Consider what would happen if we all pulled this kind of stunt:
We'd no longer need 700Mhz PCs to display all the HTML eyecandy.
I could view a webpage without having to wait a minute for my modem's lights to stop flashing.
This is all very well, but what would happen to the telecommunications industry and chip manufacturers if we didn't have to upgrade CPUs and internet connections every 6 months... Anyway, I'm off to support the economy by installing netscape 6 and another 64 megs.
Since when did mp3 players become works of art? All I want to do is use it to play mp3s, so it practically doesn't need an interface. Now every mp3 player seems to have some mad skinning system, and a kajillion visualization plug-ins that I have never seen anybody use except to prove that they could. I'm as much a geek as anyone else, and love tweaking, but could it be that mp3 players have been done now, and only need maintenance releases?
I'd have to say that both hackers and mystic people are a little offbeat. It's not that being a hacker causes you to become a mystic, or the other way round. Simply that both groups do not draw heavily from the Joe-schmo segment of the population.
No great revelation there... Marketing people know about segmentation from the time they can first stick their heads up their asses.
Metallica could really learn from this. Let's call it the "if you're being stolen from, give up some cash" model.
Sega is paying off the guys who have ripped off their games. Similarly, Metallica could give everyone who has been ripping off their music, say $10. Then we could all afford to go down to the record store and buy the records, and actually buy the CD, since it would be cheaper after this subsidy. After all, how many times have people bitched here that they are into mp3s because of overpriced CDs.
Hey guys, over here... Yeah, I'll make sure I don't release any pirate ISOs if you give me some stock options too...
Actually, I'm not really an ISO pirate, just a bored geek trying to illustrate why if they pay one set of thieves off, they'll have to pay them all off. All in all, I think we can say this is bogus then.
Congratulations to Phillips for their innovative technology. Not the plastic semi-conductors. What really impressed me is having to register to look at high-res pictures. What next? Maybe I should give them my home and work phone numbers before I can view the consonants?
It seems to me that RMS is engaging in the type of manouevering more commonly seen in "that" company.
KDE is an obvious competitor to "his" product GNOME, and he wants to squash it. Having heard so many times that free software is all about the software, and not about politics, it is disappointing to see its highest figures engaged in this sort of behaviour.
Two weeks ago, I made the decision to learn to develop for KDE before I learnt about GNOME. Now I don't think I'll even bother looking at GNOME. I don't want any part of that sort of idiocy.
And after so many people posted saying "at least now the KDE-GNOME split can be based on merit instead of licences". Hah.
Unlike the Agricultural or Industrial Revolutions, the Information Revolution will not evolve over hundreds of years. Like the technology that created it, it will take hold more rapidly than any other social phase of human life. The Information Revolution, now already well underway will play out within our lifetimes, and it's time to get ready.
Flowery Katz-language aside, this is artive is much better than his average, with food for thought. This paragraph though, I am not sure it can possibly correct. Katz is as arrogant as the scientists at the end of the 19th century who claimed that everything that could be invented already had been, if he believes this. I think the information revolution started with the development of computers in the middle of last (this?) century, and I doubt we will have discovered everything to be discovered of this new age for quite some time.
I don't know about 2000, but I think linux compares case-sensitively.
Sorry. I'll go now.
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Left it a little late.
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"Eeek, gnome's catching up on us. Quick, GPL it".
I think they may have missed the bus on this one. If they had released Qt under GPL earlier, the whole KDE/gnome idiotic split could have been avoided.
Why is it companies never open source stuff when things are going their way? (eg Netscape waited til Microsoft had them by the balls).
the digital modulation scheme reportedly delivers 90 bps/Hz
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Hz mean "per second". Does this mean that we now have 90 bits per second per second? After 1 second, 90 bits transferred, after 2 seconds 360 bits... Wow, this could be big.
I am particularly interested to see what games companies can do with this (mainly because I do not need to visualize the inside of people's skulls).
Novalogic combined voxels and polygon graphics in Delta Force and Delta Force 2, and the result was impressive, but obviously limited by processing power. Delta Force was smooth in motion, but the detail on the unaccelerated voxels made the landscape look coarse, especially close up. Delta Force 2 tried to be more detailed, but was jerky. It is easy to see, by taking a look at these games, that if the technology is developed, landscapes will look a lot better.
