for me until I reached fourth grade. I had a teacher that finally realized that I was bored in class, that I wasn't being challenged. She pushed me, and I actually enjoyed school for a while, but all things must come to an end. I've had a number of teachers make class somewhat enjoyable. My 6th grade English teacher, 7th grade History, 8th Grade History, my ROTC instructors in high school. However, none have pushed me to learn like she did, great teachers are few, but they do exist, and they can change the lives of many people. I thank the teachers that understood me, and I hope that they will touch others like they have me.
"I don't believe in Beatles, I only believe in me."
-John Lennon
I personally don't believe in any sort of supreme being that controls us or what have you. I was raised catholic, and even went to a catholic school. I remember thinking that half the stuff they were talking about made no sense at all. What I do believe in is allowing other people to live their lives as they choose. If they believe in God, Allah, Goddess, Buddha, Zeus, or whatever else they want to believe in. I don't care if they pray to their neighbor's goldfish if it doesn't hurt me, let them do it. Live and let live.
It would be interesting to try to explain to someone that http://slashdot.dot is a great site. They'll think you cant speak straight! "no really one of the slashes is a word and only one dot is a period". It'll be great!
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Everything is hunky dory up until the point where you decide to let someone other than Mr. Gates' company register microsoft.com. Or even microsoft.xxx. Suddenly, a whole passel of MS lawyers show up at your doorstep, and demand that they get back the microsoft.xxx domain, because, damnit, they own the trademark.
How can you give back something you don't own unlike NSI the service wouldn't own the domain whoever registered it would so M$ would have to deal with them.
One of the Apollo missions (I forget which one) landed near one of the landers, and brought it's camera back. Researchers opened it up, and found bacteria still inside it. They fed the little buggers, and the begin reproducing. So, bacteria could begin reproducing, and we could get the Australia effect as I call it. Where all the little Earth bacteria kill all the native creatures off.
Fresh man year in high scool I actully heard one girl ask "When are we ever ging to use computers?". I suppressed my laughter and petted the mouse in front of me knowing it would bring me lots of nice green paper. I don't know one girl who likes computers to any extent, are we going to be seeing a resurection of the early 1900's where the computer literate man goes to work, and the wife stays home?
I started teaching myself BASIC on my family's commodore 64 when I was in about 4th grade. We through it out when we got a petium based machine, and I stopped learning. Fortunatly I got a Ti-83+ for my math classes and started programing on it. I picked it up quickly and now am fairly good.
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OK, so Micro$oft starts using their DRM technology, and the RIAA starts selling music in M$'s format. Some people will go buy the music, but others won't, so to mkae money they will still continue to sell CDs to people, and the difference from right now will be minimal. If they don't get rid of every single device used to record sound, music will still be pirated. There's nothing they can do, and in the end, things will be hacked, music will be free, and Microsoft will just be another company trying to figure out why their closed format never worked out.
My parents weren't very involved in my life, and as a result I was left to learn many things on my own. I removed the training wheels from my own bike and set out to learn how to ride it with only 2 wheels. I fell countless times, and earned a number of scrapes from the sidewalk. However, I think the most amazing thing is that I actually learned how to ride it by myself, with no outside support. I learned in a day, many other children took much longer to learn. My teacher then was myself, with a little help from pain.
Academic life was dull for me until I reached fourth grade. I had a teacher that finally realized that I was bored in class, that I wasn't being challenged. She pushed me, and I actually enjoyed school for a while, but all things must come to an end. I've had a number of teachers make class somewhat enjoyable. My 6th grade English teacher, 7th grade History, 8th Grade History, my ROTC instructors in high school. However, none have pushed me to learn like she did, great teachers are few, but they do exist, and they can change the lives of many people. I thank the teachers that understood me, and I hope that they will touch others like they have me.
My God.... It's full of Starbucks!
Ahh microbes with technology, it's as thought they aren't evolving fast enough.... Imagine E-coli hackers, they'd run a DDOS attack on your body.
I seem to recall a great Nullsoft product being announced on /. then dying a horrible, horrible death... makes you think who's working for who...
I personally would hate to haul a laptop around that required an extra pound, and if it din't come with it, it would burn the pants off my legs.
It would be interesting to try to explain to someone that http://slashdot.dot is a great site. They'll think you cant speak straight! "no really one of the slashes is a word and only one dot is a period". It'll be great!
Everything is hunky dory up until the point where you decide to let someone other than Mr. Gates' company register microsoft.com. Or even microsoft.xxx. Suddenly, a whole passel of MS lawyers show up at your doorstep, and demand that they get back the microsoft.xxx domain, because, damnit, they own the trademark.
How can you give back something you don't own unlike NSI the service wouldn't own the domain whoever registered it would so M$ would have to deal with them.
One of the Apollo missions (I forget which one) landed near one of the landers, and brought it's camera back. Researchers opened it up, and found bacteria still inside it. They fed the little buggers, and the begin reproducing. So, bacteria could begin reproducing, and we could get the Australia effect as I call it. Where all the little Earth bacteria kill all the native creatures off.
Wasn't that alien in MIB a cockroach type thingy? Makes you think.....
Fresh man year in high scool I actully heard one girl ask "When are we ever ging to use computers?". I suppressed my laughter and petted the mouse in front of me knowing it would bring me lots of nice green paper. I don't know one girl who likes computers to any extent, are we going to be seeing a resurection of the early 1900's where the computer literate man goes to work, and the wife stays home?
Ummmmm... Ouch. sharp plastic corners
I started teaching myself BASIC on my family's commodore 64 when I was in about 4th grade. We through it out when we got a petium based machine, and I stopped learning. Fortunatly I got a Ti-83+ for my math classes and started programing on it. I picked it up quickly and now am fairly good.