More like Windows ME 2, do they really think people will buy it when they haven't sorted out the problems with vista.
Do you actually use Vista? Or is this typical ignorant slashdot drivel? I use Vista at home, I use Vista at work. I have had absolutely no issue with it. Let me qualify this by saying until a couple months ago I also used OS X 10.4 at home, and I also currently dual boot into Ubuntu. Vista has been far more stable than both of these, and the support is no contest.
Now let me ask again, do you actually *use* Vista? Or are you regurgitating tired old perceptions because of a fanboyish allegiance to a free operating system?
No I don't use it I use Kubuntu. I have tried it and after figuring out where everything was and getting over the whole password every few minutes thing I liked it fine. However, because I am the computer guy in my family I support my families PC's. I have been working with my father and helping him get by. He used XP at work and he has Vista on his home PC. I have been trying to give vista a chance through people who have no reason to be prejudiced. I just found out from my sister that he hates his home PC and doesn't use it because of Vista. It was the same story for my Mother in law and my friends parents.
This is anecdotal for you but for me this is everyone I know who has tried Vista.
By some estimates we only have about 15 years left before we have cheap clean energy sources. The only thing left to control will be Intellectual Property. I.P. is being fought over already. The stage is being set. We just have to wait and see how it is played out.
Ding ding ding. Thank you, you win the prize for being the first person to get what I was saying. Unfortunately the prize is a "dystopian nightmare".
I can see this going very bad a computer virus could become a real virus. At first probably more like the replicators from another popular scifi show or guns or bombs. I'm sure McAfee will take care of that. But more subtle minds can imagine actual viruses coming out of your device or slightly altered devices that perform nefarious ends.
I for one look forward to the day when the physical world is reduced to being as fluid as intellectual Property is today.
Have a Nano factory in your garage(call it a replicator for you Star Trek fans) where you can download the latest gadget and it is produced before your eyes.
patches can be downloaded and places on removable media (the need of patches is debatable anyway if most patches are just addressing security flaws). You put in and enforce a policy of disabling removable media on all machines connected to the private network.
You put your patches on removable media and then disable your removable media brilliant!
That way you protect your network from yourself.
you could create a RAM Disk and set your page file to use that. Then all your virtual memory is in RAM. I'll leave it to someone else to explain why that isn't a good idea.
You are making the assumption that our Empire er... I mean Republic was actually ever threatened. Maybe you haven't noticed that after claiming the free world was at an end if we didn't borrow billions of dollars they decided that who we were supposed to bail out weren't the ones we needed to bail out.
He's convinced me. I'm starting my new diet plan tonight nothing but donuts.
I could only dream of being part of something so large and long lasting.
Smitty, I am impressed with the depth and breadth of your response.
Back on the subject: Open source is not a product. The product of open source software was always suppossed to be service. There are plenty of companies that sell service. But the open source community tried to sell support which although it might be part of service is not the same thing.
I understand what you mean now. But I think I meant that getting all that money over and over would give you more power which is what they think of as wealth. When you trade your time it is not going to make you rich. When you get paid for the same thing produced weather I.P. or an investment over and over then you can amass large sums of money. Right or wrong we could argue this all day.
Point taken. But to most people I think it sounds like we are arguing semantics. Like many brilliant people his thinking is purely logical and many people often are not they are irrational. I think he is right. But being right isn't always practical. It is one of the hardest things for intelligent people to learn to suffer fools gladly.
Hollingworth notes:
A lesson which many gifted persons never learn as long as they live is that human beings in general are inherently very different from themselves in thought, in action, in general intention, and in interests. Many a reformer has died at the hands of a mob which he was trying to improve in the belief that other human beings can and should enjoy what he enjoys. This is one of the most painful and difficult lessons that each gifted child must learn, if personal development is to proceed successfully. It is more necessary that this be learned than that any school subject be mastered. Failure to learn how to tolerate in a reasonable fashion the foolishness of others leads to bitterness, disillusionment, and misanthropy [3, p. 259].
He's only appears dumb from down here.
We look at open source as, free as in beer, free software. Because it makes us more efficient and productive worker bees.
It has a lot to do with point of view. He looks at it as how can I make money as in Micro$oft off this. Because that is his purpose in life.
His attitude isn't surprising or "news"
There are two ways to make money. Since printing your own is illegal there is only one. When you trade your time for money you are not making money you are making a trade. When you sell something over and over again you are creating wealth.