I for one am looking forward to this innovation a lot more than the next paints-3-times-more-polygons board.
Nader pointed out that the auto industry was producing unsafe cars. Hackers are pointing out that software companies are producing software that leave your corporate and home networks vunerable to attack.
Imagine if they had adopted each others approaches. Script kiddies would be littering the shelves of my local bookstore with books on security. Mr Nader would have lobbed somebody else's bricks at parked cars to show they are unsafe.
Realistically, I don't think you can claim hackers (crackers?) are just pointing these things out any more than if Mr Nader had instituted an army of brake-line-cutting kiddies.
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We'd no longer need 700Mhz PCs to display all the HTML eyecandy.
I could view a webpage without having to wait a minute for my modem's lights to stop flashing.
This is all very well, but what would happen to the telecommunications industry and chip manufacturers if we didn't have to upgrade CPUs and internet connections every 6 months... Anyway, I'm off to support the economy by installing netscape 6 and another 64 megs.
not_cub
This makes me think... If MirCorp sells tickets to the Mir crashing into the ocean, maybe they could raise enough money to keep it up there.
Um, nevermind.
not_cub.
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I'd have to say that both hackers and mystic people are a little offbeat. It's not that being a hacker causes you to become a mystic, or the other way round. Simply that both groups do not draw heavily from the Joe-schmo segment of the population.
No great revelation there... Marketing people know about segmentation from the time they can first stick their heads up their asses.
not_cub
Sega is paying off the guys who have ripped off their games. Similarly, Metallica could give everyone who has been ripping off their music, say $10. Then we could all afford to go down to the record store and buy the records, and actually buy the CD, since it would be cheaper after this subsidy. After all, how many times have people bitched here that they are into mp3s because of overpriced CDs.
not_cub
Actually, I'm not really an ISO pirate, just a bored geek trying to illustrate why if they pay one set of thieves off, they'll have to pay them all off. All in all, I think we can say this is bogus then.
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KDE is an obvious competitor to "his" product GNOME, and he wants to squash it. Having heard so many times that free software is all about the software, and not about politics, it is disappointing to see its highest figures engaged in this sort of behaviour.
Two weeks ago, I made the decision to learn to develop for KDE before I learnt about GNOME. Now I don't think I'll even bother looking at GNOME. I don't want any part of that sort of idiocy.
And after so many people posted saying "at least now the KDE-GNOME split can be based on merit instead of licences". Hah.
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Flowery Katz-language aside, this is artive is much better than his average, with food for thought. This paragraph though, I am not sure it can possibly correct. Katz is as arrogant as the scientists at the end of the 19th century who claimed that everything that could be invented already had been, if he believes this. I think the information revolution started with the development of computers in the middle of last (this?) century, and I doubt we will have discovered everything to be discovered of this new age for quite some time.
not_cub
Sorry. I'll go now.
not_cub.
I think they may have missed the bus on this one. If they had released Qt under GPL earlier, the whole KDE/gnome idiotic split could have been avoided.
Why is it companies never open source stuff when things are going their way? (eg Netscape waited til Microsoft had them by the balls).
not_cub
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Hz mean "per second". Does this mean that we now have 90 bits per second per second? After 1 second, 90 bits transferred, after 2 seconds 360 bits... Wow, this could be big.
Novalogic combined voxels and polygon graphics in Delta Force and Delta Force 2, and the result was impressive, but obviously limited by processing power. Delta Force was smooth in motion, but the detail on the unaccelerated voxels made the landscape look coarse, especially close up. Delta Force 2 tried to be more detailed, but was jerky. It is easy to see, by taking a look at these games, that if the technology is developed, landscapes will look a lot better.
I for one am looking forward to this innovation a lot more than the next paints-3-times-more-polygons board.
Imagine if they had adopted each others approaches. Script kiddies would be littering the shelves of my local bookstore with books on security. Mr Nader would have lobbed somebody else's bricks at parked cars to show they are unsafe.
Realistically, I don't think you can claim hackers (crackers?) are just pointing these things out any more than if Mr Nader had instituted an army of brake-line-cutting kiddies.