"I like the idea of syncing data over the net, but I hate the idea of having to be online to do work."
Why? With all the talk about how necessary the Internet and Broadband are. We already are wed to the idea that we need an always on connection to do work...and play? Getting cold feet now would be like realizing Modern Urbanism and the "Car Culture" have downsides.
"Gosh, how the hell does this benefit me in anyway? I am not an automatic MS-basher like some people here but I'm quickly learning."
Software as a service is really a rather old idea and it's worked out well so far. Some of you old timers may remember this and timesharing in the years before personal computers.
"That's wild over-interpretation. There is no "should" in science. There is only theory, and it is necessary to emphasize that theories are only that, theories."
This probably boils down to parents that are clueless. "But he was only playing on his computer!" So parents need to be educated that there's more you can do with a PC and an Internet connection than browse and play WoW.
There's one issue to think about when discussing the new web, be it social sites or the semantic web. The quantity and quality of information required for both to work properly vs privacy issues.
"Arno Igne writes to tell us that the number of underage participants in "high-tech" crimes has risen steeply in recent history. Reporting children as young as 11 swapping credit card details and asking for hacks, many are largely unskilled and thus more likely to get caught and arrested."
Well gosh darn it. We need to send them to some kind of school so they will not get caught.
"Most surprising is the fact that over 80% of downloads were from Windows users. As one commentator noted, when it comes to a choice between almost identical software (e.g. Microsoft Office and OpenOffice), price is the determining factor."
Johnny Chung Lee:"'If you create something but nobody knows, it's as if it never happened.'"
Jefferson:"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
"To do even this simple thing with Linux, all of our applications would have to be re-written to enable a new file specification syntax, hopefully one reasonably compatible with the past. We're talking about a shitload of work, so it's important to agree on a set of goals first, to avoid having to re-do it later."
So basically the timeline comes to the file system. Good thing there are standards.
"If you've played Bioshock, you'll know it can be a tough choice deciding whether you're going to kill the cute (yet evil looking) Little Sisters and extract their ADAM, or let them live."
"Using a selecting agent to grow only these bacteria, the teams identified a gene that inactivates the bacteria's hydrogen uptake system so that all of the hydrogen produced is released. Because the bacterial cells cannot recycle the hydrogen, the hydrogen they produce can be captured and used as a fuel whose byproduct is water and heat"
What effect does this have on the bacteria?
Also it seems like two different stories. the first is about agricultural bacteria. The link to the website talks about heat-loving bacteria like near volcanoes.
"Built in 1958, it was 'gynormous.' 'In addition to the oscilloscope screen and the controller, the guts of the original game were contained in an analog computer, which is "about as big as a microwave oven."' 'We have to load it into the back of a station wagon to move it. It's not a Game Boy that you put in your pocket.'"
Guess no one had the foresight to invent baggy pants. Youngsters have it easy now.
Fun would be playing Galactic Empire or Homeworld on this setup. Anyway the setup does have the potential to be educational AND fun (not diametrically opposed goals).
"âoeIâ(TM)m convinced that Steve Jobs is currently working on a double-sided touchscreen laptop, which has a great screen density so you can hold it on its side and you can touch it and turn pages. When something like that comes along, then the e-bookâ(TM)s going to be a real threat. And I think the publishing industry is going to collectively crap its pants.â"
There's just one problem with this argument. Books aren't as easy as movies and music to pirate. Oh it's possible, but it's not as easy.
The other is that print has had several centuries head start over modern piracy and has refined mass production to the point it can stay ahead of pirates. Just look at how far behind Gutenberg is with the public domain stuff.
Ok, so we have one side saying "you're not entitled to my work" and we have the other saying "you're not entitled to my money" and yet we have sites like this. So where's the site the creator can go to to download "free money"?
Slashdot Mirror
"I like the idea of syncing data over the net, but I hate the idea of having to be online to do work."
Why? With all the talk about how necessary the Internet and Broadband are. We already are wed to the idea that we need an always on connection to do work...and play? Getting cold feet now would be like realizing Modern Urbanism and the "Car Culture" have downsides.
"Gosh, how the hell does this benefit me in anyway? I am not an automatic MS-basher like some people here but I'm quickly learning."
Software as a service is really a rather old idea and it's worked out well so far. Some of you old timers may remember this and timesharing in the years before personal computers.
Are we still claiming that MS owns the browser? Let alone the server and data center market?
