Do get the dog. Others posted that, I am just saying do it.
Get home security stickers. You know, the protected by ADT kind. Buying the system is optional however. Monitoring will let you know you have been hit, but the big deterrent is simply the idea that the system is there. Place them and the yard signs in obvious places.
Use outside lights that are on all the time. Lighting your home up costs a bit, but nothing says go away like a nice clean home that is well lit.
Make sure the place is clean and sharp.
Start or participate in a local neighborhood watch program. These things are pretty cool. You get to know the local folks. Everyone takes turns just keeping an eye out. We have regular people who will walk around the block every so often just to see what has changed.
Meet your neighbors. After you get to know one another you can better watch for changes or people that are not supposed to be there. Also it's nice to have somebody to tell when you are not going to be home for a while.
Along the clean and sharp line, step away from the house and look at the neighborhood. Whose house would you hit? Do those simple things that keep your house at the bottom of the list. Make sure there are no easy temptations. Sometimes it's a slippery slope with minor property crime. A couple of successful hits on a particular home will make the perp more comfortable. Do not encourage that.
Use house timers to vary the interior lighting in the evening. Again, this costs a bit, but does a lot to keep you at the bottom of the list. Change is bad for planning crime.
Put a little radio or television somewhere and leave it on where it can just be heard outside in the evening, but not annoying to your neighbors.
There is no real security. If somebody really wants to hit your place they are going to be able to do it. The key is making them consider another option.
the money involved in the process, I have no problem with this move from Moore. Sadly, until we get serious reform that empowers real political discussion between citizens in a way that will be meaningful, we are going to continue to see this escalation of powers in the political areana.
Does GW deserve it? Damn right he does. Maybe answering the questions would help diffuse F 911. Oh yeah.... those answers probably won't help either!
Maybe it't not totally right for Moore to be airing that sort of thing. Having said that, GW has done enough wrongs. Personally I don't want to experience another 4 years. GW needs to go, so we can move forward from there.
they actually did. TNG had many of the elements that made the old trek appeal. There is still plenty of time for a new movie following 'Nemisis' as well.
Would be nice to see the story thread about the Data prototype expanded upon.
Like the original trek and TNG, cannot stand Enterprise, forgot DS9, tolerated Voyager.
And games like it are still plenty fun and addictive. Every year or so, I get the old 2600 out to play it. Kids will spend a long time on Kaboom and Warlords.
A lot of what you are saying is right, but it does not apply across the board. Really good classic games are still really good games today.
I found myself becoming aware of how I read while I read. Fun! I agree with the author regarding letter recognition. The parallel aspect of word recognition is very interesting as well because it begins to explain why we are albe ot raed srcambled txet os eaisly!
Also, more work needs to be done to consider the visual cues outside the focus of attention. It is here that, I believe, shape and form cue the reader, more than letter shapes do, as to the potential content of the text to come. (Exactly how is for the geniuses.)
This is the same stupid crap I have been hearing since I first bought Ultima II for the Atari 800.
Why not encode the name of the user into the game at the time of sale? I think they would be nicely surprised at how much of a return a little guilt will yield. Setup Kiosks and burn the games on demand. Put the boxes out on the floor so people can still buy them, but when they checkout, they get their own media right then and there.
That media will run easily enough, but it also displays the name of the person who paid for it. Lots of people will not want that all over the Internet. For those that don't care, black list them. If an accident happens, like stolen games, they can always call to let the company know not to black list.
For the black listed folks and those that want to remain anonymous, they can buy media with the usual protections and hassles at a higher cost.
One advantage of this scheme would be replacement media. Since they have a record of what you have a license to, making a copy should be easy enough and not cost much either.
BTW, playing the Ultima game on delicate floppy discs made me think about backups. Their scheme was the old 'bad sector' one. A mis-formatted floppy would generate a read error at some point during the load process. Well, the Atari beeped for each sector loaded, so all you had to do was open the door at the right time, when using your backup to play... even that simple level of protection kept a lot of people honest.
We have come a long way since then, but I am not sure we are heading the right direction.
