At this rate, I can ignore the messaging craze completely, as my 2018 it'll only consist of AI bots pretending to be people. Then I can grab a beer and read a book under a shady tree, secure in the knowledge that my personal brand is being maintained by my AI bot.
We use a chalkboard all the time for sketching out open source solutions. Of course it helps that we painted a whole wall with chalkboard paint. Somehow a whiteboard is not as satisfying.
I can totally believe that Microsoft doesn't have enough creativity to make use of a chalkboard any more. It's sad if true.
How do you think the toothpaste gets into the tube in the first place;-) OK, a nozzle to put toothpaste back inside would find it hard to re-create the stripes.
I am an ecologist actively campaigning against the idiocy of fracking (especially in a karst landscape like ours). I can categorically state that no-one is financing us, let alone the Russians.
B&N bought Fictionwise - a great E-Book web store that sold DRM-free electronic subscriptions. I subscribed to Asimovs Sci-Fi magazine for >10 years there, reading it in Palm (originally), EPUB and PDF formats. I bought hundreds of books as well. A year after buying it, B&N closed it down, and said I had to transfer to their DRM'd formats.
Seriously, if we are so stupid that we can't see how dangerous this is for our species we deserve to be wiped out in a horrendous antibiotic resistant plague.
I don't have time to even try to run a gaming PC any more. Just too much hassle.
And no - to those that say "it got easier with whatever version of windows is out now" - I don't care. I have more important things to do with my life than buy graphics cards costing more than a PS3 & Xbox combined and find the drivers for all the peripherals and make it all work.
Been there, tried it, had numerous favourite games stop working because of Direct X blah de blah... Had an entire force feedback steering wheel stop working because drivers were no longer made. You won't catch me again. It's over...
IE, take your chemicals (you know, CO2, argon, etc.) and stick them in a container, and test the impact that sunlight has on them. Figure it out, contrive something. simply observe.
I just came back from a conference in France including a maker faire element. Plenty of geeky/artistic women there, and you'll have a huge amount of fun. Just go with an open mind, and try things you wouldn't normally do.
Another thing to try might be http://dorkbot.org/ - kinda hard to describe - they do "strange things with electricity" but another creative/tech mix. Take a look and see if there is a group near you.
Of course no-one would complain if it wasn't for the fact that Microsoft has probably caused each individual slashdotter many many man-hours (months? years?) of pain and anguish trying to make a stupid DOS|Windows|Win NT|Win95|Win98|Win2000|WinXP|etc... machine work as it should do. Hell I remember how difficult it was to get the Network edition of Windows 3.11 to do TCP/IP!!! Even if we abandoned Microsoft for more reliable alternatives, it continued to cause us pain because of friends and family who needed our help and we couldn't refuse.
I repeat, if Microsoft had made a reliable fast product (I still feel sad that OS/2 died), no-one would be complaining. So, yes, given that Gates was personally responsible for running the company that made many many hours of our lives a misery with a thoroughly mediocre OS, I would say quite a few of us have a problem with him for good reasons.
And no, having made your money as a convicted monopolist, spending it in a philanthropic way does not remove the reasons to dislike him. I am glad that, having made billions of dollars, he is spending it in this way, but I would much rather he hadn't made it in the first place, and just maybe, we would have had a very different software industry based on sharing of code and tools that people in the third world could have afforded to join.
You're right. I once used a sci-fi Novel by Brian Aldiss to prove that a concept wasn't new.
For controlling with other appendages take a look at www.fufme.com - this has been around since the dot.com boom
Wait a minute. Copyright is an artificial right. It is a temporary monopoly granted by the government. As such it only gives exactly as much power to the copyright holder as the law allows. If that goes too far, change the laws, at least in a democracy.
If democracy isn't working you have much bigger problems than putting CDs onto your iPod.
Easy answer. If it REALLY costs the MPAA companies $6bn a year, they should be willing to pay quite a lot to have it done. Say, somewhere around 50% of the "pirated" revenue. So ask them to pay the ISPs $3bn a year and see if they are so keen.
