Re:Everyone wants to control their users.
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Ever had a girlfriend? Tell me that she didn't always want to be in control. Everyone wants to be in control. There are few people in the world who feel comfortable in a situation where they are not somehow empowered.
Maybe the rest are going to Area 51? Sorta like those $50 government hammers. BTW. The added costs are usually the product of the complex buearacracy, not some government plot. If they were plotting, they could do a much better job... A lot has to do with pork barrel politics and paying everybody down the line who touches that hammer... and some people who don't in order to make sure that we don't discriminate against them (IE the wealthy ).
Everyone wants to control their users.
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Everyone wants to be in control. In ALL ASPECTS, but particularly economically. If you control your customer/user, then you get more money from them, you have an economic commitment. You can plan on the cash. This is sort of what industry has learned from the drug dealers. Get them hooked, get them trapped in, get their $$$ Taxpayers are a city's customer, Internet users an ISP's. It's all about credit. It's like industry is using users as their credit line. They always have, but much like secured credit cards, they want to protect their credit.
Ok, look at the budget they laid out. Yes, a university with a significant excess of computers can do this cheaply. That's the argument that many people are using trying to get MY university to build one. LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE PAYING FOR EQUIPMENT. If I got CASES at $1 a piece, and NIC's for the same price, and RACKS for $10. Then I could build just about whatever you want for under $3Grand myself...
You identify yourself as VAXman, are you a VAX user? Is this your preferred OS? Isn't it better if an OS complies with standards so it will interoperate properly with others? Your Sig says "Linux: Crash Early, Crash Often." I have never had Linux crash on me. Can you tell me how to get it to crash? Windows crashes so much that it now has an option to restart whenever you get a blue screen of death. It is easier to write programs for Linux/Unix. MUCH easier. The programs that are there, are easier to use. I actually like typing, it's quicker than fooling with a mouse. Simple input and output make for efficient and useful pipes. Do you deny this? You can't honestly mean that WINDOWS is the appropriate savior of the OS world. What do YOU suggest is the best? I'll grab a copy TONIGHT if you e-mail me and tell me where to get it. If you think that I don't know where I come from. I administer a network of windows machines, and have used EVERY version that you can name. It's a nightmare. At school, I have done the same with Unix/Linux machines. MUCH easier. I want proof.
Civilization isn't going to spend the rest of eternity pointing and clicking mice on their local machines. Speech recognition is going to take over, and with it will come devices that link in ways that we have never thought of before. Ways that herald entirely new networking paradigms. Someday, most of our computing won't be in front of a monitor unless we're coders. Peer to peer and universal devices will abound. Systems research is entering a new era. I will never say that a man that I respect as much is a dinosaur, but he is certainly wrong on this point.
This kid going to jail, retaliating for a website against his friend, with a website against the people who wrote those websites, when they are running free, is NOT appropriate.
What's your problem? These people are coming down on this kid like he just nuked China. The other kids at school wrote websites too. Only difference between what he did and what the other kids did is that when a popular kid cries a bit, people go and make things better. Doesn't work like that for people who live in the real world. BTW, the reason that a woodpecker doesn't bash it's brains out has to do with the shape of its skull and a fluid surrounding it's brain. But then again, you're too closed minded to pick up a book and learn that, aren't you?
Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you. Are any of the popular kids going to jail over this? No. Ok, I rest my case. If you read, they pubished articles in the school paper/their own websites. I guess that that doesn't count since they are the "good" kids.
I'm not crying, I'm conversing, perhaps you should have read the topic and understood that this is a discussion. I chose a side and argued for it. Perhaps if you don't like it, you should read a news source that revolves around what you have to say.
I never read this kids webpage. Have you? I bet that the careers of these kids have just been destroyed by it. Maybe little Susie didn't get asked to the prom by that really cute senior because of it? People should watch what comes out of their mouths as well, but they don't. If someone bashed me on a webpage, and nobody believed what they said, I wouldn't care. If someone bashes me by word of mouth, and people take notice, then I'm going to care.
Hehe, that was listed in some chart of phone boxes way back when! They must've downloaded the anarchist cookbook or something, saw that, and pee'd themsevles. The concept was pretty much a way to link a van de graff generator to a phone line. Which, yeah, could mess up some electrical equipment, but obviously can't route itself by TCP/IP. This is a case of a news dude who doesn't know his tech and is interpretting something he doesn't understand, and probably has never heard of as being "Internet" by default of the mention of a modem. For those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about. Sparking a van de graff generator to a phone line is kind of like lightning hitting it. Ever get shocked during a lightning storm? Now picture some joker with a joybuzzer in the wireroom of your business doing that.