The most powerful 8 bitter ever made. Powered Williams arcade games. Featured user stack, full indexing including program counter relative.
Was possible to write reentrant and recursive code fairly easily directly in assembler.
Compared to the more popular (and brain dead, but somewhat fast 6502) the 6809 was the shit. --Glad I learned assembler on one. Learning that chip, and later the 68000, biased my view of CPUs forever. Intel looked like a sad, slow kludge in comparison.
Intel chips basically play the lotto. The faster you sift through the instructions, the more you will get done. Shove the bits in and let the cooling engineers sort 'em out. Blech.
you forget group interaction; namely, rallys and such. Events such as these can spark discussion and help develop consensue that does not require one on one intreaction with every voter.
The parent of your post was speaking to the human aspect of democracy being marginalized via technology. In that, I very strongly agree.
If our decisions are actually going to mean something, we need to spend a little time discussing them in a very real way.
They are doing everything they can to keep from diluting the value proposition of their software.
If they let it go cheap in Asia, then it will, fairly quickly, end up cheap almost everywhere else. By limiting the feature set, they can say the software is worth what they ask, but that most folks don't need the full package.
It's the same deal with XP Home Edition. The limits are put in place simply to justify the higher price of Pro. Lots of software companies do this, particularly MCAD ones.
Just goes to show just how high the OSS value proposition really is. Anyone, anywhere can obtain and make full use of the entire feature set offered by the software in question. Once a person gets to understand this difference, regular commercial software begins to undergo far greater scrutiny to justify its price.
The movie studio people understood this and had the power to make it happen, which is why Linux is in wide use. Commercial software vendors, who happen to offer a valid and necessary solution, are paid for their efforts. Those that didn't are now gone.
OSS is going to cause a shakedown at some point that is going to seperate the men from the boys in software. One by one they will learn if its going to be them or not, based on their value offerings. If they understand they have a valid niche, we will eventually see a port to OSS tools because they know their customers will have more to spend on them as a result.
If they don't? Well... you are looking at the result.
Everyone producing basic computing tools is on borrowed time. Office software, editors, e-mail, internet browsers, media players, many basic authoring tools for graphics, anti virus/spam and simple, casual games are all in danger because OSS can do them just as well or better than the companies currently doing the job can. Everybody needs them, so the incentive to get this work done or offer services to do the work, will continue to chip away at the value proposition these producers offer.
Analysis, MCAD and Simulation, represent types of software that OSS will have a very difficult time reproducing because the problems are both complex and only necessary for a small number of people compared to more mainstream software. We have OSS ports of these already with more on the way.
Microsoft produces what? That's right, software almost everybody needs. Expect the FUD to come hot and heavy because they have no choice!
Kind of off topic, but this reminded me of another way to express your political views besides throwing away your vote on a third party.
Vote for people like Dennis Kucinich in the primaries. Kucinich and someone from hollywood came to Oregon and advised people to do just that. Ran a very nice little rally. I still see plenty of bumper stickers.
Their point was this: Kerry was the likely nominee, but a strong show of support for Kucinich in Oregon would sway his views a bit.. This was a nice bit of creative thinking. Kucinich saw a lot of support here in Oregon, and probably set himself up for a much stronger showing later on at the same time.
Something to think about anyway, particularly if you are in a State that is not a factor in the primaries, like Oregon.
its negative effect on the market, read this one again and be happy.
OSS is bringing down the overall value of computing, which is a good thing for all of us. The increased competition means the big players must begin to really innovate of die slow. The stuff we use everyday should be cheap. Intel did its job on the hardware side of things, OSS is working hard on the Software side.
This is the Sun I am used to seeing. I have said before, their value is in their people --nice to see them putting it to use.:)
Well, I am not so sure about that. Win32 is not my primary OS, hasn't been for the last 4 years or so. (Mandrake is)
Switch to Apple? Probably would, if I could get decent MCAD applications. Before you say there is plenty, consider I-deas, UGS NX, Pro Engineer, Solid Works, Solid Edge, etc... These drive most of the industry. Since that is a big part of what I do (consulting, training, implementation), Apple is out for now.