How many other investments do you know with a guaranteed 100% return?
a single OS that scales from tiny embedded systems up to supercomputers many CPU architectures supported pluggable filesystem support pluggable scheduler support ALSA - a decent multi-interface audio system Low-latency support for media Useable kernel level Software RAID Oh and a Unix compatible system that replaced things costing $1000s back in the mid 90's. affordable NAT affordable firewalling
There's probably more, and some of these things appeared elsewhere first, but Linux got them deployed widely.
This is the price we pay for a computing monoculture. Don't use Windows, this won't happen. Yes this is Microsoft's fault, BUT, to be fair, this would happen to a certain extent with any computing monoculture. So:
Don't use Windows
Don't all move to the Mac
Don't all use one OS environment - replacing Windows with everyone using the same version of xyz linux wouldn't help that much
Don't all use the same CPU (x86)
and all this should go away. When did you last hear of a security breach on Alcatel DECT Phone address books?
Maybe, just maybe, this could get closer with Web Apps making the OS irrelevant, but look back at the list and see how many of those rules we break.
My house is actually inside the circle made by the ring, albeit at ground level, not 100m down. So far, My computers still work, but I guess the HDD's could be gradually demagnetising a bit on each turn.
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It would be good to see if it can be applied to statements from Politicians. We've often said they can talk for ages without saying anything.
Black and white (not even grayscale) screen, dome-key flat keyboard, and BASIC built in. I ended up learning Z80 machine code on it.
Happy times.
As long as they (KODI) utterly refuse to stop playing non-DRM content, this is a no-lose scenario.
The instant the DRM crowd try to insist on policing the non-DRM content, KODI should walk, or fork.
This gets to the heart of the problem around post-truth. Just who defines "truth"?
How does that fit in to the checks and balances in a democratic society? Does everything have to go through the courts?
At this rate, I can ignore the messaging craze completely, as my 2018 it'll only consist of AI bots pretending to be people. Then I can grab a beer and read a book under a shady tree, secure in the knowledge that my personal brand is being maintained by my AI bot.
We use a chalkboard all the time for sketching out open source solutions. Of course it helps that we painted a whole wall with chalkboard paint. Somehow a whiteboard is not as satisfying.
I can totally believe that Microsoft doesn't have enough creativity to make use of a chalkboard any more. It's sad if true.
Looking at the RTS article (in French) it's clearly a trademark issue, not a patent.
Normally patents expire 20 years after filing, so Reuters should have smelled a rat.
How do you think the toothpaste gets into the tube in the first place ;-) OK, a nozzle to put toothpaste back inside would find it hard to re-create the stripes.
Here's an overview of toothpaste manufacturer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am an ecologist actively campaigning against the idiocy of fracking (especially in a karst landscape like ours). I can categorically state that no-one is financing us, let alone the Russians.
Agree 100%. They did the same to me. Funny, since they closed down Fictionwise I have bought 0 books or magazines from B&N.
Are there Darwin awards for corporations?
B&N bought Fictionwise - a great E-Book web store that sold DRM-free electronic subscriptions. I subscribed to Asimovs Sci-Fi magazine for >10 years there, reading it in Palm (originally), EPUB and PDF formats. I bought hundreds of books as well. A year after buying it, B&N closed it down, and said I had to transfer to their DRM'd formats.
Now I don't buy anything from them. Idiots.
Seriously, if we are so stupid that we can't see how dangerous this is for our species we deserve to be wiped out in a horrendous antibiotic resistant plague.
Oh, wait...
###### no carrier ######
Great. Now I'll get spam and google ads related to the content of my last few phone calls.
...hmm... not for me
[calls Mum]
[next email]
"Hello, would you like a reminder service to tell you to make more phone calls?"
I don't have time to even try to run a gaming PC any more. Just too much hassle. And no - to those that say "it got easier with whatever version of windows is out now" - I don't care. I have more important things to do with my life than buy graphics cards costing more than a PS3 & Xbox combined and find the drivers for all the peripherals and make it all work. Been there, tried it, had numerous favourite games stop working because of Direct X blah de blah... Had an entire force feedback steering wheel stop working because drivers were no longer made. You won't catch me again. It's over...