He could of summed up his paper by yelling Troll, Groupthink, and then Personally I welcome our Automatic Computer overlords.
You can tell he never owned a computer by the way he doesn't think programs need maintenance. He is confusing cause and effect. The environment the program "lives" in changes and "wears" it out therefore it needs maintenance.
They are self-aware, capable of reasoning and emotion, and yet they are all slaves and no one pays more than cursory attention to them.
I always thought that phenomenon made Star Wars more interesting. You wouldn't sit down for a chat with your refridgerator. Even if my fridge has a web interface and tells me the weather and stock quotes. It is the next logical progression that they simulate emotions. The emotions they display are a reflection of their programmer. We all know how acturate the decisions that programmers make are in the real world. Would we still treat them as appliances?... I think we would.
When inventors come up with a new device, the first thing they want to do is patent it. Patents are a government's way of giving an inventor ownership of his or her creation. For a certain period of time, patent-holders are allowed to control how their inventions are used, allowing them to reap the financial rewards of their work. Patents are a palpable, legally-binding manifestation of a person's genius and innovation; they allow a person to actually own an idea.
from How stuff works If it actually worked this would be good.
Worst... patent... ever...
I tend to agree. There should be stricter rules. But what happens is they start to come up with some rules to help prevent things like this and they are turned around to actually be used to cause more trolling.
Oh my sides hurt! Almost makes me glad I had a typo. I meant recession not recension.
No one (on/.) would dispute the importance of this technology.
I was just hopping it doesn't become a victim of the current economic situation whatever you want to call it.
It depends on whether they realize how bad the economic situation is. Right now they still think we are in a recension. The old business model of innovation to drive sales is valid in that circumstance. If they start to think we are going into a depression *cough* then they will cut off research and start fortifying existing tech. I for one hope this technology has enough momentum to carry it through.
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So you live near Somerset England. Cheddar That was an unfortunate example. It was brought into the common usage long before marketing was an issue.
Cool what was the program my Dad needs this?
More like Windows ME 2, do they really think people will buy it when they haven't sorted out the problems with vista.
Do you actually use Vista? Or is this typical ignorant slashdot drivel? I use Vista at home, I use Vista at work. I have had absolutely no issue with it. Let me qualify this by saying until a couple months ago I also used OS X 10.4 at home, and I also currently dual boot into Ubuntu. Vista has been far more stable than both of these, and the support is no contest. Now let me ask again, do you actually *use* Vista? Or are you regurgitating tired old perceptions because of a fanboyish allegiance to a free operating system?
No I don't use it I use Kubuntu. I have tried it and after figuring out where everything was and getting over the whole password every few minutes thing I liked it fine. However, because I am the computer guy in my family I support my families PC's. I have been working with my father and helping him get by. He used XP at work and he has Vista on his home PC. I have been trying to give vista a chance through people who have no reason to be prejudiced. I just found out from my sister that he hates his home PC and doesn't use it because of Vista. It was the same story for my Mother in law and my friends parents.
This is anecdotal for you but for me this is everyone I know who has tried Vista.
Why download a car when you can bring anything you want to you?
By some estimates we only have about 15 years left before we have cheap clean energy sources. The only thing left to control will be Intellectual Property. I.P. is being fought over already. The stage is being set. We just have to wait and see how it is played out.
Ding ding ding. Thank you, you win the prize for being the first person to get what I was saying. Unfortunately the prize is a "dystopian nightmare".
I can see this going very bad a computer virus could become a real virus. At first probably more like the replicators from another popular scifi show or guns or bombs. I'm sure McAfee will take care of that. But more subtle minds can imagine actual viruses coming out of your device or slightly altered devices that perform nefarious ends.
I for one look forward to the day when the physical world is reduced to being as fluid as intellectual Property is today.
Have a Nano factory in your garage(call it a replicator for you Star Trek fans) where you can download the latest gadget and it is produced before your eyes.
patches can be downloaded and places on removable media (the need of patches is debatable anyway if most patches are just addressing security flaws). You put in and enforce a policy of disabling removable media on all machines connected to the private network.
You put your patches on removable media and then disable your removable media brilliant!
That way you protect your network from yourself.
Urg... must... not... feed... trolls...
You can infer from the OP what he was talking about. Oh dammit!
you could create a RAM Disk and set your page file to use that.
Then all your virtual memory is in RAM.