FS / OSS provides almost all of my basic computing solutions. If I am going to buy an OS, it's going to (sadly) be a win32 one because of the MCAD stuff.
I also use SGI IRIX quite a bit. SGI and Apple have a lot in common with regard to their hardware/software combination. It costs a bit more to do things this way, but the results are clearly worth it. Apple is doing all the right things, just like SGI used to do with IRIX. Believe me when I say I would likely switch, it's just not going to do me any good at the moment.
Linux, IRIX and..... win32 for the moment, waiting for MCAD applications to make a shift.
Kind of an old story, but relevant. One day we were tinkering with ways to defeat bad sector based copy protection schemes. We found that you could lay out the geometry of the disk, then use markers to disturb that area of the disk to allow the copy scheme to bypass. Success rate was pretty low though. The best alternative happened to be opening the disk drive door at just the right time! It seems the copy scheme only wanted to see an error, it was not picky about the nature of it. (The Atari beeped every sector, I believe the beep was the actual bits from the disk running through one of the chips in the machine.)
That marker really is a circumvention device, don't even want to talk about the finger!
Anyway, we decided to see how robust the Atari disk system really was. Took a hole punch and just swiss cheezed the disk. By luck we missed the parts of the disk that recorded bad sectors and the file table. Must of put in 10-15 holes --nobody thought it would still work, but it did! (Though slowly)
Saved a few files and loaded them back. 90Kbyte (scary huh?) floppy worked just fine after a bit of grunting from the drive. Had about 14K or so space left!
Sun, being a UNIX house, is near the front of the line, but they won't be the last to lose with Linux. The best asset SUN has is its people. They need to leverage that into new solutions that are more than the common stuff we have today.
This is what Open Source is all about. We know how to build most of the software people need to use today. Why keep paying for that, when we could be advancing the art of computer science, or helping people make the most of exists now. Good OSS people can build complex, powerful solutions right off the net. They are worth paying for. Software companies can build new things that are worth paying for as well.
The fortunes of the big software houses were built on the general ignorance the rest of us had. Problem is they stopped innovating and began simply selling and locking in to keep their position. This benefits nobody really, including them, because the backlash from their overselling will tarnish their customer relations to a point where it might almost be better to let new companies, with a clue, step in and show how it should be done.
Linux and OSS will eventually force a new model. Open operating systems, standards, and applications will provide most of what people need. The software worth paying for will be new software that is tough to write, it will be new software that actually delivers its value in terms of its raw capability. Services will continue to be big as people understand they can pay for solutions that fit them, and perhaps only them, instead of boxed software stamped and sold by the billions. This is where IBM has it right, and also where SUN has some learning to do yet.
I will pay for software that is new, or that is difficult to write and maintain because those that do the work deserve it. Sadly, this does not fit most of what SUN and Microsoft and their partners package and sell today.
SUN still has a lot of very bright people capable of great things --they just need to buckle down now, while they have some position and cash in the market and really take things to the next level. They should do this on Linux and let the OSS community do the rest.
SGI, BTW is beginning to see some real success doing exactly this. Almost cost them the company because they were late to the party and had a very vulnerable position to begin with. SUN is in far better shape, they should have a good chance at keeping things that way, if they work at it...
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Do get the dog. Others posted that, I am just saying do it.
Get home security stickers. You know, the protected by ADT kind. Buying the system is optional however. Monitoring will let you know you have been hit, but the big deterrent is simply the idea that the system is there. Place them and the yard signs in obvious places.
Use outside lights that are on all the time. Lighting your home up costs a bit, but nothing says go away like a nice clean home that is well lit.
Make sure the place is clean and sharp.
Start or participate in a local neighborhood watch program. These things are pretty cool. You get to know the local folks. Everyone takes turns just keeping an eye out. We have regular people who will walk around the block every so often just to see what has changed.
Meet your neighbors. After you get to know one another you can better watch for changes or people that are not supposed to be there. Also it's nice to have somebody to tell when you are not going to be home for a while.