"what's going to motivate them to follow standards?"
Being left behind.
Wondering how much of that is related to all the chemicals used in high-tech?
"Towns can be created artificially. Almost every attempt to do it is a failure though. "
Communes. Now what will this town give the intellectual community that it doesn't have, or could have with a more modest effort?
"That's wild over-interpretation. There is no "should" in science. There is only theory, and it is necessary to emphasize that theories are only that, theories."
So's evolution. Oh wait!
This probably boils down to parents that are clueless. "But he was only playing on his computer!"
So parents need to be educated that there's more you can do with a PC and an Internet connection than browse and play WoW.
Welcome to the new "But I'm being a parent!". Be careful what you wish for.
There's one issue to think about when discussing the new web, be it social sites or the semantic web. The quantity and quality of information required for both to work properly vs privacy issues.
"Arno Igne writes to tell us that the number of underage participants in "high-tech" crimes has risen steeply in recent history. Reporting children as young as 11 swapping credit card details and asking for hacks, many are largely unskilled and thus more likely to get caught and arrested."
Well gosh darn it. We need to send them to some kind of school so they will not get caught.
"Most surprising is the fact that over 80% of downloads were from Windows users. As one commentator noted, when it comes to a choice between almost identical software (e.g. Microsoft Office and OpenOffice), price is the determining factor."
So hows the contest between "free" and free
Johnny Chung Lee:"'If you create something but nobody knows, it's as if it never happened.'"
Jefferson:"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
"Vista is particularly to blame with their nifty transparent desktop widgets that stretch the time it takes computers to go from off to useable."
And how many users are to blame for not turning Aero off?
"To do even this simple thing with Linux, all of our applications would have to be re-written to enable a new file specification syntax, hopefully one reasonably compatible with the past. We're talking about a shitload of work, so it's important to agree on a set of goals first, to avoid having to re-do it later."
So basically the timeline comes to the file system. Good thing there are standards.
"If you've played Bioshock, you'll know it can be a tough choice deciding whether you're going to kill the cute (yet evil looking) Little Sisters and extract their ADAM, or let them live."
It wasn't that tough a choice.
Umm, two things.
"Using a selecting agent to grow only these bacteria, the teams identified a gene that inactivates the bacteria's hydrogen uptake system so that all of the hydrogen produced is released. Because the bacterial cells cannot recycle the hydrogen, the hydrogen they produce can be captured and used as a fuel whose byproduct is water and heat"
What effect does this have on the bacteria?
Also it seems like two different stories. the first is about agricultural bacteria. The link to the website talks about heat-loving bacteria like near volcanoes.
"Built in 1958, it was 'gynormous.' 'In addition to the oscilloscope screen and the controller, the guts of the original game were contained in an analog computer, which is "about as big as a microwave oven."' 'We have to load it into the back of a station wagon to move it. It's not a Game Boy that you put in your pocket.'"
Guess no one had the foresight to invent baggy pants. Youngsters have it easy now.
Here's the question I'm interested in. How many COBOL programmers telecommute?
Fun would be playing Galactic Empire or Homeworld on this setup. Anyway the setup does have the potential to be educational AND fun (not diametrically opposed goals).
How good would any game be if patches weren't measured in Gigabytes?
"Obviously, this list will seem incomplete to anyone whose favorite mod was omitted. What mods contributed most to your enjoyment?"
The ones I create for myself. *looks around* Why do you ask?
Is that pre or post Adblock?
"Bioware did KotOR right, hope they can translate it to an MMO format successfully."
And yet they messed up their own property. Gives me hope.
"âoeIâ(TM)m convinced that Steve Jobs is currently working on a double-sided touchscreen laptop, which has a great screen density so you can hold it on its side and you can touch it and turn pages. When something like that comes along, then the e-bookâ(TM)s going to be a real threat. And I think the publishing industry is going to collectively crap its pants.â"
There's just one problem with this argument. Books aren't as easy as movies and music to pirate. Oh it's possible, but it's not as easy.
The other is that print has had several centuries head start over modern piracy and has refined mass production to the point it can stay ahead of pirates. Just look at how far behind Gutenberg is with the public domain stuff.
Maybe because FOSS supporters have done such a good job with the "it's free" argument.
Ok, so we have one side saying "you're not entitled to my work" and we have the other saying "you're not entitled to my money" and yet we have sites like this. So where's the site the creator can go to to download "free money"?