I'll leave it to someone else to explain why that isn't a good idea.
You are making the assumption that our Empire er... I mean Republic was actually ever threatened. Maybe you haven't noticed that after claiming the free world was at an end if we didn't borrow billions of dollars they decided that who we were supposed to bail out weren't the ones we needed to bail out.
He's convinced me. I'm starting my new diet plan tonight nothing but donuts.
I could only dream of being part of something so large and long lasting.
Smitty, I am impressed with the depth and breadth of your response.
Back on the subject: Open source is not a product. The product of open source software was always suppossed to be service. There are plenty of companies that sell service. But the open source community tried to sell support which although it might be part of service is not the same thing.
I understand what you mean now. But I think I meant that getting all that money over and over would give you more power which is what they think of as wealth. When you trade your time it is not going to make you rich. When you get paid for the same thing produced weather I.P. or an investment over and over then you can amass large sums of money. Right or wrong we could argue this all day.
Point taken. But to most people I think it sounds like we are arguing semantics. Like many brilliant people his thinking is purely logical and many people often are not they are irrational. I think he is right. But being right isn't always practical. It is one of the hardest things for intelligent people to learn to suffer fools gladly.
Hollingworth notes: A lesson which many gifted persons never learn as long as they live is that human beings in general are inherently very different from themselves in thought, in action, in general intention, and in interests. Many a reformer has died at the hands of a mob which he was trying to improve in the belief that other human beings can and should enjoy what he enjoys. This is one of the most painful and difficult lessons that each gifted child must learn, if personal development is to proceed successfully. It is more necessary that this be learned than that any school subject be mastered. Failure to learn how to tolerate in a reasonable fashion the foolishness of others leads to bitterness, disillusionment, and misanthropy [3, p. 259].
He's convinced me. I'm starting my new diet plan tonight nothing but donuts.
Ok I'll bite what do you think that I think that you think that I think that means.
He's only appears dumb from down here.
We look at open source as, free as in beer, free software. Because it makes us more efficient and productive worker bees.
It has a lot to do with point of view. He looks at it as how can I make money as in Micro$oft off this. Because that is his purpose in life.
His attitude isn't surprising or "news"
There are two ways to make money. Since printing your own is illegal there is only one. When you trade your time for money you are not making money you are making a trade. When you sell something over and over again you are creating wealth.
Think about it like going in with others on a pizza.
Great! now that's all I can think about.
He could of summed up his paper by yelling Troll, Groupthink, and then Personally I welcome our Automatic Computer overlords.
You can tell he never owned a computer by the way he doesn't think programs need maintenance. He is confusing cause and effect. The environment the program "lives" in changes and "wears" it out therefore it needs maintenance.
They are self-aware, capable of reasoning and emotion, and yet they are all slaves and no one pays more than cursory attention to them.
I always thought that phenomenon made Star Wars more interesting. You wouldn't sit down for a chat with your refridgerator. Even if my fridge has a web interface and tells me the weather and stock quotes. It is the next logical progression that they simulate emotions. The emotions they display are a reflection of their programmer. We all know how acturate the decisions that programmers make are in the real world. Would we still treat them as appliances? ...
I think we would.
When inventors come up with a new device, the first thing they want to do is patent it. Patents are a government's way of giving an inventor ownership of his or her creation. For a certain period of time, patent-holders are allowed to control how their inventions are used, allowing them to reap the financial rewards of their work. Patents are a palpable, legally-binding manifestation of a person's genius and innovation; they allow a person to actually own an idea.
from How stuff works
If it actually worked this would be good.
Worst... patent... ever...
I tend to agree. There should be stricter rules. But what happens is they start to come up with some rules to help prevent things like this and they are turned around to actually be used to cause more trolling.
That sounds a lot like my life. Except I unfortunately am not a cool robot. I just like to complain.
Oh my sides hurt! Almost makes me glad I had a typo. I meant recession not recension. /.) would dispute the importance of this technology.
No one (on
I was just hopping it doesn't become a victim of the current economic situation whatever you want to call it.
They've invented Scotchgardâ. Wow another in a long line of new old inventions.
It depends on whether they realize how bad the economic situation is. Right now they still think we are in a recension. The old business model of innovation to drive sales is valid in that circumstance. If they start to think we are going into a depression *cough* then they will cut off research and start fortifying existing tech. I for one hope this technology has enough momentum to carry it through.