Along the clean and sharp line, step away from the house and look at the neighborhood. Whose house would you hit? Do those simple things that keep your house at the bottom of the list. Make sure there are no easy temptations. Sometimes it's a slippery slope with minor property crime. A couple of successful hits on a particular home will make the perp more comfortable. Do not encourage that.
Use house timers to vary the interior lighting in the evening. Again, this costs a bit, but does a lot to keep you at the bottom of the list. Change is bad for planning crime.
Put a little radio or television somewhere and leave it on where it can just be heard outside in the evening, but not annoying to your neighbors.
There is no real security. If somebody really wants to hit your place they are going to be able to do it. The key is making them consider another option.
On that HDTV set...
the money involved in the process, I have no problem with this move from Moore. Sadly, until we get serious reform that empowers real political discussion between citizens in a way that will be meaningful, we are going to continue to see this escalation of powers in the political areana.
Does GW deserve it? Damn right he does. Maybe answering the questions would help diffuse F 911. Oh yeah.... those answers probably won't help either!
Maybe it't not totally right for Moore to be airing that sort of thing. Having said that, GW has done enough wrongs. Personally I don't want to experience another 4 years. GW needs to go, so we can move forward from there.
they actually did. TNG had many of the elements that made the old trek appeal. There is still plenty of time for a new movie following 'Nemisis' as well.
Would be nice to see the story thread about the Data prototype expanded upon.
Like the original trek and TNG, cannot stand Enterprise, forgot DS9, tolerated Voyager.
Freaking love SG1 and Atlantis!
And games like it are still plenty fun and addictive. Every year or so, I get the old 2600 out to play it. Kids will spend a long time on Kaboom and Warlords.
A lot of what you are saying is right, but it does not apply across the board. Really good classic games are still really good games today.
I found myself becoming aware of how I read while I read. Fun! I agree with the author regarding letter recognition. The parallel aspect of word recognition is very interesting as well because it begins to explain why we are albe ot raed srcambled txet os eaisly!
Also, more work needs to be done to consider the visual cues outside the focus of attention. It is here that, I believe, shape and form cue the reader, more than letter shapes do, as to the potential content of the text to come. (Exactly how is for the geniuses.)
Writing assembler on that thing was pretty damn easy, and all the nice addressing modes!
A 64 bit version would be interesting today. Heck a 32 bitter given the core design philosophies would punch well above its weight!
This is the same stupid crap I have been hearing since I first bought Ultima II for the Atari 800.
Why not encode the name of the user into the game at the time of sale? I think they would be nicely surprised at how much of a return a little guilt will yield. Setup Kiosks and burn the games on demand. Put the boxes out on the floor so people can still buy them, but when they checkout, they get their own media right then and there.
That media will run easily enough, but it also displays the name of the person who paid for it. Lots of people will not want that all over the Internet. For those that don't care, black list them. If an accident happens, like stolen games, they can always call to let the company know not to black list.
For the black listed folks and those that want to remain anonymous, they can buy media with the usual protections and hassles at a higher cost.
One advantage of this scheme would be replacement media. Since they have a record of what you have a license to, making a copy should be easy enough and not cost much either.
BTW, playing the Ultima game on delicate floppy discs made me think about backups. Their scheme was the old 'bad sector' one. A mis-formatted floppy would generate a read error at some point during the load process. Well, the Atari beeped for each sector loaded, so all you had to do was open the door at the right time, when using your backup to play... even that simple level of protection kept a lot of people honest.
We have come a long way since then, but I am not sure we are heading the right direction.
Your memory was correct. Taco got 'em on a deal while building /.
Those were fairly cool times to be around here then... My how far we have come.
The most powerful 8 bitter ever made. Powered Williams arcade games. Featured user stack, full indexing including program counter relative.
Was possible to write reentrant and recursive code fairly easily directly in assembler.
Compared to the more popular (and brain dead, but somewhat fast 6502) the 6809 was the shit. --Glad I learned assembler on one. Learning that chip, and later the 68000, biased my view of CPUs forever. Intel looked like a sad, slow kludge in comparison.