This stuff is just mischief. So, it was on the net... What difference does that make. Someone calls this guy a dork in class, gets told to be quiet, if the teacher takes sympathy on the kid, the other kid gets detention. He puts it on the net, all of the sudden it's as if he went on CNN and announced that his classmates run a drug ring in order to mess up their campaign for class president or something. Get real.
And if you want to know my opinion, the same goes for kids writing viruses. It doesn't take a dangerous criminal mastermind to get into trouble toying with virus code. Most 10 and 12 year olds aren't after nukes. Cut them some slack.
Uhh, any idiot can point and click their way around X-Windows, and you can set that to be their default boot. xvwm95.... I really don't see what's so hard here... Maybe they'll complain that they can't run the viruses they get in the e-mail?
People need stuff to read on travel, and not all of them are going to read it as an e-book, and not all of them are going to download it online. If you want to read the broadest audience, publish as a book first, so you get "Bestseller" status, or something along those lines. Then put out the e-book and website. Hype that it was so good, you want to give it away. If you want to make money along with that, smack your users in the face with some banners.
It's good to see a big company taking responsibility for its actions. It seems like nobody, people, government, or corporate, feels like having an ounce of honor these days and making things right when they have done wrong. Way to go HP!
They all want a piece of his action... Some of this legal bull just makes me sick. MP3 tech is about as common as it gets these days, and the guy who did most of the inventing of it gets about 0$ out of it. What do these guys who never did anything but file some paperwork deserve?
Much like switch keyboards over membrane ones, I think that I will prefer mice with buttons over those without, simply because the tactile feedback makes a difference. Why do you think that there are force feedback game controls, and tactile haptic devices. Why do you think that the controls on an airplane simulate the resistance that would be there in the older systems, that are not fly by wire (older planes used phsyical systems, that you had to push, newer ones don't. Many of them are built to give tactile feedback where there doesn't need to be any, but there is simply for the feel of the interface).
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Ever had a girlfriend? Tell me that she didn't always want to be in control. Everyone wants to be in control. There are few people in the world who feel comfortable in a situation where they are not somehow empowered.
Maybe the rest are going to Area 51? Sorta like those $50 government hammers. BTW. The added costs are usually the product of the complex buearacracy, not some government plot. If they were plotting, they could do a much better job... A lot has to do with pork barrel politics and paying everybody down the line who touches that hammer... and some people who don't in order to make sure that we don't discriminate against them (IE the wealthy ).
Everyone wants to be in control. In ALL ASPECTS, but particularly economically. If you control your customer/user, then you get more money from them, you have an economic commitment. You can plan on the cash. This is sort of what industry has learned from the drug dealers. Get them hooked, get them trapped in, get their $$$ Taxpayers are a city's customer, Internet users an ISP's. It's all about credit. It's like industry is using users as their credit line. They always have, but much like secured credit cards, they want to protect their credit.
Ok, look at the budget they laid out. Yes, a university with a significant excess of computers can do this cheaply. That's the argument that many people are using trying to get MY university to build one. LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE PAYING FOR EQUIPMENT. If I got CASES at $1 a piece, and NIC's for the same price, and RACKS for $10. Then I could build just about whatever you want for under $3Grand myself...
What about a beowulf cluster of these. Oh, wait ....
But seriously. Anybody got any info on multilayer clustering technology?
Actually, it came as a child to my response. Which was defending the kid. I know all about Discordianism. Hail Eris.
You identify yourself as VAXman, are you a VAX user? Is this your preferred OS? Isn't it better if an OS complies with standards so it will interoperate properly with others? Your Sig says "Linux: Crash Early, Crash Often." I have never had Linux crash on me. Can you tell me how to get it to crash? Windows crashes so much that it now has an option to restart whenever you get a blue screen of death. It is easier to write programs for Linux/Unix. MUCH easier. The programs that are there, are easier to use. I actually like typing, it's quicker than fooling with a mouse. Simple input and output make for efficient and useful pipes. Do you deny this? You can't honestly mean that WINDOWS is the appropriate savior of the OS world. What do YOU suggest is the best? I'll grab a copy TONIGHT if you e-mail me and tell me where to get it. If you think that I don't know where I come from. I administer a network of windows machines, and have used EVERY version that you can name. It's a nightmare. At school, I have done the same with Unix/Linux machines. MUCH easier. I want proof.