Forget 'explaining' it. Did they test it?
IE, take your chemicals (you know, CO2, argon, etc.) and stick them in a container, and test the impact that sunlight has on them. Figure it out, contrive something. simply observe.
It's such basic science that you can do it in your kitchen. Take a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394168.stm and see a simple experiment you can replicate yourself
I just came back from a conference in France including a maker faire element. Plenty of geeky/artistic women there, and you'll have a huge amount of fun. Just go with an open mind, and try things you wouldn't normally do. Another thing to try might be http://dorkbot.org/ - kinda hard to describe - they do "strange things with electricity" but another creative/tech mix. Take a look and see if there is a group near you.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Of course no-one would complain if it wasn't for the fact that Microsoft has probably caused each individual slashdotter many many man-hours (months? years?) of pain and anguish trying to make a stupid DOS|Windows|Win NT|Win95|Win98|Win2000|WinXP|etc... machine work as it should do. Hell I remember how difficult it was to get the Network edition of Windows 3.11 to do TCP/IP!!! Even if we abandoned Microsoft for more reliable alternatives, it continued to cause us pain because of friends and family who needed our help and we couldn't refuse.
I repeat, if Microsoft had made a reliable fast product (I still feel sad that OS/2 died), no-one would be complaining. So, yes, given that Gates was personally responsible for running the company that made many many hours of our lives a misery with a thoroughly mediocre OS, I would say quite a few of us have a problem with him for good reasons.
And no, having made your money as a convicted monopolist, spending it in a philanthropic way does not remove the reasons to dislike him. I am glad that, having made billions of dollars, he is spending it in this way, but I would much rather he hadn't made it in the first place, and just maybe, we would have had a very different software industry based on sharing of code and tools that people in the third world could have afforded to join.
You're right. I once used a sci-fi Novel by Brian Aldiss to prove that a concept wasn't new. For controlling with other appendages take a look at www.fufme.com - this has been around since the dot.com boom
Don't you think Jeff Han might just have some prior art on this? This link http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html shows his multitouch interface more than a year before Apple came out with their iPhone and before the Apple patent was filed.
I wish I held the cards. The world would be a different place :-)
However, I have a deep and abiding suspicion that you are 100% correct.
Wait a minute. Copyright is an artificial right. It is a temporary monopoly granted by the government. As such it only gives exactly as much power to the copyright holder as the law allows. If that goes too far, change the laws, at least in a democracy. If democracy isn't working you have much bigger problems than putting CDs onto your iPod.
Easy answer. If it REALLY costs the MPAA companies $6bn a year, they should be willing to pay quite a lot to have it done. Say, somewhere around 50% of the "pirated" revenue. So ask them to pay the ISPs $3bn a year and see if they are so keen. How many other investments do you know with a guaranteed 100% return?
How about (for free):
a single OS that scales from tiny embedded systems up to supercomputers
many CPU architectures supported
pluggable filesystem support
pluggable scheduler support
ALSA - a decent multi-interface audio system
Low-latency support for media
Useable kernel level Software RAID
Oh and a Unix compatible system that replaced things costing $1000s back in the mid 90's.
affordable NAT
affordable firewalling
There's probably more, and some of these things appeared elsewhere first, but Linux got them deployed widely.
- Don't use Windows
- Don't all move to the Mac
- Don't all use one OS environment - replacing Windows with everyone using the same version of xyz linux wouldn't help that much
- Don't all use the same CPU (x86)
and all this should go away. When did you last hear of a security breach on Alcatel DECT Phone address books?Maybe, just maybe, this could get closer with Web Apps making the OS irrelevant, but look back at the list and see how many of those rules we break.
Security in diversity?
My house is actually inside the circle made by the ring, albeit at ground level, not 100m down. So far, My computers still work, but I guess the HDD's could be gradually demagnetising a bit on each turn.
So far, so goo£%^$.... NO CARRIER