Intel chips basically play the lotto. The faster you sift through the instructions, the more you will get done. Shove the bits in and let the cooling engineers sort 'em out. Blech.
you forget group interaction; namely, rallys and such. Events such as these can spark discussion and help develop consensue that does not require one on one intreaction with every voter.
The parent of your post was speaking to the human aspect of democracy being marginalized via technology. In that, I very strongly agree.
If our decisions are actually going to mean something, we need to spend a little time discussing them in a very real way.
They are doing everything they can to keep from diluting the value proposition of their software.
If they let it go cheap in Asia, then it will, fairly quickly, end up cheap almost everywhere else. By limiting the feature set, they can say the software is worth what they ask, but that most folks don't need the full package.
It's the same deal with XP Home Edition. The limits are put in place simply to justify the higher price of Pro. Lots of software companies do this, particularly MCAD ones.
Just goes to show just how high the OSS value proposition really is. Anyone, anywhere can obtain and make full use of the entire feature set offered by the software in question. Once a person gets to understand this difference, regular commercial software begins to undergo far greater scrutiny to justify its price.
The movie studio people understood this and had the power to make it happen, which is why Linux is in wide use. Commercial software vendors, who happen to offer a valid and necessary solution, are paid for their efforts. Those that didn't are now gone.
OSS is going to cause a shakedown at some point that is going to seperate the men from the boys in software. One by one they will learn if its going to be them or not, based on their value offerings. If they understand they have a valid niche, we will eventually see a port to OSS tools because they know their customers will have more to spend on them as a result.
If they don't? Well... you are looking at the result.
Everyone producing basic computing tools is on borrowed time. Office software, editors, e-mail, internet browsers, media players, many basic authoring tools for graphics, anti virus/spam and simple, casual games are all in danger because OSS can do them just as well or better than the companies currently doing the job can. Everybody needs them, so the incentive to get this work done or offer services to do the work, will continue to chip away at the value proposition these producers offer.
Analysis, MCAD and Simulation, represent types of software that OSS will have a very difficult time reproducing because the problems are both complex and only necessary for a small number of people compared to more mainstream software. We have OSS ports of these already with more on the way.
Microsoft produces what? That's right, software almost everybody needs. Expect the FUD to come hot and heavy because they have no choice!
Kind of off topic, but this reminded me of another way to express your political views besides throwing away your vote on a third party.
Vote for people like Dennis Kucinich in the primaries. Kucinich and someone from hollywood came to Oregon and advised people to do just that. Ran a very nice little rally. I still see plenty of bumper stickers.
Their point was this: Kerry was the likely nominee, but a strong show of support for Kucinich in Oregon would sway his views a bit.. This was a nice bit of creative thinking. Kucinich saw a lot of support here in Oregon, and probably set himself up for a much stronger showing later on at the same time.
Something to think about anyway, particularly if you are in a State that is not a factor in the primaries, like Oregon.
Oh, it was Sean Penn working with him.
Just read farther down and saw the whole unicode thing.
(still, it does look like ET!)
Seriously, I think it't funny as hell, but can somebody explain the informative mod? Please?
...
I just know I am missing out on something
given the right mix of music...
They could put this on a website and let folks choose their own! No bandwidth issues, just a card number, and a bit of shipping.
It's a pretty big place and we are still fairly stupid in general.
Anyone passing by will see wars, disease, greed and a rich, but flawed gene pool capable of supporting 100 times as many flawed beings.
We grow like weeds and fight like young children.
Others out there that have the ability to know us, also know better.
When we have grown a bit, we might make some friends...
its negative effect on the market, read this one again and be happy.
:)
OSS is bringing down the overall value of computing, which is a good thing for all of us. The increased competition means the big players must begin to really innovate of die slow. The stuff we use everyday should be cheap. Intel did its job on the hardware side of things, OSS is working hard on the Software side.
This is the Sun I am used to seeing. I have said before, their value is in their people --nice to see them putting it to use.
Well, I am not so sure about that. Win32 is not my primary OS, hasn't been for the last 4 years or so. (Mandrake is)
..... win32 for the moment, waiting for MCAD applications to make a shift.