Civilization isn't going to spend the rest of eternity pointing and clicking mice on their local machines. Speech recognition is going to take over, and with it will come devices that link in ways that we have never thought of before. Ways that herald entirely new networking paradigms. Someday, most of our computing won't be in front of a monitor unless we're coders. Peer to peer and universal devices will abound. Systems research is entering a new era. I will never say that a man that I respect as much is a dinosaur, but he is certainly wrong on this point.
This kid going to jail, retaliating for a website against his friend, with a website against the people who wrote those websites, when they are running free, is NOT appropriate.
What's your problem? These people are coming down on this kid like he just nuked China. The other kids at school wrote websites too. Only difference between what he did and what the other kids did is that when a popular kid cries a bit, people go and make things better. Doesn't work like that for people who live in the real world. BTW, the reason that a woodpecker doesn't bash it's brains out has to do with the shape of its skull and a fluid surrounding it's brain. But then again, you're too closed minded to pick up a book and learn that, aren't you?
Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you. Are any of the popular kids going to jail over this? No. Ok, I rest my case. If you read, they pubished articles in the school paper/their own websites. I guess that that doesn't count since they are the "good" kids.
I'm not crying, I'm conversing, perhaps you should have read the topic and understood that this is a discussion. I chose a side and argued for it. Perhaps if you don't like it, you should read a news source that revolves around what you have to say.
I never read this kids webpage. Have you? I bet that the careers of these kids have just been destroyed by it. Maybe little Susie didn't get asked to the prom by that really cute senior because of it? People should watch what comes out of their mouths as well, but they don't. If someone bashed me on a webpage, and nobody believed what they said, I wouldn't care. If someone bashes me by word of mouth, and people take notice, then I'm going to care.
Hehe, that was listed in some chart of phone boxes way back when! They must've downloaded the anarchist cookbook or something, saw that, and pee'd themsevles. The concept was pretty much a way to link a van de graff generator to a phone line. Which, yeah, could mess up some electrical equipment, but obviously can't route itself by TCP/IP. This is a case of a news dude who doesn't know his tech and is interpretting something he doesn't understand, and probably has never heard of as being "Internet" by default of the mention of a modem. For those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about. Sparking a van de graff generator to a phone line is kind of like lightning hitting it. Ever get shocked during a lightning storm? Now picture some joker with a joybuzzer in the wireroom of your business doing that.
Whatever dude. So he posted it to the net. Ever get called a name in school?
This stuff is just mischief. So, it was on the net... What difference does that make. Someone calls this guy a dork in class, gets told to be quiet, if the teacher takes sympathy on the kid, the other kid gets detention. He puts it on the net, all of the sudden it's as if he went on CNN and announced that his classmates run a drug ring in order to mess up their campaign for class president or something. Get real.
And if you want to know my opinion, the same goes for kids writing viruses. It doesn't take a dangerous criminal mastermind to get into trouble toying with virus code. Most 10 and 12 year olds aren't after nukes. Cut them some slack.
Uhh, any idiot can point and click their way around X-Windows, and you can set that to be their default boot. xvwm95.... I really don't see what's so hard here... Maybe they'll complain that they can't run the viruses they get in the e-mail?
People need stuff to read on travel, and not all of them are going to read it as an e-book, and not all of them are going to download it online. If you want to read the broadest audience, publish as a book first, so you get "Bestseller" status, or something along those lines. Then put out the e-book and website. Hype that it was so good, you want to give it away. If you want to make money along with that, smack your users in the face with some banners.
That was actually first written in a tech journal that my office recieves, and then CNN stole it. I forget which one.
It's good to see a big company taking responsibility for its actions. It seems like nobody, people, government, or corporate, feels like having an ounce of honor these days and making things right when they have done wrong. Way to go HP!
They all want a piece of his action... Some of this legal bull just makes me sick. MP3 tech is about as common as it gets these days, and the guy who did most of the inventing of it gets about 0$ out of it. What do these guys who never did anything but file some paperwork deserve?
Much like switch keyboards over membrane ones, I think that I will prefer mice with buttons over those without, simply because the tactile feedback makes a difference. Why do you think that there are force feedback game controls, and tactile haptic devices. Why do you think that the controls on an airplane simulate the resistance that would be there in the older systems, that are not fly by wire (older planes used phsyical systems, that you had to push, newer ones don't. Many of them are built to give tactile feedback where there doesn't need to be any, but there is simply for the feel of the interface).
Hey, I read it, and my questions were still pretty valid. Smoke it again.
It was slashdotted. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
And of course, they'll never fire Carmack since whatever company he went to would get all of his fan's loyalty.