Switch to Apple? Probably would, if I could get decent MCAD applications. Before you say there is plenty, consider I-deas, UGS NX, Pro Engineer, Solid Works, Solid Edge, etc... These drive most of the industry. Since that is a big part of what I do (consulting, training, implementation), Apple is out for now.
FS / OSS provides almost all of my basic computing solutions. If I am going to buy an OS, it's going to (sadly) be a win32 one because of the MCAD stuff.
I also use SGI IRIX quite a bit. SGI and Apple have a lot in common with regard to their hardware/software combination. It costs a bit more to do things this way, but the results are clearly worth it. Apple is doing all the right things, just like SGI used to do with IRIX. Believe me when I say I would likely switch, it's just not going to do me any good at the moment.
Linux, IRIX and
Could not believe I was typing it myself :)
There are plenty of places to sample music, who's to say that was not the source of the download?
Of course, this does sharply limit the potential of this database to defend p2p, doesn't it?
Does anybody notice that most of the computing industry would be redefined according to Longhorn?
Now I know they need to build something really different, but are all these differences really worth the hassle?
Maybe it's just me tired of hearing about software that won't be in use for another 3-5 years as if it's the best thing since sliced bread...
Kind of an old story, but relevant. One day we were tinkering with ways to defeat bad sector based copy protection schemes. We found that you could lay out the geometry of the disk, then use markers to disturb that area of the disk to allow the copy scheme to bypass. Success rate was pretty low though. The best alternative happened to be opening the disk drive door at just the right time! It seems the copy scheme only wanted to see an error, it was not picky about the nature of it. (The Atari beeped every sector, I believe the beep was the actual bits from the disk running through one of the chips in the machine.)
That marker really is a circumvention device, don't even want to talk about the finger!
Anyway, we decided to see how robust the Atari disk system really was. Took a hole punch and just swiss cheezed the disk. By luck we missed the parts of the disk that recorded bad sectors and the file table. Must of put in 10-15 holes --nobody thought it would still work, but it did! (Though slowly)
Saved a few files and loaded them back. 90Kbyte (scary huh?) floppy worked just fine after a bit of grunting from the drive. Had about 14K or so space left!
I don't care how good it is. When Microsoft actually steps up and builds something new that people really want, then maybe.
This is just a 'me too' entry that will, sadly, get some share because these kinds of things always do.
Nothing to see here, move along...
Sun, being a UNIX house, is near the front of the line, but they won't be the last to lose with Linux. The best asset SUN has is its people. They need to leverage that into new solutions that are more than the common stuff we have today.
This is what Open Source is all about. We know how to build most of the software people need to use today. Why keep paying for that, when we could be advancing the art of computer science, or helping people make the most of exists now. Good OSS people can build complex, powerful solutions right off the net. They are worth paying for. Software companies can build new things that are worth paying for as well.
The fortunes of the big software houses were built on the general ignorance the rest of us had. Problem is they stopped innovating and began simply selling and locking in to keep their position. This benefits nobody really, including them, because the backlash from their overselling will tarnish their customer relations to a point where it might almost be better to let new companies, with a clue, step in and show how it should be done.
Linux and OSS will eventually force a new model. Open operating systems, standards, and applications will provide most of what people need. The software worth paying for will be new software that is tough to write, it will be new software that actually delivers its value in terms of its raw capability. Services will continue to be big as people understand they can pay for solutions that fit them, and perhaps only them, instead of boxed software stamped and sold by the billions. This is where IBM has it right, and also where SUN has some learning to do yet.
I will pay for software that is new, or that is difficult to write and maintain because those that do the work deserve it. Sadly, this does not fit most of what SUN and Microsoft and their partners package and sell today.
SUN still has a lot of very bright people capable of great things --they just need to buckle down now, while they have some position and cash in the market and really take things to the next level. They should do this on Linux and let the OSS community do the rest.
SGI, BTW is beginning to see some real success doing exactly this. Almost cost them the company because they were late to the party and had a very vulnerable position to begin with. SUN is in far better shape, they should have a good chance at keeping things that way, if they